03-24-26 victor
pt, yes, but it took place for YEARS, passing info re the EU from Hungary to Russia.
important info at the highest level of govt.
and only after YEARS, the EU figured it out. |
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03-24-26 ruspan
PT: "Ruspan, its all AI trading. Algorithms are reading all media and place orders immediately."
It certainly looks so - so I suppose the market function of balancing money flows to reality is at least partially lost. Just wonder where it could bring us medium term :-)
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03-24-26 ruspan
"Victor, Russian oil and gas trades with the West were specifically designed to establish or long-term dependency." - and confrontation, you should add.
However, people in EU preferred confrontation over their own obvious interest. - Let them :-)
Economically the consequences are clear, and on confrontations with Russia both EU and Russia have wide historic experience, always ends in the same way. |
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03-24-26 patient-trader
| Ruspan, its all AI trading. Algorithms are reading all media and place orders immediately. |
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03-24-26 ruspan
Savo: "Insiders knew avoid the post and made huge gains. Global market getting manipulated by 1 man’s social media posts."
What amuses me is that the global markets are reacting to the Trump posts at all, given the % of BS in them, which is over 100% :-)
I supposed people manipulating serious amounts of money are a bit more realistic and serious.
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03-24-26 patient-trader
Victor, Russian oil and gas trades with the West were specifically designed to establish or long-term dependency.
On top you have corruption schemes where middle-man companies are skimming off profits, e.g. a Belize company paying off Orban mates. Naturally, Orban has to return some favours, such as passing on EU insider information, blocking Ukraine etc.
That is why Zelensky keeps on the thumb-screws and blocks the oil pipeline to Hungary. That deprives Orban and his mates from funds to launch some last-minute election campaigns.
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/shadowy-oil-trader-with-kremlin-orban-ties-supplied-billions-in-russian-crude-to-europe |
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03-24-26 victor
carib, how about this one?
even nato is affected.
he did it for years, apparently.
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La Unión Europea se enfrenta a una de sus mayores crisis de seguridad interna tras revelarse, según investigaciones de The Washington Post, que el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Hungría, Péter Szijjártó, habría filtrado información confidencial del Consejo Europeo a Rusia. Según los informes, Szijjártó aprovechaba los descansos de reuniones críticas en Bruselas para informar telefónicamente a su homólogo ruso, Serguéi Lavrov, sobre los debates internos y las estrategias de la UE.
La gravedad de la acusación radica en su continuidad. No se trata de un hecho aislado, sino de una práctica establecida durante años que, por su audacia, parece extraída de una novela de espionaje. Esta conexión permitía al Kremlin conocer de antemano las sanciones en curso, las posturas individuales de cada Estado miembro y las divisiones internas, otorgando a Moscú una ventaja estratégica sin precedentes para contrarrestar la diplomacia europea.
Ante esta situación, la Comisión Europea ha reaccionado con dureza. Un portavoz oficial calificó los informes de “extremadamente preocupantes” y anunció que se ha solicitado a Budapest una “aclaración urgente”. La desconfianza ha escalado hasta tal punto que Bruselas exige que Hungría rinda cuentas no solo por las llamadas de Szijjártó, sino por la integridad de toda su estructura diplomática, que parece actuar como un satélite de los intereses rusos.
Ante el temor de que la información sensible siga fluyendo hacia Moscú, diplomáticos de la UE han confirmado a POLITICO que ya se han tomado medidas para limitar el acceso de Hungría a ciertas reuniones de alto nivel. Budapest está siendo excluida de grupos de trabajo sobre inteligencia militar, ciberseguridad y detalles logísticos del apoyo a Ucrania, en un intento por contener la hemorragia de datos.
El primer ministro polaco, Donald Tusk, ha avivado la polémica al afirmar que Polonia sospechaba de esta actividad desde hace tiempo. Tusk señaló que el comportamiento de Viktor Orbán y su gabinete siempre fue “errático” en las cumbres, y que las posiciones húngaras solían alinearse con las necesidades del Kremlin de forma sospechosamente precisa.
La investigación también revela que el beneficio de esta relación era mutuo. Rusia no solo recibía inteligencia, sino que intervenía activamente para asegurar la permanencia de Orbán en el poder. Se han documentado propuestas rusas para escenificar falsos intentos de asesinato contra figuras políticas húngaras con el fin de movilizar el voto a favor del partido gobernante y distorsionar los resultados electorales.
