world news update

comment     11-28-18

US Federal Government subsidies per barrel of energy equivalent produced in 2010 were as follows*:

1. Coal: $0.36
2. Oil & Gas: $0.45
3. Hydro: $0.49
4. Nuclear: $1.72
5. Geothermal: $7.63
6. Bio-mass/Fuel: $10.39
7. Wind: $31.39
8. Solar: $52.30

I last looked up this same information in early 2016 on the US Department of Energy Website. They had the figures for 2014 and the rankings were the same and the individual subsidy numbers had not changed appreciably. The 2017 subsidy numbers should also be available on the DOE site should anyone want to do the research. 

*Twenty-First Century Snake Oil, Captain. T. A. ‘Ike’ Kiefer, WICI Occasional Paper no. 4, January 2013, page 32      https://wolfstreet.com/2018/11/28/whats-behind-the-us-saudi-nuclear-mega-deal/   

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12-1-18  

-Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. diplomat (for 27 years), said the administration should tell Mohammed bS, the country’s de facto ruler, to seek a cease-fire with Iran and the Houthi rebels, perhaps offering Pompeo as a broker.

Mohammed bS “is causing a lot of trouble for the U.S.,” Burns said, referring to Khashoggi, Yemen and Qatar, which Saudi Arabia is leading an embargo against and where it is threatening to dig a canal that would turn the peninsula nation into an island.  “Trump should lean on him to stop the damage he is doing to us,” he said.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pompeo-and-mattis-criticized-for-defending-us-alliance-with-saudi-arabia/2018/11/30/2bc22a84-f416-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.c4edc6a3cbbe

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11-11-18    Russian opposition leader

Alexei Navalny has been stopped at the border and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France.

Mr Navalny said in a blog post on Tuesday that he was due to attend a hearing at the ECHR which is expected to rule if his countless detentions have been politically motivated.  He was stopped by border guards and told that a ruling by court bailiffs (:Putin) has barred him from leaving Russia.      https://home.bt.com/news/world-news/opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-banned-from-leaving-russia-11364309841044

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12-1-18   Putin at press conference G20--cuts off questions

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72pnhb8tQY