🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺☢🪨 — 🏴 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.

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🇺🇦❌🇲🇩❗️ — Russian and Moldovan medias report that a military unit in the unrecognized Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic) was attacked by Suicide UAVs from Ukraine!

💰❤️ VOTE FOR BITCOIN

The post below by @MacroScope17 is excellent. Let me extend his point one step further: the real election is BTC vs USD, the primaries have already started across the world, and every ballot counts. So make sure to vote early and often. Here's why this is more than a metaphor.

1) THEY CAN'T FAKE THE PRICE OF BITCOIN
First, the USD/BTC exchange rate is the one financial indicator that DC can’t fake. Remember the mortgage-backed securities that were supposedly rated AAA? And the devalued bonds that got magically revalued at 100 cents on the dollar by BTFP? All of those are stats within the Fed's video game, so they can be rewritten at will...but the Fed can't print more BTC. So they can't fake the Bitcoin price.

2) THEY CAN'T BLOCK THE EXIT TO BITCOIN
Since they can't fake the price of Bitcoin, the only thing the tradfi system could do is try to block the exit from dollars to Bitcoin. Which is why the SEC fought against ETF access for ten years. They finally lost on Aug 29, 2023. The three judges on the Grayscale case were Neomi Rao, Harry Edwards, and — yes — Sri Srinivasan (it's a common surname!). I'm not sure if even those august magistrates yet understand that their decision may end up being among the most important rulings in history.

3) THEY CAN'T STOP THE LEDGER OF BITCOIN
Wait — why could this random case actually be among the most important decisions of all time? Because unlike dollars in bank accounts, or stocks on brokerage accounts, or even real estate in blue states...Bitcoin exists on a ledger that the federal government does not control. So if more value is allowed to flow to that ledger, that's value that Keynesians can't freeze, seize, inflate, or confiscate. Not trivially, at least. Not without going house-to-house and beating it out of you, like their cousins the Communists did. So this court decision is important because it opened the floodgates, allowing value to flow towards the Bitcoin ledger — and away from DC's control.

4) THEY CAN'T STOP THE INCENTIVES OF BITCOIN
And every day that Bitcoin is available to Wall Street is a day that millions more gets invested in Bitcoin. Bitcoin's incentives were strong enough to recruit not just BlackRock, but Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, and a critical mass of major firms. It is literally the best-performing asset of all time, and one of the best of this year. So, not having it in your portfolio in Q1 2024 will make you a loser. It remains to be seen whether the Vanguard CEO was fired over his opposition to Bitcoin, but it is a distinct possibility. The incentive alignment is incredible: even the Fed can't pay everyone as much as Bitcoin can, because the more they print, the more BTC goes up.

5) THEY CAN'T STOP THE SIGNAL OF BITCOIN
So, every single day the regime is now bleeding support to Bitcoin. And so Bitcoin is rising. Its vertical rise signals that something is wrong in the legacy economy. It's a blazing fire alarm, an orange BitSignal glowing in the sky telling you that the smart money no longer has full faith and confidence in fiat.

That's why this is the true election. Everyone gets a vote, worldwide. Whether they're a US citizen doesn't matter, because billions are under the thumb of the dollar. They know their vote counts because they can count how many BTC they got in their vote. They know Satoshi actually keeps his campaign promises, unlike the GOP or DNC. And they know the BTC price signal is a vote count no regime can easily rig.

It's similar to the plebiscites at the end of the USSR. Back then, truly free speech and free elections finally allowed people to vote against the Communists. Now, truly free markets and free internet allow you to vote against the Keynesians.

6) THEY CAN'T DO QE IN THE PRESENCE OF BTC
The reason the smart money is moving to Bitcoin is that it suspects the money is gone, that the US cannot pay its debts in real terms, that the shell game is soon to stop, and that it’s time to get out before Powell’s “soft landing” crashes the plane.