With Obama restricting oil production on US federal lands even more in all 50 states, Texas wildcaters are frustrating his war on fossil fuels like the road runner vs the coyote cartoon.
We all know oil production in Texas has soared in recent years. But putting the rise in graphic form shows just how phenomenal the energy turnaround has been: The surge looks exponential.
In March, Texas oil production reached its highest level since 1984. That month, the Lone Star State pumped more than 74 million barrels of crude from the ground, which means if Texas were a country, it would be one of the 15 largest oil producers in the world.
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To put Texas oil production in perspective, Perry compared it to North Dakota, the nations No. 2 oil-producing state. In November, Texas produced almost three times as much oil as North Dakota, home to the productive Bakken Shale.
As soon as the NSA digests this article, Champ will take credit for increasing domestic oil production.
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unfortunately, there is a danger that Texas is ramping up govt spending faster than it should (and mainly on education)
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The main reason the Champ has been unable to cripple Texas' oil production (thus far)is that there is very little federal land in Texas. When Texas joined the Union it retained its public lands as a condition of annexation.
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That was a long time ago. We were all much younger then. Champ will just nationalize them to protect the rare Flattened Armadillo.
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I thought as much, seeing the changes over the past few years as we drove south from San Antonio for book events in Goliad and Beeville. A good few years ago, many of the little towns along the roads we took were practically ghost towns - lots of boarded-up storefronts. But now they are thriving, with lots of new construction - and on the outskirts, man-camps and new RV parks, which have nothing to do with the snowbirds from northern states. Wells and new plants all over ... and acquaintances in Goliad told us last year there were families getting substantial checks for mineral rights who had been just barely scraping by, before. And the traffic in and out of the local courthouses, of people researching ownership and leases, was a like a six-lane urban highway at rush hour.
I'd just as soon the money I pay for gas go to Texans than into a terrorist-sponsoring hell-hole like Saudi Arabia.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] HALF a million more immigrants have flooded into Britannia from other European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries than officials previously admitted, research revealed last night.
The hidden influx, overwhelmingly from Eastern Europe, is equivalent to the population of a city the size of Manchester.
Are they blowing up stuff? Having elebenteen children while on the dole? Gaming the benefits plan? Hacking soldiers in the street?
No? Golly gee, explain to me why they're bad then...
It means the UK admitted four million EU migrants in just 13 years -- believed to be the biggest immigration surge in the country's history.
Kinda like being hit by Ostrogoths from one side, while the Vandals and Huns are showing up on the other.
The revelation triggered furious allegations that the "astonishing" true scale of border control failure under the previous Labour government was covered up.
The row erupted after pressure group MigrationWatch UK published new analysis of the national population census.
Figures showed that the number of people born in other EU countries living in the UK soared by about four million between 1997 and 2010.
Previous population figures published by the Office for National Statistics had estimated that 3.4 million EU immigrants arrived here over that period.
MigrationWatch chairman Sir Andrew Green said: "Four million immigrants in 13 years is an astonishing figure -- the highest in our history, including the Norman Conquest in 1066.
"This new information underlines the scale of the task faced by the present government in getting the numbers down."
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For crying-out-loud, Brittania is an island. Shouldn't be that difficult to control the immigrants unless they have spineless politicians too.
Massive hike in rents.
Massive pressure on wages.
Rise in problems for schools with kids who cant speak English
Problems for hospitals.
Problems on infrastructure from sheer numbers.
Social problems for older British people left behind in swamped areas.
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It means the UK admitted four million EU migrants in just 13 years -- believed to be the biggest immigration surge in the country's history.
Probably true for the United Kingdom. However, the Saxon migrations following the withdraw of Rome basically overran the island other than Wales and the lads up North. Proportionately in relative population, probably a bigger influx. We ain't speaking an evolved form of Anglo-Saxon for nothing.
[Washington Post] A Russian court wrapped up the trial of a dead man Thursday, finding whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky guilty of fraud but waiving a sentence on the grounds that his life ended while he was imprisoned nearly four years ago. Might as well have given him the death sentence. Though, now they have a conviction they'll go after his estate for "restitution."
Magnitsky was a lawyer who unearthed a $230 million fraud by police and tax officials, but he was arrested and charged with perpetrating the fraud himself. He died in a Moscow prison in 2009, apparently after a severe beating. "Authoritarian" isn't the same as "totalitarian," no more than mashed potatoes is the same as a cheeseburger. Like mashed potatoes and cheeseburgers, the end result is the same.
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That's when I wanna be convicted for all my crap....
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The bulletin says the FBI had moderate confidence that Los Zetas likely will pose a higher national security threat to the U.S., based on demonstrated capabilities for violence, their recent killings of U.S. citizens, increased kidnappings of U.S. citizens on both sides of the border, and their continued participation in the U.S. drug trade.
According to the FBI, Los Zetas:
Made contact with the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang and tasked its members to collect debts, carry out hits and traffic drugs into and through Laredo, Texas.
