ty W
morning all
SAM400 USAF G5 departed Prestwick Int'l after an overnight-inbound from Tel Aviv
Looks like Nancy is bailing on the Munich Conference
SAM141 USAF C-32A (Sec. of Defense) departed Warsaw Int'l and heading for Lithuania
Secretary Austin will also travel to Lithuania to meet with Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania, Ingrida Simonyte, Prime Minister of Lithuania, and Minister Arvydas Anušauskas, Minister for National Defence of Lithuania, to reaffirm that the United States stands with Lithuania, working together to strengthen the Lithuania armed forces and continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder against threats and adversaries to advance shared interests and values. Secretary Austin will meet jointly with Minister Anušauskas, Kalle Laanet, Minister of Defense of Estonia, and Artis Pabriks, Minister of Defense of Latvia, and will visit with U.S. Service members stationed in Lithuania.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2934463/secretary-austin-to-travel-to-belgium-poland-and-lithuania/
Greek AF HAF352C G5 departed Moscow
Greek FM Dendias in Moscow: We back the Minsk agreement, Ukraine conflict will have no winner
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/18/dendias-moscow-minsk-agreement/
morning frb and ty
U.S. Imports of Saudi Oil Are Set to Drop as High Prices and Maintenance Deter Buyers
U.S. imports of Saudi Arabian crude are set to fall to the lowest level since October, as high prices and refinery maintenance deter buyers.
Shipments from the kingdom are forecast to drop to about 400,000 barrels per day in both February and March, from an average of 500,000 barrels per day in the three prior months, according to energy intelligence firm Kpler. American refineries typically conduct seasonal maintenance during February and March, leaving additional volumes for Riyadh’s more-profitable Asian market. The planned repairs are set to conclude by the spring when refineries gear up for the high-demand summer season.
The dropoff comes as the White House tries to tame runaway inflation. U.S. President Joe Biden has discussed global energy with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, according to a statement. So far, the kingdom has stuck to its plan to gradually increase output. Oil prices have already climbed above $90 a barrel amid ongoing geopolitical tensions over Eastern Europe, adding to inflation pressures for top consumers such as the U.S. as pump prices surge to the highest levels in years. Demand for the kingdom’s oil from American buyers has also been limited by placement of roughly 40 million barrels of high-sulfur oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which can replace Saudi crudes. The Middle East nation’s oil price hikes have also turned off some U.S. buyers, allowing more volume to head east, traders said. More than 60% of Saudi Arabia’s exports typically go to Asian markets.
“Saudi is focused on keeping Asian clients happy, with volumes boosted so far this month to eastern Asia and China in particular,” said Matt Smith, an oil analyst at Kpler. “More barrels heading east has been the result of Saudi OSPs (Official Selling Price) to the U.S., which were hiked in January and March -- and kept flat in February, while they were cut to Asia,” he added. Last March, U.S. imports of Saudi crude totaled 309,000 barrels per day, the lowest level seasonally since 1987, Energy Information Administration data show.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/u-s-imports-of-saudi-oil-to-drop-amid-price-hikes-maintenance
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
Just under $91 at present
from Feb 5th
Saudi Arabia raises Asia oil prices as crude continues to surge
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2022/02/05/saudi-arabia-raises-asia-oil-prices-as-crude-continues-to-surge
>mabbe G too
be here for a while.
Still gotta get an image slot then to ortho-need a new one since the last one sucked.
Once that all habbens will be gone so we looking at least a month for that-at the very least
looks like someone just woke up
log..
kek
kek
like fish in a barrel
got irl for a bit
SAM426 USAF C-32A on ground at Munich Int'l from JBA depart earlier today
SAM310 USAF C-40B departed Shannon, Ireland adter a ground stop-moar than enough range here so dropping off or picking up.
kek
keeps him alive which makes it all the sweeter as the pressure piles up and on.
