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Former President Jay Hartzell reflects on presidency during UT-hosted exit interview
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Houston lawmaker’s bill to combat squatting set to advance in Texas Senate | Houston Public Media
(www.houstonpublicmedia.org)
Alaska has no geopolitical significance. It was part of the Westward push toward the Pacific under Manifest Destiny trend. Hawaii supplanted any significance that Alaska was supposed to have. Alaska is the 49th state, Hawaii is the 50th US state. The Russians obviously saw no significance to have it. Even if Russia still had it in an alternative history to the present time, Alaska is so remote it would not have Russia that much more of a threat. Alaska was, basically, a disconnected Siberia to the Russians. It costed them money to occupy it during their ownership. Alaska today is a resource extraction economy. It has good fishing, it has oil, timber, and there was a gold rush. As such, economic activity will be productive, but not diversified. There are YouTube videos that exaggerate the geopolitical significance, but it is really more of an outpost.
They're not making enough energy for everybody. No company who wants to power their operations directly with power plants will do it with wind energy. It is unreliable energy. The price is volatile. They can go negative to expensive in an instant. Since Germany has no cheap gas, this makes gas backup even more expensive. To keep the large capacity operating, and to incentivize more power plants, they have to pay wind energy providers regardless if they make energy or not with a minimum payment.
Azov movement analysis: A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine’s resistance. Its neo-Nazi history has been exploited by Putin | CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movement-far-right-intl-cmd/index.html
Canada is too regulated to anything.