News are called foreign agents as many of you surely know fire is currently consuming large swaths of america some cities in california and oregon have had dark orange or red skies in the middle of the day due to the ash in the air you know if a few years ago someone had had asked me how will we know were in a dystopian hell hole i would. Win both the president and the sky or orange and the outdoors taste like burning while were here were here meanwhile in other states like utah are the wins this is real video have been so strong theyre blowing over mack trucks in the middle of the highways. Then of course there is the fact that there were just 5 hurricanes active in the Atlantic Ocean i had one then there are tens. Or where last week the temperature went from over 100 degrees fahrenheit to snowing in the span of one day. And stuff to say which just hope in future we have now reached maybe it resembles blade runner or the black cloud from the movie the road or or maybe the matrix futur
From the internet and mckibben said that despite how the film portrays him he hasnt supported the incredibly hard full practices of like bio mass the act of cutting down all the trees and burning them he says for those in years and years. Well Maj Blumenthal of the gray zone did a deep dive into all this and he found that less than 0 week after the nation published josh foxs attack on Michael Moore and planet of the humans the nation editor in chief hosted in a vet with mckibben there was sponsored by a fund with Major Investments in several of wood to energy bio Mass Companies called Domini Impact Investments the fund claims to hold investments in 68 companies that both impact forests and depend on them whether for forest derived products or Ecosystem Services ones to dominate holding is a wood to Energy Company called the rest go which builds a large utility scale bio mass to Energy Plants according to its website now this is the actual ad for the event with mckibben and theres the d
That company is the saudio oil giant saudi aramco, and its feeling the effects of lower oil prices, lower than expected demand from china, and thinner Profit Margins for refining oil. Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, lot of money by anyone s metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period. So i put it to our middle east Business Cor
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