ty B
My extreme honor to be at your side as always
bettah one edit ^^
heading out
morning
ty for sharing in here-you are a trusted and diligent contributor-mum hat off to you fer sticking with that as it's prolly frustrating when having it go on fer so long but you/team will eventually crack it all and appreciate you posting in here
well if it's a digital art category...muh shit is AI platty but I habs control over what/how and plenty of what it is allowed to do-shading, colors, placement,I use batter or standard pics and it's all way different by the time done with...I see that outrage to a point
So there is an aspect of human performance
Art is still art excpet when it's a banana taped to a wall and it's 'worth' $120k (money laundering i noes) but someone decided it was worth 6 figures.
yeah it's nice-I really don't care who or how it done-they just mad it wasn't a blank canvas to start wif...talk about being old farts!
kek
doze AI plattys allow non-artists (like muhself) to be close to one and do things never would have been able to do before...bet all those 'critics' have an iphone or android phone too.
They bring the part of creation closer to everyone and that is not a bad thing.
They are an imperfect tool/thing in an imperfect world..whodathunk!
kek
Planefag:Europe/Med/Gulf Activity
Aussie AF ASY598 left Prestwick Int'l after heading over the pond >>147942 lb departed NAS-Norfolk and heading to Rzesow, Poland wif moar trouble to be delivered
Italian AF IAM1497 G5 SE G550AEW- (identical to the Israeli Nachshon group) from RAF Waddington-and had some tracking over Scotland earlier as PERSEO71 , IAM1480 G550 EW from Rome Prata di Mare-(where the IAM1497 AC is heading back to) to Venice for a fly over and now back to Rome....
Spanish AF AME4521 Falcon 900 SW from Berlin and heading back to Madrid after an overnight
RAF RRR7276 RC-135 Rivet Joint in it's customary Black Sea harassment location
German AF GAF362 A400m north from Tunis, Tunisia after about 1h 45m on ground
'''AE6854 US Navy P-8 Poseidon back to Sigonella AB after some tracking in between Malta and Tunisia-been some heavy activity in this area last 5 days or so-lotsa Sr Navy Clipper flights in/out of Sigonella too CVNXXX-also the B-52 s throught that area-he dropped from sight but was dhere as it returned to Sigonella ABm Sicily
DUKE62 US Army C-560 NW from Constanta AB, Romania
POKER44 US Army C-560 left Aqaba, Jordan stopped at Amman then back to Kuwait and now heading ES passing over northern Qatar heading to Dhabi
Planefag:CONUS Activity-Potato and Kneepads with the full press for muh labor day votes-pretty quiet otherwise
Potato in empty callsign 747 82-8000 went to Milwaukee-Mitchell Int'l and 09-0016 USAF C-32A went to Toledo, OH as the escort
Potato delivers remarks celebrating Labor Day and the dignity of American workers; The Secretary of Labor attends-Henry Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee, WI
Then he goes to Pittsburgh Int'l for the same fake shit at USW Local 2227 Union Hall, West Mifflin, PA
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
AF2 USAF C-32A is departing Boston-Logan Int'l after her appearing to gibs a shit speech in Boston and basically a campaign event then what it is touted as
Kamala Harris attended the annual Greater Boston Labor Council Breakfast
check out her pushing down Senator Markey's arms after greeting-he was on the last group trip to Taipei and been around for so long he signed the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979..time to leave!
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-boston/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h#x
The Saudi Oil Minister-picrel-haz been on record saying they tired of the COMEX control of pricing so they 'cut production' to increase the price-the reason this isn't having the big rise-and sticking-is that the 'increase in production' before was just what OPEC+ already said they were going to do being brought forward-so taking it 'off' isn't gonna do much to this overall price
OPEC+ cuts global oil supplies, reversing September increase
Oil prices rose Monday mainly due to Russian energy giant Gazprom's shutdown of Nordstream 1 natural gas supplies, an industry expert says. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, also known as OPEC+, plan to cut global oil supplies by 100,000 barrels per day next month, which an industry expert claims is more of a "political statement."
The October cut essentially reversed the group's September increase by the same amount.
Oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, have resisted calls from President Biden to pump more oil to lower gasoline prices and the burden on consumers. In fact, Monday's move also comes after comments from Saudi Arabia’s energy minister that the group could reduce output at any time. As of Monday, prices are still significantly down from June peaks of over $120 per barrel, which is good news for motorists given the fact that oil accounts for over 50% of what consumers pay at the pump, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, there are several factors that could influence oil prices moving ahead,
On one hand, the Group of Seven major democracies plan to impose a price cap on imports of Russian oil and what effect that might have on the market. The price level for the cap has not yet been set. However, a deal between world powers, including the U.S., and Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program could ease sanctions and allow over 1 million barrels per day of Iranian oil to return to the market over the next few months. If an agreement is reached, Lipow projects oil prices would fall $5 to $7 per barrel. It could also push OPEC+ to discuss a production cut to offset the increased supplies.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/opec-cuts-global-oil-supplies-reversing-september-increase
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
Israel AF BLACK 1 707 Re'em tanker up along with 4X982 Nachson Eitam SIGINT #2 and 684 G550 Nachshon Shavit SIGINT #3 all out of Nevatim AB
Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations
Israel has dropped a controversial demand for foreigners visiting the occupied West Bank to report romantic links with Palestinians within 30 days. Revised rules also on foreigners living in, or wanting to, visit the territory remove a quota for university lecturers and students from abroad. The Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, described them as "racist measures". Israel says restrictions on travel into the West Bank are for security reasons. The US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides said he had "aggressively engaged" with the Israeli government and continued "to have concerns with the published protocols".
European diplomats previously said they had brought up concerns "at the highest level" with the Israeli authorities. Mr Shtayyeh has called on the US and EU to apply diplomatic pressure to make further changes. The procedures affect thousands of foreign spouses, as well as Palestinians living in the diaspora, businesspeople, academics and volunteers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62798108
>>147681 lb New York Federal Reserve vaporizes moar FIAT dosh-Liquidity Swap with the European Central Bank: $196.5m
Euro would totally be lower if the above not done last week-it 'good until Thursday' they will also do another one towards the end of the week-NONE of this is because they are buying all Euro Sov. debt..not THAT at all AND an hour or so into Asian Markets opening up the Yen will have reached a new 24 year low'-cap #3
Euro slides below 99 cents, lowest in two decades, after Russia shuts off gas
The euro fell below 99 cents for the first time in nearly two decades after Russia shut down a major gas supply pipeline to Europe indefinitely, worsening an energy crisis that threatens to tip the continent into a recession. The euro traded at around $0.99 versus the dollar on Monday morning in the U.S., down roughly 13% from the start of the year.
