ICE agents barked at the pastor that they had to take him back to their office in order to prove his legal status to be in the US.

"He's a pastor! You're beating a pastor," one witness yells.

"He's not a pastor in this country," one of the ICE thugs growls.

"God will judge you," an eyewitness warns. "You're taking people from their kids, and leaving them alone."

And China is building up its nuclear arsenal rapidly.

BTW: North Korea is about to deploy a nuclear-engined submarine.

Aren't we all lucky to have Dummkopf Trumpf as POTUS?

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Your father and my friend served in the USAF as navigators at the same time. 'Vic' also flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis and met JFK (and MLK Jr later).

#9: There is no confusion on my part as a cook or my friend who worked in the food industry as a "taster." .

My wife and I bought fresh groceries and produce in Paris France and Tokyo Japan and ate like the natives during the day on picnics.

At night, we went to eat where the locals ate, not the tourist spots.

When I was single, I did the same in Thailand, Turkiye, and Germany. I bought local produce and ate picnic style. At night, I ate with the locals.

Food and produce taste better overseas because they are fresh, are less chemically-processed, and use different pesticides than US food. I can see the difference when I shop in the foreign grocery stores.

Worst. President. Ever.

And on top of our misery, this week ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu again befouls the US with his noxious and unwelcome presence.

Hi Corky

We hope you and your family are enjoying the holiday season surviving as best as possible these times that trouble men's souls.

And don't drop your left after the jab.

Franciscan Father Joseph Bach, whose organization helps migrants in the US, called the Trumpf junta's deportation of Iranians "the most unchristian thing to do. It's scary, it concerns me, it is not OK. I call this a death flight."

#4 I just went through Florence and I grabbed something to eat from this famous place.

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-28 09:49 AM | FLAG: "There's more than one Florence in the world? Who knew?

Y'all realize that the European countries militaries are the way they are because that is what America wanted, right?
Client states buying our military goods

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-28 12:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Yup

And the US did not want nuclear weapons to proliferate after WWII, so Japan, Germany, and then Taiwan, South Korea, fell under the American nuclear umbrella. France and the UK developed their own nukes to protect themselves and NATO.

Our allies also helped us economically during wartime. Just one example of many: "During the Vietnam War, Canadian industry exported raw materials and chemicals used in the manufacture of Agent Orange and other war supplies to the US. Agent Orange was tested at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick in cooperation with the US military."

From 15 Sep to 15 October, 134 countries made a total of 4,640 seizures during Operation Thunder 2025. This record number of seizures included tens of thousands of protected animals and plants and tens of thousands of cubic meters of illegally logged timber, as well as more than 30 tons of species classified as endangered under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Significant seizures around the world:

South African authorities arrested 24 suspects and seized protected succulents, live pangolins and over 17,000 abalone (sea snails), as well as unlicensed firearms and ammunition.

A shipment from Asia intercepted at a North American mail center contained over 1,300 primate body parts including bones skulls and other derivatives.

Indonesian authorities seized over 3,000 birds and 7,000 arthropods including, butterflies, spiders, and centipedes.

Brazilian authorities dismantled a trafficking network, identified 145 suspects and rescued over 200 wild animals, including a crackdown on an international golden lion tamarin trafficking ring.

Tanzanian law enforcement and CITES seized over 100 ivory tusks and pieces worth USD 415,000 and over 140 hippopotamus teeth worth USD 40,000.

Authorities in Qatar arrested an individual trying to sell an endangered primate for USD 14,000 on social media.

Mexican authorities seized seven animals in Sinaloa, including two tigers, along with firearm components frequently associated with organized crime activities.

More than 40 shipments of insects and 80 shipments of butterflies, originating in Germany, Slovakia and the UK, were intercepted at a US mail center.

French customs seized 107 ivory pieces from marketplaces, while Austrian customs raided an online ivory dealer's home and recovered six more pieces.

