Debt Rattle April 19 2026
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Did you hear?
The USN attacked an Iranian ship.
The poor USN sailors were probably so hungry that they resorted to piracy.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂What do you think? Will it be negotiated and result in a REAL CEASEFIRE?
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Details of the latest U.S.-Iran draft proposal, according to Amit Segal & various other journalists:
– Iran commits to a 15-year enrichment suspension, with the exception of research reactors for medical isotopes.
– Iran’s stockpile of 60% and 20% enriched uranium would be partially converted to reactor fuel, and partially ‘downblended’ to a lower enrichment level. However, it won’t leave Iran.
– IAEA supervison on nuclear sites.
– Opening the Strait of Hormuz, with the possibility of collecting tolls.
– The U.S. will offer Iran phased sanctions relief.
– The U.S. will unfreeze all Iranian assets currently frozen abroad, amounting to $20 Billion or more.
– The U.S. will commit to a non-aggression pact with Iran that is ensured through a UN National Security Council resolution and a treaty ratified by Congress.
– The U.S. will withdraw all its military forces from the Persian Gulf.
NOTE: This is simply the proposal currently being discussed, neither side have yet agreed to it.
@Middle_East_Spectator
Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The crew “refused to listen.”
What’s the “prior history of illegal activity” of this container ship?
All I found was that the TOUSKA’s flag is Iranian, and the US Government put it on their “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list” (“SDN List”).https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=25315
Expect another market moving tweet in the next 72 hours.
A massive oil trade landed just before another market-moving announcement tied to the Iran war, and this time it looked even harder to dismiss as lucky timing. On April 17 at 12: 24 GMT, traders sold 7, 990 Brent futures lots in a single minute, according to Reuters reporting based on London Stock Exchange Group data. At prevailing prices, that was roughly $760 million positioned for a drop in crude.
Twenty minutes later, at 12: 45 GMT, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that the Strait of Hormuz was fully open to commercial traffic for the duration of the ceasefire. Oil reacted instantly. Brent fell 11 percent. U.S. benchmark WTI dropped 12 percent and slid below $83 a barrel. The trade placed minutes earlier turned into a windfall.
What makes the episode explosive is the pattern. Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and other outlets have already linked regulators to a broader review of suspicious oil bets placed before previous policy signals tied to the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict. On March 23, roughly $500 million in bearish oil positions were placed about 15 minutes before Trump posted that strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure would be delayed. Crude fell 15 percent. On April 7, another $950 million was reportedly positioned before the U.S. and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire, followed by a 16 percent drop in oil. With the April 17 trade included, the total value of these well-timed positions rises above $2.2 billion in less than a month.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission had already opened an official investigation before this latest trade. Bloomberg reported on April 15 that the agency was examining suspicious activity tied to the earlier swings. Reuters confirmed on April 17 that the probe covers the March 23 and April 7 transactions and is expected to widen naturally after the new Hormuz-linked move. Investigators have reportedly requested records from CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange, including Tag 50 identifiers used to trace the real individuals behind orders.
The official responses have been sharp and predictable. The White House has called any suggestion that administration figures may have used non-public information baseless and accused critics of irresponsible journalism. CME says market integrity is its top priority and argues any analysis should also include prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. ICE has declined to comment publicly.
Congress is pushing too. Representative Ritchie Torres asked both the SEC and the CFTC to investigate and disclose the beneficial owners behind the accounts involved. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse followed with their own pressure. A bipartisan bill introduced in late March would ban public officials and executive branch employees from using non-public information to trade event contracts on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
The wider context is why this story matters beyond trading desks. Since the war began on February 28, Brent has climbed nearly 40 percent. ING estimated that major disruption in Hormuz could remove around 13 million barrels a day from the global market. Mid-April warnings from the International Energy Agency suggested Europe may have had only weeks of aviation fuel cover left under worst-case conditions. While households and businesses absorb the cost of fuel spikes, somebody keeps landing on the right side of giant oil trades minutes before the headlines.
” Michael Reid
ParticipantTHE STORY OF CASSANDRA ° *i do not own any of the images used …Cassandra, a Trojan princess and daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was a tragic figure in Greek mythology gifted with true prophecy by Apollo, then cursed by him to never be believed
Anyone feeling like this? Covid? Current situation?”
I’ve felt like this for most of my life!
Extreme wealth will pump up the ego.
The ego then tends to want slaves.
Where the money goes- that is where we go-
No matter if that means our graves.Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and other outlets have already linked regulators to a broader review of suspicious oil bets placed before previous policy signals tied to the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict.
So far most of the moral outrage has leaned toward the financial aspects of insider trading for massive gains in manipulated markets.
That’s about to shift, because although the motive is to steal money the crime isn’t to make a killing in the market.
It’s actual killing. Dead soldiers. Dead loved ones. Dead schoolgirls, murdered children and tens of thousands of other noncombatant civilians of all ages deliberately shredded into pieces too small to bury.
What’s more important, the blood or the money?
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* No More Mad Kings
* Obschew Esfuscation
* But when ye blog, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be followed for their much writing
* A meme is worth a trillion words
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