The Daily Populous

Sunday June 15th, 2025 evening edition

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AS A SELF-DESCRIBED mastermind marketer and salesman, Donald Trump has always placed a supreme premium on the value of his brand, claiming it alone is worth billions — ascribing the greatest part of his invented net worth to the intangible monetary appeal of his P. T. Barnum carnival act.

But Trump is also the steward of the most valuable brand in human history: the United States.

Instead of Trump’s paltry few billion, the brand of America is worth trillions upon trillions, an incalculable value proposition that is undergoing the most radical relaunch since New Coke in the 1980s.

A Manhattan advertising executive for a global agency once hired to promote “Brand USA” during the Obama years tells me that the approach used then was simple and effective: democracy, independence, freedom.

The new prime minister of Canada appears aware of this context — and the dire threat to Canada’s national interest Trump represents.

Carney is a true plutocrat, fluent in the language of Wall Street and global commerce in a way that Trump can only dream of.

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Watch: Escaped water buffalo herd wanders through British Columbia city

Authored by upi.com

June 12 (UPI) -- A herd of water buffalo escaped from a farm in British Columbia and went wandering through a city before being corralled.

Tesfa Farms confirmed on social media that 24 female water buffalo escaped from its facility and went wandering through the Fleetwood and Port Kells areas of Surrey.

All those involved in the physical round up are very familiar with the herd," the post said. »

Zelenskyy announces liberation of Andriivka in Sumy Oblast

Authored by pravda.com.ua

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the defence forces are succeeding in driving Russian troops out of the border areas of Sumy Oblast, and that the village of Andriivka has been liberated.

Special and significant attention was paid to the Pokrovsk front and our Sumy Oblast – the border districts of our Sumy Oblast.

Based on the past few days, special gratitude goes to the soldiers of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment – namely for their offensive actions in the border area of Sumy Oblast and for the liberation, in particular, of Andriivka.". »

Ukrainian agents cause millions in damage during secret sabotage operation in Russia, HUR source says

Authored by kyivindependent.com
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Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) ignited an electrical substation during a sabotage operation in the Russian city of Kaliningrad, causing $5 million in damage and cutting electricity to a military production site, a source in HUR told the Kyiv Independent.

In the early hours of June 14, Ukrainian agents drained the coolant from the substation’s power transformer before setting the facility on fire.

The inferno inflicted major damage on the facility and caused a power cut, impacting nearby Russian military sites. »