#2
So, as I have asked before, why does BLM have snipers, SWAT units, armored vehicles, and no due process or probable cause in front of a magistrate or judge before the hounds of war are loosed on a citizen?
Dang, seems as if I remember the IRS, BLM, ATF and a couple of other agencies were militarized with the full blessings of the Zerobama regime, er, administration.
Taken into combination with the abortive coup still being engineered by the FBI, one would think that the Zerobama Antichrist was thinking of a Soviet styled paradise with him and his thugs in the IRS and BLM as a new national police.
#3
Deep state loses this one. Unfortunately the federally sanctioned murder of ranchers, police officers, sheriffs deputies and the jailing of the Arizona sheriff by feds with guns by the Obama's regime's (BLM Beaureau of Land Management) or federally supported entitlement (BLM Black Lives Matters) or a black activist president (BLM Black Liberation Movement) cannot be brought back. But I can assure you this dude will rub their face in their sh*t hole politics every chance I get.
[Baron's] Tightening global supplies and rising demand for crude oil helped prices for the commodity start the year with a bang‐hitting their highest levels in more than three years‐and many analysts believe the market has the fuel it needs to continue the rally to as high as $80 a barrel.
"The reason that oil will soar is the oldest story in the oil world: Low prices created strong demand and growth, and now that demand is leading the way," says Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group.
Oil futures suffered hefty declines in 2014 and 2015, as a global glut in supplies and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' unwillingness to significantly curb production amid fear of market-share loss sliced the per barrel oil price roughly in half.
On Friday, it notched its highest levels since December 2014, with West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, settling at $64.30 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange and global benchmark Brent crude ending at $69.87 on the ICE Futures Europe exchange.
Flynn expects WTI oil prices to average $67 in 2018, and says they will probably spend some time trading over $70. If OPEC keeps its crude production-cut deal till the end of this year, WTI prices could hit $80 a barrel, he says.
Texas is where it all began. Once a popular view in Beaumont’s Dixie Hotel: “Spindletop Viewing Her Gusher,” 1903. Texaco and Gulf got their start in the Beaumont area oilfields. Humble (now ExxonMobil) began at the at the nearby town of Humble.
Also known as the “Lucas Gusher” after Captain Anthony F. Lucas, a mining engineer who drilled on a hill, the oilfield produced 3.59 million barrels in its first year and an incredible 17.4 million barrels the next.
#3
I just looked up the current price, and it's about 64.00/bbl.
It's not doing Louisiana much good, everyone I know is struggling, fracking has proved you can drill on land in lots of places and don't have to beg the feds for permission to drill off Louisiana.
You drill a hole on private ground in N. Texas and you don't have to pay any of Louisiana's de jure or de facto taxes.
#7
1903 US oil boom started in Texas, but there were earlier booms in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as Ontario. Rockefeller's Standard Oil first made it big in Ohio, I believe.
#8
Meanwhile, in the People's Carbon-Free Republic of Washingtonstan. the Longview City Clowncil (composed of mainly idiots and tree-huggers)effectively killed a big job maker when they said the proposed oil terminal would not have its lease renewed if all permits were not in place by 31 March. And the governor, His Highness Jay Inslee has come out opposed to anything that would create jobs.
However, the project has taken the state to court saying they overstepped their bounds and are in violation of the commerce clause.
The terminal would handle up to 4 unit trains of oil from the Midwest. Each train would be 110 or so cars, each car about 30000 gallons of crude.
[Townhall] America is crumbling. The end is near. The apocalypse is upon us, except that it's not. For weeks, Democrats said the GOP tax bill was the worst in history, even worse that the Missouri Compromise or prohibition. Except that it wasn't. Since President Trump signed the tax bill into law on December 22, scores of workers have reaped its benefits. Over 100 companies and over a million workers have received a bonus of at least $1,000, some companies even gave part-timers a $500 check. U.S. investments from these companies were increased, as was their charitable donations. From airlines to the Olive Garden, companies gave their workers a much-welcomed Christmas present. Additionally, entities have decided to increase their wages as well. Walmart and Capital One announced that they would boost workers wages. Oh, and Walmart will give $5,000 to workers who adopt.
#4
Don't recall where I saw it, but someone pointed out that corporate budgeting for 2018 is already done. We will not see the actual impact of the tax cuts until 2019. I expect it to be glorious.
[Breitbart] "I'm happy to have a president that will bluntly speak the truth in negotiations," said Erik Prince of President Donald Trump's alleged description of certain impoverished states as "s***hole countries."
Prince made his remarks on Friday's edition of SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight, hosted by Breitbart News's Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour. He is a retired Navy SEAL and founder of Academi (formerly Blackwater USA).
