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offsite link Britain Relies on Double the Western Average of Foreign Doctors and Nurses Sat Dec 27, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Britain relies on double the Western average of foreign doctors and nurses, according to a new report, leaving British doctors ?fighting for fewer spots? as the Government chases the ?quick fix? of overseas recruitment.
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offsite link Can Reading the Daily Sceptic Make You Go Mad? Some ?Experts? Think So Sat Dec 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
?Rage-bait? is the OED Word of the Year, as ?experts? liken Right-wing content online to a drug that is damaging gullible people?s brains. When will the Word of the Year be ?elite hypocrisy??, asks Steven Tucker.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Dec 27, 2025 01:23 | Toby Young
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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offsite link The Threat of Islamist Terror is Ruining Christmas in Europe Fri Dec 26, 2025 19:00 | Laurie Wastell
After decades of reckless mass migration policies, the grim threat of Islamist terror now looms over Christmas festivities across Europe. In the Spectator, Clarissa Hard says something has gone terribly wrong.
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offsite link How the Frankfurt School Captured the Culture ? and How to Fight Back Fri Dec 26, 2025 17:00 | Kevin Donnelly
Conservatives mustn?t neglect the culture war, argues Dr Kevin Donnelly. Anti-Western, anti-capitalist ideologies are everywhere today because of the long march through the institutions by Frankfurt School Marxists.
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Trump Calls for Puerto Rico's Debt to be "Wiped Out"

category international | economics and finance | press release author Wednesday October 04, 2017 16:25author by Abby Wilhelm - Jubilee USA Report this post to the editors

In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, President Trump called for Puerto Rico's debt to be wiped out.

In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, President Trump called for Puerto Rico's debt to be wiped out. "They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we're going to have to wipe that out. You're going to say goodbye to that, I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that," Trump said.‎

"Puerto Rico can't recover with the debt it has," said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development organization Jubilee USA. LeCompte worked on emergency Puerto Rico debt crisis legislation that Congress passed last year. "Puerto Rico was already undergoing a bankruptcy process that was going to substantially cut the island's debt. Now that bankruptcy process needs to access the hurricane damage and cancel even more of the debt."

Just yesterday, religious leaders from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands issued a statement calling for aid, debt relief and measures to end child poverty. The statement was signed by San Juan's Catholic Archbishop, Roberto González Nieves, St. Thomas' Catholic Bishop Herbert A. Bevard and Evangelical Bible Society Head Reverend Heriberto Martínez. Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, both US territories, were wrestling with financial crisis and high child poverty rates before the Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck.

"The US Virgin islands were also severely damaged from the hurricanes," continued LeCompte. "They too need debt forgiveness and aid to help recover. Unfortunately, unlike Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands doesn't have a bankruptcy process to cut the debt."

Read the religious leaders' statement in English:
http://www.jubileeusa.org/english_pr_usvi_relleadappeal...d&n=1

En español:
http://www.jubileeusa.org/spanish_pr_usvi_relleadappeal...d&n=2

Read Eric LeCompte's statement on the crisis:
http://www.jubileeusa.org/religious_development_group_r...d&n=3

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