Links of the day 06/02/2012

• The ESA Saga: The Government's Duty of Care

  "Political affiliations, dogma and individual policies aside, one naturally assumes and expects that one’s elected Government will at least manage whatever it does effectively and with appropriate due diligence to protect those whom it serves. "

  tags: cosmos uk

• Social Welfare Union Launch New #SpeakOut Campaign

  "You will be helping to tackle the growing problem of disability hate crime and in turn your actions will be going toward improving the lives of many sick and disabled people including those who claim disability related benefits who are often fearful of or even becoming victims of abuse and in a minority of cases, direct assault and aggression."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits disability

• How Does Exercise Affect Nerve Pain?

  "Exercise helps to alleviate pain related to nerve damage (neuropathic pain) by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors, suggests an experimental study in the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)."

  tags: cosmos pain

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Links of the day 06/01/2012

• Vitamin D Prevents Falls, Disability in Elderly

  "Newly reported research studies reiterate the benefits of vitamin D in older adults for helping to prevent falls, maintain mobility, and reduce age-related disability. "

  tags: cosmos supplements

• Tory councillor: force seriously ill people out to “push up house prices”

  "A Tory councillor on Surrey’s health committee has called for seriously ill people to be forced out of the county. John Butcher has suggested those with “self-inflicted morbidity” should be “encouraged” to “move away from Surrey” – in the name of pushing up house prices."

  tags: cosmos uk

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Links of the day 05/31/2012

• Father Who Suffered 14 Heart Attacks Found ‘Fit For Work’

  “I’d liken this to what the Nazis did, working the disabled and the sick until they dropped dead and were no longer a burden.”

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• Cognitive Dysfunction Finding in Fibromyalgia

  "Based on this evidence, the researchers hypothesize that fibro fog could be caused by problems with psychomotor or mental processing speed and they urge more research in that area."

  tags: cosmos fibromyalgia

• Despite mass media coverage of Queenie's diamond jubilee, few have made the link between the monarchy and the inequality and the lack of social mobility which exists in the UK.

  "Monarchy, we are often told, is merely a symbol, nothing more! Tell that to the fairies, it sits at the pinnacle of class prejudice and privilege. When MP’s, diplomats, the military, police and judges pledge allegiance to the Queen; they are really pledging allegiance to Britain's ruling elites and it is their duty to enforce the class prejudices that are beneficial to their own way of life."

  tags: cosmos uk

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Links of the day 05/28/2012

• ORGANIZED RAGE: Ed Balls sledging exposed the PMs 'eton charm' as wafer thin, and the real David Cameron emerges as an arrogant, patronising, ill informed, bullying toff, who can't take the heat in the kitchen.

  "Love him or hate him there is no doubt shadow chancellor Ed Balls has the measure of David Cameron. "

  tags: cosmos uk politics

• Poll: Which National Newspaper is most at Fault for causing Rising Hatred toward Disabled People and Benefits Claimants?

  "As I suspected, the Hate and the Sun are fairly close in their bid to rid the world of disabled people and benefits’ claimants."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits disability

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Links of the day 05/27/2012

• BBC Responds To Social Welfare Union Supporter’s Complaint

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• Work-for-free programme to be expanded by government

  "DWP plans to extend its scheme which forces the long-term unemployed to take unpaid work or lose benefits"

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• The ESA Saga: #WCA #ESA Government Duplicity and their real intensions

  "The way the Government has implemented and managed the ESA/WCA process is not just a sign of poor judgement or incompetence, it reflects a dogma based on contempt for the sick and disabled, a belief that they are an avoidable drain on society and the sooner they stop it the better. If they will not pull themselves together and sort themselves out, we (the Government) will have to do it for them. "

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

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Links of the day 05/26/2012

• Our hidden poor: The desperate families begging for food handouts to keep alive

  "Welcome to the second city of the seventh richest nation on earth, and the sight of desperate people begging for charity at a food bank"

  tags: cosmos uk

• Opiophobia, Restrictive Laws, and the Torture of Chronic Pain Patients

  "The terrors of living with chronic non-cancer pain in this climate of opiophobia and prescription drug crackdowns are horrible and constant."

  tags: pain cosmos

• Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

  "This supplement is known to offer several health benefits and - surprise, surprise - it actually has been studied specifically for these conditions and research has been promising."

  tags: cosmos fibromyalgia me_cfs

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Links of the day 05/25/2012

• Elderly People In Britain Lonelier Than In Other European Countries, Study Finds

