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* RUBIO ON IRAN: THURSDAY STRIKES WERE SEPARATE FROM OPERATION EPIC FURY
shenanigans
A series of well-timed market bets on falling oil prices totalling as much as $7 billion during March and April spread across multiple exchanges and types of fuel and derivatives just before major Iranian policy announcements by US President Donald Trump, according to traders, market experts and Reuters analysis of exchange data.
The size exceeds previously reported bets amounting to $2.6 billion, which have already prompted the US administration to warn staff against using nonpublic information for financial benefit. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters in April, although the CFTC has yet to officially confirm a probe is underway.
* RUBIO ON IRAN: THURSDAY STRIKES WERE SEPARATE FROM OPERATION EPIC FURY
I think Trump has a huge man crush on Hegs but he likes using up and spitting out scapegoats. I can see Ka$h getting the boot first.
Very few if any have been worse in just about every aspect of presidenting.
We'll have to wait until Trump runs out of women to fire.
this is not what winning looks like
hundreds of thousands of people
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167467
This worrying testimony is in line with respected food insecurity expert assessments which support estimates that an additional 144,000 women and girls are expected to face crisis-level hunger or worse in the coming months, bringing the total to approximately 639,000.
meeting off?
the former is war, the latter is murder on the high seas
The contrast between how the US military is enforcing the blockade on Iran (eg disabling fire against vessels) vs the boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific (ie destroying the vessels and killing the crews) is striking.
not good
Let's keep giving Iran time to find more cards stuffed in the couch and .
* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: ENERGY SUPPLY SHOCK THAT BEGAN IN Q1 IS THE LARGEST THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED
* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: IF HORMUZ DISRUPTION CONTINUES FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, NORMALIZATION WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL INTO 2027
Trump.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5...ile-submarine/The Pentagon revealed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine in a rare move a day after President Trump rejected the latest peace proposal from Iran.
The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on Sunday, the U.S. Sixth Fleet said on Monday.....
....“The port visit demonstrates U.S. capability, flexibility and continuing commitment to its NATO allies,” the Sixth Fleet said in a press release. “Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are undetectable launch platforms for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, providing the U.S. with its most survivable leg of the nuclear triad.”
The Pentagon did not disclose the name of the submarine, one of the U.S. military’s most secretive weapons. In general, the locations of the U.S. nuclear-armed submarines are highly classified.....
HEY HERE'S WHERE OUR SUPER SECRET CLASSIFIED NUCLEAR SUB IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A SHOT AT IT
oh now it's the Kurds' fault
Lucky us
https://www.ft.com/content/ce609605-...syn-25a6b1a6=1US inflation jumped to 3.8 per cent in April, its highest level in three years, as Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East continued to drive a sharp rise in fuel prices.The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index was up from year-on-year gains of 3.3 per cent in March and 2.4 per cent in February, before the conflict broke out. Economists polled by Bloomberg had expected an increase to 3.7 per cent.
Tuesday’s inflation figure is the highest since 2023 as the country reeled from the energy shock triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htmThis is still mostly an energy story. Energy prices were up 17.9 percent from a year earlier. Prices *other* than energy were up 2.8 percent.
Everything is going in the right direction.
https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/2054157629983703102
Trump should just call it the Strait of America and declare victory.
Oh look. Very close to an end again before the deal is off and Trump threatens to be a not so mister nice guy any more. Again.
"US and Iran closing in on agreement aimed at ending war, source says....."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/polit...war-talks-plan
Precise details of the plan couldn’t immediately be verified, but the source familiar said it would include discussion of a moratorium on uranium enrichment for a period of longer than 10 years. A previous US proposal had set it at 20 years.
The plan also requires Iran to ship its stockpile of highly enriched uranium out of the country, but details were still being negotiated.
This is so JCPOA one has to ask why Trump didn't like the JCPOA.
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