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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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

offsite link 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,

offsite link 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.

offsite link [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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offsite link Yvette Cooper Axed as Home Secretary in Panicking Starmer?s Cabinet Bloodbath Fri Sep 05, 2025 17:33 | Will Jones
Yvette Cooper has been axed as Home Secretary in a shock Cabinet bloodbath triggered by Angela Rayner's resignation that's an apparent admission from Keir Starmer that his borders policy is failing.
The post Yvette Cooper Axed as Home Secretary in Panicking Starmer’s Cabinet Bloodbath appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Stop Panicking About Anxiety, Teenagers Will Grow Up Fri Sep 05, 2025 15:15 | Joanna Gray
A third of 16-17 year-old girls have anxiety, over 50% of teenagers have tried alcohol and 42% spend more than six hours a day on their phone. Cue moral panic. Chill, says Joanna Gray. Like us, they will grow up.
The post Stop Panicking About Anxiety, Teenagers Will Grow Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Rayner Resigns Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:06 | Will Jones
Angela Rayner?has dramatically quit the Cabinet today after an ethics report into her property dealings.
The post BREAKING: Rayner Resigns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Welcomes Nadine Dorries ? The Tory Minister Responsible for the Online Safety Act Fri Sep 05, 2025 11:41 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage welcomed Nadine Dorries to Reform last night ? despite Dorries being the Tory culture minister responsible for the Orwellian Online Safety Act that Farage has savaged and pledged to replace.
The post Nigel Farage Welcomes Nadine Dorries ? The Tory Minister Responsible for the Online Safety Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Can We Trust Kemi? Fri Sep 05, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Can we trust Kemi to dump Net Zero and fire up the North Sea drills? With a highly organised opposition among her own MPs, lavishly funded by the Green Blob, Paul Homewood is doubtful.
The post Can We Trust Kemi? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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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Puerto Rico House Approves Public Utility Reform Bill

category international | economics and finance | news report author Tuesday February 16, 2016 20:03author by Greg Report this post to the editors

Legislation Part of Proposed Debt Deal

Puerto Rico's House of Representatives approved legislation to reform its highly indebted public utility company "PREPA."

The utility company's investors want the reform package before they approve a debt restructuring deal that includes a 15 percent cut in repayments. The bill passed the island's Senate but was amended in the House so will now head back to the Senate for another vote. Puerto Rico is likely to get an extension from lenders on a midnight February 16 deadline to pass the legislation.

"While the deal does offer some relief, it's hardly a model to deal with the island's debt," stated Eric LeCompte, executive director of the religious development coalition Jubilee USA. "If we saw a broader deal along these lines it would fail to bring Puerto Rico's debt back to sustainable levels."

PREPA's $8 billion debt is part of the portion of Puerto Rico's debt impacted by the island's exclusion from Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code. Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation to extend Chapter 9 to Puerto Rico. The US House of Representatives' Natural Resources Committee is drafting legislation to address Puerto Rico's debt crisis and will hold its third hearing on the issue February 25.

"It's clear we are now in a critical stage of this crisis," noted LeCompte, who testified at the Natural Resources Committee's February 2 hearing. "Congress can't stand on the sidelines any longer."

Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations and 550 faith communities working with 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee's mission is to build an economy that serves, protects and promotes the participation of the most vulnerable. Jubilee USA has won critical global financial reforms and more than $130 billion in debt relief to benefit the world's poorest people. www.jubileeusa.org

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