A viewer reports their bill jumped from $830 to $1,253 in a month. He responds that he's warned for two years this was coming and that last summer and winter's high bills were "just the beginning," not a peak.
Seven more utility companies nationwide are reported seeking additional rate hikes. He says these requests cover millions of customers and predicts bills will keep climbing even for people who haven't yet seen an increase.
He blames the underlying cause on dysfunctional government rather than grid mechanics. He argues that debates over grid capacity and power generation are secondary to political leaders serving donors instead of the public, leaving people unable to afford basic utilities.
The US labor market is deteriorating. He cites a net job loss in June, the first since 2020, August job growth of 22,000 (under a third of an already low estimate), job cuts up 39% this year and unemployment rising to 4.3%.
Cheap gasoline reflects weak demand and may not last. The national average is $3.20 a gallon, 10 cents below last year, but he ties it to oil falling to $61.77 a barrel on weak demand. He expects large oil-and-gas layoffs this year and warns refinery shutdowns could end cheap gasoline.
He blames the "big beautiful" budget bill for the Willow Project's revised-down revenue. Alaska's projected income from the ConocoPhillips project fell from $6.3 billion to $2.6 billion, which he attributes to the bill's oil-industry giveaways applying retroactively to existing projects — including roughly a 25% cut to Alaska's 50/50 royalty share and expanded lease-expense deductions — and predicts state politicians will avoid discussing it.
Mr. GlobalSummer vs Winter Blend Gas #news #truth #breakingnews #gasprices
EPA-mandated seasonal gasoline blends explain the price swing, not politics. Summer gasoline requires lower Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) to prevent evaporation and smog across hundreds of millions of vehicles, which requires costlier additives and coincides with higher summer driving demand.
Winter blend is cheaper mainly because it substitutes butane for those additives. He says gasoline can contain up to 10% butane in winter, a cheap component that lowers production cost and pairs with lower winter driving demand.
The September 15 switchover date doesn't apply everywhere. He notes California gets winter blend about a month later, and he believes Maricopa County, Arizona may also be exempt from the standard date.
Alaska's Willow Project subsidies now reportedly exceed the revenue it will generate. New figures cut the state's projected take on the ConocoPhillips project from $6.3 billion to $2.6 billion, and he says the tax credits and subsidies Alaska is giving ConocoPhillips are now greater than the total revenue it will receive, which he attributes to higher project costs — including steel prices — and lower oil prices from OPEC's market-share gains.
He argues domestic disinformation outpaces foreign bot campaigns. Responding to a clip blaming Russian and Chinese bots for encouraging violence, he contends American politicians and media produce comparable disinformation under the labels "politics" or "entertainment," and that people are more at risk from trusting familiar domestic figures than from spotting foreign bots, which he says most people can already identify.
Russia, not the US, holds the largest nuclear arsenal. He gives the US 3,700 warheads and Russia more as of January 2025 (the captions garble the exact figure), China 600, followed by France, the UK, India, Pakistan, a country he does not name and North Korea. Germany has none, which he attributes to World War II.
Variable-yield warheads let users dial in destruction. He says the US developed them in the 1960s, ranging from a small fraction of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki yield (the captions read "150th") to several times higher, and Russia copied the technology by the 1970s.
Maintaining nuclear arsenals is enormously expensive. He cites $80 billion a year for US upkeep, and argues corrosion is unavoidable because the steel casings rust from ambient moisture within months or years however well they are stored.
He rejects efforts to blame Tyler Robinson's college environment for his actions. Noting that roughly 19 million people are enrolled in US colleges and that Robinson attended one of the country's most conservative schools, he argues against pinning the shooting on ideological exposure there, and says the fuller explanation will surface with time rather than being forced now.
Mr. GlobalNatural Gas Outlook #news #truth #trump #breakingnews #gasprices #gas
He expects natural gas jobs to stay secure while oil work faces a downturn. He says he's advised people since Trump's election to seek work in gas-intensive plays like Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and the Haynesville, and argues the US-OPEC oil price war will boost natural gas further, in sharp contrast to the outlook for oil.
