11/15/24

Drill baby drill is really about mining crypto, abetting Russia

Amid the continual sturm and drang from Senator John Thune (Earth hater-SD) is a constant harangue at his Faceberg page from the far white wing of his political party who revere Donald Trump's patron, Vladimir Putin. And, with Mitch McConnell going away Thune will find himself straddling a very rickety fence especially after voting to aid Ukraine in her fight against King Vlad

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline helped Vlad the Impaler raise the petrodollars he needed to wage war on Ukraine but some eighty percent of the world's oil transactions are priced in dollars subject to enforcement actions by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice.
Russia is extremely dependent on oil revenues. If something happens to this resource, Russians will face extremely difficult conditions, as they will be cut off from external markets, said Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Professor of Economics Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and advisor to the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyy, in an interview with Ekonomichna Pravda. “If they have petrodollars, then [the economic resource for continuing the war will last for – ed.] a very long time. But if petrodollars run out, then the Russian economy will end within a year,” said Gorodnichenko. [RUSSIAN ECONOMY TO COLLAPSE WITHIN A YEAR WITHOUT PETRODOLLARS, SAYS BERKELEY PROFESSOR]
In September Sibanye-Stillwater mining company in Montana announced the ending some 800 jobs after Russia flooded the world palladium market sinking Democratic Senator Jon Tester's reelection

There is little doubt in my mind that damning evidence linking Trump to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Russia was destroyed on 9/11. In 2018 KSA Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi who was investigating the Trump Organization and Jared Kushner's blood money infusions. 

So why does TrumpWorld want to ditch the US Dollar for crypto? At about half of California’s gross domestic product Russia is virtually irrelevant in the global marketplace and destined to become a Chinese client state sooner than later.
In May, the Biden administration ordered a crypto-mining operation in Cheyenne to divest due to its proximity to F.E. Warren Air Force Base and national security concerns associated with speculations about the business’s ties to the Chinese government. Though they have not publicly stated where they will source the energy for the operations or whether they will try to increase energy consumption there, as well, the former owner of the land at Front Range Business Park, MineOne Partners Limited, previously told the WTE that their Bitcoin mining operation had an energy agreement with Black Hills Energy to deliver up to 45 MW of electric service, with potential to expand to 75 MW. [Company moves into former crypto mine that Biden ordered to leave for national security concerns]
South Dakota's K Street-owned christofascist don Juan Thune was a lobbyist for industrial chemical companies before his handlers bought him a blogger and a Senate seat. Then he went to DC as one of America's least wealthy politicians but after nearly two decades in the swamp and helping to pack the Federal Communications Commission with Trump stooges he's rich.

North Dakota's governor and Interior pick is a crypto guy but Bitcoin mining in the Permian Basin is driving pollution into the ozone, too.


2018 image of Thune and others in Moscow is from the Washington Post.


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