/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

Dough

https://fullchan.net/?0abd454809b6ab7b#9XggYrv3eA4QtTW9MqY2rod3auRZdqVoN7abNWPSzueL

>>127024

ty B

Bwahahahahaha!!

>>127026 lb

No worries

I did say dat

kek

Not a biggie-gotta wait to see if that really her anyway.

>>127027

>>127027

>>127028

kek

I went out for a smoke after the bun drop so enough time given for any to add other than moi.

Hillary Clinton campaign attorney moves to dismiss Durham investigation case

An attorney for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign is seeking the dismissal of a case against him, calling the matter “extraordinary prosecutorial overreach”

The attorney, Michael Sussman, was charged in Special Prosecutor John Durham’s investigation with making a false statement to a federal agent when he gave the FBI a tip in September 2016 about an apparent connection between the Trump Organization and Moscow’s Alfa Bank. Further review suggested the supposed digital fingerprints were likely the result of junk email.

Prosecutors allege that Sussman falsely stated “that he was not acting on behalf of any client in conveying particular allegations concerning a Presidential candidate,” when he was in fact working for then-candidate Clinton.

Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

In a motion to dismiss filed Thursday, lawyers for Sussman said he did not make false statements to the FBI, and argued that prosecutors were pursuing him on a technicality.

Lawyers for Sussman said in a Thursday filing that he “voluntarily” met with the FBI in the fall of 2016 to “pass along information that raised national security concerns.”

“He met with the FBI, in other words, to provide a tip,” attorneys for Sussman wrote. “There is no allegation in the indictment that the tip he provided was false. And there is no allegation that he believed the tip he provided was false.”

“Rather, Mr. Sussmann has been charged with making a false statement about an entirely ancillary matter—about who his client may have been when he met with the FBI—which is a fact that even the Special Counsel’s own Indictment fails to allege had any effect on the FBI’s decision to open an investigation,” they continued.

“Allowing this case to go forward would risk criminalizing ordinary conduct, raise First Amendment concerns, dissuade honest citizens from coming forward with tips, and chill the advocacy of lawyers who interact with the government,” Sussman’s lawyers said.

“Mr. Sussmann did not make any false statement to the FBI,” they added.

Sussman faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/hillary-clinton-campaign-attorney-moves-to-dismiss-investigation-case/

>>127024

tybb

... over reach

Who Gets Arkancided First, Sussman or Sullivan?

SAM400 USAF G5 departed Tel Aviv after arriving on 0215

Pretty sure this is Nancy-sneaky bitch used a G5 instead of the usual C-40C/B-why I couldn't find it on Tuesday

>>126436 lb Pelosi to lead Congressional delegation to Israel-israelnationalnews

>>126811 lb

>>127034

Sussman-he easier

Unless they habs another plane accident

Think this is Sullivan on SAM310-WH NSO has used this in the past

rt >>127009 lb notable

>>126992 lb

SAM141 USAF C-32A Sec. of Defense Austin on ground at Warsaw-Chopin Airport

RCH4152 USAF C-17 also on descent for same

Both departed Brussels Int'l

>>127028

rule$ for me and NOT4yee peasant$

>>127038

BOXER42 USAF C-40C has also departed Tel Aviv

Re read EO (last paragraph for summary of point):

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-201800129/pdf/DCPD-201800129.pdf

Military has been involved since day 1. 2000 was the start, remember?

>>127045

chek't ^^

I 'member

>>127045

<>45 CONFIRM_D5 ! >>127047

Not AF2 kneepads in SAM221 USAF C-32A passing over southern England

German AF GAF827 A319 departed Brussels Int'l- German Defense Minister on final at Koln

German defense minister sees no sign of Russian withdrawal, 'just words'

DERP!!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/german-defence-minister-sees-no-sign-of-russian-withdrawal-just-words/ar-AATYLhA

SPAR97 USAF G5 NATO AC heading to Warsaw too

RAF RRR7214 Rivet Joint still over Ukraine

dis for G

who does not think highly of agent Poso

>>127050

ever since dis mang

kek

din't eben know who he was prior to 2017

>totally off inet for several years

>>126978 lb

Not AF1 Joe in 82-8000 on descent back to JBA from Cleveland-Hopkins Int'l depart

09-0017 USAF C-32A already arrived at JBA from it's Wright-Patterson AFB depart

And that is IT for BOTUS today

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

Rebel News Live:

DAILY | The calm before the storm in Ottawa

- completed now, start was 1200h

https://odysee.com/@RebelNews:9/Feb_17:8

https://www.rebelnews.com/

replay is "being prepped"

https://rumble.com/vv6ezh-february-17-2022.html

Ottawa bylaw threatens to seize protesters' pets and 'relinquish' them after 8 days

Animal owners participating in the Ottawa 'Freedom Convoy' protests could lose their pets, city by-law officials warned.

