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#20038900 at 2023-12-07 13:17:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24596: Lara Logan J6 Video, Watch Out Ray Epps! Edition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy
Roivant Sciences and subsidiaries
Ramaswamy in 2017
In 2014, Ramaswamy founded the biotechnology firm Roivant Sciences; the "Roi" in the company's name refers to return on investment.[36] The company was incorporated in Bermuda, a tax haven, and received almost $100 million in start-up capital from QVT and other investors,[36] including RA Capital Management, Visium Asset Management, and the hedge fund managers D. E. Shaw & Co. and Falcon Edge Capital.[33] Roivant's strategy was to purchase patents from larger pharmaceutical companies for drugs that had not yet been successfully developed, and then bring them to the market.[36] The company created numerous subsidiaries,[37][40] including Dermavant (focused on dermatology), Urovant (focused on urological disease), and China-based Sinovant and Cytovant, focused on the Asian market.[37][41]
In 2015, Ramaswamy raised $360 million for the Roivant subsidiary Axovant Sciences in an attempt to market intepirdine as a drug for Alzheimer's disease.[35][42] In December 2014,[43] Axovant purchased the patent for intepirdine from GlaxoSmithKline (where the drug had failed four previous clinical trials) for $5 million, a small sum in the industry.[36] Ramaswamy appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2015, and said his company would "be the highest return on investment endeavor ever taken up in the pharmaceutical industry."[36][42] Before new clinical trials began, he engineered an initial public offering (IPO) in Axovant.[36] Axovant became a "Wall Street darling" and raised $315 million in its IPO.[43] The company's market value initially soared to almost $3 billion, although at the time it only had eight employees, including Ramaswamy's brother and mother.[36] Ramaswamy took a massive payout after selling a portion of his shares in Roivant to Viking Global Investors.[36] He claimed more than $37 million in capital gains in 2015.[36] Ramaswamy said his company would be the "Berkshire Hathaway of drug development"[6] and touted the drug as a "tremendous" opportunity that "could help millions" of patients, prompting some criticism that he was overpromising.[36]
In September 2017, the company announced that intepirdine had failed in its large clinical trial.[36][44] The company's value plunged; it lost 75% in one day and continued to decline afterward.[36] Shareholders who lost money included various institutional investors, such as the California State Teachers' Retirement System pension fund.[36] Ramaswamy was insulated from much of Axovant's losses because he held his stake through Roivant.[36][43] The company abandoned intepirdine. In 2018, Ramaswamy said he had no regrets about how the company handled the drug;[43] in subsequent years, he said he regretted the outcome but was annoyed by criticism of the company.[36] Axovant attempted to reinvent itself as a gene therapy company,[45] but dissolved in 2023.[36]
In 2017, Roivant partnered with the private equity arm of the Chinese state-owned CITIC Group to form Sinovant.[46][47][48] In 2017, Ramaswamy struck a deal with Masayoshi Son in which SoftBank invested $1.1 billion in Roivant.[36] In 2019, Roivant sold its stake in five subsidiaries (or "vants"), including Enzyvant, to Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma;[36][49] Ramaswamy made $175 million in capital gains from the sale.[36] The deal also gave Sumitomo Dainippon a 10% stake in Roivant.[49][50]
While campaigning for the presidency, Ramaswamy called himself a "scientist" and said, "I developed a number of medicines."[36] His undergraduate degree is in biology, but he was never a scientist; his role in the biotechnology industry was that of a financier and entrepreneur.[36]
In January 2021, Ramaswamy stepped down as CEO of Roivant Sciences and assumed the role of executive chairman.[49][50] In 2021, after he resigned as CEO, Roivant was listed on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Montes Archimedes Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition vehicle.[51] In February 2023, Ramaswamy stepped down as chair of Roivant to focus on his presidential campaign.[36][52]
Ramaswamy remains the sixth-largest shareholder of Roivant,[36] retaining a 7.17% stake.[7] Roivant has never been profitable.[51]
#18683142 at 2023-04-12 15:13:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22921: Biden, Sullivan, FiB Caught Edition
SoftBank to sell VC firm to company led by Masayoshi Son's brother
A new investment company led by Masayoshi Son's brother will acquire one of SoftBank Group's venture capital firms for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Wednesday.
The Edgeof, a Singapore-based investment firm set up in March by Taizo Son and Atsushi Taira, aims to complete the acquisition of South Korea-based SoftBank Ventures Asia this year, according to the announcement. Taizo Son is the younger brother of SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son and Taira is a former SoftBank Corp. executive. The move comes as SoftBank shifts away from big, high-profile investments as its rising interest rates and a worsening global economic outlook pile pressure on its portfolio. "The Edgeof was founded … with an aim to transform the startup ecosystem across Asia by creating a supportive environment," the company said in a press release. Taizo is an investor himself, known for founding GungHo Online Entertainment, a major player in Japanese online games. He was also involved in the founding of Yahoo Japan with his brother.
SoftBank Ventures Asia has around $2 billion in assets under management and invests in startups focused on technology such as e-commerce. The firm will collaborate with Taizo Son's investment company Mistletoe once the acquisition is completed. "Mistletoe excels in seed and early-stage investments," The Edgeof co-founder and Chairman Atsushi Taira told Nikkei via email. "By merging the expertise and experience of both companies, we can cover a comprehensive range of startup stages and investment sectors." The sale of SoftBank Ventures Asia which is just a fraction of the size of the group's flagship Vision Fund fits with the group's strategy, according to Shinji Moriyuki, senior analyst at SBI Securities. "These kinds of reshuffles are common," Moriyuki said. "SoftBank's basic strategy now is to not take too many risks and to go forward in changing some of its assets into cash if possible," he added. "Small firms can easily make sharp turns. If Taizo has knowledge and a network of people in the field, it could be better to trust him on the job."
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Startups/SoftBank-to-sell-VC-firm-to-company-led-by-Masayoshi-Son-s-brother
#18002282 at 2022-12-23 10:37:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22058: Late Night Full Armor Of God Edition
Got MilQ? Fake Milk to Replace Dairy and Breast Milk
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
December 23, 2022
The globalist technocrats are intent on monopolizing the entire food supply. They already have a monopoly on grains and have made headway in genetically engineered (GE) seafood. The next targets include lab-grown meats and dairy substitutes
Biomilq, made from cultured breast tissue, will be marketed as a breast milk substitute
The company Helaina is working on creating glycoproteins "identical to those found in breast milk." Those proteins can then be added to a variety of infant formulas, seniors' nutrition and, eventually, all sorts of foods
The justification for creating synthetic milk substitutes is, of course, preventing and reversing "climate change." That's the justification used to sell virtually all fake foods. In reality, however, they will perpetuate and worsen adverse effects on the environment
Lab-created foods are ultraprocessed and therefore qualify as junk food. Fake meat and dairy cannot replace the complex mix of nutrients found in grass fed beef and dairy, and it's likely that consuming ultraprocessed meat and milk alternatives may lead to many of the same health issues that are caused by a processed food diet
Many familiar globalists are invested in these faux dairy ventures. Biomilq investors, for example, include ?Bill Gates, ?Jeff Bezos, ?Mark Zuckerberg, Richard BranSon, ?Masayoshi Son, ?Jack Ma, ?Michael Bloomberg and ?Marc Benioff
https://noqreport.com/2022/12/23/got-milq-fake-milk-to-replace-dairy-and-breast-milk/
#17788157 at 2022-11-18 21:34:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21799: Special Counsel or Marvel Villain? You Decide Edition
#21796
>>17786887, >>17786889, >>17787430 UK: Sunak's wife works for digital ID co
>>17786888 Too bad Twitter is smashing records with more active users than ever.
>>17786890 PerSonality-changes after mRNA injection???
>>17786891 Sen. Hawley RIPS Chris Wray: "Do You Think You're Still Up to this Job?... I Think You Should Have Been Gone a Long Time Ago" (VIDEO)
>>17786892 Lee Zeldin sends email to colleagues saying he is "very seriously considering" a bid against Ronna McDaniel for RNC Chair.
>>17786893 G20 countries commit to WHO-facilitated global health passports
>>17787138 Uploading an mp4, and it's comfy here.
>>17787147 @ChuckGrassley Hiawatha issues: inflation small farms my schedule Ukraine bipartisanship Grassley farm advice to get thru failure +giving back to ur community
>>17787384 LA Port Traffic Down Sharply in October
>>17787386 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day The Protostar within L1527
>>17787387, >>17787461 Hydro-Qu?bec employee charged with spying for China
>>17787389 PF CONUS/Canada Activity: SPAR17C-40C departed JBA NE-arrived from Scott AFB, IL as SPAR12 yesterday
>>17787390 BOXER29 C-40C departed Atlanta Int'l NE after arriving on August 29th, '22-was switched on once Nov 5th and then today's depart to JBA-RCH4197 C
>>17787391 Swedish AF SVF636 G5 also inbound to Halifax from Stockholm
>>17787392 Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
>>17787393 Existing-Home Sales Slumped 5.9% in October
>>17787395 Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout
>>17787396 Vaxxed and Boosted Al Roker Hospitalized for Blood Clots
>>17787397 N108PB, as EJM473 G950 back at Palm Beach Int'l from Morristown Muni depart yesterday-used by 45 in the past
>>17787402 Vikram-S, India's 1st privately built rocket launched successfully
>>17787410, >>17787413 Caroline ElliSon is a math whiz who loves Harry Potter and taking big risks
>>17787416 anon opines on currents issues
>>17787424 pristine meteorite
>>17787432, >>17787433, >>17787442, >>17787474, >>17787482, >>17787501 Demonstrators in Brazil hold firm in the face of calls to back down | The World
>>17787444 Dr. Shiva Sues U.S. Government: CISA/DHS for Censorship of His Political Speech
>>17787449 Ukraine is 'war between West and Russia' - Turkish official
>>17787451 CarlSon: The left has run this country into the ground Brazil coverage starts around 4:50 Brazil
>>17787453 Foreign Central Banks Continue To Dump US Treasuries At A Record Pace
>>17787454, >>17787466 Lab-grown chicken safe to eat, say US regulators
>>17787463 Roku, announced layoffs for 200 of its workers on Thursday.
>>17787472 Man Suspected Of Mowing Down 25 Cop Recruits In SUV Let Out Of Jail
>>17787473 Rep. Jim Jordan Reveals His First Targets For His Investigation Into The Dept Of Education
>>17787476 UK Supermarkets Begin Rationing Eggs as Bird Flu and Inflation Ravage Supply
>>17787478 TX: Abbott Directs TEA, Superintendents To Prohibit COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For Students
>>17787480 Chris Wray's Gulfstream-G550
>>17787487, >>17787492 48,817 Dead and 5,107,883 Injured Following COVID-19 Vaccines in European Database of Adverse Reactions
>>17787504 #21796
Previously Collected
>>17787614 #21795
>>17785141 #21792, >>17785622 #21793, >>17785955 #21794
>>17784230 #21789, >>17784475 #21790, >>17784779 #21791
>>17782842 #21786, >>17783843 #21787, >>17783585 #21788
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#17787819 at 2022-11-18 19:46:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21798: Boebert Wins It Edition
#21796
>>17786887, >>17786889, >>17787430 UK: Sunak's wife works for digital ID co
>>17786888 Too bad Twitter is smashing records with more active users than ever.
>>17786890 PerSonality-changes after mRNA injection???
>>17786891 Sen. Hawley RIPS Chris Wray: "Do You Think You're Still Up to this Job?... I Think You Should Have Been Gone a Long Time Ago" (VIDEO)
>>17786892 Lee Zeldin sends email to colleagues saying he is "very seriously considering" a bid against Ronna McDaniel for RNC Chair.
>>17786893 G20 countries commit to WHO-facilitated global health passports
>>17787138 Uploading an mp4, and it's comfy here.
>>17787147 @ChuckGrassley Hiawatha issues: inflation small farms my schedule Ukraine bipartisanship Grassley farm advice to get thru failure +giving back to ur community
>>17787384 LA Port Traffic Down Sharply in October
>>17787386 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day The Protostar within L1527
>>17787387, >>17787461 Hydro-Qu?bec employee charged with spying for China
>>17787389 PF CONUS/Canada Activity: SPAR17C-40C departed JBA NE-arrived from Scott AFB, IL as SPAR12 yesterday
>>17787390 BOXER29 C-40C departed Atlanta Int'l NE after arriving on August 29th, '22-was switched on once Nov 5th and then today's depart to JBA-RCH4197 C
>>17787391 Swedish AF SVF636 G5 also inbound to Halifax from Stockholm
>>17787392 Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
>>17787393 Existing-Home Sales Slumped 5.9% in October
>>17787395 Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout
>>17787396 Vaxxed and Boosted Al Roker Hospitalized for Blood Clots
>>17787397 N108PB, as EJM473 G950 back at Palm Beach Int'l from Morristown Muni depart yesterday-used by 45 in the past
>>17787402 Vikram-S, India's 1st privately built rocket launched successfully
>>17787410, >>17787413 Caroline ElliSon is a math whiz who loves Harry Potter and taking big risks
>>17787416 anon opines on currents issues
>>17787424 pristine meteorite
>>17787432, >>17787433, >>17787442, >>17787474, >>17787482, >>17787501 Demonstrators in Brazil hold firm in the face of calls to back down | The World
>>17787444 Dr. Shiva Sues U.S. Government: CISA/DHS for Censorship of His Political Speech
>>17787449 Ukraine is 'war between West and Russia' - Turkish official
>>17787451 CarlSon: The left has run this country into the ground Brazil coverage starts around 4:50 Brazil
>>17787453 Foreign Central Banks Continue To Dump US Treasuries At A Record Pace
>>17787454, >>17787466 Lab-grown chicken safe to eat, say US regulators
>>17787463 Roku, announced layoffs for 200 of its workers on Thursday.
>>17787472 Man Suspected Of Mowing Down 25 Cop Recruits In SUV Let Out Of Jail
>>17787473 Rep. Jim Jordan Reveals His First Targets For His Investigation Into The Dept Of Education
>>17787476 UK Supermarkets Begin Rationing Eggs as Bird Flu and Inflation Ravage Supply
>>17787478 TX: Abbott Directs TEA, Superintendents To Prohibit COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For Students
>>17787480 Chris Wray's Gulfstream-G550
>>17787487, >>17787492 48,817 Dead and 5,107,883 Injured Following COVID-19 Vaccines in European Database of Adverse Reactions
>>17787504 #21796
#17787506 at 2022-11-18 18:16:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21797: Global Health Passport Edition
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#21796
>>17786887, >>17786889, >>17787430 UK: Sunak's wife works for digital ID co
>>17786888 Too bad Twitter is smashing records with more active users than ever.
>>17786890 PerSonality-changes after mRNA injection???
>>17786891 Sen. Hawley RIPS Chris Wray: "Do You Think You're Still Up to this Job?... I Think You Should Have Been Gone a Long Time Ago" (VIDEO)
>>17786892 Lee Zeldin sends email to colleagues saying he is "very seriously considering" a bid against Ronna McDaniel for RNC Chair.
>>17786893 G20 countries commit to WHO-facilitated global health passports
>>17787138 Uploading an mp4, and it's comfy here.
>>17787147 @ChuckGrassley Hiawatha issues: inflation small farms my schedule Ukraine bipartisanship Grassley farm advice to get thru failure +giving back to ur community
>>17787384 LA Port Traffic Down Sharply in October
>>17787386 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day The Protostar within L1527
>>17787387, >>17787461 Hydro-Qu?bec employee charged with spying for China
>>17787389 PF CONUS/Canada Activity: SPAR17C-40C departed JBA NE-arrived from Scott AFB, IL as SPAR12 yesterday
>>17787390 BOXER29 C-40C departed Atlanta Int'l NE after arriving on August 29th, '22-was switched on once Nov 5th and then today's depart to JBA-RCH4197 C
>>17787391 Swedish AF SVF636 G5 also inbound to Halifax from Stockholm
>>17787392 Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
>>17787393 Existing-Home Sales Slumped 5.9% in October
>>17787395 Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout
>>17787396 Vaxxed and Boosted Al Roker Hospitalized for Blood Clots
>>17787397 N108PB, as EJM473 G950 back at Palm Beach Int'l from Morristown Muni depart yesterday-used by 45 in the past
>>17787402 Vikram-S, India's 1st privately built rocket launched successfully
>>17787410, >>17787413 Caroline ElliSon is a math whiz who loves Harry Potter and taking big risks
>>17787416 anon opines on currents issues
>>17787424 pristine meteorite
>>17787432, >>17787433, >>17787442, >>17787474, >>17787482, >>17787501 Demonstrators in Brazil hold firm in the face of calls to back down | The World
>>17787444 Dr. Shiva Sues U.S. Government: CISA/DHS for Censorship of His Political Speech
>>17787449 Ukraine is 'war between West and Russia' - Turkish official
>>17787451 CarlSon: The left has run this country into the ground Brazil coverage starts around 4:50 Brazil
>>17787453 Foreign Central Banks Continue To Dump US Treasuries At A Record Pace
>>17787454, >>17787466 Lab-grown chicken safe to eat, say US regulators
>>17787463 Roku, announced layoffs for 200 of its workers on Thursday.
>>17787472 Man Suspected Of Mowing Down 25 Cop Recruits In SUV Let Out Of Jail
>>17787473 Rep. Jim Jordan Reveals His First Targets For His Investigation Into The Dept Of Education
>>17787476 UK Supermarkets Begin Rationing Eggs as Bird Flu and Inflation Ravage Supply
>>17787478 TX: Abbott Directs TEA, Superintendents To Prohibit COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates For Students
>>17787480 Chris Wray's Gulfstream-G550
>>17787487, >>17787492 48,817 Dead and 5,107,883 Injured Following COVID-19 Vaccines in European Database of Adverse Reactions
>>17787504 #21796
#21795
to be collected(cleaned of spam)
#17762541 at 2022-11-14 02:05:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21768: Not Quite Ready For Late Night Edition
SoftBank Falls over 10% After Loss and No New Buyback Program
SoftBank Group Corp. shares plunged as much as 12% Monday in its biggest intraday drop since the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, after the company failed to announce a widely-expected stock buyback. The company's core Vision Fund segment posted a $7.2 billion loss in the July-September quarter, following a record 2.33 trillion yen ($17 billion) loss in the preceding period, as sliding startup valuations force the world's biggest technology investor to go into defensive mode and virtually halt investments. SoftBank has been grappling with declines on its portfolio of more than 400 investments in both public and private tech companies around the world, which includes China's SenseTime Group Inc., US food delivery firm DoorDash Inc. and Indonesian ride-hailing and e-commerce firm GoTo Group. Cumulative returns on SoftBank's Vision Fund and Latin America portfolio plummeted from a gain of $56 billion a year ago to an overall loss of $1.5 billion in its most recent report. SoftBank's stock price surged in the early weeks of the current quarter as the Tokyo-based company raced to complete two share repurchases: a 1 trillion yen buyback program announced last year and a 400 billion yen program announced in August. The aggressive pace of the buybacks spurred expectations of a fresh injection and speculation that billionaire founder Masayoshi Son was planning to lead a buyout to take the company private.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/softbank-falls-9-after-loss-and-no-new-buyback-program-1.1845771
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Stock/9984
FTX investment will be written off by SoftBank to zero source
https://techstory.in/ftx-investment-will-be-written-off-by-softbank-to-zero-source/
#16187854 at 2022-05-01 12:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20476: TRUMP RALLY EARLY BREAD - GREENWOOD NE
>>16187833
>what about gates satellites?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5634953/Bill-Gates-backs-1-billion-plan-cover-Earth-Big-Brother-satellites.html
Bill Gates backs a $1 billion plan to cover Earth in 'Big Brother' satellites capable of streaming 'live and unfiltered' HD footage of the planet
Japanese firm Softbank and aerospace giant Airbus are also backing the project
500-strong network of spacecraft will monitor Earth with and livestream video
Applications could including tracking illegal fishing, monitoring the weather and tracking natural migrations globally
Microsoft's Bill Gates is backing a start-up that will provide 'live and unfiltered' high definition footage of every inch of Earth.
The startup, EarthNow, plans to launch 500 satellites to cover Earth's atmosphere in 'Big Brother' real-time video surveillance.
As well as Gates, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and aerospace giant Airbus are also backing the project.
The price of the project could run to $1 billion (?700m), although the value of the investment by the companies has not been disclosed.
Applications could including tracking illegal fishing, monitoring the weather and tracking natural migrations globally.
EarthNow founder Russel Hannigan said: 'Our objective is simple; we want to connect you visually with Earth in real-time.'
'We believe the ability to see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered will help all of us better appreciate and ultimately care for our one and only home.'
The company is based in Bellevue, Washington and was founded in 2017.
It plans to use an army of orbiting satellites will weigh around 500 pounds (225 kg) each that will have their cameras trained on Earth 24 hours a day.
It will onboard analysis of the imagery, though to what extent isn't clear.
There is also currently no clear timeline, price-tag or technical details about the project.
EarthNow's services will initially be aimed at 'high value enterprise and government customers.
However, the firm says it also expected to allow civilians to access the video from a smartphone or tablet.
'We are excited by the prospect of giving everyone a stunningly beautiful real-time window on your world from space,' Mr Hannigan said.
'With EarthNow, we will all become virtual astronauts.'
WHAT IS EARTHNOW?
EarthNow is a start-up company based in Washington.
Founded in 2017, the firm hopes to put a small army of satellites into low-Earth orbit.
Weighing around 500 pounds and the size of a fridge, the satellies will have high-quality cameras fitted to them.
The purpose of the global network of small spacecrafts is to provide a constant stream of high-definition video of the Earth.
Showing every corner of the globe in real time, the footage will have a plethora of uses.
The 'live and unfiltered' video stream will act as the over-arching Big Brother and be used to monitor illegal fishing, detect natural disasters as they start and even watch whales migrate across the world.
#15581419 at 2022-02-09 01:31:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19703: HONKING has won! Alberta ends Covid Passports @ Midnight Edition
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit nosedives by 97% amid Arm deal collapse
Picking up the pieces, SoftBank said it will look to take Arm public in 2023.
SoftBank group has reported a 97% drop in quarterly profit hours after the revelation that its $40 billion deal to sell Arm will no longer be going ahead.
For the third quarter, SoftBank reported a net profit of ?29 billion, which pales in compariSon to the ?1.17 trillion recorded a year ago. The weak performance follows on from a poor second-quarter result when the company recorded a ?342 billion loss.
SoftBank's third-quarter revenue, meanwhile, rose 6% year-on-year to ?1.6 trillion.
