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  • Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases

    07/14/2025 4:18:01 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 19 replies
    Statnews ^ | 07 14 2025 | Helen Branswell
    When anti-vaccine activists and others argue that the immunizations used to protect children from infectious diseases are risky, they often point to aluminum salts, a product added to many childhood vaccines to increase their effectiveness. A new large study from Denmark directly counters those claims. After mining the vaccination and medical records of more than 1.2 million children over a 24-year period, researchers could see no evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines led to a statistically significant increase in a child’s risk of developing any of a wide variety of conditions that can be diagnosed in childhood, including asthma...
  • Massive rare earths elements deposit confirmed in Wyoming: Metals to be used in magnetics and high-tech aluminum alloys

    07/11/2025 10:23:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Freightwaves ^ | 07/11/2025 | John Paul Hampstead
    In a groundbreaking moment for the American mining industry, the Fluor Corporation has confirmed the feasibility of large rare earth element deposits at Ramaco Resources’ Brook Mine in Wyoming. This announcement marks a significant step towards redefining the United States’ position in the critical minerals market. The confirmation by Fluor not only solidifies the economic potential of the Brook Mine but also positions Ramaco Resources as a key player in reducing the country’s dependency on foreign sources of rare earth elements. Ramaco Resources, initially known for its operations as a metallurgical coal miner, was thrust into the spotlight with this...
  • Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet

    11/02/2021 11:20:28 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    phys.org ^ | NOVEMBER 2, 2021 | Brown University
    Around 12,000 years ago, something scorched a vast swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile with heat so intense that it turned the sandy soil into widespread slabs of silicate glass. Now, a research team studying the distribution and composition of those glasses has come to a conclusion about what caused the inferno. In a study published in the journal Geology, researchers show that samples of the desert glass contain tiny fragments with minerals often found in rocks of extraterrestrial origin. Those minerals closely match the composition of material returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission, which sampled the particles...
  • U.S. Strengthens Its Rare Earth Supply Chain With New Processing Plant

    06/14/2020 7:00:38 PM PDT · by bitt · 25 replies
    oilprice.com ^ | 6/11/2020
    USA Rare Earth, the funding and development partner of the Round Top heavy rare earth project and Texas Mineral Resources announced Thursday that its rare earths pilot plant processing facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has received the required permits and officially opened. Once fully commissioned, the plant will be focused on group separation of rare earths into heavy (dysprosium, terbium), middle, and light (neodymium, praseodymium) rare earths (REE’s) and will be the first facility to separate the full range of rare earth elements in the US since 1999. USA Rare Earth’s pilot plant is the second link in a 100%...
  • US, Ukraine sign minerals deal, Bloomberg News reports

    04/30/2025 3:01:45 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Al Arabiya ^ | 4/30/2025 | Reuters
    The United States and Ukraine have signed an agreement over access to Ukraine’s natural resources, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The deal will provide the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources, including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas, Bloomberg reported.
  • US President Trump’s trade wars threaten America’s craft brewers

    03/31/2025 1:19:40 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 46 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Monday, March 31, 2025 | Press Trust of India
    Washington -- America’s craft brewers already have enough problems. Hard seltzers and cocktails are muscling into beer sales. Millennials and Gen Z don’t drink as much as their elders. Brewpubs still haven’t fully recovered from the shock of COVID-19 five years ago. Now there’s a new threat: President Donald Trump’s tariffs, including levies of 25 per cent on imported steel and aluminum and on goods from Canada and Mexico. “It’s going to cost the industry a substantial amount of money,” said Matt Cole, brewmaster at Ohio-based Fat Head’s Brewery. Trump’ trade war “will be crippling for our industry if this...
  • President Trump Positions U.S. as Global Superpower in Manufacturing

