/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

Dough

https://fullchan.net/?62cdc3047575e514#5z8LfpgeHkj35yX2cPxnU8st3z21y9Sg7FspgoRkWBhD

>>129012

ty B

MAYAN13 US Navy E-6B Mercury on ground at Pax River from MacDill AFB after some off-shore werk over western FL and quite the meandering route back

>>128873, >>129003 lb

GORDO14 USAF E-4B Nightwatch returning to Edwards AFB after departing yesterday

Something must not habs 'checked' out upon it's arrival and inspection at Lincoln yesterday

likes the visuals

>>129024

BOXER40 USAF C-40C departed JBA wn-likely Nancy going to San Francisco Int'l

This has been used by her in the past for both CONUS and Int'l trips

Royal Saudi AF RSF1159 A330 departed Nellis AFB ne

Arrived at Nellis on 0226 after departing King Abdulaziz AB and a stop at East Midlands Airport -UK for three hours refueled and then departed for Nellis

>>128991, >>129002 Morning Market Report-likely 'stick save on NAS via PPT on LOD...so far

Imagine where it would be if the 'stick save (failed) did not occur earlier today.

They couldn't get shorts to cover en masse.

Fucked they are.

Seeing divergence now-and don't forget this is with the failed stick save in the NAS

The DOW fell .29%

The Nasdaq 100 fell 1.5%

The S&P 500 fell 0.5%

It closed just about where it was when the YUGE volume came in-still seen as the lime green dot-actually a bit lower.

Stocks Set to Fall Amid Growth, Inflation Worries: Markets Wrap

Stocks looked poised to fall in Asia Friday on concerns over global growth and inflation risks from the war in Ukraine and the isolation of Russia’s economy. Oil’s rally eased but crude prices were volatile.

Equity futures for Japan, Australia and Hong Kong dropped after technology stocks led U.S. equities lower in another choppy Wall Street session.

Crude eased back from a 14-year high on the prospect of a supply boost as talks toward an Iran nuclear deal make progress. Energy, metal and grain costs have soared as the world increasingly shuns Russia’s oil and other resources.

Traders are also evaluating the monetary policy outlook. Chair Jerome Powell reaffirmed the Federal Reserve is set to start a series of interest-rate hikes to curb inflation, while indicating it will move judiciously.

Longer-maturity Treasuries rose, lowering the 10-year yield to 1.84%. The gap between two-year and 10-year yields shrank to the least since March 2020. The flatter curve points to expectations for slowing economic expansion. Gold and a dollar gauge climbed.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/stocks-set-to-fall-amid-growth-inflation-worries-markets-wrap-1.1732228

See Cap#3 for the continued commodity Index pricing ramp-nuffin to see here.

some additional headlines

Rice Soars as Ukraine War Starts Scramble for Any and All Grains

Rice is the latest commodity to get swept up in the turmoil of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices for rice are surging because traders are betting it will be an alternative for wheat, which is becoming prohibitively expensive. Exports of wheat from Russia and Ukraine account for more than a quarter of the crop’s trade worldwide and a fifth of corn sales. Shipping in the Black Sea region is already engulfed in chaos.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/rice-soars-as-ukraine-war-starts-scramble-for-any-and-all-grains-1.1732218

In knew this was coming news

Russia-backed RT America reportedly will cease production

The U.S. arm of Russian state-backed media outlet RT will be effectively shutting down, CNN reported, citing a memo from the production company behind RT America.

CNN said that the general manager of the Washington-based production company, T&R Productions, Misha Solodovnikov, said in a note to employees that it would be ceasing production because of “unforeseen business interruption events.” He said most employees will be permanently laid off. Attempts to get comment from Solodovnikov and RT were unsuccessful.

RT America’s YouTube channel, where it has 1.2 million subscribers, remains live.

*Way underestimated for sure

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-backed-rt-america-reportedly-will-cease-production-01646350078

February Employment Preview

On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is for 400,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to decrease to 3.9%.

There were 467,000 jobs added in January, and the unemployment rate was at 4.0%.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/03/february-employment-preview.html

Goldman 'predicts' 500k will be added......

Russian rouble hits new lows in volatile trading

Cap#4

he Russian rouble slumped to new record lows against the dollar on Thursday though it closed the Moscow session little changed, after Fitch and Moody's downgraded Russia's sovereign debt to "junk" status, with steps by the central bank and finance ministry failing to halt its slide.

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Russian-rouble-hits-new-lows-in-volatile-trading--39647603/

UPDATE: NATO MEMBER OWNED SHIP SINKS OFF ODESA – Russia Used Civilian Ship As A Human Shield

John Konrad March 3, 2022

UPDATE: “The Estonian-owned cargo ship Helt SUNK on Thursday off the Ukrainian port of Odesa after an explosion,” Igor Ilves, managing director of Tallinn-based manager Vista Shipping Agency, told Reuters. “Two crew members were in a life raft at sea while four others were unaccounted for.”

“The vessel has finally sunk,” he said. “Two of the crew are in a raft on the water and four others are missing. I don’t know where they are at the moment.” Ilves said the vessel might have struck a mine.

“Estonia is a member of NATO, leading to fears the sinking could spark further conflict in Eastern Europe,” writes Jonathan Saul of Reuters.

