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RCH753T USAF C-17 departing Atlanta Int'l Airport after ground stop
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60-0315 USAF KC-135 tanker over Atlanta area as the mobile filling station-from MacDill AFB
YUKLA20 USAF E-#B Sentry AWACS and KOMODO2 USAF E-8C Joint STARS off North Carolina Coast-bith from Robins AFB-where 09-0015 C-32A (757) landed after escorting 82-8000 747 from JBA
Ex-Federal Reserve Employee Admits to Stealing Bank Stress Data
A former Federal Reserve employee admitted to illegally taking documents, including bank stress test data, after deciding to leave the board, U.S. prosecutors said Friday.
Venkatesh Rao, 67, pleaded guilty in federal court in Maryland on Thursday to a single charge of theft of government property. In 2019, Rao entered the Federal Reserve building in Washington over several weekends and printed more than 50 restricted documents, which contained information used by the board to conduct stress tests. Rao, who at the time was voluntarily separating from the board after receiving a poor performance evaluation, took the documents to his home in Bethesda, Maryland, according to a plea agreement. Court records don’t explain what Rao intended to do with the information or whether any of that data was given to anyone outside of the government. Rao, who’s scheduled to be sentenced in May, faces as much as a year in prison. A lawyer for Rao didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The Fed’s annual stress tests are among the central bank’s top oversight tools, meant to ensure the financial industry can weather a severe crisis. The agency is famously guarded about the data it reveals to the institutions being tested.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ex-federal-reserve-employee-admits-to-stealing-bank-stress-data-1.1579576
Someone coming back from Moscow and been there since Weds. at the same time the Russian Ambassador called back home
SAM996 USAF G5 inbound from Shannon Ireland ground stop.
Departure of Moscow earlier today from Vnukovo Airport and arrived on 0317 from Manama, Bahrain departure
RCH753T USAF C-17 Globemaster on descent for JBA
SAM864 USAF G5 west from JBA
SAM966 still going around at Ft. Worth Alliance Airport
SAM998 USAF KAF AC of Interdast G5 wn from JBA
RCH753T C-17 Globemaster also wn from JBA after unloading from Atlanta Int'l pick up.
The C-17's with T in the call sign tell us where Joe and Kneepads go next for the most part.
Sometimes they use staging airports but usually within a short range of the intended destination
SAM999-chek't-USAF G5 departed El Paso Int'l Airport ne after a ground stop-also could have been Ft. Bliss as both airports are not far from each other.
MILE91 US Navy E-6B Mercury passing below SAM999 pilot left heading to Tinker AFB
SAM966 C-40B continues en from Ft. Worth
Not AF1-departing Dobbins AFB, GA
Schedule says he goes to Camp David after landing at JBA
82-8000 USAF 747 departed Dobbins ARB, GA back to JBA
09-0015 USAF C-32A departed Robins AFB, GA on a hold waiting for 82-8000
NATN71 USAF KC-135 tanker took over for 60-0315 who went to Milwaukee after
NATN71 also came from MacDill AFB
AE6892 US Navy P-8 Poseiden nw out of Jax
MC8910 USAF C-32A departed Anchorage, AK Ted Stevens Int'l Airport
This is Sec. of State heading back to JBA after those 'meetings' with the chinese.
'Tough' U.S.-China talks signal rocky start to relations under Biden
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-alaska/u-s-china-set-to-broach-icy-relations-in-alaska-talks-idUSKBN2BA2A7
AF2 USAF C-32A departed Dobbins ARB, GA ne
Still have not seen Kneepads on the primary AF2 (tail#98-0001)
82-8000 747 and 09-0015 continue ne back to JBA
NATN71 KC-135 tanker done and nw.
Joe out first and needing that nap
Myanmar coup latest: Malaysia PM backs proposal for ASEAN summit
Saturday, March 20
1:05 a.m. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "strongly condemns the continuing brutal violence by the military in Myanmar," according to a statement by his spokesperson.
"The military continues to defy calls, including by the Security Council, to end violations of fundamental human rights and return to the path of democracy," the statement says "A firm, unified international response is urgently needed."
12:31 a.m. The U.S. House of Representatives approves legislation that condemns the coup in Myanmar and the detention of civilian leaders by a 398-14 vote.
The bill calls for the released of detainees and the return of poser to the elected government.
All 14 who voted against the resolution were Republicans, and one GOP representative voted "present."
Friday, March 19
10:25 p.m. The United Nations acting resident and humanitarian coordinator in Myanmar, Andrew Kirkwood, gives a grim account of the situation on the ground.
*At least 2,400 people have been arrested by the security forces in connection with the anti-coup demonstrations, Kirkwood says in an online briefing, adding that "vast majority of these people are held incommunicado still and we're hearing increasing reports of sexual based violence against detainees."
*The death toll since the Feb. 1 coup stands at 211, "and possibly many more" have been killed, according to Kirkwood. "And I think it's really important to emphasize that many of these people have been killed through gunshots to the head by snipers for peaceful demonstrations."
*About two million people in Yangon live in areas under martial law "where military commanders now have complete judicial authority," Kirkwood says. Tens of thousands of people have fled these industrial suburbs, he adds.
*"We're also very worried about an impending health and humanitarian crisis," Kirkwood says. "The public health system has practically collapsed." A banking crisis has added to the disruption of supply chains, he says.
