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"Like Saudi Arabia, the United States is an indispensable nation — whether for defense, energy or investment.

The Trumpist project is not about “Making America Great Again” in any traditional sense; rather, it is about reshaping America at least in part in the image of a modern petrostate — one that leverages energy wealth, luxury development and financial capital to exert influence on the global stage.

The future of this model of political economy is in flux. Saudi Arabia has begun work on flamboyant megaprojects like a golden cube in Riyadh large enough to hold the Empire State Building and a would-be city in the desert comprising two continuous 100-mile-long mirrored skyscrapers. But oil prices need to stay high for the kingdom’s checks to clear — and the costs are not only monetary. ITV reported that data suggest over 21,000 workers have died since Vision 2030 began in 2016. The shimmering sci-fi city of the promotional videos and prospectuses has so far yielded only a single unfinished seaside resort three times over budget, for a total cost of $4 billion. The techno kingdom’s future vision looks ever more like what The Wall Street Journal called a “dance of mutual delusion” with consultants and starchitects dazzling the monarch just enough to keep extending their contracts.

Mr. Trump’s “everything everywhere all at once” strategy of deregulation and extraction, combined with inflated promises and incoherent trade policy, suggests a similar sense that time is of the essence — and could work against him."

nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Does Trump Want America to Look More Like Saudi Arabia?By Quinn Slobodian

Dear Canada, Petrostate Alberta has been criminally negligent in securing funds from the petro oligarchs to properly clean up the tar sands. Alberta will foist this bill onto Canada, just like the orphan wells funds that Trudeau foolishly gave to the UCP...who gifted it to their favorite oilman in Calgary.

Canada, you're being played by conservative fascists that don't work for you despite your vote for them.

Wise up already.

macleans.ca/economy/why-canada

Hosting of the 3rd climate COP in a row by a #PetroState is eroding confidence in the UNFCCC process. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 president Ilham Aliyev struck a surprisingly combative tone during his opening speech when he called #FossilFuels a “gift from God” buff.ly/3Cvs6PA #COP29

euronews · ‘Dark times’: Climate activists on why they’re still fighting at COP29Cutting through the noise at COP29, Luisa Neubauer and Asad Rehman tell us what brings them to Baku.

My man, the US invented the petrostate!
history.state.gov/milestones/1

Easy money! Just pillage and plunder some countries!
edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/bus

The main difference between the US and a traditional petrostate is that it's ruled by a mafia/oligarchy complex that bears some resemblance to post-collapse / failed state Russia instead of a monarchy, or a league of sultanates.

thebulletin.org/2024/11/welcom

history.state.govMilestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov 3.0 shell

Coast #Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the #SalishSea Assembly in #Seattle

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews at #Indybay, Nov. 8, 2024

"The defenders are battling the dirty energy #corporations poisoning the land, water and air in western #Canada and #WashingtonState, and the waters of the Salish Sea. The rivers from British Columbia in Canada and Washington State come together in the Salish Sea on their journey to the #PacificOcean.

"The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil business of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands in Canada, bound for #OilTankers in the Salish Sea.

"The destruction, and theft of land, is a continuation of the #genocidal residential school system. Native children were kidnapped, ripped from their families, and incarcerated in the abusive schools operated by Canada and the churches.

"'We can't drink water from there any more,' said Jean, who lives close to the Alberta tar sands in her homeland. 'I was born into this destruction.

"'Thousands of birds are dead in the tailing ponds.'"

bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11

#WaterDefenders #LandBack #DefendTheSacred
#BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism
#ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest #WaterIsLife #PetrolState #PetroState #Oiligarchy #ResidentialSchools #StolenChildren #CulturalGenocide #MMIW #MMIWG

bsnorrell.blogspot.comCoast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in SeattleCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.