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and the beat goes on..Scamazon had $20.195B in the 'Goodwill' accounting bucket-and they don't need a share buyback program as they have become entrenched in normie lives and for the longest time AMZN had a very small shareholder base
AMAZON ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Operating cash flow decreased 40% to $35.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $59.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2021.
•Free cash flow decreased to an outflow of $23.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $12.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2021.
•Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $33.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $0.6 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2021.
•Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $26.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $4.2 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2021.
•Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 10.6 billion on June 30, 2022, compared with 10.4 billion one year ago. All share and per share information throughout this release has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the 20-for-1 stock split effected on May 27, 2022.
•Net sales increased 7% to $121.2 billion in the second quarter, compared with $113.1 billion in second quarter 2021. Excluding the $3.6 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 10% compared with second quarter 2021.
•Operating income decreased to $3.3 billion in the second quarter, compared with $7.7 billion in second quarter 2021.
•Net loss was $2.0 billion in the second quarter, or $0.20 per diluted share, compared with net income of $7.8 billion, or $0.76 per diluted share, in second quarter 2021. Second quarter 2022 net loss includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $3.9 billion included in non-operating expense from our common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/000101872422000017/amzn-20220630xex991.htm
China Banks Rush to Raise Record Debt as Credit Losses Mount
Chinese banks are rushing to boost capital as they prepare for a potential spike in bad loans due to the economic slowdown and spreading housing crisis.
A record amount of fresh money has come from financial markets, with banks selling 29% more bonds in the first half of the year compared to last year to replenish capital and cover credit losses. Local authorities also provided funds from government bond sales to help cash-strapped regional lenders.
China’s economy grew at the weakest pace in more than two years in the second quarter due to Covid lockdowns and a protracted housing market downturn, stoking worries about an increase in companies and individuals who cannot repay loans. Those fears deepened recently when hundreds of thousands of home owners said they would stop paying the mortgage on houses that aren’t built yet, raising the pressure on developers, who may face more difficulty selling projects and also have to repay banks loans. “We believe that asset quality is worsening due to Covid-related lockdowns, the property slump, the risks associated with small and micro loans, and the general economic slowdown in China,” said Harry Hu, a senior director at S&P Global Ratings. The capital injections from the government “will help those small regional banks with large bad loan burdens to clean up their books and support the local economies.”
In the year through July 27, lenders had sold a combined 568 billion yuan ($84 billion) of Additional Tier 1 debt, which is among the first to absorb losses in times of stress, and Tier 2 bonds. China’s big-four state-owned banks are the major sellers of the bonds this year, according to data on onshore sales compiled by Bloomberg, although local lenders including Bank of Hebei Co., Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank Co., and Bank of Shanghai Co. are also selling. Such debt is the main tools for banks to add extra capital, analysts including Liao Zhiming of China Merchants Securities Co. wrote in a report in May. In addition to this, the central government will allow 320 billion yuan generated from the sale of special local bonds to be used to top up the capital of medium- and small-sized banks, the Financial News reported last week, citing an unnamed official with the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. The amount, including 120 billion yuan in unused funds from last year, is 60% higher than in 2020 when money from the sale of these bonds was first allowed to be used for that purpose.
Bad loans increased by almost 107 billion yuan in the first half of the year to 2.95 trillion yuan, according to the CBIRC. That’s the biggest six-month increase since the height of the domestic pandemic in the first half of 2020, according to Bloomberg calculations based on the commission’s data. Meanwhile, banks’ capital adequacy ratio fell for the second straight quarter to 14.87% at the end of June. “The pressure on non-performing loans to rebound increased as the downward pressure on the economy was gradually felt by the financial sector,” Liu Zhongrui, an official with the CBIRC’s statistics and risk monitoring department, said at a briefing last week. The “slower than expected” economic recovery has led S&P to raise its estimate of banks’ non-performing assets, which includes bad loans and some ‘special-mention loans,’ to 7.5% of total lending this year. That’s up from a May forecast of 6.5% and last year’s actual ratio of 6%.
The problem is especially acute at small and medium-sized lenders, which hold 29% of the banking sector’s total assets, according to CBIRC data. They have long been plagued by lax governance, heavy reliance on big local firms for loans and deposits, and they are more exposed to the weak links in the economy than bigger lenders, such as agriculture-related industry and small businesses. The government’s efforts to push banks to lend more risk exacerbating the problem of asset quality. Corporate and household demand for loans is weak as Covid curbs remain a threat to business and household incomes, and if banks have to lower their lending requirements to attract borrowers then they could find themselves making new loans with little hope of repayment.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-banks-rush-to-raise-record-debt-as-credit-losses-mount-1.1798018
So no wonder nancy and paul sold a chunk of those chip stocks (aside from showing a loss to say "see we lose too")...and they-Semi Mfgs-face the same problem as the big box retailers..cost of carrying unsold inventory
South Korea’s Chip Stockpile Swells in Warning Sign for Exports
South Korea’s semiconductor stockpiles expanded at the fastest pace in more than six years, adding to concern about the outlook for exports that drive the country’s economic growth.
Nationwide inventory soared 79.8% in June from a year earlier, the statistics office said Friday, up from a 53.8% jump in May. At the same time, both production and shipments decelerated, suggesting a slowdown in the nation’s most profitable industry. The result casts a pall over the outlook for an economy where the central bank is in the midst of a yearlong tightening cycle. Memory chips are sold worldwide and underpin the strength of the won, which has been one of Asia’s worst performing currencies this year as trade deficits mount. South Korea was in the midst of a two-year export slump when chip inventories soared by 104.1% in April 2016.
The accumulation in stockpiles comes as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., two of the world’s largest memory-chip producers, warn future sales may weaken, adding to concerns about a global slowdown as inflation spurs global central banks to tighten. The two firms’ shares prices have still gained in recent weeks as investors bet the companies will cut capital spending, a move that would eventually tighten supply. The tiny components are used in everything from smartphones to laptops and cars.
South Korea’s overall industrial production rose 1.4% in June from a year earlier, less than the 2.1% forecast by economists.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/south-korea-s-chip-stockpile-swells-in-warning-sign-for-exports-1.179863
Japan urges businesses to raise wages on par with price hikes
Japan on Friday urged companies to raise wages on par with price hikes of around 2 percent, a level the central bank has set as its inflation target, so that the world's third-largest economy can complete its exit from deflation.
The government said in its Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance that such an economy will block the country from falling into stagflation, at a time when the United States, Europe and others are suffering from price surges fanned by Russia's war against Ukraine. It was the first such paper compiled under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who pledges to bring about "new capitalism," characterized by a virtuous cycle of growth and redistribution driven by investment into people.
The document underscored "the need to shift to a new system featuring sustained and stable price increases of about 2 percent and corresponding wage growth rates." "Given that the economy continues to be picking up and the rate of price increases is not significantly high, Japan is not in a state of so-called stagflation," which involves slow growth and high inflation mixed with high unemployment, it said. The rate of price hikes in Japan is higher than that in the recent past, but it is attributable primarily to surging import prices driven by crude oil prices, said a government official who briefed reporters. Japan has yet to completely exit from long-lasting deflation, the official said.
