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Fulani expansion war, a federal pet, by Ochereome Nnanna - Vanguard News
2025-04-23
A backgrounder on Nigeria's internal dysfunction.
[VANGUARDNGR]Before his sudden, mysterious death, former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, left us with an enduring, prophetic soundbite. He said: “If an insurgency lasts for more than 24 hours, then, know that government has a hand in it”. Way back on May 8, 2014, The Cable newspaper published a retweet of the late General’s daughter, Ms Gumsu Abacha, quoting exactly the same one-liner in response to Boko Haram “exploits”.

What would you say of the Fulani expansionism “insurgency” which has lasted 25 years? By “federal”, I do not necessarily mean the President Bola Tinubu administration, though it is also complicit as will be shown shortly. “Federal” here means the machinery of the Nigerian State, the ruling Establishment or dispensation, the power that be which produces and dictates to successive Federal Governments.

Since 1999, this power dispensing machine has produced five presidents – Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari and Tinubu, always making sure it does not fall into “wrong” hands. Only such mechanism could enact the magic of making Obasanjo president from jail, ensuring that no Northern candidate would stand against him. To the best of my knowledge, the Fulani wars of conquest started around 2001 in the Plateau area. Armed Fulani “herdsmen” were routinely massacring the indigenes to take over their fertile farmlands. The military, police, security and what have you, have failed to stop them despite several eye-service deployments.

But when the Tarokh people armed themselves and retaliated in May 2004, President Obasanjo declared a state of emergency and removed PDP Governor, Joshua Dariye, who was seen as encouraging his indigenous people to defend themselves. What did Dariye do later? He joined Muhammadu Buhari’s APC and helped the party capture the state in 2015. Buhari pardoned and released him from his 14-year jail conviction for allegedly stealing N2bn. Dariye could not beat them. He joined them, and was rewarded by Buhari himself, just as Adams Oshiomhole had promised all who join APC.

Lionhearted governors who were crushed became a lesson to others. Fight the State and pay for it; collude with the State against your people and be rewarded. When you see Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State running kitikiti-katakata to lick the toes of fellow governors from the North over the Uromi lynching, you know the fear the State exerts over occupants of powerful or lucrative positions.

When Buhari came to power in 2015, he saw himself as the Nigerian variant of Omar Al Bashir of Sudan, who armed Arab pastoralist militia, the Janjaweed, to conquer and annex the lands of black Sudanese, thus sparking the Darfur crises. Buhari was determined to make Nigeria the new home of his Fulani kinsmen from everywhere. He tried to enforce his Ruga grazing routes, water resources and Livestock Plan policies throughout the country, but these were stiffly resisted. Buhari then threw open the borders for armed Fulani and their families, especially the nomads from everywhere, to relocate to Nigeria.

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, he and his powerful kinsmen used food and cement trailers and trucks to distribute armed Fulani youths in forests all over the Middle Belt and Southern states. It was clearly a well-organised operation aimed at forcefully grafting alien, violent Fulani elements among unwilling indigenous communities. They were camped in the forests where they killed people in their farms and harvested organs for sale. They kidnapped for ransom and used livestock to destroy farms. They flushed people out of their ancestral lands and occupied communities.

The Federal Government and its organs of security and coercion protected them from those seeking to defend themselves. They were promptly released when arrested by vigilante groups and handed over to the supposed law enforcement agencies. Government and (unfortunately, sections of the media) deceived the public, calling attacks on innocent Nigerian farming communities “farmers-herders clashes”. Government kept promising displaced people they would be restored to their ancestral lands but have now become permanent occupants of Internally-Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps. The invaders are settling down and renaming conquered communities.

The Federal Government refused to even acknowledge Fulani invaders as terrorists. Instead, they turned around to falsely slap that moniker on the Eastern Security Network, ESN, formed by the concerned diaspora Igbo through Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to defend Igboland.

When Tinubu controversially won the 2023 presidential election, I consoled myself that Buhari the Fulaniser was out and Tinubu, being a Southerner, would check the Fulanisation agenda. It has also been wreaking even more havoc in the South-West, Tinubu's home zone. But we were in for a shock. After initially arresting and detaining Bello Bodejo, the leader of the loquacious and violent Miyetti Allah Kyautal Hore, Tinubu quickly released him when the Fulani elite threatened him. He even went ahead to create Federal Ministry of Livestock to appease them, thus fully resuscitating Buhari's Fulanisation agenda.