By Ian Miles Cheong | February 17, 2022

Thursday morning, Ottawa bylaw officials announced that anyone participating in the on-going protests,

which began over two weeks ago, could risk having their pets seized.

The move to threaten pet-owners follows increased efforts by both the city and federal authorities to bring an end

to the truck drivers’ protests over Canadian vaccine mandates.

“If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions,

your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost,”

warned Ottawa bylaw on Twitter. “After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.”

While it’s unclear what the government officials mean by the term “relinquished,”

the warning garnered outrage on social media, with many expressing dismay over the city’s threat.

Move the truck or we euthanize your dog. https://t.co/FTj9bJZqhO

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 17, 2022

Ottawa is a country song.

They'll take your dog.

They'll take your kids.

They'll take your truck. https://t.co/oenDG0jbYH

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) February 17, 2022

The move to threaten protesters comes as Ottawa police and bylaw officials hand out notices to truck drivers

still camped out near Parliament Hill at Wellington Street and R. O’Connor Street.

Despite the warnings, protesters are yet to vacate the area.

https://www.rebelnews.com/ottawa_bylaw_threatens_to_seize_protesters_pets_and_relinquish_them_after_8_days

>>127056

>>127032

Catherine Herridge

@CBS_Herridge

#Durham NEW 29 page Sussmann filing accuses Durham of “extraordinary prosecutorial overreach” + seeks dismissal false statement charges because issue is “entirely ancillary matter – about who his (Sussmann’s) client might have been when he met with FBI” https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco

https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1494395534051880969

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638.39.0_4.pdf

House committee asks government to end Trump hotel lease before Trump can sell it for $370 million (Trump to profit roughly $76 million)

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/house-panel-asks-gsa-to-end-trump-lease-of-old-post-office-dc-hotel.html

Not AF2 kneepads in SAM221 USAF C-32A on descent for Munich from JBA depart

SPAR93 USAF G5 departed Munich nw

Harris to meet world leaders in Munich amid Ukraine tension

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vp-harris-meet-world-leaders-munich-amid-ukraine-tension-2022-02-17/

gotta rest

busy-ass morning upstairs and all over

Love it though!!

back later

u guise are SO lucky i'ma nice guy.

>>127034, >>127039

SAM310 USAF C-40B (WH NSO AC in the past and Jake Sullivan) on ground at Munich-shows on final but landed 1 hour 15 minutes ago

>>127006 lb

SAM376 USAF C-40B (Blinken) arriving at Munich shortly

>>127044

BOXER42 USAF C-40C on ground at Munich Int'l from Tel Aviv depart

This AC is the list on..

>>126436 lb Pelosi to lead Congressional delegation to Israel-israelnationalnews

I dunno who is on this one but will eventually find out

SAM364 USAF G5 on descent for Souda Bay, Crete from JBA depart earlier

FBI Raids and Subpoenas Have Been Occurring on Wall Street. What’s Up?

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal dropped the bombshell that the Justice Department has been conducting raids on prominent short-sellers, including Muddy Waters’ Carson Block and Andrew Left of Citron Research. The Journal reported that the Justice Department “has seized hardware, trading records and private communications….”

muh evil short sellers are ALWAYS blamed same in 2008-this is not an endorsement of naked shorting because that is an altogether different issue/problem

Reuters reported yesterday that the Justice Department’s probe is “part of a wide-ranging investigation into short-sellers and hedge funds focused on suspected coordinated manipulative trading, according to two people familiar with the matter.” Reuters also reported that “dozens” of subpoenas have been issued to various firms since early last year.

Of particular interest to Wall Street On Parade was a report on December 10 by Reuters which indicated that trading activity in the shares of GSX Techedu was in the cross hairs of the Justice Department because both Muddy Waters and Citron Research had circulated negative research on the company. If GSX Techedu, a Chinese online tutoring firm, is being probed, we can assure you that more than short-sellers need to be under investigation by the Justice Department. (The company has changed its name to Gaotu Techedu.)

GSX Techedu was one of the stocks that had been purchased in huge quantities by Archegos Capital Management before Archegos blew itself up in March of last year. Archegos was using tricked-up derivative contracts provided by major Wall Street firms that allowed it to hide its ownership interests in various stocks and obtain massive amounts of margin loans provided by the same Wall Street firms.

When we checked 13F filings with the SEC that were dated prior to the Archegos blowup to find out who might have been fronting for Archegos’ position in GSX Techedu, we found the following: Goldman Sachs held over 20 million shares of GSX Techedu with a put option on just 3.45 million shares; Morgan Stanley held over 14 million shares; UBS held more than 11 million shares; Bank of America held more than 5.8 million shares; Citigroup, over 4.8 million shares; and JPMorgan Chase, over 4 million shares.

