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Crude oil production in the U.S. shale patch is seen rising by 49,000 bpd next month to a record-high daily average of 9.133 million barrels. That’s according to the latest edition of the Energy Information Administration’s Drilling Productivity Report. A month earlier, the EIA estimated that total shale oil production will rise by 58,000 bpd in November from October, to 8.971 million bpd. The latest report, however, pegged the November average at more than that: 9.048 million barrels daily.

Granted, that answer could be blowing in the wind; but, nonetheless, each of us in his/her own way must pause with a calm and yet flexible sense of what is actually unfolding in front of us and analyze, for the better or worse, how our individual lives will be affected in both the near term and also the not too distant future of four to five years from now.

Here is a theory that I am hoping Freepers better educated than me might know the answer to. If Schiff-for-brains managed to eek out an actual vote to impeach, does that shut down ALL OTHER BUSINESS until it is finished? [For example the coming FISA abuse hearing and possible criminal referrals?] Anyone here know the answer to that?

Some media are already describing the president as the oldest one in American history—without mentioning that some of the presidential hopefuls trying to unseat him are even older The giddy, hysterical, over the top media response to President Donald Trump’s supposed “unplanned” visit to Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday is, more than anything else, proof of the impeachment-obsessed Democrats’ attempt to force the OTHER SHOE to drop—a loud shoe drop—the Democrats sorely need to replace the failing LIVE Adam Schiff Impeachment Show ASAP. Any hour now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will replace her recent charge that “Trump’s an...

The 300 Blackout AR-15 Build GuideI've had questions come through from a builder or two about 300 Blackout and its compatibility with existing build kits, parts, and the AR-15 platform. This is a dual-purpose round originally developed for the U.S Military's M4 platform by request of overseas operators. Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC) developed the round for approval by SAAMI in 2011. 300 BLK provides ballistic performance similar to 7.62x39mm and affords a shooter the ability to fire supersonic or subsonic cartridges (suppressed or un-suppressed) without any modifications made to the rifle or pistol. This quick little guide explains the 300...

Al Sharpton Sells His Life Story Rights for Over Half a Million Dollars To His Own Charity  Well to be fair, who else would want it?A half a mil for a great human interest story about a totally self promoted made man like that sounds like a very good deal indeed. Gold watch, diamond ring, I ain't missin' not a single thing Cufflinks, stick pin, When I step out I'm gonna do you in Seriously, who doesn’t love a good bags to bitches story? Silk suit, black tie, I don't need a reason why They come runnin' just as...

In 2018, the Chick-fil-A Foundation gave $225,000 to Covenant House, $1.65 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), and $115,000 to the Salvation Army. In the same year, the company’s revenues were about $10 billion. The donations amounted to just under 0.02% of revenue. It’s literally a drop in the bucket. Now the company has changed its giving profile for 2020, eliminating those items, yet keeping with its corporate charge to give back. In 2020, the Chick-fil-A Foundation plans to give $6.4 million. The largest recipients are Atlanta-based charities Grove Park Foundation and Westside Future Fund. In 2019, Westside...

Tired of all this #WINNING yet? No? What’s it gonna take? – For the second straight trading day, every major U.S. stock market set a new record high close on Monday. This Trump economy is so resilient that all the Democrats and their toadies in the corrupt news media have essentially stopped trying to talk it into a recession at this point. It’s so bad for the economic news-fakers that MarketWatch ran a story with this headline: “The record stock-market run enters a new phase when beaten-down bears turn bullish.” Cool. This really happened. I swear I do not make...

Someone told me that Schiff's daughter is George Soros' daughter-in-law. Is it true? I mean...seriously....?

By: Hassan.Mahmoudi Protests flare up across Iran on Friday with chants of "Death to the dictator," "No to Gaza, no to Lebanon; I sacrifice my life for Iran.", after the government imposed gas price hike. At least 200 people dead, more than 3000 injured and more than 1000 arrested in 132 cities since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. Protesters blocked roads, burned buildings, banks, government institutions and clashed with police across the country Iran shut down internet access across the nation to cover up its positional crackdown on protesters Videos from the protests have shown people gravely wounded...

