1. The South China Sea does not belong to any one nation and the United States will continue to sail and fly wherever international law...
      


  2. South Korea has sent 1 billion won ($893,239.96) worth of sanctioned material to North Korea, customs data showed on Friday, raising concern ties with...
      


  3. The U.S. doesn’t plan to suspend more joint military drills with South Korean forces, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, amid reports that North Korea...
      


  4. Especially those that served in the Vietnam war.  What a bunch of losers. Real intelligent men like Trump and Clinton get exemptions from the...


  5. I screened Indian media in order to understand the recent India-China border clashes. And it was really strange what I found. There is no claim in...
      


  6. I was recently reading about "orphaned barrels" of light oil coming out of the Permian Basin and that there are no processing plants locally.  Would...
      


  7. Does the launch of the petro-yuan represent the ultimate deathblow to the petrodollar – and the birth of a completely new set of rules? https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Petrodollar-Isnt-Dead-Yet.html
      


  8. The poll was taken last month, March 2020. "The poll of 1,000 Americans found unfavorable opinions of China are shared across party lines, with about...
      


  9. Love the way the local media is presenting what they call 'phase 2' of the Saudi smash and grab of the money and assets...
      


  10. Additional purchases of 200 billion of US merchandice and services by China, amended the relations, but they are still tense. We would see how the...
      


  11. The Philippines is looking to seal a pact with China within a few months to jointly explore for oil and gas in a part...
      


  12. Standing on the grounds of Israel’s national Holocaust museum on Monday, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte declared Adolf Hitler “insane,” a jarring turnaround for a...
      


  13. Picture of R&D spending by countries and regions, from Global Innovation Index 2019. Most of R&D (about 75%) globally is funded by business. Area...
      


  14. EXCERPT the American government – in the form of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) – played a major role in funding opposition...


  15. (shared via facebook) Pipeline vs Train vs Ship to Transport Crude Oil. 1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 lbs. 1 Train transports 3,000,000...
      


  16. 2010 document.  Seems relevant to the current Covid-19 Panicdemic. 5 MB PDF link is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100701154450/http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/bba493f7-cc97-4da3-add6-3deb007cc719.pdf A 1 MB compressed version of the PDF is also attached at the...


  17. Here's an interesting run down of geopolitical risks for global oil markets just posted by Platts Oil: Iran, Venezuela, Syria... https://www.platts.com/latest-news/oil/london/factbox-geopolitical-energy-risks-become-more-10397376?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=oil&utm_content=photo&utm_campaign=news&hootpostid=8d1e96b9164fbc834c18489f9fdf7ea7
      


  18. Boris Johnson resigned from the U.K. government, tipping Prime Minister Theresa May deeper into crisis and increasing the chances she’ll face a leadership challenge...
      


  19.  The Kremlin expressed concern on Monday over media reports that Poland has requested a permanent U.S. military presence on its soil, saying NATO’s expansion...
      


  20. Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki just announced closing of all schools, kindegartens and similar institutions for children starting Monday 16 March 2020, for 2 weeks. Parent...
      


  21. A brief look at politicians, their stance on social distancing and racism. Interesting.  
      


  22. We've argued at much length about hydroxychloroquine on this site. I said it was effective and was wrongfully shouted down by the usual members...
      


  23. Wyoming GOP Rips Liz Cheney over Impeachment vote.  https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1005694/1  Maybe she will run as a Democrat in 2022 or join Chris Christie and John Kasich...


  24. The US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan is a hopeful opportunity to end the US occupation of Afghanistan after 19 years. Persistent concerns, however, are...
      


  25. What's the end game here? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has just arrived in Jeddah for talks with Saudi leaders over a response to the...
      


  26. U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat promised on Tuesday a new democratic world order in which Washington will strengthen or jettison international agreements as...
      


  27. https://www.state.gov/prc-national-peoples-congress-proposal-on-hong-kong-national-security-legislation/ "No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China..." The art of propaganda is to mix lies...
      


  28. https://gloria.tv/text/JA2gAn2WQPnf6LpbZiduQ2AjK http://thetradforum.com/index.php?topic=477.msg6423 Pope Francis and climate change Press release June 21, 2018: Catholic Church and enviromental protection Pater Rolf Hermann Lingen, Goldbrink 2a, D - 46282 Dorsten, 49236245083, www.pater-lingen.de "It...
      


  29. I came across an interesting story about political developments in Canada that suggests the so-called populists, whom I'd rather call conservatives, I guess, are gaining ground...