Audio Review - 8:09 AM 4/1/2021 | Is it time to abolish the monarchy? Jonathan Freedland looks at whether the fallout from last week’s Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan has moved the monarchy closer to collapse
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Giant ships are loaded down with cargo, mostly consumer goods during the pandemic, which is causing concern about more mishaps like the one in the Suez Canal, and containers going overboard.
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Continue reading...Jonathan Freedland looks at whether the fallout from last week’s Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan has moved the monarchy closer to collapse
Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland talks to Anushka Asthana about the fallout from last week’s Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and whether it could lead to calls to abolish the monarchy. The racism accusation, Freedland says, is particularly lethal, because the conventional remedies are not available to royalty. This is not the worst crisis to hit the royal family in recent years, however. The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was far bigger, Freedland believes.
Support for republicanism has always been low. Polling is stubbornly consistent, showing support for a republic flatlining at about 20%. There is a question though, about whether much of that support is tied to the Queen. Once her reign comes to an end and Charles takes the throne, perhaps public support may shift?
Continue reading...Christian Porter is suing the ABC for defamation over an article reporting that an anonymous senior cabinet minister had been accused of rape in 1988. Porter later identified himself as the minister in question and strenuously denied the allegation. Paul Karp explores how this case could play out, and whether Porter can continue to do his job while fighting to clear his name
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This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican national committee. The pair discuss why he chose to campaign for a Joe Biden victory, and how the Republicans are getting it wrong when it comes to Black and minority voters
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Still a Republican, he believes his party needs to abandon its recent populist rhetoric and widen the net of potential voters beyond older white Americans. As he explains in this fascinating interview with Jonathan, if it doesn’t do so, the party could rue the decision for years to come.
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The Suez canal, built in 1869, is a 120-mile strip of water that has been called a “ditch in the desert”. Nearly 20,000 ships pass through it a year, so when the Ever Given, one of the biggest vessels ever built, became wedged last week and blocked it, global trade through the canal ground to a halt.
The Guardian international correspondent, Michael Safi, tells Anushka Asthana the story of the crash, including the efforts to free the ship and the impact the blockage had on the movement of trade across the globe. The retired Turkish mariner Alper Gergin explains why steering a ship of such as size is harder than handling a Boeing 747.
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(AP) — The Pentagon on Wednesday swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition.
The new department regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a briefing.
The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at developing guidelines for the new policy, which was announced by President Joe Biden just days after he took office in January.
Biden’s executive order overturned the Trump policy and immediately prohibited any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin then gave the Pentagon two months to finalize the more detailed regulations that the military services will follow.
The new rules also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Their release Wednesday coincides with International Transgender Day of Visibility, and they will take effect in 30 days. Kirby said that will give the military services the time they need to update their policies and provide guidance to commanders.
“The United States military is the greatest fighting force on the planet because we are composed of an all-volunteer team willing to step up and defend the rights and freedoms of all Americans,” Austin said in a statement Wednesday. “We will remain the best and most capable team because we avail ourselves of the best possible talent that America has to offer, regardless of gender identity.”
Austin has also called for a reexamination of the records of service members who were discharged or denied reenlistment because of gender identity issues under the previous policy. Stephanie Miller, the director of military accession policy, told reporters there is no data yet on how many people that may be.
Until a few years ago, service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender, but that changed during the Obama administration. In 2016, the Pentagon announced that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly, and that by July 2017 they would be allowed to enlist.
After Donald Trump took office, however, his administration delayed the enlistment date and called for additional study. A few weeks later, Trump caught military leaders by surprise, tweeting that the government wouldn’t accept or allow transgender people to serve “in any capacity” in the military.
After a lengthy and complicated legal battle and additional reviews, the Defense Department in April 2019 approved a policy that fell short of an all-out ban but barred transgender troops and recruits from transitioning to another sex and required most individuals to serve in what the administration called their “birth gender.”
Under that policy, currently serving transgender troops and anyone who had signed an enlistment contract before the effective date could continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
But after that date, no one with gender dysphoria who was taking hormones or had transitioned to another gender was allowed to enlist. Troops that were already serving and were diagnosed with gender dysphoria were required to serve in the gender assigned at birth and were barred from taking hormones or getting transition surgery.
The new policies released Wednesday are similar to those developed in 2016. The announcement was praised by advocacy groups and members of Congress.
“The Pentagon absolutely did the right thing today by reestablishing a policy of inclusion for transgender service members, who once again will be able to serve openly and proudly in their self-identified gender,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who heads the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee.
Nicolas Talbott, whose plans to enlist in the Air Force National Guard were sidelined by the Trump administration, expressed relief Wednesday.
“I’m more confident than ever that when I apply to enlist, I will be judged on my skills and my accomplishments, instead of my transgender status, which has nothing to do with my ability to serve,” said Talbott, who plans to enlist.
Miller said the number of service members who self-identify as transgender could range from 1,000 to 8,000, including those who may not seek treatment. Other studies have said the total could be as high as 14,700. There are more than 1.3 million active-duty troops and close to 800,000 in the National Guard and Reserves.
Speaking during a Pentagon briefing, Miller provided updated numbers on troops who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, saying there are 2,200 who are currently serving. That total is more than double the 1,071 who were serving in February 2019, according to data released then.
Miller also said that medical costs associated with treatment and gender transition is very small, “a handful of million dollars per year.” She added that “we’re not anticipating with these changes in policies that there’s going to be a significant impact in terms of medical costs.”
According to the Pentagon, the department spent about $8 million on transgender care from 2016 to 2019.
