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Authored by Rakesh Upadhyay via OilPrice.com,

OPEC’s worries about the booming U.S. oil production have increased significantly with the big three oil companies’ interest in shale. Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc, and Chevron Corp., are planning $10 billion of investments in shale in 2017, a quantum jump compared to previous years. All the naysayers who doubted the longevity of the shale oil industry may have to modify their forecasts.

In what is emerging as the latest headache for Donald Trump, a state-run Russian bank which has been under U.S. economic sanctions since 2014 disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and key policy adviser, during the 2016 election campaign. As reported previously, Kushner has been asked to discuss the contact, and a meeting during the same period with the Russian ambassador, with a Senate committee probing Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election.

The US Is Striving to Achieve a Nuclear First Strike Breakout Against Russia

The clear implication is that Washington intends a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia or
the threat of one with which to force Russia (and China) into vassalage.

As I have observed previously, we shouldn’t expect to live much longer, global warming or not.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/03/27/us-navy-prepares-decapitating-attack-against-russia.html

It looks like US forces are blocking the advance of the Syrian army in preparation for the partition of Syria. The likelihood of Raqqa being returned to Syria are looking slim as a US backed [...]

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

It's time to start planning for what we'll do when the current healthcare system implodes.