every year 90,000 people die of infections picked up in US hospitals, and now joining in the fray is the new superbug hero -
Acinetobacter baumannii

It's not Bush and Blair's "war on terror" that worries me, so much as their war on truth

UK executive pay is increasing 17 times faster than average wage rises

trickle-down economics? sounds more like trickle-up to me

6,500,000,000 people wishing for peace on Earth
spend $1,200,000,000,000 a year on arms

every hour the world's population increases by 9,000 people;
each day the world's population increases by more than 200,000

no wonder there are so many wars over resources

Britain has spent UKP 12.5M on reconstruction contracts in Basra - whereas it spent UKP 14M refurbishing one of Saddam's palaces for use as the British consulate building
(which has now been evacuated following mortar attacks)

Blair claims it's essential that the UK has an independent nuclear deterrent - so how come it's not needed by Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil etc?

and if the UK really does need it, then surely Iran needs it even more?

"So far as the United States seems to be concerned, it is only a slight overstatement to say that Moslems and Arabs are essentially seen as either oil suppliers or potential terrorists." - Edward Said (1980)

if the function of the UN is to moderate conflict between nations, why is NATO fighting a war in Afghanistan? oil pipelines to Europe?

i've just removed my links to Al Jazeera -
their new site disappoints -
no Shujaat; culture and environment sections gone; bad design; bugs

if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

for the UK to achieve full democracy it needs proportional representation, an elected second chamber and an elected head of state

Tony Blair complaining about "poisonous propaganda"?

like the way he deliberately whipped up hysteria by claiming that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes notice, so that he had an excuse to send British troops to Iraq?

the success of the Democrats in the US election results is a signal of hope to the rest of the world that the excesses of the Bush administration are coming to an end

the US Government will refuse to admit there is a civil war in Iraq until after it has ended - then they will claim to have prevented it!

the rise in cancer and birth defects in Iraq has been attributed to US and UK depleted uranium weapons

another crime for Bush and Blair to be charged with

"I don't know there is a God."
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, BBC Radio 4, 31 Oct 2006

(if you need to find God, avoid religion and use entheogens)

there were riots in Hungary because the Prime Minister lied

amazing!

in the UK there'd be riots if the Prime Minister told the truth

Jesus of Nazareth said, "love your enemy" (Luke 6: 27-38)

he didn't say, "kill your enemy"

so why do Bush and Blair call themselves Christians?

because they are are part of a proselytising fundamentalism which stretches back to when Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire - when Bush talked about a "crusade" in the context of sending his army to invade Moslem countries, that's exactly what he meant

"This War on Drugs originally started as a War on Religious Experiences, and it is nothing new..." – Jonathon Ott

the difference between prophets and their followers is that prophets think for themselves