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Durham files response to Sussmann motion to strike paragraphs

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1494441352926429184

>>127073

that was quick

kek

>>127038

SAM400 USAF G5 on ground at Prestwick Int'l from Tel Aviv depart

>>126974 lb

*Todays excuse is the deterioration of the Jobless claims #'s

THIS (below) is why it's been whip-sawed-shaking the tree both ways cause not enough of these (both sides) were closed-out.

Usually you don't wanna hold options into expiry but too many are this week hence the shake-out(s)

A $2.2 Trillion Crunch Time Looms for Traders Loaded With Stock Hedges

Stock investors, on guard for turmoil with everything from geopolitics to Federal Reserve hawkishness strafing their nerves, are bracing for a chaotic end to the week with $2.2 trillion of option expirations set to hit the market Friday.

The monthly event involves $545 billion of derivatives across single stocks scheduled to expire, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates. About $985 billion of S&P 500-linked contracts and $165 billion in options tied to the world’s largest exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticker SPY), will run out, according to the firm’s strategist Rocky Fishman.

While the specific impact of the options market on stocks is never easy to quantify, equity indexes have shown a reliable pattern during the last year of lurching lower near the third Friday -- the day when many stock derivatives are closed. This time, volume is being whipped up by traders searching for protection in a market where the S&P 500 has swung by more than 1% in all but two sessions this month.

Exploding options volume has been a fixture of the post-pandemic era and repeatedly shown itself able to exacerbate volatility in cash equities. Among other channels, efforts to hedge positions among dealers are theorized to induce bigger swings in underlying securities, as market makers dart in and out of shares to balance positions, particularly around expiration.

While bullish contracts were once the instrument of choice among the meme crowd, investor demand for bearish options has been growing with the Fed expected to hike rates in March for the first time in three years. Amid a new-year selloff across assets, put open interest on SPY climbed to a two-month high, while that for the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (ticker HYG) surged to a record. A similarly cautious stance is on display for individual stocks. The 20-day average of the Cboe put-call ratio for equities hovered near the highest level in almost two years-cap #3. Retail traders are now paying up for puts. Meanwhile, hedge fund short sellers are reloading at the fastest pace in more than a decade.

As skeptical as sentiment looked in the options market, investors are hardly bailing. In fact, they poured $34.1 billion into U.S. large-cap stock funds in the week to Feb. 9, the most ever, EPFR Global data compiled by Bank of America Corp. show.

If anything, Friday’s OpEx event could lead to an unwinding of hedging from options dealers, helping propel equity gains, according to Charlie McElligott, a cross-asset strategist at Nomura Holdings. It’s a complicated process,'''(really it is not-just understand the language and the mystery unveils itself-however he is right below*) but it works roughly like this: When a dealer sells a put option, it’s essentially taking a bet on the underlying asset to go up. To offset this unwanted directional risk, the dealer typically sells some of the asset to maintain a neutral position. When the put options expire, it will reverse those hedging moves, potentially creating a tail wind for the asset.

Another factor involving options dealers, McElligott pointed out, is their current “short gamma” position that requires them to go with prevailing market trends: buy stocks when they go up and sell when they fall.

That “means chase-y accelerant flows from dealer hedging into moves and creating overshoots in both directions,” McElligott wrote in a note Thursday. *“We have a ton of ‘push/pull.’”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/a-2-2-trillion-crunch-time-looms-for-traders-loaded-with-hedges

>>127082

The "law" usually never works for usplebs even when it is blatantly obvious.

Like none of this is going on when it has goes against them (like all the time-kek

>vindication will feelz guud

Yes....it will.

SAM422 USAF G5 ne from JBA

>>126986 lb

Some pf housekeeping as forgot about this one as it been very busy upstairs today

SAM276 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast went to Minneapolis and still on ground

>>127091

Catherine Herridge

@CBS_Herridge

TRUMP TO TESTIFY: NY judge ruled former President Trump and his two eldest children must testify under oath in NY State’s civil investigation into his business practices. Trump’s lawyers countered that AG James + the probe are tainted by political bias.

https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1494470623069937665

gotta go for a while -

got somethin for WAKES

stick around a little and u get a gift

>>127024

sussmann is walk'n dead man

tyC

>>127073

won't be long before steam starts to build under this. msm will only be able to hold out for so long.

Allianz Takes $4.2 Billion Charge Over Collapsed Hedge Fund Debacle

2021 was a bad year for hedge funds, but few were hit as hard as insurance giant Allianz SE, which today announced it would take a €3.7 billion ($4.2 billion) charge tied to the implosion of some of its U.S. hedge funds.

