NUJ Club JournoScam - Pensions
Facts that Jeremy Dear and NUJ Lawyers do not want NUJ Members to know.
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The author and publisher has restricted access to this series of articles to National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) members (also named parties) pending investigation of alleged criminal activity and legal action under: Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992; Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007; Solicitors Act 1974; Administration of Justice Act 1985; Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; Fraud Act 2006; Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006; Vienna Convention on Consular Relations; and, Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This proviso in no way restricts NUJ and IFJ members from releasing excerpts (with accreditation) to interested third parties including news media. Separate exposes cover unethical and illegal activities by London Freelance Branch officials in a consort with National Executive Council officers. Independent investigation by law enforcement agencies involves an alleged pattern or practice of joint and several illegal or criminal activities by: National Union of Journalists (NUJ) executives, lawyers, and staff; National Executive Council (NEC) officers; and, London Freelance Branch (LFB) officials. The author has little personal knowledge of other branches and chapels which do not form part of intended civil and criminal complaints; therefore, he has no opinion on their activities. Adverse comments, all verified and validated to insure accurate reporting, meet legal requirements. |
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A major problem of the elderly relates to pensions and benefits. Although the income of retired people amounts to about half that of working people, many of them manage to maintain themselves independently. One in five elderly people (with a majority of women) in UK live below the poverty line.
Seniors often actively engage in campaigns to change that situation yet commentators generally treat them only as a nuisance and financial burden. In other industrialized nations, more extensive systems of social welfare have increased the amount of adequate senior housing, transport, and social services. However, Britain's basic pensions amount to 16% of average male earnings compared with 60% in other European countries.
In the author’s case, a quid pro quo between Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary, his lawyers, and Gareth Thomas MP, (Harrow West) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for International Development (the authors MP) have covered up the loss of the author’s home, his illegal jailing in Seattle, and most of his pension.
Neglect by HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has allowed them to impose an absolute media blackout and gag orders which have affected his livelihood and pension to a point where it now totals £35.37 per week without any other benefits. The recent changes in the bank rate wiped out additional income derived from interest on a national savings account.
Gareth Thomas has for five years done nothing about the pension issues except to restart a merry-go-round as he has done with the FCO issues. This coincides with an NUJ media cover up of illegal imprisonment and torture confirmed as illegal by nine supreme court judges in Washington state decision (30 Mar 06).
The author has tried to contact Thomas at his taxpayer-funded West Harrow clinic over a period of five years without success. He had an inconsequential meeting with Thomas at the House of Commons (26 Jan 07) for 90 minutes at which Thomas practiced dumb insolence.
A pensions officer cancelled two scheduled meetings to discuss the issues with pensioners in Harrow (15 May 05 and 22 May 05) and did not reschedule them. This put several seniors to considerable time and expense by preparing documents and employing accountants to make their case, all to no avail.
A visit to Harrow pensions office resulted in waiting several hours and a referral by an assistant to a telephone help line which started another electronic merry-go-round to three different locations in the UK without an answer. No meeting with an officer ever occurred and none of them returned telephone calls.
Since, correspondence sent to Thomas has resulted in another cover-up by using a time-warp stratagem: stopping and starting the clock which wipes out everything that occurred over a five-year period with commensurate loss of accrued pension payments and benefits.
NUJ members should ask about the advantage of NUJ starting another layer of non-effective administration that admits that it has public relations motives when long-standing members have to exist without a pension towards which they have paid for many years.
To heighten the NUJ irony, Journalist magazine recently claimed:
The NUJ is to set up a new pensioners body that will be open to all members over 60. The organisation - as yet unnamed - will campaign on the issues that affect the quality of life for pensioners. . . . The organisation will meet for the first time at this year’s annual conference at Southport in November [2009]. . . . The new organization will be a research, PR, and writing volunteer force and will be led by the union’s Pensioners Committee - a six-strong group elected at the annual conference to attend the UK’s Pensioners Parliament.
