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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House is open just one day a year. We went along, with what must have been half the county, to have a look
Standing on a giant bum...
After months of feverish speculation regarding the potential for a game-changing political marriage between Bola Tinubu’s ascendant Action Congress of Nigeria and Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, Mr. Buhari, the ascetic retired general and former head of state, has surprised many by settling for the activist clergyman Tunde Bakare.
News stories the day after the US presidential election are replete with speculation of what will happen in the Middle East, and with Israel in particular, now that Barak Obama has been re-elected.
The overwhelming topics of conversation regarding Israel have returned to the questions of 1) what Obama will do about the Iranian nuclear threat and, 2) what will Obama do about bringing a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.
Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister and current “permanent representative” of the Quartet, spoke at length this morning about the potential for Obama’s refocusing on a peace plan for Israel. Blair said yesterday morning that “I think President Obama’s re-election gives us the chance to go back into it with a renewed sense of momentum.”
The sticky point here is that the members of the Quartet believe that, “It is very fashionable at the moment to say the two-state solution is not going to work. Just examine the alternative for a moment. What does a one-state solution mean? It means you institutionalize conflict right at the heart of whatever that state might look like.”
Even more telling was his statement that, “I don't think there has been any change in President Obama's view, which is that it is in the strategic interest of the United States and the world that a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue is found.”
Do not misunderstand. We are not predicting the end of the world. But we are saying that Barak Obama's re-election re-opens the political push toward drafting – and even imposing – a treaty between Israel and all of the Arab states and Islamic entities that is considered in the best interest of the world - a two-state solution with Jerusalem divided among them. That solution is not acceptable to Jehovah God, but then, which politicians are asking Him?
Never before in the history of the world has the stage been so perfectly set for this person and this treaty. Interestingly, the world considers that situations as they currently are demand a peace treaty. But if there were to be a conflict with Iran, nuclear or otherwise, there is no telling what could happen. Many Bible scholars believe that Ezekiel 38 foretells a World War III that could come out of the entire Middle East mess. If that were to happen, there would be an even greater need for a peace treaty.
We are not making predictions. We are pointing out the signs. If we can discern that a red sky at night is a sailor’s delight and a red sky in the morning is a sailor’s warning, we ought also be able to read the signs of the times, and you should understand that a treaty creating two nations precedes great tribulations. Study God’s Word. Trust God and pray. And when you pray, pray for the peace of Jerusalem – God’s way. (Psalm 122:6)
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While global food prices are rising, pushing the world's poorest people into hunger, bankers are betting on food prices and once again look set to push them even higher.
We're campaigning hard for new laws to regulate food speculation - and the next few weeks will be crucial.
Euro MPs and finance ministers are both about to decide their position on the new rules. The UK government, represented by Chancellor George Osborne, is opposed to strong rules to tackle food speculation.
So we are going to present him with a photo petition to show him just how many people are concerned about the issue.
Leading Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has rejected speculation he is planning to challenge Theresa May for the party leadership.
“I wouldn’t challenge Theresa May. That’s a ridiculous idea. The prime minister has my full support,” he told the BBC’s...
This was probably the 50th shot because she did not want to sit still with the camera next to her. I did a depth of field while almost filling the frame. The subject is close up and detailed. No editing was done to this one.
There's been some speculation that grey-hair's goggles contained mini screens with live video feeds from the elephant's eyes. The little girl had an equivalent controller with goggles and another radio-control. No idea who the guy with the earphones is, or whether those have live audio feeds from the elephant's massive flappers, but I suspect not.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
Ruston Hornsby D2957 shunter with some interesting colours and patterns on the glass. Does it go anymore I wonder?
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
'UFO over airport causes speculations'.
