/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

JASDF JF001 and JF002 777 departed Madrid-Barajas Int'l back to Tokyo Haneda Airport

Biden, Kishida and Yoon discuss threat of North Korea nuclear test

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Biden-Kishida-and-Yoon-discuss-threat-of-North-Korea-nuclear-test

Paki AF KHALID1 G4 arrived at Doha, Qatar from Lahore depart

>>140967

BOXER43 USAF C-40C SE from Shannon, Ireland ground stop/refuel-was BOXER42 earlier

@Beer_at_the_Parade

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Time flies much too quickly.

o7, Sir.

Godspeed.

>>141020

RIP Mr. Williams

>>141015

BOXER43 USAF C-40C landed at Constanta, Romania

Court orders liquidation of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows

A British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Three Arrows Capital Ltd. after creditors sued the cryptocurrency hedge fund for failure to repay debts.

Nichol Yeo, a partner at law firm Solitaire LLP, said Three Arrows Capital is considering its options and seeking legal advice in the British Virgin Islands. Three Arrows Capital suffered losses in recent weeks due to a punishing decline in the value of cryptocurrencies. Twin forces have hit the digital asset ecosystem: a broad market selloff sparked by the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases and concerns over individual crypto coins and firms. Bitcoin’s dollar value has fallen by more than a third this month.

Two executives from the global advisory firm Teneo*were appointed by the British Virgin Islands to oversee the liquidation of assets and safeguard them, according to people familiar with the proceedings. The executives, senior managing directors Russell Crumpler and Christopher Farmer, joined Teneo after the company acquired financial firm KPMG’s Cayman and British Virgin Island’s restructuring business in January, according to Teneo’s website.

Creditors to whom Three Arrows owes debts will be able to file their claims online, the people said. The process for debtors to reclaim their assets is likely to be lengthy, they said, noting the liquidation order would mark the start of that process.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/court-orders-liquidation-of-crypto-hedge-fund-three-arrows-11656540274

*Teneo was co-founded by Doug Band and served as it's President until he "retired" in 2020 from that. Created the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005 and then left that in 2010 to start Teneo but pretty much stayed active with it and even had Bubba as a paid advisor (@ Teneo so it had "credibility")

If you have any Defi Cryptos or anything else on this list look out...

https://www.threearrowscap.com/select-investments/

>>141031

appreciate the support

not losing sight-it's the stoopidness and when Mrs. G almost loses it you know it was on a way different level

Cause she don't lose it ever-that was one of a handful of times I've ever seen it in over 3 decades

dis what I gotta do a lot of now-picrel

>>141033

imma loan ya muh guru

it's just a loan minde

>>141035

kek

the celebration of that last year

add another 0 on it by next year

UBS to Pay $25 Million SEC Penalty Over Complex Options Strategy

UBS Group AG agreed to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission $25 million in penalties to settle allegations that some its advisers recommended a complex investment strategy involving options that may not have been in their clients’ best interest.

UBS investment advisers marketed and sold YES, or Yield Enhancement Strategy, for about a year starting in February 2016 even though some didn’t understand the risks themselves, according to the SEC. The Swiss firm’s UBS Financial Services Inc. unit failed to provide adequate training and when investors lost money both money managers and clients said they were surprised. The firm, which didn’t admit or deny wrongdoing, agreed to pay a $17.4 million penalty plus more than $7 million in disgorgement and interest. “UBS is pleased to have amicably resolved this matter,” it said in a statement. “UBS appreciates the SEC’s acknowledgment that in early 2017, UBS voluntarily remediated the issue by enhancing its risk control framework and strengthening its training program for the strategy.”

UBS told clients that the strategy historically generated gains of 3% to 5% per year but it suffered losses in early 2018 when market volatility began to increase, eventually losing 18% that year, according to an SEC settlement order released on Wednesday.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ubs-to-pay-25-million-sec-penalty-over-complex-options-strategy-1.1785825

They were probably long US Treasuries is muh guess but it was "complex"...:I

Nobody even loses a license or is sanctioned just pay the fine at the toll booth and bidness as usual

>>141037

I looked

kek

>>140992

AF2 USAF C-32A on final approach for San Francisco Int'l from JBA depart

>Guessing that kneepads is going to SF soon

Kamala Harris says she’s with Biden ‘if’ he runs, stoking fresh 2024 uncertainty

Vice President Kamala Harris triggered new questions Wednesday about President Biden’s 2024 election plans — saying she wanted to walk back a remark indicating that Biden had already decided to run for a second term. “The president intends to run and if he does, I will be his ticket-mate,” Harris told reporters on Air Force Two en route to San Francisco. “We will run together.” According to a pool report from Erin Logan of the Los Angeles Times, “The White House said [Harris] wanted to clarify comments she made on CNN a few days ago.” In the CNN appearance, which took place Monday, Harris declared emphatically that she and Biden are a package deal for Democrats.

