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[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

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[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: US Inflation just surged to 4.2%, the highest level since 2023.

US CPI hit 4.2% year over year in May, up from 3.8% last month. The entire spike is driven by energy prices from the Iran conflict, something the Fed cannot fix by raising rates.

The number the Fed actually watches is Core CPI, which strips out food and energy.

Core CPI came in at 0.2% MOM against an expectation of 0.3% and a previous reading of 0.4%.

Underlying inflation is cooling faster than markets were pricing in.

This gives the Fed breathing room. The headline number is hot because of oil. Oil prices are a geopolitical problem, not a monetary policy problem.

Two scenarios from here.

If the Iran ceasefire holds and oil corrects, the next CPI print could come in below 4%, opening the door for a rate cut.

If the conflict continues and oil spikes further, headline CPI could hit 4.5% or higher, forcing the Fed to hike in December.

Core CPI at 0.2% just changed the conversation. Whether it matters depends entirely on what happens with oil in the next 30 days.

[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

While the cognitive-dissonant zealot is threatening again to wipe out a civilization, his allies are taking notes and one is now even seriously questioning his mental capacity to make sound decisions.

[Sven-Erik Persson @SvennePersson]

@zerohedge Austrailan government petition EN7349: "Don’t cooperate with Donald Trumps administration."

Petition Reason: "He has proven himself incapable of making sound decisions."

That's diplomatic language for insanity!

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[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

Trump says Iran took too long to sign a deal, and now ‘must pay the price’.

This comes after Iran’s MFA said Iran will review whether negotiations with the US are still appropriate (or worth it.)

Looks like Iran already signaled they are not interested in Trump’s forced surrender deal.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP SAYS HE IS CLOSE TO ORDERING NEW STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND BRIDGES -FOX NEWS

[Iran Military Media ☫ @IRMilitaryMedia]

APACHE DOWN!

[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

"They are not buying the dip. They are hedging against more downside... A full circuit breaker has only been triggered 10 times in the index's entire history. 2 of those 10 happened this week."

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

INVESTORS ARE HEAVILY BETTING AGAINST KOREAN STOCKS RIGHT NOW.

The put-call ratio on South Korea's KOSPI 200 just hit 2.5, its highest level in 5 years, a level that has only appeared twice in the last 20 years, and both times the market crashed.

For every 1 investor betting the market goes up, 2.5 investors are now paying to protect themselves against further losses.

The last two times it reached this level were July 2007, when the KOSPI fell 17% the following month, and January 2021, when it fell 5% over the next three weeks.

This time the KOSPI has already crashed -13% in last 8 days and institutions are still aggressively buying crash protection.

They are not buying the dip. They are hedging against more downside.

On June 5, a sidecar was triggered halting program trading for 5 minutes. On June 8 and again today June 10, full circuit breakers were triggered halting all trading for 20 minutes each time.

A full circuit breaker has only been triggered 10 times in the index's entire history. 2 of those 10 happened this week.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMPS SAYS HE IS CLOSE TO ORDERING NEW STRIKES, TEHRAN TAKING TOO LONG TO MAKE A DEAL -FOX NEWS

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Trump has just announced on Fox News the death sentence of the Saudi, Qatari, Bahraini, UAE, and Kuwaiti regimes as well as the global economy.

[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

This isn't even subtitled, yet it made my blood boil all over again. This and the deplorable indiscriminate Minab massacre done by the US demonstrate both the US and its genocidal twin have fallen to the depths of degradation and are equally despicable.

[Iran In Hyderabad @IraninHyderabad]

THIS IS THE NAKED TERRORISM

A new scenes of 4 bombs with 720,000 shrapnel that were tested for the first time in the world during the #WarOnIran in the city of #Lamerd.

It was done after 7 hours when #MinabSchool was hit. After 90 days the reports show the reality of savage U.S-Israeli missile attacks.

The target was every single one of the Iranian children, men and women.

[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

@RezaNasri1 Very well said! 🎯

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Nonsense!

There is no such thing as a “self-defense strike” when you are the initial aggressor. No state can invoke self-defense while stationing helicopters and drones along another country’s borders for the purpose of enforcing an unlawful naval blockade, systematically and repeatedly violating that country’s airspace, particularly when the entire operation is being conducted 8,000 miles from its own mainland.

