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Canada Prime Minister: We are not a subsidiary of the United States. We don't accept the attitude of american negociators

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I'm sure a lot of Americans feel that way, I'm just not sure it's enough.
As you wrote yourself, there are too many stupids.
A third freaking still support this administration!! How is that at all possible??
Then there's probably about another third that don't know and don't really care.
Leaving only a third to take action, and from normal statistics we know probably only a tenth will.
That's only 3% to actively take to the streets and try to change things with force.

I hope I'm wrong, I hope Republicans get their butts kicked in the midterms. And I will celebrate if it happens.
But until it happens, I'm at best very cautiously optimistic.

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Canada Prime Minister: We are not a subsidiary of the United States. We don't accept the attitude of american negociators

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It was Truman, and the reason was to continue war time intelligence gathering in peace time.
I don't see any reason to be particular suspicious about the original motivation for it.
The problem is that CIA has increased the political paranoia, and USA having the CIA has normalized similar intelligence agencies around the world.

But absolute I agree, that today CIA is very far from serving the majority of the population, but has become a part of the industrial complex and serving the interests of the 1%.

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Electric vehicle registrations in Europe continued to rise in July, accounting ​for more than one in four new vehicles ‌sold in France and Germany

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I just charged today at €0,11 per kWh, my VW ID.4 drives about 5.3 km pr. kWh, that's about 19 kWh per 100 km. = € 2.09.
With an ICE car driving 24 km/l with gas being around €2,30 here, that's 100/24*2,3 = € 9,60.
So your tiny economic Peugeot 107 is more than 4,5 times as expensive to drive in fuel.

Admittedly I charge cheap, because it's surplus power from solar panels, so it's only the price I could have sold the power for instead of charging my car. But even without that I could buy the power at € 0,16, and it is often cheaper if you buy when the price is low.
Many workplaces also have charging stations where you can charge for free.

A BEV is way cheaper to drive than ICE. Even 24 km/l is no competition, it isn't even close. Even when you have to buy power at normal prices.
If you use fast charging stations it's a bit more expensive, but you should only do that on long trips, and it is still cheaper than driving an ICE car.

But yes a 2008 Peugeot 107 is dirt cheap to buy, but at that age it probably also requires some maintenance. Here it would be very difficult to find one that is that old and still legal to drive. Most cars here only last about 13-14 years, unless they get renewed rust protection, which only last 2 years and cost nearly 1000 Euro to get. So not really an option for an 18 year old cheap car.

My guess is you live under weather conditions that allow cars to last longer.

Edit: A miscalculation and some typos.

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The Price of this Candy Bar

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What? Never been there, but I can see I have one pretty close by.
Is that a 150g pack. 20,- kr is only about $3 USD, that is cheaper than in USA where it's apparently about $3.50.

Probably not going there anytime soon, it seems to be heavily dominated by American brands. And we are not buying American in our household.

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The Price of this Candy Bar

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Funny, some of the best bread here is also some of the cheapest.
As a Dane I eat a lot of rye-bread, and Schwarzbrot is the best IMO.
It is also cheap, because it is very simple to make. And being simple to make, makes it high quality because there aren't a lot of additives.
But AFAIK the cheap bread in USA is simply illegal in EU, because it uses additives that aren't allowed here.

Anyways, yes of course you can get quality, but bread should not be expensive just because it is of proper quality, the ingredients used to make good bread are dirt cheap.

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Canada Prime Minister: We are not a subsidiary of the United States. We don't accept the attitude of american negociators

Carney's comments come after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Canada would come back to the table due to the country’s dependence on the States for security.

USA is the biggest threat right now, how does he imagine Canada coming back for security under these circumstances?
What a moron, a nice fit for the rest of the US administration.

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Ukraine doesn’t need Burnham’s Storm Shadow blueprints. There’s a deeper game afoot

As woelkchen already wrote, but here are the key parts:

But Ukraine has no real reason to be building Scalp (“Storm Shadow”), which has to be launched from a fighter jet and only has 150-odd miles of range. To give just one example, the much bigger Ukrainian-made Flamingo FP-5 is conveniently ground launched, carries a warhead three times as heavy and has a range of almost 1,900 miles. Ukraine was reportedly producing seven Flamingos a day as of last year, and plans were in hand to scale this up massively.

That's already a massively higher production rate than was expected in the beginning of the year.

Why all the fanfare? Why are heads of state ceremoniously handing each other “blueprints” in front of the world’s media?

Specifically this time, what everyone is thinking of is US Patriot interceptor missiles.

As we expected, so there you are, that's the significant points behind the headline.