Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Monday, May 22, 2006

Tuesday, May 16, 2006


Tony Blair's orderly withdrawal from being Prime Minister looks as likely to happen as an orderly withdrawl of US troops from Iraq

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Sunday, May 14, 2006


Guantanamo Bay is one of the main reasons why the US lost their so-called "War On Terrorism". It showed the world that America was more interested in controlling the world's oil supply than in supporting freedom and justice for non-Americans.

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Thursday, May 11, 2006


25 percent of Iraqi children between six months and five years old suffer from either acute or chronic malnutrition

and they still won't say say "Thank you George. Thank you Tony."

(so we'd better drop some more bombs on them)

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Monday, May 08, 2006


only 0.2 per cent of annual health related research is spent on pneumonia, diarrhoea, and tuberculosis

they account for 18 per cent of the global disease burden, but drug companies are not very interested in poverty related diseases because they mainly take place in third world countries where there are less profits to be made

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Sunday, May 07, 2006


adverse drug reactions are the fourth commonest cause of preventable death in the UK

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006


60 years after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
there are 30,000 nuclear weapons in place world-wide
(most of them American, aimed at the rest of the world)

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Monday, May 01, 2006


Prime Minister's wife's haircuts cost Labour Party £7,700

it's good to know the union subs are going to a worthwhile cause

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