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Barbadians have a strong interest in what unravels in the United States. We may debate why this is the case- an abundance of US news feeds streaming into our homes via FLOW, DIGICEL and Internet devices 24b hours a day, family members living in the USA, we travel there to further our studies and on recreation the list is long.

The BU household also has a keen interest in the outcome of the midterms later tonight, it will be a referendum on Trump’s tenure for sure.

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  1. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Georgie Porgie
    Dr Frank Ramsey was one of my Dad’s closest friends and a great influence on me. I keep trying to get John to appreciate the work he did on childhood protein energy malnutrition.

  2. Donks Gripe and Josh Avatar
    Donks Gripe and Josh

    —-ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Grenadians voted for a second time within a two year period, to reject efforts to replace the London-based Privy Council as the island’s highest court.

    Grenadians vote in referendum on…
    In a national referendum on Tuesday, the preliminary figures released by the Parliamentary Elections Office (PEO) show that the “No’ vote secured 12,133 as compared to 9,846 for those supporting the efforts to replacing the Privy Council with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that was established in 2001.—–

    In regional election news Grenadians voted to AGAIN reject the CCJ as their final court. Greneda lawyers suing the RBPF through the CCJ over a case of visiting Grenadians arrested here should be disallowed. If your country isn’t part of the CCJ it should not be permitted to use the CCJ to bring law suits against members of the CCJ.

    This second rejection is a defeat for Mia Amor Mottley because she spent valuable time and political capital in Grenada campaigning for the YES vote. Interested to hear her spin on this crushing dismissal of her effort.

    Piece of sheesh come from undah de rock with the assistance of the glorified yard fowl and break this all down for us. You feel me.

  3. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    The Baygon Barbados Police Force with many involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, planting evidence, beatings and Fraud are trying to cover-up the murder at Oistins Police Station where a young man was beaten and murdered by Barbados Criminal Policemen.

    If you think the Politicians are bad the criminal Barbados Police Force are a real serious gang covering for each other.

    Cell Mystery

    man who was found dead in a holding cell at Oistins Police Station in April 2017 had died by asphyxia caused by hanging, a pathologist told an inquest today.

    Consultant pathologist Dr Corinthia Dupree, who conducted the autopsy on the body of 33-year-old Corey Antonio Best, disclosed the findings as the coroner’s inquest into his death got underway in the High Court this morning.

    Best, of Hopefield, Charnocks, Christ Church was reportedly found hanging about 3 a.m. on April 13, 2017 while in police custody.

    Dr Dupree detailed her findings of the April 24 post mortem examination which she said were “in keeping with death by asphyxia secondary to hanging.”

    She told Coroner Manila Renee that other minor injuries were also found on Best’s back and chest as well as lesions resembling that of scratch marks on his legs.

    But under questioning by the deceased’s mother, Angela Best, Dr Dupree explained that she could not definitely say what caused the bruises or the marks on her son’s body.

    “[The injuries] were not scarred so they could have been made the same day [or] fairly recent. They could have been caused . . . for example by either finger nails or rubbing against something,” she said.

    But the mother, who has been seeking answers to her son’s death, informed the court that she had been conducting her own research and found that someone who is said to have hanged had three distinctions.

    “I believe the neck is stretched, elongated . . . the tongue is usually swollen and out of your mouth and your eyes have to bulge . . . and froth [or] blood at the mouth and nose,” she told Dr Dupree.

    In the case of the neck, Dr Dupree said that this “was not a pathological certainty. It is not a pathologically described finding . . . . I have [described] the whites of the eyes as being congested and swollen . . . . I did not see a swollen protruding tongue.”

    The doctor also said that she found no blood or froth at the nose or mouth during her examination.

    Police Constable Jason Greene was on duty that day when another officer sounded the alarm around 3 a.m. of the discovery in the cell.

    PC Greene said he went to investigate and saw Best hanging from the “ventilation bars” by his pants and at the time he was wearing a black vest and boxers.

    He said with the assistance of other officers they removed the body.

    “After taking him down, he appeared not to be breathing so I called 511, but they said they could not respond . . . . So I called Dr Ross Herbert,” said PC Greene.

    However, with tears running down her face, Best asked why there were no pictures of her son hanging.

    Coroner Renee also queried whether it was police procedure to take pictures of a deceased person before disturbing the scene.

    Greene replied: “We did not know if he was dead at the time so we took him down to render any medical assistance . . .”

    The mother also asked PC Greene and PC Renaldo Holder, who had also assisted in taking down the body, whether there was a chair in the room on which her son stood in order to tie the pants to the bars.

    Both officers said there was no chair, but there was a wooden bench bed that was anchored to the floor in close proximity to where Best was found hanging.

    “It was close enough that he could reach where the knot was tied,” PC Holder suggested to the coroner.

