Market Analysts Say Our Political System is Hopelessly Corrupt, Call Out Billions in Obvious Insider Trading

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Four suspiciously-timed trades on the oil futures market have analysts and traders outraged — calling out corruption in the industry or, even worse, data leaks at the highest level.

The oil wagers — ranging from $400 million to nearly $1 billion — dwarf other recent insider trading scandals over suspiciously-timed bets placed on platforms Polymarket and Kalshi regarding outcomes of US military action.

“We’re all, like, f—k this s—t! It’s outrageous what’s going on. This corruption is how you end up like Venezuela,” oil market analyst Paul Sankey told The Post.

“It’s simple corruption. It’s not a free market. If the Democrats were clean, they’d call it out. But all the politicians have their snouts in the trough of insider trading,” the seasoned oilman said.

Sankey, a former Wall Streeter now president of Sankey Research, recalls trips to Washington 20 years ago, when all the lawmakers “dressed like geography teachers.” Now they’re flashing Rolexes and $4,000 suits.

“It’s so unsubtle. There’s a sense of corruption around all of Washington, including the Democrats, led by the Nancy Pelosi [stock] tracker,” he added, referring to a novel online tool that follows the historically strong stock market trades of the former House Speaker. (Read more from “Market Analysts Say Our Political System is Hopelessly Corrupt, Call Out Billions in Obvious Insider Trading” HERE)

$65B Lithium Mother Lode Hidden Beneath Appalachian Mountains Could Supply US with Power for Centuries

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We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multibillion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years.

“This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement.

According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and New Hampshire. Total value: around $64.4B dollars.

Per Bloomberg, the US imports nearly half of its consumption of lithium, which powers lithium-ion batteries that are used for everything from iPhones to vehicles and even aerospace alloys.

With this recent mineral motherlode, USGS officials estimate that we could supply 1.6 million grid-scale batteries — enough to power 130 million electric vehicles or supply 180 billion laptops for a collective thousands of years of global use. (Read more from “$65B Lithium Mother Lode Hidden Beneath Appalachian Mountains Could Supply US with Power for Centuries” HERE)

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Congresswoman: ‘Multiple Young Men’ Allegedly Drugged, Raped at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch; Women Subjected to Forced Pregnancies, Babies Abducted

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“Multiple young men” were allegedly drugged and raped at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, according to an explosive new report that detailed harrowing accusations from murder to babies snatched from mothers at the pedophile’s New Mexico house of horrors.

“A man actually claims that he met Jeffrey Epstein [and] was brought to the ranch, he was drugged,” US Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) told “60 Minutes Australia” in a Sunday segment, the Sun reported.

“He describes in detail a scene in which multiple young men were raped at the ranch in front of him after he was drugged,” said Stansbury, a leading advocate for Epstein victims. . .

It’s unclear how Stansbury learned the excrutiating details of the alleged abuse, but her claims come as her state is in the thick of an extensive investigation into Zorro Ranch — the first probe of its kind since the millionaire financier killed himself in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell after being arrested on sex-trafficking charges.

The probe was sparked in part by anonymous 2019 allegations that Epstein and Maxwell choked women to death during “rough fetish sex” and buried them on the ranch — accusations that resurfaced with the release earlier this year of the tranche of files from the FBI’s investigation into the disgraced financier. (Read more from “Congresswoman: ‘Multiple Young Men’ Allegedly Drugged, Raped at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch; Women Subjected to Forced Pregnancies, Babies Abducted” HERE)

State Finds 34K Dead People on Voter Rolls

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Roughly 34,000 deceased people were discovered to still be on voter rolls in North Carolina, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections found the thousands of dead individuals during its “ongoing effort to verify” voters United States citizenship, according to ABC11 News. In a statement, Sam Hayes, who serves as the executive director for NC’s State Board of Elections, expressed that the number was “higher” than they had “anticipated.”

“While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated,” Hayes said in a statement. “The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to uncover issues like this. Our goal is to use every available and legal tool at our disposal to achieve the most accurate voter rolls possible.”

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Ilhan Omar Fails to Show for Minnesota Fraud Hearing

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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is facing mounting criticism in her home state after failing to appear at a key Minnesota legislative hearing examining potential links to one of the largest fraud schemes in the country.

The controversy centers on Omar’s absence from a hearing led by state lawmakers investigating the Somali-led “Feeding Our Future” scandal.

Federal prosecutors say the scheme involved the theft of hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded child nutrition aid. . .
Robbins chairs the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee.

