Human nature doesnt change because of a person’s nationality…
Can we trust the police in the UK?
Public trust and confidence in the police is low. How can forces improve this across all groups, including addressing issues around workforce and culture?31 Oct 2024
reason wrote:
Your naivety is amusing.
Geez I take that back, you are one hard core woman!
…and I told you to…
…go argue elsewhere, with someone else… coz you’re always too fast to call names.
Nevertheless… squirm out of that one.
Can we trust the police in the UK? No.
Give me one of your vids from the 6 am. news.
Public trust and confidence in the police is low. How can forces improve this across all groups, including addressing issues around workforce and culture? 31 Oct 2024
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I have no interest in having any exchanges with you, so you’re just gonna have to presume my position on that one.
Good day!
As of October 2024, YouGov reported that
68% white report having confidence.
49% Black Caribbean and mixed white and black Caribbean 49%
Ethnicity Facts and Figures Oct 2024.
Confidence in October 2019 was 72%.
Surya Loka wrote:
I have no interest in having any exchanges with you, so you’re just gonna have to presume my position on that one.Good day!
Oh Dear… another one bites the dust.
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…or I find their^ manner, lacking, more like. 
I think I can use a similar argument to what I have posted elsewhere:
There are two ways of being attentive in the world: Seemingly dominant in the West today is the need to categorise, name and fix everything, to set boundaries and isolate ‘things’.
Another way is to see events or experiences in their context and interaction with everything else. It is sometimes like trying to remove an object from a spider’s web and realising that everything else is being pulled along with it.
We want to name clear causes in order to categorise an effect, but in the entanglement of events, we discover that the causes cannot be pinned down because they lie far back in the past or far away.
If we judge everything from our point of view ‘now’, then everything seems simple. But if we step back and try to gain an overall impression, or take a ‘meta-perspective’, it’s a bit like the song, “From a Distance”. It looks completely different.
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Is this a response to me? if so, in response to what?
A general response to the way the argument is going in the topic.
Like a good red?
…you gotta uncork it to at least let it breath for a while, before One can form an opinion on its merit.
It seems clear to me that in the US monopoly capitalism is crushing democracy. We’re in the final stage.
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The democracy to spend? 
…and other peoples’ money at that.
Actually, H.R. 1968 will allow for federal operations to continue for another 6 months, until September. Typically, a “clean” continuing resolution would just hold current government spending levels steady, providing for more time for the full appropriations process to continue. However, H.R. 1968 would also:
Congressional Democrats handed that budget resolution to Trump in defeat. Their only “plan” is to hope that by letting him have free reign his popularity will sink. It worked in 2017. In Washington it’s the fascist party versus the pathetic party. But, the people are getting pissed.
NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump fired two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
A White House official confirmed the firings of Democratic Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter after they were first reported by Reuters.
The firings drew sharp criticism from Democratic senators and antimonopoly groups concerned that the move was designed to remove opposition within the agency to big corporations.
This instantiates how monopoly capitalism is king. The fired commissioners are suing to get their jobs back. So, at least for the moment, there’s the courts, which are also under attack from Trump. If he succeeds undermining the judiciary, democracy is toast.
I’m afraid you are obsessed with the line that the Trump administration is giving you. Many of the people fired are not just ‘spending’, but supporting people in need, which the oligarchy sees as wasteful.
American capitalism is making people sick and refusing to pick up the costs for therapy. In fact, it wants people who can’t keep up to fall away completely. If you were treated the way that DOGE is treating people, you’d soon complain.
Do you know what type of therapies these are, or is it all therapies that are being defunded?
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Are they asking each State to fund them locally, instead?
Mags, you don’t know these things either, but you are very condemning and support what is happening without being there. We are both looking across the pond, and are not in the right position to comment. Felix sees it close up.
Here’s the statement on the White House website:
The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits. President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).
Elon Musk didn’t say that, either. The press is lyingagain.
Here is Musk’s direct quote: “The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements — so, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate. That’s the, sort of half-trillion, maybe $6-700 billion a year.”
And he’s exactly right.
What kind of a person doesn’t support eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending that ultimately costs taxpayers more?
It’s a troll-like taught the likes of which has never been seen on the White House website.The figures claimed are all disputed. No one who depends on Medicare or Medicaid benefits will find it reassuring. But, it’s to early to tell exactly who’s benefits will be cut, let alone what therapies.
On April 5, Indivisible, the 50501 organization and others will be holding a nationwide, “HANDS OFF, National Day of Protest”. please attend the events. BUT, IF YOU CAN, ATTEND WHAT NEEDS TO BE A MASSIVE MILLION+ NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, DC.
Local demonstrations are great and it is essential that they continue and grow, but they alone won’t get it done. Their visual impact isn’t sufficient for even most locals to take notice. In this case, with all the many smaller demonstrations, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. There is an urgent need for this massive million-person national protest event that funnels the nation’s unmitigated outrage over the threat to our democracy onto a single spot.
Cost is an important consideration for many people wanting to attend the April 5th protest in DC. Hotels there can be expensive. One way to avoid the cost of a hotel is to use red-eye flights. Participants can schedule a flight that arrives early in the morning and leaves that night. With careful scheduling, there would be time before the demonstration to visit monuments and memorials. And then fly out Saturday night after dinner.
Perhaps local Indivisible and 50501 groups/volunteers, local community centers, social clubs and churches can arrange chartered buses and sign-ups. This would make a huge difference in attendance on the National Mall. And, obviously, car pooling would get more people there and help defray costs for participants.
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…talking of NGOs, I came across this today… an interesting read, from 5 days ago.
https://conservativebrief.com/raid-soros-90217/
In November, the then-Biden-controlled Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expedited its decision to approve a deal allowing Democrat megadonor Soros to acquire a major stake in over 200 radio stations.
Fox News reported at the time that the move has prompted an investigation by the House Oversight Committee, which is concerned about potential “politicization” and its impact on the 2024 presidential election.
The FCC’s approval of Soros’ acquisition of more than 200 Audacy radio stations drew criticism from a Republican commissioner who expressed objections to the decision, as well as other GOP members of Congress who see the move as blatantly partisan.
The FCC “adopted an order to approve Soros’ purchase of more than 200 radio stations in 40 markets just weeks before the presidential election,” which would allow him to reach up to 165 million Americans, Fox noted.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) have accused the FCC of expediting its review of broadcast licenses by bypassing standard procedures.
Audacy Inc. owns over 200 radio stations. Soros sought to acquire $415 million in debt in a Chapter 11 reorganization of the company, Fox reported.
In late February, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr provided an update on the agency’s investigation into Soros and his influence over local radio stations during a meeting with Republican lawmakers. Carr met with members of the Republican Study Committee, a group of 175 House Republicans, at their annual closed-door lunch.
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A source told Fox News that Carr was set to brief lawmakers on the quick purchase of the radio stations. Carr also discussed broader strategies to counter left-wing media, the report said.
The focus of the GOP congressional probe regarding the purchase focused on Soros Fund Management’s stake in the sale. The investment firm holds a substantial share of foreign ownership, which triggered concerns that content broadcast by the stations could allow foreign governments to exert undue influence on the American public.
“The FCC is not following its normal process for reviewing a transaction,” Carr told lawmakers last fall regarding the sale.
“We have established over a number of years one way in which you can get approval from the FCC when you have an excess of 25 percent foreign ownership, which this transaction does,” Carr added. “It seems to me that the FCC is poised to create, for the first time, an entirely new shortcut.”