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Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed.

The vast total captured by petrostates and fossil fuel companies since 1970 is $52tn, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis, says Prof Aviel Verbruggen, the author of the analysis. The huge profits were inflated by cartels of countries artificially restricting supply.

2023 four-star TJ Power note...

2023 four-star TJ Power is taking a junior year official visit to North Carolina tomorrow and then one to Duke on Tuesday, he tells TheHoosier.com.

Both are just 24 hours visits.

Power was visiting family in the North Carolina area after Peach jam and decided to make the trip to Chapel Hill and Durham since he was in the area.

He will plan on figuring out senior year official visits after he gets back.

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interesting analysis: An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy

The rise of White Christian Nationalism, the warping of Christian ideals, and a reinvention of history

Yes, at CNN. Good read, though.


Another way of looking at season records...

I'm personally going with a weighted system of how I look at Wins 🏆 and even the extremely unlikely possibility 😉 of a Loss this Fall...


My points scale criteria ranges from an extraordinary, nationally recognized, upset Win (= a score of +5.50 [+7.50 for a National Championship W]..., to a Loss expected by everyone else in the known universe, outside of me and Tom Allen (= a -0.50)

vs Illinois: a Win would receive a score of 4.00 due to its importance towards mentally reenergizing both our Team and the fanbase, while a Loss would receive a -3.5 due to deflating nature of it...

vs Idaho: a Win would get a 1.0, whereas a Loss would be a -4.50 (see above)

vs WKy: a Win gets a 1.0 and a Loss a -4.50

vs Cincinnati: at their place, at night.., 4.00 (inflated due to early national poll implications and puts last seasons bitter loss to them in the rear view mirror)
for the Win..., -1.5 for a Loss

vs Nebraska: at Nebraska..., a night game at their place..., a 4.00 (inflated due to their name recognition, that it's a nationally televised night game, And it would be a key early Big Ten W), for the Win and a -1.0 for a Loss...

vs Michigan: (Our Homecoming game) a 4.5 for a Win and a -1.5 (its Homecoming) for a Loss

vs Maryland: a 1.5 for a Win and a -1.5 for a Loss *(it's at a pivotal point in the season)*

vs Rutgers: a 1.5 for a Win and a -1.5 for a Loss
(Key midseason away game)

vs Ped $tate: a 4.0 for the Win (their name recognition plus it's a key Big Ten Win in the East) and a -1.0 for a Loss

vs "the" O-H-I-O $tate: at the "Shoe", a 5.50 for the Win (National level Upset, where we not only have beaten a great team at Their place but also the gambling influences, And the Big Ten front office influences...; a Loss = a -0.50 (as in: no one outside of me and Tom Allen believed we ever had a chance anyway)

vs Michigan State: at their place, a 3.5 for the Win (a tough place to get a W and it's a Trophy game) and a -1.5 for a Loss (it's a Trophy game)

vs p u : (*It's for the "Bucket" *), a 4.5 for the Win and a -4.5 for a Loss

Big Ten Championship Game: a 5.0 for the Win, a -0.50 for a Loss (no one on this planet outside of Tom Allen, Vesuvius, and myself gave us any chance of reaching the game, much less winning it)

*Bowl Game: 3.50 for the Win (need a Bowl W) and a -1.5 for a Loss (everyone remembers the last game for better or worse) //Add 2 points to the Win [for a 5.50] if that Bowl game**is a championship preliminary game..., and an L is still -1.5...

National Championship Game: 7.50 for the Win, -0.50 for a Loss

//** and..., by popular demand..., add +1.00 to any New Years Eve+ Bowl Win...(other than a championship prelim game)...😉//

+57.0 = what they used to call on the Rifle Range "a Possible" (Best score possible)🥇🏆🍺💥

-27.0 = The worst possible outcome, and we're all following Big Red Crimson Buffalo off the proverbial cliff in a Lemming-like stampede that would rival any disaster ever seen before involving a Bison Herd (virtual or otherwise)... The ensuing en-mass mental breakdowns on here would reach epic proportions never before seen on the interwebby thingy... 🙉🙈😖

🏈 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 🏈

A frightening survey redux

Who could have seen this coming?


We asked 1,000 student loan borrowers who have taken on debt since Biden won the 2020 election how much his promise to forgive some amount of student loans affected their decision to take on debt or even go to college in the first place.

The results:

  • An overwhelming 86% say Biden’s pledge affected their decision to take on student loan debt
  • Close to 1 in 3 say they are unlikely to continue school if Biden does not follow through with his pledge
  • The majority remain confident that the president will forgive at least some amount of student loan debt
  • Nearly 1 in 3 Democratic borrowers unlikely to vote for Biden in the next election without some loan forgiveness
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2023 4-star TJ Power sorting through blue blood offers, planning visits

Update on TJ Power from this weekend by Rivals national recruiting director Rob Cassidy. Quotes from this weekend before the visits were set up. Talks mainly about some of the newer schools involved:


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Boebert: I'm tired of this separation between church and state

"The church is supposed to direct the government."

“the government is not supposed to direct the church,” saying that dividing religion from the system of government was not what the Founding Fathers intended.

“I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk — that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like they say it does,” Boebert said, earning a round of applause from the audience.

Lordy.... she may be more DANC-dumb than even DANC.


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