The following is the original article published this morning just before the ship sank:

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) The Ukrainian Navy has accused the Russian Black Sea Fleet of using civilian vessels for cover — a tactic that it said Russian ground forces were also using. The Ukrainians accused the Russians of forcing the Estonia – a NATO member – owned merchant ship M/V Helt, to enter the dangerous zone of the Black Sea “so that the occupiers can cover themselves with a civilian ship as a human shield.” The Ukrainian Navy said the Russians had threatened to fire on the ship if it did not comply.

The Ukrainian Navy is calling the incident an illegal act of piracy.

Ukraine’s military headquarters said on Thursday that Russia was sending four amphibious assault ships to land troops near Odesa, a city of 1 million and a major seaport. Images on social media purported to show the landing craft and their escort standing off the southern coast of Crimea, opposite the coastline that includes Odesa.

As the Russian Navy approached Ukraine closed navigation in the north-western part of the Black Sea to assure vessel safety. One ship – the Estonia-owned, Panama flagged bulker M/V Helt – did not get far enough away and was allegedly ordered by the Russian Navy to position itself as a shield.

Also Read: Northern Black Sea Is Now A ‘Warlike Area’ As Navy Fails To Protect Shipping In NATO Waters

“The Russian Black Sea Fleet continues the tactics of Russian ground forces trying to hide behind civilian lives,” said a spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy. “The Russian fleet had already fired on 2 civilian ships and captured 2 ships of the Russian occupiers including the Sapphire, a search and rescue ship on a humanitarian mission.”

Ukrainian officials said that Russian ships gave the commercial ship an ultimatum. They claim a Russian warship ordered HELT to enter the dangerous zone of the Black Sea to protect themselves from Ukrainian artillery – using the civilian ship as a human shield – if the ship did not comply the Russian Navy threatened to open fire on the HELT.

“This is nothing but 21st century piracy,” said the Ukrainian Navy official.

More:

https://gcaptain.com/russia-used-civilian-ship-as-a-human-shield/

>>129041 (me)

For The Record

I've been keeping an eye on vessels around Odessa and HELT has been in the anchorage area for days and reporting "For Order"

No idea what caused the explosion but I am very doubtful about sea mines and that little bitty thing was certainly not worth expending a torpedo

>>129042

That's the rub, there's an Obstruction with 9.8 meters of water over it closer to the port which would be more of an issue.

Imma say it: Somebody just wants to blame Russia

hey cakes

gotza question

>>129048

shootz yo

on the phone but can haz type

>>129051

ah got it.

go back to yer call

>>129053

guud luck

>>129054

just fer future ref. been bugg'n me. dunno why. imma ocd n sheitz

SAM453 USAF G5 on descent for JBA from Peterson AFB ground stop of about 1hour

Italian AF UAVGH000 RQ-4 Global Hawk over Romania after some runs on Polish/Ukraine border

HOMER51 USAF Rivet Joint north from Souda Bay, Crete

NATO12 E-3TF Sentry AWACS north over Bucharest from Konya, Turkey

Asia stocks fall as fighting in Ukraine reaches nuclear plant

Asian shares fell on Friday as Russian shelling at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine stoked fears of a possible accident that could lead to a leak of radiation at Europe's largest such facility.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 was down by 2% at the end of morning trading, after decling 2.75% earlier, while the broader Topix index fell by 1.27%. South Korea's Kospi index, meanwhile, fell 1%. Taiwan stocks opened over 1% lower. Singapore's benchmark also started down by 0.5%.

As markets in Asia opened, and HUMAN PIECE OF SHITUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces was drawing close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi had raised similar concerns a few hours earlier. Ukrainian officials called for a ceasefire as fire broke out at the facility after being hit by Russian shelling. "Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl [Chernobyl]! Russians must immediately cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!" Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Reuters, citing an official in the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, reported that there was no current sign of higher radiation levels at the Zaporizhzhia plant.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Asia-stocks-fall-as-fighting-in-Ukraine-reaches-nuclear-plant

Oil spiked to $112 but has backed off down to just under $110....it hit $116 so it is just doing nuffin and certainly not reacting to an impending attack on a nuclear facility-this is such bullshit as Oil would be up and stay over $130 easily.

Metals have done nothing...the big boys know exactly what is going on.

Gold is up $3.60 and Silver up a 'whopping' .02

Certainly the reaction one would expect as an impending "nuclear" situation is unfolding.

of note

10 year Treasurys dumped down to 1.7%-cap#3 and have clawed some of that back but......

Rate-hike odds have tumbled-Cap #4

https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-fomc.html

See Jerry you DON'T control rates...just a delivery boi

As expected US Futs are down-cap #5 and look like a repeat of yesterday-watch for dat stick save again tomorrow.

