Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 6, 2022 | Sundance
This is not good for working class Americans, not good at all. With gas prices already jumping, oil futures have now eclipsed a 15-year high and the outlook does not look good.
(MSM) – […] West Texas Intermediate crude futures, the U.S. oil benchmark, traded 8% higher to above $125 a barrel, the highest since July 2008. At one point the price rose to $130.50 Sunday evening before retreating.
The international benchmark, Brent crude, traded 9% higher to $128.60, also the highest price seen since 2008. Brent hit a high of $139.13 at one point overnight.
“Oil is rising on the prospect for a full embargo of Russian oil and products,” said John Kilduff of Again Capital. “Already high gasoline prices are going to keep going up in a jarring fashion. Prices in some states will be pushing $5 pretty quickly.” (read more)
What was the last gas price in your neighborhood?
Yes, a president can and does control the price of gasoline. What can a U.S. President and administration specifically do? We have abundant U.S. energy resources. Quite literally the strongest in the entire world.
Permit the use of preexisting approved leases in ANWAR (Alaska) to put more volume into the Alaskan oil pipeline that is severely underutilized.
Finish the Dakota access pipeline.
Re-approve the preexisting energy leases in New Mexico, Arizona, NE Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Retract the stoppage of the Keystone pipeline to permit efficient oil transport shipments from Canada.
Stop blocking the expansion of coastal oil refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama (regulatory issue), as well as Northwest, Northeast and Southeast Seaboard.
Continue to develop natural gas as a clean burning fuel.
Drive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as an export.
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Unfortunately, this would mean reversing the entire energy policy of the current administration. The existing energy inflation and high prices of oil, natural gas and gasoline are a direct and intentional part of Joe Biden’s policy. That policy is driven by the leftist demand for a “green new deal.”
None of the actions above require any approval from OPEC. Strategically, the ‘all of the above’ approach enhances U.S. national security and diminishes the influence of Russia, China
“If we ban Russian oil, we need to do it in a way that doesn't dramatically increase prices for American consumers. If the price of a barrel of oil goes to $150…you and I can afford that, but there are a lot of low income consumers who would be hurt.” pic.twitter.com/pQox571V65
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 6, 2022 | Sundance
During three separate interviews today, U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told media that Poland was sending fighter planes to Ukraine, and the U.S. was in negotiations with Poland to replace them. The same assertion was made by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio.
However, the official Twitter account of the chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland calls those reports “fake news”:
It’s bad enough when the media is spreading fake news, now we have the U.S. Secretary of State doing it.
That said, the original statements by Secretary Blinken didn’t pass the smell test. Now it looks like Tony Blinken was trying to provoke Poland to be the spark that ignited the NATO war against Russia. Stunning. This is a pretty big deal, but watch the media drop the issue as if it never happened.
❗️#Poland may provide #Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters and Su-25 attack aircraft and receive F-16 fighters in exchange from the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources in the U.S. administration.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 6, 2022 | Sundance
It is very challenging to filter through the propaganda from western media surrounding Ukraine – this doesn’t help. Fox News host Maria Bartiromo hosts former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the former installed Ukrainian division operator of the U.S. State Dept NATO laundry operation.
As President, it was Poroschenko’s corrupt government who were supported by Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Amy Klobuchar, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and the DC politicians who supported Joe and Hunter Biden using Ukraine for financial profit.
Under Poroschenko, Ukraine maintained its status as the number one donor to the Clinton foundation. It was this corrupt influence system that led to frustrated citizens selecting current President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his promise of reforms (never happened).
Senators and DC officials from both parties participated in the Ukraine influence process. Part of those influence priorities was/is exploiting the financial opportunities within Ukraine while simultaneously protecting the background activity of Joe Biden and his family. This is where Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham were working with Marie Yovanovitch
You might also remember Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent and U.S. chargé d’affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testifying against President Trump in the ridiculous impeachment effort surrounding Ukraine.
It was former Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set up a narrative helpful to the impeachment plan and Adam Schiff’s political coup effort.
Bill Taylor was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (’06-’09) and later helped the Obama administration to design the laundry operation providing taxpayer financing to Ukraine in exchange for back-channel payments to U.S. politicians and their families.
In November 2019, Rudy Giuliani released a letter he sent to Senator Lindsey Graham outlining how Bill Taylor blocked VISA’s for Ukrainian ‘whistle-blowers’ who were willing to testify to the corrupt financial schemes. However, unfortunately Senator Lindsey Graham, along with dozens of U.S. Senators currently serving, were likely recipients for money through the aforementioned laundry process. The VISA’s never got approval.
As everyone is aware, U.S. Senators write foreign aid policy, rules and regulations thereby creating the financing mechanisms to transmit U.S. funds. Those same Senators then received a portion of the laundered funds back through their various “institutes” and business connections to the foreign government offices, in this example Ukraine. [ex. Burisma to Biden]
The U.S. State Dept. serves as a distribution and collection network for the authorization of the money laundering by granting conflict waivers, approvals for financing (think Clinton Global Initiative), and permission slips for the payment of foreign money.
The officials within the State Dept. take a cut of the overall payments through a system of “indulgence fees”, junkets, gifts, CODELS and expense payments to their family members who hold political oversight.
If anyone gets too close to revealing the process, they become a target of the entire apparatus. President Trump was considered an existential threat to this process. Hence, his political status as an outsider essentially ended with a soft coup.
A “Codel” is a congressional delegation that takes trips to work out the payments, terms & conditions of any changes to the graft and financing. This is why Senators spend $20 million on a state campaign to earn a job paying $350k/year. They cannot join the laundry unless they can get elected.
The “institutes” and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) are where the real foreign money comes in. Billions are paid by governments like China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine, etc. etc. There are trillions at stake.
