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The NHS under Threat!
NHS hospitals don’t have enough money to survive. That was the stark warning from NHS leaders this weekend. And now it’s reported that an influential group of MPs might call a special inquiry into the state of the NHS. And that they’re making the decision tomorrow. Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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Expose Jeremy Hunt’s Secret Plans for the NHS
These plans are huge and complicated. Together we’ve started to shed light on them. But we just don’t know enough yet. If we want to have our say on our local NHS services before it’s too late, we need to see every detail. Continue reading
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NYT: Corbyn Has Marginalized Labour With His Popular Positions
It’s probably true that Corbyn is more skeptical of the United States and NATO than the average Brit. But it’s hard not to get the impression that certain positions are identified by Erlanger as problematic not because they’re unpopular with Corbyn’s constituents—but because they’re unpopular with the New York Times. Continue reading
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The (not so) Secret Tory Plans to Gut the NHS Exposed
BREAKING: our people-powered investigation has uncovered Jeremy Hunt’s secret plans for our NHS. [1] So far, these plans – drawn up for every single area across England – have been kept under wraps. That changes today. Continue reading
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Do you want GP records shared, even if you’ve opted out?
Care.data may be gone, but Jeremy Hunt is asking whether you want to keep your opt out of your medical records leaving your GP’s practice. Will you tell him what you think? Continue reading
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We help our sinister friends to commit war crimes in Yemen
18 August 2016 — Drone Warfare A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. And who is in the coalition? US and Britain have deployed their military personnel in the command and control… Continue reading
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Protect our Bees! Email your MP
Breaking: toxic pesticides are killing our bees. That’s the headline that pesticide company bosses have been dreading. And it’s splashed all over the news thanks to new research out today. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 August 2016 (13/16)
15 August 2016 — Statewatch.org • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/aug/e-mail-gen-15-aug.pdf NEWS 1. EU: Analysis: A missed opportunity to open up secret trilogue decision-making in the EU 2. EU: External migration projects: Council to approve auditors’ recommendations 3. French interior minister wants global effort against encryption 4. HUNGARY-ECHR: Anti-Roma racism, hyperlinks… Continue reading
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Tell INEOS not to frack the UK!
Petrochemical giant INEOS is planning to flood the UK with fracking wells. And this week we learnt how the government plans to bribe people with cash payments to allow fracking in their community. Continue reading
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Secret Plans to cut NHS services across England Exposed
Jeremy Hunt’s secret plans to cut NHS services across England are taking shape right now. They could mean big changes to the care our local NHS provides – including cuts to hospital beds or reduced A&E services. It’s just weeks before these plans become a reality. If we want to stand a fighting chance of… Continue reading
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Scrap the sale of our medical records!
The government review into the care.data scheme was published earlier this month and it recommended the scheme we fought so hard against be scrapped. This sounds like a victory, but buried in the report is a new worrying scheme to sell our medical records to big corporations. One of the schemes to replace care.data is… Continue reading
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Damning evidence reveals the BBC’s role in the Labour coup By James Wright
Damning evidence has exposed the BBC’s role in advancing the Labour coup. The UK’s public service broadcaster gave double the airtime to Jeremy Corbyn’s critics than to his allies at the start of the coup, according to new content analysis. Continue reading
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Britain’s Scramble For Africa: The New Colonialism By Colin Todhunter
Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the message from a damning new report from War On Want ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’sscramble for Africa’s energy and mineral resources’ that highlights the role of… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 July 2016 (12/16)
28 July 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jul/e-mail-gen-july.pdf NEWS 1. Council: Exit-Entry, Discrimination, Equal treatment, Maritime Security and Banned exports 2. Greece: GISTI report on Greek hotspots in Lesbos and Chios after the EU/Turkey deal 3. UK: Growing calls to extend undercover policing inquiry remit beyond England and… Continue reading
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Blair must be held to account! Sign the petition
28 July 2016 Update: There are now 14,43o signatures. Government has to respond to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures but so far, three days in, there’s no sign of a response. A new petition has been launched to bolster the campaign to hold Tony Blair to account by obtaining a House of Commons’… Continue reading
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UK Govt’s secret plans to further cut local health services exposed
Health Minister Jeremy Hunt has a secret plan to force through changes to local NHS services to cut costs. The changes – called “sustainability and transformation plans” – are being kept secret. But they could mean cuts to hospital beds, local walk-in centres or family planning services near you. Continue reading
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Snoopers Charter Breaks the Law!
A senior judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has concluded that the Government’s surveillance law breaches our fundamental rights. Continue reading
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Britain Faces the Biggest Crisis of Democracy in its History By Nafeez Ahmed
Britain is now being run by an unelected leader presiding over a draconian surveillance-state, hell-bent on accelerating war on the poor and vulnerable, at home and abroad. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the official opposition to this regime is falling apart. Continue reading
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Roger Dodger By S. Artesian
Cameron resigns, but not until October. Britain votes out of the EU, but not out until….well, nobody knows. Boris Johnson, playing Yeltsin to Cameron’s Gorbachev, pulls himself out of the race to replace Cameron. Farage pulls out because……well, because that’s what the British ruling class has perfected over the last 70 years of dissembling, and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 