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Too many morbidly obese women not fully contained on the Hua Hin beach. Their flab is not AI generated.

Read up on the legal status of a green card. Not US Citizens and card can be revoked at any time. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, green card holders do not need to be convicted of something to be “removable". They can be deported if the secretary of homeland security or the attorney general have reasonable grounds to believe they engaged in, or are likely to engage in, terrorist activities. Feel free to argue his case before an immigration law judge.

Not really. He is an Algerian advocating on behalf of a listed terror group. Would you not be up in arms if US nationals entered Germany on work visas and started advocating on behalf of the listed anti muslim groups?

He has no legal rights because he is a visa holder

Secretary Rubio gave a rather. concise and explicit explanation. "No one has a right to a student visa," Rubio said. "No one has a right to a green card, by the way. So when you apply for student visa or any visa to enter the United States, we have a right to deny you for virtually any reason, but I think being a supporter of Hamas and coming into our universities and turning them upside down, and being complicit and what are clearly crimes of vandalization, complicit in shutting down learning institutions." Secretary of State Marco Rubio has "determined" that Khalil's "presence or activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States." He is a citizen of Algeria, according to a Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.

The USA cannot remain a preferred market if it forces everyone to go elsewhere. It won't take much of a shift to inflict pain.

Lay off the Soviet Propaganda. The Russians nearly cost themselves the war with their mismanagement of the Kursk attacks. You forget that Russia lost 1.7 million personnel as either dead or injured to the Germans 350,000 (500,000 if you accept Russian claims). Russia depleted its airforce when the loss of 4,000 aircraft in this campaign. Russia was sending waves of unarmed conscripts . Nothing much has changed ith the Russian mentality has it?

MAGA collective is quiet. The Russian shills, not so quiet. Where are the great conspiracy claims that we would be treated to if this was Biden or Obama? Not even an idiotic name like Vodkagate, yet or convuluted imagined scenarios of Russian sabotage. Surely, the fact that a Russian controlled vessel went directly at high speed into a stationary tanker carrying aircraft fuel for the US military merits some concern.

Give it a rest. 711 Coalition personnel lost their lives in Afghanistan. The UK lost 457 and Canada 159. These 2 partners drew the 2 most dangerous zones. Other countries like France lost 90, Denmark 43 and so on. And you know what the US response is? Insults, threats and belittlement. Denmark gets threatened, Canada gets threatened. The UK is insulted. And so on. And this comes from Corporal bonespurs of all people assisted by his batboy media clerk VP who skillfully avoided combat in Iraq.The USA is the only NATO member to have invoked Article 5 and all those countries you insult came to the defense of the USA and wasted their resources in a war started by the USA. The USA is quickly becoming a pariah state because of arrogant obnoxious assaults on the world. Everyone is wrong and only the Trump collective has it right. The USA is going to find itself in a very isolated place with no off ramp and then people will go, why does everyone hate us, and why won't they help us? You know who is a coward? Elon Musk who called Senator Mark Kelly a traitor, and the Republicans who said nothing. Kelly was getting shot at over Iraq as a combat pilot and Musk has the audacity to insult him. Republicans were afraid to say anything to Musk. That's what cowards do.

Careful now, you are in effect holding the USA responsible for trying to get the Russians out of the Crimean port and that won't go over well with the MAGA collective.

The Europeans have been facing off against Russia since the start of the conflict, which you have conveniently ignored was in large part enabled by the USA. It was Europe which wanted to avoid a conflict. Just as Trump says the Ukraine started the war despite Russia being the invader, you now claim that the EU is begging the USA for help. The EU is asking the USA to take responsibility for the consequences of a war that the USA helped initiate, ok.

Don't expect to be taken seriously when you spit out nonsense like this. Canada has not rolled over. The response hasn't even started. The retaliatory tariffs from Canada were never removed. The electricity tax was in addition to those tariffs. Outside of your little group no one is saying Canada was smacked down. As the US economy starts to unravel, I think we will see some changes. It takes time. The resources are not going anywhere and it is physically impossible to replace them in months or even a year. The USA can't go it alone and it has declared economic war on just about everyone. If no one wants to trade or transact with the USA, the USA is going to have a problem. 78% of its GDP is service based. Only industry creates sustainable long term wealth. Selling mutual funds, or serving fries at Wendy's isn't where the wealth is. It is in taking raw materials and transforming them into items of higher value. Crops will be rotting in US fields because of the shortage of farm labor. New homes will increase in cost because of labor shortages and increased construction material costs. This takes time to manifest.

Unfortunately, the world doesn't work like that. What occurred on the campus of Columbia and other universities was literal hate speech. People were adviocating for the physical harm to students. Students were being harassed and assaulted. Had it been kept to voicing a political or social position without the vandalism, threats, assaults and harassment, we wouldn't be at this stage. The universities refused to respond. There was a double standard applied. Had someone been carrying nooses and demanding to lynch blacks, there would have been action. Had the protests said and done the same thing to muslim students, there would have been action. I saw some of the literature that was circulated. It was rather intense and much of it was foreign inspired. Many of the protestors on campus were not even students, but outsiders. The non PC aspect of the university response was that administrators were often supporters of the political campaigns or part of the activist community, particularly the muslims. I do not agree with the suspension of funding for all programs and see the anti semitism isuse as an excuse to cut the funding. Unfortunately, it is hard to make a case to argue against it when the universities refused to take action against the hate campaigns and the violence that ensued.

