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@robert27512

Seeker of the mythical truth

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Marc Milette
Marc Milette@MarcMilette·
🏔️ NAK Nation — READ THIS! My colleague Joseph Burnitz recently obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request that I believe every American who cares about the rule of law needs to see. He has posted the letter for our community on X today and I encourage every single one of you to read it carefully. The attorney who drafted the original 2010 petition that started the entire Section 404c veto process against Pebble Mine privately warned the Biden EPA seven days before the Final Determination was issued that the Recommended Determination had legal vulnerabilities that would trigger otherwise avoidable legal claims and needed to be referred back to Region 10 for additional work. The EPA's response was six words. "Thank you for sharing this feedback" And then they issued the veto anyway the same day. Let that sink in. This was not a close call. This was not a difficult scientific judgment. This was a federal agency that had already decided the outcome it wanted and was not going to let inconvenient legal warnings from its own supporters get in the way. The process was rigged from the beginning. Internal EPA documents show officials were strategizing about how to use Section 404c to block Pebble Mine as early as 2008. Two years before the official petition was even filed. Two years before the process that was supposed to be initiated by concerned citizens was supposedly initiated at all. The EPA did not write this veto. It was conceived in back rooms by EPA insiders working alongside outside activists and political operatives who used the agency as a weapon to destroy a billion dollar investment and block 800 billion dollars worth of America's own mineral wealth. This was politically motivated from the very beginning. The Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment that formed the scientific foundation of the veto was not independent science. It was a predetermined outcome dressed up in scientific language by a team specifically selected to produce the result the agency had already decided it wanted. And when the very lawyer who started the whole process thirteen years earlier privately told them their own determination was legally flawed and needed more work they responded with six words and issued it anyway. The Army Corps of Engineers own gold standard Final Environmental Impact Statement prepared by independent consulting firm AECOM found no measurable impact on Bristol Bay fish populations. The EPA ignored that conclusion entirely. It never even attempted to explain why its conclusions contradicted the most comprehensive scientific analysis ever conducted on the project. It just issued the veto anyway. This is not regulatory oversight. This is not environmental protection. This is the systematic abuse of federal regulatory power by unelected bureaucrats serving political masters rather than the law. It is the kind of behavior you would expect from a corrupt government agency in a country where the rule of law does not exist. It has no place in the United States of America. The veto was built on a legal standard the Supreme Court declared invalid four months after it was issued. It was issued over the documented objections of its own supporters. It contradicted the agency's own gold standard science. It was never properly reviewed under the correct legal standard. And it destroyed over a billion dollars of investment and locked away 800 billion dollars of American mineral wealth without a single permit ever being denied through the proper legal process. This was never about science. This was never about salmon. This was about left-wing extremism and the radical environmental movement's obsessive desire to control resource development in the United States of America. The once most prominent capitalist society in the world. A nation built on the principle that its citizens and its states have the right to develop their own land their own resources and their own economic destiny without unelected bureaucrats serving a radical political agenda deciding otherwise. And the people who abused that power left a paper trail. This is corruption. It is regulatory weaponization. And it is a betrayal of every principle that is supposed to distinguish American governance from the kind of politically driven bureaucratic abuse that defines the governments we spend billions of dollars trying to reform in other parts of the world. The courts are now being asked to hold the EPA accountable. The FOIA documents your colleague Joseph Burnitz obtained are part of a growing body of evidence that confirms what many of us have suspected for years. This was never about science. This was never about salmon. This was about power and control. And the people who abused that power left a paper trail. The truth is coming out. And when Judge Gleason rules it will be on the record forever. America deserves better than this. Alaska deserves better than this. The investors who believed in this project deserve better than this. And the rule of law demands better than this. Please read Joseph's post. Share these posts widely. And let people know what actually happened here. Stay locked in NAK Nation. The truth is coming out. 