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[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

Via Con Me - Paolo Conte
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[Bags @0xbags]

when my underwater positions return to breakeven

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

Pretty sure the Russians and Chinese also have psych profiles on Trump and treat him as someone mentally ill. That's why they have concluded he can not be negotiated with, only coddled and mollified.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Those Iranians are seriously smart people...

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

@FurkanGozukara So we're supposed to believe centcom intercepted 6 out of 7 ballistic missiles. Yeah, I'm gonna throw BULLSHIT on that.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

At what point did we betray our faith? Around AD 800 when Charlemagne began the takeover of the Latin church.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨"We're not fighting Ukrainians; we're fighting you, the rotten, evil West, which has lost Christian morality and the faith of its fathers. And that's why this war is sacred for our people,"
Vladimir Solovyov said in an interview with Roger Keppel.

"Don't tell me anything about this war. I spent more than 300 days on the front lines. I've been everywhere and seen a lot. And if anyone tries to tell me, 'No, Vladimir, you're talking about going to the front, fighting for the Motherland. What about you?' Every weekend I'm with my guys. I show the Russian people the moment of absolute glory—the battle for the Motherland against global evil, global Satanism. That's what we're fighting for on Ukrainian soil. We're not fighting Ukrainians; we're fighting you, the rotten, evil West, which has lost Christian morality and the faith of its fathers. And that's why this war is sacred for our people." And so today, when we look at the West, we have only one question: "What happened to you? At what point did you betray your faith?"

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

Tick tock tick tock...

[Mark @Mark4XX]

OIL'S $200 NIGHTMARE DELAYED: BLOOMBERG WARNS THE REAL SHOCK IS STILL COMING

For more than three months the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked, removing over 10 million barrels a day in the largest supply shock of the modern era. Oil never reached the $200 or $300 levels that experts had predicted. Instead a rare combination of Chinese demand destruction, surging American exports and emergency releases kept prices below $100. Bloomberg now warns those very buffers that prevented disaster are almost gone.

THE RESILIENCE THAT BOUGHT TIME
➡️ China slashed its oil imports by nearly 40 percent in May, offsetting up to a fifth of the lost supply.
➡️ The United States increased crude and fuel exports by more than 2 million barrels a day above last year’s average.
➡️ The Trump administration released 172 million barrels from strategic reserves at record speed, including 1.4 million barrels a day in a single week.
➡️ Gulf producers rerouted millions of barrels daily through pipelines to the Red Sea and Fujairah while a trickle of tankers still moved through the strait.

THE BUFFERS RUNNING OUT
➡️ Global inventories are now drawing down at a record pace of 70 to 80 million barrels every single week.
➡️ US crude stocks have fallen to the lowest level in more than two decades.
➡️ Critical storage at Cushing, Oklahoma is approaching operational lows just as summer demand rises.
➡️ Analysts calculate the market has already lost the equivalent of a billion barrels of oil with no replacement in sight.

THE BLOOMBERG WARNING
➡️ Greg Sharenow warned that you cannot keep tightening the system by 70 to 80 million barrels a week forever.
➡️ The buffers that absorbed the shock are now depleted and the market has little flexibility left.
➡️ Even relatively small new outages could trigger violent price spikes from here.
➡️ The anticipation of a quick peace deal has kept traders on the sidelines, but the physical hole in supply remains.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The biggest supply shock in history was softened by China stopping its buying, America exporting at record levels and every emergency barrel being thrown at the problem. Those measures bought three months of surprising calm. Bloomberg makes clear the safety nets are almost exhausted.

The $200 oil nightmare was delayed, not defeated. It is loading up again as the buffers run dry.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Humanity has no idea how much it owes this man. But I will tell you that without him, with a less calm and measured Russian president in Moscow over the past 20 years, someone more corrupt, more nationalistic or more triggered by Western provocation and infiltration attempts, the whole world would have burned already.

The West has been playing with fire like crazy; the fact that this amazingly strong character has been at the center of power in the Global South for an entire generation may have saved humanity from untold disasters.

The fact that we still have a functioning international system, and global economy is only thanks to the quality of leadership in the Global South - Russia and China primarily. If it depended in Western Zionist wanker psychopaths, the whole world would be Gaza already

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Fuck the Republican party.

And fuck the Democrat party.