>>129032

BOXER40 USAF C-40C on final at San Francisco Int'l from JBA

Nancy 'fo sure

>>129064

dunnoo wut you takin about

>kek

>>129065

sure

>>129065

veep change

>>129068

imma going nao

ice and rest

it cold here nao so the ice bit hard

ttyitm

night

night all

>>129075

>>129076

meta on fire

qr on fire

qrb comfy

like it here besty

habby tgif all

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1499741497180266501

Breaking: Zelensky, after saying he would not abandon Ukraine, has fled the country

8:40 AM · Mar 4, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

NATO rejects calls for no-fly zone over Ukraine

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1499738658236411906

>>129084

mornin, mornin baker

luckiest peep on the planet can still say that

survived another week

pure KEK

seent

a bunch of contrived chaos

mostly arrogance and ego

absolutely organic

eyesroll.png

Chancellor Merkel is awfully quiet for someone who said for years that her pipeline wasn’t encouraging Russia to act against Europe.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1499721532867858440

morning all

>>129094

mornin G

>>129094

morn'n gb. habby tgif

News, covered up by propaganda

https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1499588639474470914?s=20&t=gzIH41At9h75Two82cq2mQ

Just before sunset look at Yerp

Romanian activity

German AF GAF632 A400m on the track with NCHO223 USAF DC-10 extender

Belgian AF BAF645 A400m departing Constanta nw

Romanian AF ROF1104 Antonov AN-30 west from Bucharest

REBEL70 US Army Beech Super King Air west from Constanta

Romanian AF RBP01 Drone off eastern Romania

Central Europe/Poland

Red dots on these

Ukrainian AF 54483, 54482, 42524 Antonov AN32s east from Stuttgart Int'lthey departed Bydgoszcz, Poland earlier today

Dutch AF MMF19 A330 west from it's trackin with MMF20 still trackin' over northern Poland

Spanish AF AME3156 A400M en from Albacete AB -prolly heading to Rzesow Airport

NATO01 E-3 TF Sentry AWACS east towards Ukraine/Polish border

RCH819 USAF C-17 es from Spangdahlem AB

FORTE10 Global Hawk RQ-4 drone over south over Poland on Belarus Ukraine border

Polish AF PLF106 G5 ne from Budapest

LAGR132 and LAGR222 USAF KC-135 tankers heading for positions over Romania and Poland

>>129095

>>129096

o7

SAM475 USAF G5 south from JBA and looks like it is heading for Orlando

SPAR28 USAF G5 west from Orlando Int'l overnight-inbound from JBA yesterday

And where would we be without Not AF1 Joe bailing to Delaware for the weekend later on.

You know since we are "at the brink" and all that

Of course after a 'meeting' with Finnish President and the usual BS presser about nuffin

12:25pm EST The President makes an announcement delivering on his Made in America commitments

2:30pm EST The President participates in a bilateral meeting with His Excellency Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland, to continue their conversations about enhancing our strong bilateral relations

5:35pm EST departs the White House en route New Castle, Delaware

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

NEW: The Supreme Court rules in a 6-3 decision that the death penalty for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was improperly thrown out by a lower court.

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1499771210930044929

and in when sanctions placed on Russia backfire on everyone news:

Russia "Recommends" Fertilizer Makers To Halt All Exports

This morning we listed some of the countries that are dangerously (and almost exclusively) reliant on Russia and Ukraine for their wheat imports, highlighting Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and others...which are facing an "Arab Spring" style food crisis (and potential uprising) in the coming weeks unless the Ukraine conflict is resolved. And unfortunately, we can now confidently predict that the coming food crisis will strike every country that is using food fertilizer - which is all - because moments ago, Russian Interfax reported that as part of Moscow's countersanctions, Russia has recommended fertilizer makers to halt exports, a move which will sent not only fertilizer prices orbitally higher, but all food prices will soon follow.

*RUSSIA RECOMMENDS FERTILIZER MAKERS TO HALT EXPORTS: IFX

*RUSSIAN MINISTRY CITES LOGISTICS ISSUES ON FERTILIZERS: IFX

Worse still, natural gas is required in the manufacturing process for most nitrogen/fertilizer products and so the recent surge in European NatGas prices to record highs will only exacerbate the cost of fertilizer from any halt from Russia...And with wheat prices already at all time highs

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/russia-recommends-fertilizer-makers-halt-all-exports

https://www.weforum.org/people/volodymyr-zelenskyy

Morning Market Report

Watch for the 'stick save right about here-they need it

They still can't get oil above that recent high of $116-so until they do this entire "nuclear" situation imminent" is BS.

BofA biting hard on COMEX Ag contracts this morning-moar on that later-cap#4

Ag up nicely as well +24.80 +1.28%

https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

10 year T-Notes on the Lows (from last nights dump)

Come on Janet! you know you want to push that PPT button

February Employment Report-It making no difference even with the obvious "revisions upwards".

The headline jobs number in the February employment report was above expectations, and employment for the previous two months was revised up by 92,000. The participation rate and the employment-population ratio both increased, and the unemployment rate decreased to 3.8%. Leisure and hospitality gained 179 thousand jobs in February. In March and April of 2020, leisure and hospitality lost 8.20 million jobs, and are now down 1.53 million jobs since February 2020. So, leisure and hospitality has now added back about 81% all of the jobs lost in March and April 2020.

In where is the evidence of this part of the Jobs # release news: Construction employment increased 60 thousand and is now only 11 thousand below the pre-pandemic level.

