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I was thinking about how The U.N has become completely useless and their lack of action has resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives in places like Zimbabwe and the following poem (about Nazism) kept coming into my mind. It is more appropriately/often used to show the folly of racism but it seems to fit here anyway; First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I ...

A very hard question, Shadow. As yurtle said in your Iraq/Afghanistan/Bosnia thread its hypocritical for countries with nuclear weapons to be telling other countries not to make them. At the same time the less countries with nuclear weapons the better, particularly the likes of Iran. Not sure if assassinating the Iranian president would help matters, the powers that be there would only ...

Well the Tories brough us out of the last recession and left Labour with ine of the strongest economies we've ever had. Then again, that was a different Tory Party. I've always voted Conservatve, but the current lot dont float my boat either, in fact I dont find any of the current partys or their leaders inspiring at all. May as well vote Raving Looney.

I think that after the initial media frenzy and hysteria it seems to have all gone quiet. To be honest although I am not looking to prove it by catching it, I get the impression that more people died in the past from normal flu than are dying now from Swine flu. Shadow