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TheStormHasArrived

@TheStormHasArrived17

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Good morning Patriots 🇺🇸

Big day in Georgia! Here are the Trump endorsed candidates:

David Perdue for Governor

Burt Jones for Lt. Governor

Jody Hice for Sec of State

John Gordon for Attorney General

Herschel Walker for Senate

MTG for House

Vernon Jones for House

Barry Loudermilk for House

Buddy Carter for House

Rick Allen for House

Jake Evans for House

Patrick Whitt for Insurance Commission

Go vote like your life depends on it!

Make the establishment feel the pain!!! Cheers 🥂

>>135758

tyb

>Non-Binary Palindrome

>>135761

no callsign Joe in 82-8000 747 departed Yokota AB about 4 hours ago as well as SAM46 USAF C-32A which is shown ahead and departed in front of BOTUS-they are going to JB Elmendorf for a refuel and should arrive in about 3 hours

JADE99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch left Kadena AB, Okinawa and is the lead AC in cap

Russian and Chinese jets conduct patrol in East Asia, capping Biden trip

Russian and Chinese military planes conducted joint exercises to patrol the Asia-Pacific region, Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday, in a pointed farewell to U.S. President Joe Biden as he concluded an Asia trip that rankled Beijing.

The joint patrol lasted 13 hours over the Japanese and East China seas and involved Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and Chinese Xian H-6 jets, the defense ministry said in a statement.

Japan's defense minister called the exercise a provocation, while a U.S. official said it revealed the depth of the two countries' cooperation.

Planes from the Japanese and South Korean air force shadowed the Russian and Chinese jets for part of the exercise, the Russian ministry said.

Japan scrambled jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes neared its airspace while Tokyo was hosting the leaders of the Quad grouping of countries that includes the United States, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said. read more

Tokyo conveyed "grave concerns" to both Russia and China through diplomatic channels, Kishi said at a news conference.

He characterised the incident as a likely provocation by both Beijing and Moscow on a day when Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia's newly elected leader, Anthony Albanese, were meeting in Tokyo.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/russian-chinese-jets-conducted-joint-patrol-moscow-says-2022-05-24/

SAM 144 USAF G5 and SAM087 USAF C-32A west and nw from JBA

SAM144 Cap#2

2 Globeys with 4 digit callsigns-likely moving equipment for a VP visit or mebby they will trot Joe out in 2 days somewhere else-one departed JBA-RCH4149 and one left MCAB Quantico-RCH3222 both heading west

New Home Sales Decrease Sharply to 591,000 Annual Rate in April

The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 591 thousand.

The previous three months were revised down. Sales of new single‐family houses in April 2022 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 591,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 16.6 percent below the revised March rate of 709,000 and is 26.9 percent below the April 2021 estimate of 809,000.New home sales are now below pre-pandemic levels.The months of supply increased in April to 9.0 months from 6.9 months in March.

The all-time record high was 12.1 months of supply in January 2009. The all-time record low was 3.5 months, most recently in October 2020. This is well above the top of the normal range (about 4 to 6 months of supply is normal). "The seasonally‐adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of April was 444,000. This represents a supply of 9.0 months at the current sales rate." In April 2022 (red column), 53 thousand new homes were sold (NSA). Last year, 74 thousand homes were sold in April.

The all-time high for April was 116 thousand in 2005, and the all time low for April was 30 thousand in 2011.

This was well below expectations, and sales in the three previous months were revised down sharply.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/05/new-home-sales-decrease-sharply-to.html

Serial cheerleaders at the NAR (National Association of Realtors) have no way to spin this disaster-but they will try

https://americanmind.org/salvo/ego-before-party/

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has indulged in the worst of all Beltway traditions: the self-serving, post-government memoir. Based on initial reviews and press reports, the sanctimoniously titled A Sacred Oath embodies the worst instincts and bankrupt worldview of American foreign policy elites. Esper has promoted his book by relentlessly trashing his former boss as, among other things, a “threat to democracy” unfit to serve as President.

When nominated in 2019, Esper was a promising candidate for Secretary of Defense in a Trump Administration. In contrast to his immediate predecessor, acting secretary Patrick Shanahan, Esper looked the part and had only spent part (rather than all) of his previous professional career in the employ of a major defense contractor. As a veteran of the Army, Capitol Hill, and the Heritage Foundation—and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School—Esper was acceptable to the defense establishment. However, unlike previous secretary James Mattis, Esper was a longtime civilian who presumably did not see it as his mission to actively oppose President Trump’s America First policies.

Esper’s score-settling is likely borne of personal pique. President Trump fired Esper unceremoniously after rendering him a pariah in polite company—and perhaps less employable—by, among other things, enlisting the help of the Department of Defense (DOD) in responding to the riots that swept the country in summer 2020. Picking a fight with the former President still seems like an ungracious response to the man who elevated Esper from lobbyist to cabinet secretary in less than two years.

However, to the extent he’s trying to engender goodwill with establishment institutions, Esper’s approach to Oath is miscalculated. His headline-grabbing revelations have been dismissed by many on the left as “too little, too late”—“Why did you wait to put it in a book?” Stephen Colbert asked Esper—and will likely be soon forgotten altogether. More is expected from defectors than just a rehash of familiar gossip and complaints. If the trajectory of others who have trod this path is any guide, remaining useful to the anti-Trump cause will require a steady stream of commentary on a wide range of topics. Esper should be ready to opine on the impact of striking down Roe v. Wade on servicemember readiness, or join his ally, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, in defending increasing wokeness at the Pentagon.

Assuming nobler motives, Esper makes the fundamental, yet all-too-common, error of setting up himself—rather than the duly elected President—as the definer and defender of American national security interests, and a “circuit breaker” against Trump’s supposedly dangerous directives. A common trope in this regard is the refrain that “I took an oath to the Constitution, not the President.” But it is that same sacred Constitution that invests in the President, not his unelected agents, “the executive power”—and designates him as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

Through grave miscalculations in Iraq and elsewhere, the foreign policy establishment has squandered any entitlement to a presumption that they know better than the President, or the American people who elected him. One of Esper’s supposedly sensational allegations is that President Trump wanted to use military force to “destroy the drug labs” in Mexico. But why is it not common sense to attack, by any means necessary, the source of a problem that substantially contributed to the more than 100,000 U.S. overdose deaths in 2021? The defense establishment refuses to accept that the unrestricted flow of drugs and people over the southern border is at least as urgent a national security priority as fomenting far-flung conflict in the Middle East or with Russia.

