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DAGGR55 USAFSOC Dornier 328 west from Bragg-arrive on 0614 from Centennial Airport, Denver
Meet the U.S. Air Force’s Commando Test Plane
The twin-engined Dornier 328-100–nicknamed the “Cougar”–looks plain on the outside, but is full of sophisticated hardware on the inside. It’s the Air Force’s special commando test aircraft, and it’s where engineers test sensors, weapons and other gear meant for gunships, spy planes and other aircraft. The Cougar is set up to be modular, so almost anything can be inserted into various internal bays and fixed pods, or strapped onto the fuselage using various mounting points.
https://warisboring.com/meet-the-u-s-air-forces-commando-test-plane/
from July 2020
No, The Air Force's Shadowy Surveillance Test Plane Wasn't Spying On Portland Protesters
The U.S. Air Force says that a specialized Dornier Do-328 twin-engine turboprop was not snooping on ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon during a series of flights earlier this week. Online flight tracking software had shown the aircraft, which belongs to a secretive special projects office called Big Safari and conducts research and development and test and evaluation activities in support of U.S. Special Operations Command, flying circular orbits often associated with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions in the area. The aircraft, which carries the U.S. civil registration code N645HM and is also known by the nickname Cougar, had first arrived at Hillsboro Airport outside Portland on July 19, 2020. The plane flew patterns for three days straight, but was never actually over downtown Portland, where protests are occurring, for any protracted period of time. It left the area today for Denver, Colorado, another area where it had been observed flying similar orbits last week.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35088/no-the-air-forces-shadowy-surveillance-testbed-plane-wasnt-spying-on-portland-protesters
Draftkings Inc sold by Shalom Meckenzie (largest shareholder): $34.02m-June 14
How fortuitous this was sold just prior to the Hindenberg short info being released.
Just pocket money for these peeps but moar than I habs.
Draftkings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company. The Company provides users with daily fantasy sports, sports betting and iGaming opportunities. Its offerings include business-to- consumer (B2C) offerings and business-to-business (B2B) offerings. Its B2C product offerings include Daily Fantasy Sports, Sportsbook and iGaming. Daily Fantasy Sports is a peer-to-peer platform in which its users compete against one another for prizes. Sportsbook includes sports betting, which involves a user placing a bet by wagering money on an event at some fixed odds (proposition) determined by the Company. iGaming is an online casino, which includes a suite of games available in land-based casinos, such as blackjack, roulette and slot machines. It also supplies B2B sports betting and iGaming services for various gaming operators and government-run lotteries. Number of employees : 2 600 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DRAFTKINGS-INC-61175285/company/
from June 15th
Draftkings shares fall as short-seller Hindenburg bets against firm
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/draftkings-shares-fall-short-seller-hindenburg-bets-against-firm-2021-06-15/
ONGOING INVESTIGATION ALERT: The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against DraftKings Inc. and Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact the Firm
The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors. DraftKings is the subject of a report published by Hindenburg Research on June 15, 2021. The report alleges that the Company’s 2020 merger with Bulgarian company SBTech exposed it to black-market gambling and money laundering. According to Hindenburg Research, the Company is "a $21 billion SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations.” After the report was released, shares of DraftKings fell by more than 5% in intraday trading.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DRAFTKINGS-INC-61175285/news/ONGOING-INVESTIGATION-ALERT-The-Schall-Law-Firm-Announces-it-is-Investigating-Claims-Against-DraftK-35634045/
Israeli entrepreneur Shalom Meckenzie is the largest shareholder in daily fantasy and sports-betting firm Draft Kings. He secured an 11% stake in Draft Kings when it merged in early 2020 with his company, SBTech; he's since sold shares and owns about 6%. Meckenzie founded gambling-technology provider SBTech in 2007 and served as a director until May 2014. DraftKings is the official daily fantasy partner of the NFL and the PGA Tour, as well as the authorized gaming operator for the NBA and MLB.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/shalom-meckenzie/?sh=203e60e443e9
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1810205&tc=7&b=2
Hey fuggen Gary...you should look at this nao but you are too busy running interference for your paymasters with the crypto shit.
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DAGGR55 USAFSOC Dornier 328 on approach for NW Arkansas National Airport-Bentonville, AR-Wal-Mart land from Bragg depart
Fed's Reverse Repo Soars To Stunning $756 Billion, Spikes By $230 Billion Overnight
While it received far less attention that the Fed's dot plot, the only thing that the Fed actually did change yesterday were its administered rates, as it raised the rate on its overnight Reverse Repo facility from 0% to 0.05% and the rate on excess reserves (IOER) from 0.10% to 0.15%. Since the RRP hike meant the GC rate would also have to increase, we noted last night that "with both market rates and RRP at .05%, there's really no economic incentive for cash investors to move cash to the Repo market."
Furthermore, now that the Fed is actually paying counterparties a modest but non-negligible 5bps on reserve deposits, it has made the RRP even more attractive compared to when it paid nothing (when the RRP rate was 0.0%),as it now generates a higher risk free yield than many short-term Bills. As such, we concluded that if it was the Fed's intention to reduce participation in its Reverse Repo facility (which the Fed specifically expanded back in March knowing what was coming) it would fail. And wow, did it fail: moments ago we got the first Reverse Repo results from the new post-FOMC regime, and boy was it a whopper: coming at $755.8 Billion among 68 counterparties, there was a tsunami of new reserves parked at the Fed, as the total was a massive $235 billion more compared to the $520.9BN (among 53 counterparites) yesterday, the biggest one-day increase on record as every Tom, Dick and Harry rushed to collect the Fed's free pennies.
