Loss of Privacy

In yet another story of MTA officers not knowing what the law really is, an MTA officer detained Christopher Fussell for more than 40 minutes for taking photos at a Maryland train station. The officer even wrongly cites the Patriot ACT.

In a YouTube posting, Christopher Fussell left the camera rolling when he was confronted by three MTA officers for taking pictures at the Baltimore Cultural Light Rail Station.

The officer later threatened Fussell with arrest and demanded to see identification, two more actions that are not legal for the MTA officer to do.

The ACLU says it’s been working with the MTA on this very issue for five years, with no satisfactory result.

Five years. Exactly how much longer will it take the MTA to learn that everything Fussell did was legal?

This is an ongoing problem, not only in the United States but in the United Kingdom as well. It’s legal to take photographs, it’s just that the police don’t want you doing it, so they threaten you in the hopes that you’ll be scared and go away.

EPISODE 1

Full Version Wake Up Call Episode 1 – No Decision About Me Without Me – Full Version from Health Emergency on Vimeo.

Dr John Lister blows away the slick marketing of the government’s plans for the NHS. His witty speech reveals their true intent – to fragment and privatise the health service.

Peppered with jokes and cartoons from the likes of Steve Bell, the film is an easily understood and amusing explanation of how the NHS, as we now know it, will be demolished, if these plans succeed.

John Lister shows us why the plans, at urgent risk of slipping through in a fog of jargon and promotional spin, will be disastrous for NHS patients and staff.

If you care about your health service and want to know what is in store for it, then watch this video and pass the link on to friends, family and colleagues NOW!

Produced for Keep Our NHS Public www.keepournhspublic.com and for Health Emergency www.healthemergency.org.uk

EPISODE 2

Wake Up Call Episode 2 “A Betrayal of Trust” from Health Emergency on Vimeo.

A film by Anne-Marie Sweeney produced for Keep Our NHS Public and Health Emergency

Sugar Coating the Bitter Bill.

Louise Irvine is a GP in the deprived area of New Cross. She shows how trusted GPs are being used to sugar coat the denationalisation of the NHS, proposed in the government’s Health and Social Care Bill.

Dr Irvine explains with care and compassion, how this bitterly unacceptable bill will harm patient care and break up ‘the NHS family’.

Simply and without jargon, she makes clear why local GPs will actually have less control over their patients’ treatment if it is not scrapped.

Dr Irvine reveals the serious implications that this will have on patient trust.

If you want to know just why so many people in the NHS are in opposition to Lansley’s Bill, then take 15 minutes to watch this video. Find out why the bill will be hugely costly to the NHS budget and will seriously damage our health.

With the trial going on, there is a lot of talk about the Ian Tomlinson case. You can follow the trial here, via Paul Lewis’ live updates.

UK Uncut are well known to the Met. They are very organized and they protest peacefully. They also cooperate with the police. The Met, however, promised activists from UK Uncut that protesters inside Fortnum & Mason would be escorted to safety. Instead, police conducted mass arrests as soon as they left the building.

Activists say they were given repeated assurances by a chief inspector from the Metropolitan police that they would be shown to safety after the protest, which she described as non-violent and sensible. However, when protesters left the luxury Piccadilly store on police instruction, they were kettled, handcuffed and taken into custody.

In the video, shot by observers for the legal volunteer group Green & Black Cross, a police officer can be seen telling protesters they would be directed towards “the safest parts” once they had left the building.

You can read a lot more at The Guardian.

London’s Luton Airport has two new holograms designed to help people at the airport.

Custom designed for London Luton Airport, the holograms, in both male and female versions, are technically referred to as tensator virtual assistants.

The holograms will initially be used in the airport’s security search area to communicate important security messages as passengers pass from check-in to the departure lounge.

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