3 March 2014 — OurNHS
Every government reassurance about care.data just brings more questions. The bottom line – in whose interests is the government acting when handling England’s medical records – just won’t go away.
Day: March 3, 2014
Ukraine & Egypt: A tale of two coups By Eric Walberg
3 March 2014 — Eric Walberg
US plans for Egypt and Ukraine are falling apart and Russia is scrambling to pick up the pieces.
Numsa's Big Fat United Front: social movements, mineworkers welcome – maybe even the EFF By Ranjeni Munusamy
3 March 2014 — Daily Maverick
So it has finally happened. The militant metalworkers union Numsa is now actively campaigning against the ANC government and has issued a call to South Africans to join its “United Front” – a mass movement for socialism and radical economic change. Numsa will soon be hosting provincial consultative conferences to bring together left-leaning organisations and social movements, and this will culminate in a national summit. Numsa will also ratchet up the pressure on the ANC government through a national strike on 19 March. If you read through Numsa’s demands and objectives and somehow hear the echo of Julius Malema’s voice, you are not alone. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY. Continue reading
UK: Sun, sand…and indefinite detention By Jennifer Allsopp
3 March 2014 — — 50.50
The UK’s second largest immigration detention centre is about to open in Weymouth. Jennifer Allsopp reports on local responses to the immanent presence of hundreds of foreigners, locked up off the coast of this small and friendly town.
US Government Caught Funding The Coup In Ukraine
3 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Just hours after last weekend’s ouster of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, one of Pierre Omidyar’s newest hires at national security blog “The Intercept,” was already digging for the truth.
USAID got Maidan coup up and running – media
3 March 2014 — Voice of Russia, Pando, RT
The US online whistleblower magazine Pando has leaked documents that suggest the American government in the form of US Agency for International Development (USAID) could have played the role of force multiplier in the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych, having funded a host of opposition groups prior to the revolution.
Reichstag Fire in Kiev
2 March 2014 — Club Orlov
Pawel Kuczyn
[Auf Deutsh; Vielen Dank, Alexander!]
[Monday Noon Update:
• The Kiev regime announces general mobilization; only 1% to 1.5% of conscripts bother to turn up
• A dozen major cities—pretty much everything southeast of the line that runs from Kharkov to Odessa—are flying the Russian tricolor
• Ukraine’s naval flagship is flying Russia’s naval flag
• The newly appointed head of Ukrainian navy has defected to the Russian side in Crimea within a few hours of being appointed
• Most of the Ukrainian military units in Crimea have gone over to the Russian side voluntarily, without a single shot fired
• Ukrainian troops from Kirov have been ordered to march on Crimea, but have refused to obey (illegal) orders from Kiev
• During the last two weeks of February 143,000 Ukrainian citizens have requested asylum in Russia]
The New Dark Age 