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Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine –– All The Way
February 25, 2018 TLB Staff COMMENTARY, HEALTH, Tyranny 0
How many must feel, stuck on the Western medicine hamster wheel of pill after pill after pill …
Western medicine has some good points, for sure, and is great in an emergency, but it's high time people realized that today's mainstream medicine (western medicine or allopathy), with its focus on drugs, radiation and surgery, is at its foundation a Rockefeller creation. The Rockefellers, of course, are one of the most rich and powerful families of the elite black nobility. Behind their spurious facade of philanthropy, they are power-hungry tyrants intent on owning the entire world, and depopulating it through eugenics-based programs like forced sterilization, water fluoridation, abortions and vaccinations. They have either majorly or fully created (and still dominate) the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Planned Parenthood and many, many other organizations that either rule the world or influence culture to a large extent.
Despite the dominance of western medicine nowadays, even just 100 years ago the situation was very different, so it's worthwhile casting our minds back to how the we got to this place. How did western medicine and the giant conglomerate of multinational pharmaceutical corporations ("Big Pharma") become the mainstream medical system in the US and other first world nations? And what alternatives are there?
Petroleum Drugs
Let's go back in time to the late 1800s. John D. Rockefeller, a man quoted to have said "competition is sin", is the head of the Rockefeller family and has just become very rich through extracting oil from the ground. Now he is looking for ways to capitalize even further with his oil, and he comes across the idea of using coal tar – a petroleum derivative – to make substances that affect the human mind, body and nervous system. These are called drugs, and they are excellent at masking or stopping symptoms, but overall do not cure the underlying cause of a disease.
Like other elite leaders of the New World Order who fit the description of an "evil genius" – those high on intellect and low on compassion – Rockefeller used his oil money to buy out part of the massive German pharmaceutical cartel, I.G. Farben. This was the very same cartel that would later assist Hitler to implement his eugenics-based vision of a New World Order founded on racial supremacy, by manufacturing chemicals and poisons for war. With the control of drug manufacturing under his wings, Rockefeller then embarked on a decidedly wicked plan – wicked from the point of view of a free and healthy humanity, but brilliant from a business perspective.
Western medicine relies on Big Pharma's petroleum drugs, which the body can never ultimately assimilate. Meanwhile, it engages in biopiracy to steal Nature's best compounds and patent them.
Destroying any Competition to Western Medicine
Rockefeller saw that there were many types of doctors and healing modalities in existence at that time, from chiropractic to naturopathy to homeopathy to holistic medicine to herbal medicine and more. He wanted to eliminate the competitors of western medicine (the only modality which would propose drugs and radiation as treatment, thus enriching Rockefeller who owned the means to produce these treatments), so he hired a man called Abraham Flexner to submit a report to Congress in 1910. This report "concluded" that there were too many doctors and medical schools in America, and that all the natural healing modalities which had existed for hundreds or thousands of years were unscientific quackery. It called for the standardization of medical education, whereby only the allopathic-based AMA be allowed to grant medical school licenses in the US.
Sadly, Congress acted upon the conclusions and made them law. Incredibly, allopathy became the standard mainstream modality, even though its 3 main methods of treatment in the 1800s had been blood-letting, surgery and the injection of toxic heavy metals like lead and mercury to supposedly displace disease! It should be noted that hemp was also demonized and criminalized not long after this, not because there is anything dangerous about it, but because it was a huge threat (as both medicine and fuel) to the Rockefeller drug and oil industries, respectively.
The Rockefeller and Carnegie Tax-Exempt Foundations for "Efficient" Philanthropy
The story doesn't stop there. Rockefeller and another elite leader Andrew Carnegie used their tax-exempt Foundations, from 1913 on, to offer huge grants to the best medical schools all over America – on the proviso that only an allopathic-based curriculum be taught, and that some of their agents be allowed to sit on the Board of Directors. They called this "efficient" philanthropy, which, when passed through the Orwellian translation unit, means they wanted a return on their investment. They systematically dismantled the curricula of these schools by removing any mention of the natural healing power of herbs and plants, or of the importance of diet to health. The result is a system which to this day churns out doctors who are, almost always, utterly clueless about nutrition and disregard the idea that what you eat can actually heal or hurt you.
A couple of decades after this, another law was passed that further entrenched western medicine in America. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 gave hospitals grants for construction and modernization, on the condition they provide free healthcare to anyone in need, without discrimination of any kind. Although there were good sides to this, the downside was that once people had become dependent on this system for their healthcare needs – especially those on pharmaceutical pills which need to be taken day after day without end – the system switched into a paid system, and the Rockefellers found themselves with new lifelong customers.
The bitter truth is that, in general, when you go to your Western doctor, you are seen as a potential market for the medical factory's products. For Big Pharma, there is no financial incentive to heal you because a patient cured is a customer lost. Even if you are not sick, Big Pharma is still targeting you, trying to convince you that you are ill (e.g. with psychiatry's ridiculous list of fictitious diseases, many of them fake) so that you will try its latest pill. Pregnant women who go to the doctor are treated like this, and peddled intravenous fluid bags, fetal monitors, ultrasound (radiation for a vulnerable baby), a host of drugs, the totally unnecessary episiotomy, and – to top it all off – the Caesarean delivery!
Bio-Piracy: The Business Model of Western Medicine's Big Pharma Cartel
Remember, all these synthetic drugs are isolates. Many are derived from plant compounds, but because Nature cannot be patented and sold, Big Pharma has no interest in natural cures. What they do instead is engage in bio-piracy – research natural compounds, copy them (or modify them slightly) in a lab, then try to steal and patent them. If they get a patent, they then market their pill as a wonder drug while simultaneously (through fake scientific research) suppressing and criticizing the original plant as being worthless, so you won't go to the source of the cure. Ironically, guess what type of medicine John D. Rockefeller used and the British Royal Family still uses? Homeopathy!
