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American energy bills are set to soar this winter

Robert Rapier
oilprice.com
Sat, 01 Oct 2022 04:00 UTC
LNG terminal
© shorepower igusLiquified natural gas terminal
Domestic oil production remains nearly a million barrels per day (BPD) below the monthly record level set just before the Covid-19 pandemic caused production to plunge. The all-time monthly high for oil production took place in November 2019 at 13.0 million BPD. The all-time annual high was also in 2019, when U.S. production averaged 12.3 million BPD.

Current U.S. oil production is 12.1 million BPD, while the average for the year so far is 11.9 million BPD. That is on pace to be the second-highest ever annual U.S. oil production. Natural gas production experienced a similar plunge due to Covid, but production has bounced all the way back.

Monthly natural gas production hit an all-time high of 3.008 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in December 2019. Monthly production subsequently fell below 2.7 Tcf as the pandemic began to impact the markets, but production has steadily climbed back.

The previous natural gas production record in December 2019 was essentially tied in December 2021, but average monthly production this year has exceeded all other years. In fact, average 2021 monthly production of 2.85 Tcf beat the previous 2019 average monthly record of 2.82 Tcf. However, the monthly average through the first half of 2022 was even higher at 2.89 Tcf.

Comment: Bottom line: American households will pay the penalty for European LNG gas needs.

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Eye 2

Best of the Web: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline sabotage - a possible scenario

Monkey
MonkeyWerx
Sat, 01 Oct 2022 16:27 UTC
Elements of the Nord Stream 2 sabotoge operation
Possible elements of the Nord Stream 2 sabotoge operation
As I sit here with my head on a swivel after the initial SITREP broadcast discussing the findings around this issue, I am thankful that the sea of "Monkey Nation" supporters run deep around the world and that we have so many "trackers" with the ability to do what I do that I know should something happen to me, there are tens of thousands that can continue on with this effort. As it is said, "give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for life." I have indeed taught so many enthusiasts around the world how to watch the skies over the past 2 years from YouTube that they could never stop the effort. Thank God for that. Plus, the tools to track just keep getting better and easier - e.g. SkyGlass.

Okay, let's dig into what we know about the subject. First and foremost, everything I have shown and discovered is open source - meaning it is available to anyone around the world. I just happen to know where to look and have the tools that give me the opportunity to find the data.

Comment: Pepe Escobar weighs in:



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Oil Well

SOTT Focus: Escobar: Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties

Pepe Escobar
Press TV
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:27 UTC
Twin Towers destruction
© Press TV
There's no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin's address on the Return of the Baby Bears - Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia - on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.

The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, but this time largely transcending the trappings of the geopolitical New Great Game.

This was an address to the collective Global South. In a key passage, Putin remarked how "the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, which are fundamental in nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority."

As he made the direct connection between multipolarity and strengthening of sovereignty, he took it all the way to the emergence of a new anti-colonial movement, a turbocharged version of the Non-Aligned Movement of the 1960s:
"We have many like-minded people all over the world, including in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. A liberating, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing in various countries and societies. Its subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality."
Yet the speech's closure was all about transcendence - in a spiritual tone. The last full paragraph starts with "Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice".


Comment: Putin's full speech can be found here.


Comment: Many countries in the Global South have noticed that things are changing and where the wind is blowing: A multipolar world is emerging while the old hegemon is trying hopelessly to avoid the inevitable loss of its glorified status as exceptional.

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Cult

UN representative gloats "we own the science" on climate change during World Economic Forum panel

Rukshan Fernando
Real Rukshan
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 06:47 UTC
WEF screenshot
UN Under Secretary General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming proudly gloats, "we own the science" on climate change during a World Economic Forum panel on "Tackling Disinformation". Fleming singles out as an example the relationship between Google & the UN that helps ensure resources favourable to the UN are shown at the top of search results for climate change instead of results the UN views as "distorted".

Comment: The world psychopathic elites don't even try to hide their intentions and their deeds anymore. They are publicly speaking that they control the media, the science and everything else and it looks like only a few people are concerned about that.

Of course that is for our own good. There are no nefarious intentions in that. Just dark and heavy words from the mouths of "conspiracy theorists" who were right about almost everything they spoke so far.

See also:

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Rocket

Fear porn in Japan as N. Korea tests missile

Kurt Nimmo
Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics / Substack
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:57 UTC
The USG death machine has bases stretched across Japan.

North Korea Military
© Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics
The idea, when dealing with renegade nations not part of the parasitical neolib crowd, is to make them out as intolerable threats, not only to their neighbors but all of humanity.

We witnessed the following charade earlier today:


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Bullseye

The true purpose and the necessary stress test of the Russian army in real time

Sergey Bogatyrev
The Stalker Zone
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 20:36 UTC
Russian defence staff
Evening, night and morning, which is more complicated, I was silent, thinking...

