Newell News-round up, week 12

Week 12, Legal aid is about to be slashed to pieces by this Tory government and its sideman partners the LibDems going to prove that there is no justice, there is just us. You could not make it up


Austerity/Cuts/Privatisation

No more cuts will be made to the frontline military services, the rest of us will have to foot the bill for this, despite our illegal war of terror costing the taxpayer billions and the cost of human life is beyond count. It is not just the British and US troops or the civilians suffering but now the Afghanistan peace force that has been ill equipped and left behind are losing limbs and life.

Nick Clegg says we must "cut the welfare for the rich" first but in throwing the children overboard by increasing the tuition fees he has showed where his loyalties really lie and any such attacks on them will be used eventually to remove such 'benefits' from the poor. It is classic divide and rule tactics. Even Ed Balls has reiterated this position, proving that there is no choice when it comes to politics, just puppets that share the same mask.

Privatisation is the vehicle that politicians use to move money from the public into the pockets of their criminal profiteer mates in the private sector. Spurious claims that the private sector have created 1.2million jobs are statistics manipulated to sell us their lies. This usually means that half of these jobs were once public sector posts now syphoned off and the rest are probably job shared posts with two people working one job but it doubles the economies labour statistics. Businesses have then been paid off by the government for doing such things. One such example of jobs being privatised is the current sell of of Royal Mail where there are more strikes planned over cuts and job security. Royal Mail is worth billions with its parcel delivery service making money hand over fist, yet the government want to sell it off.

900,000 more people joined the millions already in the UK considered to live in poverty, going to show that politicians want to throw us overboard without a life jacket, we are surplus to requirements. You might be lucky enough to get a food stamp for a food bank but you must meet a certain criteria, in the mean time the head of the DWP Iain Duncan-Smith is eating £39 breakfasts and telling us we can live on £53 pound a week. When are people going to start pointing their fingers at these criminals and thieves?

The Fire Minister Brandon Lewis' office was visited by a concerned group of humans who wanted to discuss cuts, privatisation and the pensions attacks agenda. He responded on a radio broadcast and deflected the situation by talking about gold plated pensions. None of which was true.

In other news a child was refused lunch because his parents owed £1.75. You cannot make this shit up.

Health and Welfare

An elderly care centre, Mosaic Community Care, is under investigation  after a row about the care of an elderly lady. They have been apparently suspended by the UK Homecare Association which means they will be no longer recommending Mosaic Community Care for elderly people whilst the suspension stands.

Economics

Canary Wharf, June 2013 - G8 protest

The G8 summit have vowed to make a difference on tax avoidance, but not likely to occur before the thieves, cheats and scoundrels have found another loop hole or place to stash their cash. Anti-G8 demonstrations have taken place in London and Belfast and the UK Pre Crime Police Division have been in force again, arresting fifty seven people for questioning this week in London. Some arrested just for thinking about protesting, yet if you are a fraudulent banking terrorist or laundering drug cartel money, you can get away scot-free. You couldn't make it up.

Pensioners took a kicking this week in The Times on Saturday, Michael Parris has said that it is the pensioner (and not the banking terrorists) that have stolen the futures of the young. The Murdoch agenda is supported generously by the supposedly unbiased BBC who ran a story stating that pensioners are the only group to have received a steady increase in income over the past thirty years. They are framing the agenda for the largest assault on your pensions and savings in a generation, they want it all back and it looks like they will get it because people, for the most part, are too busy sleeping to see it. That is why George Carlin called it "The American Dream."

World

Erdogan told the Turkish protesters to go home or else and was met with a show of defiance as thousands descended on Gezi Park to show him what they thought of his views on democracy. This resulted in more blood shed as the fascists used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds.

Old Detroit City is bankrupt and the Mayor is paving the way for debt consolidation. Perhaps he is paving the way for Delta City to be built as we saw in Robocop!

Technology

Google is looking to provide remote parts of the world with the internet by supplying 'near space balloons' to bridge the gap. Presumably they can afford it with the amount of tax payments they have been dodging in the UK.

The brilliant technology show TED have been discussing the merits of drones saying that they can reach otherwise hard to get places, unfortunately for us the military and surveillance applications are what our governments really want them for. Just ask the German urban street artists. Also at TED they have debated the future of aviation, but I would like to see the advancement of maglev trains myself.

Sport

The lions are in Australia and Shane Williams has been called up as injury cover. He always chokes on the big occasions.

Entertainment

A senior police detective involved in the Jimmy Saviile enquiry has joined the Big Brother house. No comment required.
















Man of Steel opened this week, just two days before Fathers Day, to rave reviews from fans but mixed opinions from the so called experts. It is not the fourth Dark Knight movie as some of them may have expected but then Superman is very different to other super heroes, his story is one of the light and righteousness. It is who he is. Check it out.

Demonising the poor so they can get away with it all

Breakfast television has become a place for the media to demonise the poor, I cannot remember if it was always this way, but every morning in the gym I glance up at the monitors and see the subtitles of someone tearing apart another poor unsuspecting victim.

