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Hi Doc Sarvis:

There's so much unpacking to do about the UK side of this mess, I don't know where to begin.

~The Royal Family has been stung with scandals before, like Camilla Parker-Bowles, Lady Diana's harsh treatment.
~Separately, the UK government has suffered scandals: the Profumo Affair, the Cambridge Five.
~The late Queen reportedly knew about Andrew's sexual escapades with underaged nymphets.
~The Lord Chamberlain was a former director of MI5 and had the "ability to see around corners." But King Charles replaced this uber-competent man with a wealthy political hack when he assumed the throne.
~Inexplicably, the Royal Family hosted Dummkopf Trumpf last year. For what or whose benefit is anyone's guess.
~Then King Charles de-royalizes his younger brother, depriving him of all immunities and privileges.

To save the Royal Family, they have let go of a liability, namely Andrew.

During WWI, the UK Royal Family had to support a war against Cousin Willie (Kaiser Wilhelm) and then they refused to let cousin Nicky (Czar Nicholas II) into the UK after the Russian Revolution. The UK had their share of labor problems and the masses were unhappy with the war.

The difference between the UK and the US reactions may have to do with our system of government and responsiveness.

In the UK, the Royal Family can strip someone of their privileges on-two-three or Parliament can hold a vote of no confidence and snap elections are held.

In the US, we have to wait four years to kick a scoundrel out or try and convince the entire US Congress (both parties) to impeach him.

British longevity and tradition may play a part as well. The Brits survived much longer and more than us Americans. They gave us the Magna Carta and the British pound (along with the Japanese yen and the Russian ruble) are the oldest currencies in the world.

Two countries are described by historians as "experiments": America and the (secular) Turkish Republic. The same might be said of modern day Germany, but I haven't come across that.

The millennia-old United Kingdom that gave the world Shakespeare is certainly not an "experiment."

There is a drudge.com contributor with a British name 'GTBRIT' or somesuch who can probably speak more about this than me.


FTA:

"Xtend touts its drones as "low cost per kill", which has appealed to the warmongers in the bellicose Trumpf junta. In Nov 2025, the firm solidified a multimillion-dollar contract with the Pentagon but did not disclose the contract's value.

Xtend is an Israeli company whose products have been used during ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza which killed over 72,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children; maiming and wounding another 171,185, all in an area the size of Philadelphia, PA. Gaza

Drone maker Unusual Machines, which tapped Eric's brother Dummkopf Trumpf Jr in Nov 2024 as an adviser, is also investing in the merger. JFB builds commercial and residential properties, including multifamily communities and shopping centers.

This month, Xtend was among 25 companies selected to participate in the Defense Department's Drone Dominance Program, an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low-cost, attack drones at scale.

Xtend also secured contracts with the Pentagon before Dummkopf Trumpf's second term, including an $8.8m deal in Dec 2024."


The Trumpf Crime Family: The most corrupt, vicious, greedy warmongering blighters to ever stalk the planet. "Board of Peace" indeed.

"The former aide to Ron DeSatan is the highest-paid adjunct professor at UF's Levin College of Law in at least a quarter century, according to compensation records dating back to 1997. His salary is eight times higher than what the median law school adjunct earns, and comes as the DeSantis administration leans on Florida's 40 public universities and colleges to justify their spending practices.

Combined with his attorney general paycheck, the under-whelming James Uthmeier's teaching stipend at this spectacular sinecure pushes his total state-funded salary to $240,000 " nearly $100,000 more than the governor's annual pay.

In his first year as attorney general, good-for-nothing Uthmeier has focused heavily on headline-grabbing lawsuits targeting corporate diversity programs and LGBTQ+ initiatives. Among them are cases accusing Starbucks of unlawful race-based hiring practices and alleging Target violated federal law through what his office described as "radical LGBTQ+ activism."

~snip~

Florida is also the national leader in capital punishment and has been for decades. The Sunshine State houses the largest death row population in the country for states that continue executions. In recent years, Florida has consistently imposed the highest number of death sentences in the country. Ron DeSatan also wants more ICE gulags built in Florida. The Sunstate State has the some of the weakest gun laws in the US. In an average year, 3,172 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida, like a warzone without a foreign enemy.


... USAG Pam Bondi ...

Steeleye Span - Alison Gross (1973)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Alison Gross that lives in yon tower
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Has trysted me one day up to her bower
And many a fair speech she made to me

She stroked my head and she combed my hair
She set me down softly on her knee
Saying if you will be my lover so true
So many good things I would give to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never will be your lover so true
And wish I were out of your company

[Chorus]
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
...



@#14 ... Well, there you go again. Trump, Trump, Trump. Why not make the same argument that you wanted Bush, Obama, and Biden too? ...

Your left out fmr Pres Clinton.

Here's an interesting article ...

The one weird court case linking Trump, Clinton, and a billionaire pedophile (2017)
www.politico.com

... A woman who claims in a lawsuit that she was lured into a sex-trafficking ring run by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein contends that the depravity began at a Florida resort now known as the winter White House: Mar-a-Lago.

Virginia Giuffre's civil suit, scheduled to go to trial here later this month, threatens to expose new details of a long-running saga tying together President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, and other prominent figures, including Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.

Epstein, a well-connected Manhattan money manager and philanthropist, was once a regular at Mar-a-Lago and an active supporter of the Clinton Foundation"repeatedly lending his 727 jet to Clinton for trips overseas. Dershowitz defended Epstein amid an investigation into his involvement with underage girls more than a decade ago, and it was Acosta"then the U.S. attorney overseeing south Florida"who allowed Epstein's case to be resolved in state court in 2008.

The scandal has spawned a series of drawn-out civil suits, including Giuffre's.

Giuffre, formerly Roberts, claims she was 15 and working as a towel girl at Trump's posh Palm Beach club when she was recruited nearly two decades ago into sexual slavery by socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, then Epstein's girlfriend.

A lawyer for Trump says the president was unaware of any wrongdoing by Epstein. ...



More from the article ...

... The Saturday disclosure was designed to be the Justice Department's last word on the files, explaining why any documents were withheld and providing the legal basis for shielding any names.

Instead, lawmakers say the department skirted its legal obligation for greater transparency and muddied the waters by releasing an extensive list of names, ranging from celebrities to politicos, with little explanation accompanying them.

"This is once again the DOJ covering up the truth," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wrote Tuesday afternoon on the social platform X.

The list, totaling more than 250 names, includes a number of well-known figures, from Mick Jagger to Queen Elizabeth, as well as political figures on both sides of the aisle.

It's unclear what ties, if any, several of the figures have to Jeffrey Epstein. Many appear to simply be referenced in media clips sent by the convicted sex offender or by the FBI as it shared a roundup of news reports that also included clips referencing Epstein.

"To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, in the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child pornography, with no clarification of how either was mentioned in the files is absurd," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the bill that required the public release for the files, wrote on X.

"DOJ violated the law by not providing a reason for the redactions, has protected people like Sultan and Les Wexner and many other powerful people Rep. Thomas Massie and I are exposing, and then chose to unredact the names without context," Khanna added. ...


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