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SAM620 USAF C-32A west from Albuquerque Int'l (shares with Kirtland AFB)
68-10336 USAF U-2 Dragon Lady out of Skunkworks 80-1094 U-2 back to Beale
ARRIS99 USAF Peagasus tanker off SoCal from Edwards
SCOUT01H USAF Sentry AWACS se from SLC
ELVIS66 USAF C-17 in at Memphis from San Juan depart
RUFF07 US Navy E-6B mercury with a BUFF 00000000 overhead
PHENOM2 USAF Joint STARS on TX/LA coast
ROLLERs 01 14 with a ground stop at Little Rock AFB
ROLLER47 C-130 west from JBA
SNTRY62 USAF Sentry AWACS on TX/NM border
Bank Buybacks Surge To Highest Level Since March
Remember when the Fed and the administration were both raging against corporate buybacks, which especially in the case of airline and various service stocks, were the primary reason why so many companies found themselves without a cash buffer as the covid pandemic struck.
Well, it anyone hoped that companies would have learned their lesson - or any lesson - from the pandemic and instead of distributing capital to shareholders would save it for a rainy day, get ready to be disappointed. Because not only are buybacks back, they are back thanks to the Fed's approval of banks to generously return billions back to shareholders.
As Bank of America's Jill Carey Hall writes today, buybacks by BofA's corporate clients over the past three weeks have picked up to their highest levels since March. With Banks allowed to buy back stock again in 1Q, Financials buybacks increased back to March levels. The number is modest as financials comprised just 7% of buybacks from 2Q-4Q last year after making up 40% of buybacks in 2019; we expect these numbers to ramp up aggressively in the coming months as financial engineering returns to normal and as companies across all sectors quietly resume issuing debt and using the proceeds to prop up their stock price.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bank-buybacks-surge-highest-level-march
IMF lifts global growth forecast for 2021, still sees 'exceptional uncertainty'
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2021 and said the coronavirus-triggered downturn last year - the biggest peacetime contraction since the Great Depression - would be nearly a full percentage point less severe than expected. The global lender said multiple vaccine approvals and the start of vaccinations in some countries had boosted hopes of an eventual end to the pandemic that has now infected nearly 100 million people and claimed the lives of more than 2.1 million globally.
But it warned that the world economy continued to face “exceptional uncertainty” and new waves of COVID-19 infections and variants posed risks, and global activity would remain well below pre-COVID-19 projections made one year ago.
IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath said U.S. President Joe Biden’s pledge to fund the World Health Organization’s COVAX vaccine initiative marked “a very big step” to containing the pandemic and ensuring more equitable distribution of vaccines.
“Much more will be needed, because as we can see, given the mutating virus, that this is not a problem that’s going away anytime soon,” Gopinath told a news conference.
“There is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty,” she told Reuters in a separate interview. “We know that the health crisis is not over until it’s over everywhere.”
Gopinath said the global economy could gain $9 trillion between 2020 and 2025 if faster progress could be made in ending the health crisis, and it was clearly in the interest of advanced economies to help poorer countries recover.
“There’s a complete economic sense to do this, and do it right now,” she told Reuters.
The IMF estimates that close to 90 million people are likely to fall below the extreme poverty threshold during 2020-2021, with the pandemic wiping some out $22 trillion in projected output through 2025 and reversing progress made in reducing poverty over the past two decades.
https://www.reuters.com/article/imf-outlook/update-2-imf-lifts-global-growth-forecast-for-2021-still-sees-exceptional-uncertainty-idUSL1N2K11XA
rolling out the hopium and in a few weeks they will move the "recovery" to the first half of next year.
GTMO44 US Navy Beech Huron se from NAS Jax ground stop-no Lauderdale on this one today
Coupla P-3's or P-8's off Space Coast
BLKWF14 USAF E-11A BACN GLEX departed Edwards AFB en
Been at that location since 0111 and has been switched off/on almost everyday with a flight to the north and back on 0120
Bombardier E-11A is the military variant of the civil Bombardier BD-700 Global Express for use as overhead communications-relay platform in southwest Asia. The BD-700 was selected due to its high service ceiling, up to 51,000 ft and up to 12 hours flight duration. Initially aircraft was designated as RC-700 under the reconnaissance classification but later was re-designated as the E-11A under the special electronics installations category. The E-11A is a U.S. Air Force aircraft that provides unparalleled communications capabilities to forces on the ground and aircraft in the air. Commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, this aircraft extends the range of communications channels and enables better communication among units. This element is essential where the terrain may disrupt communications channels and it enables ground forces to know what is around them when something is not in their line of sight.
https://worldofaviation.net/bombardier-e-11a-bacn/
SAM620 USAF C-32A continues wn from Alb. ground stop
WYLIE72 73 Kansas ANG west from JBA
ILLINI2 3 Illinois ANG to JBA from Scott AFB (east of St. Louis) to JBA
2 on final approach
PEACH99 USAF Joint STARS over Kentucky from Robins AF, GA
Judge bars Biden from enforcing 100-day deportation ban
A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas, which sued on Friday against a Department of Homeland Security memo that instructed immigration agencies to pause most deportations. Tipton said the Biden administration had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations.” Tipton’s order is an early blow to the Biden administration, which has proposed far-reaching changes sought by immigration advocates, including a plan to legalize an estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Biden promised during his campaign to issue the moratorium.
The order represents a victory for Texas’ Republican leaders, who often sued to stop programs enacted by Biden’s Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama. It also showed that just as Democratic-led states and immigration groups fought former President Donald Trump over immigration in court, often successfully, so too will Republicans with Biden in office.
