Bill Bereza

4.99 per gallon here in Michigan. Have to fill up on race day for the discount.

@GasBuddyGuy 4.99 in Michigan. Have to wait until Sunday to fill up to get Shells Nascar discount.

tremendous jumps in average gas prices, these are the top 10 states seeing average prices surge the most, all of them over 30c/gal higher from a week ago

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

I cleared the right screen. Pulled the case files. Every trade. Every Congressional letter. Every prediction market account that appeared, collected, and vanished. The chairman who promised the full force of the law one day before someone placed three-quarters of a billion dollars on an announcement that hadn't been made. I wrote it all down: gothburz.substack.com/p/i-flagged-ev…

Tether is a $184 BILLION stablecoin and has never been audited Tether is the 17th largest holder of US Treasuries on earth, holding more US government debt than Germany, South Korea, or the UAE. None of it has ever been verified by a full audit In 2017 Tether hired Friedman LLP to audit the reserves. Friedman started asking what Tether called "excruciatingly detailed" questions, which is literally what an audit is and the engagement ended 5 years later the SEC fined Friedman 1.5 million dollars for failed audits of public companies during the same period they were looking at Tether In 2018 Tether's own lawyer Stuart Hoegner said a full audit was "months away, not years" That was 8 years ago In 2021 the CFTC fined Tether 41 million dollars for lying about reserves The regulator found that from June 2016 through February 2019, USDT was only fully backed 27.6% of the time For 17.5 of those 26 months, the stablecoin "pegged 1 to 1 to the dollar" was not actually backed 1 to 1 to the dollar In June 2017 Tether had 442 million tokens in circulation and never more than 61.5 million dollars in the bank to back them The New York Attorney General separately found Tether had secretly lent 850 million dollars of reserves to Bitfinex to cover a hole from frozen payment processor funds The AG called Tether's claim of full backing "a lie" In 2024 Tether's CEO Paolo Ardoino admitted the Big Four accounting firms refused to touch the company His quote: "Why would you risk 100,000 customers for a couple of stablecoins?" The biggest auditors on earth said Tether was too risky to their reputation Instead of a real audit, Tether publishes quarterly "attestations" from BDO Italia Attestations are not audits, they are one day snapshots of what Tether showed the accountant The BDO reports themselves say the engagement is limited to a single point in time and management's own notes were not subject to any assurance In March 2026 Tether finally announced they hired a Big Four firm for their first real audit in 12 years but they refused to name it Tether has promised an audit every year since 2014 and every single one of them collapsed One company controls 184 billion dollars, holds more US government debt than most countries, owns 148 tons of physical gold, prints a dollar every time someone wants one and has never shown anyone the vault

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

God’s heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God’s heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He builds up His Kingdom of love and peace day by day. Wherever there is love and service, God is there. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria

@UrbanKaoboy China hasn't lost anything over its actions in Hong Kong, so why would it not also do everything possible to get back Taiwan without a fight. All it would take is a US President that is amenable.

10 April 1937 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sinie Cozijn, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in March 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPA…

Tanker truck fire at US131 Pearl Street exit downtown Grand Rapids Michigan. April 4 2026.

RT @Biz_Ukraine_Mag: President Zelenskyy's response to the Iran War has been a masterclass in diplomacy. He quickly recognized that Ukraine…

@sporadica @Noahpinion If you browsed the recent generated videos on Sora you would see that in the US we used it to make funny carry and celebrity videos. In Asia they used it to make very real looking ads for products.

RIP Sora, you gave us the greatest ai video of all time

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

CNN is displaying the average price of gas on their home page amid the US/Israeli-Iran War

@RadioFreeTom @Ljwarren15 Just curious, what do you usually have with this? Sides? Salad? Drink? Is it a holiday thing or anytime?

I am right about this and many people here have used my Greek grandmother's recipe and know it

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

@_WilliamsonBen x.com/kash_patel/sta…

Your rag outlet wrote that he went to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime - even when provided information that your theory was false. When you’re ready to correct that let me know. Won’t hold my breath.

@FBIDirectorKash @_WilliamsonBen @SecretService x.com/harrengwarding…

FBI is dedicating all necessary resources in the investigation of this morning’s incident at President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago - where an armed individual was shot and killed after unlawfully entering the perimeter. We will continue working closely with @SecretService as well our state and federal partners and will provide updates as we are able.

Strung out Kid Rock flipping off America.