Trump just swore in Kevin Warsh as the new Chair of the Federal Reserve
Kevin’s father-in-law is Ronald Lauder
Ronald is the president of the World Jewish Congress
I’m sure it’s nothing…
They freed a man from death row to run this machine.
His name is Babak Morteza Zanjani. He embezzled billions from Iran’s national oil company. Convicted. Sentenced to death. Sentence commuted. And in 2025, the Islamic Republic freed him from prison for one purpose: to build the cryptocurrency infrastructure through which the IRGC now launders the revenue from its Strait of Hormuz toll system. The man who stole from the regime was released to steal for it.
Here is how the machine works. Every step is sourced. Every entity is named. Every dollar is traced.
A supertanker approaches Hormuz. Its operator emails the IRGC intermediary with cargo manifests, flag, crew lists, and destination. Iran’s five-tier nationality system assigns a price. Two million barrels at one dollar per barrel. Two million dollars. The captain has seconds to pay in Bitcoin. Payment confirms on-chain. A VHF passcode is issued. An IRGC naval escort guides the vessel through the mined corridor.
The Bitcoin enters an IRGC-controlled wallet. Within minutes it hops to a second-layer address with no attribution. From there it splits into two rails.
Rail one runs through Zedcex, a UK-registered exchange that processed $94 billion since August 2022. At peak, 87 percent of volume was IRGC activity on Tron. Its sister entity Zedxion listed Zanjani as director. OFAC sanctioned both on January 30 with seven Tron wallets. Israel’s NBCTF had flagged five of those same wallets four months earlier. Israel found the wallets before the US froze them. The UK is now dissolving both entities after discovering the listed director was a fabricated identity using a stock photo. A $94 billion pipeline registered in London under a name that does not exist.
Rail two bypasses exchanges entirely. OTC brokers in Dubai, Istanbul, and Hong Kong accept Bitcoin through encrypted channels. Chainalysis documented that Chinese-language laundering networks processed $16.1 billion in 2025 at $44 million per day. The IRGC feeds directly into this ecosystem, connecting to Huione, the Cambodian platform that processed $39.6 billion before FinCEN designated it as a primary laundering concern.
Once Bitcoin becomes USDT on Tron, it enters CIPS through Kunlun Bank, China’s sanctions-exempt correspondent for Iranian trade. USDT converts to yuan. Yuan purchases food, medicine, and dual-use goods from Chinese suppliers shipping through front companies in Turkey, the UAE, and Hong Kong to Iranian ports. The Central Bank of Iran itself purchased over $500 million in USDT through brokers in this network, per documents Zanjani leaked and Elliptic analyzed. The central bank is not tolerating the machine. The central bank is feeding it.
The IRGC’s on-chain activity exceeded $3 billion in 2025, over half of Iran’s $7.8 billion crypto ecosystem. The same rails fund Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas. OFAC designated Houthi financier Sa’id al-Jamal for laundering IRGC revenue and facilitating Russian weapons procurement through crypto. The machine that monetizes the strait arms the proxies.
Seven jurisdictions. Three blockchains. Two fiat currencies. Zero intervention points after the initial Bitcoin payment clears. The architecture was legislated in Iran’s parliament, codified in the “Strait of Hormuz Management Plan” on March 30, stress-tested across $94 billion, and staffed by a man the regime pulled from death row because he was the only person who knew how to build it.
Trump’s warships catch the ships. Bessent’s GENIUS Act catches the stablecoins. Nobody catches the gap between them. And the man who runs it was already supposed to be dead.
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Ok my fellow Senior Friends, who doesn’t like to save some money 💵
FYI EVERYONE!!!
I heard a guy ask for his senior discount @ Wendy's, The girl at the register apologized and charged him less. When I asked the man what the discount was, he told me that seniors over age 55 ...get 10% off everything on the menu, every day. (But you need to ASK for your discount.)
This incident prompted me to do some research, and I came across a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offers giving various discounts with different age requirements. I was actually surprised to see how many there are and how some of them start as young as 50.
This list may not only be useful for you, but also friends and family, too.
Dunkin Donuts gives FREE coffee to people over 55. If you're paying for a cup every day, you might want to start getting it FREE.
YOU must ASK for your discount!