    Station Sergeant Leslie Arthur told the court that he interviewed Best on April 13, 2017, about a burglary, which had occurred at his mother’s home on February 27.

    It was reported by Best’s cousin David Kola, who was visiting from Canada, that a metal cash tin had been stolen after someone had broken in.

    The tin, according to the police, contained CDN$3,700 cash, a cellular phone, and a wallet and contents including credit cards and other documents.

    But Best, who was allegedly found in possession of the cash tin, insisted that he had bought it from a hardware store in Bridgetown.

    Asked whether he had a key for the tin, he said it was at home and he was allowed a telephone call to his mother so she could bring it in.

    When the tin was opened, most of its contents, including a Canadian passport bore the name and picture of Best’s cousin.

    He was then arrested but did not go to the cells quietly, the officer said.

    Station Sergeant Arthur said he then conducted an interview with Best’s mother, which ended about 2:46 a.m, and then offered her a ride home, which she accepted, and another officer accompanied him.

    But, on his return he was informed of Best’s death and about 4:52 a.m. ventured again to the mother’s house in the company of two other officers to inform her.

    The inquest continues before Coroner Renee on Thursday at 10 a.m.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2018/11/06/cell-mystery/

  4. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE @Georgie Porgie
    Dr Frank Ramsey was one of my Dad’s closest friends and a great influence on me. I keep trying to get John to appreciate the work he did on childhood protein energy malnutrition.

    I GUESS IF HE DOESNT KNOW HE DOES NOT KNOW
    BUT I SAW THESE MEN AS FATHER S OF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM EVEN MORE THAN THEIR OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS.
    I WAS THE ONLY BAJAN IN MY CLASS INTERESTED IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
    THERE IS NO MONEY IN PUBLIC HEALTH.’
    BUT I WAS INSPIRED BY THESE MEN AND WANTED TO BE LIKE THEM

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore) November 6, 2018 8:38 PM

    @GP

    THEY CAN USE FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES WHO HAVE PASSED THE USMLE IN RESIDENCY TRAINING IN THESE AREAS.

    +++++++++++++++

    Will these foreign medical graduate be welcomed? With all the noise about immigration we are hearing in the US?

    A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF DRS IN THE USA ARE FMG’S
    ONCE YOU PASS THE USMLE EXAMS YOU CAN BE ADMITTED TO A RESIDENCY PROGRAM …………OF HOSPITAL SLAVERY

    BY OPTING TO SERVE IN AN UNDERSERVED AREA THE FMG CAN MAKE IT EASY FOR THE FMG, AND THE STATE CAN SET UP REGULATIONS TO KEEP THEM FOR A FEW YEARS AFTERWARDS

    PROBLEM IN USA THE DRS HANG AROUND THE LARGE CITIES……AND FEW GO TO THE RURAL AREAS

    BUT FOLK WHO TRAINED IN RURAL AREAS TEND TO STAY ……ONE NEEDS TO SWEETEN THE POT

  6. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @John November 6, 20182:50 PM “The reason you don’t see an “African Diaspora: in the Arab lands.”

    Saudi Arabia the most Arab of Arab lands has officially a 10% African descended population, about the same as the 13% African descended population in the United States. And in truth if you have lived in Saudi Arabia you would realize that the number of black people are much higher, but in order to survive people will sometime identify not with their own group but with the dominant group.

    Rape has always been used to dominate and to oppress women. Men, especially older men have always used rape to oppress women, especially to oppress younger women. Arabs raped their female slaves; white men in the Americas raped their female slaves. Rape is the reason that every country in the Americas has long had people of mixed race, and the same has long occurred in Arabia.

    Rape is still used being as an instrument of war and of oppression.

  7. Redman Avatar
    Redman

    Off topic
    https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

  8. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    In the early 1960’s there was a public health clinic in Speightstown, just to the north of Elmer’s Supermarket. on the land side/right hand side going north, along the old coast road. This clinic provided immunizations, dental care, and care for infants and their mothers, and contraceptive pills for women as soon as they became available also in the early 1960’s. I don’t remember the names of the doctor nor the dentist (both white and maybe English) but I do remember the public health nurses Marjorie Mayers, and Holita Horton. These nurses came out into the communities surrounding, doing home visits. I believe that public health inspectors were also deployed from this clinic. These men also came out into the communities checking the water barrels etc. for mosquito larvae. They used a white enameled ladle to dip the water.

    The building still stands. There is an art gallery there now. It is a narrow three stortied building, the oldest building in Speightstown I think. More than 300 years old.

    This was long before the Maurice Byer Polliclinic was built ‘up the hill” at Station Hill, St. Peter.

    At this time Dr. GP would have been about 8 years old. My youngest sibling who was born in early 1959 received her well baby care at this clinic. All or most of the women in our communities took their babies “to clinic” there. Babies however were still delivered at home by midwives Miss Westerman, and Mrs. Best, and medicine was bought from Noel Roach also in Speightstown, who had a most wonderfully old fashioned drug store/pharmacy.

