/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

DOUGH

https://fullchan.net/?e1edbf4da5a193f5#HdnRxcCkzY9363oMBxh5ke8vA5e8xpLFfzpijEYLfSFt

bred #153 be locked. shitpost at will

>>50927

tyb

>>50927

tyW

bet you hongree huh

confirm handoff

>>50899 pb

RCH596T USAF C-17 heading to Salt Lake City for below

EXEC1F USAF C-40B State Dept AC tail #01-0041 departed JBA for Salt Lake City, UT

Jill Biden due in Salt Lake City this afternoon

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/05/05/latest-jill-biden-due/

The Tennessee Legislature has passed a major reform bill that would require all absentee ballots to contain a watermark for added security.

As noted by The Center Square, the state House passed the Tennessee Election Integrity Act on a 92-1 vote last week.

On Monday, 27 state senators voted in favor of the measure, while one member who was present abstained from voting.

“We just passed legislation I co-sponsored that requires a non-visible watermark be placed on every mailed absentee ballot, further ensuring the integrity of ballots and elections in TN,” GOP state Rep. Jason Zachary tweeted April 27. “No watermark, the ballot is rejected.”

The bill now heads to GOP Gov. Bill Lee, who is expected to sign it into law.

https://conservativebrief.com/legislature-passes-bill-39759/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=MAGA

Privia Health Grp. sold by Pamplona Capital Mgmt: $361.05m-May 3

Privia Health : Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters' Option to Purchase Additional Shares

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PRIVIA-HEALTH-GROUP-INC-122186759/news/Privia-Health-nbsp-Announces-Closing-of-Initial-Public-Offering-and-Full-Exercise-of-Underwriters-33145383/

Privia Health Group, Inc. Is a technology-driven, national physician-enablement company. The Company collaborates with medical groups, health plans, and health systems. Its platform is purpose-built, organizing physicians into primary-care centric networks bolstered by physician governance, and promotes a culture of physician leadership. The Privia Platform is powered by end-to-end, cloud-based technology solution that integrates both Privia-developed and third-party applications into a seamless interface and workflow that manages all aspects of Privia Physicians provision of healthcare services. Number of employees : 559 people.

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PRIVIA-HEALTH-GROUP-INC-122186759/company/

Alex Knaster is Chairman and CEO of Pamplona Capital Management, an investment management firm with private equity, hedge fund and fund of funds operations. Prior to founding Pamplona, from 1998 until 2004 Mr Knaster has served as Chief Executive Officer of Alfa Bank in Russia. Under his leadership, Alfa Bank has grown over ten-fold into Russia’s largest privately owned bank. From 1985 to 1998 Mr Knaster has held senior positions at Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Bankers Trust Company and Simmons & Company International in Houston, New York, London and Moscow. Prior to beginning his career in investment banking, Mr Knaster spent three years with Schlumberger Ltd as an engineer working on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr Knaster holds a PhD degree in Economics from the Russian Academy of Science, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University.

https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/k/knaster-a

https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1554914&tc=7&b=2

House Minority Whip Scalise now publicly back Stefanik to take Cheney’s leadership post |

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1389961896091164679

>>50936

https://twitter.com/PunchbowlNews/status/1389934192214089729

BREAKING: Trump is backing @EliseStefanik

’s bid for House Republican Conference chair.

>>50899 pb

RCH795T USAF C-17 Globemaster on descent for Lake Charles, LA Chennault Airport

Joe Biden set to visit two Louisiana cities-Thursday May 6th

The White House announced today that President Joe Biden will be visiting both Lake Charles and New Orleans on Thursday May 6th as part of his “Getting America Back on Track” tour.

https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/president-joe-biden-set-to-visit-two-louisiana-cities-next-week/

General McInerney, [05.05.21 05:34]

If you are on Gab, Parler, or Telegram do not use your real name, phone number, or photo.

