9 December 2016
Officious – Rise of the Busybody State starts with people’s everyday encounter with busybodies in public spaces – then analyses the logic of the busybody state, explains its origins, and calls for a popular alliance defending the free realm of civil society.
9 December 2016 — MedConfidential
Jeremy Hunt changed his mind and is still selling your medical records
If you opted out of your hospital records being sold, Jeremy Hunt has changed his mind about your choice.
At the time, he said in Parliament (emphasis added):
“…this Government decided that people should be able to opt out from having their anonymised data used for the purposes of scientific research, which the previous Labour Government refused to do? When they extended the programme to out-patient data in 2003 and to A and E data in 2008, at no point did they give people the right to opt out. We have introduced that right”
The right Jeremy Hunt was so publicly proud of introducing, he has secretly taken away again. He was right to give it you – his election manifesto promised it would be there.
8 December 2016 — National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 570
9 December 2016 — Global Research
America-China Relations. Donald Trump Does Not Understand China
By Tom Clifford, December 09 2016
Trump is playing to his supporters who feel comfortable in blaming China for America’s ills. His nod to protectionism – and threats of high tariffs on Chinese goods – is seen by Beijing as endangering the prosperity of China. The last time Taiwan was in the spotlight in Sino-US relations was in 1995-96 in a crisis sparked by then Taiwanese leader Lee Teng-hui visiting Cornell University. China reacted by carrying out missile tests in the waters off its “rebel province”. In response, the US, the biggest display of US military force in the region since the Vietnam war, sent aircraft-carriers to the waters around Taiwan. Continue reading
8 December 2016 — ICH
Rolling Back the Empire
By Mike Whitney
Washington’s Proxy-Army Faces Decisive Defeat in Aleppo. Continue reading
8 December 2016 — Global Research
How War Propaganda Keeps on Killing
By Robert Parry, December 08 2016
A key reason why American foreign debacles have been particularly destructive mostly to the countries attacked but also to the United States is that these interventions are always accompanied by major U.S. government investments in propaganda. So, even when officials recognize a misjudgment has been made, the propaganda machinery continues to grind on to prevent a timely reversal. Continue reading
9 December 2016 — FAIR
As the Hillary Clinton campaign slogged toward victory in the long primary campaign against Sen. Bernie Sanders, word came from WikiLeaks that it had scored a trove of hacked emails to and from the Democratic National Committee. Among other things, they proved that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, along with their organizations, had been working hand-in-glove to skew the primaries in Clinton’s favor.
The New Dark Age 