Quant Monkey
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Holy shit.
The Chinese claim to have the Epstein Files.
Notorious Bill Gates was mentioned 1000’s of times and he’s also friends with Xi Jinping.
“Now is the perfect time to fully reveal the details of Jeffrey Epstein’s activities and everyone who was involved with him…”
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@Nostre_damus If Iran can take down a F35 it can take out one of the facilities that support the giant oil fields in the region. Leaving the world with a long term ~5M to 7M bpd oil shortfall.
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If Iran can take down a F-35, what can Russia & China do ?
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@sungleeiq Interesting. The crisis keeps growing arms and legs.
Next they could get outbreaks of norovirus.
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NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE SITUATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF ACTUALLY IS.
3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now.
Crews are running out of drinking water.
One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water.
They were DENIED. 💀
Let that sink in.
These aren't military ships. These are commercial vessels — carrying oil, grain, electronics — with civilian crews who are now stranded with NO supplies and NO way out.
– 3,200 ships STUCK ⚠️
– Crews running out of WATER 💀
– Port authorities REFUSING to let them dock ⚠️
– Multiple ships reporting the SAME situation 💀
⚠️ For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 blocked 400 ships. This is EIGHT TIMES worse. And nobody is talking about it.
They're showing you missile interceptions and oil price charts.
They're NOT showing you thousands of crew members slowly running out of drinking water in the middle of a war zone.
If these ships start getting abandoned, the environmental disaster alone would be catastrophic. Thousands of tons of fuel, cargo, chemicals — just sitting there.
This is not a shipping disruption. This is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS unfolding in real time.
Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨
X is hiding this. Follow + RT before it disappears. 🔥
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@falcynx @zhao_dashuai They are now redirecting oil production that would have been exported to their domestic refineries.
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Vietnam runs out of jet fuel as China and Thailand have halted exports.
Vietnam has also asked for South Korea and Japan to borrow oil from their strategic reserves. Neither country has agreed as of now.
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@DebraG_Robins Agree. But if the US can secure Iranian oil the it is a big win for the petrodollar. The rest of the gulf states will all fall in line. The message to them is the US controls the region. No more yuan for oil.
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@hottrend2000 China does not need to do anything, US is doing a good job destroying any credibility it had prior to this ME situation
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American’s dying for this shill. You have to be kidding me.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
BOMBSHELL! Netanyahu just casually admitted on live TV that there will be a GROUND INVASION of Iran. The air strikes were just the beginning of a massive, devastating regional war.
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@TFMetals The world becomes increasingly more dependent on Iranian production. Taking out neighbouring facilities is their safeguard. ~8M to 9M bpd are cut off. ~2M bpd could be ramped from countries outside the region.
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Up to five years to rebuild.
This madness MUST STOP SOON or the destruction upon humanity in the months to come will be almost unimaginable.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
Qatar state-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy has published a statement detailing the overnight damage, providing more granularity (particularly around the damage of the GTL plant).
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THE BOARD OF PEACE HAS A CEO FOR LIFE, A PRIVATE ARMY, AND NO AUDITOR
They signed it at Davos. Called it a peace board. It's a corporation with 20,000 soldiers. Here are the 8 people running it.
1/ Trump -- Chairman for life. Can veto any decision, remove any member state, dissolve the entire board. Retains this power AFTER leaving office. Not as president. As a private citizen.
2/ Kushner -- Affinity Partners manages billions from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar. The same countries on the board. He manages their money AND directs where $30 billion in reconstruction goes.
3/ Marc Rowan -- Apollo Global, $785 billion AUM. Valued Gaza's coastline at $50 billion. Currently facing a securities class action over Epstein ties. Apollo shares dropped 15%.
4/ Witkoff -- Trump's real estate partner turned Middle East envoy. Sold his stake to "resolve conflicts." His son took over and kept dealing with the same Gulf investors. UAE bought $500M in World Liberty Financial 4 days before inauguration.
5/ Tony Blair -- the Iraq War architect is now the Middle East "peace" broker.
6/ Ajay Banga -- World Bank president made the bank a trustee. Destroyed decades of institutional neutrality.
7/ Rubio -- his own State Department condemns the human rights records of the partner states he's working with.
8/ Robert Gabriel -- Deputy NSA commanding 20,000 troops. This isn't diplomacy. It's an occupation with a business plan.
