Tigui Joe

[Tigui Joe @21tigui]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The account that tweeted nothing except “Cole Allen” (the name of yesterday’s shooter) in a single 2023 post had an unusual background

Some are saying that the background shows the Butler assassination attempt

The theories online are wild! 😅

[Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 @EvanAKilgore]

HOLY CRAP!

According to Cole Tomas Allen's LinkedIn, he interned at NASA in 2014.

In 2014, NASA published a paper and "Henry Martinez" was an author.

An X user named "Henry Martinez," made in 2023, made only a single post on Dec 21, 2023.

The post simply said "Cole Allen."

[Ambassade de Cuba en France @EmbaCubaFrancia]

✨La Havane🇨🇺 illuminée!✨

Après des mois de coupures de courant, la capitale de #Cuba a été entièrement illuminée dans la nuit du 19 avril grâce au pétrole russe.💪

La réalité devient alors claire: pas "d'État failli", c'est un blocus🇺🇸 pétrolier criminel. #HandsOffCuba

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip.

The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed.

Full statement: https://t.co/gFQLWpCcaP

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The opening of the Strait of Hormuz is not unrestricted and comes with three conditions:

1. Only commercial ships are allowed to pass; military vessels or shipments from belligerent parties are not permitted to transit.
2. The management and determination of which ships may pass lies with Iran.
3. This transit occurs only via the route designated by Iran.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

I’m watching the numbers flicker on the screen -- Brent crude at $92, WTI hovering near $97 -- and I feel a profound sense of dread. This isn’t a market; it’s a meticulously crafted fiction. We are being lied to on a scale so vast it defies comprehension.

The current paper price for oil is a government-constructed lie, a narrative woven by desperate authorities to maintain a false sense of stability while the physical foundations of our world crack beneath us.

This manipulation isn’t just an economic curiosity; it’s a trap. While futures traders cheer a modest pullback, the real cost of a barrel -- the tangible liquid that powers tractors, heats homes, and transports food -- has already rocketed into another dimension.

This divergence between paper and physical represents the single greatest threat to global order I’ve witnessed in decades. It’s a dangerous fiction masquerading as reality, and its inevitable collapse will redefine everything we know about energy, money, and power.

The lie is simple and audacious: that the price quoted on financial exchanges reflects the true value and availability of oil. This is the foundational deceit of our time. Governments and central banks, drowning in debt and desperate to avoid social unrest, have turned market mechanisms into tools of perception management. The goal isn’t price discovery; it’s price suppression.

This creates a perilous false sense of security. Headlines tout a "cooling" oil market, while in the physical world, refiners and industrial users are paying premiums of 50% or more. As noted in an analysis of the current conflict, the price of physical Brent crude is "already a hair’s breadth from $150" while the futures price lags far behind.

This isn’t a market glitch; it’s a policy. It’s the same playbook used for decades in precious metals, where paper derivatives are multiplied to infinity to suppress the price of tangible gold and silver. The system is designed to make you believe the digital IOU is as good as the real thing -- until the day it isn’t.

Read the full article here:
https://t.co/nQIYvJXcb0

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

It is in the details that we truly understand the real situation.

The USS George H.W. Bush and its carrier strike group are currently off the coast of Namibia as they take the long route to avoid the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.

If the American CSG is afraid to pass through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and risk being targeted by the Houthis, what kind of security can possibly be provided to cargo ships?

The Houthis’ equipment is of Iranian origin, but inferior to what Iran itself uses. Following this reasoning, how does this force intend to enter the Strait of Hormuz, which is infinitely more challenging?

Illustrative video

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

[Alexis Poulin @Poulin2012]

Ce master trolling.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Nothing Will Be the Same for a Long Time

The world we knew has changed and will remain different for years to come. We were still recovering from the effects of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine when the new war, started by the United States and Israel, struck hard at the infrastructure of Iran, the Persian Gulf countries, Israel itself, and Oman.

These bombings were not just military actions, they delivered a deep blow to the global economy. Oil, natural gas, fertilizers, semiconductors, chemicals, metals, and even helium saw their supply drastically reduced. Recovery will be slow and painful.

The Price of Destruction

The damage to the region’s metallurgical infrastructure was massive and concentrated on strategically vital points. In Iran, the Mobarakeh Steel Company complex suffered the collapse of blast furnace structures and critical cooling systems in its direct reduction units and electric arc furnaces.

Reconstruction costs are estimated at US$ 6 billion, with a recovery timeline of 2 to 3 years.

In Bahrain, the impact focused on Aluminium Bahrain, where the attack severely damaged reduction lines and logistics, causing structural losses of US$ 2.5 billion. In the United Arab Emirates, strikes against Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai resulted in estimated structural damage of US$ 4.2 billion.

This coordinated destruction in the three countries created a major gap in the global supply of primary metals, sharply raising operational costs and commodity prices worldwide.

