Today, 16 October, is World Hunger Day! The facts in relation to the lack of food for millions of people around the world are truly staggering. 850 millions people around the world are hungry - see this. Meanwhile, the UNHRC web site the contains some rather scary numbers of the UN's count of refugees in the world. And to think that a rich country like Australia has spent countless millions of dollars to prevent a few thousand either arriving in Australia - or even worse, staying here!
Most commentary on the Chilcot Inquiry Report of and associated with the Iraq War, has been "lifted" from the Executive Summary. The Intercept has actually gone and dug into the Report, with these revelations : "THE CHILCOT REPORT, the U.K.’s official inquiry into its participation in the Iraq War, has finally been released after seven years of investigation. Its executive summary certainly makes former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led the British push for war, look terrible. According to the report, Blair made statements about Iraq’s nonexistent chemical, biological, and nuclear programs based on “what Mr. Blair believed” rather than the intelligence he had been given. The U.K. went to war despite the fact that “diplomatic options had not been exhausted.” Blair was warned by British intelligence that terrorism would “increase in the event of war, reflecting intensified anti-US/anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim world, including among Muslim communities in the
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