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Subscribe now Yesterday, it was Aramco's CEO joking, today one of America's shale revolutionaries, Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources. Sheffield scolds Joe Biden for asking the Saudis, not the shale boys to increase oil production. Most amusing, Sheffield simultaneously states he wants oil in
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Subscribe now Yesterday in Houston, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser “said there was an assumption that the world could transition to cleaner fuels 'virtually overnight', but that this was 'deeply flawed.' 'I understand that publicly admitting that oil and gas will play an essential and
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“In these early French enterprises in the West, it was last degree difficult to hold men to their duty. Once fairly in the wilderness, completely freed from the sharp restraints of authority in which they had passed their lives, a spirit of lawlessness broke out among them and a violence
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Modernity destroyed history. The technologies of industrialism buried the past, building atop it an always not quite graspable future. Nonetheless, historical knowledge remains freeing. It gives understanding of how the present world came to be, and maybe more importantly, an appreciation that everything that is, never necessarily had to be.
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You Africans, please listen to me as Africans And you non-Africans, listen to me with open mind Here we go...* Nigeria richly illustrates human life at the end of modern era. The most populous country on the African continent, Nigeria combines hundreds of languages and cultures. It is a meeting
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