Unbelievable ICE Memo Just Leaked

The US rebelled against Britain partially because the British would invade people’s homes based on warrants signed by the executive themselves, rather than by a judge approving the justification of the warrant. That’s why the Constitution has the fourth amendment. ICE tried to secretly start using monarchical British-style warrants to invade people’s homes without a real warrant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGr-yWEu0hc

Why America Is Better Off With Allies

The US saves a lot of money on military spending because our greatest rivals would have to go through our allies and partners to seriously get to us. Without those allies and partners, those rivals could more easily reach out and touch the US, which would require greater military spending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmuWGT__yc

Britain and Colombia Cut Off U.S. Intelligence Access Over Caribbean Boat Bombings

“Both countries have been happy to cooperate with Washington against drug trafficking, but think that the decision to kill the suspected smugglers at sea is a step too far.

At least one of the people killed in the boat bombings was a Colombian citizen. “He may have been carrying fish, or he may have been carrying cocaine, but he had not been sentenced to death,” Petro said in a speech on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. “There was no need to murder him.” After Petro criticized the U.S. military campaign last month, the U.S. Treasury accused Petro of being complicit in drug smuggling and imposed financial sanctions on him, his wife, and his son.

Another neighboring country whose citizens were killed, Trinidad and Tobago, has been more supportive of the campaign. “I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said in a September 2025 statement.

The Trump administration has acknowledged that it is choosing to kill suspects that it could have arrested otherwise. “Instead of interdicting [the boat], on the president’s orders, we blew it up,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after the first boat strike in September 2025. He argued that arresting traffickers and seizing their cargo “doesn’t work” because cartels plan for those losses anyway. Administration lawyers argue that drug cartels are wartime enemies, so they can be killed rather than arrested, while also denying that the president is limited by constitutional war powers in this campaign.”

https://reason.com/2025/11/12/britain-and-colombia-cut-off-u-s-intelligence-access-over-caribbean-boat-bombings/

Britain’s bold new world … as a Pacific trading nation

“the U.K. became the first new member to join the tongue-twisting Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) since it was formed in 2018.
It’s also the first country that doesn’t at least have a coast fronting the region.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/britains-bold-new-world-as-a-pacific-trading-nation/

What one American’s case says about the future of the courts in Hong Kong

“When Great Britain returned Hong Kong to China’s control in 1997, it was with the understanding that the territory would be governed under the principle of “one country, two systems.” Hong Kong would maintain a separate economic and political structure from mainland China until 2047. That includes Hong Kong’s tradition of common law, an independent judiciary, and protections for certain freedoms like speech.

The Chinese Communist Party has sought to erode the separation between the two systems. In the aftermath of the 2019 protests, it intensified its efforts to dismantle it entirely. Covid-19 restrictions quelled Hong Kong’s mass demonstrations, and in the summer of 2020, Beijing imposed a national security law targeting crimes, such as secession, subversion, colluding with foreign powers, and terrorism. It portended a dragnet on dissent in Hong Kong. This week, a 30-year-old man was sentenced to more than five years in prison for “inciting secession.” He yelled pro-Hong Kong independence slogans in public.”