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"Winter Isn't Over": NatGas Soars As Another Cold Blast Targets US East
"Winter Isn't Over": NatGas Soars As Another Cold Blast Targets US East
U.S. natural gas futures surged the most since late October as one energy trader warned that "winter isn't over," with another wave of cold air set to spill into the eastern half of the Lower 48 early next week. The upcoming cold blast arrives even as much of the U.S. enjoys a brief warm-up following an early-month polar vortex that plunged large parts of the U.S. East into Arctic-like conditions.
"Winter isn't over yet. Here are forecast anomalies for this time next week showing a large area of unseasonably chilly temperatures across the major population centers of the Eastern US," energy trader Celsius Energy wrote on X.
Winter isn’t over yet. Here are forecast anomalies for this time next week showing a large area of unseasonably chilly temperatures across the major population centers of the Eastern US. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Natgas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
— Celsius Energy (@CelsiusEnergyFM) https://twitter.com/CelsiusEnergyFM/status/2003458520637649266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Celsius Energy noted, "Near-term #natgas demand will be quite volatile with very bearish daily storage withdrawals under +5 BCF/d through this weekend surging to nearly -30 BCF/d by this time next week, more than double the 5-yr avg. In general, these projections have improved considerably."
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By late afternoon Tuesday, NatGas futures are up nearly 10%, the largest intraday jump since October 30's 17% price spike. Prices are trading around $4.365 per MMBtu.
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Looking at Heating Degree Days for the Lower 48 - the weather-based measure of US heating demand -the index is projected to surge well above the 30-year average early next week and remain elevated through year-end.
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Cold is returning to the eastern half of the Lower 48. Time to stack the firewood and get the gas-powered snowblower ready.
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Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort The American Diet
Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort The American Diet
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"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Let me introduce you to Sam. Sam has obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. His diet consists mostly of refined grains and trans fats. He’s got cabinets full of dirt-cheap junk food and sky-high healthcare costs to address its effects. He takes home $27,000 a year, but https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/#:~:text=Understanding%20the%20National%20Deficit&text=In%20FY%202025%2C%20the%20federal,referred%20to%20as%20deficit%20spending.
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As a real-life https://youtu.be/N8wxb-wwQnA?si=y0hb8idPxU48GAH6&t=92
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Obesity is a top driver of healthcare costs. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749379713003206
in the developed world.
The negative impact of subsidized crop consumption on health — while it can’t be called causal — persists even after controlling for age, sex, and socioeconomic factors. But life does not control for those factors.
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The Great Grain Giveaway
The federal government recommends one diet to Americans, and subsidizes another. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the USDA and HHS promote eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein, and moderate dairy, while limiting saturated fats, sugars, salt, and refined grains. According to data compiled for https://meatonomics.com/
to lower costs.)
Instead, the US spends tens of billions annually to subsidize seven major commodities. The three largest farm subsidy programs contribute 70 percent of funds to producers of just three crops — corn, soybeans, and wheat. Approximately 30-40 percent of US corn, over half of soybeans, and nearly all sorghum feed livestock, heavily discounting high-fat, https://extension.umn.edu/pasture-based-dairy/grass-fed-cows-produce-healthier-milk
). The prevalence of grain-fed livestock generates demand for commodities used to feed them, completing the circle.
Subsidies also contribute to our consumption of refined grains, sugary drinks, and processed foods. About five percent of corn becomes artificially cheap high-fructose corn syrup (which https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145952357/throughline-how-one-company-contributed-greatly-to-americas-sweet-tooth
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My Uncle Sam is sick because he eats the food the government makes artificially more affordable. Those foods are poorer in quality and more harmful to health than their unsubsidized alternatives. We are paying to make ourselves sicker.
Diet-Related Health Issues Fuel Healthcare Costs
For more than 20 years, the FDA has known that trans fats and refined grains harm health, damage metabolism, and cause disease. Diet-related illnesses like obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure are increasing, while heart disease remains the leading cause of death. These epidemics are intertwined at the artery level, and both contribute hugely to rising US health care costs.
In an economic order awash with subsidies and regulation, agricultural policy is health policy. Government subsidies for agricultural products have shaped the current American nutritional environment, and they are https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3489137/
obesity trends.
An article in the https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2813%2900320-6/fulltext
confirms: “Current agricultural policy remains largely uninformed by public health discourse.”
