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Francis Angevine

Colombia: Don’t Cut Ombudsperson’s Office Budget

(Bogotá) – Proposed budget cuts to Colombia’s Ombudsperson’s Office would be a blow to the protection of human rights in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The Ombudsperson’s Office requested a very modest budget increase for 2026

Joint Statement: Human Rights Concerns Regarding the UK’s Free Trade Agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer CC: Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds Dear Prime Minister Starmer, We are writing on behalf of a coalition of rights groups and trade unions to express deep concern around the lack

UK: Rights Protections Needed in Gulf Trade Pact

(Beirut) – The United Kingdom government should publicly pledge to incorporate strong human rights conditions before a Free Trade Agreement between the UK and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is signed, a coalition of 14 human rights orga

The Shakespeare Deception Part 4

The Shakespeare canon was created by Edward de Vere. De Vere likely collaborated with other court poets, possibly including Christopher Marlowe. After de Vere’s death, literary insiders like Francis Bacon and Ben Jonson transformed his wor

The hypocrisy of Mario Draghi

“For years,” Mario Draghi proclaimed last week, “the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, brought with it geopolitical power and influence in international trade relations.” But this year, he said

Aid from Western countries is expected to decline; China is stepping in to use it as a form of control

As Western governments struggle to keep their economies afloat, foreign aid in the form of Official Development Assistance is on the decline. China is capitalising on the West’s declining influence through foreign aid and is making it clea

Ed Dowd: The imminent global “deep recession” will be used to usher in CBDCs

Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street money manager and founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, predicts a severe financial crisis in the United States, potentially worse than the 2008 crash, with the most critical phase expected to unfold i

The use of genetically engineered organisms in the food industry is widespread

The low-fat food industry is a massive market, with companies using misleading health claims to sell their products. These low-fat food products contain genetically modified and other unhealthy ingredients. Using the example of a Gatsby 18

If you have de-Googled your phone, the EU’s age verification rules will exclude you from using all apps for all services

In late June, the European Union launched a pilot project to test a prototype age verification app in five member states: Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain. The excuse? Protect children online. The app is built on the technical sp

The Genesis 6 Conspiracy: Blavatsky, Bailey and Theosophy

“During the Middle Ages, Theosophist philosophy was housed in Masonry, medieval mysticism, and Rosicrucianism … the Theosophical Society adopted alchemical and Hermetic traditions to build a bridge between science and religion. “Theosophy e

UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world

The UK’s Online Safety Act became fully operational in July 2025. It is being used to restrict content globally. It has caused global and significant concerns about censorship of information that is of public interest. Technology companies

EU’s technocratic border control will be launched in October; it applies to all non-EU visitors

From 12 October, all visitors to all European Union countries will have their biometric data collected and stored by a centralised agency. This agency will not only collect data on our movements but will also collect data from the criminal

German freedom activist arrested for evading tax is found to be due a tax refund, a court hears

In April 2020, Michael Ballweg successfully sued in the German Federal Constitutional Court against the ban on assemblies implemented in response to the covid “pandemic.” This meant that public protests were again permitted. Consequential

FDA expresses scepticism of the science that demonised saturated fats as causing heart disease

The war on saturated fats may be coming to an end, with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioning the science behind the diet-heart hypothesis. For decades defending saturated fat was consid

New Zealand’s covid inquiry cherry picks evidence to suit a pre-determined outcome

Phase Two of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on covid is at risk of failing the public due to its approach to vaccine safety, ignoring evidence of serious adverse effects and relying on discredited ideas. During the week of 7 to 11 July, th