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7DKMYE USAF RC-135S Rivet Joint in da south china sea from Kadena AB Okinawa
The Rivet Joint's modifications are primarily related to its on-board sensor suite, which allows the mission crew to detect, identify and geolocate signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The mission crew can then forward gathered information in a variety of formats to a wide range of consumers via Rivet Joint's extensive communications suite. The interior seats more than 30 people, including the cockpit crew, electronic warfare officers, intelligence operators and in-flight maintenance technicians. The Rivet Joint fleet was re-engined with CFM-56 engines with an upgraded flight deck instrumentation and navigational systems to FAA/ICAO standards. These standards include conversion from analog readouts to a digital "glass cockpit" configuration. All Rivet Joint airframe and mission systems modifications are overseen by L-3 Communications (previously Raytheon), under the oversight of Air Force Materiel Command.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104608/rc-135vw-rivet-joint/
>>79764 pb Europe pushes back against Beijing with shows of Indo-Pacific muscle-nikkei
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Virgin Galactic ticket to space nears half a million dollars
Inflation isn’t just climbing here on Earth. Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. is resuming ticket sales for trips to space at a new price of US$450,000 a ride.
Sales are restarting immediately and available tickets range from individual seats to a “full-flight buyout,” Chief Executive Officer Michael Colglazier said in a statement Thursday as the company reported financial results. Virgin Galactic had charged US$250,000 for each ticket, before halting sales while it continued work on its spacecraft. The Las Cruces, New Mexico-based company is looking to build a space-tourism business after a successful test flight last month with founder Richard Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees aboard. The suborbital trip lasted about an hour. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. are working on tourism offerings of their own.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/virgin-galactic-ticket-to-space-nears-half-a-million-dollars-1.1637200
Zoom Info Technologies, Inc sold by Carlyle Group: $93.56m-Aug 3
The Carlyle Group Inc., formerly The Carlyle Group L.P., is a diversified multi-product global alternative asset management firm. The Company advises on various investment funds and other investment vehicles that invests across a range of industries, geographies, asset classes and investment strategies, and seeks to deliver returns for its fund investors. The Company operates in four segments: Corporate Private Equity (CPE), Real Assets, Global Credit and Investment Solutions. The Corporate Private Equity segment is comprised of the operations that advise a diverse group of funds that invest in buyout, middle market and growth capital transactions that focus on either a geography or a particular industry. The Real Assets segment is comprised of the operations that advise United States and international funds focused on real estate, infrastructure, energy and renewable energy transactions. Number of employees : 1 825 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-CARLYLE-GROUP-INC-10531255/company/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1548624&tc=7&b=2
>>79520 pb Zoom Info Technologies, Inc sold by FiveW Capital: $100.72m-August 3
enclosed .pdf
'''The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of
the Carlyle Group'''
https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Banned%20%26%20Rare%20Books%20%26%20Books%20on%20Conspiracy%20Theories/ebooks%201/The%20Iron%20Triangle%20-%20Inside%20the%20Secret%20World%20of%20the%20Carlyle%20Group.pdf
Lake Oroville reaches all-time low level; hydroelectric plant shuts down for first time ever
Four years ago, Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States, made international news when its massive 10-mile-long reservoir filled to the top in heavy winter storms, and raging waters destroyed its spillway, causing the emergency evacuation of 188,000 people downstream.
But now, in the latest symbol of California’s worsening drought, the opposite problem is underway: Lake Oroville’s water level has fallen so low that on Thursday, for the first time since the dam was built in 1967, its power plant was shut down because there is no longer enough water to spin the turbines and generate electricity. “This is just one of many unprecedented impacts we are experiencing in California as a result of our climate-induced drought,” said Karla Nemeth, director of the state Department of Water Resources, which owns the dam.
On Thursday, the reservoir was only 24% full, having fallen below an all-time low record set in September, 1977. The lake level has dropped a stunning 250 feet in the past two years. The water level has fallen below the intake pipes that normally send water to spin six huge turbines at the Edward Hyatt Power Plant in the bedrock under the dam. The loss of Oroville’s electricity won’t by itself cause blackouts. Even when the lake is full, the Hyatt power plant, one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the state, provides about 1% of California’s peak statewide electricity demand. But the problem illustrates a wider challenge facing California this year from the drought. Reservoirs are low all over.