Modern western medicine seems to have lost the supposed point of its existence: healing people. In his revealing book "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", Dr. Robert Mendolsohn quotes an article entitled "Cleveland's Marvelous Medical Factory" which boasted of the Cleveland Clinic's "accomplishments last year: 2,980 open-heart operations, 1.3 million laboratory tests, 73,320 electrocardiograms, 7,770 full-body x-ray scans, 24,368 surgical procedures." Seems fancy, yet none of these procedures has been proven to have anything to do with maintaining or restoring health. When people get screened for a disease, they are being subjected to dangerous radiation (more money for the Rockefellers) which harms tissue and can end up causing the exact disease it is supposed to be protecting against – as happens daily with the mammogram scam, designed to drum up new breast cancer clients.
John D. Rockefeller, the oil tycoon who helped create Big Pharma and Western Medicine.
Rockefeller Philanthropy is Social Control
The Rockefellers and other elites use philanthropy as a tool for control. It's social engineering with a nice PR sheen. A free lunch is not really free, whether private (Rockefeller-style western medicine) or public/governmental (Obama-style socialized medicine) because, even if you get something at no cost, you are required to give up your data and your privacy. They want you dependent on their system – then they'll raise the rates once you're trapped.
This is big business – and it's also a big killer. Dr. Barbara Starfield published a study in the year 2000 that found that there were 225,000 iatrogenic (allopathic doctor caused) deaths in the US every year. However, this was only counting direct deaths; when you factor in all indirect deaths, as Dr. Gary Null did in 2011 in his report Death by Medicine, the figure is closer to 784,000 per year! That's 7.8 million people dead from western medicine every 10 years!
Null concluded: "It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States …"
Whenever a lot of people die in a staged false flag attack (like 3,000 people on 9/11) or in a staged mind control shooting (like 50 or so people), we hear all about it on the media. Yet between 616 and 2,147 Americans are dying every day from Rockefeller Western medicine, and we don't hear a thing!
Natural Solutions that Surpass Rockefeller-Created Western Medicine
At this point let us turn from the problem to the solutions – and fortunately there are many. The famous ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote:
"Nature heals. The doctor's task consists in strengthening the natural healing powers, to direct them, and especially not to interfere with them."
The immune system is your number one defense against any disease – not a vaccine. Most natural medicine is designed to treat the body holistically, not to "cure" one disease only to have it transform and mutate into another ailment. When you takes plants and herbs as medicine, you normally take the whole food, not an isolate because it is based on a holistic understanding. Likewise, Traditional Chinese Medicine defines all disease as stagnation and treats sickness as an imbalance to be brought back into balance. What is the point of transferring an imbalance in one area into an imbalance in another area? None, unless you are trying to profit off disease like Big Pharma. It is not real healing.
There are so many natural cures and remedies out there, if you take the time to look. Two examples among thousands are turmeric, which will do more for your blood pressure and diabetes than any drug can, and apricot kernels (rich in laetrile which selectively kills cancer cells and leaves healthy ones intact) which will handle cancer better than chemotherapy. The Gerson Therapy has also healed thousands of "terminal" cancer patients who were told by doctors of western medicine, "there's nothing more we can do for you."
Western medicine has its time and place, and its strengths and weaknesses. Western medicine may be a good system in a critical emergency and for complicated surgical procedures, but for general conditions, there are so many better alternatives. Time to start exploring them!
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Walters Gardens recently announced to its staff plans to transition leadership from the current CEO, John Walters, to Karin Walters, his daughter who is currently the company's vice president of product strategy.
John will retain his role as CEO until Oct. 1, when he will take on a new role as executive chairman of the board, according to a news release from the company.
Karin Walters is a member of a third-generation leadership team at Walters Gardens that includes Chief Operations Officer Ryan Hop, and Christa Steenwyk, vice president of marketing and industry relationships, according to news release.
Since the executive team at Walters Gardens began succession planning in 2019, it has been a focus to intentionally transition from a smaller company at the helm of one leader, to a larger company mindset guided by a cohesive team of leaders in Karin, Ryan, and Christa. Under John's leadership, Walters Gardens has grown from a smaller company mainly serving the Midwest — through bare root sales, mail order, and packaged perennials — to a respected international presence in the industry, according to the release.
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Investors are demanding better reporting on ESG issues and a new sustainability standard setter may deliver what's required.
The formation of the International Sustainability Standards Board may end a period with a fragmented reporting landscape.
Standard setters in Australia and New Zealand will watch the ISSB's work to ensure our standards don't fall behind.
Most of Australia's top 200 companies report on ESG issues, but 66% don't get ESG reporting externally assured.
Somewhere in the midst of the political heat on climate change measures at COP26 in Glasgow last year, a reporting revolution got its first real public airing. The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS) announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a body that will champion reporting on non financial matters. Its first key project will be, you guessed it, climate reporting.
Erkki Liikanen, the chair of the IFRS Foundation's Board of Trustees, said the new standard setter had been created to meet a hunger for better information on non-financial issues.
"Its standards will help investors understand how companies are responding to ESG issues, like climate, to inform capital allocation decisions," Liikanen told his COP26 audience.
"The standards will form a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures. They can be used on a standalone basis or integrated into jurisdictional requirements to serve broader stakeholder or other public policy needs."
The ISSB will focus on meeting the sustainability information needs of investors.
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The IFRS Foundation aims to capitalise on the existing work done by other bodies on sustainability reporting. The new standard-setting board consolidates two London-headquartered bodies: the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF), a non-profit designed to help businesses and investors develop a shared understanding of enterprise value, and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), an international consortium of business and environmental NGOs.
The VRF's existing suite of sustainability standards will form the basis for the new framework. Two prototype standards have been published already – one on climate-related disclosures and the other on general sustainability disclosure requirements – to get early progress on a single set of sustainability standards.
"This is the outcome of the work by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures [TCFD], the VRF, the CDSB, the World Economic Forum and the IASB, supported by IOSCO [the International Organization of Securities Commissions]," said Liikanen. "The aim is to consolidate key aspects of this content into an enhanced, unified set of recommendations for consideration by the ISSB."
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The creation of the ISSB did not occur in a vacuum. It is, in some respects, a kind of market correction of the acceptance across the globe that a single set of accounting standards was an effective way of ensuring financial results were reported on a comparable basis to investors worldwide.
