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I'm certainly not desperate to chomp your higgots. I'm not desperate about you at all, no matter how much you want me. Giver or receiver? What's the point of your post, really? You could debate the issues raised, or even discuss the content of the letter, which I suspect you might have read quotes from in various articles, but not actually read the whole thing, or thought about Nigel Farage's post-school career. Or even ruminated why he voted for the Marxist Green party, merely because it was "Anti European" (which we now know was a policy pushed by the Soviet Union to weaken Western solidarity). But your mono-syllabic posts merely mark you out as someone who doesn't think much about life. possibly bored with it all.

The Deakin letter, which surfaced, not in 2025, but in 2013. And it wasn't written in 1975, but in 1981, around about the time of the Brizton Riots, during which the police used the grounds of Dulwich College as an operational command centre. https://www.scribd.com/doc/169454715/Nigel-Farage-1981-school-letter This is contemporous notes by the teaching Common Room about a particular 17 year old pupil, not a 12 year old pupil. A 17 year old old enough to smoke, join the army, get married at Gretna Green, go on the dole, blag it in the pub. And a few months from getting his first job at Maclaine Watson (at the time, a recent Drexel Burnham Lambert acquisition. Farage used to boast that "Wall Street" was based on Drexel Burnham Lambert) I wasn't so lucky as to attend a Public school. I suppose because of that, I don't recall anyone goose stepping around the 6th Form Common Room, expressing Pro-Nazi sentiments that some of the Racists on this forum are a normal part of growing up. Farage cannot deny that he held pro-Nazi views at one point in his life. He would probably say he no longer holds such views. So when did he stop being a Nazi? His teachers say he sang Hitler Youth songs. No internet then, so no casually scrolling the phone during lights out and coming across something accidently. No, you'd have to go to the library, look through some books, scribble out the words in your wallpaper-covered jotter, to prepare for your party piece in Sussex during the CCF camp. Some biographies say the Farage "decided" not to go to University, but instead went into the City. Farage describes in A-Levels as "mediocre". In 1982, with a set of crap A-Levels, further education really wasn't a option then. He would have done 3 As, like something like CCD. There is implication in his autobiography, that from the results, he "decided" not to go to university. For those who didn't, at the time, during your final year, you would be deciding if you were going to leave with just A-Levels, or go on to University, and you would start amassing the prospectuses, doing the rounds, sitting interviews. He would have applied through UCCA (which . Typically, you would bepredated UCAS). Typically a university would make a conditional offer, based on points, not grades, so with the right combination of your grades you could get in. At any one time, you could only hold two "offers"; so if you received a 3rd offer, you would have to strategically decide which of the offers to drop. Typically most people would hold their favourite offer, and have a back up of their lowest offer, in case it went tits up (like for me, I wanted Imperial, but settled for Strathclyde, but if I had played my cards differently, it could have been Surrey). Its not clear who paid his school fees; his pisshead dad abandoned young Farage when he was 5 years old, but one can assume that they didn't pay fees for the possibility he might become a shelfstacker. Without good enough grades, failing to make an offer, his future was decided for him. To not go to university wasn't a decision he made, because no university at the time would have him (there was a seperate system for the polytechnics, PCAS, but that didn't come about until a few years later, and it was certainly for thickos). With no real qualifications or prospects, Dad and Grandad fixed it for him to get a job in one of the old firms. Even back then, those firms would do Milk Rounds; the recruitment efforts for graduates. If you were working class without a degree you might have gotten in as a Runner. Otherwise the traditional alternative route for someone from a Public School, with only A-Levels, was Army nd Sandhurst, like Prince Harry. Lack of a degree meant commissions would generally only be in the infantry, Green Jackets or something. Complete a short service commission, bang, job in the City with your mates. Out before GW1, activated from the reserves to sit around on a beach in Bahrain for 2 months, as a battle casualty replacement, and armed with "war stories". Some good postings available in Cyprus and Hong Kong, and exercises in Belize/Kenya. Good time to be in the army. So somewhat interesting that someone who was in the CCF, which indicated an interest in the military, and that you could take all the saluting/military BS, didn't go into the Army. You left school summer of 82, Falklands War all on the telly, country gone army made, with tales of Argies, Yomping, and lads in playground talking authoritively about GIMPIEs, and Pucaras. Farage himself talked of thinking about the army "unchallenging camaraderie, the duties performed with undeserved ease, the travel, the jaunty social life". Instead, he did Walting WW1 Battlefield tours called "Farage's Foresters". Of course, you'd need good references, and maybe the CCF CO being in receipt of reports you were goose stepping in a village singing the Horst Wessel song or whatever, might not be helpful. Gammon in Salmon. Very far removed from the contrived persona of the ordinary bloke down the CAMRA pub. A Brooks Tavender pink suit seems more suited to Chablis. Along with a stupid hat.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/russia-weighs-how-prop-up-russian-railways-which-is-51-billion-debt-sources-2025-11-25/ Russian railways teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Without a functioning rail network, Russia cease to be a unifiied country, due to the vast distances between major population centers in the far east.