$1 billion membership fee. No independent audit. No inspector general. 26 member states and only 4 rated "Free" by Freedom House.
France, Germany, and the UK said no. Ask yourself why.
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@DavidLe76335983 She is to plight to remind him of what happened to Japan.
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Look at Takaichi face when Trump said
“Who knows better about surprises than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
Insider Paper@TheInsiderPaper
Reporter: "Why didn't you tell US allies.. about the war before attacking Iran?" Trump: "We wanted it to be a surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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@KingKong9888 I don't believe Trump. It is good cop bad cop play book. Remember last year Israel fired missiles into Qatar. Look at all the NATO attacks into Russia. Trump did not know. Ok maybe once but it is never ending.
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How is Israel helping Trump?
How is Israel America’s greatest ally?
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
Absolute bombshell. Mearsheimer reveals Trump secretly allowed Iran to sell its oil to keep global prices under 100 dollars. But Israel intentionally bombed Iranian gas fields to ruin the plan, sending prices skyrocketing and destroying the US economy.
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@MarioNawfal My son has a friend and she visited Iran last year with her mother. She only had to cover up in areas considered religious sites. She Actually enjoyed the holiday until the 12 day war commenced.
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran the night before Nowruz.
Women without hijabs, dancing in the streets, all illegal.
Despite the regime's best efforts to scare people into obedience, something has shifted in how Iranians move now.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇷 Iran publicly hanged 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi after torturing him into a confession. His crime: protesting. Athletes represent everything a society should aspire to. Executing them is the regime sending a bleak message.
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@haugejostein I never thought I would agree with that. I completely supported what Trump was trying to do but the wheels have come off. I thought he was good for the world. He is not. Right idea bad execution. Alienating the US.
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This is wild.
People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US.
The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
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@MarioNawfal Poor guy. Better getting a hair cut and make over. It is not cool impersonating JE.
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🇺🇸 “I’m NOT Jeffrey Epstein, I'm Palm Beach Pete"
That’s literally the most Epstein thing anyone could possibly say "Nah, it’s not me, I’m just a random dude who loves islands and private jets.”
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 The guy digging into Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein for five years laid out emails showing how Epstein used confidential info from Gates' science advisor Boris Nikolic to make big money. Around 2012 Nikolic sent Epstein details on Foundation Medicine, including Gates' exclusive investment documents and sale restrictions that weren't public. Epstein bought 25,000 shares in January 2014, and the stock skyrocketed. Roche later bought the company in pieces for $50 and then $137 per share, turning Epstein's investment into a massive gain. Source: WSJ
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This is the second time in a year that Trump has publicly acknowledged that the Israelis ignore him and attacks whoever they want with impunity
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@ricnjun @zerohedge That's is Trumps play book. Same as the play book used with Gaza and NATO/Ukraine/Russia.
Remember last year Israel fired missiles into Doha and Trump didn't know. He don't know much.
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@zerohedge Israel plays bad cop, Trump plays good cop.
One pushes the crisis upward, the other steps in to hit the brakes.
That is not a split — it is a division of labor:
Israel applies the pressure, Trump manages the fallout, reassures allies, and calms markets
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I lived in the United Arab Emirates for 12 years and never saw anything like this. Why was it necessary in Trafalgar Square? What was it trying to prove?
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@TFL1728 If the US can't secure the straight then a coalition makes little difference. All Iran has to do is make it an uncomfortable experience and the tanker crews will refuse to go.
The military could tow tankers without a crew on board. Once in safe waters the crew take over.
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@MarioNawfal Very little difference a coalition would make anyway. Sitting ducks. Only takes one attack and the tanker crews will refuse to go.
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🚨 Six major allies, UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, have issued a joint statement expressing readiness to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
This is progress from outright refusal. It is not a coalition.
"Readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts" is deliberately non-binding language. It commits no ships, no troops, no timeline, and no operational framework.
6 countries. 3 weeks. And a few words that mean nothing.
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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷 Iran has exported 16 million barrels of oil since the war began. Through the strait it basically closed. 90 ships got through; Iranian vessels, Chinese-affiliated ships, countries that negotiated directly with Tehran. The strait is in fact not closed... it's privatized, selectively operated, and generating revenue while the world calls it a blockade. Iran is the strait now. AP, The Independent
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