Speaking about the Arm sale fallout, SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said his company will now aim to take Arm public in the US sometime in the next fiscal year.
Unpacking the decision, Son admitted during the results presentation that he did not expect governments to be so opposed to the sale.
"The Nvidia side was very keen on the merger until the end. But the governments of various countries took such a strong stand to block the merger, and we agreed to give up because it was unlikely to be approved even if we made further efforts," Son said.
Since the deal's announcement in September, regulators around the world had expressed concern about its impact on competition across various markets. A month after the deal was announced, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation saying it was concerned that Nvidia would restrict access to Arm IP, which would lead to higher prices and lessened competition.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress then said in November the US Federal Trade Commission also had its own concerns about the deal, with the regulator eventually filing a lawsuit to block the deal. In that same month, the UK also launched a probe into the deal.
Speaking about SoftBank's overall performance, Son alluded to remarks he made during the second quarter of the company being in the middle of a storm. On Tuesday, he said: "The storm has not ended; the storm has gotten stronger."
"Last year's performance was maybe too good for us, and now we're seeing a downward trend."
The comments were made in relation to SoftBank's net asset value dropping by more than 10%, $19 billion, to $168 billion. Son attributed the hit to the struggles of its Chinese and US investments.
Looking at SoftBank's Vision Funds, the funds saw their quarterly income dip from ?844 billion to ?108 billion, representing an 83% year-on-year decrease. The Latin America Funds also performed poorly during the quarter, with the funds going from a ?60 billion third-quarter profit a year ago to a ?60 billion loss.
SoftBank also suffered a ?42.3 billion loss on investments in the latest quarter, which is a stark contrast to the ?737 billion it earned in the same period a year ago. This investment loss was offset by a ?68 billion gain, however, that was in connection with previously disclosed prepaid forward contracts on its Alibaba shares.
For Arm, the chip company reduced its quarterly losses from ?13.3 billion to ?2.9 billion.
Even the conglomerate's Japanese telco saw its quarterly profits drop slightly, from ?213 billion to ?192 billion. As of the end of the third quarter, SoftBank has 48.7 million customers on smartphone plans as well as 8.2 million broadband customers.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/softbank-reports-q3-net-profit-nosedives-by-97-amid-arm-deal-collapse/
#15476452 at 2022-01-27 19:38:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19575: HONK HONK HONK HONK Edition
Masa Son's "Right Hand Man" Marcelo Claure Quits SoftBank After $2 Billion Pay Dispute
After a bitter dispute over compensation that poiSoned his relationship with Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son, SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is reportedly preparing to resign from the Japanese telecoms giant.
Claure, whose previous duties have included running Sprint, WeWork, the SoftBank Vision Fund and other key businesses, reportedly has designs on running his own investment firm, CNBC reported Thursday. In its report, CNBC described Claure as Masa Son's longtime "right hand man".
The executive joined SoftBank in 2013 after selling a majority stake of wireless provider Brightstar to the company for $1.26 billion. He later became CEO of Softbank-majority owned Sprint, which successfully merged with T-Mobile in April 2020.
Late last year, it was reported that Claure was enmeshed in a dispute over $2 billion in pay. According to reporting from the NYT, Claure believes he is owed the $2 billion for "cleaning up" Masa Son's many messes, from WeWork to the Vision Fund and beyond.
Marcelo Claure, the firm's chief operating officer and a close confidant of the SoftBank founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son, is seeking roughly $2 billion in compensation over the next several years, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly on pay issues. Mr. Son and other senior SoftBank executives in Japan are seeking to pay Mr. Claure a much smaller sum - tens of millions of dollars at most.
The unusually large amount at stake reflects Mr. Claure's singular role at SoftBank, where he has been part Mr. Fixit and part ambassador - untangling messy investments, scouting out lucrative opportunities and wooing start-up founders - since joining in 2017. He arrived after running the telecom company Sprint when asked to do so by Mr. Son.
Mr. Claure has insisted in private conversations with individuals inside and outside SoftBank that he was owed the $2 billion for various cleanup jobs, including straightening out SoftBank's investment in WeWork, the office-space leasing giant that went public in October. The amount also reflects Mr. Claure's estimate of the future value he could bring to SoftBank, one of the individuals said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/masa-Sons-right-hand-man-marcelo-claure-quits-softbank-after-2-billion-pay-dispute
#15160288 at 2021-12-08 22:46:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19179: Twatter Suspends GMAX Trial Tracker (EBAKE) Edition
There has been lots of news coverage (and Notables here) on the Zoom-call firing of 900 employees.
So what does Better.com do?
2015 - Began working with mortgage borrowers directly online without commissioned loan officers.
2016 - Approved as a Fannie Mae seller/servicer and established relationships with 17 top mortgage investors.
2018 - $1 Billion in total funded loans.
Per its website, it is backed by:
- SoftBank*
- Ally
- Citi
- Ping An Bank**
- Goldman Sachs
- KPCB (Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, Byers)***
- American Express
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* SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors. It also runs the Vision Fund, the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund, with over $100 billion in capital. Fund investors include sovereign wealth funds from countries in the Middle East.
As of September 2020, SoftBank ownership is:
- Masayoshi Son (21.25%)
- The Master Trust Bank of Japan investment trusts (10.25%)
- Japan Trustee Services Bank main investment trusts (5.87%)
- JPMorgan Chase (7.45%)
- Citibank (1.4%)
- The Vanguard Group (2.19%)
- Capital Group Companies (2.4%)
- Baillie Gifford (1.36%)
____
**Ping An Bank -
a Chinese joint-stock commercial bank with its headquarters in Shenzhen. It primarily operates in Mainland China with a representative branch in Hong Kong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_An_Bank
_and_
*BEIJING, Oct 22, 2021 (Reuters) - China's Ping An Bank Co Ltd (000001.SZ) said its "special-mention" andoverdue loansincreased in the third quarter mainly due to a liquidity crunch at Shenzhen Baoneng, a property and financial services conglomerate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/chinas-ping-an-bank-says-its-overdue-loans-rise-baoneng-liquidity-crunch-2021-10-22/
_____
*** KPCB has a vibrant division in Shanghai.
http://www.kpcb.com/china/
- Is now known as Kleiner Perkins.
"The firm still legally bears the names of Fairchild Semiconductor co-founder Eugene Kleiner and Hewlett-Packard veteran Tom Perkins,biotech pioneerBrook Byers and early venture veteran Frank Caufield. But in summer 2018, it rebranded as simply 'Kleiner Perkins.'" (Oct 31, 2019) https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/10/31/kleiner-perkins.html
-Colin Powell joined as a strategic partner in 2005
-Al Gore joined as partner in 2007.
- Wasearly investor in Google, Twitter, Amazon, Electronic Arts, Compaq, Genetech, Beyond Meat, AOL (America Online), Sun Microsystems, Lotus Development, among others. Partnered with Facebook.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Perkins
______
[Back to Better.com]
$1 biillion in funded mortgages in 2018.
"Housing overall is a $33 trillion business, and mortgages account for $15 trillion."
https://better.com/about-us
The layoffs come as the company received a$750 million cash injectionfrom its biggest backer, Softbank, ahead of itsplans to go public through a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp., giving it $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet.
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/better-com-layoffs
____
"… Blank-check company Aurora Acquisition Corp. and SoftBank have decided toamend the terms of their financing agreement to provide Better with half of the $1.5 billion they committedimmediately instead of waiting till the deal closes.
"… ==puts more money on the balance sheet overall to fuel further growth… Better.com will have $1 billion on its balance sheet by week's end.
"In the email, [CFO] Ryan told employees:
"We pulled forward the funding of our SPAC deal ... With this new structure the company will fortify our balance sheet and position us as extremely well capitalized in a tough mortgage market. Surviving is winning and capital ensures survival ... By the end of this week we expect to have $1 billion of cash on the company's balance sheet. Quantum's more than we have ever had. [sic] We willcontinue working through the process of public listing but the most important step has been taken (getting the money).
"Thenew arrangement will replace the prior agreement wherein $950 million of the $1.78 billion in committed financing from Aurora and SoftBank would have been used to purchase existing shares from Better's stockholders rather than the company receiving it directly to its balance sheet.
"The amended terms will not change Better's implied valuation of $6.9 billion, the company says.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/better-com-gets-750m-cash-infusion-in-new-agreement-with-its-spac-backers/
#14954230 at 2021-11-08 22:48:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18918: FF Incoming Fake News Wants Riots: Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty Edition
Reuters
@Reuters
'We are in the middle of a blizzard': SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said after a $10 billion Vision Fund loss https://reut.rs/3CYbNGv
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1457817704144900103
#12752871 at 2021-01-29 07:43:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16281: U.S. Officials confirm Chinese are collecting Americans' DNA Edition
#16278
>>12750759 Crim's remorse: 'I'M ASHAMED': Ex-Atlantic City Dem Mayor Sobs As He's Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail
>>12750770 Breibart Report: Top Joe Biden Aide Helped Found Think Tank 'Heavily Influenced' by Beijing
>>12750844 Biden's LGBT Agenda: Pedophilia Coming Down the Pike?
>>12750862 Today DNI Haines visited @NatReconOfc - our nation's eyes and ears in critical places no human can reach.
>>12750915 Navalny to remain in detention until his hearing
>>12750941 Look who the History channel is giving a push to…
>>12751020 Fearporn: John Heinz-Kerry makes Al Gore so proud
>>12751306 Report: Biden Administration to Vaccinate Terrorists First, Will Offer Coronavirus Vaccine to Gitmo Detainees
>>12751356 The propagandists are getting a hard-on for anal probing swabs to detect covid
>>12751432 GameStop's three largest shareholders earn over $2bn amid stock surge
>>12751434 EDD: 27% of California unemployment payments could be fraudulent, state says
>>12751462 #16278
#16277
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750552 Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
>>12750617 Here come the ayys: MSNBC goes there. …Because climate change.
>>12750668 #16277
Previously Collected Notables
>>12749174 #16275, >>12749913 #16276,
>>12746774 #16272, >>12747536 #16273, >>12748367 #16274
>>12744510 #16269, >>12745264 #16270, >>12746023 #16271
>>12742108 #16266, >>12743418 #16267, >>12743681 #16268
>>12739700 #16263, >>12740949 #16264, >>12741374 #16265
>>12738234 #16260, >>12738124 #16261, >>12738932 #16262
>>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258, >>12736622 #16259
>>12734288 #16256\1, >>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258
>>12732250 #16254, >>12733502 #16255, >>12734290 #16256\2
>>12730359 #16251, >>12731147 #16252, >>12731913 #16253
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#12752247 at 2021-01-29 05:53:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16280: Castles Crumble Edition
#16277
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750552 Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
>>12750617 Here come the ayys: MSNBC goes there. …Because climate change.
>>12750668 #16277
Previously Collected Notables
>>12749174 #16275, >>12749913 #16276,
>>12746774 #16272, >>12747536 #16273, >>12748367 #16274
>>12744510 #16269, >>12745264 #16270, >>12746023 #16271
>>12742108 #16266, >>12743418 #16267, >>12743681 #16268
>>12739700 #16263, >>12740949 #16264, >>12741374 #16265
>>12738234 #16260, >>12738124 #16261, >>12738932 #16262
>>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258, >>12736622 #16259
>>12734288 #16256\1, >>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258
>>12732250 #16254, >>12733502 #16255, >>12734290 #16256\2
>>12730359 #16251, >>12731147 #16252, >>12731913 #16253
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#12751487 at 2021-01-29 04:29:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16279: The 'It Happens In The Background Of Your Mind' Edition
Globals
>>12747424, >>12747431, >>12747438, >>12747442, >>12747447, >>12747452, NOW THEY COME FOR THE GUNS. - H. R. 127
>>12713994, >>12714009, >>12714014, >>12714024, >>12714432 Bidens first big bill. This will destroy America as you know it.
>>12720520, >>12720533 Bookmark this The Office of Donald J. Trump
>>12693790, >>12695941 Newly Declassified McCabe Documents Just Released
>>12655596, >>12655652 Marjorie Taylor Greene filed Articles of Impeachment on Biden
>>12668402, >>12705083 OFFICIAL PETITION TO RECALL GOVERNOR NEWSOM
>>12713246 Donald Trump Announces 'Office of the Former President'
>>12707690 Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Evidence of Biden Corruption
>>12642673 POTUS EO's
>>12652267 current archive of Donald J. Trump's White house
>>12642858 TRUMP'S 1776 COMMISSION: NATIONAL UNITY FOR AMERICA'S FOUNDING VALUES
Hollywood Insider dishes on Pedophilia https://youtu.be/GOFR8oMiA5w
Notables are not endorsements
#16278
>>12750759 Crim's remorse: 'I'M ASHAMED': Ex-Atlantic City Dem Mayor Sobs As He's Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail
>>12750770 Breibart Report: Top Joe Biden Aide Helped Found Think Tank 'Heavily Influenced' by Beijing
>>12750844 Biden's LGBT Agenda: Pedophilia Coming Down the Pike?
>>12750862 Today DNI Haines visited @NatReconOfc - our nation's eyes and ears in critical places no human can reach.
>>12750915 Navalny to remain in detention until his hearing
>>12750941 Look who the History channel is giving a push to…
>>12751020 Fearporn: John Heinz-Kerry makes Al Gore so proud
>>12751306 Report: Biden Administration to Vaccinate Terrorists First, Will Offer Coronavirus Vaccine to Gitmo Detainees
>>12751356 The propagandists are getting a hard-on for anal probing swabs to detect covid
>>12751432 GameStop's three largest shareholders earn over $2bn amid stock surge
>>12751434 EDD: 27% of California unemployment payments could be fraudulent, state says
>>12751462 #16278
#16277
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750552 Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
>>12750617 Here come the ayys: MSNBC goes there. …Because climate change.
>>12750668 #16277
#16276
>>12749268 BOMBSHELL ALLEGATION: Man Claims To Be Robinhood Employee & Says The White House Pressured Halt of GameStop Trading
>>12749271 Gamestop is MUCH MUCH BIGGER than most people understand.
>>12749274 After Vetting 25,000 Guardsmen, No Extremists Were Found
>>12749280 Janet Yellen Received $810K In Speaking Fees From Hedge Fund Embroiled In GameStop Saga
>>12749287 U.S. Billionaires Boost Their Wealth by 40 Percent During Coronavirus Crisis
>>12749331 Baker change
>>12749307 #CapitolFence DC @MayorBowser: "..there are some potentially volatile events upcoming that will require extra security. Fencing + the presence of troops will be a part of that
>>12749318 JPMorgan Has Some Bad News For Hedge Funds Hoping The Nightmare Ends Soon
>>12749364, >>12749862 Funny, isn't it, how it's not market manipulation when they do it, but it is when the peasants do the same thing?
>>12749366 LA County Sheriff reveals stunning consequences of Soros-backed district attorney's justice reform on child porn case
>>12749383 At least 30 election fraud cases are still active, but so far not a single court will allow evidence to be presented
>>12749404 MSM have lost their way.. More fearporn
>>12749405, >>12749481 Planefag reports
>>12749413 BREAKING - Telegram announced that Apple will remove the Telegram app from their phones without their joint notice. Telegram announced that to prevent this, apply the mentioned settings.
>>12749431 Belgian, Dutch Police Raid Illegal Tobacco Factories
>>12749441 Huntington Bank closing nearly 200 branches...
>>12749442, >>12749476 How is THIS even legal? "Robinhood Forciby Sells All Investors' Shares in Gamestop AT 75% LOSS While Letting WS Buy the Dip"
>>12749447 TD Bank closing 81 branches, including 11 in the Philadelphia region
>>12749473 COVID: A media pack of lies with no answers.
>>12749549 ConservativeTreehouse: DeceptiCon Maneuvers, Don't Forget Who Owns The New York Stock Exchange
>>12749384, >>12749393, >>12749479, >>12749566 Anon noms a dig: News unlocks past.
>>12749604 Here comes Ambiguity: Time to Update Sex Designations on Birth Certificates - New England Journal of Medicine
>>12749627 They should call them foreign invaders instead then: Washington Times- ICE agents ordered to stop using 'illegal alien' term
>>12749647 XVIII Airborne Corps - It's getting dark. Patience is key. (p/b) Tweet now deleted
>>12749664 Michael Jordan caught in the middle of Wall Street's billionaire inferno
>>12749685 The qanon bogeyman is back in the news.
>>12749750 Russia to slash oil exports to curb rising domestic fuel prices - report
>>12749778 Clockfagging
>>12749817 Tucker clip: "People have to go to jail, plain and simple."
>>12749820 Looks like Syria supports China against any attempt of intervention in its domestic affairs
>>12749897 Second officer from Capitol riot dies by suicide, police chief says
>>12749913 #16276
Previously Collected Notables
>>12748367 #16274, >>12749174 #16275
>>12746023 #16271, >>12746774 #16272, >>12747536 #16273
>>12744510 #16269, >>12743681 #16268, >>12745264 #16270
>>12742108 #16266, >>12743418 #16267 Posted in #16268
>>12739700 #16263, >>12740949 #16264, >>12741374 #16265
>>12738234 #16260, >>12738124 #16261, >>12738932 #16262
>>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258, >>12736622 #16259
>>12734288 #16256\1, >>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258
>>12732250 #16254, >>12733502 #16255, >>12734290 #16256\2
>>12730359 #16251, >>12731147 #16252, >>12731913 #16253
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#12750736 at 2021-01-29 03:17:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16278: The 'Information Is An Ancient Weapon' Edition
Globals
>>12747424, >>12747431, >>12747438, >>12747442, >>12747447, >>12747452, NOW THEY COME FOR THE GUNS. - H. R. 127
>>12713994, >>12714009, >>12714014, >>12714024, >>12714432 Bidens first big bill. This will destroy America as you know it.
>>12720520, >>12720533 Bookmark this The Office of Donald J. Trump
>>12693790, >>12695941 Newly Declassified McCabe Documents Just Released
>>12655596, >>12655652 Marjorie Taylor Greene filed Articles of Impeachment on Biden
>>12668402, >>12705083 OFFICIAL PETITION TO RECALL GOVERNOR NEWSOM
>>12713246 Donald Trump Announces 'Office of the Former President'
>>12707690 Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Evidence of Biden Corruption
>>12642673 POTUS EO's
>>12652267 current archive of Donald J. Trump's White house
>>12642858 TRUMP'S 1776 COMMISSION: NATIONAL UNITY FOR AMERICA'S FOUNDING VALUES
Hollywood Insider dishes on Pedophilia https://youtu.be/GOFR8oMiA5w
Notables are not endorsements
#16277
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750552 Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
>>12750617 Here come the ayys: MSNBC goes there. …Because climate change.
>>12750668 #16277
#16276
>>12749268 BOMBSHELL ALLEGATION: Man Claims To Be Robinhood Employee & Says The White House Pressured Halt of GameStop Trading
>>12749271 Gamestop is MUCH MUCH BIGGER than most people understand.
>>12749274 After Vetting 25,000 Guardsmen, No Extremists Were Found
>>12749280 Janet Yellen Received $810K In Speaking Fees From Hedge Fund Embroiled In GameStop Saga
>>12749287 U.S. Billionaires Boost Their Wealth by 40 Percent During Coronavirus Crisis
>>12749331 Baker change
>>12749307 #CapitolFence DC @MayorBowser: "..there are some potentially volatile events upcoming that will require extra security. Fencing + the presence of troops will be a part of that
>>12749318 JPMorgan Has Some Bad News For Hedge Funds Hoping The Nightmare Ends Soon
>>12749364, >>12749862 Funny, isn't it, how it's not market manipulation when they do it, but it is when the peasants do the same thing?
>>12749366 LA County Sheriff reveals stunning consequences of Soros-backed district attorney's justice reform on child porn case
>>12749383 At least 30 election fraud cases are still active, but so far not a single court will allow evidence to be presented
>>12749404 MSM have lost their way.. More fearporn
>>12749405, >>12749481 Planefag reports
>>12749413 BREAKING - Telegram announced that Apple will remove the Telegram app from their phones without their joint notice. Telegram announced that to prevent this, apply the mentioned settings.
>>12749431 Belgian, Dutch Police Raid Illegal Tobacco Factories
>>12749441 Huntington Bank closing nearly 200 branches...
>>12749442, >>12749476 How is THIS even legal? "Robinhood Forciby Sells All Investors' Shares in Gamestop AT 75% LOSS While Letting WS Buy the Dip"
>>12749447 TD Bank closing 81 branches, including 11 in the Philadelphia region
>>12749473 COVID: A media pack of lies with no answers.
>>12749549 ConservativeTreehouse: DeceptiCon Maneuvers, Don't Forget Who Owns The New York Stock Exchange
>>12749384, >>12749393, >>12749479, >>12749566 Anon noms a dig: News unlocks past.
>>12749604 Here comes Ambiguity: Time to Update Sex Designations on Birth Certificates - New England Journal of Medicine
>>12749627 They should call them foreign invaders instead then: Washington Times- ICE agents ordered to stop using 'illegal alien' term
>>12749647 XVIII Airborne Corps - It's getting dark. Patience is key. (p/b) Tweet now deleted
>>12749664 Michael Jordan caught in the middle of Wall Street's billionaire inferno
>>12749685 The qanon bogeyman is back in the news.
>>12749750 Russia to slash oil exports to curb rising domestic fuel prices - report
>>12749778 Clockfagging
>>12749817 Tucker clip: "People have to go to jail, plain and simple."
>>12749820 Looks like Syria supports China against any attempt of intervention in its domestic affairs
>>12749897 Second officer from Capitol riot dies by suicide, police chief says
>>12749913 #16276
#16275
>>12748803, >>12748862 Smart Money - Bet 6 gorrilion the guy under the hood has a massive nose.
>>12748455 It's vampires all the way down.
>>12748487 Don't call yourself Robin Hood if you are going to turn your back on the folks in Sherwood forest
>>12748505 UH-60 Blackhawk R20916 buzzing around the Finger Lakes.
>>12748555 The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Elon Musk's SpaceX over whether the company discriminates against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring practices
>>12748561 Congress Voted $4 Billion to Israel for 2021, Press Doesn't Tell Americans
>>12748571 Le Pen and Macron Almost Neck and Neck in French Presidential Second Round
>>12748600 Corporation of the United States of America is finished.
>>12748627 REUTERS: Facebook shuts stock trading group 'Robinhood Stock Traders'
>>12748660 The bankers use a derivatives market called the COMEX to manipulate silver
>>12748672 Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors. - Rep. Jeff Duncan
>>12748773 XVIII Airborne Corps - It's getting dark. Patience is key.