"To get (the country) out of deflation, it is vital that nominal wages rise in line with price increases and growth in labor productivity," the paper said picrel But since 1997, "The rate of increase in nominal wages has not been enough considering the rate of price increases," it said, citing businesses' cautiousness to expand operations by carrying out major investments in the midst of persistent deflation.
Companies have also regarded wages as costs, not investment in employees, resulting in insufficient distribution of profits. Since the start of this year, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, such as private consumption, has diminished, while capital investment has shown signs of picking up but is still under pre-pandemic levels, according to the paper.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220729/p2g/00m/0bu/014000c
aye that one wuz good planning and execution.
also member how funny it wuz that they were gonna "storm area 51" in august too-perfect month for that..:p
from what I know they took all the really spoopy/extra top 'secrety' stuffs/shit out in 2012-13 and moved it Dugway-and why we occasionally see out AFSOC 'frens' going dhere
Haz a flat-top just west of Brunei with this Grumman C-2 Greyhound on ground at Brunei Int'l Airport-they are the utility/light cargo/personnel/ ACs for the fleet
PSWRD21 US Navy C-2A Greyhound went to Brunei Int'l from carrier or other flat-top just to the west
Seen dis one off SoCal several times before Tail #162176
morning
Planefag Housekeeping
45AC movement and one of the ACs he has used for the shorter duration flights-it dropped him off at Morristown NJ after the rally in Quincy, IL 0626 and sat at Morristown N.J until it was moved to Orlando on 0711
FFL548 Citation X moved from Orlando-Sanford Int'l to Palm Beach Int'l yesterday and still visible on flightaware took off at 10:03amEST landed at 10:37am EST-missed it yesterday
Cap #2 is NOT actual AC and represents model used
Planefag:Europe-Med Activity: MbS departed Paris after Macron meeting-arrived from stop at Athens on 0726 and went to Paris on 0727 -going back to Jeddah, Italian AF departed Dhabi after 2h stop, Germans to Frankfurt from Memmingen, Greeks NW from Athens, French dropped off clean undies for Zelensky at Rzesow Airport Poland
Saudi AF HZ-101 737 (lime green dot) returning to Jeddahthis is MbSafter his 'visit' with merdeboi (macron)
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman thanks Macron for 'warm reception' in Paris
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/93207955.cms
Italian AF 3170 Falcon 900 departed Abu-Dhabi after about 2h on ground
German AF GAF676 GL5T departed Memmingen Airport (west of Munich) after a stop of about 1h51m and heading to Frankfurt
NAT01 E=3A Sentry AWACS doing roundys over eastern Romania
Greek AF HAF352C Embraer E135 departed Athens NW
French AF CTM2055 A400m dropped off some clean undies to Zelensky at Rzesow Airport after a stop of 1h25m
Spanish AF 4576 A310 NE from Madrid, Torrejon AB
>>143978 pb
VV100 US Navy G5 arriving at JBA from Hickam AFB, Oahu depart earlier-this is same AC that left Manila right around the recent earthquake-it returned to Manila a little moar than 6 hours later and then left for Hickam AFB yesterday
French AF CTM1013 A330 departed Paris crossing Atlantic (shows as E11013 as it's comms are via satellite: ADS-C)
This AC departed Cotonou, Benin yesterday and returned to Paris-part of Medebois visit to west Africa as he stopped at Cotonou, Benin on that trip >>144080 lb
Maxed out credit cards...chek't..housing market immolating...chek't....inflation at 40 yr highs...chek't...."official" recession declared ....chek't...consumer confidence at record lows...chek't...mortgage rates (30y fixed up from 3% to just under 6%)....chek't...real spending way up ...chek't.....NYFRB pushing out over $2T a night in operations...chek't..do I have ta go on?
Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Jumps To New 40-Year High, Savings Rate Plunges
The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - PCE Deflator - was expected to accelerate in June and both the headline and core increased significantly (+6.8% YoY and +4.8% YoY respectively) - both higher than expected. The headline print is the highest since 1982. With both the headline and core inflation signals re-accelerating, it appears the 'peak inflation' narrative has busted once again.
The 'inflation' indicator has supported nominal personal spending (even as incomes fail to keep pace - with soaring revolving credit signaling Americans relying on credit cards to get by). Nominal spending rose 1.1% MoM (slightly better than expected) while incomes rose only 0.6% MoM...On a nominal year-over-year basis, incomes grew at 5.7% while spending (again this is nominal) rose 8.4%. Real personal spending managed a measly increase of 0.1% MoM in June, which leaves real spending up just 1.6% YoY. On the income side, both private and government wages saw growth slow in June .Private wages rose 11.2%, down from 11.9% in May and lowest since March 2021, while Government wages rose 4.8%, down from 5.4% and the lowest since Mar 2021. Finally, the savings rate tumbled to just 5.1% - the lowest since August 2009 No, the fact that Americans are borrowing more and saving less is not an indication of confidence - it's an indication of deep-seated stress - which helps explain the record low in consumer confidence.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feds-favorite-inflation-indicator-jumps-new-40-year-high-savings-rate-plunges
and then the "best" headline of them all is this...
The market's recent rally could be an 'unwelcome' development' for Fed'
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-federal-reserve-unwelcome-development-115312762.html
New York Federal Reserve Central Bank Liquidity Swap Operations with the ECB and BOJ...the ECB (EURO) $212,500,000 and the BOJ (YEN) with a measly $1m
The BOJ amount represents the largest amount(s) so far with them-a few times at the $1m level-most at $51k so they are getting 'ready' to do these on a bigger scale with the BOJ
The ECB is well over $12B since 061721 with the last coupla of these
>>139491 pb and a few moar were done in the interim period since that was posted
Their 'book' definition
These swap facilities are designed to improve liquidity conditions in global money markets and to minimize the risk that strains abroad could spread to U.S. markets, by providing foreign central banks with the capacity to deliver U.S. dollar funding to institutions in their jurisdictions. The New York Fed undertakes certain small value transactions from time to time for the purpose of testing operational readiness. The results of the central bank liquidity swap operations and small value exercises of the central bank liquidity swap lines are published on a weekly basis when conducted
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/central-bank-liquidity-swap-operations
din't have captcha per post at all yesterday nada
and dhat one din't need one either ^^ but 141 did after I dun it already about an hour ago
They, Japanese, have no choice here...they din't say you had to pay in Rubles just a bank change-but it wouldn't matter they could say "pay us in Mexican Pesos" or whatever and they would have to do it
Japan's Sakhalin-2 LNG buyers told to pay bank inside Russia
Japanese importers of liquefied natural gas from Russia's Sakhalin-2 energy project have been told to change how they make payments, instructed to pay a Russian branch of a European bank, sources say, a move likely intended to shield Moscow's LNG revenue from sanctions.
Sakhalin Energy Investment, the operator of the Sakhalin-2 LNG and oil project in Russia's Far East, began asking Japanese gas buyers this month to make the change, the sources said. Payments would still be made in dollars, and LNG supplies will continue without interruption, according to the sources. Western nations have lodged sanctions against Russia since the country invaded Ukraine in February. Sakhalin Energy apparently wants payments switched to an account subject to Russian laws and regulation, ensuring stable access to funds.
