Cancer patients hit hard by hidden Budget changes, say Citizens Advice and Macmillan Cancer Support
Some people diagnosed with serious illnesses like cancer will be much worse off in future if proposals hidden in the recent Emergency Budget go ahead, Citizens Advice and Macmillan Cancer Support warned today.
Plans to change the way working tax credit is calculated will, in future, leave some people diagnosed with cancer or another serious illness up to £20 a week (over £1,000 a year) worse off and deny them hundreds of pounds in backdated payments at a time when they will have had a severe loss in earnings and need most support.
Tax credits are designed to give extra financial support to people on low incomes, including those who experience a sudden drop in income, for example some cancer patients who have to take extended periods of time off work to go through treatment. The Government plans to change the system so that calculations for tax credits ignore £2500 of a household’s loss in income – meaning they will in future get far less financial support in this situation. Backdating of tax credit claims will also be reduced from three months to just one month.
Citizens Advice and Macmillan warn that, if they go ahead, these cuts would lead to more debt problems and enormous additional anxiety for people who are seriously ill.
via Cancer patients hit hard by hidden Budget changes, say Citizens Advice and Macmillan Cancer Support.
By Thair Shaikh, CNN
July 30, 2010London, England (CNN) — A video has emerged showing French police evicting African immigrants with babies and children during a housing protest in a Paris suburb.
Police arrived in the north-east Parisian suburb of La Courneuve last Wednesday and asked a group of about 60 mostly women and children to move, said Michael Hajdenberg, a journalist with the French media organization Mediapart.
The group had been living in the street since being evicted from their council homes on July 8 to make way for a new housing project, he said.
When the group failed to respond to the request, Hajdenberg said police officers forcibly removed them.
via Police filmed dragging women and babies during protest – CNN.com.
Ok… again it has been a while but this popped up on Twitter via Paul Lewis and I had to put something up about it. I have long known that TPTB (The Powers That Be) think of us as morons, and generally they treat us that way too however, even if the video below is targeted at teenagers, this one takes the piss too far.
If I was 18, this would be an insult, even if I was 15 I would have objected to it. The level of intellect that this is aimed at must be 10 or below. Brown has lost any chance of me ever voting Labour again. The issue I have is who the hell do I vote for. If I was in the right constituency, I’d vote for Janis Sharp, Gary McKinnon‘s mum, but I’m not so I am seriously considering boycotting the whole thing. If you vote for a waste of time, that is exactly what you’ll get and all 3 main parties seem to be the same waste of space, so what’s the point.
Anyway, prepare to be insulted by a condescending and juvenile video that it would seem is actually intended for an adult audience. I have to laugh at some of the YouTube comments as it is obvious they have actually found the target audience. Lets just hope their aren’t enough to let Brown and his kiddywinks back in. Maybe I’ll vote after all – The Monster Raving Loony Party seems a much more sensible choice these days.
P.S. Funny how my objections to it were not published as a comment on the YouTube page… and I didn’t even swear or call them names. Poor little lambs must have huge insecurities if they can’t take a bit of criticism.
P.P.S. No offense meant to 10 year olds or younger. When you grow up a bit more you’ll realise what I mean. To be honest I think you lot would have done a better job of it than Labour’s P.R. muppets.
And so the corruption is shown in it’s full glory. Not content with having a respected scientist and adviser murdered, the government then decide to treat us all as morons by making sure that anyone who cares will be dead before the evidence is allowed out into the public domain.
This surely is a wake up call for all those who are still living in slumber-land thinking that the powers that be have our best interests at heart.
Keep in mind that the ‘official’ finding was that Dr. Kelly committed suicide… so why the need for secrecy?
70-year gag on Kelly death evidence
Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported.
[via Evening Standard - News]
More news about Tamiflu… This time the allergic reactions reported sound horrific, and after analysis the patient didn’t have swine flu in the first place. Hats off to the morons that thought that diagnosis by untrained personnel over the phone was a safe way to deal with this situation. I know the NWO don’t care about the low-life general public but there is no need for the government to rub our noses in it quite so gleefully. I trust Gordon Brown is sniggering about this as well as Afghanistan.
Girl, 19, left battling blindness after taking Tamiflu (and she didn’t even have swine flu)
A teenage girl left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today.Samantha Millard, 19, became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the advice of the controversial NHS helpline.Within 72 hours of taking three pills, doctors put her on life support.Samantha spent a month in hospital after developing the life-threatening Stevens Johnson syndrome, which causes the skin to peel off, and later developed toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, which has damaged her sight.
