As featured on The Huffington Post: In 2004, nearly nine years ago, at the beginning of the school year, an incident took place of such murderous hatred that its happening serves as the defining dimension of the nature of the separatist insurgency and violence that have shaken Chechnya since Muslim rebels have been agitating for [...]
Boston and Beslan: The Mindset of Terror!
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Tagged Al-Queda, Arabs, Belsan School Massacre, Boston, Boston Marathon, Chechens, Checnya, Hostages, Independent Muslim State, Inguish, Muslim Rebels, Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion, Russia, Russian Security Forces, Saudi Arabia, Schoolchildren, Shamil Basayev, Terr Orism, Terrorism, World News
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Egypt’s Looming Famine and America’s Grain Bounty
As featured on The Huffington Post: Headlined in Sunday’s New York Times, front page lead column “Short Of Money, Egypt Sees Crisis On Fuel and Food” goes into the grim details that Egypt is at the precipice of an acute food shortage, and that Egypt’s desperately scarce wheat, needed to feed a growingly restive population with [...]
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Tagged Business News, Commodities Trading, Department Of Agriculture, Ex-Im Bank, Eygpt, Food, IMF, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Muslim Brotherhood, Petroleum, State Department, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Switzerland, The New York Times, United Nations, United States, Wheat, World, World Bank
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JPMorgan Board’s Abject Failure of Oversight
As featured on The Huffington Post: In a classic example of crony board behavior, in spite of the grossly embarrassing Senate hearings highlighting massive fissures in JP Morgan’s trading oversight and management, highlighting a corporate policy of proprietary trading, more clearly translated as rote gambling, that was not only countenanced but encouraged by management resulting [...]
The JPMorgan Congressional Inquisition; ‘Deja-Vu’ All Over Again
As featured on The Huffington Post: JP Morgan has finally, finally been brought to account in the congressional hearings yesterday. The alacrity and seeming ease with which $6 billion were spirited away trading in proprietary derivatives by the “London Whale” with seemingly conspiratorial oversight by top management was breathtaking in its full-bore lack of assumed [...]
The Price of Gasoline and the Patently Absurd Application of Our Sovereign Immunity Law
As featured on The Huffington Post: The title of the article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal– “Drivers Feel Pinch of Climbing Gas Prices” — says it all. Yet we have an anomaly in our courts, irresponsibly supported by the executive and legislative branches of our government, in the manner that our courts interpret Sovereign Immunity and, in [...]
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Tagged Amicus Brief, Business News, Citgo, Congress, Department Of Justice, Executive Branch, Gas Price, John Rockefeller, Motiva-Crude-Oil-Refinery, NOPEC Legislation, Obama Administration, OPEC Cartel, Petroleos De Venezuela, President George W. Bush, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco, Sherman Act, Sovereign Immunity, Standard Oil
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The Keystone XL Pipeline, Terrorism and Our National Security
As featured on The Huffington Post: Among the most salient arguments in defense of the Keystone Pipeline is the perception that the oil originating in Alberta Canada is from a safe and politically reliable source. This in sharp contrast to current U.S. imports of crude oil from the Venezuela of Chavez and the Saudi Arabia [...]
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Tagged Alberta, Business News, Canada, Gas & Oil, Green, Hugo Chávez, Islamists, National Security, OPEC, Ottawa, Province Of Quebec, Saudi Arabia, TransCanada, Wahabi-Salafism
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Putin’s Russia Now World’s Largest Gold Bullion Buyer — Why?
On February 10 Bloomberg reported that “Putin Turns Black Gold Into Bullion as Russia Out-Buys World,” advising that the world’s largest oil producer’s central bank has added some 570 metric tons of gold over the last several years for a total inventory of 958 tons. This while the likes of Switzerland, France and the Netherlands [...]
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Tagged Business News, Commodity Exchanges, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gas & Oil, Gold, Kgb, Putin, Russia, World
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Energy Secretary Chu Resigns Leaving Oil Markets in Turmoil
As featured on The Huffington Post: In his letter of resignation from the post of Energy Secretary, Chu characterized his Department as a “Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.” He then goes on to point out the myriad achievements and initiatives during his tenure ranging from BioEnergy Research [...]
Will Chuck Hagel Be the Oil Producers’ Plant in Our Government?
As featured on The Huffington Post: Chuck Hagel needs be asked many questions but one overriding issue is Hagel’s relationship to the interests of the oil producers from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and on. Questions to the formation of oil prices, and the interests generally of the oil and gas industry whose history has proven all [...]
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Raymond J. Learsy, a graduate of the Wharton School, made his life in the fast-paced, risk-filled world of commodities trading, beginning in 1959. In 1963, he started his own firm and over twenty years expanded from the U.S. into Canada, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Brazil, and Pakistan, trading in an array of bulk raw materials and commodities, shipping to customers worldwide. In the 1980s, he shifted gears as a private investor, from 1982 to 1988, served as a Reagan appointee to the National Endowment for the Arts...