Liberals are watching and trying to report you to the FBI.

https://t.me/GeneralMcInerney/768

>>50932

>>50931

Handoff Confirmed

>>50939

May 5 Gen Mc

>>50940

acknowledged

habby deadlines mang

wishin ya smooth

May 5

CM

https://t.me/s/codemonkeyz

The people of Ecuador were hit by a surprise in the April 2021 presidential election: Hard-right banker Guillermo Lasso, one of the richest and most corrupt oligarchs in the country, who had unsuccessfully run in two previous races, scored a narrow victory over leftist Andrés Arauz.

Arauz, a progressive young economist, had served as a minister in the government of Ecuador’s socialist President Rafael Correa, who had declared a “Citizens’ Revolution” that transformed the country during his term from 2007 to 2017.

What was not conveyed in most media reports on Lasso’s surprising victory, however, was that Lasso only won thanks to the support he received, both directly and indirectly, from environmental and Indigenous groups that have been co-opted over that last 15 years by the US government and its soft-power networks.

The leaders of these opportunistic, pseudo-left organizations have benefited from millions of dollars in funding from CIA cutouts like the US Agency for International Development and National Endowment for Democracy. Together, they formed an alliance of convenience with Lasso against the Correísta movement.

Some even endorsed the multimillionaire banker openly, overlooking his well-documented corruption, including offshore bank accounts and tens of millions of dollars of real estate in Florida. Others, including right-leaning leaders in Ecuador’s powerful Indigenous confederation, CONAIE, called on their followers to vote null in the April 11 presidential election rather than support the leftist Arauz.

CONAIE’s decision to call for a null vote was perhaps the most important factor in making Lasso Ecuador’s next president. The 2021 election saw a massive increase in politically motivated null votes, with 1.1 million more than in the previous election in 2017. The total of 1.76 million null votes greatly outnumbered the 420,000 votes that Arauz lost by.

The role that conservative leaders of CONAIE, the confederation’s political arm Pachakutik, and “green” NGOs played in getting a notoriously corrupt neoliberal banker elected in Ecuador was hardly a secret. In fact, Pachakutik’s presidential candidate, Yaku Pérez, boasted of defeating Arauz immediately after the election, triumphantly tweeting in all caps, “Pachakutik and the null vote bury Correísmo.”

read more at

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79848/how-the-us-govt-cultivated-environmental-and-indigenous-groups-to-defeat-ecuadors-leftist.html

BOXER45 USAF C-40C on descent for Myrtle Beach Int'l Airport SC from JBA depart

The Fed Finally Gets Some Tough Questions... And Fails To Answer Them

Last Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell showed how simple questions do not always get simple answers. When speaking to the media after the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, some difficult questions were asked. So much so, Powell had to repeat one question to himself, asking:

When will the economy be able to stand on its own feet?

He immediately followed with: I'm not sure what the exact nature of that question is.

FOX News correspondent Edward Lawrence elaborated, asking when the Fed would lower the number of treasuries it buys, and when the economy would function “without having that support from the monetary side.” Powell found ways to avoid answering the idea of a nation which stands without central bank supports, but he did refer to various “tests” the Fed will do in order to make decisions like shrinking the balance sheet, explaining: we've articulated our test for that, as you know, and that is just we'll continue asset purchases at this pace until we see substantial further progress. He went on to say that prior to making any decisions, such as buying fewer treasuries, they will give the public a lot of notice beforehand.

There was also a question related to the Fed’s influence in the housing market: the housing market is strong, prices are up. And yet, the Fed is buying $40 billion per month in mortgage related assets. Why is that, and are those purchases playing a role at all in pushing up prices?

Despite amassing nearly $2.2 trillion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS), Powell defended the central bank on the grounds that: I mean, we started buying MBS because the mortgage-backed security market was really experiencing severe dysfunction, and we've sort of articulated, you know, what our exit path is from that. It's not meant to provide direct assistance to the housing market. To be clear, the “severe dysfunction” occurred over a decade ago, when the Fed entered the MBS market. As for the public knowing the exit path or not providing assistance to the housing market, both ideas are highly debatable, to say the least.

But even more puzzling is when Powell says that during the current COVID crisis: We bought MBS, too. Again, not intention to send help to the housing market, which was really not a problem this time at all. Strange, the Fed would commit to buying $40 billion a month of MBS when, according to the Chair, there were no problems in the market. He concludes that purchases will go to zero over time, but the “time is not yet.”

