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• Railways: Changing the driver

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Warren Buffett and the British government have something in common. Both are taking over a railway. The American investment wizard has spent $26bn on the Burlington Northern while the Department for Transport is being landed with the East Coast mainline . It is not clear who has got the better deal. Back in the ...
  2 days ago

• The prospects for private policing in the UK

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  David Davis Tim Evans has kindly drawn my attention to this which I missed earlier:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225503/300-residents-hire-private-police-force-clean-lawless-streets.html If one neighbourhood can do it, why not everywhere? We could soon make “The [State] Police” as redundant as ...
  2 days ago

• A Gesture from the Invisible Hand

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 585
  The claim that market forces will inevitably take care of energy shortfalls due to peak oil is common enough these days. Unfortunately for such optimistic notions, theres reason to think that in an environment of economic contraction caused by geological limits to energy, market forces may well push money away from ...
  3 days ago

• Gwaythwaite wepweive

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 147
  GREENS WIN RIGHT TO DEBATE SAVE GRAYTHWAITE BILLGreens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon today won the support of the Opposition to commence debate on a bill to save the historic Graythwaite Estate at North Sydney from being sold off to the private school Shore. This brings the local community, desperate to keep ...
  4 days ago

• Privatising water

  
  The Standard — Authority: 603
  Although the topic has had a turbulent and confused couple of weeks, it seems that National want to privatise Auckland’s water supply. Govt contradicts itself on water privatisation Press Release: Green Party 29 October 2009 Statements from the Government on the issue of water privatisation are confusing and ...
  4 days ago

• Mysore in the news - for right reasons!

  
  Praja - know. care. participate — Authority: 136
  The Mysore City Corporation (MCC), which has privatised solid waste management in 48 wards of the 65 wards in the city, has bagged the Icon City award for best solid waste management. The award has been instituted by the Centre for Quality Management System, Jadhavpur University, Kolkata. Mayor Purushottam and ...
  5 days ago

• Rudman waters down the hysteria

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 628
  At times Phil Twyford reminds me of Chicken Little. He runs about a lot claiming the sky is falling in over the Auckland Super City . Absolutely everything is to do with privatisation. I think he’d call more money for Libraries as privatisation, as Libraries buy books from the private sector! Anyway Brian Rudman ...
  5 days ago

• Bligh wont be rolled over privatisation

  
  ...And Justice For All - Leon Bertrand's Blog of Reason — Authority: 424
  Labors neo-liberalism Remember when an ALP Branch in NSW voted to kick Morris Iemma out of the Labor Party? History seems to be repeating itself with a bit of the old deja - vu in Queensland? A LABOR branch in Premier Anna Blighs own electorate has accused her of arrogance over privatisation and ...
  5 days ago

• Accountability no favourite of the Left

  
  No Minister — Authority: 573
  If youre accountable there cannot be secrets. So whats Idiot/Savant going on about ? But I forget: National and ACTs NeoLiberal ideologues dont think they have to be honest with the public , any more than they feel a need to consult us or expose their plans to proper democratic scrutiny . Deceit and urgency is ...
  6 days ago

• Privatisation on the agenda

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 603
  When the government voted down Phil Twyfords Local Government (Protection of Auckland Assets) Amendment Bill in September, they argued that the bill was unnecessary as there was no plan to privatise Aucklands assets. They lied. Just two months after making those speeches, Cabinet has agreed to make a "minor ...
  6 days ago

• Ghana: Ghana Water Company under fire

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is under fire from both the allAfrica.com”>government and anti-privatisation activists for poor service delivery and corruption. In the wake of this criticism, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), the private operator which supports GWCL since 2006 as part of a World ...
  6 days ago

• Royal Mail: Privatise It and See What Happens to Postage Costs

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  By Paul Sheen — The Conservative Party’s policy of privatising Royal Mail (instead of protecting its market) to “avoid strikes” can only result in a dramatic increase in the cost of posting mail — which users will discover to their cost it they trust David Cameron at the next election. While there is no ...
  1 week ago

• Parklea privatisation runs smoothly

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 147
  PARKLEA PRISON PRIVATISATION: GEO GAILS FIRST TESTPrivate prison operator GEO Australia appears to have failed its first test as the private operator of Parklea Prison. GEO’s inability to recruit sufficient personnel to staff Parklea has seen the Department of Corrective Services urgently redeploy to Parklea casual ...
  1 week ago

• The beauty of privatised rail

  
  Nicholas John Mead — Authority: 118
  The UK’s first £1,000 rail ticket has been described as “scandalous” and “appalling value” by opposition MPs. The first-class return walk-up fare is from Newquay, in Cornwall to Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Scottish Highlands. But don’t worry. If you can’t afford that: Cross Country Trains, which sells ...
  1 week ago

• £1,000 train fare

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 135
  This is the most expensive train fare in Britain since the services began in 1825 - the return ticket from Newquay, Cornwall, to Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland, costs £1,002!!! With prices like these it is no wonder that people are unable to afford public transport and continue to use their own vehicles for commuting ...
  1 week ago

• Privatising the Foreshore & Seabed: Get on with it! [update 2]

  
  Not PC — Authority: 571
  Otago Daily Times : “Prime Minister John Key says the foreshore and seabed legislation will almost certainly be repealed, but no decision has been taken on what might replace it.” WHY HAS NO DECISION YET been taken on what might replace it, I wonder?  Even though everyone and their kaumatua has been trying to ...
  1 week ago

• Granny’s waterworks

  
  The Standard — Authority: 603
  I think Granny Herald must have shares in Infratil, based on her rubbish editorial today: Particular fervour is reserved for private-sector participation in this sector, perhaps because water is one of life’s necessities. Rarely is it conceded that, in reality, it occupies the same utility bag as electricity, ...
  1 week ago

• Why Im on strike today

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Posties and the service we provide are being sacrificed on the altar of profit. Were fighting back I will be out on strike today. Yesterday the load was light in the delivery office where I work, because of strike action in other parts of Royal Mail. That will make the backlog on Monday all the greater – and that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The recession is dead ... long live the recession!

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 585
  The world’s first peak-oil recession has come to a close, according to third-quarter numbers invented by the federal government . Apparently dumping trillions of dollars onto big banks , insurance companies , and automobile manufacturers interrupted the plummeting descent of American Empire. The stock markets ...
  2 weeks ago

• Writing off Burrard Thermal

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 122
  I saw the story in the Vancouver Sun this morning and thought about blogging it. It quite an extra-ordinary event. The Premier has decided to “write off” a gas fired power station to encourage generation of cleaner electricity and an environmental group publishes a press release deploring it. The press release ...
  2 weeks ago

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