when Tony Blair talks about his "radical agenda", presumably he means continuing the 'Thatcherisation' of Britain?

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Blair says voters have given Labour a mandate to govern the country - 22% of the electorate voted Labour - some mandate!

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genetic evidence backs claim that the Chinese visited America before Columbus

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the best outcome of the UK election would be a hung parliament - followed by Tony Blair's resignation - followed by another election

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if Bush and Blair are so intent on imposing democracy in the Middle East, why are they defending Kuwait, where women are not allowed to vote?

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the UK General Election, what a choice of potential rulers!
an English Protestant, a Welsh Jew, or a Scottish Catholic
- and not one of them seems interested in the pagan vote

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Donald Rumsfield is reported to have offered Saddam Hussein a freedom deal - what's the odds on an invasion of Iraq by Bush III in 2015? (just keeping up the family tradition)

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one awaits Pope Benedict's declaration that God is a lapsed Catholic

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US media portrayed the Iraqi elections as a triumph for democracy
Iraqis saw it as a vote to end the foreign occupation of their country

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Jerusalem is at the centre of three of the world's major religions - i expect that's why it's such a violent place

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love of money is the root of all evil?
try telling that to Cheyney and Halliburton

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God's Rottweiler romps home at 5:1 in papal contest

not that i've got anything against transvestites, or Germans -
but popes... hmm...

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Happy Bicycle Day (16th April)

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1 in 4 US soldiers returning from Iraq are said to have a mental health problem. And what is the figure for Iraqi detainees released from US detention centres?

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vote Labour, get Blair - get Blair, get Bush

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the US spends 30 times more on military strategies than on developmental help - if it was the other way round the world would be a safer place

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The US and the UK are the world's two largest arms exporters
it's vital for their economies that the world does not run out of wars

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"China would never pose a threat to any country" - Wen Jiabao

well it already poses a threat to a lot of Chinese people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1425570.stm

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"a new dawn is breaking" - Tony Blair
yes - it shattered under the weight of New Labour spin

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former US commander in Iraq sanctioned the Abu Ghraib abuse - not surprising given American expertise in interrogation and torture techniques

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today is a day of mourning - my friend's pet gerbil died last night - ok, so he didn't live in a magnificent palace looked after by a troupe of Polish virgins, and he didn't wear fabulously embroided dresses, or ride around in bullet-proof limousines - but hey, we're all equal in the sight of God, right?

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Africa's share of the global economy has halved in the last 20 years - and people are still saying globalisation doesn't work - well it's working ok for the G8 countries

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the purpose of intelligence agencies is to provide justifications for government policies

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Christian Voice describes BBC tv program as 'evil' - and these thumbscrew and burn them in hell outfits think they're 'good'?

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"This is evidence, not conjecture. This is true." - Colin Powell,
lying to the United Nations about Iraq's weapons in 2003

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environment and development ministers have a 2 hour meeting in Derby
Margaret Beckett insists on full security measures
£2M spent on 2,000 police used to contain a demonstration by 100 people

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how do you tell when Blair's lying? his lips are moving

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is Blair planning to issue a free ASBO with every ID card?

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how could the invasion of Iraq on behalf of the UN be 'legal'
when a majority of the UN representatives were opposed it?

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US outsourcing torture - "drowning and suffocation, rape was used ... also the insertion of limbs in boiling liquid" - (it's not that the US is so evil, so much as their claim to be so virtuous)

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"A majority of people in the US think Iraq aided al-Qaida before the war and had weapons of mass destruction."

such ignorance and stupidity in a country whose President sees himself as carrying out the will of his God makes me shudder for the future of the world

this is surely the biggest threat to Western civilisation since the emergence of the 3rd Reich

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MI6 chief warned Blair 9 months before the invasion
that the US case for invading Iraq was being 'fixed'

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the "World Bank" should be renamed the "American President's Bank"
(its senior official is personally selected by the US president)

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Tony Blair thinks that the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein - most people think the world would be a better place without most world leaders

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US strategy towards the coming world oil shortage is to monopolise supplies - a more sensible approach would be to reduce its dependence on oil

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UK human rights to be replaced by arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without trial? Magna Carta to be replaced by Blair's Charter? the man is power crazy

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Tony Blair took the United Kingdom into an illegal war. Now he is frightened of being the target of an assassination attempt. So he is trying to bring in panic legislation removing centuries-old human rights. Let's hope he loses his seat in the coming election before he does even more damage.

