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Damn..

 

In 2020, Joe Biden promised to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels. But the Biden administration has a complicated relationship with the oil and gas industry. 

It has moved forward on plans to drill federally owned lands, auctioned off 73 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, and approved the controversial Willow project in Alaska. 

The Biden White House's testy relationship with the fossil fuel industry has grown even more complicated as the US Sanctions on Russia began which cut global energy supplies and sent crude oil and natural gas prices skyrocketing.

Biden, who campaigned on a promise to reduce dependence on fossil fuels linked to climate change, is leaning on the industry to curb inflation. 

Oil and gas companies are reaping higher profits than they have in decades and mostly returning that windfall to shareholders in the form of buybacks.

No, Yes then Yes....     Damn if you do, damn if you don't 

Petty..

 

A federal appeals court ordered a new sentence for a North Carolina man who pleaded guilty to a petty offense in the Capitol riot, a ruling that could impact dozens of low-level cases in the massive Jan. 6, 2021 prosecution.

The appeals court in Washington said James Little was wrongly sentenced for his conviction on a misdemeanor offense to both prison time and probation, which is court-ordered monitoring of defendants who are not behind bars.

Little, who entered the Capitol but didn’t join in any destruction or violence, pleaded guilty in 2021 to a charge that carries up to six months behind bars. He was sentenced last year to 60 days in prison followed by three years of probation.

The Court Made an Error? Shifted politically? 

T-Cell..

 

When you go to get your newly updated Covid-19 booster this fall, you might want to choose the arm the vaccine goes in carefully.

The immune response may be stronger if your booster goes in the same arm as your last Covid-19 shot, according to a study published August 11 in the journal eBioMedicine.

“The question seems so banal, so trivial that nobody before has thought to ask it,” study coauthor Martina Sester, a biologist and head of the department of the Institute of Infection Medicine at Saarland University Hospital in Germany,  said in a news release.

Two weeks after the booster, the number of “killer T cells” was significantly higher in those who had both shots in the same arm, according to the study.

Those cells, which attack and destroy the other cells they target, were present in 67% of the same-arm cases and only 43% in people who had their injections in different arms, according to study coauthor Laura Ziegler, a doctoral student at Saarland University.

Replace..

 

China's major state-owned banks were seen busy selling U.S. dollars to buy yuan in both onshore and offshore spot foreign exchange markets this week, in an attempt to slow the yuan's depreciation.

Offshore branches of the state banks were also seen selling dollars during London and New York trading hours this week.

 On the other side of the coin: The U.S. dollar saw an 8% decline in its share of global reserves in 2022 — causing some to question whether the dollar’s days of dominance are over.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her two cents on the matter of so-called “de-dollarization” during a congressional hearing stating that no currency currently exists that could displace the greenback.         Just a thought.

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ridin..

 

We..

 

These four indictments against President Trump is creating doubt, among some, about the US Justice System. Obviously, the Democratic party doesn't want President Trump to become a president again. That started even before he became the President in the first place and continued all through his presidency. 

The Democratic Party wanted to impeach a president who is leaving the office in a week. now here we are.... stepping into a new era of trust in the fairness of the Justice system.

   Just a thought.

The Cost..

Costs of War is honored to receive the US Peace Memorial Foundation's 2022 US Peace Prize.

SUMMARY

• Over 940,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence, and several times as many due to the reverberating effects of war
  

• An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

• Over 432,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting

• 38 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons

• The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion 

• The U.S. government is conducting counterterror activities in 85 countries

• The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the U.S. and abroad.         The Watson Ins.

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