/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

Dough

https://fullchan.net/?3eef710116312fbc#FYzeqPvRz4vNAAnhGZenh7gfQdwJp7aP8XRVzeTwBAxo

>>132295

ty B

imma out

ttyitm

cringe: why do you fags write in nigger ebonics?

is it because you really are niggers?

this place is a fucking swampy stinky backwater

>signed:Doge, the leader of QR

SAM741 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast west from JBA

>>132218 pb

SAM673 USAF G5 departed Jax Int'l after an overnight

Mexican AF FAM3915 G4 west from Havana and back to Mexico City

Picked up participants from this below-on ground at Havana for about an hour

Departed Playa del Carmen earlier today

Cuba and Mexico to hold 17th Inter-parliamentary Meeting in Havana

Cuba and Mexico will hold their 17th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting on April 1 and 2 to strengthen bilateral cooperation projects, the island's legislature announced Wednesday. According to the official source, both parties will address issues of mutual interest in economic relations, health collaboration, cooperation on topics of the multilateral agenda, and educational, cultural, and sports links. The International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba reiterated that these meetings are a valuable instrument to raise initiatives among the participating countries, seek solutions to common problems and outline future strategies. The Caribbean Legislative and the Congress of the Union of Mexico signed in June 1996 a protocol through which it was agreed to establish inter-parliamentary meetings between both nations.

https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/290657-cuba-and-mexico-to-hold-17th-inter-parliamentary-meeting-in-havana

Had a few flights since 0331 between Mex. City and Havana with stops at Playa del Carmen

SPAR82 nw from Miami Int'l- on friday it went MacDill AFB for a ground stop of about 5 hours and then back to Miami-it arrived at Miami Int'l on 0331 from San Antonio Int'l

This ac used by NATO

>>132305

SAM741 USAF G5 on descent for Wichita (getting some spoofage) so not sure if they went to McConnell AFB or Eisenhower Airport.

Find out where when they leave

>>132145, >>132167, >>132184 Soaring gas prices lead California drivers to Mexico for cheaper fuel: report-foxbiz

Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as Americans cross border for deals

The subsidy suspension will cover Mexico border states as well as one of the world's busiest border crossings (San Ysidro).

Mexico, which has been subsidizing gasoline to soften price spikes, said on Saturday the policy would not apply in the U.S. border region this week, citing shortages as more Americans drive south to fill their tanks. The suspension of the subsidy from April 2-8 covers cities in the border states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California, including Tijuana, one of the world's busiest border crossings. Mexico's finance ministry said in a statement there was a gasoline shortage in the area "from an imbalance between supply and demand." "In the United States, gasoline prices are higher than in Mexico, and citizens of that country cross the border to stock up," the finance ministry said.

As fuel prices have spiked after Russia invaded Ukraine, more people living in the United States are driving across the border into Mexico in search of lower gas prices. Mexico's subsidy has been championed by the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has long promised to insulate consumers from sharp price hikes at the pump. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said Mexico planned to use the extra revenue from higher oil prices to subsidize domestic gasoline and diesel prices.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/mexico-suspends-gasoline-subsidy-as-u-s-drivers-cross-border-for-deals

So they must be seeing an increase from the normal #'s of people who live on the border and cross over to work in the U.S. every day.

As mentioned in above linky if you do this at the "wrong" time you can spend multiple hours waiting in line-it's easier to go a little farther east to Otay Mesa (the truck crossing station) and usually less crowded.

If you gotta spend 5 or moar hours waiting in line just to get back you've kinda negated much of the "savings" if you are crossing solely to do this.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan dissolves parliament, calls for new elections

Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, moved to dissolve the country's parliament after blocking a no-confidence vote that would have removed him from office. Opposition lawmakers said they would challenge Khan's effort to dissolve the National Assembly and hold new elections before the Supreme Court, which scheduled a hearing on the matter on Monday. "Prepare for elections," Khan said during a televised speech in which he repeated claims that efforts to remove him from office were part of a U.S.-backed conspiracy. "No corrupt forces will decide what the future of the country will be." The lawmakers said Khan's move was "unprecedented" and a "blatant violation" of Pakistan's Constitution, while his allies said the high court had no authority to interfere with the legislature.

Khan was expected to lose a no-confidence vote in Sunday's assembly session after more than a dozen members of his own political party defected to join opposition lawmakers who accused him of mismanaging Pakistan's economy and foreign policy.

However, Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri, a Khan ally, shut down the no-confidence vote, declaring it "unconstitutional" and asserting Khan was still the prime minister and maintained the power to dissolve the assembly. Opposition lawmakers refused to leave the National Assembly building Sunday in an apparent effort to push the Supreme Court to act. They have been rallying for Khan to be removed since he was elected in 2018 amid accusations of vote-rigging.

Khan called the lawmakers who pushed for the no-confidence vote "traitors" and called on his supporters to take to the streets in protest of the vote.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/04/03/Pakistan-Imran-Khan-dissolves-parliament-calls-new-elections/4251648998685/

member Khan went to visit VP just before all that shit in Ukraine went off and was vilified for doing so-also there was no big table either.

pb

>>127764 Imran Khan Goes to Moscow as Pakistan Romances Russia-foreignpolicy

>>131446 China ramps up arms exports to Pakistan, aiming to squeeze India + US Congress Members Condemn Pak PM Imran Khan's Moscow Visit On Day Russia Invaded Ukraine nikkei and republicworld

Polish AF PLF101 President Duda returning to Warsaw after a ground stop at Krakow for just under 2 hours

Poland makes nuke offer to US

Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski says stationing US nukes in eastern Europe would make sense.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister, has spoken in favor of US nuclear weapons being deployed in eastern Europe, citing Russia's military offensive against Ukraine.

