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NYT got hold of the names of some https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-attendees.html Justin Sun: Crypto Billionaire. Chinese national. Previously investigated by the FBI and SEC. Charges dropped in 2025. Elliot Berke: Washington attorney. US national. Has represented Republican figures in court cases. Evgeny Gaevoy: the founder and chief executive of a digital-asset firm, Wintermute. Companies House has him listed as a Dutch national. He was born in Russia and relocated first to the Netherlands and then the UK. Other reports indicate he is Russian, so likely retains dual nationality. Anil Lulla: co-founder of Delphi Digital, a Miami Beach firm that offers market intelligence for crypto investors. US national. Yan Liberman: co-founders of Delphi Digital, a Miami Beach firm that offers market intelligence for crypto investors. US national. Cheng Lu: crypto investor, Chinese national. Stephen Dworkin, founder of CTS International, a recruitment agency in the UK specializing in defence contractors. Israeli national. Sangrok Oh, CEO of Hyperithm. Digital Asset Management. Korean national, previously educated in China. Matthew Liu: Founder of cryptocurrency Origin Protocol. Taiwanese-American. In 2018, Origin Protocol expanded operations to "Greater China" (this is a very specific phrase used by the company) Caitlin Sinclair: reporter for One America News and member of Turning Point Action. Lamar Odom: Former NBA player. Former reality show bit part. US citizen. Daniel Boubes: Convicted drug offender, crypto investor. Former party animal. Colorful FB profile. SuKyung Na; COO Hyperithm. Korean national. Charles Ayres, a Britain-based crypto marketer. Deleted LinkedIn profile. Wesley Pryor is the founder of Acheron Trading, a firm focused on digital assets. US citizen, based in Singapore Jack Tan Lu is the chief executive and co-founder of a popular marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, called Magic Eden. Tony Yacoub: Building contactor in California Clay Helms: Metaplex Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital assets. US national. Stephen Hess: Metaplex Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital assets. US national. Asher Ang: Hedge fund Hyper-Alpha Capital. US national. Lean Sheng Tan: Founder, Hyper-Alpha Capital. Malaysian national. Aleksander Michal Kloda: founder of Nickel Digital Asset Management. British national. Paul Jacobi, a partner at the investment firm Wexford Capital. US national. Christoph Heuermann: Tax consultant based in Argentina. German national. Verjender Choudhary, a software engineer and consultant from St. Louis. Indian national. Vincent DeriuL EY consultant. US Citizen.

