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And here you go. Why Republicans, Democrats (or those or identify as "conservative" or "liberal") in the US both don't get it. Both camps look at the documents as a means to embarass the other camp. Both sides are equally wrong in that they completely ignore the victims. The stats are misleading, as not only is that search tool inadequate (try searching by date) but much of the emails were between Eptein, Michael Wolff and a journalist, who were all interested in Trump, because he was a newly elected President. But anyone look at this data by word occurence frequency is an utter fool and unfeeling barsteward, Left or Right. Republicans are wrong is suggesting the reason nothing was released before was either because there is nothing to harm their leader, or because something is deeply damaging to the Democrats. The Democrats sat on them for the same reasons why Trump sat on them; the idea that the needs of the many outweigh the rights of the individual, ie. such revelations would be damaging to society, rather than such revelations would prevent further abuse. At the very least, prior to 2016, Donald Trump knew. He knew about Epstein, he had a fair idea what was going on. But he said nothing. That in itself should be a resigning matter. The conspiracy of silence pervades the West, it condones child abuse. It enabled Garry Glitter, Jonathan King, Jimmy Saville, Bill Cosby, Rold Harris, Stuart Hall, R Kelly, Harvey Epstein, R Kelly, Roman Polanski, Steven Tyler, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson, and now Jeffrey Epstein, and perhaps other men of wealth and power. Queen Elizabeth, God rest her soul, was guided by duty, her duty to the Throne, and that duty lead her to cover up for her son. King Charles is different, possibly influenced by his son, who is more worldly. Charles did the right thing. It might well bring down the House of Windsor, but his conscience is clear. So what if the revelations damage either the Republican or Democrat parties. Who cares about that. Even if you believe Trump is doing good things for America, so what if it does turn out he is a child abuser. Does it mean that child abuse is worth it, if 1 million jobs are reshored, or you receive a $2000 tariff check to spend on a new TV or grill? Trump originally talked about "draining the Swamp", which became little more than a crude Reds Under the Beds all over again. The Swamp is the Establishment, which is neither Left wing or Right wing. Its not ideological It exists to preserve the status quo at the expense of the individual. Successive cover ups not only enable true abusers, they create an atmosphere of innuendo that allows innocent men to be hounded almost to the grave (or actually the grave), such as Cliff Richard, Kevin Spacey, Leon Brittan and Harvey Proctor. The revelations should be out there. Politicians who resisted release of such material should be voted out of office.

All these Americans spelling "check" as "cheque". Maybe they are not American after all.

You appear to have become completely confused about the subject of this thread, To balance your anti-Ukraine Wataboutary, news you are deliberately not commenting on, because it interferes with you view that the Russian cause is righteous; https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-military-faces-record-desertions-as-70000-troops-expected-to-abandon-units-in-2025-12040 Expected that in 2025m1 in 10 frontline Russian troops will vote with their feet and go home. Now your anti-Ukraine venom is such that you automatically dismiss any analysis on Russia, on the grounds you hate Ukraine and probably think Ukrainians are lesser people. But you can analyse Russian government data for yourself. Not that you will/ https://re-russia.net/en/analytics/0351/ Russian law prevents non-contract conscripts to be sent to the front line. Those with a contract are paid a bonus to sign on, and that bonus varies by region, part funded by the regions. The use of Contractors allows Russia to use human wave, wasteful tactics; these are not men forced into the fight. They are fighting for money, a big money payout. Since the Russian aggression, the average bonus has more than doubled. The bonus has to increase in order for the army to meet a monthly recruitment target, that is high because of the tactics. They are still failing to meet those targets. To support 2026 offenses, recruitment has to increase from 35,000 a month to 45,000. At the current rate of falling sign ups, that bonus will need to rise from the average of USD27k to USD68k. That increase is met from a combination of Russian defence ministry money, from their budget, and provincial governors pots. So the defence ministry will have to cut capital expenditure; cutting spending on new or refurbished vehicles, ammunition etc. OR, get uplifts from the finance ministry, who will strip it from other ministries, The Ministry of Health has already been stripped to the bone. Meanwhile in the provinces, while Moscow might not be feeling the economic malaise, they are, with declining local tax take (less spending by Russians in the shops), but increased demands from the Center for Contract Bonuses. Putin could of course just get the law changed, and like Ukraine, send conscripts to the front. He can probably get that done with little to no opposition in the DumaThe typical Russian contractor is an older man, with previous military service, who just needs a refresher on weapons drills. Conscripts have no such prior training. With less training, losses will increase. 10% of men with experience are deciding sod this for a game of soldiers, and going home, running off. The desertion rate will soar. The desertion rate among the Soviet army in WW2 was about 7%; it would have been much higher if not for roving NKVD units picking up deserters. About 1 in 10 were executed. Some units had an 80% desertion rate. Not only that, forcing young men into a conflict that most people didn't want will increase opposition. 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan (ISAF/US lost about 3,600). The losses were covered up by the Soviet government, but the Mothers Committees were very loud, and they can claim a lot of the credit for the eventual collapse of that Evil Empire. If Putin moved to putting conscripts on the frontline, its game over for him. The Russian myth of absorbing losses is just that, a myth. They had no more stomach for it in the 80s as any other country. If he calls on the poorer provinces to become poorer, then he risks weakening the bribery that holds that country together.

