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Common Gastro Disease Occurs Even With High-Fiber Diet
"Eating a high-fiber diet does not lower a person's risk of diverticulosis, but a low-fiber diet might, according to a new study that contradicts what doctors have believed for decades."
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Cameron – Capping Banker’s Benefits At £26,000 An Hour “A Basic Issue of Fairness”
"People living in benefit dependent households, such as bailed-out bankers, have been urged by the Prime Minister to “go out and get proper work” rather than complain about the loss of state handouts to pay for their bonuses."
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"Today we are seeing a modern day version of Roman decimation by our government. As in ancient Rome, a majority of us are being enlisted to turn on a minority – and relieved it’s not happening to us, many of us are willing participants – by accepting government attacks on some of the most vulnerable members of our society – the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, the very young and the very old."
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BBC News - Welfare Reform Bill prompts protest in London
"Activists and disability campaign groups are staging a demonstration in opposition to the government's welfare proposals. "
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"A group of people from Disabled People Against Cuts(1) and Disabled People’s Direct Action Network(2) will today be joined by UK Uncut(3) to occupy an area of central London in a ‘daring and disruptive’ act of civil disobedience in opposition to the government’s Welfare Reform Bill."
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URGENT! Write to your MP NOW « We are Spartacus
"We have recently found out that the government intends to debate the Welfare Reform Bill on Wednesday 1 February and to seek to overturn the Lords’ amendments on that day."
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‘Pretend bigots’ really ARE sick.
"There’s lots of money to be made from being a bigot. If you can reliably work the readers of a tabloid into a lather with a mixture of baseless opinion and made-up statistics, the editors will literally chuck money at you until you can afford to go and live in Florida like Littlejohn."
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Personal Independence Payment: assessment thresholds and consultation - DWP
"The Department is keen to hear views from all interested parties but in particular from disabled people and disability organisations."
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