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Marv Clowder
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JUST IN: Iran is charging $2 million per tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The Financial Times reported the payment. The IRGC confirms it by radio. And the world’s most important chokepoint has been converted from a military blockade into a toll road.
The mechanism is precise. A tanker operator contacts intermediaries. The intermediaries negotiate with the IRGC. A fee is agreed, reportedly up to $2 million per voyage. Payment is made in cash, cryptocurrency, or barter. The vessel receives clearance. The IRGC hails the tanker on VHF radio, verifies its AIS transponder data, and grants passage. The tanker transits. It arrives.
Roughly 89 to 90 vessels, including 16 oil tankers, successfully transited between March 1 and March 15 under some form of IRGC clearance according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Not all of them paid. Some were Iranian or allied ships. Some were Indian tankers that received diplomatic safe passage after government-to-government negotiations. Some were shadow fleet operators running dark with transponders off. But the Financial Times report confirms that at least one tanker operator paid the toll explicitly. The commercial precedent now exists.
The $2 million sits on top of war-risk insurance that has surged to 3 to 5 percent of hull value where coverage exists at all. A VLCC valued at $120 million pays $3.6 to $6 million in war-risk premium for a seven-day single-voyage policy. Add the $2 million toll. Add the quadrupled charter rate of up to $800,000 per day. The total cost of moving a single cargo of crude through Hormuz now exceeds what it cost to move an entire fleet through the strait six months ago.
Every dollar of that cost arrives at the consumer. The toll does not stay on the water. It enters the price of every barrel, every LNG cargo, every tonne of urea, every container of pharmaceuticals that the tanker carries. The $2 million is not a bribe. It is a tax levied by the IRGC on global commerce, collected at the narrowest point of the world’s most concentrated energy transit route, and passed through to four billion people downstream.
The strategic innovation is that Iran has found a way to fund its war effort through the war itself. The IRGC closed the strait. The closure created scarcity. The scarcity created desperation. The desperation created willingness to pay. The $2 million per voyage funds the same provincial commands whose sealed packets created the closure. The feedback loop is self-financing: the blockade generates the revenue that sustains the blockade.
The United States will frame this as state-sponsored extortion funding terrorism. The sanctions response is predictable: penalties on operators who pay, expanded designations on intermediaries, accelerated naval escorts under the six-allies pledge. But the enforcement faces a paradox. If the US sanctions every operator who pays the toll, it removes the only vessels currently moving oil through Hormuz. The molecules that are getting through, even at $2 million per transit, would stop entirely. The toll is extortion. The extortion is also the only functioning supply mechanism.
The IRGC did not just close the strait. It reopened it selectively, on its terms, at its price. The blockade was the leverage. The toll is the monetisation. And the distinction between a military operation and a protection racket has collapsed into a radio frequency and a bank transfer.
Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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🚨BREAKING
Bloomberg reveals that 16 U.S. fighter jets have been destroyed so far in the war against Iran.
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BREAKING Drone attack causes fire at Kuwait oil refinery, reports state media
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🚨BREAKING NEWS:
TULSI GABBARD TO RESIGN FROM HER POST AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. (LLR)
CALL TO ACTIVISM@CalltoActivism
Jon Ossoff just OBLITERATED Tulsi Gabbard while grilling her on Trump's claims from June that Iran's nuclear program was obliterated. Watch this. 🔥
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Astrud Gilberto wasn’t even meant to sing on “The Girl from Ipanema.” She stepped in to deliver the English lines and her effortless, unpolished tone became the track’s signature.
Melodies & Masterpieces@SVG__Collection
“Getz/Gilberto” by Stan Getz & João Gilberto was recorded 63 years ago today.
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BREAKING: One Person is dead after Out-of-Control Speeding Driver Slams Into Crowd of People, Cyclists, and Multiple Vehicles outside of Apollo Theater in Harlem.
One pedestrian was killed and another critically injured after a speeding SUV plowed into people, cyclists, and multiple vehicles near the Apollo Theater Thursday night, according to police. The crash happened around 8 p.m. at West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, where authorities say a red Hyundai Tucson driven by a 49-year-old man lost control, struck two delivery workers on bikes, hit a tractor-trailer and an unoccupied NYPD vehicle, and sent victims flying. Witnesses said the vehicle was traveling at high speed and appeared out of control.
Video by Ken Lopez | Licensing @FreedomNTV Desk@freedomnews.tv
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Russia watchers! 👀
Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦@OlgaNYC1211
While we are all watching Iran, something strange is happening inside Russia. Putin hasn’t been seen at the Kremlin in over a week, internet blackouts are spreading, and even loyalists are disappearing. My latest… olgalautman.substack.com/p/putin-missin…
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🇾🇪 ANSARULLAH HAS JOINED THE WAR!!!
"This battle is the battle of the entire Ummah!"
"Dear Yemen, with its great people, leadership of faith, and its Mujahid army will stand alongside any Arab country or Islamic country that faces Zionist aggression.."
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree warns that any U.S. involvement in aggression against Iran will trigger direct Yemeni strikes on American naval assets in the Red Sea.
"We will not abandon our brothers in the Gaza Strip."
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Massive intelligence leak exposed. Christiane Amanpour reveals US and Israeli intelligence confirm the Iranian government shows absolutely no signs of collapsing despite the assassinations. The regime change fantasy is dead.
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The United States was the only country to vote “no” against the women’s rights document at UN commission. This isn’t being talked about enough.
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SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!!
Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV
iza@izamamaa
🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — Mexican Scientist Successfully Eliminates HPV.
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🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE:
MAGA billionaire donors are about to MELT DOWN as Senator Mark Kelly unveils a plan to ELIMINATE federal income tax for Americans earning under $46,000 - and slash taxes up to $161,000.
And here’s what rich Republican donors don’t want you to see:
It’s fully paid for by people making over $1 million a year.
Not working families.
Not the middle class.
The millionaires and billionaires sitting on more wealth than they could ever spend.
Kelly laid it out to CTA Media Network’s Joe Gallina:
"billionaires…have more money than they… can spend in multiple lifetimes while we have people (who) can't afford a place to live and can't send their kids to college and never go on vacation.
It’s just not right.”
This isn’t a tweak.
This game-changing bill takes a sledgehammer to a broken system - and forces a reckoning with the affordability crisis Donald Trump made worse.
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A lot of the highly paid white collar workers who may soon lose jobs to AI must be in the top 10% of the US taxpayers. The same top 10% that accounts for 50% of consumer spending & 60% of the federal income tax revenues.
Think about that.
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May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.
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