Purdue’s Sacklers Boost Opioid Settlement Offer Up to $6 Billion
Members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharmacy LP have offered to pay as much as $6 billion to revive the OxyContin maker’s imperiled opioid settlement, a court-appointed mediator said in a report Friday.
The new settlement offer would see the Sackler family pay at least $5.5 billion with additional money contingent on certain asset sales, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley Chapman, who is overseeing the talks, said in her report. The sum is more than $1 billion greater than what is called for under Purdue’s existing settlement proposal. A final deal hasn’t been reached, according to the mediator.
The Sacklers and a handful of state attorneys general have been in mediation for the past two months after a New York judge rejected a settlement that would have resolved trillions of dollars in claims over the company’s role in the opioid crisis -- while at the same time giving Sackler family members broad immunity from future lawsuits. The existing settlement calls for handing nearly all of Purdue’s assets over to the states, cities and counties that are suing the drugmaker over its handling of the pain killer OxyContin. The deal would provide billions of dollars to anti-addiction programs.
But it would also protect Purdue’s owners from future opioid lawsuits, a dynamic that has drawn the ire of some state attorneys general, politicians and lawyers representing clients making personal-injury claims. Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia, along with an arm of the U.S. Justice Department, succeeded in having the settlement overturned on appeal after Purdue’s bankruptcy judge approved it last year.
The bankruptcy case is Purdue Pharma LP, 19-23649, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (White Plains).
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/purdue-s-sacklers-boost-opioid-settlement-offer-up-to-6-billion-1.1725721
ANON USAF Fairchild RC-26B Condor out of San Diego Int'l and back
Circling over VERY high end homes.
Lotsa retired sportsball players/tech/finance/medical live here
Maderas Golf Club
The Heritage name of the hood.
Prices start dhere at about $2m
Prolly one of the most expensive areas in the entire county not located on the coast.
@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews
#TruckersConvoy NEW: Intel via @mkaplantv
I-unit on potential truckers convoy in DC inspired by similar demonstrations in Ottawa .
TIMING: Around State of the Union
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1494826026865725445
SOTU on March 1
got a linky?
>>126730 lb Top four derivative positions according to OCC: $164.67T + precious metals contract amount(s)-occ.gov
Banks Sink – Throwing More Cold Water on All That Talk that Megabanks Are a Great Investment
There are apparently stock-picking analysts across Wall Street pumping out buy recommendations on stocks to the public who have never cast their eyes on those chilling derivative charts published quarterly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (see linky above). If the analysts had cast their eyes on those charts, the last thing they would be recommending right now are megabank stocks. We’re talking specifically about JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, which, together, control approximately 90 percent of the hundreds of trillions of dollars (notional/face amount) in derivatives held by all 4,900 banks and bank holding companies in the U.S. We’re also talking about the foreign banks that are significant derivative counterparties to these and other banks — such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Nomura and Barclays.
Cap#1 shows how these banks performed yesterday compared to the major stock averages-cap#2 is today and note the only green is...SURPRISE The Morgue-who has the highest amount of derivatives..
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America were all down more than 3 percent while Morgan Stanley was down almost 5 percent – in one trading session. (Morgan Stanley may have exceeded the declines in other bank stocks because in addition to having a powder keg full of derivatives, it has been named in the press as a central figure in a Justice Department probe involving potential leaks of information to hedge funds.)
>>126313 lb Federal regulators probe block trading at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, other big firms-marketwatch
We’ve also added two insurance companies to the above chart: Prudential Financial and Lincoln National. Both were named in a previous Office of Financial Research (OFR) report as serving as counterparties to derivative trades on Wall Street. We’re also talking about the foreign banks that are significant derivative counterparties to these and other banks — such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Nomura and Barclays.
We’ve also added two insurance companies to the above chart: Prudential Financial and Lincoln National. Both were named in a previous Office of Financial Research (OFR) report as serving as counterparties to derivative trades on Wall Street.