A fundamental dispute between President Trump and Esper was over the drawdown in Afghanistan. Mattis had quit publicly over withdrawing troops from Syria, and the DOD simply refused to give the Commander-in-Chief good options for ending America’s longest war. Esper has claimed that he stayed on Secretary of Defense as long as he did out of fear his successor would be a “yes man.”

In fact, Christopher Miller ably led Defense as acting secretary during the final two months of the Trump Administration. It was current Secretary Lloyd Austin who turned out be a “yes man” to the Biden White House’s indefensible decision to close Bagram Air Base before withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan by a date certain—thereby conceding strategic defeat, surrendering a valuable counterterrorism platform, and triggering a humanitarian catastrophe.

Among the headlines following the Afghanistan debacle was one from the Army Times: “Army leadership: Afghanistan withdrawal not affecting readiness.” It was unclear what the Army may be getting ready for, beyond losing more wars while combating “white rage” and pushing vaccine mandates. But so goes the bureaucratic logic of the modern military-industrial complex—now spending tens of billions of dollars on an undeclared proxy war with nuclear-armed Russia in Ukraine—which Secretary Esper defends, and President Trump dared question.

>>135771

ya know when he first arrived his very first trip was to Japan and it was pretty quick too.

The look on his face at the swearing in ceremony contrasted by 45 too

Din't want to be a part of it and really din't do much of anything-just occupied space imo

🇺🇸QldGymGuy🇺🇸

@oldgymguy

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Let us all work together and remember who we are fighting against and who we are fighting for !

I throw a big “Q” to all !!!!

Silver 'trading' on COMEX for May 23rd, 2022-45,843 contracts-38% of total amount for day done in one minute

45,843 x 5k per contract gives you 229,215,000/ozs of Ag yesterday @$21.75 input price = $4.985B in $ amount 'traded'. This is the big 6 banks (for this) JP Morgue, Bank of America, Shitibank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fartgo, HSBC involved in the suppression scheme trading back and forth and nothing moar. There are a few moar who have minor roles but those the ones who keep it where (((they))) need it-and also a reminder they have a call or electronic comms before the day starts in Europe and have already agreed upon a settlement price for the day via the LBMA (London Bullion Market Association). 'Also keep in mind that 17.78k contracts of this or approximately 38% of the day's total was dumped on it 4 minutes into the NYMEX open.

See here >>135694 pb cap#5 yellow line when all that 'arrived'

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

RedstateWatcher

@redstatewatcher

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Breaking: Texas Association of School Boards will leave the National School Boards Association.

RedstateWatcher

@redstatewatcher

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WHO chief Tedros re-elected for a second 5-year term

>>135776

Israel AF 676 Nachshon Eitam G550 ISR out of Nevatim AB runniing patterns off shore and werking it hard @41k ft-see cap#2

The 122nd Nachshon Squadron is a CAEW & SIGINT aircraft squadron in the IAF. The squadron currently operates the "Nachshon" aircraft: Gulfstream GV aircraft in a signal intelligence configuration ("Nachshon Shavit"), and a Gulfstream G550 aircraft in an air control configuration ("Nachshon Eitam"). The squadron is stationed at the Nevatim airbase.

German AF GAF177 A400m coming out of Syria

Oman AF MJN516 A320 arriving back to Muscat from Munich depart-nuffin available as to who or what that about-cap#3

Liz Harrington

@realLizUSA

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ICYMI:

“Sarah will be a GREAT Governor, and she has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” - President Donald J. Trump

Brazil's Bolsonaro fires oil executive for refusing to lower prices

Bolsonaro sacks oil exec for refusing to cut prices

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the CEO of the Petrobras oil giant for refusing to lower the cost of diesel and gas on Monday.

Bolsonaro fired CEO Jose Mauro Coelho after the executive warned that slashing the cost of oil would lead to diesel shortages. Coelho served barely two months at the head of the organization, with Bolsonaro having fired his predecessor in April, Reuters reported Monday.Brazil, like much of the world, faces spiking inflation and rising gas prices, and Bolsonaro faces re-election in October. Bolsonaro appointed Caio Mario Paes de Andrade to replace Coelho. Andrade currently serves in the country's economy ministry. The Brazilian government holds a majority of the voting shares in Petrobras. Bolsonaro also called for a re-election of the company's board, as Andrade must first be elected to the body before he can be voted in as CEO

https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-fire-oil-executive-petrobras-refusing-to-lower-prices

>>135764

SAM144 USAF G5 (on ground) and SAM087 C-32A both going to Peterson AFB from JBA depart

''They both display tail # at present but that was callsign(s)

RCH4140 USAF C-17 Globey continues west and RCH3222 C-17 went to St. Louis

Cap#2 for RCH3222 and that one arrived last night from Japan/Seoul

Relentless Truth

@lebronsonroids

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"The real issue is that this is a clone, and that means there's no real reason to switch from Twitter to this app."

THE PANIC IS PALPABLE.

TRUTH IS KING.

May 24, 2022, 11:33 AM EDT

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a wartime state of emergency immediately after his new government was installed.

The state of emergency, a new tool Parliament approved earlier on Tuesday, will take effect at midnight and will give the government “maneuvering room and the ability to react immediately” to the fallout from the war in neighboring Ukraine, Orban said in a video message on his Facebook page.

The government will announce its first measures under the emergency on Wednesday, he said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-24/russia-is-winning-from-the-global-food-crisis-it-helped-create

>>135764, >>135784

SAM087 USAF C-32A is Lloyd Austin

RCH4140 C-17 also in at Peterson AFB from JBA

No Nightwatch Lloyd Austin to deliver USAFA commencement address

https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-to-deliver-usafa-commencement-address

>>135785

kek

>>135761, >>135763

no callsign Joe in 82-8000 747 departed JB Elmendorf after a ground stop/refuel from it's Yokota AB, Japan depart

JADE99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch is 'frozen' in this position and so is SAM46 (offscreen) have not updated yet

https://kashmovie.com/

SYNOPSIS

The plot against the President was a coup engineered by a coterie of the American establishment elite, targeting not only the President, but the whole country. The plot began with the FBI opening a counterintelligence investigation on Donald Trump's presidential campaign based on a falsified dossier paid for by an opposition candidate. It was an operation to sabotage a President and many U.S. private citizens. The conspirators included political operatives, the highest law enforcement and intelligence officials in the country, and especially the press.

