General Social Justice articles

Post by **TonyGosling** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:20 pm

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Former Weston-super-Mare mayor Philip Judd jailed for downloading indecent pictures of children
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/West ... story.html

Leading climate scientists call on religious leaders to help save the environment
Scientists call for massive mobilisation inspired by the Vatican and other religions
Tom Bawden Environment Editor Thursday 18 September 2014
Two of the world’s leading scientists have made an unprecedented call on religious leaders to spark a “massive mobilisation of public opinion”, insisting that only through God can we save the environment.
Writing in the journal Science, Cambridge University’s Partha Dasgupta and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, of the University of California, have made an impassioned plea for help in curbing the “potentially catastrophic” effects of what they call “the ongoing abuse of the planet’s natural resources”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 42080.html

GlaxoSmithKline to pay £297m fine over China bribery network
Mark Reilly and executives face up to four years in jail over claims that sales team bribed doctors to prescribe company medicine
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... na-bribery

Royal Mail: MPs warn of a postal service ‘fatally wounded’ by its rivals
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 31544.html

Scotland Independence Referendum: Videos Claim Vote 'Is Definitely a Fix'
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scotland-indep ... ix-1466219

Thanks for staying Scotland - now help us fix this
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/th ... ow-4288123

If only Scottish independence debate passion was channelled towards improving life for ALL of us
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/on ... on-4260219

Russia Runs on Conspiracy - By Ilya Yablokov - Sep. 18 2014
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/a ... 07384.html

Humiliated blind woman asked by benefits assessor: 'How many fingers am I holding up?'
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hu ... ts-4287595

Bedroom Tax 'tormented cancer victim to death' when she was forced to move home despite illness
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/be ... im-4177135

'Islamic State' is a slur on our faith, say leading Muslims
Imams call on David Cameron and others to stop using phrase which they say gives credibility to a terrorist organisation
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/s ... id-cameron

Whitehall_Bin_Men · Post by **Whitehall_Bin_Men** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:27 pm

Alice Gross missing: Latvian police ‘can’t arrest suspect Arnis Zalkalns’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 54075.html

House of horrors: Daughter tells how she was forced to sleep with 1,800 men by the time she was 18 as part of Satanic sex cult run from suburban semi
'Annabelle Forest' was exposed to the sick cult at the age of seven
At 14 she was forced to have group sex with mother and neighbours
Told performing sexual 'tests' would win her God's love by cult
Forced into prostitution to raise money for the group's 'church'
Fell pregnant by mother's boyfriend when she was 17 and fled after birth
Colin Batley and Jacqueline Marling were jailed for their crimes in 2011
Annabelle Forest has written memoir detailing horrendous abuse
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -semi.html

Haulage firm boss wants to ban caravans from the road during the summer daytime
http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Haulah ... story.html

Rickets returns as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable
The UK Faculty of Public Health will call for national food policy including sugar tax as concerns rise over vitamin deficiencies
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... on-rickets

Tax dodging as high as ever despite government claims with £80bn lost EVERY YEAR
Sep 22, 2014 18:02 By Mark Ellis - Mirror
A tax expert told the Labour Party conference today that without drastic action the amount could rise to £100 billion in 2018
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ta ... te-4305102

Vicars set to reveal secrets of confession: Church of England may axe 400-year-old sacred law to let clergy report sex attackers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ckers.html

DAVID CAMERON SAYS NON-VIOLENT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE JUST AS DANGEROUS AS ISIS
http://www.blacklistednews.com/David_Ca ... 8/Y/M.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/09/dav ... olent.html
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Khorasan Terror Group In Syria 'Were Planning Toothpaste Bomb Attack' On Airliners
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09 ... 71732.html

Secret state: Members of armed forces must notify press officers even if they meet a journalist socially
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/secret-st ... t-socially

The US defense budget for 2013 is comparable to the next 14 countries combined.
https://twitter.com/conradhackett/statu ... 44/photo/1

Killer robots a small step away and must be outlawed, says top UN official
A senior UN official says battlefield robots that can kill without human control are a 'small step' away and should be banned
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... icial.html

ISRAEL JOINS THE FIGHTING, SHOOTS DOWN SYRIAN WARPLANE WHICH ACTED IN “THREATENING MANNER”
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Israel_J ... 8/Y/M.html

Whitehall_Bin_Men · Post by **Whitehall_Bin_Men** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:04 pm

Benefits to be paid onto smart cards to stop claimants spending their money on alcohol or gambling
By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline
17:27 29 Sep 2014, updated 20:33 29 Sep 2014
Iain Duncan Smith announces plan to control claimants' spending
Work and Pensions Secretary says he wants to 'safeguard' people
Plan will help to 'break the cycle of poverty for families on the margins'
Trial in North Tyneside will be examined by a future Tory government
Benefits could to be paid onto smart cards to stop claimants wasting taxpayers money on alcohol or gambling.
Iain Duncan Smith today announced the first trial of pre-paid cards, which would restrict where the jobless or poor can spend their money.
The Work and Pensions Secretary said he was increasingly concerned about the way benefits could be used to fuel addictions, instead of putting people on the road to work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bling.html

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German media and politicians promote rearmament
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09 ... i-s29.html

TTIP: An economic NATO in formation
by Asli Ay - Tue 30th September 2014
Trade liberalization continues to be the lowest-hanging fruit that can boost global economic expansion. The United States, having committed to finalizing two major trade agreements in parallel – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 12 Pacific nations – sits squarely in the center of this opportunity.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Defaul ... sCatID=396

Investors losing billions as head of Russia’s biggest holding put under house arrest
September 17, 2014 09:17
http://rt.com/business/188388-yevtushen ... t-sistema/
Russia’s largest publicly traded holding company AFK Sistema has lost about 37 percent of its value in Moscow by midday, after boss Vladimir Yevtushenkov was put under house arrest for alleged money laundering late Tuesday.
Investors have seen the price of their shares plummeting, with billions of dollars wiped off the company’s value.
AFK Sistema
- biggest publicly-traded holding company in Russia
- total assets - $45.2 billion as of June 30, 2014. Q2 revenue was $8.8 billion
- founded in 1993, went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2005
- operates across telecoms, tech, oil and energy, radar and aerospace, banking, retail, mass-media, tourism and healthcare
- Vladimir Yevtushenkov is board chairman and owns 64.19% in stock
- acquired Bashneft in 2009
- directly owns almost 72% of Bashneft’s voting shares and overall - 86.7%, 12.6% which is owned by Sistema-Invest
- alleged embezzled stock was seized by a Moscow court on August 27, 2014
- Ministry of Land and Property Relations of Bashkortostan filed a lawsuit against Sistemaclaiming $5.8 billion (209 billion rubles)
Shares in Sistema, a company which Yevtushenkov controls and manages, fell by 37 percent on the Moscow Exchange at 13.00, Moscow Time, which means the company has seen its capitalization lose an estimated $3.55 billion.
In the first half hour of Wednesday trading it was down 28 percent.