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NEW — FBI Director Christopher Wray also just testified that "a number of people" who worked on Crossfire Hurricane are under internal investigation but suggested that none have been fired because the probes have been "slowed down" due to "cooperation and assisistance" with John Durham's criminal investigation.

Aug 04, 2022

https://truthsocial.com/@therealtoriabrooke/posts/108765661686381719

There are no other pics I can see of this...just what Pelosi twatted

CNN running a story and Barron's too but no pics

It was a special honor to engage with General LaCamera and other @USForcesKorea servicemembers on the ground at the DMZ/JSA and Osan Air Base.

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1555233854113214465?cxt=HHwWgsCjkem8ppUrAAAA

>>144685

ZULU82 drew5after a few days of nuffin

They tried to do something yesterday but can't quite make it out..it looks like M360-mebby you can

Cap #2

>>144670

They (coinbase) are trying so hard to not have all those classified as securities (That is basically all they are-and a rare point that I will agree with "gary" on and it was heavily shorted becauseof all the SEC noise about the regulations so they do this and fry the short interest in it

Coinbase’s BlackRock Pact Reinforces Crypto Status, Burns Shorts

The crypto winter that has dogged Coinbase Global Inc. for nearly nine months might finally be showing signs of thawing.

Shares of the largest US cryptocurrency exchange surged as much as 44% on Thursday, the most intraday since its 2021 direct listing, after announcing a partnership with BlackRock Inc. to help institutional investors manage and trade Bitcoin. The rally puts the stock on track for a third straight day of gains and sets it up for a record weekly rally.

For Coinbase investors, the news is a much-needed signal that its status as a giant in the crypto sector remains rock solid. To be sure, shares are still deeply in the red this year, down more than 60%.

“After this validation, it is possible that Coinbase will be able to partner with more traditional financial industries,” said Owen Lau, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. “It shows that even with the size of BlackRock, they are going to partner with a crypto-native company, rather than building their own capabilities.” The sudden surge added $6 billion in value to the company’s market capitalization, bringing it back above $20 billion for the first time since mid-May. While that’s more than double the size of rival Robinhood Markets Inc., it’s a far cry from the peak valuation near $75 billion from Novmeber, when Bitcoin was trading at a record high.

The company has faced a wave of headwinds in recent months as its trading volumes dwindled amid a plunge in the price of Bitcoin and other digital tokens. It’s also facing a probe from the US Securities and Exchange Commission into whether it improperly lets US customers trade assets that should have been registered as securities.

Short sellers, meanwhile, are taking a beating as the stock extends its sharp rebound from July. While shorts are still up more than $800 million this year in mark-to-market profits, those returns are 40% lower than they were prior to Thursday’s jump, according to S3 Partners’ managing director of predictive analytics Ihor Dusaniwsky. “We expect continued short covering in Coinbase as BlackRock’s announced partnership puts a python-like squeeze on short sellers,” he said.

Shares sank more than 21% on July 26 after funds controlled by Cathie Wood sold roughly $1.4 million of stock in the company holdings, worth about $75 million at the time.

Thursday’s move is also notable because it comes on a day when prices of Bitcoin, Ether and other popular digital assets are all lower. The stock has maintained a tight correlation to the world’s largest cryptocurrency since it began trading last year.

Other cryptocurrency-related stocks were also higher following the BlackRock deal, with firms including Marathon Digital, Riot Blockchain and Silvergate Capital all rising at least 5%.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/coinbase-s-blackrock-pact-reinforces-crypto-status-burns-shorts-1.1801578

f this was anything but a short squeeze it would have retained the rise- but since it isn't it don't-doesn't even look like it's gonna hold what it has now

and on the day after this

Coinbase ex-manager pleads not guilty to insider trading charges

A former Coinbase Global Inc product manager and his brother pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to wire fraud charges in what U.S. prosecutors called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency.

Ishan Wahi, 32, the former product manager, was arrested last month in Seattle on charges he shared confidential information with his brother Nikhil and their friend Sameer Ramani about forthcoming announcements of new digital assets that Coinbase would allow users to trade.

Nikhil Wahi also pleaded not guilty during an arraignment on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court before U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska. Ramani, who was also charged, is at large.

Prosecutors said Nikhil Wahi and Ramani used ethereum blockchain wallets to acquire the assets and traded at least 14 times before Coinbase announcements in June 2021 and April 2022. The announcements typically caused the assets to rise in value and generated at least $1.5 million in illicit gains, prosecutors said.