Russia abandoned a Saturday deadline to resume supply of natural gas to Germany through a key pipeline — the Nord Stream 1 — after shutting it down earlier this summer for annual maintenance. The decision from Russian energy supplier Gazprom came hours after the Group of Seven nations agreed on a plan to impose a price cap on Russian oil. Gazprom did not say when it might resume exports. Russia is the world's second-largest producer of both oil and natural gas, and the Nord Stream 1 pipeline accounted for about 35% of Europe's total Russian gas imports last year. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, rallied to a fresh 20-year high as the euro — as well as the British pound >>148017 lb — declined amid fears of an energy shortage and a hit to growth.
The U.S. central bank is raising rates far more aggressively than the European Central Bank, which has also helped to boost the dollar. And while there are recession fears brewing in the U.S., experts believe the odds of an economic downturn in Europe are even higher.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/euro-slides-below-99-cents-lowest-two-decades-russia-shuts-gas
The announced 'trip to SA' was a head fake and he will do a bigger deal as this was China's first direct pipeline from Caspian shore to Xinjiang and completely finished in 2009
Kazakhstan says China's Xi to visit, in 1st foreign trip since pandemic
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan on Sept. 14, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, in what would be his first foreign trip since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Xi will meet Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and sign a number of bilateral documents, ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov told a briefing.
Beijing, which gives little advance notice of Xi's movements, has not confirmed a Kazakhstan visit by him, and China's Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Xi, who is expected to secure a precedent-breaking third leadership term at a congress of China's ruling Communist Party starting on Oct. 16, has not left China since the country all but shut its borders to international travel under its "zero-COVID" policy in 2020.
Kazakhstan has close ties with China, supplying minerals, metals and energy to its eastern neighbor and transshipping goods between China and Europe. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Xi was considering a trip to Central Asia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization set for Sept. 15-16 in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. Last month, a longtime adviser to the Indonesian president said that Xi and Putin will attend November's Group of 20 summit on the resort island of Bali.
Xi and Putin have grown increasingly close, and shortly before Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow announced a "no limits" partnership. Xi made his first trip outside of mainland China since early 2020 when he visited Hong Kong on June 30 to mark the 25th anniversary of its handover from British control.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Kazakhstan-says-China-s-Xi-to-visit-in-1st-foreign-trip-since-pandemic
Planefag:CONUS Update-Some SAMs moving around-Potato Milwaukee to Pittsburgh-escort prolly to Youngstown XHUNT1 US Coast Guard Blackhawk back on ground and up fer depart around water (SOP) but interdasting callsign nonetheless cap #2-SAM051 G5 west from JBA SAM525 SW frm Gabreski Airport-where 45s AC used on Sat is based, SAM812 USAF C-40B SW to MacDill AFB from JBA-RCH3282 C-17 inbound to Milwaukee from Charleston Int'l for equipment pickup
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Gold Warriors
How America Secretly Recovered Yamashita's Gold
Black Eagle Trust, the M-Fund, Project Hammer, the CIA, a string of CIA black banks around the world, and CIA savings and loan companies inside America. The Cast of Character's behind the US Corporation's Secret Banking System
The corruption obvious in the Federal Reserve system, the gold cartel and big banks, has turned
America into a nation most of the world no longer respects – a nation driven by greed, greased by
influence-peddling, controlled by fear, and misled by lies. Since 1945, its all-consuming greed has been
hidden by the veil of “National Security”. Despite the collapse of the “communist menace” that justified
excessive secrecy during the Cold War, the corrupt Bush administration has shown how new enemies can always be found to scare Americans into submission and compliance. The term “Terrorist” can be applied to anyone,(except Deutsche Bank) to destroy a career, to demonize an ethnic or religious group, or simply to frighten Americans.
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Sterling%20Seagrave,%20Peggy%20Seagrave%20-%20Gold%20Warriors%20-%20America's%20Secret%20Recovery%20of%20Yamashita's%20gold.pdf
Planefag:CONUS Update: Potato back to DC with escort, SAM(s) update, C-17s picking up at Pittsburgh (TEDDY46...) and dropped off from Milwaukee, Some NATO weenies to Brussels and Trudope to Vancouver for 'private meetings but is "shocked" at the stabbings so LOOK HERE'
Potato in empty callsign 747 82-8000 departed Pittsburgh Int'l after moar fake shit about Labor day and campaigning instead with 09-0016 USAF C-32A departed Wright-Patterson AFB as the escort
SAM015 USAF G5 went to Peterson SFB and SAM812 USAF C-40B to MacDill AFB-while SAM525 went back to JBA
RCH3283 USAF C-17 Globemaster heading back to Charleston after dropping Milwaukee visit equipment at JBA with TEDDY46 USAF C-17 heading to Pittsburgh Int'l to pick up that equipment and take it back to JBA
SPAR18 USAF C-40B NE from JBA-NATO weenies back to Brussels after stopping at JBA from Scott AFB departure
and in look HERE news...
CFC1 CL-60 WN from OttawaTrudopesez he is going to Vancouver for 'private meetings' and surprised he din't inject self into this below by visiting..
RCMP say suspect in Saskatchewan stabbing rampage found dead, brother still at large
RCMP say Damien Sanderson, one of two suspects in a deadly stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan, has been found dead. A manhunt for a man still sought by police after a stabbing rampage on and near Saskatchewan’s James Smith Cree Nation on Sunday extended into its second day on Monday. RCMP said Monday afternoon they are now only searching for one suspect after locating the body of Damien Sanderson, 31, outside of a house on James Smith Cree Nation earlier the same day. Damien sustained “visible injuries … not believed to be self-inflicted,” said Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer of Saskatchewan RCMP. Police indicated they do not currently believe Damien was involved with the other homicides. Damien’s younger brother, Myles Sanderson, 30, may have sustained injuries and is still at large. RCMP said Myles, who may seek medical attention, is being included in the 19 injured. Damien is included in the 11 deaths.
https://vancouversun.com/news/saskatchewan/live-manhunt-continues-for-saskatchewan-stabbing-rampage-suspects/wcm/c37428a5-b09e-41ef-a0ee-9780e16d54dd
GERT42 USAF E-4B Nightwatch out from Dyess AFB and arrived yesterday as WNTR45
Some Urban dictionary entries for Gert
"To ejaculate seminal fluid multiple times in an abrupt and violent manner, often without regard for the well-being of others"
"I gerted on her face"
"an abnormally large anus" and it goes on from dhere but I gather the first one is what dhey going for
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gert
SAM944 USAF G5 returns to JBA after an overnight at Teterboro Airport, NJ
This is generally used as an alternative to Laguardia, JFK or Newark as the gate fees are way cheaper-for example the Brazilians drop at JFK and then go to Long Island..wait and then go pick-up back at JFK
Fuggen Jerry's boi's at the NYFRB do moar than that every single day (wit just Securities "lending") and apparently the Chinese had the "secret" but not so secret meeting-to do the real decision making before the CCP Congress coming up-looks like the Zemin faction lost again-why you saw the announcement of Xi's trip too'''
China sees third quarter as key for rollout of stimulus measures
China said it will accelerate its stimulus rollout in the third quarter, as it tries to recover from a second quarter marred by pandemic-related losses. It’s “crucially important” for the country to adopt supportive policies this quarter, Yang Yinkai, deputy secretary general at the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters in Beijing on Monday. He was speaking alongside officials from the central bank and other government ministries.