Despite the crystal-clear writing on the wall, analysts across Wall Street are still recommending megabank stocks to the public. Consider this report that appeared in Barron’s on February 1. It cites analysts at Piper Sandler recommending Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, and it adds this: “Broadly speaking, the banking sector looks strong. It emerged from the pandemic unscathed, and the recovery — coupled with the Federal Reserve lifting interest rates — should boost banks’ bottom lines.”
Unscathed? Seriously? Consider cap #4 which reflects the closing prices of the megabanks on March 9, 2020. In just one trading session Citigroup lost over 16 percent; Bank of America lost more than 14 percent; JPMorgan Chase lost over 13 percent and Deutsche Bank was down over 12 percent.
The megabanks survived the pandemic because the Fed pumped trillions of dollars in cumulative repo loans into these megabanks from September 17, 2019 through at least July 2, 2020. At that point, the Fed had multiple other bailout programs for the banks in operation.
It’s also a complete fallacy that rising interest rates are good for the megabanks. What rising interest rates do is to accelerate all of the myriad forms of credit risks that reside in these banks: inadequate loan loss reserves; opaque derivative contracts with dubious counterparties; highly-leveraged loans with borrowers that suffer credit downgrades during a rising-interest rate environment, and so on.
Despite this reality, the Wall Street Journal reports that 16 analysts have buy ratings on Citigroup; 16 analysts also have buy ratings on Goldman Sachs; 15 have buy ratings on Morgan Stanley; 14 analysts have buy ratings on Bank of America; and 12 analysts have buy ratings on JPMorgan Chase.
Analysts are simply not this stupid or uninformed. The only possible explanation is that the same level of corruption that was prevalent during the research and analyst scandals of the dot.com era has once again enveloped Wall Street.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/02/banks-sink-throwing-more-cold-water-on-all-that-talk-that-megabanks-are-a-great-investment/
C202 US Coast Guard G5 departed San Diego Int'l after arriving yesterday from Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood Int'l Airport ground stop and JBA depart
Interdasting that the ANON came from Kirtland AFB to SD Int'l and not Miramar to do dat earlier and nao this has departed from SD Int'l as well.
imma good and hanging in there.
Got another walk in-short but way moar outta that than the other shit.
muh control with this berry important-something they did/would not understand
$$ only thing they get.
>raid
dipshit gettin triggered earlier today berry funny.
doing good-slow friday-nice rib dinner
Still can't do the BBQ so cheat and use pressure cooker and then broil
din't touch dat one
kek
#859- update 2
>>127193, >>127197, >>127204, >>127222, >>127237, >>127251, >>127253, >>127256, >>127258, >>127260, >>127271, >>127275, >>127283 TGIF Eyez on the skyz
>>127266, >>127281 Banks Sink – Throwing More Cold Water on All That Talk that Megabanks Are a Great Investment-wallstonparade
>>127263 @CBS_Herridge @CBSNews "I-unit on potential truckers convoy in DC inspired by similar demonstrations in Ottawa-TIMING: Around State of the Union"- soc. media
>>127257, >>127265 Britain, France strike deal to develop new missiles-
>>127252 Purdue’s Sacklers Boost Opioid Settlement Offer Up to $6 Billion-bnnbberg
>>127244 Canada protesters under LRAD? The Long-Range Acoustic Device is an acoustic hailing device, sound cannon and sonic weapon developed by Genasys.
>>127242 Varney: Here come the American truckers. What started in Canada will continue here. It will be a test of the vaccine mandate.
>>127241 Biracial NC dad slams critical race theory as a ‘discrimination revolution’ in viral video
>>127228 JUST IN: State Department gives preliminary approval for $6 billion worth of battle tanks sale to Poland
>>127219 Bee keks: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia
>>127205, >>127206, >>127208 Q deltas from 3 and 4 year's back
>>127202, >>127207 LIVE: Canada protestors and police draw their lines
>>127201 U.S. Imports of Saudi Oil Are Set to Drop as High Prices and Maintenance Deter Buyers
>>127176 OUTRAGEOUS: Senate RINOs Mitt Romney, Jim Inhofe, Lindsey Graham, and Richard Burr ‘No Shows’ for Vote Defunding Biden Mandates Leaving Mandates in Place
>>127170 Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem Talks About Resolution To Decertify AZ, Subpoena By Jan. 6 Committee: “This Is Classic Saul Alinsky.”