>>12748805 I've requested our Attorney General to investigate #Robinhood - Rep Dave Williams
>>12748838 600 Jewish Groups Support BLM In New York Times Full Page Ad - On Page 17
>>12748842 What is a Hedge Fund???
>>12748846 Speaking of shorting stock did they ever find out who shorted those airlines stocks just before 9/11? Just asking.
>>12748925 How the Vatican tried to suppress criticism of the new president
>>12748945 Whac - A - Mole
>>12749127 Coronavirus Lockdown Has Increased Persecution Against Christians Worldwide
>>12749174 #16275
Previously Collected Notables
>>12748367 #16274
>>12746023 #16271, >>12746774 #16272, >>12747536 #16273
>>12744510 #16269, >>12743681 #16268, >>12745264 #16270
>>12742108 #16266, >>12743418 #16267 Posted in #16268
>>12739700 #16263, >>12740949 #16264, >>12741374 #16265
>>12738234 #16260, >>12738124 #16261, >>12738932 #16262
>>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258, >>12736622 #16259
>>12734288 #16256\1, >>12735056 #16257, >>12735823 #16258
>>12732250 #16254, >>12733502 #16255, >>12734290 #16256\2
>>12730359 #16251, >>12731147 #16252, >>12731913 #16253
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#12750668 at 2021-01-29 03:13:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @FINAL, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750552 Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
>>12750617 Here come the ayys: MSNBC goes there. …Because climate change.
#16277
Save notes for next bred anons!
#12750606 at 2021-01-29 03:06:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @600, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
>>12750538 Thebalance: Let us all never forget that GS did this before. Same. Old. Play.
>>12750553 Navy "UFO Patent" Documents Talk Of "Spacetime Modification Weapon," Detail Experimental Testing
>>12750561 Vid: #Riggers There wasn't enough market liquidity (as in the entire stock exchange) to cover all the GME trades.
>>12750599 @RepJeffDuncan "Tonight, I'm leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in calling for the SEC to investigate Robinhood & other financial institutions for their unprecedented and harmful actions against individual investors.
#12750521 at 2021-01-29 02:57:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @500, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
>>12750446 Information Warfare. Notice how Faux only admits that Dems are using shit they accused patriots of doing, after the fact?
>>12750481 Conservative review: Trump Put Dozens Of Allies On Government Boards Before Leaving WH. Biden May Be Stuck With Them.
#12750393 at 2021-01-29 02:46:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @400, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
>>12750227, >>12750307 Donald Trump Jr. just retweeted Bruesewitz's post about Trump's "They're not coming after me…" meme.
>>12750317 Anon dig on the deleted XVIII Airborne tweet
>>12750347 Jon Stewart joins Twitter, immediately uses a Dog as profile picture. …Is he on a leash, and about to do some tricks?
>>12750383 CNN: House Republicans who voted to impeach face backlash at home in test of Trump's staying power
#12750303 at 2021-01-29 02:37:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @300, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
>>12750236 Forbes hits the PANIC button
>>12750249 Growing List Of Assassinations Of COVID-19 Researchers
>>12750263 Coaches and Vans and Busses, Oh My? WH DC stream
#12750195 at 2021-01-29 02:25:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @200, >>12749947
>>12749965, >>12750151 GP: Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Breitbart: Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
#12750131 at 2021-01-29 02:19:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#16277 @earlies, >>12749947
>>12749965 Arizona's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied - EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified
>>12750031 Rapper Ja Rule Accuses RobinHood App of 'Fucking Crime' for Halting GameStop Buys: 'Do Not Sell!!! Hold the Line'
>>12750039 ZH: Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
>>12750048 Epoch: State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach
>>12750066 US Naval Institute: #OTD in 1915, the barque William P. Frye became the first U.S. vessel sunk during WWI
>>12750090 TheUSSun: A Lie gets half way around the World before the Truth get's it's boots on.
#12750039 at 2021-01-29 02:11:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16277: The 'Sometimes People Have To Be Shown' Edition
Masayoshi Son Rewards Top Execs With Massive Loans To Help Pump SoftBank Shares
With retail traders asserting their dominance over equity markets in a way the world hasn't seen before (thanks to Wall Street Bets and its legions of rabid users hell-bent on punching hedge-fund shorts in the nose by taking GME to the moon), it's worth looking back on an incident - which only unfolded few months ago - where Zero Hedge called out SoftBank for using an options-trading strategy that was partly responsible for driving huge gains in the Nasdaq (which, in turn, bolstered SoftBank's bottom line) (and, in turn, bolstering both SoftBank and many of its top positions).
SoftBank ended up making billions via what we termed "the biggest gamma squeeze" in history. But now that a similar squeeze has made GME the markets story of the year, and retail traders are once again taking over the market, SoftBank has shared another piece of the puzzle in its annual report.
As the FT reports thanks to an incentive package that was approved a year ago (last February), four top SoftBank executives are sitting on a collective gain that could be as large as $1.2BN after they were each loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the company's (fast-rising) shares.
Last year, SoftBank granted a total of $600MM in loans to four top executives: Rajeev Misra, head of SoftBank's infamous Vision Fund, Marcelo Claure, currently the head of SoftBank Group International, Katsunori Sago, SoftBank's chief strategy officer, and Ken Miyauchi, recently promoted to president and CEO (Nikkei targeted Miyauchi in a glowing profile published Thursday).
Since then, three of these men (including, most famously, Misra) have stepped down from SoftBank's board, alleviating the company of the responsibility for disclosing these compensation schemes. As one "expert" pointed out, not only is it unusual (if perhaps not illegal) for a company to refuse to disclose these compensation packages, in Japan, hefty executive pay packages are frowned upon, which is one reaSon why SoftBank might not want to reveal them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/Masayoshi-Son-rewards-top-execs-massive-loans-help-pump-softbank-shares
#12590728 at 2021-01-18 22:04:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16075: Peaceful Transition To Military Power Edition
>>12590690
Huge CIA raidcontinued
Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro NakaSone, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the mayor of Koganei City, the Police Chief of Koganei City, and all other criminals involved in the Fukushima crime against humanity will be jailed and eventually executed unless they release Zaric and immediately hold press conferences to confess their sins.
Next among the most prominent people expected to be taken down are Eric Schmidt of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, as well as Masayoshi Son of Softbank and many other oligarchs who have been used as funnels to launder privately-owned central-bank fiat money into the real economy. Japanese right-wing sources say that Son has "already been dealt with."
Meanwhile, a source within U.S. Marine headquarters also provided sordid detail of other Khazarian crimes that were uncovered in the raid. This was received via e-mail from a CIA white-hat:
From a Marine at CIA headquarters
The U.S. Marines raided the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia this past weekend. The Marines retrieved a lot of evidence implicating well-known politicians of embezzlement, election rigging, identity fraud, assassination plots, murders, domestic terrorism, and pedophilia.
I've listed the following 23 ITEMS to pique your interest and summarize what's happening:
ITEM 1: CIA headquarters has been raided, the FBI has been neutralized, and $35 trillion of U.S. Treasury embezzled funds have been recovered. About $100 trillion has been embezzled by the Bushs and the Clintons.
ITEM 2: President Donald Trump reopened the President John F. Kennedy assassination files and George H.W. Bush was behind it. JFK autopsy photographs were falsified.
ITEM 3: The sexual harassment outings of all these members of Congress is a mainstream media distraction for what's really going on (U.S. Marines raid CIA Headquarters and President Trump imposes military martial law) behind the scene.
ITEM 4: Alex Jones of Infowars is a traitor and national security threat who is connected with a division of the Mossad, the State of Israel's Secret Intelligence Service.
ITEM 5: Hillary Rodham Clinton had ordered the murders, through domestic assassination squads, of Ron Brown (Commerce Secretary), William Colby (Director of Central Intelligence), Vince Foster (Deputy White House Counsel), and John F. Kennedy Jr. (Son of assassinated President John F. Kennedy) - and others.
ITEM 6: Then-Republican Presidential candidate Trump was right that Sen. Ted Cruz's father was implicated with Lee Harvey Oswald.
ITEM 7: California Rep. Adam Schiff, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, former White House Chief of Staff for U.S. President Barack Obama, are connected with the Mossad. Both Schiff and Emmanuel are pedophiles.
ITEM 8: Barack Obama was born in Kenya and the former President has committed identity fraud. Obama should be arrested for identity fraud.
ITEM 9: Sen. Cruz is a Canadian citizen who faked his birth certificate to become U.S. Senator and has committed identity fraud. Cruz should be arrested for identity fraud.
https://benjaminfulford.net/2017/11/27/huge-actionable-intelligence-haul-marine-raid-cia-hq/
https://geopolitics.co/huge-actionable-intelligence-haul-from-marine-raid-on-cia-hq/
#11562291 at 2020-11-09 20:52:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14762: Eyes on Anons, Attacks from All Directions
SoftBank Says H1 Net Profit Surges More Than Four-fold To $18 Bn
Japan's SoftBank Group said Monday its first-half net profit more than quadrupled, sealing a strong recovery after a massive annual loss, as tech stocks rally and the firm sheds assets to shore up its finances.
Net profit for the six months to September came to 1.88 trillion yen ($18 billion), up from 421.6 billion yen a year earlier, the conglomerate said.
The profit surge was mainly driven by gains on its investments, which topped two trillion yen for the period.
However, it said it would not offer a forecast "as it is difficult to foresee consolidated results due to numerous uncertain factors".
SoftBank reported a nearly $9 billion net loss in the previous full fiscal year, but quickly returned to the black in the first quarter.
Masahiko Ishino, an analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute, said the firm had displayed "a steady performance" in line with robust gains in the global equities markets.
Founder Masayoshi Son has transformed the telecoms company into an investment and tech behemoth with stakes in some of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups through its $100 billion Vision Fund.
He has battled opposition to his strategy of pouring money into start-ups including troubled office-sharing firm WeWork which some analysts say are overvalued and lack clear profit models.
Son has insisted his strategy is sound, and that SoftBank's portfolio is broad enough to weather the storm.
"There were people who concluded that the Vision Fund was over" because of WeWork, Son told reporters on Monday. "No way! It only started."
He said the company will now focus on the "AI revolution" and will invest in listed companies, which he called the "real contenders" in the artificial intelligence sector.
The firm said its SoftBank Vision Fund saw strong results thanks to recovering stock markets and increases in portfolio firms where "exits have been decided or have new funding rounds, or (which) are benefiting from the accelerated adoption of digital services during the COVID-19 crisis".
The results come after SoftBank launched an aggressive plan to sell up to $41 billion in assets to finance a stock buy-back and reduce its debt.
https://www.ibtimes.com/softbank-says-h1-net-profit-surges-more-four-fold-18-bn-3078876
#11118421 at 2020-10-17 16:14:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14219 FRONT LINE DOCTORS Edition
Top Insider Trades week ending 100620
Individual but part of a group
DraftKings sold by director (Shalom Meckenzie is the founder of SBTech (Global) Ltd.): $353.22m-Oct 9
This is part of a larger sale by directors of Draftkings
-Israeli entrepreneur Shalom Meckenzie is the largest shareholder in daily fantasy and sports-betting firm Draft Kings.
-He secured his 11% stake in Draft Kings when it merged in early 2020 with his company, SBTech.
-Meckenzie founded gambling-technology provider SBTech in 2007 and served as a director until May 2014.
-DraftKings is the official daily fantasy partner of the NFL and the PGA Tour, as well as the authorized gaming operator for the NBA and MLB.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/shalom-meckenzie/#5711982143e9
part of a secondary offering-see link for the others-represented by cap#2 (scroll to bottom)
https://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=DKNG&b=2
DraftKings : Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Class A Common Stock
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DRAFTKINGS-INC-61175285/news/DraftKings-Announces-Pricing-of-Public-Offering-of-Class-A-Common-Stock-31497012/
Draftkings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company. The Company provides users with daily fantasy sports, sports betting and iGaming opportunities. Its offerings include business-to- consumer (B2C) offerings and business-to-business (B2B) offerings. Its B2C product offerings include Daily Fantasy Sports, Sportsbook and iGaming. Daily Fantasy Sports is a peer-to-peer platform in which its users compete against one another for prizes. Sportsbook includes sports betting, which involves a user placing a bet by wagering money on an event at some fixed odds (proposition) determined by the Company. iGaming is an online casino, which includes a suite of games available in land-based casinos, such as blackjack, roulette and slot machines. It also supplies B2B sports betting and iGaming services for various gaming operators and government-run lotteries
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DRAFTKINGS-INC-61175285/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1810205&tc=7&b=2
Institutional
Guardant Health sold by Softbank Vision Fund: $707.57m-Oct 9
Guardant Health, Inc. is a precision oncology company. The Company is focused on helping conquer cancer through use of its blood tests, data sets and analytics. It provides Guardant Health Oncology Platform. It provides liquid biopsy tests, such as Guardant360 and GuardantOMNI, for advanced stage cancer. Its liquid biopsy tests fuels its programs developing tests for recurrence and early detection, LUNAR-1 and LUNAR-2. Guardant360 is a molecular diagnostic test that measures 73 cancer-related genes from circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (ctDNA). Its Guardant360 process includes blood collection, laboratory processing, analysis and reporting. Guardant360 is used for a range of applications, including translational science research and identifying target patient populations, drug development and commercialization post-drug approval. Number of employees : 622 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/GUARDANT-HEALTH-INC-46434671/company/
SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. SoftBank owns stakes in many technology, energy, and financial companies. It also runs Vision Fund, the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund, with over $100 billion in capital. The company is known for its leadership by founder Masayoshi Son. It operates in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design, and other areas. SoftBank was ranked in the Forbes Global 2000 list as the 36th largest public company in the world, and the second largest publicly traded company in Japan after Toyota. The logo of SoftBank is based on the flag of the Kaientai, a naval trading company that was founded in 1865, near the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, by Sakamoto Ry?ma.Although SoftBank does not affiliate itself to any traditional keiretsu, it has close ties with Mizuho Financial Group, its main lender-who is also a Federal Reserve (NY Branch) Primary Dealer-see cap#4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group
https://visionfund.com/team
https://visionfund.com/portfolio
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1782391&tc=7&b=2
#11046010 at 2020-10-13 02:29:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14128: Time Dilation Emergent Probably
SoftBank Vision Fund preparing blank cheque acquisition company
SoftBank Group Corp's 9984.T Vision Fund is preparing to launch a blank cheque acquisition company and will outline plans in the next two weeks, a source familiar with the matter said, following similar reported comments by the fund's head Rajeev Misra. SoftBank is looking to attract outside investment and may put its own capital in the vehicle whose size is undetermined, the perSon said, declining to be identified as the information is not public.
Misra revealed plans for the vehicle at a conference on Monday hosted by billionaire Michael Milken's think-tank the Milken Institute, media reported. SoftBank declined to comment but Misra's remarks were reported by U.S. media. The launch would see SoftBank joining the fashion for special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) - shell vehicles that raise money in an initial public offering (IPO) before merging with a private company.
Such vehicles are being used to take a record number of companies public, bypassing the traditional IPO.
SoftBank is flush with cash as Chief Executive Masayoshi Son sells down core assets, leading to speculation over his future investment plans.
The group has been biding its time since efforts to raise capital for a successor to its $100 billion Vision Fund ran aground following poor performance at the fund. The first fund invested in many of the highest profile late-stage startups using its overwhelming firepower to push for faster growth and shaking up the venture capital industry.
SoftBank has been investing on a smaller scale with its own money via a second fund amid a lack of larger targets and as the funding environment is dampened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group has used its mounting cash reserves to take positions in listed U.S. tech firms and has a growing number of portfolio companies going public after the IPO window reopened.
SoftBank's shares rose as much as 1.6% in morning Tokyo trading before falling 0.6%. Shares are up more than 160% since March lows.
https://www.reuters.com/article/softbank-group-vision-fund/update-4-softbank-vision-fund-preparing-blank-cheque-acquisition-company-source-idUSL4N2H33XN
#10759516 at 2020-09-23 20:15:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13770: Soros & Alwaleed Influence Resurface
https://alwaleedphilanthropies.org/en/projects/breakthrough-energy
Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) is an investor- led fund that will finance emerging energy breakthroughs to deliver affordable and reliable energy with the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to near zero.
The fund led by Bill Gates draws on the resources of billionaires like Amazon's Jeff Bezos, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Virgin's Richard BranSon, Alibaba's Jack Ma, and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and HRH Prince ABT to support young entrepreneurs in the field of clean energy.
Project Goals
To accelerate an energy transition, by investing in visionary entrepreneurs and build companies that can have a significant impact on climate change at scale.
To invest $1 billion into radical energy startups capable of drastically cutting global emissions.
2019 Accomplishments
Up to now, BEV invested $174.3 M in 33 companies (7 Agriculture, 3 Buildings, 12 Electricity, 7 Manufacturing, and 4 Transportation) eight of them are Non-U.S. companies.
#10639085 at 2020-09-14 02:37:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13615: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS - POTUS WRWY Edition
Embattled SoftBank renews talks on taking the group private
LONDON: SoftBank Group Corp executives are considering taking the Japanese technology group private as the company seeks a new strategy after disposing of several large assets, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Sep 13).
The discussions are driven by frustrations over the continuous discount in SoftBank's equity valuation compared with the value of its individual holdings, which continues even after an asset sale programme tried to close that gap, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter. A SoftBank spokeswoman declined to comment on the FT report when contacted by Reuters. Shares in SoftBank, which is led by billionaire Masayoshi Son, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are down a little over 10 per cent so far in 2020 and are trading at £1,307.50. This is a steeper fall than Japan's Nikkei 225 Index and below the 1,500 price at which it sold units in its 2018 initial public offing (IPO). The IPO nearly two years ago, still Japan's biggest-ever stock market listing, was widely regarded at the time as finalizing the group's transition from domestic telecommunications company to a monolithic global tech investor.
Yet since then SoftBank has faced a host of challenges including losses on investments made by its US$100 billion Vision Fund, activist pressure from hedge fund Elliott Management and questions regarding significant option purchases during the recent run-up in the US stock market. The talks on taking SoftBank private have been speeded up due to number of fundamental changes to SoftBank's business strategy to become a long-term investor in businesses rather than a manager of companies, according to the FT.
SoftBank's recent investment track record has been checkered, including a particularly large bet on the prospects of shared office provider WeWork, resulting in SoftBank reporting an US$18 billion loss at the Vision Fund in May, pushing the conglomerate to a record loss.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/embattled-softbank-renews-talks-on-taking-the-group-private-13107748
#10571999 at 2020-09-09 01:10:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13528: Rally After Party - The WE LOVE YOU Edition
SoftBank shares slide 5% in Wednesday trading as investors wary of its U.S. tech bets
SoftBank Group Corp shares fell 5% in early trading on Wednesday as investors worried about the Japanese conglomerate's exposure to U.S. tech stocks, which slid for the third straight session. The fall takes SoftBank's share decline to 12% since sources told Reuters and other media late last week that it made big bets on equity derivatives tied to tech firms. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said last month SoftBank would place cash from an asset sale programme in public stocks but the complex transactions have caused jitters among retail investors in a company already widely viewed as opaque, analysts say. The group "needs to protect Masa's reputation by making sure it is not seen as a short-term trading giant, which would warrant a much bigger discount," Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal wrote in a note, referring to the gap between the value of its assets and its market valuation. SoftBank's purchase of call options in addition to share buying, which gives access to a much higher amount of shares on paper, is seen by analysts as having exacerbated the market's run-up and subsequent sell-off.
SoftBank has previously declined to comment on the trades.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-group-stocks/softbank-shares-slide-5-as-investors-wary-of-its-u-s-tech-bets-idUSKBN26001U
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Stock/9984
#10532678 at 2020-09-05 02:58:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13479: POTUS Friday Edition
SoftBank unmasked as 'Nasdaq whale' that stoked tech rally
TOKYO/LONDON/NEW YORK (Financial Times) – SoftBank is the "Nasdaq whale" that has bought billions of dollars' worth of US equity derivatives in a series of trades that stoked the fevered rally in big tech stocks before a sharp pullback on Thursday and Friday, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Japanese conglomerate had been snapping up options in tech stocks during the past month in huge amounts, fueling the largest ever trading volumes in contracts linked to individual companies, these people said. One banker described it as a "dangerous" bet. The aggressive move into the options market marks a new chapter for the investment powerhouse, which in recent years has made huge bets on privately held technology start-ups through its $100 billion Vision Fund. After the coronavirus market tumult hit those bets, the company established an asset management unit for public investments using capital contributed by its founder, Masayoshi Son.
Now it has also made a splash in trading derivatives linked to some of those new investments, which has shocked market veterans. "These are some of the biggest trades I've seen in 20 years of doing this," said one derivatives-focused US hedge fund manager. "The flow is huge."
The surge in purchases of call options derivatives that give the user the right to buy a stock at a pre-agreed price has been the talk of Wall Street, as the sheer size of the trades appears to have exacerbated a "melt-up" in many big technology stocks over the past few months. In August alone, Tesla's share price shot up 74%, while Apple gained 21%, Google's parent Alphabet rose 10% and Amazon 9%.
One perSon familiar with SoftBank's trades said it was "gobbling up" options on a scale that was even making some people within the organisation nervous. "People are caught with their pants down, massively short. This can continue. The whale is still hungry."
SoftBank declined to comment.
The Nasdaq was at one point on Friday down 10% from its peak the common definition of a correction yet the options boom means that the US stock market remains vulnerable to further bursts of volatility, according to Charlie McElligott, a strategist at Nomura. "The street is still very much in a dangerous space, and that flow is still out there," he wrote in a note on Friday.
The overall nominal value of calls traded on individual US stocks has averaged $335 billion a day over the past two weeks, according to Goldman Sachs. That is more than triple the rolling average between 2017 and 2019. The retail trading boom has played a big part in the frenzy, but investors say the size of many recent option purchases are far too big to be retail-driven. Unusually, single-stock call trading volumes have surged beyond the average daily volumes of calls on the broader US stock market, and are almost as high as the level of trading in index puts - which give the buyer the right to sell at a preset price and act as a popular form of insurance against stocks falling. The size and aggressiveness of the mysterious call buyer, coupled with the summer trading lull, has been a big factor in the buoyant performance of many big tech names as well as the broader US stock market, according to McElligott. This week, he warned that dynamics around options meant the heavy purchases forced banks on the other side of the trades to hedge themselves by buying stocks, in a "classic 'tail wags the dog' feedback loop".