David Pekoske, the acting Homeland Security secretary, signed a memo on Biden’s first day directing immigration authorities to focus on national security and public safety threats as well as anyone apprehended entering the U.S. illegally after Nov. 1. That was a reversal from Trump administration policy that made anyone in the U.S. illegally a priority for deportation.
The 100-day moratorium went into effect Friday and applied to almost anyone who entered the U.S. without authorization before November.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the moratorium violated federal law as well as an agreement Texas signed with the Department of Homeland Security late in the Trump administration. That agreement required Homeland Security to consult with Texas and other states before taking any action to “reduce, redirect, reprioritize, relax, or in any way modify immigration enforcement.”
The Biden administration argued in court filings that the agreement is unenforceable because “an outgoing administration cannot contract away that power for an incoming administration.” Paxton’s office, meanwhile, submitted a Fox News opinion article as evidence that “refusal to remove illegal aliens is directly leading to the immediate release of additional illegal aliens in Texas.”
moar
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-immigration-texas-barack-obama-51688033e490d50867e52ef9c8ec574f
Florida offers to replace Tokyo as Summer Olympics host
Florida's chief financial officer has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to consider relocating the 2021 Games to the Sunshine State amid speculation that Tokyo organisers may back out as hosts due to concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak.
Tokyo organisers have vowed to press ahead with the re-scheduled Games, which are due to open on July 23 after being postponed for a year because of the novel coronavirus, but Florida's Jimmy Patronis has offered an alternative option. "There is still time to deploy a site selection team to Florida to meet with statewide and local officials on holding the Olympics in the Sunshine State," Patronis said in a letter sent this week to IOC President Thomas Bach. "I would welcome the opportunity to pitch Florida and help you make the right contacts to get this done."
In an email to Reuters, the IOC said it has not received a letter from Patronis and referred to the statement issued last Friday that said it is committed to having the Olympic Games in Tokyo this year. Given all the planning and preparations necessary to host an Olympics, it is virtually impossible to relocate the event within six months of the scheduled opening ceremony.
In his letter, Patronis drew attention to what he called the strength of the state's vaccination roll-out along with Florida holding several sporting events, including the entirety of last year's NBA playoffs, during the pandemic. Florida's death toll from the novel coronavirus has topped 25,000. The cumulative death toll from the virus in Japan topped 5,000 over the weekend.
"Whatever precautions are required let's figure it out and get it done," wrote Patronis.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tokyo-2020-Olympics/Florida-offers-to-replace-Tokyo-as-Summer-Olympics-host
SAM620 USAF C-32A on approach at Sacramento, CA Int'l Airport from Albuquerque Int'l ground stop
On it's second go around here.
Interdasting they are going to Sacto Int'l instead of McClellan Airfield to the east.
Several AC's have used McClellan including POTUS in a 757 last year.
POSSE15 31 POSEE08 Montanna ANG C-130 Hercs departing JBA nw
125757 USAF C-130J Commando II out of Harrisburg Int'l west
RUNG55 US Navy E-6B Mercury east from Tinker AFB, OKC
PACK92 USAF Pegasus tanker on descent to JBA from Wichita
TORCH11 USAF C-130 Herc es from Peoria, IL
the story goes that they all knew this was coming apart so they printed up the new bills in anticipation of the markets coming apart during the 2008 event.
When they were able to recapitalize the banks with the original bailout ($750b) and then Greenspan and his flunkies trotted out the Gold notes to keep it all from really falling apart
So they already had the bills printed up and the thinking was that if they failed with the Gold Bonds all you had to do was tear the new one in half…discard the left side (no gold on that side) and POOF already new currency with the "proper" gold backing .
They knew it was going to work (the Gold Bonds) so they just held those back as they were already done.
There is video from 2007 that shows them being printed up and the Bldg is covered in green curtains from the inside (ala Wizarrd of Oz)
So the theory is that after the Gold bonds backed "everything" they got the bright idea to just go ahead and print up duplicate serial numbers across the entire currency issue-this is where the counterfitters come in that were in the Phillipines and SoKo.
Called them Super Notes
Moar to this but that is the basic part of it
SAM620 still with the go arounds at Sacto Int'l.
If this was close to JBA I'd say we habs a pilot getting some seat time in a bigger AC but it stopped at Alb (who knows if the same crew still on) and doing this over an active Airport.
Why I mentioned them being here instead of McClellan to the east.
SAM620 on ground at Sacto Int'l from Alb ground stop
02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B sw from Bragg to Eglin AFB
Sen. Patrick Leahy, set to preside over Trump impeachment, taken to hospital
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat set to preside over the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, was taken to a Washington hospital for evaluation Tuesday, his spokesman said. “This evening, Senator Leahy was in his Capitol office and was not feeling well,” said his spokesman David Carle in a written statement. “He was examined in the Capitol by the Attending Physician,” Carle said.
“Out of an abundance of caution, the Attending Physician recommended that he be taken to a local hospital for observation, where he is now, and where he is being evaluated.”
Leahy, 80, is the president pro tempore of the Senate, which makes him responsible for presiding over that chamber in the absence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Leahy’s status in the Senate also puts him third in line in the order of presidential succession, after Harris and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/sen-patrick-leahy-set-to-preside-over-trump-impeachment-taken-to-hospital.html
SAM636 USAF C-40B inbound from Shannon, Ireland ground stop-Sigonella AB, Sicily depart earlier
BLKWF14 USAF E-11A BACN GLEX heading across the pond from Edwards AFB depart
ILLINI12 3 62-3576 Illinois ANG from JBA to Peoria Int'l Airport
POSSE15 31 POSEE8 Montana ANG continues nw from JBA
GOFER30 and VIKNG85 Minnesota ANG departing Minneapolis north