    I expect that this was an early predecessor of the polyclinics

  9. David Avatar
    David

    All the world needs now is love sweet love.

  10. John Avatar
    John

    GP

    I think there must have been a third doctor whose contribution to Barbados’ Public Health was significant.

    Maybe it wasn’t a doctor but Sir Clyde Gollop, a layman, but instinct tells me there must have been a doctor involved as well.

    I was told by an old man that it was Dr. Hawkins who introduced the Condom to Barbados but at first it was claimed he was trying to kill out Black Bajans so it was not used.

    Whoever dealt with Family Planning was also key.

    That wasn’t a topic that was discussed around me when I was a boy so I only got to hear of Sir Clyde later on.

    I knew Sir Maurice pretty well growing up and got a great deal of understanding about water quality from him when I started researching it in 1987.

    He told me it was chlorination and the work of Tullstrom (zoning), that brought down the high infant mortality that existed in the 1960’s, not the building of the QEH!!.

    I don’t think I ever met Sir Frank, went to school with his son, a year or two difference.

    I knew of him, Rus in Urbe opposite HC!!

    As a boy I remember the maternal health programs and education that went on and when the QEH was built the logo of a mother and child on the wall.

    I remember a woman who worked for my mother in the early 1960’s who had 14 children and was poor. My mother often helped her.

    Enmore and Mrs. Barker were my source of innoculations for a while.

    I remember the candle method of sterilization and reuse of needles!!

    PLT had been trying to sell me that people were starving and malnutrition was why there was a high infant mortality.

    My position was it was clean water (Sir Maurice/Tullstrom) and the education of mothers and clinics(Sir Frank) that played important roles, not just food.

    For sure people were poor in those days but there were serious educational and water issues that had to be addressed.

    Before Government intervention in Health, a lot of the care mothers got was through charitable work by other women who were better off than they were.

    Florence Daysh comes to mind.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Daysh

    … and before the charitable work, back in the times of slavery, plantations provided medical attention.

    Emancipation had a down side, it ended a form of public health care.

    … and that is where charitable work of women came in … through the Mothers Unions that each church/vestry provided.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    It looks like the Democrats will regain control of the House. Republicans keeps control of the Senate as anticipated.

    Trump game on!

  12. John Avatar
    John

    Saudi Arabia the most Arab of Arab lands has officially a 10% African descended population, about the same as the 13% African descended population in the United States.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    It should be miles higher because whereas only about 400,000 went to America after 1586, millions went to muslim Arab lands from the 8th century.

    Their descendants identify themselves as Arabs.

    Most Arabs I guess are of African origin!!

  13. John Avatar
    John

    Arabs raped their female slaves;

    +++++++++++++++++++

    Female slaves went to Arab lands for the sole purpose of being a concubine!!

    That was their sole purpose in life.

    What do you think happened with them as they got older?

  14. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Wuhlosss…Repugnants lost the house of Representatives. ..no control over state government..BRING ON THE IMPEACHMENT…lol

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-house-midterm-election-trump-20181106-story.html#nt=oft-Double%20Chain~Flex%20Feature~election-chain-new~dems-817p~~1~yes-art~curated~curatedpage

  15. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    I read news reports on the US mid-term elections, which stated the Democrats won 218 seats to secure control of the House.

    I was wondering if this is “fake news” because it came from CNN and BBC, which, according to “45 govt,” are “fake news central” and “Biased Bullshit C***s,” respectively.

    So I decided to check FOX News website and realized that, with their new “FOX News Voter Analysis System,” the news network was the FIRST media outlet to call a win of the House by the Democrats.

    “Fox said its new methodology is based on surveys conducted across 50 states by a group at the University of Chicago, in combination with voting results collected by the AP.”

    On Tuesday, FOX News also said it had addressed the “unfortunate distraction” of Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro speaking at President Trump’s campaign rally in Missouri the night before, and that it doesn’t condone such behaviour.

    And to make matters worse, the Trump campaign had previously advertised to its followers on that Hannity would appear as a “special guest” at the Missouri rally.

    I was surprised the other Trump “pooch-licker,” Tucker Carlson, did not go on the platform as well. Perhaps he realized this behaviour was unethical.

  16. WARU Avatar
    WARU

    Lol…ah wonder with dumb trump supporters realize that not another trump bill will make it through the DEMOCRATIC controlled house, not one piece of legislation will see the light of day, every dirtbag decision the tangerine turd makes now will be stillborn in true lameduck style……murdahhhhh!!!!!

    And Muellers’ s findings will be icing on the cake….wuhloss!!!!

  17. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    WARU

    Have you “seen” John, and your friends lawson and 45 govt? By this time they would have been “out of the boxes” cussing you, PLT and Dribbler.

