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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zk4l8g26o

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.

https://patrick.net/post/1309521/2017-08-30-antifa-crimes?start=96#comment-2208486

Booger says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zk4l8g26o

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.

mell says

Wow this will reduce H1Bs dramatically, there may be a few cases where the employer pays but that's it.

AND this is why employers have been mass firing Americans and replacing them with H1Bs. They saw or were tipped off that this was coming.

Trump should make the fee yearly per H1b.

The fee is a great idea. The whole point of H1b is to fuck American tech workers by replacing them with cheap labor from India in the US.

Very similar to illegal aliens, except legal.

If the H1b workers are really contributing much more than American workers, they should be paid much more than American workers. But they never are. This proves that the program is a scam.

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.

The poor dears! How will they manage to survive?

Just signed, $100,000/year...for very, very valuable specialists.

Patrick says

Trump should make the fee yearly per H1b.

That is as they say a DONE DEAL ! ! ! !

MolotovCocktail says

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115233555445134712

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!!!

I presume they were racing to get back into Venezuelan territorial waters. They should have been doing zig-zags to make it harder to be targeted.

"We have some job openings for fast boat operators". Great pay, and a retirement plan to die for.

REpro says

Just signed, $100,000/year...for very, very valuable specialists.

already sadly, backtracked big time.

https://apnews.com/article/cocaine-speedboat-trump-dominican-republic-e42c255ec0e8d5c2d85a7670d12adfdf

Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speedboat destroyed by US Navy

zzyzzx says

https://apnews.com/article/cocaine-speedboat-trump-dominican-republic-e42c255ec0e8d5c2d85a7670d12adfdf

Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speedboat destroyed by US Navy

It'll be warehoused in bond for a while before being recirculated for sale and distribution.

Patrick says

Who is Elmi?

@Patrick

The Brother-Husband

Secret Service: Shady and Massive Telecommunications Network Thwarted
NEW YORK – The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the agency’s protective operations.

This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.

In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.

While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.

“The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,” said U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran. “The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled.”

These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network. The U.S. Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit, a new section of the agency dedicated to disrupting the most significant and imminent threats to our protectees, is conducting this investigation. This investigation is currently ongoing.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the NYPD, as well as other state and local law enforcement partners, provided valuable technical advice and assistance in support of this investigation.

This is an ongoing investigation.
https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york

I love the 'every man speak' that Trump uses. He seldom tweaks the Overton Window of the mass audience, though we know he knows a lot more than he says.

https://x.com/thestormredux/status/1971325985695072284

Let's add these:
Since 2020, the Trump family (primarily Donald Trump) has secured 5 favorable resolutions (all settlements) against media and social media companies. These total $90.5 million in awards.

Dec 2024, ABC News (Disney), $15 million Defamation suit over on-air remarks
Jan 2025, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), $25 million Suit over account suspensions post-Jan. 6
Feb 2025, X (formerly Twitter) $10 million Suit over account ban post-Jan. 6
July 2025, Paramount (CBS News) $16 million Suit over edited "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris
Sept 2025, YouTube (Google) $24.5 million Suit over account suspension post-Jan. 6

Read this summons of the military taking place tomorrow. Sounds like a second Declaration of Independence from the Brits. The language is very unusual (or maybe very usual for those that know the nuances of the relationship, the US Corporation and International Law). "Sovereign Right under Common Law" (not Maritime Law, not Law of the Forum, not 'legal' (but not lawful) administrative law), His Excellency of the Western Kingdom, etc. etc. This thing is radical!

Apparently Trump is severing all joint exercises with the British military and sharing of information with MI6. This is a soft revolution so far to all of the the mayhem of the British Royal East and West Indies Companny and the City of London. Forget Israel or Iran or Ukraine, this is to the source, not the proxies.

President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict:

1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.

3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the complete staged withdrawal.

4. Within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned.

5. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans who were detained after October 7th 2023, including all women and children detained in that context. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.

6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.

7. Upon acceptance of this agreement, full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip. At a minimum, aid quantities will be consistent with what was included in the January 19, 2025, agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage), rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of necessary equipment to remove rubble and open roads.

8. Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party. Opening the Rafah crossing in both directions will be subject to the same mechanism implemented under the January 19, 2025 agreement.

9. Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body, the “Board of Peace,” which will be headed and chaired by President Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair. This body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza. This body will call on best international standards to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people of Gaza and is conducive to attracting investment.

10. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well-meaning international groups, and will be considered to synthesize the security and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future Gaza.

11. A special economic zone will be established with preferred tariff and access rates to be negotiated with participating countries.

12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.

13. Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded buy back and reintegration program all verified by the independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building a prosperous economy and to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.

14. A guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas, and the factions, comply with their obligations and that New Gaza poses no threat to its neighbors or its people.

15. The United States will work with Arab and international partners to develop a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) to immediately deploy in Gaza. The ISF will train and provide support to vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza, and will consult with Jordan and Egypt who have extensive experience in this field. This force will be the long-term internal security solution. The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to help secure border areas, along with newly trained Palestinian police forces. It is critical to prevent munitions from entering Gaza and to facilitate the rapid and secure flow of goods to rebuild and revitalize Gaza. A deconfliction mechanism will be agreed upon by the parties.

16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza. As the ISF establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the Unites States, with the objective of a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel, Egypt, or its citizens. Practically, the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement they will make with the transitional authority until they are withdrawn completely from Gaza, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.

17. In the event Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, including the scaled-up aid operation, will proceed in the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF to the ISF.

18. An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence to try and change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.

19. While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.

20. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1972726021196562494

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.

Nobody wants them!

Didn’t end war in Ukraine.
Deportations are abysmal shit
Charlie is dead
Inflation is high
He’s demanding lower rates from FED to create more inflation

My point is Trump is better at marketing than doing. He’s a great showman, but results aren’t there. And he surrounded himself who benefit by robbing Main Street.

Based on number of peace treaties he's negotiated (7), Trump has saved more lives than any other President. He hasn't started any new wars like every other president in this century.
Charlie is dead because of Liberal democrats inciting crazy people with constant hate retoric. See the definition of "Stochastic Terrorism" for an explainer.
The economy is booming - prove me wrong. Lower Fed rates will lower our National debt payoff.
Tariffs impact has been recalculated (by law, GAO must do this) and went from a projected $3Tn loss to a $300Bn GAIN.

Nice troll, though. One more and I can ignore you.

Fortwaye says

Charlie is dead

How is that caused by Trump?

MolotovCocktail says

Fortwaye says

Charlie is dead

How is that caused by Trump?

FtWayne is just trolling us.

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….

Fortwaye says

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….

There is a lot of this going on lately.

Fortwaye says

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….

Ask yourself why? There's a vocal minority on the left the Dems have to pander to. When Obama was in office I didn't like what he was doing, but I didn't bitch and whine or riot. Trump is dealing with toddlers at this point. Barron his youngest is 19. You forget how difficult it is to deal with people that act like toddlers. This includes congress critters.

At some point the toddlers need to be slapped. Might take some time to see change. They're still in the hissy fit stage of Trump winning again and with the popular vote. Also, do you want one human to be able to just change everything? There's a process and unfortunately ours is slow. I know you've been here a while FW, and know who TD was. How long did the murder trial take? Years. Trump may be putting stuff in motion that cannot be reconciled until he's out of office.

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.

WookieMan says

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.

Some expect 30-50 years of BS to be reversed in 9 months with a hairsbreadth majority in the House and an even Senate (accounting for weak RINOs Collins and Murkowski)

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/terms-of-art-friday-october-3-2025

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.

https://ground.news/article/bd49dac0-0e58-4429-92e2-d07180d8cc2a

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.

Shrubbie looking very unhappy and uncomfortable at Cheney's funeral. Good.

American flag over Cheney's coffin was exchanged for a 'Catholic' flag, another unprecedented flag comm. Shrubbie's father had the wrinkled flag as the Scherff Globalist infiltrator and was alleged to have been executed.

So, was Cheney Knights of Malta (Jesuilt fifth vow) serving the same? Maybe somebody on the internet will reveal the 'coffin code'.

Body double aficionados will have a field day trying to see who are avatars and not the originals. Biden Actor and "Jill" are gimmes.

The Fourth Reich wants back in. Guaranteed WWIII for the tunnel reptiles.