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Combined, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea possess over 12,000 nuclear weapons, these countries and their citizens are most at risk from nuclear catastrophe
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There remain, as of 2021, twelve sovereign monarchies in Europe. Seven are kingdoms: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Monaco are principalities, while Luxembourg is a Grand Duchy.
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NATO was formed in 1949 by 12 countries from Europe and North America.
The original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
New countries have joined NATO through rounds of enlargement.
The North Atlantic Council is the main political decision-making body of NATO.
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Book. ‘ Clash of Civilisations’
It is over 10 years since I read Samuel Huntington's full length expansion of his classic Foreign Affairs article. This was read during my final year at university, and back then, it was fashionable amongst many to refute, or outrightly mock Professor Huntington's disturbing piece of work. The work was derided amongst my fellow students, it was frequently derieded amongst academia, it is something of a fashion statement to deride Huntington's work. Why?
Could it be, perhaps, because of a deep, inbuilt feeling that we just know that he was right?
In the 10+ years since I read this monumental study, I have encountered very little in current events to refute his argument. Time has vindicated Huntington, and will continue to vindicate him.
Huntington identifies 9 civilizations, Western, Orthodox, Islamic, Latin American, African, Sinic, Hindu, Buddhist and Japanese.
The 2 civilizations that Huntington considers to be the most potentially antagonistic toward the West are Islamic and Sinic, however, as this book was completed in 2006, various conflicts had not yet played out between the West and the Orthodox World, and this is deserving of a special place as a potential faultline civilization.
Huntington considers the value systems of Sinic and Islamic culture as essentially incompatible with the West, and attempts to assimilate or reconcile Western values with these cultures is ultimately futile. Therefore, Huntington advocates a careful, cautious approach to foreign policy, wherein Western powers should try to mediate civilizational disputes, but not directly involve themselves with them.
Why do I think Huntington has been vindicated? The list is not exhaustive.
Firstly, attempts through that ill conceived 2003-? War in Iraq to democracize Iraq has proved a colossal failure. The Arab Spring led to an outright dead end for all countries involved except Tunisia, and Turkish membership of the EU remains a pipe dream.
However, while Huntington's work was written before the full democratization of South Korea and Taiwan, we have seen little progress in China toward any kind of accountable or open system, and China has recently given Hong Kong a half-baked, managed democracy.
If anything, the civilizational faultline that has become more pronounced is the Orthodox World. Russia and US relations are at the worst they have ever been since the end of the Cold War, and the continuing support of Putin's strongman leadership amongst the Russian population shows a general preference in Russia at least for strongman leadership, rather than a more pluralistic approach.
The situation in Ukraine is perhaps the Western-Orthodox divide being played out within a single, fragmented state, and is in many ways the result of naive Western attempts to push Western Institutions (NATO and the EU) into the Orthodox World.
A further example was the almost universal Western support (exception Spain) for the unilateral independence of Kosovo, and then the complete reverse of this foreign policy toward the Russian unification with Crimea.
This is not to distract oneself with current issues. Huntington's original work was written in response
response to the 1991 Gulf War, and the expanded book was based on events in the 90s, such as the Yugoslav wars, Chechnya, and the very nature of Sino-Western relations.
However, very little has transpired to prove Huntington wrong, and few would argue that his main policy proscription, that the West only mediate, not directly involve themselves with disputes involving other civilizations.
I think the dust will never settle on the debate over Huntington's thesis, but Huntington has convinced this reader at least.
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57 mosques 🕌 now in wales 🏴, Of the 57 mosques in Wales, most are to be found in Cardiff, with seven in Newport, and four in Swansea. There are also Mosques in most large towns across the nation such as those at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Barry, Haverfordwest, Lampeter, Neath, Port Talbot and Wrexham.
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The exploitation of petroleum and natural gas in Ukraine necessitated the creation of an extensive pipeline transport system. One of the first natural gas pipelines in the region opened in the 1920s, linking Dashava to Lviv and then to Kyiv. As a result of the Soviet Union’s commitment to major gas exporting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, two trunk pipelines were laid across Ukraine to bring gas to eastern and western Europe from Siberia and Orenburg in Russia. Petroleum from the Dolyna oil field in western Ukraine is piped some 40 miles (65 km) to a refinery at Drohobych, and oil from fields in eastern Ukraine is piped to a refinery in Kremenchuk. Subsequently, larger petroleum trunk lines were added (some 700 miles [1,100 km]) to supply petroleum from western Siberia to refineries at Lysychansk, Kremenchuk, Kherson, and Odessa, as well as a 420-mile (675-km) segment of the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, which crosses western Ukraine to supply Siberian oil to other European countries. The pipelines connecting the Siberian oil and gas fields with Europe are a major economic asset for Ukraine, as their importance to Russia gives Ukraine leverage in negotiations over oil and gas imports. However, disputes between Ukraine and Russia have in the past led the latter to cut off its supply temporarily—negatively affecting Ukraine as well as the European Union, which depends on gas and oil from these pipelines
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@ Who is truly American 🇺🇸? I would think it was Native Americans are and everyone else are immigrants . Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620 , Everyone is from Everywhere and whites usually descend from European countries like Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Germany 🇩🇪, England 🏴, Scotland 🏴, wales 🏴 African Americans and every other country, full of different cultures and faiths to make the mosaic of societies . Therefore Elon Musk is a warm welcome and a asset
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We are living in a "hybrid phase", he adds, with threats including "disinformation, cyber attack, espionage and sabotage".
When asked if this is the most dangerous period, in terms of risk of war for Germany since the Cold War, he replied: "Yes, definitely."
"I don't think we are in war, but we are no longer living in peacetime."
Last year, Germany honed its battle readiness including using war games to test how the military or civilians respond. But while ministers and military chiefs talk about the need to get "war ready" - years of deprioritising defence have made that task extremely complex.
Success involves the whole country rising rapidly to the challenge, according to Bodemann.
"Russia is reorganising, restructuring and boosting its forces... We have to speed up to be ready before it is," he warned.
In her annual report, Germany's armed forces commissioner, Eva Hogl, noted the nation's military, or Bundeswehr, faced significant personnel problems as well as continuing struggles with equipment shortages.
At the end of 2023, soldier numbers dropped by 1,537 compared to the year before with more than 20,000 vacant posts.
So how did we get here?
Nato bases in Russias back yard which the Russians find threatening to their country
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The Illegal Migration Bill will change the law to make it unambiguously clear that, if you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here. Instead, you will be detained and promptly removed either to your home country or to a safe country where any asylum claim will be considered. You will no longer be able to frustrate removal attempts with late or spurious legal challenges or appeals, and once removed, you will have no right to re-entry, settlement or citizenship.
The only way to come to the UK for asylum will be through safe and legal routes and, as we get a grip on illegal migration, we will create more of those routes. We will work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to identify those who are most in need so that the UK remains a safe haven for the most vulnerable. We will also introduce an annual cap on numbers, set by Parliament in consultation with local authorities to determine our capacity, and amendable in the face of humanitarian emergencies.
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@Даниил Трубецкой
“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country “ - Hermann Goering …
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Board of Trustees
Mukesh D. Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries
Marc Benioff
Chair and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce
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Thomas Buberl
Chief Executive Officer, AXA
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
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Chairman, Bain & Company
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Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Al Gore
Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management LLP
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Chairman, Massellaz
Paula Ingabire
Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda
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Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy
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President, European Central Bank
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Cellist,
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Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals
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Chair of the Executive Committee, Olayan Financing Group
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Chairman, National Institute of Financial Research
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As a Conservative MP arrested on suspicion of rape is released on bail, we take a look at sexual misconduct allegations made against MPs and their outcomes.
Imran Ahmad Khan
The Conservative MP for Wakefield, Imran Ahmad Khan, was found guilty in April of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy after plying him with gin at a party in 2008.
Khan assaulted the boy in Staffordshire in January 2008, 11 years before he became an MP. He resigned as an MP two weeks after he was found guilty.
Neil Parish
The Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton in April admitted to watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons.
Parish initially suggested he had opened the porn “in error” but subsequently admitted that while the first time he had watched porn in parliament was an accident, and he was in fact searching for tractors, the second occasion was deliberate. He announced his decision to resign as an MP.
David Warburton
The Conservative party removed the whip from the MP for Somerton and Frome, who, the Sunday Times reported, is facing allegations from three women.
Warburton, 56, was accused by one of the women of climbing into bed with her naked. She told the Sunday Times she repeatedly warned that she did not want to have sex with him, but alleged that he ground his body against her and groped her breasts.
He is said to have denied any wrongdoing, and insisted he had “enormous amounts of defence, but unfortunately the way things work means that doesn’t come out first”.
Rob Roberts
The Conservative MP for Delyn was allowed to rejoin the party despite an independent investigation finding that he sexually harassed a junior member of staff.
Roberts was suspended for 12 weeks after the independent panel found he had made “significant” repeated and unwanted sexual advances towards a former member of staff and used “his position as his employer to place him under pressure to accede”.
He had his membership to the party restored but continued to sit as an independent MP in parliament.
Andrew Griffiths
In December 2021, in family proceedings a high court judge concluded that the former Conservative minister raped his wife when she was asleep and subjected her to coercive control.
The judgment detailed alleged domestic abuse by Griffiths towards his wife, Kate, who is a serving Conservative MP, during their marriage.
It also included pressing her into sex, physically assaulting and verbally abusing her, the judge found. Andrew Griffiths denied allegations and “adamantly denied” rape.
He resigned from government as business minister in July 2018 after sending 2,000 sexually explicit messages to constituents. In November 2019 he stepped down as an MP.