RESTAURANTS:
Applebee's: 15% off w/Golden Apple Card (60+)
Arby's: 10% off (55 +)
Ben & Jerry's: 10% off (60+)
Bennigan's: discount varies by location (60+)
Bob's Big Boy: discount varies by location (60+)
Boston Market: 10% off (65+)
Burger King: 10% off (60+)
Chick-Fil-A: 10% off or free small drink or coffee ( 55+)
Chili's: 10% off ( 55+)
CiCi's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Denny's: 10% off, 20% off for AARP members ( 55 +)
Dunkin' Donuts: 10% off or free coffee ( 55+)
Einstein's Bagels: 10% off baker's dozen of bagels (60+)
Fuddrucker's: 10% off any senior platter (55+)
Gatti's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Golden Corral: 10% off (60+)
Hardee's: $0.33 beverages everyday (65+)
IHOP: 10% off (55+)
Jack in the Box: up to 20% off (55+)
KFC: free small drink with any meal (55+)
Krispy Kreme: 10% off (50+)
Long John Silver's: various discounts at locations (55+)
McDonald's: discounts on coffee everyday (55+)
Mrs. Fields: 10% off at participating locations (60+)
Shoney's: 10% off
Sonic: 10% off or free beverage (60+)
Steak 'n Shake: 10% off every Monday & Tuesday ( 50+)
Subway: 10% off (60+)
Sweet Tomatoes: 10% off (62+)
Taco Bell : 5% off; free beverages for seniors (65+)
TCBY: 10% off (55+)
Tea Room Cafe: 10% off (50+)
Village Inn: 10% off (60+)
Waffle House: 10% off every Monday (60+)
Wendy's: 10% off ( 55 +)
Whataburger: 10% off (62+)
White Castle: 10% off (62+)
RETAIL & APPAREL :
Banana Republic: 30% off ( 50 +)
Bealls: 20% off first Tuesday of each month ( 50 +)
Belk's: 15% off first Tuesday of every month ( 55 +)
Big Lots: 30% off
Bon-Ton Department Stores: 15% off on senior discount days ( 55 +)
C.J. Banks: 10% off every Wednesday (50+)
Clarks : 10% off (62+)
Dress Barn: 20% off ( 55+)
Goodwill: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Hallmark: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kmart: 40% off (Wednesdays only) (50+)
Kohl's: 15% off (60+)
Michael's: 10% off everyday (55+)
Modell's Sporting Goods: 30% off
Rite Aid: 10% off on Tuesdays & 10% off prescriptions
Ross Stores: 10% off every Tuesday ( 55+)
Salvation Army Thrift Stores: up to 50% off ( 55+)
Stein Mart: 20% off red dot/clearance items first Monday of every month ( 55 +)
GROCERY :
Albertson's: 10% off first Wednesday of each month ( 55 +)
American Discount Stores: 10% off every Monday ( 50 +)
Compare Foods Supermarket: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
DeCicco Family Markets: 5% off every Wednesday (60+)
Food Lion: 60% off every Monday (60+)
Fry's Supermarket: free Fry's VIP Club Membership & 10% off every Monday (55 +)
Great Valu Food Store: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Gristedes Supermarket: 10% off every Tuesday (60+)
Harris Teeter: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Hy-Vee: 5% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kroger: 10% off (date varies by location)
Morton Williams Supermarket: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
The Plant Shed: 10% off every Tuesday (50 +)
Publix: 15% off every Wednesday (55 +)
Rogers Marketplace: 5% off every Thursday (60+)
Uncle Guiseppe's Marketplace: 15% off (62+)
You’re Welcome 😘
While the United States spends billions bombing Iran and the world watches oil prices crash, China just published the most consequential economic document of the decade. Nobody is paying attention. That is the point.
The 15th Five-Year Plan, unveiled at the National People’s Congress on 5th March, is 141 pages. It mentions artificial intelligence over 50 times. It targets 70% AI penetration across the Chinese economy by 2027 and 90% by 2030. It designates humanoid robotics as a core pillar industry with output doubling over five years. It commits to space-Earth quantum communication networks, nuclear fusion timelines, and brain-computer interfaces. It sets AI-related industries at a target value exceeding 10 trillion yuan, approximately $1.38 trillion. And it declares “extraordinary measures” for rare earths and semiconductor self-reliance.
This is not an economic plan. It is a war plan for a war the United States is not fighting because it is too busy fighting the wrong one.
The US response to Chinese technological competition is the CHIPS and Science Act, signed in 2022. It appropriated $52.7 billion for semiconductor manufacturing, including $39 billion in direct grants and a 25% investment tax credit that expires this year. It has spurred over $640 billion in private investment across 140 projects in 30 states. It created half a million jobs. By any measure, it is the most significant US industrial policy in a generation. And it covers exactly one sector of an economy-wide technological competition.
China’s plan covers every sector. AI across the entire economy. Robotics as industrial backbone. Space infrastructure. Quantum computing. Rare earth processing dominance maintained and strengthened. The CHIPS Act is a rifle. The 15th Five-Year Plan is an arsenal.
The rare earth dimension is where the plans intersect with the war. China controls 90% of global rare earth processing. Every F-35 joint strike fighter requires 920 pounds of rare earth materials. Every Patriot missile battery, every THAAD interceptor, every guided munition being expended over Iran at a rate of thousands per week depends on materials that China processes. The “extraordinary measures” in the Five-Year Plan are not defensive. They are the tightening of a supply chain that the US military cannot function without.
In April 2025, China imposed export controls on all 17 rare earth elements. The January 2027 DFARS deadline requires the Pentagon to eliminate Chinese rare earth dependency from defence procurement. That leaves a 10-to-15-year vulnerability window during which the United States is simultaneously waging a war that consumes rare-earth-dependent munitions at historic rates and attempting to build alternative supply chains that do not yet exist.
The Iran war is consuming the interceptors. China is tightening the supply chain that builds the interceptors. The Five-Year Plan is the document that formalises the tightening into national strategy.
Trump posted “Death, Fire, and Fury” on Truth Social. Xi Jinping published a 141-page plan to ensure that the materials required to deliver that fire and fury remain under Chinese control for the next fifteen years.
One leader is fighting a war. The other is winning the peace. And the 141 pages that will determine which strategy prevails were published the same week the bombs started falling.
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@LionsSyndicate Brads gonna do what he always does... Sign some dude with decent stats but who hasn't really done anything in the league (DJ reed) media will stroke Brad for being so smart and player signed will look like ass on the field