As Commerce Secretary, #HowardLutnick controls the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) and the National Weather Service (#NWS). As he dismantles them, note that he and his sons run a firm that invests in for-profit, private-sector firms that hope to replace NOAA and NWS.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197750/donald-trump-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-budget-cuts-weather-service

#Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from #privatizing #weather forecasts

As #commerce secy, #HowardLutnick oversees the US govt’s vast efforts to monitor & predict the weather.

#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #NWS #NOAA #climate #NaturalDisasters #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #flooding #Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96

Japan’s top trade negotiator holds two phone meetings with U.S. commerce chief

TOKYO/BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey – Japan’s top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held “in-depth exchanges” over the phone with U.S.…
#Europe #Business #business #DonaldTrump #howardlutnick #JAPANESEECONOMY #RyoseiAkazawa #tariffs #trade #tradewar #U.S. #U.S.-JAPANRELATIONS
https://www.europesays.com/2222010/

Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held "in-depth exchanges" over the phone with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Thursday and Saturday, the Japanese government said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/06/economy/us-japan-trade-tariffs-calls/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #howardlutnick #trade #tariffs #us #usjapanrelations #japaneseeconomy #donaldtrump #ryoseiakazawa

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager and Justin Sun is now the Trump family's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial)

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

fascinating deep dive on motorcades (车队) - the auxiliary players in the global #fraud industry who help pig butchers and other scammers move money through the banking system and #cryptocurrency.

https://globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-money-laundering-practices-in-the-online-scam-industry/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing cutting about 18% of its workforce and slashing $1.5 billion from its budget, a move that critics say will diminish the ability to predict weather. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/world/politics/noaa-cuts-us-climate-research/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #noaa #climatechange #environment #us #donaldtrump #republicans #howardlutnick

a russian hosting service that takes payment in crypto, Aeza Group, was just hit with #OFAC sanctions.

they've sent funds to a bunch of the shadiest crypto exchanges - #Cryptomus, #MEXC, #Binance, and (of course) #HTX, the crypto exchange run by the business partner of the president of the united states.

also looks like they took payment in #Tether, the #stablecoin whose money is managed by america's secretary of commerce howard lutnick.

* OFAC press release: https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20250701
* Wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/TU4tDFRvcKhAZ1jdihojmBWZqvJhQCnJ4F

Japan-U.S. trade negotiations are on the verge of collapse as Trump fumes about rice and cars. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/economy/japan-us-negotiations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #howardlutnick #donaldtrump #us #trade #tariffs #globaleconomy #usjapanrelations #donaldtrump #ryoseiakazawa

Japan-U.S. trade negotiations are at an impasse despite almost continuous high-level talks since April. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/30/economy/us-japan-impasse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #howardlutnick #donaldtrump #us #trade #tariffs #globaleconomy #usjapanrelations #donaldtrump #ryoseiakazawa

Global shares are mostly higher after US stocks rise to the brink of a record

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher on Friday as the week wa…
#Europe #Business #APTopNews #business #China #DonaldTrump #economicpolicy #Economy #financialmarkets #generalnews #howardlutnick #internationaltrade #Iran #Israel #israeliranwar #Japangovernment #labor #markets #StephenInnes #stocksandbonds #Tariffsandglobaltrade #U.S.News #UnitedStates #WorldNews
https://www.europesays.com/2197991/

The U.S. and China have finalized a trade understanding reached last month in Geneva, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/27/economy/us-china-truce-deals-imminent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #howardlutnick #donaldtrump #us #china #trade

ΩΩ
Since #Israel attacked #Iran Tether has frozen 112 blockchain wallets on Tron and Ethereum (the #crypto equivalent of freezing a bank account, usually on suspicion/proof of money laundering).

- Collectively those wallets received ~$700 million before being frozen
- The top 40 of those accounts are *all* on #JustinSun's #Tron blockchain
- Iranian exchanges almost exclusively use #Tether on Tron for USD xfers. They even publicly instruct their users on how to avoid #sanctions
- The Iranian govt, including the #IRGC (a sanctioned #terrorist group), has long been rumoured to be among the Iranians using Tether to move money to their proxies like #Hezbollah and #Hamas
- Israelis hacked the largest Iranian crypto exchange #Nobitex for $90 million last week. Nobitex is the largest user of USDT that I know of in Iran
- Justin Sun is now Trump's biz partner (and #HowardLutnick has been Tether's partner for yrs)

Lots more details here:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1937696509040165020.html

@jakebrake @Lydie stablecoins aren't "mined" the way that bitcoin and eth are, they are just "minted" when the stablecoin's issuer pushes the "mint new stablecoins" button.

i'll spare you the details unless you really want to understand it but i wrote an explainer of what a stablecoin really is for (hopefully) non-technical people back in october: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered

also includes a lot of specifics on the way iran, north korea, chinese organized crime, and every other bad actor on the global stage has been laundering incredible sums of money with the help of the man donald trump made America's Secretary of Commerce (Howard Lutnick)

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered