Our picture shows the Royal Navy’s HMS Rattler intercepting the Brazilian slave ship Andorinha off Lagos in August 1849 (from Illustrated London News, December 29th 1849).
The Restitution Study Group, speaking for black people who descend from the slaves that West Africa’s kingdoms sold to foreign traders, has been making the point that exporting of slaves to Brazil continued long after the trade to the Caribbean and USA had been stopped. HMS Rattler was the Royal Navy’s first warship with a screw propellor and famously towed HMS Alecto backwards in the Navy’s demonstration of propellor power versus paddlewheeler in 1845.
Rattler was thus well suited to intercept speedy American-built sailing slave ships during the Navy’s blockade of the Bight of Benin. The ILN’s correspondent described the chase:
About two o’clock we were nearly within gun-shot of [Andorinha], when – alas! how uncertain are the things of this life! – a dense mist set in, which obscured the whole horizon, and rendered her for a time invisible. Before the lapse of many minutes, however, she was again sighted by the officer of the watch; and as we had by this time gained so much upon her as to bring her within the range of our guns, we discharged three rounds from a sixty-eight pounder, the last of which, having fallen in rather dangerous proximity to her stern, caused her to heave to, after a most interesting and exciting chase of nine hours’ duration. Thus terminated the career of a vessel whose success is without a parallel in the annals of this revolting traffic.
This vessel was manned by a motley crew, consisting of 39 cut-throat looking fellows, exclusive of her commander, who was a Brazilian of note, and a Spaniard of distinction, nominally as a passenger. It was subsequently ascertained that this large American-built schooner, which exceeded 200 tons burden, had made 11 successful trips [carrying slaves], and had treble that number of escapes. She had been chased from time to time by most of the English and other cruisers stationed in the Bight of Benin, including some of our fastest sailing-vessels.
The narrative from Benin today is that the Oba (King) and his chiefs had abandoned the selling of slaves by the 19th century, just keeping a few to behead or crucify sometimes in honour of the ancestors, a custom which I described recently. It’s since emerged that Ojo Ibadan’s account of Benin’s monstrous regime was printed in at least three British newspapers in January 1899, a month before the South Wales Echo startled its readers with the same story.
Benin, its elites would like us to believe today, was peaceably independent in the 19th century and trading palm oil, ivory and other produce – and it must have back from the world’s museums its bronze artworks, so wickedly looted by the British expedition which deposed the Oba in 1897. But Rattler’s busy campaign in the Bight in 1849-50 undermines this story – West Africa’s slave-selling kingdoms were still in business in the middle of that century, exporting slaves where and when they could, Benin’s Obas not excluded.
The screengrab above is from a remarkable list of “about 2,428 Slave Trade Vessels detained by RN Vessels &c” between about 1810-60, Rattler’s being mainly Brazilian-flagged slavers in the Bight of Benin (the “piratical junks” listed were from a later action with the East Indies fleet). The Alipede appeared, though misspelt as Alepide, in the London Gazette (October 11th 1851). Her master had been Antonio Cipro da Sa Bittencourt, she displaced a modest 90 tons, and after being judged at court in Sierra Leone to have been “equipped for Slave Trade” Alipede was forfeited and condemned to be broken up.
The same page of the London Gazette lists prize money paid to the crew of Rattler’s sister ship Pluto on the blockade for two seizures in early 1850. Royal Navy crews used to get their share of condemned slavers, allotted by rank, for the assessed value of the ship itself and also head money for slaves thus freed. This prize money was an incentive to the sailors, of course, but perhaps a fair reward for risk: thousands of them died of tropical diseases during the decades of the Navy’s blockade. The picture shows Rattler deliberately firing to miss Andorinha, as smashing the slaver with a 68 lb cannonball would sink both ship and slaves. The idea was to enforce surrender – humane, of course, though considering the prize money at stake, practical too.
Nigeria today is in a terrible state: last week its national grid – never robust these days – collapsed entirely, delivering 0% of electrical output for many hours. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State (which includes Benin City) said while visiting Germany that Nigeria has enough bronzes for now. A fair point, considering the challenges of running any museum – not least its security cameras, alarms, climate control – and keeping its artefacts safe when you have no electricity. Siemens AG seems not yet to have produced the miracle intended in 2022, when a massive restitution of Germany’s museums’ Benin bronzes coincided with its multi-year Nigerian LNG and oil deal, following Siemens’ contract to overhaul Nigeria’s grid.