  "One reason for the sense of solitude felt by Britain's elderly may be long-term underinvestment by local authorities in services that reduce isolation and loneliness, it was argued."

  tags: cosmos uk

• Risk of Falling With Fibromyalgia

  "While this study likely doesn't surprise most of us with fibromyalgia, it's good to see the medical community start to recognize the severity of our balance problems and how limiting this symptom can be for us."

  tags: fibromyalgia cosmos

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Links of the day 05/23/2012

• GPs Unanimously Vote To Condemn Atos Work Capability Assessments

  "How this will impact upon the process of Work Capability Assessments remains unclear but this validates the calls made by many campaigners and campaign groups who rightfully claim that the Atos conducted WCA is “not fit for purpose”."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits atos

• fleet street fox: Social (adj.): Friendly relations with others.

  "Gideon Osborne to be forced to live on benefits in Toxteth for a year. That's 'all in it together'."

  tags: cosmos

• Theresa May Introduces 'Dumbos' For Stupid Crimes

  "The Home Office's desire to end every new civil order scheme with the letter 'o' has resulted in the issuing of 'Dumbos' for particularly stupid crimes."

  tags: cosmos

• Nine things you can do to halt Lansley’s destruction of our NHS

  tags: cosmos uk nhs

• UK voted worst place to live in Europe for quality of life whilst Spain is the second best place to live

  "The UK has been voted the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, according to uSwitch. The high cost of living, later retirement age and lack of holidays have pushed the UK into bottom place, behind Poland, Germany, Ireland and Sweden."

  tags: cosmos uk

• Jobseekers who reject help for alcohol and drug addiction face benefits cut

  "In a sign of the government's new benefits regime, which lies at the heart of Duncan Smith's cost-cutting welfare changes, staff in Jobcentre Plus offices will be encouraged to cut the jobseeker's allowance of claimants who reject treatment for addiction."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• Jobseekers Fight For Workfare Placements in NHS Hospital After Cameron Announces Vasectomy Operation There

  "One of them, a registered blind man who has been told he is fit to work and will no longer be receiving disability benefits, explained his reasons for wanting to volunteer to work as an unpaid surgeon in the hospital:"

  tags: cosmos

• Immensely rich and famous pop star ‘had quite a lot of sex’

  "Journalists uncover shocking evidence that globally famous, unfathomably wealthy musician did an above average amount of shagging."

  tags: cosmos

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Links of the day 05/22/2012

• Cameron brings back slavery

  "PRIME Minister David Cameron has announced business-friendly changes to UK employment laws including the reintroduction of slavery."

  tags: cosmos uk

• Poll: Is the Media Portrayal of Benefit Claimants and Disabled People Fuelling Hate Crime?

  tags: cosmos uk benefits disability

• DLA reform: coalition is exaggerating benefit fraud for its own benefit

  ""There has been a rise in verbal abuse of disabled people, which is inflamed by comments like these which suggest that people are on the fiddle, when actually they have a higher cost of living. The language used, and the assumption that there is a large level of fraud and abuse will inflame hostility towards disabled people.""

  tags: cosmos uk disability benefits

• Chris Grayling overruled stats chief to spin immigrants as fraudsters

  "With emphasis on “failed asylum seekers” and those arriving “in the back of lorries”, research looking at the original nationality of benefits claimants was spun into scaremongering headlines implying criminality amongst what were now British citizens claiming benefits perfectly legally."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

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Links of the day 05/21/2012

• Dad’s Fight for Justice after Son Died Six Weeks after Benefits Cut by #Atos and #DWP

  "Mark Scott, 46, who suffered from anxiety, epilepsy and chronic alcoholism, was left penniless when jobcentre doctors [Atos Healthcare] said he was fit to work."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• The Jubilee is a celebration by the rich for the rich- we should instead celebrate a multicultural Britain and stand up against the cuts

  "At this time of flag-waving, when the government hopes the upcoming Jubilee and Olympics will create a ‘feel-good-factor’ to hide the devastating impact of their unfair and unnecessary cuts programme, we must question and debate what this country is really about and what we, as a society, with progressive, democratic values, want it to be. "

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

• DWP Reveals Billions In Benefits Unclaimed Each Year

  "The figures are surprising and reveal that many individuals including pensioner and the unemployed are missing out on benefits worth thousands of pounds to many potential claimants."

  tags: cosmos uk benefits

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