The Senate Majority Leader (formerly Mitch McConnell, now Chuck Schumer) holds the power over these members (and the members of the Senate Intel Committee), because the Leader decides who sits on what committee. As soon as a Senator starts taking the bribes lobbying funds, the system within the Senate then has full control over them.
The Clinton Global Initiative, or McCain Institute, are two of the obvious examples of the financing network. This is one of the primary reasons why Cindy McCain was such an outspoken critic of President Trump. In essence, President Trump was viewed as standing between her and her next diamond necklace – a dangerous place to be.
When we look back upon the senate impeachment trial, it’s not just a matter of Democrats -vs- Republican. We need to look at the game of leverage, and the Senators who would prefer President Trump did not interfere in their process. The same former Senate colleagues of Joe Biden.
This open-secret system of “Affluence and Influence” is how the intelligence apparatus gains such power. All of the DC participants are essentially beholden to the various U.S. intelligence services who are well aware of their endeavors.
There’s a ton of exposure here (blackmail/leverage), which allows the unelected officials within the CIA, FBI and DOJ to hold power over the DC politicians. Hold this type of leverage long enough, and the Intelligence Community then absorbs that power to enhance their self-belief of being more important than the system.
The Fourth Branch of Government is essentially protected by systemic corruption in DC.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 6, 2022 | Sundance
Senator Marco Rubio (U-DC) was installed as vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to assist covering up the SSCI involvement in the intelligence community targeting of Donald Trump. Rubio replaced Richard Burr, who was working closely with Mark Warner.
During his appearance with the State Department’s unofficial spokesperson, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Senator Rubio outlined the case against Vladimir Putin noting that Ukraine is a legacy move by the Russian president. In the background of Rubio stating the U.S. needs to stop buying oil from Russia, the Biden administration has entered discussions with Venezuela for replacement oil so they can create the better optic and stop purchasing from Vladimir Putin.
Think about the ridiculousness of the situation as it now presents. Only a few short years ago (January 2019), Marco Rubio was one of the main characters who led a ‘whole of government‘ effort to remove Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro on behalf of his Latino constituents in Florida. Now that the focus has shifted to Russia, Rubio wants to remove Vladimir Putin, by purchasing oil from Nicolas Maduro. Yup, there’s U.S. foreign policy in a nutshell.
Another worthwhile note, in an earlier segment Jake Tapper called for U.S. sanctions against the Russian DUMA, essentially Russian congress. Tapper wants the U.S. government to start targeting Russian politicians, freezing assets and confiscating their wealth. He just says this as if it’s just an ordinary evolution of “the process.”
It would be interesting to see Jake Tapper’s position if China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil or South Africa started to confiscate the wealth, property and interests of U.S. politicians and/or citizen billionaires of the United States because the U.S. invaded Iraq under false pretenses.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 6, 2022 | Sundance
Appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken states Poland has the “green light” from the U.S. and NATO to provide fighter planes to the Ukraine military.
Secretary Blinken notes the U.S. will “backfill” Poland (terms ongoing), which means the U.S. is willing to replace each of the Polish planes with U.S. fighter jet replacements. Obviously, the industrial military complex would approve of this plan; however, who pays and what authorities of this arms deal with Poland apply?
Setting aside the pilots of Poland that would need training and accepting there could be some long-term maintenance issues for equipment they may not be equipped to maintain, the nationalist political ideology of Poland is not in alignment with Obama/Biden. Will the U.S. government seek to change the social system in Poland as an outcome of a weakened Polish arsenal? You betcha. WATCH:
Bottom line, the U.S. and NATO are getting more involved. The U.S. State Dept, the rogue construct within the Fourth Branch of Government, is trying to turn World War Reddit/Tik Tok into a hot war of NATO against Russia, despite their protestations to the contrary.
The DoS would be perfectly happy if Ukraine became a long-term insurgency campaign with Russia. Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be careful, because his position as a useful martyr is becoming more evident. It will not be Russian hit-squads targeting Zelenskyy, it will be CIA operatives. Wait for it….
CBS continued the propaganda push after the Blinken interview with David Martin engineering the narrative surrounding Russian troop movements inside Ukraine. Martin doesn’t know what the Russian military is doing, he’s giving the official U.S. line which supports the campaign for, as Tony Blinken put it, “hearts and minds.”
The West is going crazy, and the decisions to throw out all ties to Russia are further escalating the risk of global war. The NY Metropolitan Opera even fired Anna Netrebko, a Russian soprano, because she has ties to Putin. Even in London, Gazprom PJSC’s energy-trading arm is being kicked out of its central London. Even Russia’s RT has been shut down by Direct TV. Then inside Russia, a host of Western companies are exiting including Apple, Mercedes-Benz, and BP.
Even Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has warned that China will now accelerate its plans to come up with alternatives to SWIFT after seeing Russia becoming isolated economically. We are looking at similar paranoia over COVID that is now sweeping through the world economy, which will cause a tremendous contraction and indeed set the stage for what our computer has been forecasting — China will become the new Financial Capital of the World post-2032.
The West is committing financial suicide. This spills over into corporations making long-term decisions based upon the demonization of Putin, ignoring even the fact that Kamala Harris publically told Ukraine to join NATO and violated the neutrality of Ukraine agreed to in the 1991 Budapest Agreement. We are witnessing the decline and fall of the world economy as we have known it. Those who have hated the dollar, always calling for its crash, will see a future where even cryptocurrencies will not survive. The false belief that somehow crypto will bypass the central banks and end fiat is such a joke. Ukraine’s power plant, the largest nuclear plant in all of Europe, has been captured and is on fire. Crypto is worthless without a power grid.
So welcome the New World Order, but it will be NOTHING as even Schwab expected.
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