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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