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Aleksandre Modebadze ran a cannabis shop. His own family said he had loaned the suspects, fellow Georgians, money, and called a meeting because he wanted it back. They killed him. So this was a legalised drug dealer giving loans to illegal, living on the lam, immigrants. Seems pretty shady. The suspects were found with $60k in cash Manny Hidra was stabbed with a screw driver. Hidra had been dead for 3 days before being discovered during a welfare check. A 27 year old, Erick Escamilla, was arrested at hospital where he was receiving treatment. Escamilla is described as a part time vagrant, living occasionally with his mother, or on the street. He had previously been arrested by the police in February for trespass. There is no suggestion he was an illegal immigrant. The implication is he was committing burgulary and was suprised by the victim, and a struggle ensud. The victom's nationality and religion was never a factor. So coincidence.

The phantom fleet is actually very big https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-exorcise-russias-ghost-fleet What the sanctions actually mean https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-slap-new-sanction-russia-shadow-fleet/ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/uk-hits-russia-s-shadow-fleet-with-largest-sanctions-since-invasion-of-ukraine/ar-AA1EtYvx The full list of vessals sanctioned on 9th may: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-russia-sanctions-targets-9-may-2025/russia-sanctions-9-may-2025 Romarine was a Norwegian insurance company issuing fake certificates. BX Energy is a bit curious; a Hong Kong registered company, offering energy storage solutions. Nord Axis was a UK registered company, with a Chinese owner. It claimed to offer "AI solutions to the oil and gas industry", but its actually an oil trader. Comprehensive list of the shadow fleet: https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/transport/ships I'm surprised any had actually called as US and UK ports.

Where's the Gormless smilie? I'm convinced this poster is just generating responses using something like Chat Gpt 5.0, and not bothering to actually read them.

How to get a cut price holiday. Book a one way flight, have a nice vacation. Overstay one hour, offer yourself up for self deportation. Where's the free flight? They are literally setting up a booking service? Choice of flights, and airlines? Can you collect miles on these free flights?

Suspension of Habeas corpus on the cards. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/politics/miller-habeas-corpus-immigrant-judge

I note he's getting his excuses in early.

Here are the federal charging documents accusing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka of "trespassing" by walking onto private property... ... that belongs to a prison company... ... that contracts with the feds... ... and is therefore government property. The claim here is that the federal agents (the masked blokes in the dirty Walmart clothes and one size fits all vests) retained jurisdiction on a contractor's property, which permitted them to make the arrest. And now released without charge I fully expect this to be not the end of it, and federal employees shown in the video, plus others, will be called to give a full account of that day and how, in the end, their ineptness in not understanding the law, led them to wasting taxpayers money. Following orders is no defence.

Are the cuts such that they can't afford uniforms, and can only employ fat dudes who can't pass a BFT?

One example is the NHS. The NHS is devolved to the home nations, with subtly different policies. Except English. NHS England was essentially a Quango. Its been abolished, and its function taken over by the Department of Health. Until 2021, Parliament had in place English Votes for English Law; a mechanism to tackle Tam Dalyell's West Lothian Question. The Conservatives abolished it without a vote. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57828406

When I was much younger, there was this old boy down at the Football Supporters Club. He use to clear the glasses or something. Gregory was an old Ukrainian. My god, did he hate the Russians. I have a feeling he might have batted for the Germans at one point on the basis of My enemy's enemy is my friend. An interesting speech suggesting that the entire objective of Germany in WW2 was basically Ukraine: https://www.eurozine.com/germans-must-remember-the-truth-about-ukraine-for-their-own-sake/

Pointless destruction, but this how this old WW2 vet spent VE day

I don't think either of them are Russians. Their posts are beyond parody.

Hmm. Letters of Last Resort, Misha. Russia spends about $10bn a year maintaining its nuclear arsenal. America spends $100bn a year doing the same; 10x more per warhead. This is just the basic maintenance. The UK spends about $5bn maintaining 200 warheads. France is about the same. China spends $12bn maintaining an arsenal of 600 warheads. Pakistan spends a $1bn a year looking after their 170 warheads. Basically, Russia spends sweet FA making sure their nukes will: 1. Work 2. Won't fizzle on launch 3. Won't go off with a bang prematurely 4. Aren't actually nicked and for sale in a Grozny car boot sale. Of course, even if only 10% of warheads work, that will ruin someone's day, but your hopes to wipe out Europe, expressed with your predictable juvenile glee (why mention it, unless its really what you want) won't be fulfilled. But you are full of it. You claim to be the son of a Russian "military man" (they all are "military men" thanks to conscription), but have enough familiarity with British 90s culture to know who Roger Mellie, Student Grant, Terry F**kwit and Big Vern were. You're more fake than Jordan's backside, and full of the same stuff. Like Zmisha, your are a created persona.

