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offsite link Half of Businesses to Cut Jobs and Hike Prices After Budget Thu Dec 05, 2024 17:00 | Will Jones
More than half of British businesses expect to put up prices?and cut jobs to cope with the costs imposed by Rachel Reeves's Budget and National Insurance raid, according to a Bank of England survey.
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The?Church of England?is overspending on HR and "politicised roles" such as diversity,?social justice,?LGBT?and Net Zero officers at the expense of parishes, a report has warned.
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Muhammad has become the most popular baby name for UK boys for the first time, new data from the ONS have revealed ? not so surprising given a third of births are to non-UK-born mothers.
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offsite link Why Elon Musk Shouldn?t be Expelled From the Royal Society Thu Dec 05, 2024 11:00 | Toby Young
An Oxford prof has resigned from the Royal Society after it refused to expel 'climate change denier' Elon Musk. Since when has challenging the scientific consensus been a reason to kick someone out of the Royal Society?
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A university Vice-Chancellor who called for climate change to become part of the curriculum on every course claimed more than ?16,000 in expenses on flights, figures have revealed.
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Involvement of Chiquita in the Honduran Coup D'Etat.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Friday July 31, 2009 18:36author by Brendan Butler - NGO Peace Alliance Report this post to the editors

The Transnational Chiquita company was actively involved and not for the first time in the overthrow of a Central American democratically elected Government . With its powerful allies in Washington the Obama Administration has not formally declared the ousting of President Zelaya as a Coup D'Etat which would require it under U.S. law to suspend all economic and military aid to the regime.

The coup D'Etat in Honduras originated in the raising of the minimum wage by 60% by President Zelaya. Immediately the business sector led by Chiquita began a campaign against Zelaya and because of his friendship with president Chavez he was further demonised in the media largely controlled by the powerful right wing sector.
Chiquita , formerly known as the United Fruit company , was involved in the overthrow of the democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 when the President threatened to bring in a radical land reform process which would threraten the vast fruit farms of United Fruit.
Chiquita were prosecuted for paying right wing death squads in Columbia and were defended by the present U.S attorney General in the Obama Administration, Eric Holder.
Chiquita has very powerful contacts in Washington like ex Ambassador like John Negroponte infamously involved in the Iran Contra scandal who now heads the Covington law firm in Washington which represents Chiquita among others.
Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State is only lukewarm in her declared official position of supporting Present Zelaya and refuses to declare Zelaya's ousting as a Coup D'Etat which would oblige her under U. S. to suspend all economic and military aid to Honduras.
Many observers believe that the overthrow of Presiesent Zelaya represents a warning to the rest of Central and Latin America that international business will not tolerate any attempt by any democratic govenment in the future to limit its business influence and reduce its profits.

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