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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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Former Mayor Of London
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Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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