AE6898 US Navy P-8 Poseiden over Niagra Falls Int'l Airport and circled Niagra Falls 3x prior to that.
Out of NAS Jax
Proctor and Gamble, Inc. sold by Trian Fund Management: $120.77m-Feb 3,16 & 17
The Procter & Gamble Company is focused on providing branded consumer packaged goods to the consumers across the world. The Company operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care, and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. The Company sells its products in approximately 180 countries and territories primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, baby stores, specialty beauty stores, e-commerce, high-frequency stores and pharmacies. It offers products under the brands, such as Olay, Old Spice, Safeguard, Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Rejoice, Mach3, Prestobarba, Venus, Cascade, Dawn, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Bounty and Charmin. Number of employees : 99 000 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-PROCTER-GAMBLE-COMP-4838/company/
Trian Fund Mgmt- Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz has been Chief Executive Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian since November 2005. Mr. Peltz serves as the non-executive Chairman of The Wendy’s Company. Mr. Peltz is also a director of The Procter & Gamble Company, Sysco Corporation, Legg Mason, Inc. and Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (f/k/a The Madison Square Garden Company.)
He previously served as a director of H. J. Heinz Company from September 2006 to June 2013, Legg Mason, Inc. from October 2009 to December 2014, Ingersoll-Rand plc from August 2012 to June 2014, MSG Networks Inc. from December 2014 to September 2015 and Mondelēz International, Inc. from January 2014 to March 2018. Mr. Peltz was recognized by The National Association of Corporate Directors in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as among the most influential people in the global corporate governance arena. From April 1993 through June 2007, Mr. Peltz served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Triarc Companies, Inc. which during that period of time owned Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. and the Snapple Beverage Group, as well as other consumer and industrial businesses.
Mr. Peltz was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Triangle Industries, Inc. from 1983 until December 1988, the largest packaging company in the world and a Fortune 100 industrial company, when that company was acquired by Pechiney, S.A., a leading international metals and packaging company. Mr. Peltz began his business career in 1963 when he joined his family food business. Mr. Peltz is Honorary Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, a member and trustee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a member and governor of NewYork-Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a member of the Board of Overseers of The Milken Institute, a member of the Honorary Board of Directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation (formerly known as CaP CURE), a member of the Intrepid Advisory Council, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Avon Old Farms School. Mr. Peltz attended The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Peltz is the father-in-law of Ed Garden and the father of Matthew Peltz.
https://trianpartners.com/people/nelson-peltz/
https://trianpartners.com/portfolio/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=928265&tc=7&b=2
ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch went south after a lovely sunset and currently lining up on March AFB
Most likely doing some preliminary work for the below upgrades.
There was a USAF GLEX BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communications Network) at Edwards for an extended stay.
Gulfstream stuffed with Comm nodes and serves as an aerial wi-fi for the differences in AC platforms/software so they can all talk to each other.
from Oct 26,2020
L3Harris to Perform SSHF Upgrades to U.S. Air Force E-4B Aircraft
L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23.8 million contract to perform survivable super high frequency (SSHF) upgrades to the U.S. Air Force E-4B aircraft. The SSHF upgrade seeks to build new capabilities that form the foundation for maintaining the E-4B as an effective nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) platform. The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8612-21-C-5007). This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and 67 offers were received. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $20 million will be obligated at the time of award. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah; and Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and is expected to be completed by April 18, 2022.
https://defpost.com/l3harris-to-perform-sshf-upgrades-to-u-s-air-force-e-4b-aircraft/
ANON US Navy Osprey east from North Island
ORDER66 Nightwatch still over March AFB
NY Fed Q4 Report: "Total Household Debt Increased in Q4 2020, Newly Originated Mortgages Reach Record High"
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. The report shows that total household debt increased by $206 billion (1.4%) to $14.56 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2020, driven in part by a steep increase in mortgage originations. The total debt balance is now $414 billion higher than the year prior. The Report is based on data from the New York Fed's Consumer Credit Panel, a nationally representative random sample of individual- and household-level debt and credit records drawn from anonymized Equifax credit data.
Mortgage balances—the largest component of household debt—surpassed $10 trillion in the fourth quarter, increasing by $182 billion to $10.04 trillion at the end of December. While credit card balances increased by $12 billion over the quarter, they were $108 billion lower than they had been at the end of 2019, the largest year over year decline since the series began in 1999. This overall decline is consistent with continued weakness in consumer spending and revolving balance paydowns by card holders. Auto and student loan balances increased by $14 billion and $9 billion, respectively. In total, non-housing balances (including credit card, auto loan, student loan, and other debts) increased by $37 billion during the fourth quarter but remained below end-2019 levels.
Newly originated mortgages reached a record high and auto loan originations reached their second highest quarterly volume since 2000. Mortgage originations, which include refinances, were at $1.2 trillion, surpassing in nominal terms the volumes seen during the historic refinance boom in 2003Q3. Auto loan originations, which includes both loans and leases, were down slightly from the record high seen in the third quarter but were at the second highest level for the series, at $162 billion.
