The Omani Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that negotiations between the United States and Iran should lead to a nuclear-free Iran. The two sides “have agreed to enter into the next phase of their discussions that aim to seal a fair, enduring and binding deal which will ensure Iran completely free of nuclear weapons and sanctions, and maintaining its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy,” the ministry noted. Meanwhile, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, who acted as mediator during today’s talks in Rome, praised the US and Iranian delegations for their constructive approach, claiming that “these talks are gaining momentum and now even the unlikely is possible.”
US President Donald Trump’s team is divided over how to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to a report published Wednesday by Walla. According to the media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer are aligned with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Walz in urging a more forceful approach. They argue that Iran’s current weakness should be used to justify military action, not diplomacy as Trump is doing. While Israeli sources described the conversation between Netanyahu and Trump as cordial, US officials said it was difficult, especially as direct US-Iran talks begin, the media said. The second round of nuclear discussions between the US and Iran is set for April 19 in Rome. While the US insists that Iran must cease its nuclear enrichment and weapons development, Iran has reiterated that its right to enrich uranium is not up for negotiation.
nn: this pig needs to be slaughtered. before its to late. Even if Israel goes it alone
Israel Hasn’t Ruled Out Attack on Iran Nuclear Facilities
Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months, “despite Trump losing his balls” an unidentified Israeli official and two people familiar with the matter. Israeli officials privately stated their military could launch a limited strike on Iran that would require less support from the US. Parts of the plans were previously presented last year to the Biden administration, citing two former senior officials. US President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters he has stopped Israel from an attack but that he was not “in a rush” to support military action against Tehran. An unidentified senior Israeli official told Reuters no decision had been yet made on a strike.
nn: Israel is facing another holocaust. Lest we forgot who shot 300 hypersonic missiles at them and wakes up everyday screaming death to israel. its a matter of their survival that they take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities before its to late
For a fact Israeli special forces are training for a combined air land assault on Iran’s underground nuclear sights
United States President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is working on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, warning that lives will be in danger if the Middle Eastern country manages to obtain them. “They can’t have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be great, prosperous, and terrific. I stopped them once, they were broke and they didn’t have any money for Hamas, for Hezbollah,” Trump told reporters. “If they have a nuclear weapon, you’ll all be very unhappy, cause your life will be in great danger,” he added. The US president’s comments come one day before his country’s delegation is set to meet Iranian officials in Rome for a second round of negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.
NN: Their is no negotiating with Iran. Trump is flirting with nuclear disaster here. He needs to bomb them into oblivion.
Rubio: We’d prefer peaceful resolution to Iran issue
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that everyone would “prefer a peaceful resolution” to the Iran nuclear issue, stressing the US wants to ensure that any deal prevents Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon now, as well as in the future. Speaking on talks with European allies on the matter, Rubio stressed it is now up to France, Germany and the United Kingdom to decide whether they want to reimpose sanctions on Tehran, but insisted that they will soon see the latest report from he International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that will show Iran is “dangerously close” to acquiring a nuclear weapon and stressed it should face sanctions if it is not in compliance with the nuclear deal.
On Thursday, IAEA head Rafael Grossi warned after a visit to Iran that it is “not far off” from having a nuclear weapon.
A bombshell New York Times report claims U.S. President Donald Trump blocked an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program
U.S. President Donald Trump blocked a planned Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites in favor of negotiating a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing administration officials and others.
Israel had developed plans to attack the sites in May, according to the newspaper, which added that the goal was to set back Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon by a year or more. The New York Times said U.S. assistance was required not just to defend Israel from Iranian retaliation but also ensure the attack was successful. After months of internal debate, Trump made the decision to seek negotiations with Iran rather than support military action.
The U.S. and Iran held talks in Oman last Saturday – the first time during a Trump administration, including his 2017-2021 first term. Both countries described the talks as “positive” and “constructive”. A second round is scheduled for Saturday, and a source briefed on the planning said the meeting was likely to be held in Rome.
NN: Trump will live to regret not attacking Irans nuclear facilites
History will show this one mistake will lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people. In the worse case Iran’s nukes which they will use could leave to WWIII
The United States reportedly conducted a strike on the Ras Issa post in the Salif district of the Hodeidah Governorate in Yemen, killing 17 people and injuring several others, Al Masirah TV reported. The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that it targeted the port because it supplied fuel to the Houthis. A video of the port burning was posted to X.