Tried to recruit U.S. gang members in Houston to join Los Zetas war against the Gulf Cartel on both sides of the border.
Was buying AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles from the Tango Blast, a Houston-based street gang.
Had contacted the McAllen, Texas-based Los Piojos drug gang to purchase vehicles for Los Zetas members through thefts, carjackings and auto auctions in Texas.
Have actually seen a young hispanic girl in a piece of crap old white station wagen, pull up to a drive through window at a bank in Texas, withdraw $100,000.00 in cash, then head South for the border. So much for border security, so much for Homeland Security. Cash is king and corruption is rampant regarding this crap.
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Known for mounting the severed heads of its rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies from bridges
The FBI says there are now 1.4 million gang members involved in the 33,000 different gangs that are active inside the United States. The number of gang members in the U.S. has increased by 40 percent since 2009.
1. There are plenty of gangs in the U.S. for Los Zetas to approach. Many may not be friendly and would view Los Zetas as rivals and threats to turf.
2. Doubt that U.S. citizens will tolerate many heads on pikes or dismembered bodies hanging from brides before something is done about it.
3. If the feds share info with cities' police forces, many cities have able anti-gang and terrorism units. We didn't see this kind of info-sharing prior to the Boston bombings.
4. If DOJ aggressively enforces RICO and anti-gang laws, these laws can put a crimp in gang activity. One shouldn't get too excited, however, since officials in Mexico are still being killed with Fast and Furious weapons.
[AnNahar] The Turkish central bank sold $200 million dollars on Wednesday, market sources said, in a renewed fight to hold up the value of the lira.
The central bank has been selling dollars since Monday when it announced urgent and "strong" action to defend the currency and contain overheated bank lending.
In afternoon trading on Wednesday, the lira was being quoted at 1.9456 to the dollar.
It had been traded at 1.9498 on Tuesday, after falling on Monday to a record low level of 1.9740 immediately before the central bank announced its new measures.
On Wednesday the central bank sold $200 million in two auctions -- $50 million and $150 million, and opened the third for $150 million.
The bank had begun its intervention on the foreign exchange market by selling $2.25 billion on Monday.
It said it would pursue the new measures for as long as the lira was under pressure.
But market analysts were immediately skeptical that this policy, which involves using up foreign currency reserves, would be enough to shore up the lira for long and avert an increase in official short-term interest rates.
They said that the main factor putting the lira under pressure was the prospect that the U.S. Federal Reserve bank would begin to wind down its special injections of money to stimulate the U.S. economy.
This had caused an outflow of some risk investment funds from emerging economies, and the Turkish lira had been hit particularly hard, they said.
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...As long as they're manuals or what we called 'TEMPEST-shielded' electrics. If they're just standard, off-the-shelf electrics, they will give off signals that can be read and turned into readable documents. I had an unpleasant experience with TEMPEST many years ago that had me convinced for a few days that I'd end up inspecting nail driver cartridges on the DEW Line for the rest of my career.
Mike
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I sense/predict that there will be a big and growing business opportunity for providing carrier pigeon services, to players who want to evade pervasive electronic surveillance.
[AnNahar] Indonesian mosques must limit their use of loudspeakers to stop disrupting the lives of those who reside nearby, an official urged Wednesday at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
The approximately 800,000 mosques in the world's most populous Mohammedan-majority country go into overdrive during Ramadan, noisily blasting out Koranic verses from the early hours.
But the Mosques Council, an independent body which groups many of the country's mosques, said it had asked the places of worship to cut back on their use of loudspeakers.
"Mosques are always more noisy during Ramadan so we have asked them to limit the use of their loudspeakers," said deputy council head Masdar Masudi.
The mosques begin their sermons earlier than usual in Ramadan, when Mohammedans forgo food, drink and sex between dawn and dusk, as they call people for the "sahur" breakfast that is eaten each day before fasting begins.
Masudi said it was acceptable for mosques to use loudspeakers for the short call to prayer but they should limit their use beyond that.
"A quiet atmosphere is very important so that Mohammedans can perform their religious duties solemnly during this holy month," said the official, adding he hoped mosques would continue to limit their use of speakers even after Ramadan.
There have been repeated calls for mosques to turn down the volume over the years following complaints from residents, but previous efforts have met with little success.
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So why did the Gang of 8 and other politicians push so hard to ramrod a lousy immigration bill through? A rhetorical question. I suppose the special interest groups are pushing this hard; the Hispanic versions of Jesse Jackson and Rev. Sharpton and various open border groups are hard at work.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Washington Post] A Russian court wrapped up the trial of a dead man Thursday, finding whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky guilty of fraud but waiving a sentence on the grounds that his life ended while he was imprisoned nearly four years ago.
[AnNahar] The Turkish central bank sold $200 million dollars on Wednesday, market sources said, in a renewed fight to hold up the value of the lira.
