/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

dough

https://fullchan.net/?d706bce3a951a5f3#C5teZf4czQhRyrZpzkize4Q4QFhRyu3L26WTEu1BPesv

https://controlc.com/4cec4a4f

>>50563

baker who din sign in signing out

BREAD GHOSTED

Good days work

Shadilay friends

-OUT

>>50563

>>50564

ty for tidying up frby.

>>50571

up to anons. shit's been going on for over a year now.

ghost protocol cancelled

morn'n baker has the ball. habby tuesday all.

Report: GOP Looks to Replace Liz Cheney with Another Woman

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/03/report-gop-looks-to-replace-liz-cheney-with-another-woman/

WTAF?

Tucker Carlson Drops Bomb: GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and Frank Luntz Are Roommates! (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/tucker-carlson-drops-bomb-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-frank-luntz-roommates-video/

if i can't sleep, have to get up - back kinks

must change position for a while, better now

have a good one wakes, goin' back for a second try

-OUT

China Is Trying To Break Up The Five Eyes Intelligence Network

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-trying-break-five-eyes-intelligence-network

>>50586

nite bro

The Coup Continues: Soros’s Open Society and Globalist Allies Partner with Far-Right Neo-Nazi Party in Hungary to Oust Orbán

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/coup-continues-soross-open-society-globalist-allies-partner-far-right-neo-nazi-party-hungary-oust-orban/

>>50523, >>50524 pb

GRIMM31 and 32 USAF B-52 Stratofortress' over Athens, Greece heading sse

Another run to the Middle east after topping off last night off Halifax

>>50596

morn'n brah. habby tuesday

>>50600

well who would want to miss 'dat?....

kek

>>50601

morning

>>50602

in the morning froggy weather here..call it May gray or June gloom

Pleasant this time 'o year

09-0015 USAF C-32A departed south from JBA with 09-0016 C-32A out a few minutes later sw

16 over Charlottesville, VA and 15 over Spooktown, VA at altitude

16 certainly on a cert. and/or maintenance flight with 15 heading further south

U.S. trade deficit hits a record high amid pent-up demand

The U.S. trade deficit jumped to a record high in March amid roaring domestic demand, which is drawing in imports, and the gap could widen further as the nation's economic activity rebounds faster than its global rivals.

The White House's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package and the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccination program to all adult Americans have led to a boom in demand, which is pushing against supply constraints. Economic activity is also being boosted by the Federal Reserve's ultra-easy monetary policy stance. Manufacturers lack the capacity to satisfy the surge in demand and inventories are very lean, forcing businesses to import more goods. Demand during the pandemic also shifted to goods from services, with Americans cooped up at home. The trade deficit increased 5.6% to an all-time high of $74.4 billion in March, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. The trade gap was in line with economists' expectations. Imports soared 6.3% to record high $274.5 billion in March. Goods imports shot up 7.0% to $234.4 billion, also a record high. Imports of consumer goods were the highest on record, as were those for food and capital goods. The nation imported a range of goods including apparel, furniture, toys, semiconductors, motor vehicles, petroleum products and telecommunications equipment. But imports of civilian aircraft and cellphones fell.

Exports surged 6.6% to $200.0 billion. Exports of goods vaulted 8.9% to $142.9 billion. They were led by industrial supplies and materials, capital and consumer goods. The pandemic remained a drag on services exports, especially travel. At $17.1 billion in March, the services surplus was the smallest since August 2012.

When adjusted for inflation, the goods trade deficit surged $4.2 billion to a record $103.1 billion in March. The deterioration in the trade deficit was flagged in an advance report published last week. U.S. stocks opened lower. The dollar was trading higher against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices rose. Despite the wider trade deficit, the economy grew at a 6.4% annualized rate in the first quarter, the second-fastest gross domestic product growth pace since the third quarter of 2003, fueled by pent-up domestic demand. That followed a 4.3% growth pace in the fourth quarter.

