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Then there's this:
Sticking to his promises.
Sticking to his promises.
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I'm not sure how relevent this is but this reminded me of something I have observed in my own country; that simply taxing the rich isn't necessarily as simple as many people make it out to be. Lots of people here were asking for a stock exchange speculation tax. Eventually the law was passed. A 33% tax on the profits gained from selling shares within 6 months after being purchased. If I'm correct, I vaguely recall Bernie Sanders supporting a Wallstreet speculation tax but I am not sure if that shares any similarities with the above.Taxation (edit to make quote shorter)
Its fine for man as long as the others have it worse and the conman pretends to be on your side
In related news,it's official
Human garbage all of em
Its fine for man as long as the others have it worse and the conman pretends to be on your side
In related news,it's official
Human garbage all of em
More than 120,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar violence, UN says
Military operation pushing 15,000 Muslim ethnic minorities into Bangladesh every day, raising fears of border camp crisis
More than 120,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in the last two weeks after a rise in violence against the Muslim ethnic minority, according to the United Nations.
The situation has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis in overstretched border camps, with another 400,000 stateless Rohingya people estimated to be trapped in conflict zones in western Myanmar since more “clearance operations” by security forces in Rakhine state began last month.
UN aid agencies continue to be blocked from delivering food, water and medicine to the Rohingya, while humanitarian workers on the ground say warehouses stocking vital emergency supplies are being looted.
As the international outcry over the crisis grew, an aid group that has been rescuing tens of thousands of refugees from the Mediterranean Sea announced it was redirecting its ship to south-east Asia.
(see link for rest of article)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that any decision by the United States to supply defensive weapons to Ukraine would fuel the conflict in eastern Ukraine and possibly prompt pro-Russian separatists to expand their campaign there.
On a visit to Kiev last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was actively reviewing sending lethal weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself, an option that previous U.S. president Barack Obama vetoed.
Ukraine and Russia are at loggerheads over a war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces that has killed more than 10,000 people in three years. Kiev accuses Moscow of sending troops and heavy weapons to the region, which Russia denies.
Putin, answering a question after a BRICS summit in China about the possibility of the United States supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons, said it was for Washington to decide whom it sold or gave weapons to, but he warned against the move, something Kiev wants.
“The delivery of weapons to a conflict zone doesn’t help peacekeeping efforts, but only worsens the situation,” Putin told a news briefing.
“Such a decision would not change the situation but the number of casualties could increase.”
In comments likely to be interpreted as a veiled threat, Putin suggested that pro-Russian separatists were likely to respond by expanding their own campaign.
“The self-declared (pro-Russian) republics (in eastern Ukraine) have enough weapons, including ones captured from the other side” said Putin.
“It’s hard to imagine how the self-declared republics would respond. Perhaps they would deploy weapons to other conflict zones.”
Putin also said Russia intended to draft a resolution for consideration in the United Nations Security Council, suggesting armed U.N. peacekeepers be deployed to eastern Ukraine to help protect ceasefire monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) there.
“It would help resolve the problem in eastern Ukraine,” said Putin, saying that a slew of preconditions would need to be met before any such deployment happened.
If we're honest, a lot of recent republican 'success' relies solely on getting a demographic of people to buy into and believe egregious untruths.Nearly a million minors growing up here that now have to worry about what the **** will happen to them
And it's for no other reason than to spite Obama/liberals/democrats/POC and appeal to Trump's white supremacist voter base. Disgusting.
I'm so sick of this lie they keep peddling that becoming a US citizen is as easy as copping a one-way plane ticket.
That everyone who crosses the border gets to stay and the US just turns a blind eye and hands out welfare to them. It's an egregious untruth.
Y'all been keeping up with what's going on in Myanmar recently? Been on the news here a lot. Lots of violence going on and displacement due to said violence. Seems to be a large persecution of the state's Muslim ethnic minorities by radical Buddhists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...120000-rohingya-flee-myanmar-violence-un-says
Man Trump has really bungled this DACA situation....if he really didn't want it to end, he shouldn't have sent out Jefferson Sessions.
The only small leeway I will give him is that 10 attorney generals were ready to sue the government to not enforce DACA, but other than that, Trump could have went against those AGs and be vocal of keeping DACA and press on congress to pass a measure instead of being silent on the matter, or rather sending out the bigoted AG to spread untruths of why DACA is being eliminated in 6 months.
Even as a citizen of the US, how can you trust the government after this, especially when hard working immigrants voluntarily gave up their information to the govt so that they can legally work here are now about to get ****ed by a bunch of bigots....this is just wrong and sad.
Yeah on this afternoon's news broadcast there was a segment about Malala Yousafzai calling out Aung San Suu Kyi, telling her the world is waiting for her to take action and condemn this violence. Suu Kyi has been getting a lot of negative press in the newspapers over here too, including calls to revoke her Nobel peace prize.The Myanmar situation is pretty terrible and is basically devolving into straight up ethnic cleansing . Aung Suh Kyi needs to return or be stripped of her Nobel peace prize. It's shameful how she's become complicit in a lot of the same kind of tyranny and political violence she fought against.
Damn. This could really split up my family.
Damn. This could really split up my family.
Same here