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BOXER42 USAF C-40C departed Stansted Airport after arriving from Munich on 0217
This one is Nancy (had it wrong before but this AC was NOT showing up on ADS-B last week on the leg to Tel Aviv)-there was a SAM that arrived and accompanied the Politicians on another BOXER flight last week-Tel Aviv and Munich- and over the weekend-it stopped at Prestwick on it's way back to JBA.
That was SAM400
Nancy Pelosi stops off in London to meet with her UK counterpart on the last leg on the Congressional delegation tour
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10535681/Can-talk-speaker-speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-stops-London-meet-UK-counterpart.html
FEAR21 USAF B-52 Stratofortress off English east coast
Canadian AF CFC3113 A310 departed Berlin nw-hosers sent someone back to Berlin yesterday
RAF RRR7215 Rivet Joint on the over Poland-Belarus/Ukraine border
Belgian AF BAF666 A400M inbound from Halifax Int'l-departed Brussels with a ground stop at Prestwick Int'l (Glasgow) yesterday
Prolly to Dover..if not then JBA
00-9001 USAFSOC C-32B west from McGuire AFB, NJ- on descent and looks like it is going to Pittsburgh
SAM282 USAF G5 departed JBA se No tail # given but hex id decodes as tail 97-0400 and higher level
quiet here so far
Leetle cold but cloudy so no frost.
Spouse moving around nao-doggo still hip that I don't 'do' anything (can't take out in morning yet) so he don't move until she does.
could be-displays some of the characteristics.
But easy to do dat.
Instantly a "shill" according to the usual know it all with about same amount of posts
ty
look at it this way..why would you bring attention to self with that many posts?
just thinkin outloud
Morning Market snap
markets doin' basically nuffin-you'd think this 'uncertainty' would be worth moar but the system can't habs the "down" or they panic and if it lasts moar than a few days they start margin calling each other.
Total Panic buying at the start-PPT action all over that-fuggen NAS is up but volume going away-red
They made sure Au was not going anywhere last night (London takin' the lead nao)
Too many eyes on all that nao.
But a different story for Ag.....BIG fight going on dhere looking at the pattern at same time frame.
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
JAKE21 USAF Constant Phoenix (nuke sniffer) was in the Baltic Sea earlier and now heading back to RAF Lakenheath
There is one of these (that I know of)
The aircraft is a modified C-135B or EC-135C platform. The Constant Phoenix's modifications are primarily related to its on-board atmospheric collection suite, which allows the mission crew to detect radioactive "clouds" in real time. The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in holding spheres. The cockpit crew is from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and special equipment operators are assigned to Det. 1, Air Force Technical Applications Center at Offutt AFB. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commissioned the Constant Phoenix program on Sept. 16, 1947, when he charged the Army Air Forces with the overall responsibility for detecting atomic explosions anywhere in the world. In September 1949, a WB-29 flying between Alaska and Japan detected nuclear debris from Russia's first atomic test--an event thought not possible until mid-1950.
Beginning in August 1950, WB-50 aircraft were converted for the air-sampling mission over a two-year period. WC-135 aircraft began replacing the WB-50s in December 1965 and became the workhorse of the atmospheric collection program.
moar
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104494/wc-135-constant-phoenix/
SAM293 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast departed JBA south
SAM282 USAF G5 did some fly-bys at Newport News Int'l and heading sw >>127654
BROMA75 USAFSOC C-32A had a quick stop at Pittsburgh Int'l and now nw
kek
>>127567 lb
SAM290 USAF C-40B departed San Diego Int'l after an overnight
State Dept AC
kek
UGLY01 Blackhawk on ground at MCAS Miramar
The Fed Just Added Short-Selling and Margin Loans to Its List of Trading Restrictions for Fed Officials – Opening a Big Can of Worms
On October 21 of last year, when the Fed originally announced its list of trading restrictions that it planned to impose on Fed officials, it made no mention of restricting its officials from short-selling (making bets on a decline in price) or preventing Fed officials from trading on margin. But when the Fed announced its finalized rules last Friday, “short sales or purchasing securities on margin” were added to the list of prohibitions.
Why do we find that noteworthy? Because it was Wall Street On Parade that asked the Dallas Fed if its President at the time, Robert Kaplan, was shorting the market when he made those “over $1 million” trades in and out of S&P 500 futures contracts in 2020, a year when the S&P 500 dropped by as much as 30 percent between January 2 and March 23. The Dallas Fed, bizarrely, declined to answer that question. We wrote at the time: “Adding to alarm bells around Kaplan’s trading, the Dallas Fed’s communications team declined to provide a yes or no answer to our question as to whether Kaplan shorted the market in 2020. (Shorting means to place a trade that grows in value if the market or security declines in price.)
