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Bob Mills (b 1967) is a journalist, dissident and author living in Sussex, England. His works include, "The next 1000 years of Industrial Capitalism" which is a harrowing and grim view of the Earth and its peoples in 1000 years time. Mills renders a vivid picture of a future in which the resources of the earth have been been brutally marshalled during the course of the next millenium into what will become an entirely unrecognisable global landscape.


Mills looks at trends and changes over the past 200 years of industrial capitalism and extrapolates them into his nighmarish vision of a raped and desecrated planet, supporting a population of 25 billion souls most of whom are able to live in relative comfort. Mills maps out a future in which the fossil fuel age is extended beyond the current imminent exhaustion of conventional oil supplies by the extraction of gas anhydrites and exploitation of oil rocks. It is a future in which nobody is hungry, cold or in physical need but one in which terrible blandness and uniformity have choked the planet making the Earth a place in which there is nowhere left to to go. It is a future from which our decendents will look back upon us and feel both envy and anger.


Bob Mills has made headlines recently for his criticism of Tony Blair and his Government over the UK involvement in the 2003 Gulf War. Bob Mills has published a challenge to the Prime Minister, accusing Blair his Cabinet and his appointed advisors of telling deliberate lies to the British public in the run up to the Gulf War. The lies concerned the existence of weapons of mass destruction held by the former Baathist Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.


Mills asserts that Blair and his appointees deliberately put political pressure on the proper intelligence services to distort and exaggerate their intelligence assessments, in order to make a more politically acceptable case for going to war. Mills asserts that the cabinet office then presented these manufactured assessments to the public in the form of lies and propaganda.


Mills has taken up this theme and has repeatedly accused the Prime Minister of being a liar. He has done so in person in public, in print and on screen and radio broadcasts with the challenge that the Prime Minister should defend himself in the courts for defamation over the allegations of lies. Mills made a stunning attack on Blair on the BBC Radio4 Today Program on 14th October this year in which he stated the following. "This Prime Minister has deliberately lied to the public over the existence of weapons of mass destruction held within Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion. I say that the Prime minister is a liar and I challenge him to sue me for defamation on this single issue and I am ready with my legal team to start first thing tomorrow morning. We all know that any action of this kind would fail, not on any point of law but on the plain fact that the Prime Minister lied and that the Prime Minister is a liar. He dare not sue, because his position would be indefensible. Ultimately, the British public will decide his fate and it is vital for British democracy that the reputation and electability of this Prime Minister will will be dashed to pieces on the issue of his lies and propaganda."



He also was notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as In Bed With Medinner, and The Show, an attempt to do a British Larry Sanders Show with one difference: it wasn't fictional.


He currently presents the breakfast radio show on BBC London.


External links

  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/dannybaker/bob_mills.shtml
  • http://offthetelly.users.btopenworld.com/comedy/show.htm

Bob Mills is the Canadian Alliance member of Parliament for Red Deer, Alberta.




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Mills was one of the first to record fl and white musicians together, using twelve White musicians and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on a 12" 78 RPM disc performing St.
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