>>127169 Durham Files Response to Sussmann’s Motion to Strike Paragraphs From Case
night all
SAM338 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast departed San Diego Int'l ne
The second high level AC to depart San Diego Int'l after the ISR AC (>256 linky) came from Kirtland AFB to circle an exclusive neighborhood-some of the houses in that hood are "worth"-that a relative word of course-$25m..10 bedrooms, 5 bath type of shit with servants qtrs.etc.
Morning look at Yerp with the rats moving around
SAM141 USAF C-32A Secretary of Defense Austin departed Vilnius, Lithuania west and on descent for Shannon, Ireland ground stop/refuel
Russian troops 'poised to strike' Ukraine: US Defence Minister Austin in Lithuania
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-tro
ops-poised-strike-ukraine-144144923.html
SPAR95 USAF G5 also departed Vilnius
SAM376 USAF C-40B Sec of State Blinken departed Munich Int'l nw
Blinken holds meeting with Le Drian
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
https://www.freep.com/videos/news/nation/2022/02/19/blinken-holds-meeting-le-drian/6860043001/
Italian AF IAM3109 departed Munich-Italian FM on descent back to Rome
Italian FM went to Palermo yesterday on this AC-gettin some additional 'instrictions'
moar from the "emergency" meeting
G7 foreign ministers to meet in Munich on Saturday, France's Le Drian says
https://www.reuters.com/article/g7-meeting-france-idCAS8N2TJ029
Greek AF HAF352E Embraer 135 also south from Munich back to Athens
RCH317 USAF C-17 Globemaster se from Ramstein se over Romania
Putin Warns West With Launch Of Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Missiles
Russia's President Vladimir Putin sat beside his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in a command center on Saturday to oversee large-scale Russian strategic nuclear exercises. As we detailed previously, the drills typically take place in the fall, but were moved up to Saturday in a bit of serious muscle-flexing directed at NATO. The drills included the successful test launch of a Zircon hypersonic missile and other nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
"Russia hit sea and land-based targets with ballistic and cruise missiles on Saturday as part of strategic nuclear exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart, the Kremlin said," Reuters reports. Additionally The Wall Street Journal based on local sources detailed that "A combination of ballistic and cruise missiles was to be launched as part of the maneuvers, which involved the country’s strategic missile forces and the Black Sea fleet, the Kremlin said, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel, Zvezda."
"All the missiles hit their targets, confirming their performance objectives," the Kremlin said in a statement, adding Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and nuclear submarines carried out the drills. "The main objective of these exercises is to perfect the performance of our strategic offensive forces, with the aim of delivering a guaranteed strike against the enemy," Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov told Putin in televised comments.
Russia's defense ministry was quick to release footage of the launches, also of a ballistic missile from a submarine, in what appears a clear 'message' to the West that it stands ready to act against any major NATO provocation.
Some of Saturday's missile launches and maneuvers were done in the Black Sea. "During the strategic deterrence force drills, Russia’s Aerospace Force successfully launched Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, the Kremlin’s press office reported," TASS confirmed just before the footage was made public.
