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University of California Divests $200 Million From Coal and Tar Sands

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<h2>University of California Divests $200 Million From Coal and Tar Sands</h2>
<span>University of California Divests $200 Million From Coal and Tar Sands</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/" rel="nofollow">Los Angeles Times</a></span></div>
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<p>The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.</p>
<p>Environmentalists have been pressing UC and other universities to divest from coal and other fossil fuel industry holdings and had some success last year when Stanford University and several others said they would drop coal. UC officials said they have not adopted a blanket and formal ban against coal investments, although they said that the pollution concerns were a factor in the decision to quietly sell off those stocks in recent months.</p>
<p>UC still has about $10 billion in various types of energy industry investments, about 10% of the $100 billion or so it holds in endowment and pension funds, UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said. There are no plans to extend the sell-off into oil and natural gas.</p>
<p>The coal and oil sands sell-off was announced Wednesday by UC’s chief investment officer, Jagdeep Bachher, at the meeting of the UC regents’ investment committee. According to a transcript of the meeting, Bachher said that “slowing global demand, an increasingly unfavorable regulatory environment, and a high threat of substitution pose insurmountable challenges to coal mining companies.” And he added that “sustainability issues” also have made it too risky to remain in oil sands businesses.</p>
<p>UC's investment pull out was done gradually and without fanfare over several months, officials said. The moves involved only direct stock holdings and not investments in mutual funds, which may still include some coal and oil sands companies.</p>
<p>State lawmakers last week sent the governor a bill that would require the state's public pension funds to divest their holdings in coal.</p>
<p>In a tweet Wednesday night, environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben, co-founder of the group 350.org, said that “it looks like the Univ. of California is divesting its enormous portfolio from coal and tarsands oil. If true — wow.” He could not be reached for comment. His group is pressing for action to end and reverse global warming.</p>
<p>UC student activists praised UC's action.</p>
<p>“I think it’s a really good move by the university. But it doesn’t mean we are going to stop pushing for full divestment soon,” said Alden Phinney, a UC Santa Cruz student who is active in Fossil Free UC.</p>
<p>That group has been pressing the university to divest itself of its holdings in all fossil fuel industries, including oil and natural gas, out of concerns that burning those fuels is hastening climate change.</p>
<p>Last year, the UC regents decided not to formally divest stocks and holdings in oil, coal and natural gas from the university's endowment and retirement funds but moved to have environmental and social issues more deeply influence investment decisions. At the time, the action disappointed student activists from Fossil Free UC.</p>
<p>Gov. Jerry Brown, who is a UC regent, added his voice to the debate last year when he suggested that UC study dropping coal.</p>
<p>In contrast to more traditional drilling for oil, the oil sands industry often uses strip mining or techniques requiring much water and steam to extract the form of petroleum known as bitumen from mixtures of sand and clay found in Canada, Venezuela and elsewhere.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ln-uc-coal-20150909-story.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Los Angeles Times</a></p>
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<p>The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.</p>
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<p>Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.</p>
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<p>Seeking to boost the minimum wage, bolster environmental protections and strengthen tenants' rights, it may be the first time that the anti-fossil fuel and workers’ rights movements have allied behind a concrete political platform.</p>
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<p>Jeremy Corbyn’s fairer rent price policy, which puts controls on the cost of rent to prevent small businesses being priced out of the soaring market, is one of many incentives for entrepreneurs and small business owners to back him and his party.</p>
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<p>This week, grab your bicycle and give cars a well-deserved middle finger in a worldwide initiative to cut emissions, get outside, move your ass and interact with your city and people.</p>
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<p>The action follows a series of strikes this spring, when thousands of Washington teachers in more than 60 school districts demanded better pay and benefits as well as reductions in class sizes.</p>
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<p>The U.K. government this week is once again inviting tyrants and human rights abusers to buy weapons and torture equipment – and facing a loud coalition of activists.</p>