Johns Hopkins physician (and current https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/martin-makary
the disconnect clearly. “Half of all federal spending is going to health care in its many hidden forms,” he told an interviewer in October, but Americans continue “getting sicker and sicker… Chronic diseases are on the rise. Cancers are on the rise. And we have the most medicated generation in human history.”
We’re getting https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7216a7.htm
is at taxpayer expense.
A Better Answer Than Ozempic?
Government spending on healthcare https://budget.house.gov/press-release/governments-mandatory-health-care-spending-now-exceeds-entire-discretionary-budget#:~:text=Discretionary%20funding%20now%20makes%20up,forecasted%20to%20reach%20%241.67%20trillion
: cancers, heart disease, infection, stroke, and cirrhosis.
Late last year, the https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-treatment-reduce-risk-serious-heart-problems-specifically-adults-obesity-or
on direct and indirect costs from obesity.
It has a certain economic logic. Instead of waiting for a patient to develop a cascade of expensive comorbidities like heart failure or diabetes, we https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4818
suggests our efforts are counterproductive.
The Tangled Web of Farm Subsidies
To understand the insanity of American agricultural and health policy, it’s hard to do better than comedian-illusionists Penn & Teller, who in characteristically salty style explained it this way 15 years ago:
High fructose corn syrup is a dirt-cheap way to add sweetener and extend shelf life. And why is it so cheap? Because we subsidize corn farmers! Our government gives about 10 billion of our tax dollars to corn farmers every year so they can produce more corn than we need. They then sell the corn at artificially low prices. They spend our money to make corn syrup cheap, and now the same government that uses our tax money to keep soft drinks cheap wants more of our tax money to make soft drinks more expensive. Does anyone else think this is incredibly f—d up?
Yes, Penn. We do. And since that clip aired, obesity rates have worsened https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/
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Rather than cut back on his terrible diet, Uncle Sam wants us to pony up for weight loss drugs — to undo what our food policy has done.
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Top Libyan General Confirmed Killed In Mysterious Private Jet Crash Departing Turkey
Top Libyan General Confirmed Killed In Mysterious Private Jet Crash Departing Turkey
Update(1529ET): Tripoli has confirmed that the private jet which went down earlier as it departed Ankara was carrying top military commanders of the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is the Libyan government ruling the western part of the country and supported by Turkey.
Tripoli's Army Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad has been confirmed killed in the crash. While Turkey has been slow to confirm details as the wreckage has only within the last hour been located, the GNA has announced the death.
Naturally - given the high profile nature of the delegation - there will be questions over whether this was an accident, sabotage, or possible bomb blast. Haddad and the government he represented are bitter enemies of Gen. Khalifa Haftar in eastern Libya, which is supported by Russia. Turkey has been supporting the rulers in Tripoli from the start, soon after longtime ruler Gaddafi was overthrown in the NATO-backed war of 2011.
Footage shows the moment of the private jet crash in Ankara which was carrying Libyan military top brass https://t.co/LmPVlb4Yfd
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In what could be the start of a major geopolitical crisis, moments ago Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said in a https://x.com/AliYerlikaya/status/2003543900099657762
that contact was lost with the private jet which was carrying Libya’s Army Chief of Staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four other passengers.
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The Falcon-50 private jet had just taken off from the Turkish capital of Ankara in direction of Tripoli, Libya.
An emergency landing notification was received from the aircraft, at which point contact with the jet was lost, the Turkish minister added.
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Contact was lost as of 8:52pm local time over the Turkish capital Ankara, broadcaster NTV reported as flight tracking data showed flights being diverted away from Ankara’s Esenboga airport.
As the following flight map from https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/hmj185#3da0f384
, the plane was in the air for just a few minutes after take off, having reached an altitude of 32,400 feet when it disappeared from radar. The airplane of Yevgeny Prigozhin, once "Putin's chef" before his fall out with the Russian president, suffered a similar fate when allegedly the plane exploded near cruising altitude after a bomb went off inside of it.
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Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper reports that the country shut down airspace over Ankara after the private jet incident.
Turkey’s defense ministry had announced the Libyan chief of staff’s visit to Ankara earlier this week, saying he had met his Turkish counterpart and other military commanders.
Bloomberg reports that the Dassault Falcon 50 was 37 years old and was operated by Harmony Jets, according to data from FlightRadar24. The aircraft had recently flown into Ankara from Tripoli on Dec. 22.
Haddad as Libya's army "chief of staff" is a reference only to the Tripoli-based GNA (Government of National Accord, or sometimes GNU) - one among several rival governments controlling Libya, but which is backed by the UN and especially Turkey.