That notion led to the creation in 2001 of a single standard setter in the form of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – overseen by the very same London-based IFRS Foundation – while non-financial reporting was being championed by various groups such as the VRF, the Global Reporting Initiative and similar bodies intent on filling a gap in reporting guidance.
And it is, perhaps, a natural evolution of the triple bottom line accounting framework – begun in the 1990s – which considers environmental and social effects as well as financial outcomes.
"[The ISSB] will provide much-needed harmonisation in what was a complex and fragmented reporting landscape," says CA ANZ business reform leader Karen McWilliams FCA.
"Climate and sustainability disclosures have become key requirements for most organisations – they're no longer a 'nice to have'. But the lack of a robust, globally accepted reporting framework has given rise to confusion and a lack of comparability. Globally consistent reporting and common standards will also introduce greater accountability for organisations of all types."
The ISSB will both release exposure drafts for consultation and issue final standards on disclosure requirements and climate-related disclosures.
"In New Zealand, the External Reporting Board (XRB) will continue to consult on and issue their climate-disclosure standard, which will be effective for reporting periods beginning 2023."
"These developments present opportunities for CAs to add value to the organisations they work with and in, helping them start their journey towards a more sustainable business model," McWilliams adds.
"Our recent playbook, How SMEs Can Create a More Sustainable World, is a must read for CAs to increase their knowledge in this space. For those working with larger entities, understanding the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations should be part of their professional development this year."
Reaction in Australia and New Zealand While London will remain the hub of activity on sustainability reporting, the work of the ISSB is being actively monitored by standard setters in Australia and New Zealand.
The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) have each outlined their approach to the development and adoption of sustainability standards, and this does not involve setting up a separate standard setter like the ISSB.
Both boards believe it is unnecessary to replicate the institutional arrangements that exist overseas to deal with guidance on sustainability, but they will keep a close eye on developments to make sure Australia does not fall behind in its reporting requirements.
"This approach is designed to take advantage of the significant experience, expertise and credibility that the AASB and the AUASB have in standard setting," the AASB, AUASB and the Financial Reporting Council said in a joint position statement on what they have called Extended External Reporting.
The AASB issued a proposal on a voluntary framework late last year that involves adopting the TCFD's climate reporting recommendations. Stakeholder feedback had to be in by the end of January 2022.
AASB chair Dr Keith Kendall says companies and industry groups have told the board they want "greater clarity and consistency, and this proposed framework is an important interim step."
He says the AASB is expected to finalise its guidance on voluntary climate reporting by the end of February.
"I don't anticipate anything new to come up based on the ad hoc consultations prior to issuing the invitation for stakeholder comments," Kendall says.
"Some of the ad hoc feedback we've received has come from the corporate director community who have expressed their wish for immediate guidance."
Kendall and his AUASB counterpart, Bill Edge, will also have some assistance from academic research on climate reporting. The two Australian boards are industry partners for an Australian Research Council-funded project by six academics looking at climate risk disclosure reporting.
Why assurance is critical
Environmental, social and governance reporting in general will not survive in a sceptical marketplace without assurance of some kind.
A review of the annual reports of Australia's top 200 companies by PwC, released in October 2021, showed a growth in environmental, social and governance disclosure among the sample of entities.
In ESG Reporting in Australia – the full story, or just the good story?, PwC found 87% of the companies published non-financial disclosures that were meaningful; up from 58% in 2020.
The bad news was this increase in reporting was not accompanied by a similar jump in assurance. The report indicated that a worrying 66% of the companies were not getting their ESG reporting externally assured.
Figure 1: ESG reporting by ASX 200 companies. Source: ESG Reporting in Australia – the full story, or just the good story?, PwC Australia, Oct 2021.
PwC Australia partner and ESG assurance lead Matthew Lunn FCA says some companies still need to build skills on their boards related to sustainability. The report found that 41% of the 200 companies reviewed didn't have ESG skills as required skills in their board skills matrix.
"With complex and rapidly changing issues under the ESG banner, boards need to be regularly assessing whether their members are suitably skilled to navigate these issues," Lunn says.
This absence of necessary expertise also indicates a pressing need for accounting educators to incorporate extended external financial reporting standards into their curriculum.
Regulators play an important role in ensuring that reporting guidance is followed by companies, adds Lunn, but Australia has lagged other nations in requiring certain disclosures related to climate change impacts.
He believes the absence of mandatory reporting is less of a concern as companies adopt report requirements themselves to satisfy investors, but ensuring ESG reporting is adequate requires regulatory enforcement.
"I think we need to move to a point where it becomes mandatory, which gives regulators the opportunity to enforce certain things," Lunn says. "At the moment they are a bit toothless in that regard.
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) already has a pathway for governments to produce better quality reporting when it comes to measuring the impacts of climate change.
It has published guidance for the central role accountants can play in ensuring progress towards meeting the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals (SDG). (Look for RPG 1 – Reporting on the long-term sustainability of an entity's finances and RPG 3 – Reporting service performance information.)
This article was first published by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. You can read the original article here.


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By Rick Murt | May 15, 2018
Fresh off Shopify Unite 2018, I wanted to share my thoughts as a developer. I'll be talking about the conference itself, some of the new technologies announced, and few of the issues that were fixed. I'll also give a higher-level look at where the platform has been and where it seems to be going.
I won't get too deep into the technical weeds here, or talk too specifically about the new opportunities presented, but rather I'll give more of an overview on where I feel like Shopify stands in the eCommerce ecosystem.
Shopify developers use the same APIs that we do
Almost every pop-up talk, lightning talk, track and sandbox I attended mentioned the fact that Shopify's own developers use the exact same APIs as partners and merchants.
In other words, Shopify doesn't supply themselves with any secret APIs that we don't know about. That may seem banal, but it felt as though this point was really stressed intentionally, and I think that's for two main reasons:
To assure partners the APIs are really good.
They are good enough that Shopify's own developers can use them internally and create amazing things such as the Shopify admin panel: all the different sales channels apps like Facebook, Instagram, Google Shopping, Pinterest, Shopify Flow, and first party apps like Shopify Product Reviews, Order Printer and more.
