Trooper Thompson quotes an hypothesis expressed in Australia that the ’swine flu pandemic’ is the result of a laboratory escape.
I have heard far less charitable views than this expressed recently. Among them was the assertion that the whole undertaking is entirely artificial, and will be combined with a highly visual medical-scare campaign over the [...]
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Cooked up
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged swine flu on 14 May, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Portion control
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged portion control, VAT on 6 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Ken Frost, whose excellent Nanny Knows Best I always read, is an accountant and thus can be expected to be wise to the vast majority of financial wangles.
However, he seems to believe that the government’s intention to order the manufacturers of certain foods to reduce the size of the portions they provide (scarcely credible, [...]
Conspiracy theory of the day
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged sea-angling on 19 January, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The lone voice, citing the BBC (caveat everything), bewails the forthcoming banning (de facto if not de jure) of sea-angling:
‘The European Union now wants to bring anglers into the quota system. Commercial fishermen, of course, are already subject to strict quotas limiting the number of fish they can take from the sea. But, at the [...]
Then they came for the thinkers
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged obesity, thinking on 31 December, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am not sure what to make of this story from the Telegraph about how
Too much thinking could make you fat
Any reasonable person, given the track record of the government and its media stooges, would suppose that there is more to this than meets the eye, and that before long it will be used [...]
No.1 Emigrant Proof*
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged coastal path on 12 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, wonders whether the ten-metre strip around the coastline to be seized by the government (ostensibly for the benefit of ramblers) is in fact intended to form a guarded perimeter, presumably for keeping us in (the standard communist model) rather than keeping enemies out.
Leaving out the knee-jerk mathematics, we might [...]
Decomissioning the fast breeders
Posted in conspiracy theories, tagged children on 12 November, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, seems prepared to consider an hypothesis involving direct state control of reproduction. He says:
I am beginning to think that there is an agenda going on down here, regarding who will and who will not be “authorised” to have children.
He may well be right. If there is the possibility of [...]
