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Warner Music Group Corp. sold by Access Industries: $221.25m-Sept 8 and 24
Warner Music Group Corp is a music entertainment company. The Company operates through two segments: Recorded Music and Music Publishing. It owns a portfolio of record labels, including Atlantic Records, Warner Records, Elektra Records and Parlophone Records. Recorded Music business primarily consists of the discovery and development of recording artists and the related marketing, promotion, distribution, sale and licensing of music created by such recording artists. Its Recorded Music business is conducted principally through its record labels, such as Atlantic Records and Warner Records. Music Publishing is an intellectual property business focused on generating revenue from uses of the musical composition itself. The operations of its Music Publishing business are conducted principally through Warner Chappell Music, its global music publishing company. Its catalog includes various songwriters and composers and a range of genres, including pop, rock, jazz, alternative and gospel. Number of employees : 5 500 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/WARNER-MUSIC-GROUP-CORP-107768549/company/
Access Industries, Inc. is an American privately held multinational industrial group. It was founded in 1986 by businessman Leonard "Len" Blavatnik, who is also its chairman. Access's industrial focus is in four areas: natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, venture capital and real estate. The group invests in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Latin America. It is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Moscow.
Born in Ukraine, raised north of Moscow, Len Blavatnik emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 for school; he studied computer science at Columbia University. He made a fortune selling his stake in Russian oil company TNK-BP for $7 billion in 2013. He purchased Warner Music in 2011 for $3.3 billion. His investment firm Access Industries holds stakes in chemicals firm LyondellBasell, e-commerce firm Rocket Internet and fashion label Tory Burch. Blavatnik says he has given or pledged over $700 million to philanthropy, mostly to universities, including Oxford, Stanford and Harvard. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K. The Blavatniks have given to both political parties in the U.S., from Trump's inaugural committee to Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/len-blavatnik/?sh=e424f9456f30
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1813621&tc=7&b=2
Biden cancels Wednesday Chicago trip to focus on salvaging $3.5T spending bill
Biden will postpone a planned trip to Chicago on Wednesday so he can continue negotiations with Democrat holdouts on his $3.5 trillion spending bill, the White House confirmed. Biden was scheduled to travel to Chicago as part of his administration’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign. A White House official said the trip will be rescheduled.
"In meetings and calls over the weekend and through today, President Biden has been engaging with members of Congress on the path forward for the Build Back Better Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal," the White House official said. "He will now remain at the White House tomorrow to continue working on advancing these two pieces of legislation to create jobs, grow the economy, and make investments in families, rather than failed giveaways to the rich and big corporations."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-cancels-chicago-trip-infrastructure-bill-negotiations
SAM164 USAF C-40B nw from JBA and began it's descent to Pittsburgh Int'l
This AC most likely the WH Nat. Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
It has been used by the State Dept in the past as well.
>>96373 pb
GORDO16 USAF E-4B Nightwatch heading ws after it's werk over Lake Superior and a run over to Upstate NY
China Evergrande to sell $1.5 bln stake in Shengjing Bank to state firm
Cash-strapped China Evergrande Group said on Wednesday it plans to sell a 9.99 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) stake it owns in Shengjing Bank Co Ltd to a state-owned asset management company as it scrambles to raise funds.
After missing a bond interest payment last week, Evergrande faces a big test on Wednesday with the deadline of another coupon payment of $47.5 million that investors are watching closely. The 1.75 billion shares, representing 19.93% of the issued share capital of the bank, will be sold for 5.70 yuan apiece to Shenyang Shengjing Finance Investment Group Co Ltd, a state-owned enterprise involved in capital and asset management, China Evergrande said in a filing to the Hong Kong bourse. Shenyang Shengjing's stake in the bank will be increased to 20.79% after the deal to become the bank’s largest shareholder. "The company’s liquidity issue has adversely affected Shengjing Bank in a material way," Evergrande Chairman Hui Ka Yan said in the statement. "The introduction of the purchaser, being a state-owned enterprise, will help stabilise the operations of Shengjing Bank and at the same time, help increase and maintain the value of the 14.75% interest in Shengjing Bank retained by the company."
