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History Unplugged Podcast
"royal navy" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"And so on. So Douglas is a very important figure strategically in stopping Bullock. I think on it log on the grand strategic view, the attempt to build a confederate navy. It wouldn't have won the war for the south. It's not some sort of wonder weapon. What it would have done is had it really come off, it would have really put the brakes on the union economy. And more importantly, it would have aided the southern economy. The war economy and its war footing immeasurably and allowed it to continue to fight much longer than it actually did. And on a diplomatic level, the idea behind building this navy was to show the British and to a lesser extent the French, but this is focused on the British. The British that the south was a going concern that they were going to be long-term winners, they own all the cotton and the Royal Navy and the British government should come in and support them. And at the very least, sort of trying to intervene like almost like a UN blue helmet type peacekeeper force. So some kind. Which is seriously disgusted at some points until the British realized that I couldn't remember who it was. It was one of the Russell someone like that basically saying, there's no point talking to these people that they're all like mad dogs, tearing each other's throats, the you can't talk sense into them. They don't want to have peace. This is sort of an 1860 to 1863. The south in order to win the Civil War just doesn't have to lose. It just has to try and force an armistice or to tire out and bore the north. And maybe if they're lucky, they get Lincoln gets thrown out of power or something like that. And a good peace minded will peace minded Democrat comes to power of some kind. So that's what they're really gambling at. They're not really looking at, especially after the first wave of attacks kind of Peters out in the early stages of the war. They're not really looking to inflicting some sort of catastrophic 1945 style defeat of the union. It's not going to happen. But what they want is just to get enough British support, keep their own economy humming along until the north gets tired and kind of says, okay, let's talk terms. And what that piece that subsequent peace or honest is would have looked like is a matter of conjecture. My own view is it would have been something like southern autonomy permitted to continue having slavery there, but with the understanding that it would eventually die out in the next generation or so. Something like that anyway. But because the navy effort failed and most importantly, the navy effort failed without managing to lure the British in to an Anglo confederate union, then it didn't work out that way. It ended in complete utter design, completely not a disaster. But there's some of that was much naval pod was much of it was due to Dudley standing firm and just breaking bullocks efforts to build this secret navy. Well, for my research on the Civil War, some would say that it was never really a contest, but others like you described, and I think I would mostly agree with, is that it was close in the sense that the south merely had to fight a successful war of attrition and tire out the north and perhaps get linked to lose the 1864 election. And having British support or at least a vibrant trade relationship with different cotton traders could have very well extended that. So this opens all sorts of different implications and it really shows that these people that we don't think about very much had an unseen role in making something successful like the Civil War come about. Well, for listeners who do want to get into all the details and the subterfuge, you know, the things that make the story fun. The name of Alex's book is the line and the fox. Two rival spies in the secret plot to build a confederate navy. And I understand you also have a substack as well where you get into all sorts of spike craft across history. Can you tell us about that? Oh, yeah. So it's on substack. It's called sponge. And they know every couple of weeks I talk about a different case of historical espionage. I mean, one week it can be a spying in the 16th century Mediterranean, the next one, it's a World War I effort to kidnap the Kaiser, Germany. I think the coming week is about Revolutionary War spy or was he. So it's just a little free newsletter. You can sign up for and it's called us. All right, well, recommend listeners check that out. And you can also check out the line in the fox to hear more about this story. Alex, thank you for joining us. Well, thanks for having me. Thank you. All right, that is it for today. If you would like to see show notes for this episode, along with all my others, go to Parthenon podcast dot com. 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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Biden's Alternate Reality With Robert Wilkie
"We're living in a bizarro world as if there's real life there's Putin in Ukraine. There's China with its balloons. There's 13 servicemen and women dead in Afghanistan. And then there's this alternate reality. And the ahistoricism. Yes. Of these people. First of all, it's not the largest evacuation. The largest evacuation was done from the beaches of Dunkirk. Three times as many people evacuated. On small little private boats. On little boats and destroyers. And the courage of the Royal Navy and the British merchants. So it was success so much that Churchill immediately said wars are not won by evacuations. Even though he would manage to save the British expeditionary. And two divisions of French soldiers. He didn't hide it. He didn't hide it. What Biden did was the greatest military performed the greatest military disaster. Since the surrender of the Philippines. And then even the evacuation from Vietnam. That was not a moment of pride for the United States. Even though we had stepped away from combat operations for about two years, to see the American embassy flooded with desperate people. Clinging to the skids of helicopters to get away from communists, and then to see this. Someone who has always, and I've seen him in my military life. And also in my days in the Senate, he always believes he's the smartest person in the room. Which is quite responsible. It's cloud cuckoo. I mean, given what Democrats have said about him, including Obama, Robert Gates, the fact that he's still believed it.
Cinemavino
"royal navy" Discussed on Cinemavino
"You got like the cues giving you, oh, I've got a delivery from Q and it's just like a jet ski. Yeah. Which is like the one of the first appearances of a jet ski. Right, it's hard for me to tell what technology existed whenever they were doing this stuff where I was like, is that just a jet skiing? Am I supposed to be? I do love that one thing they were exhuming in on that. Is he wearing loafers? Yeah, he's in his loafers. He's just like, here we go. High black socks on a jet ski. It's like classic zoom in. Yeah. He's like, yeah, he's Bond. He's so classy. I did like the time. He got to spend a lot of time in a naval uniform because he. Sees the British Royal Navy. Commander, Vanderbilt, yeah. Yeah, I think his commander Bond, yeah. And so he got a lot of time on a submarine in this, and like I said, the misogyny in this is heavy. This one is heavier than the last one, which is saying something because Sean Connery is a heavy womanizer. He's very much like a I'll put a woman on a place, you know? But like I said, that scene being improvised just put like a bad taste in my mouth where I was just like, ugh. Kinda ugly. That didn't age well. Yeah. Well it's like you see, that's one of those kind of inside baseball things where you see how people are on the set toward each other in those moments where you don't realize it's going to be in the movie. It's like they capture him how he talked to her, probably. In that moment. And joking, but in a very cringey way. Yeah, joking in 1970s like trope kind of way. You know? Yeah. I don't prefer Roger Moore's kissing style at all. It looks weird. Anytime he's like, he's like, all right, we're gonna kiss on camera. It's like, is that? Is that what he puts his mouth? How are we putting that? Like, is he trying to drink her like a Capri sun? What's happening here? Well, the movie always like, because you think that there's like a woman protagonist that kind of like should be his equal. Like an agent triple X of the KGB should be the equivalent of 007 from the MI 6. But they really play down like, oh, she's a woman. She's weaker. She can't do quite as much as 007 can. And she becomes a captive and yada yada yada. There's a lot of just the story is very dated. Doesn't age well. And I think that's kind of the bad side. That's the downside of Bond. That's the side of Bond that's kind of ugly and doesn't sit right. I mean, obviously they're just like a lot of misogyny with like all of the Bond movies. And I think as they've gotten further along, because you get your Pierce Brosnan's and you get into your Daniel Craig's, they get better about it. And give the acknowledge female protagonist like a little bit more agency, but this one's just like, yeah, but I mean, if you can get a woman dressed up and then bound and then also wet,
Bloomberg Radio New York
"royal navy" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"DAB digital radio. Today, a special program looking ahead to the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who will be held in Westminster Abbey, a place with a 1000 year history with the queen herself, was married. This will be a day of ceremony the likes of which Britain has never seen before. No, indeed, after ten days of national mourning today, a hugely important day we will have the service live when it begins at a level a.m. this morning. But of course, firstly, I want to update you on where we are in business this morning. There is a holiday in the UK and also in Japan, so we have no cash treasuries trading during Asian European hours, no guilt, or UK stocks trading, the LA is largely open, and it has been a cautious start to trading the hang seng index slumping 2.6%. Investors, of course, will be also on the lookout for the rate decisions that will get this week both on the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the bank of Japan. This after stocks in the U.S. drop dramatically last week than NASDAQ dropping 5.8% the S&P 500 Index falling almost 5% last week. Well, let's return to our top story today global leaders and dignitaries are gathering in London for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, around 2000 people will attend the service at Westminster Abbey, including prince George and princess Charlotte, who will walk alongside the prince and Princess of Wales. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin welby will deliver the sermon at her majesty's funeral this morning. I feel very privileged to be there, not pleased to be there because we would all prefer that this had not happened, but we're all going to miss and grieve for the queen. It's a huge privilege to be able to take part in this focused on the family first because this is a family saying goodbye at a funeral to someone they loved. That was the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin welby, the funeral will mark the end of ten days of national morning during which hundreds of thousands of people queued to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state at Westminster hall. The queen's coffin will be carried to Westminster Abbey on a 123 year old gun carriage which will be towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors in a tradition dating back to the funeral of Queen Victoria, rear admiral Jude Terry is responsible for the Royal Navy's funeral planning and says it is a huge honor for all personnel involved today. One of the people pulling the state gun carriage at his grandfather pulled the state gun carriage for the previous king's funeral. So those are real history moments. We've also got a number of people who are taking part and it will be their last act in uniform. That was the rear admiral Jude Terry director of people and training for the Royal Navy. Speaking earlier this week, King Charles paid tribute to his mother, the late queen and said he hopes that he can follow in her footsteps. She said an example
