blessed britons

at the peak of the emergency, the British held more than 70,000 Kikuyu supporters of Mau Mau in detention camps. The vast majority of these detainees were held without trial, simply on the order of the administration, on the basis of accusation or mere suspicion... In the midst of the war, draconian anti-terrorist laws were introduced suspending the human rights of suspects, imposing collective punishments, facilitating detention without trial, permitting the seizure of property of convicts, and vastly extending the death penalty...

— David Anderson

Histories of the Hanged

mad world

On 25 October 2005, [Milan] Rai was arrested opposite Downing Street with vegan chef Maya Evans, after the pair read out the names of Iraqis and British service personnel who had been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Mr Rai was subsequently convicted of organising an "unauthorised" demonstration within 1km of Parliament, fined £350 and ordered to pay £150 in costs.
In May 2007 the pair were convicted again, this time for organising and participating in an "unauthorised" demonstration within 1km of Parliament, namely the "No More Fallujahs" weekend of nonviolent resistance marking the 2nd anniversary of the US/UK onslaught on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. At least 550 women and children are believed to have been killed during the latter attack, during which US forces used white phosphorus - a substance that burns down to the bone on contact with human flesh - as a weapon.

— Justice not Vengeance

JNV (Milan Rai was later jailed for a month for not paying his fines)

let them eat cake

Submitted by antarchi on July 1, 2007 - 03:57.

How much of the world do we eat?

(Click on the diagram for a slightly better image)

A bit crude since it uses GDP figures, and mostly from 2003/2004. Populations scaled down by a lot: each person on the diagram represents 110,038,757* people in real life. Oceania excluded.

Figures taken from GeoHive

Roughly as follows:

China: $ 7,505,600,000,000
Asia (without China): $ 13,998,897,000,000
Africa: $ 2,092,300,800,000
Northern America: $ 12,776,478,300,000
Latin America and the Caribbean: $ 4,299,879,000,000
Europe: $ 14,244,444,000,000
Oceania: $ 737,226,300,000
World Total: $ 55,654,825,400,000

* Chosen so that the number of people on the picture was 60. Total world popn. is approx 6.6 billion

blessed britons

mad world

let them eat cake

How much of the world do we eat?

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