@CENTCOM@WhiteHouse Trump has stated 55 times that he defeated Iran, 35 times that Iran is destroyed, 38 times that a deal is imminent, and 25 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.
The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.
Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.
Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.
The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.
And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.
Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.
They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.
The IRGC issued a statement after US attacked Sirik, southern Iran:
Following the Zionist regime’s violation of the ceasefire in southern Lebanon, a few hours ago the treaty-breaking American regime also, as always, violated its commitments.
Under various pretexts related to the movement of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormoz, it launched an air attack on the coasts of Iran.
In response to this aggression, the IRGC-Navy struck the US Army positions in the region.
According to Clause 5 of the Islamabad MoU, the arrangements for controlling passage and traffic in the Strait of Hormuz are under the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
However, America, by provoking various sides, sought to violate this commitment, and the necessary response was given. From now on, it will be the same. If the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader than this.
If it is a conspiracy theory that the Fed and Treasury manipulate the VIX and equity futures why is there an incentive program from CME for them to do exactly that?
The sheep do not want to believe that NY FED sells VIX futures or buy/sell other futures and options on futures.
They also do not want to understand that their government and financial institutions are captured by men who seem to be all Epstein fellows.
#CME has a program... CME Central Bank Incentive Program that offers them cheap fees to manipulate the markets. Dear Sheep.. you can search it on internet yourselves.
You should also understand that FED might also use third parties to manipulate the markets. Although it may be more expensive, it uses leverage.
Lets say I work for NY FED Markets... I call XYZ asset manager/dealer... tell to sell 10,000 futures between 9:30 am till 11 am... at their discretion... now XYZ does not need to front run it but it can very well sell along... then it means 20,000 futures contracts or more... if other customers hear this, maybe much more...
Under Bessent, US Treasury also became more involved in manipulations but that's risky... US Treasury can be audited.. no one audits #FederalReserve.
Average US family health insurance premium...
1999: $6k
2003: $9k
2007: $12k
2011: $15k
2015: $18k
2019: $21k
2023: $24k
2025: $27k
That's a 365% increase since 1999 (6.1% per year).
(Note: US CPI inflation has increased 2.6%/year)
Just so everyone knows, this has never happened in the oil market.
Cracks are back to the highs, and crude timespreads are in contango.
Never happened.
Not in 08, not in 18, 19, 20, 22, never.
Never ever happened.
BREAKING: A cargo ship has been attacked and hit, sustaining damage 7.5 nautical miles off Oman in the Strait of Hormuz southern corridor, per UKMTO.
This comes 5 hours after Iran's IRGC Navy issued a VHF Channel 16 broadcast warning against using the southern US-backed Omani corridor.
Three oil tankers were also seen turning around earlier today while using the corridor following Iran's warnings.
The IRGC is now claiming it has halted the flow of vessels through the Omani corridor. Looks like it's for real: about 6 hours ago (7:30 UTC time) several VLCCs that were booking it for this exit pulled a 180 and retreated and no tankers have passed since
America falsely claims our unfrozen assets will buy their agriculture. Interesting. The only crop we're harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust. It's organic, abundant, and homegrown. But apparently the US only exports GMO soybeans, broken promises and trash talks.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:
We are not allowing the civilian population to return.
More than that, the first line of villages inside the security zone has been completely destroyed.
We've completed it—100%.
17 year-old Louis has passed away after a pack of five migrants beat him into a coma in Narbonne, France.
They recorded the violent assault and taunted him as they attacked him.
How much more will Europe tolerate?
BREAKING: Israel's Defense Minister Katz declares Israel "will not withdraw from South Lebanon, even if the US demands it, we will not listen to the US," with Netanyahu, Katz, and IDF Chief also issuing a joint statement that the IDF "will continue to act decisively" in Lebanon, contradicting Trump‘s claims of the ceasefire holding and the stop of attacks.
Israel is currently bombing southern Lebanon, with Israeli drones over Beirut in the last few hours.
There is no ceasefire and there will be no final US-Iran deal.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Mass amounts of Americans are calling for the courts to be PURGED as San Francisco leftist Judge Linda Colfax released a criminal who FATALLY assaulted an 84YO — because she was worried prison would have a "poor impact" on him
BETRAYAL.