Listen to this article: It sure is interesting how stuff keeps happening that makes free speech on the internet something dangerous which must be curtailed. Covid, the Capitol riot, Russian propaganda, all of which just happen to require tightening restrictions on our single best tool against the powerful. Had online platforms not agreed to curtail […]
Qatar ordered the arrest of Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al-Emadi for misusing public funds, an unprecedented move in the Gulf where allegations of criminal conduct by senior officials are typically addressed behind closed doors. Regarded as a budget-conscious finance chief, Al-Emadi took over in 2013 after helping transform Qatar National Bank from a local champion into the […]
When Gerhard Schroeder formed a German government with the Greens in 1998, he made it clear that his Social Democratic Party was the “cook” and the junior partner the “waiter.” Well, not any more. Polls show the Greens with all the momentum going into September’s election and the odds-on favorites for a return to coalition […]
The world’s wealthiest people have never been richer, and their carbon footprint has expanded as a consequence. Some of the very richest are actively engaged in fighting climate change, while others, not so much. A recent UN report found that the richest 1% of the world population account for 15% of emissions. “The wealthy bear […]
Israel and Syria exchanged missile attacks early on Thursday morning, after Damascus launched an advanced surface-to-air missile that landed in the Negev Desert. Alarms sounded in Abu Qrenat near Dimona in the South. Syria fired the missile in response to what it claims was an Israeli Air Force bombing near Damascus. Israel frequently strikes Syria […]
Iran on Friday has announced its latest nuclear fait accompli, saying that it’s obtained for the first time ever 60% enriched uranium overnight. This marks the highest level of purity the Islamic Republic has ever enriched to, and has no doubt put the US and European countries negotiating in Tehran on edge. Particularly Israel has warned […]
Bombshell book in Germany revives 9/11 as a business model More than 3,600 US health workers died in the first year of the pandemic, a yearlong investigation found, as there’s no official list Check Out This Huge Sack Of Giant, Highly Invasive Snails Seized At JFK ‘A moment of peril’: Biden’s coronavirus response collides with […]
Last week I filled up with gasoline, and the price was over $3.00 a gallon. It’s been a long time since I paid that much for gasoline. In fact, I checked the data at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to see the last time weekly gasoline prices were above $3.00/gal. It was in May 2018, […]
China and Iran signed an overarching deal aimed at charting the course of their economic, political and trade relations over the next 25 years. The Chinese government plans to invest in Iran and buy oil from the Islamic Republic, further straining ties with the U.S. already frayed by China’s imports of covertly-shipped Iranian crude. The […]
The U.S. government program for selling drilling rights on federal land is so “fundamentally broken” that changes could be needed to address climate change and ensure taxpayers get a greater value from extracted oil and gas, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday. “The American taxpayers deserve to have a return on on their investment,” Haaland […]
It is underway. It has huge momentum, and it will change everything we do — work, leisure, health care, education, use of resources — and, as a bonus, how the world sees us. It is the Great American Reset, where things will be irreversibly changed. It is a seminal reset that will shape the decades […]
Biden’s style — specifically how he communicates with the American people — is also a page from the FDR playbook. Two months into his presidency, he has been surprisingly disciplined and economical with his words and appearances. The verbal gaffes that dogged him throughout his long career in Washington are nowhere to […]
A drone attack on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh caused a fire that was brought under control, the Saudi energy ministry said in a statement carried by state media. The attack happened at 6:05 a.m. Saudi time, the statement said. Reuters
A new report from a prominent business group has found that the cost to consumers of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings by 2030 could be “astronomical.” The report by the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), whose membership includes hundreds of businesses and business groups including […]
It’s a Great Reset and you and yours ain’t in it.. –Paraphrase of the late great George Carlin Maybe I’m foolish, maybe I’m blind Thinking I can see through this and see what’s behind Got no way to prove it, so maybe I’m lying But I’m only human after all I’m only human after all […]
The American people are really going to regret putting the warmongers back in control. Joe Biden has been in the White House for less than two months, and the warmongers that Biden has surrounded himself with have been feverishly setting the stage for the next war in the Middle East. I do not believe that […]
The U.S. Department of Energy sold crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a foreign government for the first time, according to the agency. The government of Australia and six companies were awarded supply in a DOE tender to sell 10.1 million barrels of SPR crude. The Pacific nation will be receiving 195,000 barrels […]
On February 21, 60 major companies announced that they will be adopting a new economic framework, in partnership with the World Economic Forum. “Executives from Bank of America, Mastercard, KPMG, and about 60 other large companies announced […] they’ll be adopting a new reporting framework for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in partnership with […]
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday he believes Iran is behind an explosion earlier this week on an Israeli-owned vessel in the Gulf of Oman. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was travelling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when the blast occurred on Thursday, according to the Dryad Global […]
You knew it was coming when the NYT set the stage yesterday with its latest anti-Assad hit piece titled “Having Won Syria’s War, al-Assad Is Mired in Economic Woes” (which makes only a passing reference just why Syria is mired in economic woes namely that “most of the country’s oil fields and much of its […]
detail of electric equipment in mountain getty By Mark Finley The deep freeze that afflicted the center of the US last week caused massive power outages in Texas and surrounding states. The plight of millions without power and heat captured the headlines and attracted world-wide attention. In the meantime, other energy-related disruptions triggered by the […]
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi addresses the media after his arrival at Vienna International Airport on February 21, 2021. ALEX HALADA/AFP Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Iran and nuclear watchdog agree to an inspections deal, Myanmar’s protests surge for day of “Five Twos,” and Niger counts the […]
OSLO — The downturn brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition has created a new reality for the world’s oil and gas industry, whose production will peak lower and earlier than expected before the 2020 market crisis, a Rystad Energy analysis shows. The five integrated supermajors — ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron […]
Joe Biden’s strategy for the US economy is the most radical departure from prevailing policies since Ronald Reagan’s free market reforms 40 years ago. With plans for public borrowing and spending on a scale not seen since the second world war, the administration is undertaking a huge fiscal experiment. The whole world is watching. If […]
Iraq is in advanced talks with state-run Chinese companies to discuss building crude oil storage facilities in China as part a plan to boost oil sales to Asia, Iraq’s oil minister told Reuters. “Iraq is also discussing plans proposed by Pakistan for building crude oil storage facilities,” Iraq’s Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar told Reuters […]
The great reset is an initiative taken by the World Economic Forum to reset the world economy for a sustainable and climate conscious growth. The Great Reset was the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that was held in June 2020. It had brought together high-profile business personalities and political leaders […]
The Energy Information Administration reported that the United States did not import any oil from Saudi Arabia in the last week of 2020. There are many reasons for this, and it is likely temporary, but the trend of lower oil imports is happening because of increased domestic oil production in states like New Mexico, […]
Russia and China are working together to enhance their weapons and partner militarily. What will Joe Biden do about it? On December 22, 2020, six strategic bombers—four Chinese and two Russian—flew a joint patrol mission over the East China and Japan Seas. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the mission was intended to develop and […]
FEARS of open war between the United States and China surged after Chinese fighter jets carried out mock missile strikes on a US aircraft carrier. Taiwan is ‘ready for any aggression’ says Tsai Ing-Wen The incident took place amid reported incursions into the airspace of neighbouring Taiwan. A source from US and allied intelligence […]
The Wanli Emperor ruined the noble intentions of the Ming dynasty’s founder, locked himself inside his palace, and indulged in the good life. He was obsessed with avoiding contact with townsfolk and, needless to say, their affairs, even 500 years before the coronavirus. Meanwhile, in Rome, after the death of Marcus Aurelius, the Empire staked […]
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