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The Bank of England has warned that as UK lenders are hit by higher borrowing costs families should prepare to pay more as the increase is passed down to consumers.

http://m.dailymail.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-2146247/More-100-000-people-lose-homes-mortgage-payments-rise-just-20-month.html


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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mortgage

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/10



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Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is in the running to win a slice of a controversial £1.5 billion (US$2.43 billion) contract to transform the West Midlands and Surrey police forces in Britain, The (London) Times reported.

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Tony Blair could be next to face a legal claim for damages from the Libyan man who alleges MI6 sent him to be tortured by Gaddafi s regime, after he announced he was suing Jack Straw.

http://bit.ly/HTqbT3


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''If the US can announce a reward of $10 million for the captor of Hafiz Saeed, I can announce a bounty of 10 million pounds on President Obama and his predecessor George Bush,'' Lord Nazir said.

http://bit.ly/HMRD0B



Labour peer Lord Ahmed denies Obama 'bounty' remarks

Asked about the reported comments, he said: ''I never said those words. I did not offer a bounty. I said that there have been war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan and those people who have got strong allegations against them, George W Bush and Tony Blair, have been involved in illegal wars and should be brought to justice.

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Charities say economic situation has severely affected thousands of people to the point of starvation.

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According to the most recent surveys, more than 22 percent of the population is officially below the poverty line. Nationally, one in every three children lives in poverty. In some areas, child poverty is between 40 and 50 percent.

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Democracy Brings Poverty and Tyranny
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/karsten2.1.1.html



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Der konservative britische Finanzminister gibt sich schockiert und will nun eine Mindeststeuer von einem Drittel des Einkommens einführen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151765

In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government.

http://bit.ly/Iml9Zq



MI6 'to offer £1 million' in Libya rendition case

MI6 is reportedly preparing to offer more than £1 million to buy the silence of a Libyan who claims he was kidnapped and sent home for torture at the hands of the Gaddafi regime.

http://tgr.ph/ImSfvT



UK terror suspects to be extradited to US

Babar Ahmed along with four others told by European court no rights violation would occur if they are sent to the US.

http://aje.me/HGqIkZ



The Torture-Lovers Who Rule Us

By Chris Floyd

It is a case of brutal torture against an innocent, defenseless pregnant woman, whose only ''crime'' was to be married to a man who belonged to an organization which had long been supported by the US and UK, until the geopolitics of oil made the group expendable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31057.htm



CIA wins fight to keep MPs in dark on rendition

Court keeps UK role secret as No 10 calls for police to question Labour ministers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cia-wins-fight-to-keep-mps-in-dark-on-rendition-7631357.html



UK 'approved' rendition of Libyan couple

Documents said to be found in office of Libya s ex-spy chief suggest UK had role in rendition of dissident man and wife.

http://aje.me/HXxSDS



£1m hush money to hide Tony Blair and Jack Straw s collusion in yet more war crimes

Their Iraq lies should have put Blair and Straw behind bars long ago, but here s yet more evidence of war crimes, this time for their involvement in torture and kidnapping.

http://bit.ly/HBCaTl



UK minister sued for sending Libyan back to torture

A Libyan military commander is suing former British foreign minister Jack Straw for allegedly authorizing his illegal transfer to Libya where he faced years of torture in Muammar Gaddafi s prisons, a lawyer for the commander said on Wednesday.

http://reut.rs/IPu2zs


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US Court Denies British MPs Access to Information about Rendition, Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/11-2



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BBC Video

He has been held for eight years in a UK jail without charge or trial, during which time he has been fighting extradition to the United States under controversial ''war on terror'' legislation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31015.htm



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