Anti-vaxxer freak

So after that copy pasting from Reddit etc, you believe that Trump is as Fit as a Fiddle. So nothing more needed from you on this subject, but you will shortly be opening a seperate discussion on the health of former President Biden? Correct? Only America is curiously obsessed about publication of official Health Reports; in the rest of the world, when it comes to heads of government, its generally mind your own business and eff off. Even King Charlie; its no one's business but his own what cancer he has. I didn't even nee to know he had cancer. I certainly am not expecting a day by day blow of the PM's health (Johnson's attempt to generate public sympathy by staggering to the lecturn backfired in the end). Its seems very Soviet like that anyone believes these official reports. For whatever President is in office, these reports are only produced for the benefit of America's enemies, and for that reason, the President must always be presented in the Best of Health, lest enemies exploit what they see as a weakness. They say Ronnie Reagan never had Alzheimers when in office. Do you believe that? If the reports were actually true, it shows how insensitive Montreal or MiniMental tests are to the illness. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimers. To the outside world, he seemed normal. He still drove a car, didn't get lost. Flew through a MiniMental test, but brain scans showed the damage. Reagan didn't benefit from scans; these didn't really exist then, and the cognitive tests back then were even cruder. We now know Alzheimer's starts in your 50s or even 40s. He had it, and there were enough signs at the time for commentators to note about his condition. But it was important for the White House to maintain a straight face. Did the Whitehouse cover up for Reagan? Yes. Should they have covered up? Yes. Should people have stopped speculating about his health? No. Ultimately the voter can make their own mind up. Did the Whitehouse cover up for Biden? Yes. Should they have covered up? Yes. Should people have stopped speculating about his health? No Is the Whitehouse covering up for Trump? Should they cover up? Here I hesitate. With previous presidencies, you had adults in the room. The world kept turning while a AD addled Reagan or cognititively impaired (though I still think an element of that was due to a combination of undiagnosed UTIs and Prosate Cancer, but that's academic now) Biden. But the cabinet now is full of literal idiots, and this government is very personality, twitter driven, with the court Jester changing almost daily. There are no adults in the room to keep the world turning. Decisions are not being taken away from Trump and managed, they are coming from Trump himself. Should people have stop speculating about his health? No, no more than your suggestion that people should have stopped speculating about Biden. Official medical reports, irrespective of Party, are pure propaganda. They are not produced to divulge the intimate secrets of a man, but to make you feel good, and to make your enemies feel fearful. Trump's recent behaviour is unhinged, but maybe that's just him, according to his niece, who knows him better than most, that he is basically an unhinged man. Biden as elected as an old man. Its not his fault age caught up with him. Trump is also someone who has similarly outlasted his biblical age and is on borrow time, according to Our Lord. Biden shouldn't have ran as President in 2020. Old Man Trump shouldn't either. Both leave office with dementia. This difference is Trump's dementia has more of an impact on your life. Has no direct impact on my life. I'm not the one who needs US social security, veteran benefits or whatever. You lot should have selected a younger candidate when they had the chance, but your party went both racist and mysogenistic and rejected someone because she was of Indian origin and a woman. Would have been better than this faeces show. If you felt that Biden was a weak candidate, she would have easily won.

You obviously are completely oblivious about the Lincoln Project and why it exists. And in the video, if you bothered to watch it, he did talk about Biden (forum rules; you are not supposed to use slur nicknames to describe people, otherwise we can say Donnie Mumble<deleted>). https://lincolnproject.us/ Yeah, you are right. The Lincoln Project exists to attack Trumpism, but from the perspective of dissatisfied GOPers (I suppose in British terms, the Wets). Why do you expect it to criticise anyone but Trump. Otherwise, why aren't you here yelling about Vance not complaining about Trump, or why does Alex Jones never bitch about MAGA, or when is Bannon going to come out with nice things to say about Marx (not Groucho). I'm sure you will find lots of examples, for a thread about Donald Trump, to attack Joe Biden and his mental acuity. This is a forum. You can start a topic on the subject, and surely fill you boots. Or you can continue to hijack and deflect, and avoid confronting a position. Do you believe Trump is a well man? Yes or no. Another Conservative worried about current Presidential health One loudmouth and colourful New Yorker hates another loudmouth and colourful New Yorker. Only one of them was the self made man.

When Vance was an up and coming Nobody, he gave a speech at the Nat-Con/Nat-C Convention, to applause, called "Universities are the Enemy". Some here I know will lap it up, love it. https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-2-2021/presenters/jd-vance/ He makes a cogent argument of course. But its based on utter <deleted>, utter pish (his vague recollection of a paper using AI to predict research outcomes is a complete misunderstanding of the paper, and the so-called apology. Plus he's forming his view of life based on an effing movie, spending all day on Twitter and having a grandmother who told him to go suck a dick). He considers Universities to be the Enemy. Not some University Professors. Not some Universities. But All Universities are the Enemy. The irony is Hong Kong Universities are now recruiting for these Harvard students. National Socialism wasn't socialism; the word was literally used as a recruiting sergeant, to peel voters from another movement. National Conservatism isn't conservatism either (the same sort of movement exist in the UK, as a group within my own Party). Socialists brought into the Nazi arguments. Natural conservatives today are doing the same. Vance went on to say "When you realize that culture war is class warfare, everything becomes easy". All these blokes in history, all cut from the same cloth, whether they label themselves Left, Right or whatever. Maggie, in 1979, powerfully referred to the Labour Party setting one group against another with the "Politics of Envy". Her argument would extend to Nat-C ideology as well.

