Silversea - Animal Policy

Silversea Onboard Animal Policy – the “Elephant” in the Room – Plus Silversea Response! (21.3.2025)

I was enthralled to see a fine pair of elephants (good ivory – strong stature) featured on the Silversea online website – next to the description of the cruise-ship entertainment and various other distractions (including a breeding-pair of Polar Bears – I believe). May I take this opportunity to enquire as to what is the policy for animals being onboard? Although I am a little out-of-date, I am told the odd ship might possess a parrot to keep the children engaged – but am musing as to whether the new cruise-ships – being as spacious as they are – could also contain some type of Zoo? 

PRC Tariffs Announced!

China: Plans to Add Counter-Tariffs on US Products Announced! (5.2.2025)

Luo Zhiheng, chief economist at Yuekai Securities, said China should resort to effective countermeasures against any tariff threats by the White House, while optimizing domestic policies and anchoring market expectations.

“Based on the experiences gained during the first Trump administration, China can utilize measures such as imposing additional tariffs and export controls to counter trade threats from the U.S.,” Luo said.

He added that China should continue to broaden the list of sanctioned goods and entities, and increase Beijing’s negotiation leverage with Washington.

Given heightened global uncertainties, China should scale up the intensity of its fiscal and monetary policies, actively expand domestic demand to counter any potential downturns in external demand, and steadily push forward high-level opening-up, expand networks with trade partners and diversify its trade portfolios, Luo said.

Ex-Labour Leader Arrested!

UK: Jeremy Corbyn “Interviewed Under Caution” for Israeli “Anti-Genocide” Protest! (20.1.2025)

The BBC and Sky News both colluded with the (unelected) British Establishment and Israel (which interfered in the internal functioning of the UK political system) to keep Corbyn out of political power because he wanted to a) recognise Palestine and b) return the NHS to the principle of “care” over “cost” (restoring the “Socialist” principle behind it – that Thatcher took away). Although Corbyn is a Trotskyite who has made numerous (false) anti-China statements – for many leftists, the restoration of the NHS was good enough to support Corbyn. The right-wing Labour Government today has not (and will not) reverse one single Tory cut or policy! Starmer’s idea for saving a collapsing (privatising) NHS – is more privatisation! The damage done by US and EU-demanded cuts to the Socialist NHS – is more cuts! What we are seeing below – is the consequence of a dictate issued by 10 Downing Street! The right-wing of the Labour Party wants to permanently “separate” from its traditional left-wing component (and then reform the left out of existence). The antics of Jeremy Corbyn (who had his fellow Trotskyite – George Galloway – “banned” from an earlier Pro-Palestinian march) is a damaging reminder for Starmer of what the Labour Party used to be! Although I quote the BBC and Sky News below – remember these bourgeois entities revel in the demise of the left and are thoroughly right-wing in nature!

Mao Zedong - Great Leader!

The Duplicitous Mayor of London & London Assembly Elections – 2024! (12.4.2024)

The workers definitely need effective Unions – but what the workers do not need is duplicitous Trotskyism – the aim of which is the destruction of all legitimate Marxist-Leninist movements! Marxist-Leninism – and Maoism – is the ideology that possesses the power to organise the workers (mind and body) so that the means of production are well and truly “seized” and taken control off by the Proletariat. Of course, none of the so-called Candidates above come anywhere near this genuine objective. Instead, an acceptable level of oppression and racism will be allowed throughout society and tinkered with around the edges.

The British NHS is Funded By Collective Taxation!

NHS: Enforced [Tory] A&E Crisis Kills Extra 14,000 Patients in Single Year! (2.4.2024)

LONDON, April 1 (Xinhua) — It was estimated that there were about 14,000 excess deaths in 2023 related to 12-hour-long-or-more waits in the accident and emergency (A&E) units in the United Kingdom (UK), according to a research result released here on Monday.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) made the research, using a method called the Standard Mortality Ratio, which calculates that there will be one additional death for every 72 patients that experience an eight-to-twelve-hour wait prior to their admission.

It revealed that more than 1.5 million patients waited 12 hours or more in 2023, and estimated that an average of over 268 patients died each week due to waits of 12 hours or longer.

OceanGate: Full Refunds and Apology – 泰坦尼克探险潜水器失踪5人生死未卜 – (22.6.2023)

As there is no ill-feeling – OceanGate will NOT be charging the families concerned for the loss of the Submersible (Titan I) and will NOT be pursuing renumeration for the ample cost of the Search and Rescue Mission. Furthermore:

1) OceanGate will be issuing a full refund of $125,000 to the families of each participant.

2) OceanGate will be offering a 50% Discount coupon to the five families concerned.

3) This 50% Discount coupon will be redeemable for special ‘Titan II’ tours to the seabed for those onboard to observe the wreck of Titan I!

4) Titan I will become a ‘tomb’ for those who died onboard – with a special compartment reserved especially for those of the Islamic faith! This will be distinguished by a ‘Crescent Moon’ engraved on the outer structure!”

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