This explains the U.S. stock market climbing in tandem with the Vix index often referred to as Wall Street's "fear gauge" and meant that equities were fragile and vulnerable to the kind of sudden setback that erupted on Thursday. "The equity volatility complex is acting 'broken' and indicative that 'something's gotta give'," McElligott warned in a note shortly before the Nasdaq fell 5%.
One banker familiar with the latest options trading activity said Thursday's market pullback would have been painful for SoftBank, but he expected the buying to resume. A larger and longer-lasting stock market decline would be more damaging for this strategy, and would probably involve rapid declines, he added.
The options buying comes alongside $10 billion in public investments SoftBank is targeting through its new asset management arm.
According to a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, SoftBank has bought stakes of almost $2 billion in Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Tesla – investments that are partially funded by cash from its $41 billion asset sale program that was triggered by a collapse in its share price during the Covid-19 market turmoil.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/SoftBank-unmasked-as-Nasdaq-whale-that-stoked-tech-rally
#10322406 at 2020-08-17 22:55:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13208: Who Wants To Hear Big Mike? Edition
SoftBank pours billions into Big Tech, amasses $1.2bn in Amazon
SoftBank Group is on another investment spree – but this time it is buying into America's Big Tech establishment rather than chasing highly valued startups in a bid to appease investors with immediate returns.
New filings Monday by the Japanese conglomerate show that it had built a $1 billion stake in Amazon as of June 30. Other new holdings included $500 million worth of shares in Google parent Alphabet, and $200 million each in Tesla and Netflix. Because share prices in these companies have risen since then, the Amazon stake alone is now worth $1.2 billion.
The filings, which SoftBank submitted this month to report activities in the April-June period, are required on a quarterly basis by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This marks the first time SoftBank has made such a filing. During an earnings call last week, SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son announced the launch of a subsidiary to invest $555 million in publicly listed stock using excess cash from recent big asset sales, including shares of Alibaba Group Holding. The move to buy into large, public tech companies marks a shift in priorities for the Japanese investment powerhouse, as it grapples with investor pressure to improve its balance sheet.
SoftBank is known most around the world for its venture capital arm the Vision Fund, which backs private startups according to Son's 300-year plan. But its aggressive strategy, along with the formation of a second Vision Fund, has been called into question especially after its perceived reckless bet in WeWork. The coronavirus pandemic has added to the company's financial woes.
Speaking of its new investment management subsidiary last week, Son said, "Amazon, Apple, Facebook, so these are the names generally recognized widely by many people. These are highly liquid names that we can sell quite easily in the market." "In addition to that, in order to minimize the risk, we use derivative transactions as well," he said. "And against the volatility in the market, we hope to hedge the risk."
Already, the new holdings in large U.S. public companies seem to be paying off. SoftBank's position in Amazon, as disclosed in the Monday filing, would have reaped a $200 million gain in just six weeks, while its stake in Tesla would have gained $80 million, or 65%.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-pours-billions-into-Big-Tech-amasses-1.2bn-in-Amazon
#10283960 at 2020-08-14 13:13:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13162: Not A DAMN [They] Can Do About It Edition
SoftBank revives $1.1bn financing commitment to WeWork
SoftBank Group has revived a $1.1 billion financing commitment to WeWork after fears over the U.S. office space provider's financial woes eased. The senior secured debt, part of a $9.5 billion financing package to support WeWork after its initial public offering collapsed last year, was previously tied to a $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares. The debt commitment lapsed after SoftBank terminated the tender offer, but it was recently revived, according to people familiar with the matter. The debt facility has not been drawn, the people added. After investing more than $10 billion in WeWork, SoftBank suffered large losses in the January-March quarter due a sharp decline in WeWork's valuation as well as its credit risk. But some of the credit-related losses were reversed in the April-June quarter after its creditworthiness improved, SoftBank said in its financial statement released this week. The office space market has been hit by the new coronavirus as employees work from home. SoftBank founder and Chairman Masayoshi Son, however, has said he expects demand to grow for short-term contracts offered by WeWork as companies remain cautious due to the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-revives-1.1bn-financing-commitment-to-WeWork
#10085849 at 2020-07-26 23:27:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12908: Potus N Pepe Etched in Time, It's KEK! Edition
Biomilq, a North Carolina-based startup, is targeting infant nutrition by attempting to reproduce mother's breastmilk in a lab.
Gates Invests in Lab-made "Breastmilk" - New World Next Week
Biomilq has just earned the backing of the world's top investors, by raising $3.5 million in Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Bill Gates' investment firm focused on climate change.
Breakthough Ventures' investing coalition includes Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard BranSon, Masayoshi Son, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg and Marc Benioff.
"That means per infant fed formula in the US, 5,700 metric tons of CO2 are produced, and 4,300 gallons of freshwater are consumed each year to feed a child. Parents want to do what's best for their kids but shouldn't have to decide between feeding their children and protecting the planet."
https://www.activistpost.com/2020/06/gates-invests-in-lab-made-breastmilk-new-world-next-week.html
June 25, 2020
#9740314 at 2020-06-25 07:22:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12468: The 'Class Action Lawsuits Coming' Edition
#12465
>>9738682 Sidney Powell's Parler Post
>>9738681, >>9738583 This Q post (166) is very relevant today.
>>9738675 SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
>>9738509, >>9738612 Face Covering Facts: Oxygen levels below 80 are deadly
>>9738592 QPostCOIN
>>9738522, >>9739517 GOP House candidate publishes 23-page report claiming George Floyd death was deepfake video
>>9738477 President Trump: "We expect to get along with Russia. We expect to get along with everybody.
>>9738440 DisneyLand Cancels Opening 7-17
>>9738437 Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
>>9738357 Flynn Celebrates Legal Victory in Suprise Call with Rush Limbaugh
>>9738331 Report: Gun, Ammo Sales Surge amid Push to Defund Police
>>9738302 They have to be getting paid! Pew Research: Only 1-in-6 Protesters Are Black, 46 Percent Are White
>>9738261 Moar charges for JA
>>9738252 Report: Big Tech Pushes 'Diversity' While Two-Thirds of Silicon Valley Hires Are Foreign-Born
>>9738187, >>9738375 San Fransisco Corruption Implodes
>>9738156 Wray Has 'Serious Concerns' About Comey FBI's Investigation Of Michael Flynn
>>9738054, >>9738103, >>9738129 Eric Schmidts Digz
>>9738096, >>9738101, >>9738280, >>9738107, >>9738111, >>9738151 Solving the potential cypher in Flynn's Parler banner
>>9738094 Engel's Defeat in N.Y. Should Spur Netanyahu to Rethink Annexation - but It Won't
>>9738078 DIGS on BLM in 4CH?
>>9738066 Lima man sentenced to nearly 42 years in priSon for sex trafficking minor girl
>>9738060, >>9738188, >>9738221, >>9738274, >>9738335, >>9738523 Planefag Action
>>9738059 MSDNC Legal Analyst has an opinion on Flynn case
>>9738055 Australia's coronavirus death toll rises after 'reclassification' as Sydney school closes due to positive test
>>9738042 Antifa Twat Deleter: UN Chief Warns Israel West Bank Annexation Would Be 'Most Serious Violation of International Law
>>9738723 #12465
Previously Collected Notables
>>9737175 #12463, >>9737845 #12464
>>9734701 #12460, >>9735575 #12461, >>9736403 #12462
>>9732360 #12457, >>9733111 #12458, >>9733908 #12459
>>9730089 #12454, >>9730829 #12455, >>9731694 #12456
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#9740178 at 2020-06-25 07:00:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12467: Dream On, Dragonfly Edition
>>9740174
Resignations in the news 6/22/2020 thru 6/24/2020 - part 5
Arkwright town supervisor resigns
https://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2020/06/arkwright-town-supervisor-resigns/
Acadian Ambulance fires Cajun musician Jamie Bergeron for offensive social media posts
https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/06/23/cajun-musician-jamie-bergeron-fired-offensive-social-media-posts/3245049001/
RoseAnn Rosenthal Steps Down as CEO of Ben Franklin Tech Partners
https://www.phillymag.com/healthcare-news/2020/06/24/roseann-rosenthal-ben-franklin-tech-partners/
Silicon Valley Federation to merge with Los Gatos JCC as longtime CEO retires
https://www.jweekly.com/2020/06/24/silicon-valley-federation-to-merge-with-los-gatos-jcc-ceo-retiring/
Loris administrator to resign next week
https://wpde.com/news/local/loris-administrator-to-resign
'Assassin's Creed Valhalla' Creative Director Leaves Project Amid Allegations Of Misconduct
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/06/24/assassins-creed-valhalla-creative-director-leaves-project-amid-allegations-of-misconduct/#2c8e2ff572b1
Najm Confirms She Plans to Resign over Independence of Judiciary Law
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/272752-najm-confirms-she-plans-to-resign-over-independence-of-judiciary-law
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Resigns, Following Pressure From Comic Creators
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/comic-book-legal-defense-fund-exec-director-resigns-pressure-creators-1299808
Chairman of Lansing Police Board of Commissioners resigns
https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Chairman-of-Lansing-Board-of-Commissioners-resigns–571467371.html
Two Chattanooga police officers resign while under investigation
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/jun/24/two-chattanooga-police-officers-resign-while-under-investigation/526080/
Ball State College of Health dean to step down from role
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/06/news-ball-state-dean-mitchell-whaley-steps-down-college-of-health?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest
TucSon police chief offers resignation over death of man in custody
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504387-tucSon-police-chief-offers-resignation-over-death-of-man-in-custody
Library Board President Resigns Over Homophobic Remarks
https://patch.com/illinois/libertyville/library-board-president-resigns-over-homophobic-remarks
Signature Theatre Leader Retiring Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
https://www.arlnow.com/2020/06/24/breaking-signature-theatre-leader-retiring-amid-sexual-assault-allegations/
John Messner steps down from county commission
http://crestedbuttenews.com/2020/06/john-messner-steps-down-from-county-commission/
TaskRabbit C.E.O. to Step Down, a Blow for Silicon Valley Diversity
http://archive.fo/oB2ai
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-ceo-Masayoshi-Son-says-he-will-resign-from-board-of-alibaba-11593055958
Brazil minister quits as Supreme Court sends message to BolSonaro
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-weintraub/brazil-minister-quits-as-supreme-court-sends-message-to-bolSonaro-idUSKBN23P3FM
Okayplayer CEO Abiola Oke Resigns, Company Cites Recent Allegations
https://pitchfork.com/news/okayplayer-ceo-abiole-oke-resigns-company-cites-recent-allegations/
Edmonton school trustee resigns over comments about refugee students
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cheryl-johner-racism-refugees-school-resource-officer-edmonton-1.5625519
Dublin Unified superintendent unexpectedly resigns from district
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/23/dublin-unified-superintendent-unexpectedly-resigns-from-district/
Lions Ownership Change, Martha Ford Is Stepping Down
https://wcrz.com/lions-ownership-change-martha-ford-is-stepping-down/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
John Flanagan, NY Senate GOP leader, retiring later this month
https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/john-flanagan-ny-senate-gop-leader-retiring-later-this-month/article_d50038de-a21e-58be-b8a6-41f390cbbc13.html
Chairman of Israel's Yad Vashem to step down after 27 years
https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2020/06/21/chairman-of-israels-yad-vashem-to-step-down-after-27-years/
Delray Beach city manager fired
https://www.wpbf.com/article/delray-beach-city-manager-fired/32963249
#9739565 at 2020-06-25 05:31:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12467: Dream On, Dragonfly Edition
Global Announcements
>>9698938 Announcing a new resource for bakers and anons
>>9650176 BO: The index page limit was changed to 15 from 25 at the suggestion of CM about this time last year because of performance issues on the website.
Notables are NOT endorsements
#12466
>>9738810, >>9739084, >>9739116 Moar studies and info on masks and oxygen saturation
>>9738820 A Brief History of Antifa, parts 1 and 2
>>9738836 POTUS Schedule for Thursday, June 25, 2020
>>9738865 Voters Scoff as Apple's Tim Cook Declares 'Deeply Disappointed' with H-1B Visa Worker Halt
>>9738903 Vid: Masks cause more harm than good: Testing oxygen levels under a mask with an OSHA air quality monitor
>>9738911 US reports RECORD jump in coronavirus cases as states mull tougher restrictions, blaming anything but packed protests
>>9738914 New DJT: It was my great honor to free up 5000 square miles of ocean off the cost of Maine. Enjoy!
>>9738918 WA State Supreme Court justice won't recuse herself despite tweeting support for mask order
>>9738921 Platform strategy for the information war
>>9738924 India, China Swear Upon Past Agreements, New Confidence-Building Measures to Break Stand-off
>>9738929 planefaggin
>>9738935, >>9738971, >>9739039 Vid: #FloridaWoman destroys county commissioners regarding masks
>>9738980, >>9739002, >>9739416 Talladega "Noose" was there in 2017
>>9738986 Wray reveals FBI 'looking carefully' at foreign interference in protests following George Floyd's death
>>9738995, >>9739004 New DJT: "How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again, The Untold Story Of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump." A great new book!
>>9739131, >>9739074 Was Wal-Mart compromised into Corona hoax after evidence of their opioid "pill mill" drug ring?
>>9739136 Moar MSM crimes: "How to *hypothetically* take down a racist statue"
>>9739177, >>9739283 Black Lives Matter leader states if US 'doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system'
>>9739198, >>9739239, >>9739221 For the keks: CHAZ's Barricades are being Stolen. Open Borders for CHAZ!
>>9739261, >>9739268, >>9739357, >>9739376 Digg on Thousand Currents and connections to BLM, previous communist "protests"/riots
>>9739294 @PrestonTVNews: More than a dozen businesses inside CHOP zone, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, file 56-page class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle
>>9739329 Physicians Seek Preliminary Injunction To Release Hydroxychloroquine To Public
>>9739361 EXPOSED, More Biden Lies Surface
>>9739482 Devin Nunes (and his cow) are on Parler
>>9739485 Chinese buy strategic land in Texas, U.S. intel may not be pleased
>>9739520 "Dr." Anthony Fauci praises Gavin Newsom, stresses face masks in Sacramento Press Club chat
>>9739559 #12466
#12465
>>9738682 Sidney Powell's Parler Post
>>9738681, >>9738583 This Q post (166) is very relevant today.
>>9738675 SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
>>9738509, >>9738612 Face Covering Facts: Oxygen levels below 80 are deadly
>>9738592 QPostCOIN
>>9738522, >>9739517 GOP House candidate publishes 23-page report claiming George Floyd death was deepfake video
>>9738477 President Trump: "We expect to get along with Russia. We expect to get along with everybody.
>>9738440 DisneyLand Cancels Opening 7-17
>>9738437 Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
>>9738357 Flynn Celebrates Legal Victory in Suprise Call with Rush Limbaugh
>>9738331 Report: Gun, Ammo Sales Surge amid Push to Defund Police
>>9738302 They have to be getting paid! Pew Research: Only 1-in-6 Protesters Are Black, 46 Percent Are White
>>9738261 Moar charges for JA
>>9738252 Report: Big Tech Pushes 'Diversity' While Two-Thirds of Silicon Valley Hires Are Foreign-Born
>>9738187, >>9738375 San Fransisco Corruption Implodes
>>9738156 Wray Has 'Serious Concerns' About Comey FBI's Investigation Of Michael Flynn
>>9738054, >>9738103, >>9738129 Eric Schmidts Digz
>>9738096, >>9738101, >>9738280, >>9738107, >>9738111, >>9738151 Solving the potential cypher in Flynn's Parler banner
>>9738094 Engel's Defeat in N.Y. Should Spur Netanyahu to Rethink Annexation - but It Won't
>>9738078 DIGS on BLM in 4CH?
>>9738066 Lima man sentenced to nearly 42 years in priSon for sex trafficking minor girl
>>9738060, >>9738188, >>9738221, >>9738274, >>9738335, >>9738523 Planefag Action
>>9738059 MSDNC Legal Analyst has an opinion on Flynn case
>>9738055 Australia's coronavirus death toll rises after 'reclassification' as Sydney school closes due to positive test
>>9738042 Antifa Twat Deleter: UN Chief Warns Israel West Bank Annexation Would Be 'Most Serious Violation of International Law
>>9738723 #12465
Previously Collected Notables
>>9737175 #12463, >>9737845 #12464
>>9734701 #12460, >>9735575 #12461, >>9736403 #12462
>>9732360 #12457, >>9733111 #12458, >>9733908 #12459
>>9730089 #12454, >>9730829 #12455, >>9731694 #12456
>>9727717 #12451, >>9728492 #12452, >>9729324 #12453
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#9738767 at 2020-06-25 03:56:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12466: Grave Time for DS Edition
Global Announcements
>>9698938 Announcing a new resource for bakers and anons
>>9650176 BO: The index page limit was changed to 15 from 25 at the suggestion of CM about this time last year because of performance issues on the website.
Notables are NOT endorsements
12465
>>9738682 Sidney Powell's Parler Post
>>9738681, >>9738583 This Q post (166) is very relevant today.
>>9738675 SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
>>9738509, >>9738612 Face Covering Facts: Oxygen levels below 80 are deadly
>>9738592 QPostCOIN
>>9738522 GOP House candidate publishes 23-page report claiming George Floyd death was deepfake video
>>9738477 President Trump: "We expect to get along with Russia. We expect to get along with everybody.
>>9738440 DisneyLand Cancels Opening 7-17
>>9738437 Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
>>9738357 Flynn Celebrates Legal Victory in Suprise Call with Rush Limbaugh
>>9738331 Report: Gun, Ammo Sales Surge amid Push to Defund Police
>>9738302 They have to be getting paid! Pew Research: Only 1-in-6 Protesters Are Black, 46 Percent Are White
>>9738261 Moar charges for JA
>>9738252 Report: Big Tech Pushes 'Diversity' While Two-Thirds of Silicon Valley Hires Are Foreign-Born
>>9738187, >>9738375 San Fransisco Corruption Implodes
>>9738156 Wray Has 'Serious Concerns' About Comey FBI's Investigation Of Michael Flynn
>>9738054, >>9738103, >>9738129 Eric Schmidts Digz
>>9738096, >>9738101, >>9738280, >>9738107, >>9738111, >>9738151 Solving the potential cypher in Flynn's Parler banner
>>9738094 Engel's Defeat in N.Y. Should Spur Netanyahu to Rethink Annexation - but It Won't
>>9738078 DIGS on BLM in 4CH?
>>9738066 Lima man sentenced to nearly 42 years in priSon for sex trafficking minor girl
>>9738060, >>9738188, >>9738221, >>9738274, >>9738335, >>9738523 Planefag Action
>>9738059 MSDNC Legal Analyst has an opinion on Flynn case
>>9738055 Australia's coronavirus death toll rises after 'reclassification' as Sydney school closes due to positive test
>>9738042 Antifa Twat Deleter: UN Chief Warns Israel West Bank Annexation Would Be 'Most Serious Violation of International Law
>>9738723 12465
Previously Collected Notables
>>9737175 #12463, >>9737845 12464
>>9734701 #12460, >>9735575 #12461, >>9736403 #12462
>>9732360 #12457, >>9733111 #12458, >>9733908 #12459
>>9730089 #12454, >>9730829 #12455, >>9731694 #12456
>>9727717 #12451, >>9728492 #12452, >>9729324 #12453
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#9738723 at 2020-06-25 03:49:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12465: HouseCleaning EditioN
Notables are NOT endorsements
#12465
>>9738682 Sidney Powell's Parler Post
>>9738681, >>9738583 This Q post (166) is very relevant today.
>>9738675 SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
>>9738509, >>9738612 Face Covering Facts: Oxygen levels below 80 are deadly
>>9738592 QPostCOIN
>>9738522 GOP House candidate publishes 23-page report claiming George Floyd death was deepfake video
>>9738477 President Trump: "We expect to get along with Russia. We expect to get along with everybody.
>>9738440 DisneyLand Cancels Opening 7-17
>>9738437 Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
>>9738357 Flynn Celebrates Legal Victory in Suprise Call with Rush Limbaugh
>>9738331 Report: Gun, Ammo Sales Surge amid Push to Defund Police
>>9738302 They have to be getting paid! Pew Research: Only 1-in-6 Protesters Are Black, 46 Percent Are White
>>9738261 Moar charges for JA
>>9738252 Report: Big Tech Pushes 'Diversity' While Two-Thirds of Silicon Valley Hires Are Foreign-Born
>>9738187, >>9738375 San Fransisco Corruption Implodes
>>9738156 Wray Has 'Serious Concerns' About Comey FBI's Investigation Of Michael Flynn
>>9738054, >>9738103, >>9738129 Eric Schmidts Digz
>>9738096, >>9738101, >>9738280, >>9738107, >>9738111, >>9738151 Solving the potential cypher in Flynn's Parler banner
>>9738094 Engel's Defeat in N.Y. Should Spur Netanyahu to Rethink Annexation - but It Won't
>>9738078 DIGS on BLM in 4CH?
>>9738066 Lima man sentenced to nearly 42 years in priSon for sex trafficking minor girl
>>9738060, >>9738188, >>9738221, >>9738274, >>9738335, >>9738523 Planefag Action
>>9738059 MSDNC Legal Analyst has an opinion on Flynn case
>>9738055 Australia's coronavirus death toll rises after 'reclassification' as Sydney school closes due to positive test
>>9738042 Antifa Twat Deleter: UN Chief Warns Israel West Bank Annexation Would Be 'Most Serious Violation of International Law
#9738675 at 2020-06-25 03:44:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12465: HouseCleaning EditioN
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Says He Will Resign From Board of Alibaba
Softbank announced in May that Alibaba's Jack Ma would step down from its board
SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Thursday that he is stepping down from the board of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, effective the same day.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-ceo-Masayoshi-Son-says-he-will-resign-from-board-of-alibaba-11593055958
#9636251 at 2020-06-16 21:06:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12334: Gone With The Win Edition
SoftBank Will Sell $20 Billion Worth Of Stake In T-Mobile: Report
After posting record losses last year and now in desperate need of cash, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank is planning to sell as much as two-thirds of its stake in T-Mobile early next week, worth around $20 billion, sources told CNBC on Tuesday.
KEY FACTS
-The potential deal is the latest indication of SoftBank's need for cash after disappointing investments made by its Vision Fund resulted in the worst fiscal year in the company's history.
-The potential sale of its stake in T-Mobile is part of SoftBank's plan, announced in March, to sell $41 billion of assets in order to buyback shares and reduce debt.