Mr. GlobalHow Do You Support Those You Don’t Believe? #news #truth #trump #breakingnews
He challenges a self-described supporter who admits the president lies constantly. Reacting to someone's post saying they still support Trump despite calling him a "pathological liar" and alleging his party is covering up the Epstein files, he argues the person cannot actually know what policies they're backing if, by their own account, everything the president says is false.
Mr. GlobalEV’s #news #truth #breakingnews #gasprices
He says EV owners' own reviews are overwhelmingly positive despite skeptics' narratives. He reports fielding EV-purchase questions from roughly 50 people a day, and says that across five or six years of discussing EVs he has seen almost no buyer-regret comments, estimating around 99.99% of EV owners' comments say they would never go back to gas; he recommends asking actual owners rather than non-owners.
China will not collapse or break apart in our lifetimes. He rejects Peter Zeihan's claim that after Xi there will be no Chinese government and that demographics will cause state dissolution, calling China's leadership far more competent than Russia's despite his frequent criticism of Chinese policy.
Demographic decline is real but not regime-ending. He accepts China's birth rate of 1.2–1.4 and Zeihan's argument that the population may be 100 million short (1.3 billion rather than 1.4) through shrinkage and census overstatement, plus economic strain, but argues none of it means the government will dissolve.
An antimatter bomb would be a world-ending weapon. He explains that matter–antimatter contact annihilates both particles, converting all their mass to energy per E=mc², and sets this against the Hiroshima bomb's roughly 15 kilotons (the clip cuts off before the comparison lands).
Antimatter is routinely produced, not hypothetical. He says it was hypothesized by 1928, discovered in 1932 by Carl Anderson in the US, and is generated almost daily in the Large Hadron Collider and other accelerators. He describes it as matter with its particles' charges reversed, deliberately skipping the quark-level explanation.
Russia's drone incursion into Poland was deliberate, not stray. He reports Russian Shahed drones entering Polish airspace hours earlier, Polish military mobilization and a shelter-in-place order for much of eastern Poland. Unlike past incidents, he says, the drones were deliberately flying in Polish territory.
NATO is closer to Article 5 than ever and should escalate. He notes Poland has about 50 F-16s and 6 of 32 ordered F-35s delivered, says Russia has never been this close to triggering Article 5's mutual-defense clause across all 32 members, and argues NATO should match the escalation.
GeoHussarThe only reason why World War III hasn’t started is because the United States exists. #ww3 #war
American power is what prevents a third world war. He argues Russia and China have avoided war for over 50 years only because they share the US as a common enemy, and would otherwise fight each other.
Postwar US strength stopped a Soviet takeover of Europe. After World War II, he says, an exhausted Europe faced a USSR uniting over a dozen countries across Eurasia's most resource-rich, populous region. Only a relatively untouched, wealthy America with the atomic bomb deterred a Soviet push.
The US is nowhere near a civil war. He says pundits claiming the country has never been this divided either don't know history or hide it, citing at least two post–Civil War periods more divided than today.
The civil rights era was far more divided than today. He describes the 1950s through early 1970s, with Jim Crow embedded in federal institutions for about 100 years, protests larger and more violent than today's, and harsher legal consequences, intensified by the Vietnam War.
The September 11th anniversary was overshadowed by Charlie Kirk's assassination, which itself changed nothing about the gun debate. The author notes 357 mass shootings in America this year and that online discourse remained pro-gun even after a high-profile public killing — evidence, to him, that tragedy alone doesn't shift entrenched positions.
The author disputes Ezra Klein's New York Times claim that Kirk was "practicing politics in exactly the right way." He agrees Kirk's willingness to debate anyone was commendable, but argues Klein ignored that Kirk operated in bad faith — cherry-picking facts and staging clips of unprepared college students to manufacture outrage — so the willingness to show up doesn't excuse the method.
His hope rests on countering algorithm-driven outrage with deliberate good-faith dialogue, not on any single event resolving division. He frames this as the explicit mission of both this newsletter and The Political Prism: since outrage generates more engagement than measured argument, sustaining honest dialogue requires active, ongoing effort rather than passive optimism.