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<p>If it wasn’t clear before, it seems quite evident that the tide is turning: big biotech companies are losing influence by the day, and the addition of two more European countries banning GMOs is evidence of that.</p>
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Thousands of Refugees Heading West and North Convulse Europe

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<h2>Thousands of Refugees Heading West and North Convulse Europe</h2>
<span>Thousands of Refugees Heading West and North Convulse Europe</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.</p>
<p>Rushing to cross the border before harsh new anti-refugee laws and the completion next month of a four-meter high razorwire fence, 3,221 people entered Hungary over land from Serbia in just 24 hours, police said – the highest number yet.</p>
<p>After 3,700 crossed its border overnight, Austria was forced to suspend cross-border train services, saying it could no longer handle the “massive” volume of passengers. “It would be irresponsible to simply let people keep streaming in and spend the night at train stations,” a spokesman for the state railway said.</p>
<p>In Serbia, state television said a record 5,000 people had arrived at the frontier, while further south, on Macedonia’s border with Greece, 50 buses transporting around 2,500 refugees, and three trains carrying more than 3,000 people, were seen leaving from the town of Gevgelija.</p>
<p>On Greece’s northern border with Macedonia, about 7,000 refugees, including families with young children, battled through pouring rain and deep mud. Soaked to the skin, the crowd sheltered under whatever they could find: plastic sheeting, bin bags, a beach umbrella.</p>
<p>Many stumbled into potholes and lost their shoes; desperate parents held small children above their heads so Macedonian police would let them through. Border guards used batons and riot shields in an effort to slow the refugees, many of whom had come from the Greek island of Lesbos, where authorities have finally registered about 17,000 arrivals over the past few days – clearing a huge backlog and allowing them to continue their journey northwards.</p>
<p>Abas Jizi, a 30-year-old supermarket employee from Deir Ezzor in Syria, was among them. He said he had waited 10 days with his wife and three young children to get his papers on Lesbos, arriving in Athens on Wednesday. He had no choice but to leave Syria, he said. “In my country the situation is very bad. The helicopters fly over the city and they bomb.”</p>
<p>The Greek government chartered two extra ferries and sent more registration staff to relieve overcrowding on the Aegean island, where up to 20,000 people have arrived after making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey and more boats continue to land daily. Conditions there were “very bad,” Jizi said.</p>
<p>The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it expects at least 42,000 refugees, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan and heading for Austria and ultimately Germany and Sweden, to arrive in Hungary by next week.</p>
<p>In Budapest, chaos again reigned at the Hungarian capital’s international Keleti train station; dozens of police wearing surgical masks and gloves blocked access to train platforms for large groups of people, many of whom had waited up to 10 hours for a train and held tickets for Vienna.</p>
<p>Volunteers helping refugees on the country’s border with Serbia say conditions are “disastrous” and the coming cold weather would make them worse. “We don’t have there tents where people can sleep, have a rest,” said Kathrin Niedermoser, a volunteer with an Austrian aid group. “We don’t even have electricity, which means we don’t have warm water.”</p>
<p>Around 2,000 Hungarian soldiers are training to help police control the flow of migrants, the country’s defense minister, Istvan Simicsko, said. More are working on the construction of the 4m-high fence, expected to be completed by early October, he said.</p>
<p>Janos Lazar, chief of staff to Hungary’s hardline prime minister, Viktor Orban, said the fence should “be adequate to protect the country,” adding that Hungary considered Serbia and Greece “safe” countries in which people could seek asylum – meaning “different rules” would apply to refugees and migrants arriving in Hungary through those countries from next week.</p>
<p>Hungary’s justice minister, László Trócsányi, said an area similar to an “airport transit zone” would be set up at the border. “While it is located in the territory of the given state, the entry into the transit zone does not qualify, in immigration terms, as an entry into that state,” he said.</p>
<p>Further north still in Denmark, whose government took out adverts in Lebanese newspapers to discourage migrants after 3,200 people arrived since Sunday, a major ferry route stayed closed but some train services resumed after being suspended on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The Danish police chief, Jens Henrik Højbjerg, said refugees who did not want to claim asylum in the country were being allowed to travel freely on towards Sweden – a move described as “unfortunate” by the Stockholm government, which expects to receive around 80,000 refugees this year. Finland’s government on Thursday proposed increasing taxes on high earners to help pay for a 10-fold increase in refugees expected to arrive this year.</p>
