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Very poor value to the public purse for 6-12 ICE officers, with specialist vehicles, and probably $10-15,000 worth of equipment each (side arm, body armour, body cam, communications equipment), each on at least $50,000 without a day of work, being needed to arrest a single mother taking a child to school. Its because they are cowards, far easier to do that, and clock off, then do real work. The main poster to this thread is either a liar, in the pay, or an idiot. Following his thread, you'd think most of those being picked up were the worst of the worst. Even the DHSs own data, which is likely cooked (when has government, of any colour, told the truth) shows 74% with no record, civil or criminal. He is literally part of the propagandising effort, a useful Idiot as Lenin would have called him. And ICE agents are being recruited with criminal records, including habitual drug use. Recruits include people with armed robbery convictions, assault and battery convictions. Those that are detected are only done so because they submit to fingerprint checks. Others refuse to submit fingerprints. The DHS will not provide data on ICE agents' national origins; in one raid, many of the ICE agents seemed to be of Pakistani origin. How much does DHS really know about them?

Wage growth is due to lots of reasons, besides Unions. Free Trade Unions are a good thing, and anyone against them, left or right, is basically an evil bastard. The price of property is one of the reasons for high wage growth, without concomitant rise in productivity (which is the real reason why people are complaining). Property has gone up because of the property speculators, who are actually the complete opposite to true capitalists. Private property is the cornerstone of capitalism, but screwing over the next guy/theft is not. Many property speculators fall into the scumbag/put them up against a wall category. They buy property at the lowest possible price, spend the least money on improving it, then try and sell for the highest possible price, where possible screwing over the owner. Where they build new property, they often pick cheap land, maybe a toxic waste dump, ex-landfill, try and pretty it up, fool the buyer. Or they buy a beautiful old property with plenty of years left in it, pull it down, without permission if possible, and replace it with high capacity, sub standard quality condos. At one time, the rule of thumb was you should only borrow what you can afford, which was basically 3.5 times your salary. That was a pretty good basis. Then the property sharks got in on the act, house prices went up, people started to borrow more. At first, 80% borowed, then 90%, then 100%, then suddenly 110% because you were fooled that you needed to buy that utter wreck of a house that the speculator was flipping, but you need money to make it habitable. At first it was a 25 year mortgage; buy your first house in your mid to late 20s, own your own house by mid 50s, 10 years to really focus on getting enough money to live on for the next 20 years. Then 30 year mortgages, 50 year mortgages, now 100 year mortgages. Owning a house was supposed to mean freedom in old age, something to show for your time on Earth. Now its a millstone, to keep you in poverty, while the elderly lecture you (the elderly enjoying a lifestyle funded by you). Meanwhile the Evil Bastards say its all your fault for asking for a pay rise. Jesus had it right; the money changers, and their descendants, the property flippers, are truely the scum of the earth, for the most part (a few exceptions perhaps). Win-win doesn't exist in the Property Flipper's world.

Are they actually his policies, or are the strings being pulled by Miller and company? He flip flops from week to week. He's a quockerwodger. For most of his adult life he was a Democrat, the Republican. I don't think he's Republican now, certainly not a Reaganite, as he's generally against free trade.

He's an Octogenerian Engagement Farmer based out in Isaan who hasn't twigged that Aseannow does not pay posters for posting. Times are hard in the night soil treading rice farming business, and the pension money is running out.

What you might find is a man who for 10 years gave blood, sweat and tears at the side of US Special Forces, thinking they were on the same side to defend a Free and Democratic Afghanistan, rewarded with a minimum wage job in America, and no support for the undoubted PTSD he suffered. Been more than a few ex US military go loco in recent years. The idea of long term Islamist sleepers is a fiction that Hollywood created through things like Homeland. Ultimately members of the cabinet bear responsbility for decsions taken. Noem for the chop, maybe Hegseth as well; as I recall he served in Afghanistan. Has he ever been asked to support asylum applications by former members of the Afghan special forces? On the otherhand, he might have just been a low level grunt, taken on because he spoke a bit of English, and people are egging up a CIA/whatever connection. And he shot some soldiers for much the same reason Americans murder each other, regularly. No job, pissed off with life, angry at his life suicidal, crazed. In America, uniquely perhaps, the common solution to all of ones problems in life is to conduct murder, and take it from there.