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Mr. GlobalChina Russia Deal #news #trump #truth #breakingnews
Russia and China signed a deal for what's described as the world's largest natural gas pipeline. Following a summit including Putin, Xi Jinping, Modi, and Kim Jong-un, the deal routes gas from Russia's Yamal Peninsula to China via the Power of Siberia system.
He reads this as displacing US ambitions to supply Asian gas markets. He argues years of US effort to secure those markets are now lost to Russia, which gains a buyer locked in for the next 30 years.
He calls the deal a foreign-policy failure that undercuts US leverage over Russia. He argues that a Russia with a guaranteed 30-year gas customer becomes far harder for the US to economically isolate over actions like the war in Ukraine, and blames the Trump administration for not grasping the link between trade and diplomacy.
Mr. GlobalOPEC Increases Production #news #truth #trump #breakingnews #gasprices
OPEC's output increase undercuts the US "drill baby drill" push. In a 13-minute meeting, OPEC agreed to raise production by 137,000 barrels a day every month from October through next September; he says analysts are calling it comparable to 2020's price collapse.
Winter-blend gasoline and falling oil prices should bring relief at the pump. Winter blend arrives within a week and alone could cut prices by 30 cents a gallon, and he expects oil to fall further, with most analysts projecting it below $60 a barrel.
Gas prices are headed down as winter-blend fuel reaches pumps. The seasonal fuel switch arrives in the second week of September and can cut prices 20 to 30 cents a gallon on its own; he says weakening demand and OPEC's latest production increase are adding further downward pressure on oil. Northern states will see it first, while California is roughly a month behind.
He warns drivers not to spend the savings. He says the money saved at the pump will likely be needed to cover other rising costs, like electric and food bills.
Mr. GlobalSnooze Button #news #truth #breakingnews
The snooze button's 9-minute length is a leftover mechanical-clock limitation. He says early alarm clocks couldn't fit a two-digit snooze interval into their mechanism, so 9 minutes became the maximum, a default he says persists on phones today.
He credits the button's inventor, Seth Thomas, with causing widespread daily harm. He argues repeated snoozing raises heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol, and leaves users fatigued for the rest of the day.
He cites usage figures showing the habit is widespread. He says roughly 50% of people use the snooze button and 15% hit it three or more times, placing himself in that latter group.
Mr. GlobalEV’s #news #truth #breakingnews #gasprices
He argues charging time, not range anxiety, is the bigger barrier to EV adoption. Responding to a viewer demanding 500 miles of range and a 10-minute full recharge unaffected by cold, he says busy parents don't have 30 minutes to spare waiting for a charge, even though many gas vehicles don't hit 500 miles on a tank either. He predicts it will be "game on for EVs" once charging time matches a gas fill-up and fast-charging infrastructure is widely available.
Mr. GlobalEV Anxiety #news #truth #breakingnews #gasprices
He says EV hesitancy is driven by psychology, not daily practicality. Responding to comments noting 90% of EV charging happens at home overnight, he agrees but argues buyers fixate on the rare one or two times they might need to charge on the road, the same way people buy pickup trucks they rarely need hauling capacity for. He concludes that "selling cars is about psychology," not what's practical.
Celebrating a political killing is a symptom, not rebellion. Speaking of an unnamed political figure's death, which he calls a tragedy though he disliked the man, he says celebrants are the finished product of the system. He cites TMZ apologizing for anchors laughing on air, and asks how the left would react to the reverse on Fox News.
Mockery will make him a martyr and embolden his movement. He expects the reaction to fuel millions of angry supporters, predicting aggressive right-leaning federal and local legislation and possible violent reprisals against people seen as extreme leftists. He says he hopes he is wrong.
Political violence in America comes from both sides, and selectively excusing your own side's violence while condemning the other's erodes the rule of law itself. The author lists violence across the spectrum — January 6th, the attack on Paul Pelosi, the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband by a Trump supporter 12 weeks earlier, and Kirk's killing — as evidence neither side can credibly blame only the other.
President Trump blamed the "radical left" for Kirk's death before any suspect was in custody or a motive established. The author treats this premature blame-casting as itself dangerous, arguing it inflames division regardless of what the eventual investigation shows, and calls on readers to ignore it rather than be provoked into the same behavior.
