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Ntakamaze Nziyonvira grew up in Northern Kivu Province in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a region rich with major cobalt and copper deposits. The leading use of cobalt is in rechargeable battery electrodes and superalloys, which are used to make parts for gas turbine engines. Meanwhile copper is one of the most pervasive elements used in the clean energy transition. As a child, Ntakamaze knew people working freely in the mines. However, when war broke out in 1999, the mines were seized by militia groups. These groups, notorious for using child soldiers, also turned to forced labor to extract minerals and metals. At age 11, Ntakamaze and his family were forced to flee their home, hiding in a densely wooded national park in the DRC. After two harrowing months in the national park they escaped to Uganda under the cover of night. As demand for minerals like cobalt and cooper has surged, so has violence in eastern DRC. Tragically, recently hundreds of people have drowned in Lake Albert while attempting to escape the DRC to Uganda due to mineral violence. Today the estimable TK is the executive director of CIYOTA, an Uganda-based refugee-founded NGO and school (with over 1500 students!) that has partnered with Not For Sale for nearly a decade. One of Not For Sale’s newest partners, M2i Global, Inc. (OTCQB:MTWO), is working to supply minerals and metals to the U.S. government using technologies that minimize environmental impact and enforce ethical labor practices that respect workers. I am here this week in part better understand the current situation in the region, document it with M2i and Terra Mater Studios, and explore solutions that can be applied to help the people forced to leave their home behind.

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🌍 Why the global elite including Biden and Scholz fear Ukraine—and quietly prevent its victory 🌍 Ukraine isn’t just fighting a resistance—it’s a symbol of grassroots power that terrifies entrenched elites. Here’s why: 1️⃣ Maidan’s Ripple Effect: The 2014 Maidan Revolution showed the world that people can overthrow deep-state regimes. Until Beijing, out of total fear, shut them down forever, Hong Kong protesters waved Ukrainian flags and looked to the Maidan as a blueprint for revolution. Washington elites want us to think that “Victoria Nuland created Maidan,” because they fear their own citizens might rise up the same way—and so they try to make Maidan seem like an impossibility or never speak of it at all. 2️⃣ Old-World Community Bonds: Ukrainians celebrate centuries-old traditions, fostering tight-knit communities resistant to manipulation. Because of these rituals that unite them--which you see especially on display during Christmas and Easter--Ukrainians are not, to use Giorgia Meloni's words, “corporatized atoms.” They can't be easily manipulated by attention-stealing, dream-making, and fear-mongering. 3️⃣ Tolerance As a Result of Free Speech: Ukrainians are not woke: they will joke and argue about anything. Even in wartime, Ukrainians openly criticize leaders and embrace humor. And herein you'll find a paradox: When you have a widespread free speech, even some that some might call offensive, you actually end up with widespread tolerance. Which leads us to the next point: 4️⃣ Beyond Left vs. Right: In Ukraine, pink-haired musicians fundraise for soldiers while shouting “Christ is risen!” at concerts. Ukrainians defy our Western political labels, a concept that deeply unsettles those used to controlling us by inflaming one side against the other. When you can't see the sides so clearly, the people and their thoughts are harder to manipulate. 5️⃣ Innovation in Defiance of Bureaucracy: Ukraine’s war effort thrives on grassroots power. Private volunteers, not government programs, drive drone innovation and sustain the fight. This puts to shame our defense industry and the massive bloatedness of our budgets, something Washington prefers to keep under wraps. 6️⃣ Ukrainian Cities Embarrass American Ones: Contrast wartime Kharkiv’s cleanliness with the decay of San Francisco. In the moments when Russia is not attacking, Ukrainians like Kharkiv are safer and more pleasant than Chicago or Austin or New York: There's hardly any crime and no widespread homelessness or drug use. Perhaps it's no wonder American leaders are rushing to save this example of a flourishing society. Ukraine represents freedom, innovation, and community—values that clash with top-down control. Maybe that’s why support is often tepid, slow, or conditional. 🔗 Dive deeper into these ideas here: https://lnkd.in/d-Pu7uc5 What do you think? Why does the West really hold back Ukraine?👇