Most economists expect double-digit GDP growth this quarter, which would position the economy to achieve growth of at least 7%, which would be the fastest since 1984. The economy contracted 3.5% in 2020, its worst performance in 74 years.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-trade-deficit-rises-record-high-march-2021-05-04/

here dey come

Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Sends Out Warning to Staff: Watch Out for Black Lives Matter Protests Downtown Phoenix This Week!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/exclusive-maricopa-county-attorneys-office-sends-warning-staff-watch-black-lives-matter-protests-downtown-phoenix-week/

This cannot possibly be real...

frotto baggins wif the frotto baggins limited edtion small chairs...

Bidens Go Maskless During Visit with Elderly, Frail Carters

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/05/04/nolte-bidens-go-maskless-during-visit-with-elderly-frail-carters/

>>50615

when they did not show Jimmah on friday at all until these pics came out...He next

Standoff Ends as FBI Shoots, Wounds Armed Man Outside CIA Headquarters

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/04/standoff-ends-as-fbi-shoots-wounds-armed-man-outside-cia-headquarters/

>>50615

likes this one better

it was comms I think

Carter state funeral comin up

distract from lemons, state fruit of AZ

still likes this one better

they gonna lose anyhow

>>50302 pb

SAM207 USAF C-40B State Dept AC ne from Bragg overnight

TERRA97 USAFSOC C-32B departed JBA after a ground stop sw

09-0015 USAF C-32A heading back to JBA

Corn tops US$7 a bushel for first time since 2013

Corn futures surged above US$7 a bushel for the first time in more than eight years as lack of rainfall in Brazil added to supply concerns.

Corn climbed as much as 3.5 per cent to US$7.0325 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, the highest since March 2013. Soybeans and wheat also both rose.

The rally across grain markets prompted major crop trader Bunge Ltd. on Tuesday to raise its earnings outlook for 2021 by as much as 25 per cent above its previous forecast. The St. Louis-based company, which posted first-quarter earnings that were double analyst projections, is betting on strong demand for crops as the world emerges from the pandemic, China scoops up American supplies and the renewable diesel industry expands.

China has been buying massive amounts of American soybeans and corn to rebuild the world’s largest hog herd. That’s helping lift prices just as dry weather hits crop yields in South America and Europe. The tailwinds have also lifted Bunge’s rival Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., which last week reported its best-ever earnings for its traditional crop-trading business. Dryness is hampering Brazil’s key second-crop corn, and rain in the coming week will fail to reach some key growing areas, according to Somar. That could further hurt yields, and analysts including Safras and StoneX Brazil have cut estimates for the coming harvest. A production shortfall there would compound stretched global grain supplies and risk further stoking food inflation.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/corn-tops-us-7-a-bushel-for-first-time-since-2013-1.1598958

Dogecoin Spikes 50% Intraday, Cripples Robinhood's Crypto Trading

Once the momentum of Robinhood traders was removed, Doge has dumped. While most eyes were on the surge in Ethereum this morning, the real animal spirits are in Dogecoin, which is up 50% today, topping 60c for the first time ever...Doge has now surged above Ripple to become the 4th largest cryptocurrency...

And that utter chaos has sparked trouble at Robinhood, as its crypto trading app "experiencing issues"...

We’re currently experiencing issues with crypto trading. We're working to resolve this as soon as possible. For the latest updates, check https://t.co/ZS733G6N1J

— Robinhood Help (@AskRobinhood) May 4, 2021

Robinhood users are rightly pissed off...

@AskRobinhood for God’s sake, Robinhood. I understand technical issues. But every damn time? Every single time something is running? #dogecoin hits .60 and suddenly crypto is getting error messages. Come on. pic.twitter.com/8x0q1hHAMn

— SteampunkFerret (@MelanieMcCull) May 4, 2021

Somewhere, Mark Cuban and Elon Musk are laughing... but not so much Charlie Munger.

