a little round up of stories in the Europress this week.

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Thursday October 07, 2004 13:57

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(that aren't in the irish media)

the usual mixture of stuff that Europeans like to read about-
gore - murder - terror - horror etc.

Happy news-
the Austrian Elfriede Jelenik has won the Nobel prize for literature this morning for devoting her life to writing about nasty things and power relationships.

Happy news-
An Austrian bishop Kart Krenn, has handed in his notice to the RC church, and the Pope has accepted it, in an attempt to apologise for a sex abuse scandal that includes schools, orphanages, and a seminary where the young father dougal's were made suck up to the elders in immoral ways. - And we wonder why the world is so sick?

Horrible news-
Over the border in Berlin, Germany, a man has been found to have been keeping his boyfriend chopped up in little bits in the freezer awaiting the right moment to thaw him out and eat him. Police think it's a copycat crime, and are worried about the emergent popularity of canabalism.

Horrible news-
the other morning in a satelite town of Barcelona, two policewomen were tortured, sexually abused and murdered in their own home. One was to celebrate her 23rd birthday. Both had probably taken part in the brutal eviction of the D form festival in the same area last weekend. The press and police have released details of the presumed murderer, who probably doesn't stand a chance of a fair trial now. Apparently he is a known sex offender who was on temporary release.

Bad News-
American waste plutonium has arrived in France and is being transported by motorway to it's eventual destination and reprocessing. The french are very worried.

Old News-
Argentine investigations into the military dictatorship years have led to the detention of 11 military officers.

No News-
as Turkey gets an "amber light" to join the EU, most online continental newspapers have chosen to poll their readers on their approval of Turkish accession, at noon CET the majority have voted "no".
Spanish, austrian and Berlin newspapers have chosen the more reliable "do you think sex offence laws work" sort of question and the vast majority of people say "no".

Other interesting titbit-
the four most depressed states (with the highest incidences of depressive or anxiety related illnesses) of the EU are-
Finland, UK, Ireland and Spain.

cheer up!
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The same day that the world finally learns there were NO WMD in Iraq

by cough cough splutter splutter - we all fall down.

Thu Oct 07, 2004 15:00

(I kid you not)
someone has stolen a blue paper bag, from Sants international railway station in BCN where it was not very well attended on a platform bench.
In this bag are five vials of 15 centimetres in length, two centimetres in diameter with black safety tops, which contain, the culture of Tuberculosis.
Seemingly TB in culture form is green and solid just like toxic slime in the movies.

All the authorities have asked if anyone finds these five vials, that they resist the temptation to open them and have a look/ sniff/ feel. As this is one of the quaintly named "plague" cultures. There is a "prescription" type paper in the bag which lists the contents of the vials, quite probably written in illegible hand and scientific jargon.

Meanwhile, in the real world, if your bag gets stolen in a railway station, it's generally the work of "problem hard drug users". These people generally don't watch news updates, and for some reason are averse to calling police or governmental emergency numbers.
And in my experience they are the types who always "open the vial".

http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/dn_16577.htm

we might have 6 weeks.

by im sweating already and i swear i've a cough.

Thu Oct 07, 2004 15:13

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. During the 19th century, up to 25 per cent of deaths in Europe were caused by this disease. The death toll began to fall as living standards improved at the start of the 20th century, and from the 1940s, effective medicines were developed. However, there are now more people in the world with TB than there were in 1950, and three million individuals will die this year from this disease - mainly in less developed countries. The disease is more common in areas of the world where poverty, malnutrition, poor general health and social disruption are present.

The bacteria that cause the disease are inhaled in the form of microscopic droplets that come from a person with tuberculosis.

(these look like green slime if you put a lot of them in a glass vial.)

The incubation period is 6 weeks.

so I'll let you know if we are plague ridden by the middle of november in the comment updates, you might like to let Bertie Ahern know and do something about the cheap air flights to Girona.

this is the universal symbol for biohazard. DO NOT TOUCH anything we this symbol. Even if it's a fan of the rock music band. especially if it's a fan.

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a little round up of stories in the Europress this week.

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