How Love of Money Replaced Love of Nation and Spirit
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Patriotism and religion are luxuries. When you can’t pay the rent or feed your family, when you’re pestered by bill collectors, it’s hard to think of anything other than money. OPEC Plus are cutting back oil production to raise prices. Are they doing it just to spite America and other democracies around the world? Did Saudis Cut Oil Production To Punish Democracies? Also Rep. Mark Pocan drops in to reflect on the recent wins in Wisconsin.
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| 0:47.2 | So over the weekend, the United States got blindsided by OPEC Plus. |
| 0:52.2 | OPEC Plus is the group of oil-producing nations that now includes Russia and a bunch of countries |
| 1:01.2 | just said that they're going to cut oil production. |
| 1:03.4 | Oil prices jumped 8% Saudi Arabia and other members. |
| 1:06.9 | They're going to cut it more than it's going to be 1.2 million barrels a day. |
| 1:10.6 | I believe world consumption is just a little over 100 million barrels a day. |
| 1:14.9 | My recollection is it was 112 million a day. |
| 1:19.8 | I may well be wrong though, you'll have to look that up, but it's just a recollection. |
| 1:27.2 | But the White House back in October had accused Saudi Arabia of siding with Russia. |
| 1:33.6 | These are both autocratic nations, you've got dictators, a dictator running Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:39.3 | a dictator running Russia, so it makes sense that they would have more in common with each other |
| 1:44.0 | than they would have with the United States. |
| 1:46.6 | And ever since the Trump presidency, Saudi Arabia has been moving away from the United States and |
| 1:51.7 | toward Russia, and aggressively courting Donald Trump and his family, giving Jared Kushner $2 billion |
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