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Watch: Graphic Inmate's Fatal Beating by NY Officers Sparks Outrage
no I mean why is THIS story appearing instead of some random civilian getting murdered? That would be much more sensational yet I don't see those appearing in social media. There's always some back story or people are resisting arrest and reach for their gun etc... I have seen bad shootings before from deranged cops but it's vastly overstated from what I can tell. There's tons of videos of police getting shot too but those don't make MSM either. Just saying there's a narrative the MSM is pushing. -
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First Day of Thailand’s “10 Dangerous Days” Sees 52 Deaths and 318 Injuries
It's not, there's 365 dangerous days in most years, 366 this year due to it being a leap year. -
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Looming Crisis: Private Schools Face Closures Amid VAT Hike
True... many private schools in the UK claim charitable status. Historically, many of these schools were established as charities with the aim of providing education to children who could not afford it. Today, a significant proportion of private schools in the UK still operate as registered charities under the Charities Act which enables them relief from VAT. Adding 20% VAT to private school fees will push many students into already overburdened state schools, exacerbating overcrowding and resource shortages without guaranteeing proportional reinvestment in public education. Whether a charity or not is somewhat beside the point and moot - Private schools ultimately benefit the state schooling system - taxing them, impacts this and ultimately also impacts state schools.- 1
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Fatal Motorcycle Crash at Notorious Bend Sparks Local Superstition
Looking at the crash scene. Firstly some assumptions. Assume that the rider was on the main road and hadn’t just joined the road. We can’t tell is the surface was rutted. Or if there was a fault or obsr=tacle on the road There are 3 junctions around that point. A private one on the left A public one on the right and a soi on the right As with many Thai roads the road furniture is very intrusive and close to the road – notably the concrete utility post that would have killed him There is also a lot of promotional lighting along the road which may or may not have been on at the time (3am?) this would have created possible mistaken vision. The edge of the road has concrete gutters that once entered by a motorcycle make it very hard to control and get out of. Looking at your suggestion for a trajectory for the bike, I would say it is almost certain that he was avoiding another vehicle – in poor lighting – either someone coming towards him too near to the centre of the road or possibly a car entering or exiting the road from one of the side entrances. It wouldn’t have to be hit and run even – in the dark the other motorist may have been totally unaware of what happened to the motorcycle. The trouble is that once the human error had occurred, the gully and the concrete lamp post took care of the rest -
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Ramble On!
I'm skeptical about your claims. You're supposed to be on a 2 week bender and yet you're sitting at home being hen pecked. Grow a pair for god's sake, -
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Is Earth round or flat❓
Sadly the reality we live in is not so good and also sadly there are very many people whose reality in their own minds doesn't match reality. Reality is the earth isn't flat. No one has proved it to be so. ZERO evidence. Why? Because it ISN'T FLAT. IT ISN'T a NASA conspiracy. IT ISN'T the Freemasons. It's a con pushed by grifters to make money and believed by the gullible. 24 hour sun in Antarctica. That's it. It happens. Can't happen on the Gleason map. The grifters and their flock are now trying to debunk actual footage of this being released by The Final Experiment. -
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Insurrectionist Dems seek to Keep Trump from Office.
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Looming Crisis: Private Schools Face Closures Amid VAT Hike
The argument for applying 20% VAT to private school fees under the guise of "equity" is profoundly flawed and deeply naive. To suggest that taxing private education is a step toward fairness ignores the broader implications of this policy. Many families who send their children to private schools are not the ultra-wealthy caricatures often imagined but ordinary middle-income households who make significant sacrifices to prioritise their children’s education. Branding these families as “relatively wealthy” and burdening them further is a myopic approach that misunderstands both equity and the dynamics of the education system. This move does little to address inequality and instead penalises those seeking better opportunities for their children. The notion that the state education system can simply absorb a wave of students transitioning from private schools as fees inevitably rise is laughable. State schools are already buckling under the weight of overcrowded classrooms, underfunded resources, and staffing crises. Adding thousands of students to this system will not fix these problems; it will exacerbate them. To assume that the additional tax revenue from VAT will somehow magically resolve these challenges is optimistic at best and delusional at worst. Governments have a long track record of diverting funds from such measures into unrelated projects, leaving both private and public schools worse off. This policy is a political vanity project masquerading as fiscal responsibility. Your comments attempt to paint a dystopian picture of a world where private services are allowed to flourish, implying that this would somehow undermine the public good. This argument is absurd. The private education sector currently provides an invaluable service by alleviating pressure on state schools. If private schools close or shrink under the weight of VAT, the state will bear the burden of educating an influx of students, a scenario that will cost far more than the revenue gained from this tax. This policy is the equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot and then wondering why walking becomes so difficult. The suggestion that “increased investment” will solve the issues in state education is a simplistic platitude. Where will this magical investment come from when every decision to tax and spend is accompanied by bureaucratic inefficiencies and waste?, as is your comparison to Liz Truss-style economic policies, you've presented a red herring meant to distract from the inadequacies of this VAT proposal. Thus, rather than engaging in serious debate about how to strengthen the education system as a whole, your argument resorts to patronising rhetoric that fails to address the real-world consequences. If equity is the goal, there are far better ways to achieve it than taxing private schools into oblivion. Encouraging partnerships between private and state schools, sharing resources, and creating programs to support disadvantaged students would yield far greater benefits. Instead to support the demonisation of those who prioritise their children’s education and slapping a tax on that will do more harm than good. This policy is not about fairness; it is a poorly disguised attempt to score political points at the expense of families, children, and the education system as a whole.- 1
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