These are just rolling averages of the last 10 years and nuffin moar

moar here

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/03/comments-on-february-employment-report.html

Credit Suisse Wealth Clients Face Margin Calls on Russian Assets

Credit Suisse Group AG joined larger rival UBS Group AG in triggering margin calls on wealthy clients who use Russian assets as collateral, after their value slumped in the wake of extensive sanctions imposed on the country. Switzerland’s second-largest bank is asking rich customers to post more collateral after cutting lending values on Russian securities, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal information. Other banks with wealth management arms including Banque Pictet & Cie SA have also cut lending values, Bloomberg reported earlier. The extent of the margin calls and whether all have been met wasn’t immediately clear. But the speed of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the response by the U.S. and Europe has left wealthy individuals invested in Russian assets facing frozen funds and demands for more collateral. Credit Suisse declined to comment.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/credit-suisse-wealth-clients-face-margin-calls-on-russian-assets-1.1732522

but nuffin on China and also the fallout from Archegos of which they were knee-deep in but they managed to rat out the others in the block trading "investigation": >>128331 Credit Suisse Tries to Aid U.S. in Block-Trading Probe of Rivals

But buy muh Chinese Stocks

>>126599 lb In hand off to retail news: From Credit Suisse to Goldman Sachs, investment banks say it’s time to buy Chinese stocks-cnbc

European NatGas Surges To New Record Highs As Russian Pipeline Flows Stall

While expectations are that Europe can survive the next winter without Russian gas, as Wood McKenzie detailed here, that is not to say the price of that 'survival' will be anything but wealth-destroying. “From record lows at the start of winter, storage levels have now re-enter[ed] their five-year range, albeit on the lower side, and are on track to be in a more comfortable position by the end of March,” Kateryna Filippenko, principal analyst, Europe gas research, at WoodMac, said. But, reports this morning of intermittent gas flow supply from Russia to Germany via the Yamal pipeline with Reuters reporting that Gascade's data showed the flow had stopped on the pipeline, which usually accounts for about 15% of Russia's westbound supply of gas to Europe and Turkey.

moar

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/european-natgas-surges-new-record-highs-russian-pipeline-flows-stall

As mentioned yesterday..VP told you to place orders last year...you din't...end of story.

https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC

https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y

>>129115

"inspired"

I bet

>>129116

>Come on Janet! you know you want to push that PPT button

and there it is on NAS

Lime green dot

1.64B transaction

Swiss adopt new EU sanctions on Russia

New measures include banning transactions with the Russian Central Bank, adopting the EU's SWIFT measures

The Swiss government on Friday widened sanctions against Russia in step with further measures imposed by the European Union, tightening exports and financial services to the country over the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two. In a sharp deviation from its traditional neutrality, Switzerland moved on Monday to adopt sanctions that the European Union (EU) imposed on Russian people and companies and freeze their assets to punish the invasion of Ukraine.

The 27-member EU bloc has approved an array of financial, energy, export and travel bans since last week.

These have included a freeze on Russian central bank assets, the shutdown of EU airspace to Russia, the removal of a number of Russian banks from the SWIFT international payments system, and sanctions on a clutch of Russian tycoons. Switzerland on Friday adopted new financial measuresincluding banning transactions with the Russian Central Bank and adopting the EU's SWIFT measures while also blocking a number of exports to Russia.

Those targeted, among others, goods that "could contribute to Russia's military and technological enhancement or the development of the defence and security sector", for use in aviation and the space industry, as well as certain goods and services in the oil sector.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/switzerland-european-union-sanctions-russia

>>128972 pb Moar cash payoffs for COMEX contracts

Update on COMEX Silver cash for trash payments

Here is what was done with the EFP 'process' yesterday-March 3

*An exchange for physical trade (EFP) is a privately negotiated and simultaneous exchange of a futures position for a cash position.

2,650 contracts equates to another 13,250,000/ozs of paper silver settled for cash.

Take the average from yesterday which was about $25.20 which gives you: $333,900,000

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/precious/silver.volume.options.html#optionProductId=458

All pbs

>>128805 moar on Ag: Silver contracts getting paid off via EFP-cmegroup data

>>128698, >>128700 pb

>>128457, >>128460 lb anon submits a theory and some additional information on Silver COMEX trade-Exchange of Futures positions for cash

>>128098 Mkt Fag submits proof of rigging: $25.25B in Silver "traded" on the COMEX on February 24th

>>128008, >>128012 lb Mkt fag: Silver Action lately from a technical/historical standpoint

>>128059, >>128060, >>128061 Mkt Fag: Derivatives and Silver price containment/JP Morgan and Hussein Admin used UBLs 'death' to manipulate

>>129112, >>129113, >>129126

From Russia, With Monopolies

excerpt:

The problem with our sanctions regime is that Russia has crucial global monopolies, not only significant positions in energy, which are well known, but especially in the global fertilizer supply chain—which are considerably less well known. Any sanction has the potential to drastically influence the supply and price of fertilizer and, thus, food on the world market.

The global fertilizer industry includes three main categories: nitrogen, potash, and phosphorus fertilizers. Potash is a potassium-rich salt fertilizer that enhances plant quality and is responsible for 20 percent of global fertilizer demand. With its most fervent ally in Europe, Belarus, Russia has a 40 percent market share in global production and export of potash fertilizer. The two autocracies form an informal cartel in the potash market, made up of Uralkali and Belaruskali, with the Belarusian Potash Company being the latter’s export arm. Late last year, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Belarus Potash Company (BPC), the main export arm of producer Belaruskali. It claimed Belarus intentionally created a migrant crisis at the Polish border. The sanctions applied only to U.S. enterprises doing business with the Belarusian company.

Earlier this year, Lithuanian Railways, encouraged by the U.S., halted shipments of Belarusian potash through its Klaipeda port which is Belarus’ main entryway for potash into Europe. Belarusian potash is now being reshipped through Russian railways, giving Russia greater control over a critical commodity; Russia may even buy the potash and resell it as it continues its exports.