The final question asked was in regards to market intervention: if you get out of the markets, there aren't enough buyers for all of the Treasury debt? And so, rates would have to go way up. Bottom line question is what do we get for $120 billion a month that we couldn't get for less? Powell never explained what exactly “we get for $120 billion” a month, but assured us the Fed was looking to reach its goals, and this was part of its plan. However, he did comment on purchases, saying: But if we bought less, you know, no. I mean, I think the effect is proportional to the amount we buy… And we articulated the, you know, the test for withdrawing that accommodation. And we think, you know. So, we're waiting to see those tests to be fulfilled, both for asset purchases and for lift off of rates. And, you know, when the tests are fulfilled, we'll go ahead as, you know, we've done this before.

Between various tests to determine policy, vague responses, and a general avoidance of answering questions directly, not much was offered other than providing perpetual liquidity injections under accommodative monetary conditions. It was refreshing to see the mainstream media ask more questions about the plan ahead; we can only hope the mainstream economic community will do the same.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/fed-finally-gets-some-tough-questions-and-fails-answer-them

Pope Francis Tells ‘Vax Live’ Concertgoers to Abandon Individualism

3 May 2021

ROME — Pope Francis sent a video message to participants in the Vax Live concert in Los Angeles Sunday night, urging concertgoers “not to forget the most vulnerable” in vaccine distribution.

In his Spanish-language message, the pontiff prayed that the “Creator God would infuse in our hearts a new, generous spirit to abandon our individualisms and promote the common good.”

“I beg you not to forget the most vulnerable,” he said.

Sunday’s concert was hosted by Selena Gomez and Prince Harry and featured messages from President and Mrs. Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as live support from Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, and others.

In his address to the thousands of fully vaccinated attendees at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Prince Harry lauded the work of healthcare personnel during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Tonight is a celebration of each of you here, the vaccinated frontline workers in the audience and the millions of frontline heroes around the world,” he said.

.

The pope has insisted that priority should not be given to the rich in the distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus, but that special attention should be given to the poor.

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/05/03/pope-francis-tells-vax-live-concertgoers-abandon-individualism/

>>50949

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to cobble together a ruling coalition by Wednesday’s deadline, President Reuven Rivlin has tasked the opposition, led by Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, with a chance to form an alternative government.

While Netanyahu’s Likud Party was the largest among all Israeli political parties in the March elections, he could not gather enough support to form a 61-seat majority needed to cross the threshold.

Under Israel’s Basic Law — a form of quasi-constitution — Rivlin grants a “mandate” to the leader of the party most likely to be able to form a governing coalition. In this case, Netanyahu was given the first mandate and Lapid, who secured the recommendations of 56 MKs to become Israel’s next prime minister, the second.

Lapid (pictured) vowed to do everything in his power to allow for the rapid formation of a unity government, which would be comprised of disparate factions from the left, the Arab parties and the right.

“After two years of political paralysis, Israeli society is hurting. A unity government isn’t a compromise or a last resort — it’s a goal, it’s what we need,” Lapid said in a statement.

Lapid went on: “We need a government that will reflect the fact that we don’t hate one another. A government in which left, right and center will work together to tackle the economic and security challenges we face. A government that will show that our differences are a source of strength, not weakness.”

The so-called “change” bloc, or the anti-Netanyahu coalition, may also fall short after the 28 days are up, likely prompting a fifth round of elections since 2019.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/05/05/anti-netanyahu-bloc-receives-mandate-to-form-a-government/

>>50951

So 8 kun, cue doge

Meghan McCain: MAGA ‘Sausage-Fest’ Is ‘Shivving’ Liz Cheney for Not Worshiping ‘Cheeto Jesus’

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that Republican lawmakers were being a “MAGA sausage-fest” for planning to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership role for “refusing to debase herself to Cheeto Jesus,” referring to former President Donald Trump.

McCain said, “What’s going on is Liz Cheney, by the way, was already, by the way, voted in January to stay in her position and overwhelmingly had support to stay when they tried to oust her before. What’s happening is it’s clear. I’m going to be a little crass. They’re shivving her for her going on television multiple times and saying the election wasn’t stolen and refusing to debase herself to Cheeto Jesus.”

