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If steel has zero value and can be nationalised, why doesn't water? And if steel is not profitable because of high energy costs, how is society supposed to afford high domestic energy costs? How can we improve our situation to where services and people can work/live better?

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Karoline Leavitt, "All foreign nationals in the US longer than 30 days must register with the gov. Or be fined, arrested, imprisoned, deported"

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Cindy Yu, "Five years ago nobody would have thought that steel was a sensitive industry, that is why the Boris Johnson government allowed a Chinese company to take it over" "All countries are in a survivor mode today with China on one end and Trump's tariffs on the other end"

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Lionel Barber explains that Labour's action to save British Steel is the right action He then points out it's not profitable because of high energy costs, and asks which private buyer will buy t given it will be loss making If businesses cant afford high energy, why are consumers expected to?

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Trevor Phillips, "Why are you putting money into a dying industry, steel?" Jonathan Reynolds, "Steel is not a sunset industry" "Steel is integral to a modern economy, everything that is part of everyday life" "Without this action we would be the only G20 country without the ability to make steel"

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Steve Bannon insists that there is a team that will find a way for Donald Trump to be elected for a third term as President of the USA

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Good morning, a world of yellow tulips 😊 Happy Sunday ☀️

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Stephanie Ruhle, "Our allies are not rushing to partner with a US President who goes on TV saying they're all kissing my ass"

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Donald Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

Karoline Leavitt, "Every cabinet secretary is a rock star. There is so much good news. There are wins after wins after wins at this White House"

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Trump, "We brought tariffs down to 10%" "I did that because I wanted to be fair to other countries" "They can pay it, negotiate, or not pay it. If they think its too high, they don't have to do business with us" Journalist, "Is 10% the floor?" Trump, "I would say 10% is the floor"

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Good morning, bask in the sunshine like it's the weekend 😁 Happy Saturday 😊

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Europeans cancelling vacations to the US

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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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Paul Nowak, "President Trump has shown himself to be an unreliable partner, regardless of what agreement you strike" "It's also about resetting our relationship with our largest trading partner which is the European Union" "The Conservative's Brexit deal has cost us 4-5% of GDP"

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says a prayer to Jesus before answering questions from journalists

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Ian Hislop, "Trump boasting about other countries kissing ass. Yes, he is an ass" Ian Smith, "We kissed his ass before anyone else did. That is all we had to brag that we were on 10%. Now everyone's on 10%" Helen Lewis, "The bloody penguins are on 10% and they didn't offer up their king"

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Journalist, "Why would any of our allies work with us to isolate China in a trade war if we're treating friend and foe alike" Karoline Leavitt, "They've made it very clear, they need the USA, our markets, our consumer base" "The President is using that leverage to our advantage"

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At the end of her Q&A at the Bitcoin conference Liz Truss stands up to share the hand of her questioner He ignores her, focuses on getting his phone into his pocket She loses patience and walks off

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Liz Truss, "There is a huge problem of free speech" "People are being put in jail for X posts" "But they're not being put in jail for looking at child pornography" "It's an extraordinary double standard two tier system that we have"

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Liz Truss, "You need to replace bureaucrats with business people who go in with a specific mission of abolishing departments, or cutting costs" "This is why I think the Elon Musk DOGE project is a good thing"

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Liz Truss endorses Bitcoin as a tool for taking power away from government

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Liz Truss, "You will not grow business without dramatically cutting energy costs" "Energy costs in Britain are 4x what they are in the US" Liz Truss wants the UK to introduce fracking to make domestic prices cheaper

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Liz Truss, "Go back 100 years and we didn't have the bureaucratic infrastructures" "You've got to repeal all the laws that created the bureaucracy" "The Climate Change Act, the Constitutional Reform Act, the Bank of England Act, the Human Rights Act" "All of these laws need to be repealed"

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Liz Truss waffles on about the deep state Then she attacks the Bank of England And then criticises the Human Rights Acts and the Courts "What you've created is a blob of people that are not accountable to anyone"

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Liz Truss, "We've seen people protesting about the fact that the grooming gangs cover up continues" "Labour still haven't called a national inquiry into grooming gangs" "These seems to be evidence of complicity and corruption"

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Liz Truss, "I do think there is some truth in the idea that the Davos elite work with each other, have developed an economic system that benefits them" "Who's been making money out of Net Zero?" "People like Mark Carney who was gov of the BofE, World Economic Forum fav, is now the PM of Canada"

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Liz Truss, "It is now the case that 45% of our GDP is spent by the government" "That is something East Germany would be proud of" "What it does is that it squeezes the life out of everything else"

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