Coinbase is one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

David Miller, a lawyer for Ishan Wahi, said the charges should be dismissed because insider trading needs to involve securities or commodities and this case did not.

Miller also said Coinbase tested new tokens before it publicly listed them, meaning the information his client was accused of sharing was not confidential.

Noah Solowiejczyk, a prosecutor, countered that the information was nonpublic and the prosecution was consistent with previous wire fraud cases.

U.S. regulators are weighing how to oversee cryptocurrency trading.

Coinbase did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last month, the company said it had shared with prosecutors its findings from an internal probe into the trading.

Bail for the Wahi brothers was set at $1 million each. Their next court appearance is scheduled for March 22. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed related civil charges against them.

https://news.yahoo.com/coinbase-ex-manager-pleads-not-171616030.html

yeah that an understatement

ditto

haven't logged into dhere for a long time

>>144694

>>144695

you guys da best

tyvm for all the help

>>144659,

AF2 USAF C-40B departed Boston Logan Int'l and done playin muh abortion and going to Martha's Vineyard

SAM2A G5 already at Martha's Vineyard

VV378 US Navy inbound from stop at Sigonella AB, Sicily after leaving Rota earlier today

They departed JBA and arrived at Spandahlem AB, Germany on 0802 then to NB Rota, Spain yesterday

>>144683

C102 USAF G5 went to Laguardia from NAS Key West-shows as AE109A

BlackRock to Shutter Russia ETF That Once Held $800 Million

BlackRock Inc. will begin a long process of shuttering a major Russia exchange-traded fund, after the protracted Ukraine war has slashed the value of securities linked to the region and left their fate in limbo. The iShares MSCI Russia ETF (ticker ERUS) will begin closing on Aug. 17 and proceeds from the few assets that can be liquidated will be distributed to shareholders, BlackRock announced in a press release on Wednesday. Most of the fund’s holdings currently can’t be sold due to sanctions or trading halts, so BlackRock expects the entire liquidation of the fund to take “an extended period of time.” ERUS is the first major Russia-focused ETF in the US to liquidate. The fund once held over $800 million at the peak of its assets in 2018, but the value of its holdings tumbled to effectively nothing in the wake of the Ukraine invasion. Russia-focused ETFs based in Europe, including two offered by BlackRock, had already started closing earlier this year. ERUS primarily holds Russia ordinary shares, which the Russian government has barred foreigners from selling, as well as depository receipts that are currently halted on US and UK exchanges. The few holdings that can be dispersed to shareholders are cash that the fund holds and proceeds from a money-market fund.

The money manager expects ERUS to exist until at least Dec. 31, 2023, so it can sell its remaining holdings. After that date, if the fund can’t liquidate all its assets, BlackRock can terminate the fund at any time and shareholders would have no guarantee of receiving proceeds related to Russian securities and depositary receipts. “It seems like a very fair way to wind down the fund,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers. “They’ll distribute what they can now and leave open the opportunity that sometime in the next year and a half, if there’s an opportunity for them to actually realize some value from their holdings, they’ll pass those along.” The financial fallout from the Ukraine war has created a massive headache for ETF issuers. Russia-focused ETFs stopped trading shortly after the war started on Feb. 24, a first for the industry whose products had continued to trade in previous geopolitical crises. While some issuers have implemented voluntary waivers of fund-management fees they charge investors, issuers are still bleeding costs from maintaining the funds, which include paying banks fees to handle Russian depositary receipts.

The situation has also created havoc for many ETF investors, with some options traders unable to cash out and short sellers paying borrowing fees indefinitely.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blackrock-to-shutter-russia-etf-that-once-held-800-million-1.1801526

>>144633

>>144635

#980

>>144637 Pelosi using Taiwan as a business trip fer her "not" insider trading

>>144652, >>144677 Pelosi landed at Yokota AB and straight to Rahn Emanuel-SPAR19 at Yokota AB while SPAR20 is heading to Anchorage from Okinawa stop-SPAR20 gas and go at Ted Stevens Int'l SE

>>144659, >>144697 AF2 USAF C-40B kneepads doing muh abortion BS in Boston and then goes to the piggybank in Martha's Vineyard later