Seems they still don't know what it was. The 'UFO' didn't appear on the radars - but was well-visible. Probably made of plastic? Or they test a 'radar-invisble' helicopter? No idea. But if you like unusual things to happen - come to Bremen! It's a nice city anyway. ;)
OTTAWA,- For Mike Blanchfield story- Stephen Harper shuffles his cabinet with speculation that a spring election could be in the cards. Ministers are as follows : Robert Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General. Senator Marjorie LeBreton, Secretary of State(Seniors) & Leader of the Government in The Senate. Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. Vic Toews, President of Treasury Board. Rona Ambrose, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Western Economic Diversification. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. John Baird, Minister of Environment, Peter Van Loan, Government House Leader..... Seen here is Helena Guergis who became Sec of State, (Foreign Affirs and International Trade) (Sport) followed by Christian Paradis who became Sec of State (Agriculture)- Photo by Wayne Cuddington, Ottawa Citizen/CanWest News Service. Assignment #81452
Speculation surrounds the fate of the famous Honest Ed's sign, now that the store and adjacent "Mirvish Village" have been sold to Westbank for redevelopment.
3D printed plastic and electronic components
Moreshin Allahyari
This sculpture is part of 'Material Speculation: ISIS', a project by Morehshin Allahyari to recreate destroyed artefacts from Mosul Museum. Embedded inside is a flash drive and memory card containing images, videos and documents relating to the original object. Sealing this archive within the replica she creates an alternative way of preserving heritage. Allahyari shares data online, inviting engagement with both the history and future of lost artefacts.
[Imperial War Museum]
From What Remains (July 2019 to January 2020) part of the Culture Under Attack season
Destroying cultural heritage often strikes at the heart of our communities. What Remains highlights historic and contemporary moments where places, art and artefacts have been attacked by those who wish to exploit or even erase whole civilizations from history. Spanning 100 years, discover stories such as Hitler’s Baedeker Raids in 1942, where German bombers targeted historic towns and cities noted in travel guides of Britain, and the Taliban destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.
[Imperial War Museum]
Taken in Imperial War Museum
The physical nature of lunar rays has historically been a subject of speculation. Early hypotheses suggested that they were deposits of salt from evaporated water. Later they were thought to be deposits of volcanic ash or streaks of dust. After the impact origin of craters became accepted, Eugene Shoemaker suggested during the 1960s that the rays were the result of fragmented ejecta material.
Recent studies suggest that the relative brightness of a lunar ray system is not always a reliable indicator of the age of a ray system. Instead the albedo also depends on the portion of iron oxide (FeO). Low portions of FeO result in brighter materials, so such a ray system can retain its lighter appearance for longer periods. Thus the material composition needs to be factored into the albedo analysis to determine age.
Among the lunar craters on the near side with pronounced ray systems are Aristarchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Proclus, Dionysius, Censorinus, Glushko, and Tycho. Similar ray systems also occur on the far side of the Moon, such as the rays radiating from the craters Giordano Bruno, Necho, Ohm, Jackson, King, and the small but prominent Pierazzo.
North Ray and South Ray craters, each with a clear ray system, were observed from the ground by the astronauts of Apollo 16 in 1972. WIKIPEDIA
Speculation about the future of Hornsea Mere was clarified this week with suggestions that the public were no longer able to use facilities firmly squashed
Hornsea Gazette - 12th July 2012
Following international banking over speculation Irish & worldwide property values collapse.
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Charcoal, Metallic paint, Spray Paint, Gloss house paint, Glitter powders & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:148cm by W:228cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks,Glitter & Gloss paint used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!
I remember some speculation about this Nose Print somewhere...
Unfortunately this is already somewhat worn (finding a good one is becoming really hard these days).
Speculation was this could be the earliest example of 16 Pink, however I think it looks closer to 17 Rose.
The 1x2 Plate is Rose. The print on the sail and the dish is probably also Rose, but it's hard to tell as well.
