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Pakistan: Four killed and 12 wounded after bomb explodes at luxury hotel
Four people have been killed and 12 are injured after a bomb explosion at a luxury hotel in Pakistan, local authorities have confirmed.
The blast happened inside the car park of the Serena hotel in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, on Wednesday, police said. Video showed the building and nearby cars in flames as emergency services attended the scene. Police said those injured, some of them critically, were being transported to nearby hospitals.
"An explosion has rocked the parking area of Serena hotel," police official Nasir Malik said.
"Our officers are working to determine whether it was a bomb and what type of device it could be."
Wasim Beg, a spokesperson at the provincial health department, confirmed that four people died and 12 were wounded.
https://news.sky.com/story/pakistan-four-killed-and-12-wounded-after-bomb-explodes-at-luxury-hotel-12282992
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1384961764463456257?s=19
on it
Every Physical Silver Ounce Has Been Sold Up To 1000x
The silver price is today half of the January 1980 level. That was the peak at $50 which silver reached again 31 years later in 2011. But alas, the bullion banks, aided by the BIS (Bank for International Settlement) and central banks have again managed to push it down again and today silver is only $26.10. The current silver price has nothing to do with supply and demand. In a real market the Price of Silver would be substantially higher. In a fake market, the manipulators have no problem to suppress the price by selling virtually unlimited fake paper silver. The LBMA and Comex clan has sold their physical silver up to 1,000X over.
If a salesman has a demand for 1,000 items of a product of which he possesses the only one available, he will first rub his hands and then perform a victory dance. He knows he will achieve an astronomical price. And that is exactly what would happen in a free silver market. But since the paper silver issuers know that they are dealing with totally clueless buyers who don’t understand that there is no silver, they will continue to stuff the gullible buyers with more fake silver. That is, until the buyers wake up and ask for delivery to find out that the silver vaults are empty. We know that the silver market is very strained already. Retail silver can fetch margins up to 50% and they have been at 100% premium. But at least when people buy retail silver from a reputable dealer and take delivery, they know that they have real silver.
*It is a paper security held within the financial system
*It has multiple counterparty risks
*The gold/silver holdings are not segregated from custodians’ assets
*It owns no gold/silver directly
*The gold/silver is stored within the banking system
*The gold/silver held is probably rehypothecated
*The gold/silver is not fully insured
*Investors have no access to their gold/silver
What investors must remember is that on the other side of the gold and silver coin is a collapsing currency. That is why wealth preservation is so critical. Not only will stocks, bonds and property collapse but so will the value of money. So going liquid is not the solution. Again, history tells us what the solution is and if you defy history, you will come to regret it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/every-physical-silver-ounce-has-been-sold-1000x
US Congressional committee passes bill to boost military support for Ukraine
Bill passed by Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorises up to $300m in annual military aid to Ukraine. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously voted on Wednesday to authorise up to $300 million of annual military aid to Ukraine, including lethal assistance, as Washington looks to ratchet up pressure on Russia.
The committee passed the Ukraine Security Partnership Act sponsored by a bipartisan group of senators including Democrat Bob Menendez and Republican Jim Risch. The bill authorises up to $300m per year of foreign military financing to Ukraine, subject to certifications, including the authority to provide it with lethal military assistance and $4m per year to train its military officers.
Mr Menendez said he spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba before the vote. The two discussed “the massive Russian troop build-up along the eastern border and aggression in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov”.
Just spoke to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kuleba about the massive Russian troop buildup along the eastern border and as well as aggression in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. pic.twitter.com/esLf8YW9KC
– Senate Foreign Relations Committee (@SFRCdems) April 20, 2021
The bill requires a report on US diplomatic support for Ukraine over the next five years, and another from the Department of Defence and State Department on the capability and capacity requirements of Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as a plan to supply US security assistance to Ukraine.
It also calls to rapidly send excess hardware to Ukraine, and to encourage partner nations to do the same.