Served 10 years with US Special Forces, mostly Kandahar. His application, which included his wife and kids, likely was supported by some of the men he served with. During the fall of Kabul, most of the Afghan army, ill trained despite 20 years of Western support, melted away, much like the ARVN. But like the hard core of the ARVN, it was the Afghan Special Forces who put up a stiff resistance, in some cases fighting until the last man standing, defending a government which had fled to Dubai, and a for a dream of a free and democratic Afghanistan (effectively destroyed in 2020 when the US government decided to conduct talks with an extremist Islamic movement, and decided to free thousands of extremists, despite Afghan government protests). In many cases, they were directly salaried by the Americans and British. For instance, CT333, the so called Triples, were embedded with the British, and conducted joint operations. When the jig was up, these commandos took different decisions, depending where they were in their lives. Some went home, hoping the Taliban would leave them alone. They didn't, with hundreds tortured and killed. Some fled to Tajikistan, along with the Afghan Air Force, where there was a hope an organised resistance could be formed (never knew what happened to all those Afghan aircraft; mostly ground attack fixed wing). Over time, they were recruited by Iran and Russia, and have been reported involved in operations in Ukraine and Azerbijan. Some took to the hills, forming the cadre that makes up the NRF, lead by Massoud, and the AFF, who has been extending operations in Kabul in 2025, forcing Taliban officials, who are looking to make a deal with America right now (and who are regularly complemented by the current President), to travel by night. Neither the NRF or AFF receive support from the Western powers. Lindsey Graham though is a champion of the NRF, so is showing some backbone. Obviously details are to unfold. This man was granted asylum by the current government; the fact this man was in the US in November 2025 is on the present Trump government. They had an opportunity to remove him in April, and didn't take that option, but instead the current government took the option to regularise his presence, to encourage him to stay. Maybe they thought he had a purpose, like Marinus van der Lubbe. I would assume, because of the anti-immigrant/anti-foreigner atmosphere that US society has expressed since November 2024, that he must have had a particularly strong case to be granted refugee status. Its not unusual for incompetant governments to blame prior administrations for their mistakes, and this government is no different. The Afghans should have known better. America has an historic record of abandoning its allies. It abandoned the Chinese to Mao. It abandoned Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea to the Communists. It abandoned the Iranians to the mad Mullahs. In recent years, its become apparent that firearms are freely available in the US, and regulations restricting ownership are nothing more than a smokescreen. Increasing shootings and massacres seems to be the way Americans now like to settle differences, often denied, disparaged by many commentators. Many other countries, like Finland and Switzerland, are as least as heavily armed as America, but they don't go around killing each other. Something rotten in American society.

You need a link to video of a political attempting to beat a policeman to death on the steps of the Capitol?

It stinks. Ferreira, from Brazil, who had been in the US since 6 years old, was shacked up with Leavitt's brother Michael. They had a 13 year old son. She was fetching her son from school, when picked up for failing to present papers (papier bitte). Michael Leavitt is a former football player who runs a truck dealership. Bizarrely he won a million bucks on fantasy football. The couple are discussed: https://cullmantimes.com/2014/10/29/fantasy-football-produces-an-instant-millionaire/ Despite Ms Leavitt's claims, Michael Leavitt confirmed that he and Ferreira have joint custody of their son, who spends time with both of them. Because the child's father is an American, they automatically gain US citizenship. Brazil does not formally recognise dual citizenship. If the child was registered with the Brazilian consol, then at 18, the child can choose to take up citizenship. The son must be hating dad, if it turns or he, or his aunt dobbed his mum in. Creepy step mum claiming her half caste Brazilian stepson as her own

Riclag not mentioned?

Both dead according to the WV Governor. There was an exchange of fire. Yeah, and before 2021, I would never have thought a bunch of middle aged GOP voters would going out to murder cops. But it happened.

Except the Russian speakers deported to Siberia. https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-occupation-update-november-20-2025/

What about the photos and footage circulating of Putin kissing a small boy in a very odd way. Rather clever of the slaphead Putin to ensure he was never photographed in the company of Jimmy Savile.