In an interview with Germany's Die Welt news outlet published on Sunday, Kaczynski said that "fundamentally, it makes sense to expand nuclear sharing to the eastern flank," apparently referring to a NATO concept by which "the benefits, responsibilities and risks of nuclear deterrence are shared across the Alliance." The Polish official noted, however, that such an initiative should come from the US.

On top of that, Kaczynski called on the military bloc to set up a new command center in Poland, akin to the one in the Dutch town of Brunssum, "from where joint NATO deployments will be planned and conducted." According to the deputy, that would send a clear signal to Russia that the military alliance is now present in Eastern Europe at command level as well.

In addition to the adoption of the NATO concept, Warsaw "would welcome it if the Americans in the future increased their presence in Europe from the current 100,000 soldiers to 150,000," Kaczynski in this instance citing "Russia's growing aggressiveness" as the main threat. The Polish official proceeded to break down the numbers, explaining that "75,000 troops should be permanently stationed on the eastern flank, that is, on the border with Russia." He also told Die Welt that Warsaw would want to see 50,000 US service personnel in the Baltic states and Poland alone.

Kaczynski's calls for Washington to beef up its military contingent on the European continent comes despite NATO having already agreed to deploy additional battle groups to Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272447836/poland-makes-nuke-offer-to-us

two moar SAM flights outta JBA-busier than a normal sunday

SAM742 USAF G5 west and SAM713 USAF G5 sw to MacDill

>>132305

SAM673 USAF G5 went back to Eppley Field, Omaha-left from dhere yesterday

>>132172 pb

PAVER71 USAFSOC C-32B reappears after being seen on descent for Simara or Kathmandu, Nepal

chek't the Long/Lat and this display is correct with the data give

14.590°, 65.192°

Chinese AF 11058 Y-20 east

This appears every so often and always the same one

C-17 copy

Taliban Ban Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan

The Taliban have outlawed cultivation of drugs, including opium poppy, across Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer, which accounts for 85 percent of global production.

A decree issued Sunday by the ruling Islamist group’s reclusive supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, also banned the production, usage, transportation, trade, export and import of all other drugs. “If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law,” according to the order announced by the Taliban Interior Ministry at a news conference in Kabul. The hardline group seized power from the now-defunct Western-backed government days before the United States and NATO-led foreign troops withdrew from Afghanistan in August. Since then, the Taliban have been under pressure from neighboring and regional countries to combat the production as well as trafficking of drugs.

The opium harvest in Afghanistan increased by 8 percent in 2021, compared to last year, to 6.800 tons, according to a report that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) released in November. The report warned that the output could lead to markets around the globe being flooded with around 320 tons of pure heroin trafficked from the country.

The UNODC estimated in its report that income from Afghan opiates amounted to $1.8- to $2.7 billion in 2021 inside Afghanistan, but much larger profits are made in the illicit drug supply chains outside the country.

https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-ban-opium-poppy-cultivation-in-afghanistan/6513193.html

we all know what habbened the last time this was done in 2001...see cap #1>>132319

>>132316

SAM713 USAF G5 went to MacDill

SAM742 USAF G5 heading to Peterson AFB

>>132309

SPAR82 USAF G5 back to San Antonio Int'l

ANON USAF C-17 Globemaster departed from NAS North Island after a little moar than 2 hours on the ground

Came in from Jackson, MS Evers Int'l Airport earlier

Already switched back to RCH102

Seen't Pilot

o7

GLASS50 USAF Dornier C-146-A Wolfhound 'Special Ops' returning to Stuttgart after stopping at Sigonella AB, Sicily.

They stopped at Sigonella AB on the outbound from Stuttgart and data suggests (although incomplete) they went to Benghazi, Libya after stopping at Sigonella

Can see the outbound and inbound traces just se of Sicily and there was a little less than 4 hours of time elapsed between those two traces being dropped then picked up.

Wherever they went it was not for very long that is for certain

RAF RRR6417 C-17 Globemaster departed Rzesow Airport Poland after a quick ground stop of less than 60 minutes

LAGR121 and 122 USAF KC-135 Stratotankers returning to Mildenhall after some mobile filling station dooty east of Krakow and Warsaw

>>132322

SAMs and SPAR arrivals at JBA

SAM742 USAF G5 east from Peterson AFB ground stop of about an hour

SPAR95 (was SPAR82) USAF G5 en from San Antonio ground stop of 2 hours

change in call sign suggests a moar Sr. VIP was picked up here as this call sign used for NATO and middle east travel in the past

SAM713 USAF G5 ne from it's ground stop at MacDill of about 90 minutes

>>132326

afternoon/evening

>>132329

doin' OK-usual

got appt. tomorrow-follow-up where they are gonna want to do another one (epi) which I am going to decline as the side-effects far outweighed any benefit.

All out of pocket so not really excited to pay for that again-me and 'roids just do NOT get along.

Never have but only real experience had been oral-this was WAY different-picrel.

Never had that sorta reaction with oral-just felt shitty

Canadian AF CFC4221 C-130 Super Hercules departed Rzesow Airport after a ground stop of 2 hours-prior at Skopje Int'l-Macedonia for 4 hours with a departure from Slovenia-Ljubljana Int'l earlier today

62-3523 USAF KC-135 tanker done over Not AF1Joe 'at' Delaware position and heading to Pittsburgh Int'l

No visible replacement arriving or inbound and schedule sez he staying 'at' Delaware

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

>>132333

trips confirm aware 'o dat

When I get the "good" drugs, post-op, hopefully less of a problem.