<p>The political wrangling, meanwhile, continued in European capitals over how to tackle the crisis. The European parliament backed the plan of E.U. Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to divide 160,000 refugees currently in Hungary, Greece and Italy across the other member states.</p>
<p>But Germany, which has already welcomed 450,000 refugees this year and wants compulsory long-term E.U. quotas with no limits on numbers, warned the plan was a “drop in the ocean”.</p>
<p>Juncker’s proposals were “a first step, if one wants to be polite”, said the deputy chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel. Many of Germany’s eastern neighbors, though, are fiercely opposed to binding quotas. Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, said on Thursday there was “no way” his country would accept the 6,351 people it is being asked to welcome.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/refugees-heading-west-north-convulse-europe" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.</p>
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<p>Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.</p>
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<p>Seeking to boost the minimum wage, bolster environmental protections and strengthen tenants' rights, it may be the first time that the anti-fossil fuel and workers’ rights movements have allied behind a concrete political platform.</p>
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<p>Jeremy Corbyn’s fairer rent price policy, which puts controls on the cost of rent to prevent small businesses being priced out of the soaring market, is one of many incentives for entrepreneurs and small business owners to back him and his party.</p>
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<p>This week, grab your bicycle and give cars a well-deserved middle finger in a worldwide initiative to cut emissions, get outside, move your ass and interact with your city and people.</p>
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<p>Despite his soaring rhetoric, the closer we get to the end of President Obama's presidency, the more obvious it is that a dangerous duality has ruled his policy circles – one favoring short-term interests over the very fate of the planet.</p>
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<p>The U.K. government this week is once again inviting tyrants and human rights abusers to buy weapons and torture equipment – and facing a loud coalition of activists.</p>
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<p>Despite his soaring rhetoric, the closer we get to the end of President Obama's presidency, the more obvious it is that a dangerous duality has ruled his policy circles – one favoring short-term interests over the very fate of the planet.</p>
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<p>The action follows a series of strikes this spring, when thousands of Washington teachers in more than 60 school districts demanded better pay and benefits as well as reductions in class sizes.</p>
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<p>Our problems have nothing to do with what happens in bedrooms or whether women can end their pregnancies. They have have everything to do with what occurs in boardrooms and whether corporations and the wealthy get to undermine our democracy.</p>
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Aligning Climate and Worker Movements, a New "Community Rights" Coalition Rises In Colorado

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<h2>Aligning Climate and Worker Movements, a New "Community Rights" Coalition Rises In Colorado</h2>
<span>Aligning Climate and Worker Movements, a New "Community Rights" Coalition Rises In Colorado</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>The Leap</span></div>
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<p>In Colorado, local governments cannot raise the minimum wage, pass rent control laws, or ban fracking. A system of state “preemption” – a favorite tool of the fossil fuel industry – stands in their way.</p>
<p>Local activists have long been outspoken about this legal barrier to keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Now, a coalition embodying a range of economic and environmental justice fights is coming together to directly challenge the basis for state preemption: on August 17, a statewide initiative was launched by <a href="http://www.coloradansforcommunityrights.org/" rel="nofollow">Coloradans for Community Rights</a> to do just that. It may be the first time that anti-extraction and workers’ rights movements have allied behind a concrete political tactic in modern US history.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://cocrn.org/colorado-community-rights-amendment-2/" rel="nofollow">“Colorado Community Rights Amendment,”</a> which needs some 99,000 signatures to qualify for the 2016 ballot, disrupts preemption by granting local governments a constitutional right to raise state standards – empowering them to boost the minimum wage, bolster environmental protections, and strengthen tenant rights, for example.</p>
