NHS
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The Lowdown: What’s the limit on care now?
28 May 2020 — The Lowdown The NHS Support Federation This week we can reveal that almost a billion pounds worth of debt is weighing down local commissioners as they start to plan care for the next year – with 7 million patients now on growing waiting lists. This week, we also follow-up on the Continue reading
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Into the heart of the NHS – an American backed spy programme at the centre of Brexit
Palantir is a special ops company. It is considered at best as a controversial and highly opaque company that has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind for any purpose. Its billionaire owner Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, through Palantir has worked for years to… Continue reading
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The Covid Nazification Of The National Health Service
The deadly coordinated command-and-control known in 1930s Germany as Gleichschaltung was the key characteristic of 1930s totalitarian domination of German society. This process was later termed by historians as ‘Nazification’. Since January 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government has similarly introduced a system of coordinated command and control over all aspects of its National Health Service (NHS). The aim is to… Continue reading
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How to make a crisis far, far, worse
I was asked by Russia Today to write an op-ed on what had been happening to me in my work over the last couple of months. It has appeared on their website https://www.rt.com/op-ed/488075-nhs-made-covid-19-crisis-worse/ This is what I wrote: Continue reading
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NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of… Continue reading
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COVID-19 exposes the weakness of Brexit
By TruePublica: There’s an irony being played out – a cruel one really. The COVID-19 crisis has unearthed some stark truths about how our country should be governed. One of those truths was just how important our key workers really are. Right now, the most dangerous job and most dangerous place in the country to… Continue reading
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BBC Panorama exposes government responsibility for UK health worker deaths
Monday’s investigation by BBC’s Panorama, “Has the Government Failed the NHS?” was a staggering indictment of the Conservative government’s failure to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE). Continue reading
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #4: “Why are so many healthcare workers dying?”
The deaths of doctors, nurses and other medical workers has been a major talking point since the pandemic began. It started in Italy, where a website was set up listing the deaths of doctors who “died on the frontlines”. Despite being billed as “frontline” doctors, fifteen of the names are dentists. There are also surgeons,… Continue reading
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The Anti-lockdown Strategy
If you wanted to create a system most perfectly designed to spread COVID amongst the vulnerable elderly population, you may well have come up with the current one. Infect people with COVID in hospital, and then scatter them into care homes and the rest of the community. Making sure that you infect all the carers… Continue reading
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The Lancet: “When this is all over the NHS England board should resign in their entirety”
The Editor in Chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, is incandescent with fury over the way the government has failed to correctly and properly manage the COVID-19 crisis. The following paragraphs clearly demonstrate that frustration and anger and that the world’s oldest, and best known general medical journal has every intention of keeping up the… Continue reading
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15 April 2020: The Dirty War on the NHS — Live Q&A TONIGHT 8:30pm (UK time)
Tonight, there will be a live Q&A with two of the film’s main contributors — Professor Allyson Pollock and Dr John Lister, hosted by Simran Hans (film critic at the Observer) at 8.30pm (UK time), which will be beamed live to your homes via Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Curzon Home Cinema. Continue reading
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Worshiping and Defiling Britain’s NHS
Tories worshipping Britain’s National Health System are akin to fanatical carnivores who suddenly extol the virtues of vegans. Has the grave response to COVID-19 signalled a change of heart? In the case of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it was all heart, quite literally. It might have stopped beating and that scruffy, buffoonish essence of… Continue reading
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Cynical £13bn ‘write-off’ prepares NHS for more privatisation
This £13bn debt announcement is at best spurious but at worst, downright deceitful. Continue reading
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The coronavirus letter you’ve just been sent by Johnson is a lie
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NHS Must Explain Role Of Surveillance Company in Covid Battle
Peter Theil is the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies. Palantir is a data-mining company – nice words for it activity of surveillance and espionage. Their activities have been found in the past to breach all sorts of privacy laws. Its algorithms vacuumed up emails and browser histories, GPS locations from smartphones, printer and download… Continue reading
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UK government buried 2016 report exposing catastrophic NHS failings during flu pandemic
Late in 2016, the British government and health authorities held “Exercise Cygnus,” a three-day training exercise intended to determine readiness for a novel respiratory influenza pandemic. Cygnus aimed to test coordination between hospitals, health authorities, those tasked with tracking the disease and central government. The results of the report have never been made public. At… Continue reading
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COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal”
“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.” So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause. Continue reading
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Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS, as the service struggles to cope. Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s coronavirus measures: Political criminality that will cost tens of thousands of lives
“Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses,” Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared Monday. Continue reading
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The UK will spend over £350bn on extravagant military projects while failing to ensure national health security
New analysis shows that Britain plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on expensive military projects while the UK’s under-funded public health system struggles to address pandemics such as Covid-19. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 