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kek
morning
SAM497 USAF C-40B departed Cagliari, Sardinia nw after an overnight-arrived yesterday from JBA
SOLEX01 RAF E-3 Sentry AWACS on the track just north of Edinburgh from RAF Waddington
SAM497 USAF C-40B on final at Glasgow Airport from Cagliari depart.
chek't ^^
RCH250 USAF C-17 Globemaster on final at Edinburgh Airport from Ramstein AFB depart
RCAF CFC4004 C-17 Globemaster on ground at Prestwick Int'l from CFB Trenton depart earlier today
Equipment for Trudope
Southwest's vaccine mandate remains in place, judge rules
A federal judge has rejected a bid by pilots to block Southwest Airlines from imposing a vaccine mandate, saying the airline is within its power to require vaccination as a safety measure. U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn denied the request by the airline's pilot union to issue a temporary restraining order against the airline's requirement. The judge said Tuesday that Southwest is within its authority to require vaccinations to improve safety and maintain its operations. Southwest Airlines asked its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to comply with a Biden administration requirement for federal contractors including airlines that have contracts with the government.
In recent days, the airline has weakened the requirement by saying workers who fail to comply won't be fired. Southwest has openly encouraged employees to ask for a medical or religious exemption from being vaccinated if they object to getting the shots.
Dallas-based Southwest is giving employees until Nov. 24 to provide proof of vaccination or request an exemption.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/southwests-vaccine-mandate-remains
Bank of Canada ends QE; moves up timeline for rate hike
The Bank of Canada ended its bond buying stimulus program, and accelerated the potential timing of future interest rate increases amid worries that supply disruptions are driving up inflation.
In a policy statement on Wednesday, policy makers led by Governor Tiff Macklem announced they would stop growing holdings of Canadian government bonds, ending a quantitative easing program that has poured hundreds of billions into the financial system since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They also signaled they could be ready to hike borrowing costs as early as April, as supply constraints limit the economy’s ability to grow without fueling inflation. Macklem maintained his pledge not to raise the benchmark overnight policy rate until the recovery is complete, but officials now believe that will happen in the “middle quarters” of 2022, rather than the second half of next year as previously thought.
The language will reinforce market expectations the Bank of Canada is poised to quickly pivot to a tightening cycle amid growing price pressures. Investors are anticipating the Canadian central bank will start raising interest rates within the next six months, with markets pricing in four rate hikes next year.
moar
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bank-of-canada-ends-qe-moves-up-timeline-for-rate-hike-1.1672608
THE GREAT GOLD HEIST
On October 8, 1994 the biggest gold heist in history occurred, but this theft lacked the melodrama of a Jesse James holdup or the excitement of a Brink's truck robbery. Nary a word was reported by the media even though this thievery was committed in the light of day. The citizens that were being robbed tried to cry out for help but the lawmen wouldn't listen because unbeknownst to them they were helping the bandits gain their booty.
The 103rd Congress managed to accomplish more than a gang of train robbers could achieve in a lifetime when they approved the Desert Wilderness Protection Act. "Instead of voting on the Desert Wilderness Protection Act, Congress should be convening a criminal investigation," said Donald Fife, spokesman for the National Association of Mining Districts. Fife was commenting on recent information that indicates tens of billions of dollars in gold deposits and huge real estate swindles may be the motivating factors behind the act.
Sponsored by Senator Diane Feinstein, the Desert Wilderness Protection Act and it's companion bill known as the California Desert Protection Act create three new national parks and seventy-four new wilderness areas in the desert of California that would total 8 million acres (an area the size of Maryland). This will close this acreage to development, force out private owners within the protected area and close down mines and ranches. It would also expand the Death Valley and Joshua Tree national monuments and upgrade them to national parks. This is the largest wilderness land lockup since the 1980 Alaska Lands Act; largest ever in the lower 48 states. Senator Feinstein contends that the fragile ecosystem of the desert must be protected from development, but in reality the areas being placed into park and wilderness closures are not threatened.
moar
https://www.mega.nu/ampp/bixman.html
SAM572 USAF G5 ne from JBA depart
put da Feinstein ref one farther up on da Gold stuffs on next drop.
It's dhere...I noes it.
One of two places muh spouse won't let me near....the other is the Grand Canyon....it's dhere or was dhere too. Taken out after 1956 commercial AC 'crash' which imo was just a cover to get a huge amount of equipment into the area to begin taking it out.
Forbidden Zone of The Grand Canyon: Legends, Landmarks & Lies
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/grand-canyon-forbidden-zone-0014481
btw I think it's Hindu and not Egyptian
noice.. ty B
SAM572 USAF G5 on final for Boston-Logn Int'l from JBA
SAM438 USAF C-40B on final for Rome from JBA depart earlier today
Wanna say this is Blinken however the schedule says departing tomorrow for Rome.
