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Self-Sufficiency in Style stop the world? part fourteen |
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In parts one to thirteen we introduced you to Britain's Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth epidemics and made some startling claims about their worldwide significance. We explained how the communications and computer systems were deliberately rigged and explained just what they tried to do to us personally; how and why the government broke all the rules. We will now continue to tell you how animal diseases really came into Britain, how they spread and became epidemics. We will tell you how the truth was hidden, who hid it, and why. Most importantly, we will tell you how we found the truth. We started in the Hong Kong of the nineteenth century, now we take a closer look at the English speaking world. |
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"Of course, you are an island people..." was a common comment heard by the
writer all his working life.
It was a remark that often puzzled at the time, even though it was clear it was prompted by Britain’s border controls. These seemed bizarre and illogical to sophisticated people from the mainland of Europe and Asia. Although, the recent traumas of constant animal health crises, their control and explanation reached their worst in Britain, it is clear that the system that creates and concentrates these problems may be extended to cover all the English speaking peoples. America with its one real border to the south is, to all intents and purposes, an island too. There is no doubt that all the English speaking islanders have some attitudes that distinguish them rather forcefully from the rest of humanity. |
Until the sixties virtually the only way onto any of the English speaking world was by sea. |
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The most important things still get lost in translation and missed from the internet.
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There is that
blind intolerance shown to anyone daring to use another language in the
heart of their islands.
Even the Québécois, Irishman, Welshman or Gaelic speaking Scotsman is only likely to extend much understanding to their own minority tongues; otherwise they are quite happy, in practice, to use fluent English whenever it suits their purpose. The third generation German-American has long lost touch with his paternal language and can get pretty upset about the Texan cash machine with instructions in Spanish. This closes the English speaking world to a huge volume of external influence, and increases and magnifies the effect of ideas within their own cloistered experience. Drop a pebble in a Welsh scientific stream and the ripples reach Australia, declaim dogma in California and it is heard in English universities. Even the internet has not broadened influences yet. The common language merely climbs on the back of a faster pack-horse. A possibility in Dublin becomes a certainty in Auckland at the speed of light. The English - speakers usually tell one another what they want to hear. We accept that the Uzbekistani scientist carries the baggage of his culture, but fail to recognise that we do the same. Light is not necessarily what is spread by the English speaking internet, but when the bubble of misinformation bursts, it can also wing the truth through the islands and continents. |
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Naturally, all islanders see all evil as coming from “abroad,” whether from ideas, people, dogmas or disease. Their pristine untarnished islands are seen as threatened by foreigners with their strange disturbing habits. |
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The islanders see their homes as havens of peace and decency in a troubled
world. The Statue of Liberty and the White Cliffs of Dover are their most powerful totems and they have developed some rather strange distinctions to accompany their peculiar world view. They have congratulated themselves on taking the political or religious refugee and offering them the safety of a new home. Huguenots to England, Jews to the US, Ukrainians to Canada, and the odd belligerent Englishman to Ireland or vice versa have benefited from this altruistic tendency. The purely economic migrant has not always been so welcome. A harmless man seeking the best for his family is often seen as a threat to the economic wellbeing of the host islanders, even after they have been deloused, defleaed inspected and health checked naturally. "Blow up your fellow citizens in the cause of your God or your politics, and run before they catch you - and we will take you, protect you and cosset you." Try to better yourself and the islanders are not quite so sure. "Taking our jobs." Will be the reaction. "Of course, you are an island people..." does not sound so quite so strange. |
Safety symbols: man made and God made.
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Imported disease has always been a worry to the islanders from the Black
Death onwards.
It shows in the language with “German measles, French pox and Spanish Flu.” |
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The islanders always see the threat as coming from outside. St Patrick had swept the snakes from Ireland, just as the Australian outback was pure before the imported species. When potato blight arrived from the Americas to Ireland, it was the neighbouring island that took the blame. True, Britain did not actually do much to alleviate the problems as every Irishman will agree, until four pints later when once again every Englishman, living or dead, was personally and totally to blame. The Australians don’t even need the beer; they just spray everything in sight with disinfectant including their globe-trotting grandmother – just in case. They are taking no chances, or are they? |
The humble spud - cause of so much trouble.
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Wot me? |
At least if you are fluently English speaking you can argue with one
another, if your command of the universal language is rocky, you stand no
chance. English-speaking certainties are not totally set in rock. British anti-rabies controls, in place for generations, were fierce, loudly proclaimed and the penalties harsh, until the islanders both Irish and British found that this interfered with taking “Fido” to their holiday villa in France. Suddenly, vaccination and micro-chipping became acceptable solutions to what was considered the most terrible threat. The heavily patrolled seaports lost interest, the leaflets and posters went yellow. The world had turned. It wasn’t long before it was discovered that rabies had been in Britain all the time – in a protected species of bats. |
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So the islanders remain in their little cocoons, convinced and convincing
one another that the threat to animal health comes from outside.
Not nice, but it would not matter too much, except that they miss what is in front of their eyes. The diseases and health scares, the devastating consequences, the animal cruelty, the waste, trauma and human unhappiness can all be avoided. It is no co-incidence that BSE, PMWS, CSF, FMD all came to epidemic status at the original centre of the English speaking islander’s world. "Of course, you are an island people..." and the British added one or two more peculiarities, just to make sure they would get animal health completely wrong. |
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The next edition of Stop the World, events not intervening, we will continue to delve back into the past and take us into the farming community. We will tell you how animal diseases really came into Britain, how they spread and became epidemics. We will tell you how the truth was hidden, who hid it, and why. Most importantly, we will tell you how we found the truth. Britain has methodically lied to the world over a sustained period. It has lied to itself, its farmers and its people. Denton, Norfolk, 12 March 2004 |
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exposing the crooks from the appropriately named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner. |
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