Sounds like the same advice Halifax gave Churchill. Halifax might have, to adopt your street patois, told Churchill to "get real". What kept De Gaulle going? He lost half his country, the other half became a vassal state. Cease Fires benefit both sides, unless you are saying a ceasefire is particularly problematic for Putin as his army might not want to start up again. Both sides have desertion problems, as in previous wars. Only one side has actually mutinied. Putin is still stuck on his lunatic, imperialist demands. Why are you not mentioning no shift in the Russian position, instead malignly suggesting its all the fault of Ukraine for Russia rapinf women, kidnapping kids, bombing civilians. Tankies always downplay the culpability of the Russians. They were full of excuses during the Cold War.

The ban isn't targetted. It treats all non-US passport holders the same, including Israeli citizens. Harvard is barred from enrolling any new internatonal students, including those from Israel. In addition, students currently in attendance, will have to find another place at another university. Those on a F1 visa are attending taught undergraduate or graduate courses. They have 60 days to settle their affairs. J1 students have 30 days. CNN's interpretation for J1 is wrong. It's particularly tough for that latter group, because most would be postdoctoral research associates and fellows; essentially they lose their jobs These include Fulbright scholars. Some will be lecturers at the university, so this will also impact the training of the future American leadership (about one third of the current cabinet are Harvard graduates). Its important to understand that a J1 visa is a nonimmigrant exchange visa. It cannot normally be converted to a H-visa without extraordinary petitioning of government. Its a visa category specifically created to spread US influence around the world. I was one, once, in Alabama. But I am debating with someone who holds a cartoon drug dealer as a role model.

I feel sorry for the American students impacted by this, since it will lead to reduced opportunities for them to learn and broaden their horizons. As an Undergraduate, I benefited from the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), which exchange students for a year on a national basis. British students go to the US, American students go to the UK, all to mutual benefit. In a sense, its immaterial which country you exchange with; the benefit is being in a new and challenging educational system, which can inspire you and change your perspective on things. Some Americans won't get that opportunity, and I hear a sweeping ban on international students is likely to broaden. At Harvard, the heir apparent to the Belgium throne, Princess Elizabeth, a 3rd Cousin I believe to the British King, is to be expelled halfway through her Masters, which of course is generously self-funded. She has nothing to do with any protests, all the more so due to her constitutional role. She of course won't suffer as such. But one day, she will be the Belgian Head of State, receiving a future new US Ambassador, greeting a solemn President at an annual reverential Bastogne memorial. As a country, little Belgium might not matter to the USA. Its a country that has been enormously grateful to the US, and has repeatedly demonstrated that for over 100 years. Now the next Monarch will think about the US with possibly mixed feelings. That seems a shame.

New strain of bacteria is the key turn of phrase. Not at all unusual. 99.9% of terran bacteria are unknown. My PhD not only resulted in new strains, but I found new genera of bacteria. In higher organisms, thats like discovering lizard people. Its not a big deal. First I found one brand new genera, and named it. Then I found another brand new one. Named that as well. Seriously whacky looking bacteria at x1000. Super sensitive to metals, I had to grow them using a plant-derived gelling agent from Dupont, normally used in paints, because ultra high purity agar (which is made from seaweed) had too much metals in it. The gel was a thermo-responsive gel, which meant it liquified when I stuck it in the fridge, leading to unique ways to harvest colonies. Bacteria are ubiquitous; in soil, in water. A mate at Purdue was working in a mine in South Africa, 4kms down, drilling native rock, and found novel bacteria down there. I've worked with bacteria that have required special glassware, as they are so acidophillic, and other bacteria where you have to grow them in a pressure cooker. Up in the clouds, there is a complete ecosystem that directly impacts our climate. Amazing things.