Loaded up on shit ta watch, stuff to occupy mind that not tv too.

Plus I'll be smokin' less if at all during that and that is no help to inflammation

din't for the entire time in hosp-not even a sneak out-could have very easliy

Some guy came in after a cardiac op. and they gave him a patch..20 minutes later he vanishes outside where he was found smokin' with a patch on

ijit.

took all of 3 minutes to do dhat

>>>/qresearch/16006540

interdasting call for this E-6B Mercury

UNFIX14 US Navy E-6B Mercury heading east over CA/AZ border from Travis AFB, CA

14 becomes 41 in the mirror

Asian Stocks Boosted by Hong Kong; Treasuries Drop: Markets Wrap

*Hong Kong gauge gains on China’s step to ease U.S. audit spat

*Traders weigh Fed-hike bets, risk of stiffer Russia sanctions

Stocks got a boost Monday from a rally in Hong Kong spurred by China’s move to ease a dispute with the U.S. over audits-cap#2 Treasuries fell on the prospect of sharp Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes to fight inflation. There are plenty of Fed officials due to speak at public events this week, with the prospect of more hawkish noises, and minutes of the last policy meeting are due on Wednesday. >>132224 pb

Chinese technology shares in Hong Kong rose more than 2% after regulators removed a key hurdle that impeded full U.S. access to audits. The spat imperils the Wall Street listings of Chinese companies unless it can be resolved.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-03/u-s-futures-slip-stocks-may-get-hong-kong-boost-markets-wrap

Dow Futures

34,679.00 -39.00(-0.11%)

Nasdaq Futures

-38.25(-0.26%)

S&P Futures

-5.75(-0.13%)

Our fren the 2s10s is gettin' worse nao-friday it was about equal. 2yr yield is well above 10 and it's still Sunday night.....cap #3

The dollar was trading firm at 122.63 yen-cap #4 and not far from its recent seven-year peak of 125.10.

'''still think this needs to get to 130 or slightly above before they do anything overtly-but they have already been buying >>131838 pb last week

Meanwhile oil prices fell after the United Arab Emirates and the Iran-aligned Houthi group welcomed a truce that would halt military operations on the Saudi-Yemeni border, alleviating some concerns about potential supply issues.-cap #5

and interdasting that once WTI got below $100 the supply "issue" articles began popping up.

World's Largest Oil Trader Warns Energy Markets Are Under-Pricing Supply Risks

this "gem"

"Oil prices could be higher given the risk of disruption of supplies from Russia. But people are still lost figuring out those numbers."

Sure they are breh and sooo glad we have people like you to further explain it...but you din't so here it is: Russia controls about 10% of the worlds Oil markets...see that wasn't so hard now was it?...DERP

The Worlds Largest Oil trader and they can't do simple maffs or at least present that.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/vitol-warns-oil-markets-are-underpricing-supply-risks-commodity-traders-brace-higher-prices

>>131436 pb Mkt Fag: Historic Treasury Front-End Selloff Approaching Peak As 2Y Notes Trade Below "Fails Charge"-zh

>>131823 pb Surprisingly Strong 5Y Auction Stops Through, Concluding Day Of $100BN In Supply

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd02y

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

https://www.marketwatch.com/market-data/asia

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/currency/usdjpy

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

#893 update 1 Saturday night to Sunday night

>>132305, >>132309, >>132312, >>132315, >>132316, >>132318, >>132319, >>132322, >>132324, >>132327, >>132331, >>132332, >>132339

pf report(s) Sunday into Monday: SAMs up over CONUS-busier than normal on Sunday mornings/Duda back to Warsaw from Krakow/AFSOC reappears over Arabian Sea after being in Nepal/GLASS50Special Ops in Benghazi?-sure looks it/Not AF1 Joe tanker leaving

>>132309 Cuba and Mexico to hold 17th Inter-parliamentary Meeting in Havana-radiohc

>>132313 Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as Americans cross border for deals-foxbiz

>>132314 Pakistan PM Imran Khan dissolves parliament, calls for new elections-upi

>>132315 Poland makes nuke offer to US-bignewsnetwork

>>132321 Taliban Ban Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan-voanews

>>132335, >>132336, >>132337 pfizer retired debt and is NOT getting delisted-contrary to what is going around soc.media

>>132341 Asian Stocks Boosted by Hong Kong; Treasuries Drop-2s10s way effed nao-various sources and anon

morn'n fam

doing a bake next door and out for most of the day. new employee training this week.

hope'n all r guud.

nigga cakes scores a snipe kek

Fuck yeah!

>>132352

get'n that nostalgic feelz bruh. like da old days n sheitz

>>132353

misses em to bro

hoped muh post did it for ya

I never snipe

kek

holy moly

got a cap of it too

I can be up but can't bake it till later like used to, g's won't allow, even now gotz to go

RSAF RSF4011 C-130 Hercules heading to Jeddah from Riyadh-one of these did this yesterday but did not seem to land-data spotty in dis part of the world-that one ended up at King Abdullaziz AB on the eastern side of SA which is just west of Bahrain

>>132135, >>132182 pb

JASDF JF001 and JF002 777 departed Warsaw Int'l after arriving on Friday

First it was 30...20 nao

Japan to take 20 Ukraine evacuees from Poland on government plane

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said in Poland on Monday he will take 20 Ukrainian evacuees to Japan on a government plane when he leaves the Eastern European country later in the day. "We have decided that 20 evacuees, who are wishing to travel to Japan but unable to secure means of transportation on their own, will get on a backup government plane when I return to Japan," Hayashi told reporters before leaving the capital Warsaw.