This is the unheard, true story of how Congressman Devin Nunes, Kash Patel and his team of misfits uncovered the operation to bring down the President of the United States. Devin Nunes and Kash Patel understood that the target of the operation wasn't just Trump, but rather the institutions that sustain our republic. A country where operatives use the intelligence and security services to hold power by spying on Americans, coordinating with the press, and using extra-constitutional means to undermine an election and try to undo a presidency, is more like the third world than the republic envisioned by the founding fathers. Without Devin Nunes, Kash Patel and his team, the plot against the President — and against the country — never would have been revealed.

all in now

need to break, run an errand or two and do some IRL stuffs

back to peek in soon

aye

keep werking here

Solid 2Y Auction Stops Through Despite Plunge In Yields

In a day when yields are plunging, just as we said they would now that the head and shoulders formation is obvious for all to see-in muh 10 year moments ago the US Treasury sold $47BN in 2Y paper in an auction which many thought would bomb due to the collapse in yields ahead of the sale. It didn't, and instead, pricing at a high yield of 2.526%, the auction stopped through the When Issued 2.526% by 0.7bps. More importantly, this was the first decline in the 2Y high yield since July 2021. The Bid to Cover was average, printing at 2.61, below last month's 2.74 but just above the six-auction average of 2.59.

The internals were also solid: while Indirects dropped from 66.0% to 62.6%, they were still one of the highest on record and well above the recent average of 59.9%-"Mrs Watanabe" here . And with Directs taking down 22.0%, just below the 26.1% recent average, Dealers were left holding just 15.4%, one of the lowest awards on record, and well below the 22.2% six-auction average. see cap #2 for NYFRB Primary Dealers lis and they HAVE to buy these or they lose status as A Primary Dealer--or should cause you know how Wll ST. is with "rules for thee". Overall, this was a surprisingly solid - if not stellar - auction, and despite the plunge in yields the market is clearly pouring into short-dated paper, the latest confirmation that markets are betting an end to the Fed's rate hikes is just a matter of time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/solid-2y-auction-stops-through-despite-plunge-yields

>>135787, >>135796, >>135797, >>135798

Hungary MOL Grp

dis why below in red

from May 20th

Hungary’s MOL prepares to move away from Russian oil

Hungary’s biggest energy company is preparing its oil refineries to process non-Russian oil, a sign that Budapest may eventually come around to backing an EU embargo on Russian crude despite weeks of resistance.

MOL, which owns three oil refineries in central and eastern Europe, has asked its engineers to make plans for how to run them without Russian oil, the company’s downstream production director Zsolt Huff said on Thursday.

“We need to rebuild the plane while flying,” Huff told reporters in Budapest. “That is the process that we have to plan precisely now.” He said MOL, which is partly owned by the Hungarian state, must “prepare for the worst scenario now, in which we can only process seaborne [light] crude”. A portfolio of 15 projects under preparation would be shown to the company’s board in about two months and work could start if the projects were approved, said Huff. The company wanted to decide its investments this year but was not yet fully committed to a change, he added.

Hungary has so far blocked attempts by the EU to impose an embargo on all Russian oil supplies, whether brought by pipeline or via tanker, as part of the bloc’s latest round of sanctions against Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The landlocked central European nation is demanding a full exemption for the oil it gets by pipeline from Russia.

Overhauling Hungary’s oil infrastructure to handle crude from elsewhere could cost up to €18bn, foreign affairs and trade minister Péter Szijjártó estimated this week, adding that the EU would have to help Budapest to pay.

The European Commission is determined to cut the EU’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels, as part of its response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but it has offered much less funding than Hungary desires. This week, it allocated about €2bn to help Hungary and other landlocked states to access alternative supplies.

However, talks between the commission and Hungary aimed at winning its support for the oil ban have proceeded sluggishly, prompting some officials to speculate that the matter could end up being discussed at leaders’ level at an upcoming European Council late this month.

MOL has spent decades and billions of dollars on infrastructure to process Russian Ural-type crude, a market advantage that has boosted its recent profits as the price gap grew between Russian oil and more expensive Brent crude.

https://fbnglobalnews.com/news/hungarys-mol-prepares-to-move-away-from-russian-oil/

U.S. Will Start Blocking Russia’s Bond Payments to American Investors

The Biden administration will start blocking Russia from paying American bondholders, increasing the likelihood of the first default of Russia’s foreign debt in more than a century.

An exemption to American sanctions has allowed Russia to keep paying its debts since February. But that carve out will expire on Wednesday, and the United States will not extend it, according to a notice published by the Treasury Department on Tuesday. As a result, Russia will no longer be able to pay interest it owes on billions of dollars in debt held by American investors. As a result, Russia will be unable to make billions of dollars of debt and interest payments on bonds held by foreign investors. Biden administration officials had debated whether to extend what’s known as a general license, which has allowed Russia to pay interest on the debt they sold, but officials ultimately determined that a Russian default would not have a significant impact on the global economy and allowed it to lapse. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said at a news conference last week that the exemption was created to allow for an “orderly transition” so that investors could sell securities. It was always intended to be for a limited time, she said. She noted that Russia’s ability to borrow has already essentially been cut off. “If Russia is unable to find a legal way to make these payments, and they technically default on their debt, I don’t think that really represents a significant change in Russia’s situation,” Ms. Yellen said. “They’re already cut off from global capital markets, and that would continue.”

Although the economic impact of a Russian default might be minimal, it was an outcome that Russia had been trying to avoid and represents an escalation of U.S. sanctions. Russia has already unsuccessfully attempted to make bond payments in rubles and has threatened to take legal action, arguing that it should not be in default if it is not allowed to make payments.

https://dirtypolitico.com/index.php/2022/05/24/u-s-will-start-blocking-russias-bond-payments-to-american-investors/

>>135547 Some 'monkey bidness'

French AF CTM1045 A330 With another flight south into central Africa and back to Paris-this is a different AC but same type as yesterday

Mkt Fag: Muh no P-A-N-I-C in da Housing Market the wheels coming off (data-wise) moment of reality-"we will not be pushed and need to exercise caution" but here's $2t moar for ya so it is just fine-edition

The NAS is the worst today with the RUT not far behind -27.94(-1.56%) and by far the most bloated as pointed out many times before-why we focus on it and from the start it sucked -add in TICK (that menas "upticks and downticks) it's an index you can follow to see what is really going on..useful for days like to day - the 3rd largest buy-program of the year and possibruh hint that they will NOT raise rates at next meeting- but there was STILL NOBODY HOME.