Yang and the other officials noted that 300 billion yuan (US$43.6 billion) in funds have been distributed through a policy bank financing programme, which is intended to spur infrastructure investment this year. Local governments have also sold 3.5 trillion yuan worth of special bonds through August, they said, including almost all of the bond quota allocated for construction projects.
The briefing came a little over a week after Beijing unveiled a package of stimulus measures worth more than one trillion yuan, focused mainly on infrastructure spending as a vehicle for growth. The government has been ramping up support for an economy weighed down by Covid outbreaks and lockdowns, along with an unfolding property crisis and power shortages. At the same briefing on Monday, the central bank’s Deputy Governor Liu Guoqiang addressed the currency’s weakness, saying authorities will be able to keep the yuan stable. Shortly after his comments, the PBOC cut the foreign-currency reserve ratio by 2 percentage points, a move aimed at boosting the yuan.
“Movements that are reasonable, equilibrium and basically stable is what we’d like to see,” Liu said, adding that such a trend would “not be allowed to change”.
He added that the “spill-over impact of US monetary policy is controllable” due to the resilience of the Chinese economy and the rising flexibility of the yuan’s exchange rate. While the hawkish US Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates this year to tame inflation, China’s central bank has moved in the opposite direction, most recently cutting its key policy rate by 10 basis points. The yuan just capped its sixth consecutive month of declines — the longest period of depreciation since it weakened in October 2018, while trade tensions with the US were escalating. The offshore yuan weakened to 6.9551 per dollar on Monday, a fresh two-year low.
Economists have speculated that there could be further monetary policy easing to come, including a reduction in the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve. “China’s policy toolbox is ample currently, both in terms of price tools and quantitative tools,” Liu said. “We will strike a balance between stabilizing growth, employment and inflation.”
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/china-sees-third-quarter-key-rollout-stimulus-measures
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/reverse-repo
>Huge global storm is starting, Moscow warns
In moar ways than they can possibly imagine-it will not be 'instant' but take some time-wut they did earlier this year was not a gold-backed Ruble since you couldn't go in and exchange Rubles for Gold..it set a floor in the price of Gold and they din't use it for long..just until the natty gas $ was being converted for payments
Russia proposes new precious metals exchange to compete with LBMA
The way this is happening is a strident effort by the Russian government to break economic ties with the United States and the European Union, and form new partnership with Eurasian countries and other powerful neighbors, including China and India.
Russia has proposed a gold and commodities-backed ruble, something we will get into shortly, as well as its own international standard of precious metals exchange dubbed the Moscow World Standard. According to Market Sanity, With a new eastern-driven price discovery exchange, Russia believes it can break up the monopoly of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), which along with the CME Group's NYMEX futures market, contains some of the world's most influential gold, silver, platinum & palladium price discovery markets today.
In this article we explain how we got here, and what these new developments mean.
De-dollarization
The US dollar is the most important unit of account for international trade, the main medium of exchange for settling international transactions, and the store of value for central banks. Lately though, "de-dollarization" is being pursued by countries with agendas at odds with the US, including Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Since 2018, the Bank of Russia has substantially reduced the share of dollars in its foreign exchange reserves, through purchases of gold, euros and yuan. As of March, 2022, Russia was the fourth largest holder of gold bullion, behind the US at no. 1, Germany, Italy and France. The country's gold holdings have tripled since the first Russia-Ukraine war in 2014, and are estimated at around 20% of the BoR's total reserves.
China and Russia have drastically reduced dollar usage in conducting trade. In 2015 about 90% of transactions used the dollar. After the trade war between the US and China broke out, the figure by 2019 had dropped to 51%. And that was before the war in Ukraine. Bilateral currency swaps between Russia's and China's central banks helped Russia to bypass US sanctions in 2014. A three-year currency swap worth $24.5 billion, enabled each country to access the other's currency without having to buy it on the foreign exchange market. The Bank of Russia in early 2019 purchased $44 billion worth of Chinese yuan, tripling its share of Russia's foreign exchange reserves from 5 to 15%. Russia's yuan holdings are about 10 times the global average; it currently has nearly a third of all reserves in China's renminbi/ yuan. Major Russian energy companies including Gazprom and Rosneft have stopped using the US dollar, with the euro now the primary vehicle of trade between Russia and China. At the end of 2020 more than 83% of Russian exports to China were settled in euros. Although that too could be changing…As the target of US economic sanctions (for annexing Crimea, interfering in its election, and now, invading Ukraine), Russia sees diversification from the dollar and into gold and other currencies, as a way of skirting trade restrictions. Yet according to the International Monetary Fund, as of the first quarter of 2022, 59% of global foreign exchange reserves were denominated in dollars, followed by the euro in second place at 20%.
This begs the question, if the US dollar were to be replaced, or made to compete with, another currency, what would it be? There is increasing evidence of a plan by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), to substitute the USD with a new global reserve currency. At the 14th BRICS summit in June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said "The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket of currencies of our countries is being worked out." He added that "contracts between Russian business circles and the business community of the BRICS countries have intensified…"Experts say that a new global currency could either be an alternative to the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs), or be used only for settling trades between nations as opposed to a reserve currency used by central banks. (SDRs are just invented out of thin air by the IMF-which is 60% funded by the US Corp-and "black money")
Recently it was reported that Russia and India no longer need the US dollar for mutual settlements, with the BRICS International Forum President telling reporters a new mechanism has been established between the two countries using only rubles and rupees. This way of paying for goods gives Russia a way to go around the sanctions imposed on the country following its invasion of Ukraine. "The BRICS countries are opening up to Russia, offering the opportunity for the country to overcome the consequences of sanctions," Anand said. Russia has also increased its ties with India, as trade jumped fivefold over the past four decades, according to Anand. India has been importing more oil from Russia, while Moscow has stepped up purchases of agricultural products, textiles, and medicine. India has resisted the pressure from the West to ban Russian oil.
Gold and commodities-back ruble
In fact the Kremlin appears to have wasted little time, after approving what it calls the "special military operation" in Ukraine, in launching a project to pin the Russian ruble to gold and other commodities. In an April interview with Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, one of the most powerful officials in Russia, Nikolai Patrushev said that, For any national financial system to be sovereignized, its means of payment must have intrinsic value and price stability, without being pegged to the dollar. Now experts are working on a project proposed by the scientific community to create a two-circuit monetary and financial system. In particular, it is proposed to determine the value of the ruble, which should be backed by both gold and a group of goods that are currency values, and to put the ruble exchange rate in line with the real purchasing power parity.
