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'PlaneFag CONUS/Central & South America/Caribbean Activity
Something you don't see every day for sure: N879AD DC-9 which is called Firebird II and is primarily a radar and missile seeker testing platform-it is highly modified (check that nose and the fin arrays)-big Raytheon facility located at Tucson Int'l and heading WN after taxi from Raytheon Bldg
SAM298 arrived at San Francisco Int'l alst night while SWATH30 KC-135 tanker is over Potato as the mobile filling station
Potato gets the daily briefing in about an hour and then leaves SFO for JBA at 1:05pm EST
Has a meeting/dinner with Indian PM Modi later https://factba.se/biden/calendar
IRON99 E-6B Mercury left Travis AFB heading EN
RCH3240 C-17 Globemaster heading south from McChord to go p/u Potato's equipment
SAM261 G5 departed Miami Int'l ES after an overnight-arrived from JBA yesterday
GTMO844 Beech UC-12M Huron-one of the usual weekly flight(s) heading heading to Ft. Luaderdale or NAS Lax91-0512 C-26B Metro ES from Dane Cty Regional Airport (Madison, WI) part of te 187th Fighter Wing (Ops group) https://www.187fw.ang.af.mil/Units/Operations-Group/
GRZLY50 C560 departed Ft. Lauderdale Exec. Airport and arrived on 0616 from a stop at Houston-Ellington Airport and departed MCAS Miramar (home base)
Central South America/Mexico/Caribbean
WYU Beech Super King Air departed Hermosillo after a ground stop-left Guadalajara -Zapopan AB after about 5.5 h on ground
12-3060 USAFSOC 'Special Ops' C-146 Wolfhound departed Guatemala City overnight-arrived from Bogota depart and stopped at Comayaguay AB in Honduras before Guat City arrival yesterday
TEAL71 WC-130j Hurricane Hunter ES from St. Croix USVI heading out to check the incoming storm
From yesterday: 11-3104 USAFSOC C-146 Wolfhound went to Manaus, Brazil after a stop at Trindad and Tobago-left San Juan earlier yesterday
PlaneFag Europe-Blinken leaves London after Ukraine 'Recovery' meeting, SoKo Prez bails Paris after Macron meeting
SAM200 C-32ABlinkendeparted London-Stansted Airport after arriving from Baku ground stop and Beijing depart on 0619
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1671477560541171712
SAM056 G5 departed Stockholm Int'l along with Spanish AF AME4521 Falcon 900
Swiss AF SUI016 Falcon 900 departed Bern WN >>19045618
Korean AF KAF001 747President Yoondeparted Paris heading ES after meeting with Macron and a financial summit (NGR001 arrived yesterday from Abuja)
President Yoon visits Paris
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/PYH20230621218500315
muh insurance munee
SEC charges audit firm Markum with ‘systemic control failures’ in work done for hundreds of SPACs
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged audit firm Marcum LLP with “systemic quality control failures’ and violations of audit standards in work conducted for hundreds of special purpose acquisition corporations. Marcum has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to settle the charges. Over a three-year period starting in 2020, Marcum more than tripled its public company clients, according to the regulator, the majority of which were SPACs, or blank-check companies, which became popular during the pandemic. SPACs are shell companies that go public and then acquire a business or businesses within a two-year timeframe. If they fail to find a suitable target, they give the money back to the original investors. Marcum’s rapid growth “exposed substantial, widespread, and pre-existing deficiencies in the firm’s underlying quality control policies, procedures, and monitoring. These deficiencies permeated nearly all stages of the audit process and were exacerbated as Marcum took on more SPAC clients,” said the SEC. More than 860 SPACs conducted IPOs between 2020 through 2021, and nearly half were audited by Marcum. “Marcum neglected its essential gatekeeper function in service to its own growth,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sec-charges-audit-firm-markum-with-systemic-control-failures-in-work-done-for-hundreds-of-spacs-21628bc2
SPACS (before they were 'acceptable' cuz there was no other way to get these POS Co's out into the market via the normal IPO process) were always the step children of finance..so of course Gary settles this ..takes the munee and makes a few comments about how "bad" they were…what did you do at the CFTC and while you were Hillary's CFO again….
>askin for a fren
100% correct just a "hero" for those who don't realize how he got where he is
California Home Sales Down 23.6% YoY in May, Median Prices Decline 6.4% YoY
California doesn’t report monthly inventory numbers, but they do report sales and the change in months of inventory. Note: The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is scheduled to release May existing home sales tomorrow, Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 10:00 AM ET. The consensus is for 4.24 million SAAR.
Last Friday, housing economist Tom Lawler noted: Based on publicly-available local realtor/MLS reports released across the country through today, comprising over 225,000 transactions, I project that existing home sales as estimated by the National Association of Realtors ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.25 million in May, down 0.7% from April’s preliminary pace and down 21.3% from last May’s seasonally adjusted pace.
Here is the press release from the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.): Interest rate reprieve boosts California home sales to highest level in eight months, C.A.R. reports
California’s median home price exceeded $800,000 in May for the second straight month, increasing 3.0 percent from April’s $811,950 to $836,110 in May.The statewide median price continued to rise and reached the highest level in nine months.
• Existing, single-family home sales totaled 289,460 in May on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, up 9.8 percent from April and down 23.6 percent from May 2022.
• May’s statewide median home price was $836,110, up 3.0 percent from April and down 6.4 percent from May 2022.
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2023/06/california-home-sales-down-236-yoy-in.html
https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rates/30-year-fixed
yoinked
surprised they haven't touched the proverbial third rail in CA politics (Prop 13)
Newsome will try it if he knows he is gone
>>19045830 California Home Sales Down 23.6% YoY in May, Median Prices Decline 6.4% YoY