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"royal navy" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"Kind of a swag store or for native opinion when we bounced the idea around over the years and just never really executed on that and I didn't know what you thought about that brother, but well, we had kind of bantered about that a while ago and I've heard from people saying that, you know, do you guys have any swag? So I know there are people out there that would like to we swagger. I know there's some kind of weird cast, by the way. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure there are people out there that would love to have some native opinion swag. But yeah, let's do a poll. Why not? Yeah, okay. 'cause I'm coming with the idea of doing some embroidery stuff and, you know, maybe some t-shirts and had a couple of companies reach out to us to brother, but they haven't really engaged with them just to eat that much so. Look into it a little bit more, but we'll get back to you guys. We'll let you know. Let's stay tuned. Stay tuned, indeed. All right, so we did get a little bit of listener feedback and so listener Glenn reached back out to his brother. And he says, hi, David and Michael. Yesterday was my first visit to San Juan island national park since they finally finished the visitor centers and of course if you guys remember all of the islands and Puerto Rico got hit very heavily from hurricane Maria and they are still in fact trying to recover from that, you know, from infrastructure to everything else. He goes on to say, in this particular white guys opinion he says, the recent article in Indian country today is correct. They did a great job in incorporating the indigenous history of the place, especially compared to what it used to be. Not as good as one might have hoped, but they've only, but they've only have so many square feet to work with. The county museum really should be doing a better job seeing as how they're several they have several acres to work with and are supposed to commemorate the entire county rather than just the pig war. But anyway, out here on the island, they celebrate this weekend as the day of the Royal Navy. It was told to attack the United States by Hudson's bay company and the Royal Navy told HBC to go screw themselves rather than start a war on behalf of a corporation. Well, that would always be a good thing not to do, especially. In corporation is behind that. As they are behind a lot of wars or participants, they are. The war machine includes always has a capitalistic piece of that. Especially overseas where they figure there's zero accounting for their activities and that's from the human rights violation down to the cost for weaponry. It's just been that way since day one. It seems. We also have a comment from aurora on last week's episode of four zero 8, which is entitled and God we trust about the Pope's visit to Canada recently. In aurora wrote yes, David, we vote with our dollars, which can be supporting those very lobbyists, which are essentially bribing our lawmakers, which have so much control over the economy and therefore our personal livelihoods. And our very lives. So true. It's a very, very true. Sadly, very true. All right, brother, what are we going to experience this week on this week's episode? Well, hopefully it's not heartburn and diarrhea, but the weird. You know what, on that note, since we were talking about corporations and whatnot. And I may get the company wrong, but the Frito lay corporation, you know, that makes fritos Doritos chips and stuff. They had guanche products several years back. I think it was a baked potato chip product made with some substance called, I think it was called oline. And it was the first time I'd actually seen potato chips come with a disclaimer. Yep. That referred to gastric disturbances? Okay, you said it better than I did, but the fact that you could experience something on the lower extremities of your body. Yeah. You read that and I went, nah, no, thanks. Yeah, I'd have to find it. I'm sure we can find it online, but it was like, yeah. Oh, I'm sure. It was supposed to be some substitute for fat, I think it was. And, you know, yes, especially yours truly needs to lose weight. All right, but not at the expense of one's health. In other areas, shall we say, it's just crazy. Test products on the general public like that and just go, yeah. Yeah, we'll cover ourselves with a legal disclaimer. Every day all day that you could have some kind of leakage. All right, so sorry, but it just reminded me of that when you said that brother. Well, you're listening to episode four zero 9. Why won't it stop? I swear that wasn't set up. No, it was not. It was not set up. Sometimes I just think it and it comes out of my mouth and so that was a good chapel for the morning. There you go. My brother. All right. But before we started the broadcast, give me the recording and so there was my pleasure to serve you. Thank you. Before we go on, I just want to give a shout out to badger. He's been in touch with us and it was good to hear from you, brother. Thank you. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I hope that you hope you're staying safe. While driving on the roads, badger drives all over the country. And as well as how. Haven't heard from how long a little while, too, so. How shout out to you as well. Yeah, so if you're still out there, listening and driving, man, you guys just keep it safe because I don't know, people have lost their minds since the pandemic started just. I'll call it, I call it subsiding. I don't say it's over. It's by far not over. People just seem like they've gotten worse and driving. But I just wanted to make mention of that for the listeners that are wondering about, you know, those two brothers, they're Halloween. Hope you're doing okay in badger did reach out to us. We've been in contact with him. So badger at least is doing well. Thank you. All right. One more if you don't mind brother, he's also Paul because I know he had a problem with his Facebook page a couple of times. And so yeah, I'm in touch with Paul off, and he's doing well. He's doing okay. And Charles, we hear from Charles as well, Charles is another brother that's on the road trucking. So shout out to him as well. Everybody's been busy, really huh. Oh, yes. Paul's doing well. The someone did steal his Facebook profile. He's got a new one. And it sounds like it's almost hack proof, so Paul is doing well.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Who Is 'First Casualty' Author Toby Harnden?
"Before we get into these amazing stories, Mike span, David Tyson, John walker lind, who is Toby Honda. Tell us about what you did in the British armed forces and your life as a journalist before you became an author. Yes, well, you know, we share a somewhat similar accent as listeners and viewers will detect. You still got yours. Our minds kind of rubbing off a little bit, but I don't know. I'm worried. I'm worried about mind getting a little bit Americanized. But I trust yeah, you're a bit soggy in the middle of the Atlantic somewhere. Yeah, I mean the ace. So yeah, I'm 56 years old, I was born in 66. My father was in the navy. We moved around, we sort of ended up in Manchester, industrial city in the northwest. You don't have a mancunian accent. I think the Royal Navy actually did for the mancunian accent, which was pretty skin deep anyway. But you know, I sort of, you know, I wanted to follow in my father's footstep, I guess there's so many sort of young men do. And I also wanted to get out of Manchester and see the world and it just seemed like a very kind of insular sort of small sort of place. And so all that teenage angst was just channeled towards working hard to get out. And so I got a sponsorship from the I joined the navy at 18. Went to Dartmouth, which is the Britannia royal naval college, kind of the equivalent of the U.S. naval academy at Annapolis, but not really because it's more basic officers training. It's like santas is shorter. Yeah, that's right. I mean, I was there for less than a year. And I threw the navy I got a sponsorship to Oxford to study modern history, so I went off whilst serving naval officer, although I barely wore the uniform for those years apart from a few months sailing around sort of Hong Kong and the far east and Australia. So I had some good times. Yes, exactly. So I was serving naval officer for three years at college and then graduated from college and was pitched in to a career. Which I enjoyed immensely, but you know, it was after the Falklands War, which was 1982, I was joining and supplying to join just sort of join the Falklands actually, age 16. But I missed that. I was stationed in Scotland for the Gulf War, tried very hard to get involved. They managed to that's a long way away from Iraq. I know. They managed to win it without meeting my services. And I remember my boss at the time said, listen to, we don't worry about it. There's going to be plenty of time for medals. And I remember thinking, no, there won't. And of course I left after ten years of service without a single
Tech News Today
"royal navy" Discussed on Tech News Today
"Or nothing else has to be inside the room itself. My understanding is nothing else has to be in the room To bounce it back. It's essentially the idea is that you're shining the laser in it. Hits that wall when it hits the wall. Diffuses right light k. that reflects off of the other objects in the room and bounces the photons back to the cameras. Probably a very highly sensitive camera at the table to pick up on all that stuff. Okay so yeah then it could be pretty instead of using those super tiny little fiber-optic cameras that you slide under the door to inside you could just bounce a laser in there and go or three people in this room and the yeah right right exactly for whatever you need it for young again. Usually the military. I feel like that ends up. Being the easy go-to for something like this but i hope there's better better uses for the stuff than just military police you know which speaking of military that leads into partout now. This one is definitely like. I feel like we had a. We had a conversation about this. Maybe a couple of years ago on the show and ultimately After after doing it realized that the article was from a few years prior and that it was inaccurate. Now it seems like it's actually not inaccurate. Uk in the uk. They worded contracts. That are going to lead to laser cannons being fitted two tanks worships from from this quote detecting tracking engaging encountering unmanned aerial vehicles. Uab's so that's kind of the that's the starting point but it's always like the starting point. It's like okay great. So that's where we are now. What does it lead to the project known as team. Her is actually the ministry of defense's joint delivery office for directed energy weapons so this is like an effort within the military To find these directed energy weapons and to explore essentially the future of warfare. I suppose the first of these lasers is going to be tested on a royal navy type. Twenty-three worship that's coming up the lasers themselves. Are you know their lasers so their powered by electricity. There's no ammo required. You not loading any ammunition. So i suppose there are benefits there. If if you're you know follow follow. Although i'm not very into following wartime stopped but i suppose if you if you are more technology and everything that might be of interest to you and also by the way like this is not the first time that has been pursued in two thousand hundred a french missile company worked with the ministry of defence and they created an energy weapon called dragon fire. In that case the beam was so powerful it melted the mirrors that were used to actually direct the laser so it was not a success. At least in its incarnation then But yeah. I don't know why pick these twos like i saw two stories about lasers and hey the twelve year old twelve year. Old me was like as irs. That's cool but also kind of terrifies me to think of a future where lasers being used warfare and stuff like that doesn't sound fun but the chats has salo's shared a another laser story About alphabet which of course is google's parent company That is beaming seven hundred terabytes of data across nearly five kilometers..
Classic Movie Musts
"royal navy" Discussed on Classic Movie Musts
"Oh five but uncommon for them to be regarded with such respect as they receive aboard the hms surprise together matcher in aubrey set a tone of mentoring and convey a vision beyond war. Matching is as intent upon using the royal navy to further. His scientific investigation of the unknown world. As aubrey is intent upon extending britain's power into it he bristles with anger when. Aubrey dismisses his scientific investigation as hobby. Not of worldly consequence match takes aubrey equally to task when he refuses to turn back toward england when both men and ship are stressed past the breaking point. Can you really claim that there is nothing personal in this call to duty. He says the two men seem to thrive on being honest to the sticking point with one another intensely competitive their exchanges reveal the workings of a friendship showing an interplay between passion. Honesty and respect that feeds achievement. Each man sees himself in line for legend and with a little mythic imagination can be seen using the navy for higher purpose to further the reach of mankind beyond the known aubrey long past his orders and against mattress council pursues the akron around cape horn. It is at this point. That master and commander truly lifts into mythic storytelling and opens the way for an alcohol. Transformation of comment friendship into something heroic. The weather gods are not with lucky jack. This time raging storms. Freezing winds and bizarre blanket of snow are not relieved but aggravated by a blistering hot dead spill a stream. Fear passes from man-to-man rumors of the akron as a supernatural enemy. One meant to sink them into the deep replaces all reason as tensions escalate. Jack comes down hard on his men to keep order but it's clear that things are out of his hands. It will take a sacrifice of human life a young officer committing suicide to get the winds moving. It's as if hms surprise has entered another world where life and death choices scrape against one another when the surprise comes upon the strange and never explored galapagos islands. Rare wildlife comes into view flightless. Cormorants and swimming iguanas can be sighted from aboard ship matching feels..
