spongedocks

The Denise Simon Experience radio show hosted on WDDQ Talk 92.1.

[spongedocks @spongedocks]

Is there a statute of limitations for criminal cases like this?

[TheStormHasArrived @TheStormRedux]

John Solomon is reporting that EPA Chief Lee Zeldin revealed to him in an interview today that he has made “several criminal referrals” to the DOJ after discovering that Obama & Biden officials were moving money ($29 billion in green energy grants 🙄) around to former cabinet secretaries, donors and political activists.

“He told me today that he has found a major self-dealing scandal… Obama and Biden administration officials were moving money around to former cabinet secretaries, to donors, to political activists - Stacy Abrams, one of them… and that he’s now made several criminal referrals.”

They were stealing YOUR hard earned money and giving it to all their elitist buddies.

WHY DOES ANYONE STILL PAY TAXES?

@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews

[TheStormHasArrived @TheStormRedux]

John Solomon is reporting that EPA Chief Lee Zeldin revealed to him in an interview today that he has made “several criminal referrals” to the DOJ after discovering that Obama & Biden officials were moving money ($29 billion in green energy grants 🙄) around to former cabinet secretaries, donors and political activists.

“He told me today that he has found a major self-dealing scandal… Obama and Biden administration officials were moving money around to former cabinet secretaries, to donors, to political activists - Stacy Abrams, one of them… and that he’s now made several criminal referrals.”

They were stealing YOUR hard earned money and giving it to all their elitist buddies.

WHY DOES ANYONE STILL PAY TAXES?

@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Problems in Paris

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Two out of three ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz now sail in the dark.

The United States military quietly told seventy of them how to do it in three weeks.

Transponders off. Lights out. Hugging the Omani coast.

Iran charges up to two million dollars per tanker on the other side of the same water.

The strait is now run by two shadow administrations.

The New York Times reported the American operation this weekend, citing Central Command officials. Vortexa shipping data marks the broader regime: sixty five percent of outbound vessels through Hormuz now run with automatic identification systems disabled. The United States used to guarantee freedom of navigation through this strait. It is now whispering routes to selected commercial clients and letting them sail through unseen, far from the Iranian coast.

This is not Operation Earnest Will. The United States is not reflagging anyone. There are no destroyers in escort columns. CENTCOM is not announcing transits or claiming territorial rights. The pace is roughly three American-coordinated dark ships a day across twenty one days. Pre-war traffic was over a hundred a day. The point is not the volume. The point is the architecture.

Iran runs the opposite system in the same water. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps clears chosen ships over VHF radio for up to two million dollars per tanker, payable in cash, Chinese yuan, or Bitcoin. The Financial Times documented the process. Lloyd’s List Intelligence tracks the manifests. The Treasury Secretary calls the receipts to date a pittance. Neither government admits the other has standing to operate the chokepoint.

The Protection and Indemnity clubs cancelled war risk cover for the entire Gulf region on March fifth. War risk premiums had already surged four to six times pre-crisis levels. A single very large crude carrier transit now carries about two hundred fifty thousand dollars in war risk premium alone, before any dark sailing surcharge. Underwriters treat the disabled transponder as deliberate risk elevation. Claims become substantially harder to validate when the loss adjuster cannot reconstruct what happened. Chubb opened a specialist Hormuz war risk facility on March twentieth to absorb some of the cancelled capacity. The strait is now insured the way a smuggling route is insured.

This is not a temporary wartime workaround. The chokepoint that moves a fifth of the world’s seaborne crude is being administered by two hostile governments operating in stealth, with the world’s specialist underwriting market repricing accordingly. There is no UNCLOS-protected freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz today. The Persian Gulf Strait Authority, created by Iran on May twentieth, is writing its enforcement law through Iran’s parliament. The United States is running covert dark-sailing coordination to bypass it. Each sovereign administers the same water without ever conceding the other has the right to.

Donald Trump went to the Situation Room Friday to consider the memorandum of understanding under negotiation. The meeting ended without a decision. Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in hiding, would have to sign by courier from a bunker. Israeli intelligence says he has not yet approved. The deal under review codifies what is already happening in the water.

The strait is not open.

It is not closed.

Two governments run it in the dark.

Insurers price the route like contraband.

The deal codifies what already is.

Welcome to the chokepoint decade.

