[ssf] A good day to hide bad news

[jo moore]

    Britain plans to spend £3bn on new nuclear warheads
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   "Ministers have repeatedly denied there are any plans to replace the
    warheads as part of the upgrade of the Trident nuclear system,
    insisting no decision will be taken until the next parliament,
    probably sometime after 2010.

    However, previously unpublished papers released under the Freedom of
    Information Act reveal one of the MoD's senior officials told a
    private gathering of arms manufacturers that the decision had already
    been taken --

       This document destroys any credibility in the government's claim
       that it has not yet made a decision on new nuclear warheads ...
          -- said Kate Hudson,
             chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament --
       ...It is a disgrace that the MoD is secretly telling the defence
       industry one thing, whilst ministers are saying quite the opposite
       to parliament."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/25/nuclear.weaponstechnology

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    did you hear the one about saddam having something like this once
    and we all had just three quarts of an hour
    to get out and get under
    before our last glorious leader
    came to our rescue
    and marched us on to war ...

    well
    perhaps he's still at work
    and scored a back hander
    from one of the several outfits he works for
    or, who knows these days
    b.a.e. maybe
    to lubricate the process
    because business is business
    and best kept secret
    from both us courts
    and parliament
    as a matter of national security
    and it would be fitting
    to bury one of these bombs
    to complete the set up
    the tall story
    propagated by our ex p.m. ...

    there's nothing like government transparency
    and what we're getting is
    nothing like government transparency