SWISS AF ZD539 Falcon 900 departed Santo Domingo after an overnight: inbound from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti ground stop yesterday

Haiti earthquake: Switzerland sends specialists and allocates CHF 1 million in relief support

The toll of deaths and casualties from Saturday's earthquake in Haiti continues to rise. After the quake, Switzerland immediately mobilised specialised personnel and material to support the Haitian civil protection services. Switzerland is running its humanitarian aid operations from its embassy in Port-au-Prince, while a team from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit has been dispatched from Bern to assist. Switzerland is providing CHF 1 million to support emergency operations. A plane with members of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) on board took off from Bern-Belp airport on Thursday 19 August for Haiti. The team consists of a logistician, two water and sanitation specialists, two structural engineers, a disaster area adviser and a team leader. The SHA is the operational arm of Swiss Humanitarian Aid, which comes under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). The team has been sent to support humanitarian operations of the Swiss embassy in Port-au-Prince which are already under way. Haiti is a priority country for the SDC, which immediately mobilised its staff on the ground – including architects, emergency shelter and disaster risk reduction specialists – to support the Haitian civil protection services in assessing needs.

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-84762.html

morning

ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Robins AFB en

Japan offers $410 mil. in aid to support Turkey's hosting of refugees

Japan will provide up to 45 billion yen ($410 million) in yen loans to Turkey to help ease the country's financial burden of hosting refugees from war-torn Syria, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The financial assistance offered during a meeting in Istanbul between Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu is aimed at improving the living conditions for over 3.6 million Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey, the ministry said. Turkey has accepted the largest number of Syrian refugees, it said. The two sides also agreed to set up a panel of high-ranking diplomats to discuss maritime matters such as freedom of navigation, a key issue of concern for Japan in the face of China's increasing assertiveness in the East China Sea.They also discussed the situation in Afghanistan and the peace process involving Israel and the Palestinians, the Japanese ministry said. Motegi asked for Turkey's support for resolving the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

Motegi is currently on a tour of the Middle East. He has visited Egypt, the West Bank to meet with Palestinian leaders, Israel and Jordan. He will head to Iran and Qatar before returning home on Tuesday.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/961d6e173edd-japan-offers-410-mil-in-aid-to-support-turkeys-hosting-of-refugees.html

>>84746

same to ya.

>>84748

seen't

gimme yer bun when ya leave

good luck wif dat

Dollar hits new 9-1/2-month high as investors head for safety

The safe-haven U.S. dollar touched a fresh 9-1/2-month high on Friday, before stabilising, bolstered by concerns that the Delta coronavirus variant could derail global economic recovery just as central banks begin to reverse pandemic-era stimulus.

While moves in currency markets were much more contained than on Thursday as equity markets steadied, the risk-sensitive Australian and New Zealand dollars fell sharply again. The dollar index , which measures the U.S. currency against six rivals, rose to as high as 93.734 for the first time since early November, before trading flat at 93.589. For the week it was on track to gain about 1.2%, the most in two months. "Investors are heading to safety, which has been the primary catalyst why Treasury yields are low. When you look across the impact that these growth concerns are having, they're really pummelling commodity currencies," said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at FX online broker OANDA. "The market cannot get past these Delta variant concerns. The reopening and return to normal in the U.S. have been constantly pushed back a few months and that's not a great story for the emerging world," he added.

Minutes of the Fed's July meeting, released on Wednesday, showed officials largely expect to reduce their monthly bond buying later this year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dollar-hits-new-9-12-month-high-fx-traders-seek-safety-2021-08-20/

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy

82-8000 USAF 747 departed JBA to the nw and circling Hagerstown, PA and passing just to the west of Raven Rock Mountain Complex

aaaaand still no 92-9000

ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch continues from Robins AFB, GA with a direction change to sw nao

>>84753

gots it

o7

>>84758

morning frb

lemme know when you want da bun..be a bit methinks

>>84761

Dat one was at Charleston Int'l for a few days inbound from Dover AFB on 0816

So troops and/or equipment for sure.

