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The mining company that wants to extract a rare heat-resistant element from the ground under southeast Nebraska says a new report shows the deposit it plans to mine holds a significant amount of other rare elements. NioCorp Developments said Thursday that the latest analysis shows the amount of rare earth elements present where it plans to build the mine about 80 miles south of Omaha near the town of Elk Creek is the second-largest deposit in the United States. The Centennial, Colorado-based company estimates that there are 632.9 kilotons of rare earth elements there. Those elements are needed to make...

May 20 (UPI) -- A proposed new Russian law doing away with soldier age restrictions suggests the country is struggling to sustain military troop requirements for its war on Ukraine. Two members of the United Russia Party introduced the proposed law. Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Russian state Duma, co-authored the bill with his deputy Andrey Krasov to allow people over 40 to join the military. Russians aged 18-40 and foreigners aged 18-30 can sign up for military contracts now. Russians older than 40 would be able to sign up for first military contracts under the proposed law, according to...

Tianjin, COVID, and Losing Chinese Labor by Peter Zeihan on May 21, 2022 Several signs point to THE possibility of Chinese officials instituting at least a partial lockdown of the northern port city of Tianjin as early as this weekend. The largest northern Chinese port, Tianjin is also a city of over 12 million people, and its port is vital for delivering goods--bulk ores, coal, liquid fuels--for the region's heavy industries and textile manufacturing. The Omicron variant has already been detected in the city, notably in the Beichen and Dongli districts, where local health officials mandated localized testing and quarantine...

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China’s most powerful bombers circled U.S. military bases in Okinawa, Japan, on Wednesday, according to Chinese state-run media Thursday. A pair of China’s H-6J bombers crossed between two of the largest islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, where the U.S has multiple military installations, before circling in the region, Global Times reported. The bombers likely coordinated with the Liaoning aircraft carrier group, which has been conducting drills in the region since May 2, according to the report. The military exercise featuring China’s “most powerful bombers” was a “rehearsal for keeping foreign forces from interfering in the Taiwan question” and sent “a...

Fighting has sharply escalated in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Both sides are bringing in more and heavier artillery, adding to the carnage. But it’s the Russians who have the biggest guns and mortars—and who are most willing to shoot indiscriminately. “In the coming weeks, Russia is likely to continue to rely heavily on massed artillery strikes as it attempts to regain momentum in its advance in the Donbas,” the U.K. Defence Ministry warned on Tuesday. The Russian army for weeks has been trying to position forces for an operation it realistically can complete. Earlier in the war, the Kremlin’s aims...

he world’s political and business elite will hobnob in Davos next week after a two-year break caused by Covid, with the Ukraine war set to dominate the exclusive Swiss mountain summit. The world has changed drastically since the last time the World Economic Forum took place in person at the ski resort in January 2020. At the time, US President Donald Trump and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg headlined the show and the coronavirus had yet to spread widely outside China. U.S. and Ukrainian attendees outnumber those coming from other leading nations, which includes just three from the United Kingdom, France,...

Pennsylvania mail ballots submitted without a date on the envelope last year should be counted, a federal appeals court said Friday, a ruling that could mean thousands more votes get counted in elections moving forward — starting with this past Tuesday’s primary. The ruling will also almost certainly reignite the smoldering political fight over undated mail ballots; create new questions and pressure for county elections officials as they continue to count votes from this week’s primary; and create another potential opening for county-by-county legal challenges as the Senate Republican primary heads toward a likely recount.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is eyeing up a 2024 White House bid as an anti-woke Democrat if Joe Biden decides not to run for a second term, it is claimed. Adams, 61, - who once referred to himself as the 'Biden of Brooklyn' - has 'repeatedly' told confidantes that he is considering running for the highest office and thinks he could 'win,' sources told the New York Post. 'Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024,' a source close to the mayor told the Post. 'He...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned that former President Barack Obama’s top staffer voters are abandoning Democrats as the party pushes toward the far-left. Jon Favreau was Obama’s top White House speechwriter. He left the government and founded a liberal media company called Crooked Media. He was not happy that Elon Musk publicly announced he would no longer vote or support Democrat politicians and will now vote Republican instead. “In the past, I voted Democrat because they were (mostly) the kindness party,” Musk said earlier this week “But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can...

