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Prince Andrew to step down from public life amid Epstein scandal

Rachael D'Amore and Kerri Breen
Global News
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:07 UTC

Prince Andrew says he will be stepping down from public duties "for the foreseeable future."

Andrew has denied allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl, procured for him by his friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in a U.S. prison in August while awaiting his own sex trafficking case.

"It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family's work and the valuable work going on in the many organisations and charities that I am proud to support," he said in a statement on Wednesday.

Comment: Randy Andy the scumbag has probably made the right decision in disappearing from view. He seems only capable of digging his hole deeper with everything he says. But unfortunately, the idea that justice will be served for the prince and his cronies seems nearly inconceivable.

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Yemen's Houthis claim they shot down warplane of Saudi-led coalition

Sputnik
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:52 UTC

Earlier this week, the militia temporarily released three South Korean vessels and their 16 crew members, including two South Korean nationals, following reports that they had seized a ship carrying a drilling rig from Saudi Arabia to Somalia through the Red Sea.

Yemen's Houthi militia have reported shooting down a Saudi-led coalition F-15 fighter jet.

In a tweet cited by Reuters, a militia spokesman wrote: "Our air defence systems have intercepted an F-15 fighter jet belonging to the countries of aggression in Saada province."

Comment: The Saudi-led coalition spokesman refutes the Houthi claim:

A spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen, Lt. Col. Turki Al-Maliki, called the Houthi claims of intercepting and downing a Saudi aircraft "baseless and unfounded", cited by the kingdom's state-owned Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Al-Maliki noted that what was published earlier in the day was in reference to a previous and unsuccessful attempt that took place on 1 July, 2018, describing the newly made claim by the Houthis as "a continuation of its deliberate falsification methodology".

Prince Andrew quits royal duties as organisations break ties following Epstein sex slave scandal and disastrous BBC interview

BBC
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00 UTC

The Duke of York says he is stepping back from royal duties because the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become a "major disruption" to the Royal Family.

Prince Andrew, 59, said he had asked the Queen for permission to withdraw for the "foreseeable future".

He said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who "wants some form of closure".

The duke has faced a growing backlash following a BBC interview about his friendship with the US financier.

Companies he has links with, such as BT and Barclays, have joined universities and charities in distancing themselves from him.

Comment: The Mirror reports:

In a statement released today - the 72nd wedding anniversary of the Queen and Prince Philip - the Duke of York said it had "become clear" to him that "my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family's work."

Her Majesty is said to have approved the extraordinary statement.

"I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein.

"His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure.

The Queen has been snapped leaving Buckingham Palace in the last hour, after approving her second son's statement.

The Queen approved the statement from Andrew
His announcement comes as the fall-out from his Newsnight interview continues.

ITV Royal correspondent Chris Ship notes how Prince Andrew's statement about his friendship with Epstein differs from comments made in the interview.

He told Emily Maitlis on Saturday that he did not regret his friendship with Epstein because of "'the opportunities I was given to learn" from him about trade and business.

But in his statement he now he talks of continuing "unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein".

On Monday it was reported that Andrew "regrets not expressing sympathy" for the victims of Epstein during the car-crash interview on Saturday night.

The Duke of York said he has "great sympathy" for the victims of the billionaire paedophile.

So great he forgot to mention it.

The Prince suggested it hadn't seemed necessary to vocalise his sympathy for those abused by Epstein, according to the report by Mail Online.

"I regret that I didn't make it clear in the interview that I have great sympathy for anyone who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein," he reportedly told friends yesterday.

"When I said I was shocked I thought that was implicit. In 2010 none of us had any idea of the extent of his wrongdoing."

Considering the Royals communication with the UK's secret services, how is it possible that they are unaware of the numerous criminals that they have contacts with?

However that appears to contradict another report in the Sun which claims a 'close friend' said the Duke told the Queen at church on Sunday 'it's all been a great success'.

The Duke is said to "deeply" regret his friendship with the financier, a source told the Mail, though he said the opposite in the 45 minute interview and actually praised the "opportunities" the relationship gave him.