Death toll of US attack on Houthi oil port up to 38
The death toll from the overnight United States airstrike on the Ras Issa oil port in Yemen climbed to 38, Houthi-controlled Al-Masirah TV reported on Friday. According to the outlet, another 102 people were wounded in the US attack. Earlier, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it targeted the oil field to “eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for over 10 years.”
The prices of oil futures kept rising on Thursday as Israel once again threatened to intervene in case Iran obtained a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Tehran reiterated its dedication to the relations with Russia. Additionally, the United States sanctioned a Chinese refinery for allegedly using Iranian oil. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for May’s settlements surged by at 1:00 Pm ET to sell for $64.77 per barrel. Simultaneously, Brent for June’s deliveries jumped to $68. per barrel.
NN: WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ISRAEL BOMBS THE SHIT OUT OF THEIR OIL INFASTUCTURE
President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the US central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now. Trump, derisively nicknaming the Fed chairman he nominated in his first term as “Too Late,” wrote in a post on the Truth Social platform Thursday morning that “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”
Trump says Fed Chair Powell’s termination can’t come fast enough
Powell’s term as chair runs into May 2026, while his term as a governor lasts until February 2028. Trump’s comments come a day after Powell, speaking in Chicago, reiterated that the Fed isn’t in a rush to cut rates and instead is awaiting greater clarity on the economy.
The president’s ability to remove top officials at agencies that had long been viewed as having a measure of independence from the White House has come into acute focus in recent months, after the administration dismissed senior officials at the Federal Trade Commission, the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board.
The firings are the most direct challenge yet to a 1935 Supreme Court decision that paved the way for agency independence. Powell made reference Wednesday to a current Supreme Court case with regard to the removal of the NLRB and MSPB officials.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week indicated that the administration’s timeline for considering Powell’s successor was roughly six months away. Speaking in a Bloomberg Television interview, Bessent said that the timing for interviewing candidates to replace Powell was “sometime in the fall.”
Trump’s remarks came just before the European Central Bank lowered their deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.25%. Trump mentioned the ECB’s repeated cuts in his post. “And yet, ‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete ‘mess!’ Trump wrote.
NN: These 2 hate each others guts. They are at loggerheads. This will end badly
The price of gold has hit new all-time highs, driven by strong demand from central banks, hedge funds, and ETFs.
Silver is also seeing increased interest from investors, with a surge in managed money longs.
Goldman Sachs remains bullish on gold, citing continued central bank buying, Fed rate cuts, and geopolitical risks.
Which brings us to this weekend, and yet another remarkable observation: while gold did correlate very closely with ETF holdings in the years prior to the Ukraine war (regime 1), since then gold has completely lost all correlation with ETF holdings, and instead has been correlating tightly with another data series: Managed Money (i.e., hedge fund) net futures (regime 2).
Chinese central bank – buying is the biggest driver behind gold’s doomed rally. Many central banks keep their purchases hidden from the public and disclose only what they want to disclose, especially in the case of the PBOC, here hedge funds – perhaps due to their ability to collect and trade on “non-public” central bank information – have become the barometer and real-time indicator of central bank purchasing. As such, spot gold prices are now directly correlating with net gold managed futures (Bloomberg ticker CFCDUMMN), as can be seen on the chart above.
ETF flows into gold are now turning positive, and when combined with continued central bank buying, combined with record Indian gold imports, combined with unprecedented demand for physical in the US, no wonder that gold is hitting new all time highs day after day. The suckers are in the market in mass
EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG IS BUYING gold1
Gold prices traded at fresh all-time highs closing AT A ALL TIME HIGH $3360/oz. Greed has taken over the gold fever stampede. The rally in gold seems unstoppable at this point and resets on the all-time-high are becoming a frequent occurrence as is the norm at insane rally tops.
As Goldman’s ETF desk wrote in its weekly rundown report “the desk has been fielding increased demand for spot gold exposure via ETFs like GLD, GLDM, and IAU, and gold miners exposure via GDX” and as a result, the Goldman desk has acted as a better buyer across the gold complex.