The prescribed response is to condemn all political violence unconditionally while continuing to criticize either party's conduct without fear. The author is explicit that he disagreed with much of what Kirk argued and found him prone to misinformation, but insists that disagreement is irrelevant to the moral clarity required after a political assassination.
Mr. GlobalNew London School Disaster #news #truth #breakingnews #oil -#storytime
The deadliest disaster in US public school history is tied to the oil and gas industry. He describes the 1937 New London, Texas school explosion, where the district tapped into a nearby oil field's gas line to avoid a $300 monthly heating bill rather than pay for utility gas.
A leak of unodorized gas filled the school's basement before a spark ignited it. He says a spark from a sander triggered the blast, and the practice of tapping into raw field gas lines was common at the time.
Over 300 people, mostly children aged 11 to 16, were killed. He says the tragedy drew condolences even from Adolf Hitler, and points to a Dispatch article for further detail.
GeoHussarThe world order is Changing. But it’s more of a repositioning. @mahfuztalukder #geopolitics #china
Staying on top requires securing four resources. He names oil, rare earth elements, water, and contributions to science and technology as the US priorities in a repositioning world order.
US oil focus is shifting from the Middle East to the Americas. He says over 50% of US oil imports now come from Canada, and the US wants dominance in the western hemisphere, hence renewed involvement in Venezuela and Guyana (about 20 billion barrels). He argues this explains reduced US Middle East engagement over 10–15 years, now limited to keeping global supply stable.
America's wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq failed politically, not militarily. He argues the US lost none of the battles and would have succeeded if the aim were only to flatten capitals and armies, but the real objective of those in charge was to set up democracy, and on that measure all three were abject failures.
The indictment is the human cost followed by abandonment. In his telling, the US shipped armies across the planet, killed hundreds of thousands if not millions, failed in its objective after several years, then left its equipment behind, did nothing about the dead, and went home to carry on as before.
This drone incursion into Poland was deliberate, unlike earlier strays. He reports several Russian Shahed drones entering Polish airspace hours before recording, the Polish military mobilized, and a shelter-in-place order for most of eastern Poland along the Ukrainian border; he reads these drones as intentionally flying in Polish territory, not mistakenly straying during attacks on Ukraine.
Poland has NATO-grade means to counter the drones. He cites about 50 F-16s in Polish service and 6 of 32 ordered F-35s delivered so far.
He calls this the closest NATO has come to Article 5. He frames the breach as a massive escalation and argues it entitles NATO to match it, noting Article 5 treats an armed attack on one member as an attack on all 32.
California may pay Valero $200 million to keep a refinery open. He reports lawmakers are considering covering maintenance costs at Valero's Benicia refinery with taxpayer money, after an earlier state effort to help Valero sell the plant appears to have failed.
He links the deal to Gavin Newsom's 2028 political prospects. He had previously predicted that California refinery closures could push gas prices toward $8 a gallon by then, which he frames as a liability for a potential Newsom presidential run.
Most self-help writing is illegitimate because its authors haven't lived what they're advising on. The author argues that someone who isn't Warren Buffett teaching you to invest, or isn't Stephen King teaching you to write, is selling secondhand advice — and that readers would be better served going to primary sources like Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder letters directly.
His alternative is what he calls "lived-help": personal essays drawn strictly from his own experience, citing five pieces — on turning 30, on marriage after reading Anna Karenina, on friendship fading after 30, on climbing from associate to executive director in finance, and on watching his father die — as the model for advice earned rather than borrowed.
He argues AI and grifters can mimic and remix advice but cannot replicate lived experience, positioning this distinction as the reason personal, first-hand essays remain valuable in a landscape increasingly filled with recycled or AI-generated self-help content.
He questions the authenticity and significance of a reported Trump note to Epstein. He speculates about what the note's reference to a shared "secret" means, calls for a handwriting expert to verify the signature, and argues that writing such a note would have been a "low IQ move" — while also asking whether it even matters at this point.
AI-driven data center growth is outstripping the grid's capacity. He says US data center electricity use will triple within three years, and Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley" alone already handles 70% of global internet traffic.
