Prince Andrew&#8217;s interview on the BBC over the weekend, in which he blamed his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his sense of honor, has been largely hailed as a disaster.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-andrews-jeffrey-epstein-interview-considered-a-disaster-by-viewers-the-media">Fox News</a>, the British royal is now facing &#8220;harsh backlash from critics and media personalities&#8221; in the interview&#8217;s wake.
&#8220;Many in the media were quick to deride Prince Andrew for not only defending his friendship with Epstein but for failing to show empathy for the convicted sex offender’s victims,&#8221; reports the outlet.
During the interview, Prince Andrew raised more than a few eyebrows when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-andrew-says-his-tendency-to-be-too-honorable-made-him-pal-around-with-jeffrey-epstein">blamed his friendship</a> with Epstein on his &#8220;honor.&#8221;
“The problem was the fact that once he had been convicted I stayed with him,” the Duke of York told the BBC’s Emily Maitlis. “That’s the bit I kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal Family and we try and uphold the highest standards and practices and I let the side down, simple as that.”
Prince Andrew dug himself an even bigger hole when described Epstein&#8217;s home as a &#8220;convenient place to stay&#8221; despite him being a convicted sex offender.
“There is … I mean I’ve gone through this in my mind so many times,” Andrew said. “At the end of the day, with a benefit of all the hindsight that one could have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time I felt it was the honorable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgement was probably colored by my tendency to be too honorable, but that’s just the way it is.”
Charlie Proctor, editor of the Royal Central website, described the interview as &#8220;a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion.&#8221;
In an appearance on &#8220;Good Morning Britain,&#8221; lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents many of Epstein&#8217;s victims, said Prince Andrew&#8217;s denial about Epstein&#8217;s relationship with underage girls is implausible on its face.
“I don’t see how he could have not known that there were underage girls, minors, because he did visit homes of Mr. Epstein in New York, in Palm Beach, in the Virgin Islands and I happen to know that there were underage girls in all those locations,” <a href="https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1196334743048065024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said Allred.</a>
Top media lawyer Mark Stephens also told The Guardian that Prince Andrew should have maintained silence.
“This strategy only works if you’ve got a complete and full answer to every possible question, and here there are too many loose ends,” Stephens said. “If he’d kept his silence he’d have been able to remain outside of the case, as he’s a witness and is entitled to diplomatic immunity. He was a private individual and now he’s waived that privacy.”
According to The Guardian, the accounting empire KPMG announced in the wake of Prince Andrew&#8217;s disastrous BBC interview that it will not be &#8220;renewing its sponsorship&#8221; of the royal&#8217;s &#8220;Pitch@Palace,&#8221; which provides a platform for entrepreneurs to accelerate their work. KPMG has issued no comment on the matter.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed in a 2015 lawsuit that Epstein recruited her to have sex with his powerful friends when she was just 15 years old, alleging that one of her sexual encounters with Prince Andrew occurred when she was just 17. Prince Andrew has denied those charges.

Funeral Of The Countess Mountbatten Of Burma

Prince Andrew’s Jeffrey Epstein Interview Considered A Disaster

Great Britain

Jeffrey Epstein

United Kingdom

Despite repeatedly stating that the United Kingdom would fulfill the democratic decision of the British people and leave the European Union on October 31st, Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems to have become the latest victim of the combined weight of internal British political sabotage and a monolithic European bureaucracy.
When Parliament passed the EU Withdrawal (No. 2) Act, known as the “Benn Act,” Boris Johnson’s government was forced to work to stop a “no-deal Brexit” on October 31st. Earlier today, as the latest departure date loomed, European leaders agreed to yet another extension — this time to January 31st, 2020.
EU Council President Donald Tusk ironically dubbed this a “flextension” (because seemingly every Brexit-related failure deserves its own portmanteau), stating that the United Kingdom could leave before this ever-expanding deadline if the British Parliament were to approve a Brexit deal. However, the likelihood of reaching such agreement is absurdly small, given that Parliament has voted to reject every deal put forward by former Prime Minister Theresa May and her successor, Boris Johnson.
In an attempt to break this mind-numbing deadlock, Boris Johnson has been calling for a general election in a bid to consolidate more support in Parliament for some form of departure from the European Union. After calling for a general election for several years, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50205603">scuppered every attempt to actually hold such an election</a>. This leaves the United Kingdom in a perpetual state of inaction and, more importantly, as a continued member of the European Union.
While Brexit might seem complicated, it is actually depressingly simple. The European Union and the British political class are now conspiring to ignore the voice of the British people and, as a result, are rejecting the fundamental premise of democracy itself. It should also be noted that, while they are intentionally failing in their governmental duties, the elite British political class is applying a careful combination of strategies in order to achieve its goal of remaining subjugant to the unchecked, faceless, and widely undemocratic web of European bureaucracy.
The European Union, like any other pseudo-authoritarian system, works along a different timeline than does the voting population. During any form of democratic process, voters are constantly presented with choices which are promised to result in immediate or short-term impact. The Brexit referendum of 2016 was no different. After waiting over three years for any progress, the British population is unsurprisingly frustrated with the continued failure of the political class.
As frustration grows, apathy will also grow regarding the type of Brexit that is achieved. Achieving any form of change becomes more attractive than the continued failure to deliver the original objective. As apathy grows, the voices of those calling for a so-called “people’s vote,” or even the open rejection of Brexit itself, become more legitimate. Such frustration and apathy is being leveraged with the goal of erasing Brexit from the pages of history.
The legacy of British democracy is languishing due to the crushing refusal to respect the voice of the British populace. Every delay to Brexit is another rejection of the foundational expectation of basic democracy, where the result of a vote is implemented as directed by the majority of the population. We should pray that neither apathy nor frustration, fueled by an elitist political class that holds little respect for its duty as elected representatives, results in an ultimate capitulation to the European Union.
If the British government fails to deliver Brexit — whether through a “no-deal” departure or a withdrawal agreement that achieves true sovereignty for the United Kingdom — then democracy will have died in the U.K. It won’t die with violence. It’ll die with an exhausted sigh, as the very spirit of Britain collapses between the determined claws of the European Union.

Boris Johnson

HAWORTH: Brexit Delay Signals The Death Of British Democracy

Brexit

In what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described as an &#8220;unimaginable tragedy,&#8221; 39 people — 38 adults and one teenager — were found dead Wednesday in a tractor trailer at an industrial park in Essex, England.
The horrific discovery has triggered one of the largest mass murder investigations in the country&#8217;s history and has already resulted in one arrest: the driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland.
Police have offered few details thus far, but the evidence suggests that the deaths are a result of human trafficking.
&#8220;Police were called by the ambulance service after the discovery at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays at 1.40am,&#8221; <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/39-dead-bodies-found-inside-lorry-in-essex-11842770">Sky News </a>reported Wednesday. &#8220;All 39 people were pronounced dead at the scene and the lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.&#8221;
According to authorities, the vehicle appears to have come from Bulgaria, arriving in the UK on Saturday via the &#8220;unorthodox route&#8221; of Holyhead in northern Wales.
&#8220;We have arrested the lorry driver in connection with the incident who remains in police custody as our enquiries continue,&#8221; Essex Police Chief Superintendent Andrew Mariner said in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/british-police-launch-murder-investigation-after-discovery-of-39-bodies-in-a-container/2019/10/23/63f45c64-f574-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html">statement</a> Monday. &#8220;This is a tragic incident where a large number of people have lost their lives. Our enquiries are ongoing to establish what has happened.&#8221;
&#8220;We believe the lorry is from Bulgaria and entered the country at Holyhead on Saturday 19 October, and we are working closely with our partners to investigate,&#8221; Mariner stated. &#8220;We have arrested the lorry driver in connection with the incident who remains in police custody as our enquiries continue.&#8221;
Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills told the public that it would be a &#8220;lengthy process&#8221; to identifies the bodies, Sky News reports.
The &#8220;unorthodox route&#8221; of the vehicle has raised eyebrows, Northern Ireland&#8217;s Freight Transport Association policy manager Seamus Leheny suggesting that those involved with the vehicle may have been attempting to avoid more extensive security checks.
&#8220;People have been saying that security and checks have been increased at places like Dover and Calais, so it might be seen as an easier way to get in by going from Cherbourg or Roscoff, over to Rosslare, then up the road to Dublin,&#8221; said Leheny, as reported by Sky News. &#8220;It&#8217;s a long way around and it&#8217;ll add an extra day to the journey.&#8221;
While <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/british-police-launch-murder-investigation-after-discovery-of-39-bodies-in-a-container/2019/10/23/63f45c64-f574-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html">The Washington Post</a> notes that police have not specified if the victims are migrants, the evidence indicates human trafficking. Since Bulgaria is a European Union member state, its citizens can freely travel to Britain, suggesting the victims are from another country, the Post notes.
The Post also cites the alarming numbers from British authorities on the rise in human trafficking and modern-day slavery in the country. &#8220;The National Crime Agency figures show that last year 6,993 potential victims were referred to the government’s program that aims to identify and support victims — a 36 percent increase from 2017,&#8221; the Post reports.
In response to the horrific discovery in Essex, PM Johnson took to Twitter to express his shock and offer &#8220;thoughts&#8221; to those impacted by the tragedy.
&#8220;I&#8217;m appalled by this tragic incident in Essex,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;I am receiving regular updates from the Home Office &amp; will work closely with Essex Police as we establish exactly what has happened. My thoughts are with all those who lost their lives &amp; their loved ones.&#8221;
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‘Unimaginable’: 39 Bodies Found In Truck In UK, Arrest Made, Mass Murder Probe Launched

