mostly nuggets

blessed britons

It was in December 2001, after the passing of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act, that G became one of 12 foreign nationals detained in Belmarsh prison. Police and immigration officials arrived at 4am, and took him away on his crutches. "There were 15 police officers crammed into this one-bedroomed flat," G recalls. "They were swearing and very aggressive. My young daughter started crying." There was no stopping at a police station to be interviewed - it was straight to Belmarsh. To this day, neither G nor any of the other detainees have been told what they are supposed to have done, and G has still not been questioned by police or security services. The "Belmarsh 12" have never appeared in a normal court to answer charges...

— Paul Donovan

'In Britain, I have fewer rights than an animal'

mad world

According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Remick Waite simply pronounced before the beginning of argument in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886) that:
The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.

— David Korten

The Post-Corporate World

4,000 years difference

Submitted by antarchi on September 16, 2007 - 02:25.

Philip Green is the owner of Topshop, Bhs, and a host of other high street brand names. Two years ago, he claimed a £1.2 billion dividend, enough to double the salaries of Cambodia’s entire garment workforce for 8 years. He paid Kate Moss a reported £3 million pounds to put her name to a Topshop line of clothing: a Mauritian worker in a factory that supplies Green’s Arcadia group would have to work for almost 4,000 years to earn that much.