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German AF GAF898 A350 departed Dulles Int'l en after an overnight
Israeli AF IAF418 707 Re'em tanker departed Dover AFB en after an overnight
pf housekeeping
>>109775 pb Blinken, in Kenya, seeks to cool regional crises
SAM604 USAF C-32A departed Nairobi, Kenya about 5 hours ago
Arrived on 1116
SAM779 USAF G5 departed Sophia, Bulgaria after an overnight-inbound from Chievres AB Belgium yesterday
This AC departed JBA on 1116
Six People Indicted for Espionage
The Sofia Military District Prosecution Office (SMDPO) has submitted to the Military District Court an indictment against a suspected spy ring led by former military intelligence officer Ivan Iliev. A trial is now to be scheduled, SMDPO said on Thursday. Five Bulgarian military and Iliev's wife, who holds Bulgarian and Russian citizenship, were detained in March on suspicions of passing classified information to Russia. The group also comprises two current officers of the Military Information Service, a directorate chief at the Defence Ministry and a senior Parliament administrator.
The six are charged with organizing and/or leading a spy ring, collecting state secrets and divulging them to "a foreign country" (apparently, Russia), and placing themselves in the service of that country to work for it as spies. Three of the suspects divulged foreign classified information of military nature. Two members of the group are also charged with unlawful possession of ammunition. According to the prosecution, Iliev spent years recruiting holders of key posts with unlimited access to classified information of Bulgaria, NATO and the EU. The members of the group used their respective offices to gather classified, confidential and other essential information which was of interest to the foreign country's intelligence services. They passed the information to Iliev for payment, and then Iliev and his wife passed it on to an employee at the Russian Embassy in Sofia. The evidence gathered in the pretrial proceedings is 140 volumes. Over 70 witnesses have been questioned. Five of the suspects are in remand, and the sixth one has been released on bail.
http://www.bta.bg/en/c/DF/id/2519363
morning
Mizuho Financial Group CEO Sakai to step down
Mizuho Financial Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai will step down, taking responsibility for the multiple system failures that have plagued the Japanese megabank, Nikkei has learned.
This comes as Japan's Financial Services Agency prepares to issue a "business improvement order" to Mizuho Bank and its parent company Mizuho Financial Group over illegal remittance transactions.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Finance/Mizuho-Financial-Group-CEO-Sakai-to-step-down
An FRBNY Primary Dealer-cap #2
>109948
you niggas see these or 404'd?
404'd on dis end
Elizabeth Warren urges SEC to investigate Trump SPAC deal
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday urged Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler to investigate a recent deal between former U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media company and a blank-check firm for potential violations of securities laws.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-socialmedia-warren/elizabeth-warren-urges-sec-to-investigate-trump-spac-deal-idUSL4N2S93QZ
Don't you habs anything else better to do?
>asking for a fren
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SAM643 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast west from Brussels Int'l-also arrived on 1115 from JBA
SAM779 USAF G5 on ground at Stuttgart Int'l Airport from Sophia departure.
AFRICOM and EUCOM located at Stuttgart
SAM727 USAF G5 on descent for Warsaw from Brussels Int'l depart
Belarus clears migrants from border with Poland
Migrant encampments in Belarus were cleared on Thursday, allowing those camped out to get out of the freezing temperatures and shelter in a government-run warehouse, however the future for the migrants remains uncertain. Despite the migrants’ movement, authorities in Belarus did not say where those unable to enter the European Union (EU) would go, according to The New York Times.
Escorted by an armed Belarusian security detail, some migrants walked down a half-mile road to the warehouse. Polish soldiers, however, remained in their formations at the border, preventing them from going further, the Times reported. The West has accused Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko of inviting the migrants as a way of relating against the EU for sanctions imposed on his regime following the disputed 2020 election, though Belarus denies the accusations.
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said over 400 Iraqis were registered for a repatriation flight on Thursday, accounting for just a small portion of the thousands of migrants that were in the encampment, according to the Times.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/582130-belarus-clears-migrants-from-border-with-poland
SAM604 USAF C-32A on descent for Accra, Ghana from Abuja, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya depart earlier today
Seems we habs an unscheduled or unreported destination here.....to Accra, Ghana
He was already at Abuja, Nigeria today
Blinken to Discuss US-Africa Policy During Stop in Nigeria
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets in Abuja Thursday with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama and other officials to discuss furthering cooperation on global health security, expanding energy access and economic growth, and revitalizing democracy, according to the U.S. State Department. Nigeria is the second of three African countries Blinken will visit over a five-day period. On Friday, the top U.S. diplomat will deliver a major speech in Nigeria on the Biden administration’s Africa policy. Blinken’s African tour, which concludes with a visit to Senegal, is partially aimed at raising America’s profile as a key player in the region as it competes with China.
https://www.voanews.com/a/blinken-to-discuss-us-africa-policy-during-stop-in-nigeria/6318111.html
Apollo Founder Leon Black Buys $28 Million London Luxury Home
Billionaire Leon Black agreed to buy a mansion in one of London’s most expensive districts for about 21 million pounds ($28 million), according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The Eaton Square residence is a 15-minute walk from Buckingham Palace and was once the residence of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The property sold for about 2 million pounds below the asking price, the person said, asking not to be identified as they weren’t authorized to discuss the deal. The property comprises a four-bedroom apartment and an interconnecting two-bedroom mews house, according to a website listing. Beauchamp Estates, which brokered the sale, and a representative for Black declined to comment. The purchase was first reported by the Financial Times. The sale comes as interest in the capital’s luxury homes picks up following the lifting of lockdown restrictions. Values in the most expensive areas rose 4.6% in the three months through October compared with the same period a year ago, according to property data company LonRes, a turnaround for a market that slumped after Brexit. Black joins Ken Griffin and Cheung Chung Kiu as billionaires who have decided to buy London property in recent years in a vote of confidence in the market. Citadel’s Griffin paid about 95 million pounds for a home two years ago while Cheung, the chairman and founder of Hong Kong-listed company CC Land Holdings Ltd., bought a mansion for about 210 million pounds.