Did I say Russia was communist? No, the government in Moscow is communist, or rather, crypto-Communist. They are doing their best to bring back communism, eg, reinstalling statues of Stalin and Lenin where they can. They use all the same tools and repressions they were taught when it was cool to be called a Communist in the Soviet Union. Putin is a communist. He was brought up a communist. He was put in charge of suppressing pro-democracy forces in East Germany. Guess how he did that. While in the DDR, he provided support, philosophical and materiel, to the Red Army Faction, a terrorist group who murdered 34 people. He was involved in recruiting Neo-Nazis in the West, as well as co-opting specialists to produce poisons to be used as WMDs. Russians weren't forced to join the KGB. This was a free decision he took, when most of his fellow countrymen were not interested in joining an organisation known for elimination of political opposition and murder. He was an acolyte of all of that. You expect us to believe that after a lifetime being a Communist, that one day he woke up and decided he was no longer a Communist? Sure, he saw the writing was on the wall, and like all rats on a sinking ship, sought a life raft. Just like those Nazis who assumed other identifies. They were still filhy Nazis. He is still a filthy communist. Unlike the Nazis, there was never a Nuremburg for the Communist leaders. They just melted away and claimed they weren't communist anymore. Fooled you. He spent the 39 years of his life as a die hard communist. He was such a fanatical supporter of the system he volunteered to serve in the KGB, rising to rank of Colonel. You don't get there by constantly questioning the morality of the system he served. As a KGB officer he knew, more than the millions of Russians who chose not to spy on their fellows, what the Soviets did in the Gulags. He knew all about the torture, the arbitrary kidnappings, executions and "disappearing". He needs to answer for his crimes in East Germany and elsewhere, committed in the name of Lenin. Maybe you're one of these communists. So what did you do for the USSR? I haven't printed any paper, further convincing me you are a Russian non-native English speaker with a shakey grasp of the language Is that a rhetorical question (go look up the word if you are not sure). Are you so dim you don't know how to use Google. I suspect you are not really interested in the methodology, since in your Soviet world the West is Bad, Communism is Good.

How would you know. What insight do you have to the Russian troll farms. There are plenty of apologists for Moscow/Beijing here. Or are you deflecting?

