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L6550 USAFSOC C-32B back at Bragg after a trip to Ft. Campbell
On ground about 30 minutes
SAM566 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast departed JBA ws
Update of JBA big boi departures
WYLIE72 (2 of them) KC-135 tankers west ahead of SMA566
GOFERS 01 94 96 Minnesota ANG C-130s nw with POLO60 C-17 ahead of 'doze
BAT14 13 KC -135 tankers wn over Iowa left a bit ago
De Beers Raises Diamond Prices Most in Years
De Beers implemented its biggest price increase for diamonds in years as the industry starts bouncing back from the pandemic-induced shutdown.
The world’s biggest diamond producer raised prices by about 5% at its first sale of the year, according to people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The increases mostly applied to stones bigger than 1 carat, the people said.
The diamond industry has surprised many by the speed of its recovery after being brought to a complete standstill in the first half of last year. Crucial holiday sales in the U.S. and China were strong, while a shortage of stock held by industry middlemen created strong demand.
De Beers doesn’t publicize price changes, but it’s probably one of the steepest increases since the early part of last decade, the people said. A spokesman for De Beers declined to comment.
There were signs of recovery in the fourth quarter of 2020 as rough-diamond buyers started replenishing stocks to prepare for the industry’s most important selling period: Thanksgiving to the Chinese New Year. De Beers’s business started rebounding, and the Anglo American Plc unit was able to edge prices higher in the last sale of the year in December.
That’s in stark contrast to the industry’s fortunes at the early stages of the pandemic, when sales collapsed, and diamond retailers and factories closed. De Beers responded by curtailing production, leading to a tighter supply just as shoppers returned to stores in parts of China and the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/de-beers-raises-diamond-prices-most-in-years-as-industry-revs-up?srnd=markets-vp
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BOXER47 USAF C-40C west from Nellis AFB overnight and on approach at Amarillo, TX
Pantex Nuclear Facility to the ne of Amarillo
The Pantex Plant, located northeast of Amarillo, Texas, is the nation’s primary facility for the final assembly, dismantlement and maintenance of nuclear weapons. Pantex is one of six production facilities in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nuclear Security Enterprise. Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC manages and operates the facility along with the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee under a single contract from the U.S. Department of Energy/NNSA.
https://pantex.energy.gov/about
Back out from Bragg as L6552 and north
FUME04 US Navy E-6B Mercury back on-shore from earlier Pax depart
SAM566 USAF G5 continues sw from JBA
ABIDE99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Dyess AFB Abilene
This AC has been at Dyess since 0112 and had a brief flight to the ne on 0113 as GORE38 and returned to Dyess
the "best" one so far is Deutsche Bank and all the 911 fuckery
"we're not going to prosecute them as terrorists because they are not"
Had ALL the evidence and punted.
L6552 USAFSOC C-32B made a ground stop at Pittsburgh-Allegheny Cty Airport (i think) and sw nao
yep
Jan. 30, 2013
HSBC Names James Comey to The Board
HSBC Holdings PLC said Wednesday it named James Comey, Jr. to its board as of March 4 as it continues to respond to the money laundering scandal that has engulfed the bank since last summer.
Comey, a former deputy attorney general, is a senior research scholar at Columbia University Law School. During his time at the Justice Department, he was responsible for supervising the department's operations, and he chaired President George W. Bush's corporate fraud task force.
Prior to that, he was a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, supervising the prosecution of executives on fraud charges, and he created a specialized unit to prosecute international drug cartels. He served from 2005 to 2010 as general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corp. , and more recently was general counsel of Bridgewater Associates LP.
Comey will join the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee, a panel HSBC's board established Wednesday.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CCB-7794
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ROGEE62 USAF E-8C Joint STARS from Lake Charles, Chennault Int'l doubling back on original trace north
The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.
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https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104507/e-8c-joint-stars/
NASA has a facility here and this Airport was one of the original back-up sites available to land the Space Shuttle