As long as more companies take doge for products/services, then Doge can be a usable currency because it MAY hold its purchasing value better than a $ in your bank. If interest rates skyrocket or the amount spent falls or stagnates, so will Doge. Yes, a joke is now legit— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 2, 2021

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/dogecoin-spikes-50-intraday-cripples-robinhoods-crypto-trading

>>50372 pb

AF2 USAF C-32A departed JBA to Milwaukee, WI Mitchell Airport

Kneepads "visit"-still has not used tail #98-0001 which has been used as primary AF2 in the past

SAM207 USAF C-40B continues ne from Bragg overnight

>>50621

checkin in

IRL clear

GRIMM32 USAF B-52 Stratofortress approaching Israeli coast-GRIMM31 has not updated

This most likely is the last look at these until they head back

>>50626

guud timing. got a wurkfag call in 5min

here's the latest n greatest

#150

>>50596, >>50608, >>50622, >>50625, >>50627 Planefaggory aloft

>>50623 Corn tops US$7 a bushel for first time since 2013

>>50617 Standoff Ends as FBI Shoots, Wounds Armed Man Outside CIA Headquarters

>>50615, >>50618 DS comms? with bonus miniature Carter's and furniture???

>>50613 Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Sends Out Warning to Staff: Watch Out for Black Lives Matter Protests Downtown Phoenix This Week!

>>50610 U.S. trade deficit hits a record high amid pent-up demand

>>50592 The Coup Continues: Soros’s Open Society and Globalist Allies Partner with Far-Right Neo-Nazi Party in Hungary to Oust Orbán

>>50587 China Is Trying To Break Up The Five Eyes Intelligence Network

>>50580 Tucker Carlson Drops Bomb: GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and Frank Luntz Are Roommates! (VIDEO)

>>50578 Report: GOP Looks to Replace Liz Cheney with Another Woman

Confirm Handoff

>>50628

acknowledged, gotz da dololo

habby wurkfaggin

Iran’s criminal regime is criminal in its literal sense: drug trafficking, smuggling, murder, hostage taking, extortion ... sponsored and carried out by the regime and its henchmen.

Missed this somehow

guud info

ECW RT

https://twitter.com/XiyueWang9/status/1388247313144066052

Minneapolis Target Store That Was Ransacked By Rioters Now Features Mural Celebrating Rioters

The Minneapolis Target store that was infamously ransacked by looters last year now proudly displays a mural celebrating those same rioters. Yes, really.

As we highlighted last year, the store was reopened with the goal of catering more to black shoppers and being less “racist.” After a newly formed “racial justice committee” sought to tackle Target’s reputation of appealing primarily to white suburban shoppers, efforts were made to make the store more welcoming for black people while also stocking more products made by black-owned brands.

Part of this facelift included a new mural at the front of the store meant to represent the new ethos of the brand. Now we know what that looks like – the mural features the words ‘Together We Build’ as well as a depiction of two BLM protesters holding an “I can’t breathe” sign. The mural also depicts protesters with their fists raised triumphantly in the air while buildings around them are on fire. “The figures in the piece symbolize protesters, who could be any of us,” according to one of the artists who worked on the display.

“The piece was created by Minneapolis-based nonprofit Juxtaposition Arts, which goes by JXTA,” reports Alpha News. “The multi-million dollar organization seeks to empower black youth to create activist art. This apparently includes teaching kids how to write graffiti during a three week summer camp, printing Black Lives Matter T-shirts and more.”

“JXTA also flies a flag that mimics the color scheme of the ones often carried by the New Black Panthers and other paramilitary black nationalist groups like the Not Fucking Around Coalition.”