The provision will hit last year’s net income by €2.8 billion, the company said in a statement late Thursday. And while the insurer expects to settle with major investors in the funds shortly, bringing some clarity to months of uncertainty on the legal bill for the matter, discussions with other plaintiffs, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are ongoing. The company also warned that it can’t reliably estimate the total financial impact of the legal matter and expects additional expenses.

Some background: the Allianz hedge fund investment strategy, known as Structured Alpha, used "complex option strategies" to generate predictable returns without excessive risk, but according to the investors, imploded in February and March 2020 after quietly removing hedges designed to minimize losses. What is remarkable is that the hedge funds offered by the AGI unit were designed to provide protection against a market crash. Instead, two of the Structured Alpha Funds were liquidated at the end of March 2020 after suffering massive losses, and Allianz has since wound down the rest.

According to court papers, the Structured Alpha Global Equity 500 fund lost three-quarters of its value, lagging its benchmark by nearly 60 percentage points. Two other funds once worth $2.3 billion were liquidated, locking in investor losses.The collapse sparked a frenzy of lawsuits by investors alleging losses of some $6 billion, as well as an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (which will go NOWHERE)

Back in August, Allianz warned that the hedge funds implosion could “materially impact” future earnings, after the U.S. Department of Justice started a probe into the funds. Then, in September, a U.S. judge said Allianz must face investor claims it wrongly "abandoned" the investment strategies it promised to use on hedge funds that suffered massive losses as the COVID-19 pandemic shook markets early last year.

It wasn't all bad though: Allianz said operating profit rose 25% to 13.4 billion euros last year, and the company announced a plan to buy back as much as 1 billion euros of its own shares. Indeed, as Bloomberg notes, the hedge fund debacle "overshadowed a strong rebound at Allianz from the impact of the pandemic, with higher prices and an economic recovery fueling underlying earnings."

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/allianz-takes-42-billion-charge-over-collapsed-hedge-fund-debacle

>>127095

gonna blow yo and that lid ain't never goin back on

https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/9c61ff1fe0be04960c2e41716c12f44bcbf2f6e86078b880eae1d18a2b3d945c.pdf

KoaTheGreat

@KoaTheGreat

NEW — A clinical trial regional director filed a $2 billion lawsuit against Pfizer & BioNTech alleging the pharmaceutical companies fabricated & falsified their covid-19 vaccine trial data. The lawsuit was unsealed today after being filed on Jan. 8, 2021.

https://twitter.com/KoaTheGreat/status/1494213354944012294

https://cdn.locals.com/documents/47656/47656_e41yu6vd2x117dq.pdf

>>127097

durham gonna be like...

>>127095

evenin'

>deadman walking

>msm will only be able to hold out for so long.

They been doin' a great job so far-not that I consume berry much of it-only thing I've seen is Fox stuff-

Whitaker about the only one that went off the rest pretty tame

>>127105

kek

>>127088

BOXER40 USAF C-40C departed JBA ne as well

By nao with all these ACs either in Yerp or heading dhere all we got left is BOTUS and Flauxtus in CONUS

kek

>>127111

>>127117

speakin of bunz

>>127120

i'm out after tomorrow

>>127120

>>127122

Prayers

>>127122

Biz/house I bet

good luck fren

>>127124

ty

>>127125

Will do dhat

may not be me directly but will stay in touch

gonna be at least two weeks before they get me in the image

>>127123

si senor

>>127128

>>127129

kek

nite errybody. got some irl to take care of then rack time. see all on the morrow

>>127127

hey friend

we got little party for u, yeah?

have some fun

>>127135

>>127134

>>127134

>>127127

just got a bag of deez choco bits

seems like i remember somebody likes em

>>127139

>choco tits

luv ya fam. non homoic of course

clean up please. don't want a messy kitch in the earlies!

>>126986 lb, >>127088

SAM276 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast se back to JBA from Minneapolis Intl after about 9 hours on the ground

This is in the top 3 of high-level G5 ACs in the 99th Airlift squad, excepting the three super secret ones that are never seen, so that it is still over CONUS (when just about everything else is overseas) is pretty interdasting.

Seems like it's a rocky road right now

We don't wanna set you go

Even for a day

much less longer

You're our brother

WRWY

Whatever habbens -

we will always be with you

Always thinking of you

Hoping for the best, cheering for island living

God bless you, patriot friend.

This is a TRIBUTE to you - our 'always' friend.

For your many years of service

Every morning of every day.

Come back soon.

WWG1WGA.

>>127148

>>127150

>distinctive voice

At times yes, others it is moar obscured.

If I had a bar might name it "The hangry beaver"

HOMER51 USAF Rivet Joint starting it's NATO harassment program in the Black Sea.

From Souda Bay, Crete

in the morning

Night muh frens

>>127153

g'nite G

ttyt

>>127153

g'nite gb