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@#7 ... Especially with Lewzer selling stolen oil at ten cents on the dollar. ...
Venezuela oil fetching 30% higher price, U.S. energy chief says, after first sale worth $500 million
www.cnbc.com
... "We're getting about a 30% higher realized price when we sell the same barrel of oil than they sold the same barrel of oil three weeks ago," Wright said at a U.S. Energy Association event, without specifying prices. ...
"Venezuela's oil problem is not technical, and it is not commercial, it's fundamentally human and political," said Baron Lamarre, former head of trading at Petronas and co-founder of Index.
"Until investors have confidence in long-term political continuity, capital will remain cautious, incremental, and conditional," he said. ...
... because it had failed to "align their message" with Trump's foreign policy. ...
Lies of the Trump admin ineptly disguised as foreign policy?
In Iran, witness accounts of atrocities counter regime claims of calm
www.csmonitor.com
... The Iranian mechanical engineer hadn't slept for days, fearful his masked presence at the peak of anti-regime protests last week would prompt his arrest at home at any moment.
Still in shock, his voice shaking and sometimes choking with emotion, he describes over the phone what he witnessed in Tehran of the Iranian government security forces' lethal crackdown on protests that had swept the country.
"Almost everyone knows someone within their circle who has been killed," says the engineer, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. He says he saw a government sniper on a rooftop, using a laser sight to target protesters burning dumpsters. ...
@#28 ... Just like the Irish and Italians vs the Chinese. ...
When America Despised the Irish (2017)
www.history.com
... The refugees seeking haven in America were poor and disease-ridden. They threatened to take jobs away from Americans and strain welfare budgets. They practiced an alien religion and pledged allegiance to a foreign leader. They were bringing with them crime. They were accused of being rapists.
These undesirables were Irish. ...
@#13 ... I'm betting a lot of those extra potash unit trains I see going by here to the coast are heading that way. ...
I wouldn't be surprised.
Canada is a major supplier of potash to the world. Canada used to export potash to the US.
US lifts sanction on potash from Belarus, threatens tariffs on Canadian fertilizer (December 2025)
www.michiganfarmnews.com
... After more than four years of sanctions, the U.S. is allowing American companies to once again purchase potash from Belarus, which produced around 20% of the world's potash before the sanctions were put in place. ...
So, instead of purchasing potash from a friend and close ally of the United States, Canada...
Now Pres Trump is purchasing our need potash from a Putin-run country?
OK, what's next?
P. Diddy (a.k.a. Sean Combs) gifting his Grammys to Pres Trump in order to get on Pres Trump's favorable side, and get a possible pardon?