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Wonder where these faggots wound up?
>Sep 20, 2024 -
>Technology
>Chinese hacking "typhoons" threaten U.S. infrastructure
>5 Chinese nationals charged with covering up midnight visit to Michigan military site
>By Associated Press
>3 minute read
>Published 6:27 PM EDT, Wed October 2, 2024
>Is China Sneaking Military Personnel into the U.S. Via Border? What We Know
>Published Jun 16, 2023 at 12:28 PM EDT
>Updated Jun 19, 2023 at 3:03 AM EDT
>Wonder where these faggots wound up?
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Conspiracy theorists on social media wonder if Chinese troops have invaded Maine
Residents of tiny Robbinston are getting calls from around the country asking if last week's earthquake was really a bunker-busting bomb blast
Posted December 15, 2020
Updated December 16, 2020
A $1.5 billion lithium deposit has been discovered in western Maine, but mining it could be hard
Maine Public | By Kate Cough — Maine Monitor
Published October 25, 2021 at 10:41 AM EDT
>muh conspiracy theorists
>Conspiracy theorists on social media wonder if Chinese troops have invaded Maine
>A $1.5 billion lithium deposit has been discovered in western Maine, but mining it could be hard
Western Maine fags better be hard prepping
Lithium deposit could generate billions for Maine’s economy, but only if lawmakers get on board
December 5, 2022
The Maine Monitor broke the story earlier this year: Plumbago North in Newry, Maine is home to one of, if notthe densest, lithium deposit in the world.The site is thought to hold $1.5 billion worth of the critical mineral used in many types of electric vehicle batteries.
While most lithium mined in the world today comes from Australia, Chile, Argentina, or China, the discovery of the Plumbago North deposit could be a huge opportunity for Mainers to benefit from growing global and domestic demand for the mineral.
Unfortunately, the owners of the site could not find a realistic path to extract the lithium due to restrictions in the Maine Metallic Mineral Mining Act (MMMA). In 2017, the law was amended to include new regulations and prohibitions for metallic mineral mines located near sources of water. In July, a representative from Gov. Janet Mills’ DEP told The Maine Wire that the law prompts regulators to define the spodumene which encases the lithium at Plumbago North as a “metallic mineral” because it will be “excavated for its metallic mineral content.”
How big of an opportunity could this be for Maine if state lawmakers clarified the MMMA?Piedmont Lithium, a company which specializes in lithium mining around the world, is planning a site in Gaston County, North Carolina, on which they expect to begin construction in 2024. This is a comparable site to Plumbago North, since it contains a similar amount of lithium hydroxide, even though the Maine deposit is about four-times as dense.
By the fifth year of operation,Piedmont estimates that the project will directly employ 428 high-paying professionals, with average compensation of more than $82,000 per year. Piedmont also estimates the project will have indirectly supported 1,051 jobs and will have contributed nearly $4 billion in economic output to the region by year five.
over five years just from the income derived from direct and indirect employment at this single site. Nearly $4 billion of cumulative economic impact over five years is certainly nothing to sneeze at, especially for western Maine.
However, Maine would leave these benefits on the table without legislative action to amend the MMMA. Meanwhile, Gov. Mills’ climate action plan set a goal to put an EV in roughly one-in-three Maine driveways by 2030, more than 200,000 in total. President Biden and Congress went as far to hinge consumer EV subsidies on the amount of battery materials produced in North America or a US trading partner.
If federal and state policy keep incentivizing electric vehicles without a reliable supply chain, automobile prices for Americans could climb even higher. Why shouldn’t Mainers reap some of the reward?
>Western Maine fags better be hard prepping
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Maine's Mineral Resources
Maine Geological Survey
Town: Newry
County: Oxford
Location Accuracy: 100m
Reported Commodities: Beryllium, Feldspar, Lithium, Mica, Niobium, Tantalum, Uranium
> https://maine.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=42f687c0d3f947f1814613727ba92495
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXVIII, Laos
Memorandum From the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Kohler) to Secretary of State Rusk 1
Washington, January 13, 1967.
SUBJECT
Weather Modification in North Vietnam and Laos (Project Popeye)
Proposal
The Department of Defense has requested our approval to initiate the operational phase of Project Popeye in selected areas (map at clip)2 along the infiltration routes in North Vietnam and southern Laos. The objective of the program is to produce sufficient rainfall along these lines of communication to interdict or at least interfere with truck traffic between North and South Vietnam. Recently improved cloud seeding techniques would be applied on a sustained basis, in a non-publicized effort to induce continued rainfall through the months of the normal dry season.
Background
A test phase of Project Popeye was approved by State and Defense and conducted during October 1966 in a strip of the Lao Panhandle generally east of the Bolovens Plateau in the valley of the Se Kong River. The test was conducted without consultation with Lao authorities (but with Ambassador Sullivan’s knowledge and concurrence) and, to the best of our knowledge, remains unknown to other than a severely limited number of U.S. officials.
During the test phase, more than 50 cloud seeding experiments were conducted.The results are viewed by DOD as outstandingly successful.
(a)
82% of the clouds seeded produced rain within a brief period after seeding—a percentage appreciably higher than normal expectation in the absence of seeding.
(b)
The amount of rainfall induced by seeding is believed to have been sufficient to have contributed substantially to rendering vehicular routes in this area inoperable. Since the end of the rainy season, the communists have failed to undertake route repairs and there has been no vehicular traffic.
(c)
In one instance, the rainfall continued as the cloud moved eastward across the Vietnam border and inundated a U.S. Special Forces camp with nine inches of rain in four hours.
(d)
DOD scientists consider that the experiment demonstrated a capacity to raise and maintain rainfall under controlled conditions to the level at which the land is saturated over a sustained period, slowing movement on foot and rendering the operation of vehicles impracticable.
In our view, the experiments were undeniably successful, indicating that, at least under weather and terrain conditions such as those involved, the U.S. Government has realized a capability of significant weather modification. If anything, the tests were “too successful”—neither the volume of induced rainfall nor the extent of area affected can be precisely predicted. The only absolute control, therefore, is after the fact, i.e., to halt cloud-seeding missions
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