She continued, “I don’t understand what is going on. I’ve spent the last five years of my life trying to accept, understand and include the MAGA base of this party. The message that’s being sent by the highest member of Republicans in Congress is that women like me and Liz Cheney, who refuse to bend the knee to President Trump but still remain loyal Republicans, we don’t have a place in this party. We are worthless. We’re not worth fighting for to keep. I think it’s fakakta-esque to try and spin this in a way that this is anything else but her not supporting President Trump.”

PA Gov. Tom Wolf Faces Ballot Initiative Which Would Effectively Strip Him of Emergency Coronavirus Powers

The municipal primary elections are May 18, where voters will face four statewide questions on their ballot, two of which directly relate to the governor’s emergency powers.

One of those questions asks if the state constitution should be amended to “change existing law and increase the power of the General Assembly to unilaterally terminate or extend a disaster emergency declaration — and the powers of Commonwealth agencies to address the disaster regardless of its severity pursuant to that declaration — through passing a concurrent resolution by simple majority, thereby removing the existing check and balance of presenting a resolution to the Governor for approval or disapproval.”

The second question related to emergency powers asks if the state constitution should be amended to make disaster emergency declarations expire automatically after 21 days:

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to change existing law so that: a disaster emergency declaration will expire automatically after 21 days, regardless of the severity of the emergency, unless the General Assembly takes action to extend the disaster emergency; the Governor may not declare a new disaster emergency to respond to the dangers facing the Commonwealth unless the General Assembly passes a concurrent resolution; the General Assembly enacts new laws for disaster management?

According to the WJACTV, the questions are related to actions the legislature took last June after lawmakers attempted to end the pandemic emergency:

But the courts ruled that Gov. Tom Wolf still had the ability to veto the resolution, which he did. The house failed to get the two-thirds vote needed to override the veto, so the emergency overture was dead.

read more at

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/05/pa-gov-tom-wolf-faces-ballot-initiative-which-would-effectively-strip-him-emergency-coronavirus-powers/

itz time for the military to get involved. nationwide

DHS Chief: We Should Not See Borders as ‘Lines that Mark National Boundaries and Divide Us’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/05/dhs-chief-we-should-not-see-borders-as-lines-that-mark-national-boundaries-and-divide-us/

>>50955

noice diggies

5:5

waitin on D5 mark

07

General McKenzie - For the first time since the Korean war, US does not have air superiority

https://streamable.com/io0te7

source: yt watch?v=p2QrrWq5gMw

bloomberg: https://archive.ph/RAsfq

US no longer has air superiority in the middle east - thanks Iranian drones

>>50946

BOXER45 USAF C-40C on approach at JBA from a quick ground stop at Myrtle Beach Int'l

makes you wonder why [they] REALLY want to inject you...

Most Vaccinated Country on Earth Closes Schools and Sports as COVID Cases Surge — 35% of New Cases Are Fully Vaccinated Residents

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/vaccinated-country-earth-closes-schools-sports-covid-cases-surge-35-new-cases-fully-vacinated/

>>50938

RCH794T USAF C-17 Globemaster on final at New Orleans-Louis Armstrong Int'l from JBA depart

>>50899

RCH596T USAF C-17 west from a ground stop at Buckley AFB, Denver

likely heading to Travis AFB, CA

German AF GAF554 Airbus A310 on descent for Nellis AFB Las Vegas from Dulles Int'l depart and ground stop

Already with one go around at Nellis

Twitter Re-Ups Pledge to Maintain Trump Blacklisting Forever

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/05/05/twitter-re-ups-pledge-to-maintain-trump-blacklisting-forever/

>>50963

Nakasone on 3 yrs

kek

My how time flies round herre

https://twitter.com/CYBERCOM_DIRNSA/status/1389643665614770181

Fed officials tamp down overheating worries as nervous investors look on

Inflation jitters are popping up in earnings call chatter, spooking investors and dominating business television talk shows. One place they aren’t taking over, it would appear, is the Federal Reserve.