Vietnamese authorities arrested two individuals on a fishing vessel carrying 4.2 tons of pangolin scales and other reptile and bird parts.

In the Dominican Republic, authorities detained 90 individuals for crimes linked to illegal logging.

Germany intercepted over 1,000 illegal wildlife and forestry items including ivory, reptile parts, coral, plant derivatives and live specimens, primarily at mail centers and airports.

The group of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing the diabolical Trumpf regime ranged in ages from one to 60. They were located following a search conducted in frigid cold winter conditions of temperatures below minus 15 degrees Celsius. Eight individuals were transported to a hospital, including six treated for frostbite. Authorities confirmed that no injuries were life-threatening.

A man was also arrested under the Canadian Customs Act in connection with a suspected smuggling operation. All 19 individuals have requested asylum and were transferred to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for processing.

North Korean supremo Kim Jong-un continues filling his fat face with food and building expensive WMDs with help from Vladimir Putin while his people starve and his soldiers get uselessly killed fighting in Ukraine.

A nuclear-powered submarine carries a small reactor that generates its own electricity, oxygen, and heat, meaning the submarine can stay deep underwater for as long as the food lasts to feed the crew. This submarine can travel faster and farther than a diesel submarine. So, for military planners in the US, ROK, Taiwan, or Japan, this particular submarine poses a grave threat.

Theoretically this underwater vessel (estimated to weight 8,700 tons) can sail across the Pacific Ocean and sit off the coast of California, Taiwan, Japan, anywhere, ready to fire missiles, without anyone knowing it is there. If North Korea has a submarine hidden deep in the ocean, this vessel guarantees that any country attacking North Korea would suffer damage in return.

In September 2023, North Korea launched a submarine named 'Hero Kim Kun Ok'. While that vessel could carry nuclear missiles, it was still powered by diesel engines. ROK anti-submarine systems are designed to locate and track noisy diesel submarines, not quiet nuclear ones like this one pictured below.

My friend just returned from Florence and echoed the same aspects about the freshness and tastiness of Italian cuisine.

He said the cappuccinos were much tastier than ours as well.

California Wealth Tax Proposal:

"One-Time Wealth Tax on Billionaires: Billionaires living in California on 1 January 2026 would have to pay a one-time state tax equal to five percent of their net worth. The tax would be due in 2027. Taxpayers would have the option to spread the payments over five years, but would have to pay more to do so. Real estate, pensions, and retirement accounts would be excluded from the tax.

Most of the Money Set Aside for Health Care: Revenues from the wealth tax would be set aside in a special account. The state would decide how and when to spend the money but it would have to be spent on certain types of services. In particular, 90 percent of the money would have to be spent on health care services for the public. The rest would have to be spent on administration of the wealth tax, education, and food assistance. Other state laws that require some tax revenue to be used in certain ways, like spending on schools and building the state's rainy day savings, would not apply to this money."

*** Trumpf Junta Cruelties Against Migrants Continue ***

The diabolical Trumpf junta has mounted a nationwide campaign to void the asylum claims of thousands of immigrants with active cases in immigration court by arguing that they can be deported to countries that are not their own. The effort appears to have intensified in recent weeks, targeting asylum-seekers with pending cases in immigration courts in Atlanta, NYC, Miami, LA, San Francisco, Texas and elsewhere across the US.

After the junta fired scores of immigration judges this year, Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth transferred DOD JAGs to the DOJ to replace them in order to expedite the cases and to remove the migrants; one such JAG did not play along and was relieved.

Moreover, the Trumpf junta is set to deport hundreds of Iranian nationals. The Iranian government reported that ICE had "planned to deport about 400 Iranians currently living in the US, most of whom entered illegally."

"Out of this number 120 have been selected for deportation and will return to Iran within the next one or two days," Tehran added, attributing the deportation to America's "new anti-immigration policy."

These poor Iranians must be absolutely terrified. Heaven help them.

The people of the world will never trust America again, thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party.

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