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The Hamas' forces and independent criminal groups are doing everything in their power to sabotage the aid distribution plan because once it succeeds, they will lose their major source of income. The U.N. and humanitarian groups were willing to accept the loss of a certain portion of food aid to Hamas as the cost of distributing the remaining aid. This is not unique to Palestine. The same tolerance of aid pilfering by "warlords" has been observed in Somalia, Sudan and other countries in Africa.

Whenever you have to decide whether a bar girl is under 18, remember the famous quote by Robert De Niro's character in Ronin: nodoubt.mp4 If there's the slightest risk she's too young, say "No" fast and get the hell away from that bar. The age of consent is irrelevant; Thailand has a specific law that makes it illegal to pay for sex with a person under 18. The Thai law that forbids underage prostitution is based on the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, which defines "child" as any person under the age of 18. The same definition is used in the U.N.'s Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Thailand is a signatory nation of the Convention and the Protocol, so its domestic laws have to reflect the U.N. definition. Under applicable national law and international treaties, a girl of 17 is a child. This clashes with the use of the word "child" in everyday speech because most of us don't think of a 17-year-old as a child. However, that doesn't change the fact that paying her for sex is child prostitution under the law.

She spent all her cash on other things and wasn't aware her debit/credit card wasn't working or had been maxed out.

The article below dates back to September, 2024, but it gives a good account of the Israeli take on the Gaza aid situation and the reason why the GHF was necessary. Hamas makes half billion from ‘humanitarian’ aid, pays its terrorists https://www.jns.org/hamas-makes-half-billion-from-humanitarian-aid-pays-its-terrorists/ The third sentence in the story is the key one. (Sept. 11, 2024 / JNS) Hamas has profited by at least a half billion dollars from humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, Channel 12 reported on Tuesday. Approximately 200 aid trucks enter the Palestinian enclave daily. “It’s actually become the main oxygen pipeline for the terrorist organization,” reported Channel 12‘s Almog Boker. Hamas steals the humanitarian aid and sells it to the population. It then uses the money to finance recruitment, Boker said, noting that 3,000 terrorists have been added to Hamas’s payroll in northern Gaza. The Jewish News Syndicate is a wire service. It is not Israeli-owned or under the control of the Israeli government.

I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess she didn't have cash or a card that worked.

I think I recognize the woman in the OP from another video;

The rioting, looting, vandalism and similar violence that went along with the George Floyd protests turned many people off to BLM. Between May 26 and June 8, between $1 billion and $2 billion in damages were done to businesses and apartment buildings as well as public buildings and facilities. Millions more in damages were done in the following months. Millions had their lives turned upside down and thousands lost their livelihoods. Shoplifting on a massive scale and smash-and-grab robberies occurred daily in major cities. Rarely were perpetrators arrested and when they were, prosecutors allowed them to go free. At the same time, DEI-inspired courses on white bias became mandatory in schools and at places of work. Jews noticed a surge in antisemitism, especially after Oct. 7, 2023. In total, the quality of life diminished for many U.S. urban dwellers. Against this background, many U.S. voters turned to Trump and other Republicans to stop the "upending" of the way of life they had previously enjoyed. At every level, the BLM movement went too far.

Harvard doesn't have any major antisemitism lawsuits pending against it. The problem which remains is that Harvard refuses to punish minority students for antisemitic behavior. A lot of the harassment of Jewish students is not related to demonstrations. Jewish students are bullied and harassed in classrooms, dorms, other campus building and while walking around the campus. The admin has failed to take any meaningful action even when the offenders were known and reported. Harvard University settles two antisemitism lawsuits one day after Trump takes office CNN-One day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who has said he would “remove the Jew haters” if reelected, Harvard University has settled two lawsuits accusing the Ivy League school of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic bullying and harassment on campus. In the settlement with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, and Students Against Antisemitism — a group of six Jewish students — Harvard agreed to make several changes to how it addresses antisemitism on campus. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/us/harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit/index.html

No, both "waves of expulsion," the Chinese students in 2020 and the pro-Palestinians in 2025, have the same goal- removing foreign students who pose a threat to U.S. security.

