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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Lights Are Going Out All Over Rural England Tonight Wed Dec 10, 2025 09:00 | Simon Panter
Rural England's village pubs face a quiet death under tax hikes, wage rises and planning laws that crush communities ? a grim reality, says Simon Panter, that goes far beyond the loss of just a pint.
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offsite link Good Law Project to Fight Nature! Wed Dec 10, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The Good Law Project is suing Keir Starmer over his failure to tackle global warming, warning coastal villages like Hemsby are collapsing ? but Paul Homewood points out Norfolk's soft cliffs have crumbled for centuries.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 10, 2025 01:21 | 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 Kemi Badenoch Urges ?Common Sense? After No 10 Backs Calls for People to Wear Face Masks in Public A... Tue Dec 09, 2025 19:31 | Richard Eldred
Kemi Badenoch has called for "common sense" and rejected calls for masks amid rising flu cases, saying she's still "traumatised" by Covid mandates and that the Government shouldn't be telling people to wear them again.
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offsite link A Teacher?s Journey Through Britain?s Education Revolution Tue Dec 09, 2025 17:39 | Hugh David
Post-war schooling promised a New Jerusalem but delivered little more than bafflement and bureaucracy. Retired teacher Hugh David takes us through the chaos and contradictions that followed.
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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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