>Blow-by-blow on Sunday

was not doing well Sat and Sunday morning till about early a noon.

Got alot of it on Friday heading dere.

RCH432 USAF C-17 Globemaster heading in to Pakiland from Al-Dhafra AB

RAF RRR6434 C-17 Globemaster departed RAF Brize norton se with RCH854 C-5 Galaxy and RCH886 USAF C-17 also heading to the Gulf from Ramstein AFB depart

RCH834 USAF C-17 Globemaster departed Al Dhafra AB ne

US Still Considering Bombing Military Equipment, Especially Aircraft, Left In Afghanistan

Multiple disturbing and shocking reports have detailed this week that literally billions of dollars in US weaponry and military equipment were left behind amid the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Taliban have been proudly sporting these weapons, even in some cases posing with US-supplied air force hardware liked Black Hawk helicopters.

Biden admin officials says they are still mulling plans to bomb and destroy US equipment in the country from the air. "Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," one official told Reuters.

There's growing pressure for the White House to do something in this regard, given not only the number of viral media stories detailing the Taliban's new US arsenal, but especially that Congress is getting involved, with a group of Senators this week led by Marco Rubio writing a scathing letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. "As we watched the images coming out of Afghanistan as the Taliban retook the country, we were horrified to see U.S. equipment – including UH-60 Black Hawks – in the hands of the Taliban," the letter said. "It is unconscionable that high-tech military equipment paid for by U.S. taxpayers has fallen into the hands of the Taliban and their terrorist allies," the senators added. "Securing U.S. assets should have been among the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense prior to announcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan."

According to what administration insiders told Reuters, they described that "launching airstrikes against the larger equipment, such as helicopters, has not been ruled out, but there is concern that would antagonize the Taliban at a time the United States' main goal is evacuating people."

I’d like a refund for all my taxes that went to giving the Taliban Blackhawk helicopters. pic.twitter.com/XWphdEElg8 — Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) August 14, 2021

Should the Pentagon wait till evacuation efforts from Kabul international airport are complete, however, there's a greater likelihood the Taliban would have already hid or secured much of the equipment. Meanwhile it appears the Taliban may even have drones in their possession: Another official said that while there are no definitive numbers yet, the current intelligence assessment was that the Taliban are believed to control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, and up to 40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters, and ScanEagle military drones. Likely the more sophisticated aircraft could be inoperable, given the significant maintenance, parts, and pilot know-how required to fly. There remains the possibility that defected pilots who formerly received training from either the US or Pakistan could fill the gap, however. But for something as sophisticated as a Black Hawk, without the constant rotation of parts and upkeep by trained personnel, it's unlikely the Taliban will ever get them in the air.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-still-considering-bombing-military-equipment-especially-aircraft-left-afghanistan

>>84768

>werks out

usually does.

habs 52in and on it's last legs one of the first flat panels from 2007 so when it goes I will be changing some stuffs around here.

It will not display inet stuffs cause it too old and fucked up nao.

Takes about 20 minutes of off/on by itself to finally start up and be clear-failing for a while nao

No rush to replace cause it's TV

82-8000 USAF 747 back to JBA from a fly over at Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland

ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch froze over KY/W.VA border area

Mayorkas Will Allow Woke DHS Officials to Grant Asylum at the Border

President Joe Biden’s deputies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have drafted a rule to help woke agency officials give fast-track asylum and citizenship to economic migrants.

The rule would worsen “the current border disaster by all-but-ensuring that aliens who have entered illegally and claimed a fear of harm are released into the United States,” said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who now works with the Center for Immigration Studies. By ensuring “catch and release” becomes the norm for economic migrants, it allows cartels and coyotes to profitably and easily deliver their indebted clients into U.S. jobs. So the rule would supercharge the nationwide wage theft suffered by blue collar Americans when employers can hire lower wage illegal migrants. “Under this plan, pro-illegal bureaucrats just freely hand out asylum [approvals] at the border,” said an August 19 tweet from Stephen Miller, a former top aide to President Donald Trump. “Biden’s new proposed reg would effectively turn our border into a citizenship factory for illegals,” he added.