I suspect in 2029, the plane will be handed over the the Trump Presidential Library as a gutted hulk. There was a reason why stinkin' rich bedo were wanting to get shot of this plane. Ironically, he might be on his deathbed by then, so the plane will be left as some sort of symbolic memorial. Wonder if we will ever find out about the camera's fitted into the Emir's bedroom for his enjoyment.... Or wonder if the Emir's brother, Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, partied on the plane? Maybe played snooker but without a snooker table, just the cues to hit the spot....

Courts will not receive federal funding to enforce contempt actions. Simply, the President can ignore the Courts. He can ignore Congress. Its the end of Constitutional Law. Of course, he might not ignore the Courts. He might not ignore Congress. He might not arbitrarily arrest opponants and journalists. He might not suspend elections. But he can do all those things. 800 years of Magna Carta undone in 4 months.

Was Bono there?

Reports of Masked ICE in piss soaked scruffy clothes making arrests at immigration hearings. The department really does need more budget to ensure these men turn out in proper clean and smart uniforms. https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ice-agents-arrest-immigrants-at-federal-courthouse-in-dallas-across-country/ They deliberately get the case dismissed, without being heard, claiming they don't have any credible fear. "It's basically removing due process because if the person is allowed to enter the U.S. to fight an immigration case, at least they should be allowed to present their case and make a final determination. It is an erosion of the judicial process and system in this country." Dallas immigration attorney Haim Vasquez said Trump officials are using a loophole in the system, dismissing a person's immigration case, thereby removing their temporary protected status and making them immediately eligible for arrest and deportation. This is happening during what's called a master calendar docket, which is a check-in early on in the immigration case process. Vasquez said this is an effort that the board of immigration appeals recently greenlit under a provision that refers to the arrest and deportation of who they call "arriving aliens." If this is a popular move, why the use of snot rags as masks? Afraid of COVID?

https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/the-crypto-industry-saw-trump-as-a-champion-some-20340246.php https://news.sky.com/story/investors-descend-on-trumps-golf-club-for-148m-meme-coin-dinner-amid-protests-13373098 The US President's crypto dinner was last night, a reward for giving him lots of money, hosted at his golf club in Virginia so he could pump more money into his business. The White House said that the President was in a private event (Trump v US; official acts are immune & unofficial private acts ARE NOT IMMUNE). Selling the position for personal profit “It’s kind of a fund-raiser” for Trump, said a Korean crypto executive who flew in from Seoul for it, “& he’ll always be good to his sponsors.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/tru... and they were played

Kneecap?

Ah, the cherubic Tate. Did the young Tate ever think he's grow up to be a slap head nonce.

I thought it was Ivanka who was the nomimated heir? I expect there will a repeat of all of his sport hunting posing-with-animal-corpses trophy photos appearing. Hunting for food is one thing, but I suspect there is a photo of him gurning alongside a heap of dead chimps someplace. He's not exactly a Teddy Roosevelt.