-SoftBank recently posted a record-breaking loss of $13 billion for last year-including a massive $18 billion loss for its Vision Fund, as huge bets on companies like Uber and WeWork flopped.
-Because of business missteps and economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Japanese investing conglomerate was forced to write down its valuation on WeWork from $47 billion in 2019 to just $2.9 billion, while Uber's valuation has fallen over $10 billion in the past year.
-Against the backdrop of SoftBank's dismal performance, billionaire investor and CEO Masayoshi Son has subsequently had to scale back his ambitions for a second Vision Fund.
Shares of T-Mobile were down nearly 3% on Tuesday, following the news. Neither SoftBank nor T-Mobile immediately responded to Forbes' requests for comments. It's unclear who would buy the T-Mobile shares from SoftBank. Some experts have speculated that Deutsche Telekom, which currently holds a more than 40% stake in T-Mobile and wants to maintain control of the company, could be a good candidate. SoftBank originally gained a stake in T-Mobile through the wireless carrier's long-awaited merger with Sprint, which was approved by a federal judge in February. SoftBank owned around 85% of Sprint common stock at the time of the deal. Under the terms of the agreement, SoftBank exchanged 11 shares for each T-Mobile share, giving Deutsche Telekom (which owned over 60% of T-Mobile U.S. before the deal) a slightly larger stake in the new company. Experts think there are serious doubts over whether the $108 billion Vision Fund 2 will still go ahead as planned. While the second Vision Fund is up and running, it is doing so with only $38 billion from the SoftBank Group itself. Son has said that he won't try to raise capital from outside investors until companies in Vision Fund 1 start performing better. At SoftBank's earnings presentation last month, Son said that he expects 15 companies in the first Vision Fund's portfolio of 88 companies to go bankrupt. As the investing conglomerate struggles to steady some of its businesses amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, SoftBank has so far written down valuations on more than 45 companies in its Vision Fund.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/16/softbank-will-sell-20-billion-worth-of-stake-in-t-mobile-report/#7ca228fe683b
#9250025 at 2020-05-20 12:48:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11839 Be Not Afraid Edition
#11837
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
>>9249035 Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept
>>9249159 Early data on Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine insufficient
>>9249182 #11837
#11836
>>9247666 anons ideas on a heroin bust in 1991 and some online property tax records possibly linking to Pelosi ownership gets digits, possibly dig worthy, sauces attached
>>9247821, >>9247840 dank HCQ meme ammo
>>9247673 New DJT - Sleepy Joe has given you nothing and never will
>>9247676, >>9247583 (LB), >>9247683, >>9248309 Navy Sends Subs to Sea as Message to China, Q post 38
>>9247695, >>9247865, >>9247989 planefags
>>9247725, >>9247730 update to pb notable >>9246134 "Herridge on the latest Gen Flynn case news" - Group of 15 GOP state AGs calls on judge to dismiss Flynn case
>>9247753, >>9247802, >>9248166 New DJT- just tweeted a post with WWG1WGA in both the tweet and the profile!
>>9247766 Jo Rae Perkins wins Republican Senate primary in Oregon. Here is her Victory speech with a very special shout out to the Q people! WWG1WGA!
>>9247768 New DJT - They got caught. Some very nervous criminals out there
>>9247958, >>9247946 New DJT plus article
>>9247975 New DJT - Yes! re Obama's United Nations Amb. Samantha Power testified that she had no recollection of even a single such request to unmask Flynn. She made at least seven. When Sessions said that he had "no recollection", Democrats called for his prosecution for perjury
>>9248064 New DJT Consistently great reporting by Elizabeth MacDonald of @FoxBusiness. She really understands OBAMAGATE!
>>9247678, >>9247679, >>9247690, >>9248146 updates on the dams in Michigan
>>9248229 DOJ's letter to CA Gov. Newsom on civil rights and the covid-19 pandemic
>>9248248, >>9248264 Meet W.H.O.'s Goodwill Ambassadors: Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping, and Major General in the PLA, James Chau, propagandist for Chinese state TV
>>9248288 Feb 2006 science journal, The Lancet, talking about HCQ effectiveness
>>9248405 #11836
Previously Collected Notables
>>9246827 #11834, >>9247905 #11835
>>9243694 #11830, >>9244474 #11831, >>9245465 #11832, >>9246086 #11833
>>9240646 #11826, >>9241363 #11827, >>9242189 #11828, >>9242940 #11829
>>9237560 #11822, >>9238293 #11823, >>9239060 #11824, >>9240143 #11825
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#9249201 at 2020-05-20 09:52:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11838: The 'Not everyone is going to want to get it’ Edition
Global Announcements
>>8971620 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
Notables
are not endorsements
#11837
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
>>9249035 Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept
>>9249159 Early data on Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine insufficient
>>9249182 #11837
#11836
>>9247666 anons ideas on a heroin bust in 1991 and some online property tax records possibly linking to Pelosi ownership gets digits, possibly dig worthy, sauces attached
>>9247821, >>9247840 dank HCQ meme ammo
>>9247673 New DJT - Sleepy Joe has given you nothing and never will
>>9247676, >>9247583 (LB), >>9247683, >>9248309 Navy Sends Subs to Sea as Message to China, Q post 38
>>9247695, >>9247865, >>9247989 planefags
>>9247725, >>9247730 update to pb notable >>9246134 "Herridge on the latest Gen Flynn case news" - Group of 15 GOP state AGs calls on judge to dismiss Flynn case
>>9247753, >>9247802, >>9248166 New DJT- just tweeted a post with WWG1WGA in both the tweet and the profile!
>>9247766 Jo Rae Perkins wins Republican Senate primary in Oregon. Here is her Victory speech with a very special shout out to the Q people! WWG1WGA!
>>9247768 New DJT - They got caught. Some very nervous criminals out there
>>9247958, >>9247946 New DJT plus article
>>9247975 New DJT - Yes! re Obama's United Nations Amb. Samantha Power testified that she had no recollection of even a single such request to unmask Flynn. She made at least seven. When Sessions said that he had "no recollection", Democrats called for his prosecution for perjury
>>9248064 New DJT Consistently great reporting by Elizabeth MacDonald of @FoxBusiness. She really understands OBAMAGATE!
>>9247678, >>9247679, >>9247690, >>9248146 updates on the dams in Michigan
>>9248229 DOJ's letter to CA Gov. Newsom on civil rights and the covid-19 pandemic
>>9248248, >>9248264 Meet W.H.O.'s Goodwill Ambassadors: Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping, and Major General in the PLA, James Chau, propagandist for Chinese state TV
>>9248288 Feb 2006 science journal, The Lancet, talking about HCQ effectiveness
>>9248405 #11836
#11835
>>9246894 Biden will deliver the commencement address to Columbia Law School's graduating class on Wednesday, despite his history of plagiarism and academic embellishment.
>>9246904,>>9246915 New DJT -So true. OBAMAGATE!
>>9246918 DeSantis administration fires COVID-19 data guru for 'insubordination'
>>9246980 How Can Susan Rice Know What Obama and Comey Said if She Was Not Present?
>>9246988 A technical glitch wiped out Tuesday's telecast of the "CBS Evening News" in the eastern half of the country.
>>9247060, >>9247082, >>9247108, >>9247126, >>9247146, >>9247168, >>9247177, >>9247206 John Podesta / Joule Unlimited / Flagship Pioneering / MODERNA
>>9247272 The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump Family, Says Whistleblower
>>9247383 Anon 'Updated my timeline project for COVID-19: ' ← looks good, thorough
>>9247474 New DJT - Thank you Emily!
>>9247905 #11835
Previously Collected Notables
>>9246827 #11834
>>9243694 #11830, >>9244474 #11831, >>9245465 #11832, >>9246086 #11833
>>9240646 #11826, >>9241363 #11827, >>9242189 #11828, >>9242940 #11829
>>9237560 #11822, >>9238293 #11823, >>9239060 #11824, >>9240143 #11825
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
#9249182 at 2020-05-20 09:45:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#11837 FINAL, >>9248424, >>9248428
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
>>9249035 Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept
>>9249159 Early data on Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine insufficient
#11837
Save notes for next bred anons!
#9249153 at 2020-05-20 09:35:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#11837 @650, >>9248424, >>9248428
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
>>9249035 Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept
#11837
#9249109 at 2020-05-20 09:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#11837 @600, >>9248424, >>9248428
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
>>9249035 Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept
#9248993 at 2020-05-20 08:38:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#11837 @500, >>9248424, >>9248428
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
>>9248898 Chinese government scheming to spread influence inside America, Pompeo warns
>>9248906 Soros Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities
>>9248927 Don't Be Fooled: LA Public Health Director is an Activist Using "The Data" to Advance an Agenda
>>9248950 An anon theory: May 15 House Votes Violated the Rules and the US Constitution
>>9248954 Biden is on his own quest to find a running mate with strengths he lacks while facing pressure to make history.
#9248891 at 2020-05-20 08:06:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
NotablesareNOTendorsements
#11837 @400, >>9248424, >>9248428
>>9248469 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Midland County after the Edenville and Sanford dams breached.
>>9248529 An anon's COVID timeline dig update
>>9248563 3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
>>9248575, >>9248577 Resignations in the news 5/19/2020
>>9248621, >>9248482 Anons dig: NABU Leaks Quick Overview
>>9248669 The German "Spiegel" writes about Germans turning their backs on globalisation.
>>9248724 Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be voluntary: 'Not everyone is going to want to get it'
>>9248821 Some sophists have balls: Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy
#9248821 at 2020-05-20 07:48:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11837: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]? Edition
Softbank CEO says like Jesus, he has been misunderstoodHe reportedly used the analogy to mean that his reputation would be be seen differently if his investments improved
Softbank recorded a $13 billion annual loss, leaving founder and CEO Masayoshi Son to defend his investment strategy.
He was asked on an investment call whether he felt he was misunderstood by the media.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/softbank-ceo-says-like-jesus-he-has-been-misunderstood
#9200465 at 2020-05-16 16:44:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11775: Keyboard Warriors Unmasking the Plandemic Scamdemic Shamdemic Edition
Saudi sovereign wealth fund said to be seeking US$10-billion margin loan
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is planning to borrow about US$10 billion by pledging some of its stakes in SoftBank Group Corp.'s technology investment vehicle to shore up liquidity, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Public Investment Fund, which has been on an overseas shopping spree recently, is speaking with investment banks about a margin loan backed by some of its investments in the US$100-billion Vision Fund, the people said, asking not to be identified as the matter is private. While discussions with banks are ongoing, it may not materialize in a deal, and the fund may also decide against raising the loan, the people said.
The Saudi wealth fund didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The move follows a similar plan by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund to raise seven billion euros (US$7.6 billion) against some of its most high-profile European equity investments. PIF, the backbone of the oil-rich country's economic transformation plan, is the largest contributor to the Vision Fund after committing US$45 billion to invest along with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in companies such as WeWork, Oyo Hotels and Uber Technologies Inc.
The loan could act as a way for PIF to raise money against its investments in the fund, which has been going through challenging times recently. The Vision Fund, which contributed more than half of the conglomerate's profit a year ago, has swung to record losses.
The recent plunge in oil prices is pushing sovereign wealth funds in the region to find ways to unlock liquidity. PIF is in need of capital as it embarks on an investment spree that has seen it build stakes in some of the world's largest companies since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, it disclosed stakes in companies including Facebook Inc., Boeing Co. and Citigroup Inc.
The fund is looking into "any opportunity" arising from the economic wreckage of the crisis, its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, said at a virtual event in April. The fund expects to see "lots of opportunities," he predicted at the time, citing airlines, energy and entertainment companies as examples.
In a margin loan, a borrower secures the debt by pledging an asset with the understanding that they'd need to pay up if the value of the collateral declines. The lender can typically sell some of the collateral if the borrower is unable to provide the cash. Banks compete for these deals because of the fees associated with structured financing.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/saudi-sovereign-wealth-fund-seeking-10-billion-margin-loan-1.1437278
good luck with that-doubling down on a pair of 2's. They have little choice though
#9047340 at 2020-05-06 04:06:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11581: Dr Shiva and THE ADRENOCHROME Edition
>>9047284
5/7
Giving Pledge/the Prince/Breakthrough Energy/Climate Change/Gates/Steyer and more cont.
Breakthrough Energy has expanded to include Breakthrough Energy Coalition. You gotta see the coalition collaborators. They include GE, Wells Fargo, Microsoft and the University of California.
Individual collaborators are Mukesh Ambani, John Arnold, Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Michael Bloomberg, Richard BranSon, Ray Dalio, Aliko Dangote, John Doerr, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Chris Hohn, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma, Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, Patrice Motsepe, Xavier Niel, Hasso Plattner, Julian RobertSon, David Rubenstein, Neil Shen, Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons, Masayoshi Son, George Soros, Tom Steyer, Ratan Tata, Meg Whitman, Ms. Zhang Xin and Mr. Pan Shiyi and Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan.
https://www.b-t.energy/who-we-are/coalition/
#9047324 at 2020-05-06 04:04:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11581: Dr Shiva and THE ADRENOCHROME Edition
>>9047284
4/7
Giving Pledge/the Prince/Breakthrough Energy/Climate Change/Gates/Steyer and more cont.
Breakthrough Energy has a who's who of DS on their "Board and Investors".
Mukesh Ambani, John Arnold, Jeff Bezos, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Michael Bloomberg, Richard BranSon, Ray Dalio, John Doerr, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Chris Hohn, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma, Dustin Moskovitz & Cari Tuna, Patrice Motsepe, Xavier Niel, Hasso Plattner, Julian RobertSon, David Rubenstein, Nat Simons & Laura Baxter-Simons, Masayoshi Son and Ms. Zhang Xin & Mr. Pan Shiyi.
https://www.b-t.energy/board-investors/
#8778814 at 2020-04-13 17:27:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11239: Run Forest, Run! Edition
SoftBank eyes $16.7bn investment loss at Vision Fund
TOKYO – SoftBank Group expects to book a loss of 1.8 trillion yen ($16.7 billion) on the value of its investments at its Vision Fund, the world's largest vehicle for tech startups. The steep loss follows a troubled year when the near-collapse of the WeWork shared office space business, one of the fund's highest-profile investments, cast a shadow over the Japanese tech group and its CEO, Masayoshi Son.
In a statement on Monday, SoftBank said it now projects a net loss of 750 billion yen for the fiscal year ended March, compared with a 1.41 trillion yen profit in the previous year. It will be the company's biggest loss since going public in 1994, and the first annual net loss since the year ended March 2005, according to Capital IQ.
The nearly $100 billion Vision Fund counts the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates as investors. It had stakes in 88 companies as of December including WeWork, ride-hailing company Uber Technologies and Chinese short-video app owner ByteDance. The 1.8 trillion yen investment loss at the Vision Fund stemmed "from a decrease in the fair value of investments due to the deteriorating market environment," the company said.
SoftBank said the investment losses at the Vision Fund would push the company to a 1.35 trillion yen operating loss. It posted a 2.07 trillion yen operating profit in the previous year, excluding U.S. mobile subsidiary Sprint, which recently merged with rival T-Mobile. SoftBank also said it would book a non-operating loss of 800 billion yen on investments held outside the Vision Fund, including WeWork and OneWeb. Some of the losses will be offset by an increase in income on equity method investments related to Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese internet group where SoftBank is the largest investor. "These forecasts are intended to provide investors with prompt information on estimates of financial results in light of the deterioration in the current market environment," SoftBank said.
Son is trying to persuade investors to keep faith in the group despite a sharp gap between its market capitalization and the value of the stakes it holds in Alibaba and other companies.
Last month, Son launched a plan for SoftBank to sell $41 billion of its assets to pay down debt and buy back shares to try to enhance its value. SoftBank Chief Financial Officer Yoshimitsu Goto told the Nikkei Asian Review last week that the group would stick to its plans despite the gyrations in markets sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-eyes-16.7bn-investment-loss-at-Vision-Fund
#8767504 at 2020-04-12 07:37:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11224: Anons in the Sun, Shills on the Run Edition
SoftBank's Son to supply 300 million masks per month to Japan
SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son said he has secured a monthly supply of 300 million face masks for Japan after reaching a deal with Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co. which has also started producing masks.
From next month, SoftBank will supply two different kinds of mask, initially for medical staff, in cooperation with the Japanese government's "mask team," set up to tackle shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak, Son said on Twitter.
SoftBank, which last month said it was donating 1.4 million masks to New York state, will supply the masks without taking a profit.
Addressing the supply crunch is a priority for the Japanese government, which will begin delivering two washable masks to households next week–a move that has been widely criticized on social media as inadequate.
The government is also targeting domestic production of 700 million disposable masks.
Son, who has a long history of partnering with and investing in Chinese firms, said BYD is setting up a new line to produce the masks.
BYD's production capacity has reached 15 million masks a day, a company spokeswoman said, confirming the firm will supply masks to SoftBank.
SoftBank's supply will consist of 100 million N95 masks, which can filter very small particles, and 200 million regular surgical masks.
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred Son's return to Twitter, where he has complained that Japan's response is being spearheaded by politicians rather than scientists and polled users on their view of the government's response–adding to pressure to increase social distancing measures.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13291364
#8662326 at 2020-04-02 17:04:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11090: Bill Gates..Blah Blah Blah Edition
WeWork Founder Loses 'Billionaire' Status, Threatens Lawsuit As SoftBank Pulls $3BN Investor Bailout
We would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the room where former WeWork CEO and co-founder Adam Neumann received the news that SoftBank was officially walking away from a promised $3 billion purchase of WeWork shares, pledged as part of a deal to oust Neumann and save the struggling rental-space startup after investors backed out of a planned IPO, robbing the company of more than $6 billion in short-term funding.
Without that money, and now, with the global travel business at a standstill and the whole world working from home for the foreseeable future, WeWork is very likely doomed. Now, SoftBank's billionaire founder Masayoshi Son is facing serious pressure from a litany of adversaries including the US ratings agencies (Moody's recently cut the company's credit rating two notches deep into junk territory), notorious activist investor Paul Singer, whose Elliott Capital Management has been pressing the Japanese conglomerate to improve its performance as SoftBank, or at least buy back more stock, and the global banks to whom Masa Son has now pledged 40% of his SoftBank shares.
The ratings cut led to a repricing of SoftBank debt to all-time lows, coupled with a surge in the company's borrowing costs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wework-backers-threaten-lawsuits-softbank-pulls-3bn-buyout-and-walks-away
#8529382 at 2020-03-23 09:09:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10920: Anons Dig, Meme & Pray 24/7 Edition
https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/other/softbank-to-sell-up-to-2441-bn-in-assets-to-buy-shares-lower-debt/ar-BB11z5Va
SoftBank Group said Monday it would sell up to $41 billion in assets to finance a stock buyback, reduce debts and increase its cash reserves after weeks of heavy losses in its shares.
The firm said it would buy back $18 billion of its stock, with the remaining money to be used on paying down debt, bond buybacks and cash reserves, setting a timetable of a year to complete the transactions.
News of the massive buyback sent SoftBank stock limit-up, soaring 18.61 percent to 3,187 yen in the last hour of trade in Tokyo.
"This programme will be the largest share buyback and will result in the largest increase in cash balance in the history of SBG, reflecting the firm and unwavering confidence we have in our business," chairman Masayoshi Son said in a statement.
"This will allow us to strengthen our balance sheet while significantly reducing debt," he added, saying the assets being sold account for "less than 20 percent of the company's current asset value".
The firm believes its shares are currently "substantially undervalued" and that the buyback would "further strengthen its balance sheet and enhance its credit rating."
SoftBank has seen its stock sink in recent weeks on worries about the liquidity of the heavily indebted company, as global financial markets are roiled by fears about the economic consequences of the pandemic.
It had already announced a massive share buyback that prompted S&P Global Ratings to cut the firm's outlook to negative, a move some analysts said misinterpreted the company's health.
Some said Monday's move should also be viewed positively.
"It's not a bad strategy to use their cash for buying back shares when the outlook of the market and the economy is very uncertain," Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager at Chibagin Asset Management, told AFP.
"The market took the surprise announcement positively at a time when it's hard to find good investment destinations."
SoftBank Group is attempting to improve its financial standing after booking massive losses related to the performance of key investments such as WeWork and Uber.
The company has used its $100 billion Vision Fund to pour enormous resources into the world's hottest start-ups.
But Son's audacious decision-making approach has faced criticism over his commitment to start-ups some say are overvalued and lack clear profit models.
The group last year announced its long-mooted Vision Fund 2, again targeting funds of around $100 billion, but investors have been slower to commit.
In the latest statement, SoftBank Group said it will appoint new independent board members to improve its governance.
#8378260 at 2020-03-11 17:38:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10726: Bern Graspin For Votes Edition
Newly unsealed court documents put Harvey Weinstein's Rolodex on full display.
The fallen movie mogul - who is now a convicted rapist facing up to 29 years in jail and will be sentenced Wednesday - once tried to save his career by emailing his famous peers, including billionaires, powerful agents and Hollywood titans.
In emails, reviewed by Variety on Tuesday afternoon at the New York City criminal courthouse, where roughly 1,000 pages of documents were unsealed, Weinstein wrote to the likes of Michael Bloomberg, Quentin Tarantino, Netflix's Ted Sarandos, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Apple's Tim Cook and Eddy Cue.
The documents made available by the court did not include any responses from these people to Weinstein.
The New York Times broke its bombshell story, which revealed decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein, on Oct. 5, 2017. Just days later, on Oct. 8, Weinstein sent out a flurry of emails to his powerful contacts, pleading for help to revive his career, and urging people to quickly send him letters of support. That same day, Weinstein was forced out of his own company.
Writing to the heads of Apple, Cook and Cue, Weinstein said, "I don't need you to make any public statements - just a private one to my gmail address, saying that you support me getting therapy and the help I need before the board fires me. I'm in a tough spot. Many of the allegations are false, but I need your help with this private letter of support. I'm going to get well, and if I pass the therapist test, then we can talk about reinstatement et cetera. But for now, I'm going to take a leave of absence and get healthy. If they fire me now, it'll destroy me perSonally and cause a huge legal battle, based on my rights with the company. But if I have support from someone like you getting me going into treatment and having the shot at a second chance (because people deserve a second chance), it would be very helpful. I would need something today if you can - I so appreciate it."
Weinstein sent a similar version of that very same letter to a bevy of A-listers and power players, including the heads of CAA, WME, NBCUniversal's Ron Meyer and billionaire businessmen Ron Burkle, Masayoshi Son, Len Blavatnik and LVMH chief executive Bernard Arnault.
