Venezuelan Oil and a Murdered Professor
- Jan Schenk Grosskopf
- Jan 14
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 16
The US take over of Venezuela’s oil reset the global chessboard. But half of the world has already pointed out many of the implications. Thank you. Once again, procrastination served me well.
But so far, I haven’t seen anyone get to an important point. Bear with me. First, as we’ve discussed on the Lee Elci show for years, the global world order is a done deal. If you don’t believe so, ponder the fact that we are supposed to be sworn enemies with Russia, yet we share a space station with Russia, and we collaborate with many other countries at the CERN particle accelerator. Just two examples of many.
So, what’s with the Venezuelan oil? President Trump is trying to keep America the dominate force in the global order by bonding the nations with trade agreements and tariffs that will spur domestic industry, eventually lowering taxes and keeping our money out of the hands of people who hate us. To stay on top, we also need to dominate in AI research, which means massive use of electricity. Most electricity is produced using oil. We can’t build nuclear power plants fast enough, and besides they are a liability. Too many suicidal maniacs who want to blow up the world. Combining US and Venezuelan oil reserves gives us dominance over the world supply.
Easy. But there’s more. The future source of energy is clean, cheap, eventually portable plasma fusion and everyone is racing to be the first to have it. Even then, it will take decades of oil based electricity to manufacture the generators and rebuild the entire energy grid. Meanwhile, we need to balance the power of our frienemies in Saudi Arabia, who will eventually have nothing but sand, and other oil producers. We don’t want the Saudis or anyone else to wield oil against us again, nor do we want to leave them out in the cold. We want peace.
The US plasma fusion program experienced a set back when Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who killed two students at Brown University, also killed “Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, (who) was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts . . . Loureiro, who joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research. The center, one of the school's largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm.”
If you followed the media, you were told that Valente traveled to Brown University in Rhode Island to open fire on eleven strangers, killing two, for no apparent reason. One of them, Ella Cook, a smart, beautiful, young woman, dominated the early news cycle. Only the foreign press noted that the other victim “Mukhammadaziz Umurzokov was regarded as an exceptionally driven student. Friends said he pressed school administrators to introduce more advanced physics classes after completing the most demanding course available and took more than a dozen Advanced Placement subjects.”
So, according to the narrative, Valente killed two strangers, and shot nine others at Brown University. Instead of turning his gun on himself, as many mass shooters do, Valente traveled to Massachusetts to kill Loureiro. The ensuing manhunt after BU consumed the media and alarmed the public. Professor Loureiro and plasma fusion were ignored. Finally, John, a man living a Joe Pesci life in a BU basement, fingered the suspect. Next we heard that a man motivated to kill three people in two states decided to commit suicide in his storage unit in a third state, Vermont. Media sighs of relief. Horrific story ended with all loose ends tied. Or are they?
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Crew-11 consists of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
The station is divided into the Russian Orbital Segment, and the US Orbital Segment. Crews are launched to the station via Russian Soyuz missions and US launch vehicles, although the US operated none between the 2011 Space Shuttle retirement and 2018 first crewed launch of SpaceX Dragon 2. The station has been resupplied by cargo spacecraft operated by the US, Russia, European Space Agency, and Japan.
“To outsiders, CERN is best known as the home of the Large Hadron Collider and the place where the Higgs boson was discovered. Less well known is that the World Wide Web was also developed there, originally intended as a practical communication tool for scientists collaborating across the globe. “CERN is essentially a mini state,” says Raimond Snellings, Professor of Heavy Ion Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at Utrecht University. “It really is a city in its own right, with its own legislation, diplomatic status, and thousands of researchers, technicians and support staff.” From next year onwards, he will take a seat on the CERN Council and help decide how this ‘city’ will continue to evolve.”
