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morning waker naker
SAM049 USAF G5 departed JBA west
SAM064 USAF C-40B landed at Bangkok Int'l Airport from Yokota AB ground stop and refuel.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Travel to Japan and Thailand
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will lead the Presidential Delegation to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan from August 6-9, to represent the United States at the Closing Ceremony. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will attend final sporting events to support Team USA, and will engage with U.S. athletes, members of the Refugee Olympic Team, and other athletes from around the world. During her visit to Tokyo, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will also participate in bilateral meetings with Japanese government officials.
From August 9-12, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will travel to Bangkok, Thailand, where she will reaffirm and build upon the vitally important alliance between the U.S. and Thailand. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will meet with Thai officials to discuss a number of areas of shared interest, including the distribution of over 1.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine recently donated by the United States to combat the COVID pandemic, the ongoing crisis in neighboring Burma and humanitarian needs in the region, our strong partnership with ASEAN, climate change, and other topics. She will also meet with international organization and NGO representatives in the country.
https://usun.usmission.gov/u-s-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-linda-thomas-greenfields-travel-to-japan-and-thailand/
Yellen wants debt limit hike via regular order; Dems leave it out of reconciliation, setting up fall showdown
Senate Dems leave out debt limit increase in budget resolution.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged Congress to pass a debt ceiling increase through regular order with bipartisan votes, as Senate Democrats left any such language out of their Senate budget resolution released just a few minutes later. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., meanwhile is swearing that Republicans will under no circumstances provide the votes to raise the debt ceiling, setting up a potential high-stakes showdown this fall. "In recent years Congress has addressed the debt limit through regular order, with broad bipartisan support. In fact, during the last administration, Democrats and Republicans came together to do their duty three times," Yellen wrote Monday. "Congress should do so again now by increasing or suspending the debt limit on a bipartisan basis."
McConnell has been urging his fellow Republicans to say no to any debt ceiling legislation. Instead, he says Democrats should use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster and pass a debt limit increase with just their 50 Senate votes. Democrats are the ones currently driving trillions and trillions of dollars in federal spending, McConnell said, so Republicans should not "give them political cover for the partisan debt bomb they'll go right on to detonate with zero input from us."
But Yellen said in her Monday statement that McConnell's characterization is inaccurate.
"[I]ncreasing or suspending the debt limit does not increase government spending, nor does it authorize spending for future budget proposals," she said. "[I]t simply allows Treasury to pay for previously enacted expenditures. Failure to meet those obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy and the livelihoods of all Americans."
Yellen's statement was the first time the Biden administration weighed in on how Congress should increase the debt ceiling. White House press secretary Jen Psaki recently declined to give the president's opinion on what the legislature should do. She emphasized that Congress must increase the debt limit somehow to avoid a default that would be catastrophic for the economy but left the details up to congressional leaders. It it still technically possible for Democrats to raise the debt ceiling under budget reconciliation even though it's not included in their current legislative vehicle. It could be added later or even passed separately – a parliamentarian ruling from earlier this year would allow Democrats to revisit and edit past reconciliation vehicles, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said this spring.
A 2019 suspension of the debt limit expired on July 31, triggering Yellen and the Treasury Department to take "extraordinary" measures to stretch out the government's finances. But the Congressional Budget Office estimated late last month that the government will run out of money by October or November.
The U.S. has never defaulted on its debt before, but came close in 2011, when House Republicans refused to pass a debt ceiling increase, prompting rating agency Standard and Poor's to downgrade the U.S. debt rating one notch.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/yellen-debt-limit-hike-bipartisan-vote-reconciliation
02-4452 USAFSOC C-32B se from Anchorage, AK Ted Stevens Int'l and heading for a ground stop at JBA (where it departed from on 0806) or straight to McGuire AFB-it's home base.
This AC departed JBA on 0806 as PAVIS76 and arrived at Anchorage
Depart 0807 from Anchorage as ANON to Yokota AB, Japan-see cap #2, for an arrival and then departed yesterday as PAVIS76 back to Anchorage for overnight
So we had two ANON' departures from Ted Stevens Int'l: one on Friday-the C-40B wif the UN rep going to the Olympic closing ceremonies and then to Bangkok here: >>80264 pb and the AFSOC C-32B the next day 0807 above
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They also need some space from the coming Jackson Hole meeting(s) so as to offer up the latest 'excuse' that "we din't know"
dat habbens Aug. 26-28, 2021
Yet another early to mid-September market event on da way.
Tricky though as they don't eber do it wif a democrat.
Mebby that how they get rid 'o Joe.
>Metals dump
been waiting to see dat for a few months nao
Surprised it's taken this long.
But hey when you do it on a Sunday afternoon/evening no one is really looking.
Just like the "we killed UBL" drama was used as a cover for the metals slam in 2011.
>that whole shitshow gonna be berry ugly
Aye X1000
All goes back to using Ag as the industrial metal and once you make dat choice...stuck wif it no matter wut.