  18. John Avatar
    John

    WARU
    November 7, 2018 6:47 AM

    Lol…ah wonder with dumb trump supporters realize that not another trump bill will make it through the DEMOCRATIC controlled house, not one piece of legislation will see the light of day, every dirtbag decision the tangerine turd makes now will be stillborn in true lameduck style……murdahhhhh!!!!!
    And Muellers’ s findings will be icing on the cake….wuhloss!!!!

    ++++++++++++++++++++

    So what you think will happen in the 2020 Presidential Elections if the Democrats take on an obstructionist stance in the House and frustrate President Trump?

    Second term!!

    In any case, it is the Senate which controls the Supreme Court and a third Justice may soon have to be appointed by Trump.

    That will be the icing of Trump’s Presidency!!

  19. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    The election results were as expected… Americans are just as racist in 2018 as they were in 2016, particularly in Florida, Georgia and Iowa. The Republicans lost the popular vote by 7%.

  20. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    was hoping for the republicans to keep house but c’est la vie, now hoping that waru’s boyfriend takes a battering by the conservatives.
    Lets keep everything in perspective the judiciary has been saved, if that harpie rbg dies even more so. Trump needed a foil for the next election now he has one. I wonder if the dems upper crust will be able to control the new candidates

  21. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ John November 7, 2018 12:13 AM
    “It should be miles higher because whereas only about 400,000 went to America after 1586, millions went to muslim Arab lands from the 8th century.
    Their descendants identify themselves as Arabs.
    Most Arabs I guess are of African origin!!”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    And what about the Jews like your holy family Joseph, Mary and sweet boy-child Jesus who were refugees in Egypt? Are they of African or Arab origin too or are they specially descended from Adam & Eve via the ‘albino’ murderer Cain?

    What about the descendants of the Europeans, like the Greeks and Romans, who ‘invaded’ North Africa and left their genetic seed in the Egyptian pods containing ‘black’ DNA?
    Have you, the ‘know-it-all-things-African’ John, ever stopped to consider what happened to the male offspring from the wholesale rape aka concubine arrangements between the ‘Arabs slavers and the African women?

    Were these males also castrated and turned into ‘always ready lady boys’ to their Muslim slave-masters or can their DNA be found today in the populations of Yemen, Somalia and Eritrea the same way your dear-loving Quaker sexy slave owners left their ‘blood’ in the mulatto veins of Bajans and across the Americas?

  22. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Si Fuzzy,

    This all You Need is Love by the Beatles. That is different from What the World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love.

    If you want to live in Hope you will need to know the National Anthem. LOL

    Love actually makes one do the right thing. A new commandment I give unto you – that you love one another as I have loved you. Love they neighbour as thyself etc.

    God is love.

  23. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Ahh…what an interesting and refreshing note that “The election results were as expected…” 🤣…. No fake polls, no fake news but excellent prognostications generally and superb politicking by Trump..let’s give the man his due!

    @PLT, why do you interpret Florida as particulsrly racist in this election…I can agree wholeheartedly that lots of Americans are racists but it’s really a tad “unfair” to label the collective so easily….yes its true that since 1964 Florida has voted Democratic in Presidential elections only 4 times (Obama twice, Clinton n Carter) but those results are still significant.

    Furthermore, the new senator Scott was a popular and quite successful former Gov, as you know… so tho facile with the racist trope you can surely offer more purposely interpretations of the outcome 😁!

    Anyhow, let the business of divided govt begin…Obama had it and Clinton had it and they both won second terms handily (370 and 332 electoral votes) …

    …one hopes the Dem Congressfolk are SMART and dont simply investigate for bombastic BS publicity; impeachment must NOT be proposed unless there is some credible reason from Mueller or otherwise due to one of their investigations.

    On to the POTUS vrs Dems politicking.

  24. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Simple Simon November 6, 2018 11:46 PM

    In the early 1960’s there was a public health clinic in Speightstown, just to the north of Elmer’s Supermarket. on the land side/right hand side going north, along the old coast road.

    ACCORDING TO MAURICE BYER, THIS WAS OUR FIRST PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER– THE BRAIN CHILD OF MAURICE BYER.
    THAT IS WHY THE POLYCLINIC IN THE NORTH BEARS HIS NAME

    Artax November 7, 2018 6:25 AM

    So I decided to check FOX News website and realized that, with their new “FOX News Voter Analysis System,” the news network was the FIRST media outlet to call a win of the House by the Democrats.

    YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED SIR FOX NEWS PRESENTS THE NEWS. IT DOES NOT SURPRESS THE GOOD THINGS DONE BY TRUMP & CO

  25. John Avatar
    John

    @PLT, why do you interpret Florida as particulsrly racist in this election…

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    … and besides, Florida is mostly Latino, Spanish is the first language!!

    Most are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, many refugees who got there on boats .. fleeing Cuba!!