    03/23/2025 12:59:06 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 9 replies
    Whitehouse.gov ^ | March 20, 2025
    Nvidia, the world’s undisputed leader in chipmaking, says it will invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next four years on its U.S.-based manufacturing operations — part of the manufacturing renaissance under President Donald J. Trump as he solidifies the U.S. as the global leader in artificial intelligence.“Having the support of an administration who cares about the success of this industry and not allowing energy to be an obstacle is a phenomenal result for AI in the U.S.,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.Here’s what they’re saying:Axios: “It’s another win for President Trump’s push to increase U.S. manufacturing, with a...
  • UAE Commits to $1.4 Trillion US Investment After Trump Meeting

    03/21/2025 10:08:32 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    www.cf.org ^ | March 21, 2025 | Staff
    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion “investment framework” in the U.S., the White House announced Friday. The new framework “will substantially increase the UAE’s existing investments in the U.S. economy in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and American manufacturing,” according to the administration. The UAE committed to the investments after President Trump hosted the UAE’s national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, and the heads of major UAE sovereign wealth funds and corporations for a meeting in the Oval Office earlier this week. Among the investments under the framework, the UAE investment fund ADQ and...
  • EU retaliates as Trump steel, aluminum tariffs take effect

    03/12/2025 6:40:16 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/12/2025 | Filip Timotija
    The European Union (EU) retaliated swiftly with a two-step approach in response to President Trump’s fresh 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum that took effect Wednesday. First, the European trading bloc — made up of 27 nations — will allow the suspension of the existing 2018 and 2020 countermeasures against the U.S. to expire on April 1. Second, the commission is proposing a new package of countermeasures on goods coming from the U.S. that will go into effect in mid-April, covering some $28 billion in imports in total. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Europe...
  • How a single acid droplet turns aluminum see-through

    02/26/2025 6:04:03 AM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Study Finds ^ | February 26, 2025 | Staff
    Researchers discovered a tiny droplet of acid could do the job of large amounts of harmful chemicals usually used for turning aluminum transparent. (fotaro100/Shutterstock) =================================================================== In a nutshell * Scientists have developed a technique to transform aluminum into transparent aluminum oxide using just a droplet of acid and low voltage (2V), dramatically reducing chemical waste compared to traditional methods that require full immersion in acid baths. * The transparent material allows more than 70% of visible light to pass through while blocking some near-infrared light, making it potentially valuable for applications in electronics, solar panels, optical sensors, and energy-efficient windows....
  • Russia is ready to supply 2 million tons of aluminum to US market, it would stabilize prices — it's a good idea for both the US and Russia to cut defense spending by 50% Putin

    02/24/2025 2:27:48 PM PST · by hardspunned · 71 replies
    Sputnik ^ | 2/24/25 | Putin
    Russia is open to working with US on rare earth production 🔻 Russia holds FAR MORE rare earth reserves than Ukraine 🔻 Foreign partners welcome—including in new regions
  • Trump says he'll announce new tariffs on aluminum, steel imports today

    02/10/2025 8:29:30 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    CBS News via MSN ^ | 02/10/2025 | Lucia Suarez Sang
    President Trump said Sunday that he will announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Monday. Mr. Trump, speaking on Air Force One on the way to New Orleans to attend the 2025 Super Bowl, said he would also announce "reciprocal tariffs" on Tuesday or Wednesday, which he said will go into effect immediately. This means that the U.S. would impose import duties on products in cases where another country has levied duties on U.S. goods. "If they charge us, we charge them … every country," he said, adding, "If they are charging us...
  • Russian Oligarch's Story Could Spell Trouble for Team Mueller

    07/03/2019 6:27:32 AM PDT · by LRoggy · 28 replies
    TheHill.com ^ | 7/2/2019 | John Solomon
    Sometimes it is the quiet, elusive ones who come back to haunt you. And for ex-special prosecutor Robert Mueller, one of those might be a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska. The oligarch who once controlled Russia’s largest aluminum empire has been an international man of intrigue in the now-completed and disproven Trump collusion investigation. Deripaska was a disaffected former business client of Donald Trump’s fallen campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He also was a legal research client of Trump-hating, Clinton-aiding British spy Christopher Steele. In his spare time, he was an occasional friendly cooperator with the FBI and its fired deputy...
  • Senators, Union Workers Call On Joe Biden to Hike Aluminum Tariffs to Save American Jobs

