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Here is further evidence that the Conservative government is committing a covert
Jgenocide of people with long-term illnesses and disabilities.
The law requires DWP representatives at benefit appeal tribunals to provide new information in the appellant’s favour – but it seems clear that their bosses are requiring them not to do so, in order to rig the verdict against awarding PIP or ESA.
The revelation shows the contempt in which the Tories and their servants in the DWP hold not only people who are sick and disabled, but also the courts.
It’s part of Stage Three of the ten stages of genocide: Discrimination – denying a group their civil rights, ensuring they cannot participate fully in society.
HM Courts and Tribunals Service ought to have something to say about this.
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) officers who attend benefit appeal tribunals are being asked by their bosses how many high-level awards to disabled people they have been able to prevent.
DWP has finally released information that shows that the presenting officers (POs) it sends to personal independence payment (PIP) appeals must report back to their bosses afterwards on whether they persuaded the tribunal not to grant an enhanced PIP award.
The same applies for those sent to employment and support allowance (ESA) appeals, with POs having to tell their managers whether they persuaded the tribunal not to award the claimant eligibility for the ESA support group.
Information published by DWP states that the role of a PO is both to present the department’s case, but also to “draw the [first tier tribunal’s]attention to new points in the appellant’s favour”.
Instead of providing balanced information that is fair to the claimant, the department’s freedom of information response appears to show that POs are being told to prevent as many enhanced awards as they can for PIP and ESA.
A DWP spokeswoman declined to say whether [minister for disabled people Sarah] Newton was aware that her department appeared to be breaching both the spirit and the letter of the law on ESA and PIP; what action Newton would take; and how she responded to the comments from one of her own civil servants.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 23 February 2018
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This is another excellent piece of reporting from RT, which shows once again why it's miles better than the Beeb and other establishment news services. This is a report from their Ann Vuger on the recent discovery of documents pertaining to the programme of forced sterilisation of the congenitally mentally handicapped in Japan. This was pure eugenics, as was made very clear in the title of this vile piece of legislation. It declared that it was 'to protect the purity of the Japanese race'. It did not occur during the wartime Fascist regime, but ran from 1948 to 1996.
I think the operation was supposed to be consensual, but 16,500 people were sterilised without their consent.
The video contains testimony from one of the victims of the programme. This is a woman, who was falling behind at school. So her teacher and a government official forced her father to sign the papers for her sterilisation. The only thing the woman herself knew about it was when she woke up after the operation.
The sister of another victim also describes what happened to her. She states that her sister was forcibly sterilised as a congenital mental defective. In fact, the girl had been left brain-damaged by another medical procedure when she was aged two. And this was just one, of many false diagnoses.
Both these people had their identities changed and faces obscured for the cameras to protect them.
The programme also features Katsumi Yamamoto, Chief Executive and psychologist of the Tokyo Board of Public Health, who strongly condemns the programme and speculates about the existence of further files.
This should delight the Tories' Ben Bradley. After all, it was he, who wanted the unemployed to be forcibly given vasectomies to stop them breeding, along with a number of other highly offensive views. And Toby Young, a Tory journo who also delights in writing offensive articles, also attended a eugenics convention.
The eugenicists aren't just in Japan. They're right here in Theresa May's Tory party. And they want to kill the poor and disabled.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 21 February 2018
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The government has denied a life-changing, cannabis-based treatment to a six-year-old boy with epilepsy. But in doing so it has exposed the hypocrisy at its heart. Because a Conservative minister’s husband is growing cannabis for a pharmaceutical company to use in childhood epilepsy medicine.
Pleading with the government
Alfie Dingley lives with a rare form of childhood epilepsy called PCDH19. It means he can have up to 30 violent seizures a day and often has to go into hospital. But as BBC News reported, since using medical cannabis oil, prescribed in the Netherlands, Alfie’s seizures have reduced in “number, duration and severity”. While in the Netherlands, he went 24 days without a seizure.
Back in the UK, Alfie’s family lobbied the Home Office to grant a licence to administer cannabis oil at home. And the Home Office refused to grant it. So his mother Hannah Deacon made an emotional plea to the government on BBC Breakfast on Monday 19 February:
The Home Office told BBC News:
Cannabis is listed as a Schedule 1 drug, as in its raw form it is not recognised in the UK as having any medicinal benefit and is therefore subject to strict control restrictions.
This means it cannot be practically prescribed, administered, or supplied to the public in the UK, and can only be used for research under a Home Office licence.
The Home Office would not issue a licence to enable the personal consumption of a Schedule 1 drug.
Meanwhile, the husband of Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins is growing cannabis for GW Pharmaceuticals to use in an epilepsy drug for children.
