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🇷🇺🇬🇧🇺🇲 Russia claims that they discovered that The ruling Labor Party in the United Kingdom is sending 100 specialists to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the president of the United States.
From Maria Zakharova on her Telegram channel:
"The ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom is sending 100 specialists to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the president of the United States.
Either London has forgotten that the U.S. has been an independent country since 1776 and has sent its emissaries to appoint a governor-general of a royal colony, or the American Democrats are in serious trouble if they have to call on their former rulers for help. There’s another possibility—the U.S. just loves it when their elections are interfered with, as they interfere in others’ elections. A sort of electoral swing.
It’s an interesting precedent. Media leaks indicate that 100 party activists from another country will campaign for Harris precisely in the most challenging ‘swing states’ for the Democrats: North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Of course, the American people have considerable experience with British officials.
In 1773, Americans held the famous Boston Tea Party. Donald Trump is already using the slogan from that era—‘the British are coming!’ But the islanders aren’t novices either. It’s rarely remembered today, but in 1814 they burned down the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
These are events of the past, but in modern history, accusations from Washington of other countries interfering in U.S. elections occur more frequently than the national anthem.
One would like to ask: isn’t this British interference in American elections, and in favor of a specific candidate?"
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🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...