🇺🇸🏔️ #NAKNation #PebbleMine #EPA #RuleOfLaw #CriticalMinerals #AlaskaComeback #Corruption #FOIADocuments #JosephBurnitz
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Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش
I don’t know what has been presented in the White House, but this is the adversary status I would present, with one important Takeaway - At this stage, the most important requirement for U.S. policy is strategic realism about what the use of force can still achieve against Iran. 1. Iran’s leadership is not interested in prolonging the war, but it believes it holds an advantage in a “pain tolerance” competition vis-à-vis the United States and the international community. 2. Threats of force are unlikely to produce meaningful concessions in negotiations. Iran is expected to hold firmly to the red lines it has maintained from the outset. 3. Maritime pressure will not compel Iranian capitulation. Absent an agreement, it is more likely to lead to direct confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. Interdictions of Iranian shipping may accelerate escalation, but not surrender. 4. The current Iranian leadership will not give up uranium enrichment, its missile program, support for its regional network of proxies, or its strategic influence over the Strait of Hormuz. 5. Limited strikes will not alter this trajectory. Tehran is not easily swayed by signaling. A broader campaign against Iran’s civilian infrastructure could severely damage its economy, but would almost certainly trigger wide-scale retaliation, particularly against energy infrastructure across the Gulf. 6. Without regime change, which would require a dramatic U.S. investment in time, resources, and political will, these core dynamics are unlikely to shift. 7. Decision-making in Iran is becoming more fragmented and hardline, increasingly shaped by the IRGC. This makes coherent compromise more difficult than in the past. 8. What Iran did not concede before or during the conflict, it is even less likely to concede now, regardless of military pressure or blockade measures. 9. In the absence of a deal, escalation is not a risk, it is the default trajectory. Iran is already preparing for it, including efforts to rebuild and reinforce its missile capabilities. 10. To date, even successful operational achievements have not meaningfully changed Iran’s strategic calculus. Paradoxically, the campaign has weakened Iran economically, but strengthened the regime internally, especially among the regime supporters. +1 The administration seems to have two main options: a framework agreement broadly resembling the previous nuclear deal, Or a wider escalation would impose massive economic costs on Iran, but rather than restrain it, it could drive a significant expansion of its escalatory actions. #IranWar
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🇺🇸🇮🇷A U.S. official said the situation room meeting was attended by: 🚨President Trump 🚨Vice President Vance 🚨Secretary of State Marco Rubio 🚨Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 🚨Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent 🚨White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles 🚨White House envoy Steve Witkoff 🚨CIA Director John Ratliffe 🚨Joint Chiefs chairman Dan Caine

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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@RepPeteStauber Thanks Pete, we’re breaking ground in Babbitt today for new homes
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Pete Stauber
Pete Stauber@RepPeteStauber·
BREAKING: A major victory for America and Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District was secured today. The Senate just passed my bill to reverse Biden’s illegal mining ban in the Superior National Forest – it’s now headed to the President’s desk! Mining is our past, our present, and our future – and the future looks bright!
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@peopip @shanaka86 All the skipper has to give up is IRGC’s wallet address they transacted with. We’ll take it from there.