European Union

Just a little over a week after Chick-fil-A opened its first location in the United Kingdom, the restaurant will be closing because the shopping center will not extend the restaurant&#8217;s six-month lease in response to the protests of LGBTQ activists.
&#8220;Gay rights campaigners called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A, which opened its first branch at The Oracle shopping centre in Reading on 10 October,&#8221; reports the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-50094551">BBC</a>.
A spokesperson for The Oracle shopping center told the BBC that &#8220;the right thing to do&#8221; was to prevent the fast-food chain from doing business in response to the LGBTQ outcry.
&#8220;We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further,&#8221; said the spokesperson.
Reading Pride expressed delight over the &#8220;good news,&#8221; saying the six-month period was &#8220;reasonable request &#8230; to allow for re-settlement and notice for employees that have moved from other jobs.&#8221; Reading Pride did, however, promise to keep haranguing the restaurant with protests until it officially left the shopping center for good.
Chick-fil-A told the BBC that the organization has donated to Christian groups for youth and education, noting that they serve as home to a diverse number of employees. &#8220;There are 145,000 people – black, white; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian – who represent Chick-fil-A,&#8221; said a spokesperson.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/chick-fil-as-first-uk-location-will-close-after-pressure-from-lgbtq-rights-group.html">CNBC</a>, a Chick-fil-A spokesperson said that the chicken empire will continue expansion into international markets.
&#8220;Chick-fil-A is always evaluating potential new locations in the hope of serving customers great food and award winning service. This six month pilot licensed location in Reading, UK is part of our exploration in international markets,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
The hate toward the chicken sandwich empire began in 2012, when company president Dan Cathy expressed support for traditional one-man/one-woman marriage, prompting boycotts across the country from LGBTQ activists.
“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,&#8217;” Cathy <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/chick-fil-a-president-says-gods-judgment-coming-because-of-same-sex-marriage-78485/#SUuZKIURo5MhCW2p.99">said at the time</a>. “I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”
Just last year, two major publications wrote scathing articles begging people to boycott the business: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29418/new-yorker-columnist-chick-fil-evil-and-must-be-ben-shapiro">The New Yorker</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31789/huffpost-if-you-really-love-lgbtq-people-you-just-joseph-curl">HuffPost</a>. “If You Really Love LGBTQ People, You Just Can’t Keep Eating Chick-fil-A,” wrote Noah Michelson of HuffPost. When Chick-fil-A wanted to set up shop in New York City, Dan Piepenring of The New Yorker called it a “creepy infiltration” of the city. Following that, multiple universities and two city airports have banned Chick-fil-A from doing business.
Despite the efforts to harm the business, with college campuses and two city airports banning the chain from opening up shop, the chicken empire’s sales continue to climb and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chick-fil-sales-have-doubled-face-leftist-paul-bois">have only doubled</a> since the boycotts launched in 2012.
“Chick-fil-A’s annual sales have more than doubled since LGBT and liberal groups began calling for a boycott of the restaurant in 2012, according to a new analysis,” reported <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/chick-fil-a-s-sales-have-doubled-since-lgbt-boycott-began-in-2012.html">Christian Headlines</a> last month. “In 2012, when controversy arose over the CEO’s comments about same-sex marriage, <a href="https://www.wsbradio.com/business/chick-fil-keeps-growing-despite-uproar/9Qtv5hIeJUc59lFUfxZQ3L/">sales totaled</a> $4.6 billion, up from $4.1 billion the year before. In 2018, sales <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/chick-fil-a-with-a-mission-to-glorify-god-is-now-3rd-largest-restaurant-in-u-s.html">totaled</a> $10.46 billion, making it the third-largest restaurant in the United States behind McDonald’s and Starbucks.”

&#8220;Chick-Fil-A Is Anti-Gay!&#8221; PETA And The LGBT Community Protest

Chick-Fil-A Closing First U.K. Location After Pressure From LGBTQ Activists

Chick-fil-A

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The British group, Extinction Rebellion, celebrated the official state opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom by hosting a multi-day &#8220;Climate Strike&#8221; in central London, shutting down the city so that they could save the Earth through performance art and yoga.
No, really.
As Ministers of Parliament gathered to handle some of the top issues in the UK, including whether the UK will officially honor the Brexit referendum and make its exit from the European Union, Extinction Rebellion took to the streets and sidewalks to demand a change to the UK&#8217;s climate policy. They claim newly elected Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, refuses to do anything about the burgeoning climate &#8220;crisis&#8221; that could end humanity as we know it in less than a dozen years.
But if Extinction Rebellion were just that &#8212; a resistance against an actual, apocalyptic extinction that would wipe out humanity &#8212; their methods of preventing such a disaster are&#8230;odd. Protesters, who set up camp last weekend in preparation for Tuesday&#8217;s and Wendesday&#8217;s demonstrations spent most of the morning doing yoga and dancing in the middle of public streets (and listening to members of their own literally preach to the choir).
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Protestors from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtinctionRebellion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> now doing yoga on occupied Westminster Bridge. <a href="https://t.co/dvYfCnlO8O">pic.twitter.com/dvYfCnlO8O</a>
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Yes, those are, indeed, plastic and PVC yoga mats, made largely from petroleum byproducts. But that&#8217;s hardly the worst example of Extinction Rebellion hypocrisy. But before that, back to the yoga.
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In case your wondering the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtinctionRebellion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> yoga on Westminster Bridge is still going on. They really really like their yoga. <a href="https://t.co/R8YSedMOgy">pic.twitter.com/R8YSedMOgy</a>
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They also danced and did skits.
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Extinction Rebellion &#8211; Day 3 <a href="https://t.co/RxRNukO8IB">pic.twitter.com/RxRNukO8IB</a>
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And, in some places, put on high-production value &#8220;performance art&#8221; that defies explanation.
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Honestly just trying to get to the pub … <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtinctionRebellion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> <a href="https://t.co/7HcjOZMQdN">pic.twitter.com/7HcjOZMQdN</a>
&mdash; Emily Hewertson (@emilyhewertson) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyhewertson/status/1181946688786829313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Those ladies also dress in green.
The movement has attracted a number of high-profile supporters and claims that most of its nearly $5 million fortune comes from individual donors (and it rakes in around $40,000 more per day). <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/extinction-rebellion-protesters-bank-balance-is-growing-by-40-000-a-day-z9b8vcc62?region=global">The Times of London explains</a> that celebrities, musicians, and artists have given to Extinction Rebellion in the hopes of defraying the climate crisis, occasionally to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars (the group Radiohead, for example, gave Extinction Rebellion a quarter million dollar gift).
But its hard to see where that money is ending up. According to onlookers, Extinction Rebellion doesn&#8217;t seem to be doing much except sitting in, and, in fact, isn&#8217;t running their temporary tent city on solar and wind power. Bystanders seemed to locate several diesel generators powering the camp&#8217;s equipment (the photo is not independently verified, however).
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Hypocrites absolute Hypocrites. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtinctionRebellion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> camp in London using a diesel generator for power. Did they think the pallets made it invisible and soundproof 😂 <a href="https://t.co/sFccNFncnS">pic.twitter.com/sFccNFncnS</a>
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Other protesters were spotted at McDonalds, a major global corporation that burns plenty of fossil fuels and may be the single largest distributor and user of single-use plastics in the world.
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Spotted in Westminster: Extinction Rebellion protesters queuing for lunch at&#8230; McDonalds. 
You. Couldn’t. Make. This. Stuff. Up. If. You. Tried. <a href="https://t.co/cqSr95BG3s">pic.twitter.com/cqSr95BG3s</a>
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So if Extinction Rebellion doesn&#8217;t seem to be moving the ball forward with their use of &#8220;<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10080202/extinction-rebellion-london-protests-where-last/">non-violent civil disobedience</a> in an attempt to halt mass extinction,&#8221; where is the money actually going? The Times of London reports that it&#8217;s&#8230;complicated. It turns out, some of the activists, including those showing up to this week&#8217;s protests in London are paid to be a part of Extinction Rebellion &#8212; in some cases, up to $800 per week.
Other than that, the group spent about a quarter million dollars on &#8220;protest tools&#8221; and &#8220;live performances to entertain the crowds,&#8221; an additional quarter million setting up the protests and bussing in local groups, a hundred thousand on &#8220;media and messaging,&#8221; and nearly half a million on accommodations for this week&#8217;s protests.
The investment &#8220;includes [a half million] on stage equipment, setting up protest camps, food for protesters and living expenses for protest co-ordinators,&#8221; as well as &#8220;[s]everal thousand pounds&#8230;allocated to provide &#8216;sanctuary spaces and wellbeing hubs&#8217; for protesters who are &#8216;stressed or distressed.'&#8221;
They did not put any of the money towards fitness classes, which is why when they attempted to use a firehose to spray fake blood on the UK Treasury, they mostly got all 1800 gallons of red paint on themselves.
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What a waste of precious water.

