Originally published October 5 2005
Health official calls for help with growing alcohol problem
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Penny McVeigh, chief executive of Norcas, an alcohol and drug treatment service in Great Britain, describes the alcohol problem in Britain an "epidemic," as the number of patients currently in some process of rehabilitation has increased dramatically since 1990.
Former minister Madhavrao Scindia used to joke that one reason why he wished he still had his privy purse was to put my integrity to the test.
My unfailing reply that he was rich enough as it was to try it out, made no difference to a banter that comes to mind as I read of the money that changed hands according to the KGB's Vasili Mitrokhin.
Some readers might also recall the 'Scotch for secrets' scandal in Rajiv Gandhi's time when high officials supposedly sold military secrets for only a bottle of imported whisky.
I also remember Mahathir Mohamed, then Malaysian prime minister, responding to allegations of a GBP 200,000 bribe for the GBP 41-million Pergau dam, with, 'Do these British think we can be bribed with only GBP 200,000?'
Obviously, they were not at the receiving end when Leonid Shebarshin, the KGB's points man for India, paid a midnight visit to Delhi's corridors of power 'bringing two million rupees as a gift from the politburo' to Mrs Gandhi's Congress.
KGB disinformation may have tied itself up in knots by claiming 'the United States was giving vast sums to right-wing parties and politicians' and then mistakenly bestowing a knighthood on John Freeman, the British high commissioner.
It is as well not to forget that India was a playground for spies and that senior members of the Union Cabinet like Morarji Desai and H N Bahuguna were accused of being in the pay of either the CIA or the KGB.
According to this book, the Soviets spent 10.6 million roubles in 1975 on active measures to 'strengthen support for Mrs Gandhi and undermine her opponents'.
The media has always been an area of interest, and we are now told that 10 Indian newspapers and a press agency --- any guesses as to the name?
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