Apparently, the mural was only supposed to be a “temporary” addition, but it is still there today.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minneapolis-target-store-was-ransacked-rioters-now-features-mural-celebrating-rioters

https://t.me/s/real_DonaldJTrump

czech em

When Barack Obama unleashed the Transhuman/Technocrat initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuro-technologies (BRAIN) in 2013, it was certain to cause alarm bells as the brain was “mapped” and then manipulated. Do you have a right to your own autonomous thoughts? ⁃ TN Editor

As sci-fi thriller “Inception” topped box offices across the world, audiences were delighted and appalled by its futuristic story of a criminal gang invading people’s dreams to steal valuable data.

More than a decade on, the technology envisioned by filmmaker Christopher Nolan is likely not far off, according to experts in Chile, who have moved the security debate beyond burglar alarms to safeguarding the most valuable real estate people ever own: their minds.

The South American nation is aiming to be the world’s first to legally protect citizens’ “neuro-rights,” with lawmakers expected to pass a constitutional reform blocking technology that seeks to “increase, diminish or disturb” people’s mental integrity without their consent.

Opposition senator Guido Girardi, one of the authors of the legislation, is worried about technology — whether algorithms, bionic implants or some other gadgetry — that could threaten “the essence of humans, their autonomy, their freedom and their free will.”

“If this technology manages to read (your mind), before even you’re aware of what you’re thinking,” he told AFP, “it could write emotions into your brain: life stories that aren’t yours and that your brain won’t be able to distinguish whether they were yours or the product of designers.”

– ‘Prevent manipulation’ –

https://www.technocracy.news/brain-tech-advances-show-urgent-need-for-neuro-rights/

Gen Mc

https://t.me/s/GeneralMcInerney

Frech AF CTM1016 Airbus A330 arriving at JBA from Paris CDG Airport

SLICK99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch over Wright-Patterson AFB

AF2 USAF C-32A continues nw to Milwaukee

SAM207 USAF C-40B State Dept likely heading across the pond after it's Bragg overnight

https://t.me/s/codemonkeyz

Consider NZ wanting to back away from 5 eyes as well, China goes private, big tech, WW garchs?

The Bee: Chinese Officials Violently Raid Another Church But Don't Worry That Will Never Happen Here

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1389595674321195016

with reply right below

OHBEE01 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Dyess AFB nw

CHAOS43 BUFF out of Barksdale AFB west

Kneepads on the go

https://twitter.com/nikkijunewicz/status/1389571326369804289

>>50640

Winneshiek Co Town Mtg 34ppl SCOTUS background checks crop reports stepped up basis human trafficking bipartisanship child care health care workforce census IRS etc #99countymeetings @ Decorah, Iowa https://instagram.com/p/COdFI7MD6WX/

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1389587600533491713

processin comms

>>50642

Illegal small refinery waivers are crushing to biodiesel industry which provides good paying jobs & supports our family farmers The EPA asking 10th Circuit to vacate illegal waivers is helpful to biofuel production

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1389550692378071052

Another building “jumper”

Face with rolling eyes

From the 17th floor no less

Face with rolling eyes

https://twitter.com/kshadyacct4/status/1389584851414704130

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1389586333178363906

47 needs 3 more to make a round 50.

And so i take it from the 28. 28-3 is 25.

50 plus 25 is 75.

If you raise energy costs, burden companies that invest in America, and reduce the ability for small businesses to take risks, then China will dominate us. We need strong leadership to confront these threats, NOT a liberal wishlist.

https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1389573653768151043

>>50630

DIA has now publicly confirmed what I said in January: Al-Qaeda’s global terror operations is headquartered in Iran, with the permission of the the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, the Biden Admin is negotiating to lift terror sanctions on Iran?

That’s NOT America First.

$17.5 Million In Revenue And $5.4 Billion In Losses: Archegos Was A 300x-Levered Time Bomb For Credit Suisse

A bank's prime brokerage unit is supposed to be a safe, reliable and predictable generator of revenue, resulting from modest-margin transactions with a bank's hedge fund client base. It's safe because the bank's risk managers scour the bank's exposure to various hedge funds, and immediately flag any clients that become too big and a potential source of loss (it's also "safe" because the bank's prime brokerage management tends to make far less than the frontline Sales and Trading staff).

