Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future. Today, their lives were brutally cut short.
I am heartbroken and appalled by the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, including reports that a girls’ school in southern Iran was hit, resulting in the injury and death of many girls. The killing of civilians, especially children, is unconscionable, and I condemn it unequivocally.
My heart is with the children, families and communities affected by escalation across the region. I stand firmly against violence and the targeting of schools and civilians. I call for the escalation of violence across the region to end. Justice and accountability must follow. All states and parties must uphold their obligations under international law to protect civilians and safeguard schools.
Every child deserves to live and learn in peace.
Australia’s support of Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal attack is disgraceful.
We cannot bomb our way to peace.
The Albanese Labor government must immediately rule out any Australian support for this escalation: no resources and no intelligence.
Follow the money folks. @australian (Cranston/Pike) reporting that former Lib donors (GCQ, Tribeca, Aitken) are now funding Pauline Hanson. Gina fixes Mar-a-Lago dinner with Trump, inviting Pauline to join them TBA. Beetrooter seen with Hanson using Gina’s jet 13/1/26.
The next 72 hours are critical for the world.
If the United States succeeds in imposing control over Venezuela, and by extension over the world’s largest proven oil reserves, it will mark a major shift in global power.
Such a move would not be about restoring democracy or protecting human rights, but about reasserting strategic dominance over energy, trade routes, and regional alignments.
In that case, Iran would likely move to the forefront of Washington’s strategic priorities.
Securing control over Venezuelan oil would reduce U.S. vulnerability to energy disruptions in the Gulf and provide a buffer against supply shocks in the event of a confrontation with Iran.
With a reliable alternative source of heavy crude under its influence, Washington would be better positioned to absorb or offset the destruction or shutdown of energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf during a war.
This would lower the economic cost of escalation and make military pressure against Iran more politically and economically manageable.
At the same time, such control would strengthen the United States’ ability to shape global oil flows and pricing, reinforcing the central role of the dollar in energy markets and helping preserve the petrodollar system that underpins U.S. financial power.
Venezuela would thus become more than a regional issue.
It would become a strategic precedent, a demonstration that economic pressure, political engineering, and, if necessary, force can be used to restructure sovereign states and realign the global balance of power.
However, if the United States becomes entangled in Venezuela and faces sustained resistance, the outcome shifts dramatically.
A prolonged crisis would drain political capital, stretch military and economic resources, and weaken Washington’s capacity to project power elsewhere, including in the Middle East.
That would also complicate Israeli strategic planning, which is closely tied to U.S. regional leverage.
What happens in Venezuela will not stay in Latin America.
It will shape the future of energy control, the limits of American power, and the direction of geopolitical confrontation far beyond Caracas.
Greta Thunberg in Greece:
I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.
Israel is escalating genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population in front of our eyes.
So, someone under threat of ICC indictment for war crimes nominates a Nobel Peace Price recipient who has 34 felony convictions, and the rest including suspicion of involvement in Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated sex crimes, now subject of a cover-up 😑 https://t.co/172GO68cW7
'1 of SADDEST days in modern American history'
AOC on Trump’s BBB making it through the House
'They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf'
@gring01234@AlboMP Shame the lnp didn’t build many houses 9000 in nine years and then they trashed the place where tradies who build houses are trained = 130,000 less trades people came out of TAFE every year for 9 years. We now have 600,000 people training to become Tradies. Free TAFE. Vote ALP.
Tears live on air from this hurricane specialist and meteorologist @JohnMoralesTV
Everything that scientists predicted is coming true, and those who wilfully denied or hid it, and still do, have committed nothing less than crimes against humanity.
https://t.co/o8STGz5QlZ
They stole them so young… if this photo doesn’t chill you to the bone, something is very wrong. Today is a tough one because thoughts of my Dad & so many other residential school survivors I know & love are coming in like a flood. #NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation
The time Kris Kristofferson consoled Sinead O'Connor after she was booed mercilessly for telling the truth on SNL in 1992.
It costs nothing to be a decent human being.
God speed Kris Kristofferson.
Back in 2018 Durov was asked by Russian govt to cooperate and share Telegram’s encryption keys.
Then, the MSM showed great praise for Telegram’s creator, bashing Russia’s ‘lack of freedom of speech’.
Now Durov is in French custody and where are all of these voices now?