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Trump to add $100,000 fee for skilled worker visa applicants
US President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that will add a $100,000 (£74,000) fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme aimed at bringing in skilled workers from abroad into certain industries.
The proclamation will reportedly mention "abuse" of the programme and will restrict entry unless payment is made.
Wow this will reduce H1Bs dramatically, there may be a few cases where the employer pays but that's it.
The greatest beneficiary of the programme the previous fiscal year was Amazon, followed by tech giants Tata, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google, according to government statistics.
On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!
Just signed, $100,000/year...for very, very valuable specialists.
https://apnews.com/article/cocaine-speedboat-trump-dominican-republic-e42c255ec0e8d5c2d85a7670d12adfdf
Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speedboat destroyed by US Navy


Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.
Fortwaye says
Charlie is dead
How is that caused by Trump?
Fortwaye says
Charlie is dead
How is that caused by Trump?
MolotovCocktail says
Fortwaye says
Charlie is dead
How is that caused by Trump?
It’s not, just the sad state of affairs we are in as a nation. I don’t expect Trump to fix everything overnight. I just don’t see anything getting better yet or looking like it will, feels like we stuck in limbo….

It’s not, just the sad state of affairs we are in as a nation. I don’t expect Trump to fix everything overnight. I just don’t see anything getting better yet or looking like it will, feels like we stuck in limbo….
Effort is being made. What did Biden do during his term? This is far better. You can't win everything out the gate. Takes time.
Through the years, Democrats (and Republicans) have been perhaps over-generous in their slap-happy use of the term, “war.” War on Drugs, War on Crime, War on Obesity, War on Terror, you name it, right now there’s an endless war raging against whatever social evil you can think of; albeit all of them are more accurately described as wars on our pocketbooks, rather than on the elusive enemies themselves.
President Trump appears to be taking that concept more literally.
On September 15th, U.S. Special Operations Forces sank a small boat in the Caribbean, killing all three people aboard and blowing up a shipment of strange white powder. Fortunately, it was later confirmed that Hunter Biden was not aboard. He was at a different crack party. But I digress.
This week, the military celebrated ‘Sinko de Mayo’ by retiring another crack cruiser and its 11 sailors. (h/t Jimmy Failla.) Right after, the Trump administration delivered a formal notice of hostile action to Congress, which is legally required whenever US forces are engaged in armed conflict.
Trump’s notice called the cartels’ sunken sailors “unlawful combatants” —a War on Terror term— who were “affiliated with a designated terrorist organization engaged in trafficking illicit drugs.” ...
In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), SCOTUS found that the “war on terror” against Al Qaeda was a “real war” for constitutional purposes. That ruling allowed treating Al Qaeda terrorists as enemy combatants who were not entitled to court hearings or traditional due process, and could be tried by military tribunals under the Geneva Convention. ...
You can understand why China might consider a fentanyl war against the American Empire to be fair play. What’s good for the goose, and so on. A certain historical irony. The point is, modern scholars —both Western and Chinese— overwhelmingly characterize the Opium Wars as unjust wars of aggression that undermined China’s sovereignty.
The Administration’s unspoken argument, formed from its various acts and notices, executive orders, and hearings held by various Congressional committees, is that China is waging a plausibly deniable Opium Proxy War against the United States, by and through the Maduro regime in Venezuela and the cartels in Mexico. I’m not the only one who’s made the historical comparison. A scholarly article from NDU/PRISM, 2019:
The New Opium War:
A National Emergency
By Celina B. Realuyo
So when corporate media’s ‘legal experts’ argue that drugs are only a law enforcement issue, and not a military matter, they are intentionally ignoring well-established and uncontroversial war history. Drugs can absolutely be weapons of war. Pretending otherwise is either historically illiterate or intentionally evasive.
As I said yesterday, the drugs issue is only part of the Venezuelan problem. It’s a real part, a modern Opium War, but the other part is the Proxy: Maduro’s cozying up to the Chinese— plumb spang in America’s backyard. One way or another, that kind of thing has to stop before it gets out of hand. Before you know it, China will have a giant military base looming over Corpus Christi like a giant Spongebob bent on revenge, and a brand-new naval port squatting on the Gulf of America.
President Trump has evidently decided to pull the plug on both China’s Opium Proxy War and any Chinese military bases in the American hemisphere. You’ll recall that in April (which now seems a lifetime ago), Pete Hegseth pushed China out of the Panama Canal. Trump also first tried to tackle the problem through tariffs —remember the early trade talks about fentanyl with Canada, Mexico, and China?— but he couldn’t pin Beijing down, and the crackheaded whack-a-mole shifted to Venezuela.
Behold, the next step.
Delayed September report shows U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs, blowing past expectations
On Nov 20, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a delayed September report showing U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs while the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%.
The government shutdown delayed publication nearly seven weeks and the Labor Department canceled a standalone October report, folding some data into November's release.
Revisions show July and August payrolls trimmed by 33,000 jobs, with September gains led by health care and bars and restaurants , while transportation and warehousing lost 25,000 and federal government payrolls dropped 3,000.



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