Four of the military service chiefs told Congress in 2018 that they had seen no discipline, morale or unit readiness problems with transgender troops serving openly in the military. But they also acknowledged that some commanders were spending a lot of time with transgender people who were working through medical requirements and other transition issues.
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Has Prospect Park been your calming outdoor escape during the pandemic? You can give back and enjoy some fresh air by lending a hand to some cleanup efforts this spring.
The Prospect Park Alliance has a number of events planned to get the green space ready for the season ahead. All of the activities below require registration. You can register and get more info on the spring volunteer page online.
Junior Volunteer Corps
April 11 and April 24, 10 am–1 pm
Families are invited to grab some rakes and help gather leaves in various locations throughout the park.
It’s My Park Mondays
Beginning May 3 (excluding holidays), 10 am–1 pm
Spend a morning cleaning up the borough’s backyard by donning some gloves and picking up a trash grabber. There will be a limited supply of materials available for walk-ins.
Green and Go Kits
Saturdays and Sundays, 10 am – 1 pm
Gather a group or come on your own to check out kits for your own cleanup activity. Kits include a trash grabber, gloves and garbage bags.
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Howie Carr: FBI whiffs again on Colorado mass shooting suspect by Howie Carr
So now it turns out that the FBI knew all about the accused Boulder shooter, but paid no attention to the obvious warning signs until police say the rabidly anti-American immigrant from Syria murdered 10 U.S. citizens in the supermarket.
“The suspect’s identity,” the New York Times reported, “was known to the FBI because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials.”
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
The Famous But Incompetent FBI likewise knew all about accused shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa’s fellow Muslim immigrants who committed mass murder, like the Tsarnaev brothers — but did nothing until those welfare-collecting “asylees” blew up the Boston Marathon.
The FBI also had early warnings about the Muslim terrorists who shot up the gay nightclub in Orlando, the Christmas party in San Bernardino, Fort Hood, the cartoon-drawing contest in Texas … and yet the G-men sat on their soft hands until scores of Americans were murdered in cold blood.
But it’s not only foreign Muslim terrorists the FBI can’t be bothered lugging. It’s domestic killers as well.
For instance, in 2018 the FBI’s national tip line got a 13-minute-long earful from the aunt of the Parkland High shooter Nikolas Cruz — but did nothing until 17 people were gunned down.
Remember serial killer Gary Sampson? Before he murdered three innocent men in 2001, he called the FBI office in Boston from a pay phone in Abington and offered to turn himself in on some unsolved bank robberies.
But it was a Friday afternoon, so the FBI “disconnected” his call and didn’t bother to pick him up. The next day, Sampson started his two-state carjacking murder spree.
This is Your FBI, as the old radio show used to begin.
But there have been some cases that the FBI has been on top of:
Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs.
Tom Brady’s purloined football jerseys.
The “noose” on NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage, which turned out to be a door pull rope. (Fifteen agents were assigned to that “hate crime.”)
Taking a knee en masse for George Floyd.
Using bogus Hillary Clinton-paid-for documents to create what top FBI agents described as “an insurance policy” to frame the Republican president of the United States for crimes he did not commit.
Leaking fake news to the media in an attempt to frame Atlanta security guard Richard Jewell for a crime he did not commit.
Railroading four Boston men onto Death Row for a 1965 murder they did not commit, allowing them to rot in prison for 35 years while corrupt FBI agents protected the real murderers from justice.
Now you probably haven’t heard anything about how the FBI had this latest alleged Mideast mass murderer on its radar screen.
Like the media, the FBI lost interest in Ahmad Al Issa as soon as they saw his name, his religion and the terror state he had been imported from, not to mention his deranged anti-Trump, hate-America diatribes on social media.
Sad, because the Democrats had been so excited when they thought Al Issa was “white,” which of course he is, just not the kind of “white” the Democrat media and FBI had been looking for — deplorable MAGA-hat-wearing rednecks.
Nothing to see here folks, everyone in the Deep State suddenly said as one. Move along.
This same never-mind phenomenon is now going on with the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists.” The feds — the Department of Justice and the banana-republic FBI — are quietly dropping many of the most outrageous (that is, false) charges.
One of the Proud Boys was described in a March 1 court filing as leading the rioters “through the use of encrypted communications” – text messages, apparently.
A day or two later the feds admitted the guy’s cell phone battery had died before the riot even began, meaning there was, as the judge put it, “a dearth of evidence” against him.
Another perp was described as a “leader” of the Oath Keepers.
In court a federal prosecutor read a message allegedly from the guy’s minions saying that members of Congress were in tunnels and that the Oath Keepers should “turn on the gas.”
In other words, kill them.
Turns out, the guy and his friends were nowhere near the Capitol that day. They aren’t even members of the Oath Keepers. And the guy who’s been charged as a terrorist never even responded to the ridiculous messages.
Then there was that crazy “QAnon shaman” wearing the horns on TV. The feds made a huge media splash claiming they had “strong evidence” from his “words and actions” that the crowd was planning to “assassinate elected officials.”
The next day the feds were forced to admit no such evidence existed.
So these are the hobgoblins the FBI has been chasing while this latest alleged Muslim terrorist was planning what police say was his massacre of Americans.
But like their Democrat masters, the G-men care less about Al Qaeda than they do about QAnon.
Meanwhile, down in Palm Beach, former President Donald Trump awaits the findings of John Durham, the special counsel who’s allegedly investigating the criminal conspiracy by the FBI to frame Trump and his associates for Hillary Clinton’s Russian collusion hoax.
On Friday night, the president publicly emailed:
“Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?”
When the phone don’t ring, Mr. President, you’ll know. This Is Your FBI.
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Italy has expelled two Russian officials after an Italian navy captain was arrested for allegedly passing confidential documents to one of them.
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