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#9406631 at 2020-06-01 04:13:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12039: Castle Dark Edition
>>9406629
Resignations in the news 5/27/2020 thru 5/31/2020 - part 4
Bytedance SVP Liu Zhen resigns as company shifts power out of China
https://technode.com/2020/05/29/bytedance-svp-Liu-Zhen-resigns-as-company-shifts-power-out-of-china/
Lexington Medical Center employee fired after social media post
https://wach.com/news/local/lexington-medical-center-employee-fired-after-social-media-post
Young Mayor of North Lincolnshire Levi Bonnett announces resignation
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/young-mayor-north-lincolnshire-levi-4172769
Covina-Valley School Superintendent Resigns Amid Misconduct Allegations
https://laist.com/latest/post/20200526/covina-valley-school-district-superintendent-richard-sheehan-resigns
Vadnais Heights City Council member resigns over racist Facebook posts
http://www.citypages.com/news/vadnais-heights-city-council-member-resigns-over-racist-facebook-posts/570778221
Cox resigns from PISD board, Guerra named secretary
https://www.pleasantonexpress.com/articles/cox-resigns-from-pisd-board-guerra-named-secretary/
Longtime City of Martinsburg utilities director retiring after 45 years
https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/longtime-city-of-martinsburg-utilities-director-retiring-after-45-years/article_b523455a-27ee-58dc-bfb8-d393f1aa5328.html
Skeljungur hf.: Hendrik Egholm resigns as CEO of P/F Magn, subsidiary of Skeljungur
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/05/27/2039520/0/en/Skeljungur-hf-Hendrik-Egholm-resigns-as-CEO-of-P-F-Magn-subsidiary-of-Skeljungur.html
Katrina Barton resigns from Jackson Local Schools board
https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20200526/katrina-barton-resigns-from-jackson-local-schools-board
Report: Baltimore Employees Fired for Taking Improper Trips
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/maryland/articles/2020-05-29/report-baltimore-employees-fired-for-taking-improper-trips
Christensen resigns top county job
https://www.kittsonarea.com/2020/05/27/christensen-resigns-top-county-job/
Sullivan resigns from Gainesville council; Postponed April 7 election is Tuesday
http://www.ozarkcountytimes.com/news-local-news/sullivan-resigns-gainesville-council-postponed-april-7-election-tuesday
SCDHEC Director Rick Toomey to resign effective June 10
https://www.wspa.com/news/mcmaster-to-hold-media-briefing-at-515pm-after-scdhec-board-meeting/
Resignation of Mike Smith as a Director
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/05/27/2039758/0/en/Resignation-of-Mike-Smith-as-a-Director.html
Adam Tomer resigns from city council
http://www.chathamstartribune.com/news/article_c65ee110-a07a-11ea-8e7d-478048b84ce2.html
North Dakota's top health officer resigns; job split into 2
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/north-dakotas-top-health-officer-resigns-job-split-into-2/article_7c04c505-2a02-5423-85d2-8a0e78726637.html
Thomaston Police Department officer resigns over social media post
https://wgxa.tv/news/local/thomaston-police-department-officer-fired-due-to-social-media-post
Iron River City Manager David Thayer announced his resignation
https://www.ironcountyreporter.com/breaking-news/thayer-resigns
Fancher to resign as county clerk, Suver set as her replacement
http://www.newsbug.info/iroquois_countys_times-republic/fancher-to-resign-as-county-clerk-suver-set-as-her-replacement/article_e23fc2b3-1cf1-5db1-9169-510b81ec2cfa.html
Sanofi's Board of Directors notes the resignation of Emmanuel Babeau and coopts Gilles Schnepp as Independent Director
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/05/28/2040458/0/en/Sanofi-s-Board-of-Directors-notes-the-resignation-of-Emmanuel-Babeau-and-coopts-Gilles-Schnepp-as-Independent-Director.html
Lima policeman indicted, fired
https://www.limaohio.com/news/412259/lima-policeman-indicted-fired
#9033309 at 2020-05-05 03:32:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11563: Hangin For The Q Edition
>>9033065 lb
South China Morning Post
>https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3079303/us-military-researchers-call-use-privateers-against-china
Hmmm…
US military researchers call for use of privateers against China
Magazine published by US Naval Institute features articles titled 'Unleash the Privateers!' and 'US Privateering Is Legal'
But any such move would provoke a retaliation from China, military watchers say
SCMP
Liu Zhen in Beijing and Kristin Huang
10 Apr, 2020
The United States should encourage the use of privateers to fight Chinese aggression at sea, according to a pair of articles in magazine produced by the US Naval Institute.