Little Atoms
"royal navy" Discussed on Little Atoms
"A disease from the age of sail as many of your listeners may know In the eighteenth century james lind discovered that scurvy could be resolved with fresh fruit specifically with lemons and that became the practice of the royal navy to give lemons to To sailors and over the course of the nineteenth century lemons were replaced with lines which were cheaper and i guess more accessible to the royal navy and then however in lines were eventually replaced with lime juice and for longtime people didn't realize that this wasn't as effective as lennon's the because the the advent of the steam engine made that ocean-going trips lot shorter short enough that the symptoms of scurvy didn't have time to manifest themselves however in a polar volition that is stuck in the ice and in in which the the ship has no access to fresh food. Those three months went by and they scurvy reared its head and so cook was forced to figure out a solution to this given that none of the known cures for scurvy were on board and that the bottle lime juice did not appear to be working because in the bottling process The heat involved breaks down the very delicate molecule of scorebig acid also known as vitamin c. He had the great insight of thinking to his travels among the inuit in greenland and in realizing that the despite not having ready access to fruits and vegetables despite eating almost exclusively fresh game the new it did not seem to suffer from scurvy. They had other health problems but not scurvy and so he insisted that the men abandoned the canned food that they'd been eating in favor of fresh penguin meat which was abundant and fresh seal meat as well however the was. The men were absolutely revolted. They'd tried to meet at one point. And we're absolutely revolted. He is where he force them to eat him. Eat the meat in the interestingly. Enough the one man who Not only eight but relished penguin meat was roald amundsen. Who had a bit of a masochistic streak and equated suffering with accomplishment. Which i think goes a long way to explaining why he was so successful as the polar explorer but in any case having eaten the penguin me amundsen saw his symptoms reverse themselves in as surely as watered down since fire the meat in the vitamin c. in In fresh meat of most animals will will reverse the effects of scurvy. Say most animals because humans are some of the very few who don't synthesize their own escort mckesson just to finish off. Then i wanna come right back to the beginning of the book..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"royal navy" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
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E-14 Podcast “The Sailor’s Voice”
"royal navy" Discussed on E-14 Podcast “The Sailor’s Voice”
"Her majesty's ship royal navy right back donations side note. Did you know that. The royal navy is the only military branch in england to carry the royal title in. They used to have a royal army but she took it away. Took it away much al-also and learned that when i was in london told me you told me that that was great. So the mac adonia you at that. Her majesty ship macaroni took it either. Capture kilter by on. It brought that shit back to us. Renamed it the uss back. Donna and use that against the brits in later battles in the war eighteen twelve. We'll take a ship and use it against us pill. That is by that time he was a he was a commodore. He was in charge of a three. Or four essex was one of them on the sexes. Whatever but yeah. I love that story. That's so he became like a captain at age. Twenty five. wow you're talking about the war of eighteen twelve. He was born in what seventeen seventy nine. So what was he. Tanning eleven put twenty thirty years thirty one cash. Commodore because he died forty one. What about you. What so. Hold on the second. Let's just put this into perspective because he has just sir. almost twenty. six years was a full bird. Captain in less time than i've served in helen. Are you for my gas. People died bacteria. they probably got promotions. they did they. They died young but they also were More net than. I guess we are they were. They were sailing and kids they were doing. This stuff is kids. She you know what you know. What either. And that's why people had so many kids acting because they they had twelve kids. They lost six six survive Man something they're not animals. Death is part of life but he did not die have natural causes at forty one. Okay all right. i'm interested so there's commodore. Berries are barton from having a break for. I'm gonna get another drink over.
Oil and Gas This Week Podcast
"royal navy" Discussed on Oil and Gas This Week Podcast
"Yeah you consistently mentioned the needs for individuals to get out talk to their neighbors. Their families the bill maynes etc in order to help others understand our industry and i agree this unbelievably important. And we're going to stop the review right there. She goes on to a question that we're gonna actually move over to first friday. Qna if you wanna hear the rest of what veronica's talking about next time it will be on the first friday qna which is right around the corner now all right. So let's get into the new stories. Mark i one is. Oil-tanker sees gulf of oman order to sail to eireann. Yeah this thing. That's going on in the middle east with iran and iran. You gotta quit doing stuff like this and so when this first happened. They had four tankers in. Let me actually me stop for a second when i say tanker. I'm not sure what you picture in your head. Imagine the largest vessel you've ever seen on the ocean and then make it four times longer so these things are three or four football fields long millions of tons of displacement in. So what are things about a vessel. This big is that if it falls into a hostile control it is a weapon will take out bridges. I guess your other warships so we gotta be real careful. So what happened here if you don't know what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is what you make. Assault was so asphalt is been plus gravel and sand just like concrete a cement plus gravel in sense of bitterness apart that binds everything together sailing. The royal navy had to get involved in this basically iran's military scene. They didn't do anything. And of course the ship that was taken over that was seized san. Hell you did something. You seize the ship and were ordered to bring it back to port narine. And at the same time they had four other vessels that basically went off the mic. So all of these vessels and actually all of us around the world have a transponder constantly. Transmitting just a little bit of vital information. The name of the ship its location and its port of origin. And what happens is if you're a bad guy and you take over ship you cut that off so the good guys don't know what you're doing said at the point to this ship was hijacked. They had three supertankers in the gulf. That also went off off. Mike that they kill the spotters on and so two. Those vessels came back to uk. Still investigating this but geopolitically iran you gotta stop doing stuff like this and i do love the fact that they talked a bunch of big talk like. They're seeing that we do this. We as in the westworld dimsum purpose as a way to be able to foster military actions against iran and they said that if any military action comes this. They're going to respond ferociously iran. You'll have anything left. You can't respond for relish. I can see me rolling my eyes right anything but this is constant little stuff that goes on in the middle east that really during his time at twenty twenty one just needs to stop. Can we just get our interest back to where it needs to be. Not that i'm saying that once we're back written these beats okay. Few hijacked vessels. But you know this this is the right thing to do and then once again the..
BBC Newsday
Report: UK Military Failing to Protect Women From Abuse
"In the British armed forces, victims of bullying, harassment, discrimination, serious sexual assault. They're being denied justice by woefully inadequate and military complaints, process and justice system. That's one of the main findings of a report published by the UK Parliamentary Defense Committee. Which had evidence from more than 4000 women, including veterans and those still serving 60% said that experience bullying harassment and discrimination in the British armed forces are defence correspondent Jonathan Bill has the report. What's his life? Been a female soldier and what? And asked, I couldn't know. I answer. Oh, boy, I'm a soldier. This is the Army's latest recruitment campaign. It suggests gender is not an issue in today's armed forces, but a report by MPs paints a very different picture. With women suffering disproportionately from bullying, harassment and discrimination. And even sexual assault and rape. The conservative MP Sarah Atherton led the Commons Defence Committee investigation six out of 10 women in our evidence. Said that they don't make complaints because of their replies ALS and reading questions. Put some pressure on this morning. Hey, there we go. Women make up around 12% of the regular armed forces. The report highlights practical issues that need to be addressed, such as being given uniforms and body armor than actually fit. But MPs say they're also gravely concerned that women in the military a 10 times more likely the men To experience sexual harassment. There's so many more instances like mind that don't get reported, because you're not believed you're asking for it. That's the impression you get the fear not her real name was an officer in the Royal Navy, a woman's place. Decided it was up to me where that was, and it was in the Navy. Like the other services. The Royal Navy, too, is trying to recruit more women. But the positive experience for many doesn't always match the reality. For some, it's the old
No Agenda
"royal navy" Discussed on No Agenda
"Is it possible. We're heading towards a new lock down. I don't see a lock down in the future. Nora remember when you dealing with the shopping klein cases you were talking about overwhelmingly that among unvaccinated people such a lie so many lives we have. We have the look around. You just talk to anybody. Oh yeah you got got. One hundred. Vaccinated royal navy crew members infected with covert onboard the hms queen elizabeth warcraft. It's getting embarrassing. Well i've said this before and i. It didn't happen the way i thought it would wishes de backing off but this news phenomenon which you've highlighted in this particular A segment of vaccinate people getting sick to an extreme in other words getting dying yes daycare. These reports have got to end journalistically. They're really scratching the edge. They're punching the envelope. They're having trouble. Yes well so but the base end and by the way. The biden townhall was just laced with biden lying about. Oh if you get the shot you're never gonna get into hospital. Oh gee they There was they did a fact check on that. Nbc fact check the president while urging more americans to get the shots last night. President biden made this claim. You're not gonna. You're not gonna get kobe if you have these vaccinations but that's not true. But that's not true. No it's not true..
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
Prince Philip Laid to Rest in Intimate Funeral Ceremony
"Philip Duke of Edinburgh, was laid to rest today at Windsor Castle following a ceremony that he had helped orchestrate with readings and music. Relatively brief funeral service focused on Phillips devotion to Queen Elizabeth and to his service in the Royal Navy. Because of the pandemic. Only 30. Mourners were in the chapel, including the queen dressed in black sitting alone. This is NPR.