https://united24media.com/anti-fake/5-uncomfortable-questions-for-the-russian-opposition-12667 More on the Russian opposition They needed to be reminded of Thomas Mann's words in 1945; that there were no bad Germans, no good Germans. Just Germans.

https://www.ecpmf.eu/good-russians-are-no-less-dangerous-journalist-iryna-avramenko-about-russian-opposition-media/ Why the Russian liberal media is good for nothing.

https://censor.net/en/videonews/3587255/kasparov-criticises-those-who-are-afraid-to-take-ukraine-into-nato Garry Kasparov on the Trump Surrender Plan

Front line analysis

Discussion on Russian economy

Russian Oil refinery Hit List

B ollocks. The individual was highly vetted with the US military and CIA. He was based at Camp Gecko; the 03s were an elite unit who took the last stand at Kandahar in '21, but also were feared for their night time swoops on Taliban targets. He was extracted through Pakistan. He was considered a model solderi. Despite all your obvious racism, I doubt any kind of vetting would have detected him. You quote Russian infiltrated Google AI as "facts". Laughable posting from an old man who doesn't understand the world around him. You moved to Thailand to get away from America, haven't seen your daughter in years, have expressed no wish ever to return.

And to be fair, he would have been well known already to the US government, having fought side by side with the US military for 10 years. As part of NDS03 QSF "Zero-Ones", based at Camp Gecko (they had cheekily taken over the compound of the late Taliban leader, Mullah Omar), he would have had all the biometrics, the psychometrics. He wasn't a random Afghan that snuck onto a crammed plane in the chaos of Kabul. He was extracted from Afghanistan to Pakistan, and was boarded on a scheduled flight from Islamabad. NDS03 was hard core. Rahmanullah was remembered by his commander as particularly anti-Taliban. After the fall, members of NDS03 were particularly targeted by the Taliban: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/30/afghanistan-mounting-taliban-revenge-killings https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/2021/08/28/afghanistan-evacuation-nj-man-raising-money-kabul-airlift/5622766001/ Hard core death squads (similar to what operated in Vietnam) strking fear into the Taliban https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-01-strike-force/

Your boy negotiated with terrorists and freed the terrorists despite his allies telling him not to. When the United States was formed, Barbary Pirates (terrorists) demanded tribute. The USMC said no, according to the song. He not only negotiated with the Taliban, he congratulated them "You are a tough people and have a great country and I understand that you are fighting for your homeland". WTF. They tried to kill him in 2001. He was all prepared to host cut throats, murderers, thugs at Camp David, on the anniversary of 911. He free 5000 of the most effective fighters the Taliban back onto the battlefield. Men who had murdered American, British, German, Danish and other NATO troops in the name of a Sky Fairy. And let them go, metaphorically patting them on the back for being Afghan Patriots. No, Trump doesn't get off Scott free with the mess of Afghanistan, and he ultimately bears some responsibility for the actions of a few days ago.

The irony is that Riclag is essentially a Farang Wetback, exploiting Thai regulations through so-called border runs (no, he's not at boarding school, just can't spell proper). Oldest visa scam in the book, buying pretend flights to avoid entry refusal:

I'll have you know I am a jerky munching card carrying member of the Conservative and Unionist Party. When is your Commie Party membership up for renewal, Corbynite? More of a Poitin swiller myself. What are you on? Thunderbird and last nights dog ends? Britman my arse. You gave the game away by using the Americanese "Liberal" term. True Brits know Gladstonian definition of "Liberal". You bang on about "pretentiousness", while supporting a bloke who uses a knife and fork to eat Pizza and KFC.

Florida law sets a minimum age of 18 years old for anyone employed at a massage establishment (recently raised to 21). The woman in question was employed to work in the spa, not, as some claim "locker room attendant". Part of that job was seeing men in various states of undress, that's why, unless your name is Gary Glitter, you don't employ kids in a spa. And no one gets upset if the summer help gets a job elsewhere.