<p>It would recognize the authority of local governments “to enact local laws that protect health, safety and welfare by recognizing or establishing rights of natural persons, their local communities and nature.” (A similar community rights initiative was proposed in 2014, but did not collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.)</p>
<p>Crucially, the proposed amendment also elevates local lawmaking above “competing rights, powers, privileges, immunities, or duties of corporations.” This means that if a local law conflicts with a corporations’ constitutional “right,” the local law would prevail – in direct contradiction to our current legal structure, which allows corporations to sue local, state, and federal governments that restrict property rights. The amendment doesn’t read like a manifesto, but it could be revolutionary.</p>
<p>This coalition is not only taking on well-established law – it aims to break it. As Cliff Willmeng, a registered nurse and organizer with the Coloradans for Community Rights, says: “All movements identify the law as illegitimate, and voluntarily organize to break it.”</p>
<p>The initiative is part of a multi-state “Community Rights Movement” working to introduce the right to local self-government, and to elevate that right above corporate legal privileges and the state governments that act to protect them. The movement’s work, which takes legal council from the Pennsylvania-based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, has recently gained some mainstream notoriety; this summer, CELDF received a grant from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.</p>
<p>In Colorado, the Community Rights Amendment would also undermine the bedrock “private law exception,” which has historically limited local governments’ authority to regulate private relationships between employer and employee or landlord and tenant, for example. It’s this “exception” that provides the ideological basis for preventing cities from raising the minimum wage or passing sick leave ordinances.</p>
<p>Willmeng says, “the Colorado Community Rights Amendment fuses all of this stuff together, you’ve got a lot more tributaries starting to lead in. Where it will go, I just don’t know…. It’s not just fracking, it’s rent control, it’s cyanide use, it’s the local living wage, all of that stuff is all underneath that same kind of preemption.”</p>
<p>I sat down with Andrea Mérida of <a href="http://15nowcolorado.org/" rel="nofollow">15 Now Colorado</a>, a group supporting the effort to qualify the initiative for the 2016 ballot and fighting to raise the state minimum wage.</p>
<p><strong>Why do you think local governments should be able to raise the minimum wage?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Andrea Mérida:</strong> Very simply, we see a wage high enough to live in dignity as a human right, and we believe it is the responsibility of local governments to ensure that every taxpayer enjoys that right.</p>
<p>In 2006, Arizona passed a ballot measure that struck down the state’s minimum wage preemption. However, the measure did not establish any constitutional right to local community self-government, as the “Colorado Community Rights Amendment” would.</p>
<p><strong>Why not just replicate what Arizona did in Colorado?</strong></p>
<p>AM: 15 Now Colorado wants to go one step further. Our calculations show that $15 an hour is already a compromise, and that in order to live in dignity, workers really should be earning upwards of $20 an hour. Rents in the Denver metro area are skyrocketing, and ultimately local governments also need the flexibility to consider further actions such as rent control and breaking up utility monopolies to help workers make ends meet. If we don’t strengthen local rights now, we will be back at the ballot box again soon, because the cost of living could quickly outpace any minimum wage increase.</p>
<p><strong>What was the hardest obstacle to making this coalition a reality? How was it overcome?</strong></p>
<p><strong>AM:</strong> This coalition was such a logical step to strengthen 15 Now Colorado’s work that there was no difficulty at all.</p>
<p><strong>Why are 15 Now organizers sympathetic to the anti-fracking strand of Coloradans for Community Rights?</strong></p>
<p><strong>AM:</strong> Because we believe in the holistic vision of a dignified life, we cannot turn a blind eye to the effects of environmental racism on working-class communities who would most benefit from a minimum wage hike. These are the communities with the most polluted air and water, and fracking is wreaking havoc in these communities and more all across Colorado.</p>
<p><strong>What is the significance of this coalition?</strong></p>
<p><strong>AM:</strong> Single-issue organizing has one fatal flaw: it can be siloed and defeated easily with the right corporate resources targeted at it. The human right to live in dignity is part of a holistic vision that we all hold, and solidarity is our best weapon against market-based forces that seek to put the priorities of profit over people.</p>
<p><strong>Why do you think it makes sense to incorporate a community rights critique of preemption into the fight for economic justice?</strong></p>