“Joe Biden is running for re-election and I will be his ticket-mate,” the veep told host Dana Bash.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/kamala-harris-says-shes-with-biden-if-he-runs-in-2024/

ZULU82 Zephyr Z8-2 solar-electric stratospheric Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) over Belize and this spent the last two weeks over the Yuma Test Range and then on 0625 began heading SE where it is now

Had muh eye on it for the last two weeks but since it never really went anywhere I did not post

Here is some deet's on it-pretty interdasting as long as it does wut it says and not something else...

Zephyr Z8-2

Wingspan: 25m

Weight: Less than 75kg

Payload: Different levels of payload capability with incremental performance levels

Zephyr is payload agnostic, compatible with OPAZ, Airbus in-house Earth Observation system designed for the stratosphere that provides 18cm electro-optical and 70cm infra-red imagery and videos. It is compatible with Airbus Intelligence advanced processing capabilities. Zephyr is also able to integrate 3rd party customer supplied payloads.

Zephyr can support a wide range of payload capabilities, including but not limited to: Electro Optical, Infrared, Hyper spectral, Passive Radio Frequency (RF) Radar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) radar, Early Warning, Lidar and Automatic Identification System (AIS)

Zephyr is capable of extending reach and/or capacity of terrestrial networks

One Zephyr has the coverage equivalent to that of 250 cell towers

Zephyr has the potential to provide communications to the most unconnected parts of the world. No other aerial solution offers direct to device 4G/5G on a persistent day and night basis, complementary to existing infrastructure.

https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence/uas/uas-solutions/zephyr

MANGO28 USAF G5 departed JBA after a stop of 40 minutes and departed Peterson AFB- it left Hickam AFB, Oahu later yesterday and then went to Kona Int'l on the Big Island for some roundys and a stop of a little over 60 minute-then NW to Peterson AFB

>>140113 pb Notional Amounts of Derivative Contracts by Contract Type and Maturity (Precious Metals) and most of this is Silver

Posted the above the day after the report came out but failed to notice that the change was made but that was corrected here the next day:

>>140198 pb Addendum to the Precious Metals Derivatives Report put out last night*

At least someone else noticed this too with the bulk being held at JP Morgan and Shitibank-which is what was shown in the OP

JPMorgan Chase and Citibank Hold 90 Percent of All Gold and Other Precious Metals Derivatives Held by All U.S. Banks

Last Tuesday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its quarterly report on derivatives held at the megabanks on Wall Street. As we browsed through the standard graphs that are included in the quarterly report, one graph jumped out at us. It showed a measured growth in precious metals derivatives at insured U.S. commercial banks and savings associations over the past two decades and then an explosion in growth between the last quarter of 2021 and the end of the first quarter of this year.

In just one quarter, precious metals derivatives had soared from $79.28 billion to $491.87 billion. That’s a 520 percent increase in a span of three months. (See Figure 18 at this link. The last ten years of the graph is shown above.)

Having studied these quarterly reports since the 2008 financial crash, we knew where to head next. We went to the graphs in the OCC report showing the breakdown of different categories of derivatives at specific banks. Table 21 showed that precious metals contracts at JPMorgan Chase had spiked to $330.123 billion as of March 31, 2022. The same table showed that Citigroup’s insured commercial bank, Citibank, held $114.148 billion in precious metals derivatives.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as of March 31, 2022, there were 4,796 federally insured banks and savings associations in the U.S. Combine that figure with the latest report from the OCC and it means that just two banks, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, control 90 percent of the precious metals derivatives of all 4,796 insured financial institutions in the U.S.

We checked the previous OCC report for the quarter ending December 31, 2021. It showed that at year-end 2021, JPMorgan Chase had reported only $28.182 billion in precious metals derivatives versus $330.123 billion three months later – a staggering increase of 1,071 percent.

