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I signed up for security course in 90 seconds! Undercover Mail reporter experiences the shambolic G4S training centre
“Such is the desperation of G4S bosses to fill security places that when I walked into their Olympic base I was signed up to a training course within 90 seconds. Once inside, utter confusion reigned in the makeshift centre in the shadow of the Olympic Park. I had arrived shortly before 9am on Thursday posing as an unemployed man seeking work as a security guard. With no checks or questions, I was whisked into a large lecture hall with 130 other people and a woman demanding to see my passport. ‘Passport, name, date of birth,’ she barked. I handed it over. I was now officially signed up to complete.”…
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Harrowing picture of post-capitalist America: The 'sacrifice zones' - areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: drawing America's invisible poor - audio slideshow
For his latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, out this month in paperback, Pulitzer prize-winning author Chris Hedges collaborated with award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco to produce a heartfelt, harrowing picture of post-capitalist America. Together they explore the country's 'sacrifice zones' - areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement - and show in words and images what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints.Britain engulfed in corruption: Wandering through the Wasteland, Time to Return to the Promised Land
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Banks, drug makers, arms dealers, politicians, the media, bonuses, amoral socio-economic behaviour, and more are frightening reminders of why we need rules, accountability, responsibility, regulation, and a strong public sector serving the greater good
Enough of Privatisation and Deregulation: Time is Now for Hope, Empathy, Compassion and the Common Good
As it has been noted, and indeed discussed and analysed extensively here within this Blog postings, in the last many years Britain’s establishment has lurched from the disaster of the Iraq war to the disgrace of parliamentary expense fiddling, media phone-hacking, corruption in banking and finance, and most recently the GlaxoSmithKline fraud and corruption case. The house of cards, built on the false ideology of neo-liberalism, and put together on shifting sands has now fallen apart, piece by piece; blown away by the forces of greed, individualism, selfishness, and consumerism.
The neo-liberal, free market-based development paradigm- some of whose staunchest adherents had gone as far as declare that “Greed is good” - has taken a battering with the continuing and deepening financial market meltdown.
However, we cannot turn this sinking ship away from the stormy waters to a calmer environment, if we do not try to discover how on earth we got to where we are today: the wasteland that has become of Britain.
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- "I love Barclays": The Looting of Britain! "I love Barclays"!
- Olympics and Your Health: Welcome to London’s Olympic of shopping malls, junk food and fizzy drinks
- “When it comes to a global crisis, all countries are eventually in it together”
- Britain engulfed in corruption: Indulgence in our piratical past!