DOW closed Green but with a mighty SPRAY job-by FAR the biggest volume chunks in the last 6 minutes....6minutes @ 3:54PM est they just threw it at it. But according to Bill 'the cat' Ackman it's just a confidence problem- His 'money' quote "Markets will soar once investors can be confident that the days of runaway inflation are over". Plus you have the Fed Head Bostic saying "we have to be cautious" is over $2T a night cautious?...kek! You are so fugged!. See his comment in cap #4 at bottom of Ruble chart ‘Even firetrucks with sirens blaring slow down at intersections’- Not when it's a raging inferno they don't

P-A-N-I-C

Lagarde Says ECB WoThe European Central Bank (ECB) would not be rushed into withdrawing monetary stimulus as officials act to contain inflation running at almost four times their 2 percent target, ECB President Christine Lagarde https://taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2022/05/25/2003778757

>>135802 U.S. Will Start Blocking Russia’s Bond Payments to American Investors

Housing sales fell off a cliff-plus add in interest rates on the upward trajectory and you have a recipe for carnage-however this can be softened because there will always be movement as people need to move for various reasons-by choice or not. This is the property markets coming apart-witness the heavy downward revisions to the previous 3 months of data-they do this all the time but this one is a doozey. Worthless spin doctors at the NAR can't shine this turd at all so prices will start to back off since there is now a documented increase in supply where that had been declining for a long time (hello phoney and fraudy MAC-we see what you did after the 2007 peak by sucking up abandoned homes to keep them off the market so prices remained elevated). >>135768 New Home Sales Decrease Sharply to 591,000 Annual Rate in April

The SPAC markets continue to disintegrate and before all these being 'accepted' as a vehicle these were like the wicked-step child because if you had to that it was seen as not a good sign. DWAC just took advantage of the 'mania' an it at 43.90 -1.44 -3.18% about one hour before close. The list of the $1b put into DWAC is out but I can't get around the paywall but you see the results of the stock today above-the market makers are making everyone see that "it" doesn't care-DO NOT OWN THIS BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO 45

Some notabruh HALO dives: Pinterest, Inc. 17.07-5.52 (-24.46%) and that is by no means done at over 4x daily avg volume-this is because SNAP warned below it's low-end guidance so C-L-U-B-B-E-D. If it was a tech Stock it SUCKED today-see below Winners/Losers

Trading HaltsSerial halted equity BGXX only one halt today and at 12.02-1.26 (-9.50%) and it is not even one week from it's IPO and started at $25.50 on May 17 and got to $48.08 the next day. Since then it has been limit down halted over 30x-good luck with that one. This IPO'd today MSPR 5.05-5.73 (-53.15%) Medicare Secondary Payer recovery rights

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts

Here is the Short Interest defined as the companies with the largest proportions of outstanding shares currently sold short. https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/screener/short-interest

Top winner/losersDow, NAS, SP500, NASDAQ 100-focus on NAS because it is by FAR the most bloated of all

Top winner/losers-DOW https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/market-movers/dow_jones

Top winner/losers-NAS 100 https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/market-movers/nasdaq_100

Top winner/losers- SP500 https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/market-movers/s&p_500

Treasury complexSee Cap #3 Summary: Huge bid in bonds with Treasury yields crashing 15bps at the short-end. The 30Y Yield once again joined the rest of the curve back below 3.00%, and back below FOMC lows

See the 10 year having it's dandruff issues that started on April 14 >>135795 Solid 2Y Auction Stops Through Despite Plunge In Yields

So the paper still gets bought either way. The Dealers are having to buy less of these but that will change as the reality of holding this shit (and the non-counterparties to the NYFRB can't just flip this back to them) catches up to the overall Bond market. They do the Reverse Repos so they can

turn those back into the market as the receiving participants can just trade it back and forth using tons of leverage.

FOREX-US$, Ruble, Yen, Pound, EUROSee Cap#4 US $ down again and at 101.75 -0.33 -0.32% 30 minutes afer Europe close-totally gonna see Muh Yen intervention(s) because......it's at 126.58-1.32-1.03% Jerry and the Boys at the NYFRB are helping that out fer sure. The Ruble having good day as our dollar drops 0.017505 +0.000433+2.54% and was over 0.18 just as it's HOD was 0.018018. Rubble muh ass Mr. Rubble does not agree.....the dollar ended at little chnaged from prior to Europe's clsoe

MetalsNice bump up for both Ag +0.23 +1.06% and Au +10.20 +0.55% for the morning session however both have had muh paper attacks via COMEX-quite a flurry of volume in it starting @ 9am est. Not big amounts (like yesterday) but it all adds up. Yesterdays COMEX #s can be seen here: >>135774 lb COMEX #s for Monday May 23rd 38% of daily total in one minute Au clsoed at +13.40 +0.72% and Ag at +0.32 +1.49% so this decline the Gold Silver ratio: 84.421−0.474 (−0.56%) or slightly moar than 1/2 oz of Ag less today. No bigggie-GET YOU SOME.

Oil/EnergyWTI is going nowhere -0.40(-0.36%) (APT data later) and still 'on hold' for muh Russian sanctions and Aramco IPO-you guys better hurry up with that-time is a wasting for ya. It made it to just over $111 and then nuffin but bak down. Natural gas continues it's rise from yesterdays FERC supply fear pron. To $9 as predicted (and just under now). Someone dumped a bunch of contracts on it about three hours ago (current time at this observation is 11am est) as it was trying to pass $9 and dropped it to $8.75. This haz moar to do with the Oil/Gas santions they do not want then anything else >>135787 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a wartime state of emergency An since MOL spent billions in infrastructure to process URAL crude that is why they only want the sanctions to apply to ocean deliveries-well of course a landlocked country is gonna say that but they are kinda screwed if they shut it off so no wonder they are fighting-GOOD FOR THEM >>135799 Hungary’s MOL prepares to move away from Russian oil

>MOL has spent decades and billions of dollars on infrastructure to process Russian Ural-type crude

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>>135804

2 of 2

NYFRB Operations today-the paper game vs 'cash'

A total of$2.073Tin overall transactions today just to get to the next day-nuffin to see here-this Repo is for overnight and uses 92 counter-parties (that is ALL of them )a decrease of $44B over monday but still over $2T overall