Aggregate delinquency rates continued to decline in the fourth quarter reflecting an uptake in forbearances which were provided by the CARES Act or voluntarily offered by lenders. The uptake in forbearances continues to be visible in the delinquency transition rates for mortgages, as the share of mortgages that transitioned to early delinquency ticked down to 0.4%. As of late December, the share of outstanding debt that was in some stage of delinquency was 1.6 percentage points lower than the rate observed at end-2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States. About 121,000 consumers had a bankruptcy notation added to their credit reports, a decline from the previous quarter and a new series low.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2021/20210217
FORTE10 USAF Global Hawk doin' laps at 53k ft in northern Aegean Sea-from Sigonella AB, Sicily
ORDER66 Nightwatch and ARRIS99 Pegasus tanker back to Edwards AFB and calling it a night
found this pic of one of these being tested for EMP after being hardened and at Edwards AFB
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Big job I would think especially years ago without the "newest" stuff.
yep the bulges on top and extra stuff on the bottom
stolen
Myanmar military woos ethnic minorities after coup
With Myanmar's military in full control of the country since a Feb. 1 coup, the junta is now trying to win over ethnic minorities in the face of continuing street protests against the takeover.
For decades the military has been locked in a violent struggle with minority groups demanding greater autonomy. The military hopes to justify the coup by bringing the civil war under control and highlighting its ability to govern. The State Administration Council (SAC), Myanmar's highest decision-making body that was set up after the coup, pardoned more than 2,300 people serving jail sentences. Aye Maung, a former member of the lower house of parliament from the western state of Rakhine who was arrested on treason charges, was among those released, according to local news media. In a TV address on Feb. 8, Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing said reconciliation with ethnic minorities is a priority for the junta. "We shall perform our responsibility to achieve eternal peace in as many ways as possible" while the military holds power, he said. Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims are not among the ethnic minorities the military will seek to achieve peace agreements with.
The aim is to achieve peace with ethnic minorities under the military's leadership before a new government is formed through a "fair" general election. The junta has promised to hold such a vote but has not given a date. The SAC is made up of 16 members, six of whom the junta appointed from ethnic minorities, including the leader of the Arakan National Party (ANP) in Rakhine State, and others from the eastern states of Mon and Shan. Between the general election last November and the coup, ethnic armed groups allied with the ANP agreed to a cease-fire with military. Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation, the Japanese government's special envoy, acted as mediator. The two sides started peace talks and the military created a negotiation committee independent of the government, then led by Suu Kyi.
After the coup, the military said it would open its hospitals to ethnic minorities because the quality of public hospitals has dropped due to health care workers' participation in the civil disobedience movement against the coup. Through reconciliation efforts with minorities, the military hopes to demonstrate that it can govern Myanmar more effectively than the National League for Democracy, which won a landslide victory in the 2020 election under Suu Kyi, who is now under house arrest. After notching up a big win in the 2015 general election, the NLD came to power and began trying to move Myanmar toward a federal system. Although the party promised to mend fences with ethnic minorities during the election campaign, negotiations became snarled over such issues as local autonomy. The talks also failed to make headway due to mutual distrust and a lack of coordination between Suu Kyi and the military, which continues to battle armed groups. Under the government led by Suu Kyi, only two ethnic armed groups agreed to a cease-fire with the military.
The central government of Myanmar is largely led by ethnic Burmese, who make up 70% of the population. Following independence from Britain in 1948, the military began to clash with ethnic minorities demanding greater rights. Thein Sein, a former army officer, became president in 2011 and began peace talks with some 20 ethnic armed groups. In 2015, eight of these signed cease-fire agreements. The military now hopes to conclude cease-fires or peace accords with the remaining 10 or so groups. But the military is unlikely to see its hopes fulfilled, as many minorities remain hostile to the armed forces. Moreover, ethnic minorities are hardly in step with each other. Ten armed ethnic groups that have already signed cease-fire agreements denounced the coup in a statement released Feb. 2. And some ethnic parties reportedly refused to participate in the SAC.
Before the 2020 election, political analysts predicted ethnic minorities would turn their backs on the NLD. But the party appears to have received more votes from minorities than in 2015. That reflected voters' concerns that a defeat for the NLD would bring the military back to power, said political analyst Min Zaw Oo.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Coup/Myanmar-military-woos-ethnic-minorities-after-coup
RCH848 USAF C-5 Galaxy on ground at Travis AFB after a stop at Francis S. Gabreski Airport (joint civil-military eastern tip Long Island)
This big boy was seen heading south over Kenya at 34k ft 2 days ago-but not for very long- after it departed from Ramstein
Remember seeing it but it dropped from view.
It reappears back at Ramstein AFB yesterday and then departed today for Long Island.
That looked like a diversion due to weather as it was heading sw over Albany and turned left
Cap#2
Interdasting story on Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski WW2
On July 5th, 1944 Francis Gabreski shot down his 28th German plane. With the victory, Gabreski became America’s leading ace in Europe and the country’s newest celebrity. The War Department, eager to take advantage of his newfound notoriety, immediately made arrangements to have the pilot shipped home so he could help sell war bonds. Just as Gabreski was about to leave, however, he decided to fly one more mission. The final flight turned disastrous when his plane crashed near Koblenz, Germany and the Nazis captured him. Gabreski soon realized that the Americans weren’t the only ones anticipating his arrival. “We’ve been expecting you for a long time,” a Nazi interrogator told him, as he handed Gabreski a copy of a military newspaper that documented the pilot’s historic 28th kill.
moar here
https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/gabreski-francis/
GAZEL97 US Navy E-6B Mercury stars descent to Travis after a run offshore and up through central Oregon
nite all
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