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and hot off the presses (no pun intended) - another issue that electric vehicles pose Fire at Missouri lithium-ion battery recycling plant causes evacuations MADISON COUNTY, Mo. — A fire at the Critical Mineral Recovery battery recycling plant in Fredericktown has caused residents to evacuate, Wednesday. Several area fire departments are working to battle the blaze. Madison County 911 dispatch received the call around 2 p.m. Wednesday, according to Kyle Rogers, 911 direction. The Department of Public Safety's Division of Fire Safety and several tanker strike teams also are responding to fire. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office has urged everyone north and northwest of Village Creek Road and Madison 217 to evacuate immediately. The 225,000-square-foot processing plant is located in the 800 block of Highway OO. Critical Mineral Recovery is one of the largest lithium-ion battery processing facilities in the world, according to company's website. The plant has the capacity to process more than 60,000 tons of electric vehicle and consumer-grade lithium-ion batteries. more at https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2024/10/30/heavy-fire-at-critical-mineral-recovery-plant-causes-evacuations-wednesday-
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Go Woke Go Broke - Victoria Secrets do a U Turn
Ban Hammer replied to Boiler's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
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now that is an accomplishment. these are fairly new missiles (although not top of the line) from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_missile_system Iran received four S-300PMU2 batteries from Russia in 2016, each consisting of a 96L6E target-acquisition radar, a 30N6E2 target-engagement radar, and four 5P85TE2 towed transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) The S-300PMU-2 Favorit (Russian: С-300ПМУ-2 Фаворит, NATO reporting name SA-20B Gargoyle[11]), introduced in 1997 (presented ready 1996), is an upgrade to the S-300PMU-1 with a range of 195 km (121 mi) with the introduction of the 48N6E2 missile. This system is apparently capable against not just short-range ballistic missiles, but also medium-range ballistic missiles.
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ah yes, aljazeera news, the mouthpiece of qutar Overall, we rate Al Jazeera Left-Center biased, based on story selection that slightly favors the left, and Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks that were not corrected and misleading extreme editorial bias that favors Qatar. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/ i guess it's so wonderful there that more live in the usa than there The current population of Puerto Rico is 3,239,966 as of Sunday, October 27, 2024, based on Worldometer's elaboration of the latest There are around 5.8 million people of Puerto Rican origin living in the U.S., according to 2021 census data. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-puerto-rican-population-every-state-1975713
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N-400 October 2024 filers
Ban Hammer replied to Nobby7's topic in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports
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Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by Oxfam revealed “poor record-keeping practices” by the DC-based international lender that resulted in anywhere between $24 billion and $41 billion in misplaced funds. The agency’s audit showed “a lack of traceable spending” over the past seven years — partly because of an oddball accounting practice in which the bank accounts for its climate financing at the time of a project’s approval rather than at the time of project completion, according to the report released last week. more at https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/business/world-bank-bureaucrats-lost-track-of-at-least-24b-in-funds-fighting-climate-change-report/ Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C. An Oxfam audit of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio found that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance went unaccounted for between the time projects were approved and when they closed. There is no clear public record showing where this money went or how it was used, which makes any assessment of its impacts impossible. It also remains unclear whether these funds were even spent on climate-related initiatives intended to help low- and middle-income countries protect people from the impacts of the climate crisis and invest in clean energy. more at https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-finds apparently "going green" means green for someone's pocket!
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children. It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy —has apologized. more at https://apnews.com/article/navy-1882-tlingit-village-alaska-bombing-apology-b7da179eb05bd30afa373f9fc093305e
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Daily Update on Kamala Tanking America
Ban Hammer replied to Boiler's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
well they've decided to buy votes one way Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide Milwaukee, Wisconsin – President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. still have lead pipes. The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove. The political focus on Wisconsin by Mr. Biden reflects the hopes that Democrats can hold on to the state that they flipped in 2020 by a slim margin after losing it in 2016. more at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-lead-pipes-infrastructure/ amusing that cbs news refers to him at "Mr Biden"