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Again, I ask, why it is the USA's responsibility? Yes, Musk is an evil man, but that is a side issue. Where is it either the legal or moral obligation to care for people who have no relationship to the USA and in a country that has hitched its wagon to the Chinese choo choo train.

They are having a field day becaus eof the presence of the pimply faced kids who have destroyed any semblance of security for the government's IT systems.

It is unfortunate. However, please explain why the USA is responsible for paying for the medical care for these people? China is a major presence in the region. Where is its aid money? What about India, Iran , Russia and the Gulf states? They too have many of their people in the area, more so than the USA, so they should be. contributing.

Nice troll. Everyone knows that the Apple products are most resistant to Russian and Chionese spying.

He will be colour coordinated.

Really? Is this a characteristic common to brothel type bars?

At some point, I expect that more than a few Republicans are going to wish this wasn't an issue as their rentboys and shemale companions start sharing information.

If you want to get technical and be historically accurate, much of the Gaza population are arab occupiers. The population prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was small and there was a jewish population. There were arabs, but they were mostly Bedouin. The core arab population has no familial ties to the majority of arabs who now live in Gaza. During WWI the Turks expelled jews from Gaza,. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the jews returned. Much of their property had been looted or was occupied by Arabs. With the partition of British occuped Israel, and Transjordan, and the custody of Gaza assigned to Egypt, Gaza became host to a large Arab population who were told by Arab nations to leave the state of Israel as it would be destroyed. Many migrated to Gaza. The Bedouin were driven from their lands by occupying non resident arabs. The indigenous arab families saw their lands and properties seized by arab migrant squatters. And now we come to great enlightened political pundits like you. Your position ignores the rights of the Bedouin, and the original arab clans, most of whom had no problem with their Israeli neighbors. Your position dipossesses these arabs in favour of a large and dominating group of arabs who are foreign to Gaza. If you were to say, that Bedouin grazing rights, and the original Gaza tribal clan property claims must be respected and their lands reurned then you would be arguing from a position of moral integrity. Unfortunately, you are not.

Criticize him all you want, but at least Trump has tried to come up with an option that will treat the arabs humanely, and to faciliate and support peace and prosperity. The current methods don't work.

Let go of the pearls clara. The Thais who are allowed into western countruies are doing the work that westerners won't and/or cannot do. The Thais are primarily employed on farms and in the hospitality sector. Are you able to cook Thai food in a restaurant under pressure, or work as farm labour? If so, you can replace the Thais, who are there because there is no one competent locally.

It is easy to see who has never made a sizeable donation to charity or to the government. 🙂 You can't even insult Biden with an accurate statement. It most certainly will be. I suppose that since you do not make charitable contributions,you can't be expected to know much about tax policy in the free world. Not really. He would be fronting the funds. You are correct. Here is how these things work. - One person sponsors the project. They then ask friends, clients, suppliers and supporters to participate. - Approx. 50% of the donation is deductible from income, which is a generous tax reduction. In effect, money that would have otherwise been paid in tax is instead diverted to a preferred project. If the lead fundraiser is good, much of the project is paid for by others who will also contribute. This is nothing new, and is used by large companies and the wealthy to manage their tax liabilities. It isa generous offer by Trump in the sense that it will take some time to organize. He would however get credit and most likely naming rights to the room. The fact is that the US government is paying for the tent rentals. A built for purpose facility would be more cost effective. Nothing wrong with the Trump proposal, and I agree with him, that having the events in a tent is low end.

The USA does not screen when leaving. Only people on the do not fly list will be flagged at checkin. Unless his passport was cancelled, he can travel.