Tinubu holds on to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu even after releasing Fulani's Bodejo and Sunday Igboho of Yoruba Nation. Under Tinubu, the cuddling of Fulani herdsmen terrorism continues unabated, and so do the endless barrages of meaningless condolence messages and empty promises. The entire landscape is filled with cowardly governors and political leaders who sell out their people for political power and lucrative posts. At this rate, the indigenous people of Nigeria are doomed.

Retired Lt-General Theophilus Danjuma warned before (and has just repeated the warning) that the government is an enhancer of Fulani expansionism. ''They collude,'' he says. ''They will not protect you! Arm and protect yourselves''. Danjuma, a hero of the Nigerian side of the civil war, has written off the armed forces he once served and led. Who are we to believe otherwise? Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and ESN have once again been vindicated, even by Danjuma!

Self-defence is the first law of nature. The ball is in our court.
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Britain
Harry and Meghan’s charity ceases donations to Muslim group over founder’s anti-Israel op-ed
2025-04-13
[IsraelTimes] A charity founded by Britannia’s Prince Harry
and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has halted donations to a Moslem woman’s group over anti-Israel comments made by its founder, NewsNation reports.

According to the report, the Archwell Foundation ceased its contributions to the Milwaukee Moslem Coalition on Thursday after NewsNation made it aware of a February 2024 op-ed written by founder Janan Najeeb, a known pro-Paleostinian activist.

"Israel’s 75-year occupation of Paleostine and the genocide in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
are a grave injustice. We demand a permanent ceasefire, an end to arming the apartheid state of Israel and the liberation of Paleostine. From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free. From the sea to the river, Paleostine will live forever!" the piece for the Wisconsin Moslem Journal read, using a slogan many understand as calling for the elimination of Israel.

A source familiar with the situation tells NewsNation they were "not aware" of the post, and confirmed that they sent a letter to Janan that "the Archewell Foundation has zero tolerance for hate speech, and we let them know the foundation will no longer be making any further donations."

"As soon as the blog post was brought to our attention, we took immediate action and acted swiftly to remove MMWC from our network and communicate no additional grants would be made to MMWC."

"Janan, we’ve recently been notified of a blog post you wrote that goes against the values of the foundation. As a foundation, we celebrate different perspectives and backgrounds but we have zero tolerance for hateful words, actions or propaganda," the letter to Janan reads, as quoted by NewsNation.

"When we started the welcome project, we did so to support Afghan women in finding community, and we are proud of the work we have done to support women in Milwaukee. We remain committed to fostering partnerships that reflect and reinforce the values our foundation stands for."

"We will be removing MWC from our network effective as of today. At this time, the foundation will be making no additional grants to MMWC."

The report, citing the foundation’s 2023 tax returns, says it gave a $27,960 donation to the Moslem charity, adding that a similar contribution was given in 2024.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 10, 2025
2025-04-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
.
[Korrespondent] 23.50 British Prince Harry arrived in Lviv as part of an unannounced visit, where he visited a clinic where wounded defenders are treated.

The Duke of Sussex visited an orthopaedic clinic in Lviv that treats and rehabilitates wounded soldiers and civilians. The unannounced trip was only revealed after the prince had already left Ukraine.

Photos from the visit show Prince Harry, wearing a jacket with the name of his Invictus Games foundation, talking to wounded Ukrainian veterans.

23.25 A Russian drone hit a multi-story building in the Zhitomir district on the evening of April 10. The State Emergency Service published a photo of the destruction.

As a result of the enemy attack, one person was killed, five are known to have been injured. Among them is a child born in 2011. All the injured were hospitalized in medical institutions.

As a result of the attack, at least five multi-story buildings were damaged, and a fire broke out in one of the buildings. It has already been extinguished, and the aftermath of the emergency is being eliminated.

22.20 Russian troops struck a multi-story building in Zhitomir district with a drone. One person was killed, five others were injured, including a child born in 2011. This was reported by the head of the OVA Vitaliy Bunechko.

