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The Energy Sector To Watch In 2021

Written on . Posted in PT Global Economy.

The year 2020 has been unusually volatile for the U.S. financial market, but more so for the energy sector thanks to nationwide lockdowns and subsequent fuel demand destruction. It’s become a recurring theme, but the oil and gas sector has again emerged as the worst performer among America’s 11 sectors for the 11th straight year.

Indeed, Refinitiv data shows that the S&P 500 earnings growth rate would have only declined 2.3% when you exclude the energy sector instead of the 6.5% when you include it. That’s quite damning for the index’s smallest sector, representing just 2.3% of the index in aggregate market cap weighting.

But that does not automatically mean that the sector has become totally uninvestable.

In fact, here’s a big secret: Not only has the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) climbed 23% over the past one-and-a-half months, but in today’s battered energy sector, the best place to be is at the end of the line – the gas pump.  Read More

Terror, Terror, Terror – remains Fatah’s motto for 2021

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Fatah publishes video from terror rally

Abbas’ Fatah movement released a video this week of one of last year’s terror parades. While Fatah usually marches every year around January 1st to celebrate the movement’s first terror attack in 1965, possible COVID-19 restrictions that will prevent such marches might have made Fatah decide to publish this video of one of last year’s parades. The 30-minute video shows a terror parade in the streets of Salfit. Fatah members/supporters parade with automatic rifles and guns. As background to the video, Fatah added a song with a “pledge to the revolution” – a “pledge to Allah” that Fatah “will never leave”:

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Victims Describes Abuse at Senate Candidate Warnock’s Camp. Lawsuit Settled. Warnock Arrested, Charges Dropped.

Written on . Posted in PT World Order.

Eighteen years ago, counsellors at a church camp run by Raphael Warnock, the Christian minister and Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, doused a 12-year-old boy with urine and forced him to sleep outside at night.

Victim Anthony Washington described the sickening brutality in an interview with Washington Free-Beacon. The webzine recently detailed Warnock’s arrest for interfering with cops who were investigating the camp in Sykesville, Maryland.

Nothing came of the arrest. But state records not only describe Warnock’s effort to keep the abuse hidden, but also depict a poorly-run, dangerous place.

Washington, 30, settled a lawsuit a few years after the abuse, and told the Free Beacon that Warnock is unsuited to be a senator. Read More

Home Prices Soar At 3 Times The Fed’s Inflation Target Across All US Cities

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The Fed’s most frequent lament is that no matter how many trillions in bonds (and stocks and ETFs) it buys or how much liquidity it forehoses into the market, it just can’t push broader inflation higher.

Well, here’s an idea: maybe all the central-planning megabrains at the Marriner Eccles building and 33 Liberty Street can take a break from whatever circle jerk they are engaged in right now, and look at the latest Case Shiller numbers which showed not only that home prices surged at the fastest pace in six years, rising nearly 8% compared to a year ago…

Why does this matter? Simple: Because if – as Joseph Carson mused last month – CPI measured actual house prices, inflation would be above 3% right now. Read More

Hezbollah’s Banking Arm Hacked, Sensitive Information Leaked

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A group of hackers calling itself SpiderZ on Tuesday claimed it managed to penetrate accounts of Qard al-Hasan, Hezbollah’s financial and banking arm, The Daily Star of Lebanon reported (Hezbollah’s banking arm hacked by cyber group).

SpiderZ claimed it hacked into the servers and cameras of Hezbollah’s financial association and collected sensitive information it is in the process of leaking to the public. So far, they have exposed passport copies, names of depositors including senior bank officials, and security footage of depositors waiting in line.

The Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association was established by Hezbollah and licensed by the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior in 1987. Today it has 32 branches around Lebanon, operating as a charity offering financial assistance to the Shiite population.

