jeremy seabrook : in death, imperialism lives on

from motorcyclenews.com:



december 30 2004



grid lock? not for bikes!



there’s never been a better time to take to two wheels, according to a report from the rac foundation issued today (december 30, 2004).



the organisation is warning of the growing threat of grid-lock on britain's roads in 2005. they say surveys show congestion in towns and cities is “a serious issue for a majority of people” and congestion on motorways is a serious problem for nearly a third of people. we suspect it’s not much of an issue for most motorcyclists!



the rac says

• average traffic speeds fell by 7% between 1995 and 2003 in the evening peak period.


• road traffic has grown by 79% since 1980.


• the proportion of trips made by car has increased from 57% in 1989/91 to 64% in 2002/03.


• travel by car rose from 388 billion passenger kilometres in 1980 to 678 billion in 2003 – an increase of 75%.


• travel by car now accounts for 62% of time spent travelling.


• 71% of trips to work were made by car in 2002/03 compared with 66% in 1989/91.


• 92% of all passenger travel is by road whilst 6.5% is by rail.


• road traffic has grown by 79% since 1980, while the total length of roads increased by only 10% in the same period.

the rac is calling on the governent to start spending more of the £42 billion per year paid to the treasury by road users each year on improvements to the roads network. “road users currently pay £42 billion a year of which less than £6 billion is spent on roads. we claim to be the fourth largest economy in the world so surely we can afford a decent road system to support economic growth," said a spokesman.



anthony says:


so go and buy a motorcycle if you want to recapture the freedom you used to have on the roads.

ever thought palestine was the aggressor against israel?



read this, omar barghouti: the case for boycotting israel, and be disabused of your misconceptions.



there is a convincing and pressing need for all in the west to boycott israeli goods, services and its academics.



do it now.

mugging the truth to spin blindkuntt's comeback

be selfish: do a good deed

we can hold our military to account

balance in the service of falsehood

it's a time for giving

britain is conniving in torture.



well, what can we expect when we have a complete kuntt for a home secretary and a completely unprincipled, capitalist bastard as a prime minister?



as the manics sang in intravenous agnostic: "brutality is needed in capitalist society".



the sole purpose of people like bliar and blindkuntt is to make life easier for capitalists. their every action is aimed at surpressing our rights and making us into cash cows for the corporations.



well, fuck 'em both. i will not carry an i.d. card, i will not attack burglars, i will not connive in torture



i will vote for the greens whose policies do not include turning all burglars into gun-toting killers, do not include giving some corrupt corporate bastards ownership of intellectual property in my food, do not include giving some corrupt corporate bastards ownership of our water supply, do not include torturing people.

this humourous piece, criminal injustice, captures the essence of blindkuntt's "security" proposals beautifully.

fat, greedy bastards.



i work for a corporation where this is the case.



my enthusiasm for going to work when i know that the directors are taking all the cash for themselves : 0



my respect for despicable bastards who behave this way : 0



what i can do about it on my own : nothing



fuck it.

mary kenny : pull yourselves together

look at the pictures at fallujahinpictures.com/ and, if you aren't sickened by what the fucking americans are doing to iraqis, if you don't demand that it stop immediately, you deserve the same treatment.

i don't much like max hastings but, like every commentator, he sometimes has something intelligent to say : save us from the politicians who have god on their side.

galloway wins saddam libel battle.



cool.



now perhaps the corporate press cunts will stop publishing untruths about politicians they don't like. maybe they'll have to go after the bad 'uns, rather than lying about the good 'uns.

joe bageant: dining with the rhinos

witnesses: u.s. uses napalm gas in fallujah and firebombing falluja.



bliar and goon must know that this is happening. by not pulling british troops out of iraq, they're conspiring with the fucking americans to allow this appalling and illegal weapon to be used.



when will labour politicians have the balls to sack this grotesque pair of murdering bastards?



unfortunately, never. because, with a very few honourable exceptions (like alice mahon), they all care more about being in power than they care about the fucking slaughter that's going on in fallujah.



cunts, the lot of them.