My head was full of questions, theories, answers and advice. But most importantly, I couldn't understand why it [the disagreement within the corridors of power in Russia with the way the Ministry of Defence is handling the military operation in Ukraine - SZ] went public?

I do not believe that Kadyrov and Prigozhin do not have a channel to communicate with Putin past Gerasimov. I do not believe that Putin does not have "his own people" in the Ministry of Defense who do not create a double- or triple- channel for informing about what is happening. Yes, a banal analysis of open sources makes it clear that not everything is glamorous in our "Emerald City" of khaki...

That is, it is nonsense that "public appeals" to the people are an attempt to break through the information blockade around the President. Then what is the goal? The goal is obvious - to prepare public opinion for certain upcoming events. 3 versions come to mind.....
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Attention

Scott Ritter: The onus is on Biden & Putin

Scott Ritter
Consortium News
Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
Submarine
© US Navy, James KimberBallistic missile submarine USS Rhode Island returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
We are, literally, on the eve of destruction. Now is the time for the kind of political maturity leaders rarely demonstrate.

Wars should be avoided at all costs. Nuclear conflict should never be contemplated.

These two truisms are often spoken, but rarely adhered to. Wars occur all too frequently, and so long as nations possess nuclear weapons, their use is contemplated on a continuous basis.

The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict has put the world's two largest nuclear powers on opposing sides, with the U.S. supporting a Ukrainian military that has become a de facto proxy of NATO, and Russia viewing its struggle with Ukraine as including the "collective West."

Since the initiation of Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, both the U.S. and Russia have played their respective nuclear cards.

Comment: Evenly presented, Ritter has been fair in his assessments. We shall not be resting peacefully...

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Bullseye

Truss exposes the current instability of Western democracies

Graham Hryce
RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:04 UTC
Truss
© Geoff Caddick/AFPBritish PM Liz Truss
The current turmoil in British politics can lead to disastrous consequences. It also mirrors the current state of the wider West

Even fervent believers in the stability of Western democracies must surely have had their faith shaken last week by the extraordinary economic and political crises created by the newly-minted UK prime minister, Liz Truss.

In the week after the prime minister's hand-picked chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, handed down a 'mini-budget' on September 23:
The English pound crashed; the government bond market took a dive; interest and mortgage rates rose; some mortgage markets shut down; the Bank of England staged a highly unusual fiscal intervention to prevent the collapse of major pension funds; and the IMF criticized Truss in a manner usually reserved for the leaders of debt-ridden banana republics.
The global importance of these events and the ongoing economic and political disruption that they will inevitably cause should not be underestimated. Political commentator Alastair Campbell, formerly Tony Blair's chief of staff, accurately described last week as "the week that everything changed."

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Experts issue warning over arms for Ukraine


RT
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:44 UTC
shell stocker
© John Moore/Getty ImagesArtilleryman stocks shells for a 155mm Howitzer
The US does not have an "infinite supply" of weapons and munitions to send to Kiev, analysts told CNBC.

Washington may not be able to support Ukraine in the conflict against Russia "for as long as it takes" due to a shortage of the industrial capacity needed to replenish munitions and weapons it sends to Kiev, CNBC reported on Wednesday, citing military analysts.

Jack Watling, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London, was quoted by the news network as saying:
"There is a point where... the Ukrainians will need to be cautious about their rate of expenditure and where they prioritize those munitions, because there isn't an infinite supply."
The problem reportedly stems from the structure of military production in Western nations, particularly the United States, which was tailored for peacetime and cannot sustain a protracted draw on stockpiles during a major armed conflict, such as the one in Ukraine.

Comment: US supply chain needs a boost? Ask China.

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Snakes in Suits

NATO 'not obliged' to assist Ukraine — German ambassador


RT
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 09:33 UTC
NATO
© Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Germany's permanent representative to NATO has explained that the US-led bloc is not obliged to offer direct military assistance to Ukraine. Ruediger Koenig added that its members want to avoid a major war.

He was speaking to Dein Spiegel, the youth version of Der Spiegel magazine, which published the interview on Saturday.

The Ukraine conflict dominated much of the article, with Koenig describing Russia's decision to launch its offensive against its neighbor in late February as a watershed event.

"We had peace, and now we see all of a sudden that one country is attacking another one just like that, in Europe," the official said, adding that no one could have imagined anything like that.

Germany's representative to NATO stressed that the military alliance as a whole, however, has no legal obligation to help Kiev repel Moscow's attack as Ukraine is not a member state. This means that Article 5 of NATO's treaty cannot be activated, the official explained. Under it, an attack on one ally is considered to be an attack against the whole of NATO, with all member states having to stick up for the targeted nation.

Comment: Propaganda indoctrination of the kids is a generational obligation.

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