OH HELL! WE ARE GOING TO WAR!!!!!

Oil prices rise as Iran renews threats to close strategic waterway; natural gas rises

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, January 23, 2:03 PM

NEW YORK — Oil prices climbed near $100 per barrel Monday as Iran again threatened to block shipments of crude from the Persian Gulf.
Natural gas prices also rose more than 7 percent after one of America’s biggest natural gas producers said it would cut production and exploration this year.

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 AAA says motorists are on track to pay a record $490 billion this year for gasoline.

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  The strait, between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, is a strategic 20-mile-wide link for Gulf oil-exporting nations and the shipping lanes to oil-importing nations.

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been a major concern for oil traders. Iran says it could close the Gulf to tanker traffic, if the West implements an oil embargo. On Monday, the European Union agreed to do just that.
The EU said its refineries will stop buying Iranian crude after July. It also froze assets of Iran’s central bank. The sanctions are meant to force Iran to talk with the West about its nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, but Western nations suspect it is trying to build nuclear weapons.

The embargo itself isn’t expected to affect world supplies as oil markets are reshuffled. Analysts say China, which is one of the biggest buyers of Iranian crude, probably will buy more Iranian oil at below-market prices when the embargo begins. That will reduce China’s demand from other oil-producing countries that would then sell more to Europe.
“Iran needs to sell its oil to someone,” independent analyst and trader Stephen Schork said. “Outside the West, Iran really has only one buyer: China. That means China’s probably going to get some sweetheart deals.
Experts say Iran doesn’t have the firepower to close off the narrow Strait of Hormuz that tankers use to pass through the Gulf. But a conflict there could still clog the waterway with military vessels and force the world’s refineries to wait for crucial oil shipments.
“Benchmark crude rose by $1.51 to $99.84 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price foreign oils that are imported by U.S. refineries, rose by 94 cents to $110.80 per barrel in London.
In the U.S., natural gas prices jumped Monday when Chesapeake Energy said it will cut production and exploration because of cheap prices and a massive buildup in supplies. Natural gas production has been surging in the U.S. thanks to new techniques that helped the industry aggressively drill into underground shale deposits.
Natural gas prices have dropped to the lowest wintertime level since 2002. The Chesapeake announcement pushed futures prices 17 cents, or 7.3 percent, higher to $2.52 per 1,000 cubic feet.
At the pump, the national average for a gallon of gasoline stayed at $3.38, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. That’s nearly 16 cents higher than it was a month ago and up 27 cents from a year ago.
In other energy trading, heating oil rose by 4 cents to $3.02 per gallon, while gasoline futures rose about a penny to $2.79 per gallon.

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HERE'S SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T TEACH US IN HISTORY CLASS!

Influence on Nazi Germany

Wir stehen nicht allein: "We do not stand alone". Nazi propaganda poster from 1936, supporting Nazi Germany's 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (their compulsory sterilization law). The couple is in front of a map of Germany, surrounded by the flags of nations, including the United States, which had enacted (to the left) or were considering (bottom and to the right) similar legislation.

After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it spread to Germany. California eugenicists began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals.^[60] By 1933, California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's.^[7]
The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.^[6][68]
Upon returning from Germany in 1934, where more than 5,000 people per month were being forcibly sterilized, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe bragged to a colleague:

"You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought . . . I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people."^[69]

Eugenics researcher Harry H. Laughlin often bragged that his Model Eugenic Sterilization laws had been implemented in the 1933 Nuremberg racial hygiene laws.^[70] In 1936, Laughlin was invited to an award ceremony at Heidelberg University in Germany (scheduled on the anniversary of Hitler's 1934 purge of Jews from the Heidelberg faculty), to receive an honorary doctorate for his work on the "science of racial cleansing". Due to financial limitations, Laughlin was unable to attend the ceremony and had to pick it up from the Rockefeller Institute. Afterwards, he proudly shared the award with his colleagues, remarking that he felt that it symbolized the "common understanding of German and American scientists of the nature of eugenics."[7

THIS IS SICK TO KNOW THAT WE HELPED HITLER AND GERMANY. WONDER IF OUR SCIENTISTS WERE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES  BECAUSE THEY SAY THE EUGENICS IN GERMANY WAS BASICALLY THE START OF THE HOLOCAUST. DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!