🚨 This frame of Lionel Messi taken with Netanyahu during his 2013 visit to Israel has once again become a trending topic on social media following the debates about referee decisions favoring Messi in the World Cup.
🚨 Turkish President Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar at the Vahdettin Pavilion.
🚨 The "oil glut" has a math problem: 1.3 BILLION barrels VANISHED from the market this year, and nobody is refilling the reserves...
Philip Pilkington came back armed with the numbers everyone's talking around.
The IEA itself estimates the strait's closure erased 1.3 billion barrels, thirteen full days of global consumption, all covered by draining inventories.
His question cuts through the noise: if crude is really slopping around cheap and unwanted, why is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve still being emptied instead of restocked?
And the emptying has a hard floor.
By end of July the SPR hits its congressionally approved minimum.
Keeping prices suppressed through the midterms would take another 120-160 million barrels, dragging it below the OPERATIONAL minimum where the caverns physically stop working.
He suspects that's the math behind Trump's "four weeks of oil left" slip at the G7.
His crack spread chart told the same story from another angle: refiners are behaving as if their barrels cost $110-115, not the $68 on your screen.
Either they're gouging, which Trump has warned them against, or their real input costs are far above the quoted price.
Two weeks will tell.
His most intriguing guess, offered as exactly that: Iran is easing off the Omani corridor on purpose, keeping the strait calm through the Ayatollah's funeral week.
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu’s message to America on the 250th Independence Day:
“250 years of freedom. 250 years of defending freedom.”
He tied it to the Entebbe raid 50 years ago (his brother Yoni died rescuing hostages) and said America and Israel share values, destiny, and the fight against tyrants who chant “death to America, death to Israel.”
🇮🇷 Khamenei's funeral continues at Tehran's Mosalla with the main ceremony and funeral prayers set for tomorrow morning.
Millions on the ground, over 100 countries represented, the new Supreme Leader still in hiding, and the world watching to see if Mojtaba appears at Mashhad on July 9 to bury his father...
He slammed Netanyahu's "war-addicted" government for pressuring Lebanon & Syria, called Gaza strikes unlawful & inhumane, and warned it risks drowning the region in more blood.
The Erdogan playbook is well known: framing Turkey as the regional protector while tensions keep boiling.
🚨 SpaceXAI is giving Memphis a pretty serious neighbor discount.
50% off standard Starlink service for new and existing customers in eligible areas. New customers also get the Residential kit with no upfront hardware cost. Nobody has to fill in a dramatic form or beg for a promo code.