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Pip@peopip·
@shanaka86 But a Chinese ship allowed to leave…why
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
CENTCOM just deployed a weapon on X. It was not a missile. It was an infographic. Today just while ago, the US Central Command posted an infographic to X titled “U.S. BLOCKADE OF IRANIAN PORTS.” 82,000 views in hours. A red line tracing every Iranian port from the Arabian Gulf through the Gulf of Oman. Four sections: overview, first 24 hours, mission execution, asset types. This was not a status report. This was an information operation deployed on the same platform where the IRGC toll system is discussed, where AIS data is tracked, and where the “blockade called” narrative was forming. Read the layered messaging. The text says “dozens of aircraft.” The infographic says “100+ fighter and surveillance aircraft.” The text understates for quotability. The graphic reveals for credibility. Two different audiences receive two different numbers from the same post, and both are accurate. The text is for headlines. The graphic is for analysts. CENTCOM is speaking to Reuters and to Kpler simultaneously. The asset list is the force structure nobody decoded. Aircraft Carrier. Amphibious Assault Ship. Transport Dock. Dock Landing Ship. Guided-Missile Destroyers. Littoral Combat Ship. Unmanned. ISR. Refueling. This is not a patrol. This is a full-spectrum blockade: strike from the air wing, boarding from Marines on amphibious ships, mine countermeasures from the LCS, persistent surveillance from unmanned platforms, and sustainment from tanker aircraft. Every layer of a naval blockade is in that graphic. Now read the sentence nobody decoded. “6 merchant vessels complied with direction from U.S. forces to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman.” To re-enter. These ships were leaving Iran. They were outbound. Caught trying to take cargo out. The blockade is not just stopping imports. It is trapping exports inside Iran. Every barrel that cannot leave accelerates the 13-day onshore storage clock toward the shut-in threshold that causes permanent reservoir damage in the Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations. Those six turnarounds are not just enforcement metrics. They are six contributions to the pressure that fills Iran’s tanks, kills its wells, and removes 300,000 to 500,000 barrels per day of production capacity from the earth permanently. And the map’s red line covers the Gulf of Oman explicitly. Jask is inside the blockade zone. The Goreh-Jask pipeline’s 300,000 barrel-per-day bypass terminal, Iran’s $2 billion insurance policy against Hormuz closure, is within the enforcement perimeter. The one escape route Iran built for exactly this scenario is drawn inside the red line CENTCOM published for 82,000 people to see. The timing was surgical. 12:57 a.m. local is early morning in Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai, and Seoul. The post was designed to be the first thing Asian energy traders saw at market open. The audience was not American. It was the 37.7 percent of Hormuz crude flowing to China and the 94.2 percent of Japan’s imports that transit through it. And here is what CENTCOM did not say. Not one word about Bitcoin. Not one word about the IRGC’s $1 per barrel crypto toll. Not one word about the Tron blockchain where toll payments clear in seconds before any warship can intervene. The infographic covers strike, boarding, mines, surveillance, and sustainment. It does not cover the payment layer. The weapon deployed on X was precise, layered, and devastating. It was also incomplete. And the missing layer is the one that matters most. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@SHELLYJACOBS I see how a blockade could be applied, to leverage shippers into giving up their payment information before proceeding to Indian Ocean
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SHELDON JACOBS
SHELDON JACOBS@SHELLYJACOBS·
2/2 Tools like TRM/Chainalysis already track IRGC flows; mandatory proof makes it proactive and auditable across the entire oil/LNG trade. For LNG (a growing Iranian export vector), the same logic applies—fewer, higher-value cargoes are even easier to monitor. 4Amplifies Existing Tools It integrates with current sanctions (for example, vessel blacklists, secondary sanctions on facilitators). Non-compliant shipments could face port bans, cargo seizures, or financing cutoffs. It mirrors successful precedents: Russian oil price-cap certifications required payment documentation to verify compliance; non-compliance led to shadow-fleet workarounds but raised costs significantly. Feasibility and Limitations (It Wouldn’t Be a Total Kill-Switch) Implementation path: Feasible via G7/IMO-aligned rules, buyer contracts (for example, “no undocumented tolls”), or insurance mandates. The US could condition market access/finance on proof. Not every nation cooperates (China/India buy much Iranian oil), but major regulated players would comply. Why it stops this system effectively: The toll relies on low-friction, deniable crypto payments. Proof eliminates deniability, raises legal/compliance costs for payers to prohibitive levels, and lets sanctions target the infrastructure faster than Iran can rotate wallets. Caveats: Shadow fleets and peer-to-peer/obfuscated methods (mixers, new intermediaries) could adapt, but at much higher cost/risk—reducing volume. It doesn’t affect Iran’s unrelated crypto mining or other evasion (for example, non-shipment trade). Enforcement gaps exist in non-Western jurisdictions, but the strait involves global shipping lanes where leverage (insurance, flags, buyers) is strong. Purely technical “destruction” of crypto remains impossible; this is policy plus analytics leverage. In short: It flips the asymmetry. Iran’s edge is speed plus opacity; proof mandates create a verifiable chain from barrel to wallet, exposing parties and enabling immediate, targeted disruption. This is precisely why blockchain analytics firms emphasize that crypto payments to Iran are traceable and sanctionable—proof just makes it mandatory and systematic. Real-world rollout would require coordination but directly addresses the “untraceable seconds” design of the Hormuz tolls.
