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More on why drill, baby, drill ain't happening, at least this year. American producers aren’t looking now to boost supply, and likely won’t be enticed to “drill, baby drill” until prices reach an average $84 per barrel, which is close to 15 percent above current prices, according to the Kansas City Federal Reserve. U.S. crude prices fell close to an additional 2 percent on Tuesday as U.S. tariffs on China took effect and China imposed a 10 percent tax on American crude oil. But Trump is nevertheless looking to lower prices. After a phone call last month with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he said that he planned to ask him to lower oil prices. The president called on all OPEC countries to do the same in a recent speech at The World Economic Forum at Davos. Trump argued that it would put pressure on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine as its income from oil would sink amid the dropping prices, making the war too expensive. But that’s not likely to happen, according to Business Insider, and wouldn’t please American producers who would also have to compete with lower prices. OPEC members have held back output in the past two years to increase market prices amid oil’s price slide, but is expected to gradually roll back production curbs. Whatever OPEC does, analysts expect a major supply glut to weigh down prices through 2025, according to the Insider.

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"Trump got played. Canada *already* has 8,500 frontline personnel at the border," wrote former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. "We also announced the $1.3 billion in December. lol," replied Canadian journalist Jordan Heath-Rawlings.

He doesn't know what he is doing,lol. President Donald Trump spoke to reporters from the Oval Office on Monday about his trade tariffs and his talk with Canadian and Mexican leadership. It started when he asked a staffer which executive order he was signing. Then he was bombarded with questions including what he thought of markets tanking after he announced tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China over the weekend, and about Elon Musk's closing of the office housing the U.S. Agency of International Development. He was also questioned over Musk's accessing the personal data of government employees. Those who watched couldn't help but ridicule as the president struggled to answer — and they fact-checked his statements. Journalist Aaron Rupar called out a Trump claim that 300,000 Americans die annually from fentanyl overdoses — even though Trump's own executive order on tariffs to China cites 75,000 deaths from the drug. "This is a lie," he wrote. "Trump is again doing that weird thing where he signs executive orders that need to be explained to him just before he signs them," pointed out Rupar. On tariffs, policy director Ned Resnikoff pointed out on BlueSky, "Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion." And on Musk's activities, legal analyst Bradley Moss said it's clear: "He has no idea what Elon is doing. He let loose Elon to go wild." Ex-conservative columnist Jen Rubin replied, "Musk is running the government. Trump is a feeble figurehead." "Donald Trump just criticized the existing trade deal, and asked, "Who the hell came up with some of these trade deals?" I'll just leave this here," wrote author and activist Majid M. Padellan, better known as BrooklynDad on X. The screen capture he posted showed Trump was the one who signed the "new NAFTA" trade deal during his first term. Trump, dumb as a rock.

The ignore button can be a blessed relief.

Well,well,well

The unpredictability and hostility of the US under Trump to both allies and adversaries could lead to the formation of new alliances. "Trump sows uncertainty - and Xi Jinping sees an opportunity - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xj7j719jo

More good news Pro-Russia paramilitary leader killed in Moscow blast - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rqj171zzvo Link added by Admin

Canadian reaction.

An interesting article on Denmark's long relationship with Greenland, and what the Greenlanders hope for in the future. Denmark vs the US: What Greenland really wants - BBC News https://search.app/xKkhNiKbe3tmFxsw7

Thaksin'a idea of important legislation is legalise casinos, political control of the central bank and anything that benefits his family and associates. He has no interest in genuine reform of the education system, military and civil service. He realised way back before his exile that if he could win enough upcountry provinces with populist policies, he would have enough votes to form a government and could ignore the cities, middle class and more educated populace. In the past when he was PM, Thailand was sometimes called a police state because he controlled so much of the media. Newspapers that criticized him were starved of state advertising, many, many journalists were sued, he used his wealth to persecute any opposition. He is an authoritarian who has no genuine interest in Thailand becoming a more meritocratic, what you know rather than who you know, society,

American booze taken off Canadian shelves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqjvg82lg4yt?post=asset%3Ae8ea9bf5-a89a-49a1-9784-035b889c55c8#post

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/31/us/dc-plane-crash-victims

'You're losing': Onlookers blast 'dumb' Trump as he officially 'launches a trade war' Various comments on Trump's move. Economic policy expert Brian Riedl said, "When the international community wants to hammer an enemy's economy, it isolates that economy by imposing a trade embargo. Only the U.S. government is dumb enough to impose a trade embargo on itself." Journalist S.V. Dáte said, "Donald Trump announcing here that he has increased taxes on Americans by $297 billion a year." Journalist Josh Marshall said, " I can only imagine what this does to industries which have been designed to work back and forth across US-CA-MEX border like the auto industry." Economist Marc Lévesque: "So, it's official. Trump has just violated the Canada-US-Mexico Free Trade agreement that he himself signed."

Trudeau says that less than 1% of the fentanyl flowing into the US comes from Canada. "Trump Calls Canada a Big Player in the Fentanyl Trade. Is It? - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/canada/canada-fentanyl-trump.html

"Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627nx42xelo

So what's your definition of an American?

51% is not a landslide.

Blimey, Trump scraped in with 51% of the vote and you're calling that a definition of an American?

Do you really think Thailand is a democratic country?

Tell me how many applicants suffering from the disabilities you mention have been actually hired to be air traffic controllers? And why haven't there been countless accidents as blind and deaf air traffic controllers miss planes? lol