Dow drops 1,000 points As Oil Prices Climb More

[mudwhistle]

The World Court ordered the return of Iran's own money.
You should know this.
You probably do know this, but saying "Obama sent them cash" sounds so much better to feed your agenda.

1. The background (1970s arms deal)​

In the 1970s, Iran (under the Shah) paid the U.S. $400 million for military equipment.
Then the Iranian Revolution happened, the Shah was overthrown, and the U.S. canceled the weapons sale.

• The U.S. kept the $400 million that Iran had already paid.
• Iran sued the U.S. in an international court (the Iran–U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague) to recover the money plus interest.

This dispute went on for decades.

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2. The 2016 settlement​

In January 2016, during the Obama administration, the U.S. agreed to settle the dispute.

Total settlement: $1.7 billion

Breakdown:

• $400 million — the original payment from the 1970s
• $1.3 billion — negotiated interest

Officials said settling the case avoided the risk of Iran winning much more (potentially billions) in court.

That was a ruse.

Obama was sending them billions to help fund terrorism.

 

[Winco]

That was a ruse.

Obama was sending them billions to help fund terrorism.

You really need to take a break from the Conspiracy Theory Playbook,

How did Obama get Iran to SUE the USA through the International Court?

 

[citygator]

Where it stops, no one knows.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

This means the world-wide cost of oil by the barrel will increase. As will the gas by gallon increase. Also the cost of imported foods will increase as shortages begin. This can cause World Wide Inflation. You to look beyond end of your nose. This huge implications entire world.

So you go over there and spread your own buttcheeks to please your heroes. There are many people who still won't do that, unfortunately for you CCP types. Time to do a scorched earth tactic on all terrorist regimes and gangs, no holds barred. You stick to hiding under your bed and stay the hell out of the way.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Across the U.S., farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying.

lol no they aren't. The hobby farmers might be hurting but like any other businesses many are doing just fine. IF any are showing such a big surplus as you claim then good, run some sales for domestic consumers.

 

[krichton]

Since this thread went up, the dow has plummetted 3,000 points. Pam Bondi is devastated.

 

[sealybobo]

lol no they aren't. The hobby farmers might be hurting but like any other businesses many are doing just fine. IF any are showing such a big surplus as you claim then good, run some sales for domestic consumers.

You Republicans sicken me. Such hypocrites really.

The Trump administration announced a $12 billion bail-out for US farmers in December 2025 to offset losses from trade disputes, tariffs, and low commodity prices, with payments set to arrive by February 28, 2026. The USDA will distribute $11 billion in "bridge" payments to row crop producers (soybeans, corn, wheat, etc.) using $2025 acreage reports, with $1 billion for specialty crops.

Trump is costing us a lot even without the Iran war. Reminds me of Bush.

 

[sealybobo]

lol no they aren't. The hobby farmers might be hurting but like any other businesses many are doing just fine. IF any are showing such a big surplus as you claim then good, run some sales for domestic consumers.

I saw this and thought of you

As House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson prepares to introduce legislation aimed at easing the farm labor crisis, farmers in the Pennsylvania Republican’s district are hoping he’s heard their cries that they need more help right now.

In Tioga County, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses.

Looks like we need cheap migrant labor to do our farming.

And how much did WE have to bail them out with? Billions? Trump really fucked up huh with his DOGE? And now he's spending all the savings he found on himself and Pete Hegseth and you are paying more for EVERYTHING and he says high gas prices are good because WE are getting rich.

How dumb are you Notsees? Seriously

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I saw this and thought of you

As House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson prepares to introduce legislation aimed at easing the farm labor crisis, farmers in the Pennsylvania Republican’s district are hoping he’s heard their cries that they need more help right now.

In Tioga County, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses.

Looks like we need cheap migrant labor to do our farming.

And how much did WE have to bail them out with? Billions? Trump really fucked up huh with his DOGE? And now he's spending all the savings he found on himself and Pete Hegseth and you are paying more for EVERYTHING and he says high gas prices are good because WE are getting rich.

How dumb are you Notsees? Seriously

Nope, it's just a scam; farmers love to claim there is a 'labor shortage' same as other employers do. They're usually lying, and in any case automation has come a long way in farming.

