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OPEC chief says cartel lost $1 trillion in revenue due to oil price bust

Tsvetana Paraskova
Oilprice.com
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:03 UTC
Secretary General of Opec Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo (C), poses with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih (R) and OPEC President Qatar's Minister of Energy and Industry Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada
© Ramzi Boudina / Reuters Secretary General of Opec Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo (C), poses with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih (R) and OPEC President Qatar's Minister of Energy and Industry Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada at the 15th International Energy Forum Ministerial in Algiers,Algeria September 27, 2016.
Due to the slump in oil prices, OPEC producers have lost more than US$1 trillion in revenues over the past three years, OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo has told reporters in Washington DC.

Investments in the oil industry shrank more than 26 percent last year and are projected to drop by another 22 percent this year, Barkindo said on the sidelines of meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the U.S. capital.

The estimates for 2017 are also "looking very bleak," Nigeria's The Nation quoted Barkindo as saying. For the first time in recent memory, OPEC is not only facing three years in a row of low crude prices, but also declining capex, especially in the upstream business, according to the OPEC official.

Most experts, analysts and agencies, including the IMF and the World Bank, failed to predict correctly how long it would take the market to rebalance, Barkindo noted.

Comment: The proposed oil output freeze in increasingly coming under question as oil output increases: Oil price falls as OPEC production hits record in September

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Russia ready to join OPEC oil production freeze but Rosneft has doubts


Sputnik
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:12 UTC
Oil drilling rig
© REUTERS/ Sergei Karpukhin
Russia is ready to join the oil production freeze as part of the efforts to stabilize the global oil market and supports the decisions adopted by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Tuesday.

OPEC agreed in late September to cut its oil production for the first time in eight years. The output ceiling was set at 32.5-33 million barrels a day. Further details of the deal are due to be unveiled at the group's meeting in November.

"At this point, the freeze or even the reduction is the most reasonable way to re-balance the market in order to reduce the volatility risks for all of us...which could have a negative impact on the current market situation, especially on investments in the sector," Novak said addressing the World Energy Congress in Istanbul. "We, in turn, are ready to join the freeze as we already stated in January and confirmed our readiness in April," Novak stressed.
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Oil price falls as OPEC production hits record in September

Irina Slav
Oilprice.com
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:26 UTC
Oil production facility
The International Energy Agency reported today that crude oil output in OPEC reached a new record of 33.64 million barrels per day, causing crude oil prices to tick back down after they reached a one-year high on Russian President Putin's announcement that the oil giant would join freeze talks with OPEC.

Oil supply went up by 600,000 bpd globally in September, with non-OPEC supply rising by half a million barrels daily thanks to output increases in Russia and Kazakhstan.

World daily production in the reported month reached 97.2 million barrels, a 200,000-bpd increase on September 2015.

The IEA noted that OPEC was the main contributor to this annual growth.
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TV

CNN reporter caught on air coaching presidential debate focus group

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:23 UTC
cnn coaching
Make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton and her elite backers control the mainstream media narrative. However, the illusion of an unbiased press is quickly falling apart as multiple leaked emails, and now, a video from last night's debate on CNN shows.

During a brief clip, which has now been posted to YouTube, CNN forgot to kill reporter Pamela Brown's mic when they cut away. As the camera cuts back to the allegedly 'unbiased' debate focus group, Brown can be heard speaking to the group under her breath.

"America is great, because we're good," Brown whispers to the group in an obvious attempt to coach their answers.

Once Brown realizes she is back on air, she quickly asks a participant in the focus group what anti-Trump argument from Clinton impressed her most. Having just been told what to say by Brown, the participant quickly regurgitated her canned response, adding her own adaptation for good measure.

Comment: Sure.

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Alarm Clock

Russia to deploy anti-aircraft missile system to Syria in response to US threat

Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:08 UTC
VRK missle system
Russia is strengthening Syria's anti-air defense systems with the latest ZRK missile system, Izvestiya has reported citing a source in military-diplomatic circles.

Russian authorities are considering sending a batch of "Pantsir" anti-aircraft rocket missile and gun systems (ZRPK) to Syria. The deal, concluded a few years ago, was only partially realized for financial reasons. Now Moscow has decided to send the remaining Pantsir's to Damascus without demanding immediate payment.

Interviewed experts believe that Moscow's decision was influenced by the tense situation in Syria and the Americans' threat to strike Assad's troops.

As the director of the Foreign Policy Agency and program director of the Valdai Club, Andrey Sushentsov says, if the now Syrian Pantsir's shoot down an American plane, then we will find ourselves in an even more difficult political situation than now, because the blame will be put on Russia and thereby bring the US-Russia confrontation to a new level.

However, for now everything is being done to ensure that the Pentagon will not decide to launch such strikes.
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If Hillary wins, will she kill us all?

Dr. William Wedin
Russia Insider
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:26 UTC
hillary
© Unknown
'For Hillary, killing is like cocaine. And like an addict, she may not know when to stop'

The author is a licensed clinical psychologist and long-time human rights activist who lives and practices in New York City

That's the bottom line.

Based on my 47 years in the field of psychology, that's the simple truth I've been forced to reach from everything I've seen and read about this depraved, sociopathic woman.

Yet it's a truth I resist with every fiber of my being.

For I love life greatly and wish to relish it as long as I can.