Charlie Elphicke
The MP for Dover was convicted and jailed in 2020 for sexually assaulting two women. He was found guilty of three charges, two in relation to a parliamentary worker in 2016 and one in relation to a woman at his family’s central London home in 2007. The sentencing judge described Elphicke as “a sexual predator who used … success and respectability as a cover”.
During the trial, jurors heard that his first victim had suffered a “terrifying episode” when he assaulted her, then chased her round his home chanting “I’m a naughty Tory”.
Mike Hill
In July 2021, an employment tribunal ruled that the Labour MP for Hartlepool repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed a parliamentary staff member before victimising her when she refused his advances.
A central London employment tribunal found he marginalised her in parliament, changed her terms and conditions of employment and made her redundant when the staff member, known as Ms A, rejected his advances and declarations of love.
Hill had resigned as a Labour MP in March 2021, resulting in a May byelection in Hartlepool and a victory for the Conservatives.
John Woodcock
In April 2018, the Labour MP for Barrow and Furness was suspended from the Labour party amid an investigation into claims he sent inappropriate text messages to a female former aide.
Later that year, he quit the Labour party, saying in a resignation letter that the disciplinary case was politically motivated and rigged against him. He vehemently denied the allegations. His resignation meant the investigation was not concluded.
He continued to serve as an independent and later joined the House of Lords as a crossbench life peer.
Michael Fallon
Conservative Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary in 2017, admitting that his behaviour towards women in the past had “fallen short”.
Fallon apologised for making unwanted advances to the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer, repeatedly placing his hand on her knee – although Hartley-Brewer herself insisted: “No one was remotely upset or distressed.”
However, after his resignation, additional allegations were made against him. In September 2019, he announced he would not seek re-election at the 2019 general election.
Stephen Crabb
The Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire was referred to the party’s complaints procedure in 2017 after admitting he sent “sexual chatter” to a 19-year-old woman who hoped to work for him.
He resigned as pensions secretary in 2016 after allegations that he had sent suggestive messages on WhatsApp to a woman in her 20s, whom he had met through his political role. Crabb apologised for the messages and a Conservative party investigating panel determined that his behaviour had been inappropriate, but did not constitute harassment. He remains an MP.
Mark Garnier
The junior trade minister Mark Garnier was formally cleared of wrongdoing in 2017 for asking his former assistant to buy a sex toy and calling her “sugar tits”.
Garnier did not deny the accusations about the events in 2010 made by his former assistant Caroline Edmondson, which prompted a one-month investigation by the Cabinet Office to see if he had breached the ministerial code.
Damian Green
Damian Green was sacked as first secretary of state in 2017 after admitting he lied about the presence of pornographic images on his House of Commons computer.
In his resignation letter, the Conservative MP for Ashford continued to maintain he did not “download or view” the pornography, but added that he “should have been clear in my press statements”.
A Cabinet Office inquiry was unable to reach a definitive conclusion on separate allegations, made by the Tory activist Kate Maltby, that Green had behaved improperly towards her.
Green continued to maintain he did not believe he did anything inappropriate.
Kelvin Hopkins
The Labour MP for Luton North left the party in January 2021 before an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was concluded, meaning no findings were drawn.
Hopkins was accused in 2017 of inappropriate physical contact and was suspended by the Labour party pending an investigation.
He continued to sit as an independent until the general election last year, when he opted to stand down from the House of Commons after a 22-year career. The prominent Eurosceptic cited his wife’s health as the reason for standing down and has denied the allegations against him.
Clive Lewis
In 2017, Clive Lewis, the Labour MP for Norwich South and former shadow business secretary, was cleared of allegations of sexual harassment after a party investigation.
Lewis, the MP for Norwich South, was accused of grabbing a female Labour member’s bottom at a fringe event at the party’s conference in September. We do not want this kind of behaviour in Government or out of government
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The War Could Have Ended Months Ago — But the West Didn’t Want It ?
When we think of the scale of suffering the war in Ukraine has been causing worldwide, it is hard to believe that Kyiv all but finalised a peace agreement with Moscow as early as April, less than two months into the war, only to be pressured by the West to drop it. Recent revelations strongly suggest that this might be the case.
Just days after its beginning, it was more or less clear to everyone that the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine would turn out to be the largest and possibly bloodiest military campaign in the history of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Since then, the all-out invasion of Ukraine has not only pushed the lives of those directly affected into utter chaos, but also destabilized the energy markets, and disrupted many of the essential supply chains worldwide, setting the stage for unprecedented economic crises in the next months and years.
Amid all these uncertainties, on 9 April 2022—meaning just forty-two days into the now half-a-year-long invasion—Boris Johnson, then prime minister of the United Kingdom, surprised the world by paying a visit to Kyiv and meeting President Zelensky in what The Guardian described as ‘utmost secrecy’. Coincidentally (or not), the visit also happened to be during a time when both sides were preparing for a landmark Putin-Zelensky meeting, with a good chance of starting effective peace negotiations. Not much had been reported on the details of their conversation back then—except for Johnson’s endless praise for the heroism of Ukrainians, as well as the reassurance of his support for the war-torn country—yet one Ukrainian newspaper, the state-run Ukrainska Pravda published a curious piece on it almost a month later, with uneasy implications for the British PM.
In the Pravda article, the author Roman Romaniuk shared the following revelations:
‘According to Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning, brought two simple messages. The first is that Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with. And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to “press him.” Three days after Johnson left for Britain, Putin went public and said talks with Ukraine “had turned into a dead end” !
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Russia and Turkey, which support opposing factions in Syria's more than six-year civil war, have had a tumultuous relationship in recent years. Turkey's geographic and political position as a bridge between East and West has given it strategic leverage with both the Western military alliance NATO, of which it is a member, and Russia, an important economic partner. With Turkish-backed Syrian rebels facing major defeats by both the Russia-backed Syrian military and the U.S.-backed Kurdish militants, Thursday's announcement that Turkey and Russia agreed to allow international forces into areas of respective influence in Syria comes as Ankara attempts to retain its stake in the conflict.
Related: Iran and Turkey, at war in Syria, back Qatar in Gulf crisis with food and military exercises
"We will probably be most prominent in the Idlib region with the Russians, mostly Russia and Iran around Damascus; and a mechanism involving the Americans and Jordan in the south in the Daraa region is being worked on," Ibrahim Kalin, spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was quoted as saying, according to Reuters . What has happened
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The Trilateral Commission, of which Starmer is a member. Other members include top executives of multinational conglomerates such as AT&T and ITT. Oil companies such as Mobil and Exxon, but also the top C.E.Os of the Chase Manhattan Bank, First Chicago Corp, General Electric, TRW, Archer Daniels Midland, Pepsi, RJR Nabisco, Nissan, Toshiba, Fuji Bank and Goldman Sachs.
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Water scarcity ahead for 80% of croplands, but farming methods can help . Will water scarcity be more common in the future?
According to a new study published April 25, 2022, in the peer-reviewed AGU journal Earth’s Future, agricultural water will become scarce in over 80% of the world’s croplands.
The study examines current and future water requirements for global agriculture and predicts whether the water levels available, either from rainwater or irrigation, will be sufficient to meet those needs under climate change. To do so, the researchers developed a new index to measure and predict water scarcity in agriculture’s two major sources. First is soil water that comes from rain, called green water. Second is irrigation from rivers, lakes and groundwater, called blue water. This is the first study to apply this comprehensive index worldwide and predict global blue and green water scarcity as a result of climate change.
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A right-wing populist and Italian nationalist, her political positions have been described as far-right, although she rejects this label. She is opposed to abortion, euthanasia, and to partnerships, marriages, and parenting by same-sex couples, instead asserting that nuclear families are exclusively headed by male–female pairs. Opposed to the reception of non-European migrants and multiculturalism, she has been accused of xenophobia and Islamophobia. A supporter of NATO, she maintains Eurosceptic views regarding the European Union and was in favour of better relations with Russia before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which she condemned, pledging to keep sending arms to Ukraine. She has expressed controversial views, such as praising Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1996 and Nazi collaborator and co-founder of MSI Giorgio Almirante in 2020. ..
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Between 2014 and 2020, around 20,000 Syrians were resettled in the UK. The UK government established several schemes to help Syrian refugees, including:
Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (VPRS): This scheme was established in 2014 after public pressure and a campaign led by the Refugee Council. The UK reached its target of resettling 20,000 refugees by February 2021.
Vulnerable Children's Resettlement (VCRS) scheme: This scheme resettled 1,838 people by February 2021.
Gateway: This resettlement program, run in partnership with UNHCR, aims to resettle 750 refugees per year.
The number of Syrian nationals living in the UK has increased over time:
2011: The UK census recorded 8,526 people born in Syria.
2014: There were around 12,000 Syrian nationals in the UK.
2019: The number of Syrian nationals in the UK peaked at 47,000.
2021: There were approximately 28,000 Syrian nationals in the UK.