And hydroelectricity is the state’s second-largest source of power, providing about 15% of California’s electricity each year. During the first four months this year, hydroelectric production in California fell 37% compared to the same time last year and 71% compared to 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That power has to be made up to reduce the risk of blackouts. “This is a huge problem. It’s part of the big challenge we are facing this summer,” said Severin Borenstein, co-director of the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. The lost electricity can be replaced largely by increasing natural gas power plant production and importing electricity from other states, said Borenstein, who also serves on the board of the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state’s power grid. But as California increasingly moves to renewable energy to reduce climate change and air pollution — with 33% of its electricity now coming from wind, solar and other renewable sources and a state law requiring 60% by 2030 — hydropower is more valuable than ever, he said. That’s because as the sun goes down in the evening during hot summer months, solar energy drops. But people in the Central Valley, Southern California and other areas where temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees continue to run their air conditioners to keep cool. Sometimes demand can come dangerously close to exceeding the available supply.
If there are heat waves across the West, other states don’t have much extra electricity to sell to California. Last year, during a record heatwave that exceeded 115 degrees in some places, the state experienced two blackouts, the first in 20 years.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/08/05/lake-oroville-reaches-all-time-low-level-hydroelectric-plant-will-shut-down-for-first-time-ever/
>>79443, >>79456, >>79459 pb Calif. Imposes Major Water Cutbacks For Farmers As Drought Crisis Deepens
Hiroshima marks 76th A-bomb anniv., urges end to nuclear deterrence
Hiroshima marked the 76th anniversary of its atomic bombing by the United States on Friday, with its mayor urging world leaders to shift away from nuclear deterrence to trust-building dialogue.
In the annual ceremony, which was scaled down once again this year amid surging coronavirus infections across Japan, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on world leaders to support a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons that came into effect this January.
After a moment of silence was observed at 8:15 a.m., the exact time of the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, the mayor also highlighted the significance of combining individual efforts, particularly among youth, to encourage nuclear-armed states to change their policies. "The road to abolition will not be smooth, but a ray of hope shines from the young people now taking up the hibakusha's quest," he said, referring to survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whose numbers have been decreasing rapidly due to their old age.
Matsui stressed that his western Japanese city would never stop preserving the facts of the catastrophe and promoting a worldwide culture of peace. "Nuclear weapons are the ultimate human violence. If civil society decides to live without them, the door to a nuclear-weapon-free world will open wide," he said.
In his speech, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stressed the need to "persevere with realistic initiatives" toward nuclear disarmament amid the severe security environment and widening differences between nations' positions. At the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, athletes and officials have not been asked to observe a moment of silence despite requests from the Hiroshima city government and other groups for them to participate "in spirit." The requests were made after International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited Hiroshima on July 16, a week before the opening of the Olympics, and called for global solidarity in building a more peaceful future. As for the U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons, which currently has 86 signatory states, Matsui called for the Japanese government to sign and ratify it in order to carry out "productive mediation" between nuclear and non-nuclear-weapon states.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/d4514f52abec-hiroshima-marks-76th-a-bomb-anniversary-as-virus-olympics-roll-on.html
>misinformation and conspiracy theories online
good
had a small one earlier
feeling a tiny bit better
gots muh accupuncture grove going on.
Helps for a bit
werd brutha
Biggest complaint I had-as if I am the first person wif this.
It's better than a few years ago so I am making progress on own.
Spouse helps a lot too.
If you looked at me you wouldn't know.
Both of these AC high level SIGINT AC's
PHENOM6 USAF E-8C Joint Stars east from Robins AFB, GA- did some pirouettes over west Tx and east NM border areas to waste some time waiting for HIPPY30...fuggen hippies always making eberyone wait
Don't see the Joint STARS AC in dis neck 'o da woods very often-usually down south, in south china sea, on our east coast or harassing the russians over eastern estonia and latvia >>79204 pb REDEYE8 being refueled over Poland prior to heading ne
Rivet Joint AC's also not too common here (at least visible on screen)
HIPPY30 USAF Rivet Joint sw from Lincoln Muni Airport, NE just crossing the CA coast and heading south along Baja
>>79804 specs on Rivet Joint
>almost flew ober muh house-kek
HIPPY30 USAF Rivet Joint set up on da track off Baja with PHENOM6 crossing the CA coast @32k ft
Got a coupla 'floaters' off shore: LDACE43 Blackhawk and AE4BA5 Drone (I think)