Fourth day over the $2T mark and this is to get to Weds

Reverse Repossee cap #2 $1.987T and $57B less than Monday and exactly the same amount from Friday for this one'''

'Temporary' lending at a $2t level...they said teh same thing about removing the $ from muh Gold standard in 1971..."it's just temporary"

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/reverse-repo

Mortgage backed Securities (MBS) See Cap #3 slowing down a little on the acceptance side $5.081B submitted vs. $1.728B accepted in two operations-less submitted today by $1.367B and less accepted by $200m Of note these two operations were done way earlier than usual-submitted @ 11:20am est and completed by 11:30am so available to throw at it right as Europe closes

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/ambs

Securities Lending OperationsSee Cap #4 $41.625B submitted and $40.994B accepted-with 2-Year Note CUSIP #91282CEK3 biggest at $5.155B of that-the same as Friday and Monday. See cap for an explanation of what this is really used for...most of it is for swaps and shorting. Sorry that cap is 'busy' but that is what they use it for. Jim Chanos (and huge Potato supporter) makes his living doing this..(do not disagree with shorting just when it is done illegally (naked) as with the current system you are going to have winners and losers but they continue to pick them by decree and here is a mechanism for them to "lend" this shit back and forth. I made the most $ I ever had by shorting all the banks and Condo-builders in late 2006 so when done legally (which it is not for the most part) I have ZERO issue with it-this is the system we have so use it you YOUR advantage. Please see Patrick Byrne's site here for moar on Naked Shorting, Failures to deliver, SEC, under-funded pensions, etc-he was ALL OVER THIS SHIT back in 2007 https://www.deepcapture.com/introduction-to-the-deep-capture-analysis/

They then took this whole thing (in public) away from him and then tried to make serial faggit Mark Cuban the "face of Naked shorting" but all he did was talk and did nothing like what Byrne did-his company Overstock was relentlessly attacked by the Naked short sellers so that is what motivated him to do the above. Like him or not THAT information is SOLID and what really goes on.

Lower by $1.008B on submitted side and $730m on accepted sideAnd also done earlier then normal by one hour

This is the game at work here as these were just auctioned on auctioned on May 2 and issued on April 30th, 2022 trash for cash and can't even keep it for ONE month they are so desperate.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/securities-lending

Central Bank Liquidity Swap OperationsNoene reported but I am convinced they are doing the Yen but just not reporting it...Muh Yen has strengthened by over 1% today and nuffin here?- B-U-L-L-S-S-H-I-T

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/central-bank-liquidity-swap-operations

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

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd30y

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

https://www.investing.com/charts/forex-charts

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

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

https://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/ngas.php

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

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

https://goldprice.com/gold-silver-ratio/

>>135761, >>135763, >>135791

no callsign Joe in 82-8000 747 continues back to JBA with 09-0018 USAF C-32A on final

As a reminder 92-9000 USAF 747 is still MIA...and that is usually been the escort on the Int'l trips and has not been seen since Nov. 30th, 2020 see here >>44780, >>44781 PF 101 thread

JADE99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch also heading for JBA from Elmendorf

SAM046 USAF C-32AA behind from Elmendorf-this was the escort AC adn 09-0018 was still at Elmendorf and did not go to Asia

60-0023USAF B-52 Startofortess just over teh Canadian border from Minot AFB, ND doing laps over Canadian Forces Base Shilo

Patel Patriot

@patelpatriot

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1h

Replying to @heatherb03 @patelpatriot and 3 more

You should operate as if there is no plan. Do what you can within your circle and/or local community.

Our role in this is grassroots from the ground up.

all grilled

RedstateWatcher

@redstatewatcher

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14m

🚨BREAKING: Indiana Legislature OVERRIDES Governor’s veto of #HB1041 banning males from women’s sports. The bill will now become law. Huge WIN!

TheStormHasArrived

@TheStormHasArrived17

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8m

Coordinated. kek

French AF CALU403 NC-135Nuke Snifferback to Marseille-Istres-Le Tubé Air Base after running on the track just se of Reims-Rothyland

Boeing NC-135 and NKC-135 are special versions of the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker modified to operate on several different programs. In support of the U.S. Test Readiness Program that was initiated in response to the Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) of 1963, Sandia National Laboratories configured three NC-135 aircraft as flying laboratories to support atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, should testing have resumed. These aircraft were based at Kirtland Air Force Base. Work was initiated in 1963 and the aircraft remained in service with Sandia until 1976, flying principally for Sandia, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) maintained controlling oversight of the NC-135 flight test aircraft. After 1976, the aircraft flew for Air Force Weapons Laboratory.

We sold one to the French and they still use it.

It is an older version of out Constant Phoenix Nuke sniffer

French AF ROSBIF40 A-330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) heading south west of Dijon

Rosbif was and still is a derogatory slanf that the French have for the English-like Kraut is to Germans-cap #2

https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/texas/

techno

@techno_fog

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2m

FBI leadership ordered the opening of the Alfa Bank/Trump investigation.

They then ignored an FBI agent’s repeated requests to interview the source of the Alfa Bank info.

technofog.substack.com

We The Ultra Media ⛈⛈⛈

@WeTheMedia

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4m

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wins GOP primary for second term

justthenews.com

RedstateWatcher

@redstatewatcher

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4m

Herschel Walker wins Georgia GOP Senate nomination.

>>135813

and right on cue

>Biden drew on his own experience with grief, having lost his first wife and young daughter in a car accident in 1972 and an adult son to cancer in 2015.

Muh thoughts to the familes but EVERY SINGLE TIME he has to bring this up

OK we get it find another angle FFS

>>135823

How about these sons?

