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KYli said:

So the US has no problem of giving a free pass to India and Saudi as human rights, genocide, or other authoritarian violation can be overlooked. However, the US is so concerned about the plight of Muslims, Christians, or political activists in China to impose sanctions. That's why only morons would buy this kind of nonsense of rules based international liberal order but there are so many morons in the world.

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We can't all be an angry cynics you know...
So-called (typical) "human rights" were only respected in America for maybe the last 40 years or less.
The Flying Tigers general was technically illegally married to his Chinese wife (anti-miscegenation law) in Louisiana. So really, what is this "long history of respecting human rights"?

KYli said:

Can we call Texas an authoritarian state now?

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It isn't just Texas
Florida has instituted an election police that is destroying lives (disproportionately affects Blacks, so basically a cultural genocide)

North Carolina is allowing the ruling party to redraw districts to keep themselves in power (I guess they were inspired by NPC electing Xi to a 3rd term)

supersnoop said:

We can't all be an angry cynics you know...
So-called (typical) "human rights" were only respected in America for maybe the last 40 years or less.
The Flying Tigers general was technically illegally married to his Chinese wife (anti-miscegenation law) in Louisiana. So really, what is this "long history of respecting human rights"?



It isn't just Texas
Florida has instituted an election police that is destroying lives (disproportionately affects Blacks, so basically a cultural genocide)

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North Carolina is allowing the ruling party to redraw districts to keep themselves in power (I guess they were inspired by NPC electing Xi to a 3rd term)

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Xi only had to change the constitution once to stay in power indefinitely. US government may need to change the constitution indefinitely to keep raising debt ceiling.

FriedButter said:

Following the news, Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, posted three fire emojis on his Telegram channel without any commentary, but deleted the post shortly after.

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Elensky Advisor saying the drone attack could only have been done by an “local underground resistance” group. Sounds just like that completely zero involvement in the border raid until the far right nazi said the Ukrainians equipped them.

eprash said:

Probably pocketed it themselves It's all going bananas anyway, they're seriously considering minting a trillion dollar coin right now you only saw stuff like that in countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela

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I know is not the same but for somehow reminds me of this.

siegecrossbow said:

It will become a theocratic authoritarian state very soon. Still better than liberal failed states like California or New York where they have to put locks on cans of spam though, at least until Chinese Americans have to go camping.

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Back in the 70s and early 80s, you got the bulletproof service windows for banks, restaurants and convenient stores. It is only after the downfall of SU that things got better. Now the good old days of 90s and 00s had run its course.

As for major or violent crimes, most southern states claimed to be safer but that is just not entirely true. They might have highest incarcerated rate but crime rate is still very high.

The biggest issue in the US is police corruption. When Italy, Jew, Chinese and black mafia got busted in the early 90s, all crimes go down significantly in NYC to this day even after so many mess up with those libertards in the Cityhall but crime rate is still way better now than back then.

The second issue is the US only knows to incarcerate but not rehabilitate and tackle extreme poverty. You got all those southern states that put all those bad guys in jails but the system is so bad that more bad guys would emerge in no time.

PacWest Is Weighing Strategic Options, Including Possible Sale​

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, a regional bank teetering following the collapse of three rival lenders, has been weighing a range of strategic options, including a sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

PacWest tumbled 44% at 4:52 p.m. in late New York trading. The shares had slumped 28% on Tuesday as investors retreated from regional bank stocks following JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s deal on Monday for the failed First Republic Bank. PacWest, which has lost about 85% of its value since the beginning of March, has a market value of about $772 million.

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Weekly Sunday bank firesale. If the US 创造条件 now maybe Yellen can get a meeting in Beijing before the big four are the only banks left in the US.

FriedButter said:

lensky Advisor saying the drone attack could only have been done by an “local underground resistance” group. Sounds just like that completely zero involvement in the border raid until the far right nazi said the Ukrainians equipped them.

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if some body say some thing it does not mean its true. IF Zelensky was far right Putin would not even attacked him.
Zelensky is much closer to this person than Likud.

Snowballing effect.

pmc said:

Those expenses are included in running the show. They have so much production but profit multiplication is far less than Exxon. infact Saudi usually sell over the brent price. That benchmark is already higher than North American.

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Saudi selling over Brent have the quality of their oil built in. They actually have like 10 different blends they sell, not everything is over Brent. You should check oil price.com

PiSigma said:

Saudi selling over Brent have the quality of their oil built in. They actually have like 10 different blends they sell, not everything is over Brent. You should check oil price.com

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This size of capital expenditure is only $12b difference when production volume is 1/7 of Armaco. or you think that avg salary of Armaco higher than Exxon? that make profits lower for Aramco.
With lower costs and higher volume. Armaco profits should be 7 times not 3 times.

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The corporate plan through 2027 maintains annual capital expenditures at $20-$25 billion, while growing lower-emissions investments to approximately $17 billion.​

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Aramco has embarked on the largest capital spending program in its history, and last year our capex rose by 18.0% to reach $37.6 billion.
In 2022, Aramco’s average hydrocarbon production was 13.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (mmboed), including 11.5 million barrels per day (mmbpd) of total liquids.

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