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@#11
OK, looking at this from a different angle...
The megadonors who fueled Trump and the Republican Party and what they may want in the next 4 years (November 2024)
www.cbsnews.com
... More than $20 billion flooded into the 2024 presidential campaign, shattering the record for political spending in a single election. In an accelerating trend in American politics, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies raised colossal sums of money from billionaires.
A majority of these megadonors were Republicans, according to Open Secrets, the nonpartisan watchdog organization that tracks the influence of money on politics. And with Trump's decisive victory, they hit the jackpot.
So, who are these high rollers and what do they want in return for their generosity? ...
@#13 ... For some numbers, in 2023 the US produced 12.9 million bpd of crude oil, but consumed 20.25 million, for a deficit of 7.35 million bpd. ... ?
OK, with that new info in mind, I have to ask, why do US oil companies seem to be adverse to the "drill, baby drill" mantra?
Just look at the article of this thread.
Here's another example...
US oil firms unlikely to go 'drill, baby, drill' under Trump, says Exxon executive (November 26, 2024)
www.reuters.com
... U.S. oil and gas producers are unlikely to radically increase production under president-elect Donald Trump as companies remain focused on capital discipline, a senior executive at Exxon Mobil said on Tuesday.
"We're not going to see anybody in 'drill, baby, drill' mode," Liam Mallon, head of Exxon's upstream division, told the Energy Intelligence Forum conference in London.
"A radical change (in production) is unlikely because the vast majority, if not everybody, is focused on the economics of what they're doing," he said.
"Maintaining the discipline, driving the quality, driving the information, will naturally limit that growth rate." ...
MAGA's view of Pres-Elect Trump?
Soup Dragons - Divine Thing (1992)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
You are the one supreme being
Just dressed to kill and fulfill just any dream
And you are the one heart's desire
All hips and lips made to trick just any fool
[Chorus]
I could have sworn that you were an angel
'cause you're a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing
But I should have known that you were the devil
Dressed like a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing
...
Television The Drug Of The Nation - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (1982)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
...
One nation
Under God
Has turned into
One nation under the influence
Of one drug
[Hook:]
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
[Verse I]
T.V. it
Satellite links
Our United States of Unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means un-American
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
Maybe the mother of our Nation
Should remind us
That we're sitting too close to...
...
@#5 ... There are times when GPS does not work or seems to work but is not returning valid information, ...
The Serious Threat Of GPS Spoofing: An Analysis (2023)
aviationweek.com
... A serious threat to the safety of air navigation has emerged in recent weeks, occurring to a wide range of civilian transport aircraft while traversing airspace in which deviations would lead to intrusions into Iranian airspace without a clearance. The culprit appears to be fake GPS signals which are causing complete navigation failure. ...
Biden has some catching up to do on pardons
www.axios.com
... By the numbers: Biden actually has been reluctant to show mercy --handing out just 26 pardons and commuting 135 criminal sentences since he took office in January 2021. He's granted just 1.2% of the requests he's received, according to data from the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney.
- - - President-elect Trump " who had fewer acts of clemency than his recent predecessors during his first term " had granted 29 pardons at this point in 2020.
- - - But in the final weeks as the nation's 45th president, Trump nearly quintupled his number of pardons, ending with a total of 144.
...
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Big cheques, big roles: Major Trump donors bag key federal positions
www.business-standard.com