Power plant retirements are far outrunning new capacity additions. He cites the EIA projecting about 12 gigawatts of retirements this year, 65% more than last year, versus a Department of Energy estimate of only 22 gigawatts of new firm generation by 2030 against the over 100 gigawatts he says is needed.
He argues the grid's strain is political, not technical. He says the grid itself likely won't collapse, but household budgets will as bills rise, and whether the underlying problem gets fixed depends on policymakers.
Mr. GlobalStop Telling MAGA Trump Is A Liar, They Know, They Just Don’t Care
Telling Trump supporters he lies is pointless because they already know. He says he's watched a pro-Trump creator who consistently criticizes the administration's dishonesty yet never withdraws support, which he calls the defining difference between MAGA voters and everyone else.
He blames the lying epidemic on voters never punishing it at the ballot box. Because people prioritize their side winning over holding politicians accountable, he argues, political dishonesty will keep escalating unchecked.
He frames voting as an endorsement of a candidate's character. He says he cannot support a "pathological narcissistic liar" of any party, contrasting today's politics with a past era when presidents were widely revered.
Mr. Global"Trump's Massive Foreign Policy Failure Unites China and Russia In Huge Energy Deal"
Russia and China signed a deal for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. It would run from Russia's Yamal Peninsula through Mongolia to China, carrying over 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually, with him separately citing an eventual Chinese purchase volume exceeding 100 billion cubic meters a year.
He calls the deal a major US foreign-policy failure. By giving Moscow a replacement market for gas lost when Europe cut Russian energy over the war in Ukraine, he argues it blunts Western sanctions and increases Russia's ability to act without economic consequence.
He ties China's halt on US LNG imports to Trump's tariff rhetoric. China stopped buying American LNG in the administration's first week, he says, and with Beijing now locked into 30 years of discounted Russian gas, US LNG exporters' long-sought Asian market share is largely gone.
GeoHussarWhat is actually being done to Russia right now… #ukraine🇺🇦 #war #petrol #europe #news
Ukraine's strikes on energy infrastructure are what Moscow fears most. He argues the Russian government is indifferent to losing over 1 million troops, the tens of thousands displaced by Ukraine's Kursk incursion, and tens of billions of dollars of destroyed equipment, but not to attacks that threaten its capacity to have an economy at all.
Without oil and gas exports, he says, Russia collapses. He cites Russia as the world's third-largest crude producer at about 9.85 million barrels a day and fourth-largest natural gas exporter (the US being first), and calls fossil fuel exports the lifeblood of its economy.
A wartime economy leaves Russia even less diversified. He argues it was never well diversified compared with China or Japan and is now further from it, making the energy hit worse; the clip cuts off mid-argument.
OPEC announced a full year of monthly oil-production increases. Hikes of over 137,000 barrels a day begin in October and run through August 2026, on top of the 2.2 million barrels a day already restored, and he expects oil to fall below $60, possibly to $58-59, in the next session.
He says this differs from OPEC's 2020 market flood. Lower prices, aided by the seasonal switch to cheaper winter-blend gasoline around September 15, mean cheaper pump prices for consumers, but he expects more layoffs and rig idling in the US oil and gas industry.
He warns falling US oil output could spike winter gas bills. Because much US natural gas is "associated gas" produced alongside oil in West Texas, he says a drop in oil production could tighten gas supply, and he advises workers to seek jobs focused on natural gas rather than oil.
The US labor market is steady but showing slowdown. Economist Christopher Clark of Washington State University, the only one of the three experts heard in this clip, says unemployment has held around 4.2% for a year, while monthly job creation has fallen well below its pre-pandemic average, a drop dating to around January 2025.
Inflation has improved but remains too high. Clark says both headline and core inflation sit well above the 2% target.
He attributes slowing growth and elevated prices to tariffs and immigration. GDP growth averaged 1% in the first half of 2025; Clark says the price and slowdown magnitudes are exactly what would be expected from increased tariffs and immigration disruptions, with everything slowing except core inflation.