In the letter, Robbins wrote:

“Minnesotans and the Members of the House Fraud Prevention & State Oversight Committee were disappointed that you failed to appear before our committee to answer questions.” (Read more from “Ilhan Omar Fails to Show for Minnesota Fraud Hearing” HERE)

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Confirmed: The Four Anti-American RINOs Revealed Themselves by Opposing the SAVE America Act

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There is a particular species of Republican senator whose entire political identity depends on the illusion of principled independence. They vote with the party often enough to retain the label, but they reliably surface at precisely those moments when the conservative base has something real on the line. Early Thursday morning, four of them showed their faces again, and nobody should pretend to be surprised.

Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky joined every Senate Democrat to sink Sen. John Kennedy’s effort to attach a version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement funding package. The amendment failed 48 to 50. The vote confirmed what everyone who has been paying attention already knew. The names were not a mystery. They are the same four senators Majority Leader John Thune has spent months shielding from any vote that might expose them.

The SAVE America Act, in the form Kennedy pushed, would have directed the Senate Rules Committee to draft legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register and vote in federal elections, limiting voting to Election Day, mandating ballots be counted within 36 hours, and capping implementation at $10 billion. In other words, it would have done exactly what every honest poll of the American people shows they want.

Sens. Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell joined Senate Democrats to kill Sen. John Kennedy’s attempt to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP immigration enforcement funding bill.

The amendment failed 48-50 during the Senate’s overnight “vote-a-rama” process.

Kennedy’s version would have required proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, limited voting to Election Day, mandated 36-hour ballot counting, and set a $10 billion implementation ceiling. (Read more from “Confirmed: The Four Anti-American RINOs Revealed Themselves by Opposing the SAVE America Act” HERE)

Woman Seen Snatching Wine Bottles in Aftermath of White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

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. . .A woman was caught on camera blissfully snatching bottles of wine during the chaotic aftermath of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

While throngs of reporters and other guests fled the Washington Hilton ballroom, an unknown blonde woman wearing posh black fur went straight for a table to stockpile booze.

Because the shooting took place early on during the salad portion of the marquee dinner, there was an abundance of wine left abandoned at tables across the ballroom.

The woman’s identity is not immediately clear, and it’s not apparent whether she was a journalist or some other guest.

Footage of the wine grab quickly went viral. But netizens were torn whether snatching the wine was in poor taste given what could’ve been a tragic evening if the shooter wasn’t stopped, or a fiscally prudent move given the high price tag of the swanky dinner.

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Guest Caught Casually Munching on Salad as Others Took Cover During Shooting Explains Himself

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A White House Correspondents’ Dinner guest who went viral for casually munching on his burrata salad as others ducked for cover at the sound of gunfire explained his calm demeanor Sunday.

“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor,” Creative Artists Agency agent Michael Glantz told the New York Times.

“And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.”

Glantz was captured on CNN sneaked a fork full of salad despite the chaos and commotion at the DC gala Saturday night.

He quickly went viral for his even-keel approach, which he further elaborated on. (Read more from “Guest Caught Casually Munching on Salad as Others Took Cover During Shooting Explains Himself” HERE)

15 Chemical Spraying Drones Stolen as FBI Investigates Possible ‘Nightmare Scenario’: Report

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Someone stole 15 giant agricultural drones in New Jersey — and experts fear a “nightmare scenario” if they end up in the hands of terrorists.

The fleet of Ceres Air C31 drones, which are about the size of an ATV, were ripped off March 24 by a bogus delivery driver who duped shipping and logistics company CAC International in Harrison, according to The High Side substack.

A phony bill of lading was presented at the pick-up location for the drones which was bolstered by a fake confirmation email that CAC International took to be legitimate, the report stated. . .

The FBI is concerned the chemical-spraying drones could be used to disperse biological or chemical weapons, the report claimed.

“This was one of the most highly sophisticated thefts [the FBI] have seen in a long time, which is the main thing that has them so spooked,” a person who was briefed on the case told the outlet. (Read more from “15 Chemical Spraying Drones Stolen as FBI Investigates Possible ‘Nightmare Scenario’: Report” HERE)

Transgender Substitute Teacher Arrested for Threatening ‘Murder Spree,’ ‘Kill List’

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A transgender-identifying substitute teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly making threats against a high school.

Loudoun County is a suburb near D.C. that has become infamous for its transgender-related controversies. Hadyn Dollery, a 19-year-old male who reportedly identifies as female is facing charges for making “threats of bodily injury” after law enforcement received tips that he was threatening to commit violence at a high school near Aldie, Fox News reported.

Dollery was apprehended off school property and is being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, according to the report. He is being housed alone, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office told the outlet.

The criminal complaint alleges that Dollery threatened several people in a message to a friend on the Discord app, The Loudoun Times-Mirror reported. (Read more from “Transgender Substitute Teacher Arrested for Threatening ‘Murder Spree,’ ‘Kill List’” HERE)