“If a member of the central bank of the United States shorted the market in 2020, in the midst of an economic and health crisis, it would be interpreted by millions of Americans as betting against the country. There is not a good explanation we can think of for why the Dallas Fed’s communications team would not want to get that question quickly disposed of.”
Kaplan was a sophisticated trader who previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 22 years, rising to the rank of Vice Chairman. His financial disclosure forms suggest that Kaplan maintained a trading relationship with Goldman Sachs, since he lists proprietary products created by “GS,” short for Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs has been supervised by the Fed since 2008.
There are three typical reasons for an individual to trade S&P 500 futures: (1) the individual thinks he or she can time the market’s moves; (2) the individual wants to trade before or after stock exchange hours; (3) the individual wants to make highly leveraged bets on the market’s direction, going both long and short. Kaplan was a voting member of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in 2020, where he had access to market-moving information throughout the unprecedented first year of the pandemic. There was no good reason for a man in this position to be trading in S&P 500 futures for his own account.
And yet, Jerome Powell, the Fed Chair at the time and President Biden’s current nominee for a second term as Fed Chair, said this when Kaplan stepped down as a result of the fallout from the trading scandal on September 27 of last year: “We are grateful for Rob’s six years of service as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and as a valued colleague in the FOMC. He has been a passionate and forceful public voice on a wide range of issues, including the critical value of early childhood education and literacy. In addition, he strengthened the Bank’s economic research and played a very constructive role in Systemwide management, budget and technology efforts. We wish him well.”
Drawing further suspicions around Kaplan, he failed to comply with the Fed’s official financial disclosure rules to list the dates of his trades. Instead of listing the individual date for each purchase and each sale, he substituted the word “Multiple.” That eliminated the ability to detect a short sale as well as the ability to determine how many millions of dollars (or tens of millions of dollars) Kaplan had invested in his S&P 500 bets.
moar
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/02/the-fed-just-added-short-selling-and-margin-loans-to-its-list-of-trading-restrictions-for-fed-officials-opening-a-big-can-of-worms/
love dat
ANON USAF KC-135 tanker out of Phoenix Sky harbor
Switched back to tail #59-1516
See Below for some recent financial history re: Porsche/VW
Volkswagen considers IPO of Porsche to help fund shift to EVs
The tentative plan is estimated to value Porsche at as much as $96 billion.
Volkswagen AG is preparing an initial public offering of Porsche, seeking a listing of its most profitable asset to help boost the parent’s valuation and fund the push into electric vehicles.
VW’s preferred shares surged as much as 10% after the announcement Tuesday on a possible IPO outline between the carmaker and and Porsche Automobil Holding SE, a company controlled by the billionaire Porsche and Piech owner family. The tentative plan, which is estimated to value the sportscar brand at as much as 85 billion euros ($96 billion), would reverse a tumultuous takeover of Porsche more than a decade ago and signals the extent of the upheaval sweeping the industry.
Europe’s biggest carmaker has been pushing for years to adopt a less centralized corporate structure to become more nimble and step up its challenge to Tesla. Success has been modest. The IPO of Traton SE, VW’s truckmaking unit, fizzled amid internal ructions and a limited free float, while a plan to separate the Lamborghini supercar and Ducati motorcycle brands didn’t progress.
Volkswagen’s management and supervisory boards still have to sign off on the framework agreement with Porsche SE and a final decision hasn’t yet been made, the carmaker said.
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/02/22/porsche-ipo-possible-2/
The Biggest Short Squeeze In History: Volkswagen Short Squeeze of 2008
This was, and still is considered, the biggest short squeeze in history! In late 2008, amidst the global financial crisis: Porsche took a swing in the world of financial maneuvers. After a series of clever, intense moves, this all set the path moving for Volkswagen to briefly become the most valuable company in the entire world. The specifics about this story are truly insane. Let’s take a look at the details that led to the alrighty Volkswagen short squeeze of 2008! It was the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, you’ve heard about it. At this time, Volkswagen was increasingly being viewed as a potential bankruptcy candidate. Or another way of looking at it: Volkswagen was viewed as a very sexy short candidate. Even before the crisis, Volkswagen was quite thoroughly in debt. They were already struggling financially, and in the midst of the crisis, of course, demand for new cars plummeted.