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&#8216;Extinction Rebellion&#8217; Does Yoga, Dances To Protest Climate Change In UK

Climate Change

The most meaningful political story in the United States this week wasn&#8217;t unfolding in the United States. One of our potential futures was instead being played out in England, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting a pitched battle to bring the will of the people to fruition against the entrenched power of a multi-national elite.
Ever since a 2016 referendum in which British voters chose to leave the European Union by a 52% to 48% margin, the voters’ representatives have been doing everything they possibly can not to represent the voters. Prime Minister Teresa May swore that &#8220;Brexit means Brexit,&#8221; then managed to fashion a leave deal so bad that even Brexit supporters thought it worse than staying. After May staggered off in tears, Boris Johnson took over the premiership swearing that the Brits would be out of the EU by the October 31stdeadline — a deadline already once extended.
BoJo made it clear that his willingness to &#8220;crash out&#8221; on Halloween with no deal would help him negotiate a better deal with an EU that does not want to let its grip on British power go. But Parliament — with the help of a largely anti-Brexit press and elite — has so far managed to stymie Johnson&#8217;s strategy and may extend the deadline yet again — maybe forever.
The reason I say this is the most meaningful political story here in the U.S. is because it&#8217;s the first real test of whether the English-speaking peoples can wrest back their power of self-governance. If Brexit fails, the situation here will not look good. If it succeeds, there&#8217;s hope.
As Christopher Caldwell points out in his excellent Brexit piece in this summer’s issue of Claremont Review of Books, Britain&#8217;s entry into the E.U. did not just result in a diminution of British sovereignty over its own affairs, it also transferred power from the people&#8217;s representatives in Parliament to the elite’s representatives on and before the bench. British judges could now invalidate British law that conflicted with laws concocted in Brussels.
&#8220;Quangos [advisory bodies with government-appointed members] and foundations began designing cases — concerning migrants&#8217; rights, gay rights, search-and-seizure — that unraveled the centuries-old fabric woven from the rights and duties of British citizenship. A new fabric began to be woven, based (as are all such systems in Europe) on post-Civil Rights Act American law and on the litigative ethos of the American bar.&#8221;
Here in America, a similar shift has taken power out of the hands of our representatives in congress and put it into unelected administrative bodies like the EPA and the Department of Education. These bodies serve the same &#8220;rights&#8221; oriented obsessions of the elites — and can make rules and enforce rules in a completely unconstitutional and anti-freedom manner that, so far, has had the support of a feckless Supreme Court.
Legislators love this system. They no longer have to study issues and fashion laws that have a specific effect. They no longer have to take real stances that could get them voted out of office. They simply have to pose for the cameras, use big, emotional words, take money from entrenched interests and then announce that they &#8220;did something&#8221; about the big issue of the day. The &#8220;something&#8221; is some 2,000 page collection of vaguely worded gobbledygook that can be interpreted by some drone at the EPA to mean he can do whatever he wants. When the EPA guy then rules that you can&#8217;t go to the bathroom because your toilet is a public waterway, you&#8217;ve got no one to appeal to but the same petty tyrant at the EPA. Your property rights, your rights to due process, not to mention your vote, essentially mean nothing.
Donald Trump has done an excellent job of cutting regulations, but they&#8217;ll bounce right back once the next person, Democrat or Republican, takes his place. The entire system needs to be dismantled, probably at the level of the Supreme Court.
With the election of Donald Trump and with the vote for Brexit, the English-speaking peoples are demanding their age-old representative systems back. If Boris Johnson succeeds in Britain, it will be a hopeful sign. But if the combined power of the elites and their press can prevent the crash out, then Trump, instead of the change we need, may turn out to be just a bump in the road that leads to the end of the republic.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51400/haworth-americans-must-see-brexit-betrayal-warning-ian-haworth">HAWORTH: Americans Must See The Brexit Betrayal As A Warning</a>

KLAVAN: Where Britain Goes, America May Follow

Donald Trump

England

Trump Administration

The ongoing saga that is Brexit may seem distant to some of us here in the United States. News of the latest British capitulation to the ever-expanding political monolith that is the European Union sporadically trickles across our airwaves, but soon crumbles beneath the weight of a frantic news cycle. However, what’s currently unfolding in the United Kingdom should require the attention of everyone who values freedom and fears the creeping threat of authoritarianism.
As the most recent departure date from the E.U. of October 31st fast approached, it seemed like the slog towards Brexit was almost complete. Unfortunately, there has been a continued attempt to undermine the referendum result at every stage by a class of globalist political elites, buoyed by a vocal and petulant minority that has refused to accept reality. Sound familiar?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the most recent occupant of the seemingly cursed No. 10 Downing Street, was defeated twice by the House of Commons this week. The first defeat came after opposition members of Parliament (MPs) and Conservative Party rebels <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49580185">voted 327 to </a><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49580185">299</a> in favor of a bill that would block a no-deal Brexit. If passed, Boris Johnson would be forced to “ask” the European Union for yet another deal negotiation extension beyond October 31st. In response, Johnson attempted to push for a new general election, but <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49584907">MPs turned down his motion</a> — with Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn stating that his party would support Johnson’s call for a new general election once the bill blocking a no-deal Brexit passed.
Now, it is fair to argue that binary referenda aren’t the most effective or positive way of achieving policy changes in a representative democracy. They enable the political evasion of responsibility by punting impactful decisions to the populace, with politicians claiming credit for success and blaming the public for failure. They are also divisive by definition, with the societal impact of Brexit often compared to the vicious aftermath of the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. Regardless, the very foundation of a democratic system is that the decisions made by the voters are respected by those who have been elected as their representatives. The referendum result of June 23rd, 2016 was clear, with 17.4 million people voting to leave the European Union — a gargantuan bureaucracy that has grown far beyond the economic-centric “European Community” that Britons had supported in their last relevant referendum of 1975.
Despite it being a duty bestowed upon the British political class to act in accordance with the will of the people, every method of satisfactory departure from the European Union has been intentionally blockaded by those who have no respect for the referendum result — or for democracy itself. As a final insult, the refusal to hold a general election before officially preventing a no-deal Brexit is simply an attempt to delay Brexit indefinitely.
The reason for this is that “no-deal” is the only remaining way for Britain to leave the E.U. The only deal supported by the E.U. is the disastrous “Withdrawal Agreement” negotiated by former Prime Minister Theresa May, which has been rejected on multiple occasions by the House of Commons. With a no-deal Brexit taken off the table, we are left with two equally unacceptable outcomes.
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<li>Without facing the threat of crashing out of the E.U., the prime minister will be handed the impossible task of negotiating with the European Union without any meaningful leverage. This will mean that the E.U. can keep the U.K. trapped as the parties fail to negotiate, forcing Britain to beg for extension after extension. Result: U.K. stays in the E.U.</li>
<li>As the deadly combination of impatience and apathy grows among the British public, the government will finally adopt Theresa May’s absurd “Withdrawal Agreement” out of an exhausted desire to “do something” and escape the never-ending chaos of Brexit. Result: U.K. effectively stays in the E.U.</li>
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Because “no-deal” is the only way that the United Kingdom will ever achieve the result demanded by its 2016 national referendum, it is the final obstacle for hordes of “Remainers” who have decreed a “no-deal” Brexit an apocalyptic disaster that must be avoided at all costs. Combined with the refusal of many politicians who support “no-deal” to respect the intelligence and resilience of the British public by acknowledging the non-disastrous but realistically negative impact of “no-deal,” “no-deal” supporters are seemingly handing the reins of control to the minority. As a result, the only exit from the bureaucratic maze of perpetual servitude to the E.U. is being closed. When this door closes, these politicians may have achieved their desired result, but they will have failed to honor the fundamental principles of democracy.
There are multiple similarities between the societal impact of Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As we approach another election in 2020, Brexit should stand as a warning to the threats of those in the U.S. who hope to undermine democracy. We must remember that politicians, at their core, are our servants.
If we allow ourselves to forget that elected officials work for us, then we will enable a growing class of opportunistic politicians who seek to tighten their authoritarian grip on our lives. Brexit is forcefully revealing the true nature of many such politicians. With that in mind, if you care about liberty, then you must care about Brexit.