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Is the world a Tinderbox? Behind the entire scenario, #arming the #Iranians through the #Russians, arming all these places quietly is #China, who's doing nothing, their #soldiers are not getting involved, and their people are not dying. It's the #Chinese #money that's funding the entire #Hezbollah, the entire #Middle, and #West #Asia. The peace process that started in #G20 with #Saudi, #Israel, and #Europe agreeing for the first time to come together at the behest of #India and the #US and make an #economic #corridor completely got shattered and put on a back burner. Things would have changed dramatically for the entire #West #Asia. Just so that this does not succeed. The #Hamas attacked #Israel, knowing very well that #Israel was going to retaliate. And once #Israel starts to retaliate, and start attacking an #Arab #country or a #Muslim #country, #Saudi #Arabia will have to fall out of it. And that's what's happened. So this is #China, the main culprit. Scenario number two. The #Ukraine-#Russia war. It was #NATO who went up to the borders of #Russia, threatening #Russia. Adding or wanting to add #Ukraine to the #NATO group that triggered the entire conflict at the behest of the #Americans. So you created a second round for yourself and created your own, dug your own grave because all that you've ended up doing is weakening yourself. The strength that the #Americans had gotten for themselves after pulling out from #Afghanistan, consolidating their resources, the #military to come to #China is now completely being spent and being focused on the Israel war as well as the #Ukrainian-#Russian war very far from the #Chinese #borders very far from #China's circle of influence which is the #South #China #Sea. So what really happened is that the #NATO and the #Americans have got bogged down in #West #Asia and in #Europe. And for #Russia, it's not a problem, the landmass is so large. They can never be intimidated by any kind of bombings. And of course, there's a big #nuclear #power. So suddenly, when I talk about scenario three, you'll realize that the world order has already changed. It's not about to change, it's already happened.

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Carl Sagan's (https://lnkd.in/dPDmBZBD) testimony in the US Congress was educating and fascinating. It explained the greenhouse gas effect on Earth and other plants. It didn't occur in the last few months or years; it happened in 1985, almost 40 years ago. The message back then was clear: we must act now. And what did we do? In 1985, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes were approximately 20.49 billion metric tons. In 2023, global carbon emissions doubled and surpassed 40 billion metric tons. Oops! Humanity's need for energy exceeds our understanding of the damage we are doing; we knew it 40 years ago, and we know it today. Fossil fuels are so embedded in our way of living that we can't switch from them. So what can we do? While deploying renewables and developing new technologies to create continuous clean energy, we must start to capture and store the CO2 we have already emitted in large volumes. Today, there are carbon removal technologies that can be cheaper than replacing our hard-to-abate industries. RepAir Carbon Capture After we have continued clean energy and low-cost carbon removal, we can start replacing products that are currently based on fossil fuels. Carbonade We knew it 40 years ago, and we know it today. Let's not wait another 40 years, please! Please share! #GreenhouseEffect #ClimateChange #CO2Emissions #RenewableEnergy #CarbonCapture #Sustainability #EnvironmentalAction #CleanEnergy #ClimateScience #ActNow #CarbonRemoval #FossilFuels #SustainableFuture #EnergyTransition https://lnkd.in/dNuxc429