Before sanctions were imposed, global potash prices were already at a 13-year high. Prices have soared over the past year, alarming farmers across the world. Potash prices saw a 71 percent increase in 2021 from $350 per ton to $600 per ton; the spot prices last week showed that number has reached $815 per ton. U.S. sanctions on Belarus are likely to exacerbate the issue, with Belaruskali announcing last week that it wouldn’t be able to meet its contracts. One of the world’s largest fertilizer companies, Yara International, headquartered in Norway, announced it would reduce its sourcing of Belarusian potash by April. Other corporations in the potash industry are not planning on increasing production and would face challenges in their attempts.

The ease with which Russia can impact the food market was demonstrated during the 2007-2008 global food price crisis. Russia and Belarus cut potash production to drastically raise prices and increase profits, with CFO Victor Belyakov stating at the time that “price was more important than volume.” Between January 2008 and October 2009, the price of potash increased by 400 percent while production dropped by 39 percent and shipments declined by 43 percent. Potash producer profits peaked at 480 percent in mid-2008.

Russia is also a dominant player in the world nitrogen fertilizer market. While it only has a 16.5 percent market share of global exports, Russia manufactures ammonium nitrate, the key ingredient needed for the fertilizer and has a close to 66 percent global market share in the production of the chemical.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/02/25/from-russia-with-monopolies/

West Scrambles To Stop Russia From Accessing $17 Billion In IMF Reserves

As the EU and the US continue to search for new ways to punish Russian (and, importantly, limit its central banks' access to its own reserves) Reuters reports that the EU is looking into suspending Russia's IMF voting rights, along with its central bank's access to IMF-produced SDRs.

The option currently under consideration would remove Russia entirely from the organization.

BRUSSELS, March 4 (Reuters) - European Union officials are examining curbing Russia's influence and access to finance at the International Monetary Fund following its invasion of Ukraine. One option under consideration is to remove Russia entirely from the institution.— Idrees Ali (@idreesali114) March 4, 2022

At the same time, the EU and NATO have reportedly denied a the Ukrainians' request to impose a "no fly zone" over its airspace. Of course, enforcement of such a measure would almost certainly guarantee NATO being drawn into the conflict, which would effectively trigger the start of World War III, since the only way to enforce the measure would be sending NATO planes to shoot down Russian fighters.

But when the SDRs are involved this is the red line-kek...you think VP din't factor that in too--will just further reduce the money laundering capabilities the oligharchs have-and also bring them back to Russia where,hopefully, they can be prosecuted.'

"We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference:

"We understand the desperation but we also believe that if we did that (a no-fly zone) we would end up with something that could lead to a full-fledged war in Europe involving much more countries and much more suffering," Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked the West and NATO to send more warplanes to Ukraine, especially if they won't help with the no-fly zone.

Circling back to the IMF measures, Reuters cited six EU officials in its report about the various options supposedly under consideration. One option is removing Russia entirely from the IMF as an institution. The only catch is the immense difficulty that this would require. "There is a discussion, but kicking Russia out entirely is probably unrealistic because of required quora," one senior euro zone official said, referring to the wide support needed among countries that include China.

EXACTLY

Other options less extreme options under consideration include blocking Russia's access to its IMF voting rights, as well as any SDRs held by its central bank (for those who aren't familiar with SDRs, they're essentially a synthetic reserve asset designed by the IMF),

moar

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/west-scrambles-stop-russia-accessing-17-billion-imf-reserves

>read the pic title in cap#2 for translation

2 B-52s back to RAF Fairford after runs over Black Sea

S&P Dow Jones is removing Russia stocks from indices, stripping country of emerging market status

Index giant S&P Dow Jones Indices said Friday it is removing all stocks listed and/or domiciled in Russia from its benchmarks in light of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, further isolating the nation from the global economy.

The removal, effective prior to the open next Wednesday, also affects Russian American depositary receipts (ADRs), S&P Dow Jones Indices said.

The firm, which is the keeper of the Dow Jones Industrial average and the S&P 500, also said it will declassify Russia as an emerging market and categorize it as a standalone group.

The move came as Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine early Friday morning, causing a fire to break out at an adjacent training facility. The U.S. embassy in Kyiv called the attack a war crime.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/sp-dow-is-removing-all-russia-stocks-from-indices-stripping-country-of-emerging-market-status.html

>>129139

o7

absolute comedy

can't stop laughing!!

White House Considering Ban On Russian Crude Which Pinoeer CEO Warns Would Send Oil To $200

Another day, another flashing red headline that the White House is considering a ban on Russian oil imports - something it has repeatedly said earlier this week - although it has yet to make a decision:

*WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERING BAN ON RUSSIAN OIL IMPORTS

*WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON SAID NO DECISION HAS BEEN MADE

The news sent WTI spiking as high as $114.64.

How about $116 nao

While even Psaki admitted that such a move would send gas prices sharply higher, perhaps Biden is feeling emboldened by the latest reports out of Vienna on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal, where Russia's chief negotiator in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran said on Friday that he thought a deal was possible in the middle of next week.

"As far as I know, the Iranians are not ready for direct talks (with the United States)," Mikhail Ulyanov told reporters. "We will have a deal maybe in the middle of next week. We are talking about the last efforts before crossing the finish line."

