Cooper

@calvinfroedge There is a difference between disagreement and attempted vehicular manslaughter, surprisingly enough.

@Tigrandos Actually I didn't, I just live in a country where you can disagree with a cop and not get murdered

Knowing that racist American ICE agents murdered a 26 year old immigrant hits especially hard for me because I was an immigrant when I was 26 I'm thankful that I wasn't murdered by a racist cop because I had an accent and a different skin color

@calvinfroedge Wtf I love Trump’s America now

Imagine going to another country as a young man Follow the laws, immigrate legally, pay taxes, start a family And then Johnny 6 Pack guns you down because of the color of your skin That's Trump's America

@calvinfroedge @RandomG34214126 Clearly a racist gestipo when 2/3 high profile deaths related to them are white.

@RandomG34214126 Dude they are a racist gestapo that's not right or left it's just the truth

ICE is a terrorist organization. Some scumbag federal storm trooper just murdered a permanent resident with a work permit. He was the father of a 3 year old. He wasn't the target of the investigation. Wrong place and time, murdered by a racist Trump gestapo scumbag.

@calvinfroedge Plan status: trusted

Hilarious how bad the plan trusters are down today Bullshit stopped working Nobody ever deserved to fail more

@InterceptorNews Not entirely accurate, more accurate to say it’s after the Saudis bombed one of their Airports lol

🟡 Yemen closes all airports to air traffic until further notice after the Iranian regime flew a Houthi terror delegation in from Mahan Air.

@calvinfroedge Yakub is guarding it

Yanbu wen?

@Nostre_damus Unfortunately the same thing as silver lol. We’ll have to check AAA pump prices or 321 crack spreads to see the actual effects.

Oil is red Biggest joke of the day

@MenchOsint How are the KC-135s looking?

Same as yesterday, P-8 takes off from Bahrain, E-11A & two KC-135Rs (& likely E-3G AWACS not visible) from Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia. As Trump announced earlier, there will be airstrikes in few hours.

@ChristianHeiens No controlled shift T equivalent?

I just lost over TWO HUNDRED TABS that had been opened on my mac going back to the start of the year. It's so over.

@JuliOnTwtr @HFI_Research It really is amazing to watch some of the manipulation happening. Silver, now oil.

API Inventory Moves 06/30 Crude -6.072 million Gasoline -2.106 million Distillates +2.9 million Cushing +503,000 SPR actual -5.5 million #oott #crudeoil #gasoline #API

@Nostre_damus We’re gonna see some real movement come July when the SPR releases stop

Oil is starting to move higher

@_MrScorpio @itsblean @sentdefender Okay Seaman, no one cares that you collect VA checks

@Tigrandos @itsblean @sentdefender Your "unit?" Let's not call people boots if you can't even use the correct terms here. In 23 years I've never seen a free deployment lot on a navy base, though I've seen it much cheaper than 80$ a month. I think it was 5 or 10 a month during my first deployment.

I have a serious question for anyone at the Office of the Secretary of the Navy or the Department of War. Why are underway Sailors at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, many of whom are currently deployed to the Middle East for combat operations against Iran, required to pay $80 per month to the Navy Exchange (NEX) - a retail chain meant to support Sailors and their families which is owned and operated by the U.S. Navy - just to store their cars inside an overgrown, nonsecure, fenced lot? If Sailors decide not to park in the lot and leave their car anywhere else on base, they risk having their car towed, impounded, and in some cases auctioned off. How does this support our Sailors, many of whom are already struggling financially? Can something please be done about this? @SECNAV @USNavy @DeptofWar @DOWResponse @PeteHegseth

@sentdefender Thats asinine, $80 per month for an entire unit is crazy money

@Tigrandos Almost all navy bases do this now sadly. With “deployment lots” or long-term storage lots ranging from $50 to $80 per month, along with additional fees to start it once a month or even just disconnect the battery.

@itsblean @sentdefender Have you been on deployment boot? They get locked until the unit cycles back.

@Tigrandos @sentdefender Deployment lots do not get locked. Never heard of that

@ChristianHeiens I don’t disagree that it’s a little naïve to think that they’d let you win when playing by the rules, but their problem per your original post was no one wanted to buy it, not that they were forced to sell. Logically there is a price where others would have sold, not be forced.

I never made a moral value judgement about whether it was right or wrong. I simply argued that the position itself was inevitably going to unwind the moment prices stopped going vertical. And they would have stopped going vertical sooner or later. CME obviously rigged the rules to pop the bubble, but that wasn’t my point. My point was that there was no possible way the Hunt Brothers could have kept this going forever.

The story of the Hunt Brothers trying to corner the silver market in the 1970s is insane. They owned about 150 million ounces of silver. When prices peaked at nearly $50/ounce in 1980, that amounted to $7.5 billion in 1980 dollars. If you adjusted for inflation to the present day, that would be about $32 billion. They had bought so much of the world's physical silver that they essentially became the silver market itself. Which is why they imploded so dramatically. Imagine driving up the price of silver from $6/ounce to nearly $50/ounce in just 12 months, and then calling up your broker to tell him that you now want to offload your position. And your broker says, "You're the silver guy. Who exactly are you going to sell 150 million ounces to?"

@ChristianHeiens The CME is an extra-governmental org that can make rules as it chooses. Knowing that they seek to protect themselves and the LBMA doesn’t make it any less wrong when they change the rules. It’s disingenuous to imply it’s simple logic the CME would do something it hasn’t before.

“That isn’t what happened.” Yes it is. Everyone bringing up the COMEX/CME rule changes is leaving out the fact that the Hunt Brothers had built an enormous leveraged position that needed prices to continuously rise in order to keep getting access to credit. The moment the prices stopped going vertical, the entire position unwound. You can be mad all you want that CME restricted new buying and raised margin pressure, but that simply accelerated what was inevitably going to happen to the Hunts anyway. How else would they meet their margin requirement without silver prices continuing to go up like a hockey stick? They needed someone to be their exit liquidity and there were not enough buyers to absorb the Hunts’ entire position at $50/ounce while allowing them to exit without crushing the market.

@ChristianHeiens That’s cool and all but they were forced to sell their futures by CME, it’s not like it’s entirely their fault.

@OSINTWarfare >if

I can't make you surrender, but please do. The irony is that Iran's Navy and Air Force were barely functional before the war started. Most of the aircraft hit on the ground weren't operational anyway, they were old airframes sitting in storage or being cannibalized for parts. Iran is still operating F-4s and F-5s, as well as locally produced versions like the Saeqeh and Kowsar built by HESA, and none of them were destroyed. As for the navy, their doctrine is clear: they don’t focus on a traditional blue-water fleet. Instead, they rely on fast attack craft and coastal defense systems to operate close to shore.