From Grok:

The “unprintable molecules” line comes straight from Jeff Currie (ex-Goldman, now Carlyle) & James Gutman.In their March 17 article “You Can’t Print Molecules”:

Paper futures ~$100/bbl
Physical Asia crude: $130–$170+
Refined products: $200+

Key quote: “You cannot borrow molecules from the future.”

You can print money & contracts.
You cannot print real hydrocarbon molecules.

Full piece: https://www.carlyle.com/carlyle-compass/you-cant-print-molecules

(Builds on their earlier “A Crude Awakening” report)

UPDATE

Chief Justice John Roberts, the person in charge of the Supreme Court of the United States, recently stepped forward with a familiar appeal, urging Americans to dial back personal attacks on judges and to show respect for the judiciary. The message landed with a tone of concern, almost paternal, as if the country had suddenly lost its bearings and needed a reminder about decorum.

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For nearly a decade, a steady stream of rulings from lower federal courts has blocked, delayed, or reshaped executive actions tied to President Donald Trump.

Judges like James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court, and Tanya Chutkan, U.S. district judge, both for the District of Columbia, have played central roles in high-profile cases involving Trump-era policies. Their decisions have drawn sharp reactions, not because people suddenly dislike judges, but because the rulings often carry clear political consequences.

Roberts has spent much of his tenure trying to protect the idea that judges operate above politics, saying more than once that there are no “Obama judges” or “Trump judges,” only independent jurists applying the law.

More…

History will look back at this time and see that Iran retaliates to attacks from Israel and the US. They state plainly that if you hit us in this sector, we will hit you in the same manner. Does this seem like an effective strategy for the US if Trump is looking for a ceasefire?

What is strange is that no one is discussing the consequences of this war. If a ceasefire was put in place today, the rebuilding of the destroyed infrastructure will take years to rebuild. Energy, fertilizer, real estate values, helium and chemical precursors for mining are a part of the resupply of the world’s global economy that is impacted. And yet, the powers that want this war seem to be fixated on a conflagration that will completely reshape the power and economic structure for the world.

This is not verified.

Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn’t want their intel used by “that vulgarian in the Oval Office” to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by — and never before reported upon comments by — analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree.”

There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies — China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — also played a role in 2020.

Please see the entire and comprehensive report here…

China is the problem. I’ve been saying this for years. Iran (or more specifically, the Iranian dictatorship) is their puppet, a puppet with some very sharp, venomous teeth based on the radical and evil cult of Islam. Note in the clip above the reference to Chinese social media troll farms. They are very, VERY good at this, and they clearly influence the mindset of nearly everyone in our country. When people say they no longer know who to believe, this is why. When people select one specific scapegoat to blame all of the problems on, this is because we have the natural desire to assign blame to a singular entity, because that is easier for our minds to deal with.

We must attempt to understand that many things can be true at the same time. Our enemies don’t want us to understand this, so a massive, and effective campaign of disinformation has been employed to distract us from who our enemy is.

Our primary enemy is our own deep state… they are communists. This deep state hates President Trump, so much that they slandered him in his first term, they stole the election from him in 2020, and they are trying to undermine him at every turn now. Since the deep state can’t possibly sow enough disinformation on their own, even with their allies in the media, they have to employ millions of communists in Chinese troll farms to support their arguments.

Communism is our enemy, and it has been for over 100 years. Communists are psychopaths. All of them. They seek to control everything, or destroy that which they cannot control. We are focusing our attention on Iran at the moment, but understand this is an effort to weaken our primary enemy, the CCP. Since a direct attack on China would be very expensive, both financially and in American lives, we have elected to dismember them one limb at a time. Venezuela was one limb, Cuba is another, and Iran is yet another. We must employ the same tactics against China that they employ against us. “If his forces are united, separate them.” Sun Tzu said this.

Everyone has their own agenda. Perhaps ours should be protecting and preserving our nation, using the best intel we can obtain, and disregarding the noise. I question what I read and see constantly, because I want to know the truth, not what someone else tries to convince me to believe is the truth. I also question my own conclusions, to try to determine if what I believe is reasonable, or if it is what has been hammered into me by an unending litany of propaganda. Is what I’m reading trying to cause me to hate someone, or to preserve that which I love?