At least one Sakhalin Energy buyer, Tohoku Electric Power, has complied with the request. "We're unable to elaborate, but because we received notification of a change, we changed the payee for the transfers," said a Tohoku Electric representative. A representative from Kyushu Electric Power confirmed that the utility received a request to change the payment bank. "We will consider a response while discussing the matter with the government, financial institutions and other relevant parties," the Kyushu Electric representative said.
Sakhalin Energy is led by Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom, which holds a 50%-plus-one-share majority in the joint venture. Shell owns about 27.5% of the operation, while Japanese trading houses Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. control 12.5% and 10%, respectively.
Sakhalin-2 produces 10 million tonnes of LNG a year, with 6 million tonnes shipped to Japan. The project accounts for 10% of Japan's overall LNG imports. Hiroshima Gas imports about 50% of its LNG from Sakhalin-2, and Kyushu Electric imports about 20% from the project. Tohoku Electric brings in roughly 10% of its LNG from Sakhalin-2, while Tokyo Gas and Saibu Gas Holdings also are customers.
On June 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree to transfer all Sakhalin Energy assets and rights to a new limited liability company. Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi have one month after the establishment of the company to decide whether to maintain stakes in the entity.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/Japan-s-Sakhalin-2-LNG-buyers-told-to-pay-bank-inside-Russia
Dis was just a mater of time-for a multitude of reasons but interdasting they chose the ejection seat as the issue-not the comp'd electronics and not the entire fleet and focus on 'an issue' for one group of them at a time etc
F-35 Fleet Is Grounded by US Air Force Over Ejection-Seat Worries
The US Air Force has grounded its fleet of F-35 jets temporarily, citing a potentially faulty component in the ejection seat that could endanger pilots in an emergency, a problem also grounding other types of military planes that are used in training.
The issue involves the explosive cartridges used inside ejection seats to help propel the seat from the plane during an emergency, Alexi Worley, spokeswoman for the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said in a statement Friday. The affected aircraft have ejection seats made by Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd., Worley said. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. “On July 19, we began a Time Compliance Technical Directive to inspect all of the cartridges on the ejection seat within 90 days,” Worley said in the statement. “Out of an abundance of caution,” she said Air Combat Command units “will execute a stand-down on July 29 to expedite the inspection process. Based on data gathered from those inspections, ACC will make a determination to resume operations.”
It’s the latest development in a problem found across military services and across different types of planes that have the ejection seats. The Air Force on Thursday decided to ground almost 300 training aircraft over the issue. The Navy and Marine Corps have also sidelined some of their fixed-wing aircraft. The groundings were reported earlier by Breaking Defense and Air Force Times. Only aircraft equipped with cartridges “within a limited range of lot numbers are affected,” the Navy said in a statement this week. The cartridges will be replaced at the aircraft’s assigned squadron and the aircraft will be inspected before its next flight, the service said. So far, 820 F-35s built by Lockheed Martin Corp. have been delivered worldwide out of a potential 3,000 for the US and partner nations. The Air Force is the largest F-35 customer, with 348 of its planned 1,763 planes now in its inventory.
After years of talks, the Pentagon announced earlier this month that it reached preliminary agreement with Lockheed on the next three-year contract for 375 more of the advanced fighters. That contract could be worth about $30 billion, according to a defense official familiar with the negotiations. The Government Accountability Office earlier this year said that F-35 readiness rates for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have improved since 2019 but still fall short of program goals.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/f-35-fleet-is-grounded-by-us-air-force-over-ejection-seat-worries-1.1798996
>>144035 lb
Here ya go...Full retard "good cop" today and he took the reading from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis of -0.9 yesterday and his is nao +2.1 percent ...see how this game is played ?-and the current chart doesn't show ANY of the negative updates (weds and in link above) and has been 'adjusted'
Latest estimate: +2.1 percent — July 29, 2022
The initial GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2022 is 2.1 percent on July 29. The initial estimate of second-quarter real GDP growth released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis on July 28 was -0.9 percent, 0.3 percentage points above the final GDPNow model nowcast released on July 27.
https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
Pope Frank bails Quebec for one moar stop on the "we're sorry" tour in ITY4001 A330 and heading to Iqaluit which is on the southern end of Baffin Island
Pope Francis to finish Canadian visit in Iqaluit today
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/pope-francis-iqaluit-nunavut-visit-1.6535224
So goes Lavrov, Macron and now Blinken-and the US Navy AC was in Manila ahead of this trip-so he gonna be a bizzy boi with all these stops
>>144080, >>143978 pb Macron in West Africa and VV100 was in Manila and landed at JBA about 2h45min ago
Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Cambodia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Cambodia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda August 2-12, 2022.
Secretary Blinken will first travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 3-5 to participate in the U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. At each ministerial, the Secretary will emphasize the United States’ commitment to ASEAN centrality and successful implementation of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. He will also address the COVID-19 pandemic, economic cooperation, the fight against climate change, the crisis in Burma, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Secretary will meet bilaterally with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn to discuss U.S. support for ASEAN and efforts to strengthen our bilateral relationship with Cambodia. Secretary Blinken will also engage with alumni of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative.
In Manila, the Philippines, on August 6, the Secretary will meet with President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo to discuss bilateral efforts to strengthen the U.S.-Philippines alliance, including through increased cooperation on energy, trade, and investment, advancing our shared democratic values, and pandemic recovery.
Then, Secretary Blinken will travel to South Africa August 7-9. The Secretary will launch the U.S. Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, which reinforces the U.S. view that African countries are geostrategic players and critical partners on the most pressing issues of our day, from promoting an open and stable international system, to tackling the effects of climate change, food insecurity and global pandemics, to shaping our technological and economic futures.
In Pretoria, he will lead the U.S. delegation to the U.S.-South Africa Strategic Dialogue to reinforce and deepen our commitment to bilateral cooperation on global issues as well as a wide range of shared priorities, including health, infrastructure, trade and investment, and climate. In Johannesburg, he will join in the South African celebration of National Women’s Day.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 9-10, the Secretary will meet with senior DRC government officials and members of civil society to discuss our mutual interest in ensuring free, inclusive, and fair elections in 2023, promoting respect for human rights and protecting fundamental freedoms. He will also focus on combating corruption, supporting trade and investment, addressing the climate crisis, building agricultural resilience, and support regional African efforts to advance peace in eastern DRC and the broader Great Lakes region.
Finally, the Secretary will travel to Rwanda on August 10-12, where he will meet with senior Rwandan government officials and civil society members to discuss shared priorities, including peacekeeping. The Secretary will focus on the role the government of Rwanda can play in reducing tensions and ongoing violence in eastern DRC. He will also raise democracy and human rights concerns, including transnational repression, limiting space for dissent and political opposition, and the wrongful detention of U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident Paul Rusesabagina.
https://www.ourindia.com/index.php/2022/07/secretary-blinkens-travel-to-cambodia-the-philippines-south-africa-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-rwanda/
This isn't even worth writing an article on much less mentioning because of the amount involved but they doing it for a reason...
