Australian Navy Goes Nuclear With Future Submarine Force
September 15th, 2021Via: The Warzone:
The Royal Australian Navy is set to get a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of a new trilateral advanced defense agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom. The Australian government is also reportedly poised to cancel its long-troubled deal with French shipbuilder Naval Group to build advanced conventionally-powered attack submarines for the Royal Australian Navy as a result.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who was joined remotely by U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, made the announcement on Sept. 15, 2021. Morrison said that the plan, which will be refined over the next 18 months, is to build an unspecified number of nuclear-powered submarines in the Australian city of Adelaide in close cooperation with the United States and the United Kingdom.
Prince Andrew: No Escape
September 15th, 2021Via: DailyMail:
Prince Andrew was pictured at Balmoral today as the High Court agreed to formally notify him about Virginia Roberts’s bombshell sex assault claim – raising the possibility he could have to give evidence.
The Queen’s son, 61, was seen with his former wife Sarah Ferguson on a lawn outside the castle, where Her Majesty is currently in residence.
In a major development, English judges accepted a request by Ms Roberts’ legal team to formally contact Andrew about the civil proceedings launched in America, after first rejecting the request, citing a technicality.
For one person to sue another in a civil case, the claimant has to formally present legal papers to the other party to notify them of the action – a process known as a service of proceedings.
Last week, Ms Roberts’ legal team said it had tried to serve papers to the 61-year-old by leaving the documents with a police officer at his home in southern England, in addition to sending them by Royal Mail.
However, despite Andrew being represented in court, his team have argued he has not yet been properly served so the case cannot progress.
In response, Ms Roberts’ legal team used the Hague Service Convention, a treaty governing requests between nations for evidence in civil cases, to ask the High Court to formally notify Andrew about her action.
Massachusetts Activates National Guard To Bus School Children After Vax Mandate Staffing Shortages
September 15th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge:
States like Massachusetts are now struggling with public school staffing shortages to the point that children literally can no longer take the bus to school as there aren’t enough drivers. The large school district of Boston, for example, admitted at the start of the school year that the vaccine requirement would inevitably result in drivers staying home. “City leaders say part of the reason for the shortage in Boston is that some drivers are not vaccinated, which is a requirement,” a local report underscored.
Now the state is having to take drastic action and even greater intervention in the crisis, with Republican Governor Charlie Baker on Monday activating the Massachusetts National Guard in order to get school transportation up and running.
An official statement from Gov. Baker’s office said “The Governor’s order makes up to 250 personnel available. Beginning with training on Tuesday, 90 Guard members will prepare for service in Chelsea, Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn.”
California Republicans Shocked To Discover They’ve ‘Already Voted’ In Recall Election
September 15th, 2021The only way to vote in California is with your feet.
Via: ZeroHedge:
Residents of San Fernando Valley, California were shocked after showing up to vote in the state’s gubernatorial recall election, only to be told by polling station workers that they had already voted.
More Than Half of U.S. States Vow to Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
September 15th, 2021Via: The Center Square:
Twenty-seven Republican governors or attorneys general have vowed to fight the latest executive order issued by President Joe Biden mandating that over 80 million private employees receive COVID vaccinations or undergo weekly testing, or their employer will be fined.
The executive order directs the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require private businesses with more than 100 employees mandate that their workers receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Noncompliance would result in fines of $14,000 per violation.
The governors who’ve expressed opposition include those from Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Related: NBA Won’t Impose Vaccine Requirement On Players After Union ‘Refused To Budge’
First Rivian R1T Pickup Bound for Customer Rolls Off Assembly Line
September 15th, 2021I’d like to see how it would hold up against WhistlinDiesel’s testing protocol *chortle*
Via: CNBC:
EV start-up Rivian is the first automaker to bring an electric pickup to the consumer market, beating Tesla, General Motors and others in what’s expected to be a hotly contested segment in the years ahead.
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on Tuesday tweeted that the company’s first R1T pickup for a customer drove off the assembly line in the morning at its plant in Normal, Illinois.
Tesla Cofounder JB Straubel Announces New 100 GWh Battery Material Factory in the U.S.
September 15th, 2021Via: Electrek:
The company describes the situation in a press release today:
Redwood will produce strategic battery materials in the US, supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials. We plan to transform the lithium-ion battery supply chain by offering large-scale sources of these domestic materials produced from as many recycled batteries as available and augmented with sustainably mined material. These two products re-use all of the lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt that we already recover from old batteries! These materials will be built from more and more recycled batteries every year but in the immediate future, we need to ramp EV production faster than the number of existing EVs will reach end of life and therefore, be available for recycling. This is the only way we can scale these critical building blocks to meet the US’s 2030 electrification goals.
To ramp up local production, Redwood announced today that they will build a new factory in North America to produce 100 GWh of cathode materials by 2025:
In order to achieve a sustainable energy and transportation future, we need to start now and expand our manufacturing base beyond what our current operations could support. By early 2022, Redwood will announce a site for our North American battery materials manufacturing facility and begin ramping production, aiming to produce 100 GWh/year of cathode active materials for one million electric vehicles by 2025. By 2030, we expect our production output to scale to 500 GWh/year of cathode active materials which would enable enough batteries to power five million electric vehicles or nearly half of the US’ annual vehicle production.
The company didn’t confirm where this new factory will be located apart from that it will be in North America.
Trump, Republicans Call Gen. Mark Milley ‘Treasonous’ for Calls with China
September 15th, 2021Via: USA Today:
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is facing outrage from lawmakers after a report that he assured China that the United States would not launch a nuclear strike in the last days of the Trump administration.
The bombshell revelations were reported in “Peril,” the latest book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodard. Woodward writes that in a pair of calls in 2020, Milley twice assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have called the move treasonous, accusing Milley of subverting the military chain-of-command calling for consequences.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., accused Milley of “treasonous” and “reckless behavior” and urged President Joe Biden to fire the top general.
“It is a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others. It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military,” Rubio wrote in an open letter to Biden.
Why Were Four Friends Killed and Left in a Wisconsin Cornfield?
September 15th, 2021Via: Mercury News:
Why did four friends from the Twin Cities lose their lives to gun violence with their bodies discovered in an abandoned vehicle in a cornfield in western Wisconsin?
“That is the mystery,” said Damone Presley Sr., whose daughter, Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, was killed. “Hopefully, through the investigation we’ll get that answered.”
Flug-Presley, 30, of Stillwater, was with her lifelong friend Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, of St. Paul. One of the men found dead in the vehicle, Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26, of St. Paul, was Sturm’s brother, Presley said. Loyace Foreman III, 35, of St. Paul, was Sturm’s boyfriend.
They had been at a bar in St. Paul on Saturday night. A farmer found the black SUV about 65 miles to the east in Dunn County, Wis., on Sunday.
Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said authorities believe they died less than 24 hours from the time they were found. He said there was no known connection between Dunn County and the four.
Former Pentagon UFO Official Luis Elizondo to Reveal “Shocking Details” in New Book
September 14th, 2021Tell us another one, Lue.
Via: The Hollywood Reporter:
The former head of the U.S. government’s secretive UFO program will pen a book for HarperCollins that includes “profound implications for humanity.”