<p><strong>AM:</strong> 15 Now Colorado believes that it’s time to recalibrate the way we see ourselves in society. Government exists to serve the interests of workers first, but unfortunately, this is not the reality. Too often the requirements of excessive profit trump the right to live in dignity, and by using our state constitution to change that paradigm, we believe that we can finally create a Colorado that serves everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Many people are wary of local self-governance in America. Racist discrimination comes to mind. How does the proposed 2016 Colorado Community Rights Amendment address these concerns?</strong></p>
<p><strong>AM:</strong> The language of the proposed amendment makes very clear that no law can be passed that takes away rights already established. It would not be possible, for example, for a state law to preempt Colorado’s public accommodations law, for example.</p>
<p><a href="http://theleap.thischangeseverything.org/in-colorado-a-revolutionary-new-coalition-stands-for-community-rights/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Leap</a></p>
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<p>The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.</p>
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<p>Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.</p>
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<p>Seeking to boost the minimum wage, bolster environmental protections and strengthen tenants' rights, it may be the first time that the anti-fossil fuel and workers’ rights movements have allied behind a concrete political platform.</p>
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<p>Jeremy Corbyn’s fairer rent price policy, which puts controls on the cost of rent to prevent small businesses being priced out of the soaring market, is one of many incentives for entrepreneurs and small business owners to back him and his party.</p>
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<p>This week, grab your bicycle and give cars a well-deserved middle finger in a worldwide initiative to cut emissions, get outside, move your ass and interact with your city and people.</p>
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<p>The argument for raising interest rates focuses not on the wellbeing of workers, but that of the financiers.</p>
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<h2>Entrepreneurial In-Roads: Why the U.K.'s New Labour Leader Gained the Unlikely Support of Business</h2>
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<p>As a small business owner I am often frowned upon for backing Labour. “You run a business, surely you support the Conservatives,” ask my Tory-supporting acquaintances, somewhat aghast that I would even consider backing anyone but a political party with a pro-business manifesto.</p>
<p>Intent on exploiting what they saw as Labour’s weak spot, the Tory pre-election strategy was full of references supporting entrepreneurs big and small. “We will cut red tape, boost start-ups and small businesses,” <a href="http://www.coadec.com/conservative-manifesto-and-startups/" rel="nofollow">Conservatives gloried</a> in a Party manifesto in April.</p>
<p>Several months down the line, I have seen little of the business support to start-ups and small businesses the Tories promised. In fact I’ve seen the opposite. With yet more funding cuts made to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, businesses are finding it harder to secure employees with the right skills set – a position that hardly contributes to a buoyant pro-business economy.</p>
<p>Instead, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are looking to an unlikely figure to give them business support and power: the left-wing, austerity-rejecting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.</p>
<p>Before launching his "better business" plan, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/15/jeremy-corbyn-pledge-pro-business-back-entrepreneurs" rel="nofollow">Corbyn spoke</a> of his commitment to championing small businesses and entrepreneurialism, while criticizing the government for its big corporate welfare lobbying. “The current government seems to think ‘pro-business’ means giving the green light to corporate tax avoiders and private monopolies," Corbyn said.</p>
<p>"I will stand up for small businesses, independent entrepreneurs, and the growing number of enterprises that want to cooperate and innovate for the public good.”</p>
<p>Aiming to broaden popular appeal to his party with a pro-entrepreneurial "better business" plan, Corbyn represents a shake-up to traditional left-wing politics in Britain – and has touched a chord among workers and business owners alike. Being a small business owner myself in a rural part of the north of England, I am particularly keen to hear how Corbyn plans to help British businesses – especially small businesses that are not confined to London and the south east.</p>
<p>Launched during the Labour leadership campaign this summer, the <a href="http://corbynforbusiness.com/" rel="nofollow">Corbyn for Business platform</a> includes a small business rate freeze and modest increases in corporation tax. The plan includes giving self-employed people greater support and reviewing social security arrangements for small business owners and self-employed workers to ensure they're entitled to receive the same social security as traditional employees.</p>