Day break today, 'Benefits: Don't cut my £32,000 hand out', in big bold letters framing the agenda and then Lorraine Kelly had a woman named Clare on and made sure to highlight the fact she had seven children. Lorraine Kelly then had the nerve to say: "Thanks for coming in, a lot of people have been tweeting in to have a go at you, some in support of you, but mainly saying you take home more than they earn." Clare seemed nervous, but then you would if you knew you were on national television being put up for people to focus their anger and aggression on for the austerity and poverty that is ripping through our society at the moment. Clare's response was disappointing in that she pointed fingers at others, claiming it was unfair a family of four and a family of seven should be on the same rate, what Clare should have said is: "Yes Lorraine, it is because people like you and the rest of the prestitutes are pushing a fascist agenda to demonise poor people ahead of the next general election. You see it is easy to control us and get away with daylight robbery when you have us fighting amongst ourselves, rather than stopping to take a look and ask what you lot are up to and question the banks." 

The  studio would have lit up with that but alas the mainstream media does not want people who can and will openly debate and debase the establishments agenda. Only on the Max Keiser show with the Artist Taxi Driver can you get anywhere near the truth.

Sat alongside this poor lady was another woman, a journalist named Anne Atkins, who could not wait to get her claws out ready to strike Clare down. Sympathy she said, yes, but Anne called for imaginative ways to work from home, imaginative ways to eat by eating cheap healthy food... Is she joking? It is not cheap to eat healthily, if you want to eat crap then you can eat cheap. If you want to eat healthy then it will cost you a pretty penny.

Clare explained the tough time she is having raising one of her children who has special requirements and eventually managed to bring the story round to one of a lack of support from the government in helping her get back to work. This is something I know is a problem for families first hand when parents, often single parents, are told that it is more beneficial for them to rely on the state than to go back to work. These are people that WANT to go back to work but are being discouraged by the very people who then collate statistics, manipulate them and beat the people round the head with every day in the media. You could not make it up.

As with all news these days the situation is not taken in any context whatsoever. This story took place several hours after the BBC published an article about wage repression in the UK today. The report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the fall in nominal wages during the recession was unprecedented. They are calling it the productivity puzzle, I would call it the wage slave conundrum. 

Essentially people are not retiring and and lone parents are not withdrawing from the debt slave market at a time when we are going through the longest and deepest recession in a century. The sooner people start calling it by its real name, a depression, the sooner we can start to come to terms with dealing with the issue. The IFS said workers were better off to stay in work with lower wages rather than be unemployed. The government has said that the labour market has remained strong despite the downturn but they fail to realise that people are not staying in these wage repressed conditions through choice, they are doing so because the government have a vice like grip around our throats and are pushing their ideological austerity upon us.

Debt slaves: buying stuff we don't need, with money
that's not real, to impress people we don't know.

One interesting comment from the IFS was that fewer workers today are unionised or covered by collective wage agreements and that as a result they tended to see smaller, if any, wage increases. Unfortunately many of those people that are in unions seem to be hamstrung by the weight of history and seemingly unable or unwilling to rise and make change to the world they are helping to create.
By the time I went to work the unions had largely been smashed by Thatcher and Thatcherism and the UK is now one of the few countries in Europe, who's workers are without the right to withdraw their labour, as covered by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Unions and their members across the country today are under attack for no other reason than ideology because the corporations and our politicians do not want people to have fair and equitable living wages and conditions.
There has never been a more important time for the people to rise up, join together, stop pointing fingers at the poor and realise our problems are not the making of a few on benefits but those power hungry criminals in the city of corruption.

On the subject of rising I shall finish with a quote from a famous poem seeing as someone else has already said it better, the poem is The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

'Rise like lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number -

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you

Ye are many - they are few.'

"BREAKING NEWS"

'Keep Calm and Carry On'

The past few months have seen me trawl through all manner of newspapers and today I have a selection of the best (and worst) that have come to my attention.  Stop me if you see any patterns....

Your car does not define you

People dying over oil is comparative to a football scandal apparently.

Same day as the Despot headline, Imogen 'changes' team

The immigrants blamed for a lack of jobs again. Divide and conquer anyone?

Bin Laden's death prompts the old "what does a terrorist look like" debate.

What does a terrorist look like... a favourite around airports around the globe I suspect.  Twenty years ago a terrorist may have been deemed to look white and Irish.  Today the media tells you they are brown with beards.  If you ask me I would say they wear £1000 suits and call themselves Mr President and Prime Minister.  What do you say?

Everyday for a week we head about the alleged  rape by Sarkozi's opposition courtesy of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, sealed with a handshake? 

Sorry Costa but Starbucks is bigger than coffee...

Art from the March revolution to be shown in Rothchild's galleries

Vanity sizing gets aired out for all to see

War criminal Tony Blair continues to make his millions on the back of his jackanory.

Reading seriously damages your health...must be why the only book store in town has shut...

They might be sex trafficked but it is OK if you "don't ask no questions"

A caring giving nation, just give us some of your resources.

Slut walks are a no for the children but it is OK for their mothers to walk around in knickers for cancer?