>>144664, >>144665, >>144667, >>144674 DeSantis Suspends 'Soros-Backed' State Attorney For 'Violating Oath'

>>144666 Mortgage rates drop to lowest level since April as ‘high uncertainty’ creates volatility-and how did they do that?....by buying Mortgage backed Securitites every day

>>144671 GDPNOW "updated" Latest estimate: 1.4 percent — August 4, 2022 up 1/10th of a %

>>144670, >>144672 World's largest asset manager BlackRock to offer #bitcoin trading to institutional clients

>>144681 The Misery Index Is At Recession Levels-Misery Index as referenced by 45 (at the Rally of July 9th) definintion

>>144683 C102 US Coast Guard G5 (still not showing up correctly in ADS-B-this is a brand new G5 that went into service on July 10th) departed NAS Key West after an overnight NE

>>144685 NEW — FBI Director Christopher Wray also just testified that "a number of people" who worked on Crossfire Hurricane are under internal investigation but suggested that none have been fired because the probes have been "slowed down" due to "cooperation and assistance" with John Durham's criminal investigation.

>>144686 Pelosi "visits" DMZ...only pics available so far

>>144688 ZULU82 drew5after a few days of nuffin

>>144693 Coinbase’s BlackRock Pact Reinforces Crypto Status, Burns Shorts and from yesterday Coinbase ex-manager pleads not guilty to insider trading charges

>>144697 AF2 and SAM2A go to Martha's Vineyard-US Navy brass inbound to JBA from Sigonella-C102 G5 went to Laguardia

>>144699 BlackRock to Shutter Russia ETF That Once Held $800 Million

>>144696

PINAL COUNTY ELECTIONS DIRECTOR IS ‘NO LONGER EMPLOYED’ AFTER BALLOT SHORTAGE ALLEGATIONS

August 4, 2022

In a surprising twist in the ongoing saga of Arizona’s primary election drama, Pinal County’s elections director no longer holds his post amid allegations of Election Day ballot shortages.

According to Pinal County’s official Twitter account, Elections Director David Frisk “is no longer in the position of Elections Director and is no longer employed by Pinal County. Virginia Ross is the County’s new Elections Director, having resigned her role as County Recorder this morning.”

Additionally, a press release from Pinal County addressed the “recent issues” with the primary election. “In light of the recent issues with Pinal County’s Primary Elections,” the statement reads, “the County can announce changes in the leadership of the Elections department.”

According to a report from 12News, Pinal County allegedly ran out of ballots on Tuesday, due to “unprecedented” demand from voters who were asking for in-person ballots.

Further, Jeffrey McClure, the chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Pinal County, stated, “As a Board, we are deeply embarrassed and frustrated by the mistakes that have been made in this primary election, and as such, we are taking immediate steps to ensure the November election runs smoothly, as elections in Pinal County have historically done prior to this primary.”

Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, previously lambasted the former elections director for conducting a “banana republic level election.” He added, “David Frisk and Pinal Co. leadership must be held accountable.”

Kari Lake, the presumptive nominee of the GOP gubernatorial primary election, cited the leadership shift at Pinal County on Twitter, as well. “If your right to vote was literally taken away, is this person’s resignation enough to remedy that?” she wrote.

She added, “How much bigger would our win be if all these people were allowed to vote?”

The change in Pinal County’s elections oversight comes just two days after RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward called on Frisk to resign due to the ballot shortage and other issues.

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/pinal-county-elections-director-is-no-longer-employed-after-ballot-shortage-allegations/

>>144688

ZULU82 finished up with50

It will start again as GMT switches over in just under 2 hours

>>144355 pb, >>144677

SPAR20 USAF C-40B landed back at Scott AFB where it began on 0731

just cleaned up a bunch of spam bredz and b o t dropped another 30 in realtime. ain't know way to keep up.

SAM394 USAF C-32A arrived in Phnom Penh, CambodiaBlinkenyesterday

This from today and moar $ laundering

Blinken announces USD 25 mln aid to Cambodia to improve food security

https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/blinken-announces-usd-25-mln-aid-to-cambodia-to-improve-food-security20220805002709/

ASEAN Leaders Expected to Focus on Ukraine During Cambodia Gathering

Foreign ministers from ASEAN's member states and its dialogue partners are arriving in Phnom Penh for a summit likely to focus largely on regional and global crises, including the murderous military regime in Myanmar, Russia's unprovoked war on Ukraine and climate change.

