Meridian – Maritime
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
20230713-L1161
Urgent plea to fix ‘broken’ health
system in Sydney hospital | 9 News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Xs9h0P_QM
A Westmead hospital whistleblower is desperately calling for the
‘broken’ health system to be fixed, as sick patients wait for more than 14
hours for medical care.
20230713-L1160
Disturbing photo of a patient on a
drip sleeping on the floor of a waiting room
reveals the dire state of
Australia’s overrun healthcare system - as insiders speak out
A healthcare workers has reported that overcrowding in a western Sydney
hospital is leading to patients dying in the waiting room, as a disturbing
photo emerges of a woman being treated with a drip on the floor. The anonymous
whistleblower, who works at Westmead Hospital in Parramatta, told 9News the situation
is so dire that 'people's lives are at stake'. 'I don't want to look another
patient's relative in the eye and say they have died in our waiting room,' the
worker said. 'They have died because the emergency department was so
overcrowded that patients we have already seen have not moved on and we can't
treat new patients.' A troubling picture
of a patient receiving an intravenous drip while lying on the waiting room
floor was taken at 5am on Saturday 13 May by another horrified patient - who
was forced to wait for almost 15 hours herself. A troubling picture of a
patient receiving an intravenous drip while lying on the waiting room floor was
taken at 5am on Saturday 13 May by another horrified patient - who was forced
to wait for almost 15 hours herself. An
anonymous whistleblower, who works at Westmead Hospital in Parramatta in
Sydney's west, told 9Newsthat overcrowding is so dire that 'people's lives are
at stake'. The worker suggested people
to drive to Royal North Shore Hospital if they wanted to receive better care.
It comes after the emergence of a troubling picture of a patient receiving an
intravenous drip while lying on the waiting room floor. The picture was taken
at 5am on Saturday May 13 by another horrified patient. Josephine Lord, 67, was
admitted to hospital with a fever and breathing problems but was forced to wait
for almost 15 hours when she saw a woman under a blanket being treated on the
floor. 'It's at that point I'm thinking, am I in trouble here?' Ms Lord told
9News journalist Ruth Wyn Williams. The Winston Hills grandmother was then
moved to a temporary bed and forced to stay in the emergency department for
three days after doctors told her they had no beds left. Westmead Hospital
bosses have apologised for long wait times and have sad they had increased
staffing levels. Western Sydney Local Health District chief executive Graham
Loy said Westmead Hospital had experienced high patient loads in the emergency
department. 'We sincerely apologise to anyone who may have experienced a long
wait time in our emergency department (ED),' Mr Loy told 9News. 'Westmead
Hospital has experienced a high volume of patients presenting to the ED in
recent months. "Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is working
hard to improve the way we manage patient demand, increase staffing levels and
invest in programs to provide alternative pathways for urgent care and ease
pressure on our emergency departments. Mr Loy said they had increased staffing
in the beleaguered hospital and they had been encouraging aged care patients to
use the inTouch service to avoid presenting in emergency departments...
20230713-L1159
Agent Zelensky - Part 1
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/agent-zelensky-part-1
As a former intelligence officer, I’ve been wondering why has no one
done an investigation about Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine? His
rise to power, in my opinion, represents an incredible manipulation of world
opinion that will go down in history as a classic case study in social
psychological engineering: an ordinary comedian who came to power because he
promised a long-awaited peace, who then dragged his fellow citizens into a
bloody war that can only be described as a massacre. With the help of
colleagues and experts with first-hand insights into Zelensky, I have poured
over documents and video to produce a film that captures this investigation.
This story has so many twists and turns that I had to break it into two parts.
In the first episode, presented here, I will answer the question about
Zelensky’s improbable rise to power, and how the Ukrainian President
accumulated his vast wealth, a sum that has only become larger since the war
with Russia began. And, perhaps most importantly, why I decided to call this
film “Agent Zelensky.”...
20230713-L1158
Report 77: Women Suffered 94% of
Dermatological Adverse Events Reported in
First 90 Days of Pfizer COVID
“Vaccine” Rollout.
80% of These Adverse Events Were
Categorized As “Serious.”
The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project Post-Marketing
Group (Team 1) – Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD;
and Loree Britt – produced a report about Dermatological Adverse Events of
Special Interest (AESIs) found in Pfizer document 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of
Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received
Through 28-FEB-2021 (a.k.a., “5.3.6“).
This category of AESIs contains two diagnoses and 20 adverse event
reports. It is important to note that the AESIs in the 5.3.6 document were
reported to Pfizer for only a 90-day period starting on December 1, 2020, the
date of the United Kingdom’s public rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 experimental
mRNA “vaccine” product. Key points of this report include...
20230713-L1157
India Seeking 26 Carrier-based
Rafale M Fighter Jets and
Three Additional Scorpene
Submarines from France
https://www.deagel.com/news/n000022651
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a two-day visit
to France, where he is expected to announce deals worth an estimated $10
billion for the purchase of 26 fighter jets and three submarines. He will be
the guest of honor at the Bastille Day parade in Paris on Friday, when units of
the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force will participate in the event. It’s a rare
honor for Modi, as France does not routinely invite foreign dignitaries to the
annual celebration, which marks the key event of the French Revolution in 1789.