China stoke up trade wars by hording precious metals.  Where will we get the parts for our iPhone and bombs....

Just in case you did not get the message the first time, foreigners are taking your money...

The Oceans have been raped for generations, only now are some people beginning to care.

Good App Guide to Gluten Free Recipes...If Only

In March I wrote about how the NHS were considering the place of Gluten Free prescriptions and their removal off of their list (http://newell-news.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-cost-of-health.html) and the potential impact this has on a portion of society where the price of their food alternatives are nothing short of daylight robbery.  This has now spread to the world of applications, those of us familiar with smart phones will know all about these little 'apps' as they are fondly referred too.

Coeliac Disease is an autoimmune disease which triggers an immune reaction in the human body if consumed.  This causes damage to the linings of the small intestine and can lead to damaging effects to other parts of the body.  One potential outcome of this is Cancer.

Gluten or wheat however is in virtually everything.

The list of signs and symptoms and common confusions are lengthy but for further reading I attach a link to the Coeliac UK page (http://www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/what-is-coeliac-disease) This is not meant to suddenly alarm people out there with any signs of these, but more of a heads up so you can learn about something new that seriously affects some of our fellow humans.

The 'i' newspaper yesterday.

You will no doubt be aware of the soaring cost in the price of food goods at the till, Gluten Free products start off at a hefty price in the first place, almost £3.00 for a loaf of bread that won't lead to cancer is quite a steep price I am sure you will agree.  This forced my hand to start baking bread for someone I know who was recently diagnosed Coeliac and has also led to some interesting sessions in the kitchen trying to create things from scratch as the price of these foods on the shelf are shocking (and generally flavourless)

"Billy get ya guns"

I am not afraid of the kitchen and have been cooking since I was 8, courtesy of a row at home once over what time dinner was served, and am confident but occasionally I like to follow a recipe and see how it turns out so I turned to the world of the 'App'.  There are literally thousands of applications out there now some free, some paid for, but not one dedicated free Coeliac Recipe app.  Now, if I wanted to punch a talking cat or design an imaginary gun there are free apps for this, but not for someone to create something real and meaningful from scratch that has a direct health benefit.  The closest you can get is 'Eden Recipes' which has a section by diet and a list of things to try.

Maybe they are too busy trying to groom children for war with themes of 'war porn'? After all, "there is a soldier in all of us".

The infamous 'Black Ops' advert

The cheapest is 0.59p of your English Sterling, which may not be expensive but it is not the point.  Coeliac Disease is a serious issue affecting a large number of people, some without even knowing perhaps, yet they are no longer being considered important by the NHS, charged through the teeth for tasteless crap at the supermarket and then penalised again at home if they decide to take up home made cooking because to get a recipe from an app will cost you somewhere between 60 pence and £3.00 if you do not have the Internet.

In all honesty it is not good enough.  The depth of this problem has become ever more present to me as even a quick stop for a sandwich whilst on the move becomes an effort as the vast majority of places, particularly in England,  just do not cater for Coeliacs full stop. My recent trip to Scotland highlighted a difference in attitude regarding Coeliac awareness with virtually every cafe or shop I visited offering a Coeliac option or menu and a care and strictness about the handling of foods that I have not encountered anywhere else.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jM3gSOHRdM

What We Need is A Good War

You can count on a 'good war' to sort out any economic worries, just look at the last great depression.

Recent weeks and months in the UK has seen the talk of cuts and austerity with the Armed Forces taking a rather large hit on their pensions, restructuring leading to the loss of jobs and the cancellation of construction of air craft carriers, fighter jets and a host of other things. Thank the tooth fairy for Colonel Muammar Gadaffi and his crazed rants!

With two wars in two different countries not being enough for the egalist empire that is the US and UK, opportunity knocked as the Libyan farce unravelled in recent weeks and the UK Government seems to have made a u-turn on certain aspects of their cuts campaign regarding the forces. Most recently the Sunday Times wrote a piece stating that the decommissioning of two Tornado squadrons was being re-evaluated in light of the Libya conflict so as not to over stretch an already stressed airforce.
"The US withdrawal forced Britain to double the eight RAF aircraft capable of attacking targets on the ground" - Michael Smith Sunday Times, April 10th

Places like the Ivory Coast, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Liberia etc will have to wait on the 'civilised' world's intervention for they do not possess any out dated fossil fuels for us to take control of. Having known someone personally that suffered at the Darfur troubles I know how absurd it is. Uganda however will be a different story as that unfolds. Not only does it have oil but shares a border with Sudan who too recently have been suffering unrest and a mutiny within it's army. Uganda recently rejected an appeal from BP, the great planetary humanitarians of the world, to drill for oil. They subsequently returned their interests to Southern Sudan. Watch this space as the recent Ugandan election has been questioned.


When all is said and done it must be remembered that war is good for the economy, the only cost is in that of lives but you can be a hero. It means there is growth in industry as the need for munitions increases. It creates jobs as men and women are sent out to defend our 'freedoms' and spread the virtue of democracy. War is a multi million pound/dollar industry and generally it has a pot of black gold at the end of the rainbow.