Ironically enough most non-US banks will not serve potential customers with US citizenship due to the excessive financial reporting requirements the US has for citizens abroad.

“Mental health team offers help” by offering affordable housing, right?

The BBC is a savvy propaganda operator which initially denies working for the British government.

I knew that citizens have to register, but I didn’t know that immigrants have to as well.

Green card holders, refugees, asylees, parolees, and undocumented men must register.

I have no words.

That is what Germany is doing, up to the limitations cfgaussian outlined.

The statement at the bottom from the war ministry says it all.

Da der Wehrdienst nach geltendem Recht ausschließlich auf Freiwilligkeit beruht, sind entsprechende Genehmigungen grundsätzlich zu erteilen. Wir werden aber durch Verwaltungsvorschriften klarstellen, dass die Genehmigung als erteilt gilt, solange der Wehrdienst freiwillig ist.

Rough translation:

Since military service is currently exclusively voluntary, permission [for longer stays abroad] will be granted. We will also create an internal policy to automatically approve all requests, as long as service is voluntary.

Champagne bubbles

US ceasefire proposals: you cease, we fire.

A German newspaper:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/neue-wehrpflicht-regel-kaum-beachtete-aenderung-hat-weitreichende-folgen-li.10028539

Or the German law itself:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__2.html

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__3.html

Then logically it stands to follow that German prosecutors, judges, and buerocrats are Russian bots whenever they cite German law.

At least the forced conscription bit hasn’t been hidden. The government and military were very clear all last year in saying that if there aren’t enough volunteers there will be compulsory service, and designing the law to automatically change when necessary. From there it’s not a stretch to conscript older men as well, especially those over age approx. 35 who had to participate in compulsory service before it was abolished about 15 years ago.

The fact that this change has been reported on very little, and if reported on then well after the change took effect, is very concerning.

Iran’s anti-aircraft missiles have an incredble range!

Weird limited hangout.

Securing intelligence complex backdoors once and for all.

Hopefully no Ecuadorians get caught in the crossfire between the US military invaders and the CIA/DEA drug runners.

NASA could start by building a modern rocket, not a hacky assortment of spare parts left over from the Shuttle program and designed in the 1970s. But it’s not about going to the moon, it’s about giving the military industrial complex more money.

Nobody even knows how to build the RS-25 engines anymore. There’s a handful not at the bottom of the ocean and they’re somehow supposed to take whitey to the moon.

So the US will lose the “race” it unilaterally declared. Just like the last time.

Because PM Starmer is facing a public backlash to Andrew and other UK elites being mixed up in the recent document dumps. It’s not for justice, it’s to save face.

She also said the contents [of the backpack] would have been discovered inevitably through a federal search warrant.

Coulda woulda shoulda.

If that sets a precedent (or already is one), goodbye due process and any charade of protection from searches by law enforcement.

In school I learned that just because a warrant would very likely be granted doesn’t mean the police can skip that step.

But as we know the rule of law means the rule of the legal system over the lower classes.

There was a published exchange between former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and former US President Bill Clinton from the 1990s, in which Chrétien made a strong arguments for Canada’s nominal sovereignty in terms of how it benefits the US position. For example, Canada can take the side of the US in international relations; a state or even multiple states cannot do that. The subordination of Canadian intelligence (CISA) to the US via Five and more Eyes is another example: the US can use CISA to provide legal cover for surveilling US citizens.