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Trump wants Ukraine’s rare metals. Putin just offered Russia’s.

Moscow would be open to allowing U.S. access to Russia’s rare minerals, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, an apparent counteroffer and pressure tactic as the Trump administration pushes Ukraine to sign over half its mineral wealth as repayment for U.S. support in the war.

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In an interview broadcast on Russian state television Monday evening, Putin also endorsed President Donald Trump’s proposal for three-way nuclear arms control talks with China.

“We could come to an agreement with the United States — the United States would cut [defense spending] by 50 percent, and we would cut by 50 percent,” Putin told state broadcast personality Pavel Zarubin. “And the People’s Republic of China would then join in if it wanted. We think the proposal is good, and we are ready to discuss it.”

The Russian leader spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping by telephone earlier in the day and affirmed their countries’ “comprehensive partnership” as “true friends,” according to official statements.

Putin was interviewed by Zarubin on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also chaired a meeting on rare earth metals production. He stressed that Russia possesses significantly more natural resources than Ukraine.
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“We would be ready to offer [cooperation] to our American partners — when I say partners, I mean not only administrative, government structures, but also companies — if they showed interest in working together,” he said. “We certainly have substantially, and I want to emphasize this, substantially more resources of this kind than Ukraine. Russia is one of the leaders in reserves of these rare earth metals.”

She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals.

Formaldehyde, the chemical of choice for undertakers and embalmers, is also used in products like furniture and clothes. But it can also cause cancer and severe respiratory problems. So, in 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency began a new effort to regulate it.
The chemicals industry fought back with an intensity that astonished even seasoned agency officials. Its campaign was led by Lynn Dekleva, then a lobbyist at the American Chemistry Council, an industry group that spends millions of dollars on government lobbying.
Dr. Dekleva is now at the E.P.A. in a crucial job: She runs an office that has the authority to approve new chemicals for use. Earlier she spent 32 years at Dupont, the chemical maker, before joining the E.P.A. in the first Trump administration.
Her most recent employer, the chemicals lobbying group, has made reversing the Environmental Protection Agency’s course on formaldehyde a priority and is pushing to abolish a program under which the agency assess the risks of chemicals to human health. In recent weeks it has urged the agency to discard its work on formaldehyde entirely and start from scratch in assessing the risks.

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Deep Thoughts about bird flu...

Don't you think it's counterproductive to kill all the chickens if bird flu is detected in the flock?

Wouldn't it be far better to let the flu run its course and then the survivors have immunity? Then we breed those chickens and hopefully increase genetic resistance to the flu for future egg-laying hens?

Have we not learned anything from the COVID panic? The virus is gonna do what it's going to do. It cannot be contained. Culling all the chickens isn't going to make the virus go extinct. We have to learn to live with it instead of doing things that don't work over and over again.

I'm not Anthony Fauci, nor am I a chicken farmer, but prove me wrong.

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This is what you get when you put self-aggrandizing narcissistic trash into leadership that is more interested in the aesthetics of shock-and-awe than doing a good job governing. Completely avoidable problem.

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