The specter of an Iranian deal, which would lead to a one time boost of as much as 100mm/b as seaborne crude enters the market, and an incremental several hundred thousand bbls/month, has somewhat helped contain oil prices, although the fact that Russia is negotiating for an outcome which Biden is desperately hoping to achieve should probably make those who still have some grasp of the bigger geopolitical picture, nervous (we will have more to say about this later).

Russia exported about 5mn barrels a day of crude oil before it invaded Ukraine last month. While China might still absorb some of that volume in the case of a western embargo, there would still be a significant supply shortfall.

Of course, if oil does hit $200, we are looking at a global depression, similar to the global financial crisis of 2008 when oil hit $140 just before it crashed to $30 as the inflationary tsunami became a deflationary shockwave almost overnight.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/white-house-considering-ban-russian-crude-which-pinoeer-ceo-warns-would-send-oil-200

Looks like a lot of short covering so far....insane to be short with this going on

>>129063

EXEC1F USAF C-32A west from Providence, R.I. and heading to San Francisco Int'l

Below is why Nancy went to San Francisco Int'l last night.

The REAL question is do we see DiFi at this-probably be "closed".

Jill Biden to attend memorial services for father of White House deputy chief of staff and husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein

First lady Jill Biden on Friday is scheduled to attend memorial services for the father of White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon and the husband of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the first lady’s spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The service for Kevin O’Malley, who died on March 1 after a battle with cancer, will take place in Boston. Later on Friday, the first lady is scheduled to fly to San Francisco to attend a memorial service for Richard Blum, who died last week of cancer,

https://kyma.com/cnn-us-politics/2022/03/04/jill-biden-to-attend-memorial-services-for-father-of-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff-and-husband-of-sen-diane-feinstein/

Paki AF PAAF426 inbound to Dover AFB most likely

>>129100

SPAR28 USAF G5 on descent for Los Angeles Int'l from Orlando Int'l depart

LMFAO

2nd amendment in Florida

SAM510 USAF G5 ne from JBA heading across the pond

Deputy US Secretary of State Sherman to visit Egypt 10-11 March at end of regional tour

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey; Madrid, Spain; Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco; Algiers, Algeria; and Cairo, Egypt - as the final stop - from 4 to 11 March, according to a statement released by the US State Department on Thursday.

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/462209/Egypt/Foreign-Affairs/Deputy-US-Secretary-of-State-Sherman-to-visit-Egyp.aspx

Italian AF IAM1425 767 from Pisa, Italy on descent for Rzesow Airport Poland for yet another 'delivery'

FORTE10 Global Hawk drone still running on Polish/Ukraine border

NATO02 USAF E-3TF Sentry AWACS took over for NATO01 AWACS

>>129152

wut up yo's

veep change

was there a strange before?

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1499883071939690499

The Babylon Bee

@TheBabylonBee

Ukraine Museums Desperately Working To Preserve Priceless Hunter Biden Paintings

babylonbee.com

Ukraine Museums Desperately Working To Preserve Priceless Hunter Biden Paintings

KYIV, UKRAINE - As shells have begun exploding in the heart of Kyiv, museums have rushed to protect their most prized, valuable pieces: the original artwork of once-in-a-generation talent Hunter…

6:02 PM · Mar 4, 2022·TweetDeck Web App

SAM411 USAF C-40B (WH NSO) sw from JBA

Heading for MacDill and CENTCOM

Ukraine’s Zelensky in plea to Europe: ‘If we fall, you will fall’

https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1499906555914772484

Yes! They miscalculated and it all come down!

Baddies got btfo, now it's muh shill Meta with ip hops.

Attacks and subversion failed, go for the joo spam

Same playbook

SAM411 USAF C-40B on final at MacDill

Guess they need moar '411' on wtf they intend to do next

>>129171

Tampa, where that E# or some other fancy one was flying offshore last night? Same place I caught an "unspecified ship" named SEA RIDER with US flag but no pics, no nothing really

Sacklers Reach $6 Billion Deal Over Purdue Pharma's OxyContin Lawsuits

Members of the billionaire Sackler family who control Purdue Pharma LP have agreed to fork over as much as $6 billion in a settlement with state governments for their role in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic -- a massive step in clawing back billions of dollars from the family's fortune to support addiction treatment centers nationwide, according to a court filing on Thursday.

The deal comes after years of litigation over Purdue Pharma's marketing of the OxyContin painkiller that subsequentially sparked the opioid crisis, claiming the lives of more than half a million Americans over the last two decades.

Attorney generals of eight states and the District of Columbia announced the deal after rejecting a $4.3 billion cash payment from the Sacklers. The family demanded that a bankruptcy deal wouldn't be possible unless they were released from all future liability related to Purdue's OxyContin. The new deal would restructure the company into a new entity called Knoa Pharma that a public board controls. At the very end of the court filing, the Sacklers said they're "pleased to have reached a settlement with additional states."

They also said, "they sincerely regret that OxyContin ... unexpectedly became part of an opioid crisis that has brought grief and loss to far too many families and communities." On Twitter, Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), a non-profit activist group against the Sackler family, called the family's statement "horrendous."

Wow this statement from the Sacklers is horrendous.

