P-8 activity in south/central Florida and heading back to Jax
169543 over Sarasota Bradenton Airport and back to Jax
169549 coming out of the Keys with 169555 (chek't) north from Homestead ARB
169554 along eastern coast after some wrok off-shore
A P-3 Orion VVLL11 doing some runway shots at Patrick AFB and Melbourne Airport
CHILL12 13 USAF B-52 Stratofortress se from Minot AFB, ND passing over Omaha and Offutt AFB
New York City's biggest pension funds voted to divest $4 bln from fossil fuels
New York City's largest pension funds have voted to divest their portfolios of an estimated $4 billion from securities related to fossil fuel companies, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and trustees of two of the city's pension funds said.
“The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) and New York City Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) voted to approve divestments today and the New York City Board of Education Retirement System (BERS) is expected to move forward on a divestment vote imminently”, they said in a statement on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-new-york-fossil-fuels-pensions/new-york-citys-biggest-pension-funds-voted-to-divest-4-bln-from-fossil-fuels-idUSFWN2K00LN
>not part of the Rothschild family dynasty, according to Bloomberg
GTMO844 US Navy Beech Huron departing Ft. Lauderdale after a ground stop
>fuck em
said that in 2013 but I also "missed" much on the upside.
However sleeping at night and not worrying about wut stunt they would pull next was much better.
with the "issues" this morning I think they are just about ready to dump it all on Bidens watch.
eventually the shorts will stop fueling it.
Then wut?
kek
Italian PM Giuseppe Conte Close To Resigning, Reports Local Media
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is close to stepping down from his post to make way for the formation of a new government with a greater majority, reported local media outlet on January 25. The La Repubblica newspaper cited Conte as saying, “My aim is to find an agreement that gives a clear political perspective to the government until the end of the term”. This came after Conte had survived a vote in Italian Senate last week and urged the centrist or unaligned lawmakers outside the coalition to join hands with his minority government. However, only handful members have responded.
Italian PM’s minority government was engulfed in chaos after a junior partner, the Italia Viva party headed by former premier Matteo Renzi resigned from the cabinet in a row over the handling of COVID-19 pandemic. Even though Conte survived a subsequent confidence vote in parliament on January 19, he remained unsuccessful in securing an absolute majority in the Senate. This implies that Italian PM will struggle in order to enact any policy agenda unless he draws new support. The crisis began with former Italian PM Matteo Renzi reportedly orchestrating the resignations of two ministers from his small but influential Italia Viva party. It was also not the first time Renzi shook Italy’s politics after becoming premier in 2014 by out-manoeuvring and unceremoniously deposing then-Democratic Party member Enrico Letta as Italy's leader. Eventually, Renzi fell from power nearly three years later after gambling his popularity on a constitutional referendum. However, now, the former Florence mayor might bring down Conte who Renzi has broadly accused of not properly managing the global health crisis. While Renzi has reportedly said that he is only following his conscience, it comes at a great political cost for the nation. He has even asserted at a press conference earlier this month, "Italia Viva did not start the crisis. It has been going on for months".
However, with Renzi suspending support for Conte and resignation of two Italia Viva ministers, Italian PM is working to steer support among the independent lawmakers. Conte still has the backing of the Democratic Party and the 5-Star Movement, both have instead denounced Renzi’s approach as irresponsible. Since he failed to secure enough backing in Senate, Conte is reportedly likely to submit his resignation to Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
This would push the nation under a technical government. As per reports, a general election in Italy is unlikely and the current majority would like to hold on at least January 2022. However, there are still concerns that the right-wing opposition would gain strength and lead a new government.
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/italian-pm-giuseppe-conte-close-to-resigning-reports-local-media.html
excellent job on latest mnr..listened yesterday anoon
same here with the last few years but I caught up quickly from the darkness.
It has always been a language thang imo
Dazzle 'em with some flowery terms and most just forget to keep looking or think that is all there is to see.
Mexican president contracts COVID-19 after worst week of pandemic
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19 amid the country’s deadliest week yet in the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the health system of the Mexican capital to its limits. The 67-year-old president, who was a heavy smoker until suffering a major heart attack in 2013, said in a tweet that his symptoms were light and he was receiving treatment.
“As always, I am optimistic,” said Lopez Obrador, who has resisted wearing a face mask in public since the virus reached Mexico over 10 months ago.
The president, who is back in Mexico City after a three-day visit to parts of northern and central Mexico, said he would continue working, and still planned to take part in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday morning.
But the veteran leftist will step back from his regular public schedule, which has dominated the country’s political life since he first took office in December 2018.
Critics have railed incessantly against his management of the health crisis, but despite a mounting toll of nearly 150,000 dead, his popularity has risen during the pandemic, according a daily tracking poll by polling firm Consulta Mitofsky.
