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Sunday 28th April 2013 at 14.13

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UK. Government. (2001)

The recent moves by the Blair government are ludicrous. It was MADNESS to stop the cleanup (the Biology will NOT wait!) and you can't fairly change compensation parameters midway through a program! Cleanup now resumed.

The NHS has clearly suffered from badly thought out targets. There is only ONE criterion. Medical Priority! Any other is just a grossly unethical approach. To rephrase a quote, "There are Lies, Damned lies and Labour Spin!"

Us Government policies.

Why George Bush wants (with a wafer thin mandate) to reject or amend so many treaties is totally incomprehensible! "American" interests can NOT take priority over the rest of the world! Thats one reason why there were protests in Genoa. (see Globalisation comment below)

Northern Ireland.

As an average UK voter, I just don't see why Gerry Adams has so much procrastinating over IRA arms destruction. The extremists on both sides have lost the argument with the electorate. It is NOT the UK Gov't at fault here. The extremists do NOT need the arsenals in the 21st. Century. Get rid now!

Regarding the Ealing Bomb! Yet again a "dissident" group strikes. WHY they cannot realise that EVERY party in Ulster has rejected this approach is beyond my understanding. As to the use of the word "Army" to describe this group, Don't insult our intelligence! It is time for (a) The arms dumps to be destroyed NOW and (b) All these murdering loonatics to be jailed!

Mugabe and other Despots

There has been action against Milosevic and against Saddam (alas left unfinished) so why not a move against Mr Mugabe? He is going to totally ruin the Zimbabwe economy! How many of the farms taken over by "war veterans" are actually producing anything at all now? He should be banned from any Commonwealth activity at once, and there is NO WAY a UK cricket team should go over there! ALL Despots should get the same approach, regardless of any so called "politically correct" arguments! Mugabe has set black against black, thus ruining what was a leading "African" economy along the way.

Re Anti Globalisation Protests.

One:- The vast majority of ecological problems can NOT be acted on at state or even continental level. They MUST be tackled on a Global basis. Any ecology student should realise that!

Two:- Consumers (for whatever reason) seem to want lower prices. These come about by technological advances or lower production costs. The main element of the latter is wage costs. Put the same new technology into two plants, one in a lower wage / tax cost economy and its obvious which will survive! A company in a high cost area closes if it can't compete because of consumer pressure of this kind. Many have cut UK posts as a direct result.

The Middle East.

Yet more "eye for an eye" reaction / counter reaction. This has got to be reconsidered. Both sides have "rights" to various "Holy" places too, I don't propose to prioritise there as to who had "first claim", but this constant bickering defiles those places to both communities. Do both Koran and Bible REALLY say any other religion is to be condemned? After all, BOTH have only ONE God! Its just the name which is different!

The comment above was posted on 17th. August 2001

Feb 11th. The cycle is STILL continuing! The two "sides" are as bad as each other! The Israeli "Revenge Now" approach does NOT work! They have destroyed infrastructure improvements funded by the EU and seem determined to destabalise Arafat. Arafat is stuck between a rock and a hard place because of this plain unreasonableness. Instead of assisting him, all the present Israeli administration does is denigrate his attempts. If a gunman is shot as he / she attacks Israelis, reaction must END there! A suicide bomber is already dead, so why attack others who were NOT involved! All a "revenge" attack does is promote more gunmen or bombers! In Humanities name STOP IT Sharon!!!!