Any military action undertaken by the initial aggressor in response to a state’s lawful exercise of self-defense is not "defensive" by any standard. It is merely a continuation of the original unlawful use of force and act of aggression.

Furthermore, attacking Iran’s water infrastructure in response to the downing of a single intruding helicopter cannot plausibly be described as “proportionate” either. Such an attack constitutes a serious war crime, both because it violates the principle of proportionality and because of the civilian nature of the targets.

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

The news just broke that SoftBank could not secure a 6bn$ vs its OpenAI shares

Let me tell you a thing: if you cannot secure a 6bn$ loan against collateral you claim is worth ~100bn$, then the latter isn't worth ~100bn$. In this case, it might be worth not much more than 6bn$.

[Ibrahim Majed @IbrahimMajed]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑

It is highly suspicious that a U.S. Apache helicopter was targeted just one day after Iran and Israel traded strikes, disrupting a fragile ceasefire.

Think about the logic: Iran has never once denied an attack they actually committed.
They own their military actions.
Yet in this instance, they have explicitly denied carrying out the attack, suggesting instead that it may have been an accident or a technical failure.

On the flip side, look at the political reality: Trump faces immense domestic pressure from an American public that is deeply exhausted by foreign conflicts and entirely unwilling to sacrifice their children in a broader Middle East war on Israel's behalf.
Direct American intervention after Israel was targeted would be a political death sentence at home.

Trump desperately needed a bulletproof reason to restart the war because that’s exactly what Israel wants, and this Apache incident is nothing more than a convenient excuse manufactured to force the American people into it.

[En Passant @randomdudeXR]

Once again, these cowards are conveniently picking a fight with those who can't fight back.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Israeli minister calls for kidnapping of Lebanese women and children to break Hezbollah morale
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the political-security cabinet to abduct and imprison Lebanese women and children as a psychological warfare tactic against Hezbollah, according to a closed-door leak published by Hebrew news outlet Walla.

During a high-level ministerial meeting reviewing expanded military calculations, Ben-Gvir demanded that Tel Aviv abandon conventional strategy and explicitly target the social and familial core of the Lebanese resistance network.

"We must think outside the box regarding Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir asserted to his fellow cabinet members, according to the report. The Israeli minister added that alongside occupying southern territory and intensifying lethal strikes on personnel, Israeli forces should actively round up civilians.

"We should arrest their women and children and take them to prison; this is what hurts them the most," he stated.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Chancellor Merz with 15% approval and 77% disapproval. Somehow Germans are not happy with his authoritarianism, ignoring national interests, deindustrialisation, mass immigration, support for genocide, war with Russia, criminalising the opposition, and limiting free speech.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

ISRAEL PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE SOLO STANDOFF WITH IRAN

Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the country may have to confront Iran without U.S. support, despite the potential costs in military resources and international isolation. Meanwhile, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir reportedly cautioned that the emerging diplomatic agreement appears unfavorable, saying that “almost every agreement is a bad agreement” based on current terms.

[IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) @iribnews_irib]

Iran notified the IAEA Board that standard safeguards are impossible during wartime, criticizing the Director General’s #silence on US-Israeli strikes against its safeguarded nuclear facilities, and demanding a shift from #political bias to technical neutrality.

[IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) @iribnews_irib]

🎦 Video of the attack by the US army on drinking water tanks in the Bemani district of Sirik County, Hormozgan

[ابراهیم رضایی @EbrahimRezaei14]

پس از ۲ روز پنتاگون و کاخ سفید به این نتیجه رسیدند که سقوط بالگرد در تنگه هرمز کار ایران است ولی ۱۰۲ روز از قتل عام دانش‌آموزان میناب می‌گذرد و هنوز تحقیقات درباره کشتار دختران میناب ادامه دارد!
دروغگویان اپستینی به دخترکان بیگناه که می‌رسند اینگونه فراموشکار می‌شوند.
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[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

Iran published footage of the interception of a MQ-9 drone in the sky of Jam, Bushehr Province by Iranian Air Defenses, last night.