The Positive Patriot
Reflections on a royal funeral amid a pandemic
"Prince Philip has been remembered as a man of courage, fortitude and faith at his funeral that saluted both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth Prince Philip being laid to rest today at her funeral steeped in military and royal
Daily Pop
Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Dead at 99
"We have to talk about some breaking news. That just happened. We all woke up this morning to queen elizabeth's announcement that prince. Philip has passed away at ninety nine years old. The queen announced that he died peacefully this morning at windsor castle. There's a memorial of flowers growing there and also outside of buckingham palace. They were married for over seventy years and their love story started when elizabeth was just thirteen years old. The cream has the quality of tolerance. The bundles prince loves romance with queen. Elizabeth was one for the agents. He was born into royalty on june tenth. Nineteen twenty one and after going to school in germany france and the uk. He joined the british royal navy. When fell was eighteen. He began exchanging letters with a thirteen year. Old princess elizabeth. They married when she was twenty. One in nineteen forty seven. It was her marriage to the edinburgh. Perhaps we i realized the personality of how queen to be he would watch her become queen. Elizabeth second was to be only the seventh queen of england. Since the days of william the conqueror the prince left after military service becoming his wife's most loyal and loving alive the father of their four children and many more grandchildren. No one could make the queen break into a smile or laugh like him together. They went through seven decades of service celebration and scandal. I have done my best with vince. Phillips constant love and help within for remain listencleveland is the tolls is one essentially ingredient. And they have been married. It meant be quite so important when things well but it is absolutely vital when things get difficult.
Colorado's Morning News with April Zesbaugh and Marty Lenz
Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99
"Father of Prince Charles has passed away. The Duke of Edinburgh was 99 Prince Philip was born Royal as Prince Philip of Greece in 1921, But when his family was exiled, he settled in Britain serving with the Royal Navy in World War two before marrying Princess Elizabeth in 1947. Five years later, she became queen on Philip would become the longest serving consort of a reigning British monarch. The Queen once said. He has quite simply bean my strength and stay all these years in London. Simon are in Fox News. There is a 36 year up to date here on
Colorado's Morning News with April Zesbaugh and Marty Lenz
Prince Philip, Husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Dies At 99
"Father of Prince Charles has passed away. The Duke of Edinburgh was 99 Prince Philip was born Royal as Prince Philip of Greece in 1921, But when his family was exiled, he settled in Britain serving with the Royal Navy in World War two before marrying Princess Elizabeth in 1947. Five years later, she became queen on Philip would become the longest serving consort of a reigning British monarch. The Queen once said. He has quite simply bean my strength and stay all these years in London. Simon are in Fox News. There is a 36 year up to date here on
AM Tampa Bay
A Look Back at the Life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
"At the age of 99 Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh husband, England's Queen Elizabeth, the second longest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch. Morning grease in 1921 into a royal family with Danish and German ties. He was also a great great grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. He would go to school in England and went on to serve in the British Royal Navy during World War two. He married Elizabeth the daughter, then King George, the sixth in 1947 in 1952. Elizabeth became Queen and Philip became Queen Consort in that role on his own and accompanying his wife, Prince Philip traveled the world. He was a strict but loving father to Prince Charles, Princess Anne. Differences. Andrew and Edward. One of his last major appearances, was that the 2011 wedding of his grandson William, to Kate Middleton, at that event, as always, he was at the side of his wife. His loyal and ceaseless support for her for the royal institution and for Britain itself was his hallmark and legacy. In London. Greg Palkot, Fox News governor to Santa says it's time to set
Memphis Morning News
Prince Philip, Consort to UK's Longest-Reigning Monarch, Dead at 99
"Was 99 Prince Philip was born Royal as Prince Philip of Greece in 1921. When his family was exiled. He settled in Britain serving with the Royal Navy in World War two before marrying Princess Elizabeth in 1947 5. Years later, she became Queen and Philip would become the longest serving consort of a reigning British monarch boxes, so no one Florida Defense attorney says
Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
Royal Navy jet crashes in Cornwall
"Jet grounded after royal navy pilots survive. Crash in cornwall and this is from the times while it remains inappropriate to comment on the ongoing investigation. Further technical advice has enabled the chain of command make appropriate decisions on the continuing safety assessments of the wider fleet. What am i reading. Doesn't make any sense. Consequently the orient has resumed. Hawk won t one hundred update. Jeff oh it's an update. Thank you thank you liz. We'll have come out. There did say update at say update their. I skip that. I wasn't paying attention to that. So it's basically saying. After the fact the readiness is professional podcast. Costa we have in charge of this director. That's in my ear right now. Is trying to explain what i was just reading and just threw me completely by surprise. Anyway let me start with the The top where should have started here. The royal navy and raf have grounded forty four. Their hawk jets after one crashed in cornwall. Yesterday to pilots were forced to check from the royal navy aircraft moments before crashed into woodland navy. Sources said that the flying of the t. one variants of the jet had been temporarily paused. The cause of the crash was investigated. The grounded jets comprised eight used by the royal navy. Twenty two by the raf and fourteen by the red arrows Many of them they had in their inventory. They had to get rid of because they found out that captain anderson had actually piloted them but Anyway the minute ministry of defence said that the cause of the crash will be investigated. Safety is our paramount concern. The rif has decided to pause. Hawk t one operations as a precautionary measure. We will review the situation. As further information becomes available. The jet was on. Its way to take part in training exercise known as thursday war in which royal marines ships and aircraft. Carry out war games
BBC World Service
New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables
"Listens. Defense Ministry has announced plans to build a new surveillance ship to protect vital undersea cables amid growing fears that they could be open to attack. Jonathan Beale has the details. Undersea cables carry more than 90% of the world's communications, including trillions of dollars worth of financial transactions every day, the minister of Defense says there's a risk of sabotage, which presents an existentially threat to the U. K. As part of a wider defense review. The M A. D will order a new royal Navy surveillance ship to monitor this critical infrastructure. The vessel due to be in service by 2024. We'll have a crew of 15, who operate advanced sensors and autonomous undersea
WTVN
"royal navy" Discussed on WTVN
"Probably the most dramatic and notorious outbreak of scurvy at sea was during George Anson's four year voyage around the world, which started in 17 40. Britain was at war with Spain and because of the war, Anson had a serious labor shortage. Even press gangs who were abducting man off the street to force them to serve in the Royal Navy could not provide him with enough men for his fleet. Eventually this gap was filled with men from Chelsea Hospital, most of whom were sick, injured or elderly to the point that they weren't able to just leave on their own. When they got released from the hospital, the people who did have the capacity to just walk away. Did that. So he was left with, like the oldest sickest Ben from the hospital. And then there were delays in outfitting the ships and the crews ain't nothing but ship's rations for months as they waited, And while there were treatments for scurvy onboard, none of them contained much, if any vitamin C, so they did not actually work. For the most part, they were also really unpleasant, like drinking a bunch of straight vinegar. I like vinegar and vinegary things, but the idea of just gulping down a whole bunch of it does not sound great to me hard pass. Once they finally got underway, they sailed through terrible storms and were blown off course by April of 17 41. Most of the men who had survived those treacherous seas had been developed scurvy By June, They were down from six ships toe only three with only 335.
KTOK
"royal navy" Discussed on KTOK
"And notorious outbreak of scurvy at sea was during George Anson's. Or your voyage around the world, which started in 17 40. Britain was at war with Spain and because of the war, Anson had a serious labor shortage. Even press gangs who were abducting man off the street to force them to serve in the Royal Navy could not provide him with enough men for his fleet. Eventually this gap was filled with men from Chelsea Hospital, most of whom were sick, injured or elderly to the point that they weren't able to just leave on their own. When they got released from the hospital, the people who did have the capacity to just walk away. Did that. So he was left with, like the oldest sickest Ben from the hospital. And then there were delays in outfitting the ships and the crews ain't nothing but ship's rations for months as they waited, And while there were treatments for scurvy onboard, none of them contained much, if any vitamin C, so they did not actually work. For the most part, they were also really unpleasant, like drinking a bunch of straight vinegar. I like vinegar and vinegary things, but the idea of just gulping down a whole bunch of it does not sound great to me hard pass. Once they finally got underway, they sailed through terrible storms and were blown off course by April of 17 41. Most of the men who had survived those treacherous seas had been developed scurvy By June, They were down from six ships to only three with only 335 survivors out of about 1300 original crew. Finally, they reached the one Fernandez islands off the coast of Chile. These were home to plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. And as the ship's took on fresh provisions, and the men ate these foods they gradually began to recover. But because their conditions were so dire when they started getting more vitamin C into their bodies, it actually took more than a month before men stopped dying of scurvy. Anson's dwindling fleet was struck by scurvy again in the Pacific Ocean and the summer of 17 42 Times, obviously, after they had run out of the fresh provisions that they brought on board. And his two remaining ships finally got to China. There were only 227 of the original crew still living. In spite of that they managed to capture a Spanish galleon that was bound for Manila on June 20th of 17 43. And then with the homely 145 of the original men. They made it back to Britain. Because they had captured the Spanish galleon. They were treated as heroes with treasures from the galleon paraded through the streets of London and Anson named First Lord of the Admiralty in 17 51. At this point, I mean, it might seem a little weird for the person who was in charge when all of these people died, so then becomes the first Lord of the Admiralty. But at this point, European naval officials have log seems scurvy as an almost inevitable side effect of sending men out to sea for long periods, and they really Did not know what was going on with this disease. They did not know about vitamin C or about vitamins at all. It would be more than 150. More years before Kazimir Funk would coined the word vitamin to describe specific chemical substances that the body needed to survive. They did not know about college and either the molecular structure of college and was not discovered until the 19 thirties. Complicating all of this diets that lacked vitamin C, often, like other essential nutrients as well, and outbreaks of scurvy frequently happened alongside outbreaks of contagious diseases. So it wasn't always clear exactly what disease was it work and often multiple conditions were getting lumped together and described a scurvy. So over the centuries, various people noticed, too, that an assortment of foods seem to cure scurvy. Sometimes they did put that discovery in writing, but it took a really long time before Navy's started consistently keeping effective treatments for it on ships. This was not just a matter of people forgetting that Citrus fruits cured scurvy, though it is definitely described that way, sometimes, like people kind of frame it as people in the past were great big dummies who just kept forgetting that all they needed was oranges. In hindsight, it is really easy to see that the things that traded scurvy effectively all have vitamin C in them. At the time. Not only did people not know why any of those things actually worked, but their explanations for why they worked were totally off base. So as people trying to come up with cures that were easier to keep fresh on ships than fruits and vegetables are Just kept going down the completely wrong track often. James Lind is the one who gets credit for solving this scurvy problem, But it's of course history, So that means it's way more complicated than that. And we're going to get into all of that After we paused for a sponsor break..
