Tag: uk
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Tesco Throws Away 30,000 Tonnes of Food in Six Months
from euronews.com: UK supermarket giant Tesco has admitted it threw away close to 30,000 tonnes of food – in just six months. It also said a combination of supermarkets and households wasted 68 per cent of bagged salad, 40 per cent of apples and nearly half of bakery items. The supermarket chain published its own…
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UK government now leaking documents about itself
from theguardian.com: The Independent this morning published an article – which it repeatedly claims comes from “documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden” – disclosing that “Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence…
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‘Snowden data destruction won’t harm our reporting’ – Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger
from Russia Today: The British government’s attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications. Just a day after Glenn Greenwald’s partner was detained at Heathrow airport, The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, came forward describing how the authorities pressured the newspaper to destroy documents provided…
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UK ‘Porn’ Filter Will Also Block Violence, Alcohol, Terrorism, Smoking And ‘Esoteric Material’
from huffingtonpost.com: The United Kingdom’s new internet filters promise to block much more than just pornography, according to a report by the digital advocacy organization Open Rights Group. Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron announced online porn would soon become automatically blocked in order to “protect children and their innocence.” The filters will be implemented…
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UK: Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces
from Big Brother Co: Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced. In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales – in line with Scotland. Mr Cameron warned in a…
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New World Next Week: Episode161 – War Games, David Kelly, Drug Deaths
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode161 – War Games, David Kelly, Drug Deaths Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Russia Amasses ‘Full Combat Readiness’ Strategic Bombers Russia In Largest War Games Since…
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UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
from RT.com: UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. The figures, revealed by the National Audit Office (NAO), demonstrate…
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‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years
from RT.com: British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years. “It is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources…
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UK Launches First Drone Strike From British Soil
Prior to this week the British military used a small base located in the Nevada to conduct UAV operations.
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The Great British Bacon Scare of 2013
from macleans.ca: Britain still has a few things it approaches with a collective passion verging on religiosity. These include football fanship (the European kind), alcohol (any old kind), dry wit as a proxy for emotion and cured, fried pig fat squished between white bread. While the first three have a host of well-documented attendant dangers,…
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Digital Download Sales Top £1 Billion In UK
from independent.co.uk: Digital sales of music, games and films have broken the £1 billion barrier for the first time, according to new figures. Research by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) shows shoppers spent £1.033 billion – an 11.4% rise – on downloads, with video games accounting for more than half that figure with sales of…
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Arranging a US Famine
from foodfreedomgroup.com: At a time when the US government talks of food shortages yet is doing nothing to ensure food for its people but is doing numbers of things that seriously increase the threat and leave people more helpless, it is relevant to look at again at the famine in Ireland in the 19th century,…
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Former MP Says Thatcher Aide Pedophile
Rod Richards, a former Conservative MP and ex-leader of the Welsh Tories, made the shocking allegation that he had seen evidence linking Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children’s homes case
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Is the CDC’s Mandated Vaccine Schedule a Health-Disguised Compulsory Sterilization Program?
This use of vaccines to sterilize continued beyond WWII, including under the aegis of WHO, where the intent was hidden.