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So let's fix three pieces in our brains:
▪ Before NAFTA passed, Bill Clinton, Pete Peterson and a raft of "pre-NAFTA economic studies" predicted one million new jobs, increased exports, and a lower trade deficit.
▪ After NAFTA passed, we lost one million jobs, increased imports, and increased the trade deficit by a factor of almost 5.
▪ Pro-NAFTA companies, who promised to create new jobs here, moved existing jobs abroad almost as soon as it was signed.
The third piece counts. Clinton claims to have been mistaken on free-trade policy (as opposed to having been knowingly complicit with the damage). But I can't imagine either Peterson or any American CEO didn't have the obvious stapled in front of them — that when it's cheaper to export jobs, you export jobs and pocket the cash. That NAFTA was going to be a gift of cash from the day it was conceived.

In other words, NAFTA was designed by its creators to export jobs, and "predictions" to the contrary were just propaganda.

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Really Frank? Maybe you should have sounded the alarm when conservatives consistently demeaned, insulted, and legislatively repressed gays, blacks, women, and poor people. Maybe declaring the future is so unimportant that we can ban the Environmental Protection Agency makes young people go hmm. Maybe, just maybe, when the average student loan debt crosses the $30,000 mark, people of college age decide that the Republican House, which chose tax cuts for corporations over increases to Pell Grants, is really truly not on their side.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/frank ... -gosh-darn
Maybe the problem isn't with young people, Frank Luntz. Maybe they are forming their political foundation at a time when being liberal is the most self-interested stand they can take. That should scare the crap out of conservatives. Reap what you sow.


The next NAFTA is called "TPP" (the Trans-Pacific Partnership), there's a trans-Atlantic version in the wings (called, TPIP), and Barack Obama is playing the Clinton game with both. He and his corporate-controlled friends are pushing for them, starting with TPP, hoping that a Republican Congress can give him what a Democratic Congress could not.

Of course they're promising "more jobs" again, but the deal itself and the negotiations are in secret, and they'll only allow a vote under "Fast Track" rules — no amendments, just an up-or-down vote. All of this to promote deceptively named "free trade," meaning freedom for the global holders of wealth to do whatever they want with it anywhere in the world.

Here's Alan Grayson on what "free trade" has done to America (my paragraphing):

Trade is a simple concept. You sell me yours, and I’ll sell you mine. That’s not what’s happening. What’s happening is that day after day, month after month, and year after year, Americans are buying goods and services manufactured by foreigners, and those foreigners are not buying goods and services manufactured by Americans.
We are creating millions — no — tens of millions of jobs in other countries with our purchasing power, and we are losing tens of millions of jobs in our country, because foreigners are not buying our goods and services.
What are they doing? They’re buying our assets. So we lose twice. We lose the jobs, and we are driven deeper and deeper into national debt – and, ultimately, national bankruptcy. That is the end game.
This is not free trade; it’s fake trade. We have fake trade. That’s why before NAFTA was enacted and went into effect, this country never had a trade deficit as much as $140 billion a year, while every single year since then — for 20 years now — we have had a trade deficit of over $140 billion a year. We have had a[n average annual] trade deficit of half a trillion dollars now, for the past 14 years.

Thanks to fake trade, right now, 1/7th of all the assets in this country — every business, every plot of land, every car – 1/7th of all the assets in the country are now owned by foreigners. And ultimately, if we keep going the way we’re going, they all will be.
That’s why we have the most unequal distribution of income [among all industrial nations] in our country, [and] the most unequal distribution of wealth in our history. We’re in a deep, deep hole. And there’s a simple rule about holes: When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Stop digging!
For a family or a nation, putting your assets for sale is the opposite of earning money. It's literally the road to financial ruin.

January to Date
Shot & Killed: 24 + 1 more
Shot & Wounded: 128 + 16 more
Total Shot: 152 + 15 more
Total Homicides: 24

chiraq

"Police don't show up until a half-hour later and the person's already dead. That's how it is around here." That's funny! Especially in light of the recent hamstringing of the CPD by the ACLU. And, what, the police were supposed to be there before the guy got shot??? Nothing like blaming the police...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

At least 15 people were wounded, one fatally, in shootings Saturday afternoon and evening on the South, West and Northwest sides, according to Chicago police. February 28, 2016, 4:19 AM

it will be special when the proles wake up...

