Occupy London Get to Stay at St Pauls

Speaking yesterday on the halt of legal action against the camp the bishop of London said "the decision had been unanimous.......today's decision means that the doors are most emphatically open to engage with matters concerning not only those encamped around the Cathedral but millions of others in this country and around the globe."

Ken Costa, investment banker has been asked by the bishop to "spearhead an initiative reconnecting the financial with the ethical," with the support of figures within London's financial world, the Church of England and the public sphere.

The Occupy London protesters said their cause had never been directed at the cathedral staff, but was about "social justice, real democracy and challenging the unsustainable financial system that punishes the many and privileges the few."

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BBC News - Strauss-Kahn arrest: IMF head denied sex charges bail

The darkside strikes again. This time the IMF head is caught for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

Strauss-Kahn arrest: IMF head denied sex charges bail
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Belly dance scuppers 'disabled' ex-wife's divorce deal

Not the lady in question

A New York City woman who was getting $850 a month in alimony because she was supposedly disabled and unable to work had her payments slashed after her ex-husband spotted online photos of her belly dancing.

Not only that but Brian McGurk went to court after discovering evidence his ex-wife posted in her own blog writing that she danced for hours a day. She had claimed income support from her ex husband because she was supposedly disabled and unable to support herself through work.


Belly dance scuppers 'disabled' ex-wife's divorce deal

Bruce Parry – Arctic Environmental battleground

Bruce Parry, the modern day explorer has spent the best part of the last few years travelling in the worlds remotest places, meeting people living indigenous lives off the land. Following several months filming his latest production for the BBC – Arctic, Parry saw all too clearly how fragile that environment is and how crucial for maintaining the ecological status quo on earth. If this environment is lost, it may be as disasterous as losing the Amazon.

BBC News – Today – The explorer believes it could become an environmental battleground.

Dying from Dioxin

Everything is bigger in the States....Well that goes for their environmental pollution and environmental campaigns too. The Centre of Health, Environment and Justice was set up in the wake of the Love Canal tragedy and continues to fight for environmental justice to this day. If you think government or big business are looking out for you best interests think again, indeed don't many of our champions of government have another life as advisers of guess who....? big business. For a brief time while in government they have to devolve these interests while they get on with looking out for the people.

The story of dioxins sounds like another popular toxic history tale, that of cigarettes. Scientific evidence falsified and a catalogue of mis-information aimed at maintaining the status-quo, which is to keep on making money. Lois Marie Gibbs of CHEJ in her book Dying of Dioxin has produced an incredibly enlightening exposure of the corporate greed preventing government from acting in the interests of the people. The following extract from the Politics of Dioxins is particularly interesting.