ordered disorder
mostly nuggets
- ant nuggets
- blessed britains
- conspiracy
- honorary ants
- mad bad world
- mad world
- AID FOR THE RICH
- EU democracy
- ILL-LOGIC
- LUNACIES OF THE MARKET
- 14 more planets
- 42 brands of washing powder
- anticipating average opinion
- DEBT
- expert advice from the IMF
- growth halves under IMF reforms
- imports and exports
- in hock to polluters
- lest the economy suffer
- local produce
- lost market opportunities
- MAPS OF MADNESS
- more pesticides in food!
- no recycling
- stick to your own rules
- subsidised cotton
- the poor need more rich men
- the right to curry powder
- they are not psychopaths
- trickle down
- trickle-down intervention
- ordinary people doing their jobs
- the cuban difference
- what do you get
- remembrance and forgettance
- war crimes
blessed britons
Mr Abdulah... told a similar tale of being hooded and beaten and being deprived of sleep. He also said he was forced to sit with his head in the bowl of a toilet for hours at a time and to kneel bare-legged on sharp stones in the blazing 45C heat. He added: "At one point I recall a soldier urinating on me. I could feel the urine seeping through my hood and running down my arms. It was a disgusting experience. A soldier came to me shortly afterwards with a bottle, saying 'Water, water'. He partially lifted the hoods and placed the bottle in my mouth and forced me to drink its contents. I realised it was urine."
Testimony against british troops in basra
mad world
* One quarter of the aid [provided by rich countries] – $20bn a year – funds expensive and often ineffective western consultants, research and training.
* In the UK, for example, almost half of TA spending goes on consultants and other experts, the vast majority of them British.
* A typical cost of an expatriate consultant will be in the region of $200,000 a year. According to the OECD, in typical cases more than one third of this is spent on school fees and child allowances – spending which would not be needed if local consultants were used.
...millions die while the rest of the population obediently goes about its business. Howard Zinn