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80% of childhood abuse is committed by a member of the child's family or a family friend - so if children have a problem, it's probably safer for them to tell a stranger

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one Italian killed by US troops in Iraq is headline news
but every day Iraqis are killed by US troops without comment

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as Tony Blair becomes increasingly unpopular, his insecurity intensifies - that's why he wants politicians to be able to order house arrests - his paranoia is growing - he's afraid of being assassinated

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UK Court of Appeal rules Muslim girl is allowed to wear jilbab to school
now what about the rights of sun worshippers to go to school nude?

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Anglican Church to split again?
is it that time of the century already?

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UK proposals to give politicians the power to place people under house arrest, without making the reason public, is an ominous lurch towards tyranny

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The term "concentration camp" was first used in the nineteenth century to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military during the Cuban insurrection, those created by America in the Philippines, and, most widely, to refer to British camps built during the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal and Cape Colony.

if the reporter had been Cuban, Filipino or South African, would there have been the same fuss over Ken Livingstone's comment?

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will Venezuela be the next target for US intervention? (again)

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how can hundreds of people on horses chasing a fox contribute to "managing the countryside"?

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the 5th commandment is "Thou shall not kill" - so why are most fundamentalist Christians and Moslems in favour of the death penalty?

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if the US is so worried about weapons of mass destruction how come they haven't invaded Israel?

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England's news today dominated by the announcement of the Windsor lad's plans to remarry - (no relation to the popular EastEnders star - this lot live in SW1) - must be a very slow news day

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the US and UK abduction of terrorist suspects to Egypt and Syria
to be tortured with electrical shocks to genitals and orifaces
gives a whole new meaning to Christ's "turn the other cheek"

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the UK Government announced that waiting lists for cataracts are down to 3 months - i've got cataracts in both eyes - one has suddenly become much worse than the other - using just the bad eye, i can't tell a newspaper from a cushion until i'm less than a foot away - the optician at Vision Express (Basildon) said come back in a year's time and you can go on the waiting list - my NHS (Basildon) doctor said nothing could be done until the cataracts "ripened" - yet modern techniqes of micro surgery means there's no need to wait for cataracts to ripen (as confirmed by NHS Direct) - and "It is in fact now easier and safer to perform cataract surgery at an earlier stage."

15 months waiting for an operation so Labour can boast about meeting its "targets"?

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the UK Health Service meets Goverment targets to bring the cataracts waiting list down to 3 months - i've got cataracts so i went to the optician - he said i had to wait a year to go on the waiting list

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Blair's Government introducing detainment without trial

LABOUR MACHT FREI

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if the US wants Iran to give up a nuclear weapons policy, why doesn't it set an example?

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"Not every nation is going to immediately adopt America's vision of democracy"
- George Bush
well, that's a relief for those of us who don't want napalm for breakfast

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BUSH MACHT FREI

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so George Bush is planning on an "expansion of freedom"?
presumably that means a Guantanamo in every country?

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if it's ok for the US to have agents in Iran pin-pointing targets for future air strikes then i guess it's ok for Iranians to have agents in the US doing the same?

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US finally gives up searching for Iraq weapons -
never have so many been lied to so often by so few

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superiority and inferiority are different sides of the same coin of insecurity

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the US spends a smaller proportion of its GNP on foreign aid than any other country - for every dollar spent on foreign aid it spends $30 on military expenditure

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a caring world?
US to spend $40,000,000 celebrating George Bush's inaugaration
UK has so far spent $10,000,000,000 on it's illegal invasion of Iraq

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it's not Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden who threaten my freedom - it's Tony Blair lying to Parliament and sucking up to US multinationals in order to get the £4M he needs to pay for his new Belgravia mansion

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"Freedom will find a way" (George Bush, September 2004)
10,000 detainees held without trial in US-run prisons in Iraq

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the latest total for the number of tidal wave fatalities is 44,000
and it continues to rise - a world tragedy
it's now approaching half the number of deaths which have
resulted from the US invasion of Iraq - an American triumph

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xmas present of the season -
US helps itself to a greater share of Iraq's oil reserves

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in the UK, while Tony Blair has been in power,
the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer
- no wonder his main supporters are Murdoch and Bush

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Home Office now admits lying in cover-up to save David Blunkett's job - so he could bring in biometric ID cards to cut down on crime and corruption?

