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Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home
British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,
It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
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[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.
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Starmer to Recognise a Palestinian State Tue Jul 29, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Sir Keir Starmer has declared that the UK will recognise a state of Palestine in September unless Israel makes peace with Hamas, in a move critics say treats statehood as a "bargaining chip" and "rewards Hamas".
The post Starmer to Recognise a Palestinian State appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The NHS ?Non-Jobs? Bonanza Tue Jul 29, 2025 17:49 | David Craig
The NHS is in crisis. Seven million on waiting lists with junior doctors on strike and other staff eyeing industrial action. So why is it continuing to appoint "Environmental Sustainability Managers", asks David Craig.
The post The NHS ‘Non-Jobs’ Bonanza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Farage Demands Apology After Labour Minister Says He is on the Side of Predators like Jimmy Savile f... Tue Jul 29, 2025 15:32 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage has demanded an apology from Labour Minister Peter Kyle after he accused him of taking the side of paedophiles like Jimmy Savile for wanting to scrap the Online Safety Act over free speech concerns.
The post Farage Demands Apology After Labour Minister Says He is on the Side of Predators like Jimmy Savile for Wanting to Scrap Online Safety Act Over Free Speech Concerns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Is the Tide Turning Against Woke Comedy? Tue Jul 29, 2025 13:00 | C.J. Strachan
Is the tide turning against woke comedy? After watching Andy Parsons bomb at the Ealing Comedy Festival, of all places, with his usual anti-Trump, anti-Reform schtick, C.J. Strachan thinks its days are numbered.
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Leaked Email Blows Apart BBC?s Impartiality Claims Over Gaza Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:38 | Will Jones
A leaked internal email from a BBC Executive Editor reveals that the corporation has issued prescriptive and biased instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The post Leaked Email Blows Apart BBC’s Impartiality Claims Over Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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By Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality, UCD School of Social Justice
A tax on water is an indirect tax. It is deeply inegalitarian and unjust because it has to be paid regardless of income or capability, and because it is a tax on a ‘good’ that people must use to maintain life itself. It is a tax that people cannot avoid.
While those who are on low incomes can avoid some indirect taxes (alcohol, tobacco) they cannot avoid using water as they need it to live. Moreover, as a certain quantity of water is necessary for consumption and sanitation, it is not possible to radically reduce your consumption. Indeed if you are at home a great deal (unemployed, elderly, ill), it will cost you more than if you have a job, can afford to go to the gym, sports club etc. where you can use sanitation and shower facilities.
Water taxes are also unjust as they are a form of taxation that impact disproportionately on those with the lowest income. Recent research, based on CSO data (Collins, 2014: 17), shows that the lowest income group in Ireland (lowest 10%) spend 28% of their entire income in taxation, almost all of it on indirect taxes. This is only 1% less than the richest 10% who spend 29% of their income on taxes, mostly in direct taxation in their case.
So, no other social group spends as much of their income on taxation as the lowest income group apart from the top income group. This is mainly due to the extensive use of indirect taxes to collect taxes from the poorest people in Irish society.
Water charges are indirect taxes that will further propel the poorest into greater poverty. They are not just an attack on those on low incomes, however, the introduction of the individualisation of payment, through a market relationship with a provider, compromises every citizen’s right to water. Your individual ability to pay is what determines your right.
There is a need to set up a National Water Monitoring Body to oversee the protection of water as a human right in Ireland. Without an independent, non-commercial, non-party-political oversight body, there is a very real danger the human right to water in Ireland will be reneged upon in a few years, or whenever the next financial crisis arises.
I wholeheartedly agree,this is an unjust tax,on everyone rich or poor,but mainly poor,those who are in the workingclass bracket with kids or the unemployed will be mercilessly hit.
If they cannot pay up the full amount the water will be cut off,what is more inhumane than that we need water to sustain our life.
If you cannot pay - you don't live.
How did the government become so cruel and callous?
Watch out for the next big thing - it will be selling off our natural water assets to private companies who will charge us three times the amount!
Just after being reported on thejournal.ie -
http://www.thejournal.ie/cork-man-hunger-strike-water-c...2014/
Gary Coleman started the hunger strike at around 5pm outside Cork City Hall and is calling on people in Cork to join the protest planned in Cork city on 25 October and wants them to match the number of people who marched in Dublin last Saturday.