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Whitehall_Bin_Men
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Posts: 3205
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Benefits to be paid onto smart cards to stop claimants spending their money on alcohol or gambling
By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline
17:27 29 Sep 2014, updated 20:33 29 Sep 2014
Iain Duncan Smith announces plan to control claimants' spending
Work and Pensions Secretary says he wants to 'safeguard' people
Plan will help to 'break the cycle of poverty for families on the margins'
Trial in North Tyneside will be examined by a future Tory government
Benefits could to be paid onto smart cards to stop claimants wasting taxpayers money on alcohol or gambling.
Iain Duncan Smith today announced the first trial of pre-paid cards, which would restrict where the jobless or poor can spend their money.
The Work and Pensions Secretary said he was increasingly concerned about the way benefits could be used to fuel addictions, instead of putting people on the road to work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773857/Benefits-paid-smart-ca rds-stop-claimants-spending-money-alcohol-gambling.html
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German media and politicians promote rearmament
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/29/medi-s29.html
TTIP: An economic NATO in formation
by Asli Ay - Tue 30th September 2014
Trade liberalization continues to be the lowest-hanging fruit that can boost global economic expansion. The United States, having committed to finalizing two major trade agreements in parallel – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 12 Pacific nations – sits squarely in the center of this opportunity.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=449&nID=72332&New sCatID=396
Investors losing billions as head of Russia’s biggest holding put under house arrest
September 17, 2014 09:17
http://rt.com/business/188388-yevtushenkov-arrest-bashneft-sistema/
Russia’s largest publicly traded holding company AFK Sistema has lost about 37 percent of its value in Moscow by midday, after boss Vladimir Yevtushenkov was put under house arrest for alleged money laundering late Tuesday.
Investors have seen the price of their shares plummeting, with billions of dollars wiped off the company’s value.
AFK Sistema
- biggest publicly-traded holding company in Russia
- total assets - $45.2 billion as of June 30, 2014. Q2 revenue was $8.8 billion
- founded in 1993, went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2005
- operates across telecoms, tech, oil and energy, radar and aerospace, banking, retail, mass-media, tourism and healthcare
- Vladimir Yevtushenkov is board chairman and owns 64.19% in stock
- acquired Bashneft in 2009
- directly owns almost 72% of Bashneft’s voting shares and overall - 86.7%, 12.6% which is owned by Sistema-Invest
- alleged embezzled stock was seized by a Moscow court on August 27, 2014
- Ministry of Land and Property Relations of Bashkortostan filed a lawsuit against Sistemaclaiming $5.8 billion (209 billion rubles)
Shares in Sistema, a company which Yevtushenkov controls and manages, fell by 37 percent on the Moscow Exchange at 13.00, Moscow Time, which means the company has seen its capitalization lose an estimated $3.55 billion.
In the first half hour of Wednesday trading it was down 28 percent.
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