The prime minister’s visit holds special significance as France and India are
celebrating 25 years of strategic partnership this year. It will be the Modi’s
third visit to France, having previously traveled to the country in 2015 and
2022. It’s the second time that an Indian premier has been the guest of honor
at the parade after Dr. Manmohan Singh...
20230713-L1156
The Shame of Being Debanked
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/12/the-shame-of-being-debanked/
The debanking phenomenon is probably far more widespread than we’ve been
led to believe, writes Toby in Spiked, “mainly because the majority of people
it has happened to are too embarrassed to talk about it”. Here’s an excerpt.
When I got a message from PayPal last year telling me my personal account had been
closed, my initial reaction was shame. Being deplatformed by a
financial-services company, whether a bank or a payment processor, is a mark of
Cain. You wonder what you’ve done to deserve being cast out in this way. The
last thing you feel like doing is drawing attention to it, not least because it
might lead to losing your other bank accounts. When I discovered that PayPal
had also closed the accounts of the Free Speech Union and the Daily Sceptic,
both organisations I run, that initial wave of embarrassment was replaced by
anger. And after going through the internal appeals processes, I decided to
launch a public campaign to get the accounts reinstated. This worked, but I
haven’t used PayPal since. Meanwhile, the Free Speech Union has been lobbying
the U.K. Treasury for the past nine months to put a stop to this sinister new
form of cancel culture...
20230712-L1155
Nigeria to Destroy Tanker Caught
Smuggling Crude Oil
https://gcaptain.com/nigeria-to-destroy-tanker-caught-smuggling-crude-oil/
Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd said on Monday an 800,000-liter (211,338-U.S.
gallon) vessel carrying stolen crude had been intercepted offshore while
heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft. Crude
theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hobbled the country’s
output in recent years and is one of the biggest challenges to confront new
President Bola Tinubu. NNPC said the oil was stolen from a well in south
western Ondo state. The MT Tura II vessel was owned by locally registered Holab
Maritime Services Limited and had no valid documentation for the oil, the
company said. Holab could not be reached for comment on numbers listed on its
website. “Destroying vessels involved in transporting stolen crude oil is of
paramount importance as a strong deterrent...
20230712-L1154
RFK Jr: CIA Was Involved In Funding
Wuhan COVID Leak Lab
https://summit.news/2023/07/11/rfk-jr-cia-was-involved-in-funding-wuhan-covid-leak-lab/
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr declared Monday that he
believes the CIA was involved in funding the Wuhan lab where the COVID pandemic
originated. In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Kennedy suggested
that the Biden administration is not interested in punishing China for covering
up the lab leak because it would expose National Institutes of Health funded
bioweapons programs. “I think the CIA was involved certainly in this research,”
Kennedy proclaimed, adding “They were funding it through USAID. And NIH, I
think, in the end gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan lab. But
USAID, which was functioning as the CIA surrogate, gave over $64 million. The
Pentagon also gave a lot of money...
20230712-L1153
What you don’t know about the movie
“Sound of Freedom”
There is something weighing on my heart about the film Sound of Freedom.
As we all know, this is a powerful movie about the horrible reality of
worldwide child trafficking. Millions of children disappear every single year.
It is the worst crime of all time. I am glad that - finally - worldwide
attention is given to this horror. What saddens me however, is that the film in
no way reveals - or even hints to - who the true culprits are in the
international child trafficking operations. It basically diverts the attention
away from those who are truly responsible for the kidnapping, abusing,
torturing and murdering of children worldwide. Sound of Freedom shows how this
is happening deep inside the jungles of South America, by for example the
Mexican cartel. Although that is true, it's in no way the full story. If the
world thinks this is only done by criminals in the jungle, then they will never
understand how in reality it happens in the high and lofty skyscrapers in New
York, in the official government buildings of Washington DC, in the historic
architectural masterpieces of London, in the beautiful castles of Europe, in
the shiny conference centers of Davos, and so on...
20230712-L1152
Vatican's most famous exorcist In
500 years - Fr. Gabriele Amorth | Fr. Carlos Martins explains
Fr. Carlos Martins, Catholic exorcist and host of The Exorcist Files,
exposes the reality of Satan — the Devil — revealed by front-line spiritual
combatant, Fr. Gabriele Amorth. Fr. Gabriele Amorth was the Vatican’s most
famous exorcist in the last 500 years, battling Satan’s demonic forces unlike
any other spiritual leader has ever done. Now, Fr. Martins explains the life
and spiritual legacy of Fr. Amorth, and how the battle for the Culture of Life
has raged for thousands of years in the timeless struggle of good vs evil. The
John-Henry Westen Show airs nightly Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m. ET at
LifeSiteNews, reporting on the biggest attacks against the Culture of Life,
including the New World Order, the Great Reset, and One World Religion.