Pompeo used this AC (tail#01-0040) for many overseas trips in the past.
Putin Orders More Gas for Europe Next Month, Sending Down Price
President Vladimir Putin told Gazprom PJSC to turn to refilling its European gas storage facilities from Nov. 8. The suggestion that long-awaited additional Russian supplies could be on the way pushed prices lower.
The move will “create a more favorable situation on the European energy market,” Putin said at a meeting broadcast on state television Wednesday. He ordered the state-controlled giant to focus on filling the underground storage in Germany and Austria from Nov. 8, once it’s completed the process at home. Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller, speaking to the president via video link, said the domestic reinjection campaign would be extended a week longer than the original Nov. 1 end date. Gazprom so far has pumped only very small amounts into its European storage facilities, he said.
Russia’s focus on rebuilding its domestic gas storage, combined with low levels of inventories in some Gazprom sites in the European Union has become a major concern for the continent’s market, which is struggling with a supply squeeze. European inventories on the whole are facing winter with the lowest seasonal level in nearly a decade. Prices have surged to record levels in recent weeks.
All gas-storage sites in Europe’s biggest market, Germany, where Gazprom has several facilities, are about 71% full now, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. The situation with facilities owned and co-owned by the Russian exporter varies -- from 83% at Jemgum to 9.5% at Rehden.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/putin-orders-more-gas-for-europe-next-month-sending-down-price-1.1672891
House Hearing: PricewaterhouseCoopers Signed Off on Evergrande’s Books, Which Counted “Unbuilt and Unsold Properties” as Assets
In 2012, short seller Citron Research released a 57-page report alleging fraudulent accounting at China Evergrande Group, the now teetering Chinese property development conglomerate that is causing severe anxiety in global markets. After spelling out six specific forms of accounting fraud that it believed to be taking place, the Citron report noted the following: “Meanwhile, Evergrande’s auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Hong Kong office) has continued to provide an unqualified opinion.”
The author of the Citron report, Andrew Left, received a 5-year trading ban in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal over what it alleged was a false report. On November 30, 2016, GMT Research, an accounting research firm that focuses on Asia, released a report titled: “China Evergrande: Auditors Asleep.” The report found that Evergrande had overcapitalized interest and classified its own commercial premises as an investment property.
Yesterday, those previous charges of accounting irregularities were given new meaning when a specialist from the Congressional Research Service, the research arm of Congress, testified before a House hearing and leveled her own charges. The hearing was conducted by the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets. It was titled: “Taking Stock of China, Inc.: Examining Risks to Investors and the U.S. Posed by Foreign Issuers in U.S. Markets.”
Karen Sutter, a Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance at the Congressional Research Service, told Subcommittee members the following about Evergrande’s accounting: “Counting unbuilt and unsold properties and interest payments as assets. About 60% of the firm’s assets are unbuilt and unsold properties, and the firm counts loan interest payments as assets. This inflates the firm’s position and increases risks if property values fall… “Using previously-financed deals as collateral for new loans. This practice allowed the firm to accumulate debt and become leveraged… “Investing in unrelated sectors beyond the core business. Some Chinese firms use insurance, trust, and wealth management businesses to earn higher returns and invest offshore. The Shenzhen government is investigating Evergrande’s insurance business. “Use of complex offshore structures tied to the CEO. Evergrande uses overlapping contracts and shareholding to facilitate financial flows that make it difficult to assess liabilities. The CEO and his family reportedly hold a large share of the firm’s offshore debt.”
A report released five days before the hearing by the Congressional Research Service, assessed Evergrande’s debt levels and ability to repay creditors as follows: “Evergrande owes about $305 billion in debt (2% of China’s GDP). The firm is obligated to repay $124 billion this year—including $19.3 billion in bonds—but may only have 10% of this amount in cash on hand. The firm is said to owe money to 171 domestic banks and 121 financial firms. Off-book liabilities have not been disclosed. As China’s largest issuer of high-yield dollar denominated debt, Evergrande was an attractive investment, despite known risks, because it paid annual interest rates of 7.5% to 14%.”
The Congressional Research Service report noted that the Evergrande situation presents critical questions for Congress, including: “Evergrande’s situation raises questions about the full scope of its liabilities and the potential direct and indirect exposure for U.S. and other firms. The role of U.S. and other underwriters and auditors of Chinese firms also raises questions about whether risks are sufficiently assessed and disclosed to investors.” Since Evergrande was first listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2009, major Wall Street firms have been among its stock underwriters, including: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and UBS. As recently as last October, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, Huatai International and UBS arranged a secondary share offering for Evergrande. Investors will certainly be questioning the caliber of due diligence that was done by the underwriters and their legal counsel.
