UK UK Newswire Archive
Citizen journalists and video activists beware
31-01-2014 20:26
Citizen journalists and video activists beware of google.Google patent could have nightmare implications for privacy, freedom of assembly
URGENT - Phone Blockade of Royal Jordanian started!
31-01-2014 11:28
Care.data - Letter to Lord Hunt
31-01-2014 02:55
An attempt to raise this issue through the Parliamentary system before it is too late.. ..maybe worth sending your own letter asap?
Lord Hunt is the opposition lead on the NHS, I understand.
Dear Lord Hunt,
I have been very concerned about the proposals to upload medical records from GP surgeries on to the new Care.data system. The process being employed is one of 'opt out' which requires that individuals have to take positive action to prevent their information being uploaded - their consent is simply presumed otherwise. My understanding that this is in violation of accepted data protection procedures.
NHS England have sought to extend their 'consultation' process by sending leaflets to 22 million households in England as a concession to many concerns raised at the end of last year. I understand that leaflets are currently being received by residents in Nottingham in 'junk mail' bundles - not addressed to residents and probably discarded by most households without consideration or concern.
There is very little public understanding of the issues around the care.data systems or the projected developments around new care delivery in the post-Lansley NHS which are being heavily promoted to NHS staff by Tim Kelsey of the the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
The local health bodies CCGs etc have been completely by-passed with individual surgeries being made responsible for the ensuring the transfer of data and for registering exceptions. There has, as far as I know, been no informed public debate or discussion to date. I attended a large public involvement meeting yesterday convened by 4 local CCGs with over 150 people from South Nottinghamshire - it was clear that there was a great deal of concern about this development and of the way it is being handled. Hardly 'no decision about me without me'! My sense is that the CCGs, having been effectively by-passed are 'keeping their heads down' and leaving it to individuals. The care provider 'industry' newly formed in the post Lansley world also appear to wish to avoid this issue as it seems that many planned developments are predicated on this system - again out of view of the patients, who are increasingly seen as passive consumers of health services despite the heavy patient involvement/engagement rhetoric.
Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) also includes social care data structures currently administered by local Government(?) - I am not aware of any consideration of the cross referencing of this highly confidential personal information being aired in public.
There are clearly serious equality issues that appear to have been totally overlooked. Not least the difficulty of 22 million households making informed choices about a serious issue with so little knowledge or information on which to base a decision. More directly the leaflet is being distributed as 'junk mail' in English and this is inaccessible for those with disabilities and for those who are not able to read English - inadequate as the meagre and rather unbalanced text is. My understanding is that there is a statutory duty to ensure equality through a thorough prior impact assessment - clearly this has not been done or if it has it is being totally ignored.
Very recently the stark challenge posed by the care.data scam has been set out at the following website - http://www.care-data.info/
I understand that you have responsibility for health issues in the House of Lords and would be grateful if you could raise concerns there and with your colleagues in the other House as a matter of great and pressing urgency. I have alerted Chris Leslie , my local MP and have copied in Adeline who as you may know manages the KONP campaign. Wendy Savage suggested that I contact you directly following the debate with medical students at the University of Nottingham towards the end of last year which I attended.
I hope that you may be able to bring the spotlight of public scrutiny and democratic accountability on this vital matter before it is too late.
