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What’s Igniting Today’s U.S. Antimony Spike? Potential Catalysts

What’s Igniting Today’s U.S. Antimony Spike? Potential Catalysts

Published by Jenni Sidey

United States Antimony Corp. shares are surging in the early U.S. cash session as geopolitical risk around U.S.-China relations is set to deteriorate, with Beijing’s condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran raising the likelihood that President Trump’s upcoming trip to Beijing could be a bust. The deterioration in Sino-U.S. relations was evident overnight, with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi calling for an immediate ceasefire in Trump’s Operation Epic Fury against Iran, which risks wider regional conflict. Wang told Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a phone call that the “blatant killing of a sovereign leader” and the incitement of regime change were “unacceptable.” This phone call was based on reporting from China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. The killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro have created growing uncertainty around President Trump’s three-day trip to China later this month. “I worry the U.S. side might use Iran, if it’s going poorly, to delay the trip,” a foreign business executive tracking meeting preparations told CNBC. The executive …

‘Prime moment for Hezbollah and the Houthis’: US-Israeli strikes on Iran risk igniting regional war

‘Prime moment for Hezbollah and the Houthis’: US-Israeli strikes on Iran risk igniting regional war

Published by Sam Flores

As Iran targeted countries hosting US military bases across the Middle East with retaliatory strikes following a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic, Lebanon’s Prime ​Minister Nawaf Salam had a pointed message for the Tehran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.    Read more  Live: Iran fires retaliatory missiles at Israel, US bases after air strikes “In light of the ​serious developments unfolding ‌in the region, I once again call on all ‌Lebanese to act with wisdom ​and patriotism, placing Lebanon and the Lebanese people’s interests above any ​other consideration,” he ​said. “I reiterate that ​we will not accept anyone dragging the country into adventures that threaten its ⁠security and unity.”  As the world waits to see whether Iran’s allies across the region join in a conflict that already risks engulfing the Middle East, FRANCE 24 spoke to Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at Washington’s Arab Gulf States Institute. Iran supreme leader Khamenei targeted in US-Israeli strikes To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One …

Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans

Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When you think of saving our oceans, what comes to mind? Maybe you think about reef restoration techniques like coral transplantation, or making small consumption changes like switching from plastic straws. If you have money to dream big, perhaps you might ponder creating a big robot that roams the waters, sucking up floating trash. Environmental researchers at Texas A&M University are on a whole ‘nother level: they’re proposing massive fire tornadoes. A recent blurb on the university’s website detailed a recent paper in the journal Fuel that aimed to find the most effective way to clean up oil spills. It involves, improbably, lighting massive “fire whirls,” the technical term for the much more evocative phrase the university used: “fire tornado.” While it sounds counter-intuitive, the experiment explored whether fire whirls could be an effective method to help clean up the thousands of oil spills that occur each year. The theory is pretty simple: fire whirls, spinning rapidly upward instead of outward, provide a massive boost to …

CSU objects to some new community college degrees, igniting debate over who can teach what

CSU objects to some new community college degrees, igniting debate over who can teach what

Published by Sam Flores

Constance Duffle, a paramedic in Siskiyou County at the Oregon border, serves a vast wilderness region woefully in need of health professionals. She has enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program in paramedicine, newly offered at College of the Siskiyous. A degree offers pathways to a raise, improved service to her community and opportunities to train future paramedics. Without this close-to-home education, there would be “no way” she could work a full-time job and care for her children, Duffle said. “I went through medic school before I was married, before I had kids,” Duffle said. If the program had been available to her then, she would have pursued it “in a heartbeat.” Duffle’s experience is a promising story in the state’s five-year-old higher education venture that has allowed community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees. But as the degree programs have grown in popularity, disagreements continue to emerge between California State University and California Community Colleges as competition for students tightens. In the latest stress point, CSU has objected to 16 community college degree proposals, contending that …