Wherever you go, the profit hunters will get you?

It's Debenhams, Wenceslas Square, Prague, and it's a department store, and like all shops and stores, it's also a money making machine.
It's the staging post for the final destination of commodities.
The commodities in this case are clothing and household equipment, whose final destination, once purchased, is in our shopping bags.
That's when the capitalist's profit is finally realised, when our money is locked in Debenham's till.
Debenhams get their share of the profit, and you and I, we get fleeced.
Now, there's something for you to think about?

I wonder if G. Broon is trying to convince Us, or himsel' aboot passionate Wendy?

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given his personal backing to Wendy Alexander as Labour's leader in Scotland and declared that she would be the next First Minister

The tribute came at the beginning of his speech to the Scottish Labour Party annual conference in Aviemore. Mr Brown said: "I have known Wendy for many years. She is a long-standing supporter of devolution. She has a passion for equality and social justice."

And when Labour was in power in Holyrood she had been a "brilliant" enterprise minister, said Mr Brown,

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Aye Mr. Broon, and the sun shines oot o' your backside as well!

Bribing the weans wi' sweeties, could it be an attempt to win the hearts and minds? Five years after the invasion of Iraq, I wouldn't bank on it?

A British soldier from the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) gives sweets to children

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces battled fighters loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra on Tuesday in a drive to win control of the southern oil city, triggering a wave of violence in Baghdad and other cities.

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It has taken them long enough to admit that the invasion of Iraq was for the control of the Oil.

Saddam was just a handy diversion to allow Bush, and Blair to make up the story about weapons of mass destruction, along with the liberation of the Iraqi people from the tyrant, Saddam Hussein, and to make Iraq safe for democracy, aye right?

If the chaos that we see every night on the TV news broadcasts, and read about in the newspapers is Bush, and Blair's democracy in action, then I despair?

Ever since Humanity evolved from being hunter-gatherers, to be able to engage in agriculture, and thereby able to produce a surplus of food etc, the evolution of a propertied class claiming ownership of that surplus appeared on the scene, and basically, ever since then, Humanity has been at war with itself over the ownership, and control of that surplus.

And the rest they say, is history.

For the US and the UK, Afghanistan and Iraq is the current conflagration, but people in practically every continent on the globe are killing people, and for what?

Money, power, and mega international corporate capitalist profits for the few, and as long as this is the case, there is no reason for this constant war-fare to cease.

So it's business as usual, and the extinction of the Human Race?

Pleasant dreams?

Benedict, be carefull you don't choke yourself, when next you put your foot in your mouth.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called in his Easter message on Sunday for an end to injustice worldwide and expressed joy at continuing conversions to Christianity hours after he baptised a prominent Italian Muslim convert.

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He calls for an end to injustice worldwide?

And with his next breath, he expresses joy at continuing conversions to Christianity, hours after he baptised a prominent Italian Muslim convert.

Here is evidence, if evidence is needed, that in the Roman catholic dogma, the only "true" religion, is Christianity, and all else is worthless!

Why else would the Pope express joy at scoring a point against Islam?

Religion in all its varieties, since the earliest times to the present, has been, and is the bane of human existence.

I look forward to the day when any idea of religion is but a fuzzy social memory, and the fuzzier the better!

Fellow workers, you know it makes sense, to have our brains free from the fog of superstition.

I think the cardinal should stick to what he knows best. Peddling superstition and humbug, but who, if anyone in March 2008, really needs that?

Cardinal quit call over embryo bill

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland urged Catholic ministers serving in the Cabinet to quit the Government rather than support "monstrous" legislation on embryo research.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien said there was an "obligation" on all Catholic MPs to consider the guidance of the church's leaders when they came to vote on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

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The Cardinal says there is an "obligation" on all Catholic MPs to consider the guidance of the church's "leaders", when they came to vote on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

As if the Catholic church leaders are experts on all sorts of human experiences?

Our bourgeois democracy as far as the majority of the people are concerned is a sham anyway, but at least we get to vote for our representatives every four years or so, allegedly to represent our interests which they usually ignore, but that for now, is by the by.

The question now is, who elected the cardinal?

The answer to that is nobody, and even if all the constituents of all the catholic MP's were catholic, the cardinal still has no business interfering in secular matters.

After all superstition, and the supernatural are his specialities,

Finally, someone ought to take the cardinal aside, and politely tell him, [if there is a polite way of telling him] to piss off!

Obviously the man has no conscience, but human lives are expendable, especially when those lives are in the way of Corporate USA's Profits?

Bush: I have no regrets about Iraq

US President George W Bush has spoken of the "undeniable" success of the invasion of Iraq on its fifth anniversary.

In a speech at the Pentagon, Mr Bush said: "Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it.

