[Jpost] The UK royal family member reportedly met with the half-brothers of September 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden to accept the generous donation to his charity.
Britsh royal family member Charles, the Prince of Wales, received a one million pound donation to his charity from the family of Saudi-born terrorist and al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times reported on Saturday.
The 73-year-old British prince reportedly met with members of the wealthy bin Laden family, including Osama's half-brothers Bakr and Shafiq. The meetings took place in 2013, two years after bin Laden was shot dead in a US raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
Charles reportedly accepted the bin Laden family's donation, despite the opposition of advisers at the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund (PWCF) and Clarence House, his royal residence.
One staff member reportedly told the prince that the news would cause "national outrage" if it were to be leaked to the media.
WHO ARE BAKR AND SHAFIQ BIN LADEN? Bakr bin Laden is the former chairman of Jeddah-based construction conglomerate Saudi Binladen Group (SBG), founded by his father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, the family patriarch. Bakr was arrested as part of a "corruption crackdown" in Saudi Arabia in November 2017.
Bakr was released from detention in 2019 after he transferred all of his stakes in SBG to the Saudi government. He was the largest shareholder of the group, having a 23.58% holding.
Shafiq, his lesser known brother, was among the 13 bin Laden family members to leave the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, orchestrated by half-brother Osama. They are related through their late Yemeni-born billionaire father.
CHARLES 'TOO EMBARRASSED TO RETURN MONEY'
Sources inside the royal family told the Sunday Times that the donation could undermine the reputations of Charles and his charity, adding that "there are other sources of money in the world" and that "it would not be good for anybody" if news of the donation broke.
However, the sources added that prince deemed it "too embarrassing" to hand the money back to the bin Laden family, the report said. One of the household staff at Clarence House was reportedly "very vociferous" with the prince but was "shouted down."
The Prince of Wales' office disputed many of the claims made in the report, explaining the decision to accept the donation was "taken solely by trustees."
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That’s just playing dress-up in native costume, Besoeker. Justin Trudeau is fond of it, too — though he brings his own for the purpose instead of being gifted the entire set by his hosts.
[Epoch Times] The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it has created a division that will oversee mail-in ballots in future elections.
"We are fully committed to the secure and timely delivery of the nation’s election mail," she told media outlets on July 27.
Several months ago, the Biden administration requested $5 billion to support the USPS’s mail-in voting operations over the next 10 years.
"This proposal expands on the essential public services that the Postal Service provides to the American people and will also help to relieve budget strain on local election offices across the country," the administration wrote in March.
It also includes policies to make "official ballot materials free to mail and reducing the cost of other election-related mail for jurisdictions and voters" while "enhancing the Postal Service’s ability to securely and expeditiously deliver and receive mail in underserved areas," the White House said at the time.
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This will allow us to 'stuff the ballot box' more efficiently
#8
How many upscale printing facilities are dedicated to the new USPS Voter Integrity Project? I seem to recall a facility behind fencing on a little hill just behind the State Department up on Navy Hill that had people with great skill at copying things. I'm sure they can help.
#4
#1 Ohio teacher quits his job to become a manager at WALMART because it pays $55,000-a-year before bonuses - at least $12,000 more than he was earning at school
Posted by: Clyde Phomble5627 2022-08-01 08:19
...I know the Massillon area pretty well, and this don't surprise me. The big districts tend to monopolize most of the state money, and historically they're all badly managed. The smaller districts have pretty much soaked up all the cash they can from areas whose tax bases have been slowly eroding for decades.
He'll work 12 months at Walmart vs 9 months in the school system. If he only worked 9 months at Walmart per that rate he would take home roughly $42,000 a year. $55,000 - $12,000 = $43,000. You think he could pick up a job for 3 months between school years to give him something more than $1000?
#7
What does the Department do for Education? If this question can't be answered without spin or some meaningless word salad B.S., get rid of it. Shift control to the States, local control or home school.
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My daughter and her husband are both teachers a nd while in front of students 9 months a year they both have required actions during the summer, also many ‘volunteer’ hours throughout the year.
They get paid better than the guy in the story however.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ref #2: Some have been known to say "seeing is believing." 
[Epoch Times] The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it has created a division that will oversee mail-in ballots in future elections.