    The definition of a racist is anyone who does not agree with PLT …. and his collective!!

    I guess another reason PLT may think it racist is that there are many Castro victims there who got on stink when Obama reopened relations with Cuba.

  26. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    The black guy was a corrupt mayor of talahassie totally left wing and was gonna tax businesses to the nth degree tell me again why they voted for the other guy. What’s more amazing is people voting for Cortez her opponent talked economic her opponent talked immigration her opponent talked security and on a good day Cortez can spell all three of those words

  27. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    @John – the definition of a racist is PLT. It is his sole raisin d’etre. He is a very sick creature.

  28. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @John, respectfully your riposte does not make any point about lack of racist tendency!

    My remarks were NOT intended to dismiss the racism….rather to reflect that it is but ONE element of the complex mix of current southern politics…

    PLT’s general point that there is a racist mien which still exists in the US South like Florida is quite accurate…much more so than your illogical interpretations that such racism is not pronounced and being incited by POTUS.

    Now, for you to suggest that racism is less because …

    “besides, Florida is mostly Latino, Spanish is the first language!!…Most are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, many refugees who got there on boats .. fleeing Cuba!!” …

    … displays a rather strange understanding of “racism” and the behaviours of the average Castro dissident Cuban…shockingly so actually : they are some of the most rabid racists!

    Ah well, you are supposedly too smart and well read to make such a stupid blunder unless with deliberate intent.

    Ah gone!

  29. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    IT IS REAL FUN TO READ WHEN THE DUMMY TRIES TO CONTRADICT THE BARBADOS SCHOLAR WITH HIS HOIGHTY TOIGHTY LANGUAGE

    INTERESTING THAT THE BARBADOS SCHOLAR USES SIMPLE ENGLISH
    BE GONE DUMMY AND STAY GONE

    JOHN NEEDS TO PUT THIS LITTLE SALMON TOT RETRIEVER DOWN “LOVINGLY” AS I DID YESTERDAY WHEN THE TWIT STARTED UP ON SHITBAMA CARE

    BARE MOCK SPORT IN DE RUM SHOP

    AND ACTUALLY TO SAY THAT “besides, Florida is mostly Latino, Spanish is the first language!!…Most are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, many refugees who got there on boats .. fleeing Cuba!!” …IS ACTUALLY TRUE OF THE POPULATION OF MIAMI AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA

  30. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WILL TRUMP CONTINUE TO COME WITH GOOD PROFITABLE BUSINESS IDEAS UNLIKE THE FAECULENT ONES EXPOUSED, AND NOW EXPOSED THAT EXUDED FROM THE FAECOLITH SHIT BAMA?

    ANY ONE NOTICED HOW INCONSEQUENTIAL AND IN EFFECTIVE HE WAS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL?

    For the first time in nearly half a century, the United States of America is the top oil producing country in the world.

    According to the Energy Information Administration, American oil companies recently leapfrogged both Saudi Arabia and Russia by producing 11.3 million barrels per day in August. That figure has been rising quickly and the industry recorded a 4-percent jump over July. Rival Russia reportedly produced 11.2 million barrels daily and American ally Saudi Arabia pumped out 10.4 million barrels.

    While several states managed to hit record numbers over the summer, Texas accounted for upwards of 40 percent of America’s crude. With outfits pumping oil at breakneck speed, pipeline bottlenecks in Texas and New Mexico are forcing producers to call in more truck and rail transportation to keep pace. The U.S. has a good energy problem on its hands, but it did not come without a fight.

    America’s Winning Energy Independence Fight
    The OPEC oil cartel and mass oil producer Russia leveraged global pricing against American companies for decades.

    By September 2016, OPEC was reportedly two years deep in a price war with the ultimate goal of bankrupting American shale companies. OPEC and accomplice Russia ratcheted up supply to the point that prices were at unprofitable lows. Their intent was to put America in an energy death grip and stop any incursion on their energy dominance.

    U.S. output slowed from 2014 to 2016 with the Obama Administration impeding the industry’s ability to cut costs through pipelines and innovation. Ex-Pres. Obama routinely called out energy resources such as oil and coal as climate threats. U.S. oil was under siege from enemies both foreign and domestic. It teetered on falling.

    But in 2016, U.S. oil workers responded by developing multi-pad wells and drilled deeper rather than over-invest in speculation. Through innovation and American grit, they stood their ground. Production dipped, fields didn’t expand as they could have, but their resolve kept the country afloat until the oil-friendly Trump Administration tore up the anti-business obstacles holding the industry back.

    OPEC and Russia had made a critical mistake. They played a long game expecting left-wing American oil policy to sink the industry. Absorbing national deficits turned out to be OPEC’s Waterloo. OPEC was forced to cut production to turn a profit again in September 2016 and Russia followed suit. But the global rivals could not have anticipated a radical energy policy shift before the 2016 elections.