Beijing is prodding government-owned firms and state-backed property developers to purchase some of embattled China Evergrande Group's assets, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters this week.
Shengjing Bank demanded that all net proceeds from the disposal be applied to settle the relevant financial liabilities of the group due to Shengjing Bank, Evergrande said.
Its stake in the bank would be reduced to 14.75% from 34.5%.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-transfer-15-bln-stake-shengjing-bank-state-firm-2021-09-29/
suspected it Saturday when it left for San Francisco but there is nothing that I can find in SF or the other locations it has been too: North Island (San Diego) and where it was last night- Seattle.
Having that C-17 hold yesterday while BOXER departed North Island and then the Boeing test AC slowed down for it when it arrived at Boeing Field sorta clinched it for me.
thinking doze ANON call signs outta North Island wuz dhem saying you right.
All that went on before, during and just after BOXER46 departed
C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globey-one yesterday and one today and the Seahawk UH-60
Never had that many in such a short time frame and from the same departing Airport.
she hasn't been in DC since Sat.
Same AC as the trip previous-see below- just different # in call sign, 41 for the overseas and 46 for nao...she dreaming wif dat.
Here for three full days then off to SFO this last Sat. after being in London, Manchester, Athens and back-she bailed from SFO on the 14-'recall election' night here-for all dat.
She and Milley were in Athens, Greece on the same day-Monday 0920
Returned to JBA on 0921
Milley wrapping up a NATO BS meeting and she decided to 'pop in' at Athens, from London,the same day.
Milley went to Finland to meet wif Russian General Gerasimov after dat
US To Exclude Travelers Vaccinated With Russia's Sputnik V Despite Distribution To 70 Countries
A week ago the US relaxed prior pandemic restrictions on foreign travelers entering the country, announcing that vaccination proof and a negative Covid test would be required. However, one major foreign-produced vaccine will now be deemed not eligible as proof one is fully vaccinated.
Beginning in November, US rules will exclude Russia's Sputnik V vaccine as being considered an acceptable vaccine, the Washington Post reports, potentially impacting millions of travelers given that the Russian-produced vaccine could eventually see distribution to 70 other countries.
The Post indicated that for any non-citizen traveling inbound, they must be vaccinated with a shot on either the FDA or World Health Organization (WHO) list of 'emergency use' approved inoculations.
The United Kingdom also recently imposed travel restrictions which only recognizes specific vaccines as valid, which excludes Sputnik. Though US and international health officials have raised concerns over the manufacturing process utilized in making Sputnik V, Moscow sees the US and global bodies as playing politics over the science.
For example, earlier in the pandemic there were widespread accusations the State Department was waging an 'infowar' in Latin America specifically to dissuade countries from receiving Sputnik from Russia.
Days ago Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York urged mutual recognition of vaccines, saying that Moscow is ready to fight Covid as "our common enemy": "COVID-19 is our common enemy. We support mutual recognition of vaccines approved by national oversight bodies, in the interests of lifting restrictions on international travel of citizens as soon as possible."
But the suspicion remains that in the case of Russia, Washington will continue to red flag its shot, despite mounting evidence that it's just as safe and effective as Western developed and manufactured vaccines.
Vaccine Diplomacy: The Surprising Success of Sputnik V https://t.co/8HovbKWUF4— SPIEGEL Ticker (@SPIEGEL_alles) March 30, 2021
For now it appears yet another example of the "trust the science" mantra being in reality supplanted by pure politics, or in this case geopolitical and economic rivalry and competition, which tends to distrust all things Russian.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/us-exclude-travelers-vaccinated-russias-sputnik-v-despite-distribution-70-countries
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