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[BruceVC]

6 hours ago, Lexx said:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-scales-back-us-justice-department-white-collar-enforcement

https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388546/dl?inline

Putin is winning so hard right now. Who knows, maybe the new government will even manage to unfreeze all those russian assets in a short while.

I dont think its necessary for  too much drama on this one?

If you read the second link its specific about what the focus is going to be and its about cartels and transnational criminal organisations

And the link  clarifies the 4 main priorities, they seem very reasonable to me around targeting of these types of criminal syndicates?

 

@Elerond read the second link, what do you think?

 

 

 

[Elerond]

6 hours ago, BruceVC said:

I dont think its necessary for  too much drama on this one?

If you read the second link its specific about what the focus is going to be and its about cartels and transnational criminal organisations

And the link  clarifies the 4 main priorities, they seem very reasonable to me around targeting of these types of criminal syndicates?

 

@Elerond read the second link, what do you think?

First they say

Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture. The Criminal Division's Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section shall prioritize investigations, prosecutions, and asset forfeiture actions that target activities of Cartels and TCOs. Task Force KleptoCapture, the Department's Kleptocracy Team, and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, shall be disbanded. Attorneys assigned to those initiatives shall return to their prior posts, and resources currently devoted to those efforts shall be committed to the total elimination of Cartels and TCOs.

then they remove resources from investigating main form of money laundering

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondis-day-one-corporate-crime-memos-rattle-white-collar-bar

I predict that this works as well as war on drugs, US prison industry will be the main benefactory and cartels continue to exist as long as people are willing to pay billions and billions each year for drugs. 

World Wide drug problem will just get worse as western countries are cutting their foreign aid and trade wars loom and cause economic uncertainty that will hit hardest towards poor.

World is full of chemicals that lets people lose their sorrows for minute and more there is misery more there is demand for relief.

[uuuhhii]

human brain contain exponentially growing amount of plastic

while nation pull out who

hopeful times

Edited 9 hours ago by uuuhhii

[Malcador]

Trump is looking out for you, Bruce

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

 

 

[BruceVC]

4 hours ago, Malcador said:

Trump is looking out for you, Bruce

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

 

 

This is going to create days of debate and this EO order is different to the one around the expropriation act, it has more details and includes Israel and several of SA foreign policy decisions that are aligned with countries that are hostile to the US like Iran

" The United States cannot support the government of South Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its ‘undermining United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests.  "

 

SA does have  these "friendships "  and I have often raised  the inconsistencies around our foreign policy decisions, we say we neutral yet we  often dont seem be consistent around this. But we have always seemed to assume that there would be no global fallout for this inconsistency. I doubt the ANC is really aware of the reality of  this inconsistency and how it can criticised by someone like Trump  and then action taken 

But this EO is a  combination of things and even allows Afrikaners a migration path to the US 

But as I said lots of debate  coming around the different points in this EO and why its been signed 

 

 

[Malcador]

What's sort of funny is that all whites in South Africa aren't Afrikaner, no?

[BruceVC]

5 minutes ago, Malcador said:

What's sort of funny is that all whites in South Africa aren't Afrikaner, no?

Yes, Im not

We English\Anglo  and its all about which country your ancestors came from  and there are lots of other white people in SA who wouldnt be considered Afrikaans like Jews or people from  most European countries outside of the Netherlands 

But because Apartheid was implemented by white  Afrikaners there would always be an understandable focus on white Afrikaners in  the modern SA around language and ownership of land 

There is no genocide of white Afrikaners but there are real farm killings and there  is new legislation around education and language and that has riled up white Afrikaners the most because English is still our main language 

And then there is the recent Expropriation bill which we have already discussed

So what Im saying is this EO generalizes about things, it has some truth to it but its also exaggerated 

 

 

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

5 hours ago, Malcador said:

Trump is looking out for you, Bruce

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

 

 

"the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation."

Sounds like Trump wants to import rapefugees. Pretty off-brand, I wonder what's different?

[HoonDing]

Suid Afrika will be much happier as 73rd state under Governor Elon. And all non-whites can be "voluntarily" moved overseas to Madagascar where then they finally will be able to live in peace.