Hayashi is on a visit to Poland as a special envoy of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to support Ukrainians fleeing to the nation from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Earlier Monday, Hayashi held talks with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw. Speaking to reporters alongside Rau after the meeting, the Japanese minister condemned the discovery of the bodies of 410 civilians in the Kyiv region announced Sunday by Ukrainian authorities following the withdrawal of Russian troops from the region.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukraine-war/Japan-to-take-20-Ukraine-evacuees-from-Poland-on-government-plane

The normals up over Yerp so no need to rehash that

one exception

This AC is UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield leaving Bucharest

BOXER 42 USAF C-40C departed Chisinau, Moldova after arriving from JBA yesterday and had a ground stop at Bucharest earlier today-stop of about 4.5 hours then nw

U.S. Calls For Russia’s Removal From U.N. Human Rights Council

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, called for the U.N. to suspend Russia from the assembly’s Human Rights Council on Monday, calling Russia’s participation on the council a “farce” in the aftermath of retreating Russian forces allegedly executing hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv. Speaking to reporters in Bucharest, Thomas-Greenfield said Monday the U.S. will formally request the U.N. General Assembly to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council and said she plans to address Russia’s actions at the U.N. Security Council meeting on Tuesday morning.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/04/04/us-calls-for-russias-removal-from-un-human-rights-council/

Damn if she don't look like James Brown....

Trump-Tied Social Media SPAC Slides After Key Executives Quit

Shares of the shell company taking Donald Trump’s media venture public extended their selloff after a report that a pair of key executives resigned and Elon Musk bought a sizable stake in social media competitor Twitter Inc.

Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special-purpose acquisition company merging with Trump Media & Technology Group, fell as much as 14% Monday to extend a losing streak for a seventh-straight day as downloads of the Truth Social app dry. The decline was triggered by a Reuters report that Truth Social’s chiefs of technology and product development Josh Adams and Billy Boozer have resigned and as Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder.

Cap#1 current

Shares of the SPAC have lost 22% since March 25. Monday’s drop marks the latest disappointment for investors betting that the former president could create a media company rivaling the likes of Twitter and Facebook. More than two million shares traded in the first hour of the session, almost twice the average volume for that stretch over the past 30 days. Warrants for the SPAC slipped over 10% to $14.51.

Details surrounding Trump’s media venture have been scarce, but the rollout of Truth Social has been plagued by snags as users were told they couldn’t sign up and others received error messages. Despite being available for more than a month, hundreds of thousands of users who were able to download the app are still on a waiting list without access to its full functionality and the app is not yet available to Android users. Downloads of Truth Social have declined 95% to less than 8,000 per day from an initial boom of 170,000 when it launched in February, according to research firm Apptopia.

Representatives for Trump Media & Technology Group and Digital World didn’t immediately respond to Bloomberg News emails requesting a comment.

Musk’s stake in Twitter comes after he polled his followers on the social media website last month, asking whether the platform adheres to the principles of free speech. After more than 70% said no, the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. asked whether a new platform was needed, adding that he was giving serious thought to starting his own. The aim of Trump Media & Technology group is to rival “the liberal media consortium and fight back against the ‘Big Tech’ companies of Silicon Valley,” according to an October statement.

Retail traders weren’t as quick to snap up shares of Digital World, with it ranking just 17th among the most bought assets on Fidelity’s platform. The buying lagged the demand for Twitter, which was the top trade in the first half hour of Monday’s session and the biggest percentage gainer in the S&P 500, rising 26%.

On Thursday, Digital World hit yet another snag, saying it was unable to file its form 10-K annual report with the SEC within the prescribed time period.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-tied-social-media-spac-slides-after-key-executives-quit-1.1747423

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DWAC

Suddenly, Tesla's Elon Musk is Twitter's biggest stakeholder

cap#2-over 10x normal volume

Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder, just before raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.

The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $3 billion based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in late March Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and is very active on the site, questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy. The regulatory filing Monday says Musk bought the shares on March 14, describing him as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares. That means that Musk acquired the shares before beginning his public discourse on the First Amendment and Twitter.

Yet Musk has also raised the possibility, publicly before his massive and loyal Twitter following, of starting a rival social media network. Industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO will remain on the sidelines for long.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Musk-takes-9-2-stake-in-Twitter-17055630.php

VVPE460 US Navy MQ-4C Triton departed NAS Jax and did some high altitude circling just offshore Jax and now off Delaware heading nw @ about 47k ft

>>132366

>>127376 pb

>that equity (DWAC) is a huge bull trap imo.

>Too many people still equate a product with it's stock price-they are vastly different and I hope I am wrong but those big buys a few weeks ago were done on purpose to intentionally drive the price up-and show it on the chart-sucking people in.

GHOST44 USAF T-38 Talon east from Edwards

Normally don't post these but the call sign caught muh attention

>>132373

could not agree moar

it's just "it went up dis much"

But over weekend those account statements went out and what they gonna see is not going to equate to what they've been told.

That week of the FOMC parabolic moves confused 'em so....

out for now

SAM693 USAF C-32A west from JBA

>>132316

SAM673 USAF G5 back to JBA from Omaha-Eppley Field, NE overnight

12-9506 USAF E-11A GLEX BACN over Iraq west of Tikrit

Used to see these quite a bit but has been some time since visible on a regular basis.