The Ukrainian military is not able to push the Russian Z-Forces out of occupied areas; its important to distinguish the Russian military that is on the frontline from the rest of the Russian military. Russian conscripts are not deployed because public opinion does matter to Putin. He knows how it was the mothers of 15,000 dead conscript Soviet soldiers who helped collapse the USSR. Forget the communist era propaganda; the average Russian soldier is not a superman, able to absorb endless losses. The Wagner mutiny showed that. Their losses are as a result of institutionally corrupt and incompetant leadership. In an ideal world, with a less weak US government, I'd want to see the following; 1. Aggressor countries cannot benefit or profit from the invasion of other countries. Russia cannot benefit from the de facto occupation of Donbas. 2. There must be no international recognition of Russia's claims to the Donbass. Some countries will recognise those claims, but its important Western nations, especially the United States, do not recognise those claims. 3. Land registry titles of private enterprises from pre-occupied Ukraine are to be retained by the Ukrainian state until the question of sovereignty is settled 4. No land transactions in the occupied areas are to be recognised 5. Russia to allow Ukrainian citizens currently and formally resident in the occupied area to freely move to the Free Zone. 6. Russia is to provide compensation to Ukrainian citizens affected by the war. The compensation scheme does not extend to Ukrainians who chose to renounce their citizenship. Compensation shall be based on loss of family, injury, damage to property, loss of enjoyment of property, loss of lifetime earnings. Compensation to be paid out of overseas Russian bank deposits, with private citizens taking priority over corporate compensation schemes. Compensation claims to be administered by an international panel. 7. Subject to claims, Russia may regain access to seized assets with compliance with simple international demands: a. Russia to adequately investigate alleged violations of Russian law by the members of the Russian government in February 2022, such as violations of Articles 359 (funding mercernaries) 353 (acts of war), Article 208 (participation in mercenary formations). Those found guilty would be subject to Russian codes of punishment. Members of the Duma will be offered conditional immunity from prosecution. b. In the event of the Russian judiciary being unwilling or unable to prosecute members of the Russian government, an international tribunal will be convened. Those found guilty within international courts will be subject to third country codes and place of punishment. Afghanistan will be offered generous compensation as gaoler in the event of such a situation, with offers to renovate the prison as Mazer El Sharif. c. International restrictions and claims to remain in place until adequate judicial investigation and executions are carried out. 8. Without recognition of de jure Russian claims, no major investor, no hotel group, no shipping corporation will go anywhere near Donbass/Crimea. The costs of rebuilding and supporting the remaining population will be entirely borne by the Russian state. Unemployment rates are likely to be high, resulting in substantive welfare bills paid for by the Russian state, unless Russia decides the residents are not entitled to the rights of ordinary Russian citizens. No Holiday Inn, Marriot, Ibis, Sheraton etc investing in the Crimean riveria. Chinese investors may invest in the increasingly decrepit mining concerns, but will likely ship in their own workforce, as they have done in other countries. Russia will have no choice. The Donbass might be theirs, but it will bleed them dry, until one day, the Russian people, the Moskal, decide they no longer have any love for the Khokol. 9. The Ukrainian Compensation fund to be constituted from overseas Russian banking assets, and a 20% levy on all Russia origin international flights; those Russians wanting a nice little break in Thailand and Turkey, and pretend the world is normal will have to pay extra for that feeling. The fund is closed when all claims have been settled, or a period of 50 years has elapsed, whichever comes first. Any remaining funds to be disbursed to the Russian government. 10. Readmission to international bodies, such as the G8, will be based on good faith evidence of Russian government compliance with judicial investigation. 11. All existing treaties and agreements between Ukraine and Russia to be declared null and void until Russia shows evidence of good faith. Failure to continue to financially support the costs of maintaining the Chornabyl structure will be treated as a claim against the Russian state. Water sharing agreements between Kherson and Crimea will be halted. Crimea will need to secure its water supply from Russia, by either tanker supply, or Russia funding for a new pipeline, probably built by Chinese engineers. A plan should include a Russian route to rehabilitation, but should not include reward.

