/qrb/ - QResearch Bunker

>>63531

nite frby. lb was pretty short fer sure.

kitch is staffed.

morning baker has the ball

SAM545 USAF C-40B sw from JBA depart and began descent for MacDill AFB

SAM699 USAF G5 ne across the pond from JBA depart

morning

>>63540

morning

huh wut?

kek

>>63541

was hopin

for a fren

kek

Russia Launches Biggest Pacific Exercise Since Cold War As Putin And Biden Meet

On the other side of the world, President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin are meeting for their first face-to-face talks since Biden ascended to the American presidency. But 300 miles off the coast of Hawaii, Russia is quietly launching one of the largest naval exercises since the Cold War.

Russian ships have been dispatched to conduct the largest military exercises since the Cold War off the coast of Hawaii, sending the US Air Force scrambling F-22 stealth fighters from its base in Hawaii just hours before the two world leaders were set to meet. They were sent to meet a contingent of assets that included long-range bombers, surface ships and anti-submarine aircraft on the mission.

Though the provocation was unmistakable, Russian bombers were careful not to enter the Air Defense Identification Zone, which could have prompted the US Air Force to scramble interceptors. Ironically, Biden appeared to walk back some of his more aggressive criticisms of his Russian counterpart, calling Putin "bright," "tough" and "a worthy adversary."

Putin has been flexing his military muscle around the world in recent months, though mostly closer to Russia's shores. Forces have massed on the border with Ukraine, raising anxieties about a Russian escalation in the still-smouldering Ukrainian civil war, which prompted Biden to call a national emergency before slapping sanctions on dozens of Russians and expelling diplomats. But we can't help but notice the similarities between Wednesday's exercise, and the "Freedom of Navigation" operations that the US Navy used to run against China in the Pacific.

Meanwhile, back in New York, the American media is doubling down on its criticisms of Putin, as NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, a longtime Russia hawk (and friend of the Saudi Royal Family) essentially read off the talking points from a February editorial, while cracking jokes about "mistresses", during an interview with his NYT colleague, Andrew Ross Sorkin.

"The most effective message would be for Biden to reach into his breast pocket and pull out transcripts of Putin's last 10 conversations with his mistress and let him know we are on to him," says @TomFriedman on his advice to @POTUS ahead of his meeting with Putin. pic.twitter.com/Or2GLw6DJt

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) June 16, 2021

With Putin still clearly seething over Biden's recent heavy-handed provocations, it's clear that today's naval exercise - the biggest naval exercise in the Pacific since the end of the Cold War - is intended to "rub salt in the wounds" of the Americans, while proving that America and China aren't the only global powers who can operate on multiple fronts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-provokes-us-navy-pacific-meeting-between-putin-and-biden-begins

>>63166, >>63173 pb

BOXER40 USAF C-40C departed Sigonella AB, Sicily sw after a ground stop

This AC departed Tunis, Tunisia after an overnight

Blackstone to buy office developer SOHO China in $3 billion deal

Blackstone Group Inc (BX.N) will buy all issued shares in SOHO China Ltd (0410.HK) for HK$23.7 billion ($3.05 billion) and maintain its stock market listing, the Chinese office developer said in a filing on Wednesday. The U.S. private equity firm will offer HK$5 per share, 31.6% higher than the last closing price of HK$3.8 on Friday, in what would be its largest real estate deal in China.

Blackstone, which currently owns around 6 million square meters of properties in China, is seeking to expand there as it is confident about the country's long-term economic prospects and the Beijing and Shanghai office market, the filing said. SOHO China, a major developer well known for its futuristic office buildings on the mainland, has 1.3 million square meters of commercial properties in the country. The company is 64% owned by the husband-and-wife founding team of Chairman Pan Shiyi and Chief Executive Zhang Xin. They will together retain a stake of about 9% in the company and become its second-largest shareholder. The offer is conditional on Chinese competition authorities granting clearance, the filing added. SOHO China said its shares would resume trading on Thursday, after being suspended since Tuesday. Founded in 1995, SOHO China went public in Hong Kong in 2007. Its shares have gained 62% in the past month and it had a market value of $2.55 billion at the stock's last close, according to Refinitiv data.

The company has been scouting for buyers for its prime commercial property assets as the founders looked to shift their focus to overseas markets. Reuters reported last year Blackstone was in exclusive talks to take SOHO China private in a $4 billion deal, but later halted the talks.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/blackstone-nears-3-billion-deal-soho-china-bloomberg-news-2021-06-16/

>>63545

BOXER40 USAF C-40C returning to Tunis after a ground stop at Sigonella AB

Tunisia releases ex-presidential candidate Karoui: lawyer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tunisia-releases-ex-presidential-candidate-karoui-lawyer/ar-AAL4pvK

wut an eff'n disgrace

French AF E-3F Senry AWACS casually positioned sw of Geneva with the Swiss AF TIMBR41 Super Puma up at 8kft over Geneva

>>63556

>>63558

really? flash cards?

this is surreal

>>63559

embarrassing

Myanmar coup latest: Junta calls G-7 memo 'fabricated and biased'

Trade declines by billions of dollars; temporary ceasefire in ravaged Kayah State.

