World disappoints President Obama Again.
From The Washington Times: In a reference to the Syrian refugee crisis, he said “society has not passed this exam with good grades.”
Man, these guys don't like anybody.
You think they might have some aggro issues?
Step on a crack............
Randy Becker, a hunter who saw the crack and took some pictures, was surprised to see it, “I was stunned. The magnitude of this shift in earth is dramatic. It blows you away to see it.”
Latino groups, among others, urge NBC to drop Donald Trump as 'SNL' host next month
Just a few months ago, NBC fired Donald Trump. Now it's giving him a coveted hosting slot on "Saturday Night Live" — to a growing chorus of criticism.
Latino advocacy groups, joined by Hollywood celebrities and others, are calling on NBC to disinvite Trump from his Nov. 7 appearance, citing inflammatory remarks Trump made about Mexican immigrants in the speech announcing his White House run in June.
Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent Of All American Workers Make Less Than 30,000 Dollars A Year
Government Collects Record-High Taxes in First 10 Months of FY 2015
The federal government collected a record amount of taxes in the first
10 months of fiscal year 2015, exceeding $2.6 trillion in revenue,
according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement. Despite the record revenue, the federal government ran a deficit of $465 billion.
IMF PREDICTS SAUDI ARABIA BANKRUPT BY 2020
The IMF just confirmed Breitbart News’ October 5 warning that Saudi Arabia’s cash reserves are in free-fall, with a new estimate that the world’s richest kingdom may be bankrupt by 2020.It goes on in that vein for a bit, even quoting Goldman Sachs projecting oil production out fifteen years. In the Middle East. Fer reelz. Anyway, back at the ranch we have reports out of the Vienna meeting.
Each October, the International Monetary Exchange issues its World Economic and Financial Regional Surveys. For the first time since the 1960s, the region set to suffer the worst financial agony over the next five years is the Middle East. Ground Zero for that pain is Saudi Arabia.
From Reuters:
Venezuela's Oil Minister Eulogio del Pino presented his country's proposals for measures to bolster prices, such as an OPEC and non-OPEC summit and said the market equilibrium price for crude was around $88 a barrel.
Non-OPEC producers have refused to work with OPEC in cutting supply to reduce a surplus that has sent oil prices below $50 a barrel, from $115 in June 2014. OPEC has refused to cut supply alone and many members have raised output.Oopsie.
From TeleSur:
OPEC, Non-OPEC Oil Producers Agree to Work on Stabilizing Prices
Well, no not really, and TeleSur is out of Caracas. But there is this:
Many other experts believe the United States has coerced its allies in the Middle East – especially OPEC's largest producer of oil, Saudi Arabia – to put a downward pressure on the price of oil to directly affect countries that are not aligned with their policies, such as Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Bolivia and Brazil, while replenishing their own reserves at rock bottom prices.Conspiracy theories about the U.S. still sell, probably because we open ourselves up for it. But according to the next article above-named victim Russia has also told Caracas to pound sand.
From the WSJ:
OPEC Hosts Meeting With Oil Officials From Non-Member States
“We are concerned about the depletion of reservoirs and about the decline of production,” said Venezuela Oil Minister Eulogio del Pinoat a news conference in the Austrian capital. “We are talking here about an equilibrium price to sustain the production.”
But the idea of cutting production to lift prices wasn’t discussed at the meeting of OPEC staff and technical experts from five non-OPEC producers, officials said, though countries like Venezuela have called for Russia to slash output. Russia, the world’s largest oil producer, and the Persian Gulf countries that rule OPEC have said they aren’t interested in cutting output.
So Minister del Pinoat is worried about the "decline of production" while he lobbies for a reduction in production from other member states to prop up prices. This tells you all you need to know about left wing logic. Well, what they think of your comprehension anyway, because the production decline he's worried about is Venezuela's own as they have screwed over their own infrastructure so badly they can't produce more. Oopsie.
So there we have it pretty much exactly where I left it the other day. Saudi Arabia feels it can stand the heat. It doesn't need the IMF for anything and doesn't care about its predictions. But the IMF's raison d'etra are the basket cases like Venezuela so giving them hope that the Saudis will eventually come around whilst giving them an excuse for another round of "help" makes sense here.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor Russia are going to budge here until they meet their objectives, whatever they may be, and with the U.S. having the prospect of being a net exporter in the not so distant future (under a Republican administration) OPEC's days seem to be numbered. We can only hope.
Bloomberg Fights the Good Fight
“Almost a year ago Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela’s long-serving former oil minister, emerged from a tense meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) looking red faced and furious.”
