morning w
really a perma-banable offense dat.
Such a 'tough' group ober there
kek
SAM900 USAF C-32A sw from New Delhi- Gandhi Int'l Airport
Looks like it's heading to Mumbai for meeting with Modi.
After dat they go to Kuwait
Blinken meets representative of Dalai Lama in India
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday met with a representative of the Dalai Lama during a trip to India. Blinken met briefly with Ngodup Dongchung, a representative of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in New Delhi, according to a State Department spokesperson. The meeting could potentially spark anger in China, as Beijing has referred to the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist, Reuters reported. Beijing has also contended that Tibet is part of China. Chinese troops captured Tibet in 1950 in an incident that Beijing labeled a “peaceful liberation,” according to Reuters. Nine years later, the Dalai Lama ran off into exile in India. International support for the CTA and Tibetan advocacy groups has been bolstered in recent months as criticism of China’s human rights record increases, especially from the United States, according to the news wire. Lobsang Sangay, the former head of the CTA, visited the White House in November, the first visit of its kind in six decades, which was followed by the passage of the Tibet Policy and Support Act in Congress one month later, Reuters noted. Blinken’s meeting with Dongchung on Wednesday is reportedly the most significant interaction with the Tibetan leadership since the Dalai Lama himself met with then-President Obama in Washington in 2016. The secretary’s brief meeting with Dongchung was part of his trip to India and Kuwait this week, which includes meetings with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Prime Minister S. Jaishankar. Blinken was scheduled to participate in discussions surrounding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and global issues concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/565197-blinken-meets-representative-of-dalai-lama-in-india
same peeps saying same shit.
Then you have the 'crew' in management mode.
That is still hilarious.
China's Plunge Protectors Arrive: Beijing Convenes Banks To "Restore Market Calm After Rout"
Late last night, amid rising fears that the Chinese market rout could accelerated further, we reported that China's "National Team", i.e., the local plunge protection team, was about to be summoned with local press Securities Daily reporting that "the market plunge is unsustainable" and will gradually stabilize. And just a few hours later, that's precisely what is happening because as Bloomberg reported moments ago, China’s securities regulator convened a virtual meeting with executives of major investment banks on Wednesday night, to restore market calm and to "ease market fears about Beijing’s crackdown on the private education industry."
According to Bloomberg sources, the hastily arranged call, which included attendees from several major international banks, was led by China Securities Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai. The highlight: bankers left with the message that the education sector policies were targeted and not intended to hurt companies in other industries.
In other words: buy the dip.
The scrambled response, which followed state-run media articles suggesting the rout is overdone, is "the latest sign that Chinese authorities have become uncomfortable with a selloff that sent the nation’s key stock indexes to the brink of a bear market on Wednesday morning" when the CSI 300 index traded just shy of a 20% drop from recent highs.
The intervention followed a three-day plunge that erased nearly $800 billion of market value, before spilling over into everything from the yuan to the S&P 500 Index and U.S. Treasuries during one of its most extreme phases on Tuesday amid rumors that foreign investors were yanking funds from Chinese markets.
And while China’s CSI 300 Index rebounded from early losses on Wednesday to close with a 0.2% gain, we expect today's intervention to cause a fresh round of aggressive dip buying. Banks, viewed as prime targets for intervention because of their heavy weightings in benchmark indexes, were among the biggest contributors to the advance.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinas-plunge-protectors-arrive-beijing-convenes-banks-restore-market-calm-after-rout
saw 'dat
nb still mia I gather re wearethene.ws
Wut is the other one if not an aggr.?
Not ideal but not a thing can do about it.
can't worry bout wut I don't control
The other place had different issues aside from that.
Habby here no matter
C101 US Coast Guard G5 departed JBA nw
INVALID USAF A-10 BRRRTTTTT ws from Martin Airport, Baltimore
French AF E10001 and E10023 Airbus A300s plus GS11 Falcon 7X departed Papeete, Tahiti ne
Macron is in E10001
Macron declares 'debt' to French Polynesia over nuclear testing
President stops short of apology on Pacific 'Tour de France' with eye on China
As French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, last weekend for his first official trip to Tahiti, he was met with a traditional warm welcome of flower garlands and dancers.
Unsettled fallout from France's legacy of nuclear testing in the South Pacific, however, has overshadowed his "Tour de France" meant to shore up South Pacific ties with an eye on China. On Tuesday, Tahiti time, Macron concluded his visit with a speech declaring a "debt" to French Polynesia over the tests. Just ahead of Macron's arrival, several thousand had marched in a "Maohi Lives Matter" rally in Tahiti, organized by a nuclear victims organization and a pro-independence opposition group. Auguste Uebe-Carlson, head of the 193 Association of victims of nuclear tests, told AFP they were "expecting an apology" from the president, who remains head of state. Before Macron's trip, officials ruled this out. On the island of Moorea on Tuesday, Macron stopped to talk to protesters and offer assurances of greater transparency, according to AFP. "I can't ask you to trust me when you have been lied to for so long by not being given all the information," Macron told around 50 demonstrators. "I think that confidence has to be built, by telling all, by sharing everything, by being a lot more transparent, and it's true we haven't done that so far," the president was quoted as saying.
In the speech wrapping up his visit, Macron admitted the testing was "not clean," according to French media reports. "For too long, the state has preferred to keep silent about this past. What I want to break today is this silence," he was quoted as saying, again pledging truth and transparency but not technically apologizing. From 1966 to 1996, France carried out 193 nuclear tests in French Polynesia. The government has downplayed adverse effects, but journalists and researchers have charted devastating health complications and long-term environmental and social impacts.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Macron-declares-debt-to-French-Polynesia-over-nuclear-testing
the sportscar series of the day (IMSA) heavily involved in dat
The running joke was that it stood for International Marijuana Smugglers Association.
Mega-bucks spent on the cars but no sponsors....imagine that.
We'd be in the pit and this one certain team would strip the entire car and rebuild it after each practice session-wif all new parts.
Totally unheard of back then-this about 1983
Blue Thunder Racing...the back story on the owner is hilarious too.
He 'fled' to Puerto Rico thinking he was out of reach of da feds.
Miami Vice did an episode with that around the GP of Miami and many peeps I knew (was still a kid) were involved in shooting dat.
The stories they told....