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China’s export restrictions on rare earth elements (REEs) to the U.S., announced in early April 2025, target critical materials like samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, which are vital for avionics in advanced military systems, including the sixth-generation F-47 fighter jet. These elements are used in high-performance magnets, radar systems, actuators, and jet engine coatings, with the F-47 heavily reliant on them for its stealth and operational capabilities. China produces about 90% of global REEs and dominates processing, giving it significant leverage.

Seems like the perfect time to do it, now that all diplomacy between China and the US is already broken. There’s nothing to lose.

Bob, that is fantastic news. I’d like to formally hire your investigative services to finally crack the case of why toilet paper always sticks to my shoe when I leave the bog. It’s been haunting me for years. Please advise us of your rates and whether you work weekends. And if you’re able to solve that one, I’ve got a few follow-up cases already eagerly awaiting your expertise: 1 - Who keeps moving my cheese in the fridge even though it’s clearly labelled “DO NOT TOUCH”? 2 - Where do all my socks mysteriously disappear to after laundry day? Is there a portal to another realm within my washing machine? 3 - Why does my phone only autocorrect text messages properly when I’m not in a rush? 4 - Who invented those tiny useless plastic forks in takeaway fish and chips boxes and what exactly were they trying to prove? 5 - And why does Mrs. Smith keep telling people that you can’t ever finish the job of hitting that secret spot of hers properly? Eagerly awaiting your findings. Please invoice me in baht or used Singha bottle caps if you prefer.

And you are who again?

Obviously you can do better, right?

Prolly color blind or drinks too much to tell the difference between blue and red.

No bad. Good for a giggle. Far better than 90% of the windups and trolling posts I read on AN.

You can thank Grok for that. I gave it the link and put it work. The "no read" policy on your topics prevents me from doing any such thing myself. 🥱

GammaGlobulin’s been posting up a storm, wondering why he feels so cold in Thailand’s hot season despite his trusty Panasonic ACs pumping out 70,000 BTUs. He’s layered up in two winter coats, reminiscing about his love for Mick Jagger and Secretariat, and hinting at a possible end to 25 years of being single with a guy in a green shirt catching his eye. He shrugs off Chiang Mai’s smoke and heat, insists his ACs never freeze up, and tosses in some classic rock vibes, basically, he’s just chilling (literally) and ready for more pure male love!

Undeniably 25 satang short of a Baht, or as the locals would say, “Sahm Salung.” I’ve put him on ignore too, mostly just to make it easier to count how many posts on this topic weren’t penned by him, so I could work out how many were. If my maths are correct, that’s 19 mind-numbing posts to himself, and only God and YouTube know how many music videos he tossed in just to let us know he’s got the air-con temporarily set to 18 degrees. At least it gave him something to bang on about for a bit. The whole thing’s clearly a bit dire. I reckon he’s trying to send some kind of message to the world about his mental state, but no one’s even watching. It’s all a bit sad, really. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that flat of his just to see what he’s up to during the other 21 hours of the day when he’s not having full-blown debates with himself on AN. He’s probably sprinting about starkers and slathered in honey, just to see how many particles of the Chiang Mai’s PM2.5 stick to him, purely in the name of science, of course.

Amazing Gigi, why even bother posting? You can just stay home, watch all the 70s rock videos you want and talk to yourself to your heart's content. Same result and no need to post anything at all on AN. I imagine you do leave your little mouse trap once a year though to go and renew your visa? My question to you is, how do you actually pull that off without the Immigration officers realizing that you're one tampon short of a drippy menstrual cycle?

And that's 8. Incredible. I hope I'm not disturbing you while you converse with only yourself?

Wow, 7 replies to your own OP and not a single response in between from anyone else. That must be a New World record for AN delusional behavior. Not to mention the seven music videos. But don't worry, I didn't read a single word of any of it. All I did was post this reply. I promise. You can go on talking to yourself without any further interruption. I'll leave it with you.

Not unattractive, but not a lot of talent either.

Not sure why women would even find him attractive. His hair and overall look was hideous, his demeanor always crass and tasteless. I assume women who go for that don't have much self respect.

That's sad. Makes it all the more worse. I used to like Ross sometimes, but after I heard that I place him down at the same level as Brand

I listened to that, and everything Brand does is always in such poor taste. I didn’t feel the urge to laugh even once, it was just sick, vile, and childish. Honestly, I’m surprised someone hasn’t taken his head off already. That said, I suspect the whole thing was staged, so you can probably put your mind at ease. I highly doubt they actually left that message on Sachs’ answering machine. They could have been sued or even arrested if they had. It seemed like a ridiculous and fake stunt. But it still reveals who he is and how dark his thinking really goes. Who even thinks to call someone, comedy or not, and tell a man, completely unprovoked, that they raped his granddaughter? Where is the humor in that? I have absolutely no empathy for this guy. Regardless of how the current case ends, his image is already trashed, and he is going to pay for it financially, emotionally, and mentally, and I am completely here for it. Just based on what we have all seen and heard publicly, the things we know are fact, he deserves every bit of the backlash and fallout coming his way. Below are some of the legal problems he could have been facing if he really left that message on the answering machine and it had been reported to the police: 1. Malicious Communications Act 1988 Under this law, it’s an offense to send a message that is grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing. A voicemail admitting to raping someone, even as a joke, would very likely be considered grossly offensive or threatening. This can carry a sentence of up to two years in prison if prosecuted on indictment. 2. Communications Act 2003, Section 127 This law also covers offensive and threatening messages sent via public communication networks, including phone calls. The standard penalty here is up to six months imprisonment or a fine. 3. Public Nuisance or Harassment Depending on the circumstances, the person could also be charged with causing public nuisance or harassment, especially if the message caused serious distress to the recipient. 4. False Allegations or Wasting Police Time If the message leads to a police investigation and it’s discovered the claim was false or a prank, the person could be charged with wasting police time. In serious cases, making a false allegation of rape can lead to charges of perverting the course of justice, which is a serious offense and can result in a prison sentence of several years. 5. Defamation or Civil Liability The person who left the message might also be sued in civil court for defamation or emotional distress, especially by the person falsely implicated or any affected family member.

