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Love me some tuna |
Posted by: zigbee - 01-06-2025, 05:55 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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Massive tuna sells for $1.3M at Japan auction
Massive tuna was bought during Toyosu Market's first auction of 2025
A company spent seven figures to acquire a massive tuna during an auction held at a Japanese fish market in Tokyo over the weekend.
The 600-plus-pound tuna went to Onodera Group, a Japanese company that runs sushi restaurants and businesses in other sectors, according to a translated press release.
A staggering $1.3 million (207 million yen) bid landed the company the massive bluefin tuna.
The seven-figure sale was part of Toyosu Market’s first tuna auction of 2025, Onodera Group said in the press release. It was held on Sunday.
The Japan National Tourism Organization called Toyosu Market the "biggest fish market in the world." People sell tuna and other seafood there, as well as fruits and vegetables.
Onodera Group said it has scored the first tuna five years in a row. It also did so in 2018, according to the company’s press release.
Over the past 26 years, the market has only seen one other New Year’s tuna go for a higher price than this year’s $1.3 million, AFP reported. That fish, sold in 2019, reportedly cost 333.6 million yen.
"The first tuna is something meant to bring in good fortune. Our wish is that people will eat this and have a wonderful year," Onodera’s Shinji Nagao said over the weekend, according to AFP.
Thirteen of the company’s Ginza Onodera sushi restaurants will dish up meat from the $1.3 million tuna, according to Onodera Group. Multiple Ginza Onodera locations have received Michelin stars over the years.
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I just got raise in SS payment |
Posted by: zigbee - 01-06-2025, 02:08 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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Millions to get higher Social Security payments under new law
Biden says those affected will receive increased Social Security payments this year
President Biden on Sunday signed a measure into law that will boost Social Security payments for nearly 3 million current and former public employees.
Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, which effectively revoked two rules that reduced benefits for public employees receiving state pensions.
"The bill I'm signing today is about a simple proposition: Americans who have worked hard all their life to earn an honest living should be able to retire with economic security and dignity — that's the entire purpose of the Social Security system," Biden said during a signing ceremony in the White House East Room.
Biden noted that the new law "is a big deal" and that those affected will be receiving these payments this year.
The bipartisan legislation repeals two little-understood rules: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which limited Social Security benefits for recipients who received retirement payments from other sources.
Firefighters, police officers, postal workers, teachers, and others with a public pension have collected decreased Social Security benefits for jobs they held in the private sector because of WEP, which was designed to prevent so-called double-dipping from a government pension and Social Security.
Critics of the bill argued it would cause more problems for Social Security moving forward. The legislation will add $196 billion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Biden acknowledged that there is still more work to do regarding Social Security, including having the wealthy pay more.
I know there's more work to do, by the way, to improve and expand benefits, including those who most need to protect Social Security for the long term," he said. "And finally, asking the wealthiest Americans to begin to pay their fair share so it's able to be maintained and so much more."
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Biden kissed ass of Saudi Arabia over 9/11 killers |
Posted by: zigbee - 01-05-2025, 04:23 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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Biden admin ripped after judge upholds plea deals for alleged 9/11 masterminds: 'Kick in the gut'
Families outraged after a military court upheld plea deals for the accused 9/11 masterminds
The family of one 9/11 victim accused the Biden administration of reversing course on plea deals for alleged 9/11 masterminds for political purposes after a military court judge ruled Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cannot rescind the offers.
President of 9/11 Justice Brett Eagleson reacted to the news during "Fox & Friends Weekend," calling the situation a "horrific travesty" as families remain outraged over the fact the death penalty could be removed as punishment for the suspected perpetrators.
JUDGE RESTORES CONTROVERSIAL 9/11 TERRORIST PLEA DEALS INVOLVING KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED: REPORT
Brett Eagleson: It was a politically motivated decision to rescind it. We think that they knew all along that there was no way to do it, but in the heat of the election, in the lead up to November, they were utterly called out on the carpet for a horrific decision. Look, I haven't heard from a single 9/11 family member that thinks this is a good idea, and the reality here is that everything about 9/11, everything about this 23-year national nightmare that we've had to contend with, has been a horrific travesty from the days after 9/11.
When the U.S. government worked with Saudi Arabia to cover up the Saudi Arabian role, to the time we sent 5,000 or 6,000 of our troops to be slaughtered in Iraq for no reason, to the very fact that Congress just denied the benefits for the first responders, now this… where we're getting these terrorist sweetheart cupcake deals. We've been kicked in the gut time and time again, and we're sick of it, and we are so hopeful that we finally have a president who's going to do the right thing here… One thing I want to point out is that on 9/11 this year, when VP Harris and Biden sat behind the red rope at the 9/11 World Trade Center Memorial, President Trump was… in a New York City firehouse. He was there with me, and I got a chance to talk to him.
And we said to him, ‘Mr. President, you were right in 2016 when you said it was Saudi Arabia that knocked down those towers.’ He said it on this very show on ‘Fox and Friends.’ We said, Mr. President, we had to get the information not from the U.S. government, about Saudi Arabia's role, we had to get it from the British government. We said, ‘Mr. President, the same people who tried to take you down in Russia, Russia, Russia, Bob Mueller and the deep state of this country are the same people who have blocked justice for us. They’re the same people that came up with these horrible plea deals, would you do something to help us?' And he committed to us that day in a New York City firehouse on 9/11 that if he were elected president, he was going to do the right thing. He said he could deal with Saudi Arabia, and he was going to bring us final justice and closure, and we're going to hold them to account on that. And we're very hopeful. This is a new start for America. We have a Republican-controlled Congress, we have a president in the office who puts America first. So, let's hope that he really, truly does that.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-admi...s-kick-gut
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