"Warships and submarines of the Northern and Black Sea Fleets conducted launches of Kalibr cruise missiles and a Tsirkon hypersonic missile against naval and ground targets. At the Kapustin Yar proving ground in the Astrakhan Region, an Iskander land-based cruise missile was launched," the MoD statement added.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-putin-warns-west-launch-nuclear-capable-hypersonic-missiles
REDEYE6 USAF Joint STARS nw out of Ukraine-departed from Ramstein earlier
German AF GAF832 A319 departing Munich
Germany’s Scholz says now is ‘moment of truth’ for Iran deal
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday that “now is the moment of truth” to determine whether Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers can be salvaged, and the Iranian leadership needs to make a choice. Negotiators from Iran and the remaining parties to the agreement — Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — are working in Vienna to restore life to the accord, which granted Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. The United States has participated indirectly in the talks because it withdrew from the deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden has signaled that he wants to rejoin the deal. Under Trump, the U.S. reimposed heavy sanctions on Iran. Tehran has responded by increasing the purity and amounts of uranium it enriches and stockpiles, in breach of the accord — formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-iran-donald-trump-united-states-middle-east-856687d2ad24f4fef45e5ea2fe22c700
Pakistan AF KHALID1 G4 departed Brussels se-arrived on 0216
#859- update 3
>>127193, >>127197, >>127204, >>127222, >>127237, >>127251, >>127253, >>127256, >>127258, >>127260, >>127271, >>127275, >>127283, >>127301, >>127302, >>127303, >>127306 TGIF and some Sat action over Yerp Eyez on the skyz
>>127306 let's go to this nao news: Germany’s Scholz says now is ‘moment of truth’ for Iran deal-apnews
>>127302, >>127303, >>127305 Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and NATO Secretary General all at Shannon, Ireland in SAM141, SAM376 and SPAR95
>>127304 Putin Warns West With Launch Of Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Missiles-zh
>>127302 In STILL totally desperate news: Russian troops 'poised to strike' Ukraine: US Defence Minister Austin in Lithuania-Blinken holds meeting with Le Drian-G7 foreign ministers to meet in Munich on Saturday, France's Le Drian says-various
>>127266, >>127281 Banks Sink – Throwing More Cold Water on All That Talk that Megabanks Are a Great Investment-wallstonparade
>>127263 @CBS_Herridge @CBSNews "I-unit on potential truckers convoy in DC inspired by similar demonstrations in Ottawa-TIMING: Around State of the Union"- soc. media
>>127257, >>127265 Britain, France strike deal to develop new missiles-
>>127252 Purdue’s Sacklers Boost Opioid Settlement Offer Up to $6 Billion-bnnbberg
>>127244 Canada protesters under LRAD? The Long-Range Acoustic Device is an acoustic hailing device, sound cannon and sonic weapon developed by Genasys.
>>127242 Varney: Here come the American truckers. What started in Canada will continue here. It will be a test of the vaccine mandate.
>>127241 Biracial NC dad slams critical race theory as a ‘discrimination revolution’ in viral video
>>127228 JUST IN: State Department gives preliminary approval for $6 billion worth of battle tanks sale to Poland
>>127219 Bee keks: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia
>>127205, >>127206, >>127208 Q deltas from 3 and 4 year's back
>>127202, >>127207 LIVE: Canada protestors and police draw their lines
>>127201 U.S. Imports of Saudi Oil Are Set to Drop as High Prices and Maintenance Deter Buyers
>>127176 OUTRAGEOUS: Senate RINOs Mitt Romney, Jim Inhofe, Lindsey Graham, and Richard Burr ‘No Shows’ for Vote Defunding Biden Mandates Leaving Mandates in Place
>>127170 Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem Talks About Resolution To Decertify AZ, Subpoena By Jan. 6 Committee: “This Is Classic Saul Alinsky.”
>>127169 Durham Files Response to Sussmann’s Motion to Strike Paragraphs From Case
anyone around to bake dis?
SAM324 USAF G5 departed Charleston Int'l on a test flight-this is most likely a new G5 (C-37) as I've seen that the 99th Airlift Squad is supposed to get two new ones as of late last year.
It was SAME55 yesterday and departed Fulton Cty Airport, GA to Charleston Int'l and arrived there from JBA on 0217
LOKI82 USAF E-4B Nightwatch returning to Warner Robbins AFB GA
Muh Nightwatch!'-Lloyd Austin
SAM141 C-32A (Austin) and SAM376 C-40B (Blinken) nw after Shannon ground stop and likely 'discussions' with NATO clown Stolentenberg-who is still on the ground
if ya can add those two pfs imma good for nao