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HAWORTH: Americans Must See The Brexit Betrayal As A Warning

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Iran — the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has captured a British-flagged and a Liberian-flagged oil tanker on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials.
&#8220;Iran has also seized a second tanker, the Liberian-flagged MV Mesdar, according to a US official,&#8221; CNN reported. &#8220;Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced earlier that its navy has captured a British-flagged tanker ‘Stena Impero’ in the Strait of Hormuz.&#8221;
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps/">designated</a> by the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and has &#8220;engaged in terrorist activity since its inception 40 years ago.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en">Iran has seized a second tanker, the Liberian-flagged MV Mesdar, according to a US official. The order of seizure of this one and the British-flagged tanker isn&#8217;t clear at this time. <a href="https://t.co/mtEJ4X9dlh">https://t.co/mtEJ4X9dlh</a> <a href="https://t.co/h7mXiIWTRN">pic.twitter.com/h7mXiIWTRN</a>
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) <a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1152296502515195905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump responded to the developments on the White House lawn before departing the White House.
&#8220;So, we&#8217;re going to be speaking with the U.K.,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And this only goes to show what I am saying about Iran. Trouble. Nothing but trouble. And remember this, the ridiculous agreement made by President Obama expires in a very short period of time, it was a short term agreement.&#8221;
The owners of the Stena Impero <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/19/743556229/iran-says-it-has-seized-a-british-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz">confirmed</a> the seizure, saying in a statement that the ship &#8220;was approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz while the vessel was in international waters.&#8221;
&#8220;We are presently unable to contact the vessel which is now heading north towards Iran,&#8221; the owners added.
Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson added: &#8220;British oil tanker seized by Iran today comes two weeks after British Royal Marines commandeered tanker off Gibraltar authorities said carried oil bound for Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Last week, British warship blocked 3 Iranian vessels from seizing UK-flagged tanker.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">British oil tanker seized by Iran today comes two weeks after British Royal Marines commandeered tanker off Gibraltar authorities said carried oil bound for Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Last week, British warship blocked 3 Iranian vessels from seizing UK-flagged tanker.
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1152289963112849413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Iran Seizes Multiple Oil Tankers Near Persian Gulf

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Meghan Markle has taken heat from members of the British press, including some committed monarchists, for what some have described as an excessive demand for privacy.
According to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/piers-morgan-tells-meghan-markle-go-back-to-america-104409470.html">Yahoo! Lifestyle</a>, the duchess of Windsor and Prince Harry first prompted backlash by deciding to host a &#8220;<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/inside-iconic-windsor-castle-room-141300048.html">media-free, private christening</a> for son <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/meghan-markle-prince-harry-baby-name-archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor-154557102.html">Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor</a>.&#8221; Some critics have asserted that since both the duke and duchess of Windsor live extremely privileged lives on the taxpayer dime, they should be more open to the press on such public matters. However, even fiercer backlash erupted last Thursday when Meghan Markle attended a Wimbledon match and people were asked to avoid photos of her.
&#8220;The California-born duchess is facing backlash following <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/07/08/team-sussexs-demands-ever-privacy-alienating-even-committed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a report from Britain’s Telegraph newspaper</a>, in which columnist and media consultant Sally Jones claims a man she took to be a royal protection officer asked her to not take photos of Meghan in the stands at Wimbledon last Thursday &#8230;,&#8221; reports Yahoo. &#8220;The former Suits star attended the tennis tournament last week in support of friend <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tagged/serena-williams">Serena Williams</a>.&#8221;
Rebecca English, royal correspondent for the Daily Mail, said the situation &#8220;doesn&#8217;t play out terribly well&#8221; because her position as a taxpayer-funded public figure does not give her the freedom to make arbitrary rules about photographs at a public sporting event.
&#8220;So this is interesting. But a few points: Contrary to speculation she wasn’t there in a royal box, but as a guest of a player,&#8221; English said on Twitter. &#8220;That said, it’s ridiculous not to expect members of the public to take ‘some’ pictures at such a public event — as long as its not ‘too’ intrusive.&#8221;
&#8220;This not the fault of her P.R. team whatsoever,&#8221; English added. &#8220;But Meghan should be advised that this doesn’t play out terribly well. The Royal Family occupy a very privileged position. That doesn’t mean they aren’t entitled to some privacy. But not at a global sporting event.&#8221;
Talkshow host Piers Morgan excoriated Meghan Markle on &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; Tuesday for having an &#8220;obsession&#8221; with privacy, and advised her to go back to America if she doesn&#8217;t like the royal demands.
&#8220;This is so ridiculous, this obsession that her and Harry have about privacy,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;It&#8217;s rankly hypocritical and they&#8217;re not private people, they&#8217;re the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. We get to pay for their mansion, we get to do all of this &#8230; If you want to be private, go back to America and live privately, it’s pretty straightforward.&#8221;
Later, Piers Morgan doubled down on his attacks on Twitter. &#8220;It’s absurd for Ms. Markle to demand privacy as she sits in the royal box on a publicly-funded jolly with her mates,&#8221; he tweeted.
Some of Meghan Markle&#8217;s fans immediately accused Piers Morgan of harboring racial animus, considering her status as Britain&#8217;s first half-black princess.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Are you trying to incite the british public against the only black member of the royal family?
— Keniakiki (@keniakiki) <a href="https://twitter.com/keniakiki/status/1148500277751930880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Today we&#8217;re seeing the xenophobic and misogynoir anti-Meghan narrative play out on UK morning TV and twitter. The message by the professional <a href="https://twitter.com/GMB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GMB</a> troll today: if Meghan wants privacy she should go back to America. I just wanted to underscore a couple things as this continues <a href="https://t.co/0jimCjciAp">pic.twitter.com/0jimCjciAp</a>
— Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. (@deathntaxesprof) <a href="https://twitter.com/deathntaxesprof/status/1148484592627855360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Meghan Markle Blasted For Excessive Privacy Demands. Piers Morgan Roasts Her.

Piers Morgan

British authorities are pioneering a &#8220;violence prevention&#8221; program that involves swapping out sharp knives for dull knives in order to prevent domestic violence and abuse-related stabbings.
Victims who have been threatened at knife-point will receive a special gift of &#8220;no point knives&#8221; to keep in their home from Nottinghamshire Police, who say the pilot anti-knife program is designed cut down on knife-related violence, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/domestic-violence-victims-blunt-knives-police-abuse-stabbings-nottinghamshire-a8955141.html">according to the Independent</a>.
&#8220;We do see a fair amount of knife-related incidents in domestic abuse, not just on the streets,&#8221; a Nottinghamshire Police supervisor told reporters about the pilot program. &#8220;This is a measure we need to take. We want to reduce that risk. It is a trial. We have about 100 of them &#8211; and we have so far given out about 50. The knife is blunt at the end &#8211; but still functions as a knife &#8211; so you can&#8217;t stab someone.&#8221;
The police say the effort is designed to help people who stay in abusive situations avoid becoming victims of violence: &#8220;People will stay in a relationship after some serious episodes of domestic abuse. They may stay together for children, get back together, or might get back together when they are out of prison.&#8221;
There&#8217;s one major flaw in Nottinghamshire&#8217;s logic, though: by removing knives from any home where domestic violence has occurred, they&#8217;re not just removing potential weapons, but a method of protection. Fortunately, the program is by agreement only, and domestic violence victims can select whether they&#8217;ll turn in their sharp knives for dull ones.
Victims rights organizations didn&#8217;t mince words when commenting on the planned program. The founder of London-based Victim Focus, which advocates for domestic violence victims, called the brains behind the operation, &#8220;morons,&#8221; <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/morons-behind-blunt-knives-scheme-for-domestic-abuse-victims-critics-say-11741199">according to Sky News</a>.
&#8220;I feel like we are getting dumber and dumber around domestic violence,&#8221; she said on Twitter. &#8220;So you gonna leave her in the situation but nip round to provide the offender with some blunt knives?&#8230;IN DV [domestic violence], ANYTHING IS A WEAPON, YOU MORONS.&#8221;
She also suggested that if a victim is at a high enough visible risk that police feel obligated to replace her cooking utensils, law enforcement may want to consider counseling the victim into a more suitable solution, arrest the offender, or refer the victim to a group designed to help manage violent and abusive situations.
The police, though, seem more concerned with ending what they believe is a &#8220;wave&#8221; of knife violence &#8212; a wave that is taking over the United Kingdom, where guns and other weapons are banned. Nottinghamshire, for example, had more than 900 incidents of knife-related violence just last year, 150 of which were related to domestic abuse cases. Across Britain, the numbers are similar. Knife crime is on the rise.
Nottinghamshire is hardly the only agency to try dulling citizens&#8217; knives in the name of safety. Last year, a judge in the U.K. called for all knives over 8 inches to be blunted, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/blunt-kitchen-knives-crime-wave-judge-nic-madge-a8372716.html">the Independent reports</a>, arguing that no one outside of professional chefs and butchers truly need large, sharp knives unless they&#8217;re planning to harm another person.
&#8220;I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives &#8211; manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government &#8211; to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends,&#8221; the judge said in a ruling. &#8220;It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends.&#8221;
Law enforcement seems to be taking these steps because they&#8217;re at a loss over what else to do. In London, especially, knife crime is out of control. <a href="https://www.glaconservatives.co.uk/cost-of-khan.html">According to a report issued by the conservative party</a> late last month, since London Mayor Sadiq Khan took office, knife crime has risen in the city more than 50%. The murder rate in London, the report says, has now overtaken that of New York City for the first time in nearly two centuries, even though most weapons &#8212; including all kinds of guns &#8212; are prohibited.