He begged Sarandos, writing, "I need your friendship now," asking him to show Netflix's support by providing a private letter to the Weinstein Company's board.
He told Bezos: "There are many false allegations and over time, we'll prove it, but right now, I'm the poster boy for bad behavior."
He wrote to Tarantino's agent and to Daniella Pick, who is now Tarantino's wife: "I need to speak to Quentin today - is he available? I appreciate you letting me know, thank you."
Weinstein's emails were among 1,000 pages of unsealed documents, which also revealed tense communication between his brother, Bob Weinstein, who wrote, "U deserve a lifetime achievement award for the sheer savagery and immorality and inhumanness, for the acts u have perpetrated. Oh I forgot. They were all consensual. Then what are u in rehab for? Sex addiction. Don't think so. You wouldn't have harassment, assault and rape charges u have now received, from 82 women for active consensual sex. U must be being treated for something. I guess sexual predator comes to mind."
Also among the documents were drafts of PR statements Weinstein had prepared, but never released, including one where he said he was suicidal.
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/harvey-weinstein-emails-quentin-tarantino-jeff-bezos-mike-bloomberg-1203529459/
#7817884 at 2020-01-15 04:09:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10006: The Sweet Arrest Of Michael Avenatti Edition
SoftBank Chairman To Help Oversee Construction Of New Indonesian Capital
Indonesia has assembled a star-studded team to oversee the construction of its new capital city on the island of Borneo - a move that's intended to alleviate some of the pressure on rapidly-sinking Jakarta.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, known to millions as Jokowi, has selected Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the man whom the NYT recently described as the Arab world's most powerful ruler, comparing him favorably to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince MbS, to chair the committee responsible for overseeing the construction of the capital.
Also joining the board: Former UK PM Tony Blair, and - get this - SoftBank Chairman and founder Masayoshi Son
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-chairman-help-oversee-construction-new-indonesian-capital
#7636852 at 2019-12-28 01:55:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9771: The Movie Will Never Be The Same! Edition
Japan's Richest Man Quits SoftBank Board After Clashes With Masayoshi Son
After the year SoftBank just had, this is probably the last thing its shareholders want to see. One of SoftBank's last two remaining non-executive directors is stepping down from its board after 18 years, removing perhaps the company's biggest internal skeptic, according to a Reuters report.
Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing and a longtime Masa advisor, said he's leaving SoftBank to focus more on expanding his own business into new markets, including Italy, India and Vietnam. With a net worth of $25 billion (according to Forbes), Yanai is the wealthiest perSon in Japan. But at SoftBank, he was known as a close ally and sometimes critic of Masayoshi Son credited with attempting to rein in some of Masa's more reckless tendencies. But whatever his reaSons for leaving, the fact remains that Yanai's departure comes at a time when his more conservative outlook is badly needed. n one of his most famous quotes, Yanai said "Dreams are all good, but nothing beats realistic management. Let's keep our feet firmly on the ground."
Unfortunately, the word "Realistic" was never a big part of Masayoshi Son's vocabulary. As his reputation as one of the world's greatest momentum investors grew, Son pushed his firm toward ever-larger bets on Silicon Valley startups, leaving firms like Uber and WeWork with outrageous valuations that many analysts found difficult to justify.
After WeWork scrapped its planned IPO, SoftBank was forced to swoop in with a rescue package to stave off an imminent WeWork bankruptcy filing.Then, in its Q3 earnings report, SoftBank suffered a staggering $4.6 billion writedown on its WeWork investment. But that wasn't all: In addition to the WeWork fiasco, SoftBank's ill-advised bets on Uber and Slack, both of which flopped after their long-anticipated IPOs this year, bringing the firm's losses in 2019 to somewhere around $10 billion. After the WeWork fiasco, shareholders were calling for Masa to step aside. Instead, the SoftBank founder and chairman acknowledged that "there was a problem with my own judgment, that's something I have to reflect on." He promised to be more conservative in the future.
But according to the FT, it appears that Masa has already changed his mind. Despite the failure of the first SoftBank Vision Fund, a $100 billion pot of mostly Saudi money used to invest in dozens of tech startups, sources close to Masa say the chairman wants to continue investing aggressively by raising a Vision Fund 2 (though it's not clear where he intends to find the money and investors, now that the Saudis have reportedly soured on their relationship with SoftBank, and Japanese Telecom/Tech/VC/whatever conglomerate's reputation as a responsible steward of capital lies in tatters.
Back in 2017, Yanai told a weekly Japanese business newspaper that his role was to raise sometimes painful questions. "I realise he has a knack for investing, but if he's going to make use of his ability, I want him to be successful as an entrepreneur rather than as an investor," Yanai said in an interview with weekly paper Nikkei Veritas at the time. "I want him to focus on his core business."
During a presentation last month, Son joked about being scolded by Yanai, and said his longtime friend could be a "scary external director" at times. Shortly after, Bloomberg published the latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek with a cover lampooning Son's many investing failures.
Omg. pic.twitter.com/wRwCLhyRC6
- Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) December 27, 2019
At this point, remaining SoftBank investors should be trying to figure out exactly why Yanai left. Was he simply exhausted after 18 years of service on the board? Or was it Masayoshi Son's hubris that drove him out the door?
Whatever the reaSon, with Yanai out, SoftBank's board is now composed almost entirely of SoftBank executives and employees. That's definitely a recipe for a more insular company, and more "yes" men surrounding Masayoshi Son.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japans-richest-man-quits-softbank-board-after-clashes-Masayoshi-Son
#7231114 at 2019-07-28 19:05:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9251: Feelin the Need for Speed on Trials of Treason! Edition
One Giant Ponzi? "Carried To Its Logical Conclusion, The Softbank Process Leads To Prices That Are Infinite"
"The power to predict the future is about to emerge," declared Masayoshi Son. "The amount of data will grow by a million times over the next 30 years," continued the SoftBank Chairman, pitching his $108bln Vision Fund II which will target companies that facilitate an acceleration of the artificial intelligence revolution.
Microsoft, Apple, Foxconn, numerous Asian financial firms, and three Japanese banks will give their cash to Masayoshi Son (forgoing $14trln in negatively yielding global bonds).
He launched his first $100bln Vision Fund in November 2016. It quickly used nearly all its working capital, buying stakes in companies like Arm, Uber, Didi, WeWork.
That first fund is leveraged, with $40bln of its capital in preferred securities that pay a 7% coupon. The remaining $60bln delivered a +29% annualized investment return (as reported by SoftBank using private valuations over which it has enormous influence).
You see, when you borrow money to buy shares in private companies then mark their valuations higher, the returns look extraordinary. But 'extra' ordinary returns are extremely difficult to deliver at scale, and then only in the most exceptional circumstances for brief periods.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-28/one-giant-ponzi-carried-its-logical-conclusion-softbank-process-leads-prices-are
#7198380 at 2019-07-26 12:12:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9209: Kitchen Hot/Anons Cool Edition
Soft Bank Raises $108 Billion For Second Vision Fund-sign of the top? or sold to you
For a minute there, it looked like the investors who had helped finance Soft Bank's original Vision Fund were finally beginning to question the strategy of paying exorbitant sums for stakes in Silicon Valley's most popular unicorns. But, aside from a handful of embarrassing flops, the strategy appears to have paid off: Because even though Soft Bank's original patrons, the Saudis and Emiratis, have expressed their reservations, it appears the Japanese telecoms-giant-with-a-VC-arm has succeeded in raising its second fund in less than three years.
According to WSJ and the FT, despite the Uber IPO's embarrassing flop, Soft Bank (the largest single backer of Uber; it is reportedly holding on to its shares) has locked down commitments for $108 billion from Microsoft, Apple, Standard Chartered, Goldman Sachs, the sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan and an array of other investors - though the Saudis and Emiratis have balked, they're reportedly still in talks with Soft Bank about a possible commitment.
Several Japanese and Taiwanese banks and insurers have also reportedly committed capital.
At $108 billion, the fund is the largest private pool of money ever assembled, and it couldn't have come at a better time. The first Vision Fund has invested some $70 billion in more than 70 companies, but because of annual disbursements it must make to some investors, it has effectively run out of working capital.
Soft Bank Chairman Masayoshi Son said he wants the new fund to focus on AI, which the billionaire Soft Bank founder believes will explode in usefulness as the amount of real-world data gathered by sensors, cameras and other machines would allow companies to better leverage these connections. And because of an even larger investment from his company, it's likely that Masayoshi Son will have even more control over investment decisions.
"The power to predict the future is about to emerge," Mr. Son said last week at a Tokyo conference SoftBank held for its corporate clients. "The amount of data will grow by a million times over the next 30 years."
That means the Vision Fund II will be a boon for any trendy AI startups, now that they know Masayoshi Son will pay an absurd premium for a 10% stake.
But like last time, Soft Bank is also committing a large chunk of its capital. The fund will commit $38 billion to this latest fund, up from $28 billion in the first Vision Fund. To make this work, the telecoms giant will need to liquidate some of its investments. For that to happen, it would help for the Sprint-T-Mobile merger to finally go through, but the opposition by the federal government and some state AGs has left its success very much in question.
The Vision Fund was credited with single-handedly raising valuations across the unicorn space by making $100 million the new minimum check size. Suddenly, Sequoia Capital and other major VC firms had to raise multi-billion-dollar investment funds just to compete and get stakes in valuable startups.
Now, with WeWork and Slack next up on the hot IPO docket, Vision Fund II has arrived to pump up the valuations of the next round of unicorn darlings. And remember: The faster they burn cash, the larger the valuation multiple.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-26/sign-top-soft-bank-raises-108-billion-second-vision-fund
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son got caught up in the bitcoin frenzy and reportedly lost $130 million
Billionaire Masayoshi Son reportedly made a massive bet on bitcoin near the peak of the digital currency's frenze in 2017.
The founder of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank perSonally lost over $130 million when he sold his position, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Son has a reputation for making big, risky bets but has had a successful track record with many such investments.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/Masayoshi-Son-invested-in-bitcoin-and-reportedly-lost-130-million.html
#6406515 at 2019-05-03 23:34:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8192: Power Of Two Edition
SoftBank mulls IPO of $100 billion Vision Fund: source
(Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is considering an initial public offering of its $100 billion Vision Fund, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The fund was set up in 2017 and has become the world's largest technology investment fund. Its investments include ride-hailing pioneer Uber, chip designer ARM and shared workspace firm WeWork. The company has publicly stated it plans to set up a second investment fund. The senior banking source said Softbank was now talking to banks about helping it raise money, confirming an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal.
Softbank has spoken to half a dozen banks over the last month about a potential listing of the Vision Fund but has yet to start a formal process, the source said, adding he was not expecting such a process in the near term. "They asked banks questions on how they could possibly do it. It is still very much in exploration mode," the source said, adding that Softbank had been possibly given the idea by fellow tech investor Naspers, which plans to list some of its assets. "The big difference is that the biggest asset in the Naspers portfolio is Tencent, which is listed, whereas the portfolio of the Vision Fund is all private," the source said. China's Tencent Holdings Ltd is a social media and gaming company listed in Hong Kong. A spokesman for Softbank declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.
SoftBank is also in talks with Oman for an investment in the fund, which has raised nearly all of its funding so far from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, according to the WSJ report. Oman was not immediately available for a comment when contacted by Reuters, nor was there an immediate response from the Japanese conglomerate. SoftBank is seeking to raise new funds for "informal deals" chief executive officer Masayoshi Son negotiated in China for Vision Fund, one of the people told WSJ. The fund is also planning to double its staff over the next 18 months to keep up with the pace of deal making by SoftBank, the company's top deputies reportedly said at a conference in Los Angeles this week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-ipo-visionfund/softbank-mulls-ipo-of-100-billion-vision-fund-source-idUSKCN1S910W?il=0
#6404181 at 2019-05-03 18:51:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8189: Envy Of The World. They Fear This Board Edition
SoftBank mulls IPO of $100 billion Vision Fund: source
(Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is considering an initial public offering of its $100 billion Vision Fund, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The fund was set up in 2017 and has become the world's largest technology investment fund. Its investments include ride-hailing pioneer Uber, chip designer ARM and shared workspace firm WeWork.
The company has publicly stated it plans to set up a second investment fund. The senior banking source said Softbank was now talking to banks about helping it raise money, confirming an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal.
Softbank has spoken to half a dozen banks over the last month about a potential listing of the Vision Fund but has yet to start a formal process, the source said, adding he was not expecting such a process in the near term.
"They asked banks questions on how they could possibly do it. It is still very much in exploration mode," the source said, adding that Softbank had been possibly given the idea by fellow tech investor Naspers, which plans to list some of its assets.
"The big difference is that the biggest asset in the Naspers portfolio is Tencent, which is listed, whereas the portfolio of the Vision Fund is all private," the source said.
China's Tencent Holdings Ltd is a social media and gaming company listed in Hong Kong.
A spokesman for Softbank declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.
SoftBank is also in talks with Oman for an investment in the fund, which has raised nearly all of its funding so far from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, according to the WSJ report.
Oman was not immediately available for a comment when contacted by Reuters, nor was there an immediate response from the Japanese conglomerate.
SoftBank is seeking to raise new funds for "informal deals" chief executive officer Masayoshi Son negotiated in China for Vision Fund, one of the people told WSJ.
The fund is also planning to double its staff over the next 18 months to keep up with the pace of deal making by SoftBank, the company's top deputies reportedly said at a conference in Los Angeles this week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-ipo-visionfund/softbank-mulls-ipo-of-100-billion-vision-fund-source-idUSKCN1S910W
#5363000 at 2019-02-24 18:53:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6854: DISASTROUS MISTAKES MADE Edition
>>5362851
https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/3708609.html#q3708727
interesting perhaps. tiktok has a few hits in https://qresear.ch
Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank
$3 billion round in Chinese startup ByteDance, which makes several popular news and entertainment apps, including tiktok.
#5272391 at 2019-02-20 00:02:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6737: CONTROLLED AT THE TOP Edition
How A "Rank & File" Banker Went From Subordinate To $360 Million Man In Ten Years
Tomomichi Takahashi is a Japanese entrepreneur who stumbled into becoming a multimillionaire by just doing his job.
A former Softbank employee and an early mover into robotic process automation, Takahashi eventually found himself running his own public company in a burgeoning industry. It's a field he was forced into as a last resort when his consulting firm was close to death during the financial crisis, according to Bloomberg.
"It was like hell. We decided to do whatever it took to survive," he said of the crisis.
Takahashi started out in the consulting industry working for AnderSon Consulting before joining Softbank in 1996. When Softbank was a much smaller company, he was involved in corporate planning and accounting. He said the company's founder, Masayoshi Son, had a profound influence on him.
Takahashi said: "I was lucky because I could work directly with Son. He always told us that if anyone was going to ride the digital and IT revolution, shouldn't it be us?"
Tomomichi Takahashi is a Japanese entrepreneur who stumbled into becoming a multimillionaire by just doing his job.
A former Softbank employee and an early mover into robotic process automation, Takahashi eventually found himself running his own public company in a burgeoning industry. It's a field he was forced into as a last resort when his consulting firm was close to death during the financial crisis, according to Bloomberg.
"It was like hell. We decided to do whatever it took to survive," he said of the crisis.
Takahashi started out in the consulting industry working for AnderSon Consulting before joining Softbank in 1996. When Softbank was a much smaller company, he was involved in corporate planning and accounting. He said the company's founder, Masayoshi Son, had a profound influence on him.
Takahashi said: "I was lucky because I could work directly with Son. He always told us that if anyone was going to ride the digital and IT revolution, shouldn't it be us?"
rest at link
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-19/how-rank-file-banker-went-subordinate-360-million-man-ten-years
#5247273 at 2019-02-18 20:19:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6705: PREPARE Edition
The VC Bubble Just Burst: Soft Bank's Top 2 Investors Complain About Overpayment For Tech Companies
After venture capital spending hit an all-time high in 2018, evidence that the VC bubble may finally be about to burst has continued to mount, just as some of Silicon Valley's most overvalued tech darlings have been preparing for their long-anticipated public offerings.
And in the latest sign that Silicon Valley's latest crop of unicorns could be headed for a brutal "down round", the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the two biggest backers of Soft Bank's $100 billion Vision Fund (the Japanese telecoms conglomerate/VC giant and the Bay Area tech scene's most reliable marginal investor) have been complaining about the high valuations at which it has invested in some of its holdings.
In addition to being one of Uber's largest shareholders, with a $9.3 billion stake, the Vision Fund has also invested in WeWork, dog-walking service Wag, GM Cruise and DoorDash among its investments, according to ReCode.
The backers in question are Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Co, who together have contributed roughly two-thirds of the Vision Fund's capital. Should they balk at the relationship, it could spell trouble for any deals that the fund has planned, because according to the most recent reports, Vision has only deployed about $60 billion of its $100 billion in capital, and reportedly has about 20 deals in the pipeline.
While Soft Bank's chairman Masayoshi Son and the Saudis have maintained a cordial relationship, at least in public, the reports of the Saudis dissatisfaction with the Son and his management style isn't all that surprising. The FT reported earlier this year that Soft Bank had abruptly scaled back plans to increase its stake in WeWork by $16 billion. The fund ended up investing another $2 billion, one-eighth of the originally planned investment.
Apparently, the WeWork investment wasn't the only deal to collapse in recent months. Plans for Soft Bank to increase its investment in Hong Kong-based AI startup SenseTime in a joint $1 billion investment with Mubadala.
Soft Bank had invested several hundred million dollars into SenseTime last fall, bringing the company's valuation to about $7.7 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. The Vision Fund then considered making a joint $1 billion investment with Mubadala in SenseTime, as part of a potential fundraising round that could value the company at $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
The deal never came together after Mubadala backed away in recent weeks, people familiar with the matter said. The fund balked at what it considered a high valuation target, a perSon briefed on the matter said.
Some Vision Fund employees also considered the valuation to be high, some of the people said. SenseTime rival Megvii Technology Inc. is currently raising funds at a $3.5 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter.
SenseTime and Mubadala said they weren't aware of any potential co-investment by the Vision Fund and Mubadala, and SenseTime said it never launched a $1 billion financing round at a valuation of $10 billion.
rest at link
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-18/vc-bubble-just-burst-softbanks-top-2-investors-complain-about-overpayment-tech
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Now they bitch about over-valuation when they have no one to sell the bloated POS's they bought.
Was fine when they had an unlimited supply of money. Eat shit fucker's!
#4769716 at 2019-01-15 23:24:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6087: Continue To Build The MAP Edition
The most powerful perSon in Silicon Valley
(1of 2)
Billionaire Masayoshi Son-not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg-has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. And he's spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World?
It's a bright September morning in San Carlos, California, and Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, is throwing me off schedule. I'd come, as he had, to meet with the people he's tapped to run the Vision Fund, his $100 billion bet on the future of, well, everything. After almost four decades of building SoftBank into a telecom conglomerate, Son, an inveterate dealmaker, launched this unprecedented venture two years ago to back startups that he believes are driving a new wave of digital upheaval. He has staked everything on its success-his company, his reputation, his fortune. We'd both arrived with the same basic question: Where is this massive vehicle heading? But because I wasn't the one footing the 12-figure allowance, I understood that I'd be the one to wait. In the hubbub of Son's visit, my 9 a.m. meeting gets rescheduled multiple times until it's set for 4:30 p.m. When I finally arrive at the Vision Fund's offices, just off California's Highway 101, I'm struck by how mundane they are. Son is known for big, showy statements. He reportedly paid $117 million for a home in Woodside in 2013, the highest price ever in the U.S. This glass and concrete building, on the other hand, could be found in any part of suburban America. The room where I wait is spartan. There is an empty desk in one corner, and a conference table with a fake-wood veneer. I try to read the pale gray scribbles on a whiteboard, hoping they might shed light on what happens in this place, but the surface has been too well scrubbed. The interior glass walls of the conference room have been lined with a white, papery substance that turns anyone on the other side into apparitions.
Finally, Rajeev Misra, CEO of the entity overseeing the Vision Fund, rushes into the room, smiling broadly and apologizing profusely. Misra, who has flown in from London for these meetings, looks exhausted but jacked up, as if he's gotten a shot of adrenaline. Son has this effect on people. It is an exceptionally busy day at the Vision Fund. Not only is the big boss in from Tokyo, but unbeknownst to me, the team is preparing to announce billions of dollars in new investments: a $1 billion round for Oyo, the Indian hospitality startup; $800 million split evenly between Compass and OpenDoor, two real estate disrupters;' $100 million for Loggi, a Brazilian delivery startup. It also would lead a $3 billion round in Chinese startup ByteDance, which makes several popular news and entertainment apps, including TikTok. At the same time, Son and his partners are in the midst of launching a second $100 billion fund, with plans already underway to raise an additional $45 billion investment from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia'-the Vision Fund's primary backer. Neither Misra nor I knew it then, but this relationship would soon get complicated.
"So what do you want to know?" Misra says, clapping his hands loudly. "You want the road map? I'll start from 10,000 feet. . . ." On the surface, the story of the Vision Fund is about money. How could it not be? The numbers are eye-popping. The Vision Fund's minimum investment in startups is $100 million, and in just over two years since its October 2016 debut, it's committed more than $70 billion. Son, 61 years old, will also back companies he likes via SoftBank itself or other means: He's put some $20 billion-and counting-into Uber and WeWork through a combination of financial instruments. (Son's machinations have always been highly complex and it's not worth getting lost in the minutiae; regardless of the means, the deals are at his behest.) His big-money bets agitate the venture capitalists who have long inhabited the dry stretch of lowlands between San Francisco and San Jose, a place where any fund over $1 billion was head-turning as recently as three years ago. Turns out, nobody likes competing with a bottomless-pocketed behemoth. "Have you seen the movie Ghostbusters? It's like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man tramping around," one VC tells me before I visit SoftBank. Then he asks me to ask Misra the question everyone in town wants to know: Who is Son investing in next?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-perSon-in-silicon-valley
#4642894 at 2019-01-07 11:18:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5924: Remotely Controlled Humans Edition
A light dig into ARM chips.
Arm chips are rather interesting. A company called Arm Holdings, based in Britain, owned by SOFTBANK, very well funded, and operates by IP sales, present in IOT components everywhere.
Posted just prior to fresh bread. Reposting.
Their business model is to design chips and sell that to clients who can modify and incorporate as they will into any products. All manufacturing is done by the recipient of the design, or a designate thereof. Of note is the customers Apple, with ARM chips being the central processor, and Amazon who have taken the designs and use them for server motherboards.
