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@ISIDEWITH submitted…12hrs12H
North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons loaded with rubbish and faeces across the heavily fortified border to the South.The South Korean military released photos on Wednesday, some showing rubbish strewn around collapsed balloons, with the word “excrement” written on a bag in one photograph. The North said that the swarm, containing toilet paper and suspected animal faeces, was a response to South Korean propaganda campaigns using balloons.“We sternly warn the North to immediately stop its inhumane and low-class actions,” said Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The North’s actions “clearly violate international laws and seriously threaten the safety of our people,” it added.The military’s explosives ordnance unit and chemical and biological warfare response team were deployed to inspect and collect the objects, and an alert was issued warning residents to keep away and report any sightings to authorities.The South Korean authorities had received prior warning of the attack. Kim Kang Il, the North’s vice minister of defence, issued a statement on Sunday warning that “mounds of wastepaper and filth” would be sent to the South as “tit-for-tat action” in response to the flying of “dirty things” to the North.South Korean activists, often led by North Korean defectors, have regularly sent balloons carrying leaflets with messages critical of Pyongyang and even USB memory sticks with K-pop music videos the other way.
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The Senate last week failed to advance an immigration-reform bill, continuing a trend of futility stretching back decades. The last serious immigration-law overhaul was in 1986, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, and its failure to stem the tide of illegal immigration helped discredit future attempts.But the issue won’t go away, and the recent surge in illegal crossings at the southern border has moved the issue to the center of the 2024 presidential contest. A Wall Street Journal poll conducted in March found that, in seven swing states, immigration ranked as one of voters’ top two concerns. Americans are right to be worried, and it’s wrong to defend mass violations of U.S. law, but the unfortunate reality is that there’s no easy fix.Many Americans fear that foreign-born workers will take jobs away from native-born workers, but immigrants often do the lower-paying, physically demanding, less desirable types of work that keep businesses afloat. “The work of the U.S. citizen serving a table in a restaurant is complemented by the work of a possibly unauthorized worker in the back of the restaurant,” Michael Clemens, an economist at George Mason University, told the Washington Post. “Neither of these jobs can happen without the other.”Trump in a recent interview with Time magazine estimated that 15 million people are in the country illegally, and he said that in a second term he would launch a mass deportation operation using local police, the National Guard and, if necessary, military force.
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“Mass deportation would force people to do it the correct way. We are against illegal immigration not legal immigration.”
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Biden administration is circulating proposals to publicly dispute the $320 million dollar cost figure for the failed Gaza aid pier as a way of making it appear less of a disaster. State Department officials in particular are discussing revising the cost downward to as little as $80 million or so, a Department official told me. The ridiculous proposition offered to stem the criticism of the pier would dispute the Pentagon’s most recent estimate, which is almost double what it originally estimated. That the government seeks to change the narrative says a lot about the Biden camp’s priorities, but it should also be a reminder: If the Pentagon builds it, it will often cost double, triple, or ten times the original estimate, a truth that is plain to any thinking American.Consider some facts: the administration originally estimated the Gaza aid pier to cost $180 million, which is almost half of its current estimated price tag of $320 million. Only after pressure from Congress did the Pentagon, which constructed and oversees the pier, update its original estimate.“The cost has not just risen,” Senator Roger Wicker of the Armed Services Committee said a month into the project. “It has exploded.”
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Israel's diplomatic and military actions have sparked international controversy, leading to increased isolation. The country's minister for offense used social media to express outrage at Spain's recognition of Palestine, a move that deviates from traditional diplomatic practices. Prime Minister Benjamin…
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In Wisconsin, a conservative member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Bob Atwell, has declared his intention to remain in his position beyond the expiration of his term. Appointed by former Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2017, Atwell's seven-year term concluded on May 1. Despite…
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