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Thursday, November 20, 2003


Iraq: prewar and now
Did you know . . .

-Electricity exceeds pre-war output; 4400 megawatts a day versus 3300 megawatts in January
-Oil production is nearly back to pre-war levels: 2,200 million barrels a day, as against 2,500 million barrels a day
-3.6 million school children are back at primary school & 1.5 million in secondary school
-University registrations have increased from 63,000 pre-war to 97,000 today
-Healthcare in back to pre-war levels & improving rapidly because spending is estimated to 26 times pre-war levels
-Doctors salaries are 8 times higher
Mr. Free Market has more, and has posted today his own photos of the vast crowds protesting near his london office, including one of both people of the crowd outside the US embassy in London at noon.

More good stuff: Having had a late breakfast, he takes a a walk, then,
. . . 150 yards from Grosvenor Square, I decide to find some protests. I mean we have had sirens & helicopters all morning. So anyway, I wander all about the security cordon looking for Stop The War Stromtoopers & Anti-Globalisation Soap Dodgers……nothing!

The only demo, the only flag I have seen, surrounded by a dozen Arabs, said,
“British Iraqis Support President Bush”

It’s a disgrace. This country can no longer organise a recent riot. ...
Ah, but there will always be an England!

Well, I can't stop excerpting from this fellow's extremely entertaining and perceptive web site. Here is a section from the new "UK citizenship examination" for schoolchildren:
1. You are a public service worker who needs to force the Government to give into your astronomical wage demands. Show how you might use European Human Rights Legislation to hold the Country to ransom. Additional marks will be awarded for illustrating your answer with reference to destruction of public property, intimidation of non striking colleagues or the use of illegal secondary strikes.

2. Citizenship is about redistribution, as is burglary. Explain how lessons learnt in woodwork and metalwork can be applied to breaking and entering other peoples houses. Indicate how you might use the legal aid system to ensure that you get away with it.
Well, I would guess that the hapless Tony Martin could teach a class on that last point.

by Donald Sensing, 11/20/2003 12:59:47 PM. Permalink |  





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