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#Nuclear Materials Accountancy builds from a common understanding of the starting point of #safeguards. Without that common understanding there can be no effective safeguards. The expression for the starting point of safeguards in Paragraph 34(c) of INFCIRC/153 "...nuclear material of a composition and purity suitable for fuel fabrication or for isotopic enrichment leaves the plant or the process stage in which it has been produced..." is open to interpretation. Prior to 2002 the common understanding, for uranium, was that this was intended to mean when the uranium left the conversion facility in which it was made into UO2, UF6 or uranium metal. At that time the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sought to reinterpret this expression to make the start of safeguards the point at which the material achieved its final purity within the conversion facility (generally as uranyl nitrate). As there are always at least two parties to every safeguards agreement and one party cannot impose a new interpretation on the other party, this re-interpretation required the cooperation and consent of affected States. ADDED LATER FOR COMPLETENESS: All plutonium is subject to safeguards except for Pu that is 80% or more Pu-238 (because Pu-238 puts out a lot of heat). I am adding this point before somebody requests the addition. ADDED BECAUSE OF THE THORIUM FANS WHO DON'T ACCEPT THE IDEA OF SAFEGUARDS: Article XX of the Statute of the IAEA was agreed by the States in the late 1950s. It established what belonged on the "safeguarded" list. I am merely reporting what the international requirements are and I was not involved in making the list. The last serious attempt to change Article XX of the Statute foundered on the complexity of getting everybody to even agree to discuss it in 1996. South Korea has been pushing an amendment to Article VI of the Statute for more than 15 years without much progress toward ratification. If you feel strongly enough about trying to remove thorium from the existing list you could try to get your Government to convene a special meeting of the State parties or start a process in the IAEA Board of Governors. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours.

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Denmark is realizing that biomass is not a climate solution but a hoax, and that there will periods without power if intermittent renewables are not balanced by controllable power sources. Meanwhile, Sweden is way ahead discussing how to finance nuclear solutions. Links to articles in the first comment.

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🤔Putin, Kim Sign Pact...hmmmm Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement yesterday in Pyongyang, reportedly the first such document between the two countries to include limited defense aid in over 30 years. The pair announced the deal amid Putin's first official visit to the country in a quarter of a century, their second meeting since September. The two nations, beyond sharing a small 10-mile land border, have a history of alignment since World War II. Although neither side released a text of the agreement, Putin indicated in a joint press conference the countries would provide mutual assistance in the face of aggression, without elaborating on those terms. The leaders also alluded to increased economic ties as well as the sharing of military munitions, technology, and intelligence. The pact comes days after reports surfaced the two countries have likely illicitly traded arms amid Russia's war in Ukraine. How do you think this impacts IndoPACOM? #russia #northkorea #nuclear #socialnetworking

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The arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov in Moscow on the evening of April 23, 2024, marks a critical juncture in Russian internal politics, particularly in the spheres of military and siloviki (security services) circles. Ivanov was arrested under charges of accepting a bribe of at least 1 million rubles, as stated by the Investigative Committee of Russia. The timing of the arrest, just weeks before President Putin's fifth inauguration, suggests a strategic cleansing of potential liabilities as well as a consolidation of power within the Kremlin’s inner circle of the siloviki. The specifics of the bribery case against Ivanov relate to the corruption embedded deeply within the Russian military-industrial complex. Ivanov, who has been in his role since 2016, was responsible for significant defense infrastructure projects, including the construction of the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces and the Patriot Park. Further complicating the narrative are Ivanov's connections and past confrontations with influential figures such as the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, the most famous private military company in Russia, operating in the Middle East, and Africa under its new brand Africa Corps. Prigozhin publicly accused Ivanov of embezzlement, highlighting deep-seated rivalries. President Vladimir Putin revealed that between May 2022 and May 2023, the Wagner Group received 86 billion rubles from the Russian Ministry of Defense, while Prigozhin's Concord catering company earned an additional 80 billion rubles from state contracts to supply food to the Russian army, highlighting significant financial flows between state entities and private contractors amidst accusations of corruption. After Prigozhin's death, stories emerged of Ivanov's attempts to assert control on behalf of the Russian MoD over Wagner-managed assets in Syria and the Central African Republic, which hints at the geopolitical stakes involved in his detention. Internationally, this incident will be closely watched as an indicator of Putin’s approach to governance in his next term. Last month, the son of a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin, took a new role in the Kremlin as Bloomberg reported. Boris Kovalchuk was appointed deputy head of the Presidential Control Directorate. The 46-year-old stepped down as chief executive officer of utility Inter RAO. The newest developments also reflect a tightening of control within the defense ministry, which has strategic implications for foreign policy and military engagement abroad. Thus, Ivanov’s arrest is not just a case of legal action against corruption. It is a strategic move that could be pivotal in shaping the power dynamics within Russia, signaling a period of heightened political maneuvering and restructuring at the top echelons of power as Putin prepares to further consolidate his rule. For Shoigu, this could be a precarious time; his close association with Ivanov might put him under increased scrutiny. 