Russians held around $14 bln in U.S. securities at end-March - c.bank
Almost one third of around 3 trillion roubles ($49.1 billion) worth of foreign securities held in Russians' accounts at the end of March were U.S.-issued, Russia's central bank said in a report on Friday.
Many Russians bought foreign shares in a retail investment boom sparked during the COVID-19 pandemic, using accounts now frozen under Western sanctions imposed after Russia sent its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 Central Bank Deputy Chairman Philip Gabunia has said more than 5 million people in Russia have foreign stocks in frozen accounts, with a combined value of more than 320 billion roubles.
At the end of March, U.S. securities accounted for 855.3 billion roubles ($14 billion), or 27% of all foreign securities, which includes bonds as well as shares, the central bank said. Issuers from the United Kingdom accounted for 464.8 billion roubles and Irish issuers for 308.9 billion. National flag flies over the Russian Central Bank headquarters in Moscow
National flag flies over the Russian Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
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MOSCOW, July 29 (Reuters) - Almost one third of around 3 trillion roubles ($49.1 billion) worth of foreign securities held in Russians' accounts at the end of March were U.S.-issued, Russia's central bank said in a report on Friday.
Many Russians bought foreign shares in a retail investment boom sparked during the COVID-19 pandemic, using accounts now frozen under Western sanctions imposed after Russia sent its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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Central Bank Deputy Chairman Philip Gabunia has said more than 5 million people in Russia have foreign stocks in frozen accounts, with a combined value of more than 320 billion roubles.
At the end of March, U.S. securities accounted for 855.3 billion roubles ($14 billion), or 27% of all foreign securities, which includes bonds as well as shares, the central bank said. Issuers from the United Kingdom accounted for 464.8 billion roubles and Irish issuers for 308.9 billion.
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The next four countries in terms of volume were Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Netherlands and the Cayman Islands.
"In total, securities from 120 countries are on individuals' accounts," the bank said.
The total volume held increased in 2021 as Russian exchanges launched trading in ever more foreign securities, but the central bank said the deteriorating geopolitical backdrop was reversing that trend this year. The central bank has proposed banning Russians with holdings worth less than $550,000 from buying foreign shares, as a step to protect investors. SPB Exchange, the country's second-largest bourse, has suggested clients' U.S.-listed shares be transferred to a non-trading account due to restrictions imposed by Brussels-based depository Euroclear. Seeking to minimise future risks for retail investors, Russia's central bank has already reduced the maximum leverage they can use.
https://www.reuters.com/business/russians-held-around-14-bln-us-securities-end-march-cbank-2022-07-29/
#976
>>144111 AMAZON ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS-Scamazon had $20.195B in the 'Goodwill' accounting bucket
>>144112 Sheriff Mack praises @greggphillips & Catherine..."This goes so deep and it’s everything that you’ve heard from Trump & everybody else about election fraud, (and it) is 10x worse!”
>>144113 @Charliekirk & @Kash discuss the fact that the Hunter Biden & Durham investigations are habbening simultaneously.
>>144114 China Banks Rush to Raise Record Debt as Credit Losses Mount
>>144115 The Enemy are Preparing for Hunter Biden’s Inevitable Indictment(s)
>>144116 South Korea’s Chip Stockpile Swells in Warning Sign for Exports-and they-Semi Mfgs-face the same problem as the big box retailers..cost of carrying unsold inventory
>>144119 Japan urges businesses to raise wages on par with price hikes
>>144123, >>144124 Gregg Phillips strongly suggesting he knows the 'Biden' in the WH is an actor playing the role of Biden
>>144130 45 AC movement and one of the ACs he has used for the shorter duration flights-FFL548 Citation X moved from Orlando-Sanford Int'l to Palm Beach Int'l yesterday
>>144131, >>144158 Planefag:Europe-Med Activity: MbS departed Paris after Macron meeting-arrived from stop at Athens on 0726 and went to Paris on 0727 -going back to Jeddah, Italian AF departed Dhabi after 2h stop, Germans to Frankfurt from Memmingen, Greeks NW from Athens, French dropped off clean undies for Zelensky at Rzesow Airport Poland
>>144133, >>144157 VV100 US Navy G5 arriving at JBA from Hickam AFB, Oahu depart earlier-this is same AC that left Manila right around the recent earthquake-French AF CTM1013 A330 departed Paris crossing Atlantic This AC departed Cotonou, Benin yesterday and returned to Paris-part of Medebois visit to west Africa
>>144136 Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Jumps To New 40-Year High, Savings Rate Plunges
>>144141 New York Federal Reserve Central Bank Liquidity Swap Operations with the ECB and BOJ...the ECB (EURO) $212,500,000 and the BOJ (YEN) with a measly $1m
>>144144 Japan's Sakhalin-2 LNG buyers told to pay bank inside Russia-still in dollars but could have said Rubles or any other currency and they habs NO choice but to compy
>>144149 UK anon: a leetle moar on London Eye on-going digz
>>144151 F-35 Fleet Is Grounded by US Air Force Over Ejection-Seat Worries (not entire fleet just these with the ejection seat issue....)
>>144152 Latest estimate: +2.1 percent — July 29, 2022-Full retard "good cop" today and he took the reading from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis of -0.9 yesterday and his is nao +2.1 percent ...see how this game is played?
>>144153 Pope Frank bails Quebec for one moar stop on the "we're sorry" tour in ITY4001 A330 and heading to Iqaluit
>>144154 Blinken gonna be bizzy-Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Cambodia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda
>>144155 Russians held around $14 bln in U.S. securities at end-March - c.bank dhey mentioning dis fer some reason but it's not a big amount at all
updated bun-left off MbS post
And why is that nao?....because it din't allow them to ship the "extra" (the Freeport splosion) whatever dafuq that is-out at record prices-which was giving it a chance to replenish those supplies-then they blew another one up in Oklahoma
US Nat Gas Prices Hit 14 Year High As Stocks Fail To Rebuild Fast Enough
U.S. gas prices have climbed to their highest seasonal level for 14 years as hot weather and demand from electric generators has coupled with strong exports to Europe to keep inventories below the pre-pandemic average.
In real terms, front-month futures for deliveries at Henry Hub in Louisiana are trading at more than $8 per million British thermal units compared with over $4 at the same point last year and the highest since 2008. Cumulative cooling demand since the start of the year in the Lower 48 states has been the highest since 2018, according to data from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center. With many former coal-fired electric generators disconnected from the grid or dismantled, high cooling demand has translated into high levels of gas consumption. In the western United States, prolonged drought and reduced hydro-electric generation has further elevated gas use.
At the same time, the United States has became the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, with volumes increasing by 12% in the first half of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021. Most of the extra LNG has been shipped to Britain and European Union replacing lower pipeline gas deliveries from Russia ("United States became world's largest exporter in first half of 2022," EIA, July 25).
