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“The OSC II the organization which monitored the election declared it flawed and unreliable, and has called for Belarus to respect the rights of the opposition.”
“Russia didn't say what's the problem?”
“Does he open the box or take the money?”
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riot police and vote rigging protests in Belarus White House stops the dictators pocket money and Europe bans him from the buses. Death penalty for Christian convert in Afghanistan. America says show stuff that You're embarrassing us. Special Forces in Iraq free Norman qadbak with a large check and a bag of money.
Bad news for rich people in Gordon Brown's 10th budget. New peasant fucking tax is introduced. Good evening. My name is peaceful protests.
Here are tonight's headlines. In Belarus incumbent president Lukashenko has ordered riot police to break up vote rigging protests and round up the people involved. Lukashenko won the recent election with 99.99% landslide. Nothing suspicious about that at all.
The OSC II the organization which monitored the election declared it flawed and unreliable, and has called for Belarus to respect the rights of the opposition. Russia didn't say what's the problem? Democracy is just a sham anyway, in your country, unelected business leaders ruled corporations for decades, swaying government decisions with bribes, loans and pictures of your leaders shagging donkeys.
At least we're honest about how we control our people. You'll pretend that people have a say while the church the Queen and big business owned all the land and keep the population enslaved through fear, debt and taxation. So don't talk to us about freedom, you sleazy peasant fuckers. The EU said Belarus was a sad exception to Europe's tradition of democracy and urged them to privatize everything and enable a rich elite to control the country regardless of which government is elected so that people can at least enjoy the illusion of democracy.
In Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman faces the death penalty unless he can reconvert right to Islam, says the trial judge and so Rula malice bizarre. Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, kindness and integrity. That's why we've told him if he regrets what he did, we will not kill him quite as slowly as we were going to. The Prophet Muhammad has said several times, those who convert from Islam should be killed if they refuse to come back.
We feel it's our duty to enforce such medieval abuse of human rights. Anyone who disagrees with us should probably be killed as well. President Hamid Karzai, a pro Western leader faces some difficult choices. Does he open the box or take the money?
I mean, does he behave like a human being or bow to pressure from the fanatical religious people who run the country I mean, live in the country. While the government respects human rights and personal freedom. The country has a Taliban I mean independent judicial system. America liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban after 911 Because it blamed them for the attacks on the World Trade Center.
And not because the Taliban refused Bush Rumsfeld and Cheney secret oil pipeline deal. Since that time, human rights abuses increased in the country, with the entire population being forced to believe Bush is a good guy. McDonald's represents good value for money and Madonna really can sing rap rap in Iraq after four months captivity Norman Kember peace activist and anti war protester is now free and heading home on a civilian aircraft refusing a military flight.
Mr. cambers release sorry, rescue was not the result of a large cash payout to armed bandits. Special Forces battled their way through empty streets, suffering horrible, I mean no casualties at all. And eventually found Mr. camber and two other hostages right where the map said I mean, they thought they would be. There has been some controversy over Mr. kimbers Lack of gratitude to the Special Forces who staged his rescue.
I mean, executed his rescue. The military didn't say we feel the least Mr. Canva a lifelong pacifist and anti war protester can do this thank the people involved in his release for signing up to die for the queen agreeing to kill people in order to do so and taking part in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, causing death and mayhem throughout the whole country. ultimately creating the circumstances.
Mr. Canva has worked all his life to prevent after all, we are just a being orders Z Kyle I mean Long live the Queen rent slobber slobber slobber. In the UK, Gordon Brown presented this year's budget, how to spend money on affluent people. As Gordon Brown took to the despatch box for the 10th time.
He didn't say I'm the bestest Chancellor ever. I have met all the undemanding rules, I set myself and haven't fiddled, the figures worst. If you've got kids, you'll be better off but not if you take them to school in a Range Rover. I commend myself the 10 Downing Street, thanks to Derek Horton Corby, UK for that.
Nor did he say that if you're an immortal 18 year old female millionaire science teacher who needs child care, drives a small car and likes a cider chaser with a whiskey by sort of bags in the EU and wants to invest in venture capitalists and trusts. You're laughing all the way to the bank says David pharaoh of Sheffield. And now the weather. The poorest people in the world will be worst hit by climate change.
A UK government report says it says droughts floods fueled by carbon emissions will hurt the sick people targeted by overseas aid emissions or making natural disasters worse. And the forecast the global warming threatens to reduce India's farm output by as much as a quarter are likely to be true. In Africa the number of people at risk from coastal flooding will rise from 1 million to 70 million. Have a nice weekend.
Themes in this episode
Analysis essay
This episode comes from late March 2006, when Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed Belarus election victory triggered protests and police repression; the EU and US responded with condemnation, sanctions, and travel restrictions. In Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman faced possible execution for converting from Islam to Christianity, embarrassing the US-backed Karzai government. In Iraq, British peace activist Norman Kember and two other Christian Peacemaker Teams hostages were freed by coalition forces after months in captivity. At home, Gordon Brown’s budget gave Deek an opening for another attack on taxation, class, and Labour’s management of inequality.
The Belarus sketch is a neat reversal: Lukashenko’s absurd landslide is obviously mocked, but Deek gives Russia the stronger satirical speech. Russia’s “what’s the problem?” argument says Western democracy is also rigged, just through corporations, monarchy, land ownership, debt, and blackmail rather than open ballot fraud. The EU line extends the joke: Belarus should privatize everything so an elite can control the country while preserving the illusion of democracy. In Afghanistan, Deek attacks religious authoritarianism directly, contrasting “religion of peace” rhetoric with the death penalty for apostasy. Karzai is portrayed as trapped between human rights branding and theocratic reality.
The Norman Kember segment mocks official rescue narratives. The “large check and bag of money” joke implies ransom or negotiation hidden behind Special Forces heroics, while Kember’s anti-war stance complicates the propaganda value of his rescue. Recurring FKN themes dominate: democracy as theatre, religion as coercion, empire disguised as liberation, oil-pipeline cynicism, and the poor being ruled through debt and taxation. The episode’s core claim is that dictatorships and democracies differ less in control than in how attractively they package it.