However, what can be seen as the most powerful military is the Eastern government, based in Benghazi, led by warlord and general Khalifa Haftar, backed by Russia. Haftar soon after the war to overthrow Gaddafi returned from decades in exile in Virginia, where he lived with his family within a mere miles from CIA headquarters in Langley. Turkey has long been supporting a proxy war in Libya, against Haftar's forces, and against Russian interests.
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More Ukrainian Strikes On Russian Energy Sector Amid Ongoing Pressure For Zelensky To Make Concessions
More Ukrainian Strikes On Russian Energy Sector Amid Ongoing Pressure For Zelensky To Make Concessions
Ukraine is desperately hitting back at Russia's energy sector at a moment it remains under immense pressure from Washington to make serious concessions which might lead to achieving a peace deal.
Overnight drone attacks attempted to inflict damage on the Stavrolen petrochemical plant in southwestern Russia. The operation appeared at least somewhat successful amid reports of fires at the site, and as Russia confirmed attempts to intercept inbound drones.
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Ukrainian drones attempted to attack the energy targets in the town of Budyonnovsk, triggering air defenses, with the regional governor confirming "There are fires in the industrial zone" and that "Emergency services are on site" - however thankfully that there were no casualties or damage to surrounding homes. Unverified videos widely circulating online do show large flames in the sky from the direction of the plant.
These Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil and energy sites have slowed compared to their high tempo of a month ago and prior.
This could in part be because every time Ukraine hits Russian territory with a significant or damaging attack, Russia's military comes back harder with large-scale retaliation on Ukraine's own critical infrastructure.
Ukrainian strikes hit the "Stavrolen" petro-chemical plant located Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai, southern Russia.
A significant fire broke out at the facility following the attack. https://t.co/y7uVIQ3jOf
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/2003258966583968038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Early Tuesday witnessed another huge Russian aerial attack across Ukraine which reportedly killed three people and plunged who regions into darkness. Local media https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66765
, "Explosions were reported across multiple regions, including Rivne and the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the far west, with hits recorded in the towns of Burshtyn and Rohatyn. The blasts were also heard near Cherkasy, as well as in Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, and Zhytomyr regions."
BBC related President Zelensky's description of the fresh attack https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4d99p63y4o
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Russia carried out a "massive" overnight attack on several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, a day after he warned of strikes over the Christmas period.
At least three people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials, including a four-year-old child, while energy infrastructure was also targeted, leaving several regions without power.
Russia launched 635 drones and 38 missiles, Ukraine's air force said, adding that 621 of them were downed.
Zelensky said "people simply want to be with their families, at home, and safe" in the run-up to Christmas, and said the strikes sent "an extremely clear signal about Russia's priorities" despite ongoing peace talks.
Damaged home from Russia's fresh assault which spanned several cities and regions of Ukraine:
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Power has been cut to many thousands in freezing winter temperatures across Ukraine, as the national energy ministry confirmed there would have to be more rolling blackouts as immediate repair work to the damage is undertaken.
Such power restrictions have become to the norm in various parts of Ukraine. Even US leaders have acknowledged that the energy grid is being degraded and damaged faster than it could possibly be repaired, and no solutions have been offered.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha has called on "collective transatlantic strength" in the face of these attacks and said that peace must be forced on Moscow. "This can be achieved through increasing the cost of continuing this war for the aggressor," he said on X.
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Spannend! Aber bis das einen Bitcoin Schlüssel knacken kann dauert es noch bestimmt 10 Jahre.
Ein #Quantum #Bitcoin
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DOJ Releases More Epstein Files After Blowing Deadline, Says Some Documents Contain False Claims
DOJ Releases More Epstein Files After Blowing Deadline, Says Some Documents Contain False Claims
After missing a Friday deadline to release 'all' of the 'Epstein Files,' nuking several files containing images of President Donald Trump (before restoring them!), and heavily redacting most of what came out (which can apparently be https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2003496425817067663?s=20
to reveal salacious claims against Trump), the DOJ on Tuesday morning released nearly 30,000 additional pages according to a statement posted on X, which also warned that some of the claims made in the documents against Trump are 'untrue and sensationalist.'
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"Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election," reads the post. "To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
"Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims."
The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be…
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For example:
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse. https://t.co/QJ8T0FzjSn
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2003468957333008473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The releases were mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency act, which was passed in Congress and signed into law by Trump. It requires the DOJ to produce all records related to Epstein, accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and any other possible co-conspirators by Dec. 19.