"As a father, he totally condemns any exploitation of vulnerable young women," the source is quoted as saying.

The Prince has received the anonymous support from his friends the day after the interview aired.

For some, he appeared less than conciliatory during the BBC Newsnight special.

At one point he described his relationship with Epstein as "seriously beneficial" because it gave him the opportunity to meet people and help prepare for a future role as a trade envoy.

The comment led Green Party co-leader Sian Berry to suggest he was "not a very empathetic interview"

The politician said: "The Me Too movement, it's thrown up so many incidents of women being exploited and abused by men in positions of power and when there are allegations like this they do need answering no matter who someone is."

Not just women, men and children too: UK 'Establishment': Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high places

She added: "It wasn't a very empathetic interview, if that's an okay thing to say, with the victims, and I think he should have been more apologetic..."

Catherine Mayer, founder of the Women's Equality Party, to say he was "too stupid to even pretend concern for his victims."

The Duke denied he slept with Virginia Giuffre on three separate occasions, twice while she was underage, as she alleged while under oath.

Anna Rothwell, from criminal law firm Corker Binning, questioned how sensible it was for Andrew to give the interview from a legal perspective.

She said: "Prince Andrew is not entitled to any form of immunity by virtue of his position as a member of the Royal family .

"His friendship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is under investigation by the FBI and he is vulnerable to extradition.

If only the law applied equally.

"It is therefore very unwise for the prince to give any account to the media, especially one which so starkly exposes the closeness of his relationship with Epstein, and again betrays yet another appalling lack of judgment."

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme the Duke could find himself out of the core royal family, if reports are correct that the monarchy will be slimmed down when Prince Charles becomes king.

She said: "It was a very probing interview he's not used to being questioned in that way and I think he seemed unable to really answer her questions with any conviction.

"I think myself and most other people think that the interview was a mistake.

It was only a mistake if you want the truth to remain concealed.

"I think the Duke of York is very anxious to carry on with the work that he's doing, but of course he's totally smeared by this Epstein business and until that is dealt with I think he's going to find it very hard to carry on as normal.

"He will of course, because that's what people do, but I think it's always going to be in the background."

She went on to say: "I think if there's a slimmed down monarchy I very much feel Andrew won't be a huge part in it."

In October, the Swedish Royal house stripped some of its youngest members of their royal status - slimming down the monarchy in a similar fashion Charles is said to be in favour of in the UK.

The King of Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf made the move that will see five of his grandchildren lose their HRH status and be removed from the official Royal House.

The two sons of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia and the three children of Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill will no longer have any official royal role.

They will no longer perform any royal duties associated with the Head of State - nor will they be expected to.

And they won't benefit from the taxpayer-funded sum that goes to members of the Royal House.

And yet contacts and status are worth an awful lot, so it's likely they'll go without.

'Echoes of Edward VIII'

Social historian Professor Judith Rowbotham compared the developments to the abdication of Edward VIII.

"I suppose the nearest would be the Duke of Windsor in some way. There are plenty of parallels there," she told the PA news agency.

"I'm far from surprised because the Duke of York was ill-advised to undertake the interview."

But the research professor at the University of Plymouth said Andrew made a wise choice by not drawing the matter out for any longer.

"I don't think it's a monarchy in crisis. Even with a slimmed down monarchy, you have a large royal family, humanly-speaking somebody is always going to do something that gets well and truly disapproved of," she said.

"It could have escalated into a more major crisis if the Duke of York had not done the honourable thing."

Professor Rowbotham suggested the difficulties the royal family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, had faced in 2019 were not as bad as the Queen's annus horribilis of 1992.

This scandal is probably worse than the time the Queen had to announce a fire, a divorce, and a book released by Princess Diana.

"Back in 1992, it was an annus horribilis. This has been a 'few weeks horribilis'," she suggested.

She added that Andrew's decision would be one of personal sadness for the monarch.

"I think it will be a great sadness for the Queen," she said.