Burn the whole motherfucker to the ground.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

100%

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

@MattWalshBlog At one level this is sad. At another level, it seems completely appropriate to what america has become.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

@AmericaLiveX_ Yawn. Or not.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

100%

[Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 @EvanAKilgore]

Who else believes the second Trump Administration has been a disaster so far?

I say this as a 3x Trump voter.

The past year has been filled with nothing but gaslighting, grifting, broken promises, and infighting.

I'm really not happy with the GOP right now.

Anyone agree?

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

@SprinterPress What disturbs me about the report is that it is, prima facie, a lie. If it had said that his health was not great but still permitted him to exercise the duties of his office, THAT would be credible. But to lie about it is insulting and suggests it is worse than we know.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

[ethurleyfl @ethurleyfl]

@barnes_law I don't think he's saving Epstein *clients* (except maybe himself) - I think he's saving Epstein's handlers, i.e. the Mossad and CIA and the asset value of the blackmail they have on Epstein's clients which would become worthless if they were exposed.

[HFI Research @HFI_Research]

We are ~9 million bbls away from hitting a storage level that's the equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck for gasoline and distillate.

Once we get there, even a minor disruption (any sort of outage) will result in gasoline lines at gas stations.

I guess we are really doing this.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

In March 2014, as Kiev's coup was rapidly escalating and days before Crimea’s reunion with Russia, Ukrainian General-Colonel Yan Kazemirovich fled the capital and gave an interview immediately upon arrival in Simferopol.

Calling a spade a spade, he bluntly described how the US was occupying Ukraine through CIA-affiliated puppets, masons and Zionist oligarchs. He called it as he saw it - and his responses explain why Crimea reunited with Russia and Donbass stood up against Kiev.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines.

They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department.

It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia.

If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand.

What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days.

In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually.

For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag.

But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world.

This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (https://t.co/kydhIQfo2A) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't).

Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines.

Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (https://t.co/nkXSajH2Q7).

So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (https://t.co/ZmNWJB03eH).

Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base.

So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined).

Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner."

They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

A 60-year low in sentiment is a big deal because the baseline is already tough: this survey has lived through recessions, inflation, wars, and financial crises. And yet this is worse.⁣
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Read the full analysis on Substack: https://t.co/dyYbxv5ReJ

[Gerald markel @MarkelGerald]

Das " Massaker von Butcha "
Danke für die Recherche von Markus Meissl

Das Eingeständnis eines tschechischen Söldners zum angeblich „russischen Massaker“ von Bucha vor einem tschechischen Gericht:
„Wir waren die Polizei, wir waren das Gericht, wir waren das Erschießungskommando, was das betrifft.“

Die Vernehmung eines tschechischen Söldners, des 27-jährigen Philipp Siman, vor einem Prager Gericht brachte Licht in die Vorgänge in Bucha, als das russische Militär im März 2022 von dort abzog.

Siman, der in der Tschechischen Republik wegen Söldnertums vor Gericht steht, sagte offen, dass er, als er die verlassene Stadt betrat, alles plünderte und mitnahm, was er in die Finger bekam.

In Prag fanden sie alles bei ihm:
Stapel von Bargeld, Gold- und Silberbarren, Schmuck, Elektronik.
Er filmte sogar, wie er die Häuser der Ukrainer durchsuchte, damit „die Russen nichts bekommen“.

Gleichzeitig sprach er über die Repressalien und Gräueltaten in Bucha nach dem Abzug der Russen gegen jeden, der verdächtigt wurde, Russland geholfen zu haben.
Die Kommandeure des ukrainischen Nazibataillons „Karpaten-Sitsch“, dem er zugeteilt war, wussten davon und ermutigten ihre Soldaten - so Siman in seiner Aussage.
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Ich frage mich seit zwei Jahren warum es niemals eine unabhängige Untersuchung zu dem angeblichen Massaker von Butscha kam, warum ignoriert wird, dass die meisten Opfer weisse Armbinden ( Erkennungszeichen der russischen "Kollaborateure" trugen oder warum der Bürgermeister der Stadt, in der angeblich Dutzende Leichen offen auf der Straße lagen, in seinem Videoposting am Tag des Abzugs der Russen ein angeblich verübtes Massaker an seinen Bürgern mit keinem Wort erwähnte.
Nun weiss ich warum seit damals nichts unternommen wurde.