LNG exports have slowed since early June after a fire halted shipments from Freeport's LNG export terminal on the Gulf of Mexico ("Fire causes shutdown of Freeport LNG terminal", EIA, June 23). In the absence of the Freeport fire, inventories would likely be even lower and prices would have risen even higher. Even with the recent slowdown in exports, however, working stocks in underground storage amounted to just 2,416 billion cubic feet (bcf) on July 22 compared with a pre-pandemic five-year seasonal average of 2,802 bcf. Inventories had risen by only 1,034 bcf since the start of April compared with a pre-pandemic average increase of 1,104 bcf ("Weekly natural gas storage report", EIA, July 28). The number of rigs drilling for gas has increased to 155 up from just 104 a year ago, according to data from field services company Baker Hughes, but there has been little further increase over the last six weeks.As a result, gas inventories are on course to start winter well below average, with Europe and Asia still scrambling for LNG, which will likely keep prices elevated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-nat-gas-prices-hit-14-year-high-stocks-fail-rebuild-fast-enough
11-3075 USAFSOC C-146A Wolfhound 'Special Forces' departing Seattle Boeing Field SE after a ground stop/refuel-inbound from JB Elmendorf-it arrived on 0721 from Misawa AB, Japan stop and Yokota AB departure-prior to that he has been at Kadena AB Okinawa since 0616
CAKE83 USAF C-17 Globemaster wanderin' around outta JB Lewis-McChord and this one hasn't been up fer two weeks according to ADS-B
dat one fer you ^^
They managed to get it over $40 on Weds as Jerry was speaking and avoiding the R (recession) werd so the current premium is $12.59/sh or23%
Elon Musk files countersuit under seal vs Twitter over $44B deal
Musk faces five-day trial in October to determine if he can abandon his deal to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.
Elon Musk countersued Twitter on Friday, escalating his legal fight against the social media company over his bid to walk away from the $44 billion purchase, although the lawsuit was filed confidentially.
Although the 164-page document was not publicly available, under court rules a redacted version could soon be made public.
Musk's lawsuit was filed hours after Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered a five-day trial beginning Oct. 17 to determine if Musk can walk away from the deal. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. McCormick fast-tracked the case to trial last week, saying she wanted to limit the potential harm to Twitter caused by the uncertainty of the deal. Twitter has blamed the court fight for slumping revenue and causing chaos within the company.
The two sides had basically agreed to an Oct. 17 trial, but were at odds over the limits of discovery, or access to internal documents and other evidence. Musk accused Twitter this week of dragging its feet in response to his discovery requests, and Twitter accused him of seeking huge amounts of data that are irrelevant to the main issue in the case: whether Musk had violated the deal contract. Twitter has blamed the court fight for slumping revenue and causing chaos within the company.
The two sides had basically agreed to an Oct. 17 trial, but were at odds over the limits of discovery, or access to internal documents and other evidence.
Musk accused Twitter this week of dragging its feet in response to his discovery requests, and Twitter accused him of seeking huge amounts of data that are irrelevant to the main issue in the case: whether Musk had violated the deal contract.Twitter has blamed the court fight for slumping revenue and causing chaos within the company.
The two sides had basically agreed to an Oct. 17 trial, but were at odds over the limits of discovery, or access to internal documents and other evidence. Musk accused Twitter this week of dragging its feet in response to his discovery requests, and Twitter accused him of seeking huge amounts of data that are irrelevant to the main issue in the case: whether Musk had violated the deal contract.
The chief judge in her order appeared to anticipate discovery disputes to come. "This order does not resolve any specific discovery disputes, including the propriety of any requests for large data sets," said McCormick.
Musk also faces a week-long trial in Wilmington, Delaware, beginning Oct. 24. A Tesla shareholder is seeking to void as corporate waste and unjust enrichment the CEO's record-breaking $56 billion pay package from the electric vehicle maker.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-files-countersuit-under-seal-twitter-44b-deal
SAM539 USAF G5 departing Miami Int'l after a ground stop of 1h23m and was last seen heading towards Brasilia where TITAN25 USAF E-4B Nightwatch went on 0725 and that (Lloyd Austin) returned to JBA on 0728 and went to Lincoln Muni as FINNY02 yesterday-missed dhat >>143923 pb
VV100 US Navy G5 still on ground at Ft. Lauderdale Int'l from JBA
SF Bay Area Housing Prices Suffer Largest One-Month Drop On Record
Thanks to a combination of rising interest rates and economic uncertainty, Real Estate in the San Francisco Bay Area have begun to chill, sharply.
In fact, housing prices in the nine-county region suffered their largest one-month drop on record, falling 7% from May to June, with median prices of existing single-family houses dropping from $1.5 million to $1.4 million, according to the San Jose Mercury News, citing the California Association of Realtors. "From this point on we probably won’t see another record price, at least for this year, for either the Bay Area or for the state," said Oscar Wei, deputy chief economist with the California Association of Realtors, who noted that it's uncommon to see such a sharp decline in June - which is typically the busy summer home-buying season.
In the core Bay Area, Alameda County saw the largest monthly price drop of 8% to $1.42 million. That was followed by San Francisco County with a 6% decline to $1.9 million, Santa Clara County with a 6% drop to $1.82 million, Contra Costa County with a 5% dip to $976,940 and San Mateo County with a 3% drop to $2.16 million. Still, Bay Area home prices were up 5% in June compared to the same time a year ago. But some counties did see year-over-year drops, including San Mateo (-5%), San Francisco (-3%) and Contra Costa (-1%). -Mercury News
The sharp reversal comes after Bay Area housing prices soared amid the pandemic, as house hunters with remote work capabilities took advantage of record-low interest rates to engage in intense bidding wars. Now that mortgage rates are hovering around 5.5% for both jumbo and conforming 30-year fixed home loans, and not the 3% one could obtain during the height of the pandemic, the bottom looks to be dropping out of the market.
According to South Bay Realtor Mary Pope-Handy, the reduced demand for homes has caused houses to sit on the market longer as buyers and sellers play a game of chicken. "It’s a lot of everybody waiting for the market to go up or go down," she said, adding "At some point the logjam will break because people still need to buy and sell." That dynamic has likely contributed to home inventory increasing throughout the region. In Alameda County, the number of available listings has nearly doubled since last year.
Paddy Kehoe, a real estate agent with Compass in the East Bay, said active sellers now have to be more thoughtful about how they put homes on the market. “If it is marginally overpriced it’s not going to sell,” Kehoe said. “Today, you have to know 100% what the price should be.” -Mercury News
"Going forward," said Wei, the CAR economist , "we will continue to see some slowdown, but it’ll be in line with the traditional seasonal slowdown rather than the sudden dip in that price shift." (total fuggen hopium here-you obviously are not paying attention to inventory and even though the SF Bay Area is "special"-and this habbens just after the start of the strongest part of the buying/selling season-what habbens in the rest of the country eventually catches up with that on a macro-scale but you keep pushing the mantra that this is "seasonal"-hope you are driving a fuggen scooter by christmas)
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/sf-bay-area-housing-prices-suffer-largest-one-month-drop-record
dats nice PIA when it's tech shit
i get it stops the auto spammer but there is still the one in dhere (QR) and they got 55 posts in one bread and why they don't try to be less stoopid by totally standing out (no that wouldn't werk cause you'd have ta have some discipline) they just makin it obvious they have ummmm "help".
kek
Japan OKs smallpox vaccine to prevent monkeypox
An expert panel of the health ministry Friday approved the use of a smallpox vaccine made by KM Biologics, based in the city of Kumamoto, to prevent monkeypox.