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SHELDON JACOBS
SHELDON JACOBS@SHELLYJACOBS·
1/2 Requiring documented “proof of payment” (type, amount, counterparties, transaction details) for every oil or LNG shipment—tied directly to the physical cargo/vessel—would significantly interfere with (and could largely neutralize) Iran’s IRGC crypto/stablecoin toll system in the Strait of Hormuz, though it wouldn’t “destroy” crypto globally. This approach leverages the very transparency of blockchain (public ledgers) against the anonymity Iran relies on. Here’s how it would work mechanistically and why it disrupts the current setup: Core Mechanism of the Toll System Being Targeted Since mid-March 2026, the IRGC has operated a formalized “tollbooth”: Tankers submit vessel/cargo details via email, receive a ~$1-per-barrel fee assessment (up to ~$2M for a supertanker), and must pay in seconds via Bitcoin or (more commonly) stablecoins like USDT on Tron to an IRGC-linked intermediary wallet. The ultra-short window is deliberate: It prevents real-time tracing, freezing, or interdiction before settlement. Payments bypass banks entirely, settling peer-to-peer outside SWIFT. Blockchain analytics firms like TRM Labs and Chainalysis have already mapped prior IRGC stablecoin infrastructure (for example, over $1B routed via offshore exchanges before OFAC actions), but the speed plus pseudonymity of new toll wallets makes immediate enforcement reactive rather than preventive. How Mandatory Proof-of-Payment Linking Would Interfere “Connecting each shipment” means embedding verification into the global maritime supply chain—for example, via IMO/flag-state reporting, insurance clauses, buyer due diligence, port clearance, or satellite/AIS-linked compliance mandates (similar to the Russian oil price cap documentation requirements). Ship operators would need to submit verifiable records (such as blockchain transaction hash, wallet addresses, payment type, recipient details, timestamp, and amount matched to cargo volume) before, during, or after transit. This creates interference in these ways: 1 Forces Public/Regulator Exposure of IRGC Wallets Proof inherently reveals the exact receiving addresses and transactions used for tolls. Once submitted to insurers, buyers, or authorities, these become immediately identifiable. OFAC/Treasury (or allies) can designate those specific wallets in real time as IRGC-linked, triggering global exchange blocks, stablecoin freezes (Tether has cooperated before), and secondary sanctions on any intermediaries. Stablecoins (Iran’s likely preference over volatile Bitcoin) are especially vulnerable: Issuers and compliant platforms already screen; proof links the physical shipment directly to the illicit flow, closing the “seconds-to-pay” loophole. 2 Deters Shippers and Legitimate Parties (Demand-Side Pressure) Major operators, owners, and insurers (especially those reliant on Western finance/insurance) cannot legally document payments to a sanctioned entity (IRGC) without admitting “material support”—a clear sanctions violation. Chainalysis explicitly warns that crypto toll payments expose shippers to enforcement risks. Result: Rational players refuse the toll entirely, reroute, or avoid the strait—starving the system of participants. Shadow fleets (dark AIS vessels) might still try it, but they already face higher insurance/port risks; proof requirements amplify scrutiny from buyers/refiners (for example, in China/India). 3 Enables Systematic Matching and Enforcement Physical data (vessel IMO number, cargo volume, AIS/satellite timestamps, route) plus payment proof equals a perfect audit trail. Analysts can cross-reference on-chain flows with shipment records at scale, confirming tolls without guesswork. This turns crypto’s transparency from a feature (for Iran) into a liability.
