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Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 1, 2021, 6:58 p.m. No.64502   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4572 >>4609 >>4646 >>4659

S.Korea unveils 15 trln won extra budget to aid small businesses, protect jobs

 

South Korea is drafting an extra budget of 15 trillion won ($13.38 billion), it said on Tuesday, to boost support for small businesses and safeguard jobs as the resurgent coronavirus forces the government to retain social distancing curbs. The finance ministry said total government spending would increase to a record 573.0 trillion won this year, up 11.9% from last year, while expected tax revenue is seen growing just 0.3%. That is set to worsen the debt-to-GDP ratio by 8.4 percentage points to a record 48.2% in 2021, versus 43.9% last year. “We want to make sure there are no blind spots left when it comes to using support funds (for small businesses), compared to how we spent them before,” Ahn Do Geol, the deputy finance minister for the budget, told a news conference. The left-leaning government has urged conglomerates to share some of their profits with smaller businesses that have borne the brunt of the pandemic while big exporters enjoyed a rapid recovery in earnings. On Friday, the government said it would extend social distancing rules for two weeks nationwide, including a ban on private gatherings of more than four, to blunt the virus spread.

 

The COVID-19 inoculation campaign kicked off the same day was the first step towards an ambitious goal of herd immunity by November. The spending unveiled on Tuesday adds to pandemic-fighting stimulus of about 310 trillion won since last year, when the economy shrank 1.0%, the most since 1998. Beside the extra budget funds, 4.5 trillion won will be allocated towards job-keeping funds and childcare subsidies from the existing budget. More than half the extra budget will provide cash handouts to mom-and-pop stores and people laid off, while another 4.1 trillion won will go to virus treatment facilities and vaccine purchases.

 

To finance the extra stimulus, the finance ministry will step up treasury bond issuance by 9.9 trillion won and rework other spending plans to make up the rest, it said. ($1=1,120.9000 won.

https://www.reuters.com/article/southkorea-economy-budget/s-korea-unveils-15-trln-won-extra-budget-to-aid-small-businesses-protect-jobs-idUSL4N2KX01K

Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 1, 2021, 7:07 p.m. No.64508   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4512 >>4572 >>4609 >>4646 >>4659

Myanmar Junta Asks Forces Not to Use Live Bullets on Protesters

Myanmar’s military has asked security forces responsible for deadly attacks on anti-coup protesters over the weekend not to use live ammunition as international condemnation grows.

 

The announcement was made in a military-run broadcast after Myanmar on Sunday saw its deadliest day since the Feb. 1 coup, with the United Nations saying at least 18 protesters were killed and 30 others wounded. The military also said Monday that more than 1,300 protesters were arrested during nationwide demonstrations. A new wave of rallies was expected Tuesday after a Myanmar court brought additional charges against detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi that could keep her behind bars for an even longer period of time. The rising death toll may increase pressure on governments around the world to take more action against Myanmar’s generals, who refused to recognize a landslide election victory by Suu Kyi’s political party in November.

 

The call to refrain from using live rounds comes as foreign ministers in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations are set to hold an informal meeting on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Myanmar for the first time since the coup. Asean has long followed a policy of nonintervention in the domestic affairs of its members, which include Myanmar, and has thus far refrained from condemning the military for its actions or referring to the coup. Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha reportedly referred to it as a “political issue” that is “their country’s matter.” Indonesia, on the other hand, issued a statement Sunday calling on security forces to “refrain from the use of force and exercise utmost restraint to avoid further casualties.” “Instability in Myanmar ultimately creates danger for the rest of us in Southeast Asia, so it’s not a purely Myanmar situation alone,” Singapore Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan said during an interview on Monday with local television outlet Channel 5. “Although, as I said, the responsibility for resolving this lies with the authorities in Myanmar.”

https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/myanmar-junta-asks-forces-not-to-use-live-bullets-on-protesters

Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 1, 2021, 8:17 p.m. No.64530   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4533 >>4572 >>4609 >>4646 >>4659

ANON UASF C-25B metro over Vegas Strip at 7300 ft

 

