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🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
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What about my paintings again?
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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The ANC and its supporters will tell you that they hate racism, while openly championing the most racist policies imaginable.
The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development states that leasing state land is not open to white citizens of South Africa.
newsday.co.za/south-africa/2…
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Remember, there are no race laws and discrimination against white people in South Africa. It’s a figment of your imagination.
The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development states that leasing state land is not open to white citizens of South Africa.
newsday.co.za/south-africa/2…
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We are not a serious country, this just isn't sustainable.
Over a TRILLION more in benefits than on infrastructure in 20 years. 🫤
UK spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than infrastructure since 2006, as Burnham urged to get a grip on welfare bill lbc.co.uk/article/uk-benefit…
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To give some necessary context, and assuming the President means US Tons of already refined diesel:
One US Short Ton is 2,000 pounds. 300,000 US Short Tons is 600,000,000 pounds. One gallon of diesel fuel is around 7 pounds. Meaning 300,000 US Short Tons is a little over 85M gallons of diesel.
These are approximate numbers since diesel usage is measured in volume, not mass, since density can change based on things like temperature.
For reference, the United States uses about 160M gallons of diesel fuel per day. Globally, that number exceeds 1B gallons of diesel per day.
Even if Russia supplied all 4,800,000 Tons of diesel as claimed, that would be just 1.37B gallons of diesel reaching market. Or, roughly, one day of global use when you factor how much diesel is burned just to deliver that diesel.
Not that Russia can even supply that much diesel with close to 50% of its refining capacity destroyed or disabled.
BREAKING: Donald J. Trump announced following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will supply large quantities of diesel fuel to the global and American marketplace, starting with over 300,000 tons immediately, another 500,000 tons in November, 1,000,000 tons thereafter, and an additional 3,000,000 tons shortly after. Combined with control of the Strait of Hormuz, this agreement aims to quickly lower diesel prices for Americans, farmers, ranchers, and truckers. He also stated that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says he will soon force Smarties to ensure all colours are evenly distributed in every pack. “I know this has been an issue for some time, it’s close to my heart.” Burnham continued “I’d go out tonight but I don’t have a stitch to wear.”
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My favourite aspect of believing in Noah's Ark is that we have to assume the two giant pandas made it from China to the Middle East and back again, without taking themselves out in some adorable way
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Cuando en los 70s aparecieron los relojes de quarzo (más precisos que un Rolex por 20 USD)
los fabricantes "tradicionales" que mejor la hicieron subieron margenes y precios y salieron a vender lo artesanal y mecánico como una virtud.
Este es un Tweet sobre Autos Chinos
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South Africa is living through a war, it may not be officially declared a war, but a war in the scale of violence people are facing every day. Around 58 people are murdered every day. That is roughly 400 lives lost to murder every week.
These are war-level numbers. We cannot normalise them simply because there is no war officially declared. South Africans are living in a war zone.