[via Signs of the Times]
It would seem that not all that is reported is accurate. UK parliament backtracking, lies from the CIA, and inaccuracies abound as the governments involved look more like they are inept at covering up rather than inept at spotting when a known and tracked terrorist operative is going to strike.
I highly recommend Global Research for their articles as they seem to uncover snippets that allow one to piece together a much better picture of events.
Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up
A Failure to "Integrate and Understand," or a Thin Tissue of Lies
by Tom BurghardtGlobal Research, January 11, 2010
New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up.
With the White House in crisis mode since the attempted bombing, President Obama met for two hours January 5 with top security and intelligence officials. Obama said that secret state agencies "had sufficient information to uncover the terror plot … but that intelligence officials had ‘failed to connect those dots’," The New York Times reports.
The latest iteration of the "dot theory" floated by the President, aided and abetted by a compliant media, claims "this was not a failure to collect intelligence" but rather, "a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had."
"Mr. Obama’s stark assessment that the government failed to properly analyze and integrate intelligence served as a sharp rebuke of the country’s intelligence agencies," declared the Times uncritically.
While the President’s remarks may have offered a "sharp [rhetorical] rebuke," Obama’s statement suggests that no one will be held accountable. Indeed, the President "was standing by his top national security advisers, including those whose agencies failed to communicate with one another."
While the President may be "standing by" his national security advisers, the question is, are the denizens of America’s secret state standing by him? One well-connected Washington insider, MSNBC pundit Richard Wolffe, isn’t so sure.
Wolffe, the author of a flattering portrait of Obama, Renegade: The Making of a President, when asked on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann January 4 what is the White House "focus here right now?" Wolffe’s startling reply: "Is this conspiracy or cock up? It seems that the president is leaning very much towards thinking this was a systemic failure by individuals who maybe had an alternative agenda." (emphasis added)
"I will accept that intelligence by its nature is imperfect" the President said, "but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged."
The question is why? And more pertinently from a parapolitical perspective, what "alternative agenda" is playing out here that would put the lives of nearly 300 air passengers at risk?
Nice to see the police getting a good going over in court again. It looks like the lower ranks are being blamed though. “Of course it’s nothing to do with those in charge of the operation, m’lud, it’s all those grunts on the front line…”
It constantly sickens me to see the upper echelons dump the blame every where except on their own shoulders. They’re are the buggers who plan and implement the processes, they are the ones who give the initial orders, and they are the ones who should be monitoring the situation properly and stopping it before it gets that bad.
Buck passing is rife at the top of the police and the government and yet if us plebs don’t take responsibility for our own actions we are considered… well… irresponsible…
Police admit stop and searches on 11-year-olds at Kingsnorth protest
High court admission of illegal searches on minors in case challenging police tactics at power station protest
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 January 2010 18.48 GMTPolice today admitted that they conducted illegal "stop and searches" on 11-year-old twins and other activists at an environmental demonstration.
The chief constable of Kent, Mike Fuller, made the admission in a high court case that challenged the tactics he used to contain a demonstration against a proposed coal-fired power station.
He and his force have already been heavily criticised over their handling of the demonstration, after allegations of brutality by officers who hid their badge numbers, and the use of loud music to stop activists sleeping.
via Police admit stop and searches on 11-year-olds at Kingsnorth protest | UK news | guardian.co.uk.
A little late as this seemed to start in late November 2009 but this is what I call a UFO sighting. The first report I saw was when Project Camelot mentioned it on 1st Jan 2010. I sometimes wish London got more of it…
Well worth reading even if you’re not into UFO’s.
Disclosure Endgame: Free Ebook!
Survey the incredibly wide-ranging evidence — including video — that certain insider factions are pushing for UFO/ET Disclosure very soon. The Norway Spiral is only the most recent attempt to ‘force’ the issue — after the US failed to deliver on November 27th.
[First Four Parts Published 11:59 PM, Christmas Eve 2009!]
The Underwear Bomber – Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism
Bizarro Earth
Joe Quinn
SOTT.netThu, 31 Dec 2009 22:30 EST
Strange as it may seem, a couple of weeks ago as I ruminated on Obama’s broken promise to bring the troops home, his attempt to out-warmonger the Bush administration and his plummeting popularity, I thought to myself: "ya know, what that guy (or rather the disgruntled US public) needs is a good old fashioned ‘Muslim terror attack’. Preferably one that includes a ranting ‘terrorist’ message about Afghanistan and ‘slaughtering infidels’. That’ll soon silence the rabble and get them behind Obama’s Afghan surge!"
And so it was that, as I sipped my eggnog on Christmas day, I was shockingly unsurprised to read the headlines about an ‘underwear bomb’ (as shown above).
via The Underwear Bomber – Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism — Signs of the Times News.
