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The funeral with the largest attendance in recorded history was that of C.N. Annadurai, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India, which was attended by an estimated 15 million people.

More American LNG and oil.

Ghislaine Maxwell is the only one now serving time.

owzer

Ghislaine Maxwell is probably the only one alive who knows the truth.

What makes you think all the abusers are dead?

I do not, but Maxwell knows the names of all the abusers and provided all the underage girls on the orders of Epstein. Not all the abusers will know all the names of others. She wrote it all down but refuses to reveal the truth. Most likely fearing for her life.

Ghislaine Maxwell is probably the only one alive who knows the truth.

bass4funk

How many girls Trump meet in that Epstein's lair?..

> A few times, but nothing improper, bad, or nefarious, if there had been, we would have already heard about it.

You don't know that for 100% sure, and given his reputation with women, there will always be doubts.

We need one point from the final 5 games. We hope it will happen tomorrow at Anfield against Spurs.

A very sad ending to her life, as she could no longer cope with after her sex trafficking experience, but it isn't a unique one with people who had similar ones. The Queen gave her £12 million to drop her claims against Prince Andrew.

The US is the main supplier of soybeans to Japan. In 2024, the US supplied 65.7% of Japan's soybean imports. This makes them the largest supplier of soybeans to Japan, followed by Brazil and Canada.

Many American-born citizens have received letters from DHS telling them to leave the country. This is extremely stressful for those wrongfully involved.

"It's time for you to leave."

Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to be an illegal act.

"The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has urged the Russian authorities to immediately restore application of the Ukrainian law in Crimea, to cease all administrative practices found by the ECHR to be in breach of the European Human Rights Convention and to release all Ukrainian political prisoners whose human rights were restricted by these practices in Crimea, as well as to free all illegally detained Ukrainian soldiers, ethnic Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and journalists."

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/crimea-russia-must-release-ukrainian-political-prisoners-and-respect-human-rights-says-committee-of-ministers

Pukey2

The last few times I bought bags of rice, it was Basmati. Much better. A shame it's taxed over 700%

What was the price you paid? Basmati rice is the same price as Japanese rice.

Although no longer China's biggest soybean supplier, the U.S. sent about half of its soybean exports to the world's second most populous country last year. In 2024, China imported more than 27 million tonnes of soybeans from the U.S., worth $12.8 billion, according to the USDA.

American soybean farmers paid the price for Trump's first-term tariffs on China.

How many billions this time is Trump giving to the soybean farmers who have had their Chinese sales cancelled?

Antiquesaving

Your sales tax suggestions are far too complicated for store companies to operate. Who decides what is a highly processed food? Way too complicated. What about the small stores, trying to work that out?

Straightforward, no sales tax on any items from a food store will work.

bass4funk

Apple will never produce its iPhone in the US

I disagree

Probably your lack of manufacturing experience. One very simple question from hundreds of others. Where will Apple find the hundreds of thousands of skilled workers to make the iPhone parts and the hundreds of thousands of skilled workers needed to put iPhones together?

Will they be allowed to bring hundreds of thousands of foreign Chinese into the US?

I use Amazon because I am a bit isolated from mainstream shopping. I check the items very carefully, including prices. Only ripped off twice. Fake USB stick. Got a refund on that. Returned a Chinese-style jacket and was still charged full price. About ¥5,000. I have been using Amazon since 2009.

Reviews are often another fake.

There will be very few digital nomads coming to Japan due to the very restrictive financial conditions. They will just go elsewhere.

Blacklabel

iPhones are made from parts from many countries, including Japan and South Korea. You are happy to hurt those economies, too.

Blacklabel

Apple will continue to make its iPhones in China because the non-American market is bigger than the US one.

non Americans can buy their iPhone anywhere they want.

> ours will not be made by the CCP anymore, unless they cave on tariffs.

> That’s a win.

What about your Teslas continue to be made with Chinese parts?

Blacklable

How about answering my question about what Obama should have done?

bass4funk

Obama gave it to Putin in 2014, wasn’t that clear?

> Absolutely

No, it was Putin who illegally seized it against all international treaties, including the UN. What do you think Obama should have done? Given Ukraine US weapons, which recently you have been opposed.

Crimea will always be an illegal occupation by Putin.

Blacklabel

You forgot to mention where production of U.S. iPhones will move to.

> India!

> we like them much more than the CCP. Do you?

Apple will continue to make its iPhones in China because the non-American market is bigger than the US one.

You are a Tesla stockholder, a company that imports millions of parts for its cars. You support that.

U.S.-produced iPhones would put the price beyond the reach of the majority of consumers. The maths is not difficult. Nothing to do with your "libs".

More than 1.382 billion consumers currently use iPhones. Apple shipped 151.3 million iPhones in Q1-Q3 2024.

The rest of the iPhone "world" is greater than the US. China-made iPhones will go to countries other than the US. US iPhones will be shipped from India. Even with 24% tariffs, it will be cheaper than producing iPhones in the US.

Apple will never produce its iPhone in the US. Moving Apple's iPhone production to the US would likely lead to significantly higher costs, potentially making them unaffordable for many consumers. The primary reasons for this are the challenges of replicating the existing global supply chain and the high costs of establishing a US manufacturing ecosystem at the necessary scale. 

Apple will invest $500 billion in its AI.

Tourists to Japan consume less than 1% of the rice.

NHK reports that this year, foreign visitors to Japan are expected to consume 70,000 tons of rice, a 34% increase from last year.

Manufacturing is only 10% and services are 90% of the US economy. The US no longer has the manufacturing factories and skilled workers of old. Manufacturing was destroyed by American capitalists and corporations taking their production overseas.

Even to increase manufacturing to 20% or 30% is a difficult task.

The US lacks all of the raw materials it needs.

By how much will Trump reduce the $1 trillion trade deficit the US has with the rest of the world?

Companies found hoarding rice for profit should be prosecuted. Farmers hoarding rice should lose their government subsidies. Government stored rice should not be sold by auction instead at a fixed low price to major buyers. Abolish the government policy of paying farmers not to grow rice. During periods of high prices, import more tariff-free Japonica rice from the US or Australia.

Trump has confused the supply chains and markets with his daily taxiff flip-flops.