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That’s a common trope among a certain well-paid class of Second Wave feminists. It’s become controversial, and for good reason, among a great many other feminists, particularly in the partly overlapping sets of women of color and women in the wage class. Listen to them, and you’ll hear at some length how they feel about being expected to help rich and influential women like Madeleine Albright pursue their goals, when they know perfectly well the favor won’t be returned in any way that matters.

What, after all, does a Clinton presidency offer the majority of American women, other than whatever vicarious thrill they might get from having a president with a vagina? The economic policies Clinton espouses—the current bipartisan consensus, from which she shows no signs of veering in the slightest—have already brought poverty and misery to millions of American women who don’t happen to share her privileged background and more than ample income. Her tenure as Secretary of State was marked by exactly the sort of hamfisted interventions in other people’s countries to which Democrats, once upon a time, used to object: interventions, please note, that have already been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere, and may yet—especially if Clinton takes the same attitudes with her into the White House—treat a good many American women to the experience of watching their kids come home in body bags from yet another brutal and pointless Mideast war.

Muslims divide the world into two: The ‘House of Islam’ (Dar ul Islam) and the ‘House of War’ (Dar ul Harb). We inhabit the ‘House of War.’ Therefore, we have to be conquered and brought into the ‘House of Islam.’ To them, until this happens, until we are conquered, they will be in a constant state of war with us.

[Life at the Bottom; by Theodore Dalrymple; Softcover; Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago; 2001; ISBN = 1-56663-505-5]

"A specter is haunting the Western world: the underclass.
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"The underclass is not poor, at least by the standards that have prevailed throughout the great majority of human history. It exists, to a varying degree, in all Western societies. Like every other social class, it has benefited enormously from the vast general increase in wealth of the past hundred years. In certain respects, indeed, it enjoys amenities and comforts that would have made a Roman emperor or an absolute monarch gasp. Nor is it politically oppressed: it fears neither to speak its mind nor the midnight knock on the door. Yet its existence is wretched nonetheless, with a special wretchedness that is peculiarly its own." (Page vii)

The modern British underclass are the spawn of the ideas of modern liberalism, which have infected the West to ever-increasing degrees since Immanuel Kant. For England, they reflect that poor country's internal intellectual rot and possible demise. For us in America, they reflect the fact that we are following England's course. We may have time to turn around; England may not.

This is not a happy book, although it is an excellent book. It cites copious evidence about what is the British underclass, how it differs from any prior British underclass in all of English history, and who caused it as well as how it was caused. It is such a good book, however, that it is almost impossible to put down, even on the second reading.

The British underclass consists of those at the bottom of the social-economic spectrum. However, they are unlike the "poor" anywhere in third world countries; they are first world products.

"…[H]aving previously worked as a doctor in some of the poorest countries in Africa, as well as in very poor countries in the Pacific and Latin America, I have little hesitation in saying that the mental, cultural, emotional, and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass is the greatest of any large group of people I have ever encountered anywhere." (Page viii)
Why do they exist? How did they come to be? Life at the Bottom provides the answers and in so doing becomes a monument attesting the incredible power of ideas--those producing and sustaining the underclass.
The behavior of the underclass comes from the ideas they hold and how they use them. Such patterns are "entirely self-destructive ones." They hold a characteristic Weltanschauung, or worldview, that makes them the source of their own misery.

Some examples include "locutions of passivity," meaning that they rationalize that things just "happen" to them, with the causative agents always outside themselves. They take no responsibility for anything. They are all victims, in their minds. Dishonesty, denial, and self-deception run rampant in their thinking. For example, when asked by Dr. Dalrymple, a man claimed that his psychopathy came from his "being easily led." Dr. Dalrymple asked him if he was ever easily led to study mathematics or the subjunctives of French verbs. The man quickly caught on. The underclass are passive and fatalistic; their speech reflects their need to see themselves as helpless, or as Dr. Dalrymple puts it, "They describe themselves as the marionettes of happenstance."