A commenter credited "drill baby drill" for a coming 20–30% drop in gas prices. He counters that US rig count has fallen 14% and frac spread count 17% in eight months, alongside layoffs of 25% at ConocoPhillips and roughly 20% or more at Chevron, Halliburton, SLB, Exxon, and Shell.
He attributes any coming price drop to OPEC flooding the market, not US drilling. He argues OPEC is doing this at the Trump administration's request, which he says is destroying the US oil and gas industry and costing tens of thousands of jobs.
He predicts OPEC will later cut production once the US industry is weakened. He forecasts gas prices spiking again around the time a new, likely Democratic, president takes office, calling it a recurring "cycle of stupidity."
A quietly signed executive order lays groundwork to unwind most Trump tariffs. The order, covering 109 pages of annexes, tells countries that reaching trade and security agreements with the US will restore their tariffs to 0%, reciprocal rates.
He reads the low-key rollout as an implicit admission of failure. He calls it the "biggest taco event ever," a bigger white flag than the one on the White House lawn, and says the administration is unlikely to keep touting record tariff revenue going forward.
He predicts trading partners may now have more leverage. Whether countries will negotiate cooperatively or hold out given what he calls Trump's missteps is unresolved, he says, but he expects the shift overall to be good for US inflation and prices.
Mr. GlobalTrump 9/11 Museum #news #truth #trump #breakingnews
He argues Trump shouldn't control the 9/11 museum. He points to Trump's reported push to soften the Smithsonian's portrayal of slavery as evidence of how he'd handle historical framing, jokes that a Trump-run 9/11 museum might feature fabricated imagery, and compares the idea to letting Trump run a January 6th museum; he argues the decision should instead rest with New Yorkers.
Mr. Global"The Economy Is Flashing Red: Bad Signs You Can't Ignore"
He points to a weak jobs report and rising real-estate distress as recession warning signs. He cites a report showing only 22,000 jobs added and unemployment at 4.3%, plus commercial real estate delinquencies at a 10-year high, with banks holding trillions of dollars of exposure to office-tower debt he says echoes 2008.
He argues US LNG exports have "globalized" domestic gas prices, driving up utility bills. By exporting so much natural gas that the US must compete with Europe and Asia for its own supply, he says domestic prices are rising to meet world rates, on top of climbing food, rent and insurance costs.
He cites record household and government debt as further evidence of strain. Interest on the national debt is set to exceed the defense budget this year, he says, while consumer credit card debt is near $1.5 trillion and auto loan defaults are rising, and he blames the current administration for undoing a recovery that had produced 48 straight months of job growth.
Mr. Global"Is Russia Running Out of Gas? Ukraine's Drone War Hits Hard"
Ukraine's strike on Russia's largest refinery triggered domestic gasoline shortages. He counts roughly 81 Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities and 31 on refineries in the past month, including hits on the Samara refinery and the Luga LNG terminal, which he says lost half its capacity, taking out about 20% of Russia's overall refining capacity.
He predicts refinery damage will push more Russian crude onto global markets. Because Russia produces far more oil than it can refine domestically, he estimates up to an additional million barrels a day could hit global markets, coinciding with OPEC and Saudi Arabia signaling further production increases at Sunday's OPEC meeting.
He frames the campaign as finally targeting Russia's oil-financed war economy. He predicts Russia will prioritize fuel for its military over civilians, and raises the open question of whether India, which refines large volumes of Russian crude, might now export gasoline back to Russia.
Mr. GlobalYou Are Complicit #news #truth #trump #breakingnews #epsteinlist
Protecting whoever is on "the list" makes the president complicit. He argues the debate over whose name appears on it is a distraction, and that anyone willing to accept that protection out of political loyalty is also complicit in the underlying trafficking.
GeoHussarIs Iran headed towards war again? #iran #war #military #currentevents #Learn
He expects Iran to go to war with its opponent again. He deliberately does not name the opponent, saying the app would penalise his account, and presents renewed war as unsurprising.
The 12-day war opened a long-planned regime-change operation. In his opinion it was the initial launch of a 20-year, multi-layered plan to topple the Iranian regime. He cites reporting that Iran was heavily infiltrated by 2007, with infiltrators setting up drone factories inside Iran to build the drones later used against it.