"If the president says some places are shitholes, he's accurate," said Prince, reflecting on time he served in Haiti in 1994 during Operation Uphold Democracy:
I know the president was beaten up even on comments he made about Haiti, and I can speak firsthand about Haiti, because as a young Navy SEAL officer in 1994, Bill Clinton decides to invade Haiti. I was there. My SEAL team ended up sending two platoons, and we actually planned for 100 percent casualties, not from enemy fire, but because of the water quality. We had to swim ashore, and the water was so bad because there were two and a half million people with untreated sewage flowing right into the water that we were going in. We had to get so many shots, so many vaccinations, that none of us could donate blood for six years afterwards. So if the president says some places are shitholes, he's accurate. Literally.
Prince rejected narratives pushed by Democrats and their news media allies framing Trump's alleged "s***hole" comments as racist: "It's a sad characterization of many of these places. It's not based on race. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with corrupt incompetent governments that abuse their citizens, and that results in completely absent infrastructure to include open sewers, and unclean water, and crime. It's everything we don't want in America."
#3
Why would Bill Clinton make those guys swim through sewage? What the fuck kind of president does that when the stakes are no higher than they were in Haiti? I mean, who really cared whether we rescued Haitians from themselves or not? Furthermore, who was going to dare shoot at those guys if they rode to the beach in boats or even helicopters? WTF?
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#4
Because that's what they do, Abu.
I'd be surprised if the team didn't suggest it themselves as a conditioning exercise.
#5
You may be right, Skidmark. If they thought of it as merely an exercise they could justify it at least to themselves. Maybe I overreacted. I just hate to hear about our guys being treated that way by the likes of Bill Clinton.
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[AmericanThinker] A hallmark of the Democrats – and the Clintons in particular – is that, with the aid of a complaisant press, they hide their wrongdoings with countless obfuscations and distractions so that the truth of consequential matters is buried in chaff and hard to see. This week, we can look forward to an effort to clear away the chaff and reveal the wheat.
Tomorrow, we expect the Department of Justice's inspector general to release the first part of his report to congressional investigators. The report is expected to cover the alleged bias and malfeasance by the FBI, among other things. Read the rest at the link
[IsraelTimes] Figures released by security service show 249 incidents in December, most of them Molotov cocktailings, compared to 84 in November
The number of security incidents in Israel and the West Bank tripled following US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to new statistics released by the Shin Bet security service.
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#3
Oh, I rather think the cause is the fine line of 'tiptoe' retribution Israel has developed over several decades. In part, of course, due to the US model of permissiveness.
#5
It would have been much, much worse had not so many Palestinians and Arabs Israelis been arrested for rioting, etc. since the last Hamas eruption, it seems to me. Israel has been very aggressively going after weapons and weapons manufacturers, funding, and those who join the groups of yoots stoning soldiers. Often enough reports about knife attackers and other arrestees report that the miscreant had previously been involved in rioting, so clearly it is a gateway behaviour.
[IsraelTimes] Tel Aviv study says global decrease in 2017 likely due to setbacks suffered by Islamic State; no bombings in Israel and West Bank, but 13 foiled.
The year 2017 holds a dubious record: the largest number of suicide kabooms worldwide carried out by women and girls.
According to a new study by Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies, released on Sunday, nearly a fifth of the 348 documented suicide kabooms perpetrated in 2017 were performed by females, the vast majority of them in Africa, by the jihadist group Boko Haram
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[WeeklyStandard] Yiannopoulos generates controversy and outrage the way a blowtorch throws sparks. His persona relies heavily on his sexual identity, which in a more innocent age we would have called “flamboyant” and left it at that. We are to suppose that his energetic gayness clashes with his right-wing politics, making for an exciting and unexpected combination, although it’s not clear, prima facie, why right-wingery and homosexuality should be irreconcilable. With his trademark mix of High Camp and Falangism, Yiannopoulos is a kind of alt-right Liberace, lacking only the candelabra and musical talent. Controversy is his daily meat. Even as his manuscript was being edited, many observers knew it was only a matter of time before Yiannopoulos gave Ivers and Threshold a reason to abandon the book, and him, thus getting the literary community off their backs.
And sure enough, in February of last year, with the book’s publication date just a month away, some industrious Milophobe discovered an old podcast that had somehow escaped everyone’s attention. In it Yiannopoulos made light of pedophilia and endorsed its salubrious, life-affirming effects on his own upbringing. (He says he had his first sexual encounter with an older man when he was 13.) The podcast lit up the Internet, and Yiannopoulos acknowledged that he had misspoken. He condemned pedophilia in the strongest possible terms. What he had been endorsing, he explained, was not pedophilia—the abuse of pre-pubescent children and a horror to every decent person. No, what he’d been endorsing was hebephilia, which he defined as sex between adolescents and adults. From now on, he promised to be more careful with his words. Read it all at the link
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Baron's] Tightening global supplies and rising demand for crude oil helped prices for the commodity start the year with a bang‐hitting their highest levels in more than three years‐and many analysts believe the market has the fuel it needs to continue the rally to as high as $80 a barrel.
[IsraelTimes] Tel Aviv study says global decrease in 2017 likely due to setbacks suffered by Islamic State; no bombings in Israel and West Bank, but 13 foiled.