Since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea, the US has provided more than $1.5 billion in security aid. Last month, the Pentagon announced $125m in aid for Ukraine. The bill now is on its way to the Senate floor for a full vote. President Joe Biden's administration recently rolled out sanctions against Russia for its military threat to Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. In the last month, Moscow has amassed more than 100,000 troops along Ukraine's border, according to EU estimates, increasing fears of a possible incursion into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Politico reported the White House is weighing requests from the Ukrainian government to send it heavier weaponry, including the possible deployment of Patriot missiles as a means to deter Russia.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee also moved forward on Wednesday the nomination of Victoria Nuland for the position of undersecretary of state for political affairs.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/us-congressional-committee-passes-bill-to-boost-military-support-for-ukraine-1.1208419
you want dis in with the others or on own?
10:37 AM · Apr 20, 2021
Thumbs up to @SpecialTactics_ operators assigned to the 321st Special Tactics Squadron who train to be experts at providing positive control of the air-to-ground connection. #TrainingTuesday
https://twitter.com/AFSpecOpsCmd/status/1384516594425020424
#1037
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BOOMs en route.
Blind.
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#114
notabruhs, not endorsements
>>47214 pf report(s)
>>47219 Pakistan: Four killed and 12 wounded after bomb explodes at luxury hotel-skynews and soc. media
>>47223 Every Physical Silver Ounce Has Been Sold Up To 1000x-zh
>>47225, >>47226, >>47227, >>47230 Vlad/Chauvin/Hmong/C_A diggz
>>47229 US Congressional committee passes bill to boost military support for Ukraine-nationalnews
>>47228 (goes with 240), >>47231, >>47235, >>47236, >>47238, >>47240, >>47242 Q like posts and decodes
>>47239 USAFSOC Twat "Thumbs up to @SpecialTactics_ operators assigned to the 321st Special Tactics Squadron" Q drop #1037
kindof a mess but here ya go
go ahead..I'm still trying to catch up to all dis
just tryin' to do it justice muh fren and figure it out at same time
Didn't do so well
kek!
>spouse home nao
>>47184
BELGA35 USAF E-4B Nightwatch heading to Robins AFB after an eastern sojourn
Still trying to follow these and get a feel for wut they are doing.
They are Army ..the AZAZ0909 and AZAZO909 were also Army and that call sign has vanished from use.
O =operators are active
The last one I have is from Oct 22 over Charleston W.Va-cap #2
FORGE63 US Army G5 departed MacDill AFB after a ground stop
FORGE94 US Army G5 east from Peterson AFB ground stop
BOXER45 USAF C-40C continues east from Moffett Field (Bay area), CA depart
Tusimple Holdings, Inc sold by Chairman/CEO Sina Corp.:$ 270.27m-Apr 19
Cashing out via the recent IPO-has approx 24.67m shares after this.
TuSimple Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tusimple-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering-301269601.html
TuSimple Holdings Inc. is an autonomous technology company. The Company has developed autonomous technology designed for semi-trucks, which has enabled to build Autonomous Freight Network (AFN). The Company has developed an integrated software and hardware solution enabling Level 4 (L4) driver-out autonomous semi-truck technology. AFN is designed to provide autonomous freight solution that supplies users with access to purpose-built L4 autonomous semi-trucks operating on HD digital mapped routes connecting a nationwide network of terminals. The Company is developing products through its partners, such as Navistar and TRATON. Navistar manufactures trucks under the International and IC brands. It intends to produce a line of purpose-built L4 autonomous semi-trucks for the North American market. TRATON is a provider of commercial truck OEMs. TuSimple Path is a product that enables autonomous operations across network. Number of employees : 839 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TUSIMPLE-HOLDINGS-INC-121407294/news/TUSIMPLE-HLDGS-nbsp-Announces-Pricing-of-Initial-Public-Offering-32974225/
Sina taken private last year
SINA Enters into Definitive Agreement for "Going Private" Transaction
http://ir.sina.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sina-enters-definitive-agreement-going-private-transaction
Sina Corporation (Chinese: 新浪; pinyin: Xīn Là ng) is a Chinese technology company. Sina operates four major business lines: Sina Weibo, Sina Mobile, Sina Online, and Sinanet. Sina has over 100 million registered users worldwide. Sina was recognized by Southern Weekend as the "China's Media of the Year" in 2003. Sina owns Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog social network, which has 56.5 percent of the Chinese microblogging market based on active users and 86.6 percent based on browsing time over Chinese competitors such as Tencent and Baidu. The social networking service has more than 500 million users[3] and millions of posts per day, making it the largest Chinese-language mobile portal. The company was founded in Beijing in 1998, and its global financial headquarters have been based in Shanghai since October 1, 2001. Sina App Engine (SAE) is the earliest and largest PaaS platform for cloud computing in China. It is run by SAE Department, which was founded in 2009. SAE is dedicated in providing stable, effective web deployment and hosting service for those corporations, organizations and independent developers. Now more than 300,000 developers in China are using SAE.
