of course Tony Blair fought hard to prevent a fully elected Parliament - he needed to be able to sell off seats in the House of Lords to keep his slush fund topped up

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US warplanes have attacked at least 18 Iraqi cities in the last 6 months

peace-keeping Bush-American style - killing for Jesus and the holy dollar

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Iran has proposed to start selling oil in Euros on 20th March 2006. For several months now it has been common knowledge in the world's media that the US will do all that it can to prevent this. Yet little mention is made of it in the UK. The BBC ignores it completely, preferring to discus the latest announcements made by US Government officials on Iran's plans for developing weapons of mass destruction and why sanctions and/or military action need to be implemented to prevent this. The only other country which has tried to sell oil in Euros is Iraq. The pattern is almost identical, and may well end with American troops in every country from Pakistan to Turkey, which has long been a policy advocated by the more extreme supporters of the current US administration.

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"never before have we had a US administration so wilfully, dishonestly and ruthlessly reinterpreting tragedy as success, defeat as victory, death as life" - Robert Fisk

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husband of UK minister "given" a third of a million quid by a foreign politician - and his wife doesn't know about it?

ha! bloody ha! do they really think we're that stupid?

Q. how can a public official lie so blatantly?

A. because she's one of Tony Blair's Cabinet

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bad taste caption of the month (seen on US Fox TV) -

"All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?"

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US debt = $8.25 trillion - oil can only be sold in US dollars
Iraq intended to sell oil in euros and was invaded
Iran intends to sell oil in euros from 20th March 2006

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Since 1991 there have been over 70 murders in mainland Britain with a suspected or known racial motive

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another 'first' for Tony Blair to brag about - Britain has the highest prison population per head in Western Europe

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more people have been killed by police in North America using the taser "crowd control" stun-gun (immobilisation by pain) than have been killed worldwide by bird flu

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$1,000,000 offered for deaths of Danish cartoonists

sounds very tempting to any suicidal artist wanting to leave something to their favourite charity

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Ford's current range of cars achieves on average fewer miles per gallon than its Model-T did 80 years ago

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US death squads assassinated about 40,000 people in Vietnam

US-led killing squads started operating in Iraq in April 2003

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Images of Mohammed have been part of Islamic and Western culture since the Middle Ages

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the US occupies 702 military installations in 132 countries
and possesses 8,000 active and operational nuclear warheads
and so far it's the only country that's barbaric enough to have used them

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67 UK universities hold significant investments in arms companies

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The UK is the most-watched nation in the world, with more than 4 million surveillance cameras monitoring people's movements

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"Excited Delirium"

a popular cause of death for people dying in US police custody

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RIP Google

once dedicated to being the best search engine in the world
now a Chinese Government propaganda tool

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if Tony Blair wasn't so enthusiastic about the UK's nuclear industry, his opposition to Iran's nuclear policy would be less hypocritical

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