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Tony Blair said David Blunkett left office with his integrity intact
- since when has Tony Blair been an authority on integrity?

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Beckhams as Tussauds models for Joseph and Mary?
hard to see them as parents of a gay black hippy jew

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more than half the children in the world suffer extreme deprivation
because of war, H.I.V./AIDS or poverty - UNICEF

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having the Beckhams as Joseph and Mary is ok (cos they're the country's leading couple) - but surely George Bush would be better suited as Herod rather than as one of the 3 wise men?

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UK hospital waiting lists down
the time it takes to get on waiting lists up?

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the question for David Blunket is,
'would ID cards help prevent shenanigans by cabinet ministers?'

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civilians burnt alive in napalm attacks by US troops in Falluja
a 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians
America refused to ratify the treaty and is the only country using it

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Falluja - Iraq's Allamo

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Saddam Hussein's former special forces now the main allies of the US troops
weren't these the very people that Bush and Blair said they went in to remove?

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the leaders of those opposing the banning of fox hunting with packs of hounds in the UK are the descendents of those who opposed universal suffrage and the abolition of slavery

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how come American and British troops invaded Iraq in the name of 'democracy', when back in the UK, unelected aristocrats can override the decisions of elected MPs?

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"[The Roman Legions] create a desolation and call it peace."
- Calgacus (attrib), circa AD100

the destruction of Fallujah will be remembered
with anger and sorrow for a thousand years

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there's no point in having the biggest army in the world
if you're not going to use it

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the US claims to have captured Fallujah, Iraq's 16th largest city
the Iraqis claim to have recaptured Mosul, Iraq's 3rd largest city

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hundreds killed in Fallujah as US attempts to separate hearts and minds

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there is something exceptionally cruel and heartless about America
i expect it's 'cause they've got God on their side

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US marines gearing up to kill a few thousand more Moslems in Fallujah - forget the Age of Aquarious... this is the Age of the New Barbarians

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if the majority of Iraqis want US troops to leave,
why are they still there?

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the winning side is not necessarily the right side

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if al-Qaida are opposed to 'freedom',
how come they haven't threatened Sweden?

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the international community is coping with a paranoid America
armed with vast numbers of weapons of mass destruction
led by a power-crazed fundamentalist oil tycoon
who believes he's on a mission to save the world

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we are facing the problem of a power crazed America,
led by a fundamentalist oil tycoon,
in control of more weapons of mass destruction
that the rest of the world put together

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100,000 civilians, mainly women and children, killed in Iraq by US-led troops

according to Bush and Blair (who claim God is on their side),
it's for their own good

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if you have to take sides, support the side with the largest number of slaughtered children
more than 300 women and children were killed by US Soldiers during the assault on Falluja in April
kill one innocent person and it's called murder - kill 300 and it's called a successful operation

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thank you John Peel (1939-2004)

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i keep hearing people on the radio telling me about "the word of God"
it's a good job he speaks English, otherwise i wouldn't understand a word he says

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Fallujah - a 21st century Guernica

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it's no problem finding billions to fight wars thousands of miles away
but now we're told to work 'till we're 70 cos there's no money for pensions

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Tony Blair claims the war with Iraq was justified because of the (imaginary) threat to the UK. So if Iraq had invaded England, bombed its cities, killed 20,000 people, and installed a puppet government, then would that have been ok, because of the (real) threat to Iraq by the UK? And if the English had fought back, helped by the Welsh and the Scots, would they be 'anti-English insurgents' and 'foreign terrorists'?

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Kerry and Bush both claim international terrorism is the biggest danger facing America
- more dangerous than the 470,000 deaths a year caused by alcohol and tobacco?

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George Bush told Saddam Hussein that the US would invade Iraq
if he didn't hand over his weapons of mass destruction -
Saddam Hussein said he hadn't got any weapons of mass destruction -
George Bush accused him of lying, and ordered his troops to invade Iraq -
20,000 Iraqis were killed, half of them civilians, many of them women and children -
now it turns out that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth -
seems to me like Iraq is owed an apology -
but George Bush doesn't do apologies - he just carries on dropping bombs

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so George Bush and Tony Blair started a war, killing 20,000 Iraqis,
because Iraq might have been thinking of breaking a UN sanction?

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Tony Blair was a successful lawyer.
He has been trained to evaluate evidence
and draw accurate conclusions from it.
How could he possibly not have lied?

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Tony Blair prepares an exit strategy - for himself

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