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Canoo revealed its all-electric lounge vehicle in September that is leased through a monthly subscription The package includes maintenance, registration, access to insurance and charging access The waitlist is free to join and consumers can gain points by referring others and completing surveys  At the official launch in 2021, those with the most points will have first access to leasing one of the vehicles. You could soon add another subscription payment to your credit card, but for a car. Los Angeles startup Canoo has opened up the waitlist for its lounge-like electric vehicles that consumers lease through a monthly fee. The firm is calling this release 'The First Wave', which lets consumers earn points for referring others to join and completing surveys. Those with the most point will be at the top of the waitlist when the automobiles launch in 2021 - and it is free for customers to add their name to the list. Canoo's subscr...

INSIDE WORLD WAR II IN COLOR Every now and then I return to a theme from our origins I first launched what seems like years ago, one which our parents survived the trials of the depression and the tribulations of WWII. That theme is that we are mired not merely in a financial crisis, like the depression, but in a full-blown war in Afghanistan, similar to the times of our parents, when they were called to fight two wars simultaneously. One provoked and one that was just a case of stopping some bullies from ravaging weaker countries. . So they fought, gave their lives, freed countries, defeated Imperialism, beat back barbarianism, watched their friends die, liberated death camps, came home, then went back to rebuild those countries they left in war-torn shambles. Our parents' generation may not have invented the notion of sacrifice, but they certainly perfected it, and from 1941 to 1945 they took it to the highest and most costly human level possible. So the next ...