Hunter Mattocks

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[Lia the Trader 👸💸 @Liathetrader]

If someone was telling you to sell options with VIX at 15, they deserve public execution.

Immediate unfollow and unsubscribe.

[Hunter Mattocks @MattocksHunter]

@SamanthaLaDuc Crazy

[Samantha LaDuc @SamanthaLaDuc]

Thiel, Milei, Netanyahu, Trump

They are all in cahoots to do no good.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 US raises threat of Israeli spying on United States to the highest level, NBC reports.

[Barchart @Barchart]

JUST IN 🚨: U.S. Dollar Index $DXY closes above 100 for the first time in 2 months 📈💵🇺🇸

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Section 224 of the new defense bill might be the most consequential provision nobody is talking about.

It makes the U.S.-Israel military relationship permanent, by design...

The "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative" mandates the Secretary of Defense appoint an executive agent to oversee joint weapons production and the linking of military systems and data between the two countries, expanding beyond missile defense into AI, drones, and cyber operations.

Former State Department official Josh Paul explains the actual mechanism:

"What Congress is trying to do now is find different ways of entrenching the relationship so deep in America's own defense industrial base that it's impossible to root it out."

That's the entire play in one sentence.

Aid is a check Congress writes every year, politically vulnerable, debatable, cuttable.

Integrated production lines, shared AI programs, and linked military data systems are none of those things.

Once American and Israeli factories build the same weapons together, ending the relationship means dismantling your own defense industry.

The exit door gets welded shut.

The debate Americans think they're having about the Israel relationship may already be over.

It's being settled in committee, in technical language, while everyone watches the war.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are all common sense!

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Question is will OpenAI do the IPO before the government bailout or after

[Lia the Trader 👸💸 @Liathetrader]

It was a nasty day for everyone. Volume picked up later, everyone is red.

Below im going to share some gex and key levels on indexes. QQQ has some way to go if 700 is broken. SPY close to a support.

[Samantha LaDuc @SamanthaLaDuc]

Another case of ‘US Government as Venture Capitalist™️’ in OpenAI

Convenient given the double purpose of hiding losses and hiding spyware.

[Iranian Force @MrImranPk]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS :

Iran Launches Massive Strike on Kuwait’s Oil Facilities

According to reports, Iran has carried out another major airstrike targeting Kuwait’s oil infrastructure. The attack is being described as one of the most significant strikes so far, sending shockwaves across the region.

The latest escalation has sharply increased tensions between the two countries, raising fears of a broader confrontation in the Middle East.

[Bob Elliott @BobEUnlimited]

There are a lot of hopeful AI narratives, but the hard data reality confirms no macro level benefit on labor productivity. Anywhere. This week's free Nonconsensus post one of the most fitting to the name:
https://t.co/5BHPAsyF60

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

This is INSANE.

AIPAC controls 76% of the members of Congress, regardless of which party they belong to.

There’s def a uniparty, but it looks much different than I could have ever imagined.

I NEVER looked or paid attention to any of this until they took out Thomas Massie.

[Quoth the Raven @QTRResearch]

Despite today's sell off:

- Shiller P/E: 42x
- Mkt cap/GDP: 237%
- NASDAQ +160% the last 3.5 years
- Margin debt/GDP: all time highs

https://t.co/8lVO6QeFXk

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: CENTCOM has put out its account of tonight's exchange, releasing footage of its strikes on the Iranian radar sites and a scoreboard for Iran's retaliation: six missiles intercepted, a seventh that never reached its target, and zero Americans harmed, by initial assessment.

The command also flatly rejected Tehran's claim of damaging Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, calling it false.

Source: @CENTCOM

[The Iranian Letter @TheIranianzg3z]

BREAKING: Iran has warned that it could move toward a complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the latest U.S. strikes, saying Washington would bear full responsibility for any consequences affecting global oil and gas exports, according to Fars.

The warning has intensified concerns over global energy supplies, with analysts cautioning that any prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could send oil prices sharply higher and place additional strain on already tight energy markets.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

% Below All-Time High
Eli Lilly: 0%
S&P 500: -3%
Apple: -3%
Google: -10%
Amazon: -12%
Nvidia: -13%
Tesla: -22%
Gold: -23%
Microsoft: -24%
Meta: -26%
Palantir: -35%
Silver: -45%
Bitcoin: -53%
Ethereum: -69%
MicroStrategy: -78%
Fartcoin: -96%
Trump Coin: -98%
Melania Coin: -99%

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Hyperscaler public debt issuance

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

$VIX surges +36% in one day:

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