    04/24/2024 5:40:42 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/24/2024 | John Binder
    A group of Republican and Democrat senators, along with the United Steelworkers (USW), are calling on President Joe Biden to hike United States tariffs on imported aluminum to save American jobs. In a letter to Biden’s Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo, the senators warn that aluminum extrusion plants in the U.S. are at risk of being eliminated as a result of imported aluminum extrusions.
  • Hawley calls on Biden to keep Missouri aluminum plant open

    01/30/2024 8:22:57 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 12 replies
    The Hill ^ | January 25, 2024 | Filip Timotija
    en. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on President Biden to keep a Missouri aluminum plant open, after it was reported that its operation would be curtailed by Jan. 28. Hawley issued a statement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday after reports that Magnitude 7 Metals, the second-largest U.S. aluminum smelter, is going to lay off most of its staff. “This cannot be allowed to happen,” Hawley wrote Thursday. “The plant accounts for nearly 30% of the nation’s aluminum. It’s vital to national security. President Biden must invoke the Defense Production Act and keep it open.” Hawley referenced...
  • Taco Bell Worker Slapped by Angry Customer After Food Ruined His Microwave

    01/08/2024 1:07:38 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 58 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 1/8/24 | Chloe Mayer
    A Taco Bell employee was slapped by a customer who blamed the fast-food chain for breaking his microwave after it blew up when he tried to reheat his meal at home. Footage of the swear-ridden clip was shared widely across social media over the weekend, with viewers saying that the consumer had tried to heat food still wrapped in foil. This is a catastrophic mistake as metal must never be cooked in a microwave. It remains unclear whether that was why the man's microwave exploded, but footage of his encounter back at the restaurant shows him complaining about the...
  • The Bicycle Thread - July 2023

    07/01/2023 7:07:52 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 27 replies
    July 1, 2023 | The Bicycle Thread
    Welcome to The Bicycle Thread. A monthly PING List for bicycle enthusiasts to share experiences, information and ideas. 🚴‍♂️👍
  • The aluminium in chemtrails have a direct link to environmental damage,

    12/14/2022 12:33:16 PM PST · by RideForever · 26 replies
    GAB ^ | 12/14/2022 | Video
    Video of history of aluminum in our environment link to video
  • Routine childhood vaccines may raise the risk of asthma by a THIRD, shock Government-funded study finds

    09/28/2022 9:21:08 AM PDT · by algore · 10 replies
    Now a federally-funded study has found a possible link between vaccines containing aluminum and a higher risk of asthma in children. Results showed children who received all or most of their routine childhood shots had a 36 per cent higher risk of being diagnosed with persistent asthma by age five than kids who got fewer vaccines. Experts and health officials say the research has important shortcomings and is not a reason to change current vaccine programs that are proven to save lives. The study doesn't claim aluminum causes the breathing condition and instead suggests a casual association. More work is...
  • EU, U.S. step up Russian aluminium, nickel imports since Ukraine war

    09/06/2022 9:30:36 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 6 replies
    Rueters ^ | Sept 6 | Eric Onstad
    EU and U.S. imports of Russia's main base metal products aluminium and nickel during March-June increased by as much as 70%, official trade data compiled by Reuters from the United Nations Comtrade database show. The total value of EU and U.S. imports of the two metals from March to June were $1.98 billion... Analysts said the United States and Europe have learned lessons after huge disruption on construction, auto and power sectors caused by sanctions imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump on Russian aluminium 2018. Russia's Rusal is the world's largest aluminium producer outside China and accounts for about...