Patrushev is no mere talking head. As Secretary of the Russian Federation's Security Council, and a close Putin ally, his words should be seen as coming from the highest echelons of Russia's government.
https://www.investorideas.com/news/2022/mining/09023RickMills-Russia.asp
lemme clean that up ^^^
when the peeps stop paying for already being lived in properties dhat gonna spread quickly.
That would be the next domino for them imo.
Can't put that genie back in da bottle-Imma hoping it spreads all over the world too-bring those fugger to knees.
If they ("IF" like they aren't gonna do that ..who am I kiddin'!!!) when they steal some key races in Nov I hope the anger just boils over-not open or outright killing dhem-but ya know I've always thought it gonna take torches and pitchforks at some point and if they (FRB) miss that fine line of property values dropping-cause it's pretty much there right nao THAT is not gonna go over well when doze mkt statements get printed in 3 weeks and add in the haircut in home prices.
Doesn't make them right-if it resorts to stringing up by short and curlies but understand everyone haz a breaking point and they are testing that, financially (the most reactive) for everyone right now.
>this means the BRICS countries are cutting ties with IMF?
it means they are trying to do that by offering an alternative to not only the metals stuff but all commodities and fin. transactions (eventually) any country that needs help or will need help via the IMF type of bailout-so if they (BRICS) balied someone out it would be by a system that was actually backed by something other than the fake SDR and they created all that in 1969 (another one of Kissenger's "deals" at werk here) right before they took us off the Gold standard in 1971-sozero coincidence on that.
SDRs (U.S. dollar, the euro, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan, and the British pound) but they are not real they are created out of thin air and just using those FIATs as a reference point-since all of doze are doing so well right now...and the USD is being propped by the rest of those and primed for a destructo moment when those Reverse Repos are done the other way-taking back all that crap and pushing out cash.
That begins on Thursday with >>147575 lb Statement Regarding Repurchase Agreement Small Value Exercise- stated that the daily Reverse Repos (over $2T nightly) will become Repos here you go with the NYFRB starting it's 'small value exercise' which is essentially justQEall over again
However they will become larger quickly becasue QT is supposedly starting too and it's been crickets on that and we are one week into Sept but seeing as they are just setting the stage for them to buy all right back via those QE (as of this week "small value")
Yerp is done as they are sucking up all the Sov Debt cause no one else is and just like here they will prolly do one moar hike for show but they are finis if they do it again and they know it-that decision is Thursday-we've done 3% with two so they would be just equaling us with the second on on Thursday but that is it.
And then you habs Japan who won't raise them at all-they will continue to blow up the Yen to keep the 10y at 0.25%-everyone but the dollar is devaluing but ourr dollar is being propped by all of that becasue of the coming Repo process or QE (but not QE) Reversing the Reverse Repos.
Bottom line everyone but BRICS is pretty much fugged (they aren't in the clear either but are way moar attractive -as long as they keep Argentina out as they want in too)
And once SA is added it's turn out the lights the party's over
One other key point here is that as Wall St finally "figures" this out (they already do and know dis already imo as the strong dollar is not just because all other currencies are devaluing -some of this is them being liquidated-look how many hedgies and swap deals have blo'd up in the last year-that has a demand for dollars-same exact shit habbened in 2008 it was $85 in June and by Oct it was $94-after all the turmoil got going and then when the "green Shoots" narrative narrative pushed out it was at $97 (mar 2009) and you prolly member Hussein came out and said basically buy stonks-no sitting US President had ever said that in so many words before-and they then pushed the up button on the equity markets and the down button on the dollar (it was at $97 March '08 and by May down to $91) which resulted in it being at $80 in 2011-it's most recent low..it never saw that again because then the whole world embarked on debt monetization-they actually started all of that shit here in Oct 2002 'officially' right in front of the second Iraq War and it was at $110 then...right where it is at now
#1000
>>148043 UN anon updates London Eye and Fireworks Christmas/NYE anomalies-They forgot to remove that temporary sign and it remained in place until May 2014
>>148052 45 vs USA Judge Cannon appoints a Special Master
>>148054 Planefag:Europe/Med/Gulf Activity-Aussies delivering moar trubs to Rzesow,Italians EW (Electronic Warfare) ACs back to Rome, Spanish left Berlin back to Madrid
>>148057 Planefag:CONUS Activity-Potato and Kneepads with the full press for muh labor day votes-pretty quiet otherwise-Potato in Milwaukee and kneepads left Boston
>>148058 OPEC+ cuts global oil supplies, reversing September increase
>>148059 Israel AF BLACK 1 707 Re'em tanker up along with 4X982 Nachson Eitam SIGINT #2 and 684 G550 Nachshon Shavit SIGINT #3 all out of Nevatim AB...Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations
>>148060 Euro slides below 99 cents, lowest in two decades, after Russia shuts off gas-did a swap of $196.5m last week 'Good until Thursday' but it's NOT because the ECB is buying all the Sov issued debt and raising rates ...nope not THAT
>>148062 Kazakhstan says China's Xi to visit, in 1st foreign trip since pandemic-The announced 'trip to SA' was a head fake and he will do a bigger deal as this was China's first direct pipeline from Caspian shore to Xinjiang and completely finished in 2009
>>148063 Walt Disney Company Releases ‘Little Demon’ About An Antichrist Child of Satan..."normal life in delaware"..can't make that shit up can ya?
>>148064 Planefag:CONUS Update-Some SAMs moving around-Potato Milwaukee to Pittsburgh-escort prolly to Youngstown XHUNT1 US Coast Guard Blackhawk back on ground and up fer depart around water (SOP) but interdasting callsign nonetheless cap #2-SAM051 G5 west from JBA SAM525 SW frm Gabreski Airport-where 45s AC used on Sat is based, SAM812 USAF C-40B SW to MacDill AFB from JBA-RCH3282 C-17 inbound to Milwaukee from Charleston Int'l for equipment pickup
>>148081 Gold Warriors: How America Secretly Recovered Yamashita's Gold .pdf
>>148087 Planefag: CONUS Update: Potato back to DC with escort, SAM(s) update, C-17s picking up at Pittsburgh (TEDDY46...) and dropped off from Milwaukee, Some NATO weenies to Brussels and Trudope to Vancouver for 'private meetings' but is "shocked" at the stabbings so LOOK HERE'
>>148087 RCMP say suspect in Saskatchewan stabbing rampage found dead, brother still at large
>>148097 Andrew Weismann is C_A/MOS/MI6 'level' infiltration of federal agency prosecution 'power brokers'.Who is the REAL 'Andrew Weismann'?
