United States President-elect Donald Trump issued a warning concerning the hostages held by Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip by declaring that there would be severe consequences in the Middle East if these captives are not freed before his inauguration, scheduled for January 20, 2025.
“If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity,” Trump wrote in Truth Social.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, which ignited the current conflict in the Gaza Strip and heightened tensions throughout the Middle East, would not have occurred if he had been in office. He also promised to bring the war to an end before he is sworn in.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday its troops are “now attacking targets in Lebanon” in what could signify an end to the recently agreed ceasefire with Hezbollah. The move came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said their country will respond to Hezbollah’s earlier firing at the area of Shebaa Farms, also known as Mount Dov. The border zone between Lebanon and Syria, the region is currently under Israel’s occupation. Both parties previously accused each other on various occasions of violating the truce. NN: Its time to wait and watch, Many pieces are in motion
Musk’s firm competing in market for space-based services
Satellite-to-cell capabilities not widely deployed yet
US regulators have green-lit some of SpaceX’s plans to supplement T-Mobile US Inc.’s cellular network using its Starlink satellites, expanding the Elon Musk-led company’s communications capabilities in a bid to reach more customers. In a Tuesday filing, the Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX approval to provide some coverage to consumer mobile phones. The direct-to-cell capabilities that SpaceX is deploying splice satellite service into the more traditional over-the-airwaves mobile networks. SpaceX has partnered with T-Mobile US Inc. to reach customers’ cell phones in dead zones with its growing Starlink system, which has more than 6,700 satellites in orbit. Customers can also purchase a dish from SpaceX to tap into the Starlink system for home broadband. Newer phones typically have the ability to work on both traditional terrestrial and satellite networks but the satellite-to-cell capabilities have not been widely commercially deployed yet. NN: Subscribers the StarLink systems we provided you allows cell phone access. If you would like a free StarLink contact Jim.
United States President Joe Biden has signed a “full and unconditional” pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted earlier this year of federal gun and tax crimes and was scheduled to be sentenced this month. “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said, reversing his past pledge not to use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. Biden stressed that he wiped away the criminal convictions due to his son being “selectively, and unfairly” prosecuted. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here,” he stated. Hunter was scheduled to face sentencing for his conviction on federal gun charges on December 12 and was also set to be sentenced on December 16, after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion charges. NN: Justice for all my ass.
Trump asks if Biden included Jan. 6 ‘hostages’ in pardon to Hunter
Commenting on United States President Joe Biden’s decision to grant a pardon to his son Hunter, President-elect Donald Trump wondered whether it included those who were convicted for their participation in the January 6 riots at the Capitol Building in Washington DC.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump called those involved in the Capitol attack “hostages who have now been imprisoned for years” describing it as an “abuse and miscarriage of Justice.”
During his election campaign, Trump promised he would pardon “a large portion” of those involved in the events at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, stating that he would do so “early on” into his second term in office. NN: I wonder if i could get one of these?
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held a phone conversation with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud to discuss escalating tensions in Syria, Ria reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the call comes as Syrian government forces face renewed attacks in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group linked to Jabhat al-Nusra. The Syrian army has responded with force, allegedly inflicting losses on the militants. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas , met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, reaffirming Iran’s unwavering support for Syria amid ongoing insurgent violence. Araghchi stressed that Iran views the Israeli regime and Takfiri terrorist groups as equally dangerous, stating that both aim to destabilize the region. Iran’s foreign minister pledged continued military and strategic backing for Syria, vowing to support the Syrian army in its fight against insurgents. Araghchi’s visit highlights Iran’s commitment to its long-standing alliance with Assad’s regime, particularly in the face of mounting challenges from various militant groups.
Khamenei blasts Syrian rebels as enemies of Islam
Iran has issued a sharp warning to Israel, accusing the country of instigating turmoil in Syria following the fall of Aleppo to rebel forces. Iranian IRGC Chief Hossein Salami criticized Israel for its role in the Syrian conflict, linking it to the “strategic defeats” Israel faced in Gaza and Lebanon. Watch Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced in a post published on X Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants and other Syrian anti-regime groups “as enemies of the world of Islam.” “Exactly at a time when all Islamic Ummah’s attention is focused on the issue of Palestine, Takfiri groups, instead of concentrating on Zionist regime’s malevolent nature, draw the attention to other places,” he wrote. On November 27, HTS militants and rebel groups affiliated with the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and captured significant parts of Idlib and Aleppo provinces and were said to have secured control over large areas of Aleppo city. Iran expressed support for Assad’s forces and promised to aid the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in quelling the rebel offensive.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday the capture of Illinka and Petrivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The ministry also reported shooting down 55 Ukrainian drones over 24 hours. These battlefield developments come amid escalating tensions and ongoing clashes. According to open-source data, Russian forces now control just under 20 percent of Ukrainian territory and have advanced in Donetsk at a pace unseen since March 2022. The troops are reportedly nearing Kurakhove and Pokrovsk, a key site for coking coal essential to Ukraine’s steel industry. NN: The Ukrainians need to make a deal before they are completely sliced and diced