<p>Another key measure of Corbyn's "better business" plan would put rent controls in place to help prevent local shops and small businesses from being priced out of the real estate market. This measure may prove particularly welcomed by small and medium-sized businesses in London, which are finding it more and more difficult to make a living in the capital due to high property rental costs.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4813177c-5391-11e4-8285-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ketMkBdU" rel="nofollow">research</a> compiled by commercial property advisors CBRE, commercial rent in some parts of London increased by 13.5 per cent in 2014, making it one of the most expensive cities in the world to rent property. Independent analysts have said that because of the escalating cost of commercial property, many small retailers and start-ups have moved out of central London.</p>
<p>Furthermore, following a change to planning rules, small businesses are being increasingly priced out of London office space that is being bought by developers to convert into housing.</p>
<p>But it’s not just London businesses that are facing a commercial rental crisis. In my local town in rural Derbyshire, the price of commercial property rent has become so high that several local businesses have been forced to close, while others simply cannot afford to move in. Consequently, the local economy suffers as a high street has emerged full of closed shops and unused commercial buildings.</p>
<p>Corbyn’s fairer rent price policy that puts controls on the cost of rent to prevent small businesses being priced out is therefore not only likely to be lapped up by many small and medium sized businesses, but will also ultimately help communities like my town of New Mills to prosper.</p>
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<p>Despite being the seventh richest nation on earth, Britain still suffers a deep digital divide – which is why Corbyn’s pro-business plan also includes making digital investments to improve the U.K.’s digital infrastructure. Royal Geographical Society, the U.K.’s professional body for geography, <a href="http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C25A5C2C-0246-49F9-ACD7-A542C30BE715/0/DigitalDLesson1ArticleTacklingthedigitaldivide.pdf" rel="nofollow">released a paper</a> about tackling the U.K.’s digital divide, and asserted that around 30% of homes in Britain lack any kind of access to IT. The research found that access to broadband in remoter rural areas of Britain in patchy to say the least.</p>
<p>Corbyn’s "Digital Investment" policy, which includes making public investment to improve the country’s digital infrastructure and help ensure businesses in rural communities have access to high speed Internet, is likely to be welcomed from businesses struggling to compete in a less digitally able environment.</p>
<p><strong>Investing in Training</strong></p>
<p>Another key promise in Corbyn’s "better business" plan is to increase spending on training to create a more skilled workforce. Earlier this year, Chancellor George Osborne announced the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills would face almost a billion pounds of spending cuts. Each department would have to create an extra £450 million in savings in the 2015-16 financial year. The cuts, according to Osborne, are part of the Tories’ measures to make a £4.5 billion deficit reduction this year.</p>
<p>The harsh cuts in education and training are seen as a particular blow to the Further Education (FE) sector. So concerned is the U.K.’s Association of Colleges that they're worried adult further education will be a thing of the past by 2020 if the cuts continue at their present rate.</p>
<p>David Hughes, chief executive of the adult learning body Niace, spoke of how the cuts will make it much tougher for hard-working people to improve their career prospects. “We need to see a secure skills settlement from the government so that businesses can have the confidence to invest in training and upskilling their staff,” <a href="https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/george-osborne-announces-fresh-cuts-education-budgets" rel="nofollow">Hughes told</a> the Times Educational Supplement.</p>
<p>It doesn’t take an economist to know that skilled workforces are what help businesses nurture and develop, and that thriving businesses are what help economies grow. Nor is it a secret that Britain is facing its worse skills shortage in 30 years. Companies and trade unions are warning that talent gaps and skills shortages, which have been pinned on the continuing decline in apprenticeships, are threatening the economy.</p>
<p>As Cameron and Osborne make further cuts to the education and training sector, slicing a third of the budget since the 2010 election, Britain now finds itself facing even greater skills shortages than before – hardly the work of a so-called pro-business government committed to getting the economy back on its feet.</p>
<p>By contrast, Jeremy Corbyn said, "My ‘Better Business’ plan will level the playing field between small businesses and their workers who are being made to wait in the queue behind the big corporate welfare lobby the Tories are funded by and obsessed with.”</p>