Remarkably, Nigerians still try to get to Brazil regardless of risk: in July the world was shocked by photos of four men who’d survived a 14 day ocean voyage to Vitória, the capital city of Epirito Santo, perched on the rudder of a cargo freighter (or in its trunking). Other stowaways survive the shorter hop to the Canaries using the same desperate method, while the shipping world debates how many may have been simply swept away and drowned. And how many of the 7,000 boat-borne migrants packed onto Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island this week are Nigerians?
In 2021 the Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey found 73% of its citizens wanted to leave. So without making tasteless remarks about rats and sinking ships, if even a proportion of these millions get their wish, in future more people of Nigerian heritage could see Benin’s artworks in the world’s museums than would ever see them in Nigeria – particularly as bronzes and ivories that have been restituted there so far are being locked up and hidden, at best. These are not merely commodities, unlike the slaves Africa’s rulers used to sell, and descendants of those slaves want them displayed around the world with full explanations of what was done to their ancestors. Art doesn’t of itself right past wrongs, but it can educate.
For foreign museum trustees and curators still to talk of entrusting their world-heritage collections to a country in such chaos is irresponsible. Even for those who accept the principle of returning artefacts, the only sensible course is to halt any talk of restitutions and offer Nigeria’s museums 3D-printed replicas of the precious works, which in the locked display cases they’ll need will be indistinguishable from the originals, and to wait and see whether conditions change.
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Some enterprising lawyer should remind them the JAB manufacturers are legally immune from damage claims, but those incentivising medical treatments and thus mangling consent are probably not…
Its obvious the government are paying these companies to offer bribes for jabs! I pray none of the youngsters are stupid enough to be scammed.
In the US, the funding came from the huge stimulus bill, I do believe. Taxpayers paying to have themselves propagandized.
Still, there is the upside that it will be the dim and unthinking who join the cull!
I’m guessing that from these derisory offers they believe 18-30’s will do anything to save themselves £10 !!!
Bargains galore lol
This is misinformation. Where are the fact-checkers?
“Where are the fact-checkers?”
I think the translation was wrong : for ‘fact-checkers’ read ‘arse-lickers’.
What we need to do is somehow build a ‘Wall of defiance’. Turning off the app is a start if the majority of us haven’t done so already or never downloaded it in first place. Same with refusing to provide contact details.
Paaaaaaaathetic.
These bribes are so lame they would not tempt a Scottish Jew. What is needed are some decent incentives such as the £10,000 plus a free year’s accommodation Leeds University is offering to students who are prepared to defer their place for a year. This year’s cohort of A level students really hit the jackpot – vastly inflated grades and now this wonderful offer which will finance their gap year.
Looks to me as if the offer, should it be required, of a full paid-for, slap-up funeral, complete with black horses, and several mutes in crape-wound top hats and frock coats, would be more appropriate.
This quote along the lines of ‘when you are coerced or incentivized to get something by an authority, you can be absolutely sure that it’s not in your best interest’ is always my first and sole reaction to the plethora of such news.
“ ….as we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given.”
… but, but, but I thought it was now accepted that these vaccines don’t stop spread. Either I am going insane or the government are lying!
They are lying
they seem to carry on saying things about a month after ‘the evidence’ changes
gaslighting
They are also insane.
Mmm, not sure that I would agree with you there, I think they know exactly what they are doing. It’s all part of a globally co-ordinated plan for micromanagement of people’s lives. It’s never been just about the virus.
Criminally insane. Actually no, just criminal. Psychopaths aren’t insane. Bad not mad.
They are being hung up by the short and curlies. How else would it be possible for so many world leaders to fall prey to this insanity? Everyone has skeletons in the cupboard – I suggest politicians have more than a few that wouldn’t stand daylight scrutiny.
“ Mr Javid said: “It is fantastic to see more companies backing the phenomenal vaccine rollout”
So phenomenal that they have to stoop to bribery and coercion to get healthy young adults to take the ‘death jab’ for fuck sake. Sick bastards all of them!
Absolutely, but helpfully they are highlighting the businesses that will need to be added to the ever increasing list of those to be held to account at some point in the future when we win against this world takeover, although possibly not in my lifetime!!
In the meantime I am making a list of companies never to do business with
The more these abject politicos spout their rotten mantra the more I seek, find and read dissenting voices of medics and other scientists who have systematically destroyed the CCP/WHO/Pharma/Gavi/Fauci/PHE/JCVI/SAGE CDC et al policies – do these criminals not realise they have long ago been unmasked (sorry) and the cat is well and truly out of the bag.
