SPAR591 and 499 in at Nellis AFB from Scott AFB depart.
Been several of these flights in and out of Nellis last 48 hrs
SAM465 USAF G5 on ground at JBA from MacDill AFB
Disneyland’s Toy Story Parking Lot Opens for Mass Vaccinations
Orange County, California, opened a mass-vaccination site at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim on Wednesday, where it expects to inoculate more than 7,000 people a day. Walt Disney Co. is providing staffing assistance as well as space on its Toy Story parking lot. Some 10,000 people signed up in the first two hours Tuesday, according to Andrew Do, chairman of the county board of supervisors. He asked the county’s 3.2 million residents to be patient. “The server can only handle so many calls and then it crashes,” he said.
Orange County plans to open five such “Super Pod,” or point-of-dispensing, sites. The Disney lot opening comes as California struggles to ramp up Covid-19 vaccinations. The state has administered roughly a third of the vaccines received so far, even as it plans to expand eligibility.
People looking to get vaccinated at the Disney site will need a reservation, and are encouraged to sign up through a website or app. For now, only people in the first tier of eligible residents, such as first responders and health-care workers, are allowed to receive the shot. They’ll park and then walk into a tent for their inoculation.
While California officials said Wednesday they will expand vaccines to anyone 65 and older, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said it may be February before regular residents in that age group can get inoculations. They’re going to sign up more doctors and other providers next week so they can prepare for the vaccination of seniors.
There are 75 community sites for health-care workers in Los Angeles County, including Dodger Stadium, which opens at the end of the week and will do thousands a day, just for health-care workers. There are 700,000 to 800,000 people who qualify under the first phase.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/disneyland-s-toy-story-parking-lot-opens-for-mass-vaccinations-1.1548264
TAHA73 US NAvy E-6B Mercury off NoCal coast then south on the 101 freeway-central CA
SPAR499 USAF Learjet es from Nellis AFB ground stop
R1863 US Army G5 departed Fort Bliss, TX aftr ground stop-departed Nellis prior to SPARs arrival from Scott AFB
00000000 USMC CH-53E Super Stallion east
These usually not visible on scope but see them on occasion
Have seen several pairs of Ospreys heading en from the 'dangah zone in the last 36 hours
Not usually that many
South Side of the Sky
China’s Trade Surplus Hits Record as Pandemic Fuels Exports
China’s exports continued to expand at a strong pace in December, helping to underpin the economy’s recovery. Growth in imports accelerated.
Exports grew 18.1% in dollar terms in December from a year earlier, while imports rose 6.5%, the customs agency said Thursday. That left a trade surplus of $78.17 billion for the month, the highest on record. Economists had forecast that exports would increase by 15% while imports would rise by 5.7%
Key Insights
*Exports surged last year as the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns fueled overseas demand for personal protective gear and stay-at-home electronic devices. With the pandemic largely under control domestically, factories were able to resume production earlier than most other places, enabling China to meet rising global demand
*December’s shipments likely eased after a bumper month in November, while a recovery in global growth helped to support momentum, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists said before the data release. Import growth likely rebounded because of more working days in December, they said
*New lockdowns in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere could continue to spur demand for Chinese-made consumer goods, though they will weigh on the global recovery. China is also battling a new wave of virus cases, with restrictions to contain the infections in some areas already causing disruptions to business activity
*Even so, UBS Group AG’s Wang Tao sees strong export growth in 2021, with more stable U.S.-China relations helping to reduce uncertainty for trade and supply chains, she wrote in a report before the data.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s-trade-surplus-hits-record-as-pandemic-fuels-exports-1.1548297
US must 'puncture' China's Asian dominance, declassified plan says
Days before leaving office, the Trump administration has declassified an internal document on its Indo-Pacific strategy that shows the principles under which it operated.
Unsurprisingly, it is heavily focused on the rise of China. It reveals how the administration tried to debunk Beijing's narrative that China's regional dominance was inevitable, and exhibits how the U.S. sought to maintain access to the most populous region of the world for economic reasons. The U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific was approved by President Donald Trump in February 2018 and classified by Matthew Pottinger, the then-National Security Council senior director for Asia. It was declassified last week by national security adviser Robert O'Brien, in the last days of the Trump administration, and published Tuesday.
In blunt wording not usually seen in public speeches, the document says that one of the top interests for the country in the Indo-Pacific is to "preserve U.S. economic, diplomatic and military access to the most populous region of the world and more than one-third of the global economy."
The top national security challenge noted in the document is China. It assumes that Beijing "aims to dissolve U.S. alliances and partnerships in the region" and exploit any resulting opportunities, and that it will "take increasingly assertive steps to compel unification with Taiwan." The document lays out both hard power and soft power measures to counter the challenge.
In hard power, it says, Washington should devise a defense strategy that can deny Beijing dominance inside the "first island chain," which includes Taiwan, Okinawa and the Philippines; defend "nations" within the chain, explicitly naming Taiwan; and dominate areas outside the chain. Sailors inspect F/A-18s on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Indian Ocean on Dec. 29. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)
Nikkei staff writersJanuary 14, 2021 05:29 JST
NEW YORK/SYDNEY/BEIJING – Days before leaving office, the Trump administration has declassified an internal document on its Indo-Pacific strategy that shows the principles under which it operated.
Unsurprisingly, it is heavily focused on the rise of China. It reveals how the administration tried to debunk Beijing's narrative that China's regional dominance was inevitable, and exhibits how the U.S. sought to maintain access to the most populous region of the world for economic reasons.
The U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific was approved by President Donald Trump in February 2018 and classified by Matthew Pottinger, the then-National Security Council senior director for Asia. It was declassified last week by national security adviser Robert O'Brien, in the last days of the Trump administration, and published Tuesday.
In blunt wording not usually seen in public speeches, the document says that one of the top interests for the country in the Indo-Pacific is to "preserve U.S. economic, diplomatic and military access to the most populous region of the world and more than one-third of the global economy."
The top national security challenge noted in the document is China. It assumes that Beijing "aims to dissolve U.S. alliances and partnerships in the region" and exploit any resulting opportunities, and that it will "take increasingly assertive steps to compel unification with Taiwan."
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/US-must-puncture-China-s-Asian-dominance-declassified-plan-says
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1349355524463054852
R1863 US Army G5 on ground at Peterson AFB frim Ft. Hood ground stop-departed Nellis after an overnight
Indian PM Modi heading east from Delhi Int'l Tibetan border just to the north
Patrick Byrne on Telegram
g'nite fam
hard to make a mistake when I am the only person baking and posting
keks hard
enjoyed chasin q like today
guud for me
combing notables for relevant stuff is guud for me too
wish I could keep pace next door but those days are over, g's change every day, up and down
That dude has got to be dead
Pumpkin time
another day another g and q
see ya'll not too earlies