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Oil producers, particularly in the Middle East and the US, are stepping up their investments in pumping more crude. Photo / Getty Images

The International Energy Agency predicts there’ll be more than 8 million barrels a day of excess capacity by 2030 as producers invest in pumping more crude.

The world faces a “staggering” surplus of oil equating

The IEA cautioned its forecast for shrinking oil demand could be derailed by “relatively minor changes” in events. For example, a 0.3 per cent annual increase in the world’s GDP growth, a US$5 annual drop in real oil prices, or a 15 per cent slowdown in the rollout of EVs would each be enough to swing oil consumption back to growth by the end of the decade.

Written by: Malcolm Moore

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To the Editor:
I read last week’s editorial about the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school budget revote with great disappointment and some surprise [“Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board is taking a ‘helluva gamble’,” June 6, 2024].

In the editorial, you indicate that there has not been an organized anti-budget  movement in the Hilltowns. The fact of the matter is every school budget is met with displeasure by a group of anti-tax, anti-public school individuals who take to Facebook to spread misinformation and fear about the proposed spending plan, regardless of what it includes.

We have a large contingency of homeschoolers in this district who are vocal about their objections to public schools and, while they have the right to educate their children however they see fit, they do not have the right to dismantle school budgets and decimate programming for the other children in our community.

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‘Crisis at the court’: Justice Alito’s anger at reporting on Supreme Court is part of the problem  Yahoo! Voices

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We know that “privately, Trump has told allies that he is keenly interested in cutting corporate tax rates again,” according to The Washington Post, even as corporate profits hit near record highs in 2023. The Post also reported that “Trump’s advisers…have discussed proposals to make deeper cuts to the overall corporate tax rate, potentially to as low as 15 percent.” As antitax advocate Grover Norquist told The Post, “‘I would be very surprised’ if he abandoned the push for lower corporate taxes…‘All the people advising him before for sure think the 15 percent is where we need to go.’”

Corporations do not make their tax returns public so we cannot know the precise size of each corporations’ tax cut from a 15 percent corporate tax rate. Financial filings, however, provide some clue about which corporations pay the most in U.S. corporate taxes and would benefit the most from the lower tax rate.

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What’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied reputation is based on holding powerful people and institutions accountable, all for the sake of democracy? The paper that broke the Watergate story, thus helping to unseat a corrupt president, and that, following the New York Times, riskily published the Pentagon Papers?

When Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, it was struggling financially, and its future was uncertain. The billionaire’s ownership not only restored the paper to profitability for several years, but allowed it to regain its prominence. While setting an ambitious tone for technical transformation, he properly kept his hands off the journalism, letting legendary editor Marty Baron do his job.

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Donald Trump, recently convicted on 34 felony charges related to falsifying business records, admitted to New York officials that he had not surrendered a gun he possesses in Florida but that was registered in New York, according to CNN. It is a federal crime for someone convicted of a felony to possess a firearm or ammunition.

An official who was briefed on the pre-sentencing meeting told CNN that Trump admitted to still possessing one of the three fireams listed on his New York City permit to carry concealed weapons. Two of the three pistols he was licensed to carry were handed over to police in March 2023, after his gun license was suspended in light of his arrest by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. The third gun was “lawfully moved to Florida,” presumably to his estate at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, where Trump was for the remotely-conducted hearing.

Palm Beach police told CNN that they were not told of any gun that Trump might have, and none were turned over to them since his conviction in May. The New York City Police Department has now notified police in Florida and asked them to take appropriate action.

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Alito recording plunges Supreme Court into deeper controversy  The Hill

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Stanford University infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan has seen a lot of patients with runny noses, fevers, and irritated eyes lately. Such symptoms could signal allergies, covid, or a cold. This year, there’s another suspect, bird flu — but there’s no way for most doctors to know.

If the government doesn’t prepare to ramp up H5N1 bird flu testing, he and other researchers warn, the United States could be caught off guard again by a pandemic.

“We’re making the same mistakes today that we made with covid,” Deborah Birx, who served as former President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, said June 4 on CNN.

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While some Wall Street billionaires are openly supporting Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House, most top executives at publicly traded companies are a different story, according to Pangaea Policy founder Terry Haines.

The former president’s conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury will lead to a “measurable but small drip, drip, drip away from Trump” among the overall electorate, he told Bloomberg TV on Friday after telling clients in note that it will also make attracting serious financial and political backing on Wall Street harder.

That’s despite billionaires like Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Miriam Adelson supporting Trump, with and Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman slamming the hush-money trial and reportedly leaning toward endorsing Trump too.

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WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the mainstreaming of hard-right politics ahead of a presidential election cycle, white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest annual report on hate and extremism released Tuesday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government groups, up 133 from 2022’s count, and 595 hate groups, an increase of 72 more than the previous year’s figure.

Accounting for a large portion of the increase was a 50% surge in white supremacy hate groups in 2023, the highest jump ever recorded by the SPLC, growing to 165 over 109 in 2022. White power and neo-Nazi rallies across the U.S. totaled 143 in 2023, down from 191 in 2022.

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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday recognized that the price of insulin is lower under President Joe Biden, but he still wants voters to credit his own administration.

“Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!”

The comment comes as Trump lags Biden on the issue of health care, a top voter priority as the November election nears.

For example, a May survey from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, found Biden with an 11-point lead over Trump on the question of ensuring access to affordable health insurance.

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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording  NBC Miami