“After a year suffering the economic consequences of the oil price slump, OPEC is finally on the cusp of choking off growth in U.S. crude output.”
“The nation’s production is almost back down to the level pumped in November, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries switched its strategy to focus on battering competitors and reclaiming market share. As the U.S. wilts, demand for OPEC’s crude will grow in 2015, ending two years of retreat, the International Energy Agency estimates.”
“While cratering prices and historic cutbacks in drilling have taken their toll on the U.S., OPEC members have also paid a heavy price. A year of plunging government revenues, growing budget deficits and slumping currencies has left several members grappling with severe economic problems. The fact that the U.S. oil boom kept going for about six months after the group’s November decision also means OPEC has so far succeeded only in bringing the market back to where it started.”
“It’s taken a hell of a long time and it will continue to take a long time -- U.S. oil production has been more resilient than people thought,” said Mike Wittner, head of oil markets research at Societe Generale SA in London. “The bottom line is the re-balancing has begun.”
“OPEC abandoned its traditional role of paring production to prevent oversupply last November as a tide of new oil from the U.S. eroded its share of world markets. The group chose instead to keep pumping, allowing the subsequent price slump to squeeze competitors with higher costs. Its representatives will meet in Vienna Wednesday with non-member countries including Russia for technical talks.”
“The plan appears to be working. Oil remains 33 percent lower than when OPEC revealed its strategy on Nov. 27, trading for $48.46 a barrel in London at 5:28 p.m. Tuesday. U.S. crude production has retreated about 500,000 barrels a day from the three-decade peak reached in June to 9.1 million a day in the week to Oct. 9, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.
The losses will accelerate next year with a drop of 390,000 barrels a day in annual average production to 8.86 million barrels a day, according to the EIA. OPEC’s fortunes will improve as the U.S. declines, with the IEA predicting demand for the group’s crude climbing to 31.1 million barrels a day next year from 29.3 million in 2014.”
““Their strategy is still working for them,” said Miswin Mahesh, an analyst at Barclays Plc in London. “It means pain now, but in the medium-to-long term they will reap the fruits of a more balanced market, moderated shale supplies, growing demand for oil and ultimately a higher price.”
The pain has been considerable. The average price of a selection of OPEC’s crudes has been about 46 percent lower this year than in 2014, equivalent to a loss of export earnings of roughly $370 billion.Saudi Arabia, the main architect of OPEC’s new strategy, will have a budget deficit of 20 percent of gross domestic product this year, the IMF estimates. While the kingdom has been able to tap foreign currency reserves and curb spending to cope with the slump, less wealthy OPEC members have fewer options. The threat of political unrest is mounting in the “Fragile Five” of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela, according to RBC Capital Markets LLC.”
“Venezuela, whose currency has lost 87 percent of its value on the black market in the past year, is urging fellow OPEC members to reverse course and curb production to support prices. Eulogio Del Pino, the nation’s oil minister, will propose the reintroduction of a targeted price range – a policy the group abandoned in 2005 -- at the meeting in Vienna Wednesday.
Iran agrees that OPEC ought to reduce output to engineer a price recovery to $70, but it’s doubtful the group will enact any measures to do this, the nation’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Oct. 19. The Persian Gulf nation is planning to boost its own output by 1 million barrels a day next year if international sanctions are lifted.
Faltering U.S. supplies show the Saudi-led strategy is paying off, said Societe Generale’s Wittner. “If there are folks in the oil market who expect this is going to end with a new game plan, they’re going to be very disappointed,” he said.”
This guy is not part of the consensus
It is a proven fact that plants, including trees and all our food crops, are capable of growing much faster at higher levels of CO2 than present in the atmosphere today. Even at the today’s concentration of 400 ppm plants are relatively starved for nutrition.
DEAR FAG HAGS: I WANT A DIVORCE
But it’s time for a divorce. You see, sadly for you feminazis, there was a prenup we forgot to tell you about, and feminists have a hell of a lot more to lose. So you can keep the Warhol prints you think make you “artistic” and “interesting”; we’ll keep the bachelor pad you could never afford in the Meatpacking District.
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Australia is in talks to send refugees who try to reach its shores illegally to the Philippines.
Charts and Data Stolen from Twitter.
Most people waking up in the morning find out the daily temperature from the news in Celsius as the following graphic shows.
Folks will be hard pressed to dig up dirt on this guy and with vocal immigrant support from Latinos his numbers can only climb. He appeals across party lines and and has support from women.