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The woke NHS has sparked fury after it was announced that it is now offering a £100,000 contract for an ‘anti-racism’ consultancy service.

The tender was posted by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), which manages blood supplies and organ donation in the UK. It says that thehe successful bidder will ’embed intentionally inclusive and anti-racist behaviours across our organisation’. 

However, critics say it’s time for the Health Service to put patients first and crack down on “woke waste”.

The Mail Online reports: NHSBT wants a ‘solution’ that includes topics such as ‘racial equity, social justice, civility, cultural intelligence, and active bystander and inclusion’.

Critics slammed the six-figure spend on ‘woke waste’ and called for ‘every penny’ to go towards frontline care instead.

Cash-strapped hospitals are considering scaling back operations this winter to balance the books, despite the waiting list sitting at an all-time high. 

But NHSBT argued that hiring an anti-racist consultancy would help to tackle backlogs by increasing the organisation’s credibility with ethnic minority Brits. It follows allegations of years of racism at the service. 

A spokesperson said: ‘This project contributes to delivering better frontline care and reducing waiting lists, particularly for patients from ethnic minority backgrounds.

‘Our staff need to be able to encourage more donors from ethnically diverse backgrounds to donate blood, organs and stem cells.

‘This will mean we give more patients the best treatment that saves and improves their lives.’

NHSBT claims that boosting donations from minority groups would reduce the organ transplant waiting list and help prevent Brits with blood disorders needing A&E care, dropping overall pressure on the NHS. 

In the application document, NHSBT wrote the consultancy was part of its ‘vision’ to be an ‘intentionally inclusive and anti-racist’ organisation. 

NHSBT added the contract will be considered a success when their employees have a greater understanding of ‘race equity’, they are not disadvantaged by their characteristics, and its recruitment policies are ‘intentionally inclusive’.

Tom Ryan, policy analyst at the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group, told MailOnline the public would be dismayed by the spend, adding: ‘Taxpayers are sick of seeing vital health funds spent on these right-on initiatives.

‘With waiting lists still punishingly long, every penny should be directed at delivering frontline care.

‘It’s time for the Health Service to put patients first and crack down on woke waste.’

The anti-racism contract comes just weeks after ex-health secretary Steve Barclay wrote to NHS leaders slamming them for wasting taxpayer cash on costly diversity officers rather than spending it on frontline care.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been secretly funnelling millions of dollars to Hamas terrorists and radical Islamic groups, according to a bombshell new report.

In January 2022, the Newsom regime released $47.5 million to provide “physical security enhancements to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk for violent attacks and hate crimes due to ideology, beliefs or mission.”

At least $40 million from that fund has gone to “mosques whose leaders cheer the annihilation of Jews and Israel,” according to the report.

Thegatewaypundit.com reports: Despite California having a budget shortfall of $32 billion, Newsom confirmed last month that he would double funding for the program after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel that took place on Oct. 7.

The Free Beacon reported that recipients of the funds include the Sajjadia Islamic Society, where a preacher this month declared that Allah sent “the rockets from Hamas or Hezbollah” to strike Israel and praised Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

At another recipient mosque, the Islamic Society of Corona-Norco, a preacher claimed this month that it is a “lie” that Hamas’ attack on Israel was “unprovoked.”

“If I hear that term again, I’ll go crazy,” the preacher said. “Unprovoked in what dictionary?”

At another, the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley, a preacher expressed support for “the Palestinian brothers and sisters that are fighting” Israel.

“Shame on you if you label them terrorists,” he said. He also denied that Hamas murdered Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, saying, “If you’re going to make a claim that Muslims killed innocent civilians, you better be able to prove it.”

At the Islamic Center of San Diego, which the Free Beacon noted was the home mosque of two 9/11 hijackers, an imam said “resistance [against Israel] is justified.”

“We cannot accuse somebody who is fighting for his life to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who started the occupation, not the one who is defending himself,” he said in an Oct. 20 sermon.

Newsom has also funded mosques whose imams have previously called for the destruction of Israel.

Masjed of Riverside, which is affiliated with the Islamic Center of Riverside, received $200,000. (Among the worshipers at the mosque was Syed Rizwan Farook, the perpetrator of the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack that claimed 14 lives.)

The imam of the Islamic Center of Riverside, Mahmoud Harmoush, is known for his violent anti-Semitic rhetoric.

“Oh, Allah, liberate the Al Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and all the Muslim lands from the unjust tyrants and the occupiers,” he said in a 2017 sermon, according to the Los Angeles Times. “Oh, Allah, destroy them; they are no match for you. Oh, Allah, disperse them and rend them asunder. Turn them into booty in the hands of the Muslims.”

“Wake up; it is time to be a Muslim,” he urged his listeners. “Prayer is not the only thing.”

At the Islamic Center of Hawthorne, which also received a $200,000 grant, imam Hamdy Sadek prayed last year, “Oh Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the malevolence of the Jews.”

The Free Beacon reported that grants have also been awarded to “several Islamic advocacy groups with alleged links to Hamas.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which the federal government has labeled a “co-conspirator of Hamas,” received $135,330 through Newsom’s funding program.

Newsom, who is regularly touted as a future presidential candidate, claims to be a supporter of Israel.