Charles Chao Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Charles Chao has served as our Chairman of the Board since August 2012 and our Chief Executive Officer since May 2006. He served as our President from September 2005 to February 2013, Chief Financial Officer from February 2001 to May 2006, Co-Chief Operating Officer from July 2004 to September 2005, and Executive Vice President from April 2002 to June 2003. From September 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Chao served as our Vice President, Finance. Prior to joining us, Mr. Chao served as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, an accounting firm. Prior to that, Mr. Chao was a news correspondent at Shanghai Media Group. Mr. Chao is currently the Chairman of Weibo Corporation, a leading social media company, a director of NetDragon Websoft Inc., a company providing technology for online gaming and a director of Leju Holdings Ltd., an online-to-offline (O2O) real estate services provider in China. Mr. Chao holds a Master of Professional Accounting degree from University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Journalism from University of Oklahoma and a B.A. in Journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
http://ir.sina.com/corporate-governance/management
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1248826&tc=7&b=2
from April 16th
Cathie Wood bought more than 3 million shares of the self-driving truck company TuSimple on its IPO yesterday
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/cathie-wood-bought-tusimple-shares-ipo-stock-price-struggling-2021-4-1030312737
FORGE94 US Army G5 on approach for Ft. Knox, KY from Peterson AFB depart
SAM252 USAF G5 (the ghost AF2 AC from 0322) departed JBA west
High level AC dis
BOXER45 USAF C-40C on descent for JBA from Moffett Field CA ground stop departed LAX earlier today
Credit Suisse had "surprise" $20 billion exposure to Archegos investments
Credit Suisse Group AG amassed more than $20 billion of exposure to investments related to Archegos Capital Management, but the bank struggled to monitor them before the fund was forced to liquidate many of its large positions, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. family investment firm’s bets on a collection of stocks swelled in the lead-up to its March collapse, but parts of the investment bank hadn’t fully implemented systems to keep pace with Archegos’s fast growth, the people said. Credit Suisse CS Chief Executive Thomas Gottstein, and Chief Risk Officer Lara Warner, who recently departed the bank, only became aware of the bank’s exposure to Archegos in the days leading up to the forced liquidation of the fund, people familiar with the bank said. Neither Gottstein nor Warner had been aware of the fund as a major client before that, these people said. A Credit Suisse spokesman declined to comment.
Total Bullshit$20B and you did not know
You also never know about all the winners too...only the 'bad' ones when the blow up
The exposure reveals for the first time the scope of Credit Suisse’s relationship with Archegos, which unraveled late last month. Credit Suisse reported a $4.7 billion loss, slashed its dividend and said Warner, its investment bank head and other staff would leave. Credit Suisse is also facing questions from regulators in the U.S. and Europe about its relationship with Archegos and the wind down.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/credit-suisse-had-surprise-20-billion-exposure-to-archegos-investments-11619047468
Malaysia issues $800 million U.S. dollar sustainability sukuk, world's first by a sovereign
Malaysia has issued $800 million 10-year trust certificates, world’s first sovereign U.S. dollar sustainability sukuk, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In addition, the Southeast Asian nation also issued $500 million 30-year trust certificates, the ministry said in a statement. Malaysia upsized the sukuk offering from initial target size of $1.0 billion to $1.3 billion due to overwhelming demand as oversubscription hit 6.4 times.