British Law Enforcement Hands Out Dull Knives To Abuse Victims To Prevent Violence

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British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is, as The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/17362/7-things-you-need-know-about-labour-leader-jeremy-aaron-bandler">long</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47370/sick-hamas-thanks-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-josh-hammer">reported</a>, a fairly transparent anti-Semite who has done little to quell the harrowing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43200/corbyn-effect-anti-semitism-uk-reaches-record-high-josh-hammer">rise in anti-Semitic incidents</a> in Britain that has perhaps not so coincidentally overlapped with his political rise to Labour Party national prominence. As Foreign Policy <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/03/jeremy-corbyn-has-a-soft-spot-for-extremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/">reminded readers</a> last October, furthermore, the leading politician of Britain&#8217;s main center-left party once infamously referred to sharia supremacist jihadist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends&#8221;:
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[T]hree days after al Qaeda&#8217;s suicide bombings in London in July 2005, Corbyn spoke at a Stop the War Coalition rally in the city to stress the reason that civilians there were being blown up on trains and buses was &#8220;because of the way we inflict an insecurity on so many other people around the world. We have to be very clear about that.&#8221;
It is a favorite Corbyn theme. At another Stop the War rally (before becoming leader of the Labour Party, attending Stop the War rallies constituted a significant part of Corbyn&#8217;s life), he said the Islamic State&#8217;s beheading of Alan Henning, a British aid worker, was &#8220;the price of jingoism.&#8221;
For groups regarded as less extreme than al Qaeda and the Islamic State, Corbyn has been less restrained &#8212; and often a vocal backer. In a 2009 speech in London, where he was addressing the Stop the War Coalition, Corbyn famously described Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends.&#8221;
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Just last week, in fact, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48028/former-british-prime-minister-jeremy-corbyn-anti-josh-hammer">reported</a> how Labour Party ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair &#8212; whose tenure as British leader overlapped with those of U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and was much more of a political centrist than is Corbyn &#8212; recently excoriated Corbyn by bluntly claiming that Corbyn is an anti-Semite who merely does not know yet that he is actually an anti-Semite. Per <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48028/former-british-prime-minister-jeremy-corbyn-anti-josh-hammer">The Times of Israel</a>:
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UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite who doesn&#8217;t know that he is one, Tony Blair said Monday during a visit to Israel, speaking of the &#8220;shameful&#8221; anti-Semitism scandal that has engulfed the opposition party.
Blair, a former prime minister and long-time leader of Labour, said he no longer recognizes the party he led from 1994 until 2007.
&#8220;To be frank, this anti-Semitism row, it&#8217;s a shameful thing,&#8221; said Blair, who was interviewed at a panel event at Bar Ilan University just outside Tel Aviv.
&#8220;If you told me, not merely back in May 1997, but at any point in the next 10 years, that the party I led for 13 years would have a problem with anti-Semitism, I would literally not have credited it, or believed it, and yet it is, and it&#8217;s there today,&#8221; said Blair.
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Now, as the Times also <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/pompeo-us-will-push-back-against-corbyn-before-he-makes-things-hard-for-jews/">reports</a>, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo &#8212; who has long cultivated a philo-Semitic and pro-Israel political profile going back to his tenure as a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/07/congressmen-discover-secret-deals-iran-agreement/">staunchly anti-Iranian regime</a> U.S. congressman from Kansas &#8212; is vowing to &#8220;push back&#8221; against Corbyn&#8217;s insidious dissemination of venomous anti-Semitism, should the safety and security situation for British Jewry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43200/corbyn-effect-anti-semitism-uk-reaches-record-high-josh-hammer">continue to deteriorate</a>:
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a group of British Jewish leaders that Washington would &#8220;push back&#8221; against UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and do its &#8220;level best&#8221; to keep him from taking any steps that would make life difficult for Jews in the United Kingdom, a report said Saturday.
The comments drew outrage in Britain, with some accusing America of interfering in its internal affairs for the second time this month, after US President Donald Trump endorsed Boris Johnson for the leadership of the Conservative Party and prime minister. &#8230;
Citing a leaked recording of a private meeting, the Washington Post said that Pompeo was asked: If Corbyn is elected &#8220;would you be willing to work with us to take on actions if life becomes very difficult for Jews in the UK?&#8221;
Pompeo responded: &#8220;It could be that Mr. Corbyn manages to run the gantlet and get elected. It&#8217;s possible. You should know, we won&#8217;t wait for him to do those things to begin to push back. We will do our level best. It&#8217;s too risky and too important and too hard once it&#8217;s already happened.&#8221;
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It seems that British Jews, much like their <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/pompeo-israel-palestine-congress-1238860">American counterparts</a>, ought to continue to be grateful for Pompeo&#8217;s moral clarity and diplomatic stewardship at Foggy Bottom.

U.S. Will ‘Push Back’ Against Jeremy Corbyn’s Anti-Semitism, Pompeo Says

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Israel

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While President Donald Trump is across the pond on an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48011/watch-queen-elizabeth-ii-offers-gallant-welcome-hank-berrien">official state visit</a> to the United Kingdom, there has been a bit of a kerfuffle between two British Labour Party luminaries: Centrist-leaning ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and current Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. Specifically, Blair, who as a prime minister was known for being pro-Israel in his foreign policy outlook, has condemned his fellow Labour Party dignitary for being what everyone in the Western world already knows he is: A loathsome anti-Semite. 
And to make it sting even worse, Blair has assailed Corbyn while visiting Israel itself.
Per <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-israel-blair-says-corbyn-is-an-anti-semite-but-he-doesnt-know-it/">The Times of Israel</a>:
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UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite who doesn&#8217;t know that he is one, Tony Blair said Monday during a visit to Israel, speaking of the &#8220;shameful&#8221; anti-Semitism scandal that has engulfed the opposition party.
Blair, a former prime minister and long-time leader of Labour, said he no longer recognizes the party he led from 1994 until 2007.
&#8220;To be frank, this anti-Semitism row, it&#8217;s a shameful thing,&#8221; said Blair, who was interviewed at a panel event at Bar Ilan University just outside Tel Aviv.
&#8220;If you told me, not merely back in May 1997, but at any point in the next 10 years, that the party I led for 13 years would have a problem with anti-Semitism, I would literally not have credited it, or believed it, and yet it is, and it&#8217;s there today,&#8221; said Blair.
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The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43983/course-anti-semite-corbyn-tells-labour-mps-its-ok-josh-hammer">extensively</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47370/sick-hamas-thanks-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-josh-hammer">covered</a> Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s anti-Semitism before. As Foreign Policy magazine <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/03/jeremy-corbyn-has-a-soft-spot-for-extremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/">reminded readers</a> last October, the leading politician of Britain&#8217;s main center-left party once infamously referred to genocidal sharia supremacist terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends&#8221;:
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Then, three days after al Qaeda&#8217;s suicide bombings in London in July 2005, Corbyn spoke at a Stop the War Coalition rally in the city to stress the reason that civilians there were being blown up on trains and buses was &#8220;because of the way we inflict an insecurity on so many other people around the world. We have to be very clear about that.&#8221;
It is a favorite Corbyn theme. At another Stop the War rally (before becoming leader of the Labour Party, attending Stop the War rallies constituted a significant part of Corbyn&#8217;s life), he said the Islamic State&#8217;s beheading of Alan Henning, a British aid worker, was &#8220;the price of jingoism.&#8221;
For groups regarded as less extreme than al Qaeda and the Islamic State, Corbyn has been less restrained &#8212; and often a vocal backer. In a 2009 speech in London, where he was addressing the Stop the War Coalition, Corbyn famously described Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends.&#8221;
He now says he regrets that statement, yet he has been friendly with those in Hamas&#8217;s orbit throughout his political life.
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Furthermore, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43200/corbyn-effect-anti-semitism-uk-reaches-record-high-josh-hammer">observed</a> in February, it hardly seems purely coincidental that Corbyn&#8217;s rise to the top of Britain&#8217;s major center-left political party has coincided with a shocking escalation of anti-Semitism throughout Britain. As The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Record-high-antisemitic-incidents-in-the-UK-for-2018-579919">reported</a> at the time, 2018 marked the third consecutive year in which anti-Semitic incidents in Britain set a new annual record:
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According to the [the United Kingdom&#8217;s Community Security Trust (CST)] &#8212; a Jewish community organization that works in cooperation with the U.K. police &#8212; there were 1,652 reported incidents of anti-Semitism, a 16% rise from the 1,420 anti-Semitic incidents recorded by CST in 2017, which was itself a record annual total, as was the total of 1,375 incidents for 2016.
President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Marie van der Zyl described the figures as &#8220;very worrying for Jews living in the U.K.&#8221;
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Former British Prime Minister: Jeremy Corbyn Is An Anti-Semite But Doesn’t Know It

