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Mick Harper
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| New York Times wrote: | Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten. |
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Mick Harper
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Our hero sets about combining his two loves to create an e-car with all the same gizmos Elon Musk stuffs his cars with, only his Chinese-built jalopy costs $10,000 dollars a pop rather than the 50-80 K our American hero is asking for one of his. Will 100% tariffs save Tesla Inc? |
I have just watched a YouTube that claims Tesla is about to launch an e-car costing $12,000.
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Mick Harper
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When it comes to explaining why heatwaves play such havoc with railway transport, it is agreed it is mostly down to continuously-welded steel rails not being able to expand and contract. I have just heard the leading academic expert on this, qua British railways, say
| In hotter countries they may well lay their rails at a higher temperature but most hotter countries don't have the cold winters we do. |
His interlocutor, a senior ex-railway executive turned YouTube host, did not demur from this. Britain, in fact, has probably the lowest annual range of temperatures of any of the major railway nations. If two of our more notable experts don't know this, I fear the havoc will continue for sometime yet.
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Mick Harper
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They had a rundown of the thirty-two London boroughs the other day -- you know the sort of thing, ranking them from worst to first. I didn't want to sit through it all because they always start at the bottom and work upwards so it would have taken an hour or more to find out whether it was Lewisham/one, Kensington/two or Kensington/one, Lewisham/two. It's always a fine judgement.
But I take a ghoulish pleasure in finding out who's the present pits so I sat through five minutes on the iniquities of (32) Barking & Dagenham and (31) Croydon. Then came (30) Lewisham so I moved on to something with a bit of objectivity attached.
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Mick Harper
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At this perilous juncture in our island story, the nation's senior voice, Newsnight, is investigating the Prince and the Pizza once more. After reminding us of the charge--that a sailor had it off with a young woman he had met at a party--our Moral Guardian informed us they hadn't managed to uncover any new evidence, but somehow that was significant.
We turned to one another in our parlours, tapping the side of the nose with the first finger of the right hand. "There's no smoke without fire."
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Mick Harper
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CNN ran their equivalent, a Maine Democrat -- who might represent the swing vote in the Senate after November. The dude had won the nomination despite all manner of dubious activities coming to light.
'We're sticking with him because he's better than Trump,' being the general sentiment as he received endorsement after endorsement from Democrat heavyweights. Until this week, when a woman came forward with an accusation of rape from five years ago.
| "I had to sleep with him because he was so drunk I didn't want to send him home in his car, putting other road-users at risk." |
Such public-spiritedness should earn her the nomination in his place.
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