In recent days, there has been the creation of a myth that the press is rounding on Farage's views when he was 13 years old. The timeline seems clear. Its actually about views he expressed when in 6th Form. Yes, just a few years later, but by your late teens, when you're old enough to smoke, marry, join the army, vote, your world viewpoints are beginning to coalesce. His views at the time are anecdotes from schoolmates, who's memory might be clouded by the passage of time, but also documented reports from teachers, form masters, Cadet Force officers, who at the time, had now idea what his ambitions in life were. If David Cameron can be put under the cosh for illegal acts with a severed pigs head when 19, Clinton for smoking a spliff when aged 18, Farage can be picked up on glorifying gas chambers when he was 17 going on 18. Most of us of his generation and gender were brought up on a weekly sub to Commando comic (and similar titles), learning German for hands up, Pig, surrender, and other handy phrases, and basically believing Germans were evil bastards and the Japanese not much better. I didn't go to a private school, so don't really recall kids like this. Curious why workmates from Drexel Burnham Lambert, Crédit Lyonnais Rouse, Refco, and Natixis Metals aren't saying anything. 4 years working for Drexel, and no one remembers him? https://www.ft.com/content/02cad03a-844f-11e4-bae9-00144feabdc0 Paints a little of the picture. Farage himself admits during this period he was a bit of a pisshead, not a prossie-murdering Patrick Bateman type, but maybe more along the lines of the sales drone executives at Stratton Oakmont. https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/fame-and-fortune-ive-blown-a-small-fortune-on-my-party-zqtxw7hj3dv Besides booze, did Farage dabble a bit in other things, like Mandrax? He says he is anti drugs but also anti prohibition. At what time did he stop goose stepping around the sales floor? Did he ever cross swords, including the liquid sort, with Nick Leeson? His old man was an alcoholic; did his dad's drinking cause his heavy drinking in the early 80s? Contemporaries from the time recall that the idea of Farage's favoured "PFL" didn't really exist after the Big Bang, which is when Farage started his career, as they were all too scared of losing their jobs.

Last response from me. I haven't bothered to read your reply. I block all people I discover to be Nazis or Communists, current or "former". Not worth sharing the air I breath, in my world. Good Bye.

OK, I don't trust people who were, or are Nazis, Communists, Marxists, Trotskyists, Maoists. I'd lump all those extremist 'isms, and a few others, into the bucket of history called garbage. You embraced an extremist ideology when variants of that ideology were conducting genocide in plain site, because of ideology (Pol Pot, Vietnam Re-Education Camps, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan). Look at Farage, trying to BS his way into laughing off Hitlerite beliefs at 6th Form. I don't believe in passing fads when it comes to core beliefs.

Are you, or were you ever a Communist, or variants of?

The upside is the President now pockets the seized assets of these criminals, assets derived from people that some would probably like to put to death.

It ain't heating up matey boy. Its a bad habit to keep knocking one out while treading the night soil on the farm belonging to your girlfriend's "brother". Sooner or later, you run empty.

And yet for all that, hundreds of people swore, on the Bible, thats what they thought he meant when they stormed the Capitol in an attempt to carry out mass murder. We assume these people, many now is receipt of a Presidential pardon for their acts of Terrorism, were not pathological liars, because of the Bible and all.

Another Communist chips in to support a fellow communist. Say a lie enough times......

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Good.

Attitudes like this is why people like Gary Glitter, Jimmy Saville and the Gooming Gangs got away with it for so long. Child abuse is a nothing burger to you. Let the chips fall where they fall, and remove the people who protect child abusers from society. Trump at the very least knew about what Epstein was up to, and didn't do anything. As did all the others. Biden did nothing because he put the needs of the US above the rights of the victims. Make no mistake, the fall out will be tremendous, and it will shatter public confidence in their institutions and the political class. Saville did what he did in plain sight. Those in the BBC knew, the NHS knew. Epstein's links to Robert Maxwell are disturbing. Maxwell spied for th UK. He spied for Israel and he spied for the Soviet Union. Maybe he recruited Epstein, who allegedly had Israeli intelligence links. But just because Eptein was a prolific pedophile and probable blackmailer does not excuse the silence of all the people who knew him.

Why does the count matter to you? You think this is a pissing contest, which party has the most/least pedophiles/rapists?