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Off to sell arms in Egypt

Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2011

British PM David Cameron attacked for Egypt visit with defence sales team in tow

 

Belfast Telegraph

 

22nd February, 2011

David Cameron faced charges of hypocrisy last night after he arrived for a tour of the Gulf with some senior figures from the defence industry.

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If the poor of Africa are hungry, send them arms

Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2008

 

Mark Steel(Independent)

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

It’s so difficult, apparently, to work out how to solve the food shortages in Africa. Because the price of food has just gone up, the way prices do sometimes, caught by a freak gust of wind or flare from the sun or something and whoosh, up they go, whether it’s oil or an Olympic Games or rice and it’s just bad luck.

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