>>148100 GERT42 USAF E-4B Nightwatch out from Dyess AFB and arrived yesterday as WNTR 45 Gert: "To ejaculate seminal fluid multiple times in an abrupt and violent manner, often without regard for the well-being of others"
>>148108 SAM944 USAF G5 returns to JBA after an overnight at Teterboro Airport, NJ-This is generally used as an alternative to Laguardia, JFK or Newark as the gate fees are way cheaper
>>148110 Huge global storm is starting, Moscow warns-"Absurd" decisions by the US and the EU are to blame, the Kremlin press secretary says
>>148111 China sees third quarter as key for rollout of stimulus measures-Fuggen Jerry's boi's at the NYFRB do moar than that every single day (wit just Securities "lending")
>>148113, >>148117, >>148118, >>148119, >>148120 In YUGE storm news Part II: Russia proposes new precious metals exchange to compete with LBMA- QE/QT, SDRs, IMF, US $s-some historical perspective on where da dollar is now and when it was here last..Oct 2002 when Trash for Cash started and just in front of 2nd Iraq War
night
ttyitm
Dis time we get to see LGBTQIA and Unity money destruction all in the name of ESG hence the rainbow equality flames-but money printers are funny things they can keep things going for a long time
if you got a bigger version 'o dhat snek gadsen flag-Vet 2022 Aug would appreciate
morning
Planefag:Europe-Med-Gulf: SPAR18 went to Naples, moar US Politicians in Pakistan giving away moar $$, Hungarians at Warsaw-and busy pissing off the EU (good), Belgians left Pisa, Slovenians SE from Ljubljana and the usuals..RAF Rivet Joint in Black Sea, MBS AC heading back to Saud AB in Northern SA
SPAR18 USAF C-40B arrived at Naples from JBA depart-NATO AC-stopped at JBA and departed Scott AFB prior yesterday
Pakistan AF KLD1A G4 back to Lahore after a trip to Sukkur, Pakiland
Army Chief, US Congressional delegation discuss regional security
According to ISPR, the delegation comprising Sheila Jackson Lee, Thomas Suozzi and Alexander Green expressed grief over the devastation caused by ongoing floods in Pakistan and extended condolence to the families of the victims. They offered United States' support to the people of Pakistan in this hour of need. They also discussed matters of mutual interests, regional security situation and bilateral cooperation in various fields.
https://www.radio.gov.pk/06-09-2022/army-chief-us-delegation-discuss-regional-security
Hungarian AF HUAF365 A319 on ground at Warsaw-Chopin Int;k from Kecskemet AB-been there for about 9 hours-some Hungary news
Hungary will have enough gas for winter
'''Hungary will have enough gas this winter to supply its households and economy, Tamas Menczer, state secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has said.
https://www.poandpo.com/politics/hungary-will-have-enough-gas-for-winter
Hungary to set up anti-corruption body in bid to unlock EU funds
https://www.barrons.com/news/hungary-to-set-up-anti-corruption-bodies-to-allay-eu-concerns-01662461407
RSAF HZ-101 737 ==MbS AC heading back to Saud AB in northern SA again
Italian AF IAM1495 G550 SIGINT back to Rome from eastern Romainia trackin
HOBO17USAF KC-135 tanker was on the track SE of Krakow earlier and has returned to RAF Mildenhall
Slovenian AF LSV101 Falcon 2000 SE from Ljubljana
Belgium AF BAF88 Falcon 7x departed Pisa, Italy after about 1 hour on ground
RAF RRR7277 RC-135 Rivet Joint over Black Sea and got a refuel from 59-1476 KC-135 tanker
not an article-it's the NYFRB announcing moar debt monetization
>yen will survive
dhey better get on that-cause 1.5% ain't saying it's looking too good right nao-they won't do anything until about 145 but are constrained for need to keep the 10 year at it's line in the sand-which it's right at again so another vaporization of standards for them with that being a % that used ta habben in months not one day and this will get worse the longer they do that.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/currency/usdjpy
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
>ten thousand million but
yeah where dafuq did she get THAT from..
OOHA out of her ass
the name Yen will survive but in it's current form the longer they do this the worse it gets-suffer is almost too kind as that is what propped us up (yen-carry trade) after 2008 so now we see the reverse of that play out and they don't habs this either https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/data-hub nor a Plunge Protection Team (PPT) or ESF so yeah they gonna suffer hard since all they can do is print to buy the 10 year (and other debt) and since Kuroda (doesn't really matter who really-just a body occupying space and taking orders) is around until next year but they won't change tact from 'dis cause they think they can "beat it"
>kamikaze thing must be genetic
It think it is...it's actually pretty sad they gonna do that but currently they habs no choice: that or raise rates
>gold
they habs either what was not 'found' before or took it all off the Trust(s)-that book I posted... >>148081 cause we took a good deal out of PI-Gen Mac knew ALL about that and another reason he was moved aside-how much no one really knows but it wasn't small amount and then Poppy sent Haig (and Greenspan too) all over cashing in and/or making moar FIATskis based on those holdings. And dis doesn't even cover what we habs in our ground still
I gotta finish that Gold Act thing with 'zilla since much habbened right before and after that E.O. signed by Roosevelt and that was something like 1 month into his first term.
We got a loan from da Chinese and backed it with our ground reserves and dhen we had to pay it back later-in the 50s I think..dis the gold that no one seems to be able to decode but I have a general idea of what some the symbols mean-not the letters-no one knows wtf that is all about
That Chinese Gold Bar Cipher thing
https://ciphermysteries.com/2015/03/15/that-chinese-gold-bar-cipher-thing
>EU will never snap back
Aye..not habbening and they habs the swap still 'good until thursday'-which they will raise rates again and then stop..if they even do that-remains to be seen but they kinds locked into it at this point
Planefag:CONUS activity-SAM960 C-40B State Dept AC WN, BOXER85 C-40C WS and the SPAR 2-step shuttle(s) Scott-JBA-Scott-JBA Learjet 35s, SAM015 G5 east from Peterson SFB overnight
7 USAF C-130 Super Hercules WS from Halifax after an overnight and inbound from Keflavik AB, Iceland yesterday and left Ramstein AFB on 0904
sorta expecting that at this point and surprised not habbened overtly yet
one of the things to 'speed it up' right?
got some IRL for a bit
>>148009 lb Austria grants credit line to Vienna utility squeezed by power price-and surged because they were short
>and this creates contagion as it produces a feedback loop but this is not the only reason; it is a symptom of a much larger problem called derivatives (short)
and now Finland, Switzerland and Sweden joined the party-this is how VP used the EU's greed against themselves-he really doesn't have to lift a finger as already described..contagion takes care of the rest-and as long as they bail them out it keeps this cycle going which will culminate in Europ's version of our 2008 "too big to fail" but these are at least at 200-300:1 leverage-wise..the avg person is saying to selves "you mean natty gas can do this?"...yes it certainly can and already has-it warned you when prices kept hitting all time highs and yet these Co.s just doubled down
Trillions In "Liquidity Support Is Going To Be Needed" As Swiss, Finns Join Europe's Bailout Brigade
Credit Suisse repo guru Zoltan Poszar published what may have been the most insightful snippet of the entire European energy crisis (to date) when he extended the infamous "Minsky Moment" framework to Europe, and specifically Germany, which he said "can’t cover its payments without Russian gas and the government is asking citizens to conserve energy to leave more for industry." He then elaborated that "Minsky moments are triggered by excessive financial leverage, and in the context of supply chains, leverage means excessive operating leverage: in Germany, $2 trillion of value added depends on $20 billion of gas from Russia… …that’s 100-times leverage – much more than Lehman’s." But while Germany is front-and-center in this margin call malaise, many other European nations are suddenly succumbing to what Zoltan dubbed a "supply-chain Minsky moment."
