
Mika Saari
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China’s Oil Problem Is Not Just Volume. It Is Quality 🛢️🇨🇳 Crude oil is not all the same. And that explains one of the biggest shifts in the market right now. China’s refining system is heavily built around medium sour crude, the type of barrel that comes mainly from the Gulf: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇮🇷 Iran 🇴🇲 Oman These barrels are not easy to replace overnight. When Hormuz is disrupted, China does not simply need “more oil.” It needs the right oil. That is why China’s crude imports have fallen so sharply this year. The problem is not only supply disruption. It is quality disruption. 🔹 Gulf crude fits China’s refinery system 🔹 Medium sour barrels are harder to substitute 🔹 Alternative supply is not always compatible 🔹 Freight, insurance and routing risks make replacement harder 🔹 Lower imports reflect both availability and crude quality constraints The US is in a different position. American Gulf Coast refiners can process heavier and more complex grades, including Venezuelan crude. If more Venezuelan barrels return after Maduro, the US has more flexibility to absorb those flows. That is the key difference. China is more exposed to Gulf disruption because it needs specific medium sour barrels. The US has more optionality because its refining system can handle heavier alternatives. In oil markets, quantity moves headlines. Quality moves the real trade. themerchantsnews.substack.com/p/why-are-oil-…



This is nauseating to watch... In 2020 Julia Roberts sat down with Anthony Fauci and called him her personal hero, the coolest man on the planet, and said she was thrilled just to have a corner of his time. This was right around the period when Fauci was also complaining he wasn’t doing enough media appearances. The hero worship did not age well. Writer: Lynn

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: I don't think Russia could prosecute the war, and I don't think she could survive as a state without trade with China. So this would be a credible threat. So China, unlike us, actually could force Russia to end the war. But my guess is that the war suits China just fine. Russia is selling them gold. Russia, with every year, becomes more dependent. And what's not to like about that?



I keep coming back to the same uncomfortable conclusion. When a whole society is organised around labour as the organising principle of life, and machines suddenly remove both the work and the need for it, most people will not feel free. They will feel cut loose. Energy cannot be created. It can only change form. Every energy stock we rely on was already in the ground. We did not invent coal or oil. We found them and worked out how to dig them up and burn them at industrial scale. That single fact undercuts the entire fantasy of endless growth on a finite planet. Yet we keep building systems that pretend the physical limits do not exist. The political acceleration, the technological rush, the economic pressure all keep intensifying while human bodies quietly struggle to keep pace. I laid this out in a recent conversation, so for a more comprehensive understanding refer to the video presentation given in the comments. #SteveKeen #EnergyEconomics #PostKeynesian #FinitePlanet #AI


🚨 DISGUSTING: UN Special Rapporter Albanese reveals the US completely cut her off from the finanical system! Anyone doing business with her faces 20 years in prison and a $1M fine. The Trump adminstration uses financial terrorism to silence critics of the Zionist regime!





Academics who questioned the Ukraine narrative faced professional consequences. John Mearsheimer - the most-cited political scientist in America - was called a 'Putin apologist' for arguing that NATO expansion provoked the crisis. His University of Chicago lectures on the subject, viewed millions of times on YouTube, were flagged by content moderation systems. Professor Jeffrey Sachs - who directed the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network - was cut from mainstream media appearances after advocating for negotiations. Professor Ivan Katchanovski - whose decade-long forensic investigation of the Maidan snipers produced the most comprehensive academic study of the event - had difficulty publishing his findings in mainstream journals despite their rigorous methodology. The punishment for dissent in academia is not firing. It is marginalization - lost media appearances, reduced citations, social ostracism, and the quiet understanding that your career will not advance if you persist. The censorship doesn't need to be formal. It needs only to make silence more rewarding than speech.





