By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 8, 2021
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It’s the Momentous ‘Mourning After’ the Oprah Winfrey Meghan (….and Harry) televised interview touted as capable of drawing more viewers than even the Super Bowl, with folk left dangling from Meghan’s Saudi Arabia chandelier earrings.
“Meghan Markle has been accused of wearing "blood money" earrings gifted by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on two separate official occasions. (Fox News, March 7, 2021)
“Markle wore the earrings -- initially given to Queen Elizabeth -- at a state dinner in Fiji during a royal tour that included Tonga, Australia and New Zealand in October 2018, just three weeks after Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia.
“The U.S. has accused the crown prince of ordering Khashoggi’s death. "Those earrings were bought with blood money and given to her by a murderer," Michael Eisner, a lawyer fighting for justice for Khashoggi, said, according to The Daily Mail. "She has no business wearing them.” “The crown prince reportedly gave the chandelier earrings to the queen as an official wedding gift for the couple during a lunch at Buckingham Palace in March 2018. There is no evidence Markle met him at the time or has met him. “Markle’s lawyers have insisted she wasn’t aware of the Saudi prince’s connection to the murder at the time, but a source told the Telegraph she had been advised by aides not to wear the earrings.”While the masses are left to argue amongst themselves whether some one in the royal family really DID shun son Archie all for his skin maybe being “too dark”, folk may be missing the real point, that being that the media has now cunningly entered into a ‘Watch the Birdie’ phase. The media’s Watch the Birdie phase is the cover for what ‘Birdie Biden’ is quietly doing behind the scenes in the White House. “Quietly” meaning without much media attention.
“President Joe Biden Sunday released an executive order to expand the federal government’s role in voter registration, citing the “insurrection” on Capitol Hill as motivation. “[W]e have seen an unprecedented insurrection in our Capitol and a brutal attack on our democracy on January 6th,” Biden said in a prerecorded video address released on Sunday. “A never before seen effort to ignore, undermine, and undo the will of the people,” Biden commented.
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“Biden celebrated the historic number of voters who registered and voted in the 2020 election. “In 2020, our very democracy on the line, even in the midst of a pandemic, more Americans voted than ever before,” he said. “Biden’s video recording aired at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast on the commemoration of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. “He warned that Republicans were preparing an “all-out assault” on the right to vote across the country, and more than 250 bills focus on securing future elections. “Many of the proposed laws include voter ID, the right for electoral observers to be physically present during ballot counting, and requiring a judge to be assigned promptly to election lawsuits. “Biden said the proposed measures would make it harder for Americans to vote. “We cannot let them succeed,” he said. “Biden’s executive order requires every federal government agency to use its resources to promote access and information about voter registration, including the use of their websites and social media.
“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy,” the text of Biden’s executive order reads. “Democrats and social media platforms blocked the spread of news stories damaging to Biden’s campaign as “misinformation” during the 2020 election. “The order would also require federal agencies to look for ways to allow more federal workers to have leave from work to vote or to volunteer as poll workers. “Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted,” he said. “If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let the people vote.”How many will remember that while Biden was announcing his Executive Order on Voter Registration, former president Barack Obama was working in the background on making the Mail-In Vote a permanent fixture in all future elections?
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