Wednesday, June 16

7:50 p.m. "China's response to the Myanmar coup reveals how far ASEAN's preeminent regional role has been eroded," writes Jason Tower, Myanmar country director for the United States Institute of Peace, in commentary for Nikkei Asia. "This leaves ASEAN effectively right where China and Min Aung Hlaing want it: using the group's veneer of centrality to entice others into supporting a futile and divisive process that will delay efforts to prevent the junta from establishing rule by violence," Tower argues. Read more here.

3:30 p.m. Four and half months after the junta seized power in a coup on Feb. 1, bombings are on the rise in Yangon, Mandalay, Bago and other cities in Myanmar, targeting government offices, schools and security forces. There were four times more bomb attacks in May than in April.

12:00 p.m. The junta-appointed Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds to the G-7 summit communique, saying the statement by the leaders of seven industrialized nations is based on "fabricated and biased information." The junta denies that it staged a coup on Feb. 1. "The ministry strongly objects to the inaccurate and one-sided views regarding the situation of Myanmar," the ministry says. The G-7 leaders issued a communique that "condemn[s] in the strongest terms the military coup in Myanmar, and the violence committed by Myanmar's security forces." It goes on to say that the G-7 nations "pledge our support to those advocating peacefully for a stable and inclusive democracy." It also says the G-7 governments will pursue "additional measures should they prove necessary," hinting at the possibility of additional sanctions.

10:00 a.m. Myanmar records its first variant transmissions, according to a news release from the junta-appointed Ministry of Health and Sports that was released on Tuesday. The 11 infections were found in five cities, including Yangon and Mandalay. According to laboratory results from the Defense Services Medical Research Centre on June 3, two Alpha variants, five Delta cases and four Kappa infections were found.

8:00 a.m. Exports and imports took drastic year-on-year tumbles during the period from Oct. 1, the beginning of Myanmar's fiscal year, to June 4, the state-run Global New Light newspaper reports. The value of maritime exports fell by $1.28 billion, to $4.45 billion, while that of imports dropped by $3.49 billion, to $7.82 billion, according to the junta mouthpiece, which blamed the pandemic and "political changes."

1:10 a.m. The U.S. and the European Union "intend to work together to promote a swift return to democracy in Myanmar," leaders from both sides say in a statement following a summit in Brussels.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Coup/Myanmar-coup-latest-Junta-calls-G-7-memo-fabricated-and-biased

checkin in

grey day here

g's knockin

gonna be one dos deys

>>63562

hot here

doggo nao

>>63564

confirm handoff

thanx for the notes

Watch the water.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1405180068813545476

Coca-Cola shares drop $4 billion after Cristiano Ronaldo's gesture to drink water

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/06/16/coca-cola-shares-dropper-after-christiano-ronaldo-moves-coke-bottles/5293590001/

comms?

The Biden-Putin summit was expected to last 5 hours but has ended after about an hour. Biden now expected to use the balance of the time for a 4 hour nap

https://twitter.com/newrev76/status/1405186748955643904

setting the narrative

BREAKING: Congressman Matt Gaetz calls on FBI Director Christopher Wray to fully disclose the role and involvement of FBI operatives during the January 6th Capitol riot.

More details coming.

https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1405186330284412934

CodeMonkeyZ

https://www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/arizona-forensic-audit-2020-ballots/2021/06/15/id/1025217/

Newsmax

The Devastating Reality of the Arizona Forensic Audit

They know that if anything improper happened in the 2020 election, this audit will catch it – and they also know that they have no hope of refuting any improprieties this audit reveals.

https://t.me/s/codemonkeyz

>>63573

name on headstone

Pompeo calling

https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1404836432368312324?s=20

Candace Owens

I would like to remind parents that if your child is shown pornographic material in school, you should not report it to the administration, you should report it to police.

There are laws against disseminating pornographic material to minors. Teachers are not immune from arrest.