Early morning dhere 1:45am

This is based out of Al Dhafra AB-Dhabi

Think aerial WiFi with ability to allow legacy and newer ACs to all communicate properly-see cap #3

Bombardier E-11A is the military variant of the civil Bombardier BD-700 Global Express for use as overhead communications-relay platform in southwest Asia. The BD-700 was selected due to its high service ceiling, up to 51,000 ft and up to 12 hours flight duration. Initially aircraft was designated as RC-700 under the reconnaissance classification but later was re-designated as the E-11A under the special electronics installations category. The E-11A is a U.S. Air Force aircraft that provides unparalleled communications capabilities to forces on the ground and aircraft in the air. Commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, this aircraft extends the range of communications channels and enables better communication among units. This element is essential where the terrain may disrupt communications channels and it enables ground forces to know what is around them when something is not in their line of sight.

https://worldofaviation.net/bombardier-e-11a-bacn/

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1511103514973515780?cxt=HHwWiMC5zYCpwvgpAAAA

>>132044, >>132098 pb

Betcha cap#2 in 044 was Softbank Northstar "leaving" on Thursday-the big block trade on the NAS

SoftBank Shutters Hedge Fund Unit Behind Infamous 'Nasdaq Whale' Trades

So much has changed since the summer of 2020, when a mysterious entity nicknamed "the Nasdaq Whale" (later revealed to be SoftBank acting via its internal hedge fund unit, SB Northstar) triggered an epic meltup in tech shares by gobbling up billions of dollars in call options on NASDAQ megacap companies (along with, to a lesser extent, the index and underlying stocks), forcing dealers to delta-hedge, triggering the gamma squeeze of a lifetime.

which were liquidated towards the end of 2020 much in the same fashion as cap #2-here >>132044 i.e. all at once with no care for price maximization of the sales

Initially, we (and others) suspected that this phenomenon was the result of retail traders run amok.sorry this one din't think that at all as the trades were YUGE and could have only come from a few places But months later, after the meltup started to unravel, it was revealed that a single buyer - SoftBank - was largely driving the trend (which eventually sucked in front-running dealers and trend-chasing retail traders). At one point, the 'Whale' positions became so massive that trading volume in single-stock options eclipsed the volume in the underlying-see cap#3

As we explained at the time, SB Northstar's "positive gamma" strategy played out like this: the fund bought up single name megacap tech stocks, then propelled its positions even higher by buying up massive quantities of out of the money calls in the same stocks, accelerating a gamma feedback loop (that was also fed by front-running dealers and a generation of aggressive meme-stock traders). The massive call buying caused major distortions in implied volatility (a result of forced dealer hedging), causing a measure of the Nasdaq's IV to soar as the index itself was surging to then all-time highs. Nearly one year later, SoftBank followed up with the second part of this trading strategy: it dumped billions of dollars in megacap names, using the profits to plow more money into early-stage startups.

It was around this time that SoftBank's trading strategy began to unravel as its positions moved aggressively against it as the CCP blew up Chinese stocks (SoftBank lost nearly $10 billion on its Didi position alone), SPAC stocks tumbled and the tech sector (particularly the aggressive growth plays embraced by SoftBank and ARK) tumbled as inflation soared and central banks began to telegraph their plans for hiking interest rates. Now, as SoftBank shares tumble to their lowest level in years, forcing it to halt new investments and liquidate existing positions as founder and chairman Masa Son has seen $25 billion evaporate...the FT reports that SB Northstar has officially been shuttered after racking up between $6 billion and $7 billion in losses. The closure isn't exactly a surprise: Son has been telegraphing its demise since November.

Key personnel from the fund have departed SoftBank, including Akshay Naheta, the former Deutsche Bank trader who ran the unit. He reportedly left SoftBank on Thursday, according to the FT's sources.

Naheta became notorious for both the Nasdaq Whale trades and his bet on WirefraudWirecard The 40-year-old is known for executing complex derivative transactions and earned notoriety for spearheading SoftBank’s controversial bet on the shares of fraudulent payments company Wirecard. Now that he's unemployed, perhaps he can spend more time advocating for the government to 'socialize' investors' gains, something that President Biden is now trying to do with his 'Minimum Billionaire Tax' proposal.

Regulatory filings show that SB Management (Northstar’s investment management unit) had a little over $1 billion in US-listed stocks as of the end of 2021. That's down from more than $17 billion one year earlier. The bulk of its remaining positions were in special purpose acquisition companies, including vehicles sponsored by Elliott Management, Vision Fund investor Mubadala and SoftBank's own Vision Funds.

Importantly, roughly one-third of the hedge fund unit's money came not from SoftBank, but from Masa Son's personal fortune. Last year, Son revealed that his holding in Northstar had personally cost him about $1.5 billion, a figure that would have increased given the further losses incurred unwinding its portfolio.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/softbank-shutters-hedge-fund-unit-behind-infamous-nasdaq-whale-trades

Softbank is one of the "too big to fails" in Japan plus has a nasty habit of putting up shares of what they own and it's own equity as collateral for loans

Evergrande Agrees to Pay Offshore Creditor Group Fees

China Evergrande Group agreed to pay the adviser fees of a bondholder group working with the cash-starved property developer to restructure debt, and to share more information with the creditors, according to people with knowledge of the agreement, who asked not to be named discussing private deal talks.

The creditors, advised by Moelis & Co. and Kirkland & Ellis, began to prepare for negotiations in October, after Evergrande delayed interest payments on one of its offshore bonds and reported that certain asset-sale plans had collapsed. A representative for Houlihan Lokey Inc., which is advising the company, declined to comment. Representatives for the bondholder group didn’t return requests for comment.

Evergrande’s debt crisis has captured global attention as a reflection of larger risks lurking in the the Chinese property sector. Evergrande itself is the world’s most indebted real estate company, with about $300 billion of liabilities.

Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported details on the fee-paying deal, which is a standard arrangement in most U.S. debt restructurings. The company’s offshore bonds are trading for pennies on the dollar** on the cloudy outlook for a restructuring. Its 9.5% 2024 notes, the debt subject to the delayed payment in October, last traded around 13 cents on the dollar, according to Trace.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/evergrande-agrees-to-pay-offshore-creditor-group-fees-1.1747629

**guaranteed that they are not carried on the bondholders books that way

SAM746 USAF G5 departed Peterson AFB after a ground stop of about 20 minutes-prior stop at Buckley AFB of about 2 hours and departed JBA earlier today

>>132380

SAM693 USAF C-32A continues west

German AF GAF677 Global 5000 departed Tel Aviv heading north and currently over southern Finland

Arrived at Tel Aviv on 0402 from Koln

Probably heading to the Cold Response exercises

from April 1st

Germany interested in possibility of buying Arrow 3, UAVs from Israel

Germany is interested in the possibility of purchasing air- and missile-defense systems, in addition to unmanned aerial vehicles, from the State of Israel, according to multiple sources. In recent days, a senior delegation of the German Bundestag Defense Committee visited the Israel Defense Forces as part of a wider trip to the country. The delegation’s visit was initiated and hosted by ELNET, an organization dedicated to strengthening ties between Europe and Israel.

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/germany-interested-in-possibility-of-buying-arrow-3-uavs-from-israel/article_0931264a-a8a4-56f3-82ba-70a7595ce958.html

In a Six-Day Span in March 2020, the Dow Crashed 5,676 Points; the Fed Responded with Almost $1 Trillion in Repo Loans to 24 Trading Houses

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has a “dual mandate” to target inflation and to maintain “maximum sustainable employment.” The Fed has zero mandate to target a specified level for the Dow Jones Industrial Average or to prevent stock market crashes by printing money out of thin air and pumping it out to the trading houses on Wall Street. But under Fed Chair Ben Bernanke during the Wall Street crisis in 2008 and Fed Chair Jerome Powell in 2019-2020, that’s exactly what the Fed decided to do.

The majority of the stock market is owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans. Thus, when the stock market is bailed out by the Fed, which we can now show overtly occurred from March 9 through March 16 of 2020, the Fed is effectively bailing out the rich. The Fed began its emergency repo loan operations on September 17, 2019 – months before there was a reported case of COVID-19 anywhere in the world. It was the first time the Fed had intervened with emergency repo loans since the financial crisis of 2008. The Fed’s repo loans continued throughout the fall of 2019 and into 2020. By Monday morning, March 9, 2020, news of the coronavirus was making headlines around the world and rattling stock markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) plunged 2,013.76 points that day. The Fed responded with one repo loan operation that day of $112.932 billion, which it pumped into 24 trading houses on Wall Street – its so-called “primary dealers.”-see cap #2

The Fed had calmed the market for the time being and on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, the Dow gained 1,167.14 points. (We can assume that the gain was aided by the fact that the Fed on March 10 had conducted two repo loan operations, pumping in a total of $168.625 billion.) But panic set in again on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, with the Dow losing 1,464.94 points, despite the Fed conducting a one-day repo loan operation of $132.375 billion. The Fed interpreted that to mean that the Wall Street trading houses were thumbing their noses at short-term loans and wanted longer-term loans from the Fed. It would fulfill their wishes the very next day in a big way. By early Thursday morning, March 12, a new panic had set in. Before the stock market opened at 9:30 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 futures had plunged 5 percent and were locked, limit-down. That led to a plunge of 7 percent in the S&P 500 Index shortly after the stock market opened at 9:30 a.m. in New York. That plunge triggered a circuit breaker which suspended trading for 15 minutes until 9:50 a.m. By the time the dust settled at the closing bell, the Dow had lost 2,352.60 points. But now that we know the details of what the Fed did on March 12, it’s fair to question if the stock market could have lost 10,000 points that day but for the actions of the Fed. Instead of one repo loan operation on March 12, the Fed conducted four separate operations. Here’s how that played out: at 8 a.m. on March 12, the Fed provided 25-day term repo loans of $50 billion; at 8:30 a.m. the Fed provided 14-day term repo loans of $45 billion; at 9:00 a.m. (one-half hour before the stock market was set to open), the Fed conducted its third repo loan operation of the day, providing $103.1 billion in one-day repo loans; and at 1:45 p.m. the Fed crafted repo loans stretching out for 84 days and totaling $78.4 billion. The Fed’s repo loan total for just that one day of March 12 was $276.5 billion.

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>>132390

2 of 2

No better evidence exists to illustrate that the Fed is targeting the level of the stock market than the actions it took on March 12. (The Fed has withheld the names of the trading houses and the amounts they received from its windfall loans for two years. It was forced to release the information last Thursday under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. Since last Thursday, not one mainstream media outlet has reported the names of the trading houses that got this repo loan money from the Fed.) The Fed’s money pot on Thursday, March 12, 2020, nicely calmed the market. On Friday, March 13, the Dow closed up 1,985 points, helped by another $86.25 billion in repo loans from the Fed in three separate operations on March 13.