19:40 The SKALA regiment successfully carried out a combat operation in the area of ​​the village of Shevchenko in the Pokrovsky direction. The video was published on the TG channel of the 425th OSHP Skala. As a result of 6 days of fighting, Shevchenko was gradually cleared of occupiers. As a result of the assault actions, the enemy's losses exceeded 1,100 people killed and wounded.

18.19 Ukraine continues to clarify all the circumstances of the involvement of Chinese citizens in the Russian occupation contingent. This concerns the systematic work of the Russian Federation to recruit Chinese citizens, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The head of state also released a video of the interrogation of one of the captured Chinese.

17:30 Since the beginning of the day, 85 combat clashes with Russian invaders have occurred on the front. Fighting is currently ongoing in six directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00.

17.19 Russian troops have begun using UAVs with explosive devices. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Attention, new threat! Russian troops have begun using UAVs that scatter explosive objects," the statement noted.

The Interior Ministry noted that they could be used by the enemy to strike any region of the country. The risk is extremely high also because the time of explosion of such ammunition is unknown.

16.08 An indictment has been sent to court against two occupiers for cruel treatment of civilians and other violations of the laws and customs of war by prior conspiracy by a group of persons. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General. According to the investigation, in July 2022, in Izyum, the accused, together with other occupiers, broke into the house where a woman lived - the mother of a Ukrainian law enforcement officer. They detained her and took her to a prison set up on the territory of a railway hospital.

15.01 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will join the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format virtually, Defense News reported.

14.21 The Chinese authorities are calling for a correct understanding of the role of the PRC in the "Ukrainian conflict" and not making "irresponsible statements" about the participation of Chinese citizens in the war in Ukraine. The corresponding statement was made by the spokesman for the PRC Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian.

13.33 Russian aggressors attacked the city of Nikopol with a drone. 12 people were injured, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. As a result of the strike, a hostel and five cars were damaged in the city. The territory is being surveyed.

13:19 Russian troops have stepped up their offensive attempts in the Liman direction, as well as in the Kupyansk area - on both sides of the Oskol River. This was reported on air by Viktor Tregubov, a representative of the Khortitsa operational-strategic group of troops.

According to him, the Russians are trying to increase their presence in this area, setting up a permanent crossing over the river to supply forces.

12:19 Four people were injured in the night attack by Russian troops on the capital. Two of them were hospitalized. This was reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

12:10 The United States and Russia have exchanged prisoners in a sign of "confidence building." The exchange took place in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.

Russia released Ksenia Karelina, a US and Russian citizen sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony for donations to a Ukrainian charity in the United States.

In exchange, the United States released Artur Petrov, a citizen of Germany and Russia, who was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the United States for the possible export of sensitive microelectronics.

12:09 During the intensified shelling of Kharkov, Russian troops began using a new tactic, in which they strike a large number of times at one district of the city in a short period of time. This was reported by Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov on the air of the telethon.

10:32 Russian troops killed four civilians in Donbass on April 9: in Novoekonomichesky, Bogatyr, Konstantinovka and Pokrovsk. Two more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours.

In total, since the beginning of the invasion, 3,135 civilians have been killed in the region, 6,911 have been wounded (excluding the victims of Volnovakha and Mariupol).

10:10 Three people were injured as a result of the night attack by Russian drones on the capital. One of them was hospitalized. Two were treated by doctors on the spot.

09:30 Russia attacked Ukraine at night with 145 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators. Air defense forces eliminated 85 drones. Another 49 enemy drone imitators were lost without negative consequences.

As a result of the Russian attack, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev, Khmelnytsky, Poltava and Nikolaev regions suffered.

08:52 Over the past 24 hours, 149 combat clashes have been recorded on the front. Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces have hit 11 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, an air defense system and two guns of the Russian invaders.

08:36 Ukraine is ready to pay for future aid packages from the United States, including Patriot systems. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, the issue of transferring at least 10 Patriot systems was discussed.

"I told him on the phone, give us at least ten (Patriot systems – ed.). This is protection, this will help us after the end of the war, this is a guarantee of security, that Ukraine is covered by air defense. There are many different formats and instruments that we are ready for. We were ready to find 30 and 50 billion for the corresponding package," the president said.

