Posted on 03/06/2022 4:38:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 6th, 2022
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Panel: Katie Pavlich; Jonathan Swan, Axios; Catherine Lucey, Wall Street Journal; Mohammad Elleithee, former spokesman for the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis; author Fiona Hill (“There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century”). Richard Engel reporting from Ukraine and Kelly Cobiella reporting from Poland. Panel: Huffington Post writer and Black Nationalist Eddie Glaude Jr.; Stephen Hayes, political analist and Neocon; Senior Washington correspondent for NBC News Hallie Jackson; Robin Wright, the New Yawka—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank); Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S.; Kristalina Georgieva, International Monetary Fund; and, we DON’T know if, as always, Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb (but I think because the drivebys have moved on from COVID to Ukraine, he’s not on).
THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus: Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Panel: Jonathan Karl(marx); Donna BrazileNut; Chris Christie; Julie Pace, Associated Press. A preview of Hulu’s “Two Men At War” (Stephy’s propaganda biopic about Putin and Zelenskyy)–more Fat RINOs and Left-wing Propagandists!
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen; Michèle Flournoy; Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas); former CIA Director David Petraeus; Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas); Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-Texas); Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Stephen Miller, former senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump.
You got it absolutely correct.! Ukraine has been one of the most corrupt countries anywhere and a haven for illuminati and other criminal org. to launder huge sums of money.
Great post and exactly what is the cause of high crude oil. Lots of innovation has dropped the price of fracking and other oil delivery systems.
You may be right, but I was not discussin windmills as a solution, merely pointing out that there were in fact windmills in the US northeast, a fact that the person I answered did not seem to know.
innovation in fracking is making a huge differecne in bottom line and cost of production.
https://energycentral.com/c/ec/enter-innovation-improving-fracking-process
One of the factors involved in pulling energy from shale through hydraulic fracturing is how much water is needed – typically 2 to 4 million gallons per well. Though that’s not as much water as it sounds (electrical generation for the Susquehanna River Basin requires nearly 150 million gallons per day), it’s a public concern. More on water usage at the FracFocus website.
Water also is an industry concern. It isn’t free, and once the well has been stimulated with fracking, there’s waste water that has to be disposed of or recycled. Enter innovation. A number of companies are tackling the issue.
Schlumberger’s HiWAY flow-channel technology claims to use less water, with greater effectiveness:
“HiWAY technology fundamentally changes the way proppant fractures generate conductivity. The first technique of its kind, HiWAY fracturing creates open pathways inside the fracture, enabling hydrocarbons to flow through the stable channels rather than the proppant. This optimizes connectivity between the reservoir and the wellbore—resulting in infinite fracture conductivity.”
Other companies are marketing waterless alternatives, using other agents to apply pressure to the shale – producing microscopic fractures and introducing sand or other proppants to keep the cracks open so the oil or natural gas can drain from the shale and be collected.
Baker-Hughes has developed VaporFrac, combining a high-pressure nitrogen and/or carbon dioxide gas stream and an ultra-lightweight proppant slurry:
“This method safely creates a flow stream that is more than 90% gas, significantly reducing post-frac cleanup. The high energy of the gas phase makes for easy flowback. There’s a quicker tie into pipelines.”
GASFRAC Energy Services’ liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) gel is primarily propane, which the company says has a number of advantages in fracking:
“Since our gel regains permeability with the hydrocarbons we stimulate, we have the ability to recover 100% of the fracturing fluids within days of stimulation. This creates economic and environmental benefits reducing clean-up, waste disposal and post-job truck traffic, while creating higher initial production levels.”
No doubt, other companies, other energy innovators, are at work on this question. The point here is to show the kind of invention that’s being sparked by necessity surrounding water and fracking. Businesses are taking on this issue and others associated with energy development with the goal of making processes better, safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. When we hear about their stories, we’ll pass them along.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idP1cw?now=true
E-frack: a safer, cheaper fracking alternative?
Posted August 26, 2020
A new shale technology called electric fracking is being adopted by oil drillers because of the potential to lower costs and reduce air pollution but oilfield service companies are balking at the price needed to convert diesel fracking equipment to natural gas.
Not so fast, China has eyes on eyes on Eastern portions of Russia. China needs arable land and Chines farmers appear to already be there but under Russian version of Mexican labor circa 1940-50s U.S. work permits
Just normal history. Different people rule over different parts of the world at different times.
The facts are
A. 80/20 rule - always and everywhere 80% are lazy, always looking for others to make their life easy, take orders. The 20% take advantage as they see fit
B. It appears that we are at the end of the U.S. time at the top, it happened to Rule Britania as it happened to others, just history and the human condition
We agree, but our government has been sending different signals. We have been encouraging Ukraine to join NATO and the EU for decades. The 2014 coup was all about removing the the pro-Russian President and replacing him with someone who wanted to join Europe.
