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February 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Daily Mail Comment
Last updated at 10:41 PM on 12th February 2012
Chilling figures: Deaths from the cold among the elderly have doubled in the last five years
It is shocking enough that any pensioners are dying of hypothermia in Britain today, but new figures showing such deaths have more than doubled in the past five years are nothing short of shameful.
In the same period, gas prices have risen 40 per cent in real terms and, while there is no concrete proof that the two statistics are linked, common sense dictates they must be more than coincidence.
Already seeing their fixed incomes ravaged by inflation and microscopic savings interest rates, millions of pensioners simply can’t cope with such rampant profiteering by energy firms.
So for many, the stark choice when winter bites is between heating and eating.
The energy companies blame the fluctuating global price of gas for most of their increases but it is striking how quick they are to raise prices when the wholesale cost goes up and how slow to reduce them when it falls.
And the fact that when one company raises its prices the others quickly follow has led to accusations that the energy industry operates as a cartel.
It is now up to the regulator Ofgem to take decisive action.
If it can’t persuade energy firms to accept the moral case for reducing their mammoth profits, it must drive down prices by an injection of genuine competition, and impose huge fines on any company that fails to comply.
Ofgem exists to protect the interest of consumers. Could anyone be in greater need of protection than the elderly?
A sense of priorities
Over the last year, London has been suffering a mini-crimewave.
Knife crime, much of it associated with the disturbing growth in violent teenage gang culture, rose by 13.6 per cent, street mugging and theft by 13 per cent, rape by 10.6 per cent and burglary by 8.8 per cent.
It is not yet a full-blown policing crisis, but will soon become one if not urgently addressed.
So can Scotland Yard really afford to spare 171 detectives, many of them dragged away from hard-pressed elite units, to investigate the alleged misdemeanours of some News International journalists?
There have been 30 arrests so far, anti-terror style dawn raids on suburban homes of middle-aged tabloid executives, 20 officers crashing into a single address, and even the threat of the Official Secrets Act against a Guardian reporter who refused to name a police contact.
The inquiry is growing like Topsy, and with no end in sight. Another 20 detectives have just been added to help sift through hundreds of thousands of emails at News International, the vast bulk of which will doubtless turn out to be irrelevant.
The whole legal process, including a probable string of trials, could tie many of these officers up for years.
Of course, interception of voicemails and inappropriate payments to public servants are criminal acts, and must be properly investigated.
But doesn’t this astonishing commitment of precious manpower and resources suggest the Yard may be losing a sense of proportion?
Legal aid in the dock
Understandably, the parents of Joanna Yeates are furious that her killer, who put them through the agony of a six-week trial, was granted legal aid.
From a wealthy Dutch family and earning a handsome salary as an engineer, it is almost inconceivable that 34-year-old Vincent Tabak had access to less than £30,000 – the requirement for receiving free legal representation.
Of course, defendants have the right to a lawyer. But isn’t it sometimes all too easy for the system to be cruelly exploited?
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