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Bolivia inks $976mn deal with Russia to tap world’s largest lithium reserves

Bolivia has clinched a significant deal with Russia’s Uranium One Group, owned by state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom, to establish a lithium carbonate production facility in the Salar de Uyuni, one of the world's largest lithium-bearing salt flats.

The $976mn project will use Russian Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology, enabling the production of up to 14,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium annually. This is a key step in Bolivia’s ambition to industrialise its vast lithium reserves, which are estimated to be the largest globally, at around 23mn tonnes.

Last year, Uranium One, along with Chinese companies CBC and Citic Guoan Group, was chosen to set up pilot DLE plants in Bolivia, which are expected to expand to industrial-scale operations over time. The Bolivian government has set a target of exporting 50,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent each year, aiming to establish the country as a key player in the global lithium supply chain, particularly for electric vehicle batteries.

This is fairly significant. Bolivia has a lot of lithium reserves (hence elon musk's threat to coup bolivia) but their reserves are jot amenable to the same type of extraction technologies as are used further south in Chile/Argentina in the salt flats. Conventional techniques involve drilling wells to pumping lithium containing salt brine to the surface, evaporating it in the sun, then processing the leftover salt. This requires a lot of disturbance area and leaves a bunch of salt waste. It also requires the right kind of dry climate. Direct lithium extraction involves pumping up that same brine and then recovering lithium through chemical means, then returning the lithium depleted brine back underground. This approach is akin to SAGD oil recovery in Canada or insitu uranium leaching in Kazakhstan.

Setting aside the technical aspect of this project, obviously the ties to Russia and China are an important bulwark against the American Monroe doctrine.

Gonna touch grass for a couple of days, looking forward to all of the news kicking off while I'm gone

Fun fact: Nicaragua is among the largest producers of cigars in the world, right next to cuba and the dominican republic

Hezbollah drone wrecks a truck as Zionists losers flee from the scene:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1833853115491033173

Last fall Norwegian police had a "preventative conversation" with Marius Borg Høiby, the 27 year old cocaine-loving stepson of the aging king's hand-picked successor, crown prince Haakon. So reports Norwegian government broadcaster NRK.

Norwegian police uses conversations like these as a preventative measure against individuals who are at risk of ending in crime. The conversations are meant to convince individuals to change their ways before it is too late.

The conversation doesn't seem to have helped in Høiby's case. The popularity of Norway's monarchy has taken a skydive recently, in large part due to the Høiby's behaviour. Last month Høiby was arrested by Norwegian police and he has now been charged with assault, vandalism, theft and stalking following a cocaine and booze-fueled rampage in a woman's apartment. He has since received a restraining order against the woman. Two other ex-partners of Høiby has since come forward and reported abusive behaviour to the police.

I've got multiple posts queued up in my head but I don't want to post them all at once.

So first I'm going to ask: What was that one anti-colonial uprising again? The one where the settler colonialists got hacked apart with machetes.

We need to make a running gag of [relative of mine / normal thing] but then and illegal immigrant ran it over.

I was preparing toast for breakfast, but an illegal immigrant ran a car through my kitchen and ruined by toast!

Just increasingly ridiculous scenarios.

There is a virtual education system that is free across the entire nation, which serves the dual goal of democratizing education and ensuring that those in rural areas or without much free time for university can still achieve degrees and a quality education

Sounds fake. Online education can be OK in some situations but a claim that you can do a whole degree worth or that it'll be high quality has been false every other time so why would it be true now?

If you are extremely busy then you are exhausted the rest of the time so it isn't trivial to just slowly plug away at an intellectual task.

It might be a fine project and people might benefit from it. but no reason to be so very credulous about the likely outcomes.

There was a debate?

Peru's former dictator, Alberto Fujimori, died on Wednesday afternoon in Lima. Fujimori died in freedom, after receiving a questionable presidential pardon, and with millions of soles in debt in civil reparations, which were never paid to the victims of his crimes. He did not beat cancer

I guess Fujimori is not going to make it to his court hearing today. And he really did hate Keiko enough, that he prefered to die rather than be with her. lol.