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CrimeWatchMpls
CrimeWatchMpls@CrimeWatchMpls·
@annbauerwriter He posted the pictures publicly. There's no way that's not getting discovered and into the hands of students. It's the definition of grooming.
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@DonJr1770 @JonathanTurley The problem with that bill is it did not protect the identity of victims. To find the real culprit - identify the committee members that rushed it to vote before that fatal flaw was corrected.
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Don Jr.
Don Jr.@DonJr1770·
@JonathanTurley I believe that this vote is indicative of the state of our Congress. Evidently it is fairly rampant. We deserve better America.
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
In one week, Eric Swalwell was forced to drop out of the California race, put under criminal investigation in New York, and is the subject of a bipartisan expulsion effort. He was even kicked out of the home of a billionaire who was letting him crash. However, that is not all...
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@DissolveJordan @Error404GaryB @MarsUniversityX Its not crazy. It is better to die free (world war) than live as a slave (today). On the positive side, 20% of hydrocarbon comsumption removed from our environment will balance earths population of humans, mitigate ocean pollution, and reduce nitrates in our drinking water.
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Jordan Chemerys@DissolveJordan·
Potentially heading into a world war. Its pretty crazy whats going on. Distinctions between left and right are ideological dogma. If you make such a bipolarity (talking to the comments here) there's a good chance of spending ones time being miserable picking fights all the time. There is excess balance and deficiency in attitude, beliefs, and solutions to the worlds problems no matter where you stand on the left and right spectrum. And no one has the completely whole truth on how to 100% solve every ones problem. Every solution can create additional problems. Unknown unknowns. Simply telling someone the adults are speaking, or shutting down someone calling them stupid, is blind emotional reaction to a view that doesn't align with a stored underlying identity. It is, in a way, responding with vibes, instead of good judgement, discernment, and wisdom. Good judgement is based on totality of information, including the information of wisdom from past experience and self-study, discernment of situations via knowledge, virtue, discipline, emotional regulation, understanding people, situations, and law. I know people want to make the world out to be that it is 100% objective, but it is not. There is a subjectivity and relativity we can't get away from. And in that view, there is excess deficiency, and balance.
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Mars University@MarsUniversityX·
Elon Musk: “You’d think that if you’re going to be appointed as a judge, you have to have proven that you have an excellent knowledge of the law and that you will make your decisions according to the law. That’s what we assume should be a requirement. You’ve got to know what the law is, and then you need to make decisions in accordance with the law. Not vibes. You can’t be just vibing as a judge.”
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@SenTinaSmith Tina is a spokesperson, just another miner’s lobbiest. You know who funded Center of Biologic Diversity’s opposition to Shell Oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean? Exxon. You know who funds Tina’s opposition? Clue - it’s not evironmental warriors. Corporate War!
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Tina Smith
Tina Smith@SenTinaSmith·
The Boundary Waters don’t just belong to Minnesotans. They’re the birthright of every single American. Why would we let a foreign mining company ruin them just so they can mine OUR resources, ship them off to China and enrich their shareholders?
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@EXIT_FIAT I knew Bitcoin was compromised when FBI clawed back the Colonial Pipeline ransom, in San Francisco.
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Reset Intelligence
Reset Intelligence@EXIT_FIAT·
👉 Everyone is watching Bitcoin's price. Nobody is watching where it flows. On March 30, Iran's parliament legalised a Bitcoin toll on every tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz. $1 per barrel. A loaded VLCC pays $2 million. Payment in seconds. Now count what has already been shut down: 👉 22 Iraqi banks barred from US dollar transactions 👉 197 exchange companies banned from dollar auctions 👉 OFAC sanctioned IRGC-linked crypto exchanges for the first time in January - $94 billion in transactions 👉 FinCEN issued a new advisory on April 5 flagging crypto-Iran transactions 👉 Iran oil waivers expire April 19 - 140 million barrels lose their exemption Every traditional bypass is closing. Crypto is the last open rail. And Treasury just proved they can reach it. Tomorrow's briefing maps the full chain. Opening it to all members - free and paid. What happens to the entities using crypto as a sanctions bypass when the last door closes?