[spongedocks @spongedocks]

I was right there at that corner at that exact moment

[FOX 13 Tampa Bay @FOX13News]

A 17-year-old boy was shot after a massive social media meetup turned chaotic on Clearwater Beach, drawing hundreds of teenagers and sparking a fight. https://t.co/BPXaym24b5

[New York Post @nypost]

US plans to cut bombers, firefighters and warships available to Europe in time of war: report https://t.co/YcyCRT8XCY

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Russia strikes the UN World Food Programme warehouse in Dnipro

Russians launched a ballistic Iskander missile at a UN humanitarian aid warehouse in the city of Dnipro.

The warehouse contained food supplies intended for residents of frontline areas, enough to support 130,000 people.

According to preliminary estimates, the value of the destroyed humanitarian aid is $1.4 million.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Incredible things are happening in California

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Well done @Alexbrowder_! Kicking ass and taking names

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Despite recent discussions at the UN Security Council and repeated calls from the international community, Russia continues its barbaric attacks on humanitarian personnel and facilities.

Yesterday, a Russian Iskander missile struck a @WFPUkraine warehouse in Dnipro.

Fortunately, no one was injured. However, humanitarian aid worth more than $1.4 million, intended for 130,000 people, was completely destroyed.

This attack is yet another demonstration of Russia’s true attitude toward the UN and its member states, as well as its blatant disregard for the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.

I call on @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres to use all available instruments and authority to force Russia to stop these reckless attacks on humanitarian operations.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Poland warned Russia over possible strikes on diplomatic missions in Ukraine

The Polish Foreign Ministry stated that any Russian strike on Polish diplomatic facilities in Ukraine will be regarded as a deliberate action.

The statement appeared after new massive Russian attacks on Kyiv and Moscow’s warnings to foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The United States has informed European allies it plans to significantly cut its military contributions to NATO, urging them to move quickly to close the gap, according to the German media outlet Der Spiegel.

Alexander Velez-Green, a senior advisor and envoy for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, briefed allies on plans during a confidential meeting last week at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, with European officials reported to have been taken aback by the scale of the planned drawdown by the Trump Administration.

As part of the drawdown, the U.S. Armed Forces plans to commit much fewer assets to NATO’s pool of readily available forces in the case of a conflict, significantly reducing the number of deployable drones, fighter jets, aerial refueling aircraft, strategic bomber, as well as warships, submarines and other naval assets, with a roughly one-third cut in just its fighter-aircraft contribution to forces in Europe.

[New York Post @nypost]

Post reporter exposed Chinese spies operating a secret spy post in NYC, leading to federal arrest and conviction.

Watch our full report: https://t.co/ms9fQ0JXxw

[New York Post @nypost]

Trump admin urged to probe Swiss bank UBS for its Nazi-linked accounts: 'Historic shame' https://t.co/pcVlJzymRE

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: We followed the money of California's $49M "farmworker weatherization" program, which provides free solar panels to illegal aliens, and discovered that one man is connected to every step in the contracting process, from the grantmakers to his private construction firm.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this month, we reported that California prison inmates were using state-issued iPads to watch porn, have explicit video chats, and groom minors on the outside. Now, the House Oversight Committee is demanding documents from Gavin Newsom.

This is a scandal.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

Ukrainians literally wrote "CHILDREN" on the ground. Russia still bombed it.
The selective memory is wild!

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

The Russian bombing of Ukraine last night should convince Europe to finally close the skies over at least most of Ukraine.
Europe can no longer allow Ukraine to suffer alone.

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

Look, world. Please look.
This is Kyiv today after another russian attаck

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

‼️ZELENSKYY: They began this war. When we respond, we target their military goals. When they do attacks, they kill civilians. We’re not at the front line.

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ZELENSKYY: One month ago marked the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies — the Chernobyl disaster. And, we build a big museum, to honor the people who saved others’ lives — the Chernobyl Museum. And we showed it to the world — but today they destroyed it totally. The missile attacked that and several, buildings. So we are really thankful to our heroic savers and to our people. Yes, DSNS, huh? Yeah. And to policemen. So they help. Rescuers. To rescuers and et cetera, yes. And also they attacked hospitals and attacked kindergartens and schools. So what do we have to do to…

JOURNALIST: Russia said it was a retaliation from the previous attacks.

ZELENSKYY: They always say that. And it's not true. They understand that we always respond. They began this war, so it's not the question who is the first or who is the second. They began this war. And the most important thing, when we see that when we respond, we target their military goals. When they do attacks, they kill civilians. We’re not at the front line.