>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/05/Masayoshi-Son-wants-arms-blueprints-to-power-all-tech
>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3311560/security/apple-amazon-server-spy-story-is-wake-up-call-to-security-pros-u.html
I am going to self nominate as notable because this has the hallmarks of spoopy, and ties a few threads together, especially how Apple has stock in quarantine, Amazon having to answer to a chip spy story, and another link to Britain, and while only theorizing, may be a component of FVEY to bypass U.S. law
#4642877 at 2019-01-07 11:13:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5923: New Apprentice Baker ready to KEK some ass Edition Shills Be Gone
>>4642204
Arm chips are rather interesting. A company called Arm Holdings, based in Britain, owned by SOFTBANK, very well funded, and operates by IP sales, present in IOT components everywhere.
Their business model is to design chips and sell that to clients who can modify and incorporate as they will into any products. All manufacturing is done by the recipient of the design, or a designate thereof. Of note is the customers Apple, with ARM chips being the central processor, and Amazon who have taken the designs and use them for server motherboards.
>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/05/Masayoshi-Son-wants-arms-blueprints-to-power-all-tech
>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3311560/security/apple-amazon-server-spy-story-is-wake-up-call-to-security-pros-u.html
I am going to self nominate as notable because this has the hallmarks of spoopy, and ties a few threads together, especially how Apple has stock in quarantine, Amazon having to answer to a chip spy story, and another link to Britain, and while only theorizing, may be a component of FVEY to bypass U.S. law.
#4238717 at 2018-12-10 13:42:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5399: The Sun Never Sets On Q Edition
>>4238709
>>4238709
However, Pompeo's proposed solutions-to imitate what Trump was doing in the U.S. and to reassert the power of nation-states and of U.S. leadership-fell far short of the mark when it came to offering solutions to problems faced by the Western world and the planet as a whole.
He did not, for example, mention that the current financial system, controlled by a few interbred families, has devastated the middle class in the G7 and created huge gaps between the rich and the rest even in places like China. The situation is now such that 0.1% of the population controls more wealth than the bottom 90% of the population, and yet Pompeo did not propose a reset or jubilee to correct the situation.
Nor did Pompeo mention the fact that humanity has wiped out 60% of animal life since the 1970's or offer any sort of solution.
https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018
In fact, Trump tweeted on December 8th that,
"The Paris Agreement isn't working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third-world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment."
For sure, the Paris Agreement was based on fraudulent science that "carbon causes global warming." We won't go into detail here, but look at this link for an egregious example:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/06/friday-funny-scottish-record-high-temperature-caused-by-ice-cream-truck/
However, at least they were trying. The White Dragon Society proposes an alternative which is to set up a meritocratically staffed future planning agency to preside over a multi-trillion-dollar campaign to stop environmental destruction and end poverty. This could also provide jobs to the "useless eaters" slated for mass murder by the Nazi faction that Trump has taken over. We would like to see the U.S. military government propose something similar and get China, India, and the rest of the world on board, too.
In any case, the global warming faction looks like it is losing the battle for the West, especially in France, headquarters of the global-warming Rothschild faction. Here, Pentagon sources say, "Former French Chief of Defense Staff who was fired by French President Emmanuel Macron, Army General Pierre de Villiers, is the people's choice for Élysée Palace." They add that Marine "Le Pen is mightier than the sword, and if she fails to be president, would be a good Prime Minister or Foreign Minister."
The U.S. military government's fight against the bloodlines, though, is far from over. Getting back to Pompeo's speech and the top of this article, we note he said:
"America intends to lead-now and always. For example, here in Belgium in 1973, banks from 15 countries formed SWIFT to develop common standards for cross-border payments, and it's now an integral part of our global financial infrastructure. SWIFT recently disconnected sanctioned Iranian banks from its platform because of the unacceptable risk they pose to a system-to the system as a whole."
What he was alluding to here is a European (bloodline) and Chinese effort to get around U.S. SWIFT sanctions by setting up an alternative international payments system. That is still happening, with countries like India, Russia, and China dumping SWIFT in order to end U.S. control of the international financial infrastructure.
The U.S. has been fighting back by forcing regime change in European countries that try to get out of SWIFT, hence (in part) the troubles in France.
The other big battleground is Japan. Here on December 6th, Softbank Corp. experienced a four-hour shutdown of its mobile and line-based telecommunications network. Softbank has been working with Huawei (the name ?? by the way, means "for China") to sell its phones and use its payments system. There is also the suspicion that Softbank is using the IPO of its telecoms unit, set for December 19th, as a disguised way of selling the unit to China, more specifically Huawei, CIA sources say.
Please bear in mind that Softbank bought Fortress Asset management, which owns Musashi K.K., the company whose machines count more than 80% of Japan's votes. Richard Koshimizu of the Independent Party of Japan has provided detailed evidence showing the company, founded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi, is used to steal Japanese elections.
It is also worth noting that the Abe government last week passed a law allowing Japan's water resources to be privatized and presumably sold at a discount to Veolia, a company controlled by the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Also bear in mind that Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son has been offered at least $45 billion by Israeli (Rothschild) stooge Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Anyone want to bet on Son?
#4185713 at 2018-12-06 22:18:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5330: Chinese Signals Edition
Softbank Japan and O2 UK cell phone networks down for hours.
Softbank lost 6% share price 2 weeks before floating worlds biggest IPO worth $21billion. Blames Swedish EricsSon gear and software for the outage.
Softbank Group chief executive Masayoshi Son has connections with MbS that were in the spotlight with the Cia~shoggi killing.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12172680
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128720/o2-down-softbank-outage-ericsSon-equipment-software-failure
#4177701 at 2018-12-06 05:50:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5320: Baker Assist Edition
Sketchy Investment Firm Including Bezos, Gates, Alwaleed bin Talal, Bloomberg, BranSon, and more
Breakthrough Energy Coalition
Billionaires investing based on energy needs of a future highly urban global middle class
The Board has Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Michael Bloomberg, Richard BranSon, John Doerr, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma (Alibaba), Masayoshi Son (Softbank), Ms. Zhang Xin & Mr. Pan Shiyi and others.
Invested in:
- Quidnet Energy
- Form Energy
Beliefs of the World's top billionaires:
- RISE OF VERY LOW-COST INTERMITTENT ELECTRICITY
- THE EMERGENCE OF A BURGEONING MIDDLE CLASS
- INCREASING URBANIZATION
- AUTONOMY, THE INTERNET OF THINGS, AND DISTRIBUTED EVERYTHING
- AMPLE SUPPLY OF FOSSIL RESOURCES
Article: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/07/billionaires-investing-based-on-energy-needs-of-a-future-highly-urban-global-middle-class.html
Breakthrough Energy Site: http://www.b-t.energy
Board and Investors: http://www.b-t.energy/ventures/board-investors/
#3584132 at 2018-10-24 14:08:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4547: On Wisconsin! Edition
follow the money
https://gizmodo.com/softbank-which-signed-45-billion-saudi-tech-investmen-1829831212
follow up from post 10/05/2018
>>3350047
https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/3349415.html#q3350047
On October 2, Saudi citizen, U.S. resident, and journalist in self-imposed exile Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, reportedly wary of the potential consequences of entering a facility controlled by a dictatorial government he frequently criticized. He is now presumed dead at the hands of Saudi perSonnel, who Turkish officials speaking under the cover of anonymity have claimed were recorded torturing and murdering him inside the embassy.
As a result, executives from numerous firms including Google, JPMorgan Chase, Uber, Virgin Group, and others have publicly distanced themselves from Saudi Arabia and its brutal ruling monarchy, whose heir to the throne Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been trying to lure foreign investment as part of a moonshot, P.R.-friendly plan to transform the nation into a regional tech and logistics giant. But as the New York Times reported on Wednesday, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group-which received a $45 billion commitment for its tech-centric Vision Fund from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund-and its CEO Masayoshi Son seem to be waiting to see just how much blood is in the water.
more at link above
#3573249 at 2018-10-23 13:51:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4533: Beautiful Autumn Morning Edition
SoftBank CEO Son won't speak at Saudi conference: source
DUBAI/TOYKO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, whose $93 billion Vision Fund drew nearly half its money from Saudi Arabia, canceled a speaking engagement at the kingdom's investment conference this week, a perSon close to the matter told Reuters.
Son's absence from the stage is in marked contrast to last year's inaugural event, where the 61-year-old Japanese entrepreneur was a notable presence leading credence to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's efforts to bring foreign investment into the Gulf kingdom.
A SoftBank spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Son's speaking cancellation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Nearly half of the more than $93 billion raised last year to create SoftBank's Vision Fund came from Saudi Arabia, giving Son the firepower to make big bets in late-stage startups such as Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] and shared office space provider WeWork Cos.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-investment-softbank-group/softbank-ceo-Son-wont-speak-at-saudi-conference-source-idUSKCN1MX0XW
#3424505 at 2018-10-10 15:49:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4341: Plan Status: Trusted Edition
In another sign of AdelSon's direct access to the incoming president and ties with Japan, he secured a coveted Trump Tower meeting a few weeks later for an old friend, the Japanese billionaire businessman Masayoshi Son. Son's company, SoftBank, had bought AdelSon's computer trade show business in the 1990s. A few years ago, AdelSon named Son as a potential partner in his casino resort plans in Japan. Son's SoftBank, for its part, owns Sprint, which has long wanted to merge with T-Mobile but needs a green light from the Trump administration. A beaming Son emerged from the meeting in the lobby of Trump Tower with the president-elect and promised $50 billion in investments in the U.S.
When Trump won the election in November 2016, the casino bill had been stalled in the Japanese Diet. One month after the Trump-Abe meeting, in an unexpected move in mid-December, Abe's ruling coalition pushed through landmark legislation authorizing casinos, with specific regulations to be ironed out later. There was minimal debate on the controversial bill, and it passed at the very end of an extraordinary session of the legislature. "That was a surprise to a lot of stakeholders," said one former Sands executive who still works in the industry. Some observers suspect the timing was not a coincidence. "After Trump won the election in 2016, the Abe government's efforts to pass the casino bill shifted into high gear," said Yoichi Torihata, a professor at Shizuoka University and opponent of the casino law.
On a Las Vegas Sands earnings call a few days after Trump's inauguration, AdelSon touted that Abe had visited the company's casino resort complex in Singapore. "He was very impressed with it," AdelSon said. Days later, AdelSon attended the February breakfast with Abe in Washington, after which the prime minister went on to Mar-a-Lago, where the president raised Las Vegas Sands. A week after that, AdelSon flew to Japan and met with the secretary general of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo.
The casino business is one of the most regulated industries in the world, and AdelSon has always sought political allies. To enter the business in 1989, he hired the former governor of Nevada to represent him before the state's gaming commission. In 2001, according to court testimony reported in the New Yorker, AdelSon intervened with then-House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay, to whom he was a major donor, at the behest of a Chinese official over a proposed House resolution that was critical of the country's human rights record. At the time, Las Vegas Sands was seeking entry into the Macau market. The resolution died, which AdelSon attributed to factors other than his intervention, according to the magazine.
#3275112 at 2018-10-01 05:03:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4148: October Has Begun Edition
Saudi shelves $200 billion SoftBank Solar project
Saudi Arabia has shelved a $200 billion plan with SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) to build the world's biggest solar-power-generation project, the Wall Street journal reported on Sunday, citing Saudi government officials.
No one is actively working on the project, and instead, the Saudi kingdom is working up a broader, more practical strategy to boost renewable energy, to be announced in late October, the WSJ reported.
SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son had announced in March a plan to invest in creating the world's biggest solar power project in Saudi Arabia, a project expected to have the capacity to produce up to 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2030.
Softbank declined to comment.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-softbank-group-solar/saudi-shelves-200-billion-softbank-solar-project-wsj-idUSKCN1MA0X6
Wonder what happened?
#3239441 at 2018-09-28 23:19:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4102: Baiter Edition
>>3239135
Still not 100% sure but found this:
ARM Holdings
arm.com
Arm Holdings is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, its primary business is in the design of Arm processors, although it also designs software development tools under the DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, as well as systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip infrastructure and software.More at Wikipedia
Founded:
Nov 27, 1990
Key people:
Masayoshi Son (Chairman), Simon Segars (CEO)
Revenue:
£968.3 million (2015)
#3202089 at 2018-09-27 03:19:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4053: Libtards' Last Stand Edition
TPG partners with SoftBank Ventures Korea for $300m China fund
(Dianne Feinstein's husbund, Richard Blum is principal of TPG)
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Softbank's South Korean venture unit has partnered with TPG, the San Francisco-based private equity firm with a long history in Asia, to launch a $300m venture fund targeting China.
The fund will focus on Chinese start-ups and comes as private equity funds on both sides of the Pacific try to reinvent themselves to focus on technology. The new fund will be formally announced in a press briefing in China this week.
Naver, the South Korean internet search giant that owns Line, the messaging app, will be a big investor in the new fund.
TPG, whose growth equity team will manage the fund, "has never played in that space before", said one perSon familiar with the matter, referring to Chinese start-ups. "It is not so core that we would do it by ourselves."
A spokesman for TPG confirmed the details of the fund, but one senior executive said TPG had decided "not to publicise it outside China".
Softbank Ventures Korea said the fund would "signficantly boost" its involvement in Chinese early-stage companies in "internet, technology and media". "We are witnessing an incredible quality of new investment opportunities," said a spokesperSon.
TPG came into contact with Masayoshi Son of SoftBank when he bought into Uber. TPG executives, like others in the industry, have been ambivalent in the past about SoftBank, suggesting that its $93bn Vision Fund generally overpays for its stakes in young tech companies across Asia.
Staff at private equity firms such as Warburg Pincus or General Atlantic, which have developed an expertise in providing growth capital for young tech companies in Asia, say they hope to sell to SoftBank rather than to partner with that Japanese firm. Often, they add, that is because SoftBank offers higher valuations than those available in the public markets.
Given that SoftBank Ventures Korea does not have a presence in China, the chance for any conflict of interest with the new fund is minimal, said one perSon familiar with the matter.
News of the new fund comes at a time when many of the biggest investors both in China and the US have raised or are raising record amounts of money to put in the region, partly in response to Softbank's size.
TPG itself has almost completed fundraising for its seventh Asian fund, which will probably top $4.5bn, while KKR has raised over $9bn and Hillhouse Capital over $10bn.
#1660846 at 2018-06-07 19:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2089: The MagiQ Jobs Wand Edition
The billionaire BIOFUEL club: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg reveal new group to invest in smart energy firms
The initial members of the club are:
Mukesh Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited
India
John Arnold
Co-chair, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
United States
Marc Benioff
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com
United States
Jeff Bezos
Founder and CEO, Amazon
United States
HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alwaleed Philanthropies
Saudi Arabia
Richard BranSon
Founder, Virgin Group
United Kingdom
Ray Dalio
Founder, Bridgewater Associates
United States
Aliko Dangote
Founder and Chief Executive, Dangote Group
Nigeria
John Doerr
General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
United States
Bill Gates
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
United States
Reid Hoffman
Founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock
United States
Chris Hohn
Founder, The Children's Investment Fund
United Kingdom
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
United States
Jack Ma
Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group
China
Xavier Niel
Founder, Iliad Group
France
Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons
Co-founders, Prelude Ventures
United States
Masayoshi Son
Founder, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.
Japan
George Soros
Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC
United States
Tom Steyer
Businessman, Philanthropist, and President, NextGen Climate
United States
Ratan Tata
Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons
India
Meg Whitman
CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
United States
Ms. Zhang Xin and Mr. Pan Shiyi
Co-founder and CEO, SOHO China
Chairman, SOHO China
China
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Facebook
Pediatrician and CEO, The Primary School
United States
University of California
Office of the Chief Investment Officer
United States
Hasso Plattner
Co-founder and Chairman, SAP
Germany
Julian RobertSon
Founder and Chairman, Tiger Management
United States
Neil Shen
Founding Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital China
China
Patrice Motsepe
Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM)
South Africa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3340178/Bill-Gates-plots-surprise-attack-energy-sector.html
#1102638 at 2018-04-19 17:53:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1377: Private Investigations
Microsoft's Bill Gates is backing a start-up that will provide 'live and unfiltered' high definition footage of every inch of Earth.
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The startup, EarthNow, plans to launch 500 satellites to cover Earth's atmosphere in 'Big Brother' real-time video surveillance.
As well as Gates, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and aerospace giant Airbus are also backing the project.
The price of the project could run to $1 billion (£700m), although the value of the investment by the companies has not been disclosed.
Applications could including tracking illegal fishing, monitoring the weather and tracking natural migrations globally.
EarthNow founder Russel Hannigan said: 'Our objective is simple; we want to connect you visually with Earth in real-time.'
'We believe the ability to see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered will help all of us better appreciate and ultimately care for our one and only home.'
The company is based in Bellevue, Washington and was founded in 2017.
It plans to use an army of orbiting satellites will weigh around 500 pounds (225 kg) each that will have their cameras trained on Earth 24 hours a day.
It will onboard analysis of the imagery, though to what extent isn't clear.
There is also currently no clear timeline, price-tag or technical details about the project.
EarthNow's services will initially be aimed at 'high value enterprise and government customers.
However, the firm says it also expected to allow civilians to access the video from a smartphone or tablet.
'We are excited by the prospect of giving everyone a stunningly beautiful real-time window on your world from space,' Mr Hannigan said.
'With EarthNow, we will all become virtual astronauts.'
http:// www
.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5634953/Bill-Gates-backs-1-billion-plan-cover-Earth-Big-Brother-satellites.html
#852230 at 2018-03-31 19:48:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1057: Tiangong-1 Incoming Edition
Time to PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER ANONS
MbS meetings:
Donald Trump
Oprah Winfrey
Jim Mattis
Stephen Schwarzman
John Kerry
Henry Kissinger
Antonio Guterres
Michael Bloomberg
Thomas Friedman
Bill Gates
Ernest Moniz
Lloyd Blankfein
Masayoshi Son
Madeleine Albright
Rupert Murdoch
Jeffrey Goldberg
Tim Cook
Elon Musk
Christine Lagarde
Peter Thiel
Alan Garber
#742818 at 2018-03-21 11:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research - Emergency Bake #919
>>742687
While the leftist writer is getting giddy thinking they are going to "liberalise" SA, the truth is the crown prince is working with POTUS and HE will now control Hollywood.
Masayoshi Son is very interesting. He is on President Trump's side. He understands POTUS and the massive changes now hitting the world.
Watch and learn.
#663480 at 2018-03-14 17:11:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #821: Get Out Blackpill Shills Edition
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, long a favorite in tech circles, is reportedly still under armed guard
Shares of Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, an international investment company controlled by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, soared in January when he was freed after two months of being held captive at a Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Turns out investors may have celebrated too soon.
As people following the story may recall, Prince Alwaleed was arrested in early November with hundreds of other businessmen and at least ten other princes. The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a Son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015. Indeed, the crown prince had announced the creation of a new anti-corruption committee - which he headed up - just hours before the arrests were ordered.
New reports suggest that though most of those who were arrested have now been released, they are not in control of the holdings they once were, including Prince Alwaleed. A detailed weekend report by the New York Times, for example, states that "members of the royal family, and relatives, advisers and associates of the detainees" say those who were kidnapped were coerced and physically abused in some cases, and that billions of dollars in private wealth were transferred to Crown Prince's Mohammed's control.
Two associates of Prince Alwaleed also told the Times that he continues to live under armed guard and that his time at the Ritz is "something he wants to forget."
That won't be easy, according to a separate report in the WSJ yesterday that said the Saudi government now has final say over decisions at Kingdom Holding and that, further, the prince's perSonal investment portfolio is also under government control.
Prince Alwaleed – who long maintained a high profile, even pledging in 2015 to give away $32 billion as part of investor Warren Buffett's famous Giving Pledge – has also reportedly agreed to step back from his informal role as a broker for foreign businesses and governments looking to invest in Saudi Arabia, says the WSJ.
Before being ushered out of view in November, the prince was considered to be one of the world's richest men, with Kingdom Holding owning or having owned meaningful positions in satellite TV networks, as well as in News Corp. (a stake it mostly sold), Citigroup (shares of which it has owned since 1991), and a growing number of tech companies.
The prince and Kingdom Holding – of which he was believed to own 95 percent – first invested $300 million in Twitter in 2011, two years before the company went public. In 2015, he invested another $50 million to increase his ownership in Twitter and, as of 2016, remained one of the company's largest shareholders.
In 2013, Kingdom also acquired 2.5 percent of China-based retailer JD.Com, which went public on the Nasdaq the following year and whose shares have more than doubled since.
Prince Alwaleed and Kingdom further acquired a stake in the car-hailing company Lyft in early 2016, buying some of the shares of its earlier investors Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.
What happens to Kingdom's stakes in these companies now is an open question. It's far from the only one, either.
For example, ann investor conference in Riyadh last October that was organized by Crown Prince Mohammed and attended by several thousand people – including billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Blackstone Group cofounder Stephen Schwarzman, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, and United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin – was designed to showcase Saudi Arabia's growing influence in the business world.
Yet a newly delayed initial public offering of the world's largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, has some wondering who, exactly, is in charge. Crown Prince Mohammed has been pushing Saudi Arabia to sell 5 per cent of Saudi Aramco as part of a broader economic reform program. He also reportedly wants to list its shares in New York, as well as on Saudi Arabia's Tadawul exchange.
But according to a weekend report in the The Financial Times, those assessing the company are struggling to arrive at the $2 trillion valuation sought by the crown prince. Further, senior Saudi ministers and Saudi Aramco executives have said privately that London might be a better fit than New York, says the FT's report, which suggests the offering, once expected this year, could now be delayed until 2019.
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QR Midnight Riders #306: The Hound of Hell Edition
>>68596 pb Greensill Capital Tumbles Into Insolvency, Spreading Financial Pain
SoftBank Put $400 Million Into Greensill Months Before Collapse
SoftBank Group Corp.'s Vision Fund injected at least $400 million into Greensill Capital at the end of last year, according to people familiar with the matter, deepening the potential losses the giant tech investor faces in the startup's collapse.
The infusion of cash was in addition to the $1.5 billion the Vision Fund had invested in Greensill in 2019. The money, not previously reported, was used as a financial backstop when another Vision Fund company came close to defaulting on a loan to Greensill, the people said. Greensill, which specialized in making short-term cash-advance-style loans to companies, filed for insolvency this week after regulators took over its banking unit and Credit Suisse Group AG froze investments funds critical to the startup's operations. Greensill packaged loans to companies into securities, known as notes, that were purchased by the Credit Suisse funds and sold to investors as low-risk, money-market-style investments.
