1ºMore importantly.
Why is sugar different than cigarettes? In the seventies and eighties the federal government declared cigarette smoking was bad for you, and at first said it causes cancer, then they changed the words and said they “ may” cause cancer. So they raised taxes dramatically. They said that would slow the use down.
What about sugar? Sugar is killing people by the thousands and causing diabetes and heart problems, among other health issues. Yet your federal government hasn’t raised taxes on sugar like they have cigarettes. Why? Isn’t your federal government looking out for you. Or is it that some people in the FDA didn’t like smoking?
If sugar is killing so many people, shouldn’t it be considered to be as dangerous as cigarettes?
2º#6 #G20. Putin and putinusts are using G20 forum only in order to screw you. Let critical thinking be with you. Perverted Putin just wants to cut off 19 G-spots. Vladimort Putin and Lavrov treat you as nothing. They as well as all putinists are leper & contagious neo-Nazi. Just imagine huge reincarnation of Nazism in your country and region. But remember that Lavrov’s rider is nothing but oats. Than kick putinists out.
You know how to breathe a sight of relief. World of transparency is watching you. Breathe fresh air. #StandWithUkraine #TargetingPutin #TargetingRegimeOfIran #russianwar #stopwar #war
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar on Tuesday said Russia and China were providing the junta with fighter jets being used against civilians, and urged the U.N. Security Council to halt the flow of weapons enabling atrocities.
Thomas Andrews, a former U.S. congressman serving in the independent post, released a report that also named Serbia as one of three countries supplying arms to the Myanmar military since it seized power last year, with "full knowledge that they would be used to attack civilians".
"It should be incontrovertible that weapons used to kill civilians should no longer be transferred to Myanmar," Andrews said in a statement.
Chaos has gripped Myanmar since a coup ended a decade of tentative democracy, triggering protests that troops suppressed with lethal force.
At least 1,500 civilians have been killed, according to activists cited by the U.N., which also says more than 300,000 people have been displaced by rural conflict between the military and armed opponents.
The junta says it is fighting "terrorists" and objects to what it calls U.N. interference.
Myanmar's military and Russia's foreign ministry could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
4ºChuck Smith Uh - you might want to research what the last President had to do with that...Senior military officials in the United States have linked the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August to former President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban in 2020 promising a complete withdrawal of US troops.
General Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that once the US troop presence was pushed below 2,500 as part of Washington’s bid to complete a total withdrawal by the end of August, the unravelling of the US-backed Afghan government accelerated.
5º#3 #G20. Don’t give the green light treacherous Putin and putinists publicly or informally, clearly or as a hint toward any ongoing war, or any war escalation of any ongoing or potential war. It’s mandatory, but just for show because the end of Putin is coming on quickly under any circumstances. BALANCE between humanism and state wisdom is the following. Ukraine would not to cede any territory. Otherwise, in the nearest and far future countless more people will die in Ukraine and other countries, and Ukraine and other countries will vanish, and Hitler’s and Putin’s Nazism will reborn again and again very often. That’s why unheard SANCTIONS should to be imposed on Russia immediately. #StandWithUkraine #TargetingPutin #TargetingRegimeOfIran #russianwar #stopwar #war
6º#1 #G20. Putin’s life will end very soon due to his decision to wage war and waging it. And all his servants, slaves and all the partners and supporters-putinists inadvertently and swiftly will EXPERIENCE very cruel consequences of their conjunction with Putin. Putin commits Hitler-like atrocities. There are only two ways. If Putin stop thinking about Russian war in Ukraine and waging it, the swift end of Putin and putinism will be very bad. BUT IF Putin doesn’t stop thinking about Russian war in Ukraine and waging it, the swift end of Putin and putinism will be so bad that Putin and all his servants, slaves and all the partners and supporters-putinists shouldn’t better not represent. #StandWithUkraine #TargetingPutin #TargetingRegimeOfIran #russianwar #stopwar #war
7ºTell Biden not to sign any business deals
Anthony Lee
You must understand what you are dealing with. A communist country which espouses Marxism as its core political inspiration, which holds high disdain and mistrust against free market economy and personal liberty, whose stability is based on mistrust of her own people, in which they are treated not as stake holders, but as subjects and commodities only for the sake of and the convenience of the ruling Party. The apex of this corruption is under the thumb of a man whose view of the world is shaped by his experience through the Cultural Revolution, who idolizes Mao as his inspiration, who like Mao likes to govern under personal worship, and because of the nature of this political system, is now fiercely in-fighting for power, succession, and control against other competing political factions. Unlike under democracy, where there are safe and orderly passages for power transfers, where the power of the office is never personal nor permanent but is governed and mandated by the people. Here in China under communism, that power is kleptocratic, that is why that seat of power can be for life and its security can often be a life and death struggle. The best analogy for we are looking at is one big vicious and deadly mafia system trying to rule and ambitiously trying to expand and export.
8ºOh stop investing in China!!!!
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When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work.
They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. The engineers pictured people plunking them down next to their air conditioners, attaching solar panels to them, and everyone living happily ever after off the grid.
"It was beyond promise," said Chris Howard, one of the engineers who worked there for a U.S. company called UniEnergy. "We were seeing it functioning as designed, as expected."
But that's not what happened. Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. And more than 5,200 miles away, a Chinese company is hard at work making the batteries in Dalian, China.
The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer. An investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network found the federal agency allowed the technology and jobs to move overseas, violating its own licensing rules while failing to intervene on behalf of U.S. workers in multiple instances.
Now, China has forged ahead, investing millions into the cutting-edge green technology that was supposed to help keep the U.S. and its economy out front.
Department of Energy officials declined NPR's request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China. After NPR sent department officials written questions outlining the timeline of events, the federal agency terminated the license with the Chinese company, Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd.
"DOE takes America's manufacturing obligations within its contracts extremely seriously," the department said in a written statement. "If DOE determines that a contractor who owns a DOE-funded patent or downstream licensee is in violation of its U.S. manufacturing obligations, DOE will explore all legal remedies."
Several U.S. companies have tried to get a license to make the batteries
The department is now conducting an internal review of the licensing of vanadium battery technology and whether this license — and others — have violated U.S. manufacturing requirements, the statement said.
Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."
This is technology made from taxpayer dollars," Skievaski said. "It was invented in a national lab. (Now) it's deployed in China, and it's held in China. To say it's frustrating is an understatement."
The idea for this vanadium redox battery began in the basement of a government lab, three hours southwest of Seattle, called Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It was 2006, and more than two dozen scientists began to suspect that a special mix of acid and electrolyte could hold unusual amounts of energy without degrading. They turned out to be right.
It took six years and more than 15 million taxpayer dollars for the scientists to uncover what they believed was the perfect vanadium battery recipe. Others had made similar batteries with vanadium, but this mix was twice as powerful and did not appear to degrade the way cellphone batteries or even car batteries do. The researchers found the batteries capable of charging and recharging for as long as 30 years.