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The truth about working conditions inside Coca-Cola's "Happiness Factory": wage cuts, 12-hour shifts and strikes

Coca-Cola’s current TV ad features life inside a Coke vending machine where hundreds of weird cartoon creatures individually make a bottle of Coke.

Small fluffy white balls bounce onto the bottle to cover it with kisses and penguin scientists frost the bottle with the flakes of freshly shredded snowmen.

The bottle is sent to the delivery chute accompanied by a full marching band, cheerleaders and fireworks displays. It is essentially ... read more

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Willing to break the law?

Mark Thomas on the continuing saga of the government, BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia

Documents released at the Royal Courts of Justice show the British government would be prepared to go as far as breaking international law in order to scrap the investigation into allegations of bribery between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia.

On top of this the UK government appears, once again, to have kept back embarrassing documents from the OECD (the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development) who are examining the government’s ... read more

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'Tony Blair is a cult'

The campaign to concrete rural England, ban February and for legalising urban foxhunting hits London

Dear citizen reader,

It is with pride that I can confirm that the latest attack on the exposed flanks of government absurdity has been successful. As announced in the last blog a new phase has been entered into with the battle with the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA), leading to a massive surge of citizens deployed.

SOCPA is the legislation - introduced to quieten down peace campaigner ... read more

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Join the day of 1,184 protests

Welcome to the strange New Labour world in which you can be arrested for possessing a cake...

Oh dear readers, now is your time, now is the moment, this is your chance to get all the gripes, groans and disgust with New Labour out of your system in one go! I’m offering you- dear sweet reader - this once in a lifetime moment! "What is you it?" you cry in eager mental salivation. It is gestalt protest! It’s therapy, it’s protest, it’s fun! Join me in the ... read more

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British humbug

Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law

It is an awkward question to ask but did anyone else hear the rest of the world sniggering?

I thought I heard it, that’s all. The sequence of events went like this: the unfortunate British soldiers were kidnapped by Iran, Britain announced that Iran had broken international law... and that was when I thought I heard a global giggle, though it could have been a snort of derision.

A ... read more

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Free Ocalan ... or should that be Borat?

You can't beat terrorism by banning parliamentary book launches

I’m paraphrasing my friend Bob Boyton when I say that politicians are like dog crap - every now and then you have to tread in them. The Channel 4 political awards, recorded a few weeks ago and attended by some 200 odd MPs, was the televisual equivalent of Crufts front lawn.

Steaming piles of our elected representatives littered the Channel 4 cafeteria demurely swigging the free wine, and - for ... read more

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We need a 'Bribery Tsar' for the 21st century

If bribery is so good for jobs, why should it be a crime?

The war on terror has been used to justify many things from the Brian Haw law (to make protesters get permits) to illegally invading Iraq. It is indeed a small wonder that John Prescott when caught shagging didn’t opt for the “war on terror” defence.

I for one would pay money to see him declaring, “We have it on reliable intelligence information that unless I put my penis in the ... read more

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Roll up, roll up! Peerages for a £1

Ever wanted to be a Lord or a Lady? Well why not put your name to this novel idea for changing the honours system?

Amidst the Labour Party grandees in line for questioning by the police it looks like Tony Blair himself could be officially probed under caution.

It is hardly the Hague International Criminal Court but it is a start and at least we establish the principle that he should be questioned by the authorities.

The surprise of the scandal is not the idea a government would sell titles but that ... read more

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Free Ocalan ... or should that be Borat?

i really dont have a clue what u r talking about. borat is skinny,u r a thick. apo is the re-founder of kurdistan

From solomon, 10 August 01:48

Free Ocalan ... or should that be Borat?

@Filz, you don't oppress people by giving them the EXACT SAME rights. God, you people are stupid.

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