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RandomPottins: April 2006
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Sunday, April 30, 2006. A story in today's. Rather puts all those expensive government campaigns to catch benefit cheats in perspective. I heard about a guy once on invalidity, who claimed housing benefit to pay for his council flat, then let the flat to someone else, having moved in with a girlfriend. How does that compare with Labour MP Shaun Woodward? He "represents" St.Helens, the glassworks town and former mining area on Merseyside, not exactly known as a seat of affluence. But as the. Woodward's su...
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RandomPottins: January 2006
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006. CATALOGUE OF OPPRESSION deemed too "political". AS leaders of the "civilised", "democratic" world meet to admonish Palestinians under occupation for voting the wrong way, and threaten their children will suffer worse deprivation and suffering unless their leaders fall into line, two other meetings in London will confront the realities of occupation. Not news, it seems. Hamas flags alongside Gush Shalom, peaceful villagers and Tel Aviv anarchists together facing tear gas? What v...
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RandomPottins: February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Explaining the strange game of politics in London. Among Mike Marqusee's distinctions is that he is an American who understands cricket. A native New Yorker who lives in London, he not only enjoys the game, but writes about it (and about Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali, socialism, the anti-war movement, and other topics). Mike is good at getting into stuff that others find complicated, and helping us understand what's going on. The tribunal ruled that Livingstone had been "unnecessari...
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RandomPottins: November 2005
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Monday, November 28, 2005. Don't Ask the Rabbi! Private Eye" once carried a little story saying ex-Liverpool council leader Derek Hatton, of Militant Tendency fame, had managed to place a niece and/nephew in a private fee-paying school, to wit the King David school in Liverpool. Where do they get these stories? I can't see Rabbi Chaim Simons being happy with that. My Fight for Yiddishkeit:. Reminiscences of a Director of Jewish Studies at the King David High School, Liverpool, in the 1970s". The second p...
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RandomPottins: October 2005
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Monday, October 31, 2005. One man's profit, another man's grave - War and Global Coolie trade. Welcome to Kellog Tower". KELLOGG , BROWN, ROOT (KBR),. Of the Halliburton empire. TWO items picked up by Iraq Occupation Focus Newsletter, http:/ www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk/newsletter/30102005.html. Show another grim aspect of the involvment of big US firms in Iraq. US cash fuels human trade. The Chicago Tribune reports (October 9th). American tax dollars are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign la...
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RandomPottins: July 2006
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Monday, July 31, 2006. Israel the prison screw keeps out visitors bringing books. ISRAELI human rights activist Jeff Halper sometimes uses the analogy of a prison to describe the kind of freedom Israel at its most "generous" is prepared to concede to Palestinians. The warders will withdraw, leaving the inmates a series of cells, but of course keeping them surrounded, controlling their movements, and reserving the right to go in any time and punish them. Which picture does this story fit? The trip aimed t...
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RandomPottins: March 2006
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006. I'm not an arms dealer! With Dennis Thatcher, Rosemary Said, and Baroness T. THE row over loans to political parties has taken a more serious turn with reports of police interest in both Tory and Labour party finances, and whether they were used to obtain favours, as well as peerages. The Electoral Commission has also asked for details, and questioned whether the loans were made on "commercial" terms. I'd have thought the "commercial loans" issue is fairly obvious. Last month the...
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RandomPottins: December 2005
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Saturday, December 31, 2005. You're Nick-ed, Agent Langman! An MI6 station boss who had been operating under diplomatic cover in Greece has been recalled to London after being named by the Greek weekly magazine. Reporting a case of alleged torture and brutality to Palistani workers secretly arrested in Greece. Testified Gul Nawaz, 32 years old, and living in Athens for the past three years. Adds Mohammed Munir, who according to his deposition was maltreated on several occasions during his captivity.