But its never going to fly again, at least with passengers. The USAF still has some final due diligence to go through before final acceptance. Now budget has already been allocated to the two AF1s under construction, so new budget has to be allocated; does the DoD have a slash fund for such projects, or does there need to be congressional approval or something. Before all that, they need to decide how much money is needed. They need to survey this aircraft, which is an unknown unit to the Air Force. Its been on the market since 2020, and essentially unused for most of that time, and seems to have sat for some time on the Isle of Man. While it will undoubtedly come with a pile of paperwork proving condition, I suspect USAF engineers will employ very high standards, to see if the aircraft does have any inherant faults. That's going to take some time, and they'll probably need to hire outside contractors just to do that. So that job will be put out to tender, after a committee has sat around a table to draw up the tender. Say in 3 months, they have an idea what exactly they have. Along the way, someone has to decide what do they want; and this will get contentious. At the one end of the spectrum is a fully specced out plane the same as what is being built right now. But besides cost, two of the reasons the new AF1s are delayed is lack of security cleared engineers and shortages in the supply chain; nothing is off the shelf. If they pull engineers off the current AF1 projects, then these new builds will be further delayed. Adding a 3rd aircraft will put further strain on the supply chain, unless they mothball the other projects and focus just on this. The other end of the spectrum is do nothing; te plane was good enough for the Emir of Qatar, its good enough for a US President. The 2020 For Sale ad gives some idea of the configuration of the aircraft https://web.archive.org/web/20200905142708/https://www.amacaerospace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/200707_AMAC_Aerospace_Mini_Tech_Spec.pdf Clearly, its built for luxury travel, with lavish sleeping facilties, galleys, bathrooms. In comparison, actual AF1 seems much more functional https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq855lx87z3o AF1 is supposed to be an airborne command post; capable of in flight refueling , and carrying enough stores to sustain the passengers for a sustained period. On the contrary, Qatari 1 probably wasn't intended to fly more than 14-15 hours at a time, and fridges aboard to carry enough camel heads for the feasts, generally eaten while grovelling on a floor, albeit a nicely carpeted floor. AF1 is supposed to carry 7 days worth of food for 102 people; about 300-350kgs of food I assume the sustainability requirements are not up for discussion. Adding refueling to the aircraft I suppose is a big job, but not without precedence given used airliners being converted to tankers. AF1 has hardened electronics, meaning the miles and miles of wiring, and hardware have an additional coating to protect against the effects of EMP, such as following a nuclear blast. Does Qatari 1 need this? That's the risk assessment. The hazard is the President's plane becoming a dead stick following an attack. Is it likely over the next 4 years? There will be a range of opinions. This is where there will be people in the room trying to minimize the risk score artificially. I've been in the rooms where these sorts of discussions occur about new military kit, and frequently "ALARPS" is used, which is weasel code for cutting corners. AF1 is also armour plated; on the engines, and the fuselage. For this to be fitted, I assume the aircraft really does need to be stripped back. Could they forgo that, or is there an alternative ballistic solution that is "good enough" (the president has a 40% survivability compared to, say, 70%). Importantly, AF1 has a fully equipped medical suite, with the ability to support surgery in flight (meaning the aircraft also has accomodation for a surgeon, in addition the the President's own physician). Qatari1 does have certification for a medical suite, if the Emir's bedroom is cleared out (certification obtained during COVID), but that's little more than a hospital bed, and room for some monitors and an oxygen bottle. Again, the next discussion is whether they need the full fat mini-hospital or just a bed, for a morbidly obesse octogenarian. Vance, take note, this might be your shot. Comms; its a flying communication centre, allowing members of the government to communicate reliably and securely, and enabling a president to take that most terrible of decisions. I've see talk of passengers of Qatari1 having to use burner phones. Again, a decision might have be taken whether you need something that is good enough, basically fitted into a strapped down Pelican case. But then you are at risk endangering the United States if an enemy calculates that a First Strike wouldn't be met a return attack based on an estimation that comms to or from AF1 could be disrupted. What else could they use Qatari1 for? I suspect a popular choice would be to convert it to ConAir-1; a mega flying prison for all the deportees, MS-13 members, Al-Qaeda, ISIS and any other malcontents. While the actual JPATS aircraft are just regular (clapped out) 737s, a President might like the idea of a plane with actual cages, for all those Hannibal Lectars, because it looks tough. You could probably fit it out for 400 "regular" passengers, 100 more in Hannibal cages and 100 tooled up guards. Current prison transport Cages, or some of that double decker seating to sequeeze in 1000 of them Or the cheap option, rip out the fittings, sling in troop seating. 2029, the President can get the plane back, the original fittings are in the skip at the back.