Every single merchant on Shopify depends on the Shopify admin panel. If the APIs weren't good enough, Shopify most certainly wouldn't build the admin on top of it. Partners simply cannot say in good faith the APIs aren't good or robust enough to help them build their business.
To kill two birds with one stone.
By creating, updating, and improving their own internal APIs, they're also creating brand new resources for app and theme developers. This means, by default, Shopify is extensible. Shopify wants to create new capabilities for themselves, which in turn automatically creates new capabilities for partners and merchants. It's a win-win situation.
This is a sign of a well-built platform, and it should really give partners and merchants the confidence they need to continue relying on everything that Shopify supplies.
Shopify is not afraid to evolve their platform with cutting edge technologies, legacy data be damned
Platforms often die or get overtaken by someone or something new because they're stuck with old technologies and legacy data they have to support forever. This is because new programming language, framework or software that was amazing 10 years ago is not so amazing anymore. I.e. The data structure that made sense in 2008 is incompatible with the needs of 2018.
The problem with modernizing any of these old decisions is that hundreds of thousands of merchants and thousands of partners and developers rely on these old ways to run their business, thus making upgrading or making wholesale changes to software, data structures and other underlying technologies incredibly scary.
Migrations are really difficult, as many companies will tell you!
Shopify is not bogged down by these fears. They are aggressively pushing a relatively new technology: GraphQL with their GraphQL admin APIs to eventually replace their older REST APIs. As previously mentioned, Shopify uses their own APIs to build their own product, so they're swapping out their entire foundation on the fly. REST APIs still work very well, are widely used, and will be continued to be used for years to come.
But in 2018, it's clear that REST does have its shortcomings, shortcomings that weren't necessarily an issue when Shopify originally opened up shop. Shopify identified those shortcomings and seemingly does not want to settle with a technology that still works fine. They saw an opportunity to improve and stay up-to-date with better technologies and they Went For It! They've made all existing APIs backward-compatible with GraphQL, and didn't have to break anyone's data in the meantime, which is certainly no easy task.
React is another relatively new technology that Shopify is pushing hard. It may be mature in relative JavaScript framework terms, but it's still very new. Nevertheless, Shopify is staking it's developer reputation on it. This year, they announced improvements to their own design system called Polaris, which is built on top of React. Originally released last year, they've doubled down on Polaris, adding new features and improving old features, signalling that their support for React is here to stay.
They're telling any developer who will listen to build their apps on React, and that they're building tools to make working with React and Polaris easier. They're also building their own apps on React and Polaris, sticking with the trend of using the same technologies internally that they supply to their partners.
Shopify understands issues that partners have and is aggressively building tools to fix them
Shopify is a great platform, but not every part of their offering is easy to work with. As partners, we're responsible for making great themes and tools that merchants can use, and Shopify wants to keep it that way. By constantly using and improving their own platform and hearing Partner feedback, Shopify identified some of the major issues that Partner's face when developing for clients and merchants.
They know getting apps to talk to each other is a painful process. Apps are great, and can fairly easily extend functionality on a merchant's shop. Most of the time, however, they don't talk to each other. Previously, if you wanted to connect your wishlist app to Klaviyo, for example, you had to employ some kind of hackish solution, or hope that the wishlist app and Klaviyo would eventually get together and connect things directly.
Now, with Shopify Flow Connectors, apps can define triggers and actions. A trigger allows apps to define some kind of an event that happened. An action allows apps to define some kind of action that should be taken. In between, Shopify Flow allows merchants to configure exactly what the parameters are for a trigger to result in an action. It's pretty neat.
Now, you can have apps talk to each other! Imagine a situation in which a wishlist app developer creates a trigger called "item added to wishlist," and Klaviyo creates an action called, "Track as Klaviyo event." (In fact, they've already created it!!)
If a customer is logged in, and they have the "accepts marketing" property enabled in their account, when they add an item to their wishlist, you can track that event in Klaviyo.
This tracked event can be tied to a campaign in Klaviyo that allows you to send a follow up email to customers later, reminding them that they previously added an item to a wishlist and should complete their purchase at some point.
Your live support app can also send you a Slack message
A reviews app can add points your customer's LoyaltyLion account
Your search app can save data to a Google spreadsheet you've created.
... and a whole lot more! The possibilities are endless.
All of these things were technically feasible but certainly not easy. It was time consuming, and was prone to break when the apps changed their code since there was no standard spec in place. Now it's fairly trivial, and has almost unlimited business logic configurability by the merchant.
Shopify developers seem genuinely interested in collaborating with partner developers
Shopify's internal developers are increasingly releasing more open source tools and goodies, and they want your feedback. After every pop-up talk, there was a Q&A. Inevitably, every Q&A would contain a question like "would it be possible to do this?" and inevitably, a Shopify developer would say, "no, not currently but we'd be happy to add it."
They seem genuinely interested in working hand-in-hand with partners to give them the most powerful tools possible, and that's important to establish a true partnership between Shopify and the members of its partners programs.
Shopify has worked hard to build state-of-the-art infrastructure, and want you to use it
One of the most impressive tracks I went to was titled "Building Scalable Apps" by developer leads Adam Archer and Joe Pym. They began by again insisting that they were using the same exact technologies and APIs internally that we are using as partners, and went through the process of creating a brand new gigantic app that serves millions of customers, and handles millions of requests from scratch.
In this fictional scenario, they ran into the worst case scenario every step of the way, and explained how to get out of it. In doing so, they drew out the entire infrastructure that they have to support the entire platform, including redis, queues, and marking and sweeping methodology. They've clearly run into every problem possible, and the platform is still humming along smoothly. They made me feel confident that the infrastructure in place is solid, and the architecture is well thought out. They also convinced me that building all this infrastructure was a ton of complicated work.
Think about it: they have millions of merchants, some with millions of products, connected to some of the biggest services in the world (like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and more) and it all seemingly runs without a hitch. Which is great, because they're making this same infrastructure available through things like Shopify Flow Connectors, Kit Skills API and more. Now, we don't have to replicate all this infrastructure as we scale our own apps, we can simply hook into the great things they already have in place and we can all be confident that Shopify can handle apps of any size and complexity.