Smallpox vaccines are about 85% effective in preventing monkeypox, the ministry said. The government has stockpiled smallpox vaccines as an anti-terrorism measure. The panel approved the KM Biologics vaccine for use in preventing infections with monkeypox and the development of severe symptoms. KM Biologics is a unit of Japanese food and pharmaceuticals company Meiji Holdings.
The World Health Organization is calling on medical workers and others at high risk of coming into contact with monkeypox patients to be vaccinated. The ministry has vaccinated 50 medical workers at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine for research purposes. It has allowed the use of foreign-made monkeypox treatments that have yet to be approved in Japan at the NCGM and three other institutions in the prefectures of Osaka, Aichi and Okinawa. Common symptoms of monkeypox include rashes and fever. Over 18,000 people in 78 countries had been infected with the virus as of Wednesday, according to the WHO.
Patients are mostly infected by coming into contact with the rashes or body fluids of infected people, and most recover naturally within two to four weeks. “Unlike with COVID-19, human-to-human transmission does not occur easily,” the ministry said.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/29/national/science-health/smallpox-vaccine-monkeypox/
2nd simian captured in Japanese city as injury count from monkey attacks hits 61
The Yamaguchi Municipal Government announced on July 29 that it had newly captured and exterminated a male Japanese macaque in the city's Ogori area, where residents had been bitten, scratched or otherwise injured in a spate of monkey attacks.
The action followed the extermination of a male monkey on July 26. The monkey in the most recent case was the second to be captured and exterminated in the Ogori area. While there have been no new reports of injuries since the second monkey's capture, municipal authorities remain on guard while considering the possibility that there are multiple monkeys causing harm to people. According to the municipal government, at around 9 p.m. on July 28, a monkey entered the hallway of a construction firm dorm in the Ogori area by sliding open a window screen on the second floor. The monkey jumped onto an Indonesian employee in his 20s who was cooking, but the employee held the animal down with his bare hands, and captured it with four other employees, who rushed to help after noticing the commotion. The employee's right arm was scratched by the monkey, but the injury was mild. The monkey was estimated to be 4 years old. It had a body length of about 54 centimeters and weighed 7.2 kilograms. It was apparently bound by rope when municipal workers arrived at the scene.
A total of 61 people in the Ogori area were injured in monkey attacks between July 8 and noon on July 28, according to the Yamaguchi Municipal Government. At least five were injured after noon on July 28, including the male employee.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220729/p2a/00m/0na/008000c
i noes dhat..it specific to the story
>second floor window
and I use the word attack oh so lightly cause who da hell noes what really went on.
SPAR19 USAF C-40C departing JBA heading NW-dis is probably Nancy and crew leaving on her "trip" and not one of her normal ACs and it is under SPAR designation since they want a maximum 'show' angle to this
Special Priority Air Resource
Headed to JB Elmendorf first for a stop/refuel and then to Yokota AB for another stop then to Seoul, Singapore and Malaysia-the Taiwan part of this will likely be on the return flight from Malayasia
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heads to Asia Friday to visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore
Trump slams Pelosi’s planned Taiwan visit: ‘She will only make it worse’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3579795-trump-slams-pelosis-planned-taiwan-visit-she-will-only-make-it-worse/
SAM539 USAF G5 inbound to JBA from it's Miami Int'l stop
Sky event most likely..some fakey intercept or forced landing bullshit unless this is how they get rid of her fer good and just full on take it out which I find highly unlikely because of what that would cause.
have always thought that is how they would get rid of Potato so they avoid the whole messy 25th amendment shit
from what i noes (and this goes back to some discussions had at the time) it's the type of wave pattern produced at the shallow depth-not a normal type of pattern on the seismograph-but im not a geologist.
would petty much bet they are even deeper since we had nuclear powered diggers in the 50/60s just not fer us-bet they were laughing asses off at how long it took them to dig the chunnel in the 80s/90s
Not letting me embed anyting w/ YT right now but check this out
Suspicious Observers
This guy does a good job of connecting the solar activity (sunspots, CMEs etc) with earthquake activity and how we all just one big magnetic circuit and isn't a total fear porner like many are-some of the channels are "we're all gunna die!" every fuggen time a CME gets ejected
Easy to understand-I don't agree with everything but I've seen them pick apart some pretty dasting stuff that NOAA and NASA just cling to re climate change and the ocean current patterns.
here is one vid you can get to the channel that way-some of the papers presented can get dry but his info has always been good imo
Calls out NOAA quite a bit-I watch it occasionally nao but was everyday early in it's life-just stumbled upon it one day.
Has a book I want to read at some point and prolly get it while I'm laid up.
Learned a bunch from his vids and they make a ton of sense even if some of it sounds woo-woo at times-
pretty sure he was on QR for a while too.
just about 100% sure this is Nancy and the political hacks as this AC stationed at Scott-needs to make a turn to the North soon for 100% confirmation but I'd say we got them here based on muh kanowledge
It could be stopping at Seattle too-as I've seen articles that say she already left or might leave etc. but most of 'em say friday departure.
lemme get sitched went fer a walkies as I had the four-legged death stare
first of all..sorry to hear that ..not an easy thing for anyone to deal with so you have muh thoughts with ya on that.
dis (QRB) is where you will find me-I don't do any social media and through the good graces of muh fren here he puts the stuff out on TS.
And I am very grateful for that as well
While I can't tell you what is right or wrong for you-I do not know your many variables and personal situation but if it was me and was in that situation you have briefly described I would consolidate those multiple accounts into one or two moar manageable ones-you can do transfers without taking a penalty for doing that. That will make it easier on you as having one account-or you may need two depending on what the contents or those accounts are-I certainly would seek the advice of a tax professional first (I am not that at all-I have had mine done by a large firm for many years (even though I am a very small client) it is totally worth the $ spent to have them do it and stay current with the laws and changes. Plus that entire amount is also able to be written-off as well.
The tricky part is what do you want out of all that...do you want that money "in the system" or under your own control-that is your ultimate issue here-I cannot answer that for you-just tell you what I would do if I was in that situation.
With your brief description if I were you I would ask muhself two questions...1) In a market that is dropping-because you have to plan ahead-they also can keep it propped for a long time (they been doing it with $2T a night for over a year-less total amounts last year but it's up to $2T nao..this is not sustainable) how far do you think the market(s) will fall-we will be dealing with that soon-probably right after the election-don't have a crystal ball and can't tell you what they are going to do and when but you certainly should think about it for when it does habben.
Just because the FED haz a printing press FIAT currency also has a shelf-life they need to have a boom/bust cycle to retain control and 2) what is/are my penalties for taking early disbursements?