Just look at me and this lovely home I've created for myself and my loved ones--complete with my own, personally designed Walden pond--with a wisteria-covered pondhouse cantilevered out over the water so that my family and I can dive with delight right into it whenever we like in spring, summer, and fall. In winter we love to ice skate on it .
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Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton told oil majors environmentalism is a Russian hoax

Erwin Cifuentes
Oilprice.com
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:27 UTC
Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin
© RIA Novosti. Aleksey Nikolskyi
In 2014, United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton purportedly accused the Russians of running fake anti-fracking and environmentalist groups who were trying to upend major projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline.

According to Sputnik International, Wikileaks reportedly uncovered a paid-for speech made in 2014 by the former Secretary of State in front of an audience of "North American oil and natural gas tycoons."

"We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia," Clinton allegedly said.


Comment: It is notable that the speech occurred in 2014 before she officially began running for office signaling that her hysteria that Russians are lurking behind anything that she opposes is not merely a contrivance in response to leaked documents in the 2016 election but rather speak to some broader issue in her thinking.


Comment: So once again we can see Hillary Clinton tailors her message to the audience which results in lies and confusion on where she really stands on anything.

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Depressing alternatives: Neither Clinton nor Trump likely Putin preferences for White House

Danielle Ryan
RT
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:21 UTC
Putin
© Aleksey Nikolskyi / SputnikNo good options for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Journalists, columnists, academics, pundits, politicians, your average man on the street — they all have one thing in common: They all think they know what Vladimir Putin wants.

The exact phrase "what Putin wants" has shown up on Google more than 22,000 times. At the same time, the question "what does Putin want?" has shown up more than 9,000 times — so it seems the few who don't already think they know, would really like to find out.

Pointing the finger at Moscow and making baseless claims about 'what Putin wants' to win political points has become an entirely predictable strategy — but it's a popular strategy because it's a remarkably simple and convenient one. No substance required, just good old-fashioned fear-mongering.

In the US, efforts to link Russia to domestic politics have ranged from the absurd to the outright comical. Cast once again as the Evil Empire, Russia has become one of the most persistent themes in what is playing out as perhaps the biggest presidential election train wreck in history.

For Hillary Clinton, no one has been a more convenient scapegoat and bogeyman than the Russian president, as evidenced by her ongoing strategy of attempting to bury the content of various unflattering leaks by insisting that anything that reflects negatively on her is simply part of a Kremlin plot to discredit her and help Donald Trump to victory.
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War strategizing: Russia's new wartime state management system gives full power to military


RT
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:23 UTC
russian tanks
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik
A recent military exercise in southern Russia saw the first real-time test of the state management system that allows the Defense Ministry to assume direct control over municipal and regional authorities, police, state security and emergency services.

"In the course of the strategic war games Caucasus-2016, the Defense Ministry has for the first time tried how a military district command can directly manage the regions of the Russian Federation," popular daily Izvestia quoted an unnamed high-placed military source as saying.

"Exercising the interaction with state power bodies was one of the main objectives of the war games. In general it went well, but we also encountered some problems and presently we are preparing some legislative proposals that would correct the revealed drawbacks," the source added.

In particular, the military wants to switch completely from the previous scheme, under which in times of war all regional authorities and federal ministries worked on their own dedicated tasks and the Defense Ministry only had a coordinating role.

The new rules of wartime administration would give all administrative powers to the military, which would issue direct commands to regional authorities, law enforcers, rescuers and the National Guard.

Comment: Prelude to further military intervention? Russia conducts massive war games in Caucasus

Colonel Cassad comments:
These changes are logical, taking into account the need for massive military exercises, civil defense inspections and inventory of bomb shelters. Apparently, the authorities do not rule out a major war involving Russia. So far, inspections and preparations are aimed at a hypothetical scenario of military confrontation with the US and NATO, in which case Russia will declare a full military emergency.

Taking history into account, we will borrow some things from the Soviet experience, adapting them to today's realities (cybersecurity, information, control of network streams etc.). The current situation demonstrates the validity of a purely volunteer army. However, in the event of conflict with NATO, we will have to institute a draft. The professional army suffices in peace time, but must be increased by mobilization when war breaks out (governors will be personally responsible for mobilization when regional military leaders declare a state of emergency.)

Overall, serious preparation are under way. Whether they will come into play depends on the further course of the Syrian war and the war in Ukraine.


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Syrian War Report: 35,500 terrorists killed past 6 months (VIDEO)


South Front
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:22 UTC
Syrian war report
On October 7, the Syrian army and the National Defense Forces (NDF) launched a major counter-attack on the joint terrorist forces of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) northeast of the Syrian city of Hama.

Initially, the Syrian army and the NDF took control of the village of Junaynah, then, after a series of firefights, they liberated Sha'atha and Tulaysiyah. On October 8, the pro-government forces freed from terrorists the vilalge of al-Qahira, the al-Shu'tha hills and the nearby agriculture airstrip, Khefseen and checkpoints near al-Khaima and al-Naqra. On October 9, the army and the NDF continued operations in the direction of Tamat al-Khalifah, Qubaybat Abu al-Huda and Kubbariyah. By October 10, they have recaptured the strategic town of Ma'an and the nearby village of Kubbariyah after a series of heavy firefights with terrorists.

Ma'an had been one of the major towns (others are Taibat al-Imam, Al-Lataminah and Kfar Zitam) strategically located near the M5 highway and captured by the joint terrorist forces.

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