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droid

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Alberta shale went to -$2 earlier today, US crude is at -$37. Itll stay this way until the new contracts kick in at the end of the month, and then probably happen again.

If this kills the North American shale industry it'll be very good news for the future.
 

IdleRich

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The way I see it, if the price of petrol goes negative then so should the tax which is a multiple of it right? Government pays tax to the people for a change.
 

WashYourHands

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Have you seen the oil price?

It's negative.

Dear Russia, dear independent Scotland, any comment?

Scotland legalises cannabis, a green rush ensues, combination drug abuse deaths plummet, house prices in Airdrie & Dumbarton escalate massively. Sturgeon brings out a line of edibles shaped like her barnet. Brave new world. Indy Ref 2 eases in. Death of the Union, but some cunt from Edinburgh slips in a legislative act that keeps a monarch. Celtic invades Edinburgh. Rangers & Hearts Jambos set up a plot to assassinate Sturgeon while the battle rages, seeing her profiteering as treason. Hibs garrotte the entire combined hun forces at Easter Road, but Sturgeon is mortally wounded in a partially foiled last stand & dies. Kenny Dalglish’s coronation evolves out of the ashes. A welcome home call to the sons & daughters of Scottish emigres is sent out, with generous resettlement visas extended as the new republic consolidates its power & legislature. England’s northern border counties, already restless from the economic boom & civil unrest to the north, cede land, troops & resources to Alba. Yorkshire wobbles. Rioting starts in Birmingham. A secret network of Celtic supporters in London start to arm & radicalise dissenting voices sick of 40 years of Tory govt.

From little acorns......
 

Leo

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TBF the dems just recently encouraged voting in the middle of a pandemic in order to ensure that their right wing candidate defeated a marginally left wing opponent. Thats pretty evil no matter how you swing it.

hardly a patch on letting thousands of people die from that pandemic, engineering a staunchly conservation court that hands done decisions that set back decades of progressive for all sorts of human rights and social issues, welcoming meddling from foreign powers in the electoral process, turning a blind eye to/passively encouraging racists gun-toting far right groups, etc.

plus, the democratic primary was over a long time before last week.
 

IdleRich

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US banning immigrants now for a period to contain coronavirus... let me be the millionth person to suggest that as US has more cases than the next few worst countries put together the virus is more likely to be travelling in the other direction.
 

Mr. Tea

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Hmm, crackerjack (late of this parish) is saying on FB that the "@nhs_susan" account, while clearly fake, is just a glaringly obvious right-wing troll account and that the guy claiming it's a govt psy-ops job is himself an unreliable crank and has offered no evidence of the claims, just unnamed "sources".
 
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droid

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hardly a patch on letting thousands of people die from that pandemic, engineering a staunchly conservation court that hands done decisions that set back decades of progressive for all sorts of human rights and social issues, welcoming meddling from foreign powers in the electoral process, turning a blind eye to/passively encouraging racists gun-toting far right groups, etc.

plus, the democratic primary was over a long time before last week.

Well the dems have more than their fair share of skeletons in the closet but of course, they're hardly going to compare with the the most evil organisation in human history - but risking the lives of your supporters by repeatedly telling them to go out and vote in a (as you claim) inconsequential primary during a pandemic is a good start.
 
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IdleRich

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Kim Jong-Un did have an operation on his heart yesterday... think N Korea released a statement saying that he was potentially in danger.
 

IdleRich

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Actually they are reporting it differently today - that's what I read before I went to bed. Seems it's a non-official source that said that.
 

IdleRich

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So no-one want to say anything about how senior servant Sir Simon McDonald (I think his name is) has revealed that the UK not signing up to the EU PPE thing was in fact not due to a missed email or whatever the next excuse was but was in fact "A political decision"? I mean obviously we're all staggered by that shocking revelation... not cos it's not shocking in what it means but cos we knew they had done it anyway.
There is now a kinda whispering campaign saying that Sir Simon is writing a letter to clarify that when he said "It was a political decision" a lot of people misinterpreted it as meaning that the decision that he was talking about was in fact a political one for some reason. But this letter seems to be taking a long time to materialise so maybe it's another lie to cover up the previous ones... or maybe he's dragging his feet over being ordered to undermine his own credibility, who knows?
But how the fuck do they keep getting away with this stuff?
 

IdleRich

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Gah... he's walking it back now

"I inadvertently and wrongly told the committee that ministers were briefed by UKMIS on the EU's joint procurement agreement scheme and took a political decision not to participate in it. This is incorrect."
Hmmm... he inadvertently said that eh? At least he's admitting that he said it, unlike when Priti Patel apologised for those secret Israeli meetings that she kept lying about

Patel told the Guardian: “Boris knew about the visit. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip]. It is not on, it is not on at all.
“I went out there, I paid for it. And there is nothing else to this. It is quite extraordinary. It is for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves,” she said.
Two days later

“This quote may have given the impression that the secretary of state [Priti Patel] had informed the foreign secretary about the visit in advance. The secretary of state would like to take this opportunity to clarify that this was not the case."
 

Leo

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so much for hydroxychloroquine...

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study
A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.

The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it’s the largest look so far of hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin for COVID-19, which has killed more than 171,000 people as of Tuesday.

The study was posted on an online site for researchers and has has not been reviewed by other scientists. Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia paid for the work.

Researchers analyzed medical records of 368 male veterans hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus infection at Veterans Health Administration medical centers who died or were discharged by April 11.

About 28% who were given hydroxychloroquine plus usual care died, versus 11% of those getting routine care alone. About 22% of those getting the drug plus azithromycin died too, but the difference between that group and usual care was not considered large enough to rule out other factors that could have affected survival.

Hydroxychloroquine made no difference in the need for a breathing machine, either.

Researchers did not track side effects, but noted a hint that hydroxychloroquine might have damaged other organs. The drug has long been known to have potentially serious side effects, including altering the heartbeat in a way that could lead to sudden death.

Earlier this month, scientists in Brazil stopped part of a study testing chloroquine, an older drug similar to hydroxychloroquine, after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested.

Many doctors have been leery of the drug.

At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, “I think we’re all rather underwhelmed” at what’s been seen among the few patients there who’ve tried it, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control and prevention.

Patients asked about it soon after Trump started promoting its use, “but now I think that people have realized we don’t know if it works or not” and needs more study, said Safdar, who had no role in the VA analysis.

The NIH and others have more rigorous tests underway.


https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2
 
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