The Daily Populous

Saturday December 16th, 2023 night edition

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Finland’s Nordic neighbour Sweden, on the brink of joining NATO, signed a similar deal last week.

NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.

The pact, which still needs to be approved by Finnish lawmakers, “is very significant for Finland’s defence and security,” Häkkänen said.

Finland joined NATO in April after decades of military non-alignment, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Under the deal, Finland will allow US soldiers access to 15 military areas and facilities covering the entire Nordic nation.

Several NATO countries currently have similar bilateral defence agreements with the United States.

Last week, Finland’s close Nordic neighbour Sweden, which is on the brink of joining NATO, signed a comparable deal. »

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a…

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Portugal produced more than enough renewable power to serve all its customers for six straight days, from October 31 to November 6.

​“And we were producing with a positive impact to the consumers because the prices have dropped dramatically, almost to zero.”.

That doesn’t mean that fossil fuel plants weren’t operating — just that the overall renewable generation more than met customer needs. »

The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump

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In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.

But an unredacted version of the binder containing the classified raw intelligence went missing amid the chaotic final hours of the Trump White House.

There’s also no reference to the binder or the missing Russian intelligence in the June indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. »

This Season’s Hottest Shopping Trend: Falling Prices

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American shoppers, burned by more than two years of rapid inflation, are getting some welcome relief this holiday season: Prices on many products are falling.

Consumer prices, in the aggregate, are still rising, though not nearly as quickly as a year ago.

They expect it to continue: Most forecasters say prices for physical products will keep falling next year, especially prices for longer-lasting manufactured goods, where the recent declines have been largest. »

Classified Russian Election Meddling Intel Vanished From Trump White House: Report

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Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public.”.

“I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible,” Trump wrote.

As White House lawyers scrambled to appropriately redact its contents — and retrieve improperly redacted copies — the original, unredacted binder vanished. »