Unfortunately, by Monday, March 16, the trading houses were looking for another handout from the Fed. The Dow closed down another 2,997 points that day for a Dow close of 20,188.52. From the Dow close on Friday, March 6 to the Dow close on Monday March 16, the Dow had lost a total of 5,676 points as the Fed had funneled a staggering $944.132 billion – almost a trillion dollars – to the trading houses on Wall Street. The very next day, March 17, the Fed announced a new bailout concoction called the Primary Dealer Credit Facility. We’ll have a lot to say about that opaque Fed operation this week. As the charts above and below indicate, in that 6-day trading span, it wasn’t depository banks that make loans to the American people that were getting these windfalls from the Fed. It was trading houses on Wall Street – many of them owned by giant foreign global banks. The largest beneficiary was J.P. Morgan Securities, the trading unit of JPMorgan Chase, which over those six trading sessions borrowed $135.5 billion from the Fed in repo loans, much of it at 0.25 percent interest while its parent bank charged double-digit interest rates on its credit cards to consumers. The second largest beneficiary of the Fed’s largess during those six days was the U.S. trading unit of the Japanese investment bank, Nomura, which grabbed $125 billion from the Fed. Third in line was the perennial Wall Street bad boy, Citigroup Global Markets, which borrowed $96.5 billion during just those six trading sessions. Fourth in line was the U.S. trading unit of the U.K. banking behemoth, Barclays, which borrowed $95.551 billion, just behind Citigroup. Add in Goldman Sachs at $72.2 billion and the U.S. trading unit of the French global bank, BNP Paribas, at $65.6 billion and it shows that just these six banks accounted for $590 billion of the total $944 billion over those six trading sessions. To state it another way, just six trading houses out of the total of 24, grabbed 62.5 percent of the total for all trading houses participating. This raises another big question. In terms of U.S. peer banks by assets, Bank of America (BofA) and Wells Fargo are right up there with JPMorgan Chase. But if you scrutinize the chart at the top of this article, it’s clear that Bank of America and Wells Fargo did not have the liquidity problems experienced by the top six borrowers during this panic in the stock market. Congress needs to find out why and let the American people in on the secrets. And the final aspect of all of these opaque actions that the Fed took with its repo loans that needs to be addressed by Congressional hearings is why the public isn’t reading about any of this, or looking at the charts on this page, at any mainstream media outlet in America, which all have reporters exclusively assigned to cover every move by the Fed but have conducted a blanket news blackout on this critical subject since the Fed released the names of the borrowers last Thursday.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/in-a-six-day-span-in-march-2020-the-dow-crashed-5676-points-the-fed-responded-with-almost-1-trillion-in-repo-loans-to-24-trading-houses/

>>132389

Germman AF GAF677 Global 5000 on final at Rovaniemi Airport

Located just 6 miles from the start of the Arctic circle

>>132341

>and interdasting that once WTI got below $100 the supply "issue" articles began popping up.

Oil Extends Surge on Specter of Fresh Sanctions Against Russia

Oil advanced for a second day as the U.S. and Europe prepared to impose a fresh wave of sanctions on Russia for alleged atrocities committed by its forces against civilians in Ukraine.

West Texas Intermediate pushed to near $105 a barrel in early Asian trading after closing 4% higher on Monday, the biggest gain in two weeks. Washington will announce additional measures this week, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said these may include further curbs on energy.

Oil rallied to the highest level since 2008 in the first quarter as Russia’s invasion disrupted supplies in an already tight market faced with roaring demand and dwindling stockpiles. The U.S. and U.K. have already moved to bar Russian oil and there’s gathering momentum for some form of similar action from the European Union, although its dependence on flows is higher.

The possibility of new sanctions is offsetting the impact in the global crude market of a vast release by the U.S. from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserves in a bid to tame prices, ease the burden on consumers, and peg back inflation. Other countries have said that they’ll also make oil releases.

With the war in its second month, European policy makers are facing greater pressure to impose a heavier burden on Moscow. French President Emmanuel Macron said the EU will discuss possible sanctions on oil, while German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said all economic ties with Moscow must be severed.

Oil futures remain in backwardation, a bullish pattern marked by near-term prices above longer-dated ones. Brent’s prompt spread the gap between its two nearest contracts was $1.65 a barrel, up from $1.53 on Monday.

Many western companies aren’t taking Russian crude, although discounted exports are going to buyers in Asia including China and India. On Monday, commodity trader Trafigura Group offered to sell a cargo of Russia’s Urals grade at a record discount but there were no bids for the shipment.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/oil-extends-surge-on-specter-of-fresh-sanctions-against-russia-1.1747664

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

still taking what is Oil still in contango for $1000 Alex

Saudi Aramco's Luberef refinery eyes $1bln IPO: report

Saudi Aramco Base Oil Co. (Luberef) is planning an initial public offering (IPO) that could raise more than $1 billion, Bloomberg reported citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Saudi Aramco’s unit hired HSBC Saudi Arabia and SNB Capital to advise on the offering. The plan is to sell a 30% stake owned by Jadwa Investment, the sources added. Luberef produces 1.2 million tons annually of base oils such as lubricants, according to Aramco’s 2019 IPO prospectus. In 2007, Jadwa Investment acquired a stake in Luberef sold by Exxon Mobil, which invested in the refinery in 1978.

https://www.argaam.com/en/article/articledetail/id/1549539

>>132362

JASDF JF001 and JF002 777 reappear heading for Tokyo-Narita Airprot after departing Warsaw earlier today

>>132397

my,my wut a surprise...

kek

>>132398

stolen

>>132349

morning, afternoon and evenin wakes

>>132394

evenin gb

always mean to visit but then i look at the clock and it's 8:30 pm. time whizzes by, every day full of stuffs.

someone next door said they liked rrn, got a reply about it being like the national inquirer. never a dull moment.

G mang

they confused yo

gonna die of ignance

>>132404

looked..of course no repls

there ya go being all logical and shietz.