Breathtaking hypocrisy
Atkins is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability at the Home Office. Part of her remit is drugs and drug policy. And as The Canary previously reported, her husband is the Managing Director of British Sugar Paul Kenward. The company is supplying GW Pharmaceuticals with up to 23 football pitches-worth of “non-psychoactive” cannabis for its drug Epidiolex. This is enough to treat up to 40,000 children a year.
The drug is aimed at two forms of rare childhood epilepsy which are not the same as Alfie’s. But GW Pharmaceuticals hopes to develop Epidiolex to treat other childhood epilepsy syndromes. It is waiting for the US government to approve the drug before it is available to patients there.
Although the UK government does not recognise cannabis-derivatives as “having any medicinal benefit”, it will happily allow British companies to profit from using them in medication abroad. And the fact that the husband of a minister, responsible for drug policy, is also profiting from this is concerning.
Alfie’s quality of life is not only poor but constantly at risk. As campaign groups like Release say, the government needs to rethink its drugs policy. And quickly.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 19 February 2018
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Greenpeace’s Doug Parr says the self-styled “shadow trade talks” are “secretive”
Paul Mason says this is “the real Brexit plan: slash safety standards and do a secret deal with Trump. What Theresa didn’t mention in Munich”.
I would go further.
The fact that Mr Hannan and his far-right associates have been plotting in secret to harm the health of UK citizens by lowering our standards to make it possible to import inferior US goods suggests treachery against the nation.
Information about the plot should be forwarded to the police.
Am I right?
An unprecedented drive to lobby ministers to ditch strict EU safety standards in order to secure a US trade deal is being drawn up by a transatlantic group of conservative thinktanks, it has emerged.
Organisers of the self-styled “shadow trade talks”, which are set to include 10 leading rightwing and libertarian groups from the UK and the US, are preparing to push their “ideal free trade agreement” that would allow the import of US meats, drugs and chemicals banned in Britain.
The conservative groups involved include the Heritage Foundation, which has pushed for the lifting of environmental protections, and the Cato Institute, co-founded by billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch. In Britain the project is being overseen by the Initiative for Free Trade (IFT), an organisation founded by the hard-Brexit advocate and Tory MEP Daniel Hannan.
According to a document outlining the project, mistakenly published online by the IFT, the groups will “hash out an ‘ideal’ US-UK free trade agreement (FTA)” that includes Britain recognising US standards which are widely seen as weaker than those adopted by the EU. Such a move would allow imports of chlorinated chicken and hormone-reared beef to be sold in the UK for the first time.
Posted by jeffrey davies [82.9.81.48] on 18 February 2018
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Remember at the end of January, when This Writer mike silver said the treatment of the sick and disabled in the UK was a genocide, and deserved to be considered as such alongside those remembered on Holocaust Memorial Day?
Some commenters took it upon themselves to be highly insulted by the possibility that such a thing could happen in the UK, in this day and age.
They said the Tory government was doing nothing more than controlling benefit expenditure.
“Controlling benefit expenditure”? Some of us have a different phrase for it: Culling the stock.
Even the language is genocidal.
Use of the word “stock” to describe UK benefit claimants became commonplace in the Department for Work and Pensions under Iain Duncan Smith.
The suggestion that claimants are not human beings who deserve respect equal to everybody else is a classic technique of “dehumanisation” – Stage Four in the “Ten Stages of Genocide”.
How much evidence do you need?
The Tories are carrying out a genocide in plain sight. They use the classic methods outlined in the “Ten Stages”. The only difference is that, instead of murdering people outright, they are depriving the sick and disabled of the means to survive.
The DWP’s own rule book accepts that people will suffer declining health if their benefit is sanctioned. But it seems it does not suggest that a sanction should not be applied if a sick or disabled person is expected to suffer a more serious decline than one in good health.
And of course the DWP does not consider it to be any of its business if a claimant dies of starvation after their benefit claim has been denied.
We have all read many stories of sick and disabled people who have died after being sanctioned, or after their claim has been denied. It is a commonplace occurrence.
Yet some people say there is nothing wrong with it – it’s just “controlling benefit expenditure”.
Call it what it is. Call it genocide.
Disabled people receiving state benefits have been hit with a million sanctions in less than a decade, according to alarming new evidence that they are being discriminated against by the welfare system.
A comprehensive analysis of the treatment of unemployed disabled claimants has revealed that they are up to 53% more likely to be docked money than claimant who are not disabled. This raises serious concerns about how they and their conditions are treated.
The findings, from a four-year study by academic Ben Baumberg Geiger in collaboration with the Demos thinktank, will cause worry that a government drive to help a million more disabled people into work over the next 10 years could lead to more unfair treatment.
Sanctions – the cutting or withholding of benefits – are applied as a punishment when claimants infringe the conditions of their payments by, say, as missing appointments or failing to apply for enough jobs.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 18 February 2018