Everyone might have a price. You are the second person on this forum to suggest the price to betray your country is $1 million If you rationalise it, its a really bad deal. In Danish Denmark, if you develop cancer, the Danish health service will take care of you. In America, that $1m is gone. And the rest. Those suggesting $1m really are like the fictious Dr Evil in their understanding of the value of money. Possibly because this forum is skewed towards middle aged to elderly men, driven to living in Thailand because of a low cost of living. Yeah, to that lot, one million of anything sounds like a lot.. $1m doesn't get you that spectacular an annuity. Its ok, but not life changing. So, without casting offensive stereotypes about the Danes, what is your personal threshold to betray your country? £30 million might be mine. Electronic transfer. No suitcase needed. Or another way, how much is your vote worth. You make it sound that you can be brought. You think American citizenship is worth $1m. The American President thinks its worth $5m, just another citizenship for sale.

The aircraft carrier known as the United Kingdom made it possible.

The Soviet deaths include 1 million shot by their own side, and 1 million perishing in the GULAG. And remember, Soviet deaths, not Russian deaths.

He was stupid. Stalin wondered in 1940-41 why Germany wasn't delivering on its side of the trade deal, little realising that Germany was using Soviet raw material to equip an army to invade his country.

I guess the feeling would be similar to when Stalin saw the light. It doesn't mean Churchill became an ardent Stalinist. And he lacks the gumption to take such a decision himself. It will be down to some men in green laying down the facts to a startled old and obese man that Putin is not his friend.

Stalin's mob never gives credit to the British hardware that kept the USSR in the fight after Stalin had killed most of his generals. Your statement deliberately ignores our allies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere, in order to give a pro-Soviet Russia spin to the war. Stalin enabled Germany's invasion of Poland, France and other countries, and enabled Nazi bombing of Britain. In 1939, the USSR and Germany signed a trade agreement that resulted in the USSR exporting massive amounts of raw material that Germany turned into tanks, planes, guns and bombs that were used to kill Londoners. And supplied the oil to power the tanks that Blitzkrieged into France. Stalin enabled Hitler to start WW2. The Soviet exports to Germany became supercharged once the UK declared war. Stalin even allowed the Germans to build a U-boat base near Murmansk that enabled Germany to evade any blockade the British might have tried in repetition of WW1. It was America and Britain that essentially stopped Germany taking Moscow, and Stalin becoming but a footnote. Russia takes credit. Less than half of Soviet losses were from the Russian SSR. A large number of the military losses were down to military incompetance thanks to the purges in the 1930s. I don't give them a pat on the back for being idiots.

Maybe he meant Putin organising a mass macarama, thereby disturbing all the old boys. Or Putin and Kim Jong Un having a snog, with tongues.

Given the average income of a Greenlander is higheer than the income of the average American, I guess the price for an American to become, say, Chinese, is even lower. $1 million really isn't that much in 2025. I know it seems like a lot when you are subsisting on 2 bottles of Chang, half a bottle of Hong Thong and a bowl of rice a day, but its not really. And you are suggesting the US should spend $24 billion in bribes, plus mining costs, to secure a supply of not rare rare earths, where the total global demand will be $8bn tops. Essentially, you are suggesting theft. Most Americans are not, by instinct, thieves and murderers. The valuation of Greenland is more like $2.7 trillion. Excluding the oil and gas. https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/pricing-greenland-the-essence-of-the-deal/ In order to offer 66% of Greenlanders a fair price for their land (the % necessary for you to steal a referendum), American taxpayers will need to come up with $32 million per bribed Eskimo. And that's a bargain, because you are getting the oil and gas for free.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-gavin-kliger-doge-conflict-of-interest-consumer-financial-protection-bureau A Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held $715,000 in stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning. But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.

Aging in this photo

Would you sell your mother?

Someone going to tell JAG? I think you meant 57 million baht or HK $.