@Home_of_Fight The scratches here were actually caused by Stricklands boldness when khamzat was attempting to submit him in the first round. This was part of strickland’s strategy
US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany.
It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.
من الرسائل:
"أنا كنت في مطعم في الشام مبارح، فقام أحد الجالسين على الطاولة اللي خلفنا و قال بصوت عالي: ( يرحم ترابك يا حافظ) و قصده على ملعون الروح، ف من انزعاجي، و من يقيني بأنه أصبحنا دولة قانون، تمالكت أعصابي و حاولت لابعد الحدود انو ما..
دفعت الحساب و طلعت من كتر ما كنت معصب، وأنا طالع، قلت ل صاحب المطعم شو صار، قالي أي أنا معو و بترحم عليه، هاي حرية شخصية، و فيما معناه (هويها) لأنو شكلو شاد ضهرو بشي إمعة متلو.
رحت على المخفر و بدي قدم بلاغ، قالولي ما رح تستفاد شي..
معقولة في دمشق، بعد الفتح، اثنين يترحموا على رموز النظام البائد و ملعون الروح حافظ، و مافي أي جهة او قانون يردعهم؟ ولا صار الي يدفع مصاري للرأس الأكبر يتمتع بحصانات عن غيرو من الشعب؟
أتمنى تساعدني او حتى تنصحني شو أعمل"
Lutnick Wrote Trump's Tariffs Four Times Too High. His Son's Firm Cashed In.
The Commerce Secretary wrote the reciprocal tariff formula with an elasticity of 0.25. The correct value was 0.945. That single digit inflated every tariff four-fold.
Howard Lutnick's old firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by his son Brandon, was buying the legal rights to tariff refunds at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar while Lutnick publicly insisted the tariffs were here to stay.
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down 6-3 in Learning Resources v. Trump. Potential refunds: up to $180 billion. A $100 billion secondary market waiting for its payday.
1/ AEI scholars Kevin Corinth and Stan Veuger documented the elasticity error in 2025. Their verdict: the formula had "no foundation in either economic theory or trade law." Tariffs "would not exceed 14 percent for any nation" under the correct number.
2/ Wired, July 2025, published the internal Cantor memo. The firm had "already put a trade through representing about ten million dollars of IEEPA Rights" with "capacity to trade up to several hundred million."
3/ House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin to Lutnick, February 27, 2026. Lutnick held "an insider's view of the tariffs' profound legal vulnerability, the Administration's weak litigation hand, and the prospects that the tariffs would be struck down, extraordinarily valuable and material nonpublic information to anyone betting against the tariffs' legality."
4/ Senators Wyden and Warren, August 13, 2025. "The firm's actions raise obvious conflict-of-interest and insider dealing concerns."
5/ Bill Ackman, March 2025. "He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes. An irreconcilable conflict of interest."
6/ In May 2025 Lutnick transferred Cantor to trusts controlled by his sons. BGC Group repurchased his shares for 151.5 million dollars. Newmark Group for 127 million. The "divestiture" kept the firm in the family.
7/ BGC, still a Lutnick-family platform, is one of the largest interdealer brokers in US Treasuries. The Treasury selloff after Liberation Day cleared through their terminals.
The Commerce Secretary wrote a formula four times too high. His son's firm cornered the secondary market on the refunds. The Supreme Court delivered the payday.
None of it is a coincidence.
Following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon.
The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier’s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops.
The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with the findings.
Furthermore, the IDF is working to assist the community in restoring the statue to its place.
The IDF is operating to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure established by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and has no intention of harming civilian infrastructure, including religious buildings or religious symbols.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Credible reports that the missing F-15E weapons systems officer has been recovered alive from inside Iran.
Jack Murphy, a former Green Beret and national security journalist, reports the WSO was evading capture on the ground when rescue forces reached them.
A "massive firefight" at the recovery site.
If confirmed, American special operators just fought their way into Iran, found their pilot, and pulled them out alive.
The most dramatic combat rescue since the war began. Possibly in decades.
Source: @JackMurphyRGR@DropSiteNews