We are collectively giving hundreds of billions of cash to Russia. When you fill up your car, switch on the lights, go for a medical scan etc. Your money is finding its way to Putin, and that doesn't anger you as much as Ukraine I would say Ukraine is not perfect, but it knows its not perfect, and is trying. Russia though celebrates institutionalised corruption. There are many corruption indices; I like Transparency International. Ukraine is ranked 105. Not great. Russia is ranked 154, but you think Ukraine is a bigger deal, unless you have posted elsewhere similar long analyses of Russian corruption. I suspect you haven't, because you seem to be someone fixated on criticising Ukraine, excusing Russia. To put those numbers in perspective; Thailand is 107. Same as Brazil, Turkey Serbia is 105. Vietnam is 88. Cambodia is 158. China is 76. Hong Kong is 17. Taiwan is 25. Afghanistan is 165 Denmark: 1 Finland: 2 Norway: 5 Sweden: 8 Germany: 15 Canada: 15 United Kingdom: 20 France: 25 United States: 28 Spain: 46 Italy: 52 Poland: 53 Romania: 65 Bulgaria: 76 Mexico: 140 FSU: 1. Estonia: 13 2. Lithuania: 32 3. Latvia: 38 4. Georgia: 53 5. Armenia: 63 6. Moldova: 76 7. Kazakhstan: 88 8. Ukraine: 105 9. Uzbekistan: 121 10. Azerbaijan: 154 11. Kyrgyzstan: 154 12. Russia: 154 13. Turkmenistan: 165 Its clear, pivot towards the West, and you become less corrupt. Pivot towards the Communists in Moscow/Beijing, and you become more corrupt. If you genuinely want Ukraine to be less corrupt, you need it to be fully embraced by the West. Corruption has declined immeasurably in the former Warsaw Pact states. The Baltics, for Soviet Republics, are absolute poster boys. When the evil Soviet Union fell apart, much to the disappointment of all those Communists/Maoists/Trotskyists/Leninists, all those new Republics were at the same level of corruption (really bad), the Baltics showed what is possible, when you stand up to Moscow and its Communists. If you turn your back on Ukraine, on the frankly racist basis that "they are all the same", then you condemm them to large scale state kleptocracy, and death; Russia has a predeliction for concentration camps, and is even reviving gulags, exiling Ukrainians to the far east, just like Stalin. Interestingly you take the Russian line of denigrating Ukraine's cultural identity, by dismissing them as the same people. The commonality is because of decades of imperialism where Russia imposed a Russian identity, and snuffed out a Ukrainian identity. The Irish would probably take issue with you if you said they are just the same as the Brits, ditto India; because they (some) speak English and all like a good curry, they have something in common with the British. The share history you blithly dismiss is Russian conquest. Ireland has a shared history of Cromwell with England, but you won't see anyone in Ireland celebrating the Lord Protector. The Soviet Union was one of the most evil empires in history, finessing genocide on an industrial scale, not through gas chambers, but through insidious industrial and agricultural policy, where you institutionalise, normalise genocide. They brutally suppressed local cultures, in favour of a Russian identity. Its wonderful to see the "new" Republics throwing off the Russian cloak, and embracing their suppressed identities, despite Moscow continually bitching about how Russians are being picked on. Faux concern? Speak for yourself, matey. That's Russian talk coming from you. You're not a Russian are you?

By using terms only the Russian government uses (even the North Koreans and Chinese don't use that term), you have given yourself away as a paid informant of the Russian government. Must be lots of you, in St Petersberg or wherever, beavering away, joining and posting on forums, as an alternative to signing that Contract, I suppose. The wages from the Internet Research Agency can't be much, but its probably better than the alternative. Remember to update your notes during shift change over.

Corruption in the Russian government is a bigger deal. All of those Russian/Soviet ministers should be killed. Any link to the former Soviet Union is as bad as links to the old Nazi Party. Ukraine is making an effort. Russia on the other hand rewards corruption because they are Communist W ankers. Being a Communist or harbouring communist feelings makes you a corrupt animal, in my book. Where you have communism, you have growing communism. Ukraine was communist, they are weeding it out, hopefully using a 9×19mm Parabellum, after due process of course. We should have locked up/executed all those British fifth columnists who called themselves British Communists/Marxists/Trotskyists/Leninists. Free speech be dammed, traitorous filth the lot of them, continually making excuses for all of those Communists.

No, not true. Financed by the people. There is no compunction to pay for something you don't use. Many things are regulated and controlled by the government, but when your hip joint of colostomy bag fails, who do you sue? Mostly not the government. You are more likely to be an old gipper from America (because of your support of an action to defraud the British Licence Payer), hence much of your healthcare, because of age and/or military care, is paid for by the government, funded through a tax. If the BBC is insitutionally a government mouth piece then why: 1. Why was it criticised during the Falklands War for divulging military secrets of use to the enemy? 2. Throughout the 80s it was a critique of the Thatcher government, not exactly toeing the government line. 3. During and post Covid-19, the BBC has uncovered numerous cases of government corruption, hardly the work of an organisations that is the mouthpiece of government 4. The UK government's policy towards the US is of harmony, which is now translating into being spineless and sychphancy. How does the BBC action further that policy. My assumption is if you are not an American, you really must hail from a country with a repressive regime, like thr DPRK, because you genuinely believe that TV news must slavishly reflect the policy of the government of the day. You're not a 100m year old German, are you, pining for the good old days, and still waiting for that promised state built Beetle?

The UK Government does not own the BBC. I know for you, as a North Korean, that is difficult to fathom. The BBC exists as a Public Corporation, established by Royal Charter. You have no concept of this, as a North Korean (only North Koreans have this idea that the government owns everything) The President is not taking action against the British Government, no matter what your Dear Leader is telling you. Ironically, the President was completely unaware of this show until the Daily Telegraph article, almost over 18 months after the broadcast of the programme in question. The Telegraph Media Group is owned by Bermudan company B.UK. which is currently in receivership (what some of the Running Dogs call bankruptcy), and was in the process of being sold to RedBird, a US investment firm. British MPs, including leading dry Conserverative Col Ian Duncan Smith (former Conservative Party Leader) have raised strong objections to this sale on the grounds of RedBird's links to the Chinese Communist Party. Because of this pressure from the Conservative Party, a potential Communist infiltration of the British Conservative media seems to have been averted. Who benefits most from the work of the BBC being curtailed? China of course, and its murderous leadership, using proxies (useful idiots with BBCDS) to further its aims of domination.

