carver

Intelligence gathering is a precarious business, because you can never be completely sure that your source is reliable. You need to constantly make judgements about whether it's better to act on information received because of the consequences of not doing so if it turned out to be true.

The 45 minute thing came about because MI6 obtained information indirectly from a taxi driver who had overheard two Iraqi military commanders talking about Saddam's weapons.

Imagine the headlines if the government of the day said nothing and weapons of mass destruction had been used

"Hundreds if thousands killed. Government knew of the danger, but did nothing. 'We couldn't be sure the information was reliable' said a government spokesperson"

So what we should have said is that a *taxi driver * overheard Bill Gates talking about Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulation

I'm sure it would be hard to do the research and just as hard to get a reliable result, but I wonder if the rapid growth in the world's population is, in part, the delay between medical advances and cultural change.

In Zambia in the 1970s, many poor families would have 8 or more children in the expectation that 2 or 3 might live long enough to support the parents in old age. Something as simple as keeping a child hydrated during a bout of diarrhoea made an enormous difference to infant mortality never mind the more advanced medications.

I would expect to find matching curves, offset by 30-40 years, for the fall in infant mortality and a fall in live births.

spider9

In our local cemetery there is a 19th C headstone with the names of several children on it. They are of different ages but all died within a couple of months of each other.

We are very fortunate that we've got beyond that unimaginable horror.