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Putin - Tehran To what extent is the oligarch Putin directly involved in the Middle East war? It seems that it was no coincidence that the Hamas, Iran and Moscow attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. Shortly before that, in the summer of 2023, there were peace talks between Israel and the Arab states and Ukraine negotiated with Israel about military aid for air defence. What happened is well known. What is happening now? Israel is rightly eliminating the terrorists and war criminals of the war of aggression on 7 October. This was already announced in 2023. What has happened? The main perpetrator of the war of aggression on 7 October wants to punish Israel for killing a terrorist and attack Israel directly. What is happening now? Iran's cooperation partner, Moscow, in the person of the deposed defence minister, is travelling to Iran today to strengthen relations. According to the Russian media, Shoigu is to meet the new Iranian President Massud Peseshkian, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, and the Chief of the Army Staff, Mohammad Bagheri. The Iranian news agency Tasnim confirmed the arrival of a "high-ranking Russian delegation led by Sergei Shoigu" in Tehran to discuss strengthening relations between the two countries and "current regional and international issues". Shoigu had been invited to Tehran by his Iranian counterpart Ahmadian. Shoigu's visit to Iran comes against the backdrop of Western international efforts to avert a military escalation in the Middle East. Russia had strongly condemned the killing of Haniya and stated that it could destabilise the already tense situation in the region. Russia and Iran have intensified their cooperation since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in February 2022. Tehran is supplying drones to Russia to support the war of aggression in Ukraine, which violates international law. war of aggression in Ukraine. The result? Everything is interlinked: 1. Russian proxy war in Syria and the almost complete destruction of Syria by Russia. 2. Iran's war of aggression by Hamas against Israel. 3. the coordinated, concerted military response of the Iranian terror regime with Moscow against Israel. How should the Middle East react? Russia and Iran must be completely isolated. Any attack by Iran against an Arab country or against Israel must result in a clear and very clear, robust defence against further belligerent reactions by Iran. This is not a time for negotiations, but for the protection of civil societies in the Middle East, including Israel.

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INFCIRC/153 Paragraphs 11, 12 and 13 deal with three different situations in which #safeguards are terminated on #nuclear material. The first is when the material is practicably {EDIT - originally I mistyped "practically" - thanks to Mark Goodman for the correction] irrecoverable. This situation has to be distinguished from "retained waste" which is waste from which nuclear material may not be recoverable currently, but which is stored with the expectation of later recovery. Retained waste is dealt with under Paragraph 107. The second seems absolutely obvious, but has to be explicitly stated, which is that safeguards on material in a State are terminated when it is transferred out of the State The third is when the nuclear material is used for a non-nuclear purpose such as making glass, ceramics or alloys. Use of uranium to produce vibrantly coloured glass was very common in the period leading up to WWII, but has become much less common over time. It is still used for such purposes, but only in very small quantities. Thorium is used, alloyed with magnesium, for high performance engines for racing cars and jet aircraft. This post continues a review of a selected subset of paragraphs in INFCIRC/153.

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Clown World 🤡 "I'm the first President in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world ! We're only aggressively pushing the expansion of NATO to Ukraine, via a totally avoidable & deliberately provoked proxy war with Russia, to beat them up, after which we can and will beat the hell out of China in the Pacific, using Taiwan as our springboard, all as part of a final, desperate attempt to sustain US unipolar hegemony, in order to avoid collapse of our financial-economic Ponzi and the US empire as a whole, only to delay China inevitably surpassing the US in every aspect." 🥳 #AppreciateDeepStateSpeechWritingSkills #DeepStateExploitationOfDementedElderlyAndUsefulIdiots #DeepStatePropagandisationAndManipulationOfTheSheeple #TrueDemocratsSupportTrumpVance2024