A murderer told Dr. Dalrymple that it was just his "bad luck" to be in prison for murder. He failed to grasp his own role in causing the murder. Similarly, other murderers, when explaining why they murdered, use expressions like "The knife went in." These are people who live in the abyss between the reversal of cause and effect and a lack of sense of causality at all.
Evasion is their most important mechanism, the willful suspension of thought, and Dr. Dalrymple breaks through their self-serving victimhood easily by asking obvious questions, ones that the other doctors avoid out of fear of political incorrectness.
In a particularly illuminating paragraph, Dr. Dalrymple explains the "psychobabble of the slums" by exposing one of the mental devices criminals use to deny that the good part of them (the Real Me) participates in crime. To them, they are the Real Me, i.e., the good me. The explanation that follows is pure Kant:
"The Real Me is has nothing to do with the phenomenal me, the me that snatches old ladies' bags, breaks into other people's houses, beats up my wife and children, or repeatedly drinks too much and gets involved in brawls. No, the Real Me is an immaculate conception, untouched by human conduct: it is that unassailable core of virtue that enables me to retain my self-respect whatever I do. What I am is not at all determined by what I do; and insofar as what I do has any moral significance at all, it is up to others to ensure that the phenomenal me acts in accordance with the Real Me." (Page 10)

(Future articles will elaborate on the cognitive profile of the underclass.)

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I went looking for Chris Monckton and can not find him. He is disappeared.

What is known is that the UN plans to make concrete steps toward a 2015 legally binding agreement to cap greenhouse gases that all nations would implement by 2020. Of course, it would not be equally applied to all nations; the UN language for such inequality is "common but differentiated."
It is noteworthy that like the 1997 Kyoto treaty that was to be implemented by 2012, after both Bill Clinton and Al Gore tenures, the 2020 deadline would be after Barak Obama's tenure.

The fervor with which global warming believers defend their impending doom scenario is similar to religious fervor, unshakeable belief. But in the realm of physical, human, scientific endeavors, normally scientists pride themselves on their commitment to considering all available information, and to making sure that all data fits with their theory, or else they reject that theory.

Really nobody has been able to call the markets well. And we shouldn't be too hard on most people, it's the job of money managers to find growth somewhere. Telling an investor to build a bunker doesn't make the money manager any money. So then we get into gold and silver and it is a hard time to tell people to invest in them because everyone always wants the hot investment. This herd mentality makes people lose more money than gain; no one ever actually buys low and sells high. I would say 99 out of 100 people buy high and sell low due to greed and fear. Greed and fear are the instincts that 99/100 people use on a daily basis whether it is investing or otherwise. So for people to be buying houses right now, for them to have gone long equity last year, I don't blame them. - Soul Glow[/quote]

rogue wave http://www.reuters.com/article/abengoa- ... SL8N1653ZL

Hes in the Caymans pass out with native chicks with the crowd source booty.

quantum particles spectrum may over write but you may be correct with --- Electric universe also make far more sense than dark matter ----

when/if you see quantum current cern particle problem you may reconsider, true but a few papers will be rounded up and will take some time.

As for the intellectual standoff in climate change Chris can "join" us to collect data anytime he desires that evolutionary skeptics step
since over 250,000 get the point on "Hegemonic Models" for the current dimmcrats in the cultural Marxist sand box.

The times does not excuse the condition.
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As we noted, I think some may remember Hadrian as seen from Aelius Spartianus point of view.

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"Those men whom he saw to be poor and innocent he enriched of his own accord,
but those who had become rich through sharp practice he actually regarded with hatred."

Selah

Half the country is left of center and half the country is right of center.

Damn straight on that note. We are stuck in the middle of both these construct creatures.

[Life at the Bottom; by Theodore Dalrymple; Softcover; Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago; 2001; ISBN = 1-56663-505-5]

He seen it coming also. The disease spread here is full frontal.

http://dailykenn.blogspot.de/

http://dailykenn.blogspot.de/2016/02/wo ... akbar.html

30,000 showed up at a Trump campaign rally in Madison, Ala.