Lubs how they actually produced to paperwork that claims they put all dat silver 'back' at Treasury after the Manhattan project..
If ya did then why did the Clinton Admin shut down Oak Ridge in da 90's
Inquiring minds...
kek
>wait till the paper consumer finds out dare really is no physical
Get in dat LOOOOOOONG line that has no end.
B-B-But muh ETFs!!!
kek
kek
SAM049 USAF g5 on descent (on ground about 25 minutes ago) at Topeka, KS Forbes Field
BOXER208 USAF C-40C west from JBA as well
This is a C model and moar for transportation of people than a mobile comms AC like the B
model.
C202 US Coast Guard G5 en from Los Angeles Int'l Airport after arriving on Friday afternoon local time
Fed’s Bostic Urges Faster Bond Taper as U.S. Economy Strengthens
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said the central bank should move to taper its asset purchases with another strong month or two of employment gains, and proceed with that scaling-back process faster than in past episodes.
“We are well on the road to substantial progress toward our goal,” Bostic told reporters after a webinar speech on Monday, calling the addition of 943,000 jobs last month “definitely quite encouraging in that regard. My sense is if we are able to continue this for the next month or two I think we would have made the ‘substantial progress’ toward the goal and should be thinking about what our new policy position should be.”
Fed officials began debating when and how they should taper asset purchases at their July meeting. The Fed is currently buying $120 billion of assets per month $80 billion of Treasury securities and $40 billion of mortgage backed debt and has pledged to keep up that pace “until substantial further progress” has been made toward its goals of maximum employment and 2% inflation.
“Right now I’m thinking in the October-to-December range, but if the number comes back big” as with the last report “or maybe even a little bigger, I’d be open to moving it forward,” Bostic said. “If the number really explodes, I think we would have to consider that.”
The jobs gain last month was the biggest increase in nearly a year, and the unemployment rate dropped to a pandemic-era low of 5.4%. At the same time, payrolls remain 5.7 million short of pre-pandemic levels, and a pickup in Covid-19 cases stemming from the delta variant poses a risk to the pace of job growth. Bostic said he favors “a balanced approach” -- tapering both mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries proportionally at the same rate.
“I am in favor of going relatively fast,” Bostic said. “The economy is in a much different place today” and “I am pretty confident these markets are going to continue to function even with a more rapid withdrawal, and I would be willing to lean into that to try to get us to complete the taper in a shorter period than what we have done in previous rounds.”
Bostic didn’t specify a time frame, though a colleague, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, has suggested the taper could be started in the fall and end by March.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/fed-s-bostic-urges-faster-bond-taper-as-u-s-economy-strengthens-1.1638299
Blackrock’s research arm sees `real and broadening’ restart of global economy
A “real and broadening” restart of the global economy is underway — with the U.S. “passing the baton” to Europe and other developed markets, even as COVID-19’s delta variant presents a challenge for emerging countries, according to the research arm of BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager. BlackRock BLK, +0.81%, which had around $9.5 trillion in assets under management in the second quarter, is widely followed because of its dominant role in financial markets. The views were released in weekly commentary Monday by the BlackRock Investment Institute.
The firm’s commentary comes as a report showing undefined for June helped to lift Treasury yields and send the 10-year rate TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.317% above 1.30%. Until recently, U.S. and global bond rates have generally been on a steady, downward trend — accompanied by flattening yield curves that suggested investors expect global economic growth to slow, inflation to moderate over the longer term, or both. “The restart of economic activity is real and broadening,” Jean Bolvin, Elga Bartsch, Wei Li, and Nicholas Fawcett wrote in the note. They said the restart of global activity is causing a spurt in growth, which will eventually settle into “an expansion around trend growth” and be followed by “an unusually wide range of potential outcomes,” they said.
For now, the global-restart scenario “supports our pro-risk stance and our underweight in government bonds as we believe their low yields don’t reflect the restart’s momentum,” the authors wrote. They also said they’ve been tactically overweight in European equities, while recently downgrading emerging-market equities and debt to neutral.
The authors couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blackrocks-research-arm-sees-real-and-broadening-restart-of-global-economy-11628528683
PAVIS76 USAFSOC C-32B on final approach turn for JBA from Anchorage, AK Ted Stevens Int'l
RCH617T USAF C-17 Globemaster departed Langley AFB after a ground stop nw-inbound from Dover AFB
Over the weekend observed another C-17 Globemaster (RCH616T) that also departed Langley and went to JB Elmendorf Anchorage-returned last night-dhey may be staging the equipment for kneepads visit to SE Asia at this point.
it should be but as we've seen with 45's E.O's
it ain't
Overtly speaking
Before dat wasn't paying attention.
