UK
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A taste of Israeli apartheid, courtesy of Waitrose
The booklet passes off Palestinian/Arab dishes and ingredients such as za’atar, tahini and falafel as Israeli. And it contains tourist features on towns within Israel which, while mentioning their Ottoman past, ignore their Palestinian heritage and the ethnic cleansing of their Palestinian inhabitants during the creation of Israel. Continue reading
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Britain and Canada Involved in Foiled US Venezuelan Coup Plot By Stephen Lendman
Britain and Canada were co-conspirators in the latest plot to topple Venezuela’s government. TeleSUR provided detailed coverage of Washington’s war on Venezuelan democracy. Its dirty hands manipulate violence and instability worldwide. US funded and supported key opposition fascist figures Antonio Ledezma, Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo Lopez released a joint February 11 communique a day… Continue reading
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UK’s Lottery Election
You’d have thought that in a democracy, the result of an election would reflect the wishes of voters. Well, in 2015, it’s looking increasingly as if that won’t be the case. When there are six parties commanding a decent chunk of the vote, our broken two-party electoral system is more like a game of chance… Continue reading
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UK: Stop Revenge Evictions
Damp, dodgy wiring, or a broken boiler. Imagine asking your landlord to fix a problem that isn’t your fault. But instead of fixing it, they hand you an eviction notice instead. Last year 200,000 people were forced out of their homes in this way. [1] It’s called revenge eviction. And right now, it’s completely legal. Continue reading
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The NHS: Unaccountable!
Could Jeremy Hunt’s NHS executives be wasting millions of pounds of our money? For weeks, NHS England – the people he put in charge of our NHS – have been promising to show how they are spending our money. They said they’d publish their receipts by 1st November, but we’re still waiting. Continue reading
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NHS Care.data soon to become active
Care.data – the scheme that would give our personal medical data to private companies. It’s being rolled out in just a few weeks’ time. But 92% of 38 Degrees members think we should get the scheme stopped until we can make sure our health data won’t end up in private hands. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Establishment – Andrew Marr And Owen Jones
Picture the scene: No.10 Downing Street, September 16: ‘a gentlemen’s-club-style reception room, given factitious poshness by two marble pillars’. The event: a book launch party hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron himself to ‘mark the publication’ of a political novel, ‘Head of State’, by the BBC’s senior interviewer and former political editor, Andrew Marr. Continue reading
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Stop the government’s care.data sell-off
The government are planning to sneak through the plan that would allow private companies to buy our personal medical data. But together we could stop it. Continue reading
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The UK Gagging Law is now in Force
The gagging law is now in force. Whether you’re new to 38 Degrees, or were part of the fight against the law, it’s going to affect us all. So, I wanted to give you an update about what it means for 38 Degrees in the coming months. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin 10 October 2014
Now the pathfinder areas have been announced, we are pushing to see exactly what patients (and GPs) will be told. In the meanwhile, if you do have concerns about care.data and if you haven’t done so already, our advice continues to be to opt out now. N.B. If you opted out of care.data earlier this… Continue reading
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Abandoning the Human Rights Act UK. Counterstrike and Replacement By Binoy Kampmark
The Human Rights Act (1998) is deemed insidious in a range of ways. It supposedly clips sovereignty by slipping European law into the lives of British citizens. It stands guard over British officials. For that reason, the British conservatives are advocating the British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities as both counter strike and replacement. The… Continue reading
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The Tories attack the Human Rights Act!
Today the Conservatives unleashed their long-awaited plans to repeal our Human Rights Act and replace it with a so-called “British Bill of Rights”. The proposals are legal nonsense, politically provocative and designed to put us on a collision course with the Court of Human Rights. Continue reading
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The Tories, as usual, punishing the poor simply because they are poor!
A new campaign has just been launched to stop the Conservatives from changing the way benefits are paid if they win the next election. 38 Degrees member Llewelyn is demanding they scrap plans for benefits to be put onto prepaid cards, which could only be used to buy certain products in certain shops. Continue reading
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The hidden crisis of BAME low-paid workers trapped in poverty with no way out By Colin Joseph
Research published last year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found that low-paid workers across the board hit a brick wall when it comes to work-place training, educational opportunities, promotion and pay rises. But even more concerning are BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) low-paid workers who are much more likely to find themselves trapped… Continue reading
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UK Supermarkets Told to Wake Up to GMO
GeneWatch UK called on supermarkets Wednesday to wake up to the environmental harm caused by genetically modified (GM) animal feed, imported from North and South America. Blanket spraying of Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready GM crops with the weedkiller RoundUp has destroyed the habitat of the Monarch butterfly in the United States to such an extent that… Continue reading
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Make the NHS the issue of next year’s election
Now it’s time to focus on the other parties and make sure they also commit to increasing NHS funding. They’ll make their election promises in the next few days. So let’s show them that UK voters want the NHS to come first. Continue reading
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What we want from our NHS
With a sea of ‘I love the NHS’ t-shirts, we sent out a strong message that we love our health service too much to let it be sold off to the highest bidder. Last night, NHS bosses could clearly see which issues hit home, and more importantly which didn’t. When 38 Degrees members come together,… Continue reading
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UK: Buskers and Homeless Under Threat from New ASB Powers
Buskers and homeless under threat from ASB powers; Clubnight on ASB Act; parents fined for family holidays; busker prosecuted for 10-minute set; Wrexham fans fight back against ‘bubble matches’; and more… Continue reading
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A Public Bank Option for Scotland By Ellen Brown
If Alex Salmond and the SNP [Scottish National Party] are serious about keeping the Pound Stirling as the Currency of Scotland, there will be no independence. Likewise if Scotland embraces the Euro, Scotland will rapidly become a vassel state of the Euro-Federalists, who will asset strip the nation in the same way that, Greece, Ireland,… Continue reading
