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@nettermike @WBrettWilson I have fond memories working in the Venezuelan oil fields in 1992. The people were great. Sad to hear about the present state but hope is the best medicine now

Sentiments of Venezuelans I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. If you have never lived in Venezuela If you did not grow up there If you did not watch your country collapse in real time If you did not stand in food lines If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built If you did not have to leave your home with nothing Then shut the fuck up. You do not have an opinion. Your opinion does not matter. And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there. I’m Venezuelan. I lived there most of my life until my early twenties. I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes. This is not politics to me. This is trauma. Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked. There was trade. There was money coming in. There was investment from the US. There were jobs. There was food. There was medicine. My family had five businesses. We had our home We had investments. We had a future. Then the government started nationalizing everything. Private companies were taken. Foreign investors were pushed out. Imports were blocked. Price controls destroyed production. Corruption exploded. And everything died. Not slowly. Violently. People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online. They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope. People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology. They are trying to survive. They are trying to find food. Trying to find medication. Trying to keep their families alive. So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that” No. It’s not complicated. You’re just ignorant. China is not rebuilding Venezuela. Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela. Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela. They are stealing. They are extracting. They are draining what’s left. If the US comes in and reinvests If refineries get rebuilt If infrastructure gets restored If imports open back up If food, water, and medicine become accessible again If people can work and earn with dignity Then yes. Let them take all the oil they want. Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed. This is something to celebrate. Not because it’s perfect. But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope. Hope that families can eat. Hope that people don’t have to flee their country. Hope that Venezuela can function again. If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation Then again Shut the fuck up. This isn’t theory. This isn’t politics. This is lived experience. By Stephen Subero

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The 1970s had some of the best toys ever and one Christmas 🎄🎁 I woke up, ran downstairs, to open up my very own Lite-Brite! What was a favorite Christmas present you received as a child? #HoHoHo #MerryChristmas

LIVE NOW IN OTTAWA: ORGANIZERS OF THE TRUCKERS CONVOY ADDRESSING THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE OTTAWA POLICE. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… @JackPosobiec @almostjingo @ezralevant @RaheemKassam @rupasubramanya

SHARE: Convoy organizers hold first live press conference from an undisclosed location in Ottawa. #FreedomConvoy2022 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Hannah_Bananaz This is a movie in the making. And you should be the producer. It hits all the right buttons

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The @OldsCollege DOT is loaded and off to @RavenPrecision for preseason updates on both the power platform and @SeedMasterMfg seeder #SmartFarm

Excited to announce @Eene_P as our newest technical services lead @PAMI_Machinery W/>9 years in advanced analysis & simulation, measurement, controls, & #projectmanagement we're grow our simulation team to continue supporting #agriculture #mining & #Transportation

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Confession time: November, to me, is an excuse to buy stuff I want and claim it as a Christmas gift to myself. Less than half of it will remain untouched until Christmas day. #adulting #covidchristmas

A single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” 5 pounds of earth. manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals…

This is quite an amazing interview about corruption at the highest level in Canada, and the US is about to be involved in investigating it. Lots of coverups going on!

The world's newest carbon solution is shifting the way emissions are managed in #Alberta. Alberta Carbon Trunk Line is now fully operational, reducing the carbon intensity of Sturgeon Refinery diesel. #EnvironmentWeek actl.ca or WATCH: youtu.be/b1_wnQAxx1g

Cabinet borrowed more than a third of a trillion dollars in 27 days according to @FinanceCanada. “Between March 1 and March 26 we’ve issued $371.5 billion in debt,” says assistant ADM Soren Halverson. blacklocks.ca/feds-set-a-bor… @bill_morneau #cdnpoli #CovidRelief

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✅ Canada’s newest refinery now processing Alberta bitumen. One of 16 refineries in Canada, where we are a net exporter of crude oil and refined products. globalnews.ca/news/6965636/a…

All from the vision of an Alberta Hero. Ian Mcgregor

Great news, @NWRSturgeon is now fully operational, producing low carbon diesel from bitumen. It’s been quite the journey to get here, one BTA is proud to be part of - Check out this great thank you from NWR CEO and friend, Ian MacGregor bit.ly/2z4pWGl #abtrades #ableg

The science of sewage surveillance could be deployed in countries across the world to help monitor the spread of COVID-19, while reducing the need for mass testing reut.rs/3by9Wtt