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David Cameron, Conservative Party politician and former Prime Minister, who is descended from the German House of Hanover through his fourth great-grandmother Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, illegitimate daughter of King William IV
Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, Labour Party politician
Eyre Crowe, former diplomat whose mother, Asta von Barby, was a German noblewoman
Natascha Engel, Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (half-German and half-English descent, born in Berlin)
Nigel Farage, UKIP politician, whose great-grandfather Charles Justus Schrod (born Carl Julius Schrod), was born to German parents[8]
Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, Labour Party peer
Wera Hobhouse, ( née von Reden) Liberal Democrat and Member of Parliament for Bath
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party politician and current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who is descended from the royal German House of Württemberg (and the House of Hanover) through his German great-great-great grandmother Karolina von Rothenburg (born to Prince Paul of Württemberg and his mistress Frederike Porth)[9]
Jo Johnson, Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament; brother of Boris and Rachel Johnson, and descendant of the House of Württemberg through an illegitimate line
Joseph Jonas, former Mayor of Sheffield and Imperial German Consul to the city[10]
William Joyce
Angus Robertson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament; born to a Scottish father and German mother
Alexander Stafford, Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for Rother Valley
Gisela Stuart (born Gisela Gschaider), Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament
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Palestine has been a crossroads for many cultures, religions, and empires, including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and the Ottoman Empire , all olive skin colour
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In December, Congress approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, which authorized up to $350 million in defensive weapons to Ukraine. But the administration has not used that authority, which has prompted lawmakers to consider additional legislation to press the issue.
Last month, House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) unveiled a bill to provide $1 billion annually in defensive weapons to Ukraine. And Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, is drafting legislation he plans to introduce soon to ramp up Ukraine aid.
A group of 13 senators is eyeing the appropriations process to provide weapons for Ukraine. The group, led by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), sent a letter Tuesday to Appropriations leaders, urging them to include funding for Ukrainian weapons that was authorized in the December legislation.
The annual defense authorization bill — one of the few so-called must-pass pieces of legislation — is also being eyed as a possible vehicle for pushing military aid to Ukraine.
Still, any of the legislative options could take months to enact, if at all, which means that convincing the president to sign off on arms to Ukraine remains the best option for those pushing it. ..
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For fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. As the manager of Risky Business, which was set up to work with vulnerable teens, she heard heartbreaking and shocking stories of abuse and assiduously kept notes and details of the perpetrators, passing information on to the authorities in the belief that they would do something. Eventually, when she lost hope that the authorities would take action against the gangs she had identified as the abusers, she became a whistleblower for The Times investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk.
Now, in her powerful memoir Broken and Betrayed, she describes a life spent working to protect Rotherham's girls, the pressure put on her to stop rocking the boat, and why she risked prison in the hope that she could help end the appalling child exploitation in the town by gangsters reigning by terror
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We want global partners to come who can provide us with large investments,” Zelenskyy said. At the meeting, Ukraine's Ministry of Economy signed an agreement with BlackRock Financial Market Advisory on providing support services to the Ukraine Development Fund. Developed to take in millions of migrants
For economic reasons , Climate Change reasons and warring countries like
Several African countries are experiencing armed conflict, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan , Bangladesh, so many countries that are already here in Britain , there coming your way as we are FULL up
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@Apeiron242 In 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolved, Russian president Boris Yeltsin sent a letter to NATO, suggesting that Russia's long-term aim was to join NATO. The USSR, fearing the restoration of German militarism in West Germany, had suggested in 1954 that it join NATO, but this was rejected by the US and UK. The Soviet request to join NATO arose in the aftermath of the Berlin Conference of January–February 1954. In March 2015, Russia, citing NATO's de facto breach of the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, said that the suspension of its participation in it, announced in 2007, was now "complete" through halting its participation in the consulting group on the Treaty. .
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Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. He was the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology)—the school of logotherapy.
Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.
Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He was a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne, and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College, and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He was a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He was President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.
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(1) During the several months preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and thereafter, the vice president became aware that no certain evidence existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a fact articulated in several official documents, including: (a) A report by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, concluding that “there is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or where Iraq has—or will—establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities.” (b) A National Intelligence Estimate, compiled by the nation’s intelligence agencies, admitting to “little specific information” about chemical weapons in Iraq. (c) A later section of the same NIE, admitting “low confidence” that Saddam Hussein “would engage in clandestine attacks against the U.S. Homeland,” and equally “low confidence” that he would “share chemical or biological weapons with al-Qa’ida.” (d) An addendum by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, asserting that Hussein’s quest for yellowcake uranium in Africa was “highly dubious” and that his acquisition of certain machine parts, considered by some to be evidence of a nuclear program, were “not clearly linked to a nuclear end use.” (e) A report by the United States Department of Energy, stating that the machinery in question was “poorly suited” for nuclear use.
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@piccalillipit9211
SOFIA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Bulgarian lawmakers on Monday voted in Kiril Petkov, a Harvard-educated entrepreneur, as prime minister and approved the lineup of his broad coalition government, ending months of political deadlock in the European Union's poorest member state.
Petkov, 41, whose new centrist faction We Continue The Change (PP) won Bulgaria's third national election this year in November, secured a clear majority of 134 votes in the 240-member parliament to take over the reins of the Balkan country.
He will lead an unprecedented ruling coalition with the leftist Socialists, anti-establishment ITN party and the centre-right Democratic Bulgaria, united under the motto "zero tolerance to corruption", for a four-year term.
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BBC BREAKFAST WITH FROST
INTERVIEW:
VLADIMIR PUTIN
MARCH 5TH, 2000
Please note “BBC Breakfast with Frost” must be credited if any part of this
transcript is used
DAVID FROST:
Time now to turn to the east and that interview, 15 years ago the soviet
Union was an undisputed superpower, a military force whose power
stretched from the Baring Straits to Berlin but President Gorbachev’s
introduction of Glasnost and Perestroika unleashed forces that partly led
ultimately to the break up of the old USSR and the downfall of the
Communist Party as the all-powerful force in the state.
[FILM CLIP - Reference to Putin coming to power as Prime Minister, then
acting President]
DAVID FROST:
In this his first television interview with a Western or indeed a foreign
journalist since he entered the Kremlin I asked him about relations with the
West, Chechnya and his background in the KGB, but I started by asking
him about his stated determination to make Russia strong again, was this,
as some have feared, an indication of a throwback to the days of the Cold
War?
PUTIN:
My position is that our country should be a strong, powerful state, a capable
state, effective, in which both its citizens of the Russian Federation and all
those who want to co-operate with Russia could feel comfortable, could feel
protected, could always feel in their own shoes - if you will allow the
expression - psychologically, morally. But that has nothing to do with
aggression. If we again and again go back to the terminology of the cold war
we are never going to discard attitudes and problems that humanity had to
grapple with a mere 15-20 years ago. We in Russia have to a large extent rid
ourselves of what is related to the cold war. Regrettably , it appears that our
partners in the west are all too often still in the grip of old notions and tend to
picture Russia as a potential aggressor. That is a completely wrong
conception of our country. It gets in the way of developing normal relations in
Europe and indeed the world.
DAVID FROST:
Looking at the opinion polls today, which show you at approx. 60 percent and
Zyuganov approx. at 23 percent. You must be very happy.
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I purchased this in a hardback, although definitely not for bedtime reading as it is really big, heavy and thick. But it is the best informative book I have ever read. I was always dubious and didn't take any of the jabs, I even had to fight on behalf of my son who was told if he didn't take it he would be took off the kidney transplant list, so to win his case I had to do a major amount of research I just wish I had this book back then, to prove just how dangerous this would have been for him and everyone else. Although my own research had in my opinion proved it wasn't a good idea for him or anyone and I did win my case, but this book has totally shocked me with evidence that is now clear for everyone to see from big pharmas own trial data, why there has been no charges brought is unbelievable it's no wonder they fought to keep this data from the public for 75 years obviously knowing that the majority that gave into the pressure would be dead. A total scandal but like the blood scandal will no doubt take 40+ years before it's all aired and still these people who done this to the public will walk free. Please don't ever trust government bodies, vaxs or big pharma, your life depends on it, spread the word encourage loved ones to read this and hopefully it will save some lives. Sadly this information has come too late for many people
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During his time at Oxford, Sikorski was head of the Standing Committee of the debating society, the Oxford Union (where he organised debates on martial law), president of the Oxford University Polish Society, member of the Canning Club,[6] and was elected to the Bullingdon Club, a dining society that counted among its members former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, former Chancellor George Osborne, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[7] His articles were published in prestigious Polish émigré magazines as well as Britain's Sunday Telegraph and Tatler magazines.[8][9] He graduated in 1986. In 1987, Sikorski acquired British citizenship, which he renounced in 2006 upon being named Minister of Defence of Poland.
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It was interesting to get a glimpse behind the curtain of such an A-list celeb, and to know that your struggles/pain as a woman are generally felt by every female on earth is validating, even someone as seemingly perfect as EmRata.
I did find some of it a little self indulgent, at times it felt like the author thought she was the only person in the world that thought and read so deeply into her feelings, and occasionally I felt a little bit of a god complex peeked through? The China-town baths scene was particularly “look I’m just like you - promise” - but as Emily would be keen to point out, that could be a reflection of my own insecurities.
At the end of the day, we’re all going through it, and sometimes you don’t care to hear it from someone who you would kill for a day-in-the-life-of, and then hear this kind of “I know I’m seen as perfect but I struggle too?” narrative that I can tell she tried hard to avoid.
Emily is a good writer and I enjoyed her stories from childhood, and her mother seems like a very interesting character (I’d be interested in a book by her for sure). I found the candid self-questioning appealing and she showed self awareness that I think some people lack. Overall a fine read for a little holiday pool reading, but not ground breaking. I do wonder if she would have had the same response had she not been the Emily Ratajkowski? I guess we’ll never know and I’m certain, given her acute self-awareness, that’s something she’s thought about too.
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THE WEST IS HELL-BENT ON PROLONGING ITS PROXY WAR ENDLESSLY. IAN SINCLAIR PROVIDES THE EVIDENCE
Since 1976 the award-winning US media watchdog Project Censored has printed an annual list of the most under-reported news stories in the US media – the “news that didn’t make the news.”
Should someone start publishing a similar book about the UK media, the top under-reported story of 2022 will almost certainly be the news the British government worked to prevent a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war in March-April 2022.