Before the madness that was 2008: Porsche had been a huge shareholder in Volkswagen. Then, come October of 2008: They took their already thick stake to 30% But WAIT.. THEN, they took that stake all the way to 44% – WITH options to buy 30% more. So indirectly, Porsche all of a sudden had the ability to be in control of 74% of Volkswagen.
SO, let’s take a look at all this juicy information.
We know now, heading into October of 2008:
Around 55% of VW shares were unavailable in the market for any actual purposes.
With that, when Porsche increased its stake, it meant that the true available float went down from 45% of outstanding shares to around just 1% of outstanding shares.
Now all of a sudden, the seemingly little short interest of 12.8% turned into an immediate, MASSIVE supply and demand imbalance. Millions of shares needed to be bought immediately even though there were no shares available to be sold.
moar
https://www.cinemonic.com/the-biggest-short-squeeze-in-history-volkswagen-short-squeeze-of-2008/
RCH521 USAF C-17 Globemaster took off from March AFB at roughly the same time as SAM290 C-40B that departed SD Int'l
The Globey has been sitting at March AFB since 0217 and then this habbened the next day >>127256 ANON ISR over northern San Diego Cty
Both leaving at same time after dat surveillance when the Globey sat for several days at March and arrived the day before
Mebby something here......
BROMA75 USAFSOC C-32B continues west from Pittsburgh Int'l ground stop
Belgian AF BAF666 A400m departed JBA west after a ground stop
SAM282 USAF G5 went to Myrtle Beach
SAM293 G5 on approach at Miami Int'l
forgot this
Someone gonna have to 'rescue' dis soon-Janet gonna warm up the PPT or they gonna habs issues
>*Total Panic buying at the start-PPT action all over that-fuggen NAS is up but volume going away-red
Look at where NAS is now compared to earlier-yellow circle-is someone getting out in a BIG way 1.51B transaction @11:16am EST
Ag/Au pretty much the same
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC
Virgin Hyperloop "Changes Direction", Axes Half Of US Staff To Focus On Freight
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop has sputtered to a crawl as the company pivots from developing a high-speed transport system for humans to shipping freight and has slashed half its workforce, according to former employees who spoke with Financial Times.
The US-based company announced via a video conference call Friday that it would lay off 111 employees and refocus efforts to design experimental transport systems in pressure tubes to zip cargo around the US at 670 mph.
Two ex-employees said their job losses were "definitely not expected."
obviously they don't pay much attention to the boss' stock sales in Virgin Galactic
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1791283&tc=7
The futuristic transportation company responded to FT and said the transition will "allow the company to respond in a more agile and nimble way and in a more cost-efficient manner."
It said "changing direction" will allow it to alleviate "global supply chain issues and all the changes due to Covid."
Another former senior employee said that a reorganization of the company led to a "massive talent flight," adding "morale is low and there is no confidence in the new direction."
The company has tested humans in a transport pod through vacuum tubes down a 500-meter test track in Nevada, reaching 100 mph. This year, a new test facility will begin construction at a former coal mine site in Tucker and Grant Counties, West Virginia, with safety certification by 2025 and commercial operations by 2030.
FT also notes the shakeup comes as the company is considering going public via SPAC. As for Branson's other high-tech transportation company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc, an aerospace and space travel company, shares have tumbled more than 86% since last June's high.