>>135519 pb

German AF GAF948 A-340Chancellor Olaf Scholzdeparted Pretoria South Africa after his 'difficult' trip

South Africa's Ramaphosa: Russia Sanctions Hurt 'Bystander' Countries

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that "bystander countries" were suffering due to sanctions against Russia and called for talks as the African Union (AU) prepared a mission to foster dialog between Moscow and Kyiv. Ramaphosa spoke as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited South Africa on the final leg of a trip to the continent that aimed in part to rally diplomatic support for Ukraine. South Africa has close historical ties to Moscow due to the Soviet Union's support for the anti-apartheid struggle. It abstained from a United Nations vote denouncing the invasion of Ukraine and has resisted calls to condemn Russia. The European Union has aggressively pursued sanctions and a severing of economic ties in a bid to punish Moscow for its military operations in Ukraine, a strategy which Ramaphosa said was causing collateral damage. "Even those countries that are either bystanders or not part of the conflict are also going to suffer from the sanctions that have been imposed against Russia," he said during a news conference in Pretoria. Africa, which has already seen millions pushed into extreme poverty by the pandemic, has been hit hard by rising food costs caused in part by disruptions linked to the war. Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of global wheat and barley, and two-thirds of the world's exports of sunflower oil used for cooking. The conflict has damaged Ukraine's ports and agricultural infrastructure and that is likely to limit its agricultural production for years.

https://www.voanews.com/a/south-africa-s-ramaphosa-russia-sanctions-hurt-bystander-countries/6587767.html

Believe Media

@believemedia

·

4h

Replying to @benny @Kash

HERE ARE ALL OF THE TRANSCRIPTS THAT KASH IS TALKING ABOUT IN THIS VIDEO, SEE FOR YOURSELF!!!

#DurhamWatch #FWK #PlotAgainstTheKing

https://fightwithkash.com/articles/russia-investigation-witness-transcripts-from-the-russian-active-measures-investigation-devin-and-kash-s-investigation

>>135619 pb

Australian AF ASY316PM Albaneseleaving Tokyo after Quad Summit

Hundreds track PM Anthony Albanese’s flight from Tokyo to Canberra

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s plane Toto One has once again become one of the most tracked flights online, as he heads home from Tokyo. After a whirlwind trip to Japan for the Quad Leaders summit alongside his United States, Japanese and Indian counterparts, Mr Albanese is Australia-bound. Over the next few days, he will need to finalise his cabinet, with a caucus meeting scheduled for Tuesday and a full swearing-in of ministers next Wednesday. Mr Albanese’s flight – which he dubbed Toto One after his dog Toto – was widely tracked on its way over to Japan – and has garnered hundreds of views on its way back down under as well. At 10.15am on Wednesday, there were more than 400 people tracking the flight.

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/hundreds-track-pm-anthony-albaneses-flight-from-tokyo-to-canberra/news-story/b9dc12c982c907a5e21110971da57d9f

BTW that site is based on filed flight plan and not actual data

but hey...

kek

Gov. Newsom Warns Californians of Mandatory Water Restrictions Amid Worsening Drought

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on water associations to take “aggressive actions” to increase water conservation and warned that mandatory water restrictions may lie ahead this summer if the state does not significantly cut down its consumption. Newsom made the comments during a meeting with leaders from the state’s largest urban water suppliers—including those covering Los Angeles, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area—and water associations on May 23 amid worsening drought conditions. “Every water agency across the state needs to take more aggressive actions to communicate about the drought emergency and implement conservation measures,” Newsom said. “Californians made significant changes since the last drought but we have seen an uptick in water use, especially as we enter the summer months. We all have to be more thoughtful about how to make every drop count.” Newsom also called on water suppliers to “better engage” their customers to ensure all Californians are attempting to save water in the state. In July 2021, the Democratic governor declared a drought emergency and called on Californians to voluntarily reduce their water use by 15 percent. But by the end of March 2022, the state had failed to meet that goal and Newsom issued an executive order asking local agencies to increase their response to the ongoing drought, the governor’s office said.

On May 24, California’s State Water Resources Control Board, under direction from Newsom, is set to vote on a statewide ban on “watering of non-functional turf in the commercial, industrial and institutional sectors” according to Newsom’s office. It will also vote on regulations that would require local agencies to implement water use restrictions amid a potential 20 percent decline in supplies because of extreme weather. If approved by the board, every city in the state will be covered by the regulations directing decreased water usage.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/gov-newsom-warns-californians-of-mandatory-water-restrictions-amid-worsening-drought_4486100.html

Should done something about this 6 months ago you fuggen twat

>>135795, >>135804

>the 3rd largest buy-program of the year and possibruh hint that they will NOT raise rates at next meeting (ok so I got that part wrong about the next meeting but here is September CME Fedwatch-cap #2-and keep in mind they changed some of the methodology just recently to most likely hide this upcoming pause see linky below

Here’s How the Fed Might Adopt Bostic’s Rate Pause in September

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic has cracked open the door to discussing a September pause in the central bank’s aggressive rate hikes a move that will only be on the table if inflation falls more than expected over the summer. The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to raise interest rates by a half point in June and July, boosting its policy rate to a 1.75% to 2% target range. That would lift it to the lower edge of the Fed’s estimate of the neutral rate that neither stimulates nor restricts growth. By September, the Fed will also be shrinking its balance sheet by $95 billion a month, which is a second tool that officials are using to tighten policy. Pausing at the Fed’s September 20-21 meeting which Bostic said on Monday might make “sense” -- will probably require two tough conditions to be met: inflation slowing meaningfully and signs that the US economy is cooling enough to reduce future price pressures. Chair Jerome Powell has already set a high bar for policy makers to put their plans on hold, vowing on May 17 that officials will keep raising interest rates until there is “clear and convincing” evidence that inflation is in retreat. Yet policy makers will also look for a softening job market for signs that price pressures will keep ebbing. The Fed normally doesn’t pause until its target interest rate is in excess of annual inflation, UBS strategists led by Mish found after reviewing 11 times the Fed has paused a rate-normalization cycle since 1960. With inflation by the Fed’s favored measure at 6.6% over the past year, prices would need to fall rapidly to meet that condition. Fed officials, for their part, have said they wouldn’t be upset by a small rise in unemployment from 3.6%, near a 50-year low, and Powell has described the job market as “tight to an unhealthy level. Bostic, a policy centrist who doesn’t vote on rates this year, said his forecast is conditional on his outlook for slowing growth with inflation slowing by the fall. If that doesn’t happen, he says he might embrace continued aggressive hikes, or even larger increases.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/here-s-how-the-fed-might-adopt-bostic-s-rate-pause-in-september-1.1770203

from May 11th

>>>/qresearch/16258706 Changes to the CME Grp. "methodology" for the FedWatch

'''The next CPI data release in on June 10th and is gonna show close to 9% if not over...since the last one dropped by 2 tenths of a % they still walk and talk the "it has peaked" mantra for the 6 month straight. They will never get in front of this....it is too late-only a raise to about 20% immediately and held there for two years would even begin to address this clusterfuq they have created.