Here’s what we know.
Following Russia’s aggressive and illegal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, in March Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Istanbul for talks. On March 17 a Sky News headline summarised: “‘15-point’ peace deal being ‘seriously discussed’ as Putin says he’s ‘ready to talk’”.
The deal included “a ceasefire and a Russian withdrawal, with Kyiv having to accept neutrality and curbs on its armed forces,” the report noted. “Citing three sources involved in the negotiations, the FT [Financial Times] said Ukraine would have to give up its bid to join Nato – something Mr Zelensky has already hinted at.”
“It would also have to promise not to allow foreign military bases or weaponry into the country in exchange for protection from allies such as the US, UK and Turkey.”
Quoted in a March 20 Al-Jazeera report, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated “We see that the parties are close to an agreement.”
This is also the conclusion of Fiona Hill, a Russia specialist in the Bush and Obama administrations, and Angela Stent, an ex-intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council.
Writing in the September/October issue of the establishment Foreign Affairs magazine after having spoken to “multiple former senior US officials,” they note “Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement” in April 2022.
“Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, where it controlled part of the Donbass region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek Nato membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”
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13]
Neville Husband Edit
Neville Husband, the chef and later a church cleric, raped boys at Medomsley every day for 15 years[3] and silenced his victims by threatening to kill them.[15][24][25][26]
He received two prison sentences in 2003, totalling 10 years. The first was for eight years in February 2003[34] for indecent assault (10 counts) and buggery, against five boys. When sentenced, he was expressionless and his victims were visibly relieved.[26] The second was for two years in September 2003 for sexually abusing another four young victims.[34] Judge Esmond Faulks told Husband "You and others like you helped cause their damaged personalities. Up until now, they never thought anyone would believe them."[26]
He worked in prisons for 27 years, 17 of which were in Medomsley[26] where he ran the kitchens, beginning in 1970. His sentences in 2003 were for sexual abuse he perpetrated there from 1974 to 1984.[3]
Husband was investigated under Operation Halter. Its leader, Northumbria Police's Detective Inspector Simon Orton explained in 2003 "There could be a lot more [victims of Neville Husband], but I would anticipate there are people who have put it behind them and would simply want to leave it that way. We will have to respect that."[26] Detective Orton said: "It is clear that this man forced himself on the young men in his charge. I can only surmise how many other people have been through his clutches. I think the sentence was entirely appropriate and reflected the abhorrent nature of the breach of trust he perpetrated all those years ago."[35] Prison service director Sir Martin Narey apologised to Husband's victims "without reservation", saying "we should have stopped him much earlier."[22]
Husband's victims were 16 to 19-year-old inmates who he chose to work with him in the kitchen. Sometimes he "blatantly" sexually assaulted them there and sometimes he brought them elsewhere and secretly abused them.[41] He hid alcohol in the kitchen[24] and used a kitchen store room as a bedroom with sexual paraphernalia where he forced a boy to sleep each night. He prohibited staff from searching the kitchen area.[29] Lead investigator Detective Paul Goundry said any detainee who worked for Husband in the kitchen "would almost certainly be raped or sexually abused".[15]
Husband targeted boys who spent time in care and were unlikely to have family support.[2] One victim, Kevin Young, described him as "one of the most power crazed men I have come across and I have met some violent people". Husband tied up and blindfolded Young, ordered him to strip naked and took pornographic photographs of him.[26] A victim described being assaulted by Husband every day, with Husband apologising each time and promising not to do it again.[35] The victim said "The more I complained, the worse it got" and during each attack, he pleaded with Husband to stop. Husband responded by promising not to do it again and threatening that the boy "could be found hung in a cell" if he dared tell anyone.[35] Husband also overpowered a victim by threatening him with a knife.[34]
In 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service refused to prosecute Husband for abusing a boy in Deerbolt youth offenders' institution, saying charges would be "not in the public interest".[3]
While working in Medomsley in 1985, Husband was caught with pornography and sex toys in his locker and moved to Frankland prison, facing no further action.[3] He had also been investigated for smuggling pornography into prison a decade before starting in Medomsley[34] and was arrested in 1969 for possessing pornographic images of teenage boys, while working in Portland Borstal, Dorset. He faced no action after claiming these pornographic images were research for a book.[3] The images included photographs of boys in Portland Borstal and sado-masochistic images of boys.[29]
Husband was married with one child.[35] After he finished working in prisons, he became a minister at the United Reformed Church and ran two churches.[35] He kept thousands of child pornography images[34] on computers in his home and church office along with sex aids and sexually explicit novels and videos.[26]
His release from prison in 2009 alarmed victims. When he died in August 2010, victims expressed relief, with one saying he "would always have been a risk as long as he was alive."[34]
By March 2019, there were around 300 allegations against Husband, which Durham Constabulary expected to become "considerably higher"
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Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994
Ministers,
Representing the 124 Governments and the European Communities participating in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, on the occasion of the final session of the Trade Negotiations Committee at Ministerial level held at Marrakesh, Morocco from 12 to 15 April 1994,
Recalling the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este, Uruguay on 20 September 1986 to launch the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations,
Recalling the progress achieved at the Ministerial meetings held at Montreal, Canada and Brussels, Belgium in December of 1988 and 1990 respectively,
Noting that the negotiations were substantially concluded on 15 December 1993,
Determined to build upon the success of the Uruguay Round through the participation of their economies in the world trading system, based upon open, market- oriented policies and the commitments set out in the Uruguay Round Agreements and Decisions,
Have today adopted the following:
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@AO-xd2ml
It has abundant supplies of oil, natural gas, timber and valuable minerals, such as copper, diamonds, lead, zinc, bauxite, nickel, tin, mercury, gold and silver— most of which are located in Siberia and the Far East. The value of Russia's resources is huge.
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@lorrainelane6583 I study economies, currencies, extreme poverty, water scarcity, corruption levels, faiths , environment and sanitation, war , violence on women and children living in poverty and suffering from hunger shortages, artificial intelligence and the impact on countries, environmental issues and the disposal of garbage , water born deceases and malaria , child sexual exploitation and trafficking, population numbers and unwanted pregnancies, all faiths , just to name a few , oh and everything under the sun including the sun and the solar system! 😂
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Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?” Russia was promised , save you reading it
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Slavic countries include Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates, and gold, and the forests of Siberia contain an estimated one-fifth of the world's timber, mainly conifers (see fig. 8; Environmental Conditions, ch. 3).
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The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The seabed contains 300,000 tonnes of wartime weapons, including bombs, grenades, missiles, and chemical agents. These weapons have been leaking toxic chemicals into the water for a century, including TNT, mustard gas, phosgene, and arsenic. Due to Approximately 40,000 tonnes of chemical munitions were dumped into the Baltic Sea after the Second World War. It is estimated that these chemical munitions contained some 13,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents . Germany dumped chemical munitions in the Baltic Sea in the following areas: East of Bornholm, South-east of Gotland, and South of Little Belt.
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@knightlife22
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, and chair of the Illinois chapter. As a progressive African American, he founded the antiracist, anticlass Rainbow Coalition,[4] a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. A Marxist–Leninist,Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying, "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.
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The monarch could force the dissolution of Parliament through a refusal of royal assent; this would very likely lead to a government resigning. By convention, the monarch always assents to bills; the last time the royal assent was not given was in 1708 during the reign of Queen Anne when, on ministerial advice, she withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill. This does not mean that the right to refuse, even contrary to the wishes of the Prime Minister, has died: the threat of the Royal Veto by George III and George IV made Catholic Emancipation impossible between 1800 and 1829, whilst George V had been privately advised (by his own lawyer, not by the Prime Minister) that he could veto the Third Irish Home Rule Bill; Jennings writes that "it was assumed by the King throughout that he had not only the legal power but the constitutional right to refuse assent".[17] The royal prerogative to dissolve Parliament was abrogated by Section 3(2) of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011,[18] and revived by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the 2011 Act.[19] Section 6(1) of the 2011 Act however specifically stated that the monarch's power to prorogue Parliament is not affected by the Act.[20] Nonetheless, the Supreme Court's 2019 judgment in Miller II established that the prerogative of prorogation is not absolute.
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As a matter of policy, the United States does not aim to defend the homeland against a Chinese or Russian nuclear attack; rather, it seeks to deter such attacks through the threat of retaliation. However, both Beijing and Moscow worry that, in the future, the United States may be able to deploy missile defenses capable of negating their nuclear forces and leaving them vulnerable to coercion. They have responded accordingly.
In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin gleefully unveiled a range of new developmental nuclear delivery systems—an intercontinental hypersonic glider, a nuclear-powered cruise missile, and a nuclear-powered torpedo—that he stated were a response to the demise of the ABM Treaty. History appears to back him up. The glider, which has now been deployed, was first tested in about 2004—just two years after the U.S. withdrawal took effect.
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Nine countries - China, North Korea, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States - possess a total of nearly 13,080 nuclear weapons. Russia and the United States possess roughly 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, with over 5,500 weapons each. This is where a nuclear bomb attack will lead us all to Armageddon 😈
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DECLARATION
1. Ministers salute the historic achievement represented by the conclusion of the Round, which they believe will strengthen the world economy and lead to more trade, investment, employment and income growth throughout the world. In particular, they welcome:
the stronger and clearer legal framework they have adopted for the conduct of international trade, including a more effective and reliable dispute settlement mechanism,
the global reduction by 40 per cent of tariffs and wider market-opening agreements on goods, and the increased predictability and security represented by a major expansion in the scope of tariff commitments, and
the establishment of a multilateral framework of disciplines for trade in services and for the protection of trade-related intellectual property rights, as well as the reinforced multilateral trade provisions in agriculture and in textiles and clothing.