Well done on funding IVD tests. Overuse of the PSA test is a big issue in medicine. It has lead to many thousands of men undergoing unnecessary surgery, that leaves them in a debilitated state. Hence in the UK, there is no recommendation to provide PSA testing to men without symptoms. I've spoken to doctors in the VA about this, and they are in 100% agreement, but the men read about these tests, and demand these tests. The PSA test misses many cancers and indicates cancer where there is none. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817322?guestAccessKey=4f006acb-c40d-46ea-83d9-38c1f5b3815d&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=040624 Prostate cancer deaths in the US are about 50 per 100,000, with a fairly aggressive screening programme. The UK, which does not practice PSA testimg for screening purposes, but otherwise has a demographically similar male population, is 40 per 100,000, which is slightly in the top half of European countries If you have been through 20 years with cancer like symptoms, but no cancer, I sympathise. Cancer sucks. No one should blame the victim for the wicked disease. Only blame God. As usual with these diagnoses, there is diagnostic hindsight, often not due to the patient, but due to the physician, and whether they are paying attention. A couple of real world examples. My mother had breast cancer 40 years ago. It was quickly identified and successfully treated, thanks to the NHS. However, as a result, she was left immunocompromised, since lymph nodes needed to be removed. Roll on 30 years. She has a back ache, and like most people, just cracked on with it, until after 2 weeks, she went to the doctor for advice. I don't think its that unusual for people to put up with a sore back for a couple of weeks. Doc instantly decided it was orthopedic, and prescribed morphine. 48 hours later, mum was a paraplegic. What happened was quite rare, possibly treatable, but accelerated by strange circumstance. Paraplegia was caused by what some call a spinal cord stroke or infarction; the blood supply was interuppted by a build up of pus. Looking at the scans, I could see about 3 vertebrae were dead; when bone is infected, the blood supply whithers, and the bone dies, and a scan shows a change in density. What the doc failed to do, because of confirmation bias, was something very simple, take the patient's temperature. Back ache and a raised temperature should be instant pointers of concern. The doctor could have done a quick PCT test which would have confirmed suspicions, but there was probably no point compared to ordering an ambulance, and a trip to A&E, scan and likely emergency spinal decompression. I suspect that would have saved more function. Why the whole paraplegia thing happened so fast. Normally, these cases can be resolved through antibiotics. But my mother was immunocompromised and the fever was a sign her body was fighting. Its not well known, but morphine depresses the immune system. Essentially, it was the coup de grace. More recently and closer to home. I had a few urinary problems; nothing major, but blood spots in my urine were. Off to the GP. No tests were done, just a listen. Upon hearing my wife was Thai, the doctor's instant conclusion was an STD, and said I needed to got there. It wasn't. Then she decided I must have cancer, and I was booked in for an emergency scan the next day. Only I was flying to India shortly after, so I declined, whereupon the Consultant called me a problem patient. F 'Em, I thought. At no point did anyone do a basic measure. 6 months later, in for a boil to be lanced. The nurse ordered bloods. I mentioned the blood in the urine, how it appeared as spots. She said, that's not blood, why did the GP put me on a cancer pathway because of that. What I had all along was Type 2 Diabetes, now firmly in remission. To the question at hand, President Biden. I've heard his interview about his late son and some dates. That was not forgetfulness, but confusion. On the one hand, a lot of people speculated old man President, dementia. Those answers were not someone with dementia, that's someone with confusion. There is a difference. I gather he has had some urinary problems recently, the nature of which is unknown. Forgetfulness combined with urinary problems does point to a urological issue. A colleague went through this, was told he had dementia, but later changed to bladder cancer. He was relieved, in both senses. Missed signs perhaps, to the patient, maybe meaningless (did he have a history of stones?), and, common among many hardworking people, a tendency to put things off. It reveals presidential medical exams are just medical exams. te president isn't getting special treatment, the doctors are not infallible, and a critical part of the exam is still listening to the patient (what are they say, what are they not saying). I think as well, irrespective of this case, anything serious is never divulged to the public for well founded reasons. Trump might have been given a terminal diagnosis for all I know. Its none of my business if he does. And its certainly none of the business of America's enemies if they want to exploit that fact.