Maybe it was North Korea, again. Much of the world's cyber crime, particularly DNS and related extortion ransomware is traced back to North Korea. The country has a state sponsored operation from which it derives much of its FX revenue. Almost every western government has an advisory and documentation on the issue. Here is one of the US briefings; https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cyber-threats-and-advisories/advanced-persistent-threats/north-korea

They do not, otherwise New England would not be importing 9% of their electricity. It isn’t replaceable because generating capacity is maxed out. The alternative sources are more expensive too. Try and replace. 27 Mwh of clean energy and see how well it goes. You can breathe more coal fumes.

The dowager Countess of Grantham would have been dismayed by this. The very thought of druggies from Thirsk roaming about is horrible. What’s next, jitterbugging in Ripon?

There are multiple long term supply contracts that cannot be surcharged because they are written to exclude impact of tariffs. Trump and friends were counting on that. The USA is about to get a big reality check when it loses access to new electricity from Quebec. It is also about to lose its backstop access on the spot market. This means that during peak energy times, the US northeast from Maine to Florida will suffer brownouts and blackouts because the US energy supply cannot meet demand. Consumers will also have to pay the higher cost of alternative sources if it can be found. As per the The Boston Globe Power supplier Hydro-Quebec stopped exporting electricity into New England’s wholesale market in recent days as the Trump administration rolled out tariffs for Canadian imports. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/business/hydro-quebec-electricity-exports-new-england/ Quebec, is one of the world’s biggest hydroelectricity producers, is looking at its legal options for its new multibillion-dollar power contracts signed with Massachusetts and New York for transmission projects slated to come online over the next 15 months. Americans love their AC, and if they can't have it this summer, they are going to be very angry and sweaty.

That is not what happened. Why mislead people? - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was temporarily suspending his province’s planned 25% surcharge on electricity exported to the U.S. - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called him and said, let's talk and it was agreed to meet and talk. As a gesture of good will, the surcharge was suspended, UNTIL after the. meeting. - After the call between Lutnick and Ford, a White House adviser confirmed that Trump had also suspended the additional steel and aluminum tariff asa gesture of good will too. There was no smack down, but. Ford got the attention of. Secretary Lutnick. The Canadian finance minsiter and premier Ford had a strategy to wake the USA up. Unlike the UK, Canada is not rolling over.

You described it as bouncing back, which it most certainly is not. It is paused. We are only in the early days.

Keep it up. You have the mentality of a US daytrader, always wanting quick profit. This is a long haul change. We are only a few days into the economic madness of Donald and friends. The US consumers haven't seen the impact of tariffs, and won't for a few months. Offering childish insults about Canada isn't going to change the impact that tariffs will have. The shock of tariffs isn't going to tame inflation for long as Trump et al are gambling on. US consumers will cut back on spending, but it will be on services, and services are the bulk of the US economy. They will still need to buy essentials and it is the essentials that will increase 25% or more. Wait until the next flood or wild fire or hurricane when the USA is desperate for lumber, steel and aluminum. The current rebuilding in California is going to increase at least 10-15% because of tariffs. (and that's on top of the increase due to the shortage of labor because of the. loss of Mexicans). And before you make a crack about California, just remember it is the state that subsidizes much of the impoverished quasi bankrupt states like Alabama and Louisiana. The hurricane damaged part of North Carolina is still a big garbage dump wasteland because of the problems to rebuild due to construction material and labor shortages.

No it is not. It has stabilized and no longer in descent, but the losses are still there with no recovery yet. Look at the indices. The Dow is slightly down, and NASDAQ is sightly up. Hardly a bounce back.

Ok, so inflation is higher than in the Biden term. And the value is unreliable because it was pre-tariff war. What was the point of posting the inflation number? It is now irrelevant.

Wet leases are used by all major airlines and are intended to address short term capacity needs for events such as; -Withdrawal of aircraft for maintenance -Shortages of aircraft and personnel during peak travel times - Route specific allowing use of appropriate aircraft Typically, wet leases are for the short term. Swiss uses them for some service in the Balkans. Air Canada has used them. Eurowings uses them. All are unionized and the pilots and cabin crews don't have hissy fits. The Thai pilots are making a big deal out of an airline's normal activities.

Some of the comments from IG are hilarious; - Sure, because hackers make sure to leave their VPNs on and never cover their tracks - Someone forgot to use their VPN - Big Balls sold the code on the dark web Highly doubtful it was Ukraine. Not that they don't do crap like that, but this is more of a Russian adventure scenario, or more likely a fail at the website that is easier to blame on "Ukraine" than to address.

That's the ANA row for checkin. A wheelchair will be brought for you there and you will be wheeled to immigration and from there either to a holding place where you will sit until collected and deposited at the gate, or taken directly to the gate. (That's what I see when I checkin for my ANA flights in the afternoon to NRT.) From what I have seen the wheelchair people are very nice and helpful. If you are transiting at NRT, or elsewhere, a chair will be there at the gate. Please remind them at checkin. This will probably already be noted on your reservation, but sometimes people forget.