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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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