You got to wonder why did that shining light on the hill turn into an Ersatz version of the 3rd Reich So when did you become a Nazi. I ask because you are acusing members of the Conservative and Unionist Part of being "far left". Your people are destroying conservative values with this sudden love of extremist religion and death cults. We threw out the religious tossers 300+ years ago.

Wait, he gets an all expenses trip paid to the UK, to go to a debating society to bitch and moan about American law. When he was in England, he was a very enthusiastic supporter of people protesting against him “They have a right to do that. Well, I hope they have a right to do that.” You have a habit pf promoting anglophobic hate media and fake news. You have deliberatelty not reported on Kirk's time at Oxford Union, which he called an A-plus Experience, while defending rapey MMA cage fighters who run prostitute rings, and supporting slavery over abortion. He's a weasel. happy to take the money and all expenses paid trip. Once back it the US, he's a snake. The berkshire hunt can stay there. No coincidence that he dined in London with the freakshow called John Mappin. Go stay in his hotel, and you will see what I mean, unless you are also a scientology freak. If you are, I comisserate, and hope you get out alive.

Its political theatre, and the "asylum seekers" are pawns. Note, they are not being fast tracked as citizens, just as refugees. Refugee status is usually canceled when there is a judgement that the reason to be a refugee is no longer there. This doesn't have to be based on hard facts, but a political determination. Hence. Afghan translators and former members of the ANA being returned to Afghanistan, following assurances from the Taliban government that they won't be taken to a football stadium and put down like dogs...... https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-terminating-temporary-protected-status-for-afghanistan Or South Sudanese feeling a civil war being returned to a civil war. Apparently 7000 white South Africans are interested in becoming refugees in the US; that leaves 4.393 million who are not interested in becoming refugees in the US. Trump, remember, loved Nelson Mandela, loaned him a plane (apparently). Its the same nonsense about creating econonmic leverage; Trump doesn't give two hoots about some Afrikaaner who barely speaks any English. His number 1 priority is always America's interests, and its not in America's interests to have non-English speaking Afrikaaner come to America to take jobs away from American farm labourers (presumably these refugees have arrived with barely the shirts of their pink or bronzed backs). But he has seen numbers about how much of the South African economy is controled by that 7%. So he thinks he can create leverage on South Africa. There's nothing South Africa makes that America really wants. But in the room with them was Elon Musk, putting on his usual constipated look. There was constant reference to him in the conversation. Its about getting Starlink access to South Africa. Elon Musk isn't an Afrikaaner; his dad came from 1st or 2nd generation English stock. His Grandad was from Minnesota. Afrikaaner kids used to beat him up at school. He "fled" South Africa rather than serving a day in the white South African Defence Force fighting poor black people (and their Cuban/German advisors) in Angola. At least, that's what he says. He was brought up in a household where his dad was nominally an inclusive, anti-Apartheid South African and a mum who was very much her father's daughter (who moved to South Africa because he thought seperation of the races was a good idea, and he didn't like Jews). As soon as the Americans get the deal they want; changes in South African company law to allow Starlink to set up, those South African refugees will find their status canceled faster than you can say Afghan Special Forces. They will rue the day they don't have Plan C,

Russian critical semiconductor plant hit https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-trump-putin-eu-uk-sanctions-b2754911.html

Ah, you you like the idea of Milo Yiannopoulos (real name Milo Hanrahan), a college drop out homosexual foreigner, who has expressed views supportive of paedophillia, potentially anti-semitic, and has now, in his own words, dedicated his life to the "destruction of the Republican Party". He obtained O-1 visa status, which is usually awarded to aliens "who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements", despite possessing no formal qualifications beyond a few A-Levels, and prior to popping up in America, was completely unknown in his home country. He narrowly avoided being deported after being sacked from his job due to his views of Paedos. https://www.change.org/p/u-s-citizenship-and-immigration-services-revoke-the-us-o-1-visa-of-milo-yiannopoulos