In a non-technical sense, I was incredibly impressed with Shopify in a number of different ways:
The attention to detail in every aspect of the conference, particularly the little things: signage, branding, marketing, presentations, catering, flow of the events and much more.
The general vibe of Shopify culture. Every member of the team I interacted with, whether via scheduled talk or one-on-one, was incredibly friendly, personable, and seem to genuinely believe in what they are doing and, maybe more importantly, enjoy what they are doing.
The connected nature of the company. There are a ton of teams working on different things, but each team seems to have the big picture in the back of their mind, seemingly driven by the overall company philosophies.
I went into the conference with my confidence about Shopify's future wavering ever so slightly. Working with the platform day-in and day-out makes you intimately familiar with some of the shortcomings. The annoyances get magnified when you're too deep in the weeds. It was good to step away for a few days and get a much better feel for the breadth of the platform and the overall plan put in place by all the disparate teams. This really gave me the bigger picture view of the cohesiveness of the platform. I came away with my confidence no longer wavering. I will definitely continue full steam ahead developing on Shopify.
I also went into the conference thinking that the market for merchants and apps was somewhat saturated. It seemed like all of the good ideas had already been built, and the opportunity to enter the market was shrinking. Between new technologies, opportunities to enhance old technologies, the partner marketplace and much more, I left with a very different opinion. I came away thinking there are limitless opportunities for growth, and improvement. I believe that app and theme developers, old businesses and new businesses alike, will thrive on Shopify. And I'm privileged to be a part of it.
Thanks for the great week, Shopify!
Rick Murt
Rick is a full-stack developer at Fuel Made. When he's not coding or typing 130-words per minute, you can find him winning a local bowling match, or playing Rocket League. Or, you might spot him showing off his moves in the middle of a dance floor.
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Usually when musicians and composers look back on their careers and lives, they often point out that it's been all about "the music." And, holding true to form, former Jacobs School of Music professor of music, Frederick A. Fox, concurs. "Yes, that's correct," he said. "At the core, it's always been the music."
For Fox, the "music" started in junior high school when he began playing the saxophone. By his late teens and early 20s, it began to gain strength when he toured the Midwest as part of big band jazz ensembles, playing the instrument he always had, the tenor sax. The music began to take on increasing importance when he began to write small interludes and introductory pieces to the big band numbers. It was only then he realized he had found his calling in life—a composer of music.
Now 80 years of age, Professor Fox retired from Indiana University and the Jacobs School of Music in April 1997. He had served I.U. and the music school as professor of composition for 23 years, 13 of which were as chairman of the composition department. A notable achievement of his was the founding of the I.U. New Music Ensemble in 1975, which today, 35 years later, continues to thrive. But Fox's arrival at the School of Music (as it was then called) in 1974 was actually a homecoming of sorts, for he had attended and graduated from the institution in the 1950s, receiving, in music composition, both his M.Mus. (1957) and D.Mus. (1959) degrees.
Beginnings and Development
Frederick Alfred Fox, Jr. was born January 17, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan to Frederick Alfred Fox, Sr. and Otha Esther Smith. He was the first and only child of Frederick, Sr., a carpenter and salesman, and Otha, a homemaker. Frederick Fox, Sr. was Canadian by birth. In 1900 at the age of 10, he immigrated to the United States with his family and became a U.S. citizen due to his service in the army during World War I. His great-grandfather and great-grandmother had come to Ontario (then Upper Canada) from England in the early 1830s. Otha Smith was from rural central Arkansas, a daughter of a logger and jack-of-all trades. Her family lineage stretches far back in U.S. history and is concentrated in the southern states. Frederick A. Fox, Jr. is of Scots-Irish, English, and German ancestry.
In Detroit, Frederick, Jr. had a typical childhood but was aware of the struggles of many as the Depression continued to linger. It was in junior high school that he began to play saxophone on his own accord. In high school, he participated in the school marching and concert bands and has both good and not-so-good memories of performing during halftimes at football games.
By the age of 15, he was playing sax in pick-up dance hall jazz bands in Detroit, and at 17, taking private lessons with Laurence (Larry) Teal. Band road trips then ensued, with regular visits to many of the larger cities of the Midwest, including St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, among others. His favorite city to visit, of which he has many fond memories, was New Orleans. It was during these road trips that Fox began to tinker with composing, penning interludes and intros as complements to the band's standard numbers. He recalls that as his musical arrangements become longer and more involved, a band mate suggested that he start composing his own music.
As his interest in composition and arranging deepened, Fox was frequently counseled by Ray McConnell, with whom he had had a musical relationship with since his teen years. He subsequently studied composition with Ruth Shaw Wiley at Wayne State University and, following graduation from that institution (B.Mus.), he worked for a year with Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan. But with an abiding interest in jazz, Fox soon found himself again touring as a saxophonist. By 1955, however, he had turned his energies to serious composing and enrolled at Indiana University to study composition under Bernhard Heiden.
Of his studies with Heiden, Fox noted that "Bernhard never imposed," that he "never overtly tried to influence my music." For that, Fox added pointedly, he was very grateful. He took Heiden's hands-off approach as "subtle, tacit encouragement." Heiden, Fox said, "was aware I was going off in another direction from his own music, but he never said anything to me about this." In terms of learning, Heiden emphasized the importance of form and structure of a piece, and that "sank in." "I have many fond memories of Bernhard," he concluded.
Teacher and Composer
After acquiring his doctorate in composition from the I.U. School of Music in 1959, Fox began an odyssey that carried him to various teaching and foundations posts around the United States. He initially taught at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, where he constituted the entire music faculty. Fox then went to Sam Houston State University in Texas, after which, in 1962, he was one of a handful of composers selected by the National Music Council to serve as composers-in-residence to the nation's public schools; he accepted a position with the Minneapolis Public Schools. The Ford Foundation then become involved with the project, and Fox assumed a post that took him and family to Washington, D.C.
In 1964, Fox was appointed chair of music theory and composition in the music department at California State University at Hayward (now California State University, East Bay). Later, from 1970–72, he served as chair of the music department itself. During his time at the institution, enrollment in the music department blossomed from 60 students to nearly 500.
