Even if this is 100% real, just imagine the cables required to transfer the power.
The Blob of Unaccountability
We already knew this 4 years ago. Criminal negligence.
Isn't this exactly how psychopaths would operate? "I will let thousans of people die if you do not do what I say and it will be YOUR fault!"
They try to guilt Candace into reporting the truth. The reality is, it is not her fault. It is not even Macron's fault there is a war happening.
You would have to have some sort of God-complex to think you can use this war to make someone stop talking about your pederast "wife".
The Nazis where Socialists...
I think we are seeing a man with chronic neck or back pain.
Impersonating a police officer is a crime.
The parameter that is always forgotten is TIME.
When does the loan become due? In 1 year? 10 years? What is the interest rate, etc?
You can not just cross out dollar against dollar. You need to account for time and interest rate as well.
The Fins have used the Swastika since before Nazism was even a thing.
Imagine the Canadians take the Stars and Stripes and start 12 years of terror, killing millions of Inuit.
Then 80 years later someone posts: "The Americans STILL march with the the Stars and Stripes..."
Or someone reads the Bible and then says God supports LGBTQ+ because after the flood he sent the rainbow...
The order in which things happen matters.
Sometimes I think the perspective people have is a little weird. It is no wonder so many of us are so easily manipulated.
It should mean a declaration of war imho
I assume it is going to be "no cure, no pay", which reduces costs for the government. I imagine having ICE go after the lower level people would not be as cost-efficient.
So as long as these bounty hunters do not overstep legal bounds, I think it is a good thing. A net positive if done right.
As a former Dutchman, Republican and Libertarian, I think I can put all of this into a little bit of perspective.
First of all, the Dutch Royals have no true power. They are head of state, which in practice means, after the elections, the King appoints a person to negotiate a government coalition (the Netherlands easily has a dozen parties; there is hardly ever an absolute majority. In fact, I have never experienced this in my lifetime). The negotiator reports to the King and once agreement has been reached within the coalition, the King gives his stamp of approval and meets with all the new cabinet members for a photo op.
Only some of the palaces are actually the property of the royal family. They pay for most of the maintenance by themselves. They get paid an allowance. It is not that much. In fact, ex-US presidents get allowances of a similar magnitude. The main difference is that there are at most 2-3 former queens or kings.
Other than that the King holds a yearly speech on the second tuesday of september. It is more or less the equivalent of a State of the Union address, the content of which is dictated by the prime minister with some added sprinkles of personality by the King.
All in all the King is loved. He is a very down to earth type of guy. His nickname when he was a student is "King Wilhelm Beer", because he was always seen with a glass of beer in his hand.
Oh and burning down palaces would not do much. These people do not live in these palaces. They have two small ones that they actively live in some parts of the year, but the Princes and other people in the family just live in normal apartments and houses. These people drive their bicycles to work. Yes, most of them have jobs. Good jobs. But jobs nonetheless. The palaces are much like museums. You can visit them. You can visit the gardens. In fact I think visiting such a palace is easier than visiting the White House. And similar to the White House, the palaces are memorials to the long history of the Netherlands.
It's the same with the Sultan's palace in Istanbul. Mostly museum, or the Hofburg in Vienna or the Tuileries in Paris. Memorials to the history of the respective countries.
Oh and my main reason for being a Republican is not even the cost to the taxpayer, which is marginal, it is not even the little power these people have... These people are born into this function. A function they may not even want to perform. Some members of the Royals have explicitly left the Royal Family for this reason. I think no one should really be put into such a position. I am also against hereditary functions of power; even if the power is small. It just should not happen in a parliamentary democracy.
At the end of the day, all that matters is what the Iranian people want.
In reality this is them just admitting transmen are not men, but really women
As a European; I am not against deporting legal immigrants who hold such views.
If you only take a few examples in China where citizens were bought out of homes in valleys, it is easy to understand that there is a lot more homes and buildings in China than required, as real estate is the only legal way for Chinese citizens to truly invest their income.
So besides fraud and corruption, it is easy to see that these numbers are inflated.
So, they base this on the few occasions in which villages had to be moved because of damming up valleys. Even if there are dozens of examples of this (which I doubt):
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Most of these were in countries like China and maybe Egypt. It is obvious that population counts in such countries are more inaccurate. (China has been overcounting its population; their population is most likely between 500-900 million, trend dropping).
