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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
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.
[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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3cause of this financial crisis = capitalisms unsustainable reliance on cheap fuel at start of "oil age". capitalism was able to exploit oil and its associated attributes, modern world as we now know it, as long as it could. those days are over, thankfully!!
what comes next, who knows, it is going to be tough over next while, already many in ireland have lost jobs. but maybe now the critical dialogue might start to kick in.
As eco city guru said, now is the time to build eco cities
related post: From OIL AGE financial crisis, to sustainable communities + COP 15
http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/oilage/
id also direct you to Ugo Bardis views on this, in a spanish / italian mix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kOUvYV8dQw (poor sound quality)
ASPO Italia 1 - Ugo Bardi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmTULzFq--Y
ASPO International | The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
http://www.peakoil.net/
Oil age in terms of Irish Stout. 1900, 2000, 2100 - Colin Cambell
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Whilst I agree largely with the analysis given above and the ones given by Dunk relating to the era of cheap oil are also valid, I think the best way to look at what is happening is to do the analysis at multiple levels and timescales because each provides more of the picture.
So for example, the cheap oil analysis can be viewed at over the last year or two where the surge to $147 a barrel for oil, sucked the remaining discretionary income from people as costs of everything went up. Looking at it over the multi decade level we can see it was responsible for the build out of suburbia and the absolute dependence of the physical structure of the economy on cheap energy.
On the currency level, we can see that the break of the dollar from the gold standard in the early 1970s by Nixon, because the US was going broke because of the Vietnam war, it is very apparent that the dollar has hyperinflated since then and especially so in the last 7 or 8 years.
Yet another analysis, a traditional Marxist one says that capitalists switched to finance and speculation to maintain profit levels over the last decade or too and yet the financial sector didn't seem to produce anything other than large debits to be paid back sometime in the future. This could be seen as a way of trying to reap tomorrows profits today.
At the same time, you can also take the view that the workers who had won so many rights and increased living standards (in the West at least) but were steadily losing them to globalisation, sought to maintain the standards of living despite job insecurity and falling wages in real terms and the banks were only too happy to lend out the money to maintain their own profits. As most people know lots of people borrowed against the "increased" value of their houses.
There are still other ways of slicing through what is happening in terms of looking at it from short term, medium and longer term historical perspectives.
It could be argued that if the financial deregulation didn't happen in 1998 (during the Clinton years under the influence of the people who have now been picked by Obama) that maybe the longer term factors mentioned above would have lead to the same crisis more or less, but a few years or even a decade later. However regardless, it is still worth learning and investigating what is happening at these different levels rather than solely concentrating on things from just one particular time period or from one set of factors.
Because of the economic crisis that we are facing today lots of people are facing bankruptcies. Bank of America just can’t stay out of the headlines. Whether it’s Bank of America getting a bailout, getting slapped in a class action lawsuit, or getting into a tiff with Merrill Lynch executives over lying to them about the company they just bought, they get into the news. Oddly enough, just like the absorbed asset Merrill, they are being stung with requests to disclose their bonuses. It appears that they used the quick loans they got from the taxpayers (which they aren’t required to pay back) to pad their executives’ bank accounts. Mario Cuomo, attorney general of New York, and U.S. Rep Barney Frank aren’t happy with Bank of America for enriching themselves after they nearly went broke. Read more on this site: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/10/offi...uses/.