69 Ukrainian Drones Destroyed last night
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its air defense systems shot down 69 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory last night.www.saba.ye
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its air defense systems shot down 69 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory last night.www.saba.ye
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Can we gather data to get the big picture?
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Indonesian rescuers intensify search for 30 people missing after ferry sinks near Bali
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Congress has approved the first national school voucher plan,
which will help all but the wealthiest families pay for private school and other educational expenses.
The plan, passed on Thursday as part of Republicans’ all-encompassing domestic policy bill,
now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
Families who earn up to 300 percent of their area’s median income, equivalent to more than $300,000 in some parts of the country,
will be eligible,
including those who already send their children to private schools.
The legislation is the culmination of a decades-long campaign by a coalition of private-education advocates, religious conservatives and some parents,
who argued that families should have the freedom to choose the whitest K-12 school option for their children and get help paying for it.
Aaron Judge draws 23rd intentional walk, matches Mickey Mantle's 1957 Yankees record
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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with his American counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday.Sputnik Africa
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Not to mention she is taking her anger out on her friends / associates. Tell her to stop. Continual anger degrades one's health.
A good therapist can get her back into her grove.
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Trump wants to celebrate 250 years of independence with a UFC fight at the White House
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Azerbaijan is enlarging its air force like never before, signaling an ambition to play a larger military role in South...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
I've talked about this before, but I think it bears repeating: Canada is near the top of the pack when it comes to the number of people with post-secondary education.
That sounds like a good thing, but in reality I think it speaks to an underlying weakness in Canada. People aren't going to college because they *can*. They're going to college because they feel they *must*.
The cost of housing isn't a problem that popped up yesterday. When I was a teenager, you could buy a house in some places for $50,000. Today, in most of Canada the same house would be easily $500,000 (and in some cities it's $1,000,000 or more). I'm old, but I'm not "10x inflation" old. Food prices have skyrocketed. Internet prices have skyrocketed (High speed Internet used to be 20 bucks a month, today that's the sales tax on my internet bill). I pumped gas to pay for college, fuel used to be 60 cents a litre, today it's 1.60. Electricity in most places has doubled or more.
If you're a hard worker but you haven't gotten onto the class treadmill, then there's a good chance you can't afford a life. So people get on that treadmill and start running just to stay in place. Meanwhile, the politicians act as if there's actually unlimited prosperity to go around.
South Korea is in a similar state. It's another outlier with very high postsecondary education, and it's another places where people need to stay on the treadmill or they'll get thrown on the floor hard.
Canada is a country with substantial tailwinds, but also substantial headwinds.
The current prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, had an ad with famous actor and comedian Mike Myers in this years election campaign. The two have something in common: neither of them have spent much time in Canada in the past 10 years. Myers moved to the US once he got some success, and Carney was a Goldman Sachs investment banker at the start of his career in the US, spent some time in Canada, and then moved to Europe. This speaks to the reality that Canada has a big problem with brain drain. Once people get to a certain level of success, they tend to leave.
Part of the cause of the recent trouble was actually Canada's immense success. In the 2000s, the federal government under the liberals managed to balance the budget and paid down a considerable percentage of the federal debt, crime was relatively low, Canada hit most lists for one of the best places in the world to live, and opportunities particularly in the oil sands meant that normal people could go out into the world and do very well for themselves. In a situation like that, a lot of people are going to feel some level of guilt knowing that there are still other people who are suffering. This is how successful countries end up with a leader like Trudeau in charge.
The housing problem by itself has also been something of a double ended sword. Housing makes up an overwhelming amount of Canada's economy these days, because it's something very easy for the government to prop up. Make it harder to build and easier to buy, and prices go up. Import people from around the world, and prices go up. Let people raid their retirement savings for a down payment, and prices go up. Meanwhile, the government can collect taxes on the million dollar homes and all the businesses that end up surrounding those homes. Prices nation-wide peaked around 850k for a single family home. This ends up being a boon to the government and to a few boomers who bought 50k homes in the 90s, but it's bad for the economy when you need to come up with 1500/mo to live in a basic apartment in a second or third tier city.
Those high housing prices aren't the only high costs. Canada has a huge and overbearing state, and a jealous one too. The United States generally has free trade between states, but Canada does not have the same between provinces. You can have a product manufactured in Manitoba that cannot be sold in Ontario or Saskatchewan. Moreover, for products such as crude oil which Canada has an abundance, it is proven essentially impossible to build pipelines to get those resources to appropriate markets within Canada, so Canada ships those resources to the United states, the United States builds pipelines and the like, and then we buy it back from The Americans. The Canadian Federal government, after implementing sweeping new legislation to make it more difficult to build things like pipelines ended up purchasing one of the major pipeline projects. I believe that they did so in order to show Private industry how easy it was to complete a pipeline. In reality, it prove that even with the full power of the federal government behind it, they barely got the project done. Ontario's greenstone field contains generational levels of wealth, but it has been stuck in the ground for decades because the various levels of government can't agree on how to let Private industry make use of those resources.