In the 2020 Presidential contest between Joe Biden and President Trump, Pennsylvania was one of the last states to finish counting votes. The reason was Pennsylvania’s bizarre election laws regarding mail-in ballots, which do not permit election officials to begin counting mail-in ballots until election day, despite many arriving before then. Now, the same issue is preventing a winner from being declared in Pennsylvania’s Primary election for the 2022 midterms. Voters cast their ballots this past Tuesday, May 17th, and in the extremely close primary race between Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick, we may not know who won until...

There is a serious question if these people pushing vaccines, like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab, are oblivious to the danger of creating unnecessary vaccines by mandating the world get vaccinated that will force viruses to mutate. Are they deliberately trying to create a massive crisis in health? Bill Gates brags he is vaccinated and boosted. If that is true, then he could end up being one of the first to go. Now Australia is already reporting that there are new variants emerging that infect people and the vaccines have been circumvented. COVID was NEVER a serious disease. The same...

Documents obtained by OpenTheBooks found U.S. taxpayers ponied up $60 million over the last eight years to support the World Economic Forum, which next week will host the 2022 meeting of the world’s billionaire business elite in Davos, Switzerland.Davos. It’s a “playground” for the world’s billionaire business elite. Every year, like swans, the rich, pretty and powerful people descend upon a picturesque ski town in Switzerland to mix with world leaders. They discuss shaping our future into a utopian global society. For the first time since 2019, the 2022 Davos meeting will be in-person beginning Sunday, May 22. The host...

The Minnesota Republican Party apologized for screening a video that depicted liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros as a puppet master controlling two Jewish Democrats, saying that those responsible were not aware that the imagery had antisemitic connotations. “We understand that the use of imagery depicting Mr. Soros as a puppet-master at our state convention raised concerns that the imagery perpetuated an antisemitic trope,” state GOP chairman David Hann said Thursday in a statement, noting that the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Minnesota and the Dakotas had contacted them after the video screened. .....

Former President Trump announced on Saturday he was endorsing Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) two days after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol requested him to voluntarily cooperate with its probe. “Congressman Barry Loudermilk is a fantastic Representative for the incredible people of Georgia’s 11th Congressional District,” Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer challenged the next generation of Army soldiers on Saturday to prepare America’s military to fight future wars that may look little like the wars of today. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, painted a grim picture of a world that is becoming more unstable, with great powers intent on changing the global order. He told graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point that they will bear the responsibility to make sure America is ready.

Soros Runs US Government In Ukraine, Not President TrumpGeorge Soros – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2010Image by World Economic ForumPlease Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social ARTICLE ORIGINALLY POSTED ON NOVEMBER 15, 2019With the ‘impeachment’ inquiry underway in the U.S. House of Representatives, any reasonable person will see the lineup of U.S. government officials arrayed against POTUS for disagreeing with them on American foreign policy. Impeachment is not just about removing President Trump from office, or to prevent his re-election, it is about securing future control over American operations in foreign countries...

Here is a List of Bishops Speaking Out in Support of Archbishop CordileoneNOTE: This is a developing story. Readers are encouraged to come back again for updates.CV NEWS FEED // After Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced he will bar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, from receiving Communion in her home Archdiocese of San Francisco, a growing number of other American bishops and archbishops have voiced their support for the decision.As of Friday evening, nine prominent Catholic churchmen had weighed in with support for their brother bishop.Bishop Donald Hying, Diocese of Madison, WIThe Diocese of Madison issued a statement from Bishop Donald...