UK to end 30-year privatization of military housing by paying property group Annington nearly £6 billion for 36,000 properties. Buyback will save £230 million in annual rent, and stem total losses of £8 billion.

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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/12/17/uk-buys-military-homes-from-guy-hands-annington-for-6-billion/

Guy Hands’ Annington Sells Military Homes in £6 Billion Deal

Guy Hands’ Annington Property Ltd. agreed to sell back to the UK government 36,347 military homes and associated real estate after failing to block the sale through legal proceedings.

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The Sickest Patients Are Fleeing Private Medicare Plans—Costing Taxpayers Billions

Medicare Advantage patients in the last year of life were far more likely to switch to traditional Medicare, shifting costs from insurers

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#UniversalFreeHealthcare #SecondBillOfRights #EndPrivatization

Blumenthal releases scathing Medicare Advantage report

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Connecticut Inside Investigator

The oligarchs' corporate and political proxies have privatized and destroyed critical infrastructure with their anti-competitive, anti-innovation state-subsidized capitalist monopolies, literally built on the cannibalization of human lives.

These people have no allegiance to values above their lust for personal wealth, prestige, and power, and our rational choice is to restore the common good and repatriate what we blindly surrendered to them.
#EndOligarchy #EndPrivatization #EconomicDemocracy4SocialDemocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iekaqItCIuE&t=194

Why We Should Nationalize Boeing

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Activists criticize privatization of prisons in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil to Soluções Serviços Terceirizados. "Privatization incentives will increase incarceration rates and deepen the precariousness of the system."

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https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2023/10/06/cadeia-privatizada-empresa-ganhara-r-233-por-preso-por-dia-no-rio-grande-do-sul

Cadeia privatizada: empresa ganhará R$ 233 por preso por dia no Rio Grande do Sul

Dezenas de organizações se manifestaram contra privatização do sistema prisional em nota técnica enviada ao governo

Brasil de Fato

Manchester brings local bus network back under municipal control, first English city to bring buses to reverse 1980s deregulation: Stagecoach and First Bus will be replaced by Bee Network's electric buses.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/22/andy-burnham-manchester-buses-public-control-local-transport 

Manchester’s buses are back under public control: this is how to run local transport

After decades of chaos, what Andy Burnham and campaigners have achieved could be a blueprint for the rest of the UK, says Cat Hobbs, founder of campaign group We Own It

The Guardian

Manchester brings local bus network back under municipal control, first English city to bring buses to reverse 1980s deregulation: Stagecoach and First Bus will be replaced by Bee Network's electric buses.

#EndPrivatization

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/22/andy-burnham-manchester-buses-public-control-local-transport

Manchester’s buses are back under public control: this is how to run local transport

After decades of chaos, what Andy Burnham and campaigners have achieved could be a blueprint for the rest of the UK, says Cat Hobbs, founder of campaign group We Own It

The Guardian