https://www.reuters.com/article/malaysia-sukuk/malaysia-issues-800-million-u-s-dollar-sustainability-sukuk-worlds-first-by-a-sovereign-idUSL4N2MF06S
Five Important Differences Between Sukuk and Traditional Bonds
Although a common starting point for explaining sukuk is to use bonds as a comparison point, it is important to understand that there are certain fundamental differences. Sukuk adhere to an Islamic view of finance, avoiding Riba (generating money from money, i.e. interest or usury), bonds are securities that are very Riba due to the fact that they have a fixed interest.
There are five important differences between sukuk and traditional bonds:
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Sukuk indicate ownership of an asset. Bonds indicate a debt obligation.
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The assets that back sukuk are compliant with Shariah. Assets backing bonds may include products or services that are against Islam.
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Sukuk are priced according to the value of the assets backing them. Bond pricing is based on credit rating.
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Sukuk can increase in value when the assets increase in value. Profits from bonds correspond to fixed interest, making them Riba.
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When you sell sukuk, you are selling ownership in the assets backing them. The sale of bonds is the sale of debt.
Sukuk are backed by tangible assets, rather than by debt. Sukuk ownership indicates ownership of an asset that has value. Although, a bond may also indicate this, the real definition of a bond simply indicates a debt obligation. At its root, the relationship between the issuer of a bond and the consumer is very different from the relationship between the issuer of sukuk and the purchaser of sukuk. In the case of a bond, the consumer is acting as the loaner and the bond issuer as a loan recipient. In this case, the loan has a fixed interest, therefore being Riba. In sukuk, the purchaser is purchasing an asset that has value rather than participating in an implicit loan agreement.
moar
https://www.sukuk.com/education/important-differences-sukuk-traditional-bonds-2207/#/
Square Inc sold by @jackoff ($25m) and co-founder Jim McKelvey ($49m)-Apr 19
Square, Inc. (Square) is a commerce ecosystem. The Company enables its sellers start, run and grow their businesses. It combines software with hardware to enable sellers to turn mobile devices and computing devices into payments and point-of-sale solutions. Once a seller downloads the Square Point of Sale mobile application, they can take their first payment. With its offering, a seller can accept payments in person via magnetic stripe (a swipe), Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) (a dip), or Near Field Communication (NFC) (a tap); or online via Square Invoices, Square Virtual Terminal, or the seller's Website. Once on its system, sellers gain access to technology and features, such as reporting and analytics, next-day settlements, digital receipts, payment dispute management and chargeback protection, and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. On the consumer (buyer) side, Square Cash offers individuals access to a way to send and receive money.
Number of employees : 5 477 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SQUARE-INC-24935553/company/
and this laughable drivel put out by Square
Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future
https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/2D2BnksJjavw4a6SUvAPwZ/c42a9e3a520b0cc3b230cda3b43eead5/BCEI_White_Paper_.pdf
@jackoff
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1590945&tc=7&b=2
Jim McKelvey
Founder of 7 different companies, which include: Square, Inc., Cultivation Capital LLC and SixThirty Ventures LLC, James Morgan McKelvey is an entrepreneur and holds the position of Chief Executive Officer & Director at Invisibly, Inc. (which he founded), General Partner at SixThirty Ventures LLC (which he founded in 2013) and Partner at Nested Rails LLC (which he founded in 2016). Mr. McKelvey is also on the board of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis-calss C https://www.stlouisfed.org/about-us/leadership-governance/board-of-directors, Square, Inc., LockerDome LLC and Ajax I and Owner at Mira, Inc. In his past career Mr. McKelvey was General Partner at Cultivation Capital LLC (he founded the company in 2012). He received an undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/James-Morgan-McKelvey-12493/biography/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1658460&tc=7
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