The draft regulation spotlights the administration’s determined, multiple, and overlapping efforts to expand the massive inflow of legal and illegal migrants into Americans’ workplaces and housing markets — despite the clear limits in U.S. law. In 2021, for example, Biden’s deputies are likely to accept almost one new migrant for every two infants born in the United States. The difficult-to-understand regulation was posted on August 18 amid the Afghanistan furor and must yet survive likely court challenges. “We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity,” said the statement from DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which repeated the administration’s poll-tested “fair, orderly, and humane” mantra: This proposed rule joins a number of actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to build a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system, including by expanding pathways to apply for [U.S. residency from their] in home countries.

The real-world impact of Mayorkas’ proposed regulation is disguised by language that is only comprehensible to migration lawyers: Under the proposed process, an individual who establishes a credible fear of removal will be referred to a USCIS asylum officer for a hearing on the protection claims. The asylum officer will be authorized to adjudicate in the first instance requests for asylum, as well as eligibility for statutory withholding of removal or for withholding or deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture. In a denied case, the individual may request de novo administrative review by an immigration judge under a streamlined process, with further administrative appeal available through the Board of Immigration Appeals.

But advocates on both sides quickly unpacked the regulation.

The Mayorkas plan would open an entirely new gate in the nation’s border by allowing lower-level officials to interview migrants and then grant them asylum, even without a government lawyer to quiz the asylum applicant, Arthur wrote. Many of the DHS officials in the asylum section joined the DHS because they are advocates for migrants and are eager to grant the huge, life-changing prize of citizenship to the grateful migrants who appear at their desks. The section of roughly 800 officials is “the most pro-illegal” group in DHS, Miller tweeted. In 2016, an agency official told Breitbart News that officials in the section were crying after the election of President Donald Trump. Currently, Mayorkas wants to hire an extra 2,000 university graduates for the section.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2021/08/20/dhs-mayorkas-will-allow-woke-officials-grant-asylum-at-the-border/

>>84774

ORDER66 USAF E-4B Nightwatch finished a refueling exercise wif JEEP51 USAF KC-135 tanker over Indiana and likely heading to Wright-Patterson AFB

>>84777

chek't

>gotta run

you wanna bake dis or let it run?

For The First Time Ever, The FOMC Minutes Discussed Cryptocurrencies

There was something in yesterday's FOMC meeting minutes that, from our cursory word search of prior meetings, doesn’t appear to have ever been a topic of conversation before: virtual currencies.

Here is the exact quote: “Some participants cited various potential risks to financial stability including the risks associated with expanded use of (virtual currencies) or the risks associated with collateral liquidity at central counterparties during episodes of market stress. In connection with the former set of risks, a few of these participants highlighted the fragility and the general lack of transparency associated with stablecoins, the importance of monitoring them closely, and the need to develop an appropriate regulatory framework to address any risks to financial stability associated with such products.”

We’ve even read some buzz that Chair Powell will devote at least part of his Jackson Hole speech to virtual currencies, presumably wrapped into a discussion of a US central bank digital currency. All this is a good enough reason to take a flying tour of this space.

Three brief points:

1: The combined dollar value of all virtual currencies ($1.9 trillion) now essentially equals the total amount of all US physical currency in circulation ($2.2 tn). It is worth noting, however, that there are only $289 billion in “transactional” ($1 - $20) bills in circulation since most of the value is in $50 and $100 notes ($1.75 trillion in total, $1.6 tn just in $100s). Bottom line: this is a good enough reason on its own for the US central bank to finally pay attention, because virtual currencies have gone from curiosity to a multi-trillion-dollar ecosystem that rivals the Fed’s own “printing press”. (Yes, we know it’s actually the Treasury that prints the money, but it still says “Federal Reserve note” …)