SoftBank, founded by billionaire Masayoshi Son, is a giant in the field of investing, with interests spanning microchips, self-driving cars, satellites, e-commerce and mobile-phone networks. The Japanese conglomerate's $100 billion Vision Fund, and a smaller successor fund, have invested in over 80 companies. In addition to Greensill, these include Uber Technologies Inc. and TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-put-400-million-into-greensill-months-before-collapse-11615319255
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#144962 at 2022-08-08 15:31:07 (UTC+1)
QRB General #982: Another Great Rally by the Greatest American Prez Edition
SoftBank eyes Vision Fund layoffs after posting $23bn loss
SoftBank Group on Monday posted a record loss for the second straight quarter as market turmoil further spread across its portfolio of technology stocks.
In an unusually downbeat presentation, Masayoshi Son, the company's billionaire chairman and CEO, said he will undertake "significant cost reductions" at the Vision Fund including layoffs and becoming more selective in making new investments. "Unfortunately, the amount of investment has been greatly reduced," he said. "Since the financial resources are being squeezed, there are too many hunters who make investments. There will be no sanctuaries." The Vision Fund business had 387 employees as of March, according to SoftBank's annual report.
However, SoftBank also said it will buy back up to 400 billion yen worth of its own shares (that is $2,972,000,000 with current exchange rate) over the next year, in addition to the 1 trillion yen buyback program that runs until November. Son, who is SoftBank's biggest shareholder, has long maintained that the company's stock is undervalued.
The Japanese investment group reported a net loss of 3.16 trillion yen ($23.4 billion) in the April to June quarter, compared with 762 billion yen in net profit for the same period a year ago. The losses were steeper than the previous quarter's 2.1 trillion yen. SoftBank reports unrealized gains and losses on its portfolio of more than 300 tech stocks, most of which are managed by its two Vision Funds. In the latest quarter, the two Vision Funds and the Latin America Fund posted a combined 2.92 trillion yen in investment losses.
The share price of some of its publicly listed holdings, such as South Korean e-commerce company Coupang, U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologies and U.S. food delivery operator DoorDash, tumbled amid a global sell-off in the stock market. Some of these stocks have recovered in recent weeks.
Shares of some privately held portfolio companies also declined during the quarter. The cumulative investment return of Vision Fund 2, which has a higher percentage of unlisted portfolio companies than the first fund, fell into negative territory by the end of June, according to SoftBank's financial statement.
Son warned that shares of unlisted unicorns private companies valued at $1 billion or more are "overvalued" compared to listed ones. (but muh stock is 'under-valued') "Listed stocks are priced daily, but unlisted stocks are not," he said. "There are still many managers of unlisted unicorns who think they can raise funds at a higher price because their performance has increased compared to the previous round of financing. "The winter for unlisted unicorns will last much longer [than that for listed ones]."
SoftBank also reported an 820 billion yen foreign exchange loss as the yen's decline pushed up the value of its dollar-denominated debt....(that's not done either despite this from yesterday >>144938 it's just taking a rest)
As for reducing costs, Son said SoftBank is in talks to sell U.S. investment company Fortress Investment Group, which it bought in 2017 for $3.3 billion. Its financial statement does not reflect investment gains or losses in some SoftBank portfolio companies such as China's Alibaba Group Holding, which is classified as an equity method investment. Son has said he prefers to look at net asset value, which SoftBank calculates by adding up the value of the shares it owns and subtracting net debt, as a measure of performance.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-eyes-Vision-Fund-layoffs-after-posting-23bn-loss
This from July 22
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala is in talks to buy Fortress Investment Group From SoftBank
https://www.pionline.com/sovereign-wealth-funds/abu-dhabis-mubadala-talks-buy-fortress-investment-group-softbank
#132098 at 2022-04-01 03:36:13 (UTC+1)
QRB General #891: Wenzday Gonna Pop Edition
>>132044
Makes ya wonder if this cap#2-wuz them here earlier today (not the Coupang sale below just overall cause it was all at once so that is a sign of desperation because you could have spread it out) as this amount could have only come from a few places-certainly a whale making an exit.
There were several big block trades on the NAS towards the end of 2020 and it turned out to be Softbank then too.
"They're In Desperate Need Of Capital" - SoftBank Halts Investments As It Scrambles To Raise Cash'''
2021 was a difficult year for Softbank, and so far, 2022 is shaping up to be even more punishing. The Japanese telecoms giant/VC firm/conductor of the "AI Revolution" booked massive losses on its investment portfolio as massive bets on Didi and Grab soured (among other holdings), saddling the firm with tens of billions of dollars in losses for 2021 (this according to the firm's most recent earnings report).
As SoftBank shares have tumbled, founder Masayoshi Son has seen roughly $25 billion of his net worth evaporate. The firm's investment losses - spurred by a crackdown in Beijing (which has sheered $9 billion off the firm's Didi holdings, and that's just one stock), the war in Ukraine, and other factors outside SoftBank's control - could represent an existential threat, since SoftBank borrows heavily against its own shares to finance investments in early-stage companies. Because of this heavily leveraged structure, if the company's financial position deteriorates too aggressively, it could trigger a brutal margin call "doom loop" that could force it to sell even more of its holdings. Masa Son lost his first fortune during the dot-com blowup. The last thing he wants is to be financially ruined a second time.
He also lost something like $100m+ on bitcoin too
To try and guard against this eventuality, Masa Son has reportedly ordered his lieutenants to halt investments in new firms as the company seeks to conserve cash as the value of its portfolio continues to deteriorate. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has told his top executives to slow down investments, as the world's largest tech investor seeks to raise cash amid falling tech stocks and a regulatory crackdown in China. Instead of looking for new innovative tech companies to pump money into (or soliciting backers for a third iteration of its 'Vision Fund'), SoftBank is evaluating its portfolio to decide which holdings might be best suited for liquidation. One insider said the firm doesn't expect valuations of its Chinese holdings to rebound any time soon. "Valuations for Chinese companies listed overseas have collapsed," said one perSon close to SoftBank's China team. "We don't expect a turnround anytime soon." One perSon familiar with the company's plans added that SoftBank is pushing to raise cash and is evaluating assets that could be liquidated. As the firm pointed out in its latest quarterly report, its loan-to-value ratio (a key metric in the eyes of financial analysts) is getting dangerously close to the red line separating a sustainable from an unsustainable debt burden. The company's shares have shed 40% of their value over the past year, and during Q1, its portfolio shed another $20 billion and $30 billion. Back in October 2019, we speculated that SoftBank might be the tech bubble era's "short of the century". Aside from a few short-lived rallies, our timing on that call could not have been better. SoftBank's present difficulties follow one of the busiest years for dealmaking in the firm's history: it closed investments in 195 private companies last year, the most in recent memory.
Now, in a bid to raise cash, SB is scrambling to borrow against its stake in British chipmaker Arm Holdings (which is headed or an IPO spinoff following the collapse of a deal to sell it to Nvidia) and other holdings. Still, to many on Wall Street, this strategy reeks of desperation.
In a bid to raise cash, SoftBank has also used stock in Coupang** and other large holdings in the Vision Fund as collateral for loans*'''. The Japanese tech group is also finalising loans worth as much as $10bn tied to the IPO of UK chip designer Arm Holdings, following the collapse of its $66bn sale to US rival Nvidia last month.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/theyre-desperate-need-capital-softbank-halts-investments-it-scrambles-raise-cash
* and we know how well that worked out for Archegos when equity is placed as collateral for loans.
**Looks like Softbank sold 50,000,000 shares of Coupang on March 9th for a total of $1,043,500,000
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1716729&tc=7
#90068 at 2021-09-10 02:44:16 (UTC+1)
QRB General #574: It's An Evolving Virus, A "Smart" Virus -Psaki Edition
SoftBank to Borrow Almost $4 billion Against T-Mobile Stake
SoftBank Group Corp. will borrow about $4 billion through a pair of margin loans secured by the bulk of its stake in T-Mobile US Inc., according to a regulatory filing.
The Japanese company, which holds 106.3 million T-Mobile shares, announced earlier this week that it had agreed to swap about 45 million of those shares for a 4.5% stake in Deutsche Telekom AG. The deal expressly allows SoftBank to borrow against its T-Mobile stake as long as Deutsche Telekom gets to vote the shares pledged as collateral. A SoftBank affiliate called Project 6 LLC will take out a $2.6 billion margin loan secured in part by about 43 million T-Mobile shares and a second $1.25 billion bridge loan backed by another 45.4 million T-Mobile shares, according to a Schedule 13D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
SoftBank will fully draw both loans on September 15, the company said in the filing. The margin loan matures in July 2024 and the bridge loan comes due in two months, on November 14. The lending group includes JPMorgan Chase Bank NA and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Deutsche Telekom deal has rekindled hopes among SoftBank shareholders that the company, founded by Masayoshi Son, will embark on another share buyback. Son divested some of SoftBank's T-Mobile holdings last year through a $21 billion deal that helped pay for a record buyback of his company's shares.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/softbank-to-borrow-almost-4-billion-against-t-mobile-stake-1.1650241
that will werk fine until Tmobile shares drop causing another Archegos type selloff
SoftBank Group Keeps Up Borrowing Spree Before Bond Repayments
SoftBank Group Corp. sold the biggest yen note in the Japanese corporate bond market this year, continuing a global funding spree by the company as it faces hefty debt redemptions in the next six months.
Billionaire Masayoshi Son's technology conglomerate priced on Friday a 450 billion yen ($4.1 billion) subordinated bond targeting individual investors at 2.4%, together with a 50 billion yen note for institutional investors, according to filings. The company has about 1.2 trillion yen of bond repayments due in its home market before the end of February, including planned early redemptions, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. SoftBank is having one of its busiest years ever in global issuance markets, and raised more than $7 billion in a debt offering across dollars and euros in June. The company last month reported a slump in net income to 761.5 billion yen in the three months ended June 3O after the value of investments in public holdings such as Coupang Inc. declined.
SoftBank is selling yen debt after a drop in funding costs spurred a rush among Japanese firms to sell bonds, with deals last month surging to the most for any August on record at 953.3 billion yen, according to Bloomberg-compiled data. Average yield premiums on Japanese corporate notes dropped to 27 basis points this month, their lowest since 2015, Nomura BPI data show.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/softbank-group-keeps-up-borrowing-spree-before-bond-repayments-1.1650233
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#85743 at 2021-08-23 22:42:36 (UTC+1)
QRB General #541: Kamaltoe Yucking It Up With Mocking Bird Theatre Edition
Door Dash, Inc. sold by Softbank: $ 2.06B-Aug 19
filing showed up today
from Aug 19th
SoftBank sells 11.4 million shares of DoorDash - source
Aug 19 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) sold 11.4 million shares of food delivery company DoorDash Inc (DASH.N), marketed via Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. They were priced at around $182.95 each, a Bloomberg report said, valuing the sale at around $2.2 billion. The share sale comes a week after DoorDash, in its quarterly earnings report, predicted a seaSonal decline in order rates and new customer addition in the current quarter.
https://www.reuters.com/business/softbank-sells-114-million-shares-doordash-source-2021-08-19/
DoorDash, Inc. operates logistics platform, DoorDash. The Company's DoorDash platform connects merchants, consumers and Dashers. It offers Pickup that allows consumers to place advance orders, skip lines and pick up their orders. DoorDash for Work provides merchants with group orders and catering orders for businesses and events. Its logistics service, Drive, enables merchants to fulfill consumer demand that they have already created through their channels. DoorDash handles payment acceptance from consumers through a third party payment processor that manages credit card transaction processing. Its merchant software portal allows merchants to track business performance on a number of metrics, including how long a Dasher waits for an order, order accuracy, and reports on incremental sales. It provides customer support for any orders placed through its local logistics platform. Its subscription product, DashPass, serves as a membership program and offers consumers access to merchants. Number of employees : 3 886 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DOORDASH-INC-116169045/company/
SoftBank got its start in 1981 in Tokyo. Founded as a telecommunications company, SoftBank now has a hand in a number of different areas, including e-commerce, finance, broadband, marketing, and more. The company has a portfolio including SoftBank BB, GungHo Online Entertainment, IDC Frontier, and more. In recent years, it has gone on a spending spree, buying up numerous smaller companies and initiating investments in many others. In July of 2016, for instance, SoftBank purchased UK-based chip manufacturer ARM for ?24 billion, with an eye toward continuing to develop the Internet of Things. In 2017, SoftBank announced that it would buy two additional robotics companies from Alphabet. First, it bought up Boston Dynamics, the developer of the iconic Big Dog robot, and then it bought Schaft, a less well-known robotics outfit. SoftBank is headed by chair and CEO Masayoshi Son. Son has established himself as an assertive and confident player in the international tech scene. With about $100 billion to invest on companies developing the technology of the future, Son has ample room to explore a variety of new areas. According to The Economic Times, Son has strong opinions about the future of SoftBank and has put forth a conception of a 300-year plan for the company, with the end goal being to build the most valuable firm in the world. The key to Son's future investments is SoftBank's Vision Fund, dedicated to M&A deals like those listed above.
https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-softbank/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1835490&tc=7&b=2
#57583 at 2021-05-28 13:59:02 (UTC+1)
QRB General #237: Will Windham Blow the Lid off Election Fraud? Edition
Credit Suisse Cuts Ties With SoftBank After Greensill Crisis
Credit Suisse Group AG is cutting ties with SoftBank Group Corp., distancing itself from a key backer to Lex Greensill's collapsed supply-chain finance empire after conflict of interest allegations.
The Swiss lender will no longer do any new business with the Japanese firm, people with knowledge of situation said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. The decision may ripple across Credit Suisse's investment bank: SoftBank has been a prolific deal-maker and last year Credit Suisse and other banks held about $8 billion of SoftBank shares in collateral, pledged by founder Masayoshi Son. It is unclear how long the ban lasts for, or whether it impacts any ongoing deals. Credit Suisse is reviewing its risk and client relationships after being hit by the twin collapses of Greensill and Archegos Capital Management. New Chairman Antonio-Horta Osorio has pledged a wide-ranging review after the bank was forced to suspend billions of dollars of funds it managed with Greensill and took a $5.5 billion hit on Archegos, raising questions about the oversight of key clients.
A Tokyo-based spokesperSon at SoftBank Group wasn't immediately available to comment, while Credit Suisse declined to comment. The overlapping financial relationships had raised questions whether SoftBank was using the Credit Suisse funds to prop up investments in the Vision Fund, including Greensill Capital, in which it had a substantial stake. SoftBank wrote down its $1.5 billion holding of Greensill to close to zero after Credit Suisse was forced to wind down its four Greensill-linked funds in March, people familiar with the matter earlier said. SoftBank is now seeking $1.15 billion in claims as part of Greensill's insolvency proceedings.
Credit Suisse marketed its popular supply-chain finance funds as among the safest investments it offered, because the loans they held were backed by invoices usually paid in weeks and the funds were insured. But as the funds grew into a $10 billion strategy, they strayed from that pitch and much of the money was lent through Greensill against expected future invoices, for sales that were merely predicted. The firm's collapse forced Credit Suisse to liquidate the funds, and investors finally payment is still uncertain.
Credit Suisse conducted an internal review into the Greensill funds after allegations of possible conflicts of interest involving SoftBank last year. A number of SoftBank portfolio companies received loans via supply-chain funds at Credit Suisse, while SoftBank was also an investor in the Credit Suisse funds. In the aftermath, SoftBank pulled $700 million out of the funds and the bank also changed its investment guidelines for Credit Suisse's to reduce the maximum exposure to a single borrower.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/credit-suisse-cuts-ties-with-softbank-after-greensill-crisis-1.1609827
#56307 at 2021-05-24 18:01:52 (UTC+1)
QRB General #222: Trips of Truth Edition
>>56170 pb Japan Self-Defense Forces start mass-vaccination mission
US State Dept Issues "Do Not Travel" Advisory For Japan As Calls To Cancel Olympics Intensify
Shortly after the warnings from Masa-san and news (below) of Japan's push for a amass vaccination program, the US State Department has cranked up the pressure to '11' by issuing a Level 4 Travel Advisory for visitors to Japan.
"Do not travel to Japan due to COVID-19."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for Japan due to COVID-19, indicating a very high level of COVID-19 in the country. There are restrictions in place affecting U.S. citizen entry into Japan. Visit the Embassy's COVID-19 page for more information on COVID-19 in Japan.
So the question is - will the US send their athletes?
Much to the chagrin of Japan's political leaders, worsening COVID-19 cases are prompting more critics, including SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son (one of the country's most high-profile businessmen), to warn that the Olympics should be canceled as hospitals in the country's second-largest city, Osaka, struggle to treat a huge wave of hospitalized patients as Japan becomes the latest Asian nation to fall victim to a new wave of the virus.
The western Japanese region of Osaka is home to 9 million people, and is suffering the brunt of what Reuters described as Japan's "fourth wave of the pandemic." Only half of the region's medical staff are vaccinated, which "underscores the challenge of hosting a major global sports event in two months time," Reuters added. "Simply put, this is a collapse of the medical system," said Yuji Tohda, the director of Kindai University Hospital in Osaka.
Fortunately for the government, the surge is already showing some signs of abating. Tokyo, the site of the upcoming Summer Olympics (which were postponed after the pandemic made the Games a virtual impossibility last year) reported 340 new cases on Monday, down from 535 a day earlier, bringing the seven-day average of new cases in the capital to 638, which is 18.7% lower than the prior week. Osaka meanwhile registered 216 new infections, down from 274 a day ago and the first time in two months that the number of new cases in the western Japan prefecture fell below 300 for two consecutive days. Tokyo, Osaka and seven other prefectures are currently under a state of emergency that has been extended through May 31. Japan has recorded more than 700,000 infections and 12,000 Covid-19 deaths from the virus.
Masa Son originally voiced his criticisms a few days ago, saying "Currently more than 80% of people want the Olympics to be postponed or cancelled. Who and on what authority is it being forced through?"
?????8???????????????????????????????????????? - ??? (@masaSon) May 22, 2021
Just as Masa Son - who has occasionally been described as 'Japan's Warren Buffett' - was criticizing the government for being a "vaccine laggard" and saying the slow pace of the country's innoculation drive could put lives at risk, Japan has deployed its Self-Defense Forces (remember, Japan technically doesn't have its own army) to aid in its vaccination drive, speeding up inoculations targeting 36MM people over the age of 65. Medical officers and nurses will be stationed at two vaccination sites in Tokyo and Osaka, according to the BBC.
The centers will give out thousands of shots each day, prioritizing the elderly. Right now, only 5% of Japan's population is fully vaccinated. Officials are planning to vaccinate up to 5,000 people in Tokyo and 2,500 in Osaka every day with the recently approved Moderna jab, while in June and July this capacity is set to double. Mass vaccination facilities are also planned for other major cities like Kobe and Nagoya.
As for the Olympic Games, just last week the IOC declared that they will "absolutely" proceed, though travel and capacity restrictions will of course limit the number of spectators.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/japan-launches-mass-vaccination-campaign-calls-cancel-olympics-intensify
#55687 at 2021-05-22 01:18:47 (UTC+1)
QRB General #214: "De Plane" Wheels Down Edition
Door Dash Inc sold by Softbank: $1.05B-May 19
sold through holdco SVF Fast (Cayman) Ltd
DoorDash, Inc. operates logistics platform, DoorDash. The Companyâ?™s DoorDash platform connects merchants, consumers and Dashers. It offers Pickup that allows consumers to place advance orders, skip lines and pick up their orders. DoorDash for Work provides merchants with group orders and catering orders for businesses and events. Its logistics service, Drive, enables merchants to fulfill consumer demand that they have already created through their channels. DoorDash handles payment acceptance from consumers through a third party payment processor that manages credit card transaction processing. Its merchant software portal allows merchants to track business performance on a number of metrics, including how long a Dasher waits for an order, order accuracy, and reports on incremental sales. It provides customer support for any orders placed through its local logistics platform. Its subscription product, DashPass, serves as a membership program and offers consumers access to merchants. Number of employees : 3 886 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DOORDASH-INC-116169045/company/
Masayoshi Son-Cahir/CEO Softbank
SoftBank is headed by chair and CEO Masayoshi Son. Son has established himself as an assertive and confident player in the international tech scene.1 With about $100 billion to invest on companies developing the technology of the future, Son has ample room to explore a variety of new areas. According to The Economic Times, Son has strong opinions about the future of SoftBank and has put forth a conception of a 300-year plan for the company, with the end goal being to build the most valuable firm in the world. The key to Son's future investments is SoftBank's Vision Fund, dedicated to M&A deals like those listed above.5 The list of acquisitions continues to grow. Back in April of 2017, Son was behind the $5.5-billion venture into Didi Chuxing, the massive ride-sharing company out of China.6 Describing the acquisition as a "big bang," Son went on to say that he believes "the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund**"
SoftBank got its start in 1981 in Tokyo. Founded as a telecommunications company, SoftBank now has a hand in a number of different areas, including e-commerce, finance, broadband, marketing, and more.1 The company has a portfolio including SoftBank BB, GungHo Online Entertainment, IDC Frontier, and more. In recent years, it has gone on a spending spree, buying up numerous smaller companies and initiating investments in many others.2 In July of 2016, for instance, SoftBank purchased UK-based chip manufacturer ARM for £24 billion, with an eye toward continuing to develop the Internet of Things.3 In 2017, SoftBank announced that it would buy two additional robotics companies from Alphabet. First, it bought up Boston Dynamics, the developer of the iconic Big Dog robot, and then it bought Schaft, a less well-known robotics outfit.
** Sale transacted through
https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-softbank/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1835490&tc=7
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#18004041 at 2022-12-23 18:13:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #38: Expose Them All Edition
Got MilQ? Fake Milk to Replace Dairy and Breast Milk
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/joseph-mercola/got-milq-fake-milk-to-replace-dairy-and-breast-milk/
The globalist technocrats are intent on monopolizing the entire food supply. They already have a monopoly on genetically engineered (GE) grains and have made headway in GE seafood. The next targets are lab-grown meats and dairy substitutes. There's even a lab-made breast milk alternative on the way called Biomilq, which is made from cultured breast tissue.1
Another company, Helaina, aims to create glycoproteins "identical to those found in breast milk,"2 which can then be added to a variety of infant formulas. They may also be used in seniors' nutrition and eventually, all sorts of foods.
Many familiar globalists are invested in these faux dairy ventures. Biomilq investors, for example, include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard BranSon, Masayoshi Son, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg and Marc Benioff.3 Continue…