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$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

Mysterious humming noise has been reported in neighborhoods across several US states, rattling homes and leaving residents struggling to sleep — Daily Mail

🚨 KUWAIT PETROLEUM CEO SAID, “IF WAR WERE TO END TODAY WE COULD BRING PRODUCTION BACK RELATIVELY QUICKLY,” AND HE ADDED IT “WOULD TAKE 3-4 MONTHS TO REACH FULL PRODUCTION.”

Canada 🇨🇦 enters the discussion. #CanadianLNG

An Iranian source says Washington has initiated “outreach” and Tehran is willing to consider sustainable proposals to end the conflict. -- CNN

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

SAUDI ARABIA WANTS IRAN’S MISSILE CAPABILITIES DEGRADED BEFORE WAR ENDS, OFFICIAL SAYS – CNN

Le Parti Québécois lance une offensive pour diminuer les coûts de construction au Québec. Au Québec, construire une école peut coûter 2 fois plus cher qu’en Ontario. Devant un tel constat, il est difficile d’imaginer un avenir viable pour nos infrastructures. Il est donc urgent de réduire les coûts de construction et il y a plusieurs solutions pour y arriver, notamment: - Entreprendre un vaste chantier d’allègements réglementaires dans tout le secteur, incluant l’harmonisation à l’échelle du Québec du Code du bâtiment et la réévaluation du nombre effarant d’étapes pour la concrétisation d’un projet; - Revoir les règles entourant les appels d’offres gouvernementaux afin de favoriser la multiplication et la participation de plus petits joueurs dans les projets, pour ainsi améliorer la concurrence et faire baisser le coût des ouvrages publics; - S’attaquer aux surcoûts des infrastructures en impliquant les entrepreneurs dans la conception des projets et en allégeant la reddition de comptes dans le secteur de la construction. Notre plan de 10 mesures ici: pq.org/nouvelles/le-p…

ACCORDING TO THIS SOURCE: IN RECENT DAYS, CONTACTS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN, INITIATED FROM WASHINGTON, BUT THEY HAVE NOT YET REACHED THE LEVEL OF FULL NEGOTIATIONS. MESSAGES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED THROUGH VARIOUS INTERMEDIARIES TO ASSESS WHETHER AN AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED TO END THE WAR OR NOT. - SOURCES

*SAUDI PRINCE IS SAID TO PUSH TRUMP TO CONTINUE IRAN WAR: NYT someone likes high oil prices

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

2. Attorneys later found that Holland had failed to turn over a trove of evidence in that case. It wasn’t the first time. In two other death penalty cases, the courts found that Holland failed to turn over potentially exonerating evidence. veritenews.org/2026/03/24/hug…

Epic Games: Today we're laying off over 1,000 employees.

« Le laxisme du ministre de l’Environnement sur les systèmes antipollution des camions lourds pourrait coûter cher à notre système de santé. », réagit la porte-parole libérale en matière d’Environnement, Virginie Dufour. #polqc

@deAdder Hello chlamydia my old friend 🤣😅

I suspect the last thing you gave somebody led to 7 days of antibiotics for them.

WSJ reports Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is close to deciding whether to join attacks on Iran, and Saudi Arabia has approved U.S. use of King Fahd Air Base. Fars says strikes also hit gas facilities in Isfahan and a pipeline in Khorramshahr.

Around 25% of Lebanon’s population has been expelled from their homes by Israel in the last three weeks.

ASIAN EQUITIES ARE SET TO REBOUND AFTER DONALD TRUMP SIGNALED A DELAY IN STRIKES ON IRANIAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, LIFTING SENTIMENT AS WALL STREET GAINS AND A SHARP DROP IN OIL EASED PRESSURE ON GLOBAL MARKETS.

@RudyHavenstein @DavidBCollum Who dies playing pickle ball?

The Mossad is always creative.

It’s extraordinarily well-documented that the Israeli gov’t funds, arms, protects, and collaborates w/ the most territorially ambitious West Bank settlers as part of its project of de facto annexation. Anyone calling for that same gov’t to now crack down is a disingenuous hack