Considering Epstein's contacts, his masses of unexplained wealth as well as the cover up of his death, it's highly likely that Prince Andrew and his criminal perversions are just the tip of the iceberg:

US 'shot itself in the foot' by sanctioning us, Putin says amid reports that Russia has become 'bulletproof' for investors

RT
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:27 UTC

The Kremlin may have felt 'some anxiety' when the US started sanctioning Russia, but in the end that only made its economy stronger. Investors seem to agree, with Russian bonds now deemed more appealing than those of China and US.

Restrictions that the US and its allies have been imposing on Moscow since Crimea reunited with Russia and the Ukrainian conflict broke out in 2014, "have forced us to develop import substitution" in key areas like agriculture, pharmacy, defense and others, President Vladimir Putin said at the 'Russia Calling' investment forum in Moscow on Wednesday. This allowed Russia to make "a serious, huge step forward in boosting its economic and technological sovereignty."

The sanctions war had its downside, of course, with "losses of billions of dollars" in bilateral trade, the president said. However, the restrictions introduced against Russia had a "boomerang effect," as hundreds of US companies were barred from profitable
projects in Russia or lost the money already invested into the country due to the decisions made in Washington, he pointed out.

Comment: Meanwhile analysts of all stripes are predicting the worst for Western economies:

'Foreign-trained' dual nationals among those arrested for stirring up violent fuel price riots - Iranian semi-official news agency

RT
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:35 UTC

Dual Iranian nationals were among those who helped fuel protests against rising gasoline prices that quickly snowballed into violent riots raging through the Islamic Republic, Fars news agency reported.

Iranians also holding German, Turkish and Afghan passports were among those brought to custody last week, it reported on Wednesday citing unnamed security sources. "Special sabotage equipment" was recovered, it added.

The dual nationals had ostensibly been "funded and trained abroad" to target Iran's infrastructure and stage civil disobedience actions, it claims. These suspects reportedly "confessed their links with the foreign spy agencies after detention."

Comment: Similar accusations have been made in Hong Kong, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Iraq - to name just a few of the more recent incidences - where unrest is being capitalized on and co-opted for more nefarious ends by foreign powers.

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'Utter rubbish!' Putin says 'Russian threat' is fake, invented by those trying to cash in on it, urges US to rethink policy

RT
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:33 UTC

Europe knows that Russia isn't going to attack them and won't be paying Washington for protection anymore, Vladimir Putin said, urging the US to rethink its relations with NATO allies on the continent.

The US previously told the European nations that they were defending them from the Soviet Union and that they had to pay for it, Putin said from the stage of the "Russia Calling" investment forum in Moscow. But the USSR collapsed almost three decades ago and the US approach "doesn't work" today.

Despite all the problems "with Ukraine, the speculations about Crimea and Donbass, everybody clearly understands that Russia is not going to attack anybody," President explained.

This is nonsense, utter rubbish! The 'Russian threat' is an invention of those, who only wants to cash in by exploiting their role as the vanguard of the fight against Russia... It's obvious to everybody; and it's absolutely clear to the leaders of the major European nations.

Comment: The problem is that the US isn't ready to stop making an enemy out of Russia. In fact, we can probably expect even more belligerent, threatening and outright aggressive behavior coming from Washington in the years to come. And then God help them because Russia will not be taking it lying down.

New president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez undoes 10 years of policy progress in 7 days

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

Jeanine Áñez

The self-proclaimed president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, has completed seven days in office. The interim government, which claims to have the sole purpose of calling for new elections, has already modified domestic legislation and foreign policy in the Andean country.

The de facto government that took power in Bolivia following the fall of Evo Morales on November 10, in only seven days and adopted measures that substantially modify the character of the policies of the Bolivian state.

Carte blanche for military and police

While the international community called for moderation and an end to repression of protesters, Bolivia's de facto government issued a decree authorizing the military and police forces to suppress the population and exempt them from further trial.

"Members of the Armed Forces participating in operations for the restoration of order and public stability shall be exempt from criminal liability when, in the performance of their constitutional functions, they act in self-defense or in a state of necessity," the decree states.

Comment: As if to underscore this new policy, protestors against the new regime are getting seriously injured, or killed:

Three people have died during protests in Bolivia against the self-declared "interim" government that ousted Evo Morales, after violent clashes erupted between the socialist leader's supporters and security forces.