>>135835

yeah we have a YUGE problem with that

I've seen the water wasting by all so not just illegals but unfortunately there is some truth to that..at least in this area

TheStormHasArrived

@TheStormHasArrived17

·

13m

President Trump is set to speak at the NRA on Friday.

Convienent timing for Biden to hold a primetime press conference tonight to speak out against the gun lobby. Get it?

Virginia Patriot ⭐️⭐️⭐️

@popup17

·

17m

Replying to @TheStormHasArrived17

Did you see this? Drop 807.

RedstateWatcher

@redstatewatcher

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1m

ALERT 🚨 North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Wednesday, Seoul's military says

>>135822

good fer him

not a sportsball person but he is an intelligent one in sea of total selfish and completely materialistic idiots

>>135756

>>135758

#919

notables, not endorsements

>>135760 @TheStormHasArrived17 "Big day in Georgia! Here are the Trump endorsed candidates in GA

>>135763, >>135791, >>135806 no callsign Joe in 82-8000 747 departed Yokota AB about 4 hours ago as well as SAM46 USAF C-32A and arrives at JBA with JADE99 Nightwatch from Okinawa

>>135763 Russian and Chinese jets conduct patrol in East Asia, capping Biden trip-The Tu-95 can carry Nukes

>>135764, >>135784, >>135788, >>135790 SAM 144 USAF G5 and SAM087 USAF C-32A west and nw from JBA-'No Nightwatch' Austin to Peterson for USAF Graduation tomorrow

>>135768 New Home Sales Decrease Sharply to 591,000 Annual Rate in April

>>135771, >>135772 Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has indulged in the worst of all Beltway traditions: the self-serving, post-government memoir

>>135773 @oldgymguy "Let us all work together and remember who we are fighting against and who we are fighting for !"

>>135774 Silver 'trading' on COMEX for May 23rd, 2022-45,843 contracts-38% of total amount for day done in one minute

>>135775 @redstatewatcher "Breaking: Texas Association of School Boards will leave the National School Boards Association."

>>135776 @redstatewatcher "WHO chief Tedros re-elected for a second 5-year term"

>>135778 Israel AF 676 Nachshon Eitam G550 ISR out of Nevatim AB runniing patterns off shore and werking it hard @41k-German AF GAF177 A400m coming out of Syria

>>135779 @realLizUSA "Sarah will be a GREAT Governor, and she has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” - President Donald J. Trump

>>135782 Brazil's Bolsonaro fires oil executive for refusing to lower prices

>>135785, >>135789 @lebronsonroids "The real issue is that this is a clone, and that means there's no real reason to switch from Twitter to this app"

>>135787, >>135796, >>135797, >>135799 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a wartime state of emergency immediately after his new government was installed- MOL is deep into URAL Crude processing so they only want an ocean going ban not pipeline

>>135792 The Plot Against The President-summary kashmovie

>>135795 Solid 2Y Auction Stops Through Despite Plunge In Yields

>>135802 U.S. Will Start Blocking Russia’s Bond Payments to American Investors

>>135803 moar monkey bidness: French AF CTM1045 A330 With another flight south into central Africa and back to Paris-this is a different AC but same type as yesterday

>>135804, >>135805 Mkt Fag: Muh no P-A-N-I-C in da Housing Market the wheels coming off (data-wise) moment of reality-"we will not be pushed and need to exercise caution" but here's $2t moar for ya so it is just fine-edition

>>135807 U.S. Navy Climate Plan Aims to Cut Emissions and Move to Low-Carbon Fuels

>>135809 @patelpatriot "You should operate as if there is no plan. Do what you can within your circle and/or local community."

>>135811 @redstatewatcher "Indiana Legislature OVERRIDES Governor’s veto of #HB1041 banning males from women’s sports. The bill will now become law. Huge WIN!"

>>135813, >>135820, >>135821, >>135823 @TheStormHasArrived17-Clinton, Schill, Swalwell, Pelosi- Coordinated kek

>>135814 French AF CALU403 NC-135Nuke Snifferback to Marseille-Istres-Le Tubé Air Base after running on the track just se of Reims-Rothyland-and I shall taunt you a second time: French AF ROSBIF40 A-330 MRTT

>>135815 TX Election results

>>135816 @techno_fog "FBI leadership ordered the opening of the Alfa Bank/Trump investigation-They then ignored an FBI agent’s repeated requests to interview the source of the Alfa Bank info

>>135818 @WeTheMedia "Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wins GOP primary for second term"

>>135817 Marjorie win GA GOP Huuse primary

>>135822, >>135844 @redstatewatcher "Herschel Walker wins Georgia GOP Senate nomination"

>>135825 German AF GAF948 A-340 Chancellor Olaf Scholz departed Pretoria South Africa after his 'difficult' trip

>>135826 @believemedia "HERE ARE ALL OF THE TRANSCRIPTS THAT KASH IS TALKING ABOUT IN THIS VIDEO, SEE FOR YOURSELF!!!"

>>135827 Sarah Wins Ark Gov Primary (Great to hear I really miss her style-toatlly no bullshit)

>>135829, >>135619 pb Australian AF ASY316PM Albaneseleaving Tokyo after Quad Summit-everbody saw him leave but pf saw him arrive..kek

>>135830, >>135834, >>135835, >>135836 Gov. Newsom Warns Californians of Mandatory Water Restrictions Amid Worsening Drought

>>135832 Here’s How the Fed Might Adopt Bostic’s Rate Pause in September

>>135839 @TheStormHasArrived17 "President Trump is set to speak at the NRA on Friday."

>>135841 @popup17 "Did you see this? Drop 807." Melania (real Flotus) " My heart is with the people of Uvalde" Q drop #807

>>135842, >>135843, >>135845 @redstatewatcher "North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early Wednesday, Seoul's military says"

>>135827

Dis whole trip to Vietnam was EBIC

Can still remember playing Wagner Flight of the Valkyries on "11" while the planes were going in

Like it was yesterday

Gonna go, do this and then nighty night

ttyitm

night

Lisa Mei Crowley 🙏🏼🇺🇸

@lisamei62

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50m

Praying for the victims' families in today's school shooting. 🙏😔

Who's really causing the rise in these senseless shootings? How many shooters were on the radar of law enforcement agencies or the FBI? How many were seeing "therapists" prior to their heinous acts?

It's not the guns.

