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Scores of MPs demand Land Registry privatisation be called off

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
More than 60 MPs have signed a letter calling on the government to abandon controversial plans to privatise the Land Registry ... Land Registry faces privatisation ... The privatisation of the Land Registry would achieve the opposite.” Letter on Land Registry privatisation ... The privatisation, which was announced on the eve of the Easter break, is expected to raise around £1bn for the Treasury....

Saudis say they will not flood oil market

Edit Business Day 03 Jun 2016
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Staring down the barrel

Edit Indian Express 03 Jun 2016
Krishna-Godavari basin. Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been on a media blitzkrieg over a proposed acquisition by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin “asset” of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) ... He asks ... Fact ... Fact ... When PM Modi admitted to the Wall Street Journal that he does not believe in privatisation of PSUs, his bhakts need not look beyond the GSPC saga to understand why....

Greens call on old parties to match announcement of $2 billion for Cross River Rail (Australian Greens)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
'The old parties have not committed to specific funding for Cross River Rail and, even if they do fund it, both plan to privatise this critical asset, inevitably increasing fares and making services worse ... Greens Second Senate Candidate, Andrew Bartlett, said past examples had shown the privatisation of public transport resulted in higher fares....

Jeremy Corbyn Vows To Veto 'TTIP' EU-US Free Trade Deal Amid Privatisation Fears

Edit Huffington Post 02 Jun 2016
Corbyn said that the proposed deal would allow American firms to privatise key British public services and put in jeopardy workers' and consumers' rights, as well as environmental protections ... In his speech, Corbyn said. "Today we give this pledge ... "Many people are concerned rightly, that it could open up public services to further privatisation – and make privatisation effectively irreversible," he said ...   > ....

Can we see Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘smile’ in slow-mo?

Edit The Guardian 02 Jun 2016
Corbyn’s smile . Neoliberalism lives . Female anti-fracking activists . Sitcoms . Back alleys. The highlight of Jeremy Corbyn’s latest speech now appears to be the imperceptible “smile” he allegedly let loose during the brief booing of a journalist ... Peter McKenna. Liverpool ... But isn’t privatisation of the Land Registry evidence to the contrary?. Alec Gordon. London ... Anne Fielding. Grannies Against Fracking ... ....

Jeremy Corbyn To Warn A Labour Government Would Oppose EU-US Trade Deal

Edit Huffington Post 02 Jun 2016
An EU-US free trade deal would be bad for British workers’ rights and risk further privatisation, Jeremy Corbyn is set to warn today ... the pressure to privatise public services; to democratise the EU’s institution and bring them closer to people; and for reforms to ensure we generate prosperity across Europe to the benefit of all.”....

Sierra Leone News : Deputy Minister Vows to Tackle Ports Operational Challenges

Edit Awareness Times 02 Jun 2016
In a familiarization visit he made at the facilities of the Sierra Leone Ports Authority, the Deputy Minister of Transport and Aviation, Mr ... Dangote Cement Factory Conveyor Belt.   ...   ... Abu Bai Bureh Bangura said the Port has succeeded in concessioning core operational areas to private operators (including the Container Terminal which was privatised to Bollore, the Break-bulk area to Nectar) ...   ...   ...   ...   ...   ... ....

Moore Stephens Queensland joins Findex backed Crowe Horwath (Crowe Horwath Australasia Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. Crowe Horwath Australasia Ltd). A larger Queensland footprint and greater scale for Findex-owned national accounting and financial advisory group ... Findex CEO Spiro Paule said ... Since 2000, Findex has successfully acquired and integrated more than 45 businesses, including the purchase and privatisation of the Crowe Horwath Australia and New Zealand businesses in early 2015 ... We see opportunity in disruption ... (noodl. 33911882) ....

Not Out!: A detailed review of the IPL (Book Review)

Edit The Times of India 02 Jun 2016
Since its inception in 2008, the cash-rich T20 competition has attracted brickbats and bouquets in equal measure. A heady cocktail of cricket, Bollywood and entertainment, the IPL has run into trouble in recent years due to allegations of match-fixing and corruption ... Far from it ... Among his suggestions are privatisation of the league and letting the franchises have a say in administration as they are the ones taking all the risk ... --IANS....

I’m not a columnist. I’m a terrorist.

Edit The Malta Independent 02 Jun 2016
He would have us believe that he has nothing to do with the privatisation deal for St Luke’s Hospital and Gozo General Hospital – even though a leaked due diligence report which I quoted in full a couple of days ago on my website clearly described how a “senior former government minister” flew out to Dubai to meet subcontractors and explain to them how they could get the work from the Malta government ...  ....

The IMF smashes its own consensus

Edit New Statesman 02 Jun 2016
IMF researchers have concluded that the neoliberal consensus has often done more harm than good. For the government, their results on austerity and the state will make for uncomfortable reading. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... The second is that the state should be shrunk through privatisation and legal limits on the size of deficits and debt ... Getty ....

‘Delhi has gone backwards since Congress was voted out’

Edit The Hindu 02 Jun 2016
It’s been two-and-a-half-years since her government was voted out. Since then, Delhi has gone “backwards”, says former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Ms. Dikshit, who was Chief Minister for 15 years till December 2013, says the past couple of years have seen progress coming to a halt ... “We were a responsive government ... So, we privatised power distribution and that stopped,” she says ... These, Ms ... Dikshit ... Mr....
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