2. Ministers affirm that the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ushers in a new era of global economic cooperation, reflecting the widespread desire to operate in a fairer and more open multilateral trading system for the benefit and welfare of their peoples. Ministers express their determination to resist protectionist pressures of all kinds. They believe that the trade liberalization and strengthened rules achieved in the Uruguay Round will lead to a progressively more open world trading environment. Ministers undertake, with immediate effect and until the entry into force of the WTO, not to take any trade measures that would undermine or adversely affect the results of the Uruguay Round negotiations or their implementation.
3. Ministers confirm their resolution to strive for greater global coherence of policies in the fields of trade, money and finance, including cooperation between the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank for that purpose.
4. Ministers welcome the fact that participation in the Uruguay Round was considerably wider than in any previous multilateral trade negotiation and, in particular, that developing countries played a notably active r le in it. This has marked a historic step towards a more balanced and integrated global trade partnership. Ministers note that during the period these negotiations were underway significant measures of economic reform and autonomous trade liberalization were implemented in many developing countries and formerly centrally planned economies.
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What countries are in the Ring of Fire? There are 15 countries in the ring of fire; Indonesia, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Japan, United States, Chile, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Peru, Solomon Islands, Mexico and Antarctica.
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Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin or amphetamines. The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and stop substance misuse to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused.
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Among the European Prize Coudenhove-Kalergi laureates are prominent European and international leaders, who have made their mark on the history of the continent in the last half-century, such as: Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (2014); Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council (2012); Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany (2010); Vaira Vīķe - Freiberga, President of Latvia (2006); renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1999); Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania (1998); Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (1996); Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America (1992); Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (1990); Juan Carlos I, King of Spain (1986); Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (1984); Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (1980); Raymond Barre, Prime-minister of France (1978). In 2018, the Prize was awarded posthumously to the Heavenly Hundred, the Ukrainian heroes of the Euromaidan.
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Serco Group plc is a British multinational defence, health, space, justice, migration, customer services, and transport company.[5] It is headquartered in Hook, Hart, England.[5] The company operates in Continental Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region, including Australia and Hong Kong, and North America. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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At its peak, the Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, controlled vast territories encompassing much of Southeast Europe, West Asia (including parts of the Middle East), and North Africa, including areas that now form modern-day Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, parts of Arabia, and the north coast of Africa
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Slavic countries include Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine 🇺🇦. All these people deserve prosperity
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Although most nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60% of the world's population live in countries where the death penalty is retained, such as China, India, parts of the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Japan, and Taiwan.
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Slavic countries include Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 all these poorer people to benefit from these resources
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International Strategic Relations And China's National Security: World At The Crossroads: 2
The world was standing at the crossroads in 2015 as globalization propelled human beings into an increasingly integrated community of common destiny. In the meantime, the world witnessed the strategic competition among major powers. This annual publication offers views, opinions and predictions on global political and security issues, and China's strategic choices by Chinese scholars. It covers almost all the significant issues that took place in the international security arena in 2015. Besides the relations among major powers, it studies the international community's fight against Islamic State (Is), the strategic situation in the Korean Peninsula, political situation in Myanmar, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear issue, free navigation in the South China Sea, China's Belt and Road Initiative and its grand diplomacy. This book argues that the strategic competition among major powers is heightening, and smaller countries as well as extremist forces like the Is are seeking strategic space by taking advantage of the conflicts among major powers. The book concludes that to address this major historic challenge in international politics, it is essential that some major powers drop the hostile stance towards each other and enhance partnership to foster international cooperation.
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Amongst Non-UK nationals, EU nationals claiming WA benefits increased by 104% to 780,000. While the number of Non-EU nationals increased by 34% to 820,000. All world sub-groups saw an increase in the number of WA benefit claimants from November 2019 to November 2020.
In November 2020, 42% of Non-UK WA benefit claimants lived in London, this is a decrease of 5 percentage points from 47% in November 2013.
There is a similar pattern of UK WA benefit claimants across GB regions claiming Housing benefit (HB) or Universal Credit (UC), whereas for Non-UK claimants there is slightly more variation across those regions.
London has a much higher proportion of UK and Non-UK WA benefit claimants claiming HB, and the lowest proportion claiming combinations excluding HB or UC.
The most common benefit combination is UC with the benefit recipient being Out-of-Work (UC(OOW)). Of all WA benefit claimants, 2.3 million (23%) claimed UC(OOW) only. Similarly, 22% of UK WA benefit claimants claimed UC(OOW) only, and 26% of Non-UK WA benefit claimants claimed UC (OOW) only.
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@Villain1874 An unprecedented expansion and refurbishment programme will create more than 4,000 new prison places across the country, the Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab announced today (18 February 2022).
These new places are part of the government’s £4 billion investment to create 20,000 modern and innovative prison places, ensuring the right conditions are in place to truly rehabilitate prisoners. This will give prisoners the education, skills and addiction support they need to live crime-free lives on release, helping to cut crime and protect the public.
The 4,000 places announced today will be created across 16 prisons through the building of new wings and refurbishing jails. They will create thousands of jobs for local communities, boosting economies.
Subject to planning permission, 8 prisons will receive new houseblocks while HMP High Down in Surrey will get a brand-new workshop. The innovative designs will mean easier access to supporting facilities such as healthcare, kitchens and staff offices which will help to protect frontline staff and clamp down on crime behind bars.
New workshops and classrooms will also see offenders getting vital work and training so they are able to find employment on release.
Seven other prisons will also receive comprehensive refurbishments part of a wider £150 million investment in the estate to help bring all jails into the 21st century.
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, said:
Our unprecedented prison-building programme is the largest in more than a century and will deliver an additional 20,000 prison places by the mid-2020s.
We are improving our existing prison estate, putting more offenders behind bars, training them for release and protecting the public.
Today’s news is the latest step in the government’s commitment to create 20,000 modern and innovative prison places by the mid-2020s.
Construction at 2 new prisons, which are part of the Deputy Prime Minister’s commitment to build 6 modern jails, has already created more than 500 jobs and over 70 apprenticeships When the two prisons open, they are expected to offer over a thousand permanent jobs – providing a significant boost to the local economy. Thousands of jobs will also be created at the 16 sites planned for expansion through the building process and the additional prison officer roles required.
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“I don’t buy this argument that, you know, us supplying the Ukrainians with defensive weapons is going to provoke Putin,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
Nuland emphasized the administration has provided $355 million in foreign assistance to Ukraine and the president’s fiscal 2016 budget includes an additional $514 million.
She said that the second Minsk agreement, struck last month between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, had seen some removal of Russian separatist heavy weapons, but acknowledged that transfers of Russian tanks and other equipment have occurred over the border to eastern Ukraine.
“If we can see these Minsk agreements implemented, if we can see peace in eastern Ukraine, that offers the best hope for the Ukrainian people. But we will continue to evaluate the situation,” Nuland said.
Democrats were nevertheless more supportive of the latest administration move, with Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois calling the new equipment a “timely increase of U.S. military aid.” ….
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Gaza’s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed in attacks by Israeli forces, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far. The remaining 7,613 people included in its death toll, which is now above 41,000, are Palestinians whose bodies have been received by hospitals and morgues, but whose identities have not yet been confirmed. The list includes 11,300 children (out of the more than 14,100 children killed between last October and 31 August). Among the identified children aged under five were 710 babies of less than one, with 20% of them born and killed during the war.
Experts say the available figures are likely to be under-estimates, with the actual death toll believed to be much higher. The official death toll does not include an estimated 10,000 people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings and presumed dead, and an unknown number of indirect deaths caused by factors like diseases, starvation and the collapse of the healthcare system.
According to ACLED's mid-year Conflict Index Results: “The most dangerous and violent place in the world at the moment is Palestine — specifically Gaza, with 87% of the Palestinian population exposed to conflict. Palestine is now at the top of the index overall, edging out Myanmar as the most conflicted territory. Whereas Palestine was ranked highest for conflict diffusion in the January index, it is now ranking highest in the diffusion of conflict, deadliness, and danger to civilians
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Chinese businesses in Poland are primarily focused on manufacturing and technology sectors, with companies like Huawei, ZTE, TCL, and various Chinese automotive manufacturers making significant investments in the country, particularly in areas like production facilities and distribution centers; overall, Chinese investment in Poland has grown considerably in recent years, with a notable presence in the manufacturing, automotive, and IT industries, though recent geopolitical tensions have caused some decline in investment levels compared to peak periods.
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Cai Wilshaw is an Associate Director in public affairs at Hawthorn Advisors. Prior to this role, he was the Account Director for HOUND Global’s PR efforts for the Betfair Exchange’s UK and US Election markets.
He has been involved in Labour Party politics in Westminster and in Wales for over a decade, and regularly appears on the BBC and GB News as a Labour political commentator.
He has spent much of his career with The Economist, where his most recent role was as a Senior Programming Editor, and Head of Event Content for the Innovation Quotient programme. In the role he worked with senior politicians and C-level executives at some of the world’s largest companies and startups, including with Ray Dalio, Lloyd Blankfein, Arianna Huffington, Indra Nooyi and David Rubenstein. Before this, he was a Producer with the Financial Times’ TNW, and the Head of External Affairs at PinkNews.
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PUTIN:
Outside the framework of this interview we talked about sports a little. You
know that I have been into sports since I was a kid, I like sports. We have
always been taught that any partner, any opponent should be treated with
respect. That means that in some ways he may be stronger than you, so I am
not inclined to believe that I am assured of victory, that I have it in my hand,
that the campaign is over. I don't think I have a right to consider myself a
winner. Gennady Zyuganov and his Communist party enjoy a substantial
base of support..
