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The United States has a "golden share" in United States Steel Corp, President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding it will be controlled by him after Nippon Steel Corp's massive investment in the iconic American producer.

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Another trump bankruptcy in the making.

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Nippon Steel should get ready to mark their investment as a tax right off.

Trump's frustration comes at a time when "hiring is losing momentum" after a strong start to this year, according to ADP chief economist Nela Richardson.

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The "strong start to this year" would have been due to the effects of the previous president and his party.

Now the effects of Trump policies at the start of his term, are being felt.

Crude oil prices drop .

It takes ages for the drop to reach consumers.

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Crude oil prices increases

Instantly prices for consumers shoot up.

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Over the past 5 months, diesel has dropped by 7 pence to £1.38 per liter.

When oil prices goes up, it will be less than 5 days before diesel prices shoot up.

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United Kingdom

Diesel £1.38 per liter

Imperial Gallon (4.546 liters) = £6.27 ($8 US)

US Gallon (3.785 liters) = £5.22 ($6.80 US)

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Petrol (gasoline) £1.34 per liter

Imperial Gallon (4.546 liters) = £6.09 ($7.92 US)

US Gallon (3.785 liters) = £5.028 ($6.59 US)

If a marriage breaks down

Do they argue over who gets to keep the 7-digit code address ?

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Will each person get their own personal address code ?

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A house with only one person would have one address

So a house with 2 or more would have 2 or more address ?

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seven-digit codes using alphanumeric characters

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If using english alphabet

26 letters and 10 numbers (0 to 9) = 36

36 x 36 x 36 x 36 x 36 x 36 x 36 = 78,364,164,096

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There is enough numbers for the world population to have their own.

He wake up

When i got up at my stop

but he remained asleep

nudged him lightly a few times

A man fell asleep and leaned on me

When i was on the Tokyo subway in 2003

Once again this appears.

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This may only go away once the victims are dead.

Trump's recent physical exam.

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and his mental exam

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Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, a short screening test to assess different brain functions, Barbabella wrote. The test includes remembering a list of spoken words and listening to a list of random numbers and repeating them backward, among other questions.

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Listening to a list of random numbers.

Did they use his tariff list ?

I'veSeenFootageToday 07:43 am JST

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to characterize the sudden change in policy as part of a grand negotiating strategy. But to those outside the Trump administration, it looked like a cave-in to market pressure and to growing fears that the president’s impetuous use of import taxes -- tariffs -- would cause massive collateral economic damage.

It looked like a cave-in because it's exactly what it was. Pure panic.

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Yes, he caved in when he finally let himself notice the panic around him.

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1glennToday 08:40 pm JST

Trump's goal is to destroy the world economic order. Get used to it, and behave accordingly. The rest of the world needs to figure out how to survive without the USA as a leader.

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More like he thinks he can run the USA and the world and make US great.

BUT, like his past great management skills that brought many companies to bankruptcy, he could not even run a hot dog stand without going going bankrupt.

He still has 3 years and 9 months to bankrupt USA and make it, not like a third world country but a 4th one.

Built on reclaimed land, the venue has areas where methane is generated due to buried waste beneath the surface.

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Will they turn the venue into a methane gas production factory after the expo is over, to recover some of the excess costs ?

Where Trump's tariffs could hurt Americans' wallets

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Should read "Where Trump's tariffs will hurt Americans' wallets"

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Trump insisted that tariffs would make the United States "very rich."

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Trump tariffs would make the United States lower class "more poor."

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The tariffs -- which are paid in the first instance by U.S. importers -- will likely push up the price of many household items in the United States

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Tighten your belts USA

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Some of you's will be going on a diet because of trump's tariffs rising the prices in the USA.

added 228,000 jobs in March

unemployment rate rose modestly but for what economists consider a good reason: 232,000 people entered the labor force

unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.

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So more lost jobs than started one.

Not a sign of things improving.

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federal government lost 4,000,

a sign that Elon Musk's purge of the federal workforce may only be starting to show up in the data

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Once the fired federal workers numbers are added to the unemployment data, you can expect the Unemployment rate to go above 4.2%

How far above will not be known till the effects of trump tariffs hit.

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Losing your job and then prices of everything goes up.

The majority voted him in and you are sadly stuck with him for 4 years of hell.

An American man was arrested in Kobe last month after he allegedly brought a handgun and ammunition into Japan in his luggage by mistake and passed through airport customs undetected, local police said Wednesday.

The man, identified as Rand Alan Peterson, 73, is believed to have come through Kansai airport in Osaka Prefecture with the gun in his suitcase on a flight from Hawaii on March 22. He was arrested on March 24 on suspicion of possessing a firearm.

The case has highlighted concerns over screening measures ahead of the World Exposition in the city of Osaka, with a large number of international arrivals expected for the event.

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Once again USA security failed to catch some one before they boarded an airplane.

Then it was not caught by security at Kansai airport.

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A similar thing happened a few years ago when another american arriving in England from the USA, was caught with a pistol in his carry on luggage.

Not sure if it was loaded or not.

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With all of what is happening in the world, if i do travel by air, i would make sure the aircraft did not start from the USA.

Ishiba says Trump's tariff views hard to understand

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Trump ranting and raving without any thinking is hard to understand.

He said that a deal between Canada, Mexico and USA was bad, unfair to USA.

He was the one who agreed to it the last time he was in office.

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His ideas this time, are ruining the USA.

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Maybe the world will be lucky and he dies from a medical problem or by the next termination attempt on him.

