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Tory MP who criticised benefits claimants is himself being investigated for benefit fraud

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(not satire – it’s Peter Bone!)

 Right-wing Tory MP Peter Bone once said this of benefits claimants:

It cannot be right that people who are funded entirely by the taxpayer are making life unbearable for decent hardworking families.

Quite right Peter.

So I expect you’ll be resigning now it’s turned out you’re being investigated for benefit fraud:

Peter Bone MP denies benefit fraud allegations

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Female Breadwinners Struggle as Egypt’s Economy Deteriorates

Egyptian Streets

A vegetable vendor on the streets of Egypt. Credit: Uncornered Market A vegetable vendor on the streets of Egypt. Credit: Uncornered Market

By Arwa Gaballa from Aswat Masriya

Women are the main breadwinners in as many as 30 percent of Egyptian households, a role frowned on by conservative Egyptian society but increasingly important in a country plunged into dire economic straits by the turbulent politics of the post-Mubarak era.

Many of them are poor, illiterate and lacking experience of formal employment, and are forced into menial work in the informal economy, doing poorly paid jobs with no insurance or pension and involving exposure to the public gaze that attracts the disapproval of neighbours.

“Things were difficult before the uprising too, with those in power robbing us, but at least the little we had was enough to live on,” said Zeinab Abdel Fattah, 64. “Now we have nothing. Life has become unbearable.”

Abdel Fattah, who has a family of eight, leaves her home…

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OUTED! The editor of the Ugandan tabloid trying to lynch gay people

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(not satire)

Meet Ben Byarabaha – he’s the editor of Ugandan newspaper Red Pepper Uganda which has put 200 innocent Ugandan citizens’ lives at risk by publicly naming them as homosexual – in a country which has just passed a law making homosexuality illegal:

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Ben doesn’t like gay people. He thinks they should be lynched.

He also doesn’t like people who have oral sex. He thinks they should be arrested and put in prison too just like gay people:

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It’s tempting to say Mr Byarabaha is prejudiced, badly educated or narrow minded. But after reading his opinions and seeing his actions I’ve come to the conclusion he’s not.

He’s just plain evil.

(Oh and I hear he might be secretly gay too.)

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Ben Byarabaha is on Facebook – Ben Byarabaha 

And here’s Red Pepper Uganda’s Facebook page  – RED Pepper UG

Be sure to tell them what you…

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Food Politics » Let’s Move! announces universal school meals !

Let’s Move! is making several sensational announcements today.

Announcement : Universal school meals

This one is extraordinary: Schools with 40% or more of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals will be able to serve free breakfasts and free lunches to every student in the school, regardless of family income.

This means an end to:

USDA paperwork requirements for ensuring eligibility.

Parents having to fill out complicated eligibility forms.

Schools having to monitor to make sure kids’ families have turned in the paperwork or paid.

Schools turning away kids whose families haven’t paid.

Schools destroying the meals of kids whose families haven’t paid.

Students knowing who gets free meals, and who does not.

Guess what:  This program, which will affect 22,000 U.S. schools and 9 million children, is cost-neutral.

How is this possible?

No more tedious, labor-intensive, expensive paperwork and monitoring.

More student participation means more reimbursement.

via Food Politics » Let’s Move! announces universal school meals !.

No coalition after next election, David Cameron to tell voters – report | Politics | theguardian.com

David Cameron has declared he does not want his Conservative party to form another coalition after the next election and would go into minority government instead, according to a report.

Cameron’s Tories are the senior partners in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats but will fight next May’s general election on a promise not to form another coalition in the event of a hung parliament, the Telegraph reported.

It is expected that a minority government would soon collapse, triggering a second election.

“He’s very clear, he doesn’t want another coalition,” a Cameron confidant told the Telegraph. The paper said Cameron was preparing to fight the next election on a clear promise there would be no coalition if the Conservatives had the chance to form government.

“A promise in the manifesto not to do any deals after the election would make that very clear to voters and ensure they know exactly what the choice is at the election.”

An Ipsos Mori poll published in January showed that 65% of voters did not want a hung parliament at next year’s vote.

via No coalition after next election, David Cameron to tell voters – report | Politics | theguardian.com.

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Daily Mail admits it was wrong about immigration (and hopes nobody will notice)

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(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)

On the 31st of December last year the Mail gave us this article:

Mail-romanians 1But then – after just about every bit of information in the article turned out to be wrong – the newspaper went to great lengths to deny they had misled readers. The Mail’s tortured explanations by its Corrections Editor Hilary Kingsley can be seen in full here:

Buses, planes, Bulgarians, Romanians and The Daily Mail

But today – surprise surprise – we get this ‘clarification‘ tucked away where the Mail is really really really hoping nobody will notice:

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They could have said all that in just two words:

WE LIED.

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For the sake of the Daily Mail’s journalistic reputation, best keep this information to ourselves:

 

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Egyptian Aak 2014 Week 8 ( Feb17-23)

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Angelina Jolie & Whatsapp: Two Things That Were More Important To Lebanon Than Yesterday’s Suicide Bomber

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

The rhetoric lately when it comes to explosions and suicide bombers has become that of “we’ve become used to it.” People go about their business usually, not caring that people had just died and that suicide bombers being among us is not something that permits us to go about our business regularly.

On February 19th, 4 days ago, two bombs rocked Bir Hassan in Beirut’s Southern Suburb. 50 minutes after the news of the explosion broke out and all necessary politicians copy/pasted their required indignations and political messages, our president issued a message to a young twitter activist accepting his apology for some defamatory tweets. Nice gesture? Perhaps. Was it the proper time? I guess we can all agree it wasn’t.

There was a time when explosions taking place occupied our news for hours on end. Yesterday’s suicide bomber and the army men and civilians he killed only did so…

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