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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

www.abc.net.au

filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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The UK's second-biggest city has been plunged into debt and darkness
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Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial metropolis, but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay off and children grow up below the poverty line.
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    local city governments are able to purchase air launched cruise missiles and anti-tank weapons?!?! And

    In Texas maybe.

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      In Texas maybe.

      Dont’ forget NYPD https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-nypd-megatruck-that-showed-up-at-hamilton-hall/ar-AA1nZJJZ

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        If only they budget in some courage. There were 400 cops at Uvalde. Not to be a tough guy, but its part of their job.

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