8:45 p.m. Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin "strongly" urges Myanmar's military "to change its course and choose a path toward peaceful solutions." "We in Malaysia, and the larger ASEAN community, cannot afford to see our brotherly nation of Myanmar become so destabilized at the hands of a selected few, who seek to promote their own vested interests," the prime minister says in a statement. Muhyiddin says he backs Indonesian President Joko Widodo's call for an emergency ASEAN summit on the crisis in Myanmar. "It is clear that the current political struggle only victimizes the common people of Myanmar," the prime minister says. "This has no place in the values of our beliefs, conscience and culture. "It contradicts the the principles enshrined in the Asian Charter," he adds. Muhyiddin had been the target of criticism from human rights groups last month after Malaysia deported more than 1,000 Myanmar nationals back to their homeland despite growing unrest in the country. The deportations defied a Kuala Lumpur High Court order to halt them.
8:00 p.m. A reporter for the BBC Burmese service has been detained in Myanmar, the BBC reports. Aung Thura "was taken away by men in plainclothes while reporting outside a court" in Naypyitaw, according to the report, which adds that Than Htike Aung, a reporter for local news organization Mizzima, was detained at the same time.
6:25 p.m. Ambassadors from a lengthy list of Western countries have issued a statement calling the junta's violence against unarmed civilians "immoral and indefensible." "Internet blackouts and the suppression of the media will not hide the military's abhorrent actions," reads the statement from several European Union members along with the U.K. and U.S.
JUST IN: The Ambassadors to Myanmar released a joint statement in response to the brutal, “immoral and indefensible” violence against unarmed civilians by the security forces in Hlaing Tharyar and elsewhere in Myanmar, often under the cover of darkness. @USEmbassyBurma pic.twitter.com/synAnyfOjU— U.S. Asia Pacific Media Hub (@eAsiaMediaHub) March 19, 2021
5:00 p.m. Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi says in parliament that the government will not be sending anyone, including military attaches, to Myanmar's Armed Forces Day ceremony scheduled for March 27.
4:00 p.m. Thailand's army chief rebuts reports that a refugee camp has been set up along the border with Myanmar for those fleeing the crackdown there. He says the temporary facility in question is there for humanitarian reasons and will be used to screen people entering the country.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Coup/Myanmar-coup-latest-Malaysia-PM-backs-proposal-for-ASEAN-summit
Got a different taste leetle bit.
they change the filters first two years then me.
I'll find them before that
Hot the big bonus rec'd it highly
did stove or older kettle before
SAM998 USAF KAF AC of Interdast on ground at San Francisco Int'l from JBA depart
Looks like someone planning a Bay Area Stop off soon.-Nancy, Gavin all the Tech biotches…I can't wait…/s
This is the 99th Airlift Squadron G5-which is the advanced team for the VIP flights out of Andrews.
Behind that is RCH753T C-17 Globemaster from JBA-this one started at Atlanta Int'l and took a load to JBA and likely following 998 to Bay Area and heading to Travis AFB
The mission of the 99th Airlift Squadron is to "Provide unsurpassed safe, comfortable, and reliable DV airlift for our nation's leaders and foreign dignitaries; anytime, anywhere". The squadron operates specially configured aircraft on Special Air Missions (SAM) directed by HQ USAF supporting the President, Vice President, and other US and foreign senior diplomats. Selectively manned aircrews are responsible for the detailed planning and execution of sensitive missions of national and international consequence. The crew establishes direct coordination with numerous agencies to include Headquarters United States Air Force, embassies, and Congressional offices. Crews conduct these global missions isolated from normal supply and command and control structures. The aircrews accomplish Special Air Missions (SAM) into unfamiliar airfields, in all weather conditions, with 99.5% reliability and often while the world is literally watching. The crews obtain diplomatic clearances and coordinate all en route support requirements essential to mission accomplishment.
Coinbase pays $6.5 million to settle U.S. false reporting charges
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday digital asset exchange Coinbase Inc paid $6.5 million to settle charges it reported misleading transaction data that potentially inflated the apparent trading volume on its professional GDAX platform.
The regulator also fined the company for so-called “wash trades” in Litecoin and bitcoin by a former Coinbase employee on GDAX, it said in a statement.
The settlement comes ahead of a planned stock market listing for the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange which is valued at around $68 billion based on private market transactions, the company said on Wednesday.
Imagine that…
Between January 2015 and September 2018, two Coinbase-operated trading programs matched orders with one another, resulting in transactions between accounts owned by Coinbase.
GDAX disclosed that Coinbase was trading on GDAX but failed to disclose it was operating more than one trading program and through multiple accounts, the CFTC said.
Coinbase subsequently included the information for these transactions on its website and provided that information to reporting services and exchanges, either directly or through access to its website.
“Transactional information of this type is used by market participants for price discovery … and potentially resulted in a perceived volume and level of liquidity of digital assets, including bitcoin, that was false, misleading, or inaccurate,” the CFTC said.
and gibs us money and POOF!!!..all gone.
https://www.reuters.com/article/coinbase-cftc/update-2-coinbase-pays-6-5-mln-to-settle-u-s-false-reporting-charges-idUSL1N2LH3AX
Biden administration wants the financial sector to face up to climate risk
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission aims to create a new Climate Risk Unit, joining initiatives at Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve.
A growing number of federal regulators are pushing corporate America to reckon with the cost of climate change, arguing that global warming poses significant peril not only to the environment but also to the U.S. economy.
On Wednesday, Rostin Behnam, the acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, announced that he is establishing a Climate Risk Unit to focus on the role of complex financial derivatives in understanding and pricing climate-related hazards. That follows a request on Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission for public input on how to require companies to disclose “consistent, comparable, and reliable information on climate change” risks to investors.
The moves come as President Biden’s administration is pledging to slash greenhouse gas emissions and following the U.S. record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters set in 2020. There were 22 extreme weather events last year — ranging from tropical cyclones to drought — that cost taxpayers, businesses, investors and homeowners a combined $95 billion, according to the federal government.
moar
https://hagerstownairport.org/2021/03/17/biden-administration-to-make-reckoning-with-climate-risk-apriority-for-the-finance-sector/