Globalist stories silenced and canceled by the mainstream media are fully
exposed — unfiltered against Big Tech censorship — including Pope Francis’
globalist allegiance to the LGBT agenda, the World Economic Forum, and so much
more. John-Henry Westen and his guests offer unique and faith-filled answers to
life’s most difficult questions facing the pro-life and pro-family fight to
build a Culture of Life — including answers to prayer, discerning God’s will,
deciphering ancient Biblical prophecies, understanding end-times revelation, and
how to be faithful Catholics in a sinful world. These stories are fundamental
to the faith and future of Catholics everywhere and are seen only at
LifeSiteNews...
20230712-L1151
Something incredible is happening
in Europe, that will fuel the Awakening
Something incredible is happening in Europe that will have a tremendous
worldwide impact. Hundreds of people are going to distribute a million flyers
from StopWorldControl.com throughout every town and city of The Netherlands and
Belgium. They will deliver them to thousands of school directors, hospital
staff, local authorities, local media, etc. Several postmen will take tens of thousands
of flyers on their daily route. The full color, double sided flyers explain in
a nutshell the agenda of the World Health Organization and the World Economic
Forum to impose unprecedented tyranny onto all of humanity. You can see the
flyers below. They are designed as an official notice to the public, to get
attention. Belgium (Brussels) and The Netherlands (Amsterdam) are at the very
heart of the worldwide network of financial elites, who are behind the WHO,
WEF, UN, EU, etc. These nations are also the center of the worldwide child
trafficking networks, that operate all throughout the USA, Canada, the UK,
Asia, Africa, Australia, etc. 74% of all child pornography material is hosted
in The Netherlands, making it a worldwide hub for government organized child
abuse, which is the lifeblood of the cabal. Many global lines of extreme evil
lead back to The Netherlands and Belgium, from where it affects all other
nations of the world...
20230711-L1150
Mark Rutte: the everyman Dutch PM
whose ‘Teflon’ powers finally waned
Netherlands’ longest-serving leader
has announced he will not stand at next election after his government collapsed
He was the great survivor of Dutch politics, a man whose capacity to
swerve criticism and survive scandal earned him the nickname “Teflon Mark”,
combining backroom skills with everyman appeal to become the country’s
longest-serving leader. But Mark Rutte came unstuck on Monday, telling shocked
MPs and reporters in The Hague he would not be standing in the next elections
after his divided coalition government collapsed on Friday over asylum policy.
The decision brings to an end the 56-year-old’s 17-year tenure as leader of the
liberal-conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and 13
years as prime minister of the Netherlands at the head of four different
governments. “I do this with mixed feelings, with emotion,” he said. “But it
feels right.” As the EU’s longest-serving government leader after Hungary’s
Viktor Orbán, his name has been floated for international jobs, including at
Nato and the European Council....
20230711-L1149
Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine
Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine –
Study is Removed Within 24 Hours
A Lancet review of 325 autopsies after Covid vaccination found that 74%
of the deaths were caused by the vaccine – but the study was removed within 24
hours. The paper, a pre-print that was awaiting peer-review, is written by
leading cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch
and their colleagues at the Wellness Company and was published online on
Wednesday on the pre-print site of the prestigious medical journal. However,
less than 24 hours later, the study was removed and a note appeared stating:
“This preprint has been removed by Preprints with the Lancet because the
study’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology.” While the
study had not undergone any part of the peer-review process, the note implies
it fell foul of “screening criteria”.
20230710-L1148
Mexican Pemex Estimates Platform
Fire Shut In 700,000 Barrels Of Oil
https://gcaptain.com/mexican-pemex-estimates-platform-fire-shut-in-700000-barrels-of-oil/
Mexican oil company Pemex estimates that a deadly fire on a
majoroffshore platform off the southern edge of the Gulf of Mexico has led to
the loss of 700,000 barrels of crude oil production so far, while one person
remains missing, the CEO of the state company, Octavio Romero, said on
Saturday. The fire started early Friday on the Nohoch-A link platform of the
company’s Cantarell Field and later moved to a compression complex, killing two
people. The fire has since been controlled, the company said. “Today, 700,000 barrels of losses have been
reflected (…) because we closed practically all the wells in the area,” Romero
said via the company’s Twitter account. As of Saturday afternoon, 600,000
barrels of production had resumed, the executive added. The company said that
searchers were still looking for the person who disappeared after the fire in
Cantarell, an emblematic asset that produces some 170,000 barrels of oil per
day (bpd). Located in the Bay of Campeche, about 85 kilometers from Ciudad del
Carmen, Cantarell is made up of a series of fields in the marine area, and was
once one of the world’s most productive. Pemex has suffered a number of
industrial accidents in this highly productive zone in recent years. Most of
Mexico’s crude production, approximately 1.6 million bpd, comes from the
shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico...
20230710-L1147
France passes law allowing police
to spy on citizens
by remotely accessing phones, other
devices!