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1405161212304896002

Thanks to Joe Biden, from Russia.

https://twitter.com/RealChrisKo/status/1405196647055962118

Korean AF KAF001 747 President Moon Jae-in leaving Madrid and heading for Barcelona

Arrived yesterday from Vienna, Austria where it was from it's 0613 depart from Cornwall

Spain, South Korea agree to strengthen ties on state visit

Spain and South Korea agreed Wednesday to open an era of cooperation and joint prosperity between the two countries. South Korean president Moon Jae-in’s three-day state visit to Spain is an opportunity for the countries to strengthen their trade and investment ties in the post-pandemic era, Moon and Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Spain and Korea committed to a $4.8 billion dollar trade agreement, which is “only the first step” in building relations between the countries, according to Moon. Moon also highlighted the importance of Spanish renewable energy companies and digital infrastructure, which he said he would “actively” support. Spain and Korea have economic and political similarities and can help each other in the recovery of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Sanchez. The South Korean president is the first foreign official to make a formal state visit to Spain since the pandemic began.

https://www.laprensalatina.com/spain-south-korea-agree-to-strengthen-ties-on-state-visit/

15 States Legislating To Strip Public Health Agency Powers

Increasingly, state legislators are pushing back against emergency powers that allowed unelected and unaccountable public health agencies to impose medical tyranny on their citizens, destroying lives and businesses in record numbers. ⁃ TN Editor

Mike Fratantuono grew up in a restaurant. Literally.

For decades, Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, was the family business. Over the years, he’d done seemingly every job imaginable: busboy, bartender, and butcher; prep cook and plumber; handyman and manager.

Fratantuono says that’s what made it so hard to watch the family’s legacy become a COVID casualty in 2020.

“It kills me. We were supposed to be getting ready to celebrate our 60th anniversary this year, and instead we’re packing up and closing at the end of this month,” Fratantuono told the Washington Post last year. “I try not to get too sentimental about it, because it won’t change a damn thing, but sometimes the stress hits me and my heart starts going like crazy. I get frustrated. It makes me angry.”

Fratantuono is just one of the countless business owners across America who saw their dreams vanish before their eyes in the wake of government lockdowns that crushed their businesses. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, states across the country are advancing legislation to curb the powers of public health departments following one of the most destructive and contentious years in American history.

Reining in Public Health Agencies

In May, the Network for Public Health Law published a report showing that in recent months no fewer than 15 state legislatures have passed or are considering passing measures that would restrict the legal authority of public health departments.

Among the provisions passed or considered are the following:

Prohibitions on requiring citizens to wear masks;

Prohibiting health agencies from closing businesses or schools;

Banning the use of quarantines for people who have not been shown to be sick;

Preventing state hospitals and universities from requiring vaccinations for employees and students;

Preventing local governments from exercising emergency powers that are inconsistent with state health department guidelines;

Earlier this year, for example, North Dakota passed legislation making it unlawful for state officials to force citizens to wear masks—just one of a growing number of states to place restrictions on mask orders. In March, Kansas’s legislature passed legislation that removes the governor’s ability to shut down businesses during a public health emergency.

Meanwhile, more than 40 states passed legislation that made it unlawful for health departments to mandate COVID-19 vaccination.

https://www.technocracy.news/15-states-legislating-to-strip-public-health-agency-powers/

Technocrat Millionaire Unlocks Secrets Of The Mind

The developer says, “To make progress on all the fronts that we need to as a society, we have to bring the brain online.” This is a major Transhuman goal as well, to upload the brain into the cloud of immortality. ⁃ TN Editor

Over the next few weeks, a company called Kernel will begin sending dozens of customers across the U.S. a $50,000 helmet that can, crudely speaking, read their mind. Weighing a couple of pounds each, the helmets contain nests of sensors and other electronics that measure and analyze a brain’s electrical impulses and blood flow at the speed of thought, providing a window into how the organ responds to the world. The basic technology has been around for years, but it’s usually found in room-size machines that can cost millions of dollars and require patients to sit still in a clinical setting.

The promise of a leagues-more-affordable technology that anyone can wear and walk around with is, well, mind-bending. Excited researchers anticipate using the helmets to gain insight into brain aging, mental disorders, concussions, strokes, and the mechanics behind previously metaphysical experiences such as meditation and psychedelic trips. “To make progress on all the fronts that we need to as a society, we have to bring the brain online,” says Bryan Johnson, who’s spent more than five years and raised about $110 million—half of it his own money—to develop the helmets.https://youtu.be/RswhkU4eaVA

Johnson is the chief executive officer of Kernel, a startup that’s trying to build and sell thousands, or even millions, of lightweight, relatively inexpensive helmets that have the oomph and precision needed for what neuroscientists, computer scientists, and electrical engineers have been trying to do for years: peer through the human skull outside of university or government labs. In what must be some kind of record for rejection, 228 investors passed on Johnson’s sales pitch, and the CEO, who made a fortune from his previous company in the payments industry, almost zeroed out his bank account last year to keep Kernel running. “We were two weeks away from missing payroll,” he says. Although Kernel’s tech still has much to prove, successful demonstrations, conducted shortly before Covid-19 spilled across the globe, convinced some of Johnson’s doubters that he has a shot at fulfilling his ambitions.