“Unexpectedly”? A reminder that the Sacklers internally referred to high prescribing doctors as “whales” and patented software that tracked every Oxycontin pill that was prescribed around the country. https://t.co/nHoKaf9vSK pic.twitter.com/HDRMTHkuYX— PAIN (@sacklerpain) March 3, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/sacklers-reach-6-billion-deal-over-purdue-pharma-oxycontin-lawsuits

China to Set Up Financial Stability Fund, Stabilize Home Prices

China plans to set up a financial stability fund and adopt measures to keep housing prices stable, as policy makers ramp up efforts to prevent systemic risks. “A fund for ensuring financial stability will be established, and market- and law-based ways will be used to defuse risks and potential dangers,” Premier Li Keqiang said in his annual work report, without giving more details.

While reiterating President Xi Jinping’s mantra that houses are for living in, not for speculation, Li also said China will explore new models for housing development, including encouraging rentals along with purchases, and adopt city-specific measures to “facilitate positive circulation and sound development in the real estate sector.” China is moving to stem financial risks ranging from hundreds of troubled smaller rural banks to its slumping real estate market. The regulators have recently eased a year-long cap on home loans and called upon its largest bad-debt managers to join restructuring of weak developers, after firms including China Evergrande Group defaulted on more than $7 billion in offshore bonds last year and ordinary Chinese staged rare protests over unbuilt homes and soured investment products.

Li also called on property market to better meet reasonable housing demand for homebuyers, marking the first time non-subsidized housing being mentioned in the key report since 2014. Home sales have been falling since July last year, as buyer confidence weakened during a liquidity crisis that rippled through the industry following a crackdown on excess borrowing. The drop in sales will make it harder for stressed developers to make at least $3.7 billion in payments on dollar and onshore public bonds in March -- among the heaviest monthly debt bills they face this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

China will strengthen and fine-tune financial regulation, further reform the shareholding structures and corporate governance of smaller banks, and move faster to deal with their nonperforming assets, Li said. The government will also support debt financing by private enterprises and aim to achieve full implementation of the registration-based initial public offering mechanism, he added.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-to-set-up-financial-stability-fund-stabilize-home-prices-1.1732846

and the public stealth bailout of chinese housing market begins.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

Berkshire Hathaway has purchased nearly 30 million shares of Occidental Petroleum since the end of 2021, adding to an existing large holding of 83.9 million warrants in the big energy company.

In a filing late Friday, Berkshire (ticker BRK/A, BRK/B) said it holds a total of 113.7 million shares of Occidental (OXY), including both the stock and warrants. The combined holding represents 11.2% of Occidental’s outstanding shares but that overstates Berkshire’s investment since the warrant exercise price is out of the money, or above the current stock price.

Occidental stock has surged lately, outpacing a strong energy group. The shares gained 17.6% Friday to $56.15 and have nearly doubled so far in 2022.

Berkshire got the warrants as an equity “kicker” when it invested $10 billion in Occidental preferred stock paying a lush 8% dividend yield in April 2019 when Occidental was raising money to fund its $50 billion-plus offer for Anadarko Petroleum and win a bidding war against the larger Chevron (CVX).

Those warrants have eight years until maturity and have an exercise price of $59.62. The warrants are close to being in the money now after being way out of the money in 2020 when Occidental’s stock plunged below $10. Warrants are long-term call options that give the holder the right to purchase a stock at a fixed price for a set period of time. Berkshire’s warrants aren’t publicly traded but could be worth $15 each or more if they were.

Berkshire’s Occidental stock purchases have come since the start of this year and could be a factor in the stock’s gain so far in 2022.

The new equity stake of 29.8 million shares, now valued at $1.7 billion, could have been initiated by CEO Warren Buffett who oversees Berkshire’s $350 billion equity portfolio, or one of his two investment lieutenants, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, who run about 10% of the portfolio.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/warren-buffett-berkshire-occidental-stock-51646436831

https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1067983&tc=7&b=2

>>129175

they will need to do a Phoney and Fraudie-Mac type of thing like here-suck up inventory and sit on it

But they have too much to do that imo.

never say never though

>>129178

they will never pay off the foreign debt of Evergrande-and I don't blame them one bit.

These Corps need to burn in hell.

Once China nationalizes everything-and that will habben-all the Corps that rushed to set up shop dhere starting in the 80s will lose everything.

It won't look so cheap, as it did in the 80s, when it is all taken from them.

Evergrande debt will only become an issue when the credit ratings agencies do something about it's already obvious default-but they were all over muh Russia instantly.

The owners of that debt don't want them to do that either because then they will need to write it down and can't really use mark-to-model any longer.

and then there is the issue of all the debt they own of ours and the old chinese national rail bonds plus the "bill" for muh 'rona

These three cancel themselves out-US Debt equal to the damage caused by 'rona and the value of the Chinese Rail bonds-not exact but just back of the envelope calcs.

Hey nao, dear QRB fam from UK Bread anon. >tryna talk like QRB fam<

We are back. Our Vidanon just showed up with moar pic sauce from an open source pic.

Until today, had been stuck with one of our timeframe bookends at “not later than” 5MAR2013. But nao...we have a pic taken 27JAN2013 which shows a temporary FIRST AID sign in front of the green Cabman’s shelter. Current theory is the sign appeared very shortly before the New Year’s Eve celebration. A lot of people line up on the riverbank there to watch a huge fireworks display.

Also found a new pic dated 22DEC which is a match for the TATTERSHALL CASTLE in LISAMI6.

Hope you are all well. Godspeed you all. Boom! New bookend on Corinthia pics. Werking timeframe 12DEC13 to 27JAN14.

