Channel 4 - gotta love them
Looking into polio vaccines & HIV, they did the obvious & difficult,
they went to Zaire/Congo Belge, found a couple of lab technicians
who said yes, we used chimp kidneys to produce polio vaccine
Marvelous shots of the huge abandoned laboratory building
with dust covered reagent bottles and 50's style lab equipment.

Hilary Koprowski may be responsible for more deaths
than Hitler Stalin & Ghengis Khan combined
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Jeffrey Sachs on Aristide
Jeffrey appears to have a complete change of heart
since the days when as a 27year old he supervised the privatisation of Poland
"to cut the tail off a cat, its best to do it suddenly and completely"
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Curmudgeon Archives

I can feel that spike coming,
post-peak oil scarcity,
suburbs dont work without oil
add in global climate extremes
agribusiness dont work without oil
plus white collar jobs vanishing,
life down by the old wooden ship wharfs
wont be the same without oil
Cant do that Environmentalist hike to town in the Pajero
without oil
Tanks dont roll withoit oil
Dont know if I'll make it to the Mayan cycle 2012
(Hubbert peak around 2008-2012)
Certainly wont make it to the Spike 2030
I'd love to see those huge changes
when tiny robots shrug us off
More likely the slump will close the factories
rendering tiny robots redundant.
Would need to be smarter than a lobster
before I put one on my carpet with my baby.
Smarter than a dog, even, because dogs occasionally
rip the face off a child.