Jack London 1905 : To return to my conversion. I think it is apparent that my rampant individualism was pretty effectively hammered out of me, and something else as effectively hammered in. But, just as I had been an individualist without knowing it, I was now a Socialist without knowing it, withal, an unscientific one. I had been reborn, but not renamed, and I was running around to find out what manner of thing I was. I ran back to California and opened the books. I do not remember which ones I opened first. It is an unimportant detail anyway. I was already It, whatever It was, and by aid of the books I discovered that It was a Socialist. Since that day I have opened many books, but no economic argument, no lucid demonstration of the logic and inevitableness of Socialism affects me as profoundly and convincingly as I was affected on the day when I first saw the walls of the Social Pit rise around me and felt myself slipping down, down, into the shambles at the bottom.

"If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace. "Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city."

"All lives matter," Trump said as the crowd booed those being led out. "We have to love everybody."

kay : People live in unnecessary poverty, they watched in dismay as they trained foreigners to do the jobs that were "outsourced", they see the quagmire of endless wars where America has no stake, they watched in horror when they elected politicians to clean up financial crimes, then the politicians, once elected, pissed on their legs.

Yeah, for sure, Trump supporters aren't giving "careful consideration of the issues" that matter to the criminals lodged in every crevice in this country, but they care about the country, not the narrow greed of the financial and media elite.

cro : It remains fact that the man is a true American in the sense that he loves this country.

Can you say the same for Hillary? Someone who has clearly served the Internationalist Agenda since day 1.
While I don't necessarily think he's "the answer to America's problems", I have yet to see a better candidate.
Call him "the shiniest turd in the pile".
He sure as shit knows more about job creation than Hillary, with her NAFTA pimping husband.

Sismondi became a clerk in a bank in Lyon, France, at age 16 and witnessed the unfolding of the French Revolution. To escape the Revolution’s spreading effects, he and his family went in 1794 to Tuscany, where they became farmers. Sismondi’s experiences and observations there resulted in Tableau de l’agriculture toscane (1801; Picture of Tuscan Agriculture). Living in his native Geneva from 1800 on, he became such a successful author of books and essays that he could decline offers of professorships.

Sismondi’s monumental 16-volume Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen âge (1809–18; History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages), which regarded the free cities of medieval Italy as the origin of modern Europe, inspired the leaders of that country’s Risorgimento (nationalist unification movement).

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After 1850 the protagonists of social reform, frequently exaggerating Sismondi's really limited faith in reform measures, rediscovered him and hailed him as a precursor. Today he is famous especially as a theorist of crises, whose ideas were taken over not only by his contemporaries Malthus and Rodbertus but under the disguise of Marxist terminology by such socialists as Heinrich Cunow, L. Boudin, Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg.
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http://pebblewriter.com/did-tptb-crash-oil/ tin foil to aluminum foil update

Latency of effect to crack up boom will ensue but not today..... Goes back to our political smoothing discussions....Sun Apr 20, 2014
thread May 21, 2014 : We will see more soon enough by the end of the year. Fixed commodity contracts will expire for some cluster groups for the next few years and the transition will entail convertibility letter of credit with energy margin supply chains movements into 2018 -2020.

background: Manchester Liberalism

Relations with Bismarck:
Otto von Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia, as he appeared in the 1860s.
On 11 May 1863 Otto von Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia, initiated written correspondence with Lassalle. The Bismarck-Lassalle correspondence was discovered only in 1927 and is therefore not mentioned by earlier biographical works. A hand-written note was delivered to Lassalle personally, and the pair met face-to-face within 48 hours thereafter. This proved to be the first of several such meetings, during which Bismarck and Lassalle freely exchanged views on matters of common concern.
Bismarck was pressed by Social Democratic representative August Bebel in the Reichstag in September 1878 to provide details about his relationship with the by then long-deceased Lassalle, prompting the Chancellor to make an extended statement:
I saw him, and since my first conversation I have never regretted doing so. ...I saw him perhaps three or four times altogether. There was never the possibility of our talks taking the form of political negotiations. What could Lassalle have offered me? He had nothing behind him.... But he attracted me as an individual. He was one of the most intelligent and likable men I had ever come across. He was very ambitious and by no means a republican. He was very much a nationalist and a monarchist. His ideal was the German Empire, and here was our point of contact. As I have said he was ambitious, on a large scale, and there is perhaps room for doubt as to whether, in his eyes, the German Empire ultimately entailed the Hohenzollern or the Lassalle dynasty.... Our talks lasted for hours and I was always sorry when they came to an end.