Question is , how much longer before matters get really serious with violence/economies stalling etc and other issues get dragged in…refugees/attempts at radical Islamisation of western countries…..very dangerous times
A few more names for my little black book. Their day will come.
Piss off, you sanctimonious bullshitter!
I don’t really get the urge to jab people who are not at risk with a leaky vaccine that can only drive variants
should have stopped after ‘offering’ it to those deemed vulnerable
but really should have just ignored the whole bloody thing. it was panic that got the infected sent to care homes
Really? Really? These companies are prepared to offer derisory bribes to persuade the young to engage in the biggest medical experiment the world has ever seen. You couldn’t make this up.
Ummmm….
I wouldn’t mind if the jabs worked and this was really a deadly virus – I mean if this was really a deadly virus and the vaccines worked then there would be no need to bribe and coerce people into taking the vaccine.
My take from this desperate act in resorting to bribing people (freebies) and coercion (no holidays abroad) is that not nearly as many people are taking up the jab offer as we are being led to believe.
The wheels are coming off this manufactured crisis and like everything else about this pandemic it all just more bullshit from a government that i sometimes suspect has another agenda.
They wouldn’t have to constantly tell us how deadly it is, we’d know just by looking around.
The first indicator for me that something wasn’t right, was VERY early on when the media was saying that there was nothing you could do about it and that there were these “scammers” pushing vitamins and other remedies, and just healthy living in general.
I know more people in the last 2 weeks with covid than the entire 18 months up to now
all under 50. all mild – not even worth mentioning if it wasn’t such a “deadly disease”. some just positive tests. a few pings
now I’ve got a bit of a cold. started yesterday with a sore throat. i reckon its a hangover though
all jabbed as well?
as far as I know all jabbed
I have the same observation…
It seems being jabbed makes you constantly ill
Nobody at my job got sick this entire time, up until people started getting the shot. The people hacking and coughing now are the ones who got jabbed.
We did have a few people test “positive” last year after they found out they would get two weeks paid vacation if they caught “it”. Not actually sick, though.
I posted this in today’s comments but worth a permanent record here as it’s relevant to this news item
This is a link to a family doctor practice in Mohringen, Germany who have exited the experimental vaccine programme
https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
The following is a translation of a section on their website that has now ‘disappeared’
Vaccinations in practice
Exit from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign
Dear patients,
For medical reasons, after a long internal struggle, I decided to withdraw from the Covid-19 vaccination campaign until further notice.
The motto “primum nil nocere” – “first of all do not harm” applies to all medical treatment. This means: the potential benefit of a medical measure must always be greater than the potential risk. The benefit of a Covid vaccination for the seriously ill or elderly patients originally referred to as priority 1 and priority 2 is in all probability higher than the risk of the vaccinations. These patients have therefore received a vaccination offer from us and we will also complete the vaccination cycles that have started.
In my opinion, the ratio of benefit to risk for all other patients can no longer be stated so clearly on the basis of the current data. On the one hand, there is the risk of a serious Covid 19 disease. Statistically speaking, younger people have a low risk of a severe course of Covid-19. The risk increases with age and previous illnesses. The aim of the Covid-19 vaccinations is to prevent the severe courses – whether they also prevent so-called long-covid syndromes has not yet been sufficiently investigated.
On the other hand, there is the safety of the available vaccines. All vaccines have only a conditional approval, as safety and efficacy have not been sufficiently proven to date. Technologically, all currently approved vaccines are breaking new ground, the safety of which has not yet been proven in the short or long term due to a lack of time. Consistently formulated, the current vaccination campaign is therefore a huge study in which all those willing to vaccinate take part as test subjects.
At least in the short term, the new vaccines show a side effect profile that we would not have tolerated as doctors at other times. Almost every day since the vaccinations for young people were opened, I have seen patients with symptoms that occurred shortly after the vaccination (e.g. fever, pain, nausea, skin rashes, lymph node swelling, sensory disorders, autoimmune diseases). This has already led to hospital admissions. Thank goodness I haven’t seen the potentially fatal diseases (such as myocarditis and blood clots) that are currently associated with vaccines in my practice.