08:10 Two women were injured during a night attack by Russian drones in Kyiv's Darnitsky district. One of them had an acute stress reaction, the other had multiple minor wounds to her right forearm. The victims were treated on the spot without hospitalization.

In Darnitsky district, private houses and cars were damaged, and one of the outbuildings was completely destroyed.

In Goloseevsky district, as a result of an enemy attack, a warehouse caught fire.

07:55 As of April 10, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 929,000 people (+1,420 per day).

07:35 As a result of falling debris from downed Russian drones, 10 residents of Nikolaev were injured. Nine apartment buildings, three cars, 30 garages and an administrative building were damaged in the city.

As of this morning, a 29-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man are in hospital in moderate condition.

03:57 As a result of the UAV attack on Mykolaiv, two fires occurred in the city. Two people were hospitalized, others are receiving medical assistance on the spot.

0:45 In the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, a fire occurred in a non-residential building due to falling UAV debris. And in the Darnitsky district, a private building was destroyed as a result of falling debris.

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-Land of the Free
Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry
2025-02-09
[NYPOST] Prince Harry
can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal.

Harry's immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa.

But the president told The New York Post Friday that he isn't interested in throwing Harry out of the country.

''I don't want to do that,'' he said. ''I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible.''
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
He's got enough problems with his wife
2025-02-08
[NYPost] Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’

Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal.

Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa.

But the president told The New York Post Friday that he isn’t interested in throwing Harry out of the country.

“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
Well, he's not wrong
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Home Front: Politix
CA AG moves closer to blocking Huntington Beach's voter ID law ahead of 2026
2025-01-05
[JustTheNews] Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning voter identification requirements in the state in 2024, but it did not take effect until the beginning of this year.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is one step closer to securing a ban on requiring voter identification to vote after the Orange County Superior Court granted the state’s request for an appealable order.

Huntington Beach amended its city law to include Measure A which requires voter identification to vote at the polls at all municipal elections beginning in 2026. However, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning voter identification requirements in the state in 2024, but it did not take effect until the beginning of this year.

After Huntington Beach’s law was passed, Bonta sued the city, but the California Superior Court ruled that it was too soon for a lawsuit.

“The Court finds that this matter is not ripe for adjudication, as [the change to] the City’s Charter is permissive and discretionary in character, and thus currently presents no conflict with state elections law,” ruled California Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas.

However, Bonta requested the appeal, saying that it is important the case is settled with plenty of time before the 2026 midterm elections.

“With preparations for the 2026 elections beginning late next year, we want and need a state appellate court to weigh in expeditiously,” Bonta said. “When that happens, we are confident that we will prevail.”

Now that Bonta has been granted the appeal, he will be making the case that Huntington Beach’s voter identification policy is unlawful. In Bonta’s request for entry of judgment, he said that he respectfully disagreed with the earlier order and sought the appealable order as soon as possible in order to resolve the case before the 2026 midterm elections.

“We sought, and have now secured, an appealable order from the Orange County Superior Court,” Bonta said. “We look forward to filing our appeal and making our case before the California Fourth District Court of Appeal that Huntington Beach’s voter ID policy is unlawful.”

Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber found that the appeal was warranted and disagreed with the ruling because there was no evidence cited that fraudulent voting occurs regularly in Huntington Beach or that an election has ever been compromised in the city because of a lack of voter identification. Additionally, Bonta noted that California residents are already required to verify their identity when they register to vote.

“Measure A is a solution in search of a problem,” Weber said. “In California, we champion people’s voices, we do not suppress them. We encourage participation in our democracy, we do not burden it. We will continue to challenge the city's action which violates state law.”

The Orange County Superior Court is now entering an appealable order and Bonta will soon file his appeal.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Meghan Markle appoints herself CEO of American Riviera Orchard after she was unable to find candidate: report
2024-12-03
[NY Post] A higher assessment of her abilities, or nobody stoopid enough to take on her bullshit?
After an arduous search for the CEO of American Riviera Orchard, Meghan Markle has landed on the perfect candidate: herself.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has appointed herself as the CEO of her lifestyle brand, which has yet to be released, after struggling to find a suitable candidate for the role, the Daily Mail reports.