When the world renown Indiana University School of Music came calling in 1974, Fox realized it was a dream come true, and he eagerly returned to the school he once attended, as professor of composition. Taking notice that little new music was being performed by the school's ensembles, one of his first undertakings was the founding of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble in 1975–76, with himself as its first director. During his leadership tenure, the ensemble began to take its place as one of the foremost university ensembles of its kind in the country; it has since toured to cities such as Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, New York, among others. Fox was appointed chair of the I.U. School of Music composition department in 1981, and led that department for 13 years, a period during which it gained increasing recognition and became one of the highest-ranked programs in the U.S.
Throughout his long career, Fox always considered himself a "composer who teaches," rather than a "teacher who composes." Again, the maxim "it's all about the music" comes to the forefront. But Fox took teaching seriously and is proud to have contributed to the musical education of hundreds of students, many of whom graduated from the music school with masters' and doctorate degrees. Some of his notable students, to name a few, include James Aikman, Margaret Brouwer, David Dzubay, Keith Fitch, Jeffrey Hass, Jeeyoung Kim, Robert Patterson, Mark Phillips, Stephen Suber. Several of his former students have gone on to prominent teaching posts of their own in the United States as well as other countries.
Fox's music, in a general sense, can be categorized as contemporary classical music. To be a bit more specific, he will reluctantly admit that the term postmodernism can be applied, to some extent. Although musical labels and categorization are something Fox tends to shy from, particularly in terms of his own music, he's cognizant they can be of use to some people to more fully appreciate music, and that he finds worthwhile.
Like many young American composers in the Fifties and Sixties, Fox had some experience as a jazz performer and arranger before he took up composing. His music grows principally out of this background, experience, and interest in jazz, in addition to serial techniques, and some informal systematic formulations which tend to posses qualities of improvisation. Though he found serialism to be essentially at odds with his creative outlook, Fox's jazz background was to find its echo in several of his characteristic works.
Fox considers the music of Béla Bartok to be the main influence on his compositional style and structure, followed closely by Anton Webern's. He notes, as well, the music of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Debussy (in that descending order) also had an impact, but to a much lesser extent. Bebop jazz, especially the "melodical-driven" sound of Charlie Parker, was also a major influence. Fox notes that his music "continued to breakdown the diatonic structure to make it more chromatic" but that he "doesn't consider tonality when composing."
From the beginning of his compositional career in the 1960s to up into the late 1990s, Fox was continually composing. His extensive catalog, which numbers upwards of 80 compositions, includes several orchestral and concerted works, a substantial amount of chamber music, several choral pieces, as well as a dozen or so solo instrumental works.
A selection of his more notable works include: [Orchestra] Impressions (1995), Echo Blues (1992), Januaries (1984), Night Ceremonies (1979); [String Orchestra] Nightscenes (1988); [Symphonic Band] Four Times Round (1996); [Ensemble/Chamber] Blind Time (1996), Dreamcatcher (1994), Devil's Tramping Ground (1991), The Avenging Spirit (1989), Shaking the Pumpkin (1986), Dawnen Grey (1984), Sonaspheres 5 (1983), S.A.X. (1979), Ambient Shadows (1978); [Solo] When the Thunder Speaks (1998), Kokopelli (1994), Hear Again in Memory (1991), and Annexus (1980).
Professor Fox and his wife of 53 years, Ramona, have resided in Bloomington, Indiana for 36 years. They have three grown sons, Brian, Eric, and Curtis, and two granddaughters, Eleanor and Anna.


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Yea, now I know that Clinton not only helped ethnically cleanse certain lands, and that Oslo nonsense, but then had he not even signed this law, he was biased from the state.
Maybe he just couldn't get the pants on for the 10 days.


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The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) – the great lost British film
February 3, 2013 PH	5 Comments
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
This is a guest post for Silent London by Neil Brand.
In late 1918 a film was in preparation that was to rewrite the history books – a British picture, running almost as long as Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, bringing to life the political career of the country's prime minister, the full ferocity of the war and the experience of ordinary people caught up in these momentous events. It was called The Life Story of David Lloyd George. Nothing as ambitious had been tried before and it was ready for launch immediately after Armistice Day. There was even a deal in place with Carl Laemmle to splash it across the American continent.
Then late one afternoon in January 1919, a lawyer arrived at the offices of Ideal Film Company, the film's producers, handed over £20,000 in £1,000 notes and drove away with the only negative and positive copies of the film. It was never seen again by its makers, its writer, the respected historian Sir Sidney Low, or its director Maurice Elvey. No audience saw it at the time and the film became a lost treasure.
But you can see it at the Barbican on 17 February, 2013.
The story behind these extraordinary events is still murky, but what we do know is this. Towards the end of 1918, as the film was nearing completion, the owners of Ideal Film, the Rowson brothers, issued a writ for libel against John Bull magazine, edited by the virulent xenophobe Horatio Bottomley, which had accused them of being German sympathisers (largely on account of their original name, Rosenbaum). At the same time, word came down from Lloyd George himself that he was unhappy with the film going ahead, this despite the fact that the producers had secured his involvement before shooting began. These two events are almost certainly linked, but the outcome is still shocking to this day.
The £20,000 paid to Ideal represented the out-of-pocket costs of the film not appearing – the greater costs, to Elvey, to lead actor Norman Page, whose Lloyd George is a phenomenal performance of nuance and understatement, even to the future of the British film industry, are incalculable. As Kevin Brownlow wrote on seeing the film in 1996, "… had the Life Story of David Lloyd George been released, Elvey might even have been hailed 'The Griffith of Britain' … certainly the film would have been placed beside the best work from America and the continent and it would not have been entirely overshadowed."
So how did Brownlow come to see it? In 1994 the Welsh Film Archive in Aberystwyth took delivery of 16 cans of film found on the farm of Lord Tenby, grandson of Lloyd George. These turned out to contain 137 unedited rolls of nitrate film, which, after two years of painstaking restoration and reconstruction work, finally hit a screen before an audience in North Wales in April 1996 – I was the pianist on that occasion, unable to believe my luck.
