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#VirginiaGiuffre’s allegations of being forced repeatedly into sex w/Andrew touched off a media firestorm & legal battles for Andrew, who did not face #criminal proceedings but was eventually stripped by the #monarchy of his formal duties & titles including “his royal highness.”

A civil lawsuit filed by Ms. Giuffre against Andrew ended in 2022 with a reported $16M settlement by the prince, who borrowed some of the payout money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

New book to reveal more about scandal of Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana

Written with the cooperation of Charles Spencer, and access to BBC emails obtained through a freedom of information request, Dianarama promises ‘a radical reappraisal of a major historical event’ A book about the BBC’s…
theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

#Books #Culture #DianaPrincessofWales #Monarchy #BBC
@indieauthors

The Guardian · New book to reveal more about scandal of Martin Bashir interview with Princess DianaBy Ella Creamer
Project 2025 indulges every fantasy of Trump’s cabinet members, a coterie of private fund investors and business founders with preferential ties to the fossil fuel industry, real estate, and Silicon Valley. The manual shows how the president could open up federal lands to fossil fuel prospectors and actively obstruct any progress on climate change mitigation. It shows how the Federal Reserve could abandon its function as lender of last resort and allow for a return to free banking, with gold or some other commodity equivalent (perhaps cryptocurrency) acting as backstops to privately issued money. And it shows how the Department of Housing and Urban Development could sell off the country’s remaining public housing stock and withhold support from low-income borrowers. Meanwhile, the president is urged to dissolve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the independent government agency charged with preventing bank runs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the agency that recently extended anti-fraud regulation to the digital finance sector). Project 2025 represents the apotheosis of the antisocial state: a state form that has withdrawn from the task of social insurance and placed its entire administrative apparatus in the hands of a small group of uber-wealthy business partners.
From https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-antisocial-state/

I admire Melinda Cooper's analysis and I think she is spot on here too. People like to call what's happening in the US some variation of "fascism", but that's not what this is. This is rule by sovereign decree, a kind of monarchy or theocracy, ruled by dogma and raw power, happy to destroy knowledge and entire sectors of the economy.

#USPol #Trump #monarchy
Dissent MagazineTrump’s Antisocial State - Dissent MagazineThe administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Even at this late stage, the combination of such an extreme lack of self-awareness and so much self-pity all wrapped up in a single person is just astonishing.

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Yarvin seems shocked that Musk (with zero government experience except for a reliance on government contracts) is doing such a poor job. He also seems chagrined at Trump's specific actions, like tariffs, which are throwing markets into chaos. In political terms, the whole thing is a total disaster. By early 2025, millions of Americans are marching in streets and even Republican voters are showing up at town halls to express seething anger.

Yarvin seems to have come to a stark realization: If Musk/Trump fail to destroy the democratic system, extreme anti-government pseudo-intellectuals may face a bleak future. He urgently warns them against half-assing the revolution – and reveals his own fear of what might happen when the pendulum swings in the other direction:

But in the end, it is the road toward winding up in the foam yourself—probably with me, for all my troubles. (This is what usually happens to right-wing intellectuals, actually.)

thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin

The Nerd Reich · Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is FloppingDark Enlightenment guru sees his desired revolution unraveling under the weight of its own stupidity

Nobody in #Canada seems to mind that the consumer #CarbonTax was scrapped without a decision by #parliament. You see, Canada is a #monarchy. The #Crown has to approve all acts, and it can withdraw approval, too. While it's difficult to make new acts without parliament, it's easy to scrap them. Canadians have seen this before.

In this case, the Crown (Her Excellency the Governor General in Council) simply changed the Regulation under the Act and set the tax rates at zero. The Act remains. #law