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

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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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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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Great Britain is a monarchy with a hereditary aristocracy -
and UK troops invaded Iraq to bring about "democracy" ??

ha ha!

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oil prices at $70 a barrel!
production costs constant!

the Iraq invasion means Bush and his oil cronies are raking it in

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sectarian violence has displaced 25,000 Iraqis in the last month

and Blair just grins, getting richer every day,
simpering "Yes Sir, Mr President" and "No Sir, Mr President"

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so this is what "the fight for freedom and democracy" comes down to?

US troops shooting Iraqi women and children

- My Lai all over again

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73 UK landings of suspected CIA rendition flights in the last 5 years

when governments conspire to facilitate the torture of suspects, they become the enemy of democracy and of freedom

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"An unmanned US Air Force Predator fired a Hellfire missile..."

(with "Jesus Loves You" painted on the side?)

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let us rejoice in globalisation - since water privatisation 10M South Africans have had their water supplies cut off (and thousands have died from diarrhoea and cholera)

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Adverse drug reactions now account for 20-25% of hospital admissions in the UK. An estimated 70,000 people in England each year are killed or seriously disabled by medical drugs previously tested on animals.

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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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if anyone doubts what happens when rulers get too much power...

reporters in Turkmenistan can not mention the height of President Saparmurat Niyazov (thought to be 153 cms, just over 5 feet)

neither can they mention that he wears a toupee (men are forbidden to have long hair or beards in Turkmenistan)

President Niyazov renamed the calendar months after his family - what vanity!

all watches and clocks in Turkmenisatn must have a portrait of the President printed on the dial-face

Mr Niyazov thinks opera and ballet are unnecessary - so he banned them

Wikipedia page on Turkmenistan

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"The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history." - Lt. General William Odom (ret)
- former director, America's National Security Agency
- former US Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence

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Of the 18,000 US servicemen killed or wounded in Iraq, 94% have been killed or wounded since the fall of Baghdad in 2003

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Bush and Cheney's bid for legal right to torture fails

maybe there is hope for the world after all...

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better that Stonehenge had never been built than one leg of a millipede be injured in its construction

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"we are all threatened by terror" - US national security adviser

the only terror threat i have nightmares about
is being abducted and tortured by the CIA

to paraphrase Ian Dury "there ain't half some evil bastards"

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Bushspeak - "America will help the Iraqis"
interpretation - "we'll take the oil and kill anyone who tries to stop us"

80% of Iraqis are strongly opposed to the presence of US troops

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Nov 2002 - US missile destroys Aljazeera Afghanistan office
Apr 2003 - US bomb destroys Aljazeera Iraq office
Apr 2004 - Bush tells Blair he wants to destroy Aljazeera Qatar office

Nov 2005 - Bush talks about freedom of the press

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when the most powerful country in the world locks people up indefinitely without trial in secret prisons and its leader demands the right to invade anywhere and torture anyone in the world, and says "you're either with us or against us", then it's pretty obvious that civilisation has peaked and we're sliding backwards into ignorance and barbarism, and the sooner the human race exterminates itself the better off the universe will be

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if the US is going to jail people for life for having fantasies about killing George Bush they'll be locking up more than half the world's population

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to break the law is illegal
it is not necessarily immoral

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White House wants to legalise CIA torture of non-Americans

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."

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5% of the world's population use a quarter of the world's oil supply
and there's people still wondering why they invaded Iraq!

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press freedom? - the UK is ranked 24th - the US is ranked 44th

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when Tony Blair talks about plans for "radical reform",
he means returning to the policies of Margaret Thatcher

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"Individuals are presumed innocent in the American legal system."

says the man who imprisons people without trial in Guantanamo

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Dylan's lyrics were seeds that crystallised the thoughts of a generation

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what is an occupied country?

there are approx 100 American military bases in the UK
there are no UK military bases in America

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guilty until shot dead

UK Crown Prosecution Service confirms new policing policy

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a pandemic reducing the human population by 99% would be good news for the 500,000+ species that humans will kill off during the next 50 years

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Labour used the UK's new terrorism laws against their own supporters at the last Party Conference

so what chance have the rest of us got?

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instead of picking on David Cameron about whether he once smoked dope, it would be far better to get rid of all the Parliamentary drunks and alcoholics

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George Bush and Tony Blair acted much like Nazi war criminals"

- Scott Ritter, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq

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George Bush told by God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan

"I can't think for you - You'll have to decide" - Bob Dylan

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"Britain's success in bringing democracy to Iraq..." - Jack Straw

146 university professors assassinated in the past two years

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Blair said there were weapons of mass destruction - there were none
Blair said it was to stop terrorism - suicide bombers attacked London
Blair said it was to keep the peace - there's now a civil war raging

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the illegal invasion of Iraq teaches us that each generation must learn anew that governments represent rich and powerful interests and that they lie without hesitation shame or remorse

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how the foreign terrorists tortured their prisoners -

"ANYTHING SHORT OF AN INMATE'S DEATH WAS ALLOWED...
IT WAS SPORT... WE KEPT IT TO BROKEN ARMS AND LEGS"

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Tony Blair's continued babbling about progress in Iraq is a disgrace to the Labour Party, a disgrace to Parliament, a disgrace to politics, and a disgrace to the country