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Based on such a small sample size, you can not simply extrapolate for the whole land surface of the world, which they more or less did in this "study".
The reality is that the world population is probably lower than counted. Probably by at least a billion. It is certainly lower, not higher than 8,2 billion. A lot of countries, especially communist ones overcount their populations.
The air-intakes are all wrong and the scale is off.
In Germany and the UK the person behind this misinformation could be arrested :-P
The problem are the middle men. Trump in his first term tried to do something about it. It's difficult.
Besides this, the insurance companies set the pricing but they are not doing a good job at it, probaby because of bonusses and other incentives. There appears to be severe conflicts of interests.
From watching Asmongold, I know in the US, you do not actually have to PAY the bill. You can typically claim to not be able to afford it and your medical bill will be greatly reduced.
Also, let's not pretend healthcare is free in Europe. I have paid well over 180k EUR for healthcare in my career so far. I have only ever needed one hospital visit. I could have easily paid the actual costs of that from that money.
Besides that the medicine is produced by a Swiss company in Switzerland.
The recent narrative on here is putting me off severely. It's as if a lot of people here are becoming increasingly crazy. They feel they "pay" for everything and everyone.
Come on over to Europe. We have plenty of companies who make money. We pay out of our ears and noses for health care. Nothing is free.
Wait... I don't understand how anyone would believe this bs.
Hemlibra is a treatment against hemophilia. The medicine is produced by Swiss company Roche.
There are ZERO Americans involved in this transaction.
The answer is mostly economics; Driving a ship for 150 miles extra costs X dollars. There are N ships that pass through each year.
Building a 350 mile canal would cost Y dollars and then some amount per year for operation. You would want a little return on investment. Maybe write off the canal over the course of 50 years. So you would need to charge at least Z = Y / ( N * 50). That is disregarding operating costs, inflation etc.
I think in this case X is far lower than Z.
However, this could immediately change if the Hormuz straight becomes insecure or if shipping costs go up by a lot.
By the way, most of such constructions works are done by Dutch and Belgian companies... The same companies built the islands near Dubai and do all kinds of land reclamation all around the world. It would not be a showcase for the Emirates really.
I think Americans have a slightly distorted view on NATO. A lot of Europeans do not want NATO either. It has served its purpose after World War 2, defending against communism. But now the same communism is coming from the American Empire. The Germans always had a good relationship with Russia. There was trade and cultural exchange, but the US would no longer allow it, because it made Germany an industrial superpower.
The US has a lot of undue influence in Europe. For instance, mere hours after Donald Trump was elected, the German government fell, claiming the German government could no longer work... Why? Do the Germans get their instructions from the US? Can the German government not operate independently for its own people?
There are 84,000 US troops in Europe. Why? To defend from something? What then? Or is the purpose to use Europe as part of the US Empire to wage wars in the Middle East? Europe is basically occupied by the US.
By the way, the idea that the US would spend a single dollar less on "defense" if it were to disband NATO is a typical fantasy of isolationists. The US military-industrial complex is long been a self-propelled thing. It's exists for its own purpose and conflicts arise because they are needed to sustain it. It is sustained because conflicts require its existence.
Perhaps part of the problem is also that Americans use about 10 times more medicine than Europeans. Additionally, the amount of morbidly obese people or simply fat people in the US is astonishing. Europeans are healthier overall. Much healthier.
Lots of room for user error. But typically, those things can be fixed with connectors that only go one way.
But just using megawatts of power to charge a single car and then having maybe 5-10 of those outlets... You are going to need such a huge amount of local infrastructure. 50Mw you can pass through a 2 inch cable fairly easily, but at 10 kV...
In much the same way that the bandwidth of a harddisc drive posted in the mail is nothing to laugh about, a stream of gas represents a lot of power. A typical gas pump does about ~1 L per second. 1 L of gasoline contains ~8,000 kcals per second. 8000 kcals equals roughly 34 Megajoules per second. A megajoule per second conveniently is a Megawatt...
So even if you manage to squeeze 10 Mw through a cable into a battery, a gas pump will still be 3 times more powerful.