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5 minutes ago, Mick501 said:

Always have to take with a pinch of salt anything published by the leftie extremists at NYT.  Seeing actual evidence would be nice.  Even if he did minimise taxes, so what?  The government at the time certainly didn't spend it well enough so that anyone should pay more than they absolutely had to.

Always a good Trump tweet,  do as I say not as I do 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/trump-taxes-twitter.html

3 minutes ago, rebekkahr said:

Trump's current financial distress also explains why the 2017 tax bill so heavily favored real estate and limited partnerships. Real estate deals via limited partnerships is how Trump does most of his business.

yes, electoral promise kept!

while ...

"Obama said that because his tax returns were public during his presidency, he wouldn't be able to take advantage of any loopholes. He added that he's happy to contribute, however, because of what the country has given him."

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/433068-obama-paying-the-max-tax-is-something-that-i-insist-upon

9 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

 imo there's so much more to come as this was a mere warmup but France ( and the mag) knew that when they re printed the pics. Not justifying the stabbing in the least but murder in the streets should surprise no one unfortunately. And these latest actions definitely won't quell the blood lust generated, if anything it will inspire more of the maniacs..

I believe the Charlie Hebdo "excuse" is a smoke screen. Numerous terror attacks have been carried out since 2015 and not in France only.

The threat in the West is just underestimated - so we must thank Charlie Hebdo for reminding us where it comes from, and firstly on our soil, from people who, with the support of their entourage, relatives, community,  took advantage of our naiveté.  32 terror attacks have been prevented in France since 3 years - so 1/month. We have to live with it, as well as Jewish schools and synagogues need to be protected too.

The threat has to be named to be fought by each and everyone, and it is Political Islam. 

32 minutes ago, oobar said:

What the world needs are tens of thousands of Charlie Hebdos, publishing daily, hourly.  Overwhelm this anachronistic and hateful ignorance with a tidal wave of satirical exposure.  Let them realize their myths are their own absurdities, which have no more standing in the rest of the world than do other of the much more than abundant religious myths and fairy tales common to mankind.

"the magazine said that it had often been asked to carry on printing caricatures of the prophet since the 2015 killings. "We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited - the law allows us to do so - but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate, To reproduce these cartoons in the week the trial over the January 2015 terrorist attacks opens seemed essential to us." 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54251389

3 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Anyone should be allowed to poke fun at an illiterate 7th century caravan robber and slave owner without being shot, blown up or hacked to death. If it's a religion of peace the extremists should be extremely peaceful, not hateful killers.

Charlie Hebdo serves as  a smoke screen

3 minutes ago, polpott said:

They're trying to go to America but Mr Orange America is saying, "Let me think of a price then I'll double it". The Art of the Deal. 555

you have to think "bacon first", in the case of a no-deal, and that is the main issue 

Charlie Hebdo readers in Turkey and Pakistan outnumber those in France

Turkey/ 

"“With this action, France aims at both increasing psychological pressure on the Muslims, and spreading the as yet little known “freedom of disbelief/kufr” together with its freedom of expression."

http://www.khilafah.com/protest-in-turkey-against-the-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-insulting-the-prophet-muhammad-ﷺ/

Pakistan

Staying in France is contreindicated in case of people submitted to superstition and ignorance.  

5 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Why is that? I assume because of prior French colonies in Africa and M.E., therefore common language.

Not only, geography, France is the las port of embarcation for migrants from Eastern Europe, Indian sub-continent, Asia, S.E Asia, who consider the UK to be their "destiny", France is also the left over destination when they haven't been granted anywhere else..    

Now the fact that former french colonies on the African Continent, after  70 years of independance,  consider France as their suburb, have failed in their development, but still nourrish resentment being unable to make it without smuggli,ng into Europe. If you assume that these people can't learn to speak another language, then you're wrong, you'll find fake asylum seekers from Morocco in Germany,

2 hours ago, simple1 said:

But doesn't indicate a change in French government policy does it. One would assume a stabbing attack at the location would be by a violent Islamist, have to see what the police have to say when charges are laid.

