59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.
Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.
This is South Lebanon today.
Israel has now bombed Lebanon more than 3,500 times during a so-called “ceasefire.”
Read that again.
3,500 Israeli bombs dropped during a “ceasefire”.
🚀🇮🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧 Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Command:
‘Israel must immediately stop its attacks on Beirut and southern Lebanon.
If the Zionist enemy continues and expands its aggression in Lebanon, it will face a much more severe response.’
I am relieved that Iran has finally fired back at Israel.
The impunity with which Israel constantly violates the ceasefires in Lebanon and Gaza has to end.
Iran is standing up for all of humanity against the zionist supremacists.
Israel has KILLED a Brigadier General in the Lebanese Army.
The car was targeted and all inside had ZERO CONNECTIONS TO HEZBOLLAH.
The soldiers were Christian, Sunni, AND Shia.
All of Lebanon in one car, all killed by Israel.
Based on Mr. Aoun's comments, one would think it's Iran that has occupied 1/5 of Lebanon, displaced 1/4 of Lebanese and bombing his country on daily basis.
Had Lebanon been bargaining chip for Iran, we'd have a deal long ago.
Save Lebanon from your real foe, Mr. President.
Israel is not our ally. They're a foreign government that has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers and uranium. And they built weapons of mass destruction with them. They also stole our most sensitive intelligence through Jonathan Pollard.
They have robbed us of $320 billion. They made us waste $8 trillion fighting their wars in the Middle East.
The way they pulled off these heists is by legally bribing almost our entire Congress and being the top donor to presidents from both parties.
Their co-conspirators are the national media who cover up all these crimes and pretend that Israel is an innocent victim who desperately needs our help. When they are the exact opposite. They are an aggressive empire that takes our money and military and uses it to attack their neighbors and take their land.
We have to stop this inflitration of our country by a foreign nation that has taken control of the power structure in Washington. We are occupied.
I’m blown away by how many brainwashed Americans actually believe that we started a war with Iran over nuclear weapons.
This has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, this is Iraq all over again.
Is the crypto market being manipulated?
After the Crpto market structure bill passed the Senate banking committee on May 14, Bitcoin started dumping. BTC crashed -25% in the next 20 days and dropped -$20,600 from $82k to $61.3k wiping out $406 billion in market cap.
During that timeframe, $10.98 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated.
Many are speculating this is liquidity rotation, institutional money moving out of crypto and into equities as stocks hit all-time highs. Or prices are being intentionally suppressed before the Clarity Act fully passes so institutions can accumulate more Bitcoin at lower prices before the regulatory green light arrives.
Since May 15, Bitcoin ETFs sold $4.356 billion worth of BTC, not a single day of inflows since the Clarity Act advanced. The same bill that is supposed to be bullish for institutional crypto adoption triggered the longest ETF outflow streak on record.
Then on June 1, Saylor sold 32 Bitcoin worth $2.5 million ( 0.0037% of his holdings ) for the first time since 2022 to fund dividend payments. He is the largest corporate Bitcoin holder on Earth. That single sale raised fears that more selling is coming and that fear alone accelerated the drop.
Fundamentally Bitcoin got rejected from a resistance of $83,000 creating a lower high. Following the typical 4-year cycle, it is now printing consistent lower highs and lower lows, pointing toward new cycle lows in coming months.
All while the US, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea stock markets hit all-time highs in the same 20 days.
Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.
Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.
The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.
Israel has used American-supplied munitions to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
America is morally obligated to end support of Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its people. I’m cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act to limit the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel.
In 1982, Israel bombed the Beirut airport.
The Lebanese were trapped as the IDF marched into Beirut, massacring thousands of civilians.
Hezbollah didn’t exist.
It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
Congress just voted to fuse the U.S. military with Israel and buried it on page 847, so you wouldn’t notice.
Section 224 of the $1.15 trillion NDAA makes Israel apart of the pentagon forever.
This should scare you!