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AJ. I don’t want to make a new thread.

9000 child deaths aside.

Is the Pope going to apologise for the Catholic Church in holding back all of humanity, that the word of god comes before Science?

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Catholic Church in Ireland…..

Results of investigation expected to tell how 9,000 children died in 18 institutions between 1922 and 1998

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/report-scale-abuse-ireland-mother-baby-homes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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Breaking-
Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55569604

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Might be off topic? I came across a Twitter discussion, viewing the replies one was ironic. I didn’t think to like/copy it?
I don’t remember exactly what the authors tweet was…but a reply was barbed, it said:

“if you don’t like American you are free to leave”.

This was the reply:

“If you wish to renounce (US) citizenship, it costs $2,350”

Found a US government link for this. And yes it is correct!

[james19]

zusammenhang I like that. Also, thank you for the link.

I wonder if #FreeAssange is trending on Twitter? On seeing it, I thought that is what it meant?

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zusammenhang replied to me. It was then I noticed my mistake.
I could have simply inserted the line. But I can’t modify the that post. I hope it would read as I originally intended? Sorry for the mistake.
L.B. Neill, rather lengthy post I’m afraid. Not sure I understand it tbh.
YFS

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I remember someone telling me, in a matter of fact way, on a forum elsewhere, ‘Socialism’ is never going to happen? This was at the same time, *of the Arab Spring uprisings*, a great example of people wanting change….

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As of midnight last night, (31/12/2020) the ‘sexiest’ (not my choice of words) tampon tax, in the UK, was abolished, in the so-called fight against ‘period poverty’. Meaning 7p less for a 20 pack of tampons, 5p off for a 12 pack.

I don’t know if I should raise this here? This has been reported in this month’s Socialist Standard, the back page.

The author (countercurrent.org) fails to address the obvious alternative of medically approved methods of menstrual suppression, where the need for pads, etc., is reduced or eliminated. Such alternatives are not free and do not register on the reformist radar.

“The plight of women in India, where 70% say they can’t afford sanitary pads…..”

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Just throwing this out…? As India produces cheap generic drugs. Why not in this instance?

In Socialism it goes without saying whichever method is preferred i.e. a real freedom of choice, it would not be dependent on ability to pay, but available for free, free access!

Activists cheer as ‘sexist’ tampon tax is scrapped https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55502252

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I remember someone telling me, in a matter of fact way, on a forum elsewhere, ‘Socialism’ is never going to happen? This was at the same time, a great example of people wanting change. Ok, all be it within the framework of Capitalism….
I used this example, it was never repeated again.
Today we have #BLM, with over 80 countries holding demonstrations in support of #BLM. Yfs

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alanjjohnston We, or rather yourself haven’t. I saw this by accident, as I was looking for something else (below) on the BBC website, which I first read on Sky news, I looked for it on the BBC under ‘World’ unlike Sky, they don’t have ‘US’ news?

Andre Hill shooting: US officers stood by and failed to help as black man lay dying following police shooting

https://news.sky.com/story/andre-hill-shooting-us-officers-stood-by-and-failed-to-help-as-black-man-lay-dying-following-police-shooting-12176574

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This the same Tesco, who were taken to court, for paying female workers less than men doing the same jobs. If I’m right it was a practice that went on for years!
I used to work for the Co-op. Women staff went on strike for more pay. My then manager said: “women only work for pin money”.
I also worked for Waitrose as it was. I later found out there’s a ‘silent’ share? Every year John Lewis Partnership as it was then, would set aside an astronomical amount of the ‘profits’ for “future investment purposes.” One  year this was something like £400m! The Staff bonus scheme was little more than deferred wages!
Just remember, the government Tory, I think bought in a profit share scheme for workers. It wasn’t bad at first, the bonus. The bosses  then got into trouble and went to court, the Industrial Race relationship board for unfair dismissal? The bosses lost the case. To pay the court fine and court costs, they took monies from the staff profit share scheme! Which wasn’t fair or what the scheme was intended for. The profit Scheme didn’t last long, 2 years in all? It was then scraped by the Government…as .it was costing ( the government) too much money? A successful scheme hoisted by its own petard.

 

 

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Alanjjohnstone. Yes I did read that. 😢 The acronym USFM is confusing?

This: the tweet is by someone who calls herself  a Socialist Democrat in her Twitter bio.

Labour slashed benefits and demonised claimants as scroungers too. They gave contracts to the likes of Atos and Serco. And now children are going hungry.

— Penelope Flynn (@Penelop11785074) December 16, 2020

 

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I didn’t watch his speech in Parliament, but then gave a short listen. I tweeted this:

Children are starving in Britain. Yet Ress-Moggs  government won’t do anything, but it can find £16bn for the military!
His Government totally ignored  the  U.N. Special Rapporteur,  on the UK Government’s Austerity measures, which it said: was cruel and adversely affected vulnerable groups!

Ress-Mogg  attacks UNICEF for playing politics, that  they (UNICEF) should help people elsewhere, but he couldn’t give a damn one bit about them!
His Government’s Foreign office has reduced UK overseas aid budget by £2.9bn and is facing billions (£15bn according to Downing Street) in cuts to many of these countries, which will make matters worse (if that’s possible) for those suffering from food shortages, food insecurity and hunger.

Cut to UK’s overseas aid budget ‘not ruled out’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54977729

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“A disgrace” Is one response on Twitter, by Angela Rayner a Labour MP. Not sure if she has seen Jacob Ress-Moggs take on this?🤔

A disgrace.

You should be ashamed of yourselves @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak and the rest of you.https://t.co/P3u1fiJliM

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) December 16, 2020

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From the Daily Mirror on Twitter:

Jacob Rees Mogg says Unicef should be 'ashamed' for feeding Britain's hungry kidshttps://t.co/7L0Ny1VaVB pic.twitter.com/G24uqSNbJr

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) December 17, 2020

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