Black, who co-founded Apollo Global Management Inc., stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer earlier this year amid intense scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and is currently embroiled in a legal dispute with Guzel Ganieva, a former Russian model.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/apollo-founder-leon-black-buys-28-million-london-luxury-home-1.1683989
Biden's Pick For Top Bank Regulator Has A Troubling Shoplifting Record
We're finding out more information about President Biden's pick for Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). It's been widely known Saule Omarova is a Soviet-educated Cornell University law professor with Marxist links. A new report released on Wednesday shows she has a "retail theft" record.
Fox News obtained a Wisconsin Department of Justice criminal background on Omarova that revealed Omarova was arrested in Madison in 1995 and charged with a misdemeanor for "retail theft" after she was singlehandedly caught by a T.J. Maxx security guard for stealing $214 worth of merchandise (in today's money that's approximately $379).
The report said the security agent told police that Omarova stuffed items into a large purse while concealing the bag with clothing on top. She paid for several things at the jewelry counter but "made no attempt to pay for the items concealed in her purse," Fox News said. As she left the store, she was confronted by the security agent who arrested her. Omarova "immediately requested the opportunity to pay for the items" and was "cooperative" as the security agent said he would "sign a complaint" about the items being taken "without his consent." The police report said she "waived" her rights and "admitted to having stolen the items." "It should be noted that I advised Omarova she was under arrest prior to having read her rights," the officer wrote in the police report. The nonprofit American Accountability Foundation tweeted her case file and said, "Omarova has no respect for our laws, system of government, or our economy. But Biden wants to put her in charge of American banks."
BREAKING: AAF unearths Biden nominee Saule Omarova's arrest records from 1995 when she stole hundreds of dollars in merchandise from a T.J. Maxx. Omarova has no respect for our laws, system of government, or our economy. But Biden wants to put her in charge of American banks. pic.twitter.com/G5rlu6MLDT
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-pick-top-bank-regulator-has-troubling-retail-theft-record
Speaking of Masons
MASON87 US Navy E-6B Mercury west from Lincoln Muni
Club 33...been in dat place twice as a leetle one.
member only one visit d'oh.
Sultan of Brunei at table across-dat had to be told to me as had no idea who it was at that age.
ya know they would do better if they just ignored it and did not delete it all.
Worse when dhey do dat.
But thanks for placing moar attention on yer sorry comp'd ass.
JPMorgan Removed From Louisiana Muni Deal After Gun Scrutiny
JPMorgan Chase & Co. was removed on Thursday from a $700 million Louisiana municipal-bond deal after the bank’s stance on guns drew criticism from state Republican officials.
The state bond commission voted to have Wells Fargo & Co. replace JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, as senior manager on the deal. The decision came after state Treasurer John Schroder, a Republican, said his team was scrutinizing JPMorgan’s gun policies after Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told a Congressional committee earlier this year that his firm won’t finance companies that make military-style weapons for consumers. “I’m not selling our Second Amendment rights to corporate America,” Schroder, the panel’s chair, said at the meeting in Baton Rouge.
In 2019, Louisiana began asking banks whether they have policies that infringe on citizens’ rights to bear arms as part of their application to underwrite bond deals. At the time, JPMorgan said it didn’t. Schroder said his office sent a new “qualifying question” to banks to participate in the bond sale asking them whether they do or do not finance the manufacture of military-style weapons for civilian use. JPMorgan didn’t submit an answer to that query, and that lack of response led to their disqualification from underwriting the bond sale, Schroder said. A spokesperson for JPMorgan didn’t have an immediate comment after the vote Thursday. Originally, JPMorgan was chosen to underwrite the bonds after offering a lower fee than other banks, but now Wells Fargo will match that fee, according to Lela Folse, director of the bond commission, who spoke during the meeting Thursday.
Matthew Block, executive counsel for Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, questioned the process around disqualifying the bank. “This is a road, and it leads us to someplace that none of us know where we’re going,” he said during the meeting, noting the state has already stopped hiring Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. to underwrite bond sales over gun issues. Block said other banks would offer less competitive borrowing terms as a result. “We are telling the world not just Louisiana, not just New York the world, that three of the biggest banks to loan us money at a good rate of interest, we don’t want to do business with them,” he said. “And what we are going to end up with is Joe’s Savings and Loan be the one that we have to deal with at the end of this.”
JPMorgan is also facing a hit to its public-finance business in neighboring Texas because of a law that seeks to punish Wall Street banks for wading into social issues. In September, a law went into effect there that bars state and local governments from hiring banks that moved to curtail ties to the firearms industry in the wake of mass shootings.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/jpmorgan-removed-from-louisiana-muni-deal-after-gun-scrutiny-1.1684049