Now we know:

- the main suspect - born in Pakistan in 2002 - arrived in France pretending to be a minor - which was suspected to be untrue, but anyway was under state protection of minors program till august 2020 -  already known by the police -   

- the second suspect is Algerian

Whatever their motivations are, the main issue to public opinion  is where they come from and who they are, such attacks are so repetitive in addition to come on top of other abuses (tax frauds, social welfare, ..) and incivilities, etc, Do we want more of them among us? Is it too late? here's what'on people's mind - at least in France, the most targeted country in Europe when it comes to irregular migration.     

7 hours ago, simple1 said:

The French state’s policy rejects any references to national, racial, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. 

sometimes it's easy,

today is friday, 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-stabbing-attack-reported-near-former-charlie-hebdo-office-today-2020-09-25/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/25/paris-knife-attack-terror-probe-421637

one of the 2 suspects is described in french press as looking like  "indo pakistani" - to be confirmed

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

I agree it is indecent to disturb mourners. But I have no problem with disturbing someone who is in the inside jumping with joy.

A source close to the president told CNN that Trump has been 'salivating' to nominate a replacement for Ginsburg even before her death.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg/index.html

12 hours ago, Credo said:

Just a year or so ago, it was Germany that was the 'poster child' seems they've made a lot of progress.  Now you need a new poster child.   That sounds like an anti-immigrant agenda.

 

"Outcry in France after woman says beaten for wearing skirt. President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government has in recent weeks begun using increasingly tough rhetoric on domestic security issues in what analysts see as a shift to the right.Ministers have particularly lashed out at Islamist extremism, arguing such values have no place in French society."

https://headtopics.com/pk/7911711699114125520-15840826

"On Thursday a man was handed a two-month suspended jail sentence in another case, for assaulting two women – one of whose outfit he claimed was too short."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/french-police-investigate-attack-on-woman-22-for-wearing-skirt

not without reasons, just for this summer, non-exhaustive list: 

- july 26, France 

  "French police arrested a 39-year-old refugee from Rwanda for setting a famed cathedral in the French city of Nantes on fire. The prosecutor charged him with arson and recommended placing the man in custody after the man confessed to the crime."

https://rmx.news/article/article/france-rwandan-migrant-confesses-to-setting-nantes-cathedral-on-fire

- september 12: Switzerland

  "Murder suspect acted ‘out of vengeance against the Swiss state’ The 26-year-old Turkish-Swiss dual national had been known to the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) since 2017 “for the consumption and dissemination of jihadist propaganda”.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/murder-suspect-acted--out-of-vengeance-against-the-swiss-state-/46040334

- september 15 : Italy

  "Priest who helped migrants and the homeless killed in Como, Italy. "I was afraid of being repatriated". This is how the 53-year-old of Tunisian nationality replied who in Como, at 7 this morning, stabbed and killed Don Roberto Malgesini."

 https://www.unionesarda.it/en/articolo/news/italia/2020/09/15/prete-ucciso-a-como-il-killer-confessa-temevo-il-rimpatrio-137-1059642.html

  " Tunisians are now the most common nationality of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy and constitute over one-third of the 5,966 who made it to Italian shores in 2020."

https://www.cfnews.org.uk/italy-muslim-migrant-kills-pro-migrant-priest/  

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13 minutes ago, Loiner said:

You are still looking for problems, which I have already said I don't care about. It's paperwork, or not even that now, it's online declaration and payment work. If you are in the freight industry either get on with it or don't, but it won't make any difference to the UK not folding to EU demands.

And what about folding to US demands? 

4 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

More pointless nonsense.

Not surprising, given that what Trump supporters seem to yearn for is another show of Trump being rude, abusive and stubbornly ignorant of facts, complete with the usual application of childish nicknames, bad imitations and all the rest.

Trump - transparently- treats his followers the way he considers them