At this point in time, we cannot have sufficient data on the long-term safety of the vaccines, because this assessment takes time that cannot be replaced by a lot of money or a large number of test subjects. There are also gaps in the data on fertility in women and men and on possible consequences for unborn life. This makes it almost impossible to compare benefits and risks. With other vaccinations (e.g. tetanus, measles or TBE), this is possible for us through many years of use and our knowledge of good short-term and long-term tolerance. That is why I recommend these vaccinations to you in accordance with the STIKO vaccination recommendations.
There is a risk that the Covid-19 vaccination will harm you in the short term. Nobody can tell you at the moment whether I will harm you in the long term. Whether I will benefit you with the vaccination in the long term, either. I therefore cannot reconcile it with my conscience to continue vaccinating. So please allow me “first of all not to harm you”!
I would be delighted if you continued to place your trust in me and thank you!
Dr. J. Weiffenbach
I have emailed this to my MP and once again reminded him he will be unable to say he was unaware.
An honest and brave man, just wish that we had more of his ill here in the UK!
Copied and shared.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210814073914/https://moehringer-hausarztpraxis.de/
Oh German! I’m sorry. I thought there was something wrong with you.
Dr Ryan Coles in the US has disclosed that the FDA’s own rules on experimental use only approval apparently states that after 25 deaths from the EUO drug, it HAS to be pulled; absolute dynamite implication the FDA is ignoring its own rules therefore a potentially illegal act; in addition the Pfizer FDA authorisation also states that the EUO approval is only given such that if there are no other treatments available – is this true of the UK EUO approved Pfizer/Astra Zeneca jabs….
Please see on Rumble “Dr Ryan Coles/Stop the mandate” if you have not already done so.
What would once have been incredible – touting vaccines like a snake-oil salesman.
uh …ohhh … what did you say? They are hick snake-oil salesmen?
It reminds me of this public information film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWKK86rMTQ
Charley and I were in the park. Then this man came up and said would I like a £10 voucher off some George clothing. And I said yes, and I was going to go to the vaccination centre to get my voucher but Charley reminded me that my mum said I shouldn’t take experimental gene therapies that might cause myocarditis or death. We went and told mummy, and she said we had been really good.
Brilliant!
Love it!
Wonderful!
If walk-in centres are dishing out free sweeties, what’s to stop the kiddie pwinkies getting jabbed a dozen times so’s to get the sweeties?
Lastminute.com will offer gift cards for travel abroad, which, at the last minute, the government might deny you!
These sick bastards are ALL culpable! The truth WILL out.
True – but maybe only in 50 years or so.
Why are they still calling the medical treatment a ‘vaccine’?
Interesting to note that the photo shows the skin being pinched for the injection. This is strongly advised against because it increases the likelihood of the needle not reaching the muscle but, instead, going into a vein. I understand that the skin should be gently stretched before inserting the needle.
I agree it’s important to highlight this given the concerns around how this impacts how the vaccine is distributed. But is the skin actually being pinched in that photo?
A fucking disgrace. That aside, how many 18-30 year olds are going to rush to get a voucher for the frumpy Asda clothing?
Asda also got the contract for the uniforms for the “isolation” camps?
Here in the People’s Republic of San Francisco, a preview of what’s coming your way soon no doubt: https://sf.gov/information/vaccine-required
The best part is really this (sentences reordered):
We’re requiring vaccines to protect everyone against the continued spread of COVID-19.
You will still need to wear a mask, even if you are vaccinated.
We’re requiring vaccination to protect against COVID-19 and we’re requiring masks to … er … well … protect against the problem that we don’t really believe that what we’re requiring to protect against COVID-19 does protect against COVID-19.
And then, of course, COVID-19 protection by vaccinated masks is only required for spare-time activities we really disapprove of.
Jesus this shit has to fucking STOP!!!!
If this was a ‘real’ pandemic where the stench of death was everywhere, and everybody knew someone effected there would be no need for inducements, but its not.. is it. Its a cooked up hoax, so therefore the need for massive advertising (propaganda) and sweeties to attract the ill-informed, naive and just plain stupid.
Lets get this straight.. they need the vax for the passports, they need the passports for the digital ID, and they need the digital ID for the digital banking and social credit system they have planned… have I missed anything.. ???
Yep, nothing else makes sense. Continuing to think that this is all incompetence is delusional.
Everything makes sense, events are driven by design. The next crisis will be were all doomed by climate change, and to give you all a bit of light relief here’ a cunning plan…
Baldrick: I have a cunning plan to get us out of getting killed sir.
Blackadder: Ah yes, what is it?
Baldrick: Cooking.