That is, at least, the theory. The practice, as the recent Archegos fiasco demonstrated, is anything but.

Case in point, the now infamous Credit Suisse disaster in its dealing with Archegos, which as of this moment have resulted in more than $5.4 billion in losses for the Swiss bank, and which as the FT reported today, resulted in a paltry CHF16 million (US$17.5 million) in revenue last year. In simplistic terms, this means that somehow the funding chain and the leverage Credit Suisse afforded to Archegos resulted in over 300x leverage in the wrong direction!

As the FT notes this morning, the paltry fees Credit Suisse received from Archegos "raises further questions about the risks the lender was prepared to shoulder in pursuit of relationships with ultra-wealthy clients" and adds that "the low level of fees and high risk exposure have caused concern among the board and senior executives, who are investigating the arrangement, according to two people with knowledge of the process." It has also caused a flood of layoffs and terminations as the bank belatedly looked at its books - the infamous scene from Margin Call comes to mind here...... and realized just how massive its exposure had been all along, and how nobody had any idea how big the loss would end up being until it was finally booked following the now infamous late-March liquidation frenzy.

As the FT reports, the bank’s management was "particularly alarmed" after it was told that Hwang was not a private banking client of the group, suggesting there was little incentive to pursue his prime brokerage business, which is bizarre considering how much leverage via TRS and CFDs the bank had afforded the relatively obscure family office.

As Risk.net first reported, Credit Suisse demanded a margin of only 10% for the equity swaps it traded with Archegos and allowed the family office 10-times leverage on some transactions. That was about double the leverage offered by fellow prime broker Goldman Sachs, which took minimal losses when unwinding its positions.

And with the horse having long ago fled the barn, on Friday, António Horta-Osório was confirmed as the chair of Credit Suisse and promised an urgent review of the bank’s risk management, strategy and culture. Which is great, the question is i) why this wasn't done years ago, and ii) what kind of risk controls - if any - does Credit Suisse actually have on a client by client basis. “Current and potential risks of Credit Suisse need to be a matter of immediate and close scrutiny,” said the former Lloyds Banking Group chief executive. “I firmly believe that any banker should be at heart a risk manager.”

To be sure, "action was taken" (even if confidence has yet to be restored) and Credit Suisse’s board already removed several senior executives, including chief risk and compliance officer, Lara Warner, and investment bank head, Brian Chin. Andreas Gottschling, who led the board’s risk committee, was forced to step down last week in expectation of a shareholder backlash. The two heads of the prime division have also stepped down. CEO Thomas Gottstein also announced it will cut a third of its exposure in its prime services business, leading to even less revenue at a time when the bank just raised $1.9BN from shareholder to close the Archegos inflicted funding gap.

And while Credit Suisse does not disclose the amount of money it makes from its prime services division, JPMorgan analyst Kian Abouhossein estimated the unit made $900MM of revenues last year, just over a third of the total from its equities business. It means that the Archegos fiasco not only led to a total wipeout on a 300x levered position, but it will lead to a revenue plunge of more than half a billion dollars going forward as the bank finally purges other risky PB exposure.

Abouhossein said the prime brokerage generated bigger profit margins than other parts of the investment bank. “We see shrinkage as a material setback for the overall long-term viability of Credit Suisse’s investment bank,” he added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/175-million-revenue-and-54-billion-losses-archegos-was-300x-levered-time-bomb-credit-suisse

AF2 USAF C-32A on approach at Milwaukee, WI-Mitchell Airport

SLICK99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch with a low alt pass of Grissom ARB (north of Kokomo, IN) and lining up for another pass

SAM397 USAF G5 west from JBA depart

OHBEE01 USAF E-4B Nightwatch continues ne from Dyess AFB