In the oil and gas sector, the destruction was even more brutal. The Kharg Island Terminal, Iran’s main crude oil export point, lost docking berths, pipelines, and giant storage tanks.

Estimated cost: US$ 12 billion. The Asaluyeh and South Pars complex, the heart of gas and condensate processing, had fractionation towers, heat exchangers, and control systems incinerated, another US$ 10 billion in losses.

The Abadan and Isfahan refineries, essential for gasoline and diesel production, were also badly damaged. When pipelines, gas lines, and pumping stations are added, the total cost for Iran’s energy sector alone reaches US$ 30.5 billion.

The biggest problem is not just the money. It’s logistics. Iran needs to import turbines, special valves, and compressors that have long global production queues. Without easy access to Western suppliers, returning to pre-war levels could take 3 to 4 years.

Israel also paid a heavy price. Its technology and chemical centers were hit. Semiconductor plants, such as Intel’s facility in Kiryat Gat, lost clean rooms and precision equipment. Chemical complexes in Haifa and desalination plants suffered significant damage.
The total estimated cost is US$ 10 billion, with recovery times ranging from 6 months to 3 years.

In Iraq, the already fragile electricity and port infrastructure lost high-voltage substations, cranes at Umm Qasr port, and grain silos.
Approximate cost: US$ 5 billion. Recovery is expected to take 1 to 2 years.

In the United Arab Emirates, attacks hit the Fujairah Industrial Zone, fuel tanks, the port that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, and key gas fields and refineries such as Ruwais, Habshan, and Shah. Physical infrastructure costs exceed US$ 10 billion, with timelines from 6 months to 2 years.

Kuwait and Bahrain faced direct impacts on ships and refineries. Kuwait lost a large tanker and saw its facilities operating at minimum capacity. Estimated losses: US$ 3 billion. Bahrain had its Sitra refinery damaged and pipelines affected, with repair costs around US$ 800 million and a timeline of 9 to 14 months.

Oman was also hit, although on a smaller scale than its neighbors. Drone and missile strikes targeted key ports, damaging oil storage tanks and silos at Salalah, Duqm, and Sohar. Salalah, a major container and fuel hub outside the Strait of Hormuz, suffered fires in storage tanks and limited damage to cranes.

Read More in my Substack:
https://t.co/by67pD58TP

[Régis Le Sommier @LeSommierRgis]

C’est l’info de la matinée, pourtant on en parle assez peu en France ;

« Le président Trump a déclaré à des conseillers qu'il était prêt à mettre fin à la campagne militaire américaine contre l'Iran, même si le détroit d'Hormuz reste largement fermé, prolongeant probablement l'emprise ferme de Téhéran sur la voie navigable  »

[Le journal Afrique TV5MONDE @JTAtv5monde]

Malgré les réticences des Etats-Unis et des Européens, l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU proclame la traite des esclaves africains comme "crime le plus grave contre l'humanité".

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

By assassinating leaders and their families in the middle of a negotiation process, and thereby destroying all good faith and violating basic diplomatic principles, the predictable outcome is that no serious party will agree to future talks without numerous intermediaries and ironclad assurances.

The United States and Israel have acted like assassins in a Game of Thrones episode, entirely unconcerned with diplomatic decency or established international norms.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

NY Times has essentially confirmed that Israel played a role in stimulating the violent regime change riots that left around 3000 dead in Iran this January 8 and 9, but which were marketed in the West as pro-democracy protests.

It was well understood by the Mossad that those riots would help stimulate military action by Trump.

Israeli intel merely needed to convince the feeble-minded president that a wave of decapitation strikes would unleash a massive upheaval to immediately topple the Islamic Republic. The January riots were presented to Trump as a preview of what was to come.

Western media, including the NY Times and The Guardian, played a central role in legitimizing Israel's deception by falsely characterizing the violent regime change riots as mere protests, massively inflating the death toll and covering up the fact that many were murdered by the Israel-backed rioters themselves

The whole of Western media and the Western human rights industrial complex deliberately misrepresented the real character of those riots. But now that the war they helped to instigate is going badly for the US and Israel, that same media is now free to reveal a few kernels of truth.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

From "help is on the way” for Iranian protestors to threatening war crimes against an entire population.

The United States is being run by a maniacal tyrant hell bent on destroying this country and the world along with it.

[Théo Laubry 🇺🇸 @TheoLaubry]

Le procureur spécial et vétéran Robert Mueller, qui avait mené l’enquête sur l’ingérence russe dans la campagne présidentielle 2016, est mort aujourd’hui. Et Trump célèbre la nouvelle. Les frontières de indécence chaque jour repoussée un peu plus au sommet de l’état américain...

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

C’est faux. Il suffit de lire les rapports publics des services de renseignement américains.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser https://t.co/UUNQjqewMl

[ABC News @ABC]

An @ABC News analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos suggests that at least 10 radar sites used by the U.S. and its allies have been struck by Iranian drones or missiles since the start of the war. https://t.co/YimfQpU18T