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IS WORLD WAR THREE EMINENT? Are some countries trying to provoke a third world war? The media narrates: power crazy Putin is a cold dictator. Fortunately there is the noble NATO, which under American leadership courageously opposes this cold criminal. Is this fact or propaganda? NATO, supposedly established to counterbalance the Soviet Union, refused to disband when the Soviet Union dissolved. Contrary to all implicit and explicit agreements made with Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin, NATO steadily moved its borders eastward, towards Moscow, devised by an American power bloc with one big goal: to create a unipolar world dominated in which one superpower, the United States, controls and contains global geopolitically and economically. Motives for bringing Ukraine into NATO were perhaps primarily ideological and strategic in nature. Ukrainia has fertile agricultural land, iron ore, coal and rare minerals. American companies like Monsanto, Cargill and DuPont bought up approximately 17 million hectares, or one-third of Ukraine’s agricultural land, backed by American financial giants such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and Blackstone. Following that, the rise in agricultural land prices from €2,500 to €10,000, the land has become too expensive for small Ukrainian farmers to earn a living. What drives NATO, and particularly the American power bloc that calls the shots, to steer towards a third world war? The causes of any war are complex and usually rooted in a blind destructive and self-destructive death drive. USA has military power, but economically, it is rapidly losing its position. The USA is part of the economic power bloc of the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States); its economical counterpart are the BRICS countries(Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). To illustrate the decline of the G7 and the rise of the BRICS countries economically: in 1950, the G7 countries accounted for about 70% of global market share, in 1990 this decreased to about 50%, and by 2020, it further dropped to 40%. It is expected to be around 30% by 2040. The BRICS countries are going in the opposite direction. Before 1990, their share was negligible; after 1990, it rose to about 15%, and in 2020 it was approximately 30%. It is expected that by 2030, the BRICS countries could surpass the G7’s share. The American power bloc knows that the loss of economic power inevitably leads to the loss of military power. The only way to maintain power is to use the remaining military superiority to crush the emerging economic power of the BRICS countries and thus restore economic dominance. In other words: to provoke a third world war. Source: Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology Ghent University

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Europe is having trouble with its energy security, especially since Russia invaded Ukraine. Norway has become a more important player in the current scenario. Norway is still very important in keeping Europe's energy sources stable because it has a lot of oil and gas reserves. Norway is now the biggest gas producer in Europe, which has made the country even more strategically important and solidified its place as a world leader in energy. The oil and gas industry is incredibly important to Norway, particularly in these times of geopolitical upheaval, and this has a big impact on the recruitment industry. The need for knowledgeable engineers and professionals with expertise in oil and gas production and development has increased. These experts are essential for growing current operations and increasing extraction and processing efficiency. #EnergySecurityEurope #NorwayEnergyLeader #OilAndGasJobs #GeopoliticalEnergyShift #EngineeringCareers

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• Offshore wind farms generate electricity at sea, where wind speeds are higher than on land. This allows them to produce more energy per installed capacity. • In fact, wind turbines sizes of 15 MW and above are becoming increasingly common as unlike onshore wind turbines, offshore wind turbines are not subject to same land limitations, as it operates in open water. • Between 2015 and 2020, offshore wind costs declined significantly (e.g. ~65% in UK). • By the end of 2023, 74 GW of offshore wind farms were operational globally, capable of producing over 250 billion kWh of electricity annually. Despite progress, challenges remain, including rising costs and stalled projects in some countries. I read this fabulous report by Energy Transitions Commission which explores • Recent developments in offshore wind energy sector - Project cancellations, auctions and cost escalations along with drivers • Long term outlook on offshore wind costs • Key actions needed for rebuilding confidence in offshore potential and improving unit economics of offshore wind power You can read more reports on energy transition on this link: https://lnkd.in/gScKA3im Closer home in India, Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited has launched tender for leasing seabed off coast Tamil Nadu to develop 4,000 MW of #offshore #wind #projects through #international #competitive #bidding. Let me know your views on future of offshore wind in India. Happy to discuss further with interested stakeholders.

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