On Tuesday, London cops swept a group of supporters of President Trump into a pub when they were surrounded by demonstrators chanting, &#8220;Nazi scum off our streets.&#8221;
The U.S. president is on his second day of an official state visit to Britain, and protesters have come out in force, clashing with small groups of Trump supporters.
Police said they barricaded about 20 Trump supporters inside the Lord Moon of the Mall pub in Trafalgar Square &#8212; not far from 10 Downing Street, where the prime minister lives.
Police officers said the incident was the result of a &#8220;verbal disagreement,&#8221; <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-uk-visit-latest-protesters-wetherspoons-trafalgar-square-whitehall-nazi-scum-a8943351.html?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1559648229">The Independent</a> reported.
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Around a dozen Met policemen and women were still guarding the door at the time of writing along with members of the pub&#8217;s security team. &#8230;
A subsequent scuffle broke out between police and protesters as pro-Trump and anti-fascist demonstrators came face-to-face, leading to the closure of at least one the section of road closest to Trafalgar Square and the atmosphere to become more aggressive.
Police at the scene described it to The Independent as &#8220;a melee between opposing political groups &#8211; it is chaos&#8221;.
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Thousands of protesters were expected to pour into the streets on Tuesday. A 16-foot robot of Trump sitting on a golden toilet while holding a cell phone &#8212; presumably meant to symbolize the president posting to Twitter &#8212; was wheeled into Trafalgar Square on Tuesday morning.
&#8220;The &#8216;Trump Dumper&#8217; cost $25,000 to create and shows the President with his trousers around his ankles, with his trademark red tie hanging into the bowl. It will also emit fart noises and shout, &#8216;You are fake news&#8217; and &#8216;I am a very stable genius,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/trump-protest-robot-trump-tweeting-golden-toilet/">LBC</a> reported.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-britain-protests-london/thousands-protest-against-trump-in-london-but-fewer-than-last-year-idUSKCN1T51EX">Reuters</a> reported that while thousands are gathered to protest Trump, the numbers were &#8220;well down on the tens of thousands who gathered to oppose his visit last year.&#8221;
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Protesters shouted, banged drums and waved placards at what organizers called a &#8220;Carnival of Resistance&#8221; in Trafalgar Square while Prime Minister Theresa May was in talks with Trump a short distance away at her residence in Downing Street.
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Trump said in a press conference on Tuesday that he had not seen very many protesters. He tweeted: &#8220;London part of trip is going really well. The Queen and the entire Royal family have been fantastic. The relationship with the United Kingdom is very strong. Tremendous crowds of well wishers and people that love our Country. Haven&#8217;t seen any protests yet, but I&#8217;m sure the &#8230; Fake News will be working hard to find them. Great love all around.&#8221;
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London part of trip is going really well. The Queen and the entire Royal family have been fantastic. The relationship with the United Kingdom is very strong. Tremendous crowds of well wishers and people that love our Country. Haven&#8217;t seen any protests yet, but I&#8217;m sure the&#8230;.
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135602449987899395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.Fake News will be working hard to find them. Great love all around. Also, big Trade Deal is possible once U.K. gets rid of the shackles. Already starting to talk!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135602452059906050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump and First Lady Melania, along with several Trump family members, were feted Monday night at a lavish state dinner attended by Queen Elizabeth II. On Tuesday, Trump was to attend festivities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, which helped free Western Europe from the grip of Nazism.
But opposition has been heavy since the visit was announced in April. A petition entitled, &#8220;Prevent Donald Trump from making a State Visit to the United Kingdom,&#8221; gathered more than 1.8 million signatures.

Trump Supporters Barricaded In London Pub By Police After Being Surrounded By Protesters

London

As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47368/germany-takes-stronger-stance-against-anti-josh-hammer">reported</a> last week, the national parliament of Germany recently decided to formally condemn the &#8220;Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&#8221; movement (BDS) against the state of Israel as anti-Semitic &#8212; thus taking a stronger stance against anti-Semitism in the year 2019 than has the United States&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Democratic Party</a>:
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To borrow from <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass">Lewis Carroll</a>, we in the year 2019 truly appear to be &#8220;through the looking-glass.&#8221;
Today, the German parliament took the great step of <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-parliament-denounces-anti-israel-boycott-movement-as-anti-semitic/">approving</a> a resolution that condemns the &#8220;Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions&#8221; (BDS) movement against Israel as anti-Semitic and reminiscent of Nazi-era boycotts that harrowingly targeted German Jews during the rise of the Third Reich.
Unbelievably, this makes the parliament of Germany &#8212; the erstwhile highly sophisticated and industrialized nation that nonetheless oversaw the most lethal and systemically executed genocide against the Jews in the history of the Jewish people (or any people, for that matter) &#8212; less anti-Semitic than the Democratic Party in the United States. The Democratic Party in the year 2019, after all, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-06/anti-bds-bill-approved-by-senate-avoids-first-amendment-questions">votes against</a> anti-BDS legislation, harbors presidential candidates who categorically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45074/watch-pences-powerful-aipac-speech-slams-dems-hank-berrien">boycott</a> the annual confab for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45203/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">milquetoast</a> pro-Israel group AIPAC, diligently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44279/hammer-house-democrats-anti-anti-semitism-josh-hammer">waters down resolutions</a> that merely condemn Jew-hatred, and utterly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47244/miller-rashida-tlaib-and-propaganda-her-anti-abraham-h-miller">refuses to condemn</a> virulent anti-Semites in its ranks.
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Indeed, as The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-parliament-denounces-anti-israel-boycott-movement-as-anti-semitic/">reported</a>, &#8220;The German motion stated that &#8216;the pattern of argument and methods of the BDS movement are anti-Semitic.'&#8221; The motion then expressly compared BDS with the Jew-hating tactics employed during the rise of the Third Reich: &#8220;The campaign&#8217;s calls to boycott Israeli artists, along with stickers on Israeli goods that are meant to dissuade people from buying them, are also reminiscent of the most terrible phase of German history. The BDS movement&#8217;s &#8216;Don&#8217;t Buy&#8217; stickers on Israeli products inevitably awake associations with the Nazi slogan &#8216;Don&#8217;t Buy from Jews!&#8217; and similar scrawls on facades and shop windows.&#8221;
Now, amidst <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43200/corbyn-effect-anti-semitism-uk-reaches-record-high-josh-hammer">soaring anti-Semitism</a> in the United Kingdom and the leadership of the once-venerable leftist Labour Party by an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43983/course-anti-semite-corbyn-tells-labour-mps-its-ok-josh-hammer">incorrigible Jew-hater</a>, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt now claims that he agrees with the German parliament and that BDS is, in fact, anti-Semitic. Per <a href="http://www.thetower.org/7347-british-foreign-secretary-supports-german-anti-bds-resolution-deems-boycott-antisemitic/">The Tower</a>:
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British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has thrown his support behind a landmark resolution passed in the German parliament on Friday, which deemed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel &#8220;antisemitic.&#8221;
In a tweet, the foreign secretary and a front runner in the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, wrote: &#8220;Boycotting Israel &#8212; the world&#8217;s only Jewish state &#8212; is antisemitic.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;I salute Germany for taking stand.&#8221;
&#8220;Tremors, turbulence &amp; terror in Mid East remind us of urgent need for peace: two-state solution,&#8221; Hunt said in his tweet. But he noted that &#8220;the foundations for peace are respect &amp; coexistence,&#8221; implying that the boycott of Israel is a major obstacle in achieving those goals.
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Sardonically, as Israel National News <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263512">notes</a>, both the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas terrorist groups condemned Germany for its recent move:
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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), however, blasted the German motion, saying that the resolution was &#8220;an attack against the Palestinian people and its legitimate rights,&#8221; adding that the BDS movement is part of the fight of the Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation regime, apartheid and racial segregation.
Similarly, Hamas also criticized Germany, saying, &#8220;We condemn passing this unfair resolution by the German Bundestag that is against the Palestinian people&#8217;s right to resist the Israeli occupation, which is the most terrible occupation in history, with all means possible, given that boycott is a peaceful means of resistance against the Israeli occupation.&#8221;
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In any event, good for Foreign Secretary Hunt.

BDS Is Anti-Semitic, British Foreign Secretary Says

Germany

Palestinians

U.K. Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43983/course-anti-semite-corbyn-tells-labour-mps-its-ok-josh-hammer">longtime anti-Semite</a>. As Foreign Policy <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/03/jeremy-corbyn-has-a-soft-spot-for-extremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/">reminded readers</a> last October, the leading politician of Britain&#8217;s main center-left party once infamously referred to sharia supremacist terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends&#8221;:
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Then, three days after al Qaeda&#8217;s suicide bombings in London in July 2005, Corbyn spoke at a Stop the War Coalition rally in the city to stress the reason that civilians there were being blown up on trains and buses was &#8220;because of the way we inflict an insecurity on so many other people around the world. We have to be very clear about that.&#8221;
It is a favorite Corbyn theme. At another Stop the War rally (before becoming leader of the Labour Party, attending Stop the War rallies constituted a significant part of Corbyn&#8217;s life), he said the Islamic State&#8217;s beheading of Alan Henning, a British aid worker, was &#8220;the price of jingoism.&#8221;
For groups regarded as less extreme than al Qaeda and the Islamic State, Corbyn has been less restrained &#8212; and often a vocal backer. In a 2009 speech in London, where he was addressing the Stop the War Coalition, Corbyn famously described Hamas and Hezbollah as his &#8220;friends.&#8221;
He now says he regrets that statement, yet he has been friendly with those in Hamas&#8217;s orbit throughout his political life.
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Furthermore, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Kassy Dillon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34756/jeremy-corbyn-secretly-met-officials-hamas-kassy-dillon">reported</a> last August, Corbyn allegedly met directly with Hamas officials as part of a trip to Israel and the West Bank Judea and Samaria in 2010:
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<a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/182208-180820-exclusive-jeremy-corbyn-s-secret-trip-to-israel-to-meet-hamas">According to i24NEWS</a>, Corbyn met with two groups of Hamas parliamentarians during his trip between November 5-9 as a part of a delegation with the Islamist lobby group Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
The trip also reportedly violated parliamentary rules due to Corbyn failing to disclose it to the British Parliament&#8217;s Register of Members&#8217; Financial Interests. A colleague on the trip, Labour MP Andrew Slaughter, declared the trip to cost £927, which is over the threshold which required MPs to report gifts of £660 or more. Slaughter claimed the trip was funded by Friends of Al-Aqsa and Middle East Monitor.
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Now, as The Telegraph of Britain <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/16/hamas-thanks-jeremy-corbyn-message-pro-palestinian-rally/">reports</a>, Hamas has publicly thanked Corbyn for his recent message of pro-Hamas solidarity at a pro-Palestinian rally in London:
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Hamas has thanked Jeremy Corbyn for his message of solidarity to a pro-Palestinian rally in London, a move that threatens to reignite questions over the Labour leader&#8217;s links with the militant group.
&#8220;We have received with great respect and appreciation the solidarity message sent by the British Labor Party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to the participants in the mass rally that took place in central London,&#8221; Hamas said in a statement.
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As a reminder, Hamas is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46830/hammer-israels-election-over-time-now-operation-josh-hammer">genocidal</a> Sunni sharia supremacist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44732/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">jihadist outfit</a> that serves as the Palestinian-Arab branch of the global <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46714/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>. Hamas&#8217;s 1988 founding <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp">charter</a> calls for both the annihilation of Israel and the death of every Jew in the world. In <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/44732/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">multiple</a> <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/46830/hammer-israels-election-over-time-now-operation-josh-hammer">op-eds</a> for The Daily Wire, I have repeatedly called for the Israel Defense Forces to commence a comprehensive land/air invasion that would finally extirpate the Hamas cancer from the Gaza Strip.