El escándalo trasciende las fronteras de la UE y afecta directamente a la OTAN. Al compartir detalles del Consejo Europeo, donde a menudo se discuten asuntos de seguridad transatlántica, Szijjártó habría puesto en riesgo activos militares y planes de contingencia de la Alianza. En los pasillos de Bruselas, la pregunta es ahora si Hungría puede seguir siendo considerada un aliado fiable.
Ante las acusaciones, el Gobierno húngaro ha reaccionado con hermetismo o descalificando la veracidad de los informes. Szijjártó ha defendido previamente que sus contactos con Lavrov son necesarios para garantizar el suministro energético del país. Sin embargo, no ha ofrecido un desmentido técnico sobre el contenido específico de las filtraciones, como los borradores de resoluciones de la UE, limitándose a criticar la procedencia de la información de los servicios de seguridad y de los medios de comunicación.
La situación plantea un desafío existencial para el Consejo Europeo: si un Estado miembro comparte las propuestas externas mientras estas se negocian, la capacidad de la UE para actuar de forma unida queda anulada.
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03-24-26 pillz
Gold prices fall for 10th straight session as Iran denies US talks
https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/gold-prices-fall-for-10th-straight-session-as-iran-denies-us-talks-4576547 |
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03-23-26 spal
stamped and approved by the CCCP ;-)
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Chickity China, the Chinese chicken · You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin' · |
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03-23-26 panasonic
| Spal, stamped and approved by the CCCP ;-) |
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03-23-26 spal
The Islamabad Summit: Confirmed Details
The "5-Day Pause" announced by Trump wasn't just about oil prices; it was a logistical requirement to get these specific players into one room:
The Iranian Delegation: Reportedly led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (Parliament Speaker and a pragmatist with military backing). His involvement suggests that the IRGC is at least "consulted" on this de-escalation attempt.
The US Delegation: Expected to include Steve Witkoff (Special Envoy), Jared Kushner, and potentially VP JD Vance. This is a "deal-maker" team, not a traditional State Department cohort.
The Facilitators: Pakistan's Army Chief, General Asim Munir, and PM Shehbaz Sharif have been the primary bridge-builders, working alongside Türkiye and Egypt. |
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03-23-26 spal
Trump to Tehran: Please hold off on attacking us or the GCC until Friday so as to not spoil our 'surprise' attack.
We're effectively asking the Iranian to play along and pretend they don't see the 50 cars parked outside their house to keep the surprise party a 'surprise'. |
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03-23-26 carib
I hear rumours actually an iranian delegation flew to Pakistan for talks.
(to be confirmed) |
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03-23-26 spal
I need some guidance from expert Trumpologists
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But in all honestly the most expert Trumpologists who have observed him most closely are likley to be hookers. |
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03-23-26 spal
I need some guidance from expert Trumpologists..
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I start with a tariff, but end with a taco,
I’m a "Stable Genius", but also a wacko.
I have all the best words, though they’re rarely in line,
And I’ve got a "Secret Plan" that is working out fine. |
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03-23-26 savo
carib.. we had been fed for 10 years that veni was a narco regime... yet.. suddenly it wasn't.
Iran is nuclear... or it isn't. |
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03-23-26 savo
carib... from an expert criminologist sound better:
5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:
1) $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought 🟢 in a single clip.
After the post futures spiked 🚀
2) $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold 🔴 crude oil fell 20% after the post.
Insiders knew avoid the post and made huge gains. Global market getting manipulated by 1 man’s social media posts.
https://x.com/uremo_24/status/2036084634950255033 |
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03-23-26 amateur
TACO stage today.
Bravata episode coming next WE to your favorite channel.
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03-23-26 carib
This takes the charade to a new level: you declare you had good secret talks.. that thus become no longer secret.. but that is no problem if they never took place.
Or, if they took place, you put at risk the life of the "talker" thus deterring new candidates from "talking" in the future?
I need some guidance from expert Trumpologists..
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03-23-26 carib
Savo: I am not sure that would be possible.
Veny became a US protectorate, with some local thugs still in office.. but serving a new master.
I am not sure that is viable with religious bearded fanatics..