Silence in the Fields

The U.S. government is allowing farmers to fill thousands of jobs with foreign 'guestworkers.' The conditions are hardly hospitable -- but those who speak out can be sent straight back home.

www.motherjones.com

 

[sealybobo]

lol no they aren't. The hobby farmers might be hurting but like any other businesses many are doing just fine. IF any are showing such a big surplus as you claim then good, run some sales for domestic consumers.

You know what's funny? You guys say food prices aren't going up but why is that? Because like China subsidizes it's battery car companies, The Trump government has to do the same with the farmers he fucked.

In December 2025, the Trump administration announced a $12 billion "Farmer Bridge Assistance" program to provide one-time bailout payments to U.S. farmers. This aid targets financial losses caused by trade disputes, with up to $11 billion dedicated to major row crops like soybeans and corn. Funds are aimed at supporting farmers through early 2026 amid rising costs

Rising costs???? What???? LOL

 

[EdwinAMartin]

You know what's funny? You guys say food prices aren't going up but why is that? Because like China subsidizes it's battery car companies, The Trump government has to do the same with the farmers he fucked.

In December 2025, the Trump administration announced a $12 billion "Farmer Bridge Assistance" program to provide one-time bailout payments to U.S. farmers. This aid targets financial losses caused by trade disputes, with up to $11 billion dedicated to major row crops like soybeans and corn. Funds are aimed at supporting farmers through early 2026 amid rising costs

Rising costs???? What???? LOL

You know what's funny? You're a clueless idiot; cartels control food prices. Guess who gets the majority of those subsidies?

 

[sealybobo]

You know what's funny? You're a clueless idiot; cartels control food prices. Guess who gets the majority of those subsidies?

Huh? American farmers.

Are you saying the migrants who work these farms send the money back to cartels? Wow! Never thought of that. By buying American veggies we are funding narco terrrorism. Interesting.

We need to automate farms fast.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Huh? American farmers.

Are you saying the migrants who work these farms send the money back to cartels? Wow! Never thought of that. By buying American veggies we are funding narco terrrorism. Interesting.

We need to automate farms fast.

Yes, make up some more bullshit trying to save face over your stupid posts. Typical. you can't refute anything, so just throw out some shit and Post Last!!! lol pathetic.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

We need to automate farms fast.

Been going on for years, tard. Even blueberries have been picked by machines for years now, tard. Lettuce, tomatoes, etc., oranges, ....

 

[sealybobo]

Been going on for years, tard. Even blueberries have been picked by machines for years now, tard. Lettuce, tomatoes, etc., oranges, ....

Maybe Big Farma.

Farmers are facing a severe, worsening shortage of labor, with over 50% of farms reporting hiring difficulties due to tightened immigration policies and increased ICE enforcement. This crisis leaves crops unharvested and threatens farm solvency and higher food prices.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Maybe Big Farma.

Farmers are facing a severe, worsening shortage of labor, with over 50% of farms reporting hiring difficulties due to tightened immigration policies and increased ICE enforcement. This crisis leaves crops unharvested and threatens farm solvency and higher food prices.

Although the process is designed to ensure American workers get first crack at any jobs, only a handful wind up being hired. According to growers, that’s because few apply. “The unemployment rate is at a 30-year low,” says Stan Eury. “It doesn’t take an analyst to show you there’s a labor shortage. Anyone who says there’s not is an absolute idiot.” Farmwork, he adds, “operates at the bottom rung of the job ladder, and in a time of strong employment, those bottom rungs are the first vacated.”

In fact, study after study of the H-2A program concludes that there’s actually a surplus of agricultural labor, not a shortage. “Unemployment and underemployment are endemic among farmworkers,” says one Labor Department report. “Even at the seasonal peak in September, one-third of farmworkers are still not working in U.S. agriculture.” In studies and congressional testimony about the program, the General Accounting Office also dismisses the idea of a labor shortage. “Agricultural employers in most of the United States have had adequate supplies of labor for many years and continue to do so,” the GAO reports.

