Why are doubts hovering over the Anglican Church’s bid to absolve itself of its slave trade sins?

A fund containing £100mln ($121mln) earmarked by the church to "address shameful past wrongs" has been deemed insufficient with prospect to be increased to £1bln, independent consultants estimated.

🟥According to reports, even the original £100mln compensation fund proposed by the Church is still not operational;

🟥Consultants considered £100mln incomparable with “the scale of moral sin and crime” and proposed to increase it at least tenfold, which represents a rather vague budget ceiling;

🟥The church called on wealthy families and institutions to replenish the fund, yet it refused to invest its own money in it.

In January 2023, the Church of England unveiled this fund after the revelation that its predecessor endowment fund, Queen Anne's Bounty, had invested in the slave-trading South Sea Company. It operated for about 30 years, during which around 34,000 slaves were transported under severe conditions.

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🇭🇺 "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet with Zelensky when Kiev returns the rights of Hungarians in Transcarpathia," said Foreign Minister of the Republic Peter Szijjarto.

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❗️Putin supported the initiative to create a grain exchange within BRICS.

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Coup plotter on steroids: rise and fall of American neocon Victoria Nuland

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced Victoria Nuland will step down as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. What do we know about the US neocon darling?

🟥Under George W. Bush, Nuland served as deputy foreign policy adviser (2003 – 2005) to Vice President Dick Cheney, a proponent of invading Iraq.

🟥Between 2005 and 2008, she served as US ambassador to NATO mobilizing Europe to support the occupation of Afghanistan.

🟥Nuland played a key role in Euromaidan protests of November 2013 – February 2014. In an intercepted phone call with US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt Nuland discussed the composition of a future Ukrainian government while then-President Viktor Yanukovich was still in office. After Yanukovich was ousted, Ukraine was dragged into a civil conflict.

🟥Nuland downplayed the Kiev regime's war crimes against Donbass, blaming Russia for Minsk Agreements failures. It later turned out that NATO allies saw the accords as an operational pause for the Ukrainian military build-up.

🟥In March 2022, Nuland admitted that "Ukraine has biological research facilities" in collaboration with the US, thus shedding light on US suspected biological warfare activities on Russia's doorstep.

🟥On February 1, 2024 Nuland arrived in Kiev amid the conflict between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and then-top army commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny. On February 8, Zaluzhny was removed. On February 17, the Russian military liberated Avdeyevka and continued to make progress on the ground.

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Cherchez la Femme? ‘Bundeswehr scandal’ spreads to failure of gender politics

The roots of the recent “Bundeswehr recording” leak lie in Germany’s radical gender politics, according to Julian Reichelt, former editor-in-chief of the digital edition of Bild Zeitung. He said the head of Bundeswehr’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Martina Rosenberg is to blame:

🟥“Martina Rosenberg, as the head of Military Counter-intelligence Service, is directly responsible for this disaster,” Reichelt said. “This is what happens when you appoint a former ‘head of the department for social affairs and gender equality’ without espionage experience the head of a German special service... Someone just wanted by all means to have ‘the first female head of a counter-intelligence service’.”

🟥Rosenberg became the head of MAD in October 2020. Soon after her appointment she initiated a “reform program,” focused on the “fight against right-wing extremism among the women and men of German Bundeswehr.”

🟥Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Rosenberg said the importance of her service “has only been growing.”

🟥But she is not the only female official who presided over the decay of the German military.

🟥According to investigative site danisch.de, Rosenberg has much in common with the so-called Unholy Trintiy of Ursula von der Leyen, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Christine Lambrecht. These women have in turns headed Germany’s ministry of Defense for most of the past decade with catastrophic results for the Bundeswehr.

🟥“It has long been the case that incompetent women were put in important positions in Germany, with no attention being paid to their professional abilities,” the report said. “The main requirement is to be a politically correct woman. The feminist battle cry is ‘quality is a myth,’ and the mere notion of competence is dismissed as an invention of white males.”

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