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cuts to food stamps, housing assistance, unemployment benefits , phase out of solar/wind credits , shift to nuclear energy. Trump white house believes that record job growth will offset any tax reductions. I don't like the "red" part. Green is a go. What is debatable is growth in jobs. Wh...

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bala wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025 19:58 ^^
The SALT deductions for Blue states and others is upto 500K income -

That is pretty high income even in CA and NYC/Tristate.

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saip wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025 13:02 About tips I WILL definitely cut my habit of 20 to 10. No sense giving away my taxed dollars to benefit untaxed people.

That 10% saved will go to Single Malt supply, I suppose. or is it Champagne now that is in fashion in the south bay?

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Jay wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025 09:01
guess you would not object to bikhari red states mooching all the tax dollars from these blue states.

https://time.com/7222411/blue-states-ar ... ed-states/

No, I would not object. Wealth needs to be redistributed. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

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@Yayavar ji, the sticking point for Ghana students was not AIT but Gandhi being racist. MKG considered Africans inferior to Indians. Classical racism that.

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Britains no 1 rag, stirring hatred as usual Royal Navy mocked by Indian tourist board over £88million F-35B Lightning jet stranded in the country for over a fortnight https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14871531/Royal-Navy-mocked-Indian-tourist-board-stranded-f35-stealth-jet.html I replied to ...

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What’s deeply troubling is that even in the face of such violence, there remain fringe voices even within the Hindu community who deny that Hinduphobia exists. That denial only makes our communities more vulnerable. One more point. Of late, I have been hearing that temples are considering fencing a...

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What’s deeply troubling is that even in the face of such violence, there remain fringe voices even within the Hindu community who deny that Hinduphobia exists. That denial only makes our communities more vulnerable. Hindus for HUman Rights is not a fringe group, unfortunately. A lot of kids of firs...

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bala wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025 00:56 Those in Blue states with high home prices and real estate taxes can deduct upto $40K instead of $10K as SALT.

I don't like that part. It should have been capped at $20K. These blue states are dolts in managing their state finances what with sanctuary cities and all that flim flam.

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Bing CoPilot: In the 2024 election cycle how much did billionaires give to Political Action Committees aligned with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party? Billionaire Contributions to Party-Aligned PACs in 2024 Below are the total known contributions from billionaires to federal political a...

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Cyrano wrote: ↑02 Jul 2025 14:56 Planes are designed around engines. Changing the engine will lead to several years of testing. We are stuck with this 404 engine not found error. That's the uncomfortable truth.

and 414 is "414 URI Too Long"

Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... Status/414

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Is it this stratfor? https://worldview.stratfor.com/topic

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https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1940521412567224815 NEW: Poll finds that 40% of voters say they are likely to support Elon Musk's "America Party" if he decides to launch it, according to Quantus Insights. The poll comes as Musk has threatened to launch his own political party over recent ...

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Does that include SuperPAC money?

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On another note, not sure if anyone is following the controversy surrounding BBC and its Glastonbury coverage. Essentially a group called Bob Vylan started chants of “Dea.th to IDF” and the live coverage didn’t cut away. @Tanaji ji, I posted in the "Understanding the US" thread as SDOTUS ...

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Calculated at $45 trillion + with 8% compound interest wef from 1947 And we need a formal apology from that namby pamby, cuckolding "king" of theirs @chetak gaaru, I doubt they have that kind of money, even if all the four mentioned countries pool together. They don't even have 4.5 trilli...

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Jay wrote: ↑03 Jul 2025 22:13 Yeah, NO. Knock yourself out with this exercise...

> The DJT cult members on BRF are exposed.

DNC operatives jump in where independents fear to tread.

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They like nipping things in the bud (look at other reactor strikes). In that sense, we are both saying the same thing... Correct again. I am pointing out to you about others in this thread who are arguing for Iran to have nuclear power. They have more than enough O&NG reserves and the technolog...

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Not accurate. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-respect-billionaire-b2740880.html Perils of quoting some random picture from the internet.... That random picture is total BS. It has only two billionaires are Republican. From December 2024: Trump ...