A short anecdote. In 1999 I was a participant in CAPSTONE, a DOD program for newly frocked general officers (admirals and generals). I was the only civilian in the class of about 60 officers. The objective of CAPSTONE is to familiarize general officers with our national security apparatus. We literally traveled all over the US and the world visiting key military installations as well as civilian organizations like the CIA, State, NSA, etc. We also met with officials of various key countries for briefings. We were supposed to travel to Kiev to meet with government officials there to discuss such things as NATO. We were unable to land due to a heavy fog after circling the city for over two hours. Bottom line: We were thinking about Ukraine entering NATO in 1999.
However, I still contend that Russia has gone too far with the invasion and must first stop killing people. Death and destruction need to stop now, before anyone else is hurt—whether Ukrainians or Russian conscripts. Each conscript killed devastates a Russian family, as given their spiraling demographics, there is on average only one child in each Russian family. Stop the violence first. That is as easy as a command from Putin to his generals right now.
We agree totally that this war has gone too far and it needs to be stopped immediately. The longer it goes on, the more difficult it will be to walk back from this new Cold War. Further escalations will lead to possible miscalculations and a kinetic war with Russia.
At this point it is useless to point fingers about how we got here. Peter Hitchens wrote an excellent article recently, One glorious day in Sevastopol 12 years ago, I saw what was coming. That's why I won't join this carnival of hypocrisy pointing out the mistakes and culpability of all sides that led us to where we are now. It is not as cut and dried as you seem to imply. It could have been avoided.
Negotiation will require compromises from both sides. The MSM and USG talk about the pressure on Putin with the sanctions, but the West is more susceptible to public pressure than Putin. Oil is headed to $200 a bbl. How long will the public put up with $7 and up per gallon gas bills? Or the ever rising prices of food and other commodities? Right now, Blinken is frantically seeking increased production from Venezuela, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. The economies of the West, already damaged by Covid, are now being stressed. And millions of refugees flooding Europe will add to the burden.
It is up to them to change. Until then we are right to oppose them short of war.
We are at war. We have declared economic war on Russia and Ukraine is being ravaged by kinetic war. Opposition has a price, much of it being paid for by Ukraine, which is being devastated. Who is going to get the country back on its feet? And how much of the aid we send will be skimmed off by corrupt leaders? Is the West going to be stuck with the bill? The US is obsessed with taking out Putin. It raises the stakes.
See my post #209. We need a negotiated settlement. We also can’t allow Zelensky to hold us hostage in terms of conditions.
Sounds like the predicate for a deal. Russia can supply the energy and food to fuel the Chinese industrial machine.
The Kremlin has announced its demands for ending the war in Ukraine...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4044445/posts
Below tweet, posted 9:45 this morning.
The Kremlin has announced its demands for ending the war in Ukraine:
-Ukraine must change its constitution to guarantee it won’t join any “blocs”, i.e. NATO + EU.
-Must recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
-Must recognize the eastern separatist regions as independent.
Also being reported by Reuters. Otherwise, thus far, crickets from MSM.
Sounds like the basis of a deal. For US interests, I see no dealbreaker. Now we must convince Zelensky to come along. Both sides need face saving exits. Putin will need to make some concessions as well.
Putin is essentially asking for the formalization of the status quo ante bellum.
Yeah, and not just Ukraine. It is further wreaking our own economy and hurting the little guy.
I really hope a settlement is reached soon...
However, if there is a silver lining, it may be the idea in people's heads that Climate Change is not worth starving and freezing Americans and cutting petroleum production is too premature as we don't have any major sustainable energy to replace this vital economic component.
Reality causes conservatives.
All too true. Nature abhors a vacuum, but politics abhors stability.
Russia, or New North China?
“Sounds like the basis of a deal. For US interests, I see no dealbreaker.”
Agree in theory. Concerned about who will control the narrative of “US interests” and the advice to Zelensky, perhaps against his and Ukraine’s best interests.
“Putin is essentially asking for the formalization of the status quo ante bellum.”
Jim Robinson posted in that linked thread (post#3): “Full circle.”
The Reuters article:
That should be everyone's goal.
Biden is ignoring the will of the people. He is controlled by Sanders and AOC who are pushing the Green New Deal. I see no movement from the Dems in Congress save Manchin on increasing domestic production. Hence the frantic diplomacy with Venezuela, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to increase production.
Why risk nuclear war when you can buy what you need? The Chinese would probably fund what they need similar to their Belt and Road initiatives.
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