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China is also getting ready to build a 215,000 square foot embassy in the heart of London. It will be next door to the Tower of London and very close to the Tower bridge. This is a highly sensitive area with lots of fiber optic communications nodes nearby. It's also a symbolic historical site and the Chinese want to show dominance by building on top of it. When completed, it will be the largest embassy in all of Europe.

When the Chinese submitted their plan, they redacted some of the rooms in the building, meaning they didn't want the Brits to know what they would be used for. The Brits approved it anyway despite lawsuits from the city council.

Oh but that's not all, the Brits caught two men (both native British white dudes) passing info to China. They had them dead to rights (had their communications with Chinese agents) but DROPPED the charges. Why? Because the 1911 statute they were using for prosecution says that the info must be passed to a foreign "enemy." The prosecutors argued that while they really wanted to prosecute, they could not get higher ups in the government to declare China was an enemy. Britain redrafted the espionage law in 2023 to make it more modern (removing "enemy" language) but the prosecution could not use that statute because the men committed the espionage prior to 2023.

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You weren’t the only one by a lot. Many here didn’t like him from the start.

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Most people who didn't like him didn't like him for political reasons, not football.

I don't think anyone thought he wouldn't be able to win more than 6 games in any of his 3 seasons. He was no improvement over Harsin, which I think surprised even the Freeze haters.

EDIT: In fact, you could say he was worse than Harsin because Harsin rolled a shite roster out there. Freeze had dudes all over the place.

But people in Seattle tell me that we are really bad off and need communism to fix us.

I love "secret task force." Well it's not so secret is it?

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Here is how. Not enough people care about local elections. The left cares.

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I would suspect Lumberton is Democrat majority based on its demographics. People seem to think everyone in MS is a Republican - it's not so. Lots of Dems there, they just don't win state elections.

It's the same in Alabama. The Black Belt is heavy democrat. The north and coastal part of the state keeps it red. Same thing in MS.

I was in HS in 1993 and I do not remember Tears For Fears being a chart topper. Wild.

But out of those two years, I much prefer 1994. I mean the album lineup was fricking insane:

Weezer- Blue Album
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Cranberries - No Need to Argue
AIC - Jar of Flies
STP - Purple
Greenday- Dookie
Offspring - Smash
NIN- Downward Spiral
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Sabotage was a single on it)

Other happenings I remember:

Cobain died
Woodstock '94
Pink Floyd on their last tour before breakup
Eagles launch "Hell Freezes Over" tour

Right now it is perfectly legal for non-profits to take foreign donations AND they are allowed to keep them anonymous (even from the IRS when it comes to c4's). 501(c)(4)'s are allowed to do electioneering and fund campaign ads, etc. They just cannot do it more than 50% of the time. They are allowed to put foreign money into a pool with domestic money and pay for their "political" stuff with it if they want.

It blows my mind that this is legal. Foreign donations are bad enough, but there being no law requiring disclosure of these donors is another. In the case of (c)3's who must report donor names to the IRS, the IRS still can't do anything with the information without a court order. They aren't allowed to pass it onto FBI or other agencies if they find something fishy. Other agencies must serve them with a court order to get the info.

But (c)(4)'s do not have to report anything about their donors, even to the IRS. The FEC only requires it if the money is earmarked for elections (none of them earmark the money).

The DSA is a 501(c)4.

I dunno what's true, but I do know we have a lot of shitty people inside the government who leak shite just to hurt the country. Notice how they always go to WAPO or NYT.

Can they be prosecuted? That's tough because I suspect the information itself is not classified. Maybe the prosecutor can leverage "national defense information" which doesn't have to be formally classified to be prosecutable depending on the circumstances.

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It's the most disappointing term for a president in a very long time

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Yep. The numbers don't lie. Inflation is down from Biden, but prices are still high and rising. Gas prices are out of control, housing prices are at all time highs, etc.

Here is a CPI chart of pricing since 2020:



If an average good cost $100 in 2020, it now costs $130.

I think Chyna is very happy we attacked Iran - they know it is destroying our economy and pushing people to vote for commies.

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how do you think he is doing with Iran?

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About as good as can be expected when the other side knows you will never commit ground troops. Trump simply cannot do it or else Republicans will be ran out of Washington. The Iranians know this and have all the leverage.

We should have left after we bombed their nuke facilities. I am not sure what the point of going back in was.

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Most Americans who support policies associated with democratic socialism are not asking the government to abolish private property, eliminate businesses, or take over the entire economy

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That's exactly what the DSA wants to do and openly admit it. The DSA has factions within it and the communist faction now makes up 51% of the leadership.