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
1. pile 'o clarity birds, 2. 32:365 "photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy." -- susan sontag, 3. 33:365 "the photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects - to fight against boredom." - susan sontag, 4. 34:365 "to photograph is to confer importance." - susan sontag, 5. 35:365 "but when we are nostalgic, we take pictures." - susan sontag, 6. 35 (take 2):365 "it would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph." - susan sontag, 7. 36:365 "like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive." - susan sontag, 8. 38:365 "photographing, and thereby redeeming the homely, trite, and humble is also an ingenious means of individual expression." - susan sontag, 9. 37:365 "today everything exists to end in a photograph." - susan sontag, 10. 39:365 "...photography offers instant romanticism about the present." - susan sontag, 11. 40:365 "the lure of photographs, their hold on us, is that they offer at one and the same time a connoisseur's relation to the world and a promiscuous acceptance of the world." - susan sontag, 12. 41:365 "'one of the things i felt i suffered from as a kid,' Arbus wrote, 'was that i never felt adversity." - susan sontag, 13. 42:365 "the proliferation of photographs is ultimately an affirmation of kitsch." - susan sontag, 14. 43:365 "nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs." - susan sontag, 15. 44:365 "photographs, when they get scrofulous, tarnished, stained, cracked, faded still look good; do often look better." - susan sontag, 16. 45:365 "a photograph is only a fragment, and with the passage of time its moorings come unstuck." - susan sontag, 17. 46:365 "the camera's rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses." - susan sontag, 18. 47:365 "the photograph is a thin slice of space as well as time." - susan sontag, 19. 48:365 "the arbitrariness of photographic evidence indicates that reality is fundamentally unclassifiable." - susan sontag, 20. 49:365 "photographic seeing meant an aptitude for discovering beauty in what everybody sees but neglects as too ordinary." - susan sontag, 21. 50:365 "the camera has the power to catch so-called normal people in such a way as to make them look abnormal." - susan sontag, 22. 51:365 "photographs are, of course, artifacts." - susan sontag, 23. 52:365 "photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic, therefore facile, of the mimetic arts." - susan sontag, 24. 53:365 "certain glories of nature, for example, have been all but abandoned to the indefatigable attentions of amateur camera buffs." - susan sontag, 25. 54:365 "the primitive notion of the efficacy of images presumes that images possess the qualities of real things, but our inclination is to attribute to real things the qualities of an image." - susan sontag, 26. 55:365 "photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art." - susan sontag, 27. 56:365 house hunting in bad weather, 28. 57:365 future blue room, 29. 58:365 "the photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker..." - susan sontag, 30. 59:365 "photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is." - susan sontag
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The U.S. National Archives has recently posted online a redacted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file dated 1973-74 related to an investigation of the original Washington Area Spark newspaper.
The timing of its publication is curious given the Trump administration’s abandonment of investigations into right wing groups and its focus on surveying left wing groups.
The file contains a mixture of facts, incorrect information, speculation and an astounding lapse in collecting publicly available information. It also spends considerable time trying to understand the political viewpoints of the individuals they are investigating, but without success.
Among the individuals named are Robert “Bob” Simpson (RIP), Craig Simpson, Sue Reading and Barbara Myers.
One of the things the FBI failed to understand was that the inhabitants of a group house in Takoma Park were not synonymous with the Washington Area Spark collective. The house at 201 Lincoln Avenue was a collection of people associated with the University of Maryland who shared a house to cut expenses. The Simpson brothers and Reading were all regular contributors to Spark whereas Myers was not.
The FBI also struggles to understand the politics of the group and mixes up the political leanings and orientations of different individuals. For example, attending a demonstration sponsored by the group Youth Against War and Fascism is not the same as being close to or joining that organization.
Another example is alleging that Craig Simpson published an underground newspaper at the University of Maryland College Park. Simpson said recently, “I’d very much like to take credit for it, but it’s something I never did.”
The FBI was interested in learning if Spark contributors had a “propensity for violence,” but found little evidence. However, it is astounding that they failed to note Bob Simpson’s 1972 arrest at a George Wallace rally at Capital Plaza for inciting to riot. They also failed to note that Craig Simpson had been arrested in 1970 for assault on a police officer in one incident and carrying a deadly weapon and destruction of government property in another 1970 incident. Nor did they note Meyer’s 1970 arrests at the University of Maryland for occupying Skinner Hall or her arrest as one of the Donut Shop 10. All that was public information that they failed to uncover.
Likewise, they had had an interest in foreign contacts. They noted Meyers’ trip with the Venceremos Brigade to Cuba, but failed to note Bob Simpson’s membership in the Irish Republican Clubs or his application to join a Venceremos Brigade trip to Cuba.