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For almost two decades, China has stonewalled U.S. regulators over access to the work papers of auditors of publicly traded companies that are based in China but listed on U.S. stock exchanges. China has taken the position that the audit work papers hold state secrets and it prohibits audit firms from releasing the documents directly to U.S. regulators.
This past December, Congress finally addressed this critical problem. Both houses of Congress unanimously passed legislation called the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act. The legislation requires that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) identify companies that are listed in the U.S. which the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) cannot “inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in the foreign jurisdiction.” The legislation also requires the listed companies to provide documentation showing that they are not owned or controlled by a governmental entity. It also mandates that the SEC prohibit the trading of the company’s stock in the U.S. if its audits cannot be inspected for three consecutive years. Evergrande’s stock trades in Hong Kong and has lost 84 percent of its value since February. As of early this morning, its bonds are trading at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/house-hearing-pricewaterhousecoopers-signed-off-on-evergrandes-books-which-counted-unbuilt-and-unsold-properties-as-assets/
afternoon frb
SAM663 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast on descent for Tucson Int'l from JBA depart
#681
>>104041, >>104042, >>104048, >>104052, >>104067, >>104070, >>104077, >>104080, >>104094 Wenzday planefaggin
>>104097 The Sequel to The Fall of the Cabal, Part 7-rumble
>>104086, >>104090 FIREWORKS! Senator Cotton Unleashes on Merrick Garland: “Thank God You Are Not on the Supreme Court. You Should Resign in Disgrace, Judge” (VIDEO)-gatewaypundit
>>104084, >>104093, >>104095 VIDEO: Journalist Reads Filthy Porn Book from School’s Library at FL School Board Meeting – Board Members Call Police to Have Him Forcefully Removed for Reading Obscene Content Aloud-gatewaypundit
>>104082, >>104083 House Hearing: PricewaterhouseCoopers Signed Off on Evergrande’s Books, Which Counted “Unbuilt and Unsold Properties” as Assets-wallstreetonparade
>>104081 Putin Orders More Gas for Europe Next Month, Sending Down Price-bnnB'Berg
>>104078 Federal judge in Florida says Trump Twitter case must be heard in California-thehill
>>104076 AndyNgo retwatted by @bennyjohnson "This is what rioters do to the Portland federal courthouse every single night #antifa-soc. media
>>104071 Lindell: Multiple Attorney Generals To File w/SCOTUS To Decertify
>>104069, >>104073 1994: THE GREAT GOLD HEIST//Feinstein/Forbidden Zone of The Grand Canyon: Legends, Landmarks & Lies
>>104066 Bank of Canada ends QE; moves up timeline for rate hike/Feinstein
>>104062 RITTENHOUSE PANIC
>>104059 Southwest's vaccine mandate remains in place, judge rules/rejects bid by pilots
>>104056 DWAC filed the merger agreement
>>104039, >>104047, >>104050, >>104053, >>104054, >>104055 Your Immune System Explained
>>104034 RightForge says it will put Trump back online.
>>104030 Steve Bachar, former White House staffer and former co-chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative, charged with felony theft and securities fraud (Denver Post)
>>104024 So Much for 'Phony Outrage'—Missouri and Ohio Leave National School Boards Association
>>104022, >>104023, >>104025, >>104027 Assange extradition case starts.
>>104020 Mexico-based US Embassy staffer, Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, who sexually assaulted at least 24 women, was CIA
>>104018 CDC Travel Announcement: CDC Quarantine Officers Will Now Spot-Check Travelers for Compliance to Rules
>>104014 Glen Greenwald w/CAP: Trying to turn free speech into a right-wing value is one of the dumbest fucking things liberals have done...
it's even backwards too. kek
take or leave
back later
C202 US Coast Guard G5 on descent for NB Rota from Al Bateen Airport Abu Dhabi
Yesterday this AC departed Dubai Int'l to Manama, Bahrain then es to Al Bateen Airport-Dhabi
It arrived from Rota on 1024 to Abu Dhabi.
And one of our G5s just habbened to be in both places over the last 36 hours-see below.
Speculation has been that these Coast Guard ACs (C202 and C101) are some type of Navy Op. using USCG ACs as a cover.
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed meets Bahrain's King Hamad in Abu Dhabi
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/government/2021/10/27/sheikh-mohamed-bin-zayed-meets-bahrains-king-hamad-in-abu-dhabi/