Possibly also audio recordings and maybe even some video footage too.

He's still on YouTube and still has nearly 7,000,000 followers there. He just posted a video there 13 hours ago. Still attacking American politics and American celebrities. That's all he does. He wouldn't dare say anything bad about any of the powerful people in the UK. He's too scared. What actually happened on YouTube though is that they demonetized his channel a year or two ago so that he can't make any money from it. That's why he moved over to Rumble. Having said that, though, he still posts incessantly on YouTube anyway. He can't help himself.

Late last night, me and a couple of my pillow-biting mates went walkabout around the beach resort. It was quite late and we were all coca cola’d up, giggling like naughty little schoolboys and feeling a little too fabulous for our own good. We stumbled upon a massage shop still open, with four toned young men sitting outside in see-through tight shorts, oiled up and their sausages glowing under the streetlights. Naturally, we couldn’t resist. We exchanged a few suggestive looks and sashayed right in to dip more than just our toes. I went for the full body service with two blokes, one gobbling my knob and the other gagging me with his and, while I don’t need to go into ALL the juicy details, let’s just say tongues were roaming and boundaries were politely ignored. You lot know the score. We slipped them their tips with a wink-wink and a bung-eating grin, then floated out of there feeling relaxed and ever so slightly naughty. About five minutes later, one of my massage guys came jogging, shirtless no less, down the street, accusing me of stealing his phone. I was gobsmacked. “What on earth are you on about, girlfriend?” I said. “Darling, I’ve already got the latest model and it vibrates even stronger than your todger ever could.” He insisted I empty my pockets and then open my zipper and let him have another sniff. I refused, unless we could call the police and make it official, after all, if we’re doing drama, I want it documented. I nearly pulled out my phone to film the whole scene, but he spun on his heels, shook his tight rump, and stormed off in a dramatic little diva strut back to the shop. He declined my offer to make a porn-video together and left in a proper huff. Dizzy queen probably left it under the towel while he was busy working my glutes like his life depended on it. Three more days till I’m back home in safe, clean Essex, where the boys are classy and the massages come with scented candles. The Dink.

Rejection and mistreatment are also recognized forms of sexual deviance. For some men, it can be a major turn on. Many are aroused by sexually penetrating women in ways that cause them pain and by witnessing that pain. Others are turned on when a woman says no you can’t do that to me while they continue doing it anyway. The list goes on, but you get the idea. For some men, consensual sex filled with passion is seen as boring and not enough to satisfy them. Good chance he's going be found guilty of at least one of the five charges, if not more, all of which are based on sexual misconduct. The UK government doesn't take criminal offenses like these lightly and they won't charge somebody with a crime like this, and in a high profile case with the allegations dating back 20 years, unless the evidence is overwhelmingly compelling. I would say that there's likely an 80% chance that the prosecution will be able to prove the allegations and find him guilty.

China has also suspended chicken products imports from two American producers, part of retaliatory measures against the US after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on the Asian nation. China is halting poultry imports from Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Inc. and Coastal Processing, LLC, to safeguard consumers’ health after detecting banned drugs in US chicken products many times, according to a statement on the website of General Administration of Customs. The customs administration has also moved to suspend the qualification of C&D (USA) Inc. for supplying sorghum to China, citing quarantine reasons, according to a separate statement posed on its website. Shipments of poultry meat and bonemeal, used as animal feed, from three US suppliers: American Proteins Inc., Mountaire Farms of Delaware Inc., and Darling Ingredients Inc., are also suspended.

This trade war Trump started is one of the most boneheaded economic blunders in modern history. In retaliation the Chinese are now slapping a 32% sales tax on all U.S. products sold in China. That’s not “tough on China,” that’s self-inflicted damage, crippling some of America’s biggest tech and car companies and agricultural exporters in one idiotic move. And spare us the fantasy about bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. As if factories magically pop up overnight. It takes years to set them up, train people to work in them, and even then, the U.S. supply chain still relies heavily on importing raw materials. Combine that with higher labor costs of manufacturing in America, and guess who ends up footing the bill? The American consumer. So whether you’re paying inflated prices due to tariffs on imported goods or jacked-up costs on domestically produced ones, the result is the same, Americans lose. The only “winner” here, if you can even call it that, is the U.S. government raking in more tax revenue at the expense of the consumer. This isn’t economic strategy, it’s political buffoonery and the American people are the ones paying the price.

Taxing the sh*t out of penguin sh*t. Stable genius of the highest order. This one will go down in the history book in support of his stage 5 dementia.

Leave it to Trump to set market records. Largest two-day financial wipeout ever. Making America rich again! Winning so much you are going to get tired of winning! Roughly $11.1 trillion has been wiped away from the U.S. stock market since Jan. 17, the Friday before President Donald Trump took the oath of office and began his second term, according to data from Dow Jones Market Data. Some $6.6 trillion of that figure was lost on Thursday and Friday alone — the largest two-day wipeout of shareholder value on record, Dow Jones data showed. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-stocks-poised-for-biggest-two-day-wipeout-in-history-as-marketloses-9-6-trillion-since-inauguration-day-430919f6