One explanation for the surge is that as UBS noted earlier, the Fed's adjustment "is likely to make the RRP grow even more, in part due to new usage by GSEs who can now earn more than the zero they get on their deposits at the Fed." That, UBS added, takes reserves out of the banking system, which should slightly reduce the odds of balance sheet stress at year-end." Separately, since this is the first TOMO with the new 5bps RRP rate, we could be seeing a temporary spike as market rates adjust to the new lower bound.
In any case, while the Fed has so far been ignoring the massive drain in reserves courtesy of its Reverse Repo, as this facility is headed toward $1 trillion, Powell may want to consider the continued fracture to the repo market and also the pockets of illiquidity that may be forming as some counterparties remain flooded with reserves while others have virtually no reserves intraday as they are locked up at the Fed until the next day.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feds-reverse-repo-soars-stunning-756-billion-spikes-230-billion-overnight
>>62285 pb Federal Reserve Bank of New York Reverse Repo. Operations-week of June 6-$2.569T
>>63303, >>63309, >>63337 pb Three armed F-22 fighters launched Sunday from Honolulu at request of FAA
Russia Blamed for Mystery Launch of Three Missile-Armed F-22s Off Hawaii
Russia’s Pacific Fleet kicked off large-scale manoeuvres last week involving 20 warships, submarines, and support vessels, as well as aircraft, with the exercises seeing ships sailing up to 4,000 km from their home bases and standard operating areas. The presence of Russian Navy vessels 500-800 km west of Hawaii are the reason why three missile-armed Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighter jets were scrambled on Sunday for an “irregular air patrol,” CBS News has reported, citing US defence officials. The officials, who were not named, said Russian aircraft did not enter Hawaii’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), and were not intercepted.
A spokesman for Indo-Pacific Command did not comment on the movements of US naval and air assets, but confirmed that the command was “monitoring the Russian vessels operating in international waters in the Western Pacific,” and said the US expected them to do so “in accordance with international law.” Media inquiries to the Federal Aviation Administration, which requested the flights, prompted the agency to say only that it had “a close working relationship with the military,” with no further information given. The cryptic nature of US officials comments sparked concern from local and national media, with multiple outlets referring to the planes “mysterious” launch “in response to an unknown incident,” and The Drive’s The Warzone mystifyingly titling a piece “Hawaii-Based F-22s Scrambled on FAA’s Request But Nobody Will Say Why.”
Last month, the US was forced to delay the testing of an SM-6 missile off Kauai Island due to the presence of the Kareliya intelligence ship nearby. The rescheduled test later ended in failure. On top of its Pacific drills and intelligence-gathering operations, Russia also occasionally sends missile-carrying strategic bombers for patrols off the coast of Alaska, forcing the Air Force to maintain a large garrison there. n a related development, the US Air Force announced last month that the US was planning to retire its entire fleet of F-22s over the next decade, citing small production numbers, cost of operation, and increasingly advanced enemy air defences, as well as problems with spare parts. The $678 million-apiece aircraft, once deemed the most expensive planes ever built before the arrival of the $1.7 trillion F-35 programme, were introduced into service in 2005, but have subsequently spent most of their time intercepting Russian bombers designed in the 1950s, and carrying out a small number of missions in Syria and Afghanistan.
https://sputniknews.com/military/202106171083176197-russia-blamed-for-mystery-launch-of-three-missile-armed-f-22s-off-hawaii/
muh russia
muh notables thread all updated
made the corrections in #319 to the Dept of Justice story so it reflects the correct crumb
d'oh change on you
kek
used to forget to do them cause the threads were so quick
Then I got a polite poke to keep going
wonder who dat ever wuz...
Social Security cost-of-living adjustment could be highest in 13 years amid inflation surge
Social Security beneficiaries could see 5.3% COLA increase next year.
Social Security recipients could be in line for one of the biggest cost-of-living adjustments next year as consumer prices continue to surge. The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior group, estimated the adjustment could be as high as 5.3%, based on Consumer Price Index data recently published by the Labor Department. The data showed that consumer prices spiked 5% in May from a year prior, the fastest year-over-year jump since 2008. Should Social Security beneficiaries see a 5.3% increase to their monthly checks next year, it would mark the steepest annual adjustment since 2009, when recipients saw a 5.8% raise. n 2021, Social Security benefits increased by 1.3%.
The adjustment is calculated based on the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W. The Senior Citizens League previously predicted the COLA for 2022 could be 4.7% based on data from April. Still, the final adjustment figure ultimately hinges on the economy's performance over the next few months and whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to combat rising inflation.
During its two-day policy-setting meeting this week, the U.S. central bank unanimously voted to hold the benchmark federal funds rate at a range between 0% and 0.25%, where it has been since March 2020, when COVID-19 forced an unprecedented shutdown of the nation's economy. The Fed will also keep purchasing $120 billion in bonds each month, a policy known as "quantitative easing" that's designed to keep credit cheap. Updated economic projections released by the Fed show that officials do not expect to raise rates until late 2023.
The Social Security Administration will release the final adjustment percentage in October. Since 2000, Social Security benefits have lost roughly 30% of their purchasing power due to inadequate adjustments that underestimate inflation and rising health care costs, according to the Senior Citizens League. The group has pushed Congress to adopt legislation that would index the adjustment to inflation specifically for seniors, such as the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustment-inflation-surge
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SAM719 USAF G5 KAF AC departed Birmingham, AL ne back to JBA
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