Over the weekend, we reported that Sweden and Austria had begun to bail out their energy suppliers: Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said the loan to Wien Energie was an "extraordinary rescue measure" to ensure its two million customers - mainly Vienna households - continue to receive electricity. It will run until next April. Prime minister Magdalena Andersson said the government would offer hundreds of billions of kroner in support to electricity producers, the FT reported. The PM warned that, left unchecked, rising collateral demands for electricity producers could ripple through the main Nasdaq Clearing market in Stockholm and, in the worst case, spark a financial crisis.... just as Zoltan warned almost half a year ago.
And today, Reuters reports that Finland and Switzerland have joined the bailout brigade...Finnish utility Fortum said it had signed a bridge financing arrangement with government investment company Solidium worth 2.35 billion euros ($2.34 billion) to cover its collateral needs. A Finnish government official told Reuters the support was in addition to the 10 billion euros of liquidity guarantees Helsinki announced for power companies on Sunday.
Swiss utility Axpo said it had received a credit line of up to 4 billion Swiss francs ($4.1 billion) from the government to help secure its liquidity needs. The Swiss government has lined up a 10 billion franc safety net for power firms, but decided to allocate the funds to Axpo even though the legislation is still before parliament. The numbers are adding up fast but pale in comparison to what the final price could be if European governments decide this is their 'whatever it takes' moment. (yes it's the derivatives stoopid....financial weapons of war work in silent..mostly and when you use leverage in this quantity..it's way higher than 100:1 so sorry Zoltan but you have to keep yer job so I see why you watered it down but good on ya for posting..they'll eventually silence you too and remember who is on your BoD...Good ol Blythe Masters and she will certainly take notice of this write-up as being one of the inventors of the credit-default swap (CDS) products that JP Morgan profited so handsomely from...she'll be watchin' ya) Norwegian energy giant Equinor ASA warned European energy trading risks grinding to a halt unless governments extend liquidity to cover margin calls of at least $1.5 trillion. Bloomberg reports that Helge Haugane, Equinor’s senior vice president for gas and power, said in an interview that “liquidity support is going to be needed," warning that his company's estimate for $1.5 trillion to prop up so-called paper trading is “conservative.” And Haugane confirms what we explained was driving the breakdown in market functioning in the (paper) energy markets:
“This is just capital that is dead and tied up in margin calls,” Haugane said in an interview at the Gastech conference in Milan.
“If the companies need to put up that much money, that means liquidity in the market dries up and this is not good for this part of the gas markets,” he said.
Sadly - but not entirely unexpectedly, Haugane says that EU plans to intervene would be "sensible" for derivatives trading. In other words, we are back to the 'too big to fail' arguments from 2008 when fears of the apocalypse (this time in real energy markets ahead of winter) prompted demands that government "do something" to save the over-levered from themselves... with the excuse being 'if you do not rescue us, there will be hell to pay for the average EU joe'. Finally, how exactly does this explicitly inflationary 'bailout' pair with ECB's inflation-fighting mandate? We are sure Lagarde and Van der Leyen have all the answers... and if you dare ask, you are a Putin puppet (because remember decades of piss-poor policy decisions signaling as much virtue as possible led to this crisis point among the 'green' climate climaxers... Putin's invasion of Ukraine was merely the final straw that Trump had warned about).
Without the 'pain' that Fed Chair Powell has warned about, no one will ever face the consequences of change their actions... but none of that accountability gets you elected, so don't expect anything but more intervention. As Daniel Lacalle recently concludes, if there is one thing that this crisis shows us, it is that what Europe needs is more market and less intervention. Europe arrived at this crisis due to a combination of arrogance and ignorance on the part of the legislators who control the energy mix. The importance of a balanced mix, with nuclear, hydro, gas and renewables is more evident every day. Interventionist energy policy has failed miserably. More intervention is not going to solve it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trillions-liquidity-support-going-be-needed-swiss-finns-join-europes-bailout-brigade
And one other thing...==VP told ALL of you EU pukes to place orders for gas in winter of LAST year..you didn't instead you've decided to bitch and moan about your supply issues when it never was that in the first place-it was always about laying paper over your mistakes (that being a pretty good one too!)-the clock has run out just as fall sets in and you'll be licky if the citizens a little further north dont's sting yer asses up by the end of this month when the freeze hits Sweden and Finland as they are hovering just above that now (by Oct it's permanent)...hope yer ready for THAT
and just add this to the 'not gonna raise rates 75bp' pile...even thought they talk 'tough' all it has been and by next Tuesday into the end of the week Europe will have completely shat the bed and our CPI#s won't mean squat as they (them and us) will probably lower rates as someone will have panicked by then-but you never know...HFT trading can mask a lot-and certainly has up to this point but just remember they LOVE Sept 11 in the financial world but it's a Sunday this year...
Junk-Loan Defaults Worry Wall Street Investors
Financial pain is spreading in the junk-loan market, showing how interest-rate increases are hurting debt-laden companies and worrying investors that a credit crunch looms as the economy slows.
Defaults on so-called leveraged loans hit $6 billion in August, the highest monthly total since October 2020, when pandemic shutdowns hobbled the U.S. economy, according to Fitch Ratings. The figure represents a fraction of the sprawling loan market, which doubled over the past decade to about $1.5 trillion. But more defaults are coming, analysts say.
Interest payments on the loans float in lockstep with benchmark interest rates set by the Federal Reserve. The higher the central bank raises rates, the tighter the squeeze on companies that borrowed when rates were close to zero. One sign of concern—a flurry of reports published by investment banks after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell signaled on Aug. 26 his intent to keep rates high to suppress inflation. (They all KNOW the FOMC can't do anything about it but talk since they have raised them 3% and are shitting themselves over just that amount and the prospect of them being left (don't forget the FannieMAE's own 30 y fixed rate forecast has a rate cut implied for the 4th qtr icymi >>147772 lb )..and THAT is 1.2% below where they were in 2008)
That will trigger a wave of credit-rating downgrades (when you see them I'd believe it-these same ratings agencies have been schtum on Evergrande and continue to be so don't expect that very quickly) and push average loan prices—currently 95 cents on the dollar—below 85 cents, a level breached only during the 2008 financial crisis and the depth of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Falling loan ratings and prices will make it harder for companies to borrow to fund growth or to repay their existing debts. Tighter financing also drags on growth, increasing the risk of the U.S. economy falling into a hard landing. New loan sales have already dropped to $334 billion this year, compared with $532 billion in the first eight months of 2021, according to Leveraged Commentary & Data.
