Each week we will bring you ten articles from across the independent media that the corporate media prefers to ignore, or prevent the public from knowing. The aim is to educate and hopefully fuel a movement away from corporate propaganda to a place of increasing enlightenment.
All of the following articles are taken from the members of the Independent Media Association (IMA), a remedy for corporate indoctrination.
1. Revealed: Why government tried to shield £800m research agency from scrutiny
The government has been forced to reveal why it tried to shield an £800m “high risk, high reward” scientific research body from transparency rules.
Experts have said the revelations “confirm how weak the government’s case is” and that the Freedom of Information Act “is not safe in the government’s hands”.
Ministers at the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) department set out their plan in February 2021 to create the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). The agency is expected to materialise later in 2022; BEIS announced the appointments of its chief exec and chair this week.
ARIA will not be subject to the FOI Act, however, because BEIS wanted to “remove the burden of processing FOI requests”.
For more than a year, politicians and transparency organisations have urged the government to reconsider its decision. A BEIS minister once branded the FOI Act as “a “truly malign piece of legislation”. The act allows the public, including journalists, to request and view information held by public authorities, and is a cornerstone of British transparency law.
2. Race report misses the mark
It is undoubtedly useful to know about the racial makeup of Sheffield. And, as the recommendations above show, the report ranges into health, education, and more. However, the first recommendation, that stakeholders in Sheffield should make their organisations anti-racist, requires a closer look.
3. IN CASE OF LYING MEDIA, BREAK GLASS
Five climate activists were arrested early this morning at the London offices of News UK (home of The Sun newspaper) after three large plate glass windows were broken and slogans were sprayed on the walls at the main entrance to the building near London Bridge.
Staff arriving for work had to use rear doors to enter the building while glass was cleared.
4. DWP lets slip shocking fact about cost of living payment
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made a damning admission about the cost of living payments – revealing a new statistic about who is entitled to them.
5. His companies made a deal for £138m of taxpayers’ money. Where has it gone?
As he was chauffeured to the airport where his private jet waited, Liam Kavanagh reflected in typically colourful language on how much his life had changed. “Look at what we’re doing now,” he told his personal assistant, “you’re driving a fucking van to the fucking airport with Kavanagh after nearly 10 years of meeting in fucking car parks, smoking a fucking fag. All the shit we’ve gone through – it’s insane.”
He’s not wrong. Kavanagh’s story is insane. A few years earlier he had been standing on a windswept solar farm in Swindon pitching an investment opportunity to councils desperate for a new source of income. Now he owns a solar empire bought and paid for in large part by the taxpayer and was living the sort of life most of us can only imagine. As well as flying the world in a corporate private jet, he had a 200-acre country estate and a fleet of supercars.
6. Parent Power Win In Parliament For Premature Babies
Following seven years of fighting for change for families of premature babies, The Smallest Things is delighted that the Neonatal Leave & Pay Bill has been introduced in Parliament.
If the Bill becomes law, parents and carers of babies admitted to neonatal care will receive extra paid time off work.
7. 43 Per Cent Of Shoppers Now Don’t Trust Supermarkets
Brits have increasing concerns surrounding UK food and supermarkets due to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, The Red Tractor ‘Trust in Food’ index has revealed.
According to research conducted by market research firm YouGov (with over 3,500 adults), four in 10 admitted to not trusting supermarkets, believing the quality of food being sold is declining.
Just under half (43%) feared that UK standards will be undermined by changing regulations and trade deals.
8. THE GREAT COPYRIGHT SCAM
The greatest trick the mega corps ever pulled was convincing authors they had their interests at heart. That is why Waterstones can claim that assimilating Blackwell’s is good, actually. Why Simon & Schuster being bought out by Random Houses of Penguins will benefit everyone, eventually. While everyone involved at the wordsmithing level argues with other writers and creators over whether we even really deserve royalties, and whether white authors are being cancelled because someone pointed out that maybe they shouldn’t be racist if you want not to be called a racist. All of this, of course, on the coat-tails of a global pandemic, geopolitical unrest, a collapse of capitalist supply chains, and specifically of paper production and distribution.
9. WHO ARE YOU CALLING A NAZI?
…But that is not the whole story. Fascists maintain a visible presence in Ukraine’s military through the Azov Regiment, formed as a paramilitary organization in 2014 to defend the eastern Donbas region from separatist forces. It was later incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion, Azov has again played a key role, this time defending the battered port city of Mariupol.
10. Survivor of child torture fights deportation to Rwanda
…Kassim said he fled Syria for Libya last June. “I was looking for a job but was kidnapped by militia and detained there for 45 days,” he said.
“It happened twice – the second time for 43 days. Both times we ran away. One time we broke a window and the other we broke out of the room with other migrants and they shot at us as we ran. We were forced to do work in construction and we were beaten and tortured.”
He managed to leave in April with Abulraham and finally the two Syrians then attempted to cross the Channel. This time they were rescued by the UK coastguard after their boat began filling with water.
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