#2: There are over 11,000 virtual currencies out in the wild (11,305, to be exact) worth that aggregate $1.9 bn, but 80 percent of the entire system’s value is tied up in just 10 names and +50 pct of that value is in just 2 names. No prizes for naming the 2: the one that starts with “B” (which we cannot name without risking a spam email warning) is 44 percent of the total and Ethereum is 19 percent. Worth noting: the Fed seems most focused on “stablecoins”, which are pegged to the US dollar, rather than the best-known/largest virtual currencies. We covered these recently and described how they function as money market funds in the world of virtual currencies. Mindful of the legacy of the Reserve Fund, one of the matches that lit the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Fed is rightly focused on stablecoins now. Regulation is clearly coming on this front, which we suspect will only increase their appeal.

#3: Whenever the Fed starts focusing on something new one can rightly ask, “fine, but why now”? Our first point about the size of the virtual currency market is clearly one answer, but so is its increasing complexity and (even more) its global scope. Like it or not, the Fed must see that stablecoins are slowly becoming an ersatz US central bank digital currency.

Summing up: we’ve said it before, but the message bears repeating – the Federal Reserve is the incumbent in the classic paradigm of disruptive innovation, with virtual currencies as the upstarts looking for a product/market fit with their tech-enabled solutions. That’s not to say the Fed-backed dollar is doomed; Macy’s still exists to this day, after all. It’s just that Amazon is a whole lot larger.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/first-time-ever-fomc-minutes-discussed-cryptocurrencies

US envoy for North Korea to visit Seoul amid tensions over drills

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will visit South Korea this weekend amid a standoff over U.S.-South Korean military exercises that North Korea has warned could trigger a security crisis.

Sung Kim will arrive in Seoul on Saturday for a four-day visit, during which he will meet his South Korean counterpart, Noh Kyu-duk, and other officials, the U.S. State Department and Seoul's Foreign Ministry said. "Noh will hold talks with Kim on Monday and discuss ways of cooperation to bring substantive progress for the complete denuclearization and lasting peace of the Korean peninsula," the ministry said.

The State Department echoed that statement and said the trip illustrated close U.S. cooperation with South Korea on the issue. South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying Noh Kyu-duk will hold separate bilateral talks with his Russian counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, on Tuesday. The State Department made no mention of any plan for Sung Kim to meet Morgulov. South Korea and the U.S. began annual military exercises this week, mostly involving computer simulations with minimum personnel and no live field training, given the coronavirus pandemic. North Korea sees such exercises as a rehearsal for war and warned South Korea they would endanger a tentative thaw in relations between the two Koreas, which reopened hotlines last month, a year after Pyongyang suspended them. Shortly after preliminary training for the exercises began last week, North Korea stopped answering the hotlines and Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accused Seoul of "perfidious behavior". Kim Yong Chol, another senior North Korean official, said Seoul and Washington faced a "serious security crisis" because of their "dangerous choice".

North Korea is staging its own summer exercises, but South Korean Defence Minister Suh Wook told legislators there were no unusual military movements from the North and dismissed media reports it was preparing to test-fire missiles. U.S.-South Korean exercises have been scaled back in recent years to facilitate talks aimed at pressing North Korea to dismantle its nuclear and missile programs in return for U.S. sanctions relief, but the negotiations collapsed in 2019.

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has said it will explore diplomacy to achieve North Korean denuclearization, but shown no willingness to ease sanctions. Sung Kim called during his last visit to Seoul in June for a "positive response" from the North to U.S. offers to "meet anywhere, anytime without preconditions." North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests but suspended them and long-range missile tests in 2018, shortly before Kim Jong Un met then-U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Biden-s-Asia-policy/US-envoy-for-North-Korea-to-visit-Seoul-amid-tensions-over-drills

Guessing this AC arriving at Anchorage-Elmendorf on Weds is dat >>84282 pb

ADS-B still has it at Anchorage and has not departed yet.

Royal Canadian AF