- June 10, 2009
- UK Judges See Terror Sense
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- Freedom
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Freedom and the Law In stark contrast to the US which still insists on draconian measures against people thought to be bad (the lowest of the low Rumsfeld called them), the UK has had a landmark ruling for common sense in a democratic, freedom-loving country. Nine Law Lords have unanimously ruled it was unfair for [...]
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- April 21, 2009
- Obama’s Been Got
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- Freedom
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High Hopes Replaced by Low Expectations It’s the torture, see? UK In the UK, when Blair was first elected Prime Minister, the people in the country had such high hopes. There were promises of an ‘end to sleaze’ and an ‘ethical foreign policy’. Since those heady few weeks in the UK; We’ve had years of [...]
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- December 30, 2008
- BBC and Weird Pravda Report on Gas
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- Environment, Freedom
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In the news today, although you’d hardly think so because of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, is the story that the Ukraine can’t pay their gas bills. I apologise for it being a bit buried amongst the profits’ statements etc, but hey!, I didn’t write it. BBC – Gazprom sees profits jump by 85% GazProm [...]
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- June 21, 2008
- What Price Freedom and Justice?
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Introduction When there’s a war on in one’s country, say WW2 in the Europe, the people unite against the common enemy and accept that some will die so that the war is won and the next generation can continue. If you lived in the UK, the consensus was that you’d be fighting for “freedom” and [...]
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- June 19, 2008
- If it’s not about heroin, then Why are the British in Afghanistan?
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The recent deaths of soldiers have awakened another bout of soul searching in the British public as to the relevance of the army in Afghanistan. And no wonder! The reasons for our presence have never been made clear apart from maintaining the “special relationship” with the USA, no matter what the current regime says or [...]
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- February 28, 2008
- How Much does the US/UK War (sorry, war on terror) cost?
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There’s a neat book just been released by a Nobel prize winning author Joseph Stiglitz, and Linda Bilmes of Harvard, that counts the true financial cost of the Bush conspired conflict. This is a BBC article and a similar one on The Guardian written by Aida Edemariam who met him. It’s a truly staggering piece, [...]
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