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country’s largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a nearby province. They faced little to no resistance from government troops, according to fighters and activists. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the insurgents led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seized control of Aleppo International airport, the first international airport to be controlled by insurgents. The fighters claimed they seized the airport and posted pictures from there. Thousands of fighters also moved on, facing almost no opposition from government forces, to seize towns and villages in northern Hama, a province where they had a presence before being expelled by government troops in 2016. They claimed Saturday evening to have entered the city of Hama. The swift and surprise offensive is a huge embarrassment for Syria’s President Bashar Assad and raises questions about his armed forces’ preparedness. The insurgent offensive launched from their stronghold in the country’s northwest appeared to have been planned for years. It also comes at a time when Assad’s allies were preoccupied with their own conflicts. The insurgents, led by the Salafi jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and including Turkey-backed fighters, launched their shock offensive on Wednesday. They first staged a two-pronged attack in Aleppo and the Idlib countryside, entering Aleppo two days later and securing a strategic town that lies on the highway that links Syria’s largest city to the capital and the coast. By Saturday evening, they seized at least four towns in the central Hama province and claimed to have entered the provincial capital. The insurgents staged an attempt to reclaim areas they controlled in Hama in 2017 but failed. The lightning offensive threatened to reignite the country’s civil war, which had been largely in a stalemate for years. On a state TV morning show Saturday, commentators said army reinforcements and Russia’s assistance would repel the “terrorist groups,” blaming Turkey for supporting the insurgents’ push into Aleppo and Idlib provinces. Russia’s state news agency Tass quoted Oleg Ignasyuk, a Russian Defense Ministry official coordinating in Syria, as saying that Russian warplanes targeted and killed 200 militants who had launched the offensive in the northwest on Friday. It provided no further details. NN: The savages losing the ability to attack Israel…. Now turn back to slaughtering each other,
America’s oil industry has gone from being an outsider in the world’s crude market to stealing market share from OPEC, turning the US into a net exporter of petroleum and becoming an engine of the economy. Investors were fleeing the sector just a few years ago, betting on the green transition as a global oil glut weighed on producers. But the iterative process of drilling thousands of wells each year—and learning from each one—has been a major reason for US productivity gains after years of tepid growth. US oil production will grow by 600,000 barrels a day in 2025, about 50% more than this year’s growth, due to higher well productivity, according to BloombergNEF. Lower crude prices—which energy companies can still profit from, thanks to higher efficiencies—feed through to other industries. “Efficiency gains help keep the US competitive as the resource base degrades over time,” says Raoul LeBlanc, vice president for North American unconventionals at S&P Global Commodity Insights. “But in the end, geology always wins.” Even though the shale revolution is now 15 years old, its success has yet to be replicated outside the US, where geology, property rights and available capital combine to make it possible. Higher levels of productivity across all sectors could add $10 trillion to US gross domestic product from 2023 to 2030, according to a McKinsey Global Institute analysis. Productivity in the oil and gas extraction sector almost tripled in the 10 years ending in 2022, compared with a near-doubling in some tech-driven industries. America’s oil resurgence over the past decade was a different kind of technological breakthrough, the combination of drilling horizontally through layers of shale and then fracturing, or fracking, the rock with blasts of water, sand and chemicals to extract hydrocarbons. But shale drilling was initially thought to cost more and be geologically more limited over the long term than drilling the free-flowing reservoirs of the Middle East. Output from US basins like the Permian of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico was expected to run out of steam as producers exhausted well locations and faced rising costs. “We’re getting more efficient in everything we’re doing” in the Permian, says Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth. “We’re getting more for every dollar we spend, applying new technologies.” Chevron has doubled production in the Permian to nearly 1 million barrels a day just in the past five years, without making any significant acquisitions. Operators continue to improve the fracking process. That includes drilling longer wells and releasing the water at half the rate, reducing friction that can slow the process and waste horsepower. Explorers are now drilling 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) wells horizontally through layers of shale, up from 3 miles only a year or two ago. Industry consolidation is aiding the trend. Producers, by buying companies with neighboring acreage, are gaining access to larger swaths of land into which they can drill lengthier wells.
Oil price per barrel
Sources: S&P Global Commodity Insights, Bloomberg
As crude prices slid in July through September, in part because of faltering demand in China, it was OPEC that was forced to give way, not US shale. The cartel delayed plans to restore long-curtailed production as American drillers carried on increasing output.
Monster Shale Wells
US oil production per shale well in the Lower 48 states, in barrels
Source: Novi Labs
“The one thing that’s been remarkable is the persistent productivity gain that we’ve seen, particularly in the oil and gas space,” says Ken Medlock, senior director of Rice University’s Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policyin Houston. “If you go back to 2012, there were books written about how shale is going to be a flash in the pan, it’s going to go away, and here we are 11 to 12 years later, and it hasn’t gone away—it still keeps growing.” NN: Add to the astonishing production gains Trumps drill baby drill and $35 WTI here we come. And its a proven fact we know how to cash in BIG TIME!
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it has hit a new production high, pumping 1,386,030 barrels of crude oil and condensate daily, along with 203,017 barrels of gas equivalent (boe). That brings Libya’s total production to 1,589,047 barrels per day—a major milestone for the oil-rich nation. The announcement comes as global oil prices remain relatively steady, with Brent crude trading at $73.04 per barrel. The US benchmark WTI is trading at $68.58. Last month, Libya’s National Oil Company said its crude oil production had recovered to 1.3 million barrels per day following the resolution of the political dispute over the appointment of a new governor to the Libyan central bank. This came only after crude production at most Libyan oilfields had been suspended for over a month starting in late August. NN: Everyone in the oil business is hunting money. Look out below.
Major General Jasper Jeffers, a top American military officer, arrived in Beirut to help oversee a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM). Jeffers, from Special Operations Command Central, will co-chair a monitoring group alongside US envoy Amos Hochstein. The group includes representatives from the Lebanese Armed Forces, the Israeli military, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and France, CENTCOM said. Hochstein will hold the civilian co-chair position temporarily until a permanent appointment is made. The truce began this week, aiming to ease tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border. NN: This peace deal will stick. Because of Trump who the whole world fears. Biden is a joke who the savages’ walked over