For Lloyd George is a phenomenal film, a history that plays out like a biopic, a time-capsule that, at its best, still holds a modern audience with extraordinary power. Like the best biopics it hops nimbly between the big picture and the small, creating a fascinating portrait of Lloyd George within an entirely convincing political and domestic world. It has massive scenes, including a riot at Birmingham Town Hall with nearly a thousand extras; and quiet, contemplative scenes informed by Page's charismatic dignity. Best of all, it still has the power to move, as much as it would have done with those audiences of 1919 who were destined never to see it. I urge you to see this "lost" masterpiece on its only London showing, and be prepared to have your preconceptions about British cinema, the first world war and silent cinema acting overturned.
Norman Page and Alma Reville in The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
The National Library of Wales holds more information on this extraordinary film and its story, if not the solution to the mystery of the film's disappearance. Here's my take on it – the film turned up among Lloyd George's own possessions and, as was common knowledge at the time, £20,000 was about the going rate for a baronetcy …
The Life Story of David Lloyd George screens at the Barbican on 17 February 2013 at 4pm with an introduction by Ian Christie and live accompaniment by Neil Brand. You can book tickets online here. If you can't make the London screening, the film is also available on DVD with Neil Brand's score. You can read more, and watch some clips from the film here. To read even more, you can buy the excellent book edited by David Berry and Simon Horrocks: David Lloyd George: the Movie Mystery.
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BNP Paribas China Receives Corporate Panda Bonds License
BNP Paribas China Limited announced that it has received the Panda Corporate Bond Lead Underwriting Licence Type B from China's National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors.
The licence allows BNP Paribas China to act as a lead underwriter on renminbi-denominated bonds, also known as Panda Bonds, issued by foreign corporate issuers.
CG Lai, BNP Paribas China's Deputy Chief Executive Officer, said: "The licence is significant as China continues to promote its domestic bond market. With the growing maturity of multi-national corporations' operations onshore in China, foreign parent companies are increasingly seeking to tap the domestic bond market as an important and highly cost-effective source of RMB funding to support their Chinese expansion needs."
"With this licence, BNP Paribas China can also help international issuers to tap the world's largest RMB liquidity market for their offshore projects, which is key to promoting the RMB's internationalisation," said Mr Lai.
BNP Paribas is only the third international bank to receive such a licence. The bank was previously licenced to act as an advisor and syndicate member for corporate Panda Bonds, participating in issuances for a number of MNC clients as more foreign companies look to fund their onshore activities in China in RMB.
George Sun, Head of Global Markets for Greater China, said: "This senior underwriting licence will help us to attract more foreign issuer participation in China's bond market. This will help widen the issuer pool beyond Chinese issuers, as well as increase inbound foreign investment. We see this as a significant step forward in China's financial market liberalisation."
BNP Paribas' presence in China dates back to 1860 when it opened its first office in Shanghai. Today, with nearly 500 staff based in China, BNP Paribas provides banking, financing and advisory services via its Corporate & Institutional Banking and international financial services.
Source: BNP Paribas
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Predators pass a difficult test by beating the Blues to extend point streak
By Cam TuckerNov 11, 2016, 1:29 AM EST
The Nashville Predators have now extended their point streak to five games, beating teams like the Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators along the way.
On Thursday, they faced their most difficult test so far this month, taking on their Central Division rivals from St. Louis. Despite falling behind by a goal in the first period, the Predators rallied to win 3-1.
James Neal and Calle Jarnkrok scored 1:06 apart in the third period and Pekka Rinne was solid in goal.
After making it within a single win of the Western Conference Final in the 2016 playoffs, and the acquisition of the dynamic P.K. Subban to bolster their offensive attack from the blue line, the Predators started this season slow, despite heightened expectations.
The Avalanche share a spot at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. The Senators are in a Wild Card spot in the East.
But the Blues represent a possible Stanley Cup contender in the highly competitive Central. This recent run and victory against St. Louis could signal a turnaround for the Predators after that difficult start, with players maintaining this team can still get better.
"We're just starting to play the way we know we can play. We're just playing a lot better," said Predators captain Mike Fisher, per NHL.com.
"We still feel there's room to improve in a lot of areas, but there's definitely good signs. We're finding ways to get points. It's nice to get a couple in a row and a big one tonight, and we've got to keep rolling because we've got some ground to catch up."
The Predators conclude their four-game home stand on Saturday against the Anaheim Ducks.


The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) is ready, without any tenders, to renegotiate the contract for legal services with the Moscow Bar Association "Mezhregion". Since 2008, the total cost of lawyer services has already reached more than 1 billion rubles, which experts consider an unprecedented case. At the same time, two dozen lawyers were supposed to receive 345,000 rubles a day, including weekends, to protect the interests of Rosaviation in courts. Where such unprecedented prices?
In 2008, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Corporation for the Organization of Air Traffic" concluded a contract for the provision of legal services for three years with the Bar "Mezhregion". Many specialists were then surprised by the contract price - 378 million rubles. If you count, it turns out that for each day of work, hired lawyers should receive 345 thousand rubles (including weekends).
The generous company at that time was subordinated to Rosaeronavigation, which in December 2009 fully merged into Rosaviatsia. "Regarding the contract, I can say that everything was carried out within the framework of the law: there was an open competition in which four organizations took part, and we won," said a representative of the Mezhregion Bar Association. But to tell what kind of work the lawyers did for 378 million rubles, the representative of the board refused, citing lawyer's secret.
The head of the board of "Mezhregiona" Sergey Yuriev in the past worked in the investigative UFSB in Moscow and the Moscow region. "There was one contract in 2007 to 2010. And according to the results of the open competition, an agreement was concluded with us, which provided for the possibility of prolongation. This prolongation was in the 13th year and in the 16th. No increase in price. These all transactions were agreed with the Federal Air Transport Agency and notified the Federal Property Management Agency. All reporting on them, the real work was done, "says Yuryev, again without specifying what high-profile cases his board won in the interests of Rosaviation.
