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pf housekeeping-Flauxtus not using EXEC1F call sign
kept the trace for this flight up to check where it went last night.
Never saw SAM895 again but SAM792 was visible after it's takeoff from Elmendorf-see Cap#2 for both arriving at Elmendorf yesterday and no EXEC1F call sign on either
SAM792 USAF C-32A on ground at Yokota AB after Elmendorf ground stop/refuel
See cap #3 for Flauxtus departing a C-32A and neither of the AC's that departed displayed the EXEC1F call sign that is used for these trips with Flauxtus
This AC departed KBA yesterday along with SAM895 heading nw to Anchorage-JB Elmendorf-cap#2
Flauxtus headed to Japan for the Olympics yesterday as well but I could not find any AC with the EXEC1F (normal call sign for her or family members using these AC's) so one of these two AC's must be Flauxtus
Looks like we have another addition to what is muh call sign?
EXEC1F has been used extensively for Flauxtus in the past
This information regarding SAM792 as Flauxtus and Not Exec1F is confirmed as the second AC SAM895 has nao departed JB Elmendorf and heading es
Flauxtus confirmed as Not EXEC1F
China Refuses To Cooperate With 2nd WHO Probe Into COVID's Origins
Beijing has decided not to cooperate in a second WHO-sponsored investigation into the origins of COVID-19, thwarting the NGO's plans to carry out a second, more credible, investigation.
During a Thursday press conference, Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China’s National Health Commission, said Beijing wouldn't cooperate with another probe. However, the refusal to cooperate likely won't help China's cause in the West, as it tries to convince the Americans and Europeans that COVID wasn't the result of a careless lab leak.
Zeng says he is "surprised" to see research into the lab leak theory, which was initially dismissed by the WHO as highly unlikely, included as a reason for a second hoped-for visit by a WHO team to Wuhan. "In some aspects, the WHO’s plan for the next phase of investigation of the coronavirus origin doesn’t respect common sense, and it’s against science. It’s impossible for us to accept such a plan," he said.
Liang Wannian, a senior scientist and the representative for the Chinese side of the WHO's joint investigation, said during the briefing that, instead of returning to China, the team of experts should prioritize the "very likely" possibility that coronavirus originated in animals, and was later transferred to humans. He also cited confusing research claiming traces of COVID-19 had been found in wastewater outside China around the same time that the disease was first detected in Wuhan. With this in mind, Liang suggested that investigators expand their research to locations outside China.
Chinese officials also used the press conference to reiterate Beijing's insistance that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had no links to the outbreak. Yuan Zhiming, director of China’s National Biosafety Laboratory and professor at the Wuhan lab, stressed that, before Dec. 30, 2019, he and his colleagues had never studied the virus. After a team of WHO scientists led by Dr. Peter Daszak, whose was later exposed for his conflict of interest regarding COVID-19's origins given his involvement in a scheme by the NIH to funnel money to the WIV to circumvent US laws prohibiting 'gain of function' research.
The team spent around four weeks in China early this year, and the experts concluded in their initial report - which the WHO eventually rejected - that the virus likely originated in an animal before spreading to humans in December 2019. However, the, WHO has promised another probe since the initial probe's data was deemed unreliable. President Biden has also ordered American intelligence to conduct their own assessment and figure out exactly what is going on. The theory that COVID likely leaked from a laboratory possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was first rejected by the American press as a "conspiracy theory". US media outlets initially rejected the theory as implausible and even dangerous. Zero Hedge was even banned from twitter for months after daring to suggest that the leaked virus might have been intended to be a 'bioweapon'. In recent months, the theory has gone mainstream, as even Democrats now believe the virus leaked from the lab.
Now, the question remains: what, if anything, will the US government do about it?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-refuses-cooperate-2nd-who-probe-covids-origins
CLUB22 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Dyess AFB ne
There is already an E-4B Nightwatch at JBA-Secretary of Defense departs tomorrow for Singapore according to Pentagon release >>74071 pb..arrived on Weds with same call sign but is a different tail # (74-0787 vs current one of 75-0125) >>74361 pb and that one is still at JBA afaik
This current CLUB22 is the likely AC used for Sec. of Defense trip
BOXER 46 USAF C-40C west from JBA
as a bonus ELVIS45 USAF C-17 Globemaster on ground at Memphis Int'l
Moderna to supply 35 million more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan in 2022 and 2023
Shares of Moderna Inc. MRNA, 0.22% gained 0.3% in trading on Thursday after the company said Taiwan purchased another 35 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. The deal could also include Moderna's variant booster shot if and when it is authorized. Twenty million doses are expected to be delivered in 2022 and another 15 million in 2023. Moderna's stock has jumped 209.8% since the beginning of the year, while the broader S&P 500 SPX, 0.14% is up 15.1%
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moderna-to-supply-35-million-more-doses-of-its-covid-19-vaccine-to-taiwan-in-2022-and-2023-2021-07-22
JPMorgan just became the first big bank to give retail wealth clients access to cryptocurrency funds
JPMorgan gave its financial advisors the green light to give all of its wealth management clients access to cryptocurrency funds, making it the first major US bank to do so, Insider has learned.
The bank, which has been making a significant push to grow its $630 billion wealth management business, told advisors in a memo earlier this week that they can now take orders to buy and sell five cryptocurrency products, four from Grayscale Investments and one from Osprey Funds, effective July 19. According to a source directly familiar, the move applies to all JPMorgan clients seeking investment advice, including its bank’s self-directed clients using its commission-free Chase trading app, mass affluent clients whose assets are managed by financial advisors under JPMorgan Advisors, and ultra-rich clients serviced by the private bank. JPMorgan’s advisors can only execute “unsolicited” crypto trades, meaning advisors cannot recommend the products but are allowed to buy or sell on the behalf of a clients’ request. The funds JPMorgan has approved include Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, Bitcoin Cash Trust, Ethereum Trust, and Ethereum Classic vehicles, as well as Osprey Funds’ Bitcoin Trust, per the source. In April JPMorgan said it was preparing to offer an actively managed bitcoin fund to private wealth clients to be rolled out this summer, CoinDesk first reported.
