blessed britons

... a group of us found classified files in the Public Record Office in London, which revealed just how the American and British governments had conspired to expel the entire population of this British colony, all of them British citizens, and dumped them in the slums of Mauritius 1,000 miles away and how the deal was set up. Britain got $14 million off the cost of a Polaris submarine as a thank you for giving them the Chagos islands... The expulsion was done with coercion, with trickery.

mad world

On 14 August, you are invited to "an audience" with Bill Clinton in London. You have a choice. You can attend the "breakfast and speech" or the "brunch buffet and speech". These will take place in the white elephantine Millennium Dome, where a place in the "Kings' Row" will cost you £799. Last year, Clinton made more than £5m granting "audiences".

— John Pilger

Good Ol' Bill, the liberal hero

15 TVs a day

Submitted by antarchi on August 16, 2007 - 02:46.

I want to use an example of an airbase called Camp Anaconda, it's in a town called Balad... It's a giant airbase - big, sprawling, heavily, heavily fortified. There's 20,000 troops on this base alone, less than 1,000 of whom ever leave the base. So if you get sent to Iraq, you want to be on a base like Camp Anaconda, because there are concrete barracks there for troops - they are air conditioned of course. When I researched it at the time, they were preparing them to run internet, overseas phone lines and cable TV lines into the troop barracks, quarters. There's 2 base exchanges there, where they sell all the latest high tech equipment - CDs, DVDs, TVs, DVD players, i-Pods - you name it. One of the base managers boasted to a colleague of mine that he was happy to be selling an average of 15 TVs a day to US troops there...

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blessed britons

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15 TVs a day