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Netanyahu Considers Allowing Elon Musk To Bore Tunnels Under Israel
Elon Musk is reportedly in talks with the Israeli government to build tunnels across (or is that below) the country, according to statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a campaign event this week. The Boring Company could help "much needed infrastructure development" in Israel, according to Bloomberg, although it was unclear who would have priority if a Tesla tunnel merges with one dug by Hezbollah.
The reason: Israel suffers from poor traffic infrastructure and has the worst traffic in the developed world.
Netanyahu said at a campaign event: "I met a man that they call Elon Musk – have you heard of him? A real genius. Right now we’re in conversation with him to see if we can tunnel the State of Israel."
Musk and Netanyahu had breakfast at the Prime Minister's residence, where Musk talked about his tunneling "technology". Netanyahu is in the midst of a re-election battle that'll culminate on April 9 against the Blue & White bloc, which has suggested tapping the country's sovereign wealth fund to upgrade its infrastructure.
Israel’s public transportation system is notoriously inefficient and could cost the economy 25 billion shekels ($6.9 billion) a year by 2030 if changes aren’t made, the state comptroller found. And that's without letting Musk have a crack at it.
Netanyahu apparently hasn't been turned off by the fact that Musk's tunneling idea was recently laughed out of Virginia by bureaucrats as being "a lot of show" and not "substantive".
“I think there’s a lot of show going on here. I don’t mean to suggest that they don’t have a serious plan in mind, but I don’t consider the steps they’ve taken to date to be substantive," Virginia bureaucrats recently said of Musk's tunneling idea.
"There's no revolution here. Let's be honest here: he's driving a car through a sewer pipe," Ph.D. chemist and video blogger Phil Mason said in a late December he posted to YouTube, destroying Musk's tunnel idea. We reported on his critique of the idea in a late December post here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/netanyahu-considers-allowing-elon-musk-bore-tunnels-under-israel
have seen them anon. Not a pretty picture.
https://www.skylandgrain.com/grain-futures/
>We don't have enough refineries
and the one's we do have are alway's experiencing maintenance 'issues'.
it's moar like a blanket threat. "you are are all going to be rounded up"-or "coming to your house to getcha". Copypasta seal has directly threatened many. There have been a few directed threats though.
"Update (10:25amET): The troubling trend of Reps using their time to castigate the CEOs instead of asking questions continued with California Rep. Brad Sherman. He questioned the CEOs about 'forced arbitration' after declaring "too big to fail is too big to exist", after explaining how the House narrowly avoided disaster by refusing to buy the bank's toxic assets during the crisis and instead buying preferred stock."
Paulsen, then Treasury Sec, floated the idea of doing this ala buying the toxic assets and got Pelosi to approve the TARP bailout. He then turned around and used the money to recapitalize the banks through the preferred share purchases. The Fed also bailed out company's like Nissan, McDonald's and even Warren Buffet got a sweet deal with Goldman when he 'purchased' warrant's that he then offloaded at a huge profit.
Totally disingenuous bullshit from these people
just data issues. It's not moving like that. Seen that many times before
Pompeo: U.S. looking 'very closely' at Qatar-Air Italy deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the State Department was looking closely at Qatar Airways' acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Air Italy.
Questioned repeatedly about the deal during a U.S. Senate hearing, Pompeo said, "We're looking very closely at this recent decision by Qatar to take on 49 percent of this airline."
Both Republicans and Democrats at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing said they were concerned that the deal with the Italian carrier violated an agreement Qatar Airways reached with the United States in early 2018.
"There are lots of consultations taking place," Pompeo said.
An aide to Senator Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the committee, noted that January marked the one-year anniversary of agreements between the United States and Qatar on government subsidies to state-owned Qatar Airways.
In a side letter to the agreement, the Qatari government indicated there was no intention to launch additional flights from Qatar but picking up passengers in Europe before flying to U.S. destinations.
The aide said the acquisition of Air Italy and transforming it into a carrier with five U.S. destinations from Milan runs counter to the agreement with Qatar Airways.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pompeo-us-looking-very-closely-at-qatar-air-italy-deal/ar-BBVNMOh
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10x 'oversubscribed' and oil prices pushed up right in front of it too.
> he estimated that demand for Aramco’s bonds was inflated by 20-30 percent due to the expected over-subscription
double that
wooohoo!
re the grain futures from lb
That is COMEX oriented and they have not been known for transparency. One only needs to look at how the Ag/Au reporting and trading is done.
Could be worse if that history is to go by.