What is it now, the Chinese New Year of the Intellectual Property Thief?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0yg9mKLWPg
Big up the Italians, and fvck the paltry six US European lap dogs.
Rather concerning that the Russians are making a presence there. They sure would not have tried that prior to Trump.
The perpetual search for the proverbial, traditional, and invented enemies.
Look inward.
Another country who "invited" the US to "help"....how will Harry "explain" this one away? :)
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Iraqi President Barham Salih has said US President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq's permission for US troops stationed there to "watch Iran".
Salih was responding on Monday to Trump's comments to US media in which he said American forces would remain at a US base in Iraq to keep a close eye on neighbouring Iran.
The Iraqi leader, speaking at a forum in Baghdad, said US troops in the country are there as part of an agreement between the two countries with a specific mission of combating "terrorism" and that any action taken outside that framework is "unacceptable".
"Don't overburden Iraq with your own issues," Salih said. "The US is a major power ... but do not pursue your own policy priorities, we live here."
"It is of fundamental interest for Iraq to have good relations with Iran" and other neighbouring countries, he added.
Trump, in his interview with CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, said it was important to keep a US military presence in Iraq so Washington can keep a close eye on Iran "because Iran is a real problem".
A few days away and look what happens to a sensible thread.
Intervening military or as some prefer to say, "supporting"?
One wonders what the ameristanis have been doing for decades, if not raping and plundering South America, SOP, the ameristani way. Keeping the Monroe Doctrine countries as banana republics has been the profitable way for decades. Develop them why?
I am sure that ameristani financial, product and technical sanctions had nothing to do with the problems. :rolleyes:
Secret, you've got to be joking, it's business as usual for the western, centuries old, rape and pillage model, worldwide. The only thing ameristan needs is to stop any loss of use the petro$. It's lost the ME suppliers, fortress ameristan needs to insure all the South American suppliers stay on board with the petro$.
When were these contracts, you refer too, signed? Prior to or after the ameristani instituted oil price collapse edicts? SOP for ameristani decades oldboom and bust economics, for the rest of the world's countries.
You may want to look into what affect Chinese investment, in their Venezuelan projects, have done to oil production at their projects..
Really? Sanctions have been there for years, or in your opinion are they not relevant to your position, on today's situation.
Some perspective for you "arry. :)
"Venezuela has more than 4,000 generals, compared with fewer than 50 in 1993. This kind of runaway inflation is every bit as pernicious as the economic variety, which also afflicts Venezuela -- in fact, they have to be addressed together."
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...ut-of-business
It's the main type of oil the ameristani Caribbean refiners are designed to process. To costly to change the mix/profits calcs. Paid in petro$ as well. Win/win for ameristan, Venezuala, not so much.
https://viableopposition.blogspot.co...venezuela.html
The food was there, in the local wharehouses, but kept ut of the shops. Unfortunately the ameristani backed buyers sold it to neighbouring countries instead of their own people, the price made a handsome capitalist profit. Allegedly a handsome capitalist profitable FX deal as well.
Because of what?
Trying to catch up with the centuries old western IP theft.
https://www.txpatentattorney.com/blo...tual-property/
Armada of tankers with Venezuelan oil forms in U.S. Gulf: sources, data
"HOUSTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A flotilla loaded with about 7 million barrels of Venezuelan oil has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, some holding cargoes bought ahead of the latest U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and others whose buyers are weighing who to pay, according to traders, shippers and Refinitiv Eikon data.
The Trump administration’s move to impose sanctions last week was meant to undercut support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by targeting the Latin American nation’s oil exports to the United States, the source of most of its foreign revenue.
The sanctions aim to block U.S. refiners from paying into PDVSA accounts controlled by Maduro - one reason numerous tankers are waiting in limbo off Venezuela with payments unclear. The United States buys 500,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude per day.
U.S. customers of Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA are required by sanctions to deposit payments into escrow accounts that have not yet been set up. The funds will be controlled by Venezuelan congress head Juan Guaido, whom the United States, the European Union and much of Latin America recognize as the country’s leader.
Neither the U.S. Treasury Department nor White House responded to requests for comment.
There were over a dozen tankers this week anchored in Gulf of Mexico or outside of Venezuelan waters, according to the Refinitiv Eikon data, as shippers await payment and delivery directions from buyers.
Traders said some of the cargoes were used as floating storage by buyers who took advantage of PDVSA’s open market sales ahead of sanctions. Others were held by trading firms struggling to find refiners willing to take the oil due to payment difficulties related to sanctions.
“There were many cargoes of Venezuelan crude already in the Gulf when sanctions were announced,” said a trader who deals with PDVSA. Others are stuck because holders “cannot find who to sell them to due to sanctions,” the trader said.
The tankers had been chartered by regular U.S. buyers of Venezuelan oil, including Chevron Corp, PDVSA’s refining unit Citgo Petroleum and Valero Energy, and trading houses that sell to refiners.
“Everybody is still working through the mechanics of things, still trying to figure out how freights are going to get paid and is sitting on the sidelines waiting for this to roll out,” said one ship broker on Monday who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Chevron and Valero declined to comment. Citgo did not respond to requests for comment."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-oil-shipments/armada-of-tankers-with-venezuelan-oil-forms-in-u-s-gulf-sources-data-idUSKCN1PT28X
It appears some oil tankers are not being unloaded . One presumes the buyers signed a deal which cannot now be fulfilled due to ameristani sanctions.The sellers are willing, the buyers are willing it's ameristani government who may indict the buyers if they try and take delivery
I'm sure The LORD or Uncle Xi will accept the money, just to help the ameristani refiner's owners out of a sticky situation.:)
Shortages of crude stock, increasing petrol prices in ameristan, panic food buying, shootings over the last packet of tasty "orange cheese flavoured" snacks, Walmart women wearing wide wrap arounds, crying in the isles of empty shelves.
MAuA.
And the other guy speaking yesterday to Al-Jazeera:
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes...064856707.html
And how kind from many fair-mided that they hurry to support and recognize a coup - however, not (yet) millitary - unlike in Thailand - and in other countries oppressed by a "dictator"...
Off the top of my head, Saudi Arabia.
And it's not all of their refineries you fool.
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Heavy crude oil is generally categorized in two ways:
Those that have over 1% sulfur (high sulfur crude oils), with aromatics and asphaltenes, and these are mostly found in North America (Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan), United States (California), Mexico), South America (Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador) and the Middle East (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia).
Those that have less than 1% sulfur (low sulfur crude oils), with aromatics, naphthenes and resins, and these are mostly found in Western Africa (Chad), Central Africa (Angola) and East Africa (Madagascar).
So a dictatorship without a shred of democracy, dismembering a journalist with a bone saw, routine torture, oppressing women, mass murder in Yemen etc etc ...all ok in your book as long as their finances are in order? :)
An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five have starved to death over the last three years as a result of Yemen’s civil war, a report from Save the Children has found, as the charity urged an immediate ceasefire to prevent more loss of life.
The figure is a conservative estimate based on UN data on severe acute malnutrition, which the international body says has afflicted more than 1.3 million children since the conflict between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition that seeks to restore Yemen’s exiled government began in 2015.
Yemen makes Venezuelan seem like utopian paradise in comparison.