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With core OPEC+ cartel members Russia and Saudi Arabia doing everything in their power to throttle oil output and push the price of oil higher, the US is again emerging as not only a thorn in OPEC’s side but as the marginal producer of world oil. According to EIA data, US crude oil production hit an all-time high in August, as production surpassed pre-covid levels.

US field production of crude oil reached 404.6 million barrels during the month of August, new EIA data showed, for an average of 13.05 million barrels per day, breaking the previous record US drillers set in July of 401.73 million barrels. Compared to this time last year, U.S. production is up by a total of 33 million barrels for the month. Remarkably production hit all time highs even as the number of rotary US oil rigs has slumped in the past year. How is this possible? We answer that question below.

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I did not hear one destination that was not a Democrat controlled bankrupt city. History will record the destruction of the United States by its own government if we survive WWIII.

David DeGerolamo

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Ukraine has lost the war. And it has lost its people:

Scenarios of the population size of Ukraine depending on international displacement, return migration, and longer-term migration trends, 2020 to 2052. Source: JRC, Ukraine’s population future after the Russian invasion.

© EU, 2023

Most people do not even know about this current battle in Avdeevka, the number of dead Ukrainians and the importance of this strategic city for continued supplies to what is left of Ukrainian troops. Now that the war is over (except for its declaration by the West), Ukraine will be divided between Russia, Poland and Blackrock. What an incredible waste of blood and treasure for a few people and companies to be able to feast upon its bones.

David DeGerolamo

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FAS Note: This is a translation of excerpts of the original 1988 charter of Hamas. A translation of the full document is here.

THE COVENANT OF THE HAMAS – MAIN POINTS

The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement was issued on August 18, 1988. The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as the HAMAS, is an extremist fundamentalist Islamic organization operating in the territories under Israeli control. Its Covenant is a comprehensive manifesto comprised of 36 separate articles, all of which promote the basic HAMAS goal of destroying the State of Israel through Jihad (Islamic Holy War). The following are excerpts of the HAMAS Covenant: Goals of the HAMAS:

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‘The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.’ (Article 6) On the Destruction of Israel:

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‘Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.’

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There has been a media frenzy concerning Netanyahu’s declaration comparing Gaza’s fate to Amalek:

Although the Hamas covenant was issued in 1988, it appears that the world would like to dismiss it and focus on Netanyahu’s statement. I want to stress that the events unfolding will not be impacted by the people of any one or more nations. The “leaders” of the two sides in this religious war will not negotiate and have been manipulating events leading up to WWIII.

Where does that leave us? If we cannot change the events or even offer input to these “leaders”, we must focus on what we can impact. I personally start with prayer and ask for guidance. As related in a previous post concerning Men of God, I was shown that the Lord will stand with us in war but also that these current events were of no concern to me at this time. And that gave me peace. What more can a human man or woman require than the hand of God on their shoulder with the knowledge that He is in charge?

I know that many “knowledgeable” people are giving their spin of whom we should support or not support. As for me, I will trust in the Lord and listen with my ears for His guidance.

David DeGerolamo

     The fog of war has never been so dense, what with the years-long sustained psy-ops of the US Intel “Community” against the American people . . . the lawfare operations of the Democratic Party against innocent patriots. . . the homicidal depredations of the pharma-government complex . . . the Cultural Marxists’ weaponization of language against common sense and common decency . . . the Neocon warhawks’ serial failed crusades to control faraway lands of dubious national interest . . .and the relentless mendacity of the sell-out Big Media. . .

     It’s a wonder that anybody might venture a coherent thought, or that such a thought might survive transmission from person to person intact, without a sadistic beat-down or a dishonest, tactical inversion of meaning along the way. A thought such as: the Jews have a right to exist in a place called Israel. This is now up for debate around the world, whereas it had been accepted as self-evident by many civilized states a few weeks ago.

     The military pundit Scott Ritter acted out a spectacular mental melt-down on video the other day. Among the statements he made were: “We need the Israeli army to be destroyed, to suffer defeat” . . . “Israel is the greatest threat to peace in the world” . . . “Political Zionism is a rabid dog and must be killed” . . . “I’m glad Hamas is winning” . . .

    It’s far from clear what Scott’s definition of Zionism is, but Dictionary.com says: “a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel and that now supports the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland.” That’s pretty standard across many dictionaries. So, is Scott Ritter calling for the cancellation of Israel? Sounds like it, a little bit. He’s not alone. That has been the dream of most of Islam in the region for seventy-five years. Now, a great multi-nation jihad rises to expel what the Iranians like to call “the Zionist Entity,” as if it were some scaley thing that slithered out of a UFO. Even the American Ivy League is rooting to drive Israel into the sea.

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