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• Missing in action: Stephen McNamara

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 466
  Is that a lycra-clad lawyer clutching an old wig I see disappearing over the horizon? The Bristol Blogger , November 25 2009 Yep, as predicted, the tragic old wig-wearer has done a runner. As a major care scandal gently laps at the doors of his Council House and a local citizen openly invites the city’s ...
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• Climate finance, the new fiscal frontier

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 619
  Not deterred by the international financial crisis which became widespread in 2008 or by the many recessionary patterns that grip most country economies, financial engineers are massing in København to prepare for the next wave. This one is about the commercial opportunities which renewable energy technologies, ...
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• Digging up Coromandel

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 599
  The government has granted a mining permit to Heritage Gold to mine on DoC land in the Karangahake Gorge , near Paeroa. The company wants to extract more gold from the historic Talisman Mine, and believes it can extract around 1.4 tons (worth US$40 million) a year. But to get that, theyll have to dig out 200,000 ...
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• Nexus update - DB uber Nexus...

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 143
  This from the Railway Gazette ... Nexus named Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Regio (Tyne and Wear) Ltd as preferred bidder for a contract to operate the Tyne & Wear Metro on December 3. Willkommen!
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• “Institutional abuse” identified in Bristol’s care homes

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 466
  Today’s report from the Care Quality Commission (CQS) in to Bristol’s adult care services is mainy a text book example of what happens when the dead hand of bureaucracy meets impenetrable New Labour social jargon. So we’ve got an “Annual performance assessment” report grading the city’s services on the ...
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• Trade unions

  
  DailyPhoto Chennai — Authority: 128
  …. generally trade unions oppose any way of privatisation as it might allow reduction in existing staffs/ lay-offs. Such is this poster/banner which urges all its employees of LIC Trade union to oppose the privatisation of its organisation. In front of the LIC Zonal office near NSC Bose Road, Parrys.
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• Nexus concession to be announced today

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 143
  ***Winner of the Nexus concession expected to be announced at 17:00 today***
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• Sounds Familiar

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 519
  This is the section on health from the 2025 Task Force summary : 10. Health: a. A funder-provider model should be reintroduced in the hospital sector, allowing much greater private sector involvement in the provision of taxpayer-funded services. b. Universal (unrelated to income or health status) subsidies for ...
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• Loch Striven ship layups: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Update 08.00 3rd December: An issue which looks as if it may be on the horizon is the UK Government selling off more of the remaining Trust Ports. The national debt already at unprecedented - unimagined - levels. The shadow of a potential Dubai collapse (the  now state-owned RBS was, of course, a major lender) [...]
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• On NPM... And Minarets

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 468
  My column has appeared in Mint today, where I discuss New Public Management (NPM), which is the public administration of Capitalism. I advocate the sacking of public service bureaucracies, as in the case of garbage removal. There is one small error in the document, though. The second sentence in para #5 reads: ...
  6 days ago

• For Australians, houses are bigger-is-better

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Sydney, Dec 1 (DPA) Australian houses are now double the size of the average house in Europe and three times bigger than homes in Britain, official figures showed. At an average for houses and apartments of 214 square metres, Australians now outrank even Americans as having the biggest houses on the planet.While newly ...
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• REVEALED: £2m cuts for the city’s most vulnerable

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 466
  While our idiot councillors and idiot senior council officers write out a blank cheque to an international Swiss gangster operation for something between £17m and £40m – depending on who you want to believe – to host four football matches in 2018, there’s been rather less publicity about the more prosaic ...
  1 week ago

• Adonis pushes for cheaper, faster east coast railway service

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Thousands of seats are left unsold every day on one of Britains flagship routes The government is considering cutting rail fares between London and Edinburgh after discovering that thousands of seats are left unsold every day on one of Britains flagship routes. The transport secretary, Lord Adonis, is also exploring ...
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• Solidarity MAbahlali baseMjondolo in Johannesburg!arch with

  
  Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign — Authority: 477
  When: Assemble at 9am on 5th December and begin march at 10am Where: Protea Gardens, Ndaba Street, Soweto, to Protea North Magistrates Court, Kunene Street On the 26th of September this year a gang of heavily armed men launched an attack on the shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo, and organisers of ...
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• Solidarity March for Abahlali baseMjondolo in Johanesburg

  
  Abahlali baseMjondolo - Sekwanele! — Authority: 433
  SOLIDARITY MARCH WITH ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO! On the 26th of September this year a gang of heavily armed men launched an attack on the shack-dwellers movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo, and organisers of the Kennedy Road Development Committee in the Kennedy Road settlement outside Durban. Members of the community ...
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• Peak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 619
  We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. I devoted my Masters project to researching peak oil and found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as ...
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• From the comments …

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 466
  by Steven Norman November 28, 2009 at 5:26 pm I believe that Bristol City Council should issue court proceedings for recovery of this outstanding money . At this moment in time it is public money that has been paid to one of their buddies in the private sector to appease them – Mimosa Healthcare, whose slogan ...
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• Dont let parents ruin local schools

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Toby Young wants to found his own school, but schemes like his will harm his poorer neighbours Parent-promoted schools – sounds like a great idea, doesnt it? Every parent probably has a secret vision of what their perfect school might look like. Why shouldnt an incoming Conservative government sweep away planning ...
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• “They will not get a brass farthing”

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 466
  The Steve Norman “come on and take me to court then” story appears in today’s Evening Cancer . A couple of passages are worth further analysis: Police, social services and the watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CSCI) investigated earlier this year after five former care workers at Kingsmead Lodge ...
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• Sign this petition – stop the Government selling off our inland waterways

  
  intheboatshed.net intheboatshed.net — Authority: 466
  The Oxford Canal at Hillmorton on the eastern edge of Rugby in Warwickshire - image from the Wikipedia, photographed by G-Man Ordinary people in the UK are already prevented from using the large majority of our rivers, streams and lakes. And now there’s apparently a threat of the canal system being sold to ...
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