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SANTA CLAUS PRIVATIZED.
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The eleven workers who answer the
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letters from kids in the UK to
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Santa Claus had their pay per letter
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reduced to 15p to 7p when they were
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contracted out of the Royal Mail.
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Metro Mail, owners of the elf slave
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house refused to comment, the post
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office accused workers of "trying to
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destroy the magic of Christmas".
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Meanwhile kids now only receive a
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form letter with a typeset
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signature. Not even Christmas is
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safe from Capitalism!
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YTS.
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As more studies showed that there
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were probably twice as many
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homeless people as officially
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recognized, unemployment was about
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to hit the 5 million mark and YTS
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was farcical - the government's
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response has been to clamp down on
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truancy at school and a new
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"scrounger buster" plan to pilot in
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2 areas a plan to remove 200,000
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18-24 year olds from benefits
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altogether.
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The Unemployment Unit mid-December
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survey on YTS showed that just over
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1/2 left these scams early - to go
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on to better paid jobs (well better
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than 29.50 a week!) or .....well
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fuck knows. Of the other half -
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only one third got any
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qualifications even from the Mickey
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Mouse school of street sweeping.
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The employment secretary admitted
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that there was no way to make
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employers guarantee long term
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employment (a bright one eh?).At
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least they could try and make sure
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they survived - as is 4 young people
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were killed on YTS schemes and 183
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seriously injured from Jan to June
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1993.
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The pilot scrounger buster scheme is
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to expand the farcical job plan
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scheme from one week to four weeks.
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Job Plan showed it's usefulness for
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one claimant who wanted to work
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with animals by suggesting abbatoir
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work. People who refuse to
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participate would be denied
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benefit.
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However through actions by U.A.G.'s
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and themselves, many claimants have
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ended their job plan courses early
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by actions from joint strikes to
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just being pains.
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Contact L.U.A.G. [071 733 5135] and
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H.U.A.G.[071 249 8086] for more
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info, and to join groups in
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occupying job plan workshops around
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London.
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Gulf Hangover
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We all knew the US government didn't
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give a fuck about working class
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people Iraq - though the gift of 300
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tonnes of "depleted" uranium dust
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from 944,000 tank shells in the
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Kuwait/South Iraq area has only just
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been exposed. Many of these were
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made at BNFL's Springfields' works
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in Preston.
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but its also clear that they didn't
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give a fuck about there own
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civilians - as is made clear by the
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information that excluding "secret"
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CIA tests, the governments and
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universities made human guineapigs
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from over a thousand people up till
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the 70s. These included 800
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pregnant women, 130 prisoners and 68
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people with intelectual disabilities
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- oh and 12 tests in America to see
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how fall out works and 48 secret
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above ground tests in the Pacific -
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nice one eh?
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So it shouldn't come as much
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surprise that they don't give a
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fuck for their own squaddies. Even a
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doctor who contracted Gulf War
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Syndrome got sacked - while another
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who refused to give untested anti
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nerve gas pills was court
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martialed. Meanwhile 4,000 US, 500
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UK and 15 children in the west are
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suffering from the unknown after
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effects of the "clean,smart" war.
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Reports from Iraq say that there
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have also been increases in
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leukemia and birth defects since the
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war.Basically they don't give a
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fuck.
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Don't drink the water ...
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As water disconnections grow - along
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with the introduction of water
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meters - some bright spark - the
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government chief medical officer -
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has denied that there is any
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connection between this and water
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rationing for poor people. Maybe the
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500% or so increase in dysentery in
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Britain between 1990 and now has
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some other cause ... or maybe the
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CMO just didn't listen when he was
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told to wash his hands at school!
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Euro scroungers on tour?
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With the Tory party desperately
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needing some 'continental'
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instruction about how to bonk
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discretely it comes as a surprise
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that they should go and target
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unwaged workers from the rest of the
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European Union for benefit cuts. The
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new "centre of interests" test will
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be applied over the last 5 years and
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will affect up to 17,000 people -
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including Irish people in Britain.
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The fact that benefits are better
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almost everywhere else in Europe has
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escaped the government - do they
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think people come here for the
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weather?
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