[ExI] A paranormal prediction for the next year

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 19:05:57 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> , 15/1/2015 4:32 AM:
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015  Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > it is also POSSIBLE that they are doing so because the Obama
> administration wishes to put extreme pressure on Russia.
>
>
> The collapse of oil prices is certainly terrible news for Vladimir Putin
> (Boo Hoo), but when did Obama get the power to tell OPEC what to do?
>
>
> It is more a case of shared aims. If you read the commentary in The
> Economist, Foreign Policy and similar places, analysts point out that the
> Saudis are keen to undermine Iran, and the low price is hurting IS, Russia
> and fracking too. Obama might be happy about all of them except the last.
>

Obama is all too happy to kick fracking in the knees. Give me ANY evidence
otherwise. Not talk, but action. The keystone pipeline, for a prime
example, is ALL ABOUT fracking, and Canada.


> It is the usual case of partially overlapping aims. Just consider the
> contradictory past and present US policy visavi the Kurds.
>
> Of course, the Saudis also have a succession problem that is deeply
> worrying. There might be a need to fill the coffers with money to buy off
> fractions, hence the high production.
>

Interesting. succession in SA would be a big deal.

-Kelly
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