PAVIS76 USAFSOC C-32B on final approach turn for JBA from Anchorage, AK Ted Stevens Int'l
RCH617T USAF C-17 Globemaster departed Langley AFB after a ground stop nw-inbound from Dover AFB
Over the weekend observed another C-17 Globemaster (RCH616T) that also departed Langley and went to JB Elmendorf Anchorage-returned last night-dhey may be staging the equipment for kneepads visit to SE Asia at this point.
"He Takes Care Of The Little Girls" - Leon Black's Ex-Mistress Shares Explosive New Details About "Best Friend" Jeffrey Epstein
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on the latest court filing made by Russian model Guzel Ganieva in her lawsuit against Leon Black. In the filing, she accused him of paying her millions of dollars in money and gifts in exchange for keeping the affair quiet.
But an amended filing released Monday includes even more explosive claims about Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Black has already been forced out of Apollo, the private equity giant he co-founded, months earlier than he had originally planned, despite an internal probe finding that his friendship with Epstein didn't extend beyond his decision to pay him more than $150MM for tax advice. While many have speculated that Black's explanation was a ruse (and a thin one at that), Ganieva makes several explosive new claims, hinting for the first time that Black knew exactly what Epstein was up to, while not directly accusing him.
In the amended filing, Ganieva alleges that Black "made multiple comments to Ganieva about Epstein's sexual proclivities." Black allegedly told Ganieva that Epstein flew "very young girls" aboard his private plane...and while the lawsuit doesn't explicitly accuse Black of knowing that the girls Epstein trafficked were underage...it does claim that Black told Ganieva that Epstein made his money because he "takes care of the little girls" and was "doing a great job with it." She also claimed that she herself was trafficked to Epstein, saying that Black flew her to Florida in 2008 "without her consent, to satisfy the sex needs of Epstein, Black's "best friend."
Black's legal team maintains that Ganieva's account is a "work of fiction," according to a report in Vanity Fair.
Black’s attorney, Dayna Perry, said in regard to the new claims that "Ms. Ganieva had six years to prepare her initial complaint in this case … She now claims to recall in August supposedly crucial events and connections that somehow had slipped her mind at the time of her June filing. But just like her June complaint, Ms. Ganieva’s story today is demonstrably and transparently false and betrays her willingness to say anything and fabricate a story in the hope something will stick."
But Ganieva's lawyers are reportedly subpoenaing flight records to see if they can prove she traveled with Black to Florida in October 2008. Evidence of this flight could be bad for Black, though we imagine his legal team will dismiss the records as irrelevant.
After asking her to meet him for lunch, Black allegedly drove Ganieva to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where they boarded a private plane. Ganieva states that once they were on the jet, Black told her they were flying to Palm Beach to meet his "friend", Jeffrey Epstein. Black instructed her not to tell anybody about the trip, even allegedly threatening to frame her for drug possession if she ever did. "Black specifically used heroin as an example of an illicit drug that would be problematic for her if he planted it on her," the lawsuit states.
When they arrived at Epstein's mansion, a federal marshal was stationed outside in accordance with the terms of Epstein's sweetheart deal with prosecutors back in 2008. Epstein was famously granted work-release privileges allowing him to leave the jail for 12 hours every day during the entire year-long term of his incarceration.
They were allegedly greeted by Epstein assistance Sarah Kellen, who was also quoted in the amended lawsuit. "You have to understand that [Jeffrey and Leon] are sex addicts," Kellen said, according to the lawsuit. "You have to let them do whatever they want with you, and you have to let them be with multiple sexual partners if that’s what they want. They are very powerful, and if you don’t do what they want you to do, there will be consequences that I do not want for you."
When Ganieva refused to sleep with Epstein, Black looked "annoyed". He eventually dismissed her from Epstein's bedroom, and later, during the flight back to New Jersey, he refused to speak with her.
By the sound of it, Black stopped just short of admitting the existence of an elite moneyed cabal centered around abusing children...sound familiar? Still, we must take it with a grain of salt, given that the issue still needs to be adjudicated in civil court (though we have a feeling that, following these latest accusations, Black's legal team might be motivated to work out a settlement).
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/he-takes-care-little-girls-leon-blacks-ex-mistress-shares-explosive-new-details-about
GRIMM22 USAF B-52 Stratofortress east from Al-Udeid AB Doha
BLKWF12 USAF BACN GLEX (aerial wi-fi platform) west and should land at Al Dhafra AB-Dhabi
Cap #2-3
BACN is a communications relay and gateway system that provides military commanders with a versatile means of exchanging information from multiple air, ground, and maritime sources, to include host nation, joint, and coalition forces. It facilitates the transport of both voice and data across the battlespace enabling network connectivity among weapon systems, sensors, warfighters, decision makers, platforms, and command centers at all echelons of command and control (C2). BACN reduces line-of-sight issues, provides greater range for communication links, and provides commanders with versatile and flexible communications support across the range of military operations as well as a reliable means of communications between edge users across different waveforms and data formats.
https://www.acc.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/2241383/battlefield-airborne-communications-node-bacn/