An article about today’s Autumn budget, which is another attack on the vulnerable in our society. It is also a budget which promotes more gas-powered power stations, road building, increased dependence on fossil fuels and advocates the exploitation of shale-gas (fracking). All of which will have a further detrimental impact on the vulnerable and help accelerate climate change.
Sarah Lyall – 4 reasons why the benefit freeze makes no sense | the new economics foundation.
A blog about the unequal struggle the Palestinians are fighting.
The working-class, not the scroungers, the media and politicians try and portray them as. These people have been failed by successive Governments, Labour and Conservatives who have pushed a broken economic model, based on ‘growth at any cost’. They have allowed multi-nationals to strip this country of almost everything, whilst lining their enormous pockets. In the meantime, the ordinary people have suffered along with the environment.
Because of the Governments ineptitude, companies have decided to not invest in this country or like PV Solar, a maker of silicon for Solar PV, possibly close down their manufacturing business. The UK has consistently missed the boat, when it came to supporting renewables, instead investing in heavily in Nuclear and fossil fuels. Will the UK, ever rid itself of the title, ‘The Dirty Man of Europe’?
The situation is not helped when we have a very biased media, which appears determined to destroy the logical and sensible move to renewables, by giving it as much bad and incorrect press as possible:
Exclusive study confirms true scale of renewable bad press
This video sums up the UK Government’s attitude:
The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds
This article describes the subsidies the fossil-fuel industry has received and still receiving. Also the different approaches taken by Germany and Denmark:
http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/cost-propping-oil
An interview with John Pilger, in CounterPunch, about the conflict in Palestine. How it is an American/Israeli attempt to exterminate the Palestinians.
Israel’s Gaza Rampage: It’s Not Just War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names.
This is a nice blog about a workshop on cycling, promoted by the Dutch that took place in Manchester. The writer is optimistic that something positive may come from this. Unfortunately, I believe the writer is naive and does not understand Manchester City Council and especially the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). The TfGM only employs motorists, so does not understand the needs of Public Transport users or cycles, their real priority is the motorist, like themselves.
Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester: Love Cycling Go Dutch – Manchester.
It was announced on Friday, at the Support Gaza demonstration in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, that hackers were going to target Israel.
Protest against bombing of Gaza, Piccadilly Gardens 16th November 2012
A blog about the privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS) by the present coalition. But the author does point out that Labour are to blame for the financial crisis of the NHS. And that Ed Milliband, if every elected, would only bring back the same disastrous Labour policies. In the mean time, the Liberal-Democrats do not seem to have anything to stop this privatisation. Unlike the rest of Europe, who have well funded health care services, the UK is following the USA route, where care is only for the rich.
And another article, this one from the Guardian newspaper, on how a few are profiting from the privatisation of the NHS:
Health care sell-off makes GPs millions
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