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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link ?Hysterical? Anti-Trump Protesters Claim State Visit Could Lead to British Death Squads Tue Sep 16, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Anti-Donald Trump protesters have been accused of "hysterical scaremongering" after producing a film suggesting the US President's visit this week could lead to Britain being policed by paramilitary death squads.
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offsite link Tyler Robinson is Not ?Right-Wing?: Exposing the Left-Wing Hoax About Charlie Kirk?s Suspected Kille... Tue Sep 16, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Despite a bullet reading "hey fascist! Catch", Left-wing media claim Tyler Robinson is "Right-wing". Anything to avoid facing the fact that political violence is a growing problem on the American Left, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Tyler Robinson is Not “Right-Wing”: Exposing the Left-Wing Hoax About Charlie Kirk’s Suspected Killer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 16, 2025 01:52 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Ed Miliband Costs Britain One Billion Barrels of North Sea Oil Mon Sep 15, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband will cost Britain one billion barrels of North Sea oil and gas, official data confirm, as a sharp drop in output up to 2050 emerges ? a result of Labour imposing 78% taxes and a?ban on new drilling.
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offsite link What I Saw at the Unite the Kingdom Rally Mon Sep 15, 2025 17:00 | Philip Patrick
Philip Patrick was at the Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday and says it was no Tommy-fest. The themes were love of country, a rejection of mainstream politics and media and a resolute defence of free speech.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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President Signs Disaster Aid Package with Billions in Relief For Puerto Rico, US States and Territories

category international | politics / elections | news report author Thursday June 06, 2019 21:31author by Kate Zeller - Jubilee USA Network Report this post to the editors

President Trump signed a disaster relief bill Thursday that will provide of $1 billion in aid to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico.

Washington DC - Aboard Airforce One on Thursday, President Trump signed into law a $19.1 billion disaster relief package to aid Americans recovering from flooding, wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

"Millions of Americans are suffering from natural disasters and this relief package is urgently needed,” said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group Jubilee USA. “For the last 8 months, we worked hard to secure disaster food assistance for Puerto Rico. Now that emergency relief will be delivered.”

The package includes more than $900 million in emergency food and housing assistance for more than a million people living in Puerto Rico.

"Today we celebrate the bipartisan efforts of Republicans and Democrats who reached across the aisle to deliver relief for Americans living in Puerto Rico and States across our country," noted LeCompte.

Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations and 700 faith communities working with 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee USA builds an economy that serves, protects and promotes the participation of the most vulnerable. Jubilee USA wins critical global financial reforms and won more than $130 billion in debt relief to benefit the world's poorest people. www.jubileeusa.org

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