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when i was young, i was told the UK was a good place to live because we didn't lock people up without trial

now i'm told the UK is a better place to live because we do lock people up without trial

this must be the progress which Tony Blair keeps whittering on about

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there is something obscene about a world in which some countries spend billions of dollars on nuclear weapons and in other countries babies starve to death because of drought

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the problem with rulers who have strong religious beliefs is that they divide people into good and bad - and the worse those rulers are, the more righteous they consider themselves

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the United Nations is a forum for powerful countries to promote their idealogical amd commercial interests in return for subsidising humanitarian organisations

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UN food for oil scandal?

the real scandal is that the sanctions were ever imposed
it was pure vindictiveness

Vietnam and Cuba suffered similarly from unjust sanctions

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Ken Clarke to run for Tory leadership -
he's an honest man of common sense and wide interests
(as opposed to that cheesy lying neocon puppet Blair)

if only they'd swop parties, the future would be a lot brighter

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why were the US so keen on weapons inspectors in Iraq?

they wanted to be certain no weapons of mass destruction existed
before they invaded

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farm which breeds animals for vivisection to close

best news i've seen this year

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British justice used to be "innocent until proved guilty"
which has to be better than "guilty until shot by the police"

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vice president Richard Cheney’s former company Halliburton has received more than $10 billion in no-bid contracts for work in Iraq

it's an ill wind...

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when i lived in America, the biggest selling lapel badge said "NUKE IRAN"

why is the USA the only country allowed to use nuclear weapons?

all countries are equal, but some are more equal than others?

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if Germany had dropped an atomic bomb on New York because it would have helped them to end WWII quickly, would that have been a good thing to do?

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CIA paramilitary force tried to ferment Iraqi rebellion in 2002

how many other bombings and assassinations are the work of the CIA?

what's the difference between a CIA terrorist and an Al Qaeda terrorist?
one gets better pay - the other hopes for a better pay-off

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Tony Blair to stand down as an MP at the next election -
he intends "to do something relevant to his religious beliefs"

- like begging forgiveness from his God for illegally invading Iraq,
resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people?

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"I welcome the recognition that the only route to political change lies exclusively in peaceful and democratic means." (Tony Blair)

so why did he take part in the invasion of Iraq?

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when people voted for Hitler, it was a vote for fascism
when people voted for Bush and Blair, it was a vote for war

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Tony Blair insists the London bombings are unconnected with Iraq
- who do you think you're kidding, Mr Titler?

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if, as Tony Blair says, the London bombings are unconnected with Iraq,
and if, as George Bush says, the terrorists are opposed to democracy,
how come there have been no threats against Sweden and Norway?

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it's not that George Galloway is more truthful than other politicians
it's that he doesn't care what other politicians think of him

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i miss being able to divide money, weights, lengths etc by 3
let us resist the decimalisation of clocks and compasses

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50 killed in London - "the guilty will be found and punished"
39,000 killed in Iraq - the guilty will be praised and given medals

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if politicians put their efforts into trying to end wars rather than into trying to win wars the world would be a lot more peaceful

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Blair drops bombs on Iraq regularly for years and says it's good.
Four bombs go off in Central London and he say it's barbaric.
Am i missing something?

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why don't they stop pretending, and call it the G1 summit?

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Iraqi male prisoners tortured with electric shocks by Interior Ministry

Iraqi female prisoners whipped with electric cables to force confesions

this is the "freedom" that Bush and Blair hypocritically boast about in their greed for oil and power

if there is a Hell, that's where they'll burn

forget the fine words - remember the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed by the Americans and the puppet Iraqi government they manipulate

one thing you can be sure of - Bush and Blair will blame everyone in the world except themselves - they are clever, but they are also insane - they have no comprehension of the pain and devastation which they are inflicting on Iraq

when fundamentalist Christians talk of a crusade, then all the spin in the world can't disguise the fact that what they're talking about is a war on Islam

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Iraq is America's whipping boy for 9/11 - maybe when they've killed 1M Iraqis they'll give up and go home

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2 million people without water in Baghdad for 3 days (since 19th June)
it's getting better all the time?

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"Iraqi civilians will welcome an American-led liberation force"
Paul Wolfowitz - US Deputy Defense Secretary - 28 February 2003

latest Iraq Coalition Casualties

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there is a line between terrorism and legitimate protest
which many governments are trying to erase

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the Stone Age lasted for millennia
the Bronze Age lasted nearly 2,000 years
the oil age is expected to last 200 years
(it started in 1850)

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if Iran develops nuclear weapons it will be invaded by the USA
if Iran doesn't develop nuclear weapons it will be invaded by the USA

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and Bush said to Blair "Let there be identity cards"

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lies, damn lies, and loathsome hypocrisy - Tony Blair agreed in April 2002 to help George Bush precipitate the invasion of Iraq (8 months before the UN resolution used to justify their plundering of Iraqi oil)

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every year 2,000 new species of plants are recorded

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the US is alleged to transfer prisoners to the following countries for routine torture - Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Diego Garcia

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"US Calls Iraq Border Offensive a Success" say the headlines, success being measured by the number of dead Iraqis, which is also a measure of the failure of US policy

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"Do you know what happens to little boys who tell lies?"
"They become Prime Minister."

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globalisation is one of the economic goals of the world's leaders
despite its contribution to keeping 12M people in forced labour

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