DAVID FROST:
Let's move on now to the subject of Chechnya. First of all, could you explain
to me, you said once about this entire part of the federation has been
occupied by the criminal world and turned into a fortress. What is it that
makes you feel so strongly about Chechnya?
PUTIN:
When I think about Chechnya my first thoughts are that the Chechen people
have fallen victim to international extremism, I think that rank and file people
in Chechnya suffer because of the policies conducted by Russia over the past
few years. Let's face it: Chechnya enjoyed de-facto - and I want to stress that
- de-facto - complete independence since 1996. Regrettably, no coherent
state structure ever came into being in Chechnya. And then extremist forces
took advantage of that vacuum, they broke up the territory of the Chechen
republic into a maze of small separate entities - outside the framework of any
constitution, any legal foundation - each headed by a warlord, a so-called
field commander. So what we got was like a mini-Afghanistan. The warlords
became the real masters of these tiny entities within a small and, doubtless, a
proud nation. And that precipitated the tragedy with which we are confronted
today. Those extremist forces began reclaiming this territory, as it were. Arms
were supplied to them from outside the country, money began to flow,
mercenaries began to arrive. It should also be said that in these few years
220 thousand ethnic Russians left the territory of the republic - just think of
that - that about 550-600 thousand Chechens. They all voted with their feet,
they all fled from that regime. Last summer there was a completely
unprovoked attack on the territory of the republic of Dagestan which borders
on Chechnya….. the bandits then bombed several residential blocks in
Moscow, Volgodonsk and other regions of the Russian Federation. As a
symbol of their revenge they killed almost 1500 ordinary residents in those
blasts. And from that moment on it became crystal clear to us that unless we
deliver a blow at the very lair of terrorism, at the bases situated in the territory
of the Chechen republic, we would never be able to rid ourselves of this
scourge, this gangrene. With their actions the terrorists forced us to pursue
this option - and I just don't think they expected us to act as resolutely as we
did.
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The sea around India is part of the great Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent forms a major physical division between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. India is also one of 17 mega bio-diverse countries in the world, with 7.8% of the recorded species of the world including 45,500 recorded species of plants and 91,000 recorded species of animals. India has a vast coastline of 8000 km, of which, 5, 423 km belong to Peninsular India and 2, 094 km to the Andaman, Nicobar, and Lakshadweep Islands, and with an EEZ of 2.02 million sq. km. There are about 13,000 recorded species belong to marine environment in India. The figure is grossly underestimated and that more number of species might be living in coastal and marine environment of India that needs to be explored. Indian coastal zones have a variety of habitats like mangrove, estuarine, coral reefs, sea grass beds, lagoons, sand dunes, rocky shore, cliffs, intertidal mud flats, etc. Coastline of India has also supports nearly 250 million people within the swath of 50 km from the coastline; therefore, the ecological services of marine and coastal ecosystems of India play a vital role in India’s economy growth.
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The Slavic countries in Europe are: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, all to benefit from that business deal and to keep their culture intact for all those Slavs
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@unrequited8200
An angel leads Lot out of Sodom and destroys the city; as in Genesis 19:25-26
The fate of Lot's wife, being turned to a pillar of salt, is found in Genesis 19:26. This is the reason for the naming of the pillar on Mount Sodom, which is often called "Lot's Wife".
Leviticus 2:13 and Ezekiel 43:24 illustrate the requirement of salt as part of ancient Hebrew religious sacrifices. Leviticus 2:13 reads: "And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt."[3]
Salt was cast on the burnt offering (Ezekiel 43:24) and was part of the incense (Exodus 30:35). Part of the temple offering included salt (Ezra 6:9).
Salt was widely and variably used as a symbol and sacred sign in ancient Israel Numbers 18:19 and 2 Chronicles 13:5 illustrate salt as a covenant of friendship. In cultures throughout the region, the eating of salt is a sign of friendship. Salt land is a metaphorical name for a desolate no man's land, as attested in Psalms 107:34, Job 39:6, and Jeremiah 17:6. The land of defeated cities was salted to consecrate them to a god and curse their re-population, as illustrated in Judges 9:45.
Newborn babies were rubbed with salt. A reference to this practice is in Ezekiel 16:4: "As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths." .❤️🙏
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Slavic countries include Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 a culture to be rebuilt from the ashes of their dead military men ❤️🙏
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@p.g.u.d Currently, the euro (€) is the official currency of 19 out of 27 EU member countries which together constitute the Eurozone, officially called the euro area. The euro came into existence on 1 January 1999, although it had been a goal of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors since the 1960s. After tough negotiations, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of creating an economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU states except the UK and Denmark (even though Denmark has a fixed exchange rate policy with the euro). The currency was formed virtually in 1999; notes and coins began to circulate in 2002. It rapidly took over from the former national currencies and slowly expanded behind the rest of the EU. In 2009, the Lisbon Treaty finalised its political authority, the Eurogroup, alongside the European Central Bank. The first ideas of an economic and monetary union in Europe were raised well before establishing the European Communities. For example, as earlier on as the League of Nations, Gustav Stresemann had enquired in 1929 for a European currency[1] against the background of an increased economic division due to a number of new nation states in Europe after World War I. At this time memories of the Latin Monetary Union[2] involving principally France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland and which, for practical purposes, had disintegrated following the First World War, figured prominently in the minds of policy makers. A first attempt to create an economic and monetary union between the members of the European Economic Community (EEC) arrived with an initiative by the European Commission in 1969, which set out the need for "greater co-ordination of economic policies and monetary cooperation."[3] This was followed up at a meeting of the European Council at The Hague in December 1969. The European Council tasked Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, with finding a way to reduce currency exchange rate volatility. His report was published in October 1970 and recommended centralisation of the national macroeconomic policies entailing "the total and irreversible fixing of parity rates and the complete liberation of movements of capital." But he did not propose a single currency or central bank.[4] An attempt to limit the fluctuations of European currencies, using a snake in the tunnel, failed. In 1971, US President Richard Nixon removed the gold backing from the US dollar, causing a collapse in the Bretton Woods system that managed to affect all of the world's major currencies. The widespread currency floats and devaluations set back aspirations for European monetary union.[4] However, in March 1979 the European Monetary System (EMS) was created, fixing exchange rates onto the European Currency Unit (ECU), an accounting currency, to stabilise exchange rates and counter inflation. It also created the European Monetary Cooperation Fund (EMCF). In February 1986, the Single European Act formalised political co-operation within the EEC, including competency in monetary policy.[4] The European Council summit in Hannover on 14 June 1988 began to outline monetary co-operation. France, Italy and the European Commission backed a fully monetary union with a central bank, which British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opposed.
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Scarlett Mccgwire is a member of the board of Rights and Security International. She has worked in television and radio, at a national and local level, as a reporter and writer for 10 years. She has written for many publications including the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman.
She has worked closely with the Labour Party at a senior level, having sessions with the last four party leaders and many senior MPs. She has also worked with politicians in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. She has worked with two Presidents, five Prime Ministers, two Chief Ministers, numerous Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament in various countries. For five years she ran the communications consultancy Clear Communication.
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2) Despite these questions and uncertainties, and having full awareness of them, the vice president nevertheless proceeded to misrepresent the facts in his public statements, claiming that there was no doubt about the existence of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq and that a full-scale nuclear program was known to exist, including: (a) March 17, 2002: “We know they have biological and chemical weapons.” (b) March 19, 2002: “We know they are pursuing nuclear weapons.” (c) March 24, 2002: “He is actively pursuing nuclear weapons.” (d) May 19, 2002: “We know he’s got chemical and biological … we know he’s working on nuclear.” (e) August 26, 2002: “We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons … Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.” (f) March 16, 2003: “We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons .’
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The First Boston Corporation was a New York–based bulge bracket investment bank, founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988.After the acquisition, it operated as an independent investment bank known as CS First Boston until 2006, when the company was fully integrated into Credit Suisse. In 2022, Credit Suisse revived the "First Boston" brand as part of an effort to spin out the business …..
On October 27, 2022, Credit Suisse announced a "radical" restructuring of its investment bank, taking "extensive measures" which will see it return to the "First Boston" brand as an independent Capital Markets and Advisory bank.🏦
Adebayo Ogunlesi, CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)
Bruce Wasserstein, co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co.
Joe Perella, co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co and Perella Weinberg Partners
Richard Handler, CEO of Jefferies
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock
Scott Mead, artist 🧑🎨
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This exciting visit also saw the Homewards Newport Coalition publish a milestone report addressing women’s homelessness in the city named the Newport Women’s Homelessness Joint Strategic Needs Assessment [JSNA].
With the Homewards Newport Coalition having identified that women with multiple disadvantages are a priority cohort in Wales, they advised that the first step in delivering change for this group would be to undertake the JSNA.
The first of its kind to focus specifically on women experiencing homelessness in the city, this report was written by the Homewards Newport Coalition Women’s Working Group and featured input from coalition members including NHS Wales, Cyfannol Women’s Aid, Newport City Council and the POBL Group.
This assessment represents a significant collective effort to address the issues and inequalities women face in terms of health and homelessness and will be a key tool for supporting action planning in shaping effective local policies and the best forms of intervention to improve the lives of women in Newport.
To kickstart this important work, The Prince joined a meeting of local partners who have all committed to delivering this activity, and discuss how these commitments can be built upon to help address and prevent women’s homelessness in Newport. The commitments are as follows:
NHS Wales has committed to funding an Early Intervention Worker, with a focus on ensuring women are able to access the right support at first point of contact. The role will allow women who are at risk of homelessness to be identified earlier and ensure they can access support faster, preventing them from reaching crisis point.