Yours faithfully
IanH
Campaigners join Rown Williams in supporting Christian anti-arms protesters
31-01-2014 00:42
Campaign Against Arms Trade has joined former Archbishop Rowan Williams in pledging its support and solidarity with a group of five Christian activists who are on trial for non-violent direct action at the DSEi arms fair in 2013.Victimisation Continues - John Bowden's Parole Hearing
30-01-2014 22:00
The statutory role and duty of the Parole Board in relation to reviewing the continued imprisonment of those prisoners serving indeterminate or life sentences and who remain in jail far beyond the length of time originally recommended by the courts in “the interest of retribution” is critically important if an abuse of executive power in the form of unlawful detention is to be prevented.Imperial conquest: America’s “long war” against humanity
30-01-2014 18:18
Defrauded Workers Campaign to Change Law
30-01-2014 01:22
A group of former glass factory workers, angry at the way they were treated by dishonest company Directors, are campaigning to reform the UK's outdated insolvency laws, after having been cheated out of several months worth of wages.GCHQ: Failure Acknowledged
29-01-2014 17:33
As result of the failure of an assassination attempt against NSA renegade and whistleblower Snowden in which British agencies were involved, Iain Lobban has resigned. The announcement came amidst denial that the resignation had been unprepared, in order to silence the chatter which has long built up within their ranks. It should be noted that while the timing suggests an attempt to escape responsibility for what was leaked, no guarantees have been offered that the agency would not continue to pose a mortal threat against its targets.Fascist Unity meeting this Saturday
29-01-2014 11:26
Fascists meeting Saturday Southend on Sea, Essex
This Year's Flu Shots Causing Guillain-Barre and Other Lethal Effects
28-01-2014 18:25
British, US, and other companies making lethal quadrivalent flu shotsAnarchist Action Network / Stop NATO Cymru Meeting - 22nd-23rd Feb
28-01-2014 15:37
Announcing the NATIONAL WEEKEND CONVERGENCE in LONDON of the ANARCHIST ACTION NETWORK (previously known as STOPG8) and STOP NATO CYMRU. // Dyma gyhoeddiad o BENWYTHNOS CYDGYFEIRIO CENEDLAETHOL yn Llundain o'r RHWYDWAITH GWEITHREDU ANARCHAIDD (a elwid gynt yn STOPG8) a STOP NATO CYMRU.Campaigner followed from home by Counter Terror Command
28-01-2014 13:05
An activist involved in the campaign against the forthcoming NATO summit was accosted this morning by anti-terrorism police after being followed from her house. The woman suspects that police were approaching her to ask her to inform on other activists.A video of the incident can be viewed here
http://globalviews.mirocommunity.org/video/15304/activist-harassed-by-the-count or here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Ul8SsNF4I
NATO. Obituary to a Nukepool
27-01-2014 18:46
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was a military confederacy during the 60 Years Armistice. Historically, it is part of the fallout of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attack, which among other things caused the unprepared separation of occupied Korea and the ensuing war on the peninsula. During the armistice period this brought about a new form of international diplomacy that expressed itself in military confederacies. Their formation followed the administrative structure of American imperialism, but of three regional branches positioned around Asia only the European one survived its first years. It turned out to be a mirror of the imperialist hierarchy involving its collaborators at a high profile. In the special case of Germany, it also became a pretext to resurrect an army that had been dissolved with the ultimatum against Japan. With the revocation of the 60 Years Armistice this informal anachronism now has become a formal anachronism. Although in an administrative sense the entity does still exist, it is already displaying its first significant fissures.What Kind of Doomer Are You?
27-01-2014 17:08
From The Farm in Tennessee, alternative guru Albert Bates rates responses to predictions of doom. Film-maker Anne Macksoud on new movie "The Wisdom to Survive" Plus musical activist Rachelle Van ZantenBNP receive donation of £280,000. Why won't they say who from?
27-01-2014 14:38
The BNP in its latest submission to the Electoral Commission has shown a donation of £280,000 but no information as to who it is from.Exposing John Pilger & U.K. Stop the War Coalition
26-01-2014 07:41
We recently exposed how John Pilger had never accurately reported on our campaign, including that he lied about the fact that our campaign continued.
Nevertheless, John Pilger who is unapologetic about his own lies for the British Establishment of media and government, uses his latest article to continue to position himself as one of...the people.
The tactic of controlled opposition like the media, and including John Pilger, is to invent and use the role of "journalist" to put out selective facts, with the purpose of "informing"...the people, that there is nothing...the people can do about those facts.
UKRAINE: Autonomous Workers Union Update on Euromaidan
25-01-2014 20:11
The laws which were passed on January 16th showed that the faction of the ruling class which now controls the government is ready to install a reactionary bourgeois dictatorship on the model of the Latin American regimes of the 1970s. The “dictatorship laws” criminalize any protest and limit the freedom of speech; also, they establish responsibility for “extremism”. Parliamentary mouthpieces of the class dictatorship of corrupted bureaucracy and monopolist bourgeoisie are the Party of Regions and the so called “Communist” Party of Ukraine which has long ago become a political force serving interests of capital.Alzheimer's Senility, Dementia: Caused by Meat, Fish, Alcohol, Aluminum, Mercury
25-01-2014 18:55
Homocysteine, uric acid, animal fat or cholesterol, mercury, lead, and many other metals are some of the many compounds
present in meat and fish which harm the brain. Aluminum compounds and alcohol consumption as well cause loss of brain function.
UG#675 - What We're Not Being Told (BIS, CFR, TLC, Scientific Truth)
25-01-2014 15:01