There was a footnote that attempted to explain the bizarre picture of what was going on in the gold market. It read as follows: “Beginning January 1, 2022, the largest banks are required to calculate their derivative exposure amount for regulatory capital purposes using the Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR). Under SA-CCR gold derivatives are considered precious metals derivative contracts rather than an exchange rate derivative contract resulting in an increase in reported precious metals derivative contracts compared to prior quarters….”

See the Addendum on this posted above-it shows what they did and when

The footnote raised more questions than it answered. According to legal definitions available at Cornell Law School (not to mention common sense), an “exchange rate derivative contract” is “a cross-currency interest rate swap, forward foreign-exchange contract, currency option purchased, or any other instrument linked to exchange rates that gives rise to similar counterparty credit risks.”

Why would a gold derivatives contract have ever been classified as an exchange rate contract? Gold contracts are to foreign exchange contracts what zebras are to a centipede.

There is the decided perception that Wall Street megabanks have been hiding from the public the true extent of their involvement in the gold market through some ginned-up derivative definition.

In addition to the wild growth in precious metals exposure at JPMorgan Chase, Citibank’s precious metals holdings in one quarter had grown from $6.979 billion to $114.148 billion. But Bank of America, a peer bank to JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, showed no such gargantuan increase in its precious metals holdings from year-end 2021 to March 31, 2022. The OCC reports that Bank of America held $27.32 billion in precious metals contracts on December 31, 2021 versus $29.441 billion on March 31, 2022. An increase of just 7.76 percent.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/06/report-jpmorgan-chase-and-citibank-hold-90-percent-of-all-gold-and-other-precious-metals-derivatives-held-by-all-u-s-banks/

*Bottom line: This (OCC Precious Metals Derivative Reporting) is now USELESS in trying to determine who is doing what regarding Silver Derivative Contracts Positions and what also make me go look again was that Bank of America did not go down at all and they should have since whatever arrangement(s) they have with JP Morgan via those lease agreements-those should have decreased as all of that (from last year) were less than 1 year of maturity.

What we do know (now) is that Shitibank along with JP Morgan (surprise.../s) is the other big player in the Gold Derivative market when in the past it was all hidden in the FOREX "bucket". The last glimpse of what they have done will remain the Q4 2021 OCC report as this is now a combination of Gold and Silver contracts and the very little to almost non-existent Platinum/Palladium/Rhodium etc

haven't even been ober there

but I encourage them to keep being the retards they have always been

It's the one thing they will never fail at

you lemme know if I miss something over there

so true

kek!

>>140990

SAM400 USAF C-32A departed JBA NE and back across the Atlantic after arriving earlier withBlinkenfrom it's Madrid departure

>>141047

MANGO28 USAF G5 back to Peterson from JBA departure-this is probably some Indo-Pac brass but not the Commander as he travels with a SPAR callsign

N.Korea may be behind new $100 mln cryptocurrency hack, experts say

North Korean hackers are most likely behind an attack last week that stole as much as $100 million in cryptocurrency from a U.S. company, three digital investigative firms have concluded.

The cryptoassets were stolen on June 23 from Horizon Bridge, a service operated by the Harmony blockchain that allows assets to be transferred to other blockchains.

Since then, activity by the hackers suggests they may be linked to North Korea, which experts say is among the most prolific cyber attackers. U.N. sanctions monitors says Pyongyang uses the stolen funds to support its nuclear and missile programmes. The style of attack and high velocity of structured payments to a mixer - used to obscure the origin of funds - is similar to previous attacks that were attributed to North Korea-linked actors, Chainalysis, a blockchain firm working with Harmony to investigate the attack, said on Twitter on Tuesday. That conclusion was echoed by other investigators. "Preliminarily this looks like a North Korean hack based on transaction behaviour," said Nick Carlsen, a former FBI analyst who now investigates North Korea's cryptocurrency heists for TRM Labs, a U.S.-based firm. There are strong indications that North Korea’s Lazarus Group may be responsible for this theft, based on the nature of the hack and the subsequent laundering of the stolen funds, another firm, Elliptic, said in a report on Thursday.

"The thief is attempting to break the transaction trail back to the original theft," the report said. "This makes it easier to cash out the funds at an exchange."

If confirmed, the attack would be the eighth exploit this year – totalling $1 billion in stolen funds – that could be attributed to North Korea with confidence, accounting for 60% of total funds stolen in 2022, Chainalysis said

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-may-be-behind-new-100-mln-cryptocurrency-hack-experts-say-2022-06-30/

Dhey really wearing out the NoKo angle this week-getting desperate at Langley...