<p>Many believe Corbyn’s investment-heavy policies like the ones mapped out in his "better business" manifesto – including freezing the small business rate, investing in renewable energy to bring down energy bills and introducing a higher minimum wage – will come at the cost to the economy.</p>
<p>As Corbyn’s fellow Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham said about the possibility of Corbyn winning the next general election: "It is possible. But I would say without a credible vision on the economy I think it is difficult.”</p>
<p>But by introducing pro-business and entrepreneurial policies, Corbyn is providing a new pragmatic vision to traditional left policies. By putting more power and money in the hands of businesses, by clamping down on corporate tax avoidance in a move to put small businesses on a more level playing field with large multinationals, and by boosting disposable income through a higher minimum wage and lower housing costs, it's difficult to argue how Corbyn’s Britain would suffer economically.</p>
<p>The bigger question is: Can Corbyn hold on to his left-wing values in the process?</p>
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Act out! Podcast 28 - biking Viking, Syria and think pink with Alli McCracken

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<div>This week, grab your bicycle and give cars a well deserved middle finger in a world-wide initiative to cut emissions, get outside, move your ass and interact with your city and people. Next, let's talk Syria and why their story could so easily be ours – I'll give you a hint: climate change. Finally, peace in the middle east might not be a reality but the Iran deal could be – thanks to the tireless work of activists like Alli McCracken, director of Code Pink. And speaking of war and peace, we'll kick off this week by meeting these unknown, unwilling soldiers.</div>
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Iran Will Get A Nuke As Senate Democrats Voted To Uphold Iran’s Nuclear Deal Defeating GOP Opposition

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<p>It seems that Obama just granted Iran the infamous <em>Prima-Nuke-ta</em>. Fox News had <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/10/senate-democrats-block-disapproval-vote-on-iran-deal/">this to say</a> about the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal:</p>
<p>Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious GOP opposition and delivering President Barack Obama a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.</p>
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<p>A disapproval resolution for the agreement fell two votes short of the 60 needed to move forward as most Democratic and independent senators banded together against it. Although House Republicans continued to pursue eleventh-hour strategies to derail the international accord and Senate Republicans promised a re-vote, Thursday’s outcome all but guaranteed that the disapproval legislation would not reach Obama’s desk.</p>
<p>As a result the nuclear deal will move forward unchecked by Congress, an improbable win by Obama in the face of unanimous opposition from Republicans who control Capitol Hill, GOP candidates seeking to replace him in the Oval Office and the state of Israel and its allied lobbyists in the U.S.</p>
<p>Beginning next week, Obama will be free to start scaling back U.S. sanctions to implement the agreement negotiated by Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers. The accord aims to constrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions.</p>
<p>“This vote is a victory for diplomacy, for American national security and for the safety and security of the world,” the president said in a statement. “Going forward, we will turn to the critical work of implementing and verifying this deal so that Iran cannot pursue a nuclear weapon.”</p>
<p>Frustrated Republicans railed against Democrats for using a procedural vote to block final passage of the disapproval resolution, and issued grim warnings about a deal they contend could serve only to enrich Tehran and leave it closer to building a bomb when constraints begin to ease in 10 or 15 years. They promised that Thursday’s vote would not be the Senate’s last word, and moments after it was over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage for another next week.</p>
<p>“No amount of saying this issue is over makes it over,” McConnell declared, adding that if a Republican wins the White House next year, “I say to Iranian observers of the debate, (the deal) will be looked on anew.”</p>
<p>But Democrats led by Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada promised that any further votes would have the same outcome “and are just simply a waste of time.”</p>
<p>“People around the world should know today’s outcome was clear, decisive and final,” Reid said.</p>
<p>In the House, Republicans had not given up on blocking the deal against all odds. After backtracking on plans to vote on the disapproval resolution when it began to look short of support in the Senate, House Republicans lined up votes on several related measures.</p>
<p>Late Thursday they agreed on a party-line 245-186 vote to a measure specifying that Obama had not properly submitted all documents related to the accord for Congress’ review, and therefore a 60-day review clock had not really started.</p>
