News The BBC
Probably Didn't Bring You (Vol 2)
Vernon Coleman
1. Britain's Labour Government has forced the Bank of England
to adopt a phoney price index target as the building block for its inflation
figures. As a result the Bank of England's inflation figure is entirely
spurious. Fraudulent, even. The `official' Government-approved inflation figures
do not include the cost of such items as housing and fuel. The Government seems
to regard these as non-essential luxuries. So inflation figures are kept
artificially low. This enables the Government to claim (utterly dishonestly)
that it has kept inflation low. And this, in turn, enables it to cheat
pensioners and others out of their real `inflation-proofed' pay rises. The whole
British economy is built upon existing inflation figures. By creating false
inflation figures the Government is doing long-term damage to Britain.
2.
Breast cancer has been shown to be higher among women who grow up or work on
farms. Of course it is. (See the article headed `Why Is Breast Cancer Becoming
Commoner?' on this website.)
3. Despite the fact that Europeans have made
it very clear that they do not want genetically modified (or engineered food)
that's what we are now getting. We can thank the British Government for this.
Blair's enthusiasm for all things American means that it is now virtually
impossible to avoid foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. In the
USA at least 80% of corn, 80% of soybeans and 90% of wheat is now genetically
modified. There are no laws on labelling in the USA, and so consumers eat these
Frankenstein foods unknowingly. Look on food packaging and menus in Europe and
you will often find the get out phrase: `Our foods do not knowingly contain
genetically modified ingredients'. The food manufacturers and the restaurant
owners put this on because they don't know whether they are using genetically
modified ingredients or not. But if they are buying their ingredients from the
USA then they most likely are. So, even if you are doing everything you can to
avoid genetically modified food the chances are that you are eating it anyway.
Blair and the EU should have refused to accept any American products not
guaranteed completely natural. But that would have annoyed the
Americans.
4. When children in orphanages in India were fed on
genetically modified wheat scientists observed blood changes which suggested
that the children were developing early leukemia. The genetically modified food
was removed from India. However, children in Europe now eat it. And no one is
doing tests to see what damage the genetically modified food is doing. Remember:
gene pollution lasts for ever. There is no going back.
5. Disgraced
former Labour Politician David Blunkett claims that Blair made him Pension's
Minister as `therapy' when he (Blunkett) was suffering from depression. I have
described my fears about Blunkett's capabilities as a Minister elsewhere on this
site (and in several books). What did pensioners and prospective pensioners do
to deserve having an allegedly sick (and in my view incapable) man looking after
their interests? (I believe that even when not depressed Blunkett was a
dangerous liability.)
6. An Italian TV show was pulled from the schedules
there recently after exposing the fact that nearly a quarter of 50 MPs had
smoked cannabis or used cocaine. The show was withdrawn after MPs claimed their
privacy had been infringed. (Italian MPs are not the best informed in the world.
One, for example, thought that Nelson Mandela came from South
America.)
7. Most people suffering from type 2 diabetes (maturity onset
diabetes) don't need expensive drug therapy. Their condition can be controlled
if they simply change their diet. Best results are obtained with a simple vegan
diet. (Such a dietary solution would, of course, annoy both the drug industry
and the meat industry.)
8. The British Government has accepted and
approved a primate captive-breeding farm called Nafovanny in Vietnam as a source
of primates for British researchers. Nafovanny is the world's largest such farm.
But investigators claim that Nafovanny has kept primates in wholly unacceptable
conditions. Before the 1997 election Blair and New Labour politicians promised
to arrange for a Royal Commission to investigate the value of animal
experiments. Since taking power (and discovering that a Royal Commission would
find that animal experiments are worthless) Labour politicians have reneged on
their promise.
9. The organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has for
decades provided essential medical services for people in war zones. But MSF has
now closed its women's clinic in Kabul and has withdrawn from Afghanisan. MSF
stayed in Afghanistan throughout the Soviet war of the 1980s, the civil war of
the 1990s and the brutal Taliban regime until 2001. But now MSF has had to pull
out. The American and British invasion of Afghanistan has made the country too
unsafe for MSF's doctors to operate safely. Anyone who still supports Tony Blair
and New Labour should be ashamed.
10. Crossing the English Channel will,
if the EU gets its way, no longer be classified as a trip abroad. The EU has
decided that crossing the Channel should, in future, be regarded as just a
journey between two sectors of the European Union. The EU says the plan is
designed to help simplify trade throughout Europe. (The changes will,
presumably, mean an end to customs posts at British ports.)
Copyright Vernon Coleman 13th November 2006
Vernon Coleman
is the author of Living in a Fascist Country, available from the shop on
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