antithetic apathetic sympathetic - there is something about this 'thing' - to me it is shades of Jonestown. How can half of that population steep into such folly!?
Has anyone given a thought to the oil war in 2020 and wondered whether that may be a factor? On 8 March 2020, Saudi Arabia initiated a price war on oil with Russia, facilitating a 65% quarterly fall in the price of oil. That situation no longer holds, so of course oil prices have risen accordingly. Over-production resulted in a drop to negative territory, and consequently prices were cheap between Mar and Nov 2020 - nothing at all to do with Trump, but the restoration of previous price started around the End of the Trump era.
~ At the low price the cost of fracking made that method marginal so it is not surprising that US production fell away - it simply wasn't profitable. Below is a chart of US production around that time.
@crown well they have the freedom to explore and read what they want by and large. Dream of Red Chamber is a famous Chinese novel. Genji Monogatari is a Japanese novel written over 1000 years ago by a woman. Hard read, but worth the effort. Don't extol your 'democratic freedom' too much. Of course I have no North Korean but I certainly do have south Korean students. Fundamentally people are not different.
@crown well yes, so far two of my Chinese and one Vietnamese students have read it - strange question. Literature is literature and reading is reading. Have you read Dream of Red Chamber or Genji Monogatari?
... and is Rishi Sunak either revered or respected in England? I think not, nor is his opponent who likens herself to and emulates Margaret Thatcher it would appear. As with American elections, a bitter and futile choice. Who will be the best of a bad lot then?
@op and you attribute that to the administration? That is absurd. America has never determined the oil price, wittingly or otherwise. Silly idea, don't you agree. America might be marginally the largest exporter, but they are also the largest consumer, by 50% over a country 3350% larger? Does that too reflect on the Administration? Oil price is not a result of which president is in power. When you cut off a major oil producer and exporter like russian, what would you predict as the outcome? This is Biden? Come off it!
@chancer do you see the US administration as responsible for the price of petrol then? And specifically Biden? Remember when Russia and Saudi took the barrel price down to $40 or less (briefly -40!)? So that was some genius move of the then US President or UK PM was it - come off it, guffaw guffaw.
just below AUD$2 per litre here. Aren't the Americans peculiar refusing the metric change!? 3.8 litres roundabout per gallon. I'll stick to the bicycle and Shank's pony.
@OP reminds one of a famous quote from T S Eliot's aptly named 'The Hollow Men' or should that be 'The Hollering Men'? This is the way the world ends (repeat X 3) not with a bang but a whimper'
My sciatica spread all the way down to my foot, left foot. They told me the further down it goes, the worse it is. Just hope it stays in the butt'ock as Forest Gump might have said.
Sciatica can be dreadful! 30 odd years ago. Rising from bed, getting up from a chair, brushing the teeth. I solved it with physio and 30 or so half-body pushups from the waist every waking hour for a few weeks. There were times I felt like I was walking on a broken leg. Sometimes the arm muscles were just as sore.
I heard stories of the moriori preceding the maoris and being more or less exterminated by them, but these have been somewhat discredited by modern archarologists and historians who assert there was no pre-existing species when they arrived. People cleave to their beliefs even in the face of evidence to the contrary, so what else can I say. For some reason the moriori have been assigned to the Chathams.
Idiot! Marxists? Sri Lankans have no petrol, unsurprising they impose law over access. You subscribe to Bolt and Sky News? That nitwit? It figures! So if you use "Marxists" should I not label you "McCarthyist"?
Dizziness is not usually indicated by acidity, rather by inner ear and brain - just think about sea-sickness; nausea similarly. Did the doctor not suggest a brain scan?
@epirb The OP claims Reuters said it, Reuters DID NOT. It was a deliberate distortion. Reuters article mentions an unnamed source who make such a claim about a third shipment. They certainly did not use a term like ChiCom The confirmed sailings were to Europe. Europe was not mentioned in the OPs posting was it?
@conrad I do not expect the likes of you to grow common sense, as I say I don't give a fig about your kind. However the attempts to deflect and influence the thinking of those who can but who might yet believe such misinformation as the OP writes here, such attempts need be countered. The findings of the committee are considered and fact based. They deserve to be heard and considered. It is serious stuff, and calling it a sham merely magnifies the shame. Dersowitz = Lack of wits. Irrelevance.
PBS Newshour is broadcast live here on SBS - I am not spreading anything, merely reporting back what I have seen and heard from live sessions.
I look forward to the Dominion suit against Powell and Giuliani - a comeuppance to rub ones hands about - bankruptcy awaits, they can join Trump in that exclusive club (Chapter 11 six times) but perhaps under Chapters 7/13.
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antithetic apathetic sympathetic - there is something about this 'thing' - to me it is shades of Jonestown. How can half of that population steep into such folly!?