>>129181

Damn youz faggots are good

o7

>>129189

If you bake it, we can bring it.

o7

>>129171

SAM411 USAF C-40B departed MacDill AFB after about 60 minutes on ground

night all

>>129193

Forgot to say tyvm Baker.

>>129182

Tineye says this one first appeared via Shutterstock on 14 December 2013. I see no shrouding at Westminster

Far right of the pic about midway looks like the other stand of blue Boris Bikes

>>129196

Thanks vm, Anon. No worries just yet on that. Will share, but we have long scrutinized the “posted” date as not necessarily “taken on” date. LOTS of experience in that respect. Do not ever hesitate to share stuff though. Am waiting for some news to break concerning some character visiting London during our bookends. Please keep an eye out for that please.

>>129201

Usually around these boards somewhere and always happy to help BritFrens

https://www.rt.com/russia/551269-russia-declares-ceasefire-ukraine/

wakeywakey

Wyatt

@austerewyatt1

I just spent 30 minutes browsing the World Economic Forum Website and I've reached my conclusion. These folks are NOT fully human and their biggest desire, is to strip you of anything that resembles a Soul.

2:34 PM · Mar 4, 2022·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/austerewyatt1/status/1499845713676668933

ZOMBI11 USAF KC-46 Pegasus done over '''Not AF1 Joe 'at Delaware'

Just after Sunset look at eastern and central Yerp

NATO02 E-3TF Sentry AWACS and RAF RRR7240 Rivet Jint over se Poland

Hungarian AF BRK29C-17 sw from Rzesow Airport with Canadian AF CFC4220 Super Hercules heading for same

Hungarian AF BRK72 C-17 se from Goteborg Sweden-second day in row seen 'dis

Canadian AF CFC3116 A310 se from Berlin

RAF RRR5722 C-130 Hercules se RAF Brize Norton

Italian AF MILAN7C and 7B Dash 8 (Beebo ACs) sw from Rzesow

NATO01 E-3TF Sentry AWACS repalced NATO02 above

Dutch AF MMF19 A330 also done on Polish Ukraine border

With the exception of the Italian ACs this has looked about the same for the last several days.

The deliveries to Rzesow, Poland continue by most EU members and India.

Kremlin Jet Headed To Washington To Fetch Expelled Russian Diplomats

During the early morning hours of Saturday morning on the East Coast of the US, many awoke to surprising news: a Russian government jet had departed St. Petersburg and was on its way to Washington.

The chatter on social media was intense, and some initially wondered: might Russian President Vladimir Putin be on his way for a special round of negotiations with President Biden?

Why is Putin’s plane going to Washington DC? pic.twitter.com/nMK6D1oXh4— Rob Adams (@RobCSAdams) March 5, 2022

It is also NOT VP's presidential AC-that is a different tail # RA-96016 and has plenty moar electronics and counter-measures attached to it

Simply looking it up would have confirmed this but I see how people cannot do this as it is "too hard"

Unfortunately, these initial suspicions have proved incorrect, and actually almost couldn't have been further from the reality. To wit, the State Department has issued a statement confirming that the plane is going to pick up Russian diplomats who have been expelled from the UN over the country's invasion of Ukraine. The State Department described the employees being picked up as "Russian intelligence agents". The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement posted to Telegram that the plane was going to fetch Russian diplomats.

The flight is expected to land at Dulles International some time in the afternoon.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: WE HAVE APPROVED A FLIGHT FOR A RUSSIAN PLANE TO EVACUATE RUSSIAN EMPLOYEES EXPELLED FROM THE UNITED NATIONS

As of As of 1030ET on Saturday, the Ilyushin Il-96-300 (registered to Russia State Transport Company/Russia Special Flight Squadron as RA-96019) was flying westbound with a destination of New York City. According to the flight map, it was most recently flying near Greenland.

Russia on Tuesday branded the expulsion of these 12 diplomats who were part of its mission to the UN in New York as an "escalation." Keep in mind, even Iranian and North Korean diplomats have been allowed to travel back and forth to the UN unscathed.

Databases show that this jet isn't commonly used by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. Instead, the database suggests two planes: either 157715 or 157716. However, the the Ilyushin Il-96-300 that's currently in flight does often take direction from the Kremlin.

The flight initially piqued observers' interest in the west because of the flurry of sanctions that the US and EU have applied to Russian billionaires, politicians and other perceived allies of President Putin. Presently, Ukraine is calling for NATO to impose a "no fly" zone in Ukraine, something NATO has been hesitant to order because, As Gen. Jens Stoltenberg made clear, enforcing it would probably draw NATO into World War III.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-jet-headed-washington-fetch-russian-diplomats-expelled-un

>>129125

Total Cash Payments for week of Feb 27th on COMEX Ag contracts: $2.45B

Update on COMEX Silver cash for trash payments

Here is what was done with the EFP 'process' yesterday-March 4

*An exchange for physical trade (EFP) is a privately negotiated and simultaneous exchange of a futures position for a cash position.

3,730 contracts equates to another 18,650,000/ozs of paper silver settled for cash.

Take the average from yesterday which was about $25 which gives you: $477,440,000

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/precious/silver.volume.options.html#optionProductId=458

notice the numbers at the end of the URL and wut they total....458=17

The total for this week Feb. 1st-Mar 4 is$2,450,017,000

This is cash that has been generated by Bank of America buying COMEX contracts and settling them via a cash payment and almost 100% certain this money is being used to "satisfy" the leased Ag amounts from JP Morgan.