Markle had been interviewing prospective employees for months, the outlet adds, after announcing the brand’s impending launch earlier this year.

But in August, it emerged that the "Suits" alum was "struggling" to find a suitable candidate for the position.

"She is the CEO of American Riviera Orchard," a source told the outlet’s columnist, Richard Eden. In April, a source told the outlet, "The initial CEO search has not panned out so far."

The former actress unveiled her new business venture in March. But nine months later, there’s still no release date or information about the products that customers can expect to be up for sale.

According to the outlet, the struggle in appointing a CEO has been largely due to ongoing negotiations with Netflix about a partnership with American Riviera Orchard.

"This is something new for Netflix," an insider told the outlet. "It would run the lifestyle business with Meghan, developing products as spinoffs from her show. If a partnership is agreed, it’s likely that Netflix would install its own CEO to run operations."

The Post has reached out to Markle’s reps for comment.

Markle has faced a slew of ongoing trademark troubles while trying to get her company off the ground, prompting her to last week request a three-month extension from the US Patent and Trademark Office to secure a trademark for the brand.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, sitting in a white chair, participating in The Archewell Foundation Parents' Summit on Mental Wellness in the Digital Age during World Mental Health Day Festival 2023
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Meghan Markle dances with friends at glamorous launch party in Los Angeles - without the Spousal Unit
2024-11-18
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Meghan Markle oozed glamour as she laughed with her friends at a glitzy launch party in Los Angeles this week - without her husband Prince Harry.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has ventured out solo a few times in the last few months, most recently attending the glitzy launch party for her latest investment on Thursday night.

Meghan put on a glamorous display in a sleeveless £660 black top, featuring a sweetheart neckline, from New York brand Khaite, and wide-leg trousers as she supported her friend and A-lister hairdresser Kadi Lee in Venice, California.

Posing up a storm at the celeb-loved restaurant Gjelina, the pals were celebrating the launch of Kadi's new Highbrow Hippie hair wellness range, which Meghan has invested in.

New photographs from the glamorous night out show Meghan dancing with her friends to a gospel choir performance in her strapless black ensemble.
Apparently Her Grace, in another attempt to make the family financially independent, invested in the lady’s product line. Let us wish her luck in the hope that her success means we needn’t hear any more about her.
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Trump's Victory Could Spell Doom For Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Amidst Their Visa Struggle
2024-11-08
[TheMix] Donald Trump has officially won the 2024 presidential election over Kamala Harris. This could have major implications for British royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who are in the midst of a precarious visa battle.

HARRY’S VISA BATTLE
Ever since he moved to Southern California back in 2020, Harry has been trying to become a U.S. citizen. Harry’s visa application has since come under scrutiny after the royal admitted in his memoir Spare to using cocaine, smoking marijuana, and experimenting with magic mushrooms as a teenager.

Back in February, Trump spoke out to say that President Joe Biden had been “too gracious” to Harry since his move to California.

Now that Trump is going to be president again, however, Harry’s dreams of U.S. citizenship may be dead in the water.

“I wouldn’t protect him,” Trump has said of Harry. “He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.”

Before the election, Trump’s son Eric spoke out to say that Harry’s U.S. visa is only safe because “no one cares” about him. He added that his father “loved” Queen Elizabeth and was deeply disturbed by the stress that Harry and Meghan caused her in her final years.

“Truthfully I don’t give a damn about Prince Harry and I don’t think this country does either,” Eric said, going on to suggest that Harry had “gone off the deep end and it’s sad to watch.”

Eric Trump said that Americans, himself included, don’t give a damn what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle think.

TRUMP’S HISTORY WITH HARRY AND MEGHAN
There’s no love lost between Trump and the royal Sussexes. Indeed, before marrying Harry, Meghan was a Hollywood actress who was outspoken about her anti-Trump views.

“Yes, of course, Trump is divisive, think about female voters alone, right?” Meghan said in a 2016 interview with talk show host Larry Wilmore. “I think it was in 2012 the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points; that is a huge number and with as misogynistic as Trump is, and so vocal about it, that is a huge chunk of it.”