And non-enforceable. And, unless he has a stooge judge, it will get tossed out under SLAPP laws in Florida. If he bans the BBC from the US, then I suppose reportage on the US will be reduced to "and in other news..." or a Beeb reporter, preferably dressed in war spec ballistics spec vest and helmet, will be reporting from the Canadian or Mexican border, prefacing the byline with "Due to reporting restrictions I cannot tell you....." At worst, BBC America will declare bankruptcy, and you won't get reruns of Top Gear, Dr Who, Sherlock, and bizarrely, that Southern Belle's favourite, Are You Being Served (they loved the homosexual in that show). It will drag out, then he will keel over, and it ends. BBC America makes about $40m a year; not insignificant, but against annual overall revenue of $2.5bn.. I wonder about the motivation of people who repetitively post, with little original thought. Perhaps the frustration of realising that after 70 year on this earth, all you have to show for it is an "ex"-hooker wife who apparently is shagging some bloke you thought was her brother, and you tread in the night soil in the field of your small holding, which isn't actually yours, growing rice which you don't even like. So you have to do something to keep yourself busy, that doesn't cost any money, because, well, you don't have any, anymore, except the Life Insurance.

Apparently this sad excuse for a human being is now a "woke Right moron", whatever that is. https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1988743448896442636

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Good photo.

Locker room talk, obviously. Who's "Bubba"? https://x.com/Anthonysmdoyle/status/1989096369962078463 Pee tapes might actually repair his image.

Indeed. I'm not sure Vance really believes what he is saying, or just saying to appeal to some voters' conceits: House prices have been driven up by the easy availability of loans. Its no longer the case of the old days that you couldn't get a mortgage no more than 3-3.5x your salary. It pushes prices up. Its not the illegal immigrants who, by and large, are living in the shadows, in the slums. An earlier age Its not about picking Jews, Immigrants, its about lazy politicians making easy promises based around groups that you're not worried about losing their vote. Already, I see those on one part of the spectrum complaining about the elderly, and particularly, Baby Boomers. Less and less of them are tax payers, so there will some politicians thinking "I don't care about their votes, they'll be dead soon anyhow. Blame them"

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-11-04/ice-detains-9-at-allston-brighton-car-wash-in-what-could-be-neighborhoods-largest-raid-of-the-year And why ICE raided the place. A citizen, of the same mind as Riclag, who probably would do the same, saw foreigners, and hated foreigners so much, acted an unpaid snithch to the state, like those unpaid Stasi agents. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/11/13/bu-college-republicans-president-says-he-called-ice-for-months-before-allston-car-wash-raid/ A plastic American to boot. The snitch is a previous attendee of St Albans School, a £30,000 a year private school, one of the oldest in the UK. https://www.universalhub.com/2025/republican-bu-who-grew-england-takes-credit-sicing-ice-allston-car Judging by comments, young Zak is learning about a common British nickname, Billy No mates. The workers had permits but weren't allowed to retrieve them from work lockers. They are currently being held in communicado, but not in a recognised detention center, I suppose while they think of reasons to hang on to them. ICE have requisitioned some offices as a jail, with no oversight as to the conditions there. In reality, plastic Americans like Riclag are anti-brown immigrant, dressed up with a veneer of legitimacy, where they accept, without question, statements about the background of some of those collected, painting a false picture to excuse thier vindictiveness. Wonder why Riclag hasn't moved back and joined up for the noble cause. Living in a paddy field, working in the night soil I guess is a greater calling.

Potemkin robot. Off stage there will be a bunch of operators with hand sets. Effectively a puppet without strings. In the old Soviet Union, all the brains and engineering know how were in Ukraine.

