European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris with the vessel’s operations due to start sometime this year [2021].
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The vessel will operate on compressed hydrogen produced from electrolysis, enabling not only zero-emission operations, but also creating a solid base for more local zero-emission transport, both at sea and on land. The power generation system for Zulu will be supplied by ABB Marine & Ports, with fuel cells from Ballard. LMG Marin is responsible for detail design drawings, with hydrogen provided by suppliers in the Paris region.
The Wall Street Journal proudly admits it is a mouthpiece for capitalism. According to WSJ the private, for-profit sector is the best solution for the problems faced by the earth’s human inhabitants.
Thus it is no surprise that an April 3 article about Detroit’s COVID-19 vaccination battle would reflect this bias. The article’s subhead asserts: “City’s mostly Black residents largely aren’t using the mass vaccination site at Ford Field, with many finding access difficult.” It lies by telling only part of the story.
The COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the fallacy of the for-profit private sector panacea, especially in its most dominant ideological center, the United States. While it’s definitely not socialism, Detroit’s example does show that coordinated government response is necessary, even in a capitalist system, to begin to successfully confront the pandemic.
The FBI demanded that Ahmad Chebli, a U.S. citizen, become an informant on the Lebanese community. The agents threatened to punish him and his family with specious investigations, false arrest and personal surveillance. They even threatened to take away his children and interfere with his wife’s naturalization application. And when he refused, they put him on the No Fly List after he took a flight abroad to visit family. Chelbi, with the ACLU, is now suing to force the government to say why he is on the No Fly List—in essence, an effort to end use of the No Fly List as a form of extralegal punishment for Arabs who refuse to become secret informants.
I repeatedly insisted I did not want to work for the FBI, but they kept increasing the pressure. I was shocked when the FBI agents accused me of affiliation with a terrorist group. I vehemently denied their false accusations, but it didn’t seem to matter. My anxiety level rose even more when the agents threatened my family and me. They said that if I didn’t agree to become an informant, my family would be investigated, my wife and I could be arrested, my children could be taken away, and my wife’s immigration status could be at risk.
Eventually, the FBI agents told me I faced a choice: I could stay in America and become an informant — and their suspicions about me would “go away” — or I could leave the country. If I stayed and did not become an informant, my family and I would be subjected to more surveillance and investigation, specifically threatening to reach out to my family, friends, and employer.
Shot Koon. Yield of 110 kilotons using a
a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL). The test was a “fizzle,” resulting in substantially less than the predicted 1 megaton. Still, this “fizzle” was enough to gouge a crater 990 feet wide and 75 feet deep, as can be seen in the before and after map above. A successful shot would’ve obliterated most of the island. Bikini Atoll, 7 April 1954
Shot Union. Yield of 6.9 megatons using a TX-14 thermonuclear device, one of the first deployable U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The yield was somewhat higher than the predicted 3-4 megatons. Although the barge
had been moored in over 160 feet (49 m) of water, the test left a
crater 3,000 feet (910 m) in diameter and 90 feet (27 m) deep in the
bottom of the lagoon.
Bikini Atoll, 26 April 1954
Shot Yankee 2. Yield of 13.5 megatons using a Mk-25 thermonuclear device, one of the largest and most powerful nuclear weapons deployed by the US. Like with Union and Bravo, Yankee exceeded the predicted yield of 10 megatons. This was the second-largest nuclear test the US would conduct. Bikini Atoll, 5 May 1954
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