The reports - titled "Unleash the Privateers!" and "US Privateering Is Legal", and published in the April issue of Proceedings - suggest the US government issue letters of marque - a commission authorising privately owned ships (privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
The authors - Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Brandon Schwartz, a former CSIS media relations manager - said that China's larger merchant fleet represented an asymmetric vulnerability with the US, and an attack on China's global trade would undermine its entire economy and threaten its stability.
Such a campaign would be a legal and low-cost way to contain China's power rise on the sea, they said, adding that it could prevent, rather than provoke, a war.
Collin Koh, a research fellow from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, said the idea was "politically unsound".
"That would be regarded as an outright provocation which would invite retaliation from China," he said.
"And going by the UN Charter, it might even be construed as a use of force, and would invite international condemnation too."
Privateering with a letter of marque dates back to a period from the mid-16th to the 18th century known as the Age of Sail, but was outlawed with the introduction of various treaties in the 19th and 20th centuries.
However, the authors of the Proceedings reports said that the US government never formally signed any agreements, and argued that the US Constitution gave Congress the power to "grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal".
Although no such letters had been issued since 1907, that was due to "strategic and policy considerations rather than legal ones", they said.
The authors did not say if China's trillions of dollars worth of trade with the US should be exempted from attacks by pirates, but that probably was because it would no longer exist in a hypothetical scenario of the two nations already having decoupled.
Hong Kong-based military commentator Song Zhongping said that such decoupling, as advocated by American conservatives and far-rights, was a dangerous sign that it would place two nuclear powers in confrontation and even conflict.
"When the Americans decide to act tough against a so-called adversary or enemy, they will spare no effort and limit no means," he said.
"Privateering on Chinese merchant ships may also be possible."
Republican congressman Ron Paul raised the issue of using letters of marque against Osama bin Laden and Somalian pirates in 2007 and 2009, but did not succeed.
Julia Xue, chair professor of International Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said the researchers argument was not valid.
"It has been customary international law, and the US is also bonded by it," she said. "It was an incorrect interpretation of international law."
Koh said the current policy elites were unlikely to seriously consider such a recommendation, but such articles represented the think tankers who advocated a much harder policy stance against China.
"If anything, it does reflect the growing schism between China and the US, as both countries see their ties sliding downhill under the cloud of strategic lack of trust," Koh said.
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (2)
#16029464 at 2022-04-07 14:30:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #30: "Honks Shall Haunt Their Dreams " Edition
>>16029352
First Open Letter on the WHO's Pandemic Treaty
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/03/pandemic-treaty/45591/
TO: People throughout the world. Governments, presidents, health ministers. Independent media
TO: WHO via World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, Dr Soumya Swaminathan
TO: United Nations via Antonio Guterres, Liu Zhenmin, Elliott Harris, Maria-Francesca Spatolisano
The World Council for Health (WCH), a coalition of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and civil society advocacy organizations, opposes the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s moves to implement a power grab in the form of a global pandemic agreement, while the world's attention is diverted by the latest crisis.
The proposed WHO agreement is unnecessary, and is a threat to sovereignty and inalienable rights. It increases the WHO's suffocating power to declare unjustified pandemics, impose dehumanizing lockdowns, and enforce expensive, unsafe, and ineffective treatments against the will of the people.
