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Porsche has scrapped its sales targets for EVs amid a slump in demand. A previous goal of 80% by 2030 has been watered down and the company now says sales will depend on uptake and how the technology develops.
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?Mission-Driven? Government is the Antithesis of Liberty Tue Jul 23, 2024 17:30 | Dr David McGrogan
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Read it and Weep: The BBC Journalists Taking Home Six Figure Salaries Courtesy of the Licence Fee Pa... Tue Jul 23, 2024 13:45 | Will Jones
Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
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David Lammy: The Foreign Secretary Who Called Trump ?a Racist KKK and Nazi Sympathiser? and Refuses ... Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:43 | Peter Harris
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3..i remember the days of old pinochet and the CIA,entering(or should i state occupying),this country to overthrow a socialist man(..who was elected by the people for the people)with very good principles,who would have introduced moderate socialism to chile and to the benefit of all,he was overthrown,as he would have set about nationalising the mines(the american fat boy corporations did not like this however),and sought to overthrow this man,by any means neccessary,in the end he was shot..they then, gave way to the birth of the murder squads and thousands of chilleans were dispersed by this,some were driven in cars and had their throats sliced,while others were tortured and then shot,while others were thrown from high buildings,and all this was done indirectly through the CIA(protecing american's multinational corporations),to the detriment of the working class,the middle class and the poor,who did not have a chance against these murderous thugs who would use any excuse to kill them,some which were on trumped up charges.
however,very interesting read,the guys who were saved by the engineers and their families were elated im sure,and i can imagine this boosted morale for this country.
seems to me to be the way.If you think capitalism mistreats its miners check out soviet Russias record on conditions, or commy China for that matter where there seems to be a couple of hundred dying every few weeks, though figures are not thrown out for comment.
Capitalism is going to be how people exchange goods and services and labour for a while yet while we're waiting for Shangri La or the mythical Kingdom or some inspired Fuhrer to gratify the longings for that elusive revolution that doesn't end in guillotines and purges and show trials and all the glories of Mugabe or Pol Pot.
For background on Latin America and its enemies, current and historic, Naomi Klien's 'Shock Doctrine' and Eduardo Galiano's 'Open Veins of Latin America' fill a few of the gaps the the IT and Indo just dont seem to reach when they are 'keeping the record'. They also detail the scam we have just succumbed to, a la the same Chicago Boys' (see above) economic extractor plans.
It was not carelessness or stupidity that sank the prospects of the current Irish graduating generation, the formula was written by Milton Friedman and his economic hit squads, who were literally sent out to implement Washington's program to replace Spain as the imperial hoover of the wealth of what has been considered the US's 'backyard' at least since the overt enactment of the Munroe Doctrine in 1823 whereby the US demanded a free hand in 'its' hemisphere; just as Bismarck's Berlin Congress demarcated and 'ordered' Africa's vivisection in 1884/5. The Yanks tried to do the same with their Open Door policy in 1900 to crack the stitch up of China by the Brits, French, Germans, Russians, Italian and Japanese 'enterprenuerial' vultures.
Now the self-designated Great Powers of their Great Game are shitting bricks and planning for the long war of high-tech global dominance as the Chinese dragon squats on their accumulated lootings down the centuries, through the bond markets credit that keeps the dollar tradable, and the ongoing resurgence of rational economics in a Latin America finding alternative voices through the likes of Chavez and Lula and Morales.
And then there is that awkward bollox in Teheran who just wont act the Shah when the Pentagon is already overstretched. Activate Plan Zion.
Monitored, tamed and ultimately, if its humanly possible, humanised out of its velvet-gloved, corporate asocial barbarism.My tuppence.
When comparing China / Russia / Chile / US mining accidents, make sure to adjust your figures for numbers involved in mining in each country. For example, you could have more accidents in China, but it could still represent the same level of accidents relative to the numbers involved in mining as a smaller country with less accidents.
Also check out "confessions of an economic hitman" by John Perkins
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