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/france-passes-law-allowing-police-to-spy-on-citizens-by-remotely-accessing-phones-other-devices/?utm_source=onesignal
The new surveillance provision will cover laptops, cars, phones, and
other devices, and allow the geolocation of suspects in crimes punishable by at
least five years' imprisonment. French lawmakers have agreed on a law that
enables the police to surveil suspects by remotely controlling and turning on
the microphone, camera, and GPS of their mobile phones and other devices. On the
evening of July 5, French legislators voted in favor of a justice reform bill
that includes the highly controversial spying provision, the French newspaper
Le Monde reports. According to Le Monde, the new surveillance provision will
“cover laptops, cars, and other connected objects as well as phones; the
measure would allow the geolocation of suspects in crimes punishable by at
least five years’ jail.” The legislators added an amendment that limits the use
of remotely accessing devices to “when [it is] justified by the nature and
seriousness of the crime” and “for a strictly proportional duration.” All
instances of police spying on devices must be approved by a judge, and the
duration of surveillance must not exceed six months. “Sensitive professions” including
journalists, doctors, judges, lawyers, and MPs would be excluded as targets,
according to the bill...
20230710-L1146
Is there a Vatican-Clinton-Soros
Axis?
https://onepeterfive.com/vatican-clinton-soros-axis/
This morning at Casa Santa Marta, the current papal residence, Pope
Francis once more made his case against those who are clinging to the Laws of
God, claiming that they might lead a double life, are sick or are otherwise
distorted. He then claimed, “it is not easy to walk within the Law of the Lord
without falling into rigidity,” thus putting a question mark on those who try
to live the moral life of a Catholic. Here is what Pope Francis said, according
to a Vatican Radio report: In many cases, the Pope continued, rigidity conceals
the leading of a double life; but, he pointed out, there can also be something
pathological.
20230710-L1145
‘Unbearable’ Stories From the
Pandemic: Why We Must Share Them
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/unbearable-trauma-stories-covid-pandemic/?itm_term=home
Hopefully, those who made the shameful, unjustified, inhuman decisions
that led to so many traumatic stories will regret them someday — and those who
are tomorrow’s decision-makers might think twice before suppressing individual
rights.
By Thi Thuy Van Dinh
Traumatic times in human experience are often best understood, across
cultures, through the sharing of stories.
I have a few personal stories about the COVID-19 restrictions. As a
mother, daughter and human, they illustrate to me that something is deeply wrong.
First, I was furious that the daycare centers, playgrounds and local
libraries were ordered to close.
I stood in the park, looking at the roped-off swing that my one-year-old
daughter loved, and felt outrage in my veins. In the name of what was this
taken away from my children? I have dutifully paid taxes for years to maintain
these public services.
I was exasperated that the lockdowns were so easily accepted in the
West, which did not help the Global South at all. In the South, people tend to
look to the West to do the right thing, as it is often not as easy for them to
protest against governmental orders.
This anger was amplified a few
months later.
My father fell ill two days before the lockdowns in my home country.
Bound to bed, he survived for eight months without formal medical care, then
passed away.
He was old and frail, so several of us preferred that he spend his last
days at home and be buried next to his ancestors, rather than ending his life
with strangers wearing astronaut suits and then being cremated like
contaminated waste (“because of COVID-19”).
How much I wished his last days would have been less painful for him!
How much I wished I and my children could have been there!
I did not know another way of mourning besides family and community
gatherings, crying and talking about the deceased’s life.
I was shattered as a child and a lawyer.
The right to family of a migrant worker like me suddenly vanished, was
buried and flushed away in the endless spirals of lockdowns, border closures
and vaccine requirements, for the so-called “greater good.”
I was treated worse than a criminal. It was impossible to challenge
these mandates. This has rendered me hurt, upset and worried for the future of
my children.
We all must have a few stories like mine that motivated our decisions.
Some were made under extremely coercive circumstances. Others made for the hope
of a better future.
My husband and I became lockdown refugees, moving to another part of the
country where we restarted from zero.
Sadly and revoltingly, my stories are nothing next to the ones I know.
Those reveal the unimaginable inhumanity of the governors, hospitals, nursing
homes and workplaces, from friends and friends of friends.
Somewhere in Southeast Asia, an elderly couple reliant on the village
market died of hunger after the market was closed.
A Grab biker in a mega-city was sent to the quarantine center for weeks
for being in close contact with a COVID-19-positive customer.
When he returned home, no one could let him know the whereabouts of his
grandmother and mother who had lived with him for almost 40 years. They must
have died and their bodies either discarded in some unmarked mass grave or
cremated and their ashes thrown.
A whole class of more than thirty 3-year-old toddlers was taken to the
quarantine center because of one positive test. The parents arrived at the
daycare center to pick them up, as usual, to find their children gone. The kids
had to endure quarantine alone.
A father of four children had a serious seizure immediately after being
ordered to take a COVID-19 vaccine, footed his medical bills, felt lucky enough
not to die and never dared to question anything.
Here in North America, one of my friends took a COVID-19 vaccine against
her will when the hospital told her she could not visit and hold her dying
mother’s hands. My friend surrendered because she was a human being and a
mother herself.
Another friend’s husband lost his job for refusing the vaccine, forcing
them to sell their house and move away to another area.
A son “kidnapped” his mother from a nursing home and hid with her in a
trailer in the forest, just to take care of and spend time with her.