The president has maintained a busy agenda, meeting his security cabinet at 6 a.m. every morning then holding daily news conferences of two hours or more from 7 a.m. At the weekends, he often tours the country, just as he did when in opposition.
Several close aides have contracted the virus in the past few months, but he has always insisted that he is in good health and has taken care of himself since the 2013 heart attack, after which he quit smoking.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-president-idUSKBN29U02F
kek
Swissys coming over for a visit perhabs?
SWISS AF SUI009 Challenger nw from Bern/Belp Airport
This AC had an overfly of Davos and vicinity on Friday 0122-cap 2
Citadel, Point 72 to Invest $2.75 Billion in Melvin
Citadel and Point72 Asset Management will invest $2.75 billion in Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital.
Citadel’s funds and firm partners will invest $2 billion, according to the firm, while Point72’s investment will be $750 million.
The infusion of capital comes after Melvin Capital, which started the year with about $12.5 billion, lost 15% in the first few weeks of January on short positions, including GameStop Corp., according to a person familiar with the firm. “Gabe Plotkin and team have delivered exceptional results over the history of Melvin,” Citadel’s Ken Griffin said in a statement. “We have great confidence in Gabe and his team.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/citadel-point-72-to-invest-2-75-billion-in-melvin-1.1553758
Translated "here is some dosh so you don't have to bail on your losing short positions…we got ya'''
Point72 is Steven Cohen….
like I said when it started they are stuck with that mantra and have to keep inventing ways to make it look good
See last weds.
kek
Apollo’s Leon Black to step down after probe into Jeffrey Epstein ties
Leon Black is stepping down as CEO of Apollo Global Management following an internal probe into his ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the company said Monday. The monthslong probe, conducted by law firm Dechert, found no evidence that Black engaged in any of Epstein’s alleged criminal activities but determined that he paid Epstein $148 million in advisory fees and donated $10 million to Epstein’s charity — amounts greater than had been previously disclosed.
Black will remain Apollo’s chairman. Marc Rowan — who last year left the firm he founded with Black and Josh Harris to run his personal investments — will return as CEO, Apollo said.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. He was rearrested in 2019 for sex trafficking following scrutiny of a 2007 nonprosecution agreement he signed with federal authorities in Florida that involved a wider probe into his dealings with underage girls. He died while in prison from an apparent suicide. “I am extraordinarily proud of what my partners and I have built at Apollo over the past 30 years,” Black said in a statement. “This is a decision I have been considering for several years.”
The Post reported exclusively in July 2019 that Black’s family charity had kept Epstein as a director for four years after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea. Black later admitted that he kept Epstein around to provide estate planning and tax advice. Black remains chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, which has so far stuck behind the major art buyer and donor.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/25/leon-black-to-step-down-as-ceo-of-apollo-global-management/
U.S. bankruptcy judge okays Weinstein Co plan paying $17 million for sex abuse claims
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday approved The Weinstein Co’s liquidation plan, which sets aside $17 million for women who accused co-founder Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. Judge Mary Walrath in Wilmington, Delaware announced her ruling at the conclusion of a remote hearing. She overruled an objection from a handful of women who are looking to pursue appeals of their claims outside of bankruptcy court. She noted that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy “have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense … although it’s clear that money will never give them that.”
The Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289 million after it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. The bankruptcy was precipitated by widespread claims of sexual misconduct against company founder Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a 23-year prison term after being convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress. Insurers have contributed $35 million under the plan, so holders of sexual misconduct claims will get almost half of that. The Weinstein Co’s lawyers say the women who filed the claims could each see six-figure recoveries. They will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims against Harvey Weinstein and former officers and directors of the company.
A group of women with sexual abuse claims argued that the choice between a full payout and continuing to pursue their claims was unfair. But lawyers for the company and an unsecured creditors’ committee, which includes women who filed sexual misconduct claims, say those releases for former officers and directors are a key component of the plan. A lawyer for the company, Paul Zumbro of Cravath Swaine & Moore, said during the hearing that the plan is “remarkable” and a “favorable closure of this really ugly story.”
The case is In re The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, No. 18-10601.
https://www.reuters.com/article/people-harvey-weinstein-bankruptcy/u-s-bankruptcy-judge-okays-weinstein-co-plan-paying-17-mln-for-sex-abuse-claims-idUSL1N2K02P0
RAF RRR9985 Sentinel R1 gettin outta Syria and Iraq before sun up and back to Cyprus
Ten Months after Stepping Down as Fed Chair, Janet Yellen Became Part of the “Leadership” Team for Forums Tied to the Chinese Communist Party
Former Fed Chair and Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen has failed to report the details of millions of dollars in fees that she earned in 2018, the year she stepped down as Fed Chair, as she went on a whirlwind of speaking engagements in foreign cities around the world. Yellen’s “leadership” role with the Bloomberg New Economy Forums which had the “active participation and support” of an organization openly tied to the Chinese Communist Party, raises further serious red flags. And yet, Yellen sailed through her Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing this past week, gaining a favorable vote of 26-0. A full Senate vote to confirm Yellen as Treasury Secretary is expected to occur tomorrow.