America’s central bank is tasked with fostering maximum employment and stable inflation — making it the first line of defense against rising prices. Fed officials have been clear for months that they expect prices to pop this spring and summer as the economy reopens but that they think the jump will prove temporary. By and large, they are sticking to that script.

During a volley of speeches and appearances on Wednesday, central bank policymakers made it clear that they do not think incipient price pressures are going to prove painful or long-lasting. Some suggested they would even welcome what a hotter economy might have to offer. “You talk about the economy overheating, you kind of go: ‘Gosh, I kind of like producing as much as we can,’” Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said during a call with reporters. “Why would you like unemployment to be higher when it can be lower? It depends on what the added cost is.” The Fed aims for inflation at 2 percent on average over time, so it is currently angling for a period of slightly higher price gains to offset years and years of very weak gains. Price pressures are picking up a bit as they lap very slow readings from the worst pandemic shutdown last year, and economists think supply bottlenecks could keep them elevated as producers try to ramp up amid reopening.

Officials have been clear they do not expect that situation to be long-lived and do not expect it to force them to rapidly dial back the policies they have in place to bolster the economy — which include buying $120 billion of government-backed bonds per month and keeping interest rates at rock-bottom. “My view is that this acceleration in the rate of price increases is likely to prove temporary,” Eric Rosengren, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in a speech Wednesday. “Toilet paper and Clorox were in short supply at the outset of the pandemic, but manufacturers eventually increased supply, and those items are no longer scarce.”

Still, Mr. Rosengren did counsel vigilance, saying the Fed should be paying attention to make sure the economy has not changed in ways that will make wages and prices more responsive to a tightening labor market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/business/economy/federal-reserve-overheating-worries.html

Roy Gordon Cole: Man Shot Dead by FBI at CIA Headquarters

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By Tom Cleary

Updated May 5, 2021 at 1:54pm

Roy Gordon Cole was shot and killed by FBI agents outside the CIA headquarters in Virginia. The shooting happened on May 3, 2021, near the Central Intelligence Agency’s gates in Langley.

Cole died of gunshot wounds to the “torso and upper extremities,” according to a statement from the Northern District of the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner provided to The Washington Post. The statement on the autopsy report did not reveal how many times Cole was shot, according to The Post. The manner of death was ruled as a homicide, the newspaper reported.

The shooting is under investigation, according to a statement from the FBI. The CIA said in a statement to CNN, “Our compound remains secured, and our Security Protective Officers working the incident are the only Agency personnel directly involved.”

https://heavy.com/news/roy-gordon-cole/

U.S. SEC chief plans to scrutinize short-sellers, rein in 'gamification' following GameStop trading frenzy

The U.S. securities regulator is considering measures to boost transparency around “short-selling” and equity derivative bets and to rein-in retail “gamification” following January’s GameStop saga and the meltdown of Archegos Capital, its new chair will tell lawmakers. Gary Gensler will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday, according to testimony published on the committee’s website, in his first appearance before Congress since he was sworn-in as Securities and Exchange Commission chair last month.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-congress-gamestop-gensler/u-s-sec-chief-plans-to-scrutinize-short-sellers-rein-in-gamification-following-gamestop-trading-frenzy-idUSL1N2MS2EO

here we go...blame the ebil short-sellers for all this.

Same playbook leading up to 2008 mkt crash.

Habs no problem with it when done legally as not everyone can be successful-so naturally you would want to bet on the losers. Afterall, not everyone can be long in the market but listening to some of the comments surrounding this (espeically "stock anon" next door-total putz who actually beleives Musk should be the poster boy for this) they all seem to think that everyone MUST be successful and betting on any one companies demise is somehow un-American.

This is the system we have and since it never got fixed in 2008 (when they had ample chance to do so) will result in many taking sides long and short...you actually have a market this way.

The legal ramifications of naked short-selling need to be cleaned up (or actually enforced) as they were not and still allow this practice to continue literally unabated.

Think of this in the same way as the COMEX metals markets...just dropping paper on whatever it is they want to hit

video link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFB2AA28_q4

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