you mean like what we had under Biden? Peace, rising employment, investment in a more stable & non-fossil fuel electricity grid, expansion of medicare subsidies, actual price controls on (some) drugs, no masked thugs kidnapping people on the streets and at schools? that world?
Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administrationβs dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social
I spoke with CBC News again (on March 8) about the Strait of Hormuz, its significance for oil, and the risks the Trump team are creating
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Pete Hegseth's "Department of War" spent $7.4 million on lobster tails, more than $15 million on ribeye steaks, and hundreds of thousands on doughnuts...in September.
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20/ "More expensive oil is bad for Europe, Japan and Korea, all big importers. It is actually a net benefit to the U.S., as an exporter and the worldβs biggest producer."
Wall Street Journal...just saying out loud
(Thats interpretation of how Investors reacted today)Thread
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"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump had other courses of action is well known. That he preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. www.ft.com/content/2f3e...
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Probably to Cuba
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we wonβt thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.
A double whammy for MAGAs.
Many voted for Trump based on two promises:
- no more foreign wars
- I'll bring down prices
He's reneged on both, spectacularly.
A uniquely uneducated and reckless Administration in the US. I can't imagine that Republican voters will like skyrocketing gas prices - but then again they are getting brainwashed constantly.
7/ Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris want to end the war quickly. Oil and gas production is being shut in. Their data centres are being bombed.
To deliver pain to Trump via the AI tech lords, theyβre indicating they will start pulling back their vast foreign overseas investments.
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5/ The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
Well, How Do you Protect the Gulf Kingdoms without Air Defense Radar? In the middle of last week, Iran knocked out every single Gulf THAAD radar:
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Californiaβs solar and batteries can now produce almost twice the constant output, day and night, as its nuclear plant, at the same reliability as the nuclear plant
- but faster, cheaper, cleaner, and safer than the nuclear plant
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From Tehran: "Itβs catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shiningβ¦ The flames are so bright the highways look like itβs day time. So bright but doesnβt feel right... Help please!β
An Γzdemir win would matter in another sense too. 7 decades after the first "guest workers" came to the federal republic, he would be the first minister-president of a German state to have Turkish roots. It wasn't a big factor in the campaign - people just like him (β¬οΈ) - but is a moment nonetheless.
Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-WΓΌrttemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.
This is hands down one of the funniest German politics election results in decades.
If BaWΓΌ CDU was a football team it would blow a 10 point Meisterschaft lead in the final month of every season
The Greens are expected to retain the job of leading the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, home to much of Germany's car and engineering industry.
New. Cem Oezdemir is set to be the first ever MinisterprΓ€sident with Turkish origins, 65 years after the first guest workers arrived.
He really did say this and has made many similarly frivolous statements in the last years. That he (and likeminded elites) have no clue about the dynamics of conflict, let alone human affairs is so very evident. It is exceedingly naive to simply believe what these men with vested interests proclaim.
The Hill United CEO: Airfare likely to rise as jet fuel prices surge United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned this week that soaring jet fuel prices tied to conflict in the Middle East could soon push airline... . 4 hours ago Aerospace Global News Airfares could rise as Iran conflict drives soaring fuel costs and flight detours Airlines face rising jet fuel prices and costly rerouting around Middle East airspace after US-Israel strikes on Iran, and may raise... . 1 day ago BBC Surge in jet fuel prices could push up air fares, analysts warn Disruption to supplies from the Gulf, in the wake of the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, has pushed the cost of aviation kerosene up by... . 1 day ago Π£ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½ΡΡΠΊΡ ΠΠ°ΡΡΠΎΠ½Π°Π»ΡΠ½Ρ ΠΠΎΠ²ΠΈΠ½ΠΈ (Π£ΠΠ) War with Iran triggered a sharp rise in fuel prices in the US Π£ΠΠ Economy β Gasoline prices in the US rose by 11% due to the conflict with Iran and oil at $90. This creates political risks for... . 15 hours ago Simple Flying Airfare Warning: United CEO Says Ticket Prices Will Rise βQuicklyβ As Fuel Costs Skyrocket As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, airlines brace for the impact on their pocketbooks, with United CEO warning of rising...
Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS
Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history.
THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.
Hey, remember how I said that my third friend in the oil industry didnβt respond? Yeah they got back to me.
Itβs not looking good, team
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
I paid $0 down & the monthly cost of my solar panels is LESS than I paid for electricity & gasoline (my EV will cost less over 5 yrs than a gas car). And, our new electric space heaters have reduced our natural gas use.
Get your solar panels installed ASAP!
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QAnon luminaries say theyβve drafted the Trump βnational emergencyβ declaration to scuttle the midterm elections:
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Intelligence Community Tells Trump His Plan for Iran Will Fail
This is America First in combination with Energy Dominance: starve the rest of the world, while forcing them to buy your LNG at inflated prices
8/ Read Tooze on why the Fertilizer shock during planting season is going to cause a lot of pain. Guess where most people in the world live & farm - Asia!
Most people don't know -I didnt!- Gulf countries as a whole are 2nd largest fertilizer exporters
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Destabilizing Europe and Asia quite likely was a calculated secondary objective of this insane Iran war started by Trump & Co.
