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TECHNOLOGY: Musk announces corporate HQ move to Texas  By GEO´ Newsteam - Gibraltar Newsroom  www.GEOPoliticalMatters.com Google Indexed on 081021 at 10:00  Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk took to the company´s annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Tx to announce that the electric motor manufacturers is to move its corporate headquarters from California to Texas in what is seen by industry analysts as a snub to local government in Alameda county, California where the futuristic Tesla is currently based.  He gave several reasons for the move, telling shareholders its Californian factory in Fremont was "jammed" however, the billionaire technology entrepreneur has had an fractious relationship at times with California. "There's a limit to how big you can scale it in the Bay Area. In Austin our factory is like five minutes from the airport, 15 minutes from downtown," he said.  Another strategic reason is of course that California is also a difficult place for his e...

AUKUS: What the U.S.-British-Australian Security Pact Means for Europe - Analysis Posted by GEO´ PRWire with Analysis by Iain Fraser, Reportage Editor - Gibraltar www.GEOPoliticalMatters.com Google Indexed on 011021 at 09:53 By sweeping France aside, the Biden administration has indicated that they neither trust nor value their European allies when it comes to China. Such misgivings raise serious questions about the state of transatlantic relations and the durability of NATO. In this in-depth article Carnegie Europe´s Rosa Balfour During the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the complaint from some European NATO members of insufficient consultation by the U.S. administration may have come across as petulant. Four weeks later, the AUKUS—a security pact between Australia, the UK, and the United States, whereby Canberra acquires U.S. nuclear-powered submarines and scraps its submarine agreement with France—dispels any doubt. Whether the failure to warn France of the imminent agreement ...