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Nearly one million young Brits have been?left idle?while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315% as employers take advantage of lax border controls rather than training up young Brits, a new study has found.
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Is France about to trigger the next financial crash? That's the question Matthew Lynn is asking in the Spectator as Fran?ois Bayrou's Government looks set to fall after failing to pass yet another Budget.
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offsite link What Happened When Jacob Rees-Mogg and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Clashed Over Immigration on the BBC Tue Aug 26, 2025 12:10 | Sallust
If hotels are housing illegal migrants, why not Chevening, the Foreign Secretary's grace and favour residence? Here's what happened when Jacob Rees-Mogg and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown clashed over that issue on Any Questions.
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Britain will face social unrest and reinforced perceptions of a two-tier society if the Government pushes ahead with plans for a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of a new campaign group has warned.
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The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska could be a geopolitical game-changer, argues Tilak Doshi, opening up energy markets, empowering the Global South and leaving Europe trailing behind.
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Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Monday March 20, 2006 21:08author by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winnerauthor email bob.bobnichols at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

SF BayView article

Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe

by Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner

Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003 "shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside and throughout Europe.

Related Link: http://www.sfbayview.com/031506/uraniumbombing031506.shtml
author by Seán Ryanpublication date Tue Mar 21, 2006 17:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

More links.

First piece has lots of excellent links with loads more information on depleted uranium - domestic and militaristic uses..
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74089
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74048

author by Terencepublication date Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Lots more material about the horrors of depleted uranium at the link below.

Related Link: http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm
author by jimpublication date Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The use of radioactive material in dessert terrain creates what is know as Deadly Desert Dust, radiation is carried in the sand, the sand then distributed widely by the wind with awful consequences.

There has been a huge increase in cancer rates in some areas of Iraq, some research uncovered that children played in the shells of blown up tanks, and were exposed to radioactive material from the uranium tipped shells the U.S used to blow them up.

 
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