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#955

>>140967, >>141015, >>141028 BOXER42 USAF C-40C NE from JBA-stoped at Shannon, Ireland for e refuel and on ground at Constanta, Romania-sorry can't locate who is one this one (it ain't Pelosi "busy" in Italy on a 'family' vacation)

>>140968 Planefag: Europe-Med Activity

>>140971 Elmo dies unexpectedly- Agent POS twat

>>140973 pf housekeeping-after it's "time travel" backwards upon it's approach at Yokota-SAM448 USAF G5 SW from Yokota AB after a 90 minute stop/refuel-this is it's last reported position yesterday

>>140974 SAM393 USAF G5 High-Level AC SW from Miami Int'l after 4 hour stop

>>140975 Italian AF IAM3104 Falcon900 joined SPAR15 at Helsinki

>>140978 The Supreme Court rules that states CAN prosecute crimes against Native American victims committed on Native American reservations if the defendant is non-Native

>>140979 RCH4133,4610 and 4584 USAF C-17 Globemasters inbound from Munich Int'l with Potato equipment from G-7

>>140980 The Supreme Court revives a lawsuit by a former Texas state trooper who says Texas violated federal law when it did not give him a new job upon his return from military service.

>>140981 Border issue and EPA TBA???

>>140983 WV v. EPA is bigger than most realize: The major questions doctrine is at stake. This would also apply to agencies like the CDC, who have been given "power" to force masks and restrictions on us. There are no laws to back up what they are doing. WV vs EPA will wipe that out

>>140988 WTI Extends Gains After 'Delayed' DoE Data Show Cushing Stocks Near 'Operational Low' Limits

>>140990 SAM319 USAF C-32A Blinken Departed Madrid-Torrejon AB back to JBA

>>140992 KECK213 USAF C-17 Globemaster departed San Francisco Int'l after an overnight-arrived yesterday from JBA-kneepads visit soon? Newsome bribes votes wif stimmy checks from CA state budget "surplus"

>>141000 After nearly 28 years on the bench, Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire from Supreme Court on Thursday

>>141001 China targeted Pentagon rare earth contractor with disinformation campaign

>>141008 45 rally in Anchorage, AK on July 9th

>>141010 Biden Train Wreck: AP Poll: 85 Percent of Americans Say Nation Is on the Wrong Track, Including 78 Percent of Democrats

>>141011 Supreme Court Grants DeSantis Request for Grand Jury to Investigate Human Smuggling from Southern Border

>>141015 JASDF JF001 and JF002 777 departed Madrid-Barajas Int'l back to Tokyo Haneda Airport-Pakis at Doha

>>141015 Biden, Kishida and Yoon discuss threat of North Korea nuclear test

>>141020 Time flies much too quickly-Last surviving WW2 Medal of Honor recipient passed away early this morning-June 29th 2022-CW04 Herschel Woodrow "Woody" Williams-rec'd the MOH for his heroic actions at Iwo Jima-o7, Sir.

>>141032 Court orders liquidation of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows-Teneo appointed as 'advisor'-founded by Doug Band

>>141038 UBS to Pay $25 Million SEC Penalty Over Complex Options Strategy

>>141041 AF2 USAF C-32A on final approach for San Francisco Int'l from JBA depart

>>141045 ZULU82 Zephyr Z8-2 solar-electric stratospheric Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) over Belize was over Yuma Test Range for two weeks..now over Belize

>>141047 MANGO28 USAF G5 departed JBA after a stop of 40 minutes-arrived from Peterson AFB

>>141049, >>140113 pb, >>140198 pb JPMorgan Chase and Citibank Hold 90 Percent of All Gold and Other Precious Metals Derivatives Held by All U.S. Banks-A QRB 'exclusive' from last week

>>141070 MANGO28 USAF G5 back to Peterson from JBA departure-this is probably some Indo-Pac brass but not the Commander as he travels with a SPAR callsign

>>141072 N.Korea may be behind new $100 mln cryptocurrency hack, "experts say"

>>141075

>done except we got diggz with sat shots of it destroyed bout that time so.....

thats right now I member-so much to try and keep track of

know I have a meme of it somewhere prolly on one of the other 'puters.

It was sorta purply drank color and had the coordinates on it iirc

here's da bun

beleebs that is all of it

Feel free to add if I missed something-wasn't in the best frame of mind earlier today

That one fer you-da bike

Ima going

have a good rest of your morning

ttyl

nighty night