A proposal is a starting point. One does not need to negotiate first in order to make a proposal for discussion. You interpret according to your bias. I understand it from the perspective of a property/real estate developer with a vision. The USA will assume project management and control of the project. The intent is to minimize the potential for corruption and for terrorist infrastructure being built back. What is so wrong in hoping to give the people a safe and prosperous place to live? You are projecting your own bias. Trump approached this from his experience and perspective as a project initator and developer. He dreams big. What he has proposed is a working concept. It will be adjusted and modified going forward to reflect the needs and interests of stakeholders. To date, Trump is the only person to come up with a viable concept. No one else, including the Arabs has offered anything better than building back ugly concrete structures complete with military dual purpose. The Europeans and USA are expected to pay for it . What is the point of repeating past errors?

USAID is accountable to the US Congress.

If the person suggesting this was not named Trump, and if it was anyone else other than Arabs of Gaza involved, the proposal would be described as generous, compassionate and brilliant. North Gaza is uninhabitable. If people return, the area will not be able to be rebuilt quickly and without the same issues as before with military installations embedded into residential areas, schools and hospitals. Trump is not proposing a permanent move. It is temporary, to allow the rapid rebuilding and development of the area. A multibillion$/Euro business has been built out of the chronic need for financial aid for Gaza. European aid agencies make their livings from this as does UNRWA. An arab bureacracy and wealthy class depends on the flow of aid money. Much of the population does not work, not for the lack of opportunity, rather they are paid to sit around. The Trump proposal will break the dependency and give the opportunity of prosperity and self determination to the people of gaza. The Trump plan also ensures that the billions in aid will be used to buld a community and not finance terrorism. No arab nation will publicly support this because they are afraid to, not because they think it is wrong. Every arab leader knows what happened to Jordan's king Abdullah and Anwar Sadat when they were pragmatic. The Hamas millionaires will be opposed and Iran will fight the plan. There is no ethnic cleansing and no war crime in the proposal.

I have a feeling she was being aggressive on her scooter and her target was having none of it.

Yes, it is a good idea to control the debt. It will require a sharp knife and a willingness to step on toes etc. However, the US has a constitution and is supposedly a nation subject to the rule of law. There is something quite concerning about unelected, unvetted and unknown people acting without transparency. The US Congress controls the purse of the USA. Dismantling agencies and departments that Congress has initiated, or has a right to oversee, without the knowledge or consent of Congress is undemocratic. Musk has conflicts of interest with the groups he is attacking. Let a neutral person without a conflict of interest take responsibility.

It looks like none of the complaining contingent has traveled elsewhere for several years. It is Thailand that has been lagging behind. I was in Japan last month and completed similar , but more detailed using the Visit Japan Web. It went quickly. South Korea, Canada and the USA have similar, e-documentation requirements. Are you going to criticize Japan and South Korea too? System works for them and tourism isn't negatively impacted. It will only be awkward for those with intellectual limitations, They can use the help lines if need be. Frequent travelers are enthusiastic and support the change. I wish this would go away. 70 year olds are not infirm. If they can manage to swallow their viagras and swoosh about Pattaya, then they can use the general lines like their younger versions. The people who pay for fast track are often stuck behind these people. The only people who are left in a muddle are the intellectually challenged. They system is coming. Whether it is in May or in July is a different story. It isn't difficult to check the requirements prior to arriving. The plan isn't worthless and is necessary. It will reduce paper work and improve processing times. It works i other countries like USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea.

You are deluded. Public opinion is running negative against the USA. The people booing the US anthem at sports events are not leftists. The first minister of Ontario, Canada's largest economy, is a Conservative and was a big fan of Trump. And then Trump wanted to damage his nation's economy and bully his country. Now he is Captain Canada and was the most vocal enthusiast of retaliatory tariffs and for cutting oil and gas to the USA. The first minister of Quebec, is a right wing cultural nationalist. He is now marching in lockstep with the other provincial first ministers. The last time they were unified on a common enemy was during Covid. Trump has unified Canada and given it a common enemy. You can't get any more politically arrogant than that. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadian-leaders-call-for-retaliation-unity-in-response-to-donald-trumps-tariffs-on-canadian-imports/article_f1fff268-e0db-11ef-a95f-af0d84bd113d.html Your labeling people as "leftist" whenever there is a position contrary to that of the Trump collective is infantile and demonstrates that you are unable to offer a rational argument to support or justify your position. When you can get Poilievere to take Trump to task and point out the lies of Trump it makes clear how dumb Trump's stunt was. There is no turning back now.