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"royal navy" Discussed on TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"Voyage around the world, which started in 17 40. Britain was at war with Spain and because of the war, Anson had a serious labor shortage. Even press gangs who were abducting man off the street to force them to serve in the Royal Navy could not provide him with enough men for its fleet. Eventually this gap was filled with men from Chelsea Hospital, most of whom were sick, injured or elderly to the point that they weren't able to just leave on their own. When they got released from the hospital, the people who did have the capacity to just walk away. Did that. So he was left with, like the oldest sickest Ben from the hospital. And then there were delays in outfitting the ships and the crews ain't nothing but ship's rations for months as they waited, And while there were treatments for scurvy onboard, none of them contained much, if any vitamin C, so they did not actually work. For the most part, they were also really unpleasant, like drinking a bunch of straight vinegar. I like vinegar and vinegary things, but the idea of just gulping down a whole bunch of it does not sound great to me hard pass. Once they finally got underway, they sailed through terrible storms and were blown off course by April of 17 41. Most of the men who had survived those treacherous seas had been developed scurvy By June, They were down from six ships to only three with only 335 survivors out of about 1300 original crew. Finally, they reached the one Fernandez islands off the coast of Chile. These were home to plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. And as the ship's took on fresh provisions, and the men ate these foods they gradually began to recover. But because their conditions were so dire when they started getting more vitamin C into their bodies, it actually took more than a month before men stopped dying of scurvy. Anson's dwindling fleet was struck by scurvy again in the Pacific Ocean and the summer of 17 42 Times, obviously, after they had run out of the fresh provisions that they brought on board. And his two remaining ships finally got to China. There were only 227 of the original crew still living. In spite of that they managed to capture a Spanish galleon that was bound for Manila on June 20th of 17 43. And then with the homely 145 of the original men. They made it back to Britain. Because they had captured the Spanish galleon. They were treated as heroes with treasures from the galleon paraded through the streets of London and Anson named First Lord of the Admiralty in 17 51. At this point, I mean, it might seem a little weird for the person who was in charge when all of these people died, so then becomes the first Lord of the Admiralty. But at this point, European naval officials have log seems scurvy as an almost inevitable side effect of sending men out to sea for long periods, and they really Did not know what was going on with this disease. They did not know about vitamin C or about vitamins at all. It would be more than 150. More years before Kazimir Funk would coined the word vitamin to describe specific chemical substances that the body needed to survive. They did not know about college and either the molecular structure of college and was not discovered until the 19 thirties. Complicating all of this diets that lacked vitamin C. Often liked other essential nutrients as well. And outbreaks of scurvy frequently happened alongside outbreaks of contagious diseases. So it wasn't always clear exactly what disease was it work and often multiple conditions were getting lumped together and described a scurvy. So over the centuries, various people noticed, too, that an assortment of foods seemed to cure scurvy. Sometimes they did put that discovery in writing, but it took a really long time before Navy's started consistently keeping effective treatments for it on ships. This was not just a matter of people forgetting that Citrus fruits cured scurvy, though it is definitely described that way, sometimes, like people kind of frame it as people in the past were great big dummies who just kept forgetting that all they needed was oranges. In hindsight, it is really easy to see that the things that treated scurvy effectively all have vitamin C in them, But at the time, not only did people not know why any of those things actually worked, but their explanations for why they worked. We're totally off base. So as people tried to come up with cures that were easier to keep fresh on ships than fruits and vegetables are it just kept going down the completely wrong track. Often. James Lind is the one who gets credit for solving this scurvy problem, But it's of course history, So that means it's way more complicated than that. And we're going to get into all of that After we paused for a sponsor break. You're listening to Sunday night podcast featuring one of.
710 WOR
"royal navy" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Voyage around the world, which started in 17 40. Britain was at war with Spain and because of the war, Anson had a serious labor shortage. Even press gangs who were abducting man off the street to force them to serve in the Royal Navy could not provide him with enough men for his fleet. Eventually this gap was filled with men from Chelsea Hospital, most of whom were sick, injured or elderly, to the point that they weren't able to just leave on their own. When they got released from the hospital, the people who did have the capacity to just walk away. Did that. So he was left with, like the oldest sickest Ben from the hospital. And then there were delays. An outfitting the ships and the crews ain't nothing but ship's rations for months as they waited, And while there were treatments for scurvy onboard, none of them contained much, if any vitamin C, so they did not actually work. For the most part, they were also really unpleasant, like drinking a bunch of straight vinegar. I like vinegar and vinegary things, but the idea of just gulping down a whole bunch of it does not sound great to me hard pass. Once they finally got underway, they sailed through terrible storms and were blown off course by April of 17 41. Most of the men who had survived those treacherous seas had been developed scurvy By June, They were down from six ships to only three with only 335 survivors out of about 1300 original crew. Finally, they reached the one Fernandez islands off the coast of Chile. These were home to plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. And as the ship's took on fresh provisions, and the men ate these foods they gradually began to recover. But because their conditions were so dire when they started getting more vitamin C into their bodies, it actually took more than a month before men stopped dying of scurvy. Anson's dwindling fleet was struck by scurvy again in the Pacific Ocean and the summer of 17 42 Times, obviously, after they had run out of the fresh provisions that they brought on board. And his two remaining ships finally got to China. There were only 227 of the original crew still living. In spite of that they managed to capture a Spanish galleon that was bound for Manila on June 20th of 17 43. And then with the holy 145 of the original men. They made it back to Britain because they had captured the Spanish galleon. They were treated as heroes with treasures from the galleon paraded through the streets of London and Anson named First Lord of the Admiralty in 17 51. At this point, I mean, it might seem a little weird for the person who was in charge when all of these people died to them because of firsts, Lord of the Admiralty. But at this point, European naval officials had log seems scurvy as an almost inevitable side effect of sending men out to sea for long periods, and they really Did not know what was going on with this disease. They did not know about vitamin C or about vitamins at all. It would be more than 150. More years before Kazimir Funk would coined the word vitamin to describe specific chemical substances that the body needed to survive. They did not know about college and either the molecular structure of college and was not discovered until the 19 thirties. Complicating all of this diets that lacked vitamin C. Often liked other essential nutrients as well. And outbreaks of scurvy frequently happened alongside outbreaks of contagious diseases. So it wasn't always clear exactly what disease was it work and often multiple conditions were getting lumped together and described a scurvy. So over the centuries, various people noticed, too, that an assortment of foods seem to cure scurvy. Sometimes they did put that discovery in writing, but it took a really long time before Navy's started consistently keeping effective treatments for it on ships. This was not just a matter of people forgetting that Citrus fruits cured scurvy, though it is definitely described that way, sometimes, like people kind of frame it as people in the past. We're great Big dummies who just kept forgetting that all they needed was oranges. In hindsight, it is really easy to see that the things that traded scurvy effectively all have vitamin C and them. At the time. Not only did people not know why any of those things actually worked, but their explanations for why they worked were totally off base. So as people tried to come up with cures that were easier to keep fresh on ships than fruits and vegetables are Just kept going down the completely wrong track often. James Lind is the one who gets credit for solving this scurvy problem, But it's of course history, So that means it's way more complicated than that. And we're going to get into all of that, After we pause for a sponsor break. You're listening to the I Heart radio weekend podcast.