In addition to the three fatalities at a fuel plant on Tuesday, Bolivia's public defender's office said another 30 people had been injured in the skirmishes, but added the exact circumstances of the deaths and injuries remained unclear.

Public Ombudsman Nadia Cruz's office said the deaths were caused by gunshot wounds and called on the "interim" government to withdraw military units from all policing operations in order to reduce the violence.

An Associated Press journalist in the area also reported hearing gunfire near the fuel facility in Senkata, which protesters have tried to block over the last five days in an attempt to shut down operations, as well as seeing a military helicopter flying over the plant.

A doctor on the scene told Ruptly that he tried to save one of the wounded demonstrators, but failed to do so.

"It's a shame to see a comrade die in this way, because he died in my hands. Seeing it was a shot in the heart, how sad to see something like that," the doctor said.

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Fascist: German Medical Association calls for complete ban on smoking advertising

The Local - Germany
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:22 UTC

Germany is the only country in the EU that still allows tobacco companies to advertise their products on billboards and in cinemas. Now, doctors and some politicians pushing to change this.

"The tedious and long-standing discussion about poster advertising [of smoking] is dismal," Klaus Reinhardt, president of the German Medical Association, told Spiegel Online.

"You can't accommodate the industry here. Smoking is harmful, period," said Reinhardt, who said that all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, should fit under the ban.

Germany was one of the last EU countries to adopt a smoking ban in 2007, although rules are still relatively lax, with many pubs, restaurants and public places still allowing it within their premises.

Lighting up is still widespread throughout the country, with 18.6 percent of women, and 26.4 percent of men, over aged 15 stating that they are smokers, according to 2017 data from the Robert Koch Institute.

Comment: Historically speaking, these 'bans' on smoking mostly occur in totalitarian states - Nazi, Germany being a prime example. Hitler would be so proud. These doctors should be more concerned about the health damage from extraordinary levels of pollution in Germany.

For the truth about tobacco and why the PTB want to stamp out smoking, see:

Bi-partisan police state: While all eyes were on impeachment hearing, House quietly re-authorized PATRIOT Act

RT
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:21 UTC

House Democrats have slipped an unqualified renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill - voting near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program.

A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling measures needed to avert yet another government shutdown with a continuation of the wildly-intrusive surveillance powers passed after the 9/11 terror attacks. Democrats voted almost unanimously for it, granting the far-reaching surveillance capabilities to the very same president they're trying to impeach.

Comment: Not the first time our overlords have pulled this off. From 2001 on, every legislator has bent the knee to the Deep State's surveillance juggernaut.

Barr rips the 'Resistance': "It is the Left that is shredding norms, undermining the rule of law"

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:06 UTC

© Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 1, 2019.

Anyone who doubts that the Attorney General is dead serious about cleaning up the goddamned mess of sedition spawned by the Democratic Party, its agents in the permanent Washington bureaucracy, and its public relations arm in the news media, might invest a little time and attention in William Barr's speech to the Federalist Society Friday evening. (Text of speech here and video here.)

Mr. Barr declared unambiguously and in plain English that "in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law."

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Prince Andrew to step down from public life amid Epstein scandal

Yemen's Houthis claim they shot down warplane of Saudi-led coalition

Prince Andrew quits royal duties as organisations break ties following Epstein sex slave scandal and disastrous BBC interview

US 'shot itself in the foot' by sanctioning us, Putin says amid reports that Russia has become 'bulletproof' for investors

'Foreign-trained' dual nationals among those arrested for stirring up violent fuel price riots - Iranian semi-official news agency

'Utter rubbish!' Putin says 'Russian threat' is fake, invented by those trying to cash in on it, urges US to rethink policy

New president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez undoes 10 years of policy progress in 7 days

Fascist: German Medical Association calls for complete ban on smoking advertising

Bi-partisan police state: While all eyes were on impeachment hearing, House quietly re-authorized PATRIOT Act

Barr rips the 'Resistance': "It is the Left that is shredding norms, undermining the rule of law"

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