The slowdown is already hurting Wall Street banks that committed to loans earlier in the year—often backing takeovers by private-equity firms—and now need to sell the debt to investors. A syndicate of banks is preparing to unload about $16 billion of debt financing they underwrote for the purchase of Citrix Systems Inc. by Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, according to data provider LevFin Insights. Forecasts for the loan market’s benchmark interest rate—the London interbank offered rate, or Libor—shot up in recent months as the Fed raised rates faster than expected to combat persistent inflation. Traders now expect one-month Libor, which is currently around 2.6%, to hit 4.07% by May 2023, up from the 3.15% they had forecast in April, according to data from Chatham Financial. Expectations are similar for the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, or SOFR, which is slated to replace Libor as the loan market’s benchmark rate next year.
Interest costs for an average company with debt consisting of leveraged loans have increased sharply and will likely continue to rise into next year, according to research by Barclays PLC. The percentage of loans in default will likely rise to roughly 3.25% in mid- 2023 from about 1% now, but it could go significantly higher, said Jeff Darfus, a credit analyst at the bank. (they will not allow that to habben-until they are ready for the CBDC-and certainly not prior to the election)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/junk-loan-defaults-worry-wall-street-investors-11662429632
Bravo Jerry and Co (NYFRB you've managed to scare the piss out of everyone thinking you'll raise rates 75bp but you ain't fooling this one-and many moar are seeing yer bullshit...go ahead..raise them even 50bp..I dare you!!
Planefag:CONUS Update- those Super Hercules stopped at Bangor Me and at Portstmouth Int'l after departing from Halifax-currently over TN, NY and MS with SKOL22 (cheers! in Scandinavian) USAF E-4B Nightwatch ES from Lincoln Muni-SPAR869 that headed to JBA from Scott went to Robbins AFB and at Scott nao while the other one SPAR979 went back to Scott earlier
Here's a good oneLOSERSUSAF KC-135 tanker on ground at MacDill AFB (CENTCOM)
>>147976, >>147996, >>148014 MYTH11 and 1223USAF B-52 Stratofortress' SW from RAF Fairford with LAGR608 and 609 USAF KC-135 tankers for the below story
Thanks!!..had both sets as they habbened 2 sets of B-52s last week: one over Northern Yerp SPICYness >>147739 lb and MYTH112 and 12 the ones sent over Middle East and last reported position on Sunday prior to heading back was over Jordan (both were there just one visible'-see above linkys
US Flies B-52 Bombers Over Middle East In Show Of Force Aimed At Iran
Caps are MYTH11/12
The US military said on Monday that two US B-52 bombers flew a mission over the Middle East, a move that came amid heightened tensions in the region and while the US is holding EU-mediated nuclear deal negotiations with Iran. The bombers departed from the Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England for the mission which took place Sunday.
The US military didn’t mention Iran in a statement on the mission, but the US frequently dispatches bombers to the region during nuclear negotiations or amid soaring tensions with Iran. The statement said that the bombers flew over the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Red Sea and were joined by warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait before leaving the Middle East.
According to the Israeli military, the US bombers were escorted by three Israeli F-16s while they flew through Israeli airspace toward the Persian Gulf. "The flight was held as part of close cooperation with the US military, which represents a significant element in ensuring the security of the State of Israel’s airspace and the Middle East," the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement.
The flight came as Israel is pressing the US to establish a credible military threat against Iran to get Tehran to make concessions in the nuclear deal negotiations. Israel is strongly opposed to a revival of the deal, known as the JCPOA, and has stepped up pressure to influence the Biden administration on the issue.
Israel frequently carries out covert attacks inside Iran and has been threatening to launch more overt operations against the Islamic Republic.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-flies-b-52-bombers-over-middle-east-show-force-aimed-iran
#1000
>>148043 UN anon updates London Eye and Fireworks Christmas/NYE anomalies-They forgot to remove that temporary sign and it remained in place until May 2014
>>148052 45 vs USA Judge Cannon appoints a Special Master
>>148054 Planefag:Europe/Med/Gulf Activity-Aussies delivering moar trubs to Rzesow,Italians EW (Electronic Warfare) ACs back to Rome, Spanish left berlin back to Madrid
>>148057 Planefag:CONUS Activity-Potato and Kneepads with the full press for muh labor day votes-pretty quiet otherwise-Potato in Milwaukee and kneepads left Boston
>>148058 OPEC+ cuts global oil supplies, reversing September increase
>>148059 Israel AF BLACK 1 707 Re'em tanker up along with 4X982 Nachson Eitam SIGINT #2 and 684 G550 Nachshon Shavit SIGINT #3 all out of Nevatim AB...Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations
>>148060 Euro slides below 99 cents, lowest in two decades, after Russia shuts off gas-did a swap of $196.5m last week 'Good until Thursday'-Yen will follow later today-their morning but it's NOT because the ECB is buying all the Sov issued debt...nope not THAT
>>148062 Kazakhstan says China's Xi to visit, in 1st foreign trip since pandemic-The announced 'trip to SA' was a head fake and he will do a bigger deal as this was China's first direct pipeline from Caspian shore to Xinjiang and completely finished in 2009
>>148063 Walt Disney Company Releases ‘Little Demon’ About An Antichrist Child of Satan
>>148064 Planefag:CONUS Update-Some SAMs moving around-Potato Milwaukee to Pittsburgh-escort prolly to Youngstown XHUNT1 US Coast Guard Blackhawk back on ground and up fer depart around water (SOP) but interdasting callsign nonetheless cap #2-SAM051 G5 west from JBA SAM525 SW frm Gabreski Airport-where 45s AC used on Sat is based, SAM812 USAF C-40B SW to MacDill AFB from JBA-RCH3282 C-17 inbound to Milwaukee from Charleston Int'l for equipment pickup
>>148081 Gold Warriors: How America Secretly Recovered Yamashita's Gold .pdf
>>148087 Planefag: CONUS Update: Potato back to DC with escort, SAM(s) update, C-17s picking up at Pittsburgh (TEDDY46...) and dropped off from Milwaukee, Some NATO weenies to Brussels and Trudope to Vancouver for 'private meetings' but is "shocked" at the stabbings so LOOK HERE'
>>148087 RCMP say suspect in Saskatchewan stabbing rampage found dead, brother still at large
>>148097 Andrew Weismann is C_A/MOS/MI6 'level' infiltration of federal agency prosecution 'power brokers'.Who is the REAL 'Andrew Weismann'?
