ordered disorder
mostly nuggets
- ant nuggets
- blessed britains
- conspiracy
- honorary ants
- mad bad world
- ECONOMIC HIT MAN
- ISRAEL / PALESTINE
- miscellaneous mad bad
- POVERTY
- 28,000 children a day
- 9-11 victims
- african children
- facts on poverty in Africa
- GREED
- $3 goes to those who need the money most
- 3 big men
- a debt that can never be paid back
- a tax on being poor
- BAE profits soar on Iraq conflict
- breakfast with Bill
- capital flight
- eradicating wall street's hunger
- high net worth individuals
- inequality
- new york diners and the irrawady delta
- not cleaning up
- not reaching human stomachs
- SUPER-markets
- the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs
- the task of an economic hitman
- the top and the bottom
- trickle-down
- we're getting greedier
- not thinking the human costs
- poor get poorer
- poverty and holocaust deaths
- poverty and reform in the former soviet union
- poverty deaths
- saving 6 million children
- selling off grain reserves
- There is simply indifference
- structural adjustment
- mad world
- remembrance and forgettance
- war crimes
blessed britain
In the period December 2002 to March 2003 I raised several times the issue of intelligence material from the Uzbek security services which was obtained under torture and passed to us via the CIA. I queried the legality, efficacy and morality of the practice.
I was summoned to the UK for a meeting on 8 March 2003. Michael Wood gave his legal opinion that it was not illegal to obtain and to use intelligence acquired by torture. He said the only legal limitation on its use was that it could not be used in legal proceedings, under Article 15 of the UN Convention on Torture.
mad world
During the 1980s - what was called the lost decade of development - from every $100 worth of global economic growth, around $2.20 found its way to people living below the absolute poverty line. A decade later that had shrunk to just $0.60c, and the actual mean income of those living under $1 per day in Africa also fell.
...millions die while the rest of the population obediently goes about its business. Howard Zinn