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US presidential candidate lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr, who is the nephew of the 35th US president John F. Kennedy, has said in an interview that the country’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the 1963 assassination of the head of state.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder. I think it’s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point,” the US media quoted him as saying while referencing James Douglas’ book, “JFK and the Unspeakable”.
According to Kennedy Jr, the US intelligence agency was not only involved in the assassination but also in “the cover-up” of the crime.
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963. An investigation determined that the assassination was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald, who acted alone as stated in The Warren Commission Report of 1964. Oswald was shot dead two days after being apprehended. For more than half a century there have been numerous theories about who might have benefited from Kennedy’s murder, but none have been officially confirmed.
21 April, 18:58 GMT
On the CIA website, the agency calls an article linking the agency to JFK’s assassination a “lie.”
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Musk and Texas Governor Abbott Launch Construction of Lithium Plant
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The US auto industry is rapidly transitioning to production electric vehicles, but most of the lithium needed for their batteries is produced and refined overseas, including in trade rival China.
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk and Texas Governor Greg Abbott have launched the construction of a plant to process lithium for electric car batteries.
The two symbolically broke ground at the site in Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.
Tesla, which builds only fully electrically-powered cars, is investing $375 million in the plant which will produce “battery-grade” lithium hydroxide and other “facilities to support other types of battery materials processing, refining and manufacturing and ancillary manufacturing operations in support of Tesla’s sustainable product line.”
The lithium compound is key to making rechargeable batteries used in its cars and electronic devices like cellphones. The company also claimed the plant would use an “innovative” process to minimize pollution.
“There’s no toxic emissions or anything,” Musk himself said on Monday. “You could live right in the middle of the refinery and not suffer any ill effects.”
The conventional process for synthesizing lithium hydroxide involves heating crushed ore before mixing it with hydrochloric acid, classed as a hazardous air contaminant under US environmental regulations.
Turner Caldwell, Tesla head battery raw materials and recycling, said the firm would seek “beneficial use opportunities” for the sand and limestone which it expected to be the main by-products of its process.
Self-Sufficiency?
As the US auto industry transitions to electric and hybrid-powered vehicles, most of the lithium reserves and processing plants it needs are are located overseas.
Musk said last April that Tesla needed to branch out into refining lithium because prices of the mineral had “gone to insane levels.” And the Albemarle Corporation (the world’s largest refiner of lithium for electric vehicle batteries as of 2020), announced in March that it would build a new processing facility at its South Carolina base at a cost of $1.3 billion.
Australia is the biggest lithium miner, producing 51,000 tonnes per year according to German car giant Volkswagen, which is expanding its line of electric models to include a 21st-century update of the classic minibus of the 1950s.
Chile is the second-largest ore producer and has the largest reserves, followed by Argentina, China, Zimbabwe, Portugal and Brazil. The US mines a mere 500 tonnes of the mineral every year.
But it is China, the third-largest ore producer, which dominates the refining business with half of all global capacity.
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