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Ô Canada! Terre de nos aïeux, Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux! – politicalbetting.com
Ô Canada! Terre de nos aïeux, Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux! – politicalbetting.com
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O, Canada! Land of our forefathers,
Your brow is girt with glorious fleurons.
A bit weird!
It's a reasonably good bargaining chip with the USA to extract some form of quid pro quo.
This seems monumentally unlikely. I'd need to check my biography of him but he was either senatorial or equestrian class, and lived in North Africa. The American black activist (cf Netflix and Cleopatra) belief that African = black and that North Africans are black and always have been is not something that stands up to scrutiny. But I'm sure it'll get plenty of attention. Pretty sure a black guy was cast to play Hannibal in a forthcoming TV show or film, despite him being Liby-Phoenician.
I see Carney had a bit of an issue during a French language election debate. Is it a requirement for all politicians above a certain level to be fluent bilingual in Canada?
What the Saudis do to women is no better than apartheid too. And I think you can probably make the same case about Israel in the West Bank.
"Thank you God for President Trump" -- Trump begins his cabinet meeting with a prayer
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-new-allegations-that-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/
Breaking: The first measles death has been reported in a growing outbreak in West Texas. The victim was a school-aged child who was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock, said a city spokesperson. This is the first US measles death since 2015.
Understand your views, though.
It was like they has GPS settings in their bat
Ridiculous
Carney is unusual in that for a highly educated and paid Canadian his French is relatively poor.
I feel we need HYUFD’s judgment on the divine rightness of that.
I honestly can’t imagine that anyone in their right mind would be picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option, the US should have been sending weapons to Russia.
https://x.com/clashreport/status/1894789558648127693
The EU was formed to screw the United States and they have done a good job of it but now I am President
Tariffs coming to the EU but what about the UK ?
Elon Musk, who calls millions of US federal workers "incompetent", says he "accidentally cancelled" Ebola prevention
Trump: Well I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We're gonna have Europe do that.
https://x.com/AlexandruC4/status/1894800926084325382
“They have great rare earth”…
It just gets more convoluted and who knows where this goes
'Buffy' and 'Gossip Girl' actress Michelle Trachtenberg dead at 39
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/buffy-gossip-girl-actress-michelle-trachtenberg-dead-39/story?id=119215091
Four more years of this as well
Donald Trump Jr is currently 25/1 to be the next President.
Excluding Quebec, Canada is 80% English-speaking at home (compare 78% for the USA, 91% for Blighty).
@faisalislam
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What if the EU retaliates?
Trump: “They can’t. They can try, but they can’t… the numbers can never equal us… they can retaliate , but it cannot be a successful retaliation, because we just go cold turkey we dont buy any more and if that happens, we win”.
1. Whether Chagos deal provides security to UK or not is irrelevant - if it becomes a deal, it’s a defence deal, is my point. The only budget it can be charged to is defence. So the purpose in asking a government keen to achieve the deal, what budget it comes from, is to extract refusal to answer.
2. It gets refuse to answer with only possible answer - defence - is a government on the back foot, making it good work from Kemi and a strong PMQ from her.
3. Trump will 100% back the deal, as the winners from the deal are US, India, and Mauritius, a triumvirate of like minded buddies. The only question mark is how Trump will now improve the deal further in Mauritius favour, at expense of UK. Trump likes most the previous administrations cosying with India, though looks to rebrand the good bits with his own name.
4. UK PM at PMQs cannot publicly say the deal is actually all about furthering UK security interests, by giving US and India what they want and keeping them sweet, even though it’s the truth. That India calls off its slander and pressure on us over “no Mauritius deal”, US control of island and waters without messy ownership, India get a free stab into British colonialism.
5. Last Chagos deal got us cheaper defence procurement from US, I’m not sure Starmer can publicly admit this bit either if part of the new deal, as it’s a rather abstract sweetener or stipend.
That’s my take out from today’s bit of politics.
Things are getting better - 7%
Things are getting worse - 72%
Same - 18%
DK - 3%
'Things are getting better' is heavily weighted by Greater London that sits at 21%. No other area gets above 6%.
A real outlier of sentiment in London.
It’s way too young.
Utterly snowed under at work, off to the soccer tonight, plus I’m in a grumpy mood at the moment and I might drop the c bomb on those on the name and shame list.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/15/decc-abolition-major-setback-for-uk-climate-change-efforts
It was an abrupt departure from the emphasis of Cameron's government. In other countries it might have been considered a kind of coup.
It's basically another complete waste of defence spend, like Trident but without the veneer of usefulness. Next time we're being invaded, what do we do, wave the Chagos deal at them? Before trying to fire a Trident missile at them as an encore and it turns tail and heads back to Florida?
Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aaa3662
Immunosuppression after measles is known to predispose people to opportunistic infections for a period of several weeks to months. Using population-level data, we show that measles has a more prolonged effect on host resistance, extending over 2 to 3 years. We find that nonmeasles infectious disease mortality in high-income countries is tightly coupled to measles incidence at this lag, in both the pre- and post-vaccine eras. We conclude that long-term immunologic sequelae of measles drive interannual fluctuations in nonmeasles deaths. This is consistent with recent experimental work that attributes the immunosuppressive effects of measles to depletion of B and T lymphocytes. Our data provide an explanation for the long-term benefits of measles vaccination in preventing all-cause infectious disease. By preventing measles-associated immune memory loss, vaccination protects polymicrobial herd immunity
Hopefully policymakers will realise that if you can't depend on external demand (i.e. the US), then you need to generate demand at home. Doing this would (a) reduce the trade surplus, and (b) make Europeans generally happier and wealthier.