Freight companies using Hyperloops in the future to send goods across the country faster than an air freighter makes a whole lot more sense when compared to Elon Musk's underground tunnel network for electric cars. Billionaires and their whacky ideas.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/virgin-hpyerloop-changes-direction-axes-half-us-staff-focus-freight
#862 update 1
>>127643, >>127644 Ex-girlfriend tells Hunter Biden grand jury about lavish spending-nypost Feb 21
>>127649, >>127654, >>127665, >>127671, >>127674, -goes with >>127567 lb, >>127681, >>127686, >>127687 pf report(s)-Nancy back to DC from London/CONUS morning activity SAM290 State Dept AC departs SD Int'l
>>127649 Nancy Pelosi stops off in London to meet with her UK counterpart on the last leg on the Congressional delegation tour-dailymail
>>127653 45'sTRUTH Social launches at the top of the App Store, but no one can get in-yahoo always blaming pepe too
>>127662, >>127688 Morning Market Snap-Au smershed but Ag fighting it-Index(s) panic bought to open and nao look at it
>>127663 Democrat Senator: Planned Parenthood Only Defends Right to Not Have A Family-oregoncatalyst
>>127664 Lawmakers: Give poor $600 one-time hand-out (paid by permanent taxes)-oregoncatalyst
>>127665 Nuke sniffer AC JAKE21 Constant Phoenix was over Baltic Sea earlier
>>127666 FDA Expert Urges CDC to “Tell the Truth” and “Present the Data” After it Refuses to Publish Data on Booster Shot Effectiveness Over Fears of “Vaccine Hesitancy”-gatewaypundit
>>127667, >>127668, >>127669 Justin Trudeau Crosses The Rubicon And Reveals The End Stage Of Fake “Liberal Democracy”-revolver and soc. media
>>127675 The Fed Just Added Short-Selling and Margin Loans to Its List of Trading Restrictions for Fed Officials – Opening a Big Can of Worms-wallstonparade
>>127676 kek
>>127680 Truth Social when you aren't a hoity-toity Apple user
>>127682 Volkswagen considers IPO of Porsche to help fund shift to EVs and biggest short squeeze in history in 2008 autoblog cinemonic
>>127684 Heavy Digger@Lightntruth "Putin has pissed off every shitbag leader the world over - yet none care about Trudeau..."-soc. media
>>127685 Supreme Court rejects Trump's appeal in records dispute with House Jan. 6 panel, ending case-justthenews
>>127686 SAM290 State Dept AC and RCH521 take off at same time-connections to ANON ISR on 0218??
>>127689 Virgin Hyperloop "Changes Direction", Axes Half Of US Staff To Focus On Freight-zh
good time for dis and a break
SAM290 USAF C-40B back at JBA from San Diego Int'l depart
VENUS40 USAF C-40 arrived back at JBA and that dropped off a VIP at Myrtle Beach as it was SAM282 earlier
>>127686 RCH521 USAF C-17 Globemaster looks like it went to MCAS Cherry Point from March AFB depart earlier
BROMA75 USAFSCO C-32B on ground at Travis AFB from Pittsburgh Int'l stop and McGuire depart earlier
banned for that.....wut about blue lives or plaid/?
Not gonna be wut they all think it will
Sorry to say this but one has to ask why it is even allowed to exist.
The equity pumpers busy today next door-they have no clue and think a it's all on the up and up because of who it is associated with
told them good luck but you seeing an EBIC bull trap.
inet farted here
poor attempt at 2:22:22
someone got within 1 sec next door so kudos for attempt as much harder
RAF ZH878 and 869 C-130 Hercules looks like it circled Syria and returning to Akrotiri AB, Cyprus
German President left Dakar after a three-day trip
German AF GAF906 departed Dakar, Senegal after ground stop
Senegal president urges Germany to stay in Mali
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/international/senegal-president-urges-germany-stay-mali
German AF has a habit of using Porsche model #'s on many of dhere high profile flights-904,906, 907,911,912,917,956, 993,996 etc
Italian Guardia di Finanza I2311 ATR-72-600 doing moar tracking of the migrant camps in France
Was at Lille for about 10 days went back to Rome on 0216 and then back to Lille on 0219
Just a reminder that the Guardia is basically a militarized police force and is part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Belgian AF BAF 666 A400m on approach to MCAS Yuma from JBA
BROMA75 USAFSOC C-32B departed Travis AFB after a ground stop and looks like Hickam for it
Broma in spanish means joke or prank, can also be used (colloquially) as business affair or process as in that "broma" was quite unsuccessful.
CLUB22 USAF E-4B Nightwatch heading for MacDill and since it is U.S. Central Command it is noted-not a usual destination for dis one
From home base of Lincoln, NE
Also 02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B arriving at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station from Eglin AFB
and same here-not usual destination
Wells Fargo Says Labor Department Is Probing Its 401(k) Plan
Wells Fargo & Co. said the Labor Department and other federal agencies are investigating its 401(k) plan.
The agencies are “reviewing certain transactions associated with the employee stock ownership plan feature of the company’s 401(k) plan, including the manner in which the 401(k) plan purchased certain securities used in connection with the company’s contributions to the 401(k) plan,” according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.
The San Francisco-based bank declined to comment beyond what it disclosed in the filing.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wells-fargo-says-labor-department-is-probing-its-401-k-plan-1.1727164
tryin' ta stay awake
kek
stopped raining when I went for rest-started right back up like the minute I got up.
Not like I was going anywhere do'h
you?