MocheakeToday 08:58 pm JST

Sinkhole accidents are rare in South Korea, with fewer than 200 reported cases every year on average -- significantly less than the number recorded in neighboring Japan.

Rare? What is the basis for that assessment I wonder? Also,

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If almost 200 cases (reported) per year is rare

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I wonder what an uncommon number would be.

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365 / 200 = 1.825 days average between them.

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3 or 4 a week.

U.S. expels South African ambassador, saying he 'hates' Trump

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Quite a lot do hate him.

Especially since he returned to office.

The site's construction cost has nearly doubled from the initial estimate to 235 billion yen, with the central government, the Osaka prefectural and municipal governments, and the private sector each bearing a third of the bill.

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Nothing to see here.

Just the normal underestimating of costs and the reality showing the true costs.

Donald Trump openly challenged U.S. allies on Wednesday by increasing tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% as he vowed to take back wealth “stolen” by other countries

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More likely trump will take more from the USA citizens.

They are the ones who are paying his tariffs, not the rest of the world.

Moves by states come as a fossil fuel - friendly President Donald Trump and Republican-controlled Congress take power in Washington, D.C., slashing regulations around oil and gas, boosting drilling opportunities and encouraging the construction of pipelines and refineries that can export liquefied natural gas.

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By the time the next election arrives and Trump is kicked out, the pipelines may be finished.

New refineries might be running by then also, if anyone has the cash to pay for their construction.

But who will they sell their LNG to.

By then many will have signed contracts with Canada, a stable government country.

USA would find it hard to sell LNG at a decent price.

The rich will get tax breaks and richer.

The poor pay more for basic things like food and get poorer

Cryptocurrency prices had climbed early Monday, buoyed by Trump the previous day naming five that could be used in a national strategic reserve fund.

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Bit coins can go up and DOWN fast.

When the power goes out, it is totally worthless.

With Canada taking action over trumps actions, the northern states may feel power cuts and/or higher power bills.

Due to the massive dependency of those states to Canada's power supply.

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The chief executive of leading US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase felt that limiting the reserve's holdings to bitcoin "would probably be the best option."

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Of course he would say that.

It would be in his best interest as the Chief executive of a cryptocurrency exchange.

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Creation of such a reserve would have to go through the US Congress.

"It's one thing to tweet about it, but you need to pass legislation to make this happen," Button said. "And that's still a long shot."

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If enough Republicans grow a spine, it will not pass.

Trump believes he can do anything and just needs to say for it to be done.

And when it does not, he rants like a spoiled brat and his baby sitter (vice-presicent) start yelling loudly.

Pootin's man in the white house causing trouble again.

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What Trump is doing to USA, why would anyone think he would be able to do anything about Ukraine war.

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The way Trump was going on in the WH in front of the press, he seems to be unstable.

What will he do next ?

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The testy discussion was especially surprising since it came a day after Trump struck a more conciliatory tone toward Ukraine, calling America’s support against Russia’s invasion “a very worthy thing to do” and disclaiming any memory that he had called the Ukrainian leader a “dictator.”

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Failing memory, is it a sign of mental failing ?

nandakandamandaToday 01:04 pm JST

Rather than use this as criticism of China, which will only harden the authorities against Dong, surely an unemotional fact-based appeal would be of more use here.

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Facts do not concern the ruling elite of China.

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Dong Yuyu, then a senior editor at a Communist Party-run newspaper that was increasingly out of step with the party's hardening line, was arrested in February 2022 as he was having lunch with a Japanese diplomat in Beijing.

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He was out of step with the party and having lunch with a Japanese diplomat was all they required to put him into prison under espionage charge.

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“It is a press freedom issue. It is a human rights issue. It has very little to do with national security or espionage," said the younger Dong.

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Press freedom and human rights are a threat to the ruling elite of China.

They consider their own personal security the same as national security and any threat needs to be removed.

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Reducing marriage age.

Not much help, if any.

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Reducing living cost.

Would help, but those saving would most likely be spent on better food and living conditions.

Costs would need to be lowered a far amount to be of help.

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Reduce unemployment by making decent paying jobs and working conditions.

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The current population level is moving to higher old to young numbers fast.

In the past if birth rate was 7 or 8 to every 10 deaths, then today's problems would not exist.

But the one child policy had a greater reduction in births verses deaths rates

Now China is paying the price..

I would like to watch how a knife is made from raw metal to finished product.

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No matter how much i would like one, they are far out of my reach.

Another mad trump idea

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Send US people into Gaza to turn it into a wonderland

Deport the Gaza citizens to another country

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Invade Panama canal to prevent China from taking it over

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Close down US government departments and deny government programs that hand out money to US citizens like farmers and programs like medicare.

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Invade another NATO member country, Greenland.

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He has only just started his chaos reign and there is another 4 years to go before he gets kicked out by the surviving citizens.

If the world is lucky, he might die for a heart attack, or some other medical or non-medical stuff.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia

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Pootin is unlikely to agree to anything after all of the aid Japan has given to Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia.

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exchange programs remain suspended, including one to allow former residents of the disputed islands to visit family graves without visas.

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He is unlikely to agree to letting Japanese former residents back.

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On that day in 1855, Japan and Russia signed a Treaty of Commerce, Navigation and Delimitation, drawing a national border that placed the four islands within Japanese territory.

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You think he cares about an agreement signed by imperial Russia in the 19th century.

He wants to expand his empire.

Why would he give the islands back to Japan ?