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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
March 23rd, 2021 - 9:25 pm § in Foreign Affairs
Is Australia’s parliament a whorehouse?
Sure sounds like it. “This week a whistleblower alleged that Coalition staffers were swapping videos of themselves engaging in sex acts in Parliament House, including on the desk of a female Coalition MP … [and] claimed that the building’s prayer room was often used for sex and sex wor[...]
November 20th, 2020 - 12:02 am § in Misc.
Australian military hit with Afghan atrocity scandal
Australia is reacting with “shame and anger” to an official report that found their soldiers “allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan, with senior commandos forcing junior soldiers to kill defenceless captives in order to ‘blood’ them for comb[...]