Strategic Oil Reserve "releases" are repurchase agreements. Sell now with the agreement to repurchase the exact same amount at a later date.

"FACT SHEET: Department of Energy Releases New Notice of Sale as Gasoline Prices Continue to Fall

Using Repurchases to Promote Stability and Encourage Supply

The Administration is also moving forward with a proposal to allow fixed-price forward purchases of crude oil to replenish the SPR and encourage short-term production. Relative to conventional purchase contracts that expose producers to volatile crude prices, the fixed-price contracts can give producers the assurance to make investments today, knowing that the price they receive when they sell to the SPR will be locked in place, providing them with some protection against downward movements in the market. This proposal, if finalized as proposed, would encourage near-term production, promote market stability, and put the federal government in a better position to respond to future market volatility."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/26/fact-sheet-department-of-energy-releases-new-notice-of-sale-as-gasoline-prices-continue-to-fall/

Pakistan about to get lit.

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

PAKISTAN – former PM Imran Khan has been booked under an anti-terrorism law after he threatened to file cases against police and judiciary

pic.twitter.com/qnF06iXome

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1561483834884902912

>>17424815

That's not Holmes. This is Holmes.

>>17424815

And NOT this Holmes.

>>17424834

In the pipe:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a858233/sherlock-holmes-3-movie-cast-trailer-release-date-plot-spoilers/

>>17424838

Elronhubbarditis will do that to a person.

>>17424851

Well, he curbed his melon quite a few years ago, so the calcification's probably pretty well on.

"Busey was riding alone when he inexplicably lost control of his motorcycle at a Culver City intersection about 10 miles west of downtown Los Angeles, said Culver City police Sgt. Karin Reagan. He had just left Bartel’s Harley- Davidson shop, she said. ″He hit the curb with his head and wasn’t wearing a helmet at the time of the crash,″ she said."

https://apnews.com/a9d1832e7ecd461aaea7866ccfa9d713

Foreign Policy

@ForeignPolicy

Italy has emerged as a leader in tracking down Russian oligarchs’ ill-gotten gains—a tricky art since ownership structures can be complex. FP’s @elisabethbraw explains how Italy gets it right—and what other countries could learn.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/17/italy-is-leading-the-world-in-seizing-oligarchs-assets/

https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1561488425450184705

Mollie @MZHemingway

2h

ABC News's @jonkarl out there pushing completely fake news as part of its obsessive pro-Democrat election meddling, as per usual. Donald Trump picked up Senate seats in his first mid-term and he did it against an absolutely deranged media and establishment resistance.

Oh my goodness, I just read the transcript of his messy tongue-bath of Cheney and it's truly one of the most sycophantic and fact-free and delusional "interviews" I've ever observed.

They've moved onto the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. Tough questioning and follow-up here.

Karl: Are you entirely confident there was no political motivation behind this by the Biden administration or by the AG?

CHENEY: I've seen no evidence that there was any political motivation.

Um, I have never seen a more desperate need for a single voice of balance on a panel as I just witnessed. This was just straight-up propaganda and groupthink. Wow.

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1561445961880244224

>>17424922

Looks like its in the Wind Rivers.

Paolo Bernardi

@Paolo_Bernardi

The car bomb that killed Dugin daughter Daria was at the Dugins "Tradition" event. Car was in an enclosed secure parking lot, not in common parking area. Hard to access. @sumlenny thinks Dugin himself could be behind this. Buynaksk bomb style for using WMD on Ukraine?

Vladimir Milov @v_milov

Почитал про фестиваль "Традиция", где выступали Дугин со своей Дашей. Их машину взорвали буквально на выезде оттуда. Так вот, там были толпы народу, большая автостоянка. Машина Дугина стояла на отдельной закрытой парковке. Как в таких условиях можно было её заминировать… хм.

https://twitter.com/Paolo_Bernardi/status/1561491582947577861