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George Orwell's dreams in India

Indian identity system – Aadhaar In the biggest democracy in the world Indians are being forced register with the new biometric identification system the Aadhaar and to link their Aadhaar number to; government-issued account numbers, bank accounts, credit cards, insurance policies, mutual funds, pension plans, social welfare benefits such as cooking gas subsidies, LPG connection card, PAN Card, voter ID card, ration card and mobile phone numbers. Many utility providers are now insisting that the consumer must have an Aadhaar number or they will not start/continue to supply, due to actual or implied pressure from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). A private consortium developed the Aadhaar and in 2016 was converted into a statutory body attached to the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and called the (UIDAI). Similar to the American Social Security Number (SSN), the Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number, the difference

Lord Stoddart takes the Government to task about its claimed knowledge that Russia is manufacturing Novichok in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention

He said: "The Government’s evasive answer to my question about its knowledge of Novichok production in Russia suggests it neglected to inform the Organisation for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. If it had the information it claims, why did the Government not share it with the responsible authority? What’s the point of the Chemical Weapons Convention if vital intelligence is withheld by its signatories?" https://www.parliament.uk/…/writte…/Lords/2018-03-26/HL6659/

Immigration on Housing

“Why mass immigration explains the housing crisis” : if UKIP had written this there would be an explosion of rage amongst the ostriches!  “By Lionel Shriver - Spectator It’s the one reason for this worsening problem that blinkered liberals choose to ignore Ever since Theresa May’s clarion address of the UK’s housing shortage (and how many successive PMs have embarked on the same brave heave-ho?) countless comment pieces have addressed the real problem that drives the disjunction between supply and demand. Nimbyism. Complex, protracted planning permission. Developer land banking. Rich Chinese and Russians investing in unoccupied properties as three-dimensional bank accounts. Excessive protection of green belts. Second homeowners. Empty properties the state should confiscate. The catastrophic sell-off of social housing. A wilful confusion about what the word ‘affordable’ means. Yet when two statistics are out of whack, it behoves us to look at them both. All the above d