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Mideast Chaos Sends Supertanker Rates Soaring To $800,000 A Day
Mideast Chaos Sends Supertanker Rates Soaring To $800,000 A Day
Supertanker rates on the Baltic Exchange's benchmark Middle East-to-China shipping route have surged to a staggering $800,000 a day. With US forces having destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and Tehran threatening further escalation in recent days, prospects for near-term stabilization remain limited.
The freight surge signals that crude oil and refined products continue to flow but are becoming increasingly costly to transport out of the Gulf region to global markets.
According to Bloomberg, US Gulf-to-Asia shipments on very large crude carriers average...
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Jul 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Intern At NATO Military Headquarters In Belgium Faces Spying Charges
Intern At NATO Military Headquarters In Belgium Faces Spying Charges
Belgian authorities arrested an intern working inside NATO's military headquarters, accusing her of spying.
Nato’s sprawling military HQ close to Mons in western Belgium is where commanders plan and execute global operations and co-ordinate responses to threats © AP
The intern was working at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, (SHAPE), in Mons, Belgium, where NATO commanders plan operations and coordinate the alliance's response to threats across the continent.
"A Canadian national of Chinese origin, an intern at SHAPE, was served with an...
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Apr 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The US Demanded That Europeans Accelerate Their Transition To 'NATO 3.0'
The US Demanded That Europeans Accelerate Their Transition To 'NATO 3.0'
Authored by Andrew Korybko,
This might be the US’ final warning before it takes drastic action to punish those who continue to reject Trump’s demands.
Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave an important speech at mid-April’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group in which he urged the Europeans to step up their transition to something that he described earlier this year as “NATO 3.0”.
As was explained here, “The idea is that NATO should return to focusing on defending itself instead of overextending...
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Apr 7, 2026 / Tyler Durden
CIA Used "Ghost Murmur" To Locate Missing F-15 Airman From 40-Miles Away
CIA Used "Ghost Murmur" To Locate Missing F-15 Airman From 40-Miles Away
In combination with the downed F-15 weapons systems officer, known publicly only as "Dude 44 Bravo," activating Boeing's Combat Survivor Evader Locator, or CSEL, U.S. forces were reportedly able to narrow the search area and then locate the second crew member shot down over southern Iran using a secret CIA reconnaissance tool known as "Ghost Murmur."
The New York Post reports that the long-range quantum magnetometry surveillance tool, powered by AI, was used in the U.S. search-and-rescue operation for...
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