“Opening more federal lands and waters to oil and gas drilling is a pillar of President Trump’s plan to make the United States energy independent,” said Zinke. And not only that: it will also cut off a great part of the funding for the global jihad, which goes from our gasoline money to oil-producing states, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Saudi Arabia’s Sauve Qui Peut
Saudi spokesmen made three significant – even stunning –announcements last week. The first one came from the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, speaking to oil company executives at a meeting in Houston. He announced that Saudi Arabia was going to break completely with its past policy, would no longer be OPEC’s swing producer, and […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Islam à voile et à vapeur
There is a French phrase — “Il marche à voile et à vapeur” — literally, “it moves by sail or by steam,” which refers, however, not to a sailboat or a steamboat or a boat that can move using either means of propulsion but, rather, in the witty French manner, to a person who is […]
Obama blocking “ethical alternative to importing oil from regimes such as Saudi Arabia”
Obama’s trip to Israel was a disaster, as he strong-armed Netanyahu into apologizing for Israel’s defensive action against the Mavi Marmara jihad flotilla (which apology Al Jazeera — as noted below — happily characterized as “normalizing” ties between Israel and Turkey). And comparison of Israeli/”Palestinian” relations to those between the U.S. and Canada was simply […]
Pamela Geller: Romney’s vow to end funding of jihadist nations
In “Romney’s Vow to End Funding of Jihadist Nations” in WND today, Pamela Geller discusses a little-noted but crucially important promise from Mitt Romney: Speaking in Hobbs, N.M., last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, according to the El Paso Times, that “his administration would team with Mexico and Canada to make North America […]