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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