How times have changed, my interests was on US politics @BooMan until mid 2017 when Democrats freaked out on anti-Russia propaganda paid for by exiled billionaire thieves. Have spend most of my writing since here @ET ... it was a very quiet place to be. Facebook and social media outlets had taken friends away. There was a G8 back then 😉... and Plutonium Page for heated discussion.

Suggestion G8 Meeting @Gleneagles - Share A Room | July 4, 2005 |

BSE, that ravaged the UK beef industry in the early 1990s, cost the EU-15 more than €90 billion, a situation that Brussels is keen to avert a second time. The new budget, rising by some €41 million on 2004, for TSEs will aim to boost consumer confidence in Europe's beef industry to bring more revenue into the sector.

The UK beef industry is only now starting to recover from the outbreak that saw 37,000 clinical cases of BSE and about 60,000 of the highest risk animals entering the food supply, compared with less than one a year today.

The EU enlargement to EU-25 in 2004 set back the Union and helped advance NATO as a political tool to undermine the Four Freedoms and get a grip on the European Union.

'Sapere aude'