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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

Dateline: Neocons Short-Changed In War Profits, Trump To Blame

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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

Update; Oil Prices Fail To Spike, Resume Spiking Of Proteins

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Stephen Rowland's avatar

The big money is already there, the public clamoring will likely start today. Even Rat and cousin are selling corn cobs to get a piece of the Permian basin.

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flummoxed agent Roger W. 🦂's avatar

Imagine that the only way to make electricity look cheap and affordable for transportation was to make crude oil double in price.

War is peak environmentalism.

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Rat's avatar

If they let oil drop too low, the whole fracking industry may go bust.

If they let oil rise too high, they get recession across the board.

It’s a hard job to release just the right amount of violence.

(Greenspan believed interest rates can be fine-tuned to keep the economy running smoothly forever; trying to fine-tune war might be an order of magnitude more insane)

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flummoxed agent Roger W. 🦂's avatar

If recession would cause chaos and bedlam everywhere, that could imply a big mortality event.

And if the hypothesis that "to cool down the planet it's necessary to reduce as fast as possible the human global population down to 500 million" is true, then the people who support that hypothesis need recession now.

So, the choke points are a target. The decoy is war?

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Rat's avatar

While I was taking a nap, «President Trump on Monday urged “everyone” to keep oil prices down.» https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5364117-trump-us-bombs-iran-gas-prices-oil/

I need to take naps more often. :)

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the long warred's avatar

Rat 🐀 there’s a lot more to wars than money.

There’s more to life than money.

Of course if your experience of war, life and money comes from a screen…. It may seem otherwise. But like all things on the screen is is an image and not real.

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Stone Bryson's avatar

But how does it this affect the price of cheese?

LOL Rat's perspective is a wise perspective ;-)

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Charles Summers's avatar

Every major commodity trading in the futures market is totally controlled and manipulated by the quadrillionaire market makers in new york and later london. They have contrived excuses for every move and are cheered on by the government “regulators” who do what they are told

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James Allin's avatar

At least the price of cheese won't go up.🧀

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tecolote42's avatar

“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

nevertheless, on the to-do list: top off the tank today

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