"too many werds bro...I'm confused"

kek

and the the other replies-mp4rel

that statement disease mang

totally taken over dhere

Still think, disclosure or not, none of them should be anywhere near it because in those positions you are always going to have non-public info. no matter who or what it is about.

Public office= Nothing in financial markets'

And if you have prior it should be totally locked while you are.

No changes at all while in office

So choose wisely would be muh advice if that ever came to pass

Not that it will any time soon

This shit about blind trusts is just that...shite.

Only then will you see who is truly sincere about serving the people.

Her particular example not as bad as others but flaps yap too much w/o doing much.

JPMorgan Is Reviewing Commodity Exposure After Nickel Chaos

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is reviewing its business with some commodity clients after last month’s nickel short squeeze, a move that threatens to drain more liquidity out of the sector.

Senior management at JPMorgan has asked teams around the world to conduct fresh due diligence on some existing clients, including metals traders and oil refiners, according to people familiar with the situation. Risk assessments are also being conducted on certain financing functions, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private.

The U.S. bank is one of the largest players in global commodity markets and the biggest in metals by far. It was also a central participant in the nickel price spike that rocked the London Metal Exchange last month, as the biggest counterparty of Tsingshan Holding Group Co., the world’s largest producer of the metal that’s at the center of the squeeze.

JPMorgan was already monitoring and adjusting its commodities exposure amid heightened market volatility before the nickel short squeeze, according to another person familiar with the bank’s position. Since the nickel price spike in early March, the bank has been conducting a deeper review, the person said. While the review is encompassing clients across JPMorgan’s commodities business, it is focused on base metals and businesses related to trading on the London Metal Exchange, the people said. One issue the bank is considering is how to stress test its business for unprecedented shocks like the one that occurred in nickel, one person said.

It’s not clear what the outcome of the review will be, the people said, but it’s possible that it could result in JPMorgan scaling back activity in commodities. The lender has already been reducing its exposure in the nickel market, the people said. It has also been requiring additional management approval for new financing deals in metals.

The nickel short squeeze rocked the commodity sector, with the LME saying it had created a “systemic risk” to the market. In response, some banks temporarily paused commodity financing in Asia early last month, according to physical traders based in Singapore and China who would typically borrow from the affected banks. Some of the traders still can’t access funding from those banks, which include JPMorgan, and have been told it is because the lenders are reviewing their commodity business, they said.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/jpmorgan-is-reviewing-commodity-exposure-after-nickel-chaos-1.1747691

but $28.18B is fine in one place

>>131558 O.C.C Quarterly Derivatives Report Q4 2021-March25th, 2022-Silver derivatives increase BofA/JPM about equal on opposite sides of the trade

#893 update 2

>>132305, >>132309, >>132312, >>132315, >>132316, >>132318, >>132319, >>132322, >>132324, >>132327, >>132331, >>132332, >>132339, >>132358, >>132362, >>132365, >>132367, >>132372, >>132380, >>132388, >>132389, >>132392 pf report(s) Sunday into Monday: SAMs up over CONUS-busier than normal on Sunday mornings/Duda back to Warsaw from Krakow/AFSOC reappears over Arabian Sea after being in Nepal/GLASS50Special Ops in Benghazi?-sure looks it/Not AF1 Joe tanker leaving/Japanese left Warsaw/UN Amb. left Bucharest/Moar SAMs/Germans from Tel Aviv to Finland

>>132309 Cuba and Mexico to hold 17th Inter-parliamentary Meeting in Havana-radiohc

>>132313 Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as Americans cross border for deals-foxbiz

>>132314 Pakistan PM Imran Khan dissolves parliament, calls for new elections-upi

>>132315 Poland makes nuke offer to US-bignewsnetwork

>>132321 Taliban Ban Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan-voanews

>>132335, >>132336, >>132337 pfizer retired debt and is NOT getting delisted-contrary to what is going around soc.media

>>132341 Asian Stocks Boosted by Hong Kong; Treasuries Drop-2s10s way effed nao-various sources and anon

>>132362, >>132394 Japan to take 20 Ukraine evacuees from Poland on government plane-nikkei

>>132365 U.S. Calls For Russia’s Removal From U.N. Human Rights Council-forbes

>>132366, >>132369, >>132370, >>132371, >>132373, >>132374 Trump-Tied Social Media SPAC Slides After Key Executives Quit + Suddenly, Tesla's Elon Musk is Twitter's biggest stakeholder bnnBBerg and sfgate

>>132382 Senate voting NOW to discharge Judge Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court from the Judiciary Cmte, where the nomination is stuck thanks to the party-line, 11-11 vote that occurred earlier today-soc media and Q drop #1357

>>132383 SoftBank Shutters Hedge Fund Unit Behind Infamous 'Nasdaq Whale' Trades-zh

>>132387 Evergrande Agrees to Pay Offshore Creditor Group Fees-bnnBBerg

>>132389 Germany interested in possibility of buying Arrow 3, UAVs from Israel- April 1 clevelandjewishnews

>>132390, >>132391 In a Six-Day Span in March 2020, the Dow Crashed 5,676 Points; the Fed Responded with Almost $1 Trillion in Repo Loans to 24 Trading Houses-wallstonparade

>>132393 Oil Extends Surge on Specter of Fresh Sanctions Against Russia + Saudi Aramco's Luberef refinery eyes $1bln IPO bnnBBerg/argaam

>>132397 C-Span Cap:Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation 53-47 Q drop #2671.....;)

>>132406 JPMorgan Is Reviewing Commodity Exposure After Nickel Chaos-kek!! but $28.18B is "fine" in OTC Ag bnnBBerg

out for the night muh fren

bake it when you can

ttyitm

o7