Blair's Government has created 1000 new criminal offenses in the last 6 years, and there's thousands more in the pipeline - no wonder the UK has the highest prison poulation in Europe

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why does the UK need a new generation of nuclear weapons?

so it can invade foreign countries without fear of retaliation!

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since the start of the moratorium on whaling more than 25,000 whales have been hunted and killed

(Norway is the only country that ignores the ban)

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"The US policy is to treat all detainees humanely" - Pentagon

Iraqi prisoners held on 1 metre chains, fed on bread and water, with detainees' eyes being taped shut for up to seven days at a time

and then Bush wonders why the vast majority of people in the world consider US foreign policy the greatest threat to world peace

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Thatcher's closure of mines in the 1980s means that the UK now imports coal from Australia, Colombia, Poland, S Africa and the US

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so that's why Tony Blair is fighting for democracy in Iraq -

to defend the right of the Saudi Arabian government to rape and torture UK citizens

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Bush and Blair's so-called "War on Terror" encourages the attitude that it is better to murder the innocent rather than risk sparing the guilty

(misquoting Voltaire)

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40% of the World Bank's aid budget went to consultants in 2004
- well it's good to know someone benefits from it

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Israel's high court upholds a law barring West Bank Palestinians from living with spouses & children who are Arab citizens of Israel

i wonder if Heaven has a Jewish Quarter?

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more than half the countries named by UN Watch as human rights abusers sit on the UN Human Rights Council

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Tony Blair's orderly withdrawal from being Prime Minister looks as likely to happen as an orderly withdrawl of US troops from Iraq

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Guantanamo Bay is one of the main reasons why the US lost their so-called "War On Terrorism". It showed the world that America was more interested in controlling the world's oil supply than in supporting freedom and justice for non-Americans.

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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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