It's not without reason Black Lives Matter became known as Buy Large Mansions. Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent. https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/?__twitter_impression=true&s=09 According to one report, Khan-Cullors lost two of her three LA mansions to wildfires: https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-how-afford-those-internet-reacts-blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-reportedly-losing-2-3-la-mansions-wildfires Khan-Cullors also channeled nearly $1 million to her brother: BLM paid co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ graffiti artist brother $800K for ‘security’ https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/blm-paid-patrisse-cullors-graffiti-artist-brother-800k-for-security/ There has never been a full accounting of how BLM used the $90 million in donations, but a lot of people associated with it got very rich. No one knows exactly how all the money was spent and by whom.

This happened during the previous Trump administration, but didn't get much reaction: US revokes visas for 1,000 Chinese students deemed security risk 10 September 2020 The US says it has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who are deemed to be a security risk. The move follows a proclamation by President Donald Trump in May aimed at Chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military. He said some had stolen data and intellectual property. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54097437 Near the end of 2024, U.S. institutions of higher learning had more than 1.1 million students enrolled. Even if 10,000 are kicked out, that would be less than 1%. https://www.iie.org/news/us-hosts-more-than-1-1-million-intl-students-at-higher-education-institutions-all-time-high/ Also keep in mind it's an everyday occurrence for foreign students to lose their status or have their visas revoked. It's mostly due to the students failing to maintain their academic status by flunking out or quitting school to work illegally in the U.S. Some have gotten in trouble with U.S. law over misdemeanors like traffic offenses or shoplifting, but sometimes more serious crimes. That violates the terms of their visas. Visa revocations are nothing new. I couldn't find more up-to-date info, but between 2001 and 2015, "a State Department official says the U.S. has revoked more than 122,000 visas since 2001, including 9,500 because of the threat of terrorism." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-revokes-visas-based-on-threats-of-terrorism-official-says/ I wrote about this is a different thread, but I'll repeat it here because it is relevant. It's easy to weed out potential terrorists during their interviews at U.S. consulates. The consular officer should be able to tell if the students are telling the truth.

There have been several lawsuits by Jewish students against Harvard, including one by Shabbos Kestenbaum, prominent in the above video. However, lawsuits haven't always proved effective, even though the Jewish students got settlements that were in their favor. The problem is that Harvard in practice doesn't abide by the terms to which it has agreed, It never takes any real action against antisemitic students. The Trump administration can swing a heavier club.

Bourne was the youngest colour sergeant in the British army at that time. He went on to have a long and successful career in the army, retiring with the rank of Lt. Colonel. The movie Zulu was great entertainment and accurately portrayed the intensity of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, but got a number of details of the battle wrong. That's OK by me- Zulu is based on fact, it doesn't pretend to be a documentary. The preclude to Zulu, covering the Battle of Isandlwana in which 1,300 British soldiers were massacred, is available free on YouTube as Zulu Dawn. Isandlwana was the worst defeat by indigenous troops the British army ever suffered and the Zulus did it without rifles but with overwhelming numerical superiority. It's worth watching, but nowhere near as good a movie as Zulu.

In case anyone wondered what the real issue is: Harvard failed to protect Jewish students from harassment. The video below explains it well. It's amazing, but no one among the pro-Palestinian crowd has attempted to refute this video.

The U.S. is the only country in the world where the truth is an absolute defense against defamation. In all other countries, the right to privacy outweighs the truth in some cases. Except in the U.S., unpleasant truths deemed harmful to a person's reputation or "honor" may only be published if there is a compelling reason, such as legitimate public interest when a candidate is running for office. To give a hypothetical example: If a journalist in the U.S. discovered a highly respected man in his sixties had been arrested on a drug offense while in his teens, the U.S. journalist couldn't be sued for defamation if he made the ancient arrest public. In other countries, this could be considered misleading even if true, so-called "false light," and grounds for a defamation suit. This is particularly relevant in Thailand, but it applies to a lesser degree to democracies based on English common law, such as the U.K., Canada and Australia. U.S. states and many countries have specific laws prohibiting the public disclosure of private information, such as medical or financial records, but that is not considered defamation. That type of disclosure can be subject to suits in the U.S. even when true because some types of information are legally protected.