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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 13, 2025 01:14 | 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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Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
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offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
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offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
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In what has been dubbed the "Pfizer boob job", dozens of British women are reporting ballooning breasts after their Covid vaccines.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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"Millenium Goals", the global strategy on poverty is failing.

category international | anti-capitalism | other press author Wednesday September 07, 2005 19:25author by toothpick Report this post to the editors

World leaders agreed in 2000 on a series of goals to be reached by 2015, including halving the number of people living in extreme poverty, cutting deaths of children under five by two-thirds and achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reduction of child mortality .
improving maternal health, providing vaccines fighting AIDS, TB and Malaria and doing something dinky on the environment.

The Human development report has just been published for 2005.
We have collectively gone backwards rather than forwards.

one child died from poverty every three seconds, 1.2 billion people are living on less than $1 (54 pence) a day and, at current rates of progress, 47 million children would not be in school by 2015.

The cumulative effect of failing to reach the target for cutting child deaths would mean 41 million extra and avoidable deaths over the next decade, the report said.

The U.N. report said 50 countries, with a combined population of 900 million, were actually moving backwards on at least one of the development goals.

Norway is still top of the HD list of countries and the USA has slipped two places this year.
It is widely expected to leave the "top nations" list next year as a result of its "america's challenge thing".

It is important to realise that the USA are resisting the implementation of the "goals" thing. They have their reasons. Something to do with trade and stuff.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1904992005
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=6065947&cKey=1125999771000

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