These stories are unbearable at different levels and dimensions. They
should be contextualized for their real impact to be felt, such as where the
individuals and the communities have no cushions, hunger means famine and death
and many millions more girls are too young to be married and children too young
to work.
They haunt me; they make me wonder whether we will be able to rebuild
the world in the aftermath of such personal and collective tragedies.
There are billions of such stories of voiceless, little people, whose
life and rights did not matter in the last three years. They suddenly
discovered that international institutions didn’t care about them.
They came to understand the claims that the United Nations (U.N.)
secretary-general was “the spokesperson for the interests of the world’s
peoples, in particular, the poor and vulnerable people among them” were untrue.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced his two-step plan on
March 26, 2020: “First, to suppress the transmission of Covid-19 as quickly as
possible” and “keep it suppressed until a vaccine becomes available;” second,
“work together to minimize the social and economic impact.”
Guterres clearly knew there would be social and economic impacts;
nevertheless, he judged them minimizable. His plan was executed by almost all
governments, throwing one after another lockdown blankets the world over.
He did not invite states to reconsider these unprecedented emergency
measures. He did not question their proportionality and excessive duration as
suggested by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
guidelines, or the reasons why the World Health Organization (WHO) abandoned
applying its own 2019 pandemic guidelines which had recommended against
unethical and anti-human rights pandemic measures.
Then he chose to carefully raise some most obvious impacts (1.6 billion
students out of schools) and left out others (health matters other than
COVID-19, social, economic and human rights).
No, he did not stand up for the
poor and vulnerable!
The same choice was made across the U.N. entities whose abbreviations,
namely, FAO, ILO, OHCHR, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNWOMEN and WHO, among others, were
once synonyms of goodwill and human rights.
I was condemned to stay where I was when the leaders, the
self-proclaimed philanthropists and my former colleagues were gathering in
Glasgow for their COP26 on climate change.
Two years later, the U.N. system is doubling down on the new narratives
of “complex global shocks,” “climate crises” and “pandemic preparedness,”
envisaging how to spend more tax-paid money and create more debt rather than
repair the damage done.
How about rebuilding informal economies, communities and small
businesses in low- and middle-income countries?
How about children’s rights, women’s rights and human rights? Primary
health care? Fair and transparent assessments of COVID-19 responses? A decent
apology for letting us down?
The WHO, obviously incompetent and shameless of its poor record in
managing the COVID-19 crisis, is asking member states to give it extraordinary
powers so that during the next “potential” event, it can order more lockdowns,
quarantines and vaccine requirements.
Pure theater.
In many cultures, it is uncomfortable to share pain and show emotion. We
often leave it to the specialists who have the duty to keep it confidential. I
had adopted this advice while making a professional career in the West, but
have decided to talk about my late father and volunteered to be someone else’s
voice, like for the elderly couple and the Grab biker.
I invite you to consider sharing and collecting COVID-19 stories around
you, within your networks and communities or on the new Covid Stories webapp
depository designed to better understand the collateral damage of restriction
measures globally.
Many of us may never know justice or reparations after these three
agonizing years. But by archiving these stories, we should be able to, somehow,
quantify some visible parts of the immense sufferings imposed on the world.
Hopefully, those who made the shameful, unjustified, inhuman decisions
will regret them someday. Those who are tomorrow’s decision-makers might think
twice before suppressing individual rights.
Those who prepare for future political debates might foresee the impact
of the agenda they choose to promote. Those who regret their decisions and
actions might behave differently during a future crisis. Those who were burned,
like me, could go on.
Together, it will be our way to say “I am sorry” and “never again.”
Originally published by Brownstone Institute.
Thi Thuy Van Dinh, Ph.D., LLM, worked on international law in the U.N.
Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights. Subsequently, she managed multilateral organization partnerships for
Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund and led environmental health technology
development efforts for low-resource settings.
20230705-L1144
Most High Street Banks are Signed
Up to Stonewall Diversity Schemes
The majority of High Street banks are members of diversity schemes run
by the controversial charity Stonewall, the Telegraph has revealed. Lenders are
facing questions over their links to the charity amid a backlash over closing
the bank accounts of some people with gender-critical views. A vicar who
questioned his building society’s Pride branding had his account closed, while
a Scottish blogger believes action was taken by his bank over his stance on
gender issues. Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme includes guidance to
employers on gender-neutral spaces and the use of pronouns. The company also
runs a top 100 index that measures employers on diversity and inclusion...
