Some headlines of note
President Joe Biden's attempt to lower rising oil prices by convincing Saudi Arabia to increase production looks set to fail as Saudi officials have indicated the country is not willing to abandon its oil production alliance with Russia, which Washington has claimed is part of the reason for sky-high fuel costs.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-oil-gamble-backfire-saudi-arabia-stic...
In local politics..
RHODE ISLAND PROGRESSIVES PUSH FOR TAKEOVER OF STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The CO-OP hopes to build this year on its success last cycle, when it won eight seats in the state legislature and two on the city council, and ousted several top Democrats including the powerful chair of the state Senate Finance Committee, former state Sen. William Conley Jr. The legislature has since passed bills that raised the minimum wage to $15 and legalized recreational marijuana with automatic expungement of past convictions.
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/08/rhode-island-cooperative-progressive...
Mike Pompeo, former US Secretary of State, who oversaw the plot to kidnap or potentially assassinate Julian in the Ecuadorean Embassy, called on Priti Patel (UK Home Secretary) on 30 June, just after she signed Julian’s arrest warrant and also just after Pompeo had been summoned by a Spanish court to give evidence on the plot.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/07/ithaka/
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And hysterical history
1700 -- Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1776 -- Captain James Cook departs Plymouth, England helming HMS Resolution, beginning his 3rd and final trip to the Pacific
1790 -- French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
1804 -- Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr
1843 -- Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1861 -- Wild Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defense
1878 -- Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1909 -- 16th Amendment was passed by congress (power to tax incomes)
1917 -- The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
1933 -- Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1944 -- Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1954 -- President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1966 -- Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
1967 -- Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested
1982 -- FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
2016 -- Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire
2017 -- World's largest iceberg (later christened A68) breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length
2018 -- Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
2022 -- You are here
Zionism is a social disease
Thanks for the heads up QMS.
To see the film about Julian: https://ithaka.movie/watch-the-film-gb/
Thanks for the link rand
kinda spaced that one, but it is important.
good day
Zionism is a social disease
Agree
, it is important to watch. Will try to convince as many as I can to watch it.
I can't help myself
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"FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail" (but it'll be nothing but fundraisers from the Democratic Party)
On to Biden since 1973
Gracias, QMS. Be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Oil has been dropping for the past week or so
I didn't look at today's price but last week W TX Int was under $100. Gas prices are down fifteen cents and that doesn't include last weeks oil yet. It takes a week for the price to be reflected at the pump.
Russia has been able to sell it's oil. So the world hasn't lost much there. China is slowed due to covid.