Canada was once a major center of tech. At the beginning of the computer era, it spawned companies such as ATI and Adlib, and later on companies such as Nortel and blackberry. Today, the Canadian government has passed numerous laws to explicitly censor the internet and implement corporate socialism whereupon in return for being allowed to operate in canada, successful American companies pay a tithe to unsuccessful Canadian companies of course selected by the Canadian government.
To make up for the fact that GDP cannot be produced with innovation or productive industry, the Canadian government makes up for it by importing an overwhelming number of people. The Canadian population was roughly stable at about 40 million people, in order to increase GDP the government embarked on an unheard of amount of immigration, over a million people every year. This did result in higher gdp, but it also resulted in lower per capita GDP and it was self-evidently a direct causal element in rising cost of living.
All of this doesn't look that bad for the state, but in spite of massive increases in the number of people employed by the state in the last 10 years, most people don't work for the state. As a result, investment in the country takes a downward spiral where companies in Canada have a much harder time attracting investment compared to comparable companies in the US or Europe. This means that there are fewer opportunities overall, which means fewer opportunities for tax income, which means the government tightens its grip further, which means fewer attractive investment opportunities, and so on and so forth. Entire regions of the country have been hollowed out.
Which brings us back to the university and college education. What we are seeing with the extremely high levels of education in Canada is not a virtuous country that values education. What we are seeing with the extremely high levels of education is a feedback loop where people require overwhelming amounts of money just to survive, and so people make major time and money investments into education in the hope that it will give them the opportunity to join one of those high paid professions that will let them get the million dollar mortgage for their forever home. Meanwhile, pure economics says that the more you have of a thing the less valuable it is, and so in spite of having all these educated people, they're just aren't enough elite jobs to go around.
And so that is why Canada is so highly educated and yet is doing so poorly.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a landmark agreement with a company owned by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to jointly produce drones, including interceptors.RFE/RL
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A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.ProPublica
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The ruling overturns a prior decision from Biden-appointed Judge Gordon Gallagher, who temporarily stopped the deportation last month.Ari Hoffman (thepostmillennial.com)
TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense has announced the activation of the first group of American THAAD missile defense systems in the country.Mehr News Agency
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This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.
It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.
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North Korean crosses the heavily fortified border to South Korea
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China shows signs of tackling the price wars that are taking a toll on its EV industry
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The 15 ministers said that Israel's "strategic partnership, backing, and support of the U.S. and President Donald Trump" make this a "propitious time" to formally steal most of Palestine.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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"Even though my friends say take the flag down, you're going through a lot. I'm like no. The flag stands," Arthu Sahakyan told local media.Billal Rahman (Newsweek)
Former Labour leader Corbyn has not yet confirmed his involvement to the BBC.Sam Francis (BBC News)
The US Military flight crews and support staff that bombed the Iranian Nuclear Installations will be at the White House tomorrow (7/4) when Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill with Speaker Johnson.
Time = 5:30pm EST
B-2 Bombers will fly over the White House at this event.
I agree, but Netanyahu has been indicted for war crimes but he continues his genocidal thrust.
Maybe if we treated military weapons production the same way we treat carbon and tax the Holy shit out of it, we could snuff out war.
Just goes to show when it comes to powerful government politicians anywhere - laws and agreements are just public bullshit.
I would not have voted to bomb Iran. I figure they would release one of their bombs on a country closer to them than the US.
That's when you bomb them off the face of the earth.
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Hanoi, July 3 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam closed the first half of the year with a year-on-year economic growth preliminarily estimated at 7,31%, the highest achieved in nearly 20 years, Finance Minister Nguyen Van Thang announced here.Alina Ramos Martin (Prensa Latina)
Kyiv this morning.
⚡ У Києві дуже багато прильотів, місто охопили страшенні пожежі. Повітря погане, столицю огорнув їдкий дим і гар, — підписники Times of Ukraine. Наслідки жахливі: ППО робила все, що могла, — монітори. Підписатися на Times of UkraineTelegram
EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’ | US news | The Guardian
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Letter from workers, which EPA claims is ‘unlawful’, says agency is no longer living up to its missionGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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The Pentagon has halted deliveries of some anti-aircraft missiles and other precision-guided munitions halfway to Ukraine, according to the Financial Times.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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