20230705-L1143
MoD signs a contract of Rs. 2725 Cr
with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd
for Medium Refit with Life
Certification of Submarine INS Shankush
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1936402
Ministry of Defence has signed a contract on 30th June, 2023 for Medium
Refit with Life Certification (MRLC) of Sub-Surface Killer (SSK) Class of
Submarine “INS Shankush” with M/S Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL),
Mumbai at an overall cost of Rs. 2725 Cr. Shankush is a SSK Class of Submarine
to be re-fitted at MDL, Mumbai. Delivery of Submarine post MRLC will be in
2026. After completion of MRLC, INS Shankush will be combat ready and will join
the active fleet of the Indian Navy with upgraded combat capability. This
project is an important step towards development of MDL as Maintenance, Repair
& Overhaul (MRO) Hub for supporting the industrial ecosystem of India. The
project would involve more than 30 MSMEs and would lead to employment
generation of 1200 Mandays per day for the project duration. The project will
be a proud flag bearer of Atmanirbhar Bharat in consonance with the
Make-in-India initiative of Government of India
20230705-L1142
Hulk of OS 35 Bulker Lifted from
the Waters off Gibraltar
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/hulk-of-os-35-bulker-lifted-from-the-waters-off-gibraltar
The salvage operation to remove the wreck of the bulker OS 35 off
Gibraltar was largely completed on July 3. The two sections of the hulk have
now been removed from the ocean 10 months after the vessel hit an anchored gas
carrier and sank to the seafloor near one of Gibraltar’s beaches. “I’m
delighted that we have finally reached this important milestone,” said the
Minister for the Port, Vijay Daryanani, announcing the hulk had raised. “I’d like to thank all those who continue to
work towards the ultimate goal of the final departure of the OS 35 from
Gibraltar’s waters with safety and environmental protection as the top
priority.” The two sections of the bulker, which had measured 584 feet, were
transferred onto the semi-submersible, heavy-lift vessel Fjord. Port officials
announced today that the two sections of the hull were now safely aboard the
lift ship and raised above the water...
20230704-L1141
Spanish Archaeologists Plan Rescue
Of 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Shipwreck
https://gcaptain.com/spanish-archaeologists-plan-rescue-of-2500-year-old-phoenician-shipwreck/
A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a
2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it
from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. The eight-meter-long Mazarron
II, named after the municipality in the southeastern Spanish region of Murcia
where it was found off the coast, is a unique piece of ancient maritime
engineering. Nine technicians from the University of Valencia underwent 560
hours of scuba diving over more than two weeks in June to record all the cracks
and fissures in the ship, which lies 60 meters (66 yards) from the Mazarron’s
Playa de la Isla. Later this year, the experts will recommend how to protect
and retrieve the wreck, possibly as early as next summer. It could be extracted
piece by piece using the existing cracks and reassembled out of the water like
a puzzle, said archaeologist Carlos de Juan from the University of
Valencia-Institute of Nautical Archaeology, who coordinated the project...
20230704-L1140
Supermarket introduces robots to
replace warehouse workers, boost efficiency
https://www.rebelnews.com/coles_introduces_robots_to_replace_warehouse_workers_boost_efficiency
Supermarket giant Coles unveils Australia's first automated distribution
warehouse, 'improving accuracy and speed' while dismissing job loss concerns.
Warehouse workers will be replaced by hi-tech and high-speed robots at the
enormous warehouse that occupies an area twice the size of the MCG playing
field. Stock from the automated site will supply 200 Coles stores across Queensland
and NSW. Coles boasted that the new human-free packing and freight system is
faster, more accurate, and leads to less stock damage. The robot-operated
warehouse, where will bring down grocery prices, the company boasts...
20230704-L1139
Creators of Saskatechwan gov’t
COVID vaccine ads admit to playing on people’s ‘fear’
'We strategized that if someone’s vaccination status began affecting
their social life, travel plans, or entertainment, that could be the final
motivation needed to get on board. So, we tapped into a base potential fear of
this group: the fear of missing out,' the ad agency wrote. One of the makers of
COVID-19 vaccine advertisements for the provincial government of Saskatchewan
has admitted to playing on people’s “base potential fear” as a way of promoting
the novel injections. “We strategized that if someone’s vaccination status
began affecting their social life, travel plans, or entertainment, that could
be the final motivation needed to get on board. So, we tapped into a base
potential fear of this group: the fear of missing out,” wrote the Brown Communications
Group, which made COVID-19 vaccination advertisements for Saskatchewan’s
Ministry of Health, on its website...
20230704-L1138
Macron asks ministers to restore
order in France – Reports
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/macron-asks-ministers-to-restore-order-in-france-reports/
French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting with ministers on
Sunday night, called on them to do everything possible to restore order in
France amid ongoing unrest, local TV reported. Macron met with French Prime
Minister Elisabeth Borne and several other ministers at the Elysee Palace on
Sunday evening to discuss the situation in the country. A local TV channel
cited participants in the meeting who said that Macron had asked the prime
minister, the interior minister and the justice minister to continue doing
everything possible to restore order in France. Macron also said that the
French government must continue supporting law enforcement officers and members
of special services who have been mobilized over the past five days...
