Thursday, 1 September 2011
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Hackgate and UK police corruption lack of arrests
Graphic thanks to Private Eye
We provide our readers with the top fifteen documents and articles read/downloaded by thousands of people from all over the globe during August 2011. Although only published just two short days ago, positively romping up the ranks this month has been Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria. The release of these gold standard criteria for this complex ME/CFS illness produced by doctors, researchers and health advisers from around the world in the Journal of Internal Medicine has been met with much acclaim with the exception of the psychiatric lobby, currently expressing overt gravy-train psychosis in the UK mains tream media. Equally ranks romping has been Wrong Answers On Bent Britain from The New York Times most accurately analysing the recent riots and the gross cupidity of our political elites. Happy reading to all.
Information Release, The One Click Group
An important new academic report on the British riots has been published by researchers from the University of Essex and Royal Holloway University of London. With inequality coming out as the major socio-economic trigger for the riots, the report firmly points the finger at the behaviour of politicians, endemic police harassment in certain areas where the riots took place and the cuts that will hit the poorest hardest as the catalyst combination for the recent public disorder in Britain. With every good reason, swathes of the electorate possess a deep mistrust of our polictical elites. Knee jerk ConDem government reaction to the riots has been to incarcerate thousands in prisons that are already bursting at the seams and clearly cannot cope with the influx. Brtiain is the society where approximately 40% those leaving primary school at the age of eleven cannot read, write or add up adequately. These early statistics are translated into the fact that our prison population has an illiteracy and innumeracy rate of some 75%. Welcome to disenfranchised Bent Britain delivered to us by successive governments.
The One Click Group / Sarah Birch & Nicholas Allen, University of Essex
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The social and political correlates of law-breaking
Sarah Birch and Nicholas Allen, University of Essex
Newspapers and broadcasters, including Sky News and the Guardian, have come under pressure from the Metropolitan police to hand over all videos and pictures related to the London riots earlier this month. The demands follow David Cameron's call for the media to take "responsibility" and immediately release all material to help police track down and punish suspected rioters and looters. The media will be forced to hand over unused material if issued with a production order under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Under Pace, the judge is supposed to weigh the interest of the police in obtaining evidence with the public interest in a free press.
Josh Halliday, The Guardian
Der Spiegel: A chain of careless mistakes, coincidences, indiscretions and confusion now means that no potential whistleblower would feel comfortable turning to a leaking platform right now. They appear to be out of control. WikiLeaks::A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables. Knowledge of the Guardian disclosure has spread privately over several months but reached critical mass last week. The unpublished WikiLeaks’ material includes over 100,000 classified unredacted cables that were being analyzed, in parts, by over 50 media and human rights organizations from around the world. For the past month WikiLeaks has been in the unenviable position of not being able to comment on what has happened, since to do so would be to draw attention to the decryption passwords in the Gua rdian book. WikiLeaks has commenced pre-litigation action against the Guardian and an individual in Germany who was distributing the Guardian passwords for personal gain. The Guardian disclosure is a violation of the confidentiality agreement between WikiLeaks and Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, signed July 2, 2010. It is not the first time the WikiLeaks security agreement has been violated by the Guardian. One Click Note: Point scoring, monster egos and ill will from mainstream media and leakers on all sides continues unabated. Did alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning really risk his life for this?
Christian Stocker, Der Spiegel / Editorial, WikiLeaks
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Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing
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In the debate over disability rights, Atos Healthcare silences web forums. In the UK, CarerWatch Forum, a campaign group website for people who take care of those with disabilities was recently shut down after Atos Healthcare, a French IT company, claimed the website posted libellous comments. Forums such as CarerWatch allowed patients to air their grievances with the healthcare industry. The government’s Department of Works and Pensions contracted Atos Healthcare, at a cost of 100 million British pounds a year, or 160 million U.S. dollars, to conduct assessments on those with disabilities. In many instances, people who had been previously deemed unable to work were told they were no longer entitled to employment support allowance. Criticism of Atos Healthcare is primarily levelled against the number of incorrect assessments and lack of access, leading some to believe that Atos is denying people their entitled benefits. Also, many assessment centres are not handicap accessible. One Click Note: Watch this video. Congratulations Al Jazeera for telling the world what our government will not.
Al Jazeera, The Stream
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Nick Somerlad, Daily Mirror
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Disabled activists are planning a new wave of protests aimed at the company paid to carry out controversial “fitness to work” tests on behalf of the government. Atos Healthcare has been targeted repeatedly by campaigners over the accuracy of its assessments, the way it treats disabled benefits claimants, and the generosity of its contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The protests will take place across the UK on 30 September – many of them led by disabled people – with the most prominent likely to be outside a recruitment fair being run by the BMJ [formerly the British Medical Journal] in Islington, north London. Linda Burnip, co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), which plans to take part in the BMJ protest, said: “It is important to target recruitment because we think people should know who they are going to work for and what disabled people think about them, and hopefully it will put the m off working for Atos.” The General Medical Council confirmed last week that it is investigating complaints against seven doctors employed by Atos.
Information Release, CarersChill4Us
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Paul Smith, Atos Register of Shame
Will Stone, Morning Star
Proposed Government cuts mean disabled people will not have enough money for everyday essentials like food and transport, according to new evidence revealed today by charity Papworth Trust. The Coalition Government plans to replace Disability Living Allowance with a new benefit called Personal Independence Payment (PIP). It will reassess everyone who receives DLA and simultaneously reduce the total amount spent on this benefit by 20%. Based on a sample of over 2,200 people from across Britain, Papworth Trust's survey shows that if payments were reduced or stopped under PIP, 86% of disabled people will have to cut back on essentials such as food or being able to get out and about.
News Release, Papworth Trust
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