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@StevieDougie @shanaka86 A ship that pays the toll is an OFAC violator providing aid to a sanctioned entity and thus will find itself up against a clause voiding its insurance. This clause will be enlightened soon by USN seizure. Don’t need to block the payment, just need evidence of it.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86·
Follow the money. A fully loaded VLCC approaches the Strait of Hormuz. Its operator emails the IRGC-linked intermediary with cargo manifests, flag registration, crew lists, and destination port. Iran’s five-tier nationality system assigns a price. The toll is quoted at one dollar per barrel. Two million barrels. Two million dollars. The operator is given seconds to transfer Bitcoin to an IRGC-controlled wallet. Once confirmed on-chain, a VHF passcode is issued and an IRGC naval escort guides the vessel through the mined corridor. The Bitcoin is now in the IRGC’s possession. It has no issuer. It cannot be frozen by Tether. It cannot be seized by Circle. It cannot be blocked by the GENIUS Act, which mandates stablecoin issuers freeze sanctioned wallets but says nothing about an asset with no issuer at all. The naval blockade at the eastern gate catches ships. The GENIUS Act catches USDT. Bitcoin sits in the gap between both enforcement architectures, which is exactly why the IRGC chose it. Hamid Hosseini, spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the Financial Times: “Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions.” Now follow what happens next. The Bitcoin moves from the toll wallet to an intermediary address. On January 30, OFAC designated two UK-registered exchanges, Zedcex and Zedxion, for processing one billion dollars in IRGC-linked flows. Babak Morteza Zanjani, an Iranian financier convicted of embezzling billions from Iran’s national oil company, was freed from prison to manage this infrastructure. Zedcex processed over 94 billion dollars in transactions since 2022. At peak, 87 percent of its volume was IRGC activity on the Tron blockchain. Bessent called it the behavior of “rats on a sinking ship.” The same rats built the toll booth. The Bitcoin converts to USDT through OTC brokers in Dubai, Istanbul, or Hong Kong. By the time it becomes a stablecoin, it is in a shell company’s wallet, not an IRGC-attributed one. The GENIUS Act can freeze USDT at the issuer level, but only if the issuer identifies the wallet as sanctioned. The conversion happens faster than the attribution. The USDT then moves to Kunlun Bank via CIPS, converting to yuan outside SWIFT entirely. The yuan purchases food and dual-use goods from Chinese suppliers. The chain passes through seven jurisdictions, three blockchains, two fiat currencies, and zero points where the US financial system can intervene. Chainalysis confirmed IRGC wallet activity exceeded three billion dollars in 2025, over 50 percent of Iran’s crypto ecosystem. The Central Bank of Iran purchased over 500 million dollars in USDT to support the collapsing rial. Iran’s parliament codified the toll system on March 30 to 31. This is legislation converting geography into cryptocurrency into food. The United States built two walls. Warships at the strait. Compliance officers at the blockchain. The IRGC found the gap between them and poured two million dollars per ship through it, settled in a currency designed from its first line of code to be unseizable, running on a network built from its genesis block to be uncensorable. Bitcoin was created to be money that no government can stop. The IRGC is the first government to weaponize that design as sovereign revenue at a maritime chokepoint. And Bessent’s regulatory architecture was not built to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Trump built two enforcement architectures to break Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz. The first is physical: a naval blockade at the eastern gate of the Gulf of Oman, interdicting any vessel that paid an Iranian toll. The second is regulatory: the GENIUS Act, advanced the same week as the ceasefire, mandating that stablecoin issuers freeze wallets linked to sanctioned entities. Warships catch the ships. Compliance officers catch the money. Between these two systems, every dollar flowing to the IRGC through the strait should be blockable. The IRGC built its toll system in the one asset class that neither mechanism can reach. Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union spokesperson Hamid Hosseini told the Financial Times that tankers must email Iranian authorities with cargo details. Iran quotes the toll at approximately one dollar per barrel. A fully loaded VLCC carrying two million barrels pays two million dollars. And then, per Hosseini’s exact words: “Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions.” Bitcoin has no issuer. Bitcoin has no compliance officer. Bitcoin cannot be frozen by a stablecoin regulation because it is not a stablecoin. Bitcoin cannot be interdicted by a destroyer because it does not transit a waterway. The GENIUS Act covers USDT. It covers USDC. It would cover the Trump-affiliated USD1. It does not cover Bitcoin. The naval blockade covers the eastern gate. It covers Iranian ports. It covers the Larak Island corridor. It does not cover a wallet address. TRM Labs confirmed that the IRGC has charged up to two million dollars per vessel since mid-March, accepting payment in yuan via Kunlun Bank through CIPS, Bitcoin, or possibly USDT. Chainalysis documented that IRGC-associated wallet activity reached over three billion dollars in 2025 alone, representing approximately 50 percent of Iran’s total crypto ecosystem. Iran’s parliament formally codified the system in the “Strait of Hormuz Management Plan” approved March 30 to 31, 2026. This is not improvisation. This is legislation. The IRGC operates a five-tier nationality pricing system. Nations deemed friendly pay less. Vessels linked to the US or Israel are denied transit entirely. The toll generates an estimated 20 million dollars per day from oil tankers alone, with 600 to 800 million per month possible if LNG vessels are included. This revenue flows directly to the institution whose commander just accused his own negotiator of shaking hands with Khamenei’s killers. Trump proposed a “joint venture” with Iran to collect these same tolls on April 8. He reversed on April 9. He blockaded on April 12. He ordered the seizure of every ship that paid on April 13. Four positions on the same toll system in five days. The toll itself never stopped. The Bitcoin wallets never closed. The IRGC intermediary never went offline. And Jask terminal, sitting outside the strait on the Gulf of Oman, loads crude that the blockade cannot reach, paid for in a currency the GENIUS Act cannot freeze, settled on a blockchain that no destroyer can interdict. The first state-level deployment of cryptocurrency as sovereign revenue at a major maritime chokepoint is not a footnote to this war. It is the war’s most consequential innovation. The weapon that will outlast the ceasefire, survive the blockade, and redefine how sanctioned states monetize geography for the next fifty years. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@thevivafrei Thats why I keep my 1st edition copy of “Poor Man’s James Bond” offline. Asking to be set up by the FBI just owning it, ooh did I just post that?
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Viva Frei
Viva Frei@thevivafrei·
According to the latest filing by the prosecution in the Brian Cole Jr. “pipe bomb” case, law-enforcement recovered a hard drive from Brian’s mother’s bedroom that contained searches for “how to make a pipe bomb”, “pipe bomb”, “manifesto template” from… 2012. Brian allegedly searched how to make a pipe bomb and manifesto templates 7 years before allegedly beginning to buy the materials, and 9 years before allegedly placing the bombs.
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Sue Ellen
Sue Ellen@EstergrenSue·
@mattvanswol I live in Minnesota. It is absolutely obscene the amount of fraud in our state and they continue to raise our taxes. I can’t believe we are paying taxes to these corrupt people.
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Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
I just finished my taxes and wrote a check to the federal government. It doesn't sit right... We've seen BILLIONS in fraud in just the last few months. Don't you feel like we ALL deserve a break from paying taxes until 100% of the money stolen from us in fraud is clawed back?