20230703-L1137
Thousands Of Port Workers In
Canada’s British Columbia Go On strike
https://gcaptain.com/thousands-of-port-workers-in-canadas-british-columbia-go-on-strike/
Several thousand unionized port workers in Canada’s western province of
British Columbia went on strike after failing to reach a deal to renew an
industry-wide contract that expired in March, a waterfront employers group said
on Saturday. The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) said
it and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) had
met Thursday and Friday in talks supported by the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service. “Unfortunately, a tentative agreement could not be
reached,” the BCMEA said in a statement. ILWU Canada members were on strike at
sites across British Columbia, the BCMEA said. Asked for comment, the union
said it would issue a statement once there is a resolution to the dispute over
the collective bargaining agreement, which covers about 7,500 employees at 30
terminals in the province. The walkout could have serious consequences for
Canada’s economy and small businesses, the Canadian Federation of Independent
Business (CFIB) said in a statement. The group urged the government to ensure
port operations are maintained...
20230703-L1136
Hundreds of religious parents in
Maryland protest against LGBT indoctrination of kids
Parents from a diverse range of traditional religious backgrounds joined
forces this week to protest the mandatory indoctrination of their children into
radical LGBT ideology. Protesters said their children shouldn’t be forced to
read materials that violate their religious beliefs. Hundreds of parents,
including Christians, Muslims, and Hindus, reportedly gathered outside the
headquarters of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) on Tuesday to protest
the district’s new policy mandating that children in kindergarten through fifth
grade “engage” with LGBT reading materials as part of their English language
arts curriculum. The district said in a March statement that it “expects all
classrooms to be inclusive and safe spaces for students, including those who
identify as LGBTQ+ or have family members in the LGBTQ+ community … Therefore,
as with all curriculum resources, there is an expectation that teachers utilize
these inclusive lessons and texts with all students.” Concerned parents
previously filed a lawsuit against the district over the new policy last
month...
20230703-L1135
Ironic: Trudeau government spends
$61,000 on fancy hotel at NYC anti-poverty summit
Franco Terrazzano told Sheila about Justin Trudeau’s host of recent
splurges of taxpayer dollars on international trips. This is just an excerpt
from The Ezra Levant Show. To see new, ad-free episodes, which air Monday -
Friday @ 8 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. MT, become a subscriber to RebelNews+. This episode
originally aired on June 30, 2023. On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant
Show, guest host Sheila Gunn Reid spoke with Franco Terrazanno of The Canadian Taxpayers
Federation about Justin Trudeau’s out-of-control spending on high-flying
international trips. Franco told Sheila about one of Trudeau’s most ironic
recent expenditures. Well, you mentioned out-of-touch, and I don't think I
could even come up with a more out-of-touch story than this. The Trudeau
government spent $61,000 to stay in a fancy hotel in New York City to attend an
anti-poverty summit. To hear that folks, this is how the Trudeau government
fights poverty, by staying in a five-star hotel in Manhattan and spending
$61,000 on hotel rooms. Not even to mention the cost of the flights or other
meals. So here's a question, how many people do you think the government lifted
out of poverty by spending $61,000 on a five-star hotel? I don't think very
many...
20230703-L1134
Royal Air Force discriminated
against white males to increase diversity – Inquiry
An official inquiry confirmed that Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF)
implemented discrimination practices against white males in recruiting and
selection procedures in order to meet diversity goals, RAF chief Richard
Knighton has said. Several years ago, reports emerged that the Royal Air Force
stopped accepting white male recruits in order to increase the presence of
women and ethnic minorities among armed forces staff. The UK Ministry of
Defense refuted that information, while media, citing leaked RAF internal
memos, reported that ethnic and gender diversity were present among officers’
performance goals...
20230703-L1133
Unrest sparked by teen’s killing
spreads to Brussels, 64 arrested
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/unrest-sparked-by-teens-killing-spreads-to-brussels-64-arrested/
Violent unrest triggered by the police shooting of a 17-year-old during
a traffic stop has roiled France for 3 nights. Nationwide riots triggered by
French police’s fatal shooting of a 17-year-old spread to Belgium on Thursday,
unleashing chaos that resulted in 64 arrests, City of Brussels police revealed
on Friday. The arrested included 47 minors and 16 adults who have been
administratively detained, police said in a statement on Friday. Another minor,
who was reportedly seen beating up a police officer, was arrested and
questioned but released on Friday...
20230703-L1132
Riots force Macron to leave EU
summit
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/riots-force-macron-to-leave-eu-summit/
The French President canceled his press conference in Brussels to chair
a crisis meeting in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron cut short his visit
to Brussels on Friday, where he was attending a summit of EU leaders, and
returned to Paris to chair an emergency meeting over ongoing riots following
the fatal shooting of a youth by police. Macron returned home in time for the
1:00pm (1100 GMT) session, scrapping a planned press conference on the results
of the EU gathering. The change of plan was announced on Friday morning by the
Elysee palace, according to French media...
20230703-L1131
French rioters filmed brandishing
military-grade weapons as unrest grows
Multiple participants of the ongoing protests triggered by a fatal
police shooting appear to be heavily armed. Mass rioting has continued to grip
France after the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M. during a traffic
stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Multiple videos circulating online have
shown rioters across France carrying military-grade weapons. Around 45,000
police officers have been deployed to quell the unrest, which has spread
throughout the country...