<p>That will be followed Friday by votes on a bill to approve the accord — which is doomed to fail, but Republicans want to force Democrats to go on record in favor of the agreement — and on a measure preventing Obama from lifting congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran.</p>
<p>“This debate is far from over, and frankly, it’s just beginning,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. “This is a bad deal with decades-long consequences for the security of the American people and our allies. And we’ll use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow, and delay this agreement.”</p>
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<p>Underscoring the fierce politics, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out press releases within moments of the Senate vote criticizing Democratic senators for their votes.</p>
<p>Some House Republicans, buoyed by a favorable ruling this week in a lawsuit they filed over Obama’s health care law, have begun suggesting a lawsuit to stop the accord. Boehner called that “an option that is very possible.”</p>
<p>Yet the House Republican maneuvers seemed to have little chance of bearing results, and White House officials sarcastically branded them the “Tortilla Coast Gambit,” a reference to a Capitol Hill restaurant where tea party lawmakers plan their moves. Even before the Senate voted, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was boasting of the administration’s success.</p>
<p>“Look, if we were sitting here just a month ago, back in mid-August, talking about how things would be resolved in Congress … and I told you that neither house of Congress would pass a resolution of disapproval for this agreement, you’d be shocked,” Earnest said. “That’s an indication of the kind of progress that we’ve made.”</p>
<p>In fact, opponents never had much chance of blocking the deal on Capitol Hill, partly because of a complicated congressional review process that gave unusual power to Democratic minorities in the House and Senate who could secure a win for Obama simply by upholding his veto of a disapproval resolution. Yet it was widely expected in the days after the nuclear deal was signed July 14 that Obama would have to use his veto pen.</p>
<p>Despite poll numbers showing significant public concern about the agreement, opposition never seemed to catch fire among Democrats or voters over the summer. In the end, instead of registering unified opposition to the deal, congressional Republicans turned the debate into the latest occasion for infighting within the party and between the House and Senate.”</p>
<p><a href="https://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/walid-shoebat-iran-to-obtain-nuclear-weapons-will-destroy-saudi-arabia/">For years we keep saying that</a> “Iran will get a nuke” and they keep saying that somehow Israel or the United States will stop them. There is much <a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/07/14/the-bible-prophesied-about-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-iran-and-predicted-it-will-be-a-complete-catastrophe/">in the Bible about Iran and it even described the nuclear catastrophe that will result from Obama’s nuclear deal with it</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/07/14/the-bible-prophesied-about-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-iran-and-predicted-it-will-be-a-complete-catastrophe/">Read</a>: <a href="http://shoebat.com/2015/07/14/the-bible-prophesied-about-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-iran-and-predicted-it-will-be-a-complete-catastrophe/">The Bible Prophesied About Obama’s ‘Nuclear Deal With Iran’ And Predicted It Will Be A Complete Catastrophe</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2014/11/10/iran-will-build-nuclear-bombs-ayatullah-ali-khamenei-just-threatened-annihilate-israel/">Iran will gain its nukes</a> and so far we were the few who were correct, while the rest still contemplate Israel removing the threat before it happens.</p>
<p>Tehran, shortly will lead to Iran supplanting Saudi Arabia as America’s main ally in the Persian Gulf ensuring Iran to remain in conflict with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, the richest Sunni power and birthplace of Islam is now in check.</p>
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<p>Whenever the liberals try to advance for peace, they will cause war. Soon we will see Iran’s advance (the biblical bear) and increasing further in the series of interventions in conflicts that have ratcheted up sectarian tensions, from Syria to Iraq to Yemen. Iran’s sphere of influence now spans from Tehran to Beirut and from Baghdad and Damascus, while Saudi Arabia is isolated and will  only share its sentiment about Iran with its old rival Israel. This will continue to paint Saudi Arabia’s regime as a Zionist sympathizer and will further isolate it from its neighbors.</p>
<p>As it seems, Longshanks (Obama) granted Iran Prima-Nuke-ta; first night when Iran gains its nuke, their nobles would launch it on Mecca.</p>
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anonymous armageddon isis islam war Iran Will Get A Nuke As Senate Democrats Voted To Uphold Iran’s Nuclear Deal Defeating GOP Opposition

By Walid Shoebat It seems that Obama just granted Iran the infamous Prima-Nuke-ta . Fox News had this to say about the U.S.-Iran nucle...