Wednesday, April 20, 2016

What is the real reason for the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act?

There are no meetings. Wall Street is gambling again on the opportunity of another oil embargo. Perhaps the repeat of the 70s are not far off.

That is why Cornyn is doing this. Nothing else makes sense. I guess mourning the wealth it has lost is more than Texas can bear.

The Republicans don't have an AUMF and they don't like President Obama's allies in the middle east and the success of the strategy. I am sure deep, dark conservatives rather have the middle east helpless and weak and dependent on the USA's military. Too, bad. 

April 20, 2016
By Brian Krishman


Oil prices rose 4 percent on Wednesday (click here) after a smaller-than-expected build in U.S. crude inventories offset glut worries stirred by the end of a Kuwaiti strike, and as oil bulls bet that major crude producers would meet again to try to curtail output.

Moscow, however, denied media reports that Russia planned to host such a meeting. Just on Sunday, Russia and OPEC nations failed to reach an agreement on freezing production at a meeting in Doha, Qatar.
"There is no such agreement" for producing nations to meet in Russia, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak was quoted as saying by RIA news agency...