🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺☢🪨 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | How Much Does The US Depend On Russian Uranium? | March 16, 2024:

"The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a ban on imports of Russian uranium. The bill must pass the Senate before becoming law.

In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti visualizes how much the U.S. relies on Russian uranium, based on data from the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Currently, Russia is the largest foreign supplier of nuclear power fuel to the United States. In 2022, Russia supplied almost a quarter of the enriched uranium used to fuel America’s fleet of more than 90 commercial reactors."

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🇺🇸👍🇺🇸⛏🪨 — 🇺🇸 Oil Price | U.S. to Back Nevada Lithium Project With $2.26 Billion Loan | March 15, 2024:

"Lithium Americas Corp has received a conditional commitment for a $2.26-billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to help it build lithium processing facilities in Nevada, as the Biden Administration looks to support America-produced lithium and reduce dependence on Chinese supply.

Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass project in Humboldt County, Nevada, is located next to a mine site that contains the largest-proven lithium reserves in North America, DOE said.

The U.S. Administration plans to extend the $2.26 billion loan under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. The government funding is intended to help finance the construction of Thacker Pass, targeted to produce an initial 40,000 tonnes per year of battery-grade lithium carbonate, Vancouver-based Lithium Americas Corp said in a statement."

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👤📡🇺🇸 Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say.

SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space company and national security agencies.
The network is being built by SpaceX's Starshield business unit under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that manages spy satellites, the sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/

🇳🇮⚠️❗️ — M5.7 earthquake off the coast of Nicaragua.

🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦 EU countries seal €5-billion deal on military aid to Ukraine after weeks of disagreements

European Union countries reached on Wednesday evening a hard-fought deal to boost and revamp military assistance to Ukraine.

The agreement struck by ambassadors in Brussels will inject an additional €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) until the end of the year, which will come on top of the €6.1 billion committed since early 2022.

🔗 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/13/eu-countries-seal-5-billion-deal-on-military-aid-to-ukraine-after-weeks-of-disagreements

🇳🇮⚠️🫀 — Rosario Murillo, wife of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, had just hung up the phone while giving a live interview to a local television station, when she shouted “HELP” and hung up.

‼️ The Nicaraguan regime is blocking information on the subject.