BAKED65 USAF E-4B Nightwatch wn from Robins AFB, GA depart
Not AF1 Joe going to the Ford Plant for yet another "tough" day.
82-8000 USAF 747 departed JBA and heading nw for Detroit Metro. Airport
N22PP Dept of Interior National Park Police Bell 412 out to JBA and back to Eagles Nest
SAM393 USAF G5 on hold for Not AF1 Joe departing JBA
09-0015 USAF C-32A departed JBA behind 82-8000 and will go to a different airport
RCH799T USAF C-17 Globemaster on descent for New London, CT from JBA depart
Not AF1 Joe gonna address the U.S. Coast Guard commencement tomorrow
Not Air Force One is scheduled to land at Quonset State Airport on Wednesday so President Biden can head from there to New London, Connecticut, to deliver an address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony, according to two people familiar with the planning who were not authorized to discuss the details publicly.
https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/president-biden-flying-into-ri-next-week/
Polish AF PLF105 G5 inbound from Warsaw depart earlier today
Hackers behind Colonial Pipeline attack received $90 million in bitcoin before shutting down
DarkSide, the hacker group behind the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, received a total of $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments before shutting down last week, according to fresh research.
Colonial Pipeline was hit with a devastating cyberattack earlier this month that forced the company to shut down approximately 5,500 miles of pipeline, crippling gas delivery systems in southeastern states. The FBI blamed the attack on DarkSide, a cybercriminal gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe, and Colonial reportedly paid a $5 million ransom to the group.
DarkSide operates what’s known as a “ransomware as a service” business model, meaning the hackers develop and market ransomware tools and sell them to other criminals who then carry out attacks. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that’s designed to block access to a computer system. Hackers demand a ransom payment — typically cryptocurrency — in return for restoring access.
On Friday, London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said it had identified the bitcoin wallet used by DarkSide to collect ransom payments from its victims. That same day, security researchers Intel 471 said DarkSide had closed down after losing access to its servers and as its cryptocurrency wallets were emptied. DarkSide also blamed “pressure from the U.S.,” according to a note obtained by Intel 471. In a new blog post Tuesday, Elliptic said DarkSide and its affiliates bagged at least $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments, originating from 47 distinct cryptocurrency wallets. The average payment from organizations was likely $1.9 million, Elliptic said. “To our knowledge, this analysis includes all payments made to DarkSide, however further transactions may yet be uncovered, and the figures here should be considered a lower bound,” said Tom Robinson Elliptic’s co-founder and chief scientist.
Elliptic said that DarkSide’s bitcoin wallet contained $5.3 million worth of the digital currency before its funds were drained last week. There was some speculation that this bitcoin had been seized by the U.S. government. There was some speculation that this bitcoin had been seized by the U.S. government.
Of the $90 million total haul, $15.5 million went to DarkSide’s developer while $74.7 million went to its affiliates, according to Elliptic. The majority of the funds are being sent to crypto exchanges, where they can be converted into fiat money, Elliptic said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/colonial-pipeline-hackers-darkside-received-90-million-in-bitcoin.html
Colonial Pipeline Shippers Say Comms System Is Down
Just two weeks after the Colonial Pipeline was hacked, causing chaotic scenes amid gas shortages as the massive U.S. fuel system, and subsequently, allegedly, paid the ransomware attackers off, shippers on the pipeline's platform say the communications system is now down. As Bloomberg reports, the system that allows customers to nominate and make changes to their batches of fuel traveling through the system has been inaccessible as of Tuesday morning, according to shippers on the line, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
This comes on the same day that President Biden proposes adding billions of dollars tied to improving cybersecurity to his infrastructure proposal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/colonial-pipeline-shippers-say-comms-system-down
82-8000 USAF 747 on final approach for Detroit Metro Airport from JBA
09-0015 USAF C-32A went to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport
Biden to plug his plan for electric vehicles in visit to Ford plant
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-to-plug-his-plan-for-electric-vehicles-in-visit-to-ford-plant-11621342372
BAKED65 USAF E-4B Nightwatch on approach for Lincoln Muni Airport, NE from Robins AFB, GA depart
This is the home away from Offutt AFB while dat runway is being upgraded.
Billionaires Are Offloading Massive Amounts Of Stock
When the country's CEOs and billionaires start to head to the exits a little bit quicker than usual at the tail end of a 13 year bull market, it may be time to start paying attention.
That's what we found noteworthy about a recent Bloomberg piece, which noted that stock sales by some of the world's richest shareholders are "reaping a windfall", thanks to our current inflated equity markets, "to the tune of trillions".
Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are just two of the well known names that have been offloading stock.
(Larry Page too)
They are joined by names like Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison.
We have covered Bezos' recent stock sales in this article. He has sold $6.7 billion in Amazon shares this year. Bezos still owns more than 10% of Amazon and remains the world's richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. His worth comes in at about $191.3 billion. Bezos has hastened his stock sales over the last couple of years: he sold about $4.1 billion in stock last February and sold more than $3 billion in stock last November.
Larry Ellison sold 7 million Oracle shares over the past week, netting him $552.3 million. Mark Zuckerberg and his charitable foundation have accelerated sales of stock since last fall. They have cumulatively dumped $1.87 billion in stock since last November.
Zoom Video Communications founder Eric Yuan and used-car retailer Carvana Co.’s Ernest Garcia II have also sold between $1.75 billion in stock since March 2020, Bloomberg noted. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has sold at least $250 million in stock over the same period.
Additionally, insiders like Charles Schwab have sold large chunks of stock. Schwab sold $192 million worth of shares in his brokerage this year.
But, in sum, public company insiders have sold shares worth $24.4 billion this year through the first week of May, the report noted. About half of these sales have come through trading plans. The number is almost at a par with the $30 billion insiders sold in the second half of 2020.
In addition to frothy valuations, Joe Biden's incoming tax hikes may have also propelled some of the ultra-rich to rethink holding on to their stock, the report speculates.
Thorne Perkin, president of Papamarkou Wellner Asset Management, said the sales could help the insiders diversify: “From a portfolio-management perspective, it makes sense to spread it around.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/billionaires-are-offloading-massive-amounts-stock
Track it here
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx
they got alot to push through so that may still be about when
They always do it right around the end of 3rd Q going in to Q4-historically speaking
May not make it this time
I can't put every one up or I'd be doing nuffin but that.
Zuckerdouche continues to drop about $60 to $80m a week on FB since Nov last year.