For most Chinese, traveling on a plane is a very new thing. Per Germans, I have not run into problems.

I have job that requires me to work globally. I install and commission very expensive and large industrial equipment. When I say all over the world, the only continent I never do work on is Africa. I made it to the airport, but conditions on the ground became unstable and I was not allowed to work.

California is great if you got gobs of money.

It is about 100 times more potent than heroin so even long term addicts can easily overdose on it. I have heard of addicts even going through medical waste to find used fent patches to smoke.

People who sell heroin use various chemicals to cut the heroin to add weight, intensify the high, and basically increase the amount of drug to sell.

When my mother brought me to the US, we settled in Baltimore City. I was a teenager then. Heroin is still devastating the city. It is very sad. I was just there this week visiting my mother for the holiday.

I do TA job at US university. Many times students do not show up to study hours and beg for extra credit to do nothing. I had one student who was full time mother and worked full time job. I would keep extra hours for her in school library because I found out she could not regularly make my office hours. I was only…

I was doing job in part of Ohio with coworker from Peru. Both of us have very thick accents. This is very depressed part of Ohio and we just leave a struggling steel mill to get food.

I think you should read up on”Operation Condor” as the Cold War was never that clear cut.

Sure. You are 100% right. I am completely wrong.

Ask a German.

So was the fight against communism, fascism, etc.

If nothing to add to conversation, why bother?

Yes there will always be statistical anomalies. This is akin to saying that some random crazy person pushes a person into a subway train, ergo, all mental health issue Americans must be locked up...when the statistic show repeatedly that people with mental health problems are far more likely to be a victim of a crime…

Your second link includes an example of exactly what I am talking about.

the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

Yes this is stupid imagery used by morons. I did six years in US military to get my citizenship. I then worked as civilian as part of a Red Team group for counter insurgency techniques.

The ugly issue of international terrorism is that its not refugees that are the threat. Its not poor people.

I still remember the last time Maryland played Duke in basketball in the ACC. The post game interview with Coach K was over the top, with him saying that for Duke, because they care more about the sport, would never just sell out to the Big Ten and give up all these great rivalries.

I think everyone is missing the most pressing issue here.