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the petty rent of the petit bourgeois king would not even rate as musk's pocket money....British King ‘making millions’ from secret property empire – The Times King Charles III and his son Prince William have contracts with UK taxpayer-funded public services, charities, government departments and even a prison, which help them earn millions every year, the Sunday Times has claimed. That’s in addition to the so-called sovereign grant the royals get from the government. In 2023 alone, Charles and William’s “private fiefdoms,” the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall - raised £27.4 million (over $35 million) and £23.6 million ($30 million) respectively for the British royal family, the newspaper found as part of a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches program. The paper said Saturday that they used the royal addresses to uncover their business contracts and discovered how the duchies are making money “via a series of commercial rents and feudal levies on land largely seized by medieval monarchs.” Dubbed “Duchy Files,” the investigation claims to have found that King Charles and Prince William “charge for the right to cross rivers, offload cargo onto the shore, run cables under their beaches, operate schools and charities, and even dig graves.” They earn revenue from toll bridges, ferries, sewage pipes, churches, village halls, pubs, distilleries, gas pipelines, boat moorings, opencast and underground mines, car parks, rental homes and wind turbines,” The Times claims. Some 5,410 landholdings and properties are held by the royal duchies, the investigation claims. For instance, a deal with an NHS foundation trust will reportedly pay the King’s Duchy of Lancaster £11 million ($14 million) over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances. Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall receives £1.5 million ($1.9 million) a year from the Ministry of Justice for using Dartmoor Prison, The Times claims. The duchy of the King’s eldest son, the Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps, also charges the military “for the right to train” on its 67,500 acres of land in Dartmoor. The sum it gets has not been revealed. The estates also rent out over 900 residential homes and farms to tenants, according to the report. The duchies, both established in the 14th century, are operating as commercial landlords, but are exempt from paying tax on their corporate profits, the paper notes. The King and Prince pay income tax voluntarily at the highest rate, 45%. In 2022, the last time King Charles published his tax filings, he paid 25% of the £23 million ($30 million) in duchy profit “because he deducted expenses he considered related to his official duties,” The Times pointed out. The “Duchy Files” investigation marks the first time that the complete list of property holdings for the two royal estates has been made public, the paper says, adding that even the British parliament was denied access to it. “The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries,” it claimed. The two duchies are separate from the Crown Estate, a vast property business owned by the British monarch but run independently. Because of its soaring profits, the taxpayer-funded sovereign grant that pays for official royal duties will rise from £86.3 million ($111 million) in 2024-25 to £132 million ($170 million) in 2025-26. https://www.rt.com/news/606954-king-charles-millions-property/
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by Mac Slavo
The European Union has warned its “citizens” (the slave class) to prepare for a nuclear disaster. A report on the matter further warned that households under rulership should also be prepared for cyberattacks and the use of chemical weapons.
A report published on Wednesday by former Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, says that EU citizens should start stockpiling three days’ worth of goods in order to be ready for various potential disasters, including a nuclear conflict. The initiative is part of the EU’s push to make the bloc more resilient in the face of supposedly mounting threats, ranging from natural disasters to a major military conflict, according to a report by RT.
The report encourages EU households to stockpile “basic self-sufficiency” goods that would last for at least 72 hours for fear of potential shortages in case of “armed aggression through conventional means” or other hostile activities such as “cyberattacks or the use of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.”
Warnings of a nuclear war or disaster have been circulating for years, and so far, nothing has come of it other than fear. This seems like it may just be a way to panic the slave class and inject more fear into an already scared public.
“One click can switch off power grids and plunge whole cities into the dark,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the presentation of the report.
Von der Leyen Thinks Citizens of EU Countries Should Be Vaccinated Against “Wrongthink”
The report also calls for long-term financial and military support for Ukraine. “Member States should strengthen their cooperation on European defense, jointly investing more to close long-standing gaps in our military and defense industrial readiness,” Niinisto said.
It also blames Russia for the warning issued by the bloc. “Given the increasing use of sabotage by hostile third countries, notably Russia, it is an area where internal security and military security are very much interlinked,” the report noted.
Niinisto also urged to “strengthen EU intelligence structures step-by-step towards a fully-fledged EU service for intelligence cooperation.” This means the ruling class seeks full obedience and compliance with its demands.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/eu-warns-citizens-to-prepare-for-a-nuclear-disaster
SUCH PREPARATION WILL BE A BONUS FOR TIN CAN AND WEIGHT LOSS MANUFACTURERS WHO ARE IN TROUBLE....
Kalundborg, a town of just 16,000 people on the Danish coast about an hour’s drive from Copenhagen, is as close as you might get to a modern-day gold rush town.
It's the main production centre for weight loss drug Wegovy. Semaglutide, used in Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic, is made in a factory here, and parent company Novo Nordisk has invested more than $8.5 billion (£6.5bn) in the town. That's nearly the entire GDP of Monaco.
But persuading people to actually live in the town could prove tricky.
There's an influx of workers and builders at the factory in the morning and an exodus in the afternoon - locals call it the "Novo Queue" and recommend avoiding the town's road for these hours each day.
Hardly any of the workers stay - they live outside and drive in.
So when there's £400,000 of investment per resident, what's there not to like?
Behind the rosy figures, Kalundborg faces many challenges, from rundown schools and low incomes to many children being overweight.
State school grades in Danish language and maths here are below the national average. Some on the town's periphery have few facilities inside or out, with just old swings in the playground.
“If you saw that, you will take one of the big cities around here and say, 'Well, we will live there and then I can drive to Kalundborg to work,'" regional councillor Helle Laursen Petersen tells me.
She says these schools are struggling to attract experienced teachers, helping to fuel low expectations among many parents.
After all, she says, they think their children will always get a job at the Novo Nordisk factory, so why bother trying to get to university?
Ali, Anna K, Anna and Marie at Gymnasium, the most academic secondary school in the area, tell me they want to leave to study.
"It might become interesting later, but as of now, I think it's a bit too boring to settle down here - I think I'd like a larger city," Anna K says.
But Ali and Marie are more excited about coming back after their studies, hopeful of more job opportunities in the town so they can enjoy its natural beauty more.
Problems - and hopeMeanwhile Brian Sonder Anderson, who runs the Blue Angel cinema and is head of the local trader’s association, points out that supermarkets and bakeries are booming locally as factory workers flock to them on their lunch breaks.
But other shops, such as those selling shoes and clothes, quickly open then shut down again because of the number of workers living elsewhere.
Many families on low incomes live here, priced out of the capital Copenhagen where rents and property prices have soared - leaving some on benefits and others relying on work at the factory.
Kalundborg also has a health problem - it's in the highest 5% of Danish towns for children being overweight.
Novo Nordisk, meanwhile, is now Europe's most valuable company with a revenue last year of more than $33bn - bringing its market value to more than $500bn.
Investment in the town aims to add 1,250 jobs to the existing 4,500 employees at the Kalundborg plant and ramp up production of its best-selling drugs. While the company represents about 1% of the Danish workforce, it accounts for a more sizeable proportion of its growth.
Denmark's economic growth was 1.1% over the first nine months of 2023. But strip away the pharmaceutical sector, dominated by Novo, and the economy shrank by 0.8%. Some analysts have warned that parts of the country's economy risks becoming too reliant on the pharmaceutical industry.
The town's mayor Martin Damm is upbeat, insisting that more than 1,000 new jobs are being created here every year and some young people are happy to call it home.
“In Europe people are moving from the rural area into the big cities and this is going the opposite way," he says.
"This is the little city [that] attracts big investment."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0p18lqqyo
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