A video posted by the SpiderZ group states that they have captured all of the Hezbollah bank’s data, adding that their findings confirm that Al-Qard Al-Hassan is not a charity but a money shelter for Hezbollah. Read More

Democrat Jon Ossoff Raised Nearly Six Times More in California than Georgia

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Georgia Senate Democrat Jon Ossoff raised nearly six times more in California than he did in Georgia, according to a recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) report.

Breitbart News reported Sunday that Ossoff, who hopes to defeat Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in January, became the highest-funded candidate in the history of U.S. Senate elections as he raised $106.7 million between October 15 and December 16.

This is also the record for the most raised in two months.

As Ossoff broke fundraising records during this FEC reporting period, it also appears the Georgia Senate Democrat candidate also raised significantly more money in California than the Peach State. Read More

Leftist “Microaggression” Training Doesn’t Work — BETTER Social Engineering Required

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In a “Thank you, Captain Obvious” moment, a university study has found that microaggression training doesn’t work as intended.

For those not up to speed on the trendiest new species of intellectual degradation, a microaggression (silly term) is a usually normal comment that’s often meant to be complimentary, but which is perceived by an indoctrinated listener as reflecting implicit bias toward a “marginalized community,” as writer Michele Barnwell, who really does write very well, puts it.

An example is, “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough” (seriously), according to “social scientists.” Then there’s the macro version of microaggressions. Example:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” — president-suspect Joe Biden talking about Barack Obama in 2007.  Read More

ANOTHER ISRAELI LAWMAKER ENTERS TEMPLE MOUNT, CALLS TO BUILD 3RD TEMPLE

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“But look only to the site that Hashem your God will choose amidst all your tribes as His habitation, to establish His name there. There you are to go.” Deuteronomy 12:5 (The Israel BibleTM)

A new Member of Knesset, a resident of the Golan, firmly established his political path with a powerful act of faith by praying on the Temple Mount.

NISSIM VATURI: CONNECTING THE GOLAN TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE KNESSET

Likud won 36 seats In the last elections but recent infighting led to longtime Likudnik Gideon Sa’ar breaking away to form his own party. Rather than weaken the party, the move allowed new and enthusiastic members to step into the breach.  Nissim Vaturi, as the 40th candidate on the Likud list, stepped up, representing a unique and necessary voice in the government. Sworn in two weeks ago, Vaturi made a bold declaration of his intentions by ascending to the Temple Mount on.

“This was my first time on the Temple Mount,” Vaturi told Israel365News. “I wanted to go sooner, but since I was sworn in two weeks ago, I haven’t had a free moment. I felt it was important for my new function to connect to the source, the basis of our sanctity as a nation. The Knesset is based in the Biblical mandate to establish an assembly of leaders. It is, of course, different than what we had in the Bible but someone who represents Israel cannot be disconnected from the Creator. We are all anticipating the Redemption. This is far more important than anything material.” Read More

 

 

WHO Chief Scientist Warns “No Evidence COVID Vaccine Prevents Viral Transmission”

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Once again, the WHO has stepped in to offer some confusing comments about the coronavirus vaccine, warning that there is “no evidence to be confident shots prevent transmission” and that people who receive the vaccine should continue wearing masks and following all social distancing and travel guidelines.

The comments were made by WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan during what appears to have been a virtual press conference held Monday. Read More

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Travel Insurers Likely To Make Vaccination A Requirement, New Report Finds

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Yet another sector of the travel industry has signalled that it could mandate vaccination against coronavirus to provide services to travellers, according to a report that notes insurers may demand to see proof of vaccination before covering those wishing to go on holiday.

The international Travel and Health Insurance Journal reports that “If the EU obliges travellers to vaccinate, travel insurance providers may refuse to cover those who decline to have the vaccination.

The report notes that the European Union has previously indicated that travellers and anyone applying for a visa could be mandated to get the vaccine in order to enter and move between EU countries.

“If EU makes vaccines mandatory, travel insurers will likely follow suit,” the journal emphasises.

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