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CLUB22 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Barksdale AFB after a ground stop
09-0015 USAF C-32A departed Greenville, TX after an overnight (L-3 Harris located here) and took a trip out in the Gulf 'o Mex currently heading ne back to JBA
no probs-got muh domestic werk almost done.
'Please drink' treated Fukushima water: China asks Japan's minister
China on Wednesday asked Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso to drink treated radioactive water accumulated at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, after he said it is safe to drink it.
"A Japanese official said it is okay if we drink this water, so then please drink it," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters, adding Japan's ignorance of the ecological environment is "totally unjustifiable." On Tuesday, the Japanese government decided to release the treated water into the sea from the plant in two years, a major development following more than seven years of discussions on how to discharge the water used to cool down melted fuel there. Aso, a former prime minister who has often made controversial remarks since he became deputy prime minister and finance minister in 2012, said at a press conference on Tuesday, "I have heard that we will have no harm if we drink" the treated water. Zhao said, "Japan's Minamata disease happened not far away and the pain of the local victims has yet to be healed," referring to one of the four big pollution diseases in the country.
Minamata disease, which paralyzes the human central nervous system and triggered birth defects, was caused by mercury-tainted water dumped into the sea by a Chisso Corp. chemical plant in the city in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The disease, affecting thousands, was formally acknowledged by the local health authority in 1956. "Japan should not forget the historical tragedy," Zhao said, urging Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's government not to release the treated radioactive water into the sea "without permission" from other nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency. China, South Korea and Taiwan have expressed opposition to Japan's latest decision, arguing that the treated water would hurt the marine environment, food safety and human health.
Japanese officials, however, have pointed out some other countries operating nuclear power plants, including China and South Korea, have released treated radioactive water from reactors there into the environment.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210414/p2g/00m/0na/116000c
Two Charged in Suspect $1 Billion Transfer Using N.Y. Credit Union
Two people were charged with using a New York state employees credit union to process more than $1 billion in suspect financial transactions while failing to file suspicious-activity reports or maintain adequate anti-money-laundering controls.
Gyanendra Asre, 53, and Hanan Ofer, 67, persuaded the New York State Employees Federal Credit Union to let them process the transactions, saying they had expertise in anti-money-laundering measures, according to federal prosecutors. Both were 25% equity owners of the credit union at the time and had a history of working in compliance at U.S. financial institutions, according to the indictment. The credit union wasn’t charged. The defendants “devised a scheme to bring lucrative and high-risk, international financial business lines to small, unsophisticated financial institutions,” according to the indictment. They “then caused the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from high-risk foreign jurisdictions” through the credit union without putting proper anti-money-laundering protections in place, the U.S. alleges.
The indictment, which cites Mexico as a key jurisdiction for the transactions, stops short of accusing the two of knowingly laundering money. But it alleges the transactions they processed which included accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in bulk U.S. dollar deposits from a Mexican bank and then wiring the funds to that bank’s U.S. accounts had red flags that should have prompted them to report the transactions to U.S. authorities and demand more information about them. A lawyer for Ofer, of New York City, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Asre, of Greenwich, Connecticut, declined to comment.
The case is a joint prosecution of the U.S. Justice Department’s anti-money-laundering unit in Washington and prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, New York. The case is U.S. v. Asre, 21-cr-00174, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/two-charged-in-suspect-1-billion-transfer-using-n-y-credit-union-1.1590293
"Holy"
RCH578T USAF C-5 Galaxy departed Los Alamitos JRB after an overnight-inbound as same from Travis AFB yesterday
Prolly picked up moar components to take to Cape Canaveral eventually
But first gonna make a stop at Peterson AFB
>>45623 pb
BOXER40 USAF C-40C on final approach at JBA from Jacksonville Int'l ground stop-departed Alpena Cty Regional Airport, MI earlier
be back in about an hour
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc sold by Richard Branson: $150.32m-Apr 12,13,14
bet some of that were bought by..
Cathie Wood (ARK) Furthers Bet On Virgin Galactic, Also Adds DraftKings, Peloton
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/cathie-wood-furthers-bet-on-virgin-galactic-also-adds-draftkings-atlassian-peloton-1030301953
I'm almost there......
from yesterday
Sir Richard Branson says he is on the 'cusp' of human spaceflight
Virgin Galactic hopes to take paying customers to the edge of space, where they will be able to experience zero gravity as well as a stunning view of Earth. Up to six passengers will be able to take a ride on the plane, according to Virgin Galactic. However, tickets are not cheap and come at a hefty price. Seats are initially being sold for $250,000 (ÂŁ196,000) apiece, and customers are able to place a fully refundable deposit of $1,000 (ÂŁ730) on the company's website.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1422215/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-human-spaceflight-spacex-evg
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., formerly Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., is an aerospace company that provides human spaceflight for private individuals and researchers. The Company is focused on developing a spaceflight system to offer customers a multi-day experience culminating in a spaceflight that includes several minutes of weightlessness and views of earth from space. Through its aerospace development subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, LLC, the Company manufactures its space vehicles in Mojave, California. Its spaceflight system consists of three primary components: its carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo; its spaceship, SpaceShipTwo, and its hybrid rocket motor. SpaceShipTwo is a spaceship with the capacity to carry pilots and customers or payloads, into space and return them to earth.WhiteKnightTwo is a twin-fuselage aircraft designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of approximately 45,000 feet where the spaceship is released for its flight into space. Number of employees : 823 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/VIRGIN-GALACTIC-HOLDINGS-54264538/company/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1791283&tc=7&b=2