The element lithium is emerging as a strategic commodity because of its role as a battery material in electric vehicles and renewable energy. China, with over 9 million tons of reserves, has been a major supplier. With tensions rising between China and U.S.-allied nations, the U.S. has been looking [...]
Archive for October, 2024
October 22nd, 2024 - 2:29 pm § in Politics
Yard sign thieves
This incident in Springfield, Missouri, involved theft of Harris-Walz yard signs (a longer video is here). Trump signs are being stolen, too (see, e.g., video here); people on both sides are doing it. It shouldn’t happen. Legally, yard signs are private property, and taking them is a crime. It[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 11:34 pm § in China
U.S. revives Tinian airfields for conflict with China
During the closing stages of World War 2, American B-29s based on Tinian bombed Japan, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Read that history here.) Now the U.S. is reclaiming the abandoned runways from jungle overgrowth, to use as a backup in case U.S. planes must be dispe[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Environment
Climate change
Climate change is real and happening now, but government intervention is expensive and unnecessary. Humans can keep burning fossil fuels, raising livestock, and engaging in other greenhouse gas-emitting activities to their hearts’ content. Mother Nature will take care of everything, by adjusti[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 3:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Is Trump’s latest slander of the Central Park Five actionable?
Trump once wanted these five black men dead, even though the courts adjudged them innocent of the crime he still blames on them. The five men (pictured below), known as the Central Park Five, spent years in prison for a crime they officially didn’t commit. They’ve been fully exonerated, [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dueling billboards
Original version erected above a Texas gun shop: Version 2.0, erected with help from shop owner’s friends: Version 3.0, after Democrats responded: Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”
It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Trump raised flag at Iwo Jima!
Trump has a vivid imagination (see story here), and so does the artist who painted the picture below. In real life, he’s a draft dodger who called World War 2 heroes “suckers and losers.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
America is their land, not your land
They’re Christian nationalists, and they have a vision of America that doesn’t include you. They aim to “take over America for Jesus,” and J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is their hero and torch-bearer. “They are extremely online, constantly posting on myr[...]