Exactly. The legal fees are going to eat into the estate. If she was meant to be taken care of, it would have been stated in the will. Otherwise, she was probably already taken care of. He probably took into account that she had ownership of the home, contents and any motor vehicles and adjusted his estate accordingly. On the other hand, as a reminder to those who who would bash her as an opportunist, keep in mind that she was living with a mentally ill man and probably was acting as his caregiver/stabilizing presence. He couldn't have been easy to live with, so she does have a moral basis to get something.

Canada did not fold. Trump had to find a way out of the mess as the markets were reflecting the stupidity of the tariff threats. Even run of the mill US citizens were saying it was a dumb idea. Canada has done nothing more than repackage what it was already doing. Because the right wing tabloids like Daily Mail says it folded doesn't mean it did. The only change is that Canada has said that it will move to classify Mexican cartels as a terror organization and that it will designate someone to act as a a fentanyl control supervisor. Smoke and mirrors. Trump has turned Canadians against the USA very quickly and the move is on to avoid US products. Governor of red state kentucky was crying the blues when he realized that Kentucky's largest market, Canada was boycotting US products. The damage is done.

It didn't take long for that type of comment.

For the same reason the USA doesn't stop the fentanyl and other contraband entering Canada. The fact is that Canada is intercepting the drugs, It stops them from entering the USA, but it also stops it from entering Canada from the USA. The USA is the security problem. - Identified almost 34,000 foreign nationals seeking to enter Canada at a port of entry along the land border with the U.S. whom our officers believed to be inadmissible. This has increased about 30% from 25,500 in 2023. - Removed over 14,000 foreign nationals from Canada for violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Of these, more than 4,100 inadmissible foreign nationals were returned to the U.S. and about 460 were U.S. nationals. In respect to weapons and drugs the Canadians reported; - 1,274 prohibited weapons and 750 firearms were seized coming from the U.S. - Seized over 25,600 kg of illegal drugs (both inbound and outbound). We also intercepted over 15,000 kg of cannabis and 547,000 kg of undeclared tobacco preventing millions of dollars in revenue evasion and combatting organized crime. Of our total illegal drug seizures, we stopped: - 4.9 kg of fentanyl, an increase of 775% from the same period in 2023, of which 4.1 kg was intercepted outbound before it could be smuggled towards the Netherlands. - 3,955 kg of cocaine, an increase of 168% from the same period in 2023 - 37 kg of heroin - 21,457 kg of other drugs, narcotics and precursor chemicals - 237 kg of other opioids (including opium, methadone, morphine and morphine base) Trump is untruthful and Americans are too intimidated and weak to question his veracity. https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/news/2024/12/2024-year-in-review-cbsa-protecting-canadians-and-supporting-our-economy.html

That may be true with some Thais, but it does not change the fact that it is a colonial mentality. Thailand does have a colonial mentality when it comes to its neighbors with many Thais believing that they are superior to them.

You do not understand the law and are reading a partial translation. Go read the full law. Better yet, read a proper legal interpretation. If the person is Thai, and meets the lineage requirement ,his citizenship cannot be removed as it would render him stateless. The law allows for revoking citizenship only in regard to naturalized Thais and specifically with respect to a person who has Thai nationality, by reason of his having been born within the Thai Kingdom of an alien father, his Thai nationality may be revoked when it meets the conditions listed. As I stated previously, if Thailand could revoke citizenship, it would have done that to the Thaksin clan. Here is a good explanation of the law, from Siam Legal. https://library.siam-legal.com/thai-law/nationality-act-loss-of-thai-nationality-sections-13-22/