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This is no way to forestall the conversation on reparations. Good observation. Also we don't need reparations in cash. We want reparations in kind; settling a large number of Indians in Anglosphere lands, UK/Canada/Aus/NZ to whit and share all the patents and tech UK holds with India without royalt...

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What will surprise them is the chaotic decisionmaking and aftermath, laid bare by Trump himself. The president’s zig-zagging and maximalist posts on Truth Social in the run-up to the attack, his public rejection of intelligence estimates, his insistence that the strikes “obliterated” Fordow before ...

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ritesh wrote: ↑02 Jul 2025 09:23 Alive and talking malsi never looses while dead don't talk

Reminds me of the Chase novel "Dead Stay Dumb".

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If Iran was "years" aways from nukeclear detergent -- would Mossad expend so much capital/resources targeting Scientist's -- losing precious "agents/sources" - that take YEARS to develop ? especially in a Closed Jihadi Country like Iran Because they can and its relatively inexpe...

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As long as Iran does not believe in the right of Israel to exist, no amount diplomacy (isn't all diplomacy balanced by definition?! :roll: ) will work. They will string the world along till they get nucs. Now is as good time as any to have called their double game and bluff. It is a tad too late in ...

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Did he really imply that he wanted to deport US citizens today when he said there are bad people who were born here that need to be deported? @Tanaji ji, this may be the reason for Trump's ire. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1939806847504105683 Elon Musk @elonmusk If this insane spending bill passes...

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Bottom Line The JCPOA was not perfect, but it froze Iran’s program at a low level with tight inspections. Walking away from it removed limits without putting anything better in place, allowing Iran to build back toward a breakout capability. The original sin was committed by Obama who handed USD 1....

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A drop in the bucket, but still this is not how capitalism is supposed to work.

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuwHn6vWQAEcKG0?format=jpg&name=medium Around 2000, it started to go up steeply. That is during 8 years of Dubya, 8 years of Obama, 4 years of Trump. Biden 4 years also the trend continued. Clinton era also was similar except it started flattening out by the end of h...

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@JEM, No. 3 is the crucial point. That was the key. Pakis acted on behalf of the terrorists closing their "plausible deniability" escape route.

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vera_k wrote: ↑30 Jun 2025 22:45 So if one has the ability to invest directly in US treasuries, why not do that?

Exactly. Why would somebody take the risk of the intermediary going bust? I never understood that.

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The UK is a (the only one) Tier 1 partner on the F35 project. My understanding is that 35% of the airplane is built by BAe, but my information is old. The F35B is the STOL version sacrificing some range to nave a shorter take off and landing. It is used by the RAF as a replacement for the Harrier. ...

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Vayutuvanji Did not Sam Pitgaya use Unkil's old equipment and remodel as CDOT and make money in the interim!! Also Pitgaya has been involved in many guplas noo! That came later. AFAIK, he put together a capable group who did develop the switch from ground up. I know a few. They are no slouches. He ...

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑30 Jun 2025 05:01 About Iran: the ceasefire is likely temporary. How temporary depends on how badly Iran uranium enrichment capabilities are degraded. It also depends on political factors in the US and Israel.

Vacuously true.

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Surely we can find the Congress election manifesto which has this? Yes, correct. I saw the story in India Today when PV saab was forced to open up India, IIRC. I cross checked with people who would have been in the know. One thing I am sure of now is that there was a story in one of the very popula...

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chetak wrote: ↑24 Jun 2025 11:19 India’s New Digital Address Revolution – DIGIPIN
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Love it. Both shittistans - west and east - are covered as well as Tibet. It is future proof but for Afghanistan.

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chetak wrote: ↑29 Jun 2025 22:31 Bangladesh-Adani dues: Bangladesh pays $384 million to Adani Power, trims outstanding to $500 million

Not even 50%.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vylan#Glastonbury_Festival_2025 During Bob Vylan's set at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival, the band demonstrated in support of Palestinian liberation. In front of a screen reading "Free Palestine: United Nations have called it a genocide. The BBC calls it a 'con...

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Bob Vylon group is banned from the US by SDOTUS. They have an upcoming tour out of which they were expecting tons of moolah. BBC perfidy is highlighted by ADL CEO Greenblatt in this video clip from Fox News. He also talks about Mamdani's failure to say he is is against "Globalization of Intifad...

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