This is a DISGRACE...45would be in Texas in the later morning or early afternoon and there would have been evidence with the C-17s moving equipment for that by now

Instead 'most votes ever' is sitting in DCdoing fuck alltomorrow and not even getting the daily briefing until 1:30pm EST

1:30pm est receives the President’s Daily Brief

4:00pm EST signs a historic Executive Order to advance effective, accountable policing and strengthen public safety; The President and The Vice President deliver remarks

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

>>135855

"Ladies and Gentleman...get your pen and paper ready"

Chief Nerd

@chiefnerd

·

25m

India’s Oil Minister On How He Helped Klaus Schwab “Rule the Capitalists of the World”

“So I told Mr Klaus Schwab then, if you have to rule the capitalists of the world go beyond the European ones. Go and get the Americans also and get the others.”

https://rumble.com/v161j1o-indias-oil-minister-on-how-he-helped-klaus-schwab-rule-the-capitalists-of-t.html

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

·

23m

A very big and successful evening of political Endorsements. All wins in Texas (33 & 0 for full primary list), Arkansas, and Alabama. A great new Senatorial Candidate, and others, in Georgia. Overall for the “Cycle,” 100 Wins, 6 Losses (some of which were not possible to win), and 2 runoffs. Thank you, and CONGRATULATIONS to all!

Scavino n Q's

morning

>>135863

Stormy Patriot Joe

@stormypatriotjoe

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11m

@DanScavino Tweets a Candle

Was at 3am for 30 secs

(Retweeted again, repeats important)

(Two Candles)

—

Q 3987

Two unlit candles

In the timestamp

3 & :30

@SanctaSapientiaAcademy @SunQTzu

>>135864

mornin yo

howza

much easier to see to TS now, in fact had to cut magnification from 100% cause so big

kek

'''SAM129 USAF G5 west from JBA-Probably going to Peterson for the USAF Academy Graduation that 'No Nightwatch Austin' arrived for yesterday >>135788, >>135790

This is also top 3,if not top, in VIP transports for the 99th Airlift Squadron-there are also 3 moar that we never see but this one is high on that list

RCH4194 USAF C-17 Globemaster heading for JBA from Savannah Int'l

This is probably the arrival to take equipment to Texas for Potato visit-but as already mentioned 45 would have been on way today at the very least. Certainly not getting the briefing at 1:30pm est >>135856

LOKI82 USAF E-4B Nightwatch up from Wright-Patterson AFB-

Loki is Norwegian God "cunning trickster with the ability to shape-shift and also change sex type". Supposedly the companion of Odin and Thor-we've had ODIN## as callsign in the past on the Nightwatch

VV700 US Navy G5 brass heading west from JBA

US Durable Goods Orders Disappoint In April

Amid a slew of dismal US macro data, analysts expected durable goods orders to continue to rise in preliminary April data and it did but less than expected. US Durable Goods Orders rose 0.4% MoM, less than the +0.6% MoM expected and a notable slowdown from March's +1.1% MoM (which was also revised down to a 0.6% MoM rise). Orders remain up 9.9% YoY...Ex-Autos were even worse, with orders rising just 0.3% MoM (below the +0.6% MoM expectation).

The value of core capital goods orders, a proxy for investment in equipment that excludes aircraft and military hardware, climbed 0.3% (less than the +0.5% MoM expectation) after a 1.1% gain a month earlier.

Shipments were better than expected, up 0.8% MoM as the supply chain bottlenecks catch up.

As Bloomberg notes, the figures suggest companies are adhering to capital expenditures plans as they seek to enhance productivity to ease the burden of high inflation and a tight labor market. It’s less clear, however, whether businesses later this year will reconsider the current pace of investment in the face of higher interest rates and an anticipated cooling of economic activity.

Another missed US macro data point though.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-durable-goods-orders-disappoint-april

Futs are down but not much...the Chicago NYFRB will feex that soon though. Send it up with the buying program so that the system can try to unload again-it may not go green but the point is that they artificially prop it to mask yet another missed data release

>>135804, >>135768

Thanks "Peter and Wolfstreet" but you late.

The Air Is Coming Out Of The Housing Bubble

New single-family home sales plunged by 16.6% from March and were down 26.9% year on year. New home sales dropped to the lowest level since the lockdown in April 2020.

New home sales are often viewed as a leading indicator of the state of the overall housing market. The unsold inventory of new homes spiked by 34,000, a historic month-to-month leap. There were 440,000 unsold new homes (seasonally adjusted), the highest level since May 2008 in the midst of the housing bust. Both, the month-to-month and year-over-year increases in unsold new homes were the largest leaps ever recorded, both in numbers of unsold houses and in percentage terms.

The biggest drop in new home sales occurred in the under-$400k price range, indicating that high prices and rising mortgage rates are squeezing middle-class Americans out of the housing market. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) data for April 2022 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases decreased 10.6% compared to a year ago. Compared to March 2022, applications decreased by 14%.

The Federal Reserve blew up this housing bubble when it artificially suppressed interest rates and bought billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities. Now the central bank has pricked the bubble by allowing rates to rise ever-so-slightly.

What the Fed giveth, the Fed taketh away.

Mortgage rates began to fall in late 2018 as the economy tanked and the Federal Reserve ended its post-2008 rate hike cycle. Rates continued to fall as the Fed pivoted back to quantitative easing and then dropped through the floor with the rate cuts and QE infinity in response to the coronavirus. The big spike in mortgage rates we’re seeing today started as the Fed began talking up monetary tightening to tackle raging inflation. '''Tight housing inventory has kept home prices up even as sales have dropped, but as more and more people are squeezed out of the market, prices will likely begin to fall-there is a parrot in here now-see linkys above. While we may not see the kind of crash we saw in 2008, a housing market bust will reverberate through the economy as rising housing prices squeeze Americans already struggling to make ends meet. And as Peter Schiff pointed out in a tweet, falling prices will wipe out home equity for millions of homeowners.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/air-coming-out-housing-bubble

>>135872

>Futs are down but not much...the Chicago NYFRB will feex that soon though. Send it up with the buying program so that the system can try to unload again

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

>>135874

Plus we get The FOMC minutes in in little moar than 3 hours- "We've got this under control-blah,blah,blah"

Add in that they changed the methodology with the CME FedWatch (which is just a contract and can be bought or sold to produce any result) and the Atlanta Fed Head -who doesn't vote-put out the rate pause rhetoric yesterday.

>>135832

His comment is in Cap #4 of >>135804

" ‘Even firetrucks with sirens blaring slow down at intersections’"

Recipe for a sky later after they get through the current selling into the bounce shit going on right now.