20230703-L1130
Trudeau’s internet censorship Bill
C-18 becomes law after passing Senate
Internet censorship Bill C-18 has become law despite warnings that it
will end free speech in Canada. On June 22, Canada’s Senate voted 56-22 in favor
of Bill C-18, titled the Online News Act, which will block news content for
Canadians on social media platforms. It received Royal Assent the same day.
Bill C-18 says it “establishes a framework through which digital news
intermediary operators and news businesses may enter into agreements respecting
news content that is made available by digital news intermediaries.” The law is
presented as an attempt to keep journalism alive in Canada by providing outlets
with “fair compensation” if their content is published on social media
platforms. However, Bill C-18 gives the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the power to
determine which news content Canadians are permitted to view. According to the bill, to be considered
“eligible” for sharing, a news outlet must be “a qualified Canadian journalism
organization” and produce “news content of public interest that is primarily
focused on matters of general interest and reports of current events.” It is up to the Canadian government to decide
which news outlets are to be considered “eligible.”...
20230703-L1129
WEF elites admit potential for
‘darker world’ where CBDCs could be gov’t-controlled
Governments can program Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with
expiry dates and to restrict undesirable purchases, according to a discussion
at the World Economic Forum (WEF) “Summer Davos” meeting in China. On
Wednesday, at the WEF’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer
Davos,” in Tianjing, China, Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad said that
“we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing,” and that
programmable CBDCs could take us to either a better or much darker place. “If
you think about the benefits of digital money, there are huge potential gains,”
said Prasad, adding, “It’s not just about digital forms of digital currency;
you can have programmability – units of central bank currency with expiry
dates.” “You could have […] a potentially better – or some people might say a
darker world – where the government decides that units of central bank money
can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less
desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the
sort, and that is very powerful in terms of the use of a CBDC, and I think also
extremely dangerous to central banks.”...
20230703-L1128
Trump obliterates ‘woke’ communists,
Deep State for ‘waging war on God’
Former President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on his
political opponents this past weekend at the annual Faith & Freedom
conference in Washington, D.C. Excoriating everyone from Joe Biden and
left-wing Democrats to corrupt members of the Deep State, the former president
held nothing back while defending Christian Americans. “Our enemies are waging
war on faith and freedom, on science and religion, on history and tradition, on
law and democracy, on God Almighty Himself they are waging war,” he exclaimed.
“That’s not a war they’re going to win.” “The radicals are setting fire to our
Constitution, abolishing free speech, attacking religious belief, erasing our
borders, corrupting our elections … and trying to impose their blasphemous
creed of woke communism on every American man, woman, and child,” he
continued...
20230703-L1127
Really? or is the crowd still
asleep?
We are at the beginning of
something that is unstoppable, and which will flood the entire world.
A historically unprecedented worldwide awakening is happening, in which
hundreds of millions of people are beginning to see how their governments,
media and health organizations are indescribably corrupt, and are lying to them
in ways nobody could have ever imagined in their worst nightmares. As a result,
innumerable people in every nation no longer blindly submit themselves to the
criminal plans of their overlords, but they have begun to rise up and take
action to build a better world. The magnitude of this worldwide awakening is
beyond anyone's comprehension. Nothing like this has ever occurred since the
beginning of time. Still, it is only just beginning, and is nothing compared to
what the world is about to witness soon. As vaccine adverse events get worse
worldwide, as healthy and innocent people are rounded up in quarantine camps,
as vaccine passports are required to participate in society, and so many more
insane things are happening, this current awakening will evolve into something
we cannot even imagine...
20230703-L1126
Are the vaccines the prophesied
Mark of the Beast?
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are convinced that the C0VID
vaccines are the Mark of the Beast, as predicted in the Bible, which means the
end of the world is near. According to a widespread belief the notorious
"Mark of the Beast" heralds the total rule of evil over humanity,
which leads to the final destruction of our world. Hundreds of millions of good
people are therefore convinced that we are in the final days of planet earth,
and humanity is doomed. They consider actions to prevent world tyranny futile,
as they believe it is destined to happen. Because this belief puts hundreds of
millions of people at the sidelines of world events, instead of being active at
the center of what is happening, I decided to have an honest look at what the
Bible really says about this...
20230703-L1125
NZ Doctor’s Appeal of ‘Covid
Misinformation’ Suspension Heard
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/nz-doctors-appeal-of-covid-misinformation-suspension-heard/
On Wednesday morning, Dr Alison Goodwin was in Wellington District Court
to appeal an extreme decision made by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
that saw her suspended and without an Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) for
10 months during the Covid pandemic. Her “crime”? Speaking the truth as she
perceived it – an opinion that did not align with the NZ government and MCNZ’s
messaging. In late 2020, New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science (NZDSOS)
member Dr. Goodwin started to speak publicly about her concerns with the NZ
government’s Covid response and the lack of Informed Consent in relation to the
Covid vaccination. As a doctor for nearly 30 years, most recently a General
Practitioner and also trained in lifestyle medicine, she provided information
to interested members of the public both online and at popular public meetings.
Despite no patient complaints and no evidence of harm being caused, the MCNZ
investigated, harassed, and dealt heavy-handed punishment to Dr. Goodwin for
asking questions and voicing her professional medical opinion...
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