Ukraine is expected to draw the spotlight given the planned presence of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the series of meetings, which run from July 29 to August 5.

https://www.voanews.com/a/asean-leaders-expected-to-focus-on-ukraine-during-cambodia-gathering-/6686851.html

and he is "helping Sri Lanka"-the IMF smell blood there

I met with @MFA_SriLanka Minister Ali Sabry at Cambodia’s @ASEAN Regional Forum to congratulate him on his appointment. I also reiterated U.S. support for the most vulnerable people of Sri Lanka and highlighted our ongoing efforts to help increase Sri Lanka's economic stability.

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1555228011527536641?cxt=HHwWgoCwvd7oo5UrAAAA

all my sessions are hanging now. moar spam artillery incoming...

Hungarian AF HUAF674 Falcon 7x departed Dallas-Love FieldPM Orban leaving after Texas CPAC speechNE after arriving yesterday

Viktor Orbán Gets CPAC Standing Ovation for Telling Globalists 'Go to Hell'

https://www.newsweek.com/viktor-orban-cpac-standing-ovation-globalists-go-hell-texas-1731042

well hello there

kek

Hello QRB. UK Bread anon checking in. Anyone know why JW decided to stop the captcha per post and let the spam bot run havoc again? They tryna observe/study/diagnose it or something? Like when you finish a plumbing job you run a pressure check? I would call this recent check a fail. Time to shut off the water and try again.

It was nice and relatively comfy with the captcha per post in UK bread with no spam. Just anons diggin. But now we are just completely locked. I don’t get why they went back to allow spambot in again.

>>144697

AF2 USAF C-40B and SAM2A went back to JBA- I guess not enough donor action to require an overnight stay

She attended a DNC 'finance' event while on Martha's Vineyard and since there are so many Dem. douchebags that live there hard to pin down who's house it was at

The next set-up..the "all clear signal" as in we've got it under control starting next week....Even Elon (he knows better too) has swallowed this bullshit-and what habbens when no one is buying yer cars Elon??...then wut?...they may even manage a deflationary spiral fer a bit but it's gonna be straight back to Weimar-land...Yields managed to produce the conditions to support this "thinking"

Musk Says Inflation Is ‘Past Peak’ as Component Costs Trend Down

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and the world’s richest person, said he sees signs that the global economy has gone “past peak inflation.” Speaking at the electric-vehicle maker’s annual shareholder meeting, Musk said the company’s commodity and component costs are trending downward over the next six months. He also reiterated prior comments that he expects a mild recession to hit that could last 18 months. “The trend is down, which suggests we are past peak inflation,” Musk said at Tesla’s Austin headquarters and factory. “I think inflation is going to drop rapidly” at some point in the future, he said. Global central banks have embarked on a path of policy-tightening as inflation pressures consumers and corporate bottom lines. In the US, consumer prices increased by 9.1% in June from a year earlier, and Federal Reserve officials say the price gains have yet to slow. The next print on inflation comes Aug. 10. “We sort of have some insight in to where prices are headed over time,” Musk said, citing the company’s need to buy raw materials often months in advance of when they will be used. (it's a shareholders meeting wtf do you expect him to say?..I still wanna know where this phantom supply of metals is gonna come from for all this green bullshit cause you are not gonna just replace the Silver you need for conductivity with anything else-the # component for all of this is Silver and since all the associations project a shortfall you may have "cheap prices" but good luck trying to get it)

“The interesting thing that we are seeing now is that most of our commodities, most of the things that go in to a Tesla not all, but more than half the prices are trending down in six months,” he added. While Tesla has a global purview on input costs and consumer health, Musk warned on stage that making “macroeconomic prognostications is a recipe for disaster” and said his comments were a “guess” and “total speculation.” The CEO also warned that the trend could change.

Reservation holders and future customers of the upcoming futuristic Cybertruck may fall victim to the impacts of inflation, Musk suggested. The ‘Blade Runner’-inspired pickup was unveiled in 2019 and “a lot has changed” since then, he said. At the time the company started taking reservations, the most basic model was being discussed as a $39,900 vehicle.

“The specs and the pricing will be different,” Musk said. “I hate to give a little bit of bad news. But there is no way to have anticipated the inflation we have seen and various issues.”

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/musk-says-inflation-is-past-peak-as-component-costs-trend-down-1.1801773

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