You won't be reading this, but anyhow. The photo, is not, that you hysterically called "scandalous", because it besmirched the man you are in love with. It adequately demonstrated he prefers fast food. He is rarely photographed eating, and when he is, its most often fast food.

Operation Reciprocity? Good movie by the way, the the old Potomec Two Step.

He registered as a Republican, switching sides, in 1987. You should correct your statement to "at least 2004". Trump never said he stopped being friend with the pedeophile in 2004, just that he hadn't spoken to him in 15 years. You don't actually know when they ceased being friends. Other sources say their friendship extended to at least 2007. Epstein's brother states that when Trump won the election in 2016, one of the first people he called to tell was Jeffrey Epstein the news. According to Mark Epstein, his brother "ended" the friendship because he thought Trump was a crook (over the 2004 property deal). Trump thought he was still mates with him. Trump boots him out of his golf club, because Epstein was poaching his underage masseuses, but still has his number in 2016. There is the question whether Trump has any friends. Friendship is usually a two way thing. You might think you are friends with someone, but they might not be friends with you. How does Trump define his friends? People who say nice things about him? He is fond of calling people "very nasty" for the smallest of slights. Lots of people have had something to say about Trumps psychology; he's probably autistic. Penn Jillette had some interesting things to say about his relationship with Trump That pretty much chimes with Mary Trump's assessment of him. When people say Trump and Epstein were friends, what was more the case was that Trump was friends with Epstein, but Epstein was never friends with Trump. As long as Epstein said nice things about Trump, they were friends. They were still friends even when Epstein never said anything; hence Trump calling him out of the blue in 2016. But when Trump became President and likely first started seeing things that Epstein was writing in private about him ("nasty things"), thats probably when their "friendship" ended. Their friendship wasn't the sort you would consider a friend; would you be friends with a pedophile? Would you be friends with someone who was going out with girls who seemed too you? Trump did. We all know about the birthday wishes Trump allegedly sent to Epstein. It was lewd, childish. But what birthday wishes did Epstein send back? Did he ever? That's your assumption about what attracted Trump to Epstein. You read whatever falsehoods you like into what I wrote. They might have both been benders for all I know. All kinds of freakiness in High New York Society in the 1980s. Or Epstein was basically a blackmailer courting people of all kinds of background. What's going to come out of the Epstein files will bring down your entire rotten country and its establishment. Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter on steroids. You know with Jimmy Saville, it was never about the sex. He mostly shagged the dead.

The governor of West Virginia reported their deaths. The parents of one of the Guardsman has stated their daughter is unliley to survive. It might have been a mistaken report, but not a "big fat lie". Unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow correction of posts. The Moderators could enable that functon.

Botox, a neurotoxin, is injected. It doesn't work on hands. Why is she wearing a man's watch? Was she a man?

When Donald Trump was friends with Epstein he was a Democrat, a political affilaition he held for the first 40 years of his life. What will come out from the Epstein files will totally destroy both major parties, and likely US business culture. It's what you wanted all along. The political landscape will be swept away.

Not sure that is correct. I assume ultimately immigration decision responsibility lies with Secretary Noem, who has been profigately using tax payer money to purchase luxury jets and to attend Formula One race events.

