Showing posts with label United Arab Emirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Arab Emirates. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

When the going gets tough, the weak have to sell their gold, or hinder its purchase

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  As gold’s tumble continues, traders bet the pain may last for two more years ... “Turkey’s central bank is selling gold and buying dollars...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

From JMIC Update 45: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait tanker transits average 13.42/day May 7-13, 2026

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 Strait of Hormuz 1.57/day. BAM tanker transits aren't even up to 2022's average of 30/day. The crisis of the oil trade is not being...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Iran conducts first attack since April 8 ceasefire, hits UAE oil export terminal at the Port of Fujairah

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  Iran attacks UAE; U.S. says it sank boats in Strait of Hormuz    
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

My heart's . . . on fire . . . for Fu-jai-rah

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  United Arab Emirates leaving OPEC, effective May 1  
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Some 230 tankers are loaded with oil and waiting to sail out of the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, but they can't

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 The Strait of Hormuz is not open as Iran controls access after ceasefire, UAE oil CEO says ... “This moment requires clarity,” said Sultan ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Today's drinking word is CINO

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 Ceasefire in name only.    
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

It's embarrassing to have a whiny little baby for president demonstrating everyday that he's not up to the job of being the leader of the free world

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  Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore’ ... “You’ll have to start learning how t...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

CENTCOM boasts hitting 10k+ targets in one month of war, and yet Iran continues to wage it successfully against Israel, the UAE, and others

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 The point of war is to stop the enemy's ability to wage it. That clearly has not happened in one month of operations. The reason is bec...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...
Friday, May 16, 2025

On his last day in Abu Dhabi president Trump is thinking about hot women

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A week before the 60-day War Powers Act deadline, the Houthis conveniently cry uncle and pledge to halt attacks on US naval forces and Red Sea shipping

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  Israel wipes out the Houthi airport, fuel supplies, and concrete factory and then they finally cry uncle?  Something doesn't add up he...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Cloud seeding story too hot to handle for UAE authorities, Habibi bros where are you?

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  UAE government unit denies cloud seeding took place before Dubai floods   The NCM denial follows an   earlier Bloomberg report , in which...

Dubai seeds clouds on the weekend, gets floods by Tuesday, but no, it was climate change

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Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Cloud Seeding Worsens Flooding   The Gulf state’s National Center of Meteorology dispatched seeding planes fr...

So much more predictable than the actual weather lol

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Fearful of UAE speech laws, craven AP Obama never mentions that government cloud-seeding operations turbocharged Dubai rains leading to historic flooding and deaths

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AP Obama can always be counted on to lie by omission.  Storm dumps heaviest rain ever recorded in desert nation of UAE, flooding roads and D...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Erbil, Iraq and Balochistan Province in Pakistan, a nuclear power, show the Biden administration's policy of appeasement is an abject failure

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  Biden's weakness has emboldened Iran, which is betting that the superpower which cut and run in Afghanistan has no stomach to stop the...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

LOL, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates don't want to talk to Joe Biden about his self-imposed US oil problems

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 From the story : Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined U.S. requests to...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Things noteworthy from my reading October 17-24

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 US wildfires may have burned approaching 8 million acres by now in 2020 but tens of millions of acres used to burn in this country annually...