(article from yesterday-see below)
>>48587 The Senate votes 84-15 to confirm Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary, making her the first woman ever to fill the role.
first "woman"……
What Yellen did disclose on her Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure form showed that in 2019 and 2020 she made a cash haul of more than $7 million in speaking fees, the majority of which came from Wall Street trading houses, mega banks and hedge funds. Yellen stepped down as Chair of the Fed on February 3, 2018. Over the next 10 months, in addition to her foreign gigs, Yellen also appeared at numerous stateside paid engagements for Wall Street firms like JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Jefferies. She has failed to make public the transcripts of her speeches at these events or the specific amounts she was paid. After the news broke of Yellen’s $7 million haul, Senior Reporter Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica Tweeted: “Deeply troubling two-fisted money grab from banks by Janet Yellen. This is corruption, but isn’t called that because it’s so quotidian.” Eisinger also noted: “Sure, Yellen might think she can make independent decisions once in office. But how arrogant is it to imagine that money corrupts everyone but you?” Many of the banks Yellen accepted cash windfalls from were regulated by the Fed prior to her departure. These banks are also recidivist lawbreakers. JPMorgan Chase has been charged with, and admitted to, five criminal felony counts brought by the U.S. Department of Justice while it was being supervised by the Fed. The public deserves to know how much Yellen received from JPMorgan Chase in the year after she left the Fed. Citigroup, a smaller bank than JPMorgan Chase, paid Yellen over $990,000 in 2019 and 2020, according to her financial disclosure form. Citigroup received the largest Fed bailout in global banking history following the Wall Street crash of 2008.
We have learned that Yellen didn’t even come clean with the abbreviated information she did provide to the Office of Government Ethics. For example, Yellen was a speaker at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in 2018; appeared virtually at the event in 2020; and was a member of its Advisory Board. The Office of Government Ethics asks nominees to list “Employment Agreements and Arrangements.” There is no mention of her role on the Advisory Board of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum or any speaking fees she may have collected to speak at its 2018 and 2020 events. (Considering that Yellen charged the Texas Christian University $135,000 to speak in March of 2019, it seems highly unlikely Yellen would travel 9600 miles to Singapore for a billionaire’s event on a pro bono basis.)
One of the Co-Chairs of the Advisory Board for the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in 2018 was Zeng Peiyan, the former Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. That Forum opened on November 6, 2018 in Singapore with a Keynote Address from Wang Qishan, the Vice President of the People’s Republic of China, according to a program brochure for the event. The billionaire founder of the New Economy Forum, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, gave the opening welcome remarks. Bloomberg ridiculously gushed over Wang Qishan, saying: “Today he is the most influential political figure in China and in the world” – “in the world” being the operative phrase.
moar
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/01/ten-months-after-stepping-down-as-fed-chair-janet-yellen-became-part-of-the-leadership-team-for-forums-tied-to-the-chinese-communist-party/
SWISS AF SUI009 Challenger on the sidewalk from Shannon, Ireland ground stop-origin Bern earlier
That one is pretty bad example
Not a usual sight there either-all the interference
It could have been the AC or the rec.
Go a little farther east and it gets worse
Dotted lines and drops etc
nCino Inc. sold by Salesforce.com (Mark Benioff): $44.57m-Jan 11-25
Ncino Inc. is a global provider of cloud-based software for financial institutions. It enhances banks and credit unions with the technology to enhancevisibility into their operations and operate digitally. The Company’s solution, the nCino Bank Operating System, digitizes, automates and streamlines complex processes and workflow. Its nCino IQ (nIQ) application utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to provide its customers with automation and insights into their operations. Its platform also enables financial institutions to onboard new clients, make loans and manage the entire loan life cycle, open deposit and other accounts and manage regulatory compliance. The Company serves financial institution customers of all sizes and complexities, including global financial institutions, enterprise banks, regional banks, community banks, credit unions and new market entrants, such as challenger banks. Number of employees : 877 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/NCINO-INC-109581178/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1108524&tc=7
Cap 2 related
you would not want to look in the archive with the search terms of Blood Centers of the Pacific, Marc Benioff and Irwin Memorial Blood Bank….nope don't do that /s
well now.