Over the weekend, Deputy AG Todd Blanche said that the DOJ is working to make redactions to files to protect possible Epstein victims, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/deputy-ag-blanche-removing-photos-epstein-files-release-trump-rcna250297
NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday "The reason why we are still reviewing documents and still continuing our process is simply that to protect victims," adding that the DOJ is "going through a very methodical process with hundreds of lawyers looking at every single document and making sure that victims’ names and any of the information from victims is protected and redacted, which is exactly what the [Epstein Files] Transparency Act expects."
Except, apparently it's amateur hour at the DOJ...
many of the "redacted" PDFs from the epstein files aren't actually redacted, they just have black boxes drawn over text. the underlying data is fully extractable.
this is an example. in this case it's just photo processing paperwork from a palm beach camera shop https://t.co/kjFVMHJuF9
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In a Saturday evening https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-says-it-rereleased-119-pages-of-epstein-files-that-were-redacted-5961069
, the DOJ wrote that it had re-released 119 pages of materials that had been entirely redacted.
"Documents and photos will continue to be reviewed consistent with the law and with an abundance of caution for victims and their families," the department https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2002751453786673474
to X.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence stemming from her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking crimes, while Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in Aug. 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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Maduro Would Be 'Smart' To Get Out, Trump Says, As Russia Reportedly Evacuating Diplomats' Families
Maduro Would Be 'Smart' To Get Out, Trump Says, As Russia Reportedly Evacuating Diplomats' Families
Earlier Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/noem-says-venezuela-s-maduro-needs-to-be-gone
for the first time that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "needs to be gone" - but significantly President Donald Trump followed later Monday with his own message again calling for the socialist strongman to step aside. He laid out it would be "smart" for him to leave power.
Trump was asked at Mar-a-Lago whether all the current US pressure, including tanker interdictions, was intended to push Maduro out of power. "That’s his decision," Trump responded. "But I think it would be smart for him to do that."
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But on the question of the Venezuelan military fighting back in the case of any potential US action, Trump followed with: "If he plays tough, it’ll be the last time he’s able to do so."
Trump again confirmed the US assembled a naval force that's "by far the biggest we ever had in South America" off Venezuela's coast, in part to enforce a blockade on its oil tanker traffic, and now it is being made crystal clear to pressure the Maduro government out of power.
Russia has remained one of the few international powers sticking by Caracas' side, this week reiterating "full support" for Maduro's government, also saying Moscow stands "shoulder to shoulder".
The are reports, however, that the Russian embassy has begun to evacuate its diplomats and their families from Venezuela, faring large-scale US military actions. According to the https://www.thetimes.com/world/latin-america/article/will-trump-attack-venezuela-news-us-qgshftf3f?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqe4DkfwdOhdXchBeUEsQ3MjxNNxar3LYvC7_DyuSrXePz4QeRqLbkjRFzXV_xY%3D&gaa_ts=694aa653&gaa_sig=zku-fjIREH26Q1GCpmigFoql0mqoaIv9sbx-FdlzIyLrlp2gj3QUcckqIms90epHiYxlYDh1Opy2Nov6ikxY0w%3D%3D
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Moscow is said to have begun evacuating the families of Russian diplomats from Venezuela as Washington increases military pressure on President Maduro.
An unnamed European intelligence official said Russia was viewing the situation in Caracas in “very grim terms”, the Associated Press reported.
foreign ministry denied the report, calling it “a lie” and “a western provocation”. Although it said the embassy was not being evacuated, it did not address the issue of whether the spouses and children of diplomats were being flown out.
Likely if it was happening, the Russians would want this done in secret so as to not add pressure to its Venezuelan ally. If Russia is perceived as 'abandoning' Venezuela to its fate, this will be perceived as further weakening Maduro's position.
Russia's foreign ministry is slamming these reports as a "provocation" in the below:
❗️Reports by Associated Press regarding alleged 'evacuation' of the Russian Embassy in Venezuela https://twitter.com/EmbajadaRusaVen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
are simply put — A LIE.
Be careful and don't fall for Western provocations! https://t.co/bZVfFrQBT8
— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/2003222697808158926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Moscow's 'tough' talk is widely seen as just that - talk only which is very unlikely to be coupled with any concrete action:
Russia warned Trump last week that any military intervention by the US in Venezuela would be a "fatal mistake" that could have "unpredictable consequences for the entire western hemisphere".
The Times notes too, "Despite strong rhetoric from pro-Kremlin hardliners, there is no indication that President Putin is prepared to take robust action to defend Maduro."
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