For the first time in Newport– and as a result of being brought together by Homewards– POBL, Newport City Homes and Newport City Council have committed to working together to explore introducing women specific properties to Newport. This would mean an increased supply of housing specifically for women in more areas, meaning they have more chances to access accommodation when they need it most.
The Nelson Trust has committed to providing further trauma informed approaches and training across Newport. This will ensure that professionals across a diverse range of organisations are equipped to better support individuals who have experienced trauma. This will help to prevent discrimination and poor practice in frontline services which could lead to more women being at risk of homelessness.
Women of Newport, a community-based group, will launch a brand-new photography exhibition aimed at educating and changing narratives around female homelessness in Newport.
The launch of the JSNA and the unprecedented support package today from organisations across Newport marks major progress towards addressing the unique experience of women experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Newport. This collaborative effort also demonstrates what can be achieved by working together to prevent and end homelessness in the UK – making it rare, brief and unrepeated.
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What else do we know ? Oh yes , why the ‘ special military operation started ;
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion
All about Nato bases pointing nuclear weapons at Russia and they objected to the potential threat of being nuked by nato countries
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That's what I thought throughout the New Labour years and this book confirms me in my opinion. Only it was far worse than I thought. Bower's forensic, well-written hatchet job does not pretend to be a balanced history. It is more a Judgment of History on what Blair did with the power he won in three consecutive elections (how long will he hold this Labour record? Maybe forever.).
Bower portrays a messianic personality who wanted to make the world a better place but lacked both the character and knowledge to do so. His charisma could win over his party, the voters, doubting colleagues, senior civil servants and military men. Bower quotes extensively from a whole range of conversations held during Blair's decade in power. Blair had a butterfly mind, no interest in policy detail, circumvented the conventions of collegiate cabinet government and had one overriding daily imperative - to secure a good headline or soundbite. New Labour was an election-winning machine lacking policy. All the rest was gesture politics.
Having secured the support of Murdoch, Blair relied on Campbell to keep his image sweet. He was a vulnerable figure without hinterland in the party he led and was totally reliant on Cherie and close acolytes to keep his head above water in a job for which he was ill-prepared. Bower laments Blair's lack of historical knowledge and condemns his arrogance in failing to make proper use of the government machine. New Labour entered government in 1997 with prejudices about what they did not like but with no evaluated alternatives. Pilot schemes were not considered: New Labour was in too much of a hurry to deliver demonstrable improvement to win in 2001. Within 4 years they realised they had made serious mistakes in health, education, and immigration and tried to reverse what they had done with Brown throwing money around like confetti to cover up the rebranded Tory policies they now found themselves relaunching.
New Labour was deceitful. Duff statistics showed schools and hospitals getting better while exam grade inflation, test results and NHS productivity told a different story. Centralised target-setting produced the same sort of skewed outcomes as did those for Stalin's tractor factories. Had Blair ever heard of Stalin? Immigration statistics were likewise managed - but still appalling: New Labour has handed over large sections of its working class vote to UKIP.
New Labour was dysfunctional. Just like historians debate whether Nazism was just Hitlerism so they will debate whether New Labourism was little more than Blairism. 'Power tends to corrupt' can also be inverted to '18 years without power tends to corrupt' : a desperate Labour Party succumbed to the Blair spell of election victory. An outsider without roots in the working class, trade unions or the socialist intelligentsia came to dominate a party which could hardly believe its luck. Moses had delivered them from Pharaoh. This explains the personal ascendancy he was able exercise over colleagues and the origins of his sofa government. It had become little more than a Tony Blair Fan Club.
Except for Gordon. The F word figures prominently in Bower's pages as the Chancellor showers the expletive over his boss on numerous occasions. Blair was scared of Brown and was a poor butcher of ineffective ministers. Too nice for his own good. But any PM who has to tell a service chief to go and knock on his Chancellor's door as a supplicant for funds in preparing for the Iraq War is a weak PM.
This book is not about the Iron Chancellor but he figures prominently: the way he made the Treasury a no go area for No 10 also shows Blair as a weak PM. Brown's raid on pension funds and use of PFI to fund New Labour spending shows a callous willingness to mortgage the nation's future in order to secure election victory. Eventually Brown broke his own Golden Rule and splashed out money merely to cover up New Labour's non-delivery in public services.
Blair spoke of the scars he bore from trying to reform health and education. What this book does not do is explain the grass roots misery caused by constant upheaval in health and education. Millions of health and education professionals were put through an unnecessary mill because of Tony Blair - and his successors. Bower talks of the billions wasted on the failed NHS computer system. What of the poor (and often unnecessary) IT training forced on the staff? Pay improved but job satisfaction decreased. We are now entering the fourth decade of school reforms. Parents and teachers presently condemn the new KS1 SATs. Health and education have become central to our politics. Blair and his successors want quick results for their limited time in office. This is never deliverable. The unhappy result is an acute inability to retain staff and an increasing reliance on overseas workers. More exam marking is being farmed out overseas. My hope is that this book will lead politicians and public alike to understand that the morale of public servants - from the Chief Secretary to the humblest school and hospital cleaner - is the key to improved productivity. But I doubt it. I doubt whether working people ever figured very much on Tony Blair's personal radar. His thirst for money and attraction to the rich would suggest they did not.
Blair followed Thatcher in projecting British power in the world. Both PM's became immensely popular and well-known global figures. But Blair was unable to emulate the Falklands Factor with his Iraq adventure. I thought at the time that it was both brave and foolish for a popularity-craving man like Blair to risk his reputation with this war. Bower emphasises that Blair was no American poodle but gung-ho for regime change. He would have preferred a UN resolution as cover but he set his course long before the Cabinet were brought into the loop. Amazing how many top people were kept out of the decision-making loop until late in the day. Blair control-freakery even tried to elicit the removal of the CGS a few months before war because he felt the Admiral was too timid. Speaking Truth to Power was difficult in the Blair governments. He really did think that he could walk on water!
All political careers end in failure. Hubris set in earlier with Blair than with Thatcher but the results were similar. Both lost party support after delivering three election victories and both left controversial legacies. Our parliamentary system really does work. It can eject a powerful leader who has lost the confidence of the House. Far better than the US system of gridlock and lame duck presidents. But even here Blair felt the need to dig in his heels and stay on a few more months as a lame duck PM just so he could notch up his ten years in office to beat the record of any previous Labour leader. One that is unlikely to be broken. A lot of good things happened in the New Labour years. It could hardly be otherwise. However, there was also a lot of failure on the big issues and it is the big issues that matter. Bower's book concentrates on the big issues.
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Global companies also entrust Ukraine with their operations. For example, such companies as Snapchat, Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, Oracle, Huawei, Boeing, Upwork, Magento already have R&D centres in Ukraine. In 2020, global giants officially registered their R&D legal entities in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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@farazvfx
The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom. In the period January to December 2016, there were groups from 22 foreign countries that were estimated to consist of at least 100,000 individuals residing in the UK (people born in Poland, India, Pakistan, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Germany, Bangladesh, South Africa, China, Italy, Nigeria, Lithuania, the United States, France, Spain, the Philippines, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Australia, Portugal, Kenya and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 . All welcomed however our infrastructure cannot cope with a rising population
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Keeping bloodlines pure in aristocracy was important for many reasons, including:
Reinforcing hierarchy
Bloodlines were used to reinforce the social hierarchy and distinguish between royalty, civilians, and slaves.
Promoting national consciousness
Blood was a metaphor for race, ethnicity, and sexuality, and was used to promote national consciousness and loyalty.
Securing alliances
Marriages between royal families could be used to form alliances between nations.
Acquiring territory
Marriages could lead to a dynasty acquiring legal claim to a foreign throne or portions of its realm.
However, the practice of keeping bloodlines pure also led to a number of problems, including:
Genetic defects: Inbreeding can lead to the expression of recessive genes, which can cause genetic defects like hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and Habsburg jaw.
Mental deficiencies: Royals have a history of mental deficiencies and insanity.
Congenital defects: Royals have a history of congenital defects.
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The war in Ukraine is a symptom of the collapsing world order. The war revealed the dysfunction of liberal hegemony in terms of both power and legitimacy, and it sparked a proxy war between the West and Russia instead of ensuring peace, the source of its legitimacy.
The proxy war, unprecedented sanctions, and efforts to isolate Russia in the wider world contributed to the demise of liberal hegemony as opposed to its revival. Much of the world responded to the war by intensifying their transition to a Eurasian world order that rejects hegemony and liberal universalism. The economic architecture is being reorganised as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. Universalism based on Western values is replaced by civilisational distinctiveness, sovereign inequality is swapped with sovereign equality, socialising inferiors is replaced by negotiations, and the rules-based international order is discarded in favour of international law. A Westphalian world order is reasserting itself, although with Eurasian characteristics.
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The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race
President BUSH claimed the United States needed to leave the treaty to protect itself. Now it’s clear that was a mistake . Twenty years ago today, then-president George W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. This cornerstone of the Cold War arms control regime, signed in 1972, sought to cap the arms race by limiting homeland missile defenses, thus reducing pressures on the superpowers to build more nuclear weapons. Bush, however, claimed that the treaty had outlived its purpose, since “the hostility that once led both our countries to keep thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert” had died alongside the Soviet Union. Instead, three months after September 11, 2001, he argued that the treaty was hindering the United States from protecting itself against “terrorists” and “rogue states.”
