Your Bills Help British Gas To £600m Profit – 16 February 2014

The Independent

Big Six under scrutiny as Centrica figures enrage MPs and watchdogs

By Tom Bawden

Anger towards the Big Six energy suppliers will intensify this week as British Gas-owner Centrica prepares to reveal a bumper £2.5bn profit while households struggle with rising energy bills.

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TheIndepedent – Pope Francis Calls The Internet A ‘Gift From God’ – 23 January 2014

The Independent

By Kashmira Gander

The pontiff also said new technology can be used to build bridges between different cultures and religions

Boosting his credentials as a moderniser, Pope Francis has called the internet a “gift from God” in a statement released on Thursday.

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TheIndepedent – Doubt Cast On Official Retail Sales Figures – 20 January 2014

The Independent

By Ben Chu

Retail sales rose at their fastest rate in nine years in December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. However, some City analysts immediately cast doubt on the reliability of the figures.
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TheIndepedent – Documents Reveal Bank Of England Sold Stolen Gold For Nazis – 31 July 2013

The Bank of England’s involvement in the sale of gold stolen by Nazis following the invasion of Czechoslovakia has been revealed in newly released documents.

Archived material released by the BoE details how the gold bars were sold on behalf of Germany’s central bank, the Reichsbank, in 1939, after being seized during the Nazi invasion, despite the fact that British government had frozen all Czech assets being held in London at the time.

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TheIndepedent – Revealed : The Great Outsourcing Scandal As Firms Çut Corners’ To Cream Profits Off Public – 18 July 2013

Private firms ‘gaming’ £100bn of government services, says think-tank

Private companies providing public services are routinely “gaming the system” to make money for their shareholders at the expense of the taxpayer, a major new study finds today.

An analysis of the Government’s controversial £100bn “outsourcing” programmes, such as its scheme to help the unemployed back into work, found private firms “creaming off” easy cases where they could make profits while “parking” problematic ones.

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TheIndepedent – One In Four Germans Wants Microchip Under Skin: Poll – 18 July 2013

(Lucas : Look how the mainstream media is pushing the NWO- Total Control agenda again by reporting this story. Letting you believe people want a chip. Who did the poll and where was it done with what people!!! They had the interest in the outcome… So discern and know not let yourselves be fooled by the PTW.)

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.

The survey, by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, was intended to show how the division between real life and the virtual world is increasingly coming down, one of the main themes of the CeBIT trade fair that kicks off Tuesday.

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