The penalty for a traditional IRA is about 10% and have actually already done this-in early 2008 knew it was coming-all the signs were there so I asked muhself those two questions-figured the answer to 1. was moar than 10%-and it was very controlled so it fooled many people-big up and down days but the trend was down decisively and since the answer to #2 was moar than 10% guess what I did with muh IRA?-emptied it and 'took' the 10% hit but prepaid 5% of it upon issuance-the rest of it was written off becasue there are ways to actually mitigate the entire amount but as I said seek a tax professionals help on that-if they have no idea how to do that find another one..ways exist legally I know this for a fact.
I have not had a retirement account since that time period-have made other arrangements
So your ultimate question is who do you want to have control of your asset(s) that you now have a third-party between you and it.
Like I said I can't tell you what is right for you however if I was in that same boat and was widowed would have those assets with very little exposure to third-party control-so that means putting them in a single account for starters and then really asking yourself how much do I trust the systems ability to return them to me should the shit hit the fan and eventually it will and I really believe that those who do not have hard assets in their own possession will not have anything but a promissory note-which is really actually what you have right now even though it may be in cash or invested in what ever it is you have-you have a promise to give it back to you.
This is nothing to take lightly so I'm sorry I can't give you much moar than that but the bottom line is to have as little exposure to any third-party with as much of your assets as possible-this is not possible with homes-but they made homes as assets and basically ATMs with cash-out refis etc.
in a sort of off-the-cuff answer I'd liquidate it all and put it in land and precious metals but that may not work for you
I wouldn't argue that.
after the fake chinese gold shit with the tungsten bars why anyone would buy anything larger than a 1 oz coin
If you just have to have bigger size then buy the cast ones that are not in a square mold as those are harder to fake since they have rounded edges-still wouldn't do it.
SPAR19 USAF C-40C looks like it's going to San Francisco Int'l for an overnight stop-kinda feelz a Di-Fi moment coming on here-like wouldn't that really piss them all off in a public way?
Real proof of life does not exist on her for how long? and the funeral for her husband showed some obviously staged pics imo-just spitballin' here-can see a Di-Fi thing coming on with this and then she has some sort of 'medial emergency in the air or while at one of these stops..heart attack or something that finally puts her sorry ass out of commission publicly even though I think she's been ded for months if not over a year or moar
Regardless of that the AC is heading for SF and I will let you know what it does tomorrow since it will probably spend the night there and leave in the morning local-there is no published schedule of where Nancy is going to be and when so it may be until late tomorrow evening before it even leaves and sometime on Sunday before it arrives in Japan-unless it is going to Malaysia and Singapore first-in that case it will go to Hawaii for a refuel.'
morning
>lottery
guess we all gotta werk still
member one of the big ones was 'won' by a bunch of Wells Fartgo ee's (or soon to be ex)
not that we did it on a regular basis-bought one here and there but stopped after that kinda always knew it was rigged and the 'winners' are always ones they noes will spend it and go broke quick.
good luck anon-you have 'problems' many would love to have
kek
>How in the hell can I stay in the 12% tax range???
that you are (based on wut little I noes) is pretty good considering.
>Damn gub put limiter on everything.
yes they did the ROTH programs solely for that and then made those precious metals ETFs eligible for inclusion to them-which I found pretty funny at the time and all those were (ETFs of real things ala hard comms) their way of keeping the public away from actually owning the underlying asset-they did a damn good job CONvincing many that you actually own something.
I'd be schtum about any further personal details (at least posting that on a public board)
gee I wonder how they found all that out next door re: Nancy
if they offer it take it...use the system to your advantage-you don't have to agree with it (I don't but they offer it)
Totally understand that moral dilemma but if you don't use it to your advantage then someone else will-Newsome is gonna stimmy us here is CA soon prolly by Sept (dunno if we will get one as we on the cusp) so it is/are available just before the election so gonna use it to do some maintenance on muh vehicles-not buy TVs and stupid shit like most will
SAM569 USAF G5 NW from JBA-this was a short VENUS flight (non-VIPs) yesterday and returned to JBA from a ground stop of about 46m (switch 'off 'to 'on') at Cheyenne, WY-Warren AFB late on 0728 as SAM607
French AF CTM1013 A330 spent the night at Charleston AFB, SC and now heading NE from that depart
Australian AF ASY595 C-17 Globemaster departed Travis AFB after a ground stop-inbound from Hickam AFB depart earlier today-it will likely go to Dover AFB
VV376 US Navy Brass departing JBA SW
Moar reciprocation for Erdogan (see article below) for playing nice with the Iranians and VP week before last-scratch muh back and I'll scratch yers
Turkish AF J-001 Citation 680 Sovereign going to Istanbul after departing Ankara and being 'off-scope' for about 9 hours
Pretty sure Erdogan uses this AC but cannot confirm if he onboard
Russia's Rosatom signs new construction contract for Turkish nuclear plant
Russia's Rosatom has awarded TSM Enerji the contract to undertake the remaining construction work at the $20 billion nuclear power plant it is building in Akkuyu in southern Turkey, the company said on Saturday. Akkuyu Nukleer, a Rosatom subsidiary that is building four reactors at the site on the Mediterranean, said it had signed the engineering, procurement and construction contract with TSM after terminating its agreement with Turkish firm IC Ictas. TSM is owned by three Russia-based companies, according to the Turkish trade registry. "All works under current subcontracts will be transferred to TSM ... Similar new contracts will be signed between TSM and subcontractors," Akkuyu Nukleer said in a statement, without saying why the IC Ictas agreement had been terminated. It said the contract with TSM would ensure work was completed by previously agreed dates and that workers were paid on time. The Turkish government aims to start operating the first reactor at the total 4,800-megawatt (MW) plant before a general election next year. President Tayyip Erdogan has previously suggested that Turkey could work with Russia on the construction of two further plants. The plant is expected to produce up to 10% of the country's electricity once all four reactors are in operation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-rosatom-signs-new-construction-contract-turkish-nuclear-plant-2022-07-30/
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German AF GAF923 A330 FM Annalena BAERbock on this ACdeparting Ankara after a visit with Erdogan
Erdogan NOT on that AC >>144238 as thought
It (GAF923) arrived at Istanbul yesterday from Athens and then went to Ankara
Turkey expects Germany to cooperate against terrorist groups: Ankara
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/diplomacy/turkey-expects-germany-to-cooperate-against-terrorist-groups-ankara
CNV4352 US Navy C-40A Clipper heading to Oahu from Yokota AB Japan (where Nancy will eventually end up on her trip to Japan-whenever that portion is) there is another one a few hours behind it (off screen) with Nancy's SPAR19 on ground at Hickam AFB
no problem
no rush
take yer time
Gazprom Halts Gas Supplies to Latvia, Citing Purchase Violations
The Russian gas producer Gazprom PJSC halted supplies to Latvia, saying the Baltic nation had “violated the conditions” of its purchases.