SICK: Hamas Thanks U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn For His Support

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Radical Islamic Terror

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said last week that he didn&#8217;t believe President Donald Trump was worthy of a state banquet hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. It turns out, though, he won&#8217;t have to suffer through seeing Trump honored by the royal family.
Queen Elizabeth has declined to invite Khan to Trump&#8217;s state dinner, snubbing London&#8217;s top administrator, apparently over fears he&#8217;ll be inappropriately aggressive toward the American leader, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1122903/sadiq-khan-donald-trump-state-visit-queen-elizabeth-ii-buckignham-palace-june">Express.co.uk reports</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47083/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-doesnt-deserve-state-paul-bois">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Paul Bois</a> reported on Saturday that Khan has been an outspoken critic of Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s decision to host Trump for an official state visit, even going so far as to say that Trump doesn&#8217;t deserve the honor, despite being president of the United States.
&#8220;Of course we should have a close relationship with the president of the United States, but we shouldn&#8217;t be rolling out the red carpet; we shouldn&#8217;t have a state banquet,&#8221; Khan told a radio program last week. &#8220;History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit. I think President Trump is certainly not in the same class as those two.&#8221;
Sunday, the mayor&#8217;s office admitted that he was not asked to join in the celebration, meant not just to commemorate Trump&#8217;s first official visit to the United Kingdom, but also to memorialize the &#8220;special relationship&#8221; forged between the two nations during the Second World War II on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
&#8220;The mayor has not been invited to the state banquet,&#8221; Khan&#8217;s spokesperson told media.
Invitations were instead sent to Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, both of whom declined to attend the banquet. Cable told media that his RSVP should be considered a &#8220;boycott.&#8221;
&#8220;We should not be beguiled by pomp and circumstance into hobnobbing with a man who is on record as a misogynist and a racist,&#8221; Cable said.
There is no love lost between Khan and Trump; the pair have been at odds before Trump was even elected in 2016. Khan has repeatedly criticized Trump over his treatment of women and minorities, and lashed out at Trump over his domestic policies, particularly Trump&#8217;s attitude toward Islam. Khan is Muslim and is the first Muslim mayor of London.
Trump has, in turn, critiqued Khan over his &#8220;knife control&#8221; policies, meant to keep stabbings and random knifings down in London&#8217;s city center, and was especially perturbed last year when Khan approved a ridiculous &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; balloon to fly over downtown London during the president&#8217;s last visit.
It is not known whether &#8220;Baby Trump,&#8221; which has been on something of a &#8220;tour&#8221; of protests in the United States, will reappear as part of the protests expected to mark the president&#8217;s second trip to the U.K. and his first official state visit, but at least Khan won&#8217;t get the opportunity to sneak Baby Trump into dinner in his suit pocket.
President Trump is due to arrive in the United Kingdom on June 4 or 5, and he will attend not just a state banquet hosted by the Queen and other members of the British royal family at Buckingham Palace, but a host of other meetings with leaders of the U.K.&#8217;s conservative party. He will also participate in several events in the U.K. commemorating the role the British military played in hosting, training, and partnering with the American military ahead of the D-Day landings, June 6, 1944.
The president will then travel to France to participate in the official D-Day 75 celebration on Omaha Beach in Normandy.

SNUBBED: Queen Declines To Invite London Mayor Sadiq Khan To Trump State Dinner

Sadiq Khan

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, have announced the arrival of their first child, a healthy baby boy weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces and born early Monday morning.
This is the first child for the pair, who were married last May, and the new arrival is now seventh in line for the British throne, behind his father. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6951787/Royal-baby-Meghan-Markle-early-stages-labour-Kensington-Palace-says.html">The Daily Mail reports</a> that the baby currently holds the title of the Earl of Dumbarton. Additional titles &#8212; including a possible &#8220;HRH&#8221; or, &#8220;His Royal Highness&#8221; &#8212; could be bestowed by Queen Elizabeth at a later date.
Prince Harry appeared alone on television early Monday morning to discuss the birth, telling reporters that his newborn son &#8220;is absolutely to-die-for.&#8221; The little boy does not yet have a name, Prince Harry admitted, but the parents are working hard on coming up with one, and they&#8217;ve had extra time to think about it, he joked to reporters, because the baby was a &#8220;little bit overdue.&#8221;
Otherwise, the prince called the birth &#8220;the most amazing experience I could ever have possibly imagined.&#8221;
&#8220;Mother and baby are doing incredibly well. It&#8217;s been amazing, so we just wanted to share this with everybody,&#8221; he added. &#8220;How any woman does what they do is beyond comprehension, but we&#8217;re both absolutely thrilled and so grateful to all the love and support from everybody out there.&#8221;
The Duke and Duchess skipped some of the traditional trappings of royal birth, opting not to have the Duchess use the Queen&#8217;s royal obstetricians, and choosing to deliver the baby at their home, Frogmore Cottage, rather than the famed &#8220;Lindo Wing,&#8221; where both Harry, his brother, Prince William, and Prince William&#8217;s children were born.
The pair also opted not to have the traditional photo call for international press following the birth of the child, and Prince Harry noted this morning that, instead, they &#8220;will be seeing you guys in probably two days&#8217; time as planned as a family,&#8221; to introduce the new baby to the world. A separate photo call has been set up with just one photographer, one reporter, and a palace aide to keep the baby&#8217;s first public appearance as private as possible.
Buckingham Palace, the home of Queen Elizabeth, released the first announcement &#8212; that the Duchess of Sussex was in labor &#8212; in line with tradition, very early Monday morning, and was the first to announce Baby Sussex&#8217;s birth. The Palace&#8217;s latest statement says that mother and baby are &#8220;both doing well&#8221; and that members of the royal household, including the Queen and her husband Prince Phillip, Baby Sussex&#8217;s grandfather Prince Charles and his wife Camilla (the Duchess of Cornwall), and Prince Harry&#8217;s brother, Prince William, and his family, are all &#8220;delighted&#8221; with the news of the new arrival.
Baby Sussex, the Earl of Dumbarton, isn&#8217;t likely to ascend to the British throne, being seventh in line, and will likely be known by his first name and the surname, &#8220;Sussex.&#8221; He also won&#8217;t likely be given the title of &#8220;prince&#8221; until Harry&#8217;s father, Prince Charles, ascends to the throne (if at all).
The new baby may also spend the first few years of his life outside of the United Kingdom. Rumor has it that Buckingham Palace and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in the first stages of planning an extended assignment abroad for the family: three years in Africa, where they will work to improve the relationship between the British Crown and the remaining nations in the British Commonwealth.