    Production began to rise in the autumn of 2016 and Pres. Donald J. Trump and his administration later unleashed the industry by approving critical pipelines, curbing regulations and opening the door to oil exports. The Trump Administration is currently reviewing the use of government land to house and distribute the oil surplus.

    Why Energy Independence Matters
    During the first half of the 20th Century, the U.S. was the undisputed world oil leader. But during the 1950s, oil consumption surpassed declining production. This ushered in one of the critical national security lessons with regards to energy.

    In 1973, the Organization of Arab Oil Exporting Countries (OAPEC) embargoed oil to the U.S. Basically, this group of militarily and economically inferior countries was able to cripple the U.S. through a single sanction. Just as Pres. Trump throttled North Korea’s nuclear aspirations, OAPEC cut off America’s lifeblood. Although the U.S. eventually shifted its oil primary partners to Canada and Mexico, the nation remained vulnerable to the whims of other countries.

    The country’s deficit hit rock bottom in 2011 during the Obama years at $321 billion annually. The record deficit is quickly being erased, and some estimate the U.S. will soon cover its average use of 19.96 barrels of petroleum products daily and enjoy a surplus before 2022. Current production increases are fast exceeding these estimates.

    On other energy fronts, the U.S. is gaining energy dominance in natural gas as well. The country is reportedly expected to move up to the fourth largest natural gas exporter by 2020. Poland has reportedly signed a deal with American natural gas outfits that will result in an end to its reliance on Russian imports.

    Make no mistake about it, energy is a major national security factor and one that defines which country leads. The United States just became the top oil producer in the world and is close to energy independence and global dominance.

  31. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    NOW THAT THE “BLUE WAVE” DID NOT EMERGE SHALL WE GET THE MORON DE PEDANTIC BRIMBLER AND DRIBBLER TO INSTITUTE AN “EMERGENCY POST MORTEM?” LIKE THE ONE HE PROPOSED A WHILE AGO FOR THE LIKKLE LAD WHO DIED IN ST LUCY

    MURDAH

    wHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A LACK OF DUMMIES WHO TINK THAT DEM SMART

  32. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    NO has it about right, the Republicans may even increase their numbers in the Senate look for a 52-48 split
    ++++++++
    I wrote the above on Oct.16 before the “Caravan” as the Democrats in the Senate were mostly defending in States that Trump won two years ago.

    As for the campaigns of Gillum and Abrams those proved to be a bridges too far especially in Southern States, it has been very difficult for Blacks to win statewide office, only Douglas Wilder and Deval Patrick have been able to win offices as Governors in modern history and David Patterson became Governor of NY by default because Elliot Spitzer let his small head rule his big head. In the case of Gillum and Abrams although the polls showed close races oftentimes people lie to pollsters to try to show they are more accepting than they really are, it is referred to as the “Bradley effect” (Tom Bradley was the former LA Mayor who ran for Gov. of California only to lose to little known George Deukmejian in his first attempt despite polls showing him with a large lead).

    The Congress should now be able to fulfill its mandate as a check against executive power, no more Devin Nunes as a House Chair to run to the WH like a tattle tail to try to sideline the Mueller inquiry and the Democrats will subpoena Trump to death as the Republican House did with H Clinton.

    If there was one bright light for the Democrats it was the defeat of Kris Kobach in his race for Gov of Kansas -the conspiracy minded Kobach was appointed by Trump to locate the 3 million “illegal” votes that went to H Clinton and lost to a Democrat in a “red” State.

  33. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    NOW THAT TRUMP BREK THE NECK OF THE “BLUE WAVE” SHALL WE GET THE MORON DE PEDANTIC BRIMBLER AND DRIBBLER, AND EXPERT ON CERVICAL INJURIES TO DISCUSS THE AETILOGY OF HOW TRUMP BREK THE NECK OF THE “BLUE WAVE”, AND THEN INSTITUTE AN “EMERGENCY POST MORTEM?” LIKE THE ONE HE PROPOSED A WHILE AGO FOR THE LIKKLE LAD WHO DIED IN ST LUCY

    MURDAH

    wHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A LACK OF DUMMIES WHO TINK THAT DEM SMART

    MOCKING DUMMIES IN DE RUM SHOP IS BARE SPORT

  34. John Avatar
    John

    AND ACTUALLY TO SAY THAT “besides, Florida is mostly Latino, Spanish is the first language!!…Most are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, many refugees who got there on boats .. fleeing Cuba!!” …IS ACTUALLY TRUE OF THE POPULATION OF MIAMI AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    PLT and his collective rail about whites and their racist tendencies!!

    What has happened in Florida is the whole character of the population has changed and still the anachronistic approach is being adopted by PLT!!!

    So now, PLT is calling a whole set of Latinos racist because they don’t agree with him …. like the 40%or more of the African American Population that approves of Trump that don’t agree with him … and his biggest bugbear … those ffing dumbass white people who don’t agree with him!!!!

