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Chinese National Indicted In Florida For Allegedly Importing Deadly New Synthetic Opioid Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Chinese national has been indicted by the federal authorities in Florida for his alleged role in a plot to import and distribute large quantities of a new synthetic opioid, protonitazene, which is “significantly more potent than fentanyl,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a May 11 statement. An undated image of nitazene tablets in the hand of a police officer in Australia. (Australian...

First Valero Refinery, Now Largest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline Damaged In Georgia Colonial Pipeline's Line 1, the largest U.S. gasoline pipeline running from Houston toward the East Coast, has halted operations after a third-party work crew damaged a section of the line in Georgia. Bloomberg reported that the line stopped shipping fuel after the damage occurred on Tuesday in Paulding County, Georgia. "Line 1 is out of service while our team coordinates response and repair efforts," Colonial said in a statement cited by the outlet. The outage hits a critical fuel artery that...

Is The Iran War Good For The Petrodollar? Diana Choyleva wrote an excellent editorial for the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Iran War Is A Boon For The Petrodollar.” She pushes back against claims that the Iran conflict is accelerating the death of the petrodollar. Instead, RealInvestmentAdvice.com points out that she argues the opposite: between Iran and Venezuela, the U.S. is defending and bolstering dollar dominance in the oil trade. The 75-year-old petrodollar system rests on oil being priced and traded in dollars, which keeps the dollar prominent in all global trade. China has...