More Vloggers are ending up in Afghanistan. A few stand out. Itchy Boots; a Dutch lady solo traveling around. In this episode she is visiting Bamyam. No one seems in the slightest bothered she is, nor are they bothered she is a woman. She meets plenty of Taliban at checkpoints, particularly in the city. Most of the time they are fairly relaxed; it bureaucratic, but to be fair, no worse than I've experienced in India. The full blue Burqas are seen more in rural areas, and in other episodes, different ethnicities do have their own ress standards that are different from the Pashtun dominated Taliban In other episodes, she does explain she has conversations with Afghan women off camera, life is tough. Mike Okay hitchhikes around. He is more blokish, and uses ciggies as a universal way to break the ice. Again, he reveals some surprising things about the Emirate of Afghanistan I think the people of Afghanistan should be left alone for a bit, they've been ruined by the Great Powers and their Great Game. Yeah, the Taliban are no boy scouts, but the Afghanistan of 2025 is not the same as the Afghanistan of 2001. It seems to have a functioning economy, with english speaking engineers stuck in little villages running the local pharmacy, proud Hazaaris extolling their education compared to the rest. I guess in 1975, Americans hated the Vietnamese; you lot called them gooks, commies. 50 years on, they are still communists, but you;ve got over yourselves, and best mates with them, going on holidays to peer down tunnels, and gaze at ruined US military equipment in museums. The headlines are about Burqas. The first video includes a sequence through a city, about a month ago. Not that many Burqas and plenty of uniformed Taliban, who probably a few years ago, were in someone else's uniform. Most ladies are wearing Hijabs, not even any Niqabs, which you are going to see a lot of in Saudi Arabia and fashionable parts of Dubai. Thats not to say there aren't places where Burqas are worn more. As for Bamyam, I heard another version. The usual version is the local Taliban commander went all medieval, and ordered idolatory to be destroyed. And indeed that was one justification actually used. But really, it was at the time when there was serious malnutrition, and a completely broken economy. The commander objected to some European archeologists wanting to spend 10s of millions restoring some statues of a long dead civilisation at the expense, as he saw it, of starving children. He thought that immoral, and so ordered the destruction, aided I suppose by what he thought was justification from scripture. Perhaps he was lying, but if he was, that in itself indicates regret. There is talk now, by the Taliban, about some sort of restoration. It will likely never be done, but archeologists have fixed up worse. England still hasn't fixed the damage tot he Abbeys that Henry VIII did. It seems a beautiful, but tough, country. The Taliban are not one dimensional, and they seem to be mostly people who want to get on with life, albeit a life determined by a little book. The lady in the first video is now in Tajikistan, which also confounding my expectations. Its neighbouring to Afghanistan, but is like chalk and cheese, with Chinese EVs everywhere. Mike Okay is like Bald n Bankrupt but without the Sex Tourist/Incel vibe. Earlier he did an interesting video in that Chinese bit of Laos.

How do you know thats it, or does government always tell the truth? You understand who decides what classified documents were deemed covered by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Congress set the scope and charged the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) the task of amassing and archiving so-called "assasination records", the definition of which was left to the ARRB, not to elected officials. The definition that was arrived at was: My bold. The chairman of the ARRB repeatedly complained that the CIA was witholding documentation, and made repeated inaccurate representations to the ARRB. ie it was up to the CIA to determine if documents were to be released to the ARRB to be determined tp be relevant. The most recent release allowed for the continued repression of documents deemed necessary for national security. Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter believes there are still CIA and FBI documents that are still classiified.

Self-preservation more likely. Though with MTG, she appears to have acquired a chip on said shoulder after finding her path to the Senate has been blocked.

How do you know?

Its in the City Hall, cut off my his mother, the dirty bugger. Still, reports about analysis of genetic material makes me think of

Unlikely if they weren't in receipt of Lend-Lease. The Russians (note) have built a myth about WW2. Lend Lease accounted for: 12-16% of the equipment of the Soviet armored troops; 10-15% of USSR's aviation 32.4% of its Navy. 70% of Soviet trucks were made in USA. Katyusha rocket mortars (Stalin's Organs) were fitted to 20,000 Studebaker trucks, but only 600 Soviet trucks. 56% of still used for rail tracks came from the West. 43% of tyres, 42% of sugar, all of its preserved meat (Spam, corned beef, meat paste). 90% of rolling stock was Western. Food; the Western allies supplied the Soviets so much food, it would have supplied 10 million soldiers for the entirity of the war. Of course 3000 Allied sailors perished delivering Ford trucks, spam and sugar to the Russians 76 countries took part in the largest world conflict in all human history, involving over 1.5 billion people. Battles took place in North Africa. Around 60 million people died; every 5th Ukrainian and 6th Pole lost their lives in the war. We couldn't have won without the Ukrainians, nor the Americans, the British, the French, nor the Poles, nor all the other nationalties on the Allied side. Even the occupied countries did their bit; resistance movements pinned down German troops, they sapped the reserves. German troops had to be diverted to guard rail heads, crossroads, ports. All countries can claim credit, but of course there would have been no credit to claim if it wasn't for Britain holding out just long enough.