The question is observed as what does Sismondi's theory that the home market shrinks with the development of capitalism amount to?
I seen this real time and so have you reading this today. Many never read it until 1963 on these shores.
We will see what transitory effect really elates into. Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:33 pm
Australian deal went through. Will forward last date to measures seen then.

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"First They Come For The iPhones..."

thread notes: Works: Histoire des républiques italiennes au moyen âge, 16 vols. (Zurich and Paris 1807-18; new ed., 10 vols., Paris 1840-41; abridged ed. as Histoire de la renaissance de la liberté en Italie, 2 vols., Paris 1832), tr. as A History of the Italian Republics (London 1832; reprinted in Everyman's Library, London 1907); Histoire des Français, 31 vols. (Paris 1821-44, abridged ed. as Precis de l'histoire des Francais, 2 vols., Paris 1838, and a third volume by E. Robinet, 1844); De la littérature du midi de l'Europe, 4 vols. (Paris 1813; 4th ed., 2 vols., Brussels 1837), tr. by Thomas Roscoe as Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe, 2 vols. (4th ed. London 1853); Etudes sur les sciences sociales, 3 vols. (Paris 1836-38).
Consult: Sails, Jean R. de, Sismondi, 1773-1842; Bibliotheque de la Revue de Litterature Comparée, vol. lxxvii, 2 vols. (Paris 1932); Aftalion, Albert, L'oeuvre économique de Simonde de Sismondi (Paris 1899); Grossman, Henryk, Simonde de Sismondi et ses théories économiques, Warsaw, Bibliotheca Universitatis Liberae Polonae, no. 11 (Warsaw 1924); Tuan, Mao-Lan, Simonde de Sismondi as an Economist, Columbia University, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, no. 298 (New York 1927); Festy, O., "Sismondi et la condition des ouvriers français de son temps" in Revue d'économie politique, vol. xxxii (1918) 46-72, 119-36; Lenin, V. I., "K kharakteristike ekonomicheskogo romantizma" (Characteristics of economic romanticism) in his Sochineniya, vol. ii (2nd rev. ed. Moscow 1926) p. 9-115; Jeandeau, René, Sismondi, précurseur de la législation sociale contemporaine (Bordeaux 1913); Pellegrini, Carlo, II Sismondi e la storia delle letterature dell' Europa meridionale, Biblioteca dell' Archivum romanicum, 1st ser., vol. vii (Geneva 1926); Gooch, G. P., History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (London 1913) p. 165-68.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7zhZmcwwLM wake up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMByTQX6eA8 go back to sleep

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-0 ... berate-act

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMByTQX6eA8 go back to sleep

In today's politics, all ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. ... Purple Drank

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=32803

As we noted earlier concepts adapt to the same results...

"higher social values" as we discussed earlier and the date on that program....

Now here is the other side of the coin and the current press release today from the sierra club.
To punish all for the one. This was in direct context for a CO2 pipe to be constructed since we have already been the crash test dummy on
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over 680000 drill sites filled with toxic frack materials.

Gas industry funding highlights Sierra Club hypocrisy:
For immediate release: [TRIANGLE, VA.] United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today: “The admission by the Sierra Club that it took $26 million from the natural gas industry to fund its long running anti-coal campaign explains a lot. Now we know why this so-called ‘independent’ organization has been such an advocate for another form of fossil fuel and against using cutting-edge technology that would make using coal to generate electricity just as clean as natural gas. “The Sierra Club used secret gas industry funding to actively work to suppress the building of hundreds of next-generation coal-fired power plants across the country, plants which would significantly reduce emissions of mercury and other harmful substances. “By doing so, the Sierra Club was able to continue to point to the higher emissions levels from aging plants that were not being replaced like they were supposed to be, which played into the false notion that coal can’t be used cleanly. “But this campaign also means that the very people the Sierra Club says it wants to help will continue to be exposed to higher levels of mercury and other emissions – levels that would not occur if the new generation of coal-fired plants are built. “They’ve cynically put people at risk for years to come with this campaign, and made themselves little more than tools of an energy industry competitor in the bargain. Let’s get real here: Just like any business, the gas companies are about selling gas, period. And they will gladly funnel cash to any organization that will help them do it. “If the Sierra Club really wanted to make a long-term, positive impact for our nation’s energy future, it would support all potential ways to generate electricity cleanly and in a carbon-neutral way. The next generation of clean-burning coal-fired power plants, combined with the wide-spread deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, is one of those. “Instead of merely being a knee-jerk shill for a competing industry, the Sierra Club would do well to take a step toward joining with those of us who seek not just a cleaner, but also a more stable and secure long-term energy future for our children and grandchildren.”