Last month, he visited Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks to meet with survivors and government officials, sparking anger among many of his anti-Israel constituents.

Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for California’s Office of Emergency Services, told the Free Beacon that it is investigating whether any of the mosques in question have violated the conditions of their grants.

“If it is determined they have, their funding will be immediately revoked,” he said. “As a matter of principle, the State of California rejects hate speech and discrimination in all of its forms. Such speech is a menace to democratic values, social stability and peace.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened America with a ‘new 9/11’ if the U.S. government doesn’t offer it’s unconditional support for Israel.

During an appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity this week, Netanyahu threatened the United States with death and destruction if the Biden regime refuses to support Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“We have to win not only for our sake, but for the sake of the Middle East, for the sake of our Arab neighbors,” Netanyahu said in the interview. “You know what, for the sake of Gazans who’ve been held by this dark tyranny that has brutalized and brought them nothing but bloodshed and poverty and misery.”

“We have to win to protect Israel. We have to win to safeguard the Middle East. We have to win for the sake of the civilized world. That’s the battle we’re fighting, and it’s being waged right now. There is no substitute for that victory.”

Netanyahu on Hannity last night:

– Israel is invading Gaza “for the sake of Gazans.” Sounds very generous and humanitarian

– War boils down to “good guys” versus “bad guys”

– If Israel doesn’t occupy the Gaza strip, “Europe is next, and you’re next.” I guess he means Ohio pic.twitter.com/4GXGDC5khk

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 14, 2023

Dcclothesline.com reports: Should Israel fail in the war, Netanyahu threatened massive repercussions for the white-majority world, including both the United States and the whole of Europe.

“If we don’t win, then Europe is next and you’re next,” Netanyahu said to Hannity and his viewers. “And we have to win.”

Repeatedly throughout the interview, Netanyahu likened himself and the Jewish people to “civilization,” and everything else to “barbarians,” especially the Palestinian people of Gaza.

Reiterating Israel’s “light” versus “darkness” theme throughout all this, the Jewish state is always the good guy, according to Netanyahu, while everyone else, mainly the Palestinians, are the bad guys.

“We have to have the forces of civilization beat these barbarians because otherwise this barbarism will spread and will endanger the entire world,” Netanyahu continued in his diatribe.

“Every American, every civilized country will be under peril. We have to win. There is no substitute for victory. Total victory.”

As you may recall from the George W. Bush years, this is the same rhetoric that was used in 2003 to sell Americans on entering the war in Iraq. We heard a whole lot about light vs. darkness back then as well, including the infamous “weapons of mass destruction” myth that was used to justify the takedown of Saddam Hussein.

Netanyahu has also used similar language over the years when referring to Iran and the “nuclear threat” that it allegedly poses to Israel. Again and again, Netanyahu has painted Israel as standing for what is right and good, and its neighbors and the rest of the world as standing for what is wrong and evil.

It appears as though Netanyahu’s strong language with Hannity was a response to words of restraint recently uttered by Joe Biden, who said this week regarding the worsening humanitarian crisis at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City:

“I have not been reluctant in expressing my concerns about what’s going on and it’s my hope and expectation that it will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital.”

All of this hearkens back to the language also used by Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in trying to twist the arm of America and the West to support his regime, or else “you’re next.” It seems as though they are all reading from the same playbook, does it not?

The brother-in-law of disgraced Democrat Stacey Abrams has been arrested on child sex trafficking charges, according to reports.

Jimmie Gardner, the brother-in-law of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, was arrested on Friday on serious charges of human trafficking and child sex crimes.

This is crazy. Stacey Abrams’ brother in law was arrested on charges of human trafficking, lewd or lascivious touching of a minor and battery. His name is Jimmie Gardner and he’s married to Stacey’s sister who is a federal judge appointed by Obama. He brought a 16 year old to his… pic.twitter.com/Sqqw2cwYDK

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 18, 2023

Gardner, who has a history of sexual assault convictions, was apprehended by Tampa authorities according to WFLA 8. He is accused of engaging minors for sex.

Trendingpoliticsnews.com reports: A statement from the Tampa Police Department indicated that Gardner encountered the minor at 1:43 a.m. and extended an invitation to her to join him in his room at the Renaissance Hotel located at International Plaza.

“The victim initially agreed but later told Gardner that she no longer wanted to engage and he became angry,” according to the press release.

“Gardner advised the victim that she needed to leave his hotel room. The two got involved in a verbal altercation that escalated to a physical dispute after Gardner placed his hands around the victim’s neck, impeding her breathing. After the dispute, Gardner left the hotel room, and the victim called 911.”

When the officers reached the location, Gardner had already departed from the hotel. However, they discovered the victim still present at the scene, as stated by the police.

“Everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence,” said State Attorney Suzy Lopez. “Our attorneys will prosecute this case as we would any other offender who is alleged to have committed these crimes. We take these charges very seriously.”

The Office of the State Attorney of the 13th Judicial Circuit reports that Gardner, who was convicted in 1987 for sexually assaulting two women in West Virginia, was exonerated in 2016, 27 years later.

Two years following his release, he married federal judge Leslie Abrams Gardner. Gardner, who had been drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1984, currently serves as a motivational speaker and emotional intelligence trainer, primarily working with students and individuals who have been previously incarcerated in Georgia.