The author received an invitation to the annual conference for that purpose. He asked for details of the existing six members to try to resolve any conflicts of interest that could exist. However, David Ayrton, Research and Information Assistant Organiser (the NUJ official who services the senior project) did not reply to correspondence forwarded to him.
Credibly, the most qualified candidate by virtue of experience and education: sixty years union experience; fifty years working for civil and human rights; twenty years challenging agism and racism; and, two earned doctorates in rhetoric and communication (ABD); the NUJ Pensioner’s Committee probably assumed that they could not manipulate him for political expedience, arguably the first correct assumption that NUJ has made in a long time.
A letter to Pat Healy, Vice President, NUJ Pensioners Committee, thanked her for her initial response and informed her of a possible conflict of interest with participation in NUJ Pensioners Committee activities. It stated that conflicts lend themselves to resolution through compromise among reasonable people and asked for resolution of any perceived conflict. Healy has not responded to repeated requests and, by that, arguably committed an act of age discrimination.
Ayrton and Healy, given several opportunities to comment on documents describing serious discrimination and derogation by NUJ officials, adopted an attitude of willful blindness. In law, the term "willful blindness" means contrived ignorance. Officials seek to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability. They had six months to address the issues. Their inaction exemplifies the hypocrisy extant among NUJ officials. Arguably, the neglect to act on several issues makes them accessories after the fact to criminal activity.
[Nmesis]
See Portable Document File (PDF) for citations and definitions.
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NUJ/LFB Member Paul Trummel has written hundreds of articles on corporate, union, senior and academic abuse, and institutionalized racism. He founded Contra Cabal (one of the first electronic magazines to appear on the web) for which he develops the site, writes articles, designs pages, and produces graphics. Published in print since 1944 and on the web since 1992, without a single challenge to the authenticity of his reporting, he has spent sixty years as a trade union member and elected delegate, twenty years as a new media industry CEO and systems designer/consultant, and thirty years as a post-graduate professor teaching computer industry executives and students of journalism, law, and graphic design working on masters or doctoral degrees. He has attended or chaired hundreds of faculty and trade union committee meetings including national conventions. The web sites contain articles and descriptions of unlawful prior restraints and abrogation of journalism rights also details of imprisonment and ongoing Internet harassment using denial-of-service attacks. Probably one of the first sites of its type to appear on the web, Contra Cabal has published since 1992. Club JournoScam - Academic Corruption - Elder Abuse - Archives - Contra Cabal Foundation Ltd. Articles cover criminal activity by bureaucrats, union officials, and abusers of elderly people. They describe the actions of corrupt judges and gross misconduct by lawyers who file frivolous law suits against tenants in government financially-assisted housing. They reveal how people in authority use retaliatory measures and propaganda to destroy the reputations of people who report illegal activity and racism. Details of academic credentials and professional qualifications counter record falsification, withholding, and destruction, also forgery by registrars at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington. Some articles challenge libel/slander maliciously circulated as part of an international campaign of character assassination, personal vilification, subornation, and perjury to effect prior restraint. Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary recently joined in that defamation. He muckraked to find and extract libelous statements and used them out of context. That suited his purpose to defame the author and to cover-up his eight-year neglect to support him on issues that affect all journalists. NUJ media blackouts cover up his dereliction. Roy Martin Mincoff (NUJ in-house solicitor) negotiated a £262,000.00 quid pro quo between NUJ and the author's member of parliament, Gareth R Thomas MP (Harrow West), Minister of State, Department for International Development in a distinct conflict of interest. Both Mincoff and his predecessor Claire S Kirby (Thompsons Solicitors, Cardiff) are under investigation by Solicitors Regulation Authority for professional misconduct. Criminal complaints are pending against NUJ officials and NEC officers for fraud and neglect to provide member services. The author's professional and academic credentials and curriculum vitae (about fifty pages) can be accessed from the menus at the top of each page. Anyone with an ethical reason can ask for verification and validation of any of the claims made on those pages. [Curriculum Vitae - Introduction] [Academic Qualifications] Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK) Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired) |
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