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Devon resident Stan Beale considers the excessive prices charged by South West Water and questions the regulatory regime that allows them to keep going up. |
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The StopG8 group has released a map of "the capitalist West End", showing targets for its day of action on June 11 (#J11), ahead of the G8 summit being held in the UK. The map is available on a PDF. |
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In the latest hysteria over foreign prisoners in the UK, the Tory-led government was yesterday threatening to 'temporarily withdraw' from the European Convention on Human Rights so as to overcome legal barriers to the deportation of radical Islamic preacher Abu Qatada. At the same time, the latest prison statistics by the Ministry of Justice, published today, show that the number of foreigners held in British jails has actually declined. |
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The UK Border Agency has contracted a controversial security company to provide emergency medical staff on mass deportation flights, Phil Miller reveals in an exclusive investigation published by Corporate Watch today. |
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This is Global, the UK's biggest commercial radio company, which also owns LBC, Xfm and Choice and manages bands including The Wanted and The Vaccines, has not paid any UK corporation tax in the last five years, after sending more than £200 million through tax havens, an investigation by Corporate Watch has found. |
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The Mandatory Work Activity (MWA) programme has received less attention than the government's other workfare schemes. But while there is little evidence that MWA helps the people referred to it, statistics obtained by Corporate Watch through a series of Freedom of Information requests suggest it is the most punitive of the lot. |
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The Psagot winery visitors’ centre is located in the illegal settlement of Psagot, positioned just outside Ramallah and Al Bireh in the West Bank. Established in 1981, the settlement hosts the headquarters of the Binyamin Regional Council and has a population of over 1600 people. Originally, the winery itself was also based there, but in 2008 it moved a few minutes down the road to the East Jerusalem settlement, Pisgat Ze’ev. Its first vineyards were planted on stolen land in 1998 and the winery has been operational since 2003. It produces around 100,000 bottles of wine per year, most -but not all- of which is sold in Israel. The winery’s vineyards are located within the West Bank.
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A growing source of income for settlements within close proximity to the Dead Sea, is tourism. As anyone who has visited the Jordan Valley will know, it really is a unique environment in a breathtaking landscape - something the settlers are doing their best to capitalise on. |
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This ground-breaking new book comprises of twenty essays – written by writers, academics and activists and edited by Corporate Watch researcher Rebecca Fisher – which collectively argue that in today's 'democracy' elite interests are served by the limitations placed upon popular participation in decision-making, by the manipulation of public opinion through propaganda, and from the attempts to co-opt, marginalise and/or repress oppositional politics. |
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