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Joe Pags Pagliarulo@JoeTalkShow·
Tucker Carlson has changed… and people are starting to notice. What do you think happened? Link -- 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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DONN LISTON
DONN LISTON@ListonDonn·
Alberta will swamp bumfuk Alaska if it can quit wet-nursing Ottawa. Alaska’s Oil Business partners won’t forget the betrayal of a working 40-yr deal by Sarah Palin & Akleg.gov. Why BP Left Alaska open.substack.com/pub/donnliston…
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Alberta Secession - Why?@cnm5000

ALBERTA! The signature collection continues! If anything, the numbers become even more important. Stay informed, get out and sign!! Here are the locations: stayfreealberta.com/sign/

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Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸
Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸@EricSpracklen·
This video has over 7,100,000 views, 548,000 likes, and 50,000 shares on TikTok in just the last 48 hours. Tucker Carlson is more popular now than he has ever been. Don’t believe anyone that says otherwise.
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@amuse @JJCarafano Sounds like insuring ships just got a little less comfortable, and a little more profitable
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@amuse@amuse·
Most people don’t understand that Iran doesn’t control the strait in any conventional sense. The problem is that anyone with a fiberglass boat and a shoulder fired rocket can take out an oil tanker. There are clearly lots of boats, rocket launchers, and soldiers available for suicide missions. It only takes one.
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F in The Chat
F in The Chat@ArtPeasant·
@TuckerCarlson Your YouTube video of it is cooked currently FYI it’s dubbed in Spanish. I been on YouTube for 20 years never had this happen to me. Makes you wonder.
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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson·
Steve Sweeney was reporting on the Israeli government’s murder of civilians in Lebanon when the IDF tried to assassinate him on camera. Here’s what American tax dollars are paying for. 0:00 Sweeney’s Close Encounter With an Israeli Missile Strike 11:37 Israel’s Bombing of St. Peter’s Burial Site 15:02 Hezbollah Protecting Christian Holy Sites 15:55 The Assassination Attempt on Sweeney’s Life 22:21 The British Government Taking Israel’s Side Over Its Own Citizens 31:06 Why Is Israel Bulldozing Olive Trees? 39:06 Why the Ukrainians Tried to Kidnap Sweeney 45:54 Is There More Freedom in Russia Than in Britain? 53:05 Why Is It Illegal to Criticize Israel in Britain? 1:02:20 Is Sweeney Planning to Remain in Lebanon?
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whitewhaler@robert27512·
@907Honest I remember what brought it on. 2 don’t get 50% means another f’n election. We don’t have time for that shit! RCV seemed like a panacea, who knew it could get worked. USSC Citizens United vs FEC killed us
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907Honest@907Honest·
The Alaska Glitch aka Ranked Choice Voting
907Honest tweet media
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Goose@The__Goose__80·
@CollinRugg @TheLeoTerrell As much as I hate Swalwell, these women are idiots. Sounds like she consented to oral sex in a parking lot and unless he opened her jaw and poured the drinks down her throat, he doesn’t sound at fault for much other than cheating on his wife
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Collin Rugg
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
JUST IN: Former staffer of Eric Swalwell says he s*xually assaulted her twice, says she woke up in his bed with no clothes on. The first incident reportedly took place in 2019. Swalwell has been married since 2016. The woman says she was hired at the age of 21. At one point in 2019, Swalwell pulled out his pen*s and asked her to perform oral s*x on him. She did so in a parking lot, according to the SF Chronicle. Later that same year, the former staffer says she was invited out for drinks with Swalwell. She says she became so intoxicated that she does not remember the rest of the night. She claims she woke up with no clothes on in Swalwell's hotel bed and claims she could feel "the effect of vag*nal intercourse," according to the SF Chronicle. In April of 2024, the woman, who did not work for Swalwell at this time, attended a charity gala where Swalwell was present. The woman says she became "inebriated" while getting drinks with him after and can barely remember the night. She says she told him "no" as he forced himself on her. The woman says she was s*xually assaulted by Swalwell. She says she "blacked out" but "woke up once during it and even told him to stop at one point." The woman's friend and then-boyfriend say she told them about the alleged assault the next day. Swalwell has denied the accusations and has since sent a cease-and-desist letter. The representative previously said in 2018 that alleged victims "deserve to be heard." Source: @sfchronicle
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