Iran: security forces lost control over Southcentral city of Shiraz By: Hassan.Mahmoudi Protests flare up across Iran on Friday with chants of "Death to the dictator," "No to Gaza, no to Lebanon; I sacrifice my life for Iran.", after the government imposed gas price hike. At least 200 people dead, more than 3000 injured and more than 1000 arrested in 132 cities since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators. Protesters blocked roads, burned buildings, banks, government institutions and clashed with police across the country Iran shut down internet access across the nation to cover up its positional crackdown on...

Posting as a VANITY since it is a DOJ press release only at this point: WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today announced that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will testify before the Committee on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. The Inspector General will discuss the findings of his investigation into DOJ and FBI’s conduct during the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process as it relates to the 2016 presidential election. “I appreciate all the hard work by Mr. Horowitz and his team regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant application and the counterintelligence...

Summary: Let’s hit “pause” in the climate wars and see how we got here, where we are going, and what we can learn from this mess. “I can’t use this result. It doesn’t support the narrative.“ At the time I thought this statement was daft. Now I see that she was spot on, but not in the way she meant it. And with results that she did not intend. (snip) But the damage to climate science is effectively forever. Generations of scientists have learned that success is political, and I believe the resulting long slide of research quality has just...

It's of no surprise that Virginia Woolf was well-read in Russian Literature. In fact, Woolf explored Russia through its literature and she went on to write several essays on the subject... Woolf wrote, "... it is the soul that is the chief character in Russian fiction. Delicate and subtle in Tchekov, subject to an infinite number of humours and distempers, it is of greater depth and volume in Dostoevsky; it is liable to violent diseases and raging fevers, but still the predominant concern... The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us...

Why Is Turkey Important Everyday Of The Year And Not Just On Thanksgiving? We need to study prophecy that comes to us from different areas of the world to get a complete picture of the future that is at our door. The Greek Orthodox Saints have left a treasure trove of prophecy with a unique difficulty. Getting accurate translations are not easy. When you consider that the Greek language has seven words for love; no wonder we say, “It’s all Greek to me!” I would like to familiarize you with the Prophecies of Saint Paisios...

All over the world 4.8 million people, mostly women and children, are stolen and sold as sex slaves to the highest bidder each year. In America, few regions have been hit by this scourge worse than Orange County, California. On the outside, the Southern California county appears to be a safe, wealthy, and even fairly conservative community, boasting a median income of over $86,000 and a healthy employment rate. According to The Epoch Times, however, the county has become a hot destination for human traffickers: "The official Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF), set up to fight real time...

The highlight of Marie Yovanovitch’s career illustrates everything that is wrong in the DC Swamp. – Those of you who watched last Friday’s fake “impeachment” clown show hearing all the way to the end – my condolences to all 6 of you – will be aware that those assembled in the hearing room’s audience gave ex-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch a standing ovation as the hearing adjourned. After all, she had given quite the performance, repeating over and over and over how her removal as the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine in April had made her “feel,” and how she had a...

VIDEO Adam Schiff is so very very concerned for due process. Of course, not when it comes to the impeachment inquiry where he allows second and third-hand hearsay "evidence." Instead his concern for due process extends to terrorists as you can see in his video from 2009.

Any rational American would expect the incoming President of the United States to have some, well, questions Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election. The Ukrainian government campaigned against Donald Trump in 2016. These are facts. Cold, hard math. When the swamp screams that something has been “debunked” or is “without evidence” you need to sit up, put down the coffee, and carefully investigate. On August 4, 2016, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Valeriy Chaly, published an opinion /editorial column in The Hill. This is Ukraine’s Ambassador, representing the Ukrainian government. He was a member of the...

Anti-American, anti-religion, and anti-family subversives should be considered very dangerous by the American people The openly active phase of the American Socialist Revolution began in 2008 with the election, or some may say the selection of Barack Hussein Obama. But before that, to be successful in placing an anti-American socialist in the White House, the ground had to be made fertile. Just as a frog can be boiled to death in a pot without offering any resistance by slowly increasing the heat, the American people would need to be conditioned and made to be more agreeable with an inferior and...