“You’re not just voting for a woman if it’s Hillary because she’s a woman, but certainly because Trump has made it easy to see that you don’t really want that kind of world that he’s painting,” she added
*shrug* The Sussexes did just buy a house in Portugal on the ocean near his cousin, so that the royal-ish children could play together. (I’ve lost track of whose children are still princes and princesses, and which merely lord/lady or Honourables, not that it really matters) But that means if Duke Harry can’t stay in America, he and the fam have a place to go.
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Meghan Markle vows never to return to UK as she eyes ''global superstardom''
2024-09-21
[GEO.TV] Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
has shared her final verdict on UK return as Prince Harry
gears up to attend a key charity event in the country.

While Duke of Sussex's trip to England scheduled for September 30th has sparked speculation about a potential royal reconciliation, an insider has shared that Meghan has other plans.

According to Radar Online, the Duchess of Sussex is determined to become an ''international superstar'' and sees England as her husband's ''hated homeland.''

"She is determined to become an international superstar, and I can't imagine her ever willingly returning to Harry's hated homeland,'' the insider shared.

"Harry's trip was his first step in mending bridges, especially with his cancer-stricken father, King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
,'' they added.

"Diana's family, including her sister Lady Jane, Lord Fellowes' widow, has worked hard to keep communications open since palace doors were slammed in Harry's face after his toxic attacks on the royal family.''

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled......
the insider added that Prince William and Kate Middleton are opposed to reconciliation with Harry due to his past criticisms of the royal family.

"That's good news for Meghan and the future of her marriage,'' the insider noted. ''Her success depends on keeping Harry and their royal titles!"
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King Chuck lauds ''resilience'' over ''aggression'' in UK riots after criticism
2024-08-12
King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
III on Friday lauded the ''resilience'' of many that overshadowed the ''aggression'' and ''criminality'' of a smaller number of people amid some of the worst unrest in the United Kingdom's history, Buckingham Palace said.
I’m usually pretty good with words, but I have no idea what that actually means. Perhaps it makes more sense in the original royal mumble.
The king has been criticized for not speaking out sooner against the riots that began after three maiden of tender years were killed in a stabbing attack on July 29, in a town near Liverpool and misinformation spread on social media following the murders and an arrest.

The king and the royal family are currently in Scotland for their annual summer holiday.

''The king shared how he had been greatly encouraged by the many examples of community spirit that had countered the aggression and criminality from a few with the compassion and resilience of the many,'' the palace said in a statement. ''It remains his majesty's hope that shared values of mutual respect and understanding will continue to strengthen and unite the nation.''
"Endeavor to persevere"
"Whut?"

Charles also gave his ''heartfelt thanks to the police and emergency services for all they are doing to restore peace in those areas that have been affected by violent mostly peaceful disorder,'' the palace added, according to BBC News.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday said that a ''standing army'' of specialist police would be set up to deal with rioting and that the justice system would be ramped up to deal with hundreds of arrests after violent mostly peaceful disorder rocked cities across the nation over the past week.
Related:
King Charles 08/01/2024 King Chuck starting to fear Prince Harry's bankruptcy
King Charles 07/19/2024 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 18, 2024
King Charles 07/18/2024 King Charles sets out new Labour government's priorities

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Britain
King Chuck starting to fear Prince Harry's bankruptcy
2024-08-01
[GEO.TV] King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
is reportedly starting to grow petrified about what Prince Harry
will be forced into, once his money runs dry.
Prince Andrew no doubt would have happily hired out as a gigolo, were he in need of funds, but Prince Harry has a status-conscious wife, poor man.
Royal news hound Robert Jobson made this revelation public in his upcoming book Catherine: The Princess of Wales.

According to an extract of it, by the Daily Mail, "What worries His Majesty, and his top team,’ says a Palace official, ’is what is going to happen when all the money runs out’," given how much of a plague Prince Harry is being.

In regards to this the expert also went as far as to suggest possible avenues that the Sussexes are looking into and they reportedly involve "trying to find an income stream [...] that doesn’t involve dishing dirt on the Royal Family" because "the public have wearied of their constant complaints."
Related:
King Charles 07/19/2024 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 18, 2024
King Charles 07/18/2024 King Charles sets out new Labour government's priorities
King Charles 07/09/2024 Backgrounder: Likely key ministers in Starmer’s UK Labour government

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