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Gulf Energy Shock Spreads To Global Plastics As War Sparks Force Majeure Wave
Gulf Energy Shock Spreads To Global Plastics As War Sparks Force Majeure Wave
Building on our earlier "Global Demand Destruction" note, which mapped how the Gulf energy shock is spreading globally and the immediate effects of rationing, price controls, and fuel shortages, another second-order disruption is quickly emerging: supply chain disruptions in critical plastic feedstocks.
Plastics are core to the modern economy, and a troubling new Bloomberg report indicates that several producers of monoethylene glycol (MEG) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) have declared force majeure, as tanker flows through the Strait...
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9/11, Anwar Al-Awlaki, And Our Unanswered Questions
9/11, Anwar Al-Awlaki, And Our Unanswered Questions
Authored by Patrick Pillow via The Libertarian Institute,
In 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided "full funding" for one Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki for studies in civil engineering at Colorado State University.
There was only one problem: the USAID document listed his birthplace as Sana'a, Yemen. Awlaki was actually born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, an inaccuracy which federal security agent Ray Fournier and The New York Times describe as being done in an attempt to qualify for scholarship money.
Awlaki returned to...
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May 1, 2026 / Tyler Durden
AfD Vows To Drain 'NGO Swamp' After Berlin Café That Bans White People Received Taxpayer Cash
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Starmer Vows UK Won't Be Drawn Into Wider War In Middle East, Hormuz Crisis 'Not A Simple Task'
Starmer Vows UK Won't Be Drawn Into Wider War In Middle East, Hormuz Crisis 'Not A Simple Task'
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to President Trump on Sunday night, with Starmer on Monday describing that the two leaders discussed events "in the way that you would expect between two allies and two leaders" and he had a "good relationship" with the US president.
His articulation of an apparently positive and frank talk comes while he trying to dismiss suggestions the relationship with Britain's key ally had been damaged due to...
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