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offsite link Rishi Sunak?s Smoking Ban is ?Straight Out of Jacinda Ardern?s Health Authoritarian Playbook? Wed Oct 04, 2023 19:00 | Will Jones
Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2005 banned from buying cigarettes?
The post Rishi Sunak’s Smoking Ban is ‘Straight Out of Jacinda Ardern’s Health Authoritarian Playbook’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS Board Pledges to Pay Slavery ?Reparations? Out of Healthcare Budget Wed Oct 04, 2023 17:00 | Will Jones
Scotland's crisis-hit NHS is to begin a "programme of reparations" to Jamaica and Africa ? paid for out of existing healthcare budgets ? in a bid to "make amends" for slavery links dating from the 18th century.
The post NHS Board Pledges to Pay Slavery “Reparations” Out of Healthcare Budget appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras after uploading a video online of police appearing to search his home.
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offsite link Criticising BLM Ideology is a Protected Belief, Court Rules Wed Oct 04, 2023 13:00 | Will Jones
You probably haven't heard of Sean Corby, but he has just won a huge victory for free speech ? thanks to him opposition to Critical Race Theory has been recognised by a court as a 'protected belief' for the first time.
The post Criticising BLM Ideology is a Protected Belief, Court Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What Did John Lewis Expect When it Appointed a Career Civil Servant and Quangocrat? Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:21 | Will Jones
Why did anyone think that Sharon White, a career civil servant, was the right person to lead John Lewis? Did they have something other than the best person for the job in mind?
The post What Did John Lewis Expect When it Appointed a Career Civil Servant and Quangocrat? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Poland and Ukraine are at loggerheads, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Oct 03, 2023 06:59 | en

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New York Legislature Extends Session, Vote on Debt Relief Bill Pending

category international | economics and finance | press release author Friday June 09, 2023 16:57author by Anjoulie Woodhead - Jubilee USA Network Report this post to the editors

Religion, Development and Labor Coalition Pushes Passage of New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act

New York State lawmakers extended their legislative session into the weekend as a vote on the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act remains pending.

The bill championed by Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Pat Fahy, would bring "vulture funds" and private creditors into debt relief agreements for developing nations.

“If the legislation does not pass, hundreds of thousands of people could die in countries that desperately need debt relief,” said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network. “The Assembly Speaker, the Senate Leader and the Governor have the power to bring the bill to the floor now.”

The bill has nearly 50 New York Senate and Assemblymember sponsors, and more unique memos of support than any other bill in recent history of the body, according to several legislators.

On Thursday, Oxfam America organized a letter from United Nations experts, economics and law experts and world leaders to Senators and Assemblymembers urging them to pass the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act (S4747, A2970). The signers include the lead economic advisor to the President of Zambia as well as UN Under-Secretary General Winnie Byanyima (Uganda) and Christiana Figueres (Costa Rica), the former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, who was the lead UN diplomat responsible for negotiating the Paris Climate agreement. Nobel Prize-Winner Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who separately co-signed a supporting memo with former Argentina’s Economy Minister Martin Guzman and former Colombia’s Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, also signed the letter.

“The coalition of labor, religious, development, environment and diaspora groups behind the bill will keep pressing for passage until the end of session,” added LeCompte. “If the bill doesn’t pass this session, we will pass the legislation before 2024 is over.”

Find all Memos/Letters of Support for the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act here: https://www.jubileeusa.org/letters_of_support_nytida?utm_campaign=nytida_pr_june_23&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jubileeusa

Read the United Nations experts, economics and law experts and world leaders letter of support for the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act here: https://webassets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/NY_Debt_Open_Letter.pdf

Read all of the New York Taxpayer and International Debt Crises Protection Act resources here: https://www.jubileeusa.org/nylegislation

Related Link: https://www.jubileeusa.org/ny_legislature_session_vote_pending_nytida
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