NewsRadio WIOD
"royal navy" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"But Heisel still be in the low eighties. This point Jimmy over the next five days. Don't see any cool down's coming. Looks like all the cold stuff's going to stay. Well well to our north. All right. Sounds good to me. Thanks very much. We will talk to you next hour. See them. I see. All right, well, Florida Health officials confirmed 5737 new cases of covert 19 yesterday at 120 deaths, the statewide positivity rate 7.37%. Fourth straight day below 8% 70 averages just under 8100 for the last week. That's Donnelly from 18,000 month ago. Good news. 7.42%, Miami Dade, 8.40 and Broward County, both up slightly from Sunday's number. By that Miami Dade and Broward have to report to the right just under 8%. As of yesterday afternoon, the worth 50 20 and 71 People hospitalized in Florida primary diagnosis of coded Down from 7700 on January the 14th. So that's good news to Florida now has These 201 confirmed case of the cove in 19 variants that emerged in the UK is believed to be more of a contagion. More of contagious strain. His number for any state in the country, According to the CDC. Vicious disease expert, Dr Ryan Rivera says it is likely these variants contributed to the numbers we've seen since late last year. Down from was probably driven in large part by these variants on given how much more infectious these strains are, I think probably will have relatively high infection rates and death rates, Unfortunately, until the vaccine takes hold Don't understand this. Yes, they said the federal government is again increased the amount of vaccine that is sending the floor let's because Fizer is increasing its manufacturing. About three and $25,000 this week. That is up from about 260,000 weekly at the beginning of the year, he said. They added dusters will allow the state to continue expanding vaccination sites. We're not gonna rest until every senior that once the shot gets a shot. We are going to be doing continue with Publix, but we're also going to be doing Walmart, which is something that's in a lot of communities. Actually, there's some communities that don't have a Publix. But they do have a WalMart. We're definitely going to get retail pharmacy into Miami Dade County. So I think that's another way. We're seniors will be able to access the vaccine. Just take it at our local government sayings, put it into CVS and Walgreens and all that and just get it out of me. It's been a disaster in Miami Dade, One of the 2.7 vaccination shots have been given 2.7 million vaccination shots. But given the state of Florida, it's about 9.4% of our population. Has gotten one shot. About 3% of gotten both shots nationally, 43 million vaccinations have been performed. That means about 10% of our population. And the morning that has you see at least one shot. 3% are fully back Stands 3%. Ladies and gentlemen, three Percent. Gosh, that is that is unbelievable. Many is correct. Why wasn't the plan put out last summer when we were developing these things? Well. The new one was common. Well, Trump told us that we're gonna be at least one maybe more before the end of the year. Oh, no, He's just lying again. You're lying. Okay, okay. Even before we knew it was gonna be out in the next several months, whether it was gonna be march or whether I was gonna be December didn't matter, right? But it's absolutely right. They needed to get this thing done. They didn't do it and all those people were running for office. You wanna wait till now? To figure out what you would do with the most important health issue we have in this country have for a long time. Now you wanna try to figure it out? And even now you can't figure it out. Senses right to get into. You know the private sector, Wal Mart and CBS etcetera. Cause they'll do it much better than government will. What a big difference for this article in Newsweek, Manny about how Transitional presidents have been so bad. Trump. Mr. Boat on Drain the swamp. You know, he relied on people in In Congress to further agenda people like Mitch McCollough, just You know they invented the swamp. And then Biden is doing the same thing, you know, get rid of the XL pipeline. Even though the majority of Americans said they wanted to, you know, do a better job. Immigration and Trump really did it. Do a good job on it that so he just opened those borders up saying Come on in, Everybody just Enjoy yourself. Just missed the boat again. We're over to in the last two. 7 16 Man. He's got a look at what's trending Man Reach up. Jimmy, a British Royal Navy officer being investigated alleged to have filmed porn inside of a nuclear submarine base. Lieutenant reportedly admitted to shooting the videos with her naval seaman lover. Seaman lover, But that's not the whole story, Jimmy Check out more on the front page of wi rd dot com. NAVAL isn't body part or navel is in the branch of the service table is in Royal Navy. Okay, I'm going to say because when you're talking, pour it and you say Naval, I'm thinking maybe I also had to be careful because it's the way it's written, is talking about her semen lover, So he's also part of the Navy. All right, It's a double entendres all over the very disturbing story. Yeah, we're gonna talk to doctor the brand Mulligan coming up in just a couple minutes. Some questions about covert that you need answers to like. Can you get the fires a vaccine for the first shot in return for the second? Um, can you visit your parents if they're both fax sender, But you want We'll talk to the doctor about that. Coming up at 7 22 traffic at 7 20, Israel 16 wi OD from smart phones and TVs, Two desktops, laptops and tablets. Every audio device in this hemisphere. All you have to do is tell your smart device of flying w y O d on my heart radio. Don't.
Pressure Points
"royal navy" Discussed on Pressure Points
"Getting a lot of pain in his stomach. No he starts throwing up so much that he can barely even hold himself up so his friend carries him to the hospital and they treat him like well. You've got to pass these fucking knives. So he's i mean he's dumping up these knives like nobody's business don't know how many pass over the next month but after month he's like you know what i feel better. I think i've gotten all of the iron and steel out of my system and Keyboards a vessel to go back to france. Now the vessel gets cut off by the royal navy. This is like eighteen. O seven i think at that point gets cut off by the royal navy. Royal navy says. Hey you're joining us. Bring him on board and they're all sitting around one night while they're sailing around and John's friends great friends by the way. Oh yeah once again and if you did this i would definitely encourage you to do in to dive absolutely so friends are like you know what our friend john can do. And royal navies. What this motherfucker can swallow knives. Check this shit out and john being a complete idiot the fact that he fucking swallowed elise knives bike month earlier is like i can just make sure i'm drinking. So he's just getting booking plastered than throwing people's lives down the gullet. He would chase it with with beer. Grog he's just like. Oh this is fine. Go fucking idiot. So he recalls like they finish their little thing recalls I know that i had at least fourteen. I know that. I swallowed like nine. Total that night but there might have been like fourteen in there and he's like i can't remember i was so fucked up so four years. Go by this guy has been swallowing knives for fucking ten years at this point. Four years go by and john finally fucking dies. Physicians perform an autopsy and they find fragments of full knives in his intestines. There's one lodged in his colon whole watch to john's colon and they like get his stomach and it's so fucking misshapen because found fragments of over thirty five nine in his stomach most of which were completely rusted and his stomach was just like completely fucked up an idea to anyone out there that is thinking about swallowing swords or knives. Maybe don't do it. Did you see the drawing from the autopsy. Gave the knives. I shit i'll pull it up God like you watched a sword swallow our what the fuck you're like. Oh yeah i can do that with things that are much smaller. So a lot of the handles were decomposed or partially. So this is about to show you which you should look up and put on the instagram. Later is drawing of the contents of his stomach. Goodness fuck yeah. Jesus christ the thing is can you imagine passing a knife..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
Brexit negotiations extended
"The brexit negotiations have been extended. It's been a tense weekend of talks which ended without a resolution except that the teams will continue to bargain. Darn mccaffrey's urine news political editor. Ann joins me now. Darna blustery man and a crumpled face and impeccably turned out an utterly composed woman libertine and lutheran images of boris johnson's meeting with usher underlying dominated the front pages and it seemed to me at least pretty much characterize the tone of the brexit negotiations. So can you tell us what happened over the weekend will in many ways. Of course the talks restarted. Again as you say. After that meeting with vonda line and boris johnson in brussels on wednesday nights they did seem not make an awful awful lot of extra progress. They inched forward to a large degree editor. Tina particularly in this area of the level playing field dot es britain would have to adhere to many of the rules and regulations of the european union for years to come that wants to have access to the single market particularly on this idea of divergence. Oh britain wants to forge. Don't power in the world committee regards. That's what brexit is. All rexiti is all about was the european union since she says well. If you do that that means consequences. It means. We may well the limit your access to the single market and the have been suggestions that it britain diverged. Too far the cop. Some of those rules and regulations that brussels could put on what a cold kind of like tariffs taxes on some of its goods to try and keep it into line. And that's been the really controversial area on that point. Europe seems to be conceding some ground that may be britain might be able to reciprocate by doing exactly the same to the eu all that the independent all between posts deciding if britain is undercut those regulations. That in the end that process is a bit more complicated and drawn out and then the eu it initially anticipated all although that's an awful lot of detail on what is a minor point there are still these inefficient gaps but there is a sign of progress and the reason that the talks continued. Go beyond yesterday is done to kind of to simple reasons. A neither side wants to be seen to walk away from these talks. Georgina no wants to collapse them. Because ultimately they'll always be a blame game about who brought about the no deal brexit and second of all you know it may well bore us all to death and there's no home and carry on talking no one loses so why not talk until the cows come home or indeed the. We're not allowed fireworks in us even till they're crackers get pulled. Whatever happens on new year's eve this year. So i mean the talks could actually go on until the deadline which is the thirty first of december. We'll in practical terms not really. Id so that the front pages of today's daily telegraph suggests that talks could carry on until new years. That's the headline. at least though. It doesn't suggest what year which is likely distancing. No i in theory. And i think we all kind of i keep saying this into the last week. I was told last week by an eu diplomat that were looking at the eighteenth around the as well as the last days to secure agreement because then we really all pushing the envelope in terms of actually just having time at all for both the european parliament and the british folder to ratify this agreement. Because it will have to be. There is a deal will need to be ratified by both parliaments. Not there is talk and with the eu everything is flexible that potentially it could be agreed by e you leaders and ratified provisionally in the new year. So almost in retrospect. I'm not entirely sure that can happen with the uk parliament but you know talks will continue at some stage. Somebody's gonna have to make a decision though. I mean they cannot continue indefinitely. And as you've said as the telegraph suggested they definitely cannot continue beyond news because of the legal deadline that is in place. But i mean there are also things like for instance tax systems need more than a fortnight to boot up to change various things. We're also being told that supermarkets have been ordered to stock up the goods. In event of a no deal will cost twenty percent more that there are interim measures to keep planes flying and so on. I mean there's so much detail that needs to be worked out the things that are really interesting about this first of all even if there is a deal it's only really covering about twenty cents of the existing rules and normality. That's already in place which means that's eighty. Percents is either having to be made up by changes that businesses are having to make stuff that you and i won't see but will cost them time and money and additionally the will be disruption because of course will be extra checks at borders particular over in calais and that means that we will see many more pictures of those lorries cues them for after aftermarket after mile. And you're right. We all still likely to see an increase in food prices to a degree. If there is no deal that gets worse because the tariffs potentially william place will be in place sterling will potentially fall even further on those two factors will mean that food prices will likely increase the destruction means that supermarkets already ordering goods talk about destruction to medical supplies and also in the amended. No deal as you rightly dives there will still have to be many deals. Don't breakneck speed to ensure that you know planes continue to be able to fly into european espace. That lorries are able to even enter the opinion so even if there is no overall trade agreements that will still have to be some deals just to make sure that things carry on beyond the. I generally in a relatively normal way now. What about the navy. The royal navy has been told that it should patrol to police channel waters To to stop illegal fishing as it may well be by then Charles michel the president of the european council referring to that said the britain was not lose. Its cooling. Go overboard he said. I'm trying to be serious on the european side. At least we keep our sang for. Yeah i think we'll see what happens with the role now. I mean even in the event of not we'll see what happens with the law. Maybe i'm sure they will patrol and all we're going to get into fish wars that we saw. I think it was back in the nineteen seventies involving iceland's when it really did get a bit nasty and ships were sunk certainly pretty badly damaged in wars over fishing there. You have to remember the european union in its deal contingency. Planning junior suggested that. If britain bolts these breakneck speeds kind of temporary deals. That i was talking about when it comes to the ability to move call goran or indeed planes that they would have to concede that the current agreement on fishing would continue for at least another year. Which makes me think that in the ends. That probably was likely to happen. Not least of all as well because we have to remember no deal. I deal on. Fishing may be banned from both sides and fishing but no deal is also bad. And i'm not entirely sure that the fishing communities of the east coast of england or northern france. Want no deal either. Because that may mean they don't have access to each other's waters but given the acrimony were to see in the nastiness in no deal. Brexit may will also mean that those uk fishermen for example will not be able to sell the fish to the european market.
