John Drake

This is nothing new. Read the article link you posted. It's referring to Form 7162. We discuss it just about every year on AN, when they're mailed out in June.

Some tax increases at the upper limits are okay. But should also limit benefits to citizens only.

Taxi drivers do stop all the time in crowded conditions to pick up passengers.

Greece and Belgium outlaw "far right" parties, too. And in France, they've gone after Le Pen herself. Communist parties, of course, get a pass.

Will there ever be another parliamentary election in the UK?

They'll never be able to find out where there money is going. As soon as any populist/nationalist political party begins to gain ground and threaten the fossil parties, they all get together to declare them illegal. Or put their leaders in jail for affronts to immigrants, muslims, whatever.

As someone on the outside judging from afar, it appears that it is no longer electorally possible to fix the UK's problems. Muslims have already achieved critical mass. They aren't going to let loose of control over the cities and their political party, Labor. In fact, from many of the public pronouncements I see from their leaders, they intend to advance, multiply, and eject the natives from control of their own land.

Looks like he ticked every box.

More fundamentally, they have identified themselves as terrorist sympathizers. Hamas has been designated a terrorist group since 1997. So foreigners have had 28 years to realize they cannot support terrorist causes without losing the privilege of visiting, working, or studying in the US. And there are plenty more organizations on the list that also should make for immediate cancellation of permanent residency, tourist visa, or student visa. https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/

I do like what I see out of DOGE so far. I've even turned in some programs to DOGE myself. Hope they take aim at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. I'm sure others have made the same suggestions.

I'm thinking it's the latter. The rumors I hear, and I have no idea how true they are, is that the Chinese have cut out the middlemen. They own and ship from the durian farms directly.

With any luck, this scare will long term discourage durian exports to China and keep Thai durians in Thailand for awhile and get the prices back down to more reasonable levels.

Don't know if this article was funded by USAID or not.

Labor will get what's coming to them. When the Islamists takeover you'll see happen to the communists in Labor what happened in Iran, where the communist Tudeh members originally allied with Khoumeini were arrested, tortured, and executed.

All of whom on that map consistently vote against us and for Russia/China in the UN. Additionally, Yemen shoots missiles at us.

It is occurring. Last week I had Fedex deliver a used book (US$17) I ordered from South Africa. The fedex driver collected 52 baht on delivery and gave me a tax receipt. Used books I've ordered through ThaiPost, however, have not been imposing the tax.

I'm pretty sure both impulse and Carville realize the next federal elections are 21 months away.

That's true love, if I've ever seen it.

This is one of the few times I see that a post deserves a "confused" emoji (I didn't put the one that is there already). But you seem to criticize USAID for being "sneakiest liars on the planet." That is where the lies are coming from, after all. And then you turn around and condemn Trump for shutting down USAID.

Plenty of people there with green and purple hair already had access before these guys. Nobody complained then.

Yep. Department of Energy with 172 subscriptions. Money laundering scheme?

It seems that USAID may have only purchased 236 subscriptions for a Politico service called Politico Pro. That amounts to around $34K per subscription. I wonder how many other federal agencies have signed up for this "deal?" You can't find prices on the Politico webpage. You need to contact them. Yeah. https://www.politicopro.com/plans/

Anyone interested in USAID and CIA activities during the Secret War should look up the name, Pop Buell. Buell is long dead. And there was another important coordinator who as of seven or eight years ago was still here in Thailand. So I don't want to give out his name. The point is that this is a dirty agency, putting on a pretty face. We need transparency, because what they're doing now is tens if not hundreds of times more malicious and deceptive than during the 1960s and 1970s.

Apparently barely, rye, fish, and potatoes. Ah, potatoes! Another "traditional" European food taken from the Americas.

Millennia??? Anything with tomatoes only goes back as far as the Columbian Exchange and the end of the fifteenth century. Tomatoes are food from the Americas. As were chilies. And wasn't pasta from China? Seems to me that Italians and Europeans are poaching other people's foods and traditions.