Middle East Tanker Traffic April 30-May 6, 2026
... A 70-year-old Dutch man was the first person to die on April 11 after experiencing days of severe illness, followed by his wife two days later.
... Six Americans disembarked MV Hondius on April 24 on the island of St Helena, 13 days following the first death on board, operator Oceanwide Expeditions revealed on Thursday.
... Oceanwide Expeditions, the Netherlands-based cruise ship company, said Thursday that 30 passengers left the vessel at St. Helena.
The company had not previously revealed publicly that dozens more people left the ship.
The first hantavirus case on board of the vessel was not confirmed by authorities until May 2. ...
"Well, our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big taxspenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period."
-- Ronald Reagan, Nationally Televised News Conference, June 30, 1982
The secret of Ronald Reagan's success was that he stroked the vanity of the people.
Nominal return from SPX since he made those remarks has been 12.48% per annum through April 2026.
Just socking away a one time investment of $2,000 in the S&P 500 that summer and forgetting about it would have yielded you almost $353,000 by now.
But today just 2.6% of Americans in general have at least $1 million in a retirement account, and HALF of retirees aged 65-74 have only $200,000 or less.
Meanwhile, our betters in Washington have put the country $39 trillion in debt, and 73% of us die in debt ourselves, with the average owed just under $62,000.
The government we deserve!
"Our Government is spending money at a rate that is intolerable, if not incomprehensible. Almost $2 billion a day, $1,400,000 a minute... We must reverse the process."
-- Ronald Reagan, 1982
Federal outlays in 2025 are estimated at $7.266 trillion, or $19.9 billion per day.
I guess it takes but a decade for something to become tradition at the FBI:
“The bottles in question are part of a tradition in the FBI that started well over a decade ago, long before Director Patel arrived,” a spokesman said.
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