Travel with Rick Steves
UK Royals
"Kings and queens with real power are a relic of the past in europe. Most of them today play ceremonial figurehead roles limited by their constitutions in britain pulls tell us most people are more or less supportive of the role. The windsors play as their royal family. Their lives are a regular beat for the british press and there are many elegance stops in british tourism connected to the queen and her family. Paul guest was an electrician on her majesty's royal yacht britannia when he was in the royal navy today. He works as a tour. Guide based in belfast. He's joined by. Elizabeth boardman a tour guide from bath not far from london. They're here to help us. Americans better understand the royals. In britain by the way our interviews recorded just prior to the global pandemic shutdowns liz. Paul thanks for joining us. Thank you very much right because if it's an interesting thing for us there's still kings and queens and in belgium and the netherlands spain over scandinavia. But they really have little power. But what's the purpose. Why do you. Brits willingly tax money to have kings and queens and princes printing around your country. I know that's a question that we always get asked his guides when we're doing our tours and yet one of the questions i always ask for members is put your hands up if you came on this tour just because we have a royal family. No one ever does that. We've got so much more to offer but the royal family are a big attraction for us as well because immediately. I'm sure if we just said prince charles prince william prince harry. Everyone has a visual of who they are because of the world media but for us as british citizens. It's a lot more than that. We're very personal about them. If we were to believe the Recent opinion polls approximately eighty eight percents of the british public are in favor of royal family which is quite surprising considering everyone still coming out of a depression and financial difficulties a hard but we like having the royals whether something actually practical about it and heavy responsibility to be a royal. Because do all the ceremonial stuff. I mean it's almost a fulltime job to be cutting edge hospitals and in the united states. We don't have anybody to do the ceremonial stuff except our politicians and in britain you can kind of divide. It threw the ceremonial stuff and politicians do the legislating. Yeah it's shared out between the royals. It's judy the of a sheduled which Follow i just want to reiterate what elizabeth sand and what what i think is It's a low for the royal family. I think we actually do love having a royal family On top of the huge amount of interest abroad and and brings in tourism and an income for the country to your heritage is sort of a celebration of england. Yeah goosebumps jurist. It's it's very interesting. So they are limited by the constitution so Do they have any political power at all. If a if a royal had a strong feeling about something what would they do. The house been royals of mid their feelings known especially prince charles on certain subjects. But as far as i'm aware they are told to sort of rain in a little bit on. Keep their opinions to themselves. So let's have a quick review of the royal family these days. Of course we've got queen elizabeth. She's getting old but she seems to be Still the metal name is did you of edinburgh also known as prince philip prince philip in their children so the eldest is prince charles who will be on next monarch followed by his sister. Princess own followed by his brother prince andrew. I'm also also a further brother. Who is prince edward. So all of these people are healthy and still in public Very match very much in the next generation. There's probably a lot of nieces and nephews. There is many nieces. And as we're speaking at the moment we've got three kings and one queen in waiting to go on the throne. What does that mean well. Basically what it means the next person in line for the throne when the queen dies will be prince. Charles right that will then be followed. By prince william his eldest son then prince william's eldest son prince george. Okay then we have his prince william's daughter princess charlotte. So i said that makes sense when the eldest son know if charles had an older daughter would she be next in line or is it still the old fashioned. Still be william. But when william and kate. Kate middleton who is william's wife when they were expecting prince george the eldest son. The law was changed if owner. So they couldn't grandfathered in but yeah grandfathered in so to speak the before the child was born. They changed the law. So they how that's historic it's historic. Donner gets the same rights in the lineage jackson. As it turned out they had prince george. But if prince george's had been girl it would have been a queen. Wow
Travel with Rick Steves
UK Royals
"Kings and queens with real power are a relic of the past in europe. Most of them today play ceremonial figurehead roles limited by their constitutions in britain pulls tell us most people are more or less supportive of the role. The windsors play as their royal family. Their lives are a regular beat for the british press and there are many elegance stops in british tourism connected to the queen and her family. Paul guest was an electrician on her majesty's royal yacht britannia when he was in the royal navy today. He works as a tour. Guide based in belfast. He's joined by. Elizabeth boardman a tour guide from bath not far from london. They're here to help us. Americans better understand the royals. In britain by the way our interviews recorded just prior to the global pandemic shutdowns liz. Paul thanks for joining us. Thank you very much right because if it's an interesting thing for us there's still kings and queens and in belgium and the netherlands spain over scandinavia. But they really have little power. But what's the purpose. Why do you. Brits willingly tax money to have kings and queens and princes printing around your country. I know that's a question that we always get asked his guides when we're doing our tours and yet one of the questions i always ask for members is put your hands up if you came on this tour just because we have a royal family. No one ever does that. We've got so much more to offer but the royal family are a big attraction for us as well because immediately. I'm sure if we just said prince charles prince william prince harry. Everyone has a visual of who they are because of the world media but for us as british citizens. It's a lot more than that. We're very personal about them. If we were to believe the Recent opinion polls approximately eighty eight percents of the british public are in favor of royal family which is quite surprising considering everyone still coming out of a depression and financial difficulties a hard but we like having the royals whether something actually practical about it and heavy responsibility to be a royal. Because do all the ceremonial stuff. I mean it's almost a fulltime job to be cutting edge hospitals and in the united states. We don't have anybody to do the ceremonial stuff except our politicians and in britain you can kind of divide. It threw the ceremonial stuff and politicians do the legislating. Yeah it's shared out between the royals. It's judy the of a sheduled which Follow i just want to reiterate what elizabeth sand and what what i think is It's a low for the royal family. I think we actually do love having a royal family On top of the huge amount of interest abroad and and brings in tourism and an income for the country to your heritage is sort of a celebration of england. Yeah goosebumps jurist. It's it's very interesting. So they are limited by the constitution so Do they have any political power at all. If a if a royal had a strong feeling about something what would they do. The house been royals of mid their feelings known especially prince charles on certain subjects. But as far as i'm aware they are told to sort of rain in a little bit on. Keep their opinions to themselves. So let's have a quick review of the royal family these days. Of course we've got queen elizabeth. She's getting old but she seems to be Still the metal name is did you of edinburgh also known as prince philip prince philip in their children so the eldest is prince charles who will be on next monarch followed by his sister. Princess own followed by his brother prince andrew. I'm also also a further brother. Who is prince edward. So all of these people are healthy and still in public Very match very much in the next generation. There's probably a lot of nieces and nephews. There is many nieces. And as we're speaking at the moment we've got three kings and one queen in waiting to go on the throne. What does that mean well. Basically what it means the next person in line for the throne when the queen dies will be prince. Charles right that will then be followed. By prince william his eldest son then prince william's eldest son prince george. Okay then we have his prince william's daughter princess charlotte. So i said that makes sense when the eldest son know if charles had an older daughter would she be next in line or is it still the old fashioned. Still be william. But when william and kate. Kate middleton who is william's wife when they were expecting prince george the eldest son. The law was changed if owner. So they couldn't grandfathered in but yeah grandfathered in so to speak the before the child was born. They changed the law. So they how that's historic it's historic. Donner gets the same rights in the lineage jackson. As it turned out they had prince george. But if prince george's had been girl it would have been a queen.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to Devon and Cornwall, England
"Welcome to amateur traveler I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Devon and Cornwall. I'd like to welcome to the show. Ryan Duffield from Devon who has come to talk to us about the city of Plymouth in southern England and also the surrounding area, including Devon and Cornwall. Ryan welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me Howie. Good well, you know and it's funny because we just talked about the English coast, but we've moved a little further to the West and talk. Talk about a different region of the coast than we did on the show recently when we talked about Suffolk and the the downs. Why should someone go to Plymouth Plymouth? Actually it's a fantastic city. It's a city that goes amazing maritime history and tradition that dates right back to the medieval times, but actress quite often overloaded when people think of cities in England. They think oh of Lunden Bama again. Manchester Liverpool perhaps. I think Plymouth is just as much. Interest is end if those cities, but it's just north of us so much, and I think particular twenty American. Listeners interested is also the city where the pilgrim father set sail on the mayflower. Sixteen twenty associated with the traditional thanksgiving. S Pre interesting point. Is also surrounded by beautiful coastline. It's right on the border of the county's of Devon and Cornwall these are two of the most popular tourist destinations in the UK down in the South West of England, said Scott lost offer. Willing we're looking for dividend cornwall if we go down to the English map and you go far bottom left. That's where we are, and if you go further bottom further left from there, you end up in the ocean. So we're. Right on the south coast of Devon Oklahoma so are literally facing out to the Atlantic okay well and facing out towards the south. Yes, excellent well, what? Are. You GonNa. Recommend Fourth Festival is obviously starting in the city centre, so the city is actually pretty much based around the coast and its large harbours, so I would say starting day Sutton Haba, which is the main harbor in the city and that so where the city spreads out from I'm from around the. You've all sorts of things to say side. You've got things like the mayflower steps. Steps, which is where there's the pilgrim fathers actually set sail from and this museum dedicated to that you've also got what's the Barbican? which is this old coupled street state specs, medieval periods, which is full of these is correct, slim pubs and bars, restaurants shops things like that, and it's one of the few passes cities. The city was actually bombed June. Sacramento War by the Nazis and the. The