The agency acknowledges that some regions do experience local shortages, but notes that those might be alleviated “with fairly modest wage increases.” Instead, H-2A enables farmers — from small operators to corporate giants employing more than 600 workers — to effectively circumvent the free market, paying guestworkers as little as $6.39 an hour rather than raising hourly wages to attract U.S. workers. “A lot of farmers say, ‘I advertised for 300 jobs and no one applied,'” says Thom Myers, a farmworker advocate in Raleigh, North Carolina. “But what about the guy who runs a hardware store who has the same argument? What about the guy who runs a restaurant? If this was any other industry, the government would say, ‘Hey, raise your pay until the supply and demand curves cross.'”

Rather than pay market wages, H-2A growers have instead developed a litany of schemes to ward off domestic workers. In Idaho, the Snake River Farmer’s Association urged its members to write backbreaking job descriptions to discourage Americans from applying. “Irrigators or pipe movers is a great job description because no one wants to move pipe,” explains an association handout. Farmers in other states have turned away U.S. residents for being a few minutes late for interviews, or for not knowing the fine points of federal labor law. In North Carolina, the Growers Association says it hires domestic workers after a simple five-minute phone interview — but state officials describe the process as intentionally inefficient and even hostile. “They go out of their way to discourage local workers from seeking employment,” Lee Albritton, a former job-service employee, wrote in a memo to his supervisors. In 1999, the state found jobs on non-H-2A farms for 12,700 domestic workers. By contrast, on H-2A farms, the state found jobs for only seven workers.

To further discourage U.S. workers, growers often refuse to provide migrant crews the same kind of transportation they offer H-2A workers. “Farmers know that unless there’s travel money involved, no large number of domestic workers will get to the job site,” says Greg Schell, an attorney at Florida’s Migrant Farmworker Justice Project. “If they send a bus to the Rio Grande Valley or Belle Glade, Florida, they can get thousands of experienced farmworkers. But without a bus, the job may as well be on Mars.”

Silence in the Fields

The U.S. government is allowing farmers to fill thousands of jobs with foreign 'guestworkers.' The conditions are hardly hospitable -- but those who speak out can be sent straight back home.

www.motherjones.com

Keeping babbling the party line, no matter what, though.

There has never been a labor shortage in the US, not ever.

 

[kevinthrowe]

Just remember if Biden or Kamala were president and we were in this mess you would not trust their judgement. Many, MANY Republicans are hoping this Iran thing doesn't blow up in their faces. The midterms are coming up and it's not looking good for them but can they turn on Trump and stand up to him? They might come closer to November. $1 billion a day in Iran without a plan?

You do understand that Exxon Mobil made $55 billion that year in profits despite low barrel cost.
The power corporations have to hurt America is sad

 

[EdwinAMartin]

You do understand that Exxon Mobil made $55 billion that year in profits despite low barrel cost.
The power corporations have to hurt America is sad

The fact that they have zero qualms in doing so is even sadder.

 

[krichton]

That was a ruse.

Obama was sending them billions to help fund terrorism.

Terrorism? Against whom? If that were the case, then Congress would have been on it too. Heck, the entire government. Where is the record of this actually happening?

 

[The Duke]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling sharply on Wall Street Thursday, including a 1,000-point slump for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as oil prices rise further because of the war with Iran.

Stocks drop after oil spikes to its highest price since the summer of 2024 - WTOP News

Stocks are falling sharply on Wall Street as oil prices rise further because of the war with Iran.

wtop.com

The S&P 500 sank 1.3% in afternoon trading, coming off a frenetic start to the week that saw financial markets swerve sharply, sometimes hour by hour. The Dow tumbled 1,046 points, or 2.1%, as of 2:04 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.1% lower.

Financial markets are again following the cue of oil prices. They’re cranking up the pressure because of worries that a long-term spike could exhaust households’ ability to spend, grind down the global economy and push interest rates higher.

A barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 4.7% to $85.22 That’s up from close to $70 late last week. A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude climbed 8.1% to $80.67. U.S. crude last traded above $80 in August 2024.

Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz. One fifth of the world's oil is brought the Straits of Hormuz. Price per barre;; is going up , as will the price of gas. Iran closed the Straits during the Iran/Iraq War. Prices will increase at sores as well due the closure. Thanks Trump.