Phillip Hallam-Baker

There is a pipeline runs east to west through Saud carries 7 million barrels a day...

That one is actually a bit more realistic. But a road tanker carries 23 barrels of oil while a supertanker takes two to three million.

So 100,000 road trips to fill just one tanker.

The Dems have a big tent but it isn't a circus tent.

Seems over specific, 'I can’t imagine Trump saying anything meaningful' is sufficient.

White supremacist organization is upset that a Muslim mayor invited a Muslim for dinner.

It was having lunch with Jim Woolsey got me into the whole renewables sector as a national security issue.

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He seemed to be arguing that the deportations were already unpopular and Dems needed to raise the economy.

Seemed like a clueless approach to me because people aren't going to blame Trump for the economy in his first few months and people will forget that stuff.

Murdering protestors they remember.

If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.

Australia is the #1 producer of bauxite. They have pretty much unlimited solar and wind. They are much cheaper than nuclear.

Hinkley C is costing $64 billion for a mere 3.2GW nameplate. And it keeps going up and up.

Solar is cheap and the cost is predictable.

If you look at what Rolls Royce is actually building in the UK, it is just another PWR design. There is nothing small or modular about it. And it certainly won't be cheap.

The whole SMR story is bunk. You can't build small reactors without highly enriched fuel like they use in navy reactors. Enriching uranium to the levels required for an 80MW reactor is what Trump is bombing Iran over.

WTF? You know the whole 'new nuclear' thing is just a scam to delay transition from coal and gas?

In the real world, nuclear plants take decades to build and four times as much as wind or solar. Not because of regulation, because they require expensive, high precision engineering.

The Straits of Epstein.

Don't care what they do. Not going to consider buying any new Sonos gear until it works with our existing Sonos systems.

Why would I replace what works? Why would I buy new gear that requires a different app?

The ability to close the straits is much better than having a nuke. The difference being that you can actually use it.

Nukes are really no damn use in war games as you can't use them.

Having been in some of that type of game, the outcome every time is ‘Iran doesn’t need nukes because they can keep the straits closed for years’.

There is no winning move for the west except to transition to electric cars so they lose the leverage.

First shot of WWIII was Putin's manipulation of the Brexit referendum followed by elevating Trump to the Presidency.

Rupert Murdoch has been aiding and abbetting Moscow start to finish.

Putin decided the Supreme Leader and Trump had to go to maintain Putin's grip on Iran and the US.

Bored of Peace? Try war.

Following Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, Iran has followed suit.

Its the Straits of Epstein now.

Some day, the press will suddenly catch on to the fact that all the men so prominently promoting Putin's interests (Brexit, Scotish separatism, Trump) have a history of being accused of sexual harassment.

That is not a coincidence. It is a pattern, a pattern left by the KGB/FSB recruitment process.

The closure of the straits is all upside for Putin. He hasn't lost the support of the Iranian regime, he has guaranteed it will remain in power and not be toppled by the counter-revolution that looked set to overwhelm it.

There is a Russian doctrine called reflexivity where you do things that appear to be to your disadvantage to force people to do things that benefit you.

Assume Putin has people in Trump's circle who can manipulate him. He was focused on a war; they gave him Iran as a better target than Greenland.

No reason to expect the straits being reopened in less than two years absent Trump and Vance removed from office.

Expect $15/gal gas

The only strategy the GOP has left is to divide the left and build a case that the Democrats haven't 'earned' the votes of the left.

So now they are turning to that one assisted by always by the 'leftier than thou' brigade for whom no candidate with a chance of winning is ever good enough for them.

The real secret in the Epstein files is not who the co-rapists were. Those are pretty obvious and none of them the people the Trumpies point to.

What I want to know is how the sweetheart deal happened. Who told Acosta to lay off prosecuting Epstein and why?

It is not clear how many other people Epstein was blackmailing. He certainly wasn't blackmailing large numbers of powerful people or he would have been caught.

Seems that in many cases the coercion was subtle, they were only asked to do Epstein a favor when he was in serious trouble.

I have been following Epstein for almost a decade now. The original source of his fortune was a combination of procuring and extortion.

Wexner gave very large sums to Epstein to 'manage'. This probably began as merely paying him to provide him with bodies to abuse but turned into extortion.

MAGA plan to reopen the straits turns out to be tell captains they are chicken if they don't.

Expect a long war with the straits closed for at least two years unless the US surrenders first.

And the lack of sleep only makes the senility worse.

I knew people who were close to Thatcher and Wilson, both of whom were famous for being workaholics taking little or no sleep and they told me it really did impair their judgement and probably caused the early onset Alzheimers.

I am pretty sure that agents of Israel, Saud and Russia all worked out Epstein was running a VIP rape club and Trump was one of the chief rapists.

They didn't need to actually get evidence that could expose Trump. Sufficient to tell Trump they did.