    The Democrats, with the same mentality, cannot comprehend that the Latino population is like all of us.

    Each member is individually created by God and capable of individual thought and action.

    The principles on which America was founded are extremely difficult to assail successfully.

    They cannot be broken because those principles are God given.

    Individuals naturally gravitate to them, despite the temptations and distractions placed in their way.

    That’s why people from all over the world seek to get there regardless of the cost!!

    There is something extremely special there that beckons …. even though there is also a lot of evil like everywhere else in the worldl!!

  35. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @John
    The winning candidate for governor of Florida is a racist enthusiastically endorsed by the KKK. The voters elected a racist. To vote for a racist is, by definition, racist behavior.
    QED

  36. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @John
    What you are failing to comprehend is that there are objective standards for racism no matter what the color of the skin of the person exhibiting the behavior. So yes, if a Latinx person exhibits racist behavior they are being racist. If a person with 100% African ancestry exhibits behavior that explicitly supports White Supremacists then they are being racist. It’s not so hard to understand.

  37. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    “I went to vote in Florida—and discovered that my name had been removed from the rolls over something I’d tweeted.“
    http://on.theatln.tc/YyxpH25

  38. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    So the Senate remains intact
    Not surprised that the Democratics were only able to make limited short gains
    Again the pundits and pollsters seemed useless

  39. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been quiet lately as the midterm election played out. But that didn’t stop him from receiving bad news on election day. Exit polls indicated that more than half of voters polled believe his investigation is politically motivated.

    According to The Daily Caller:
    More than half of voters polled at election sites on Tuesday said that they believe the Mueller probe is politically motivated, according to exit polling data compiled by CNN.

    Only 40 percent of voters said they approve of the Mueller investigation, which is looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Slightly more voters said they disapprove, according to CNN.

    Those numbers track closely with NBC News’ exit polling data.

    According to NBC, 45 percent of voters said they disapprove of Mueller’s handling of the investigation, which began with an FBI probe on July 31, 2016. Forty-two percent of voters said they approve of Mueller’s handling of the inquiry.

    The new polling indicated a massive shift in the public perception of Mueller. Previous polls indicated support for the investigation as high as 63 percent. Now over half of voters feel the investigation is questionable.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @sirFuzzy

    It says a lot that you would ask the question? It is a human quality that should be innate.

  41. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    https://thehornnews.com/outrage-shocking-video-proves-tons-of-illegal-voting-tuesday/
    what the world needs now is HONESTY! AH LIE?

  42. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Lexicon November 6, 2018 7:49 PM

    All we need is God … becauses He is the answer to mankind destructive tendencies on earth … secular love could never minister to the needs of the human heart…

    LEXICON YOU ARE 100% ACCURATE secular love could never minister to the needs of the human heart…

    RE It is a human quality that should be innate.
    HOW CAN LOVE BE INATE WHEN THE WORD SAYS THAT THE HEART IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED!

    WHY DO BIBLE ILLITERATES ON BU ALWAYS SEEK TO HANDLE THE WORD LIKE HOW MONKEY DOES HANDLE MUSKET?

  43. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    COULD THIS BE TRUE?
    HOW HAS THE MIGHTY SHIT BAMA FALLEN AND EXCRETED AS WHAT HE IS

    INSTEAD OF HOPE AND CHANGE HE WAS DESPAIR AND CHANGE FOR THE WORSE

    https://flagandcross.com/confirmed-obama-rally-goers-offered-money-to-show-up-details/

    While President Trump can’t seem to find arenas big enough to house his supporters for rallies, Barack Obama can’t say the same.

    In fact, Obama had a hard time this election cycle filling small gymnasiums.

    It has now been confirmed that a Craig’s List ad offered people $15 to attend an Obama rally for Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams.

    A fan sent us a screenshot of a Craig’s List ad asking for people willing to attend Obama’s rally for Stacey Abrams at the traditionally Black, Moorehouse College on November 2nd.

    Is this just another example of manufactured enthusiasm for the Obama, the Democrat Party, and their comrades?

    The alleged ad claims they will pay attendees $15.00 to attend the event, as similar campaign stops by the former President have not been filled to capacity. They continue: We want a packed house for maximum media exposure and optics.

    Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh slammed Obama as “pathetic” for attempting to steal credit for the current booming economy.

    And if you think about it, Obama has to know he doesn’t have a leg to stand on. After all, he was the only president in history to never have a GDP above 3 percent.

    But now when things are flourishing, nearly two years after Obama is out of office, somehow Barack wants people to believe he was the one responsible?

    Kind of infuriating.

    He’s coming off as entirely petty and desperate (more on that below).