No one is going to remember this because it happened on football night

PIJ blowing up a jeep with an IED and engaging in combat with IOF goons (CW: gunfire):
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1835379066544837027

The debate was not really good imho

Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Moraes orders the transfer of R$18.3 million (3 million US dollars) from X and Starlink to the Federal Government and unblocks the companies' accounts

According to the STF, the money will go towards 'full payment of the fine due for non-compliance with court orders'. The social network was fined for not blocking criminal profiles or those with anti-democratic messages.

The money will be used to pay the fines imposed by the courts against X for:

• failing to block profiles that disseminated criminal messages and attacks on democracy, disrespecting a series of court decisions;

• withdrawing its legal representatives from Brazil - which also led the STF to take X off the air in Brazil.

According to the STF, with the decision, Moraes ordered that the remaining bank balances and assets of Starlink and X in Brazil be unblocked. Both companies are linked to South African billionaire Elon Musk. In the case of Starlink, there are other shareholders with a stake in the company in Brazil - and the blocking of this part of the assets, ordered by Moraes at the end of August, was criticized by right-wing legal experts.

Serious doubts have been raised about the promise of Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime to open a "100% green" domestic flight route by 2025. So writes government broadcaster DR.

The plans were announced by Denmark's leader Mette Frederiksen in her new years' address in 2022 where it was claimed that the "100% green" domestic flight route would be an achievement not only for Denmark but for the entire world. As of now commercial flights are only allowed to use 50% so-called "Sustainable Aviation Fuel". The rest is still traditional fossil fuels.

The use of hydrocarbons is being criticised for greenwashing by among others the two moderate pro-democracy parties SF and the Red-Greens who claim they had expected the "100% green" flights to use electricity-based solutions powered by sustainable wind power rather than just "importing spent frying oil from China" to fuel the planes when they first made the agreement.

Thus far the state has spent USD 118 million on the "100% green" domestic flight route.

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The Prime Minister held talks with Joe Biden in the White House to discuss pleas from Volodymyr Zelensky to let the country use the Storm Shadow missiles.

But John Kirby, a spokesman for the US national security council, said there would be no announcement on long-range missiles after the meeting. He did not rule out one at a later date.

The Ukrainians aren't allowed to use stormshadows or atacms inside Russia, at least not yet. Kid Starver went to the US to do a bit of warmongering but presumably the pentagon told everyone no. Clearly the state department is pushing a more escalatory line on this than the pentagon, which I suppose makes sense because the pentagon represents the people that would actually have to fight and die and have their widgets blown up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

While there can be a number of causes of high inflation, almost all hyperinflations have been caused by government budget deficits financed by currency creation. Peter Bernholz analysed 29 hyperinflations (following Cagan's definition) and concludes that at least 25 of them have been caused in this way. A necessary condition for hyperinflation is the use of paper money instead of gold or silver coins. Most hyperinflations in history, with some exceptions, such as the French hyperinflation of 1789–1796, occurred after the use of fiat currency became widespread in the late 19th century. The French hyperinflation took place after the introduction of a non-convertible paper currency, the assignat.

Zionists in Ukraine 🤝 zionists in Palestine

Attacking civilians and infrastructure with impunity

Russia fends off major Ukrainian drone raid

A total of 144 drones have been destroyed or intercepted during a large-scale Ukrainian attack on Russian territory overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

Incoming plane-type UAVs were shot down over nine Russian regions, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday morning.

“During an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles,” Russian air defenses eliminated 72 drones above Bryansk Region, 20 above Moscow Region, 14 above Kursk Region, and 13 above Tula Region, the ministry stated.

Elsewhere, eight drones were destroyed in Belgorod Region, seven in Kaluga Region, five in Voronezh Region, four in Lipetsk Region and one in Orel Region, it added.

In the city of Ramenskoye outside Moscow, at least two apartment blocks were hit during the Ukrainian raid, according to the regional governor, Andrey Vorobyev.

Delta flight clips another plane on taxiway at Atlanta airport, knocks off smaller plane's tail