It’s clear now that withdrawing was an epic mistake . The United States’ homeland missile defenses are porous; why else would Washington worry that North Korea is deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)? Yet those defenses have succeeded in fueling arms races with Russia, whose hostility toward the United States is alive and well, and now with China too. This experience should prompt Washington to try to negotiate new limits on missile defenses, and it provides a cautionary tale about the very real costs of withdrawing from international agreements.
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey apply to join Brics
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech in virtual format at the opening ceremony of the Brics Business Forum on Wednesday, June 22, 2022
SAUDI ARABIA, Turkey and Egypt are on course to become the latest members of the Brics International Forum group and could submit applications next year, its president said today.
“All three countries have shown their interest in joining [Brics] and are preparing to apply for membership,” Purnima Anand said.
“I believe this is a good step, because expansion is always looked upon favourably; it will definitely bolster Brics’ global influence,” she told Russian newspaper Izvestia.
Their membership bids could be discussed and potentially agreed at next year’s Brics summit in South Africa, with the trio “already engaged in the process.”
It is doubtful that they will all join at the same time, Ms Anand said, but she added that their membership will come “very soon.”
Iran and Argentina applied last month to join the bloc of emerging economies, which comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The Brics countries account for more than 40 per cent of the global population and about a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product.
Also last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans for Brics to develop a new “basket-based” global reserve currency, which would pose a serious challenge to the United States.
The basket is likely to contain the five present members’ currencies — the real, rouble, rupee, renminbi and rand — and would present an alternative to the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Right (SDR).
The SDR is not a currency, but effectively a basket of claims on top reserve currencies such as the US dollar, the euro, the pound, the yen and its most recent addition the renminbi.
Washington also fears the decline of the dollar as the world currency since this would mean it losing the ability to control global financial markets. ..
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Jane Mayer has an account of how the relationship began:
Cheney was hired by Halliburton in 1995, not long after he went on a fly-fishing trip in New Brunswick, Canada, with several corporate moguls. After Cheney had said good night, the others began talking about Halliburton’s need for a new C.E.O. Why not Dick? He had virtually no business experience, but he had valuable relationships with very powerful people. Lawrence Eagleburger, the Secretary of State in the first Bush Administration, became a Halliburton board member after Cheney joined the company. He told me that Cheney was the firm’s “outside man,” the person who could best help the company expand its business around the globe. Cheney was close to many world leaders, particularly in the Persian Gulf, a region central to Halliburton’s oil-services business. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, were so friendly with Prince Bandar, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., that the Prince had invited the Cheney family to his daughter’s wedding. (Cheney did not attend.) “Dick was good at opening doors,” Eagleburger said. “I don’t mean that pejoratively. He had contacts from his former life, and he used them effectively.”
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The cities or districts with the largest communities, by Pakistani ethnicity in the England and Wales 2021 census, are as follows: Birmingham (pop. 195,102), Bradford (139,553), Manchester (65,875), Kirklees (54,795), Redbridge (44,000) and Luton (41,143).
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There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life; who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our Government into contempt, to destroy our industries wherever they thought it effective for their vindictive purposes to strike at them, and to debase our politics to the uses of foreign intrigue ... I urge you to enact such laws at the earliest possible moment and feel that in doing so I am urging you to do nothing less than save the honor and self-respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. They are not many, but they are infinitely malignant, and the hand of our power should close over them at once. They have formed plots to destroy property, they have entered into conspiracies against the neutrality of the Government, they have sought to pry into every confidential transaction of the Government in order to serve interests alien to our own. It is possible to deal with these things very effectually. I need not suggest the terms in which they may be dealt with.
This could apply to the British government under the espionage act
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International Strategic Relations And China's National Security: World At The Crossroads: 2
The world was standing at the crossroads in 2015 as globalization propelled human beings into an increasingly integrated community of common destiny. In the meantime, the world witnessed the strategic competition among major powers. This annual publication offers views, opinions and predictions on global political and security issues, and China's strategic choices by Chinese scholars. It covers almost all the significant issues that took place in the international security arena in 2015. Besides the relations among major powers, it studies the international community's fight against Islamic State (Is), the strategic situation in the Korean Peninsula, political situation in Myanmar, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear issue, free navigation in the South China Sea, China's Belt and Road Initiative and its grand diplomacy. This book argues that the strategic competition among major powers is heightening, and smaller countries as well as extremist forces like the Is are seeking strategic space by taking advantage of the conflicts among major powers. The book concludes that to address this major historic challenge in international politics, it is essential that some major powers drop the hostile stance towards each other and enhance partnership to foster international cooperation. ..❤️❤️
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Peter McLoughlin spent years believing the Leftist narrative, namely it was 'a racist myth' that organised Muslim groups in Britain and the Netherlands ('grooming gangs') were luring white schoolgirls into a life of prostitution. But in 2009 he first encountered people who said their children had been groomed like this. These informants had non-white people in their immediate and extended family, and were thus unlikely to be racists. So McLoughlin dug deeper and what he found shocked him: there were mounds of evidence that social workers, police officers, Muslim organisations, journalists and even some Members of Parliament must have known about these grooming gangs for decades, and they had turned a blind-eye to these crimes. He also came across references to incidents where any proof had since vanished. McLoughlin spent several years uncovering everything he could and documenting this scandal before the evidence disappeared. He demonstrates that the true nature of this grooming phenomenon was known about more than 20 years ago. While he was writing this book, Parliament was forced by rising anger in Britain to conduct its own low-key investigation. The eventual report concluded the grooming problem was basically in one town: Rotherham. Official reports finally admitted there were more than 1400 victims in this otherwise unremarkable town. McLoughlin argues the authorities will continue their cover-up of this scandal, with many thousands of new victims across the country every year. The criminal indicators in Rotherham are to be found in scores of towns across Britain. McLoughlin's book is an attempt to get the public to wake up, for them to demand civilised solutions, because if the social contract breaks down, people may turn to vigilante justice as the prostituting of schoolgirls continues unabated. The book documents the hidden abuse of Sikh victims by grooming gangs, and how Sikhs in Britain have already resorted to vigilante justice. The book exposes how political correctness was used to silence potential whistle-blowers, and how this grooming phenomenon demonstrates that multiculturalism does not work. Every layer of authority in the British state comes under detailed examination to expose their part in the scandal. McLoughlin leaves no stone unturned, and at 130,000 words in length, it is likely to be the most detailed critique of this scandal for years to come.
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Experienced professional with a focus on children and young people with SEND, and who may have experienced adverse childhood experiences. Professional who seeks to improve aspiration and opportunity for all children and young people. Background includes pastoral lead in a secondary school overseeing behaviour management, enforcing statutory policy as well as establishment policy, forming student support plans with the child’s voice at the centre of this. Currently in post supporting families in preventative services, forming early help assessments and reviewing frequently, a professional who consistently engages and supports multi-agency working. Bachelor's degree in Education Studies from Bath Spa University and ongoing training and continuous professional development opportunities sought surrounding trauma & attachment, contextual safeguarding, autism awareness, signs of safety, whole family assessments, understanding domestic abuse, child exploitation and more.
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Nations allied against Germany were eventually to include Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Romania, Greece, France, Belgium, United States, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland 🇵🇱. Germany stood alone against all the nationalities of of all different faiths and cultures
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Afghanistan has large deposits of many minerals, including copper, gold, iron ore, lithium, marble, and uranium. The country also has rare earth minerals, such as lithium, uranium, and barite, and gemstones like rubies, emeralds, and lapis lazuli. The total value of Afghanistan's minerals is estimated to be over $1 trillion.
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Sharīf or Sherif (Arabic: شريف, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef, feminine sharīfa (شريفة), plural ashrāf (أشراف), shurafāʾ (شرفاء), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (c. 570 CE – 632 CE). It may be used
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1979 British Petroleum, government council housing
1981 British Aerospace, Cable & Wireless, British Sugar
Corporation
1982 Britoil, National Freight Corporation, Amersham
International (radioactive materials)
1983 Associated British Ports (seaports), British Shipbuilders,
British Transport Hotels
1984 British Telecom, Jaguar, Enterprise Oil, Sealink Ferries
1986 British Gas, National Bus Company
1987 British Airways, British Airports Authority, Rolls Royce,
Rover (trucks), Royal Ordnance (military products),
Royal Dockyards
1988 British Steel, Rover (automobiles), National Express
(intercity busing)
1989 The 10 regional water agencies, Short Brothers (aircraft)
1990 National grid and the 12 regional electricity distribution
firms, Girobank
1991 National Power, PowerGen, Scottish Power, Scottish Hydro,
Forth Ports (seaports)
1992 Trust seaports, motorway service stops, British
Technology Group
1993 Northern Ireland electricity
1994 British Rail, British Coal, London bus services
1996 British Energy (nuclear generation), AEA Technology
(nuclear research)
2001 National Air Traffic Services (NATS)
2003 Qinetiq (defense technology)
2006 British Nuclear Fuel
2009 UKAEA Limited (environmental management) 2011 The Tote (retail betting shops)
2013 Royal Mail
2015 Eurostar rail service
Notes: A portion of British Petroleum had been sold in 1977 as part of a deal with the International Monetary Fund. The Thatcher government sold the rest of the shares beginning in 1979. Also, Britain has sold its
40 percent stake in Eurostar, but the rest of the firm is held by the French - State owned rail firm
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In 2018, there were 48,344 recorded suicides, up from 42,773 in 2014, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). On average, adjusted for age, the annual U.S. suicide rate increased 24% between 1999 and 2014, from 10.5 to 13.0 suicides per 100,000 people, the highest rate recorded in 28 years. . Suicides are more preventable than corona virus deaths worldwide ❤️🙏
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