    From Daily Wire:

    On Monday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh roasted former President Barack Obama for trying to take credit for his successor’s booming economy in “pathetic” fashion. Obama made the remarks on Sunday night in Chicago, where he was campaigning for Democrats.

    “By the way, this was another meager crowd,” he said. “I mean, they said it was 9,600 people. They said that’s what this place held. It was not full. Obama, the Clintons, they just can’t … they can’t do it. They cannot do what Trump does. They cannot draw crowds. They cannot create excitement. They’re trying. They want in on the action, but they’re not pulling it off.”

    The host then ran the audio clip of Obama from Sunday night, while occasionally shouting an objection from behind his golden EIB mic (transcript provided by Rushlimbaugh.com):

    OBAMA: Democrats had to come in and I had to grab a broom and we had to get a mop and we had to clean up their mess. And it was hard, and it was slow, but we got the economy growing again. And we covered another 20 million folks with health care. And we made sure the wealthiest paid their fair share of taxes. And by the time I left office, wages were rising —

    RUSH: No.

    OBAMA: — unemployment had fallen —

    RUSH: No.

    OBAMA: — the uninsured rate was falling.

    RUSH: No!

    OBAMA: The economy created more jobs over my latest 21 months than it did the 20 months since I’ve left office.

    RUSH: No way!

    OBAMA: So when you hear the Republicans bragging about how good the economy is right now, where do you think that started?

    Rush for the win?

    SHITBAMA OFFERING PEOPLE TO COME TO HIS RALLIES FOR THE OPTICS REMINDS ME OF VALUE MD THEY ADVERTISING LIKE HELL HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE CAUSE NO ONE READING VALUEMD ANYMORE

  44. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WATCH: Video Shows Poll Workers Encouraging People to Vote Democrat
    My goodness!

    COULD THIS BE TRUE?

    https://flagandcross.com/watch-video-shows-poll-workers-encouraging-people-to-vote-democrat/

  45. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    COULD THIS BE TRUE?

    Dems Veiled Threat: We’ll Know If You Don’t Vote, & So Will Your Neighbors
    I’m sorry…come again!?

    Johnny Salvatore

    https://flagandcross.com/dems-veiled-threat-well-know-if-you-dont-vote-so-will-your-neighbors/

    Scare tactics.

    That’s what the Democrat party turns to when they have no message to run on.

    And in 2018, Dems have nothing to run on.

    So, here’s the plan…

    From Free Beacon:

    Individuals in at least three states have received literature from Democratic campaigns, organizations, or state parties warning that their voter records are public information. In one of those states, residents received documents that reveal if their immediate neighbors have voted in past elections.

    The language used on all three of the documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that a unified theme of “who you vote for is private, but whether or not you vote is public record” has been used throughout in an apparent attempt to push voters to the polls.

    Just before the midterms, thousands of Twitter accounts were removed at the request of Democrats.

    From Reuters:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company.

    “We took action on relevant accounts and activity on Twitter,” a Twitter spokesman said in an email. The removals took place in late September and early October.

    Twitter removed more than 10,000 accounts, according to three sources familiar with the Democrats’ effort. The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

    BY THE WAY

    In 2015, Hillary Clinton boasted about voting to build “barriers” on the southern border to keep out illegal aliens while she was a senator.

    In 2009, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said illegal immigration is “wrong.”

    However, President Donald Trump chose to tweet out a 2005 clip of former President Barack Obama basically saying illegals were not welcome in America, noting that illegals “disrespect the rule of law.”

    Obama: “Those who come here illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

    Trump agrees with Obama HERE.

  46. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Democracy in those Disunited States of America means whites only privilege,all others stand back and suffer for not being whites and lies,more lies and even more lies from the president-so-called all the way down to the city douncillors and school boards.What a disgrace to the creature called Homo sapiens…more like Homo ignoramus.Life is sure brutish for non whites in the land of milk and honey both of which are unsuitable for the human body.It just shows the fools are a plenty in the DSA.I think those like gear box,ding ding,beanzie,ta-la-la-la,cedilla,lilliputian,isthmus,sharkie,easy boy and a host of ordinary Bajans are far better off that those unfortunate Americans.

  47. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    TX Election Officials Allow Non-Citizens to Vote – Caught On Camera (WATCH)
    Here we go…
    https://flagandcross.com/tx-election-officials-allow-non-citizens-to-vote-caught-on-camera-watch/

  48. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Trump advocates kicking out children born to non citizens until he was told that his first 3 children’s mother did not become a citizen until1988 when the last of her three children born to the said thug was 7 years old.

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Hundreds of staff at Lucky Horseshoe Saloon and Steakhouse are facing an uncertain future after being told they would be laid off.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/211559/unlucky-blow

  50. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “Scores of former CLICO policyholders, including pensioners, are in financial limbo. This has left their representative, the Barbados Investors and Policyholders Alliance (BIPA), “vexed” and “frustrated”.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/211561/upset-delays

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