Infinite Inquiry

@TheAliceSmith Obviously the woke mind virus is designed to destroy everything it touches. Who started it? They are genius.

A message to Hollywood and the narrative media. Merely race or gender swapping established characters is not innovative or imaginative. It is an exercise in politics, not art. It is proof of creative bankruptcy, which will lead to financial bankruptcy.

@realpeteyb123 Aim for the middle of their jaw. Slam their jaw into their brain.

If you feel someone is questionable, put your keys between your fingers in pocket and make a fist. If they approach you or attack, start swinging and hurt them before they hurt you, This is a street fight, use everything you can find If you have to bite, do and rip off body

NYC born and raised and here are some tips. Never stand near platform and always have your back to a wall Never stare at your phone lost, and never wear both headsets Never stand with your back at a traffic light either, always position a slight angle

@_10delta_ Mad Max in real life.

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@loonlake55 Yep. Trust me

Let me get this straight. There's SNAP fraud, EBT fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, home healthcare fraud, daycare fraud, medical transportation fraud, and hospice fraud, but definitely, absolutely no election fraud?

@FeedRupture @CBSNews Thanks, step dad.

Congress launches investigation into California hospice fraud, citing millions in taxpayer losses. cbsn.ws/4uNG4mw

@CBSNews And nothing will be done.

@TheOfficerTatum Yep.

They got Shawn Ryan too. Smh.

Major cheat code for life: Become brutally honest with yourself. About your habits. Your effort. Your excuses. Your blind spots. Self-honesty is uncomfortable, but it'll save you years of wasted time. You can’t fix what you keep lying about.

“Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.”

@Chris_Carapezza @CBSNews Probably cause the fraud was so small compared to what they are use too.

@CBSNews 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010 in LA county alone 400 violations in a few years Reimbursements come from federal taxes How does this not raise suspicion?

CBS NEWS INVESTIGATION: A salon, a modeling agency, and 89 hospices? We visited a 3-story LA building being called "ground zero" for fraud. We went to look for ourselves. cbsn.ws/4bmB3Kg

@CBSNews Well done.

@JamesDueck “The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” ― G.K. Chesterton

@tendollardanny A tomahawk to the head.

passing through the strait of hormuz if anyone needs anything

@FurkanGozukara Or? They blow up the ship?

Brilliant move by Iran. They are planning to levy a 10% toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This will generate $73 billion a year, completely offsetting US sanctions and paying for war damages. Checkmate.

@Emotelligent_AI @JChimirie66677 Being honest goes a long way.

@JChimirie66677 Then again, it could be because Trump has utterly betrayed and insulted them all for the past year.

The Real Reason Why Europe Won't Fight: It's Not About the War When the EU's foreign policy chief declared that the conflict in the Middle East was not Europe's war, she was not making a strategic assessment. She was making a domestic one. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world's energy supplies. Daily Gulf oil exports have collapsed by sixty per cent in a fortnight. Germany is facing an energy price shock. Rachel Reeves is watching her fiscal headroom evaporate in real time. France is warning of inflation. These are not countries for whom Middle Eastern stability is an abstract concern. They are countries whose economies depend on that shipping lane remaining open. The idea that protecting it is not their war is not a foreign policy position. It is a fiction maintained for a domestic audience. The domestic audience in question is not hard to identify. Every government that has refused Trump's request shares the same political constraint. Germany has over five million residents of Muslim background. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Britain has communities whose political representatives spent the past fortnight marching under Khamenei's portrait toward Downing Street. The calculation being made in London, Berlin and Brussels is not about international law or strategic prudence. It is about which communities those governments cannot afford to antagonise and what those communities might do if they felt their governments had taken the wrong side. Not our war means not on our streets. The foreign policy is being written by the demographics. Trump named it with characteristic bluntness. "Britain used to be the Rolls-Royce of allies", he said. Then he described his phone call with Starmer, in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom told the President of the United States that he needed to consult his team before deciding whether to send minesweepers. Minesweepers. Not troops. Not bombers. Not a declaration of war. Minesweepers to keep open a shipping lane that Britain's own economy depends on. Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind. That exchange tells you everything about the state of British leadership that a thousand opinion columns cannot. The humanitarian statement on Lebanon follows the same logic. Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint warning to Israel about its ground operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that has spent decades arming itself to destroy the Jewish state and that attacked Israel the moment Khamenei was killed. The statement called for immediate de-escalation. It described the humanitarian situation as deeply alarming. It said a significant ground offensive must be averted. Not one word about the organisation that started the war, built the tunnels, fired the rockets and continues to operate with Iranian funding and Iranian weapons. The language of humanitarianism is being applied selectively, and the selection follows the same demographic logic as everything else. This is the pattern that has defined the Western European response to this entire crisis. Not principle. Not strategy. Not law. A set of Left-wing governments that have spent twenty-five years building electoral coalitions that now constrain their ability to act in their own national interest. They cannot send ships because of who lives in their cities. They cannot back Israel because of who votes in their constituencies. They cannot name Hezbollah as the aggressor because of who marches in their streets. The Strait of Hormuz is closing and the Rolls-Royce of allies needs to consult its team. This is what the long march through the institutions has produced. Not our war. Just our problem. "Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind."

@Man_to_manX Why does calcium block iron absorption?

@ChrisMurphyCT Oh, so no ships can pass now. Forever and ever? Gee, I wonder what the gulf states and the rest of the world are going to do? Probably join in and solve the problem.

2/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist. The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden. foxnews.com/world/iran-dep…

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

@SaraForTexLege If true, then this is the price she has to pay to keep our elections safe.

. You thought I was joking about Reindustrializing America. I was not. Tune in March 20th for the the start - not the end - of the largest private Marshall plan ever devised. Alabama and F4 is the start. Winning the Production war is the end.

@GregLSink @NEWSMAX You do realize that the democrats are starting to realize we don’t need the illegals anymore. AI changed everything. We now need less people in the US.

A coalition of longtime allies of President Donald Trump, groups advocating stricter immigration policies, and conservative policy experts has formed a new advocacy group aimed at pressing the administration to intensify deportation efforts against migrants in the United States, according to a report. MORE: bit.ly/4cE1RXk