Let us not be naive on the preference .gov exports list.
Keynes also made the following clear and unequivocal declarations:
I believe the future lies with,
1.State trading for commodities;
2.International cartels for necessary manufactures; and
3.Quantitive import restrictions for nonessential manufactures.
Yet all these future instrumentalities for orderly economic life in the future you seek to outlaw.
Everybody know's what is going on. The STFU money to Sierra Club did its work for gas and the Hill. Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:38 pm

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U.S. electric power generators consumed 740 million tons of coal in 2015, fueling about one-third of total electric power generation and accounting for 92% of all coal consumed in the United States. Nearly 70% of all coal used by power plants to generate electricity was shipped either completely or in part by rail. The rest was transported by waterway, truck, or—for power plants located near a coal mine—by conveyor.

The distribution of coal transit modes varies from year to year. Factors that can affect both the amount and type of coal used by power plants include the adjustment of coal requirements by plant operators, the installation of flue gas desulfurization units that widens the range of coals a plant is able to burn, and changes in regional coal prices.
Although coal consumption in the electric power sector decreased 18% from 2008 (when U.S. coal production peaked) to 2014, the share of coal shipments made either exclusively or in part by rail has remained near 70%. Over this same period, the share of coal shipments made by river barge increased from 7% to 12%. This increase in barge traffic coincides with the growth of coal produced in the Illinois Basin, which relies on shipments along the Ohio River and its tributaries for a significant portion of its production. Shipments made by nonriver barge waterways, slurry pipeline, tidewater piers, and coastal ports (labeled as other modes in the graph above) fell from 7% to 1%. Decreases in coal transportation by these modes can be attributed to increases in the transport costs of these methods, as well as the retirement of many generating facilities that received coal by these methods.

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=25092

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Gazprom calculated its prices using a formula the Lithuanians said was unintelligible. A copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal showed a 773-word formula with multiple sub-clauses.
The result, according to Lithuanian officials, was one of the highest gas bills in Europe. In the first half of 2013, industrial buyers paid an average of 44 euro cents, or $0.47, per kilowatt-hour for Gazprom gas. Businesses in the U.K., which has its own gas reserves, paid 35 euro cents, EU data show.

Mantas Bartuska awaits a tanker to pass a narrow inlet on the Baltic Sea with the first natural gas shipments from the Gulf Coast that many hope will transform Europe’s energy market.

The red curtains and red tapes wars have just began....

The first major U.S. exports left Wednesday from Sabine Pass, a terminal built on a patch of Louisiana swampland.
That completes the picture: unintelligent, uneducated, unprofessional, liars. The xxxxxx disgust with the xxxxxx leaders is total.
And that caps the observation when xxxxxxx cannot compete it descends to move the attack to the bad idea department of propaganda.

The US was or still is the largest consumer market in the world, but when the globalists hit the US in the knees with a sledge hammer repeatedly for decades by moving jobs to other countries...well, you know the rest.
"Those jobs aren't coming back." turned into "Those consumers aren't coming back."

And why we have some can assets --- No, I am not confused. Total Tier 1 Capital for all Canadian banks combined is 600 Billion. You see, while you have been busy printing money, screwing your neighbors, snorting lines and generally making pigs of yourselves we have been busy doing what we always do, saving and making sure we still have a roof over our heads and food to eat.

Canadian banks have always said their total exposure to oil and gas loans was 100 Billion so that isn't any big surprise. Next, the total capitalization of all 5 big banks exceeds 5 Trillion CAD so 100B is what, 2% of capital? This is a non-story.

Working for vampires does not excuse the effects of reality.