The WCH believes that the people have a right to participate in any agreement that affects their lives, livelihoods, and well-being. However, the WHO has not engaged in a process of public participation, which is evidence that its priority is capturing more power for itself and its corporate accomplices, than serving the interests of the people. Without an unbiased democratic process, any agreement by the WHO, acting via the United Nations, will be unlawful, illegitimate, and invalid. Continue…
#15868451 at 2022-03-15 17:02:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #30: "Honks Shall Haunt Their Dreams " Edition
First Open Letter on the WHO's Pandemic Treaty
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/03/pandemic-treaty/45591/
Listen to the letter read by WCH Steering Committee member Shabnam Palesa Mohamed on this page
TO: People throughout the world. Governments, presidents, health ministers. Independent media
TO: WHO via World Health Assembly, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, Dr Soumya Swaminathan
TO: United Nations via Antonio Guterres, Liu Zhenmin, Elliott Harris, Maria-Francesca Spatolisano
The World Council for Health (WCH), a coalition of scientists, doctors, lawyers, and civil society advocacy organizations, opposes the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s moves to implement a power grab in the form of a global pandemic agreement, while the world's attention is diverted by the latest crisis.
The proposed WHO agreement is unnecessary, and is a threat to sovereignty and inalienable rights. It increases the WHO's suffocating power to declare unjustified pandemics, impose dehumanizing lockdowns, and enforce expensive, unsafe, and ineffective treatments against the will of the people.
The WCH believes that the people have a right to participate in any agreement that affects their lives, livelihoods, and well-being. However, the WHO has not engaged in a process of public participation, which is evidence that its priority is capturing more power for itself and its corporate accomplices, than serving the interests of the people. Without an unbiased democratic process, any agreement by the WHO, acting via the United Nations, will be unlawful, illegitimate, and invalid.
Historically, the WHO leadership has failed the people. Among many examples, it approved the injurious H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine for a controversially declared pandemic. Equally, the WHO failed during the Covid-19 chapter as it encouraged lockdowns, suppressed early preventive treatments, and recommended product interventions that have proven to be neither safe nor effective.
The WHO cannot be allowed to control the world's health agenda, nor enforce biosurveillance. While it receives funding from public sources belonging to the people, it is caught in a perpetual conflict of interest because it also receives substantial funding from private interests that use their contributions to influence and profit from WHO decisions and mandates. For example, the Gates Foundation and the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine promotion alliance, contribute over $1 billion a year.
Call to Action
WCH partners, from Australia to Zimbabwe, stand against this costly abuse of power and assert the sovereign right of people to make their own decisions, over and above what their representatives may want. We urge everyone to approach credible government representatives, political parties, trade unions, civil society groups, professionals, public figures, and independent media to:
Raise awareness about the implications of the proposed global pandemic agreement;
Call for national campaigns that protect natural law and democratic constitutions;
Join credible civil society coalitions such as the World Council for Health.
We also encourage everyone to learn more about principles, accords, conventions, and treaties that protect the rights of men, women, and children. These include the Siracusa Principles in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which provide legal standards to protect rights.
Leading up to the WHO's 77th World Health Assembly in 2024, where the WHO intends to confirm their pandemic agreement, the WCH will continue to raise awareness through campaigning against this undemocratic move. For information about the WCH's past work on this issue, follow these links to the WCH Townhall on the pandemic plan, and see these articles on the subject.
If you or your organisation want to support World Council for Health in this crucial campaign:
Connect via: info@worldcouncilforhealth.org
Become a partner with your organization via: https://swiy.io/cfh-application
Donate contributions via: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/donate
There is a better way. We are creating it together, for a healthy, inclusive, and harmonious world.
#StopTheTreaty | Prepared by WCH Law and Activism Committee
A printable PDF of this open letter can be found here.
Watch the interview with Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger on the WHO Pandemic Treaty Issues