According to the media, "Mezhregion" received 1,159,000,000 rubles for its legal services. Since in this case we are talking about legal support, and not about the support of a particular transaction, for this money 45 employees were to work around the clock for the official structure.
The site of the board of "Mezhregion" really featured the names of 46 lawyers. However, in the list of contract executors, only 12 people are listed - 11 lawyers and one intern. It is noteworthy that at the time of the conclusion of the contract, 72 specialists of the legal departments worked in Rosaviation. Why did you need to connect also third-party lawyers?
The Head of the Department of Legal Support and Property Relations of the RosAir Navigation in 2008 was Vladimir Mnishko (today he occupies a similar position in the Federal Air Navigation Agency). He was a member of the commission for the consideration of major transactions, including the "golden" legal contract with the "Interregion". And two years earlier, before Mnishko decided to associate himself with the civil service, he worked not just anywhere, but in the board of the "Interregion" and there he served as deputy chairman.
In 2008, Anna Pasko, Deputy Head of the Department, who later became Deputy Mnishko, also signed the deal in 2008; Vladimir Grishin, according to security officials, signed in exchange for the opportunity to use the services of the Kremlin hospital; Elena Kudlaeva was a close friend of the deputy head of the Rosaviation, Andrei Belyakov, a friend and hunting comrade Mnishko. What conclusion can be drawn here, if not about various forms of corruption?
By the way, the head of the "Interregion" Sergey Yuriev has long been a member of the Public Council under the Federal Air Transport Agency. Another would have been deprived of authority ten years ago for a conflict of interests, but for some reason this has not happened to Sergei Yuriev for some reason.
The number of corruption scandals in the Federal Air Transport Agency has been growing in recent years. And, perhaps, soon the lawyers from "Interregion", defending the corrupt officials of this state agency, will still work their billion.
In July 2018, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested the Deputy Head of the Transportation Regulatory Directorate of the Federal Air Transport Agency Yury Malyshev in the case of taking a bribe on a large scale. According to investigators, Evgeny Filatov, the head of the charter airline iFly, offered a bribe to Malyshev.
IFly aircraft operated flights to Turkey, Thailand, Italy and other tourist destinations. In January-May last year, the company transported about 300 thousand passengers (17th place in Russia). Rosaviatsiya for numerous delays and cancellation of flights has reduced the charter program iFly by 10%. Oh, and not for the abolition of this restriction, and was supposed to "reward"?
In the summer of 2018, it also became known about the arrest of Nikolai Mestnikov, general director of the Yakutsk airport. According to the investigation, the official for several years extorted bribes from local entrepreneurs for conducting commercial activities at the airport. The total amount of bribes received by Mestnikov, according to the UK, amounted to about 14 million rubles.
In November-December 2017, two criminal cases were initiated against Maxima Andrakhanov, General Director of Krasnoyarsk Airports. According to investigators, he lobbied for the interests of partner companies for bribes, the total amount of which exceeded 9 million rubles.
Work at the lawyers of "Mezhregiona" is expected a lot. However, they themselves can become defendants in criminal cases and high-profile trials. Law enforcement agencies in the near future intend to figure out how legitimate the expenditure of Rosaviation's budget funds was under the billion-dollar contract with Interregion.


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POLAND: ruling party exploits the current health crisis to undermine women and young people's safety
COVID-19 crisis>
Post published:16 April 2020
Post Category:COVID-19 crisis
Article originally published on IPPF, 14 April 2020 – accessible here
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, bills banning abortion care in practice and endangering young people by criminalizing relationship and sexuality education are set to be voted in the Polish Sejm on 15 and 16 April 2020.
The ultra-conservative ruling party is taking advantage of the enormous hardship faced by Polish people to continue its relentless series of attacks on women and young people's safety and wellbeing. People are sick, domestic violence is growing, one million jobs have been lost, yet the government adds to the burden of lack of social supports.
The Polish law on abortion care is one of the most restrictive in Europe. Abortion is only lawful to safeguard the life or health of women, in situations of severe fetal anomaly or where the pregnancy results from rape or incest. In practice, 98% of legal abortions in Poland are performed on severe fetal anomaly grounds. During COVID-19 times, with travel restriction in place, hospitals overwhelmed by the health emergency, many from the medical staff already denying care based on personal beliefs or convenience, women's options are drastically reduced.
This proposed bill would result in a total abortion ban in practice, forcing women and families to go through pregnancies against their will in case of fatal fetal abnormality at a time of dramatic economic instability with no social support from the state. This shows how little women's lives and dignity are valued by the Polish ruling class. The bill would also gag doctors by restricting what they can say to their patients about the condition of the fetus, violating patients' rights to information. The change proposed by this bill is permanent and will place women's health and lives at risk.
"We know that when women and girls cannot access abortion care, in their desperation, they will resort to taking matters into their own hands, often with tragic consequences. Domestic violence is rising sharply, and families are stretched to the limits of their endurance. It is the moment when we most need to ensure we provide all the care that our societies need" said Caroline Hickson, IPPF EN Regional Director.
The second bill would result in a complete ban on teaching relationship and sexuality education, sharing evidence-based information on the Internet, as well as forbidding doctors from providing contraceptive care to young people under 18. Those who work to protect young people by giving them information about healthy relationships, intimate life and prevention of violence could face a 3-year prison sentence under this draft bill. The only source of information young people could end up with is pornography and religious doctrines.
UNESCO guidelines underline that education addressing equality between men and women and focusing on consent can reduce intimate partner violence. Why is this not a priority when violence against women is endemic and we know is even aggravated during the lockdown?
"The timing of these bills is dodgy. As public protests cannot take place due to the measures put in place to fight the pandemic, women are silenced. The medieval forces behind these proposals know massive protests would have been organized across the country to fight these draconian bills. Enough is enough" said Irene Donadio, IPPF EN Senior Adviser.
We call on Members of Poland's Parliament to listen to the voices of women and families across Poland, to protect women's safety and young people's health and to reject these regressive bills. The Polish government must prioritise people's health and wellbeing, democracy and the rule of law.
Exploiting the health crisis to attack women's health care is reckless, cruel and a guarantee of aggravated human suffering.
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