150th Special Operations Wing

The C-26 is operated exclusively by the Air and Army National Guard and was first delivered in 1989. They have quick change passenger, medevac, or cargo interiors. The C-26A is the civilian equivalent of the Fairchild Metro III with the C-26B being equivalent to the Fairchild Metro 23. The C-26B(CD) [Counter Drug] and the UC-26 are National Guard Bureau aircraft used to support the Air National Guard in drug control operations. The UC-26C is a derivative of the Fairchild Merlin IVC. The C-26B provides time-sensitive movement of personnel and cargo, as well as limited medical evacuation. The UC-26C provides support to counter drug (CD) operations. Additionally, up to ten ANG C-26Bs are being modified to carry specialized electronic equipment used to support CD operations.

https://www.150sow.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/455816/c-26-metroliner/

 

KILTGTS A-10 BRRRRRT back at Nellis AFB

Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 2, 2021, 6:45 a.m. No.64635   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4636 >>4646 >>4659

Good morning

Some house keeping

Saw this just before shutting off last night

There are two of these AC.

 

PYTHN58 USAF Constant Phoenix WC-135 (nuke sniffer) in at Kuwait Int'l which is also Abdullah al Mubarek AB

This AC got a pre-deployment workout on 0222 with some go arounds at Offutt then back to Lincoln prior to departing on 0225 to Bangor, ME for a quick stop then ne

 

The aircraft is a modified C-135B or EC-135C platform. The Constant Phoenix's modifications are primarily related to its on-board atmospheric collection suite, which allows the mission crew to detect radioactive "clouds" in real time. The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in holding spheres. The cockpit crew is from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and special equipment operators are assigned to Det. 1, Air Force Technical Applications Center at Offutt AFB. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commissioned the Constant Phoenix program on Sept. 16, 1947, when he charged the Army Air Forces with the overall responsibility for detecting atomic explosions anywhere in the world. In September 1949, a WB-29 flying between Alaska and Japan detected nuclear debris from Russia's first atomic test–an event thought not possible until mid-1950. Beginning in August 1950, WB-50 aircraft were converted for the air-sampling mission over a two-year period. WC-135 aircraft began replacing the WB-50s in December 1965 and became the workhorse of the atmospheric collection program.

moar

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104494/wc-135-constant-phoenix/

Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 2, 2021, 7:37 a.m. No.64647   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4667

U.S. Treasury names climate economist, tax partner to senior posts

 

The U.S. Treasury named new staff to senior tax and economic posts on Tuesday, including University of California-Berkeley professor Catherine Wolfram as deputy assistant secretary for climate and energy economics in the Office of Economic Policy. Wolfram’s appointment comes as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen increases the department’s focus on fighting climate change, a shift that includes the addition of another high-level climate “czar” position.

 

Wolfram, an expert in climate and energy economics, has done research on energy efficiency investments in the United States and the electricity sectors in Kenya, Ghana and India. The Treasury said it also named Jose Murillo as deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs as the department seeks to re-engage with an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development effort to reach a new global agreement on taxing multinational companies and digital services.

 

Murillo served in the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy during the Bush-Cheney and Obama-Biden administrations and for the past 11 years has been a partner at Ernst & Young. Neil Mehrotra, a Federal Reserve Bank of New York economist, was named Treasury deputy assistant secretary for macroeconomics in the Office of Economic Policy.

 

The Treasury said William Fields, a senior associate at Alphabet Inc’s Sidewalk Labs urban innovation firm, will return to the department as a senior adviser to Yellen. Fields had served as a special assistant in the Treasury during the Obama administration, where he supported issues such as housing reform and easing Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-treasury-staff/u-s-treasury-names-climate-economist-tax-partner-to-senior-posts-idUSL2N2L01K5

Anonymous ID: 47ba8c March 2, 2021, 8:22 a.m. No.64653   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4656 >>4665 >>4667

SolarWinds is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, filing shows

 

SolarWinds Corp. SWI, -2.63% disclosed late Monday that it faces a number of government investigations, including from the Securities and Exchange Commission, following a massive Russian cyberattack that was announced late last year. The company has come under fire as large SolarWinds investors were able to sell about $300 million in SolarWinds stock a few days before the attack was announced, The Washington Post reported, raising concern that the investors may have had access to inside information. SolarWinds said in its Monday annual filing with the SEC that it was "cooperating and providing information in connection with these investigations and inquiries," which come from the SEC, Department of Justice, and some state attorneys general. The Washington Post reported on the new SEC inquiry late Monday. Shares are off 2.5% in Tuesday morning trading. They've declined 28% over the past three months as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.54% has risen 6%.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/solarwinds-is-being-investigated-by-the-securities-and-exchange-commission-filing-shows-2021-03-02