city was destroyed, and this is one of the well preserved areas of that city out, also recommend site just basically following the coastline of the city's known as Britain's Ocean City for good reason, because it will revolve around that and overlooking the area. What looks like is huge, fool trust, but what actually is actively operating? Royal Marines and Royal Navy base. That's right in the heart of. Of the city and they still have people that you can save people, training and things, and they actually do tours of that interestingly and I'm not sure how many military basis you can know many Abitur tour during the middle of the day. You can't do that well and it seems like one of the reasons they do that, too. Is You mentioned? This is not a new military base. Quite historical, so this is where the ships sailed out to fight the Spanish Armada for absolutely, and the city is very synonymous with Francis Drake. Who is the man who led the defeating of the Spanish the? He was from Plymouth. Things like the main shopping center in the city named optimus could drake circus, and you'll find lots of other places around the city named after him. You also have along. Along the Bob sell them this coupled medieval street. You have the Plymouth Gin distillery, which is actually the oldest gin distillery in the country, and of course you can go in then you can have tools that you can find out how the GIN is made. You can find out the botanic WHO's they use? Jin's at the end of that. So if you're GIN, Fan Pathak place to go we'll. Get into more detail on all these things. So in terms of the BARBICAN. For instance you mentioned the Plymouth Gin distillery. There are different pubs and things. Do you have a favorite pub? Is there someplace that we ought to check out? There is a place I feel bad commending it, but there's a web spins now Weber spins is a national chain across the country. If you live in the UK, you know about web of Spain's. They've actually got really nice bar that down on the Babacan. Babacan, which is right by the Plymouth Gin Distiller Selfish Nickel Jin from that, but they've got huge selection of our genes of a drinks there, but all the buildings there because they're all medieval style buildings that is then become ingrained within the actual itself garnered sovereignty. Highly recommend that this is places down the thyroid record. Think of any off the top of my head. Okay mix over a new kind of places and very traditional old pubs as well which great.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Antarctica: A place of peace and science
"Two hundred years ago this week humankind colt its first recorded. Glimpse of Antica on January twenty seventh eighteen twenty two ships of the imperial Russian navy the meal knee and the Vostok commanded by admirals Mikhail lesser of and Fabian Gottlieb. Von Bellingshausen cited an ice shelf attached. To what would become known as Queen Maud Land Three days later a British merchant ship the Williams under the temporary command of irish-born. Join Rush Born Royal Navy officer Edward Brownfield beheld. What is now known? As the Trinity Peninsula Earth's seventh continent had been found two hundred years later and talk to remains a strange diplomatic normally a territory kind of possessed by everybody yet. Nobody still regulated by a Nineteen fifty-nine Treaty under which all concerned basically agree not to tempt fate by even discussing the kinds of issues which caused conflict elsewhere. Swear
Brief History Podcast
The Shortest War in History
"Anglo signs above all the Woolworth's four as a military conflict between the United Kingdom on Zanzibar Sorta on twenty seven August eighteen ninety six. The conflict lasted between thirty to forty five minutes making it the shortest what is recorded war in history. The immediate coast. The wool was the death of the pro. British Sultan Hamad bin to me on the twenty fifth of August eighteen. Eighteen Ninety six on subsequent secession of Sautin Khalid bin Gosh. British authorities preferred Ahmad Bin Muhammad. Hamad who is more favorable to proceed interest as salter in accordance with the treaty signed in one thousand nine hundred six a condition for attention to this alternate wisdom candidate obtained permission the British Council and could lead had not fulfilled about requirement Britches considered this causes belly incentive took him to Cali demanding that the orders forces to stand down and leaked policy in response Calico up his palace guards on barricaded Adams off into the Polish ultimatum. Expired at nine hundred hours east are Qatar on twenty. Four twenty seven Volgas by which the British covered three cruisers to Gumbo hundred fifty marines and sites and nine hundred tons of barriers in the Halbe Oughta area the royal naval contingent was combined. The Real Admiral Harry Rosen on the pro Anglo sounds of Bari were commanded by brigadier the General. Lloyd Mathews of Designs Army. He was also the first minister. Sons Bob around chief thousand eight hundred Sabbari's defending the police. Most were recruited from civil population. They also include the Salton Policy Guard and several hundred servants and slaves defendants taught. Several military. Are Pieces machine guns which were set in French. Police cited on the British ships. Bombardment opened fire knowing how to set a pass on flat. Disabled the defendant auditory a small naval action took place with the British cinquieme Zanzibari reward your hate hate s Glasgow into similar vessels and some shots were fired ineffectively the purchase ends Bari troops as they approached the potus notice. The flag at the policy shop down and fire ceased at nine forty four sustained roughly five hundred casualties with only when British cellular So to college received asylum in German consulate before escaping German east Africa which is in the mainland Pau halt present day Tanzania Bush's quickly placed Salton not in power at the head of the puppet government Walmart the end that his bosso tonight as a sovereign state and the start of the period of heavy British influence. Sons Ball was violent country in the Indian Ian Ocean off the coast of tiny today which form parts of Tanzania the main island beat under normal control the Sultan of Oman sixty nine when they expelled. The Portuguese settlers claimed it in fourteen. Ninety nine so tom you've been declared the island independent of Amman in Eighteen fifty-eight which is recognized by Great Britain and spent the cell to that from that of a lamb. Bog has been the second soaked collapse. Father had been forced by British ultimatum. A threat to blockade okay to voice. The slave trade in June eighteen. Seventy three those later discovered the instructions from London would have prohibited aggressive action being taken me too late if the automation had been rejected the subsequent starfish that capital and seat of government sons about town where policy complex was built on the front by eighteen. Ninety six this consistent policies self the unattached Harim on the better by job. House of Wendy's a ceremonial policies. Be the first building in the East Africa to find electric to the complex flex was mostly constructive of local timber. There was not designed as defensive structure. All three main buildings were adjacent to one another in a line and linked bog log. Wooden covered bridges above street heights written had recognized the sovereignty and sultan in eighteen eighty six after a long period fron. The interaction in January maintain good relations with the country and it so turns however Germany was also interested needed east Africa and the two powers for control over trade rights on the territory in the area throughout the late nineteenth century. Sultan Khalifa at granted rights landed Kenya to Britain. And that's Taneeka to Germany. A process resulting. In the Prohibition of slavery in those loans on so many of the Arabs ruling classes will accept by the interruption divine trait which results in seven in addition the German authorities overseas in Taneeka refused to fly. The flag is under bar which led to on clashes seen German cheaters on the local population one. Such conflict in Tanga claimed the lives at twenty hours so typically fastened sounds Bari troops led by Brigadier General Lord Matthews the the former Latin the Royal Navy to restore order in Taneeka operation was largely successful the anti German feeding Sabari people remain strong. Further conflicts erupted at Bega may up one hundred fifty natives killed by German military forces. All SES Cat wets where German officials as servants would moded Khalifa. Them grunted extensive try rights to the imperial. They were British Engineering Company. A German assistance run a naval blockade to hold the continuing domestic slave trade upon Khalifa. Leave his death in. Eighteen ninety out been sad ascended to so to so to Ali domestic slave trade but not slave ownership declared signs a ball Bush's protect your an appointed. Lloyd Mathews First Minister to lead his cabinet. Britches will also guaranteed a veto detail of the future. Appointment of Sautin's the year of Alyssa session also saw disarmament Egeland Zanzibar treaty between Britain tune in Germany. This treaty efficient efficiency the marketed the spheres of interest in east Africa and they see the gym writes support to the United Kingdom. This granted the British government Evenson sums above which they intended to use to eradicate the slave trade and that an object to they had how'd as early as eighteen o four so obvious successor was her not told me he became salt in eighteen. Ninety three hammock maintain a close relationship with the British but that was the sentiment his subjects of the increase in riches control of the country. The british-led Army in operation of the venue voluble train to control. Oh descent the British authorities authorized the sultan to raise the bar policy. Kabbadi Carter thousands of men but these treats was soon involved in clashes with the purchased leads. Police complaints about the Baltic calls activities will also receive from European residents in Zanzibar town so awesome Sultan Hamad died suddenly at eleven forty East African time on the twenty fifth bowl. 1896 is twenty nine year Rhode Nephew Khalid Bin Burger Gash was also expected by some of his assassination moved into the complex Zanzibar time without the British approval in contravention of the treaty. Agreed Volley the British government preferred. It'll turn to come there about Bin. Muhammad which more favorably disposed towards them colleague was wound by the Council and diplomatic agents on Ball Basil K.. General Matthews to think Catholic about his actions. This course of action had proved successful three years earlier when Khalid had tried to claim the suit now after the death of Ali and the British Consul General Renou right have displayed to them of the dangers of such action colleague nor caves warning and his forces mastering in the Palace Square under combined Captain Saleh of the bodyguard by the end of the day. A number two thousand eight hundred men onto rifles muskets the majority. RT civilian civilians. The force included seven hundred. Son's bar scurry soldiers who sided with the Celtics artillery which consists is a several maxim machine. Guns gutting good a seventeenth century bronze kind of and two twelve pounder field. Guns were aimed at the British ships in the harbour. The twelve pounders had been presented by Sorta by William Will Hound the second the German emperor the Sultan Straits shapes also took possession Zanzibari Navy which consists of wooden sleep. The higest has built a royal yacht for the sultan in in eighteen. Seventy eight based on the British figgy Glasgow. Mathewson cave also began to muster forces already commanded nine hundred Zanzibari. Rei Scars on the left. Hand Author Edward Harrington Rakes of the Wiltshire Regiment who was coming to the Zanzibari Army. And how the rank regular general hadn't fifty soldiers Marines sailors marines were landed from the pro class protected. Cruiser Ella the mouths of the gunboat thrush which were anchored in the harbour the navy contingent commanded Captain O'Callaghan came ashore within fifty eighteen minutes of being requested deal with any rioting calls for the general population. A smaller contingents of sailors under left ten watts of thrush rush was put to show to call the richest consular where British civilians were request Galveston protection