Flows were cut off on Saturday, Gazprom said in a statement on Telegram, without providing details. On Friday, Latvian operator Latvijas Gaze said it would continue to purchase Russian gas through an intermediary. The company said it wouldn’t buying gas directly from Gazprom, and would paying in euros, not rubles. Gazprom has been reducing deliveries to Europe in recent months. Customers, including Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark and Netherlands, were cut off after refusing to comply with Kremlin’s demand to pay in rubles for pipeline gas. Russia has also been sending less gas via Ukraine, and via the Nord Stream link to Germany, due to a spat with Siemens Energy AG over gas turbines. (This is the German Gov's issue with them playing 'hide muh turbine'-this is not Russia's problem as you knew those had to be sent to Canada for maintenance-so fug off with this "muh Russia BS)
In 2021, about 90% of the gas purchased by Latvia was from Russia, Kommersant says. In June, Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said that his country don’t intend to continue the imports. It plans to ban Russian gas from 2023.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gazprom-halts-gas-supplies-to-latvia-citing-purchase-violations-1.1799175
#976
>>144111 AMAZON ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS-Scamazon had $20.195B in the 'Goodwill' accounting bucket
>>144112 Sheriff Mack praises @greggphillips & Catherine..."This goes so deep and it’s everything that you’ve heard from Trump & everybody else about election fraud, (and it) is 10x worse!”
>>144113 @Charliekirk & @Kash discuss the fact that the Hunter Biden & Durham investigations are habbening simultaneously.
>>144114 China Banks Rush to Raise Record Debt as Credit Losses Mount
>>144115 The Enemy are Preparing for Hunter Biden’s Inevitable Indictment(s)
>>144116 South Korea’s Chip Stockpile Swells in Warning Sign for Exports-and they-Semi Mfgs-face the same problem as the big box retailers..cost of carrying unsold inventory
>>144119 Japan urges businesses to raise wages on par with price hikes
>>144123, >>144124 Gregg Phillips strongly suggesting he knows the 'Biden' in the WH is an actor playing the role of Biden
>>144130 45 AC movement and one of the ACs he has used for the shorter duration flights-FFL548 Citation X moved from Orlando-Sanford Int'l to Palm Beach Int'l yesterday
>>144131 Planefag:Europe-Med Activity: MbS departed Paris after Macron meeting-arrived from stop at Athens on 0726 and went to Paris on 0727 -going back to Jeddah, Italian AF departed Dhabi after 2h stop, Germans to Frankfurt from Memmingen, Greeks NW from Athens, French dropped off clean undies for Zelensky at Rzesow Airport Poland
>>144133, >>144157 VV100 US Navy G5 arriving at JBA from Hickam AFB, Oahu depart earlier-this is same AC that left Manila right around the recent earthquake-French AF CTM1013 A330 departed Paris crossing Atlantic This AC departed Cotonou, Benin yesterday and returned to Paris-part of Medebois visit to west Africa-VV100 departs JBA after about 3h30m SW
>>144136 Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Jumps To New 40-Year High, Savings Rate Plunges
>>144141 New York Federal Reserve Central Bank Liquidity Swap Operations with the ECB and BOJ...the ECB (EURO) $212,500,000 and the BOJ (YEN) with a measly $1m
>>144144 Japan's Sakhalin-2 LNG buyers told to pay bank inside Russia-still in dollars but could have said Rubles or any other currency and they habs NO choice but to compy
>>144149 UK anon: a leetle moar on London Eye on-going digz
>>144151 F-35 Fleet Is Grounded by US Air Force Over Ejection-Seat Worries (not entire fleet just these with the ejection seat issue....)
>>144152 Latest estimate: +2.1 percent — July 29, 2022-Full retard "good cop" today and he took the reading from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis of -0.9 yesterday and his is nao +2.1 percent ...see how this game is played?
>>144153 Pope Frank bails Quebec for one moar stop on the "we're sorry" tour in ITY4001 A330 and heading to Iqaluit
>>144154 Blinken gonna be bizzy-Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Cambodia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda
>>144155 Russians held around $14 bln in U.S. securities at end-March - c.bank dhey mentioning dis fer some reason but it's not a big amount at all
>>144160 US Nat Gas Prices Hit 14 Year High As Stocks Fail To Rebuild Fast Enough cause the "extra" was shipped out at record prices...:I
>>144162 PF CONUS Activity SAMs in/outta JBA-VV100 US Navy brass went to Ft Lauderdale
>>144166 11-3075 USAFSOC C-146A Wolfhound 'Special Forces' departing Seattle Boeing Field SE after a ground stop/refuel-inbound from JB Elmendorf-it arrived on 0721 from Misawa AB, Japan stop and Yokota AB departure-prior to that he has been at Kadena AB Okinawa since 0616
>>144168 Elon Musk files countersuit under seal vs Twitter over $44B deal-current premium is $12.59/sh or23%
>>144169 SAM539 USAF G5 departing Miami Int'l after a ground stop of 1h23m and was last seen heading towards Brasilia on 0725
>>144173 SF Bay Area Housing Prices Suffer Largest One-Month Drop On Record
>>144176 Japan OKs smallpox vaccine to prevent monkeypox
>>144177 2nd simian captured in Japanese city as injury count from monkey attacks hits 61
>>144185, >>144186, >>144187, >>144189, >>144199, >>144208, >>144227 SPAR19 USAF C-40C departing JBA heading NW-dis is probably Nancy and crew leaving on her "trip" and not one of her normal ACs and it is under SPAR designation since they want a maximum 'show' angle to this-stopped at Travis AFB for 1h15m then to Hickam AFB Oahu
>>144188 An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the Russia-Mongolia border region on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
>>144197 Learn about the Sun and it's connections to our magnetic circuit on earf-Suspicious Observers
>>144203, >>144206, >>144207 The Swiss Central Bank has reported a $100bn loss in H1 of 2022.
>>144215, >>144216 🔥UK Under White Hats Military Control‼️
>>144217 Holy crap, now they changed the definition of definition so the can literally change everything on the fly, in real time, just like in Orwell’s 1984
>>144218 DOJ official named in FBI politicization allegations played role in Lois Lerner IRS scandal | Just The News
>>144231 🔥Libya with Gaddafi Compared to Libya with American Democracy ‼️
>>144237 SAM569 USAF G5 NW from JBA-French AF CTM1013 A330 spent the night at Charleston AFB, SC and now heading NE-Australian AF ASY595 C-17 Globemaster departed Travis AFB likely go to Dover AFB-VV376 US Navy Brass departing JBA SW
>>144238 Russia's Rosatom signs new construction contract for Turkish nuclear plant-Turkish AF J-001 Citation 680 Sovereign returning to Ankara after being 'off-scope' for about 9 hours
>>144240, >>144256 CANE11 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Shaw AFB, SC E and now a 'right turn clyde' over Wilmington and went to Robbins AFB, GA
>>144247 German AF GAF923 A330 FM Annalena BAERbock on this AC departing Ankara after a visit with Erdogan
>>144249, >>144253 CNV4352 US Navy C-40A Clipper heading to Oahu from Yokota AB Japan (where Nancy will eventually end up on her trip to Japan-whenever that portion is) there is another one a few hours behind it-went to MCAS Kaneohe Bay
>>144251, >>144256 Russian AF RFF9006 Tupolev 214-PU Special Flight Squadron departed Moscow-Chkalovsky Airport NW this is Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu's AC went to St. Petersburg
>>144255 Gazprom Halts Gas Supplies to Latvia, Citing Purchase Violations