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Well he has to say that, hasn't he, to say anything else would be to admit defeat, and defeat is not on his agenda, even although it is possibly staring him in the face, only he is too blind to see it?

Depleted uranium turns earthworms into glowworms. Crumbs, and we used to make jokes about Torness glowing in the dark?

Depleted uranium turns earthworms into glowworms

Fears that radioactive material has tainted ecosystem. By Jasper Hamill

EARTHWORMS WERE pushed into the firing line last week after a resumption of the testing of depleted uranium shells at Dundrennan.

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I wonder if Jasper only fears a tainted ecosystem because the MOD is, and has been testing the shells, on our own doorstep so to speak?

I only ask this, because the U.S. and UK military have been using such shells in Afghanistan and Iraq since the senior George Bush's Dessert Storm, after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait?

No fears expressed then about "a tainted [contaminated] ecosystem?

Are the Iraqis and the Afghans not entitled to an uncontaminated ecosystem?

Taking all things into account, it would appear they are not so entitled?

But of course the price of Oil in terms of human lives, and suffering, is a price the Oil Barons have never ever considered, no matter what the consequences, and there is no sign of a let up, because their priority is to amass profit, for that amorphous minority group, the Shareholders, and if that means their bully boys [the military] using depleted uranium tipped shells and bullets to secure their profits, then so be it!

Contaminating the ecosystem it seems, is of little account?

Mass murder, and mayhem, Bush and Co. talk about making the world safe for democracy?

Obviously Bush's idea of democracy fits in with his view of the world, but for the rest of us, it's a sham, an affront, even an obscenity to any semblance of democracy.

But sadly, the current social system is Capitalism, and everyday experience of capitalism demonstrates that the running of capitalism, is incompatible with democracy!

However, I look forward to the day when Humanity embraces a truly social democratic society, where we all have a say in the social organisation, without fear or favour.

We can call it socialism, communism, or the social commonwealth, or whatever, after all, they all mean the same thing, the social well being of us all.

Time however, is running out, and if we don't want to inherit a nuclear wilderness, we must act soon?

Be a citizen of the world, with no need for tests or oaths!

No support' for allegiance oath

Calls for school-leavers to take part in British citizenship ceremonies would be opposed by the Scottish Government, a minister has said.

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The Scottish S.N.P. Government may well be opposed to the proposed British citizenship ceremonies, but nevertheless they still kowtow to royalty.

By the way, the British population are not citizens, we are subjects, born live and die, subjects of "Her Britannic Majesty", an institution that should have disappeared with feudalism, but it didn't, so we are stuck with it, the anachronism that is the House of Windsor, with all its relatively modern manufactured pageantry.

All this dewy-eyed idolatry, when will it ever end?

When we the Workers realise our quest for the worldwide social commonwealth.

Workers [citizens] of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains, we have the world to win!

Does anyone else, apart from me, think that Bush is an elected Despot?

Bush's Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms His Legacy
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
President Bush shut down a Congressional effort to limit harsh interrogation techniques, cementing a legacy of fighting for strong executive powers.

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As time goes by Bush acts more and more like all the other dictators he is allegedly against, and it wouldn't surprise me one little bit, if he vetoes the forth coming Presidential election and declares himself President for life.

But then, he has shut down a Congressional effort to limit harsh interrogation [torture] techniques, so maybe unknown to anyone his Life Presidency is a fait accompli?

Not being an American, I cant get my head around the fact that one man can overrule the Congress, which I suppose is an elected body, and therefore, at least in theory, accountable to the electorate, but then, maybe not?

Bush's slogan is to make the world safe for Democracy?
But judging from his dictatorial manner, he should try to democratise himself first?

The man doesn't know the meaning of the word!

Harry, man or Superman? Well no, but the Queen is his Granny, hence all the Bullshit that the media has been feeding us, now his secret is out!

Doubt over Harry's return to action

Prince Harry's hopes of returning to the frontline are in doubt after military chiefs voiced fears about the risks of deploying him again.

The Household Cavalry officer flew back to Britain after his tour of duty in Afghanistan was abruptly ended when foreign websites broke a media blackout on reporting details of his service.

Although chastened by the presence of two horrifically injured soldiers on his flight, Harry, 23, said he had already told his commanding officer he wanted to go back out "very, very soon".

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They should send him back, and who knows, with all this special talent he has [well so we've been told anyway] for operating the killing machine that is the British Army, he could turn the tide of battle in favour of the Brit. and US invaders?

Well maybe, but the Afghans have seen off a lot of invaders in the past, and the last lot of invaders to bite the dust, was the Russians.

Oh, and by the way, Britain was at war in Afghanistan in 1839 - 1842, click here to see who won that one, and there has been several wars in Afghanistan since then, so the prognosis doesn't look all that good, does it?