ROYAL BABY: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Announce Arrival Of Baby Boy

President Donald Trump will make an official state visit to the United Kingdom, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48020410">the BBC reports</a>, as part of a week of celebrations honoring the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
A state visit to the U.K. has been on the table since Trump was elected back in 2016, and both sides made several efforts to make official plans for Trump to visit with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and to visit Buckingham Palace for an official engagement with Queen Elizabeth II, but nothing was ever set in stone. The last effort &#8212; an overture from May&#8217;s government &#8212; nearly resulted in an official state visit, but the White House cancelled citing &#8220;security concerns.&#8221;
Trump has been to the U.K. once before, for a &#8220;working visit&#8221; where he met with May to discuss trade, and journeyed to Windsor Castle with First Lady Melania Trump for tea with the Queen.
This time, though, the visit is timed to coincide with D-Day 75 celebrations set to take place in both the U.K., where the joined Allied invasion that turned the tide of the war against Nazi Germany in Europe was planned and launched, and in Normandy, France, the site of the invasion and the location of several Allied cemeteries.
The White House revealed Tuesday that an official invitation had been offered and accepted.
&#8220;President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump accepted the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to visit the United Kingdom from June 3 to 5, 2019,&#8221; the White House said in a statement. &#8220;This state visit will reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.&#8221;
The state visit will begin June 3 and extend through June 5. Trump will participate in D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth, U.K., attend an official state banquet where he and Melania will be guests of the Queen, and will meet with both Theresa May and members of Parliament. He will then travel to France for D-Day 75.
Although the visit does center around a joint celebration, protesters in the U.K. have promised to make Trump&#8217;s trip to the U.K. as difficult as possible, announcing Tuesday that the president should expect &#8220;maximum disruption&#8221; if he appears in public, and promising a massive protest against Trump&#8217;s &#8220;climate change&#8221; policies in downtown London.
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-protests-maximum-disruption-1403419">Newsweek reports</a> that &#8220;plans were already underway for when the president arrives, including a &#8216;big demo,'&#8221; that protesters say will make Trump&#8217;s visit &#8220;unpleasant.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s up to us, again, to say Trump is not welcome, and to make his visit as unpleasant as possible. We&#8217;re going to aim for maximum disruption,&#8221; the &#8220;Stop Trump Coalition&#8221; said in a statement to the outlet. &#8220;I&#8217;d really hope his visit will become a magnet for all those who want radical climate action to be undertaken, because Trump, after all, is a symbol of climate change denial globally&#8212;one of the reasons we see him as one of the most dangerous men in the world at this time.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is the world&#8217;s number one racist, warmonger and misogynist, with no solution to the global economic crisis,&#8221; said the leader of a group called &#8220;Stand Up to Trump.&#8221; &#8220;His presidency has emboldened every fascist and racist across the globe and is stirring up tension in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. &#8230; Donald Trump is not welcome here.&#8221;
Last time Trump visited the U.K., protesters trotted out a &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; balloon that proved rather underwhelming. The balloon is now on a &#8220;protest tour&#8221; in the United States and there&#8217;s no word on whether Baby Trump will be back in the U.K. for a repeat appearance.
Trump was also left largely unperturbed by the protest that took place during his last visit. He did not appear in public and was not affected by demonstrations in downtown London.

President Trump&#8217;s State Visit To The U.K. Is Set, Protesters Promise &#8216;Maximum Disruption&#8217;

Theresa May

The United Kingdom has been stingy with its state visits since Donald Trump became president, but it seems Queen Elizabeth II is willing to make an exception, even amid the Brexit crisis, to welcome Trump for the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th.
<a href="https://people.com/royals/queen-elizabeth-expected-to-invite-president-trump-for-state-visit/">People Magazine reports</a> that &#8220;after much back and forth,&#8221; the Queen has settled on welcoming the president, now more than two years into his term, to mark the success of Operation Overlord and the massive joint invasion that started the Allies down the path to victory in World War II.
Donald Trump may even get to ride in a carriage down London&#8217;s mall to Buckingham Palace accompanied by members of the Queen&#8217;s Household Cavalry to mark the occasion. He may also get a gun salute and an invitation to an official State dinner at the palace, held in the ballroom, <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/08/donald-trump-get-full-state-visit-including-carriage-procession-june-9130848/">per Metro</a>.
The White House and Buckingham Palace are still ironing out the details, but a formal announcement is expected later this week. Trump is expected to follow up that visit with a jaunt to the northern coast of France, where he will take part in the official D-Day 75 festivities.
This will be the first official state visit to the UK for President Trump, but not his first visit. That came in 2018, when Trump traveled to London on a series of official engagements with UK lawmakers and trade representatives. On that visit, Trump and his wife, Melania, were welcomed to Buckingham Palace for tea with the Queen but did not take part in any banquets.
His visit was mostly marked by protests, including the underwhelming debut of a &#8220;Baby Trump&#8221; air balloon.
This time, Trump will visit again with the UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Theresa May, but will also spend a few days meeting with other members of the British government, including controversial Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is not a fan of the Trump administration.
If the visit with one of the United States&#8217; most treasured allies seems late in coming, that&#8217;s because it is. Trump has been scheduled to make an official state visit to the United Kingdom since he was elected in 2016, but plans for the meetup were repeatedly shelved, and not just by U.K. leaders.
When he first took office, Theresa May offered Trump a state visit immediately and Trump accepted, but the Trump White House later pulled out of the meeting over &#8220;safety concerns,&#8221; the Metro reports. It&#8217;s not clear what prompted the &#8220;concerns&#8221; but at least two million U.K. residents signed a petition begging May to call off the engagement out of fear that Trump could cause embarrassment to the Queen.
&#8220;Trump had also been expected to open the new US Embassy in London last February, but the plan was also abandoned because he was so unimpressed with the building&#8217;s &#8216;off location&#8217; and the &#8216;bad deal&#8217; behind it,&#8221; Metro continues.
Neither the White House nor Whitehall, the house in charge of solidifying the plans, would comment on the upcoming state visit, but Trump has spoken highly of Queen Elizabeth in previous interviews. Town &amp; Country reports that Trump holds the monarch in high esteem.
&#8220;I think she represents her country so well,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/queen-set-for-donald-trump-d-day-state-visit-in-june-mwzs7d7xf?wgu=270525_54264_15547499011663_5e1283643f&amp;wgexpiry=1562525901&amp;utm_source=planit&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_content=22278">Trump told media last year</a>. &#8220;If you think of it, for so many years she has represented her country, she has really never made a mistake. You don&#8217;t see, like, anything embarrassing. She is just an incredible woman.&#8221;

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Parents of a teenage son who has Asperger&#8217;s and autism were threatened by authorities to have their child placed in foster care after they refused to help facilitate a so-called &#8220;sex change&#8221; of the boy.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6817935/Autistic-boy-taken-care-school-reports-parents-refusing-allow-sex-change-treatment.html">Recalling</a> the horrifying ordeal to The Daily Mail, the couple, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed an NHS clinic in the U.K. said their then-14-year-old boy should be put on hormone-blockers since he told them he thought he was a girl. The parents, believing their child&#8217;s autism played a role in the declaration of gender confusion, refused to cooperate with the &#8220;transition,&#8221; particularly since the blockers can cause irrevocable harm.
After mom and dad pulled their son from the gender clinic, school officials reported the parents to child services for &#8220;emotional abuse&#8221; due to their objections to the sex change. One of the teachers, The Daily Mail noted, told the parents &#8220;that they should find alternative accommodation for their son or else he would be put into temporary foster care.&#8221;
A month later, the couple was visited by local authorities concerning the complaint. Desperate to keep their child out of foster care, they allowed their boy to live with a family friend.
He was also placed on a so-called &#8220;child protection plan.&#8221; <a href="https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/children-and-young-people/child-abuse/local-authority-involvement/child-abuse-child-protection-plans/">According</a> to CitzensAdvice.org, &#8220;A child protection plan is a plan drawn up by the local authority. It sets out how the child can be kept safe, how things can be made better for the family and what support they will need.&#8221; Such plans are implemented by local authorities when the &#8220;child protection conference&#8221; concludes that &#8220;the child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm,&#8221; the site notes.
&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely devastated,&#8221; the boy&#8217;s mother told the outlet. &#8220;When I saw the report that social services wrote about us and saw the words &#8216;emotional abuse,&#8217; I just broke down.&#8221;
&#8220;All we were doing was trying to get him to pause and think about his actions. My biggest worry as a mum is my child gets pushed down this route, becomes a woman, goes through the surgery, then gets to 25 and says, &#8216;I&#8217;ve made a mistake,&#8217;&#8221; she added.
The mother noted that she and her husband &#8220;read that these blockers might not be reversible and there might be long-term effects for brain development.&#8221;
The family has been placed back together, but the mother fears that more parents will be subjected to such a &#8220;horrendous&#8221; ordeal with their own kids.
&#8220;I cannot bear the thought of other families going through what we&#8217;ve been through. It has been horrendous,&#8221; she said.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42917/watch-dad-custody-battle-ex-wife-who-says-6-year-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a> by The Daily Wire in January, a Texas father in a brutal custody battle with his ex-wife is at risk of losing his six-year-old son over his refusal to participate, socially and otherwise, in the boy&#8217;s &#8220;transition&#8221; to female.
&#8220;I want you to imagine having electronic communication with your son on FaceTime, and imagine that your ex-wife has dressed him as a drag queen to talk to you,&#8221; Jeffrey Younger told podcast host Luke Macias. &#8221;He has false eyelashes and makeup. His hair has got glitter in it. He&#8217;s wearing a dress.&#8221;
&#8220;Now imagine how you would feel seeing what I believe is actual sexual abuse &#8212; I believe this is not just emotional abuse but is the very, most fundamental form of sexual abuse, tampering with the sexual identity of a vulnerable boy,&#8221; the father added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42917/watch-dad-custody-battle-ex-wife-who-says-6-year-amanda-prestigiacomo">Dad In Custody Battle With Ex-Wife Who Says 6-Year-Old Is A Transgender Girl: I Have To Watch The &#8216;Sexual Abuse&#8217; Of My Son Every Day</a>
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