A core element of Johnson’s pitch is “Know thyself,” a phrase that harks back to ancient Greece, underscoring how little we’ve learned about our head since Plato. Scientists have built all manner of tests and machines to measure our heart, blood, and even DNA, but brain tests remain rare and expensive, sharply limiting our data on the organ that most defines us. “If you went to a cardiologist and they asked you how your heart feels, you would think they are crazy,” Johnson says. “You would ask them to measure your blood pressure and your cholesterol and all of that.”

The first Kernel helmets are headed to brain research institutions and, perhaps less nobly, companies that want to harness insights about how people think to shape their products. (Christof Koch, chief scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, calls Kernel’s devices “revolutionary.”) By 2030, Johnson says, he wants to bring down the price to the smartphone range and put a helmet in every American household—which starts to sound as if he’s pitching a panacea. The helmets, he says, will allow people to finally take their mental health seriously, to get along better, to examine the mental effects of the pandemic and even the root causes of American political polarization. If the Biden administration wanted to fund such research, Johnson says, he’d be more than happy to sell the feds a million helmets and get started: “Let’s do the largest brain study in history and try to unify ourselves and get back to a steady state.”

read more

https://www.technocracy.news/technocrat-millionaire-unlocks-secrets-of-the-mind/

Richard Grenell

@RichardGrenell

Ummmm, Putin got a pipeline of cash and Influence for the next 20 years.

There is nothing successful about this development.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1405197285319872514

Putin is using the Democrats’ talking points on systemic racism.

Biden is so weak.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell

>>63591

Also doing decodes.

original post is on MJ12 telegram acct:

https://t.me/Majestic12Mirror/11655

“ Biden gave Putin exactly what he's wanted for 3 decades; energy dominance in Europe. Biden caved.

But Biden's Media lapdogs keep peddling remarkable narrative Biden walks in a behemoth. One so fearless he won't hold joint presser, nor risk ruffling Russia w/UKR NATO membership.

https://twitter.com/ChanelRion/status/1405202969407205380

https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1405197357252108292

>>63597

that said, one leg of triangle is gone, so Putin is still a puppet?

Putin is not throwing them off by going gold standard?

Puppets are empty shells, Biden is a puppet, he has no agenda

You believe that about Putin?

Joe Biden must take questions for at least 45 mins.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1405205917444972544

>>63555

BOXER40 USAF C-40C west from Tunis, Tunisia ground stop after arriving from Sigonella AB, Sicily ground stop. Departed Tunis earlier today

having some issues on this end

power went out and 'chine berry slow at present.

Rep. Paul Gosar DESTROYS Serial Liar Chris Wray — Demands Answers on Government Official’s “Execution” of Veteran Ashli Babbitt (Video)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/must-see-rep-paul-gosar-destroys-serial-liar-chris-wray-demands-answers-government-officials-execution-veteran-ashli-babbitt-video/

Brazil exporters demand $3.8 bln from banks for currency manipulation

Brazil's biggest exporters, including Vale SA (VALE3.SA) and Suzano SA (SUZB3.SA), are demanding 19 billion reais ($3.77 billion) from a series of foreign and domestic banks in a lawsuit accusing them of manipulating foreign exchange rates, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters.

Exporters' association AEB, which had initially filed the lawsuit in 2018 without specifying damages, said Brazilian exporters suffered 107.4 billion reais in losses from banks' alleged manipulation of currencies between 2010 and 2011. AEB's compensation calculations took into consideration that the association represents 20% of Brazilian exporters. Among the banks named in the lawsuit are Itau Unibanco Holding SA (ITUB4.SA), Banco Santander Brasil SA , HSBC (HSBA.L) (whose Brazilian unit was acquired by Banco Bradesco SA (BBDC4.SA) in 2016), Citigroup (C.N) and BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA). Citi said its conduct complies with rules. Bradesco declined to comment. Santander said it is still unaware of the class action, while Itau said it will contest the accusations. Other banks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

AEB has not yet been able to make calculations for the period between 2008 and 2012, the full period it believes a cartel to manipulate exchange rates was in place, AEB's lawyer Bruno Maggi said. Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA) made similar allegations of manipulation in a lawsuit filed in April separately from AEB's, which represents 50 companies. Brazilian antitrust watchdog Cade is also investigating potential currency manipulation by banks. The compensation demanded by Brazilian exporters is the latest development in a global foreign exchange scandal, which has led to billions of dollars in penalties for banks worldwide. Allegations of widespread manipulation in the spot foreign exchange market were first reported in 2013. read more

Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico first reported this class action on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-exporters-demand-38-bln-banks-currency-manipulation-report-2021-06-16/

>>63514 pb Tucker Carlson: Government agents may have helped organize the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

A Raven Who Cares

https://t.me/aravenschat/553

Tucker Claims Jan 6th Riot Plotted by FBI?

5 pm EDT today

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

>>63609

chek't