The move marks a milestone in the bank’s digital asset offerings, after its CEO, Jamie Dimon, threatened in 2017 to fire employees who traded bitcoin. While Dimon has since softened his sentiment toward crypto, he said in May that he was still not a supporter of the asset class despite growing client interest in it. JPMorgan’s asset and wealth management chief, Mary Callahan Erdoes’, told Bloomberg that many of the bank’s clients view crypto as an asset class and want to invest in it. Rival banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America have not given retail wealth clients direct access to crypto products. Morgan Stanley was the first big bank to begin offering wealthy clients — those with at least $2 million in invested assets — access to bitcoin funds, through a partnership with Galaxy Digital in April, CNBC reported.
Goldman Sachs started offering crypto futures trading to institutional clients and hedge funds last month. It told CNBC in March it was close to offering bitcoin and other digital assets to its wealthiest clients in March.
https://usnewsmail.com/news/tech/jpmorgan-just-became-the-first-big-bank-to-give-retail-wealth-clients-access-to-cryptocurrency-funds/
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Suga to ask Pfizer to move up vaccine supply schedule
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is expected to ask Pfizer Inc. to move up the schedule of its supply of COVID-19 vaccine to the country, government sources said Thursday.
Suga is likely to make the request when he holds talks in person with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in Tokyo as early as Friday, the sources said. The request is aimed at addressing vaccine shortages that have forced some municipalities to suspend vaccination appointments. The meeting will also be joined by administrative reform minister Taro Kono, who is in charge of the country’s vaccination campaign. The government has a contract in place to receive 194 million vaccine doses from the U.S. pharmaceutical giant this year.
Japan imported 100 million of them by the end of June. The country is scheduled to receive 70 million doses between July and September and 24 million doses between October and December. In April, Suga successfully asked Bourla by phone to increase the amount of Pfizer vaccine being provided to Japan. The request led to an agreement for an additional 50 million doses. About 23% of Japan’s population had been fully inoculated against COVID-19 as of Tuesday, with about 35% having received at least one shot. The government is reluctant to call for more supply than already agreed upon, as many poorer countries are much further behind in their vaccination efforts.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/07/22/national/suga-pfizer-request/
Akamai Edge DNS is down, which is why lots of websites and services are failing. https://edgedns.status.akamai.com
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1418244159182413825
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From November 21, 2016
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2016-press/akamai-unveils-plans-for-new-cambridge-headquarters.jsp
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, today released plans for the building of its new global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Akamai has entered into an agreement with Boston Properties to lease a newly-constructed building at 145 Broadway, in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood.
The approximately 486,000 square foot building is scheduled to open at the end of 2019. Initial architectural renderings of the new headquarters are available here.
Russia Takes Ukraine To Europe's Top Rights Court Over Civilian Deaths In Maidan & Donbass
Russia is making the unprecedented move of bringing a case against the Ukrainian government before Europe's top rights court over a slew of issues including the 2014 Maidan coup, civilian deaths in Donbass, and the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster which killed 298 people. In the latter instance, for example, Russia is charging Kiev for irresponsibly leaving airspace open for civilian travel in the middle of a war zone.
The Russian General Prosecutor's Office will bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Russia's first ever such interstate complaint to the ECHR. On Thursday the prosecutor's office issued a 10-point list of significant grievances against Ukraine to be filed with the ECHR, saying it expects an "unbiased and non-politicized" investigation into the points which address "the responsibility of the Ukrainian authorities for the death of civilians, illegal imprisonment and cruel treatment of people," in Maidan and the later enduring conflict in the Donbass.
"The claim intends to draw the European Court’s and the entire world community’s attention to the gross and systematic violations of human rights by the Ukrainian authorities," the Russian prosecutor's office said further.
Below is the 10-point list as published in The Moscow Times:
*Deaths during riots in Kiev that led to the 2014 ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Russia president, as well as civilian deaths in Ukraine’s seven-year war against pro-Russia separatists.
*The deaths of 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by Ukraine’s failure to close airspace over the combat zone. (International investigators say a Russian-made surface-to-air missile shot down Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The Dutch government lodged a rare interstate complaint with the ECHR against Russia last year.)
*The water blockade of Crimea after Russia annexed the peninsula in the wake of Ukraine's 2014 revolution. (Western governments have imposed economic sanctions on Moscow for seizing Crimea, which is still internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory.)
*Loss of life during shelling of Russian border areas, attacks on Russian diplomatic missions in Ukraine, discrimination against Russian companies and Russian-speaking Ukrainians, as well as refusal to provide legal assistance for Russia to investigate the alleged crimes.
*Suppressing free speech and persecuting dissidents through bans of mass media and internet platforms, as well as disenfranchising residents of Ukraine’s war-torn southeast.
The Strasbourg-based court rarely sees interstate applications; however, it's caseload has begun to grow over Russia-related issues, given especially Ukraine and Georgia submitted their own over this past year.
But among all pending ECHR cases, about one-quarter are said to be related to 'bad behavior' by Russia. This has led Russian media pundits to hold up this new initiative for justice as a litmus test of sorts for the court's objectivity.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-takes-ukraine-europes-top-rights-court-over-civilian-deaths-maidan-donbas
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