Telenovela still rolling..
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03-23-26 carib
Spal: that would be a laughing matter.. if it was not a very serious issue.
But the concept of the Schrodinger's Strait is interesting..
from an insurance company point of view..
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03-23-26 savo
if iran as as nuclear as veni was narco... this war makes very little sense ad the only way out is a Trump U-Turn like the U-turn in veni.
For some satanist reason NetanDracula was allowed to inaugurate a new war tactic... flattening of a city or country with hundreds of thousands or millions of innocent people if there happens to be terrorists living in that country. Having experimented in Gaza they are now going for Iran... problem is Iran does not oblige. |
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03-23-26 spal
He is proposing to jointly control the strait with a man he simultaneously says may be dead.
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The Hormuz Strait to be renamed the Schrodinger's Strait ... tanker are said to exit with a quantum effect ... the more you observe the behavior the more uncertain it is. You must simply drink the kool-aid ... sold exclusively in Dubai. |
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03-23-26 victor
:-))
An unidentified Iranian senior official told Reuters on Monday that the US had specifically requested a meeting with Iranian Parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, but Iran's Supreme National Security Council has yet to review the matter.
A source told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that Ghalibaf is leading the talks with the US, while the Parliament Speaker stated in a post on X/Twitter that no talks had taken place and further stated that "fake news" is being used to manipulate financial and oil markets.
محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf
@mb_ghalibaf
2/ No negotiations have been held with the US, and fakenews is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped.
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03-23-26 spal
| The "bathos" twist ... the greeks would die laughing at this point. |
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03-23-26 spal
maybe controlled by me and the Ayatollah.
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Introducing the Trumpollah and Gayatollah duo. |
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03-23-26 victor
| El portavoz del ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Irán, Esmaeil Baghaei, dijo que Irán no ha mantenido negociaciones con Estados Unidos y rechazó las afirmaciones del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, de que Washington y Teherán lograron avances significativos en conversaciones, según la agencia estatal Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). |
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03-23-26 savo
Donald Trump just said the Strait of Hormuz will be “jointly controlled, and maybe controlled by me and the Ayatollah.”
The same man who 36 hours ago threatened to “obliterate” Iranian power plants now proposes co-managing the world’s most important oil chokepoint with the leader of the country he is bombing. In the same breath, Trump said: “It is not the Supreme Leader; nobody has heard from him, and we don’t know if he is living.”
He is proposing to jointly control the strait with a man he simultaneously says may be dead.
While Trump was saying this, the IDF confirmed it had just completed a “wide-scale wave of strikes” on Tehran using over 100 munitions. Targets included a Quds Force command post, an IRGC aerial defence headquarters, an IRGC Ground Forces headquarters in “a large military compound in the heart of Tehran,” a Quds Force intelligence headquarters, a Ministry of Defence naval cruise missile manufacturing site, and multiple ballistic missile, warhead, and electronics research facilities. The IDF reports it has destroyed approximately 330 of Iran’s estimated 470 ballistic missile launchers. Iranian fire has collapsed from 90 missiles per day on Day 1 to approximately 10. The IAF is now hunting the remaining 140.
While Trump was saying this, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated for the third time today that there have been “no direct or indirect talks with Washington” and that Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz “has not changed in any way.”
While Trump was saying this, Iran delivered the sentence that should be read by every head of state on Earth: “You struck our hospitals, we did not do the same. You struck our emergency centres, we did not do the same. You struck our schools, we did not do the same. But if you strike electricity, we will strike electricity.”
That is not a threat. That is a ledger. Iran is publicly recording what it has NOT done to establish the legal and moral basis for what it WILL do. The ledger says: we absorbed hospitals. We absorbed schools. We absorbed emergency centres. Electricity is the line. Cross it and the regional grid becomes a battlefield. Every desalination plant. Every hospital ventilator. Every water treatment system in the Gulf that runs on power.
Trump then claimed Iran agreed to hand over “nuclear dust.” He said “we’ve agreed to that.” Iran has agreed to nothing publicly. Trump is negotiating in public with a counterparty that says it is not at the table, proposing to share a strait with a leader whose existence he questions, claiming a nuclear deal that the other side has not acknowledged, while his air force drops 100 munitions on the capital of the country he says he is dealing with.