No, got it in one! Our government have sold us out to the globalists and the health mafia. Our supine MPs have just sat back and let it happen . I hesitate to guess why.
No its all there, doesn’t mean it will happen though..
That’s why I’m not complying. The less we comply, the less likely it is to happen.
More of this
I’m not sure.
I figure there has to be something particularly sinister about these injections.
If the sole aim was “social credit”, via the digital Id, etc., as you outline, I believe they would have run with an influenza “pandemic” and a relatively well established influenza vaccine, “tried and trusted” technology. (Don’t mention Pandemrix!)
Instead, they’re doing a global roll-out of weird shit. mRNA – a technology never used for any licensed treatment. Or viral vector – a technology only slightly more established: two, or three, viral vector treatments were licensed in late 2019, “vaccines” against Ebola. (So, lots of folk you know have received them, and been perfectly fine!)
That’s it summed up very succinctly
I have
“Yes we have no pandemic, we have no pandemic today”
running through my head.
BBC News (sorry) article about a plague vaccine bring developed. How long before that is made mandatory?
Companies to avoid
Question: why would these companies be so interested in getting children injected with the experimental shit? Answers on a postcard please.
Wonder if it will come to hanging around school gates.
Bit by bit, everything Geert Vanden Bossche predicted is beginning to happen Someone somewhere really needs to, at least, take notice of what he is saying. In his latest blog post he writes,
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/how-remaining-in-the-dark-and-turning-in-vicious-circles-inevitably-leads-to-erroneous-decisions
Yep and the data coming out of Israel shows vaccines wane after about 5-6 months.
Yes Mayo, you are spot on. I can only think that feeding the financial interests of big Pharma and their institutional investors by a ‘vaccine orgy’ takes precedence over the interests of the population. No other word for it, it’s a sell out, by western governments in particular, to the globalist oligarchs. In other words treason against the people.
we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given
I wouldn’t usually quote Pink Floyd but: You are not a human being. You are a brick in the wall.
A full £10 off at Asda!? Oh boy! That sure is a tempting offer.
Seriously, these bribes are insulting to our intelligence.
History repeats itself!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/shocking-dehumanizing-discrimination-against-unvaxxd-about-make-life-very-difficult
The CDC released a study which shows the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated” have the same viral load when infected. If they believe everything else the CDC spouts, why are they not paying attention to this study?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w
The truth hurts!
How many more scientists and medics do we need to say kids should not take these inoculations. Their risk of injury and death from inoculation is higher than their risk of injury and death from the invisible virus.
If you have a child in this age bracket please follow the advice of Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, all FLCCC docs, and literally thousands of other medics begging parents not to inoculate your child with a experimental genetic biological. Many cases of myocarditis in this age group. A life long cardiac injury.
Agree 1 million %
Javid is coming across as Wancock’s glove puppet, using his master’s voice
No….Javid is a puppet all by himself and even more sinister sounding than Hancock. Javid was likely kept in ‘reserve’ for this point in the cabal’s agenda. Exit Hancock via a set up to let in the new man, the ‘banker’s man’.
Offers for a slight discount on vacations abroad? Don’t forget your
3rd vaccination.Booster jab.Outbreak in a Dutch care home.
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2394052-website-voor-gratis-zelftesten-werkt-weer-uitbraak-in-gelders-verzorgingstehuis
It is among vaccinated residents and employees in the De Beekwal nursing home in Eerbeek. At least seventeen of the 125 residents and seventeen employees have tested positive.
Can these companies be sued by any one taking advantage of their marketing campaigns for an unlicensed drug if they cause injury or death as surely they are complicit in enticing the youngster.
Asda and Deliveroo on have just joined the illustrious list of businesses who will never get a penny from me ever again. Hope a few million others do the same.
I have lived a long time but have never heard such a load of barlocks in my life. I hope this shameless attempt at bribery of the young will set alarms ringing across the land.
Covid blood tests are STILL banned, I was told by an angry pharmacist yesterday. The fact that this government remains determined to stop us knowing if we’ve had covid (as many show no symptoms) highlights that it really is ALL about the vaccine.
Those of us with naturally-acquired (and far better) immunity are acting as a control group, which is why we’re being demonised into accepting the jab, since a control-group which will show their lies is the last thing they want.
How wonderful! You can get a £30 voucher for travel abroad to slightly offset the hundreds of pounds extorted from you in exchange for the useless and invasive tests you’re forced to take! Come on Government, where is the million pound prize draw and the shiny car, you can do better than this…