Decapitation strikes stopped Iran's planned missile retaliation. He says every leader needed to order a massive retaliatory strike was assassinated at the outset, so no order could pass down the chain of command to launch the 1,000 missiles Iran had planned to fire immediately if surprise-attacked.
Syria's artificial borders make partition a real possibility. His answer is "maybe": he says Syria's diagonal borders were drawn with a ruler under the Sykes-Picot agreement, which he dates to 1917, as were Iraq's and Jordan's, cramming together tribes with little in common and no natural barriers.
Syria's instability is long-standing. Around 1958, fearing coups and communist influence, the government asked Egypt to absorb it, forming the United Arab Republic for three years until a 1961 coup ended it.
Post-Assad Syria has lost its role as a terrorist training ground. He says that even when nominally stable under the Assads, Syria was a major training ground for international terrorism, and that this function is now gone. The captions cut off there.
Rising food and energy costs are pushing families into survival mode. He cites double- and triple-digit electricity bill increases in some states and says households now spend on average 10% of their income on utilities.
He blames record US natural gas exports for keeping domestic energy prices elevated. By exporting so much gas that the US competes with Europe and Asia for its own supply, he says, domestic prices are pulled up to meet higher global rates even though the resource is abundant at home.
He assigns blame to corporate profiteering and political enablement, not global markets. He says record corporate profits and government inaction, not the existence of global markets themselves, are forcing families to choose between groceries, gas and rent.
Mr. Global"Why Don't So Many Trump Supporters Believe the Survivors?"
He says former "Save Our Children" voices now call survivors liars. He points to a Trump supporter's social media post calling recent survivors' testimony before Congress suspicious because it came late, calling the reversal a sign the original hashtag was "virtue signaling."
He argues the administration's own opacity is fueling suspicion of a cover-up. He cites an ongoing discharge-petition fight over unreleased files and says the material that was released was largely redacted versions of what was already public, which he says the administration brought on itself by not being as transparent as promised.
He says he will believe survivors regardless of political party. He frames the episode as protecting rich and powerful people at survivors' expense and calls it possibly the darkest current example of institutional failure in the US.
Mr. GlobalSave Our Children? #news #truth #trump #breakingnews
He accuses "Save the Children" users of abandoning the cause. He says the same people who used the hashtag in 2019–2020 are now accusing survivors of lying or being paid for political reasons, which he reads as proof the campaign was virtue signaling hijacked by QAnon rather than genuine concern.
Mr. GlobalSlavery Wasn’t That Bad? #news #truth #trump #breakingnews
A commenter argued American slavery "wasn't that bad." He quotes the claim that the historical record is exaggerated, comparing it to Hollywood's portrayal of the Wild West.
He rebuts that with figures on the scale of enslavement. He notes that at its peak, about 4 million of the country's roughly 31 million people — 12.5% — were enslaved, and argues the comparison undersells a practice involving imprisonment, beatings and rape.
A viewer asked why utility bills are forecast to rise a third to double this winter. He responds that this winter doesn't need to match last winter's cold for bills to be just as high, because electricity itself, especially delivery charges, is now structurally more expensive.
Underground natural gas inventory is reported roughly level with last year. He notes LNG exports are higher but so is production, which he calls a wash, leaving the starting position similar to last winter's.
He predicts bills similar to last winter if the forecast mild winter holds, worse if it doesn't. He says any regions with a cold winter will see high bills, and a broadly cold winter would be bad for everyone.
ConocoPhillips plans to cut up to 25% of its workforce. He reports the company confirmed layoffs after earlier rumors, estimating it at roughly 3,000 of the company's roughly 13,000 employees.
OPEC may raise production again just days after calling itself done. He notes OPEC is set to meet Sunday to discuss a further increase, despite having said only days earlier that there was no chance of more hikes.
Wall Street has punished Saudi Aramco's stock hardest among oil majors. He reads this as a sign OPEC is trying to recapture market share from American producers in the current low-price environment.
He argues the Ukraine war and weak dollar prop up oil prices. He frames OPEC's production strategy as deliberately targeting the American oil and gas industry.