"Executives from three major American oil companies with long histories in Venezuela cautioned at a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday that any serious investments in Venezuelan oil infrastructure would require massive, long-term structural changes.

None of the leaders of Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips made major commitments or promises to Trump at the meeting, which gathered nearly two dozen oil executives. Some of their statements appeared to contradict Trump’s claims that American companies will quickly invest billions of dollars in Venezuela.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods described the current situation in Venezuela as “uninvestable.”

“We take a very long-term perspective,” he said at the meeting. “The investments that we make span decades and decades. We don’t go into any opportunity with a short-term mindset, and there’s a value proposition that we have to meet.”

Woods then said that long-term commitments from Exxon will require serious interest from both the Venezuelan government and the Venezuelan people."

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/key-oil-executives-trump-venezuela-investment

#USA #Trump #BigOil #Venezuela #Militarism #Oil #FossilFuels

"Executives from three major American oil companies with long histories in Venezuela cautioned at a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday that any serious investments in Venezuelan oil infrastructure would require massive, long-term structural changes.

None of the leaders of Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips made major commitments or promises to Trump at the meeting, which gathered nearly two dozen oil executives. Some of their statements appeared to contradict Trump’s claims that American companies will quickly invest billions of dollars in Venezuela.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods described the current situation in Venezuela as “uninvestable.”

“We take a very long-term perspective,” he said at the meeting. “The investments that we make span decades and decades. We don’t go into any opportunity with a short-term mindset, and there’s a value proposition that we have to meet.”

Woods then said that long-term commitments from Exxon will require serious interest from both the Venezuelan government and the Venezuelan people."

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/key-oil-executives-trump-venezuela-investment

#USA #Trump #BigOil #Venezuela #Militarism #Oil #FossilFuels

"On Wednesday afternoon, ICE agents carrying out an operation in south Minneapolis were briefly obstructed by a car blocking traffic. ICE agents approached the female driver, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, yelling, “Get out of the fucking car,” and one of them attempted to open the driver’s-side door. After the driver backed up to turn around and move, another agent drew his gun and unloaded three shots into the car. The car barreled into a light pole about 100 feet down the road, and the driver was quickly pronounced dead.

This is confirmed by eyewitness accounts and videos from multiple angles. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while confirming the broad details, claims that the ICE agent acted in self-defense to avoid being run over by the vehicle.

These are the kinds of disputes that the courts are equipped to handle. Because if an agent shot directly into a car and killed the driver without some credible fear of personal harm, it would be called murder. And federal agents can indeed be prosecuted for murder.

States can prosecute anyone for violations of state law, regardless of their rank or authority. Murder is a felony in the state of Minnesota, as it is in every other state. Within the last several years, we saw Minnesota successfully prosecute a murder, committed by a law enforcement officer, that was documented on tape and broadcast to the world."

https://prospect.org/2026/01/07/ice-agents-can-be-charged-with-murder/

#USA #Trump #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #PoliceState #Militias #Militarism

"The United States military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world"

"The Carbon Bootprint of the US Military and Prospects for a Safer Climate," https://books.openedition.org/obp/25697

#uspol #oil #FossilFuels #energy #militarism #OpenAccess

"The United States military is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world"

"The Carbon Bootprint of the US Military and Prospects for a Safer Climate," https://books.openedition.org/obp/25697

#uspol #oil #FossilFuels #energy #militarism #OpenAccess