I would suspect his frankly lunatic posting rate means: 1. He lives alone, since the wife moved out with the Brother in Law 2. He's heard about these Engagement Farmers who are earning a massive $2-3 per day just posting cat photos on Facebook that go "viral". He thinks that is how the Internet works, and he needs a cut of that. 3. He is still awaiting his check from the forum owners. It's a bit slow coming, but he's confident his hard work will pay off. But seriously, the Moderators need to merge repetititive posts. A little bit more emerges about the gunman. He was no low level grunt in the Afghan army. He was a commander in Unit 01 (National Directorate of Security, NDS-03), an elite force within the former Afghan government’s National Directorate of Security (NDS). Part of the Kandahar Strike Force (QSF). Of course, "Commander" is a fancy sounding rank; his rank designation was E-5, which would be a NCO in NATO. He was a 10 year veteran of the war against the Taliban. His mission in Afghanistan was mostly to take part in night raids against high value targets. His friends reported that before the Taliban takeover, he had shown signs of mental decline, and was troubled by scenes of death (ie. inevitably, like Western troops, suffered from PTSD. My brother ended up with that after 3 tours of Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan). He took to smoking marijuana in the absence of medical support. His peers considered him a loyal and effective soldier, not a Taliban supporter. NDS-03 was a significant unit. Increasingly these units operated with operational autonomy, outside of the Afghan military command structure, which meant numerous unauthorised operations in Helmand and Kandahar. They have been accused, but deny, committing war crimes. Remember the Mai Lai massacre? While E-5 might be considered in NATO armies, it would have leant the holder of the rank in Afghanistan some status. But that seems to have counted for nothing. The shooter might well have been one of the troops at the fall of Kandahar. Vice News got a sense of what that was like for the Afghan commandos there It seems very familiar. I was very young when Saigon fell; as a 7 year old, my memory, in Hong Kong, was having to give up most of my toys for these poor Vietnamese boat kids, who had nothing, who were arriving in Hong Kong (and looking back, those boat refugees had a lot of thr elite of South Vietnamese society). A few years later, and after Vietnam had booted out the Khmer Rouge, as a young teenager, I was just starting to get interested in world affairs. Learning what Pol Pot did really affected me; I knew all about it before that movie, The Killing Fields, came out. Phnom Penh; I grew up in Kowloon, for me, Cambodia didn't seem that different, so the Khmer Rouge coming in, wrecking everything etc, affected me. The Cambodian Army, trained and equipped by America, but lead by corrupt Generals; Lon Nol overthrew the King, and was backed by the Americans. They had all the gear, modern jeeps, M113s, M16s etc. But the army melted away in the face of a bunch of schoolkids. Later on, I began to understand more about how South Vietnam fell; on paper, a well trained, well equipped military, but when the end came, melted away, abandoned by their Allies, and the world. Pictures of piles of uniforms and boots, as soldiers quickly stripped off their uniforms. I see comments about how the Afghan Army was useless, untrustworthy, cowards. Maybe true, but there were evidently Afghans who did believe in something. And once again, the Americans, just like the 70s, two successive administrations that were racked by domestic distractions, shamefully abandoned them. Biden botched it, but he was dealt a rotten hand by his predecessor who decided, contrary to all previous US policy, stretching back to the founding of the US, when the US said no to the Barbary Pirates, to negotiate with terrorists, and worse than that, probably terrorists who had at least prior knowledge of 911. But that doesn't let Biden off the hook. But they are both Americans, so what do you expect? There is a thing called the fog of war. My Grandfather was at Singapore, part of the ill fated 18th Division. He went to his grave thinking the Australian Army was a bunch of cowards. He based that on seeing Australian troops dropping their rifles, stripping off their uniforms and looting the Officers Mess to get drunk. That was his perspective. My research since reveals the danger of the fog of war. The Aussies he saw without weapons and no uniform were part of a rear guard fighting their way down the Malayan penninsular. When the causeway was blown, they had to swim for it. The Aussies looting the mess were newly arrived raw recruits, so hastily put into action that hardly any of them had handled a rifle before Singapore (they were trained with sticks). The shooting in Washington seems a odd. The guy had traveled across the country to shoot two American soldiers. If her just wanted to kill Americans, he could have done it in Washington. If he wanted to kill lots of Americans in a really prominant place, he could have waited until Thanksgiving, and ploughed a truck into the Parade in NYC, to secure his spot in history. Its very odd. I doubt in the febrile atmosphere, we'd ever really know. I wouldn't rule out a suicide by cop scenario. As for Afghanistan, after the war, like Vietnam, it turns out its very complex. Afghanistan will never return to the Afghanistan of 2001; its a very changed country. I watch a few Vloggers. First there were the stupid idiots getting selfies in Kabul, but increasingly, they are exploring the rest of the country. Its a poor country, desperately poor. The Taliban are not one dimensional goons. Now they are not at war with anyone, by and large, the Afghan people are very hospitable people, which chimes with Rory Stewart's observations when he walked across Afghanistan when a very different Taliban was in charge the first time. "We", which means the USSR/West, ruined that country because of our stupid Cold War. Some of the Vloggers have gone over to Tajikistan, a country I know nothing about, but can now vicariously experience. Tajikistan seems a good model for Afghanistan to aim for. Lovely people. Itchy Boots is a Dutch biker, who traveled through Talibaqn Afghanistan and tajikistan. Interesting contrast. https://www.youtube.com/@ItchyBoots

You'd think there would be some in the US studying and learning from history. Its generally agreed that the deployment of British troops to Northern Ireland to support the local police was a huge error. It wasn't until the 1980s that the troops were even brought under some sort of police command. The effect was to both encourage the terrorists (of all persuasions) but also treat some British citizens as second class. Such as me.

You're soft on criminals if you think the punishment for DUI, which is basically not attempted murder because of luck, should be merely a fine, rather than the proper punishment, lifetime ban, and possibly a public flogging for repeat offenders. Maybe you drink and drive.