>>148100 GERT42 USAF E-4B Nightwatch out from Dyess AFB and arrived yesterday as WNTR 45 Gert: "To ejaculate seminal fluid multiple times in an abrupt and violent manner, often without regard for the well-being of others"
>>148108 SAM944 USAF G5 returns to JBA after an overnight at Teterboro Airport, NJ-This is generally used as an alternative to Laguardia, JFK or Newark as the gate fees are way cheaper
>>148110 Huge global storm is starting, Moscow warns-"Absurd" decisions by the US and the EU are to blame, the Kremlin press secretary says
>>148111 China sees third quarter as key for rollout of stimulus measures-Fuggen Jerry's boi's at the NYFRB do moar than that every single day (wit just Securities "lending")
>>148113, >>148117, >>148118, >>148119, >>148120 In YUGE storm news Part II: Russia proposes new precious metals exchange to compete with LBMA- QE/QT, SDRs, IMF, US $s-some historical perspective on where da dollar is now and when it was here last..Oct 2002 when Trash for Cash started and just in front of 2nd Iraq War
>>148130, >>148138, >>148140, >>148141, >>148143, >>148145, >>148149 YEN down again Dollar up some discush..Euro toast-new 52w LOW plus take a crack at those letters on the Chinese Gold bars-That Chinese Gold Bar Cipher thing
>>148134 Some Chinese people had to sleep on the streets yesterday in Shenzhen because they missed a PCR test therefore their QR codes would not let them in their buildings-
>>148134 Chinese Cities Rush to Lock Down in Show of Loyalty to Leadership
>>148136 Planefag:Europe-Med-Gulf: SPAR18 went to Naples, moar US Politicians in Pakistan giving away moar $$, Hungarians at Warsaw-and busy pissing off the EU (good), Belgians left Pisa, Slovenians SE from Ljubljana and the usuals..RAF Rivet Joint in Black Sea, MBS AC heading back to Saud AB in Northern SA
>>148138 Dollar continues march up while the Yen loses another +1.5% as the line in the sand 0.25% on the Japanese 10 year must be defended-cause they won't raise rates they devaluing Yen instead
>>148147 Planefag:CONUS activity-SAM960 C-40B State Dept AC WN, BOXER85 C-40C WS and the SPAR 2-step shuttle(s) Scott-JBA-Scott-JBA Learjet 35s, SAM015 G5 east from Peterson SFB overnight-7 USAF C-130 Super Hercules WS from Halifax after an overnight and inbound from Keflavik AB, Iceland yesterday and left Ramstein AFB on 0904
>>148160 Trillions In "Liquidity Support Is Going To Be Needed" As Swiss, Finns Join Europe's Bailout Brigade-and now Finland, Switzerland and Sweden joined the party (from Austria's hangoiver and bail-out last week-this is how VP used the EU's greed against themselves
>>148161 Junk-Loan Defaults Worry Wall Street Investors...and just add this to the 'not gonna raise rates 75bp' pile go ahead..raise them even 50bp..I dare you!!
>>148163 Planefag:CONUS Update- those Super Hercules stopped at Bangor Me and at Portstmouth Int'l after departing from Halifax-currently over TN, NY and MS with SKOL22 (cheers! in Scandinavian) USAF E-4B Nightwatch ES from Lincoln Muni-LOSERS USAF KC-135 tanker on ground at MacDill AFB (CENTCOM)
>>148164 SAM960 USAF C-40B State Dept AC went to Grant County Int'l Airport-Moses Lake Washington
>>148165 US Flies B-52 Bombers Over Middle East In Show Of Force Aimed At Iran >>147976, >>147996, >>148014 lb/pb MYTH11 and 12 from Sat/Sun
>>148170 the left just won't stop-now this "We just filed an official complaint against Judge Cannon with the 11th Circuit Judicial Council for egregious misconduct for obstructing the DOJ investigation."
jic
>fah q gavin!! fix the fuggen grid asshoe
Fat Leonard’s brazen escape ahead of sentencing is as stunning as his Navy bribery case
Three weeks before he faced sentencing, the Malaysian defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery investigations in U.S. military history made an escape as stunning and brazen as the case itself: U-Haul trucks were seen at his home in a tony San Diego neighborhood before Leonard Glenn Francis, known as “Fat Leonard,” snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared.
Nearly a dozen U.S. law enforcement agencies were searching for Francis on Tuesday. But officials acknowledged he may already be in Mexico, and possibly on his way back to Asia.
Four years ago, U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammartino feared Francis might run off when she turned down his lawyer’s request to allow him to be under house arrest without round-the-clock security guards watching the ailing defense contractor. At the time, Francis was cooperating with prosecutors as they pursued charges against dozens of Navy officials who accepted bribes in exchange for classified information that gave Francis’ ship servicing business in Asia an edge in getting military contracts. When asked about the bold escape Tuesday, his lawyer, Devin Burstein, who pushed for more leniency for his client, said: “At this time, I have no comment, sorry.”
Sammartino repeatedly maintained that Francis, who was in poor health and needed medical care, could only remain under house arrest if private security guards were on site. At one point she expressed concern that if he were to escape and ended up “back in Malaysia for whatever reason,” her name would come up if anyone asked “who let somebody do this without any security,” according to a transcript of a closed-door hearing in February 2018 that was unsealed in January. She raised similar concerns in another hearing on Dec. 17, 2020, after receiving a report that the home was left without anyone guarding it for nearly three hours, according to the court transcript. The guard said he had been on a long lunch break, and Francis apologized to the judge for the mishap. It was unclear if round-the-clock security guards were still in place this weekend.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego declined to comment, referring calls to the U.S. Marshals Service. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, Omar Castillo, said his officers found no security officers at the home when they arrived Sunday afternoon, nearly seven hours after Francis is believed to have removed his ankle monitor with heavy scissors. The device was found in the home. Castillo said someone called the San Diego police department, which sent officers to the home shortly before 2 p.m. to check on it. Castillo said he did not know who made the call. After finding the home empty, police contacted U.S. Pre-Trial Services, the federal agency in charge of his confinement, which then called the U.S. Marshals Service. Castillo said he did not know if security guards were still ordered to be there. He said neighbors reported seeing U-Haul trucks coming and going from the home one or two days before the escape. Pre-Trial Services declined to comment or answer questions.
The home is about a 40-minute drive from the Mexican border, where vehicles stream into Tijuana and are only stopped randomly. Castillo said Mexican authorities have been put on alert and 10 U.S. law enforcement agencies at local, state and federal levels were searching for Francis on Tuesday.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fat-leonards-brazen-escape-ahead-of-sentencing-is-as-stunning-as-his-navy-bribery-case-01662511556