Rosatom is evacuating Bushehr nuclear plant to a skeleton crew. The 5-day clock is ticking. The 140 remaining launchers are being hunted. The strait is closed. And the man who controls the world’s largest military just proposed co-managing the world’s most important waterway with a man who may not be alive to sign the agreement.
The molecules do not negotiate with ghosts. The molecules wait. |
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03-23-26 spal
| Up and down like a fiddler's elbow |
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03-23-26 panasonic
Spal, it looked like a free fall early in the morning.
Now green, later probably red again.
Oil prices meme action, new toy in town after silver :-)) |
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03-23-26 victor
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03-23-26 panasonic
| Amateur, China may have those plans for sure, that would clarify what is in their minds, me prefer to live in world where all masks come off. |
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03-23-26 spal
Pero estamos tratando con un hombre que creo que es el más respetado y el líder ...
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Weekend at Bernies live from Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ko2stksn9w |
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03-23-26 spal
| Energy schtocks ... dipped on open ... now firming ... |
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03-23-26 victor
:-))
Consultado por Kaitlan Collins, de CNN, sobre con quién está hablando EE.UU. en Irán, Trump respondió: “Una persona clave. No olviden: hemos eliminado a la cúpula en la fase uno, la fase dos y en gran parte la fase tres. Pero estamos tratando con un hombre que creo que es el más respetado y el líder; ya sabes, es un poco complicado, han eliminado —hemos eliminado— a todos”.
Trump dijo que Steve Witkoff y Jared Kushner participaron en las conversaciones, pero no identificó a la persona con la que se están comunicando del lado iraní.
Ante la insistencia de Collins sobre si EE.UU. estaba hablando con Khamenei, Trump respondió: “No, no con el líder supremo”.
“No hemos tenido noticias del hijo. De vez en cuando se ve alguna declaración, pero no sabemos si está vivo”, agregó Trump.
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03-23-26 victor
:-)))
Despite Iran’s denial that it has had dialogue with the US, Trump said that his country is talking to a “top person” in Iran’s regime to try to end the war, but that this is not Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
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03-23-26 carib
Iranian military spokesperson Zolfaghari mocks Trump with ‘You are fired’ jab
"Hey, Trump, you are fired,” Zolfaghari said. “You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter." |
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03-23-26 spal
This market has 1987 written all over it, imvho.
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Flash crash Panas? |
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03-23-26 spal
“I might do it. I might not do it. I might have already done it. Nobody knows.”
— Trump Tzu
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03-23-26 carib
An Iranian source later denied that the US and Iran were holding talks about ending the war.
"There is no direct contact with Trump, not even through intermediaries. Trump retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia," the unnamed source told the Iranian state-affiliated Fars News Agency. |
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03-23-26 carib
Taco for lunch today?
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03-23-26 carib
| I think the G points for Trump are the S&P500 and the price of a gallon of gas. |
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03-23-26 patient-trader
Trump chickening out is an excellent chance to sell into the rally. Selling around 50-70% retracement has a very good risk / reward ratio as the market will struggle to make new highs but has a huge downside. This market has 1987 written all over it, imvho.
btw high energy prices are an AI killer. Politicians will be under public pressure as AI and consumers compete for scarce energy. |
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03-23-26 carib
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03-23-26 carib
Small units within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basij have reportedly begun refusing to report for duty, signaling emerging cracks within the regime, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter told Bloomberg on Sunday.
“The edifice of this tyrannical regime is cracking. It has not opened up to wide chasms yet, but that's the direction it's going,” Leiter said, adding that it wasn’t just Iran’s military capabilities that were being degraded, but also the morale of its armed forces. |
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03-23-26 carib
Trump is deliberately unpredictable.
He might walk out.. or decide to nuke Tehran. |
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03-23-26 amateur
China is quietly enjoying the deterioration of the American empire by the combination of Chinese violent pawns (Russia and Iran) with an incompetent Neron in Washington.
If Iran is not subdued, can they monetize an Ormuz toll?
Toll free for China and friends, heavy toll for US and theirs?
Europe should be wishing Iran’s full defeat… |
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03-23-26 panasonic
"THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS"
China nowhere to be found, seems they are ok going "all-in" in this hand. |
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03-23-26 spal
Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Apocalypse Now |
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