Home prices surged nearly 19% last year, marking highest read ever
Home prices climbed at the highest pace on record in 2021, surging nearly 19% during the year of red-hot demand driven by low interest rates and low inventory. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index report released Tuesday showed December's year-over-year gain hit 18.8%, the largest annual price spike the index has seen since it was launched in 1987. "This is the highest calendar year increase in 34 years of data, and substantially ahead of 2020’s 10.4% gain," S&P DJI managing director Craig Lazzara said in a statement.
"We have previously suggested that the strength in the U.S. housing market is being driven in part by a change in locational preferences as households react to the COVID pandemic," Lazzara noted.
Facepalm.....how about Blackrock and Blackstone over-paying for everything not tied down..new homes, old homes etc-wut a retard
Competition in the housing market remains steep as prospective buyers become increasingly willing to shell out more to make a deal with interest rates on the rise. The average price for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is approaching 4%, according to Freddie Mac's latest numbers. Existing home sales declined in December but rebounded by 6.7% in January, leaving behind the lowest inventory on record according to the National Association of Realtors' latest data. Meanwhile, the trends are pushing more and more would-be buyers out of the market at lower price points. According to the NAR, the percentage of first-time buyers responsible for sales dropped to 27% last month, down from 30% in December.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/home-prices-surge-nearly-19-fifth-largest-read-ever
just moar of the same failed BS
At least they switch it up nao
South Korean AF A330 flying a UN32 call sign and in Int'l waters off western SoKo
#862 update 1
>>127643, >>127644 Ex-girlfriend tells Hunter Biden grand jury about lavish spending-nypost Feb 21
>>127649, >>127654, >>127665, >>127671, >>127674, -goes with >>127567 lb, >>127681, >>127686, >>127687, >>127703, >>127710, >>127713, >>127714, >>127716, >>127717, >>127732 pf report(s)-Nancy back to DC from London/CONUS morning activity SAM290 State Dept AC departs SD Int'l and back at JBA, Nightwatch arrived at MacDill U.S. CENTCOM/AFSOC at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, SoKo AF with UN32 in Int'l waters
>>127649 Nancy Pelosi stops off in London to meet with her UK counterpart on the last leg on the Congressional delegation tour-dailymail
>>127653 45'sTRUTH Social launches at the top of the App Store, but no one can get in-yahoo always blaming pepe too
>>127662, >>127688 Morning Market Snap-Au smershed but Ag fighting it-Index(s) panic bought to open and nao look at it
>>127663 Democrat Senator: Planned Parenthood Only Defends Right to Not Have A Family-oregoncatalyst
>>127664 Lawmakers: Give poor $600 one-time hand-out (paid by permanent taxes)-oregoncatalyst
>>127665 Nuke sniffer AC JAKE21 Constant Phoenix was over Baltic Sea earlier
>>127666 FDA Expert Urges CDC to “Tell the Truth” and “Present the Data” After it Refuses to Publish Data on Booster Shot Effectiveness Over Fears of “Vaccine Hesitancy”-gatewaypundit
>>127667, >>127668, >>127669 Justin Trudeau Crosses The Rubicon And Reveals The End Stage Of Fake “Liberal Democracy”-revolver and soc. media
>>127675 The Fed Just Added Short-Selling and Margin Loans to Its List of Trading Restrictions for Fed Officials – Opening a Big Can of Worms-wallstonparade
>>127676 kek
>>127680 Truth Social when you aren't a hoity-toity Apple user
>>127682 Volkswagen considers IPO of Porsche to help fund shift to EVs and biggest short squeeze in history in 2008 autoblog cinemonic
>>127684 Heavy Digger@Lightntruth "Putin has pissed off every shitbag leader the world over - yet none care about Trudeau..."-soc. media
>>127685 Supreme Court rejects Trump's appeal in records dispute with House Jan. 6 panel, ending case-justthenews
>>127686 SAM290 State Dept AC and RCH521 take off at same time-connections to ANON ISR on 0218??
>>127689 Virgin Hyperloop "Changes Direction", Axes Half Of US Staff To Focus On Freight-zh
>>127693 4 yr deltas #810,811,812
>>127708, >>127712, >>127718 Biden Stares Blankly, Picks at His Teeth When Reporter Asks if He May Have “Underestimated” Vladimir Putin (VIDEO)-gatewatpundit y/t
>>127719 Wells Fargo Says Labor Department Is Probing Its 401(k) Plan
>>127723 Thank you Blackstone/Rock news: Home prices surged nearly 19% last year, marking highest read ever-foxbiz