The agents were unable to determine where the newspaper was published. The mystery could have been solved by contacting the Carroll County Times
Two of the redacted informants’ names mentioned in the FBI files are believed to be “Ted Falk,” a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who was believed to be an undercover Maryland State Police officer and Sheila O’Connor, a National Lawyers Guild activist believed to be an FBI informant.
Other information was obtained by the FBI calling or visiting people like the landlord at 201 Lincoln Avenue, postal officials and others that could verify details on the investigation.
Falk was denounced by two separate campus activists who swore they saw Falk enter the campus police station on separate occasions. They alleged that Falk had no explanation for his visit to the police there.
With suspicions aroused, activists called a meeting and asked Falk if they could use his apartment for the meeting. Falk agreed and the meeting was held at an apartment off of Knox Road in College Park, MD.
The apartment was sterile—no personal items or clutter—only dated furniture and wall hangings--apparently a furnished apartment. Under the pretext of using the restroom, one meeting attendant checked Falk’s closet and found there were no clothes in it.
When the meeting convened, the agenda unknown to Falk was to denounce violence in no uncertain terms so that Falk would simply lose interest and leave the group. The ruse worked as Falk never came to another meeting.
O’Connor’s career was much longer. She began cozying up to left wing political activists around the time of the 1971 Mayday demonstrations. Her sordid activities are covered in a Counterspy article on her dated Spring 1976 entitled, “Congressional Aide Spies on Left.”
For at least seven years she and her husband published a newsletter that was mailed to law enforcement and intelligence agencies entitled, “Information Digest.” The two were S. Louise Rees and John Rees, better known to the Washington, D.C, left-wing community as Sheila O'Conner [sometimes O’Donnell] and John Seeley. They had a number of informant sources that provided unsubstantiated information for their newsletter.
She later ingratiated herself to the National Lawyers Guild where she rose to a leadership position.
It was during her time at the National Lawyers Guild that she reported on the Washington Area Spark and On The Move newspapers.
O’Connor worked for a time for U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) during the mid-1970s, one of the most right-wing members of the House of Representatives at the time.
O’Connor would later move to the West Coast and acted as a private investigator under the name O’Donnell for many left-wing organizations, including former University of Maryland activist Judy Bari. Bari was then a prominent environmental activist on the West Coast and was the victim of an attempted assassination by car bomb.
It is not known whether O’Connor/O’Donnell continued to be a double agent, but it seems likely.
However, the left-wing on the West Coast was apparently unaware of her past duplicitous activity and an obituary written by David Helvarg and published January 5, 2023 on the LAProgressive site is effusive in its praise.
O’Connor/O’Donnell ingratiated herself to those on the left by providing factual details using her investigative skills that they were unaware of. This was the method O’Connor/O’Donnell used to gain the trust of activists while she acted as a double-agent.
The publication of Information Digest was a predecessor of the right-wing sleuths who attempt to infiltrate left-wing circles in contemporary times.
CounterSpy wrote in 1976, “Experts consulted by CounterSpy including Frank Donner, of the ACLU Political Surveillance Project and Wes McCune, veteran analyst of America’s right wing, were astounded by the sophistication and depth of Information Digest. Donner believes Information Digest demonstrates that the private, abundantly financed right-wing elements have better information on liberals and radicals than that normally processed by the government.”
The current version of Washington Area Spark is reposting these FBI notes as a matter of historical interest.
For a PDF of this 19-page, 8 ½ x 11 document, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Spark-...
For a PDF of the CounterSpy article on Rees/O’Donnell/O’Connor, see page 16: washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1976-S...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHBqjCaLpD
Original posted by the U.S. National Archives.
A new rule to be proposed by Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Bart Chilton would harden regulation of the paper trading aspect of the commodity market. The agency's effort to address excessive speculation reignites due to the nearing retirement of its chief economist Jeffrey Harris, who opposed reform in this area.
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www.heatingoil.com/blog/cftc-commissioner-chilton-promise...
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