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  • 44% of Americans have not read a book, even a paperback in the previous year. (I'd add this surely applies to the whole "developed world") http://fora.tv/2008/04/24/Susan_Jacoby_on_The_Age_of_American_Unreason

  • White House MemoFebruary 7, 2002 SUBJECT : Humane Treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees “Geneva does not apply to our conflict with al Qaeda, al Qaeda detainees also do not qualify as prisoners of war” signed Georg…

  • Related by Lord Shawcross, Nuremberg prosecutor: At the Yalta Conference (in early 1945) it was discussed what to do with the Nazi leaders. Stalin suggested that 50,000 of the German high command and general staff should…

  • Mad, Bad, Sad and the Had

    There are 50 million or so Americans without health insurance (UK and French populations are each 60.5 million)It seems that most people in the US who go bankrupt over their health costs, actually have health insurance. …

  • It is an interesting state of affairs that Remote Area Medical, an American based medical chairty, has set up shop in places like downtown LA. If the British NHS is whittled away any more than it is, the Brits will be ne…

  • Propaganda R'Us

    I’m watching a ridiculously amusing Septic movie called “Magnitude 10, Apocalypse”. That is the French title at least. It stars Beau Bridges as the Head Puppet in Washington. The movie utilises a ridiculous theory regar…

  • My comment reply to a comment by a well-meaning American Christian capitalist; on my recent blog on being at war with the (UK) government. I have adapted the text. The government takes care of everyone and controls socie…

  • Redcoats

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8096105.stmWatch out your Yankee traitors! We're on the march again. "In 2014 we’re gonna cross the mighty Pond Along with Lieutenant-Colonel Smythe-Jackson, wot the girlies all are fond. W…

  • Geez! These effing Septic Tanks are disgusting. It is Fear Factor, where shallow morons do literally anything to win some money. That's bad enough; but I've stumbled upon an episode on TV here where nine year kids are in…

  • Billie Holiday "Strange fruit"

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