Gold jumps 3%, hits new all-time high of $3,328
The price of gold continued to go upward on Wednesday, reaching a new record high of $3,328 per ounce as trade tensions pushed investors towards the safe-haven asset. The United States earlier announced that tariffs on Chinese products could reach 245% due to its retaliatory measures. Meanwhile, China slammed Washington’s comments, stressing that Beijing imposed countermeasures to protect its “legitimate rights and interests.” Gold surged 3.06% at 12:03 pm ET, going for $3,328.45 per ounce. At the same time, silver climbed by 1.87% to $32.92 per ounce. Platinum gained 0.85% to go for $970.07 per ounce, and palladium advanced by 0.19%, selling at $960.74 per ounce.
Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data for the week ending April 11, 2025
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 0.5 million barrels from the previous week. At 442.9 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 6% below the five year average for this time of year. U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 15.6 million barrels per day during the week ending April 11, 2025, which was 64 thousand barrels per day less than the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 86.3% of their operable capacity last week. Gasoline production increased
last week, averaging 9.4 million barrels per day. Distillate fuel production increased last week, averaging 4.7 million barrels per day. U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.0 million barrels per day last week, decreased by 189 thousand barrels per day from the previous week. Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.2 million barrels per day, 5.2% less than the same four-week period last year. Total motor gasoline imports (including both finished gasoline and gasoline blending components) last week averaged 531 thousand barrels per day, and distillate fuel imports averaged 102 thousand barrels per day. Total motor gasoline
inventories decreased by 2.0 million barrels from last week and are about 1% below the five year average for this time of year. Finished gasoline inventories increased and blending components inventories decreased last week. Distillate fuel inventories decreased by 1.9 million barrels last week and are about 11% below the five year average for this time of year. Propane/propylene inventories decreased by 1.3 million barrels from last week and are 9% below the five year
average for this time of year. Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased by 2.1 million barrels last week.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 19.5 million barrels a day, down by 1.7% from the same period last year. Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.5 million barrels a day, down by 3.4% from the same period last year. Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.8 million barrels a day over the past four weeks, up by 7.1% from the same period last year. Jet fuel product supplied was up 9.1% compared with
the same four-week period last year
NN: Refineries are still in spring maintaince mode. Soon they will crank back up and start consuming all that $55.00 oil they bought at bargain basement prices from those Algo fagots and candle stick hedge fund assholes. Who are Ivey league pompous pricks, broke and do not want their investors to know it. They are praying for a miracle or an attack on Iranian oil to blame their loses on
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to rescind Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. A final decision is expected soon as the Trump administration increases pressure on the Ivy League school for resisting its demands on a change in policies. Education Secretary Linda McMahon reportedly also said the issue was “certainly worth looking into” and suggested the IRS might examine other universities as well. The administration already blocked over $2 billion in funding to Harvard.
NN: Harvard and Yale and the liberal Ivy League colleges of America are the liberal bastion of stupidness. They are spending billions of dollars debating if a girls is a girl or a boy is a boy. The high court of England announce yesterday after 24 witnesses and two years of deliberation that if you’re born with a penis you’re a boy and if you’re born vagina your a girl. It’s a foregone conclusion the fact that we’re debating this absurdity is a insult to intelligent people. Men in women’s sports is destroying sports. You get male athletes who are losers and low ranking nothings in their sports as males. And they become a “girl” and compete in girls sports. A they become instant champions. And our Ivey league liberal lefty fagots somehow justify this stupidness, It is obvious that men are physically stronger than women. I didn’t do it. I did not make men stronger than women. Sorry their is not equality in strength among the sexes’. REALITY is that’s how the world works. The best thing you can do is get these liberal universities and close them down and get these fine young minds and save them from being destroyed by liberal nothingness.
United States President Donald Trump held an Easter prayer service and dinner, where he delivered remarks criticizing the US education system and praising other countries’ academic rankings. The United States spends more money per student than any country but continues to rank low. “It’s Denmark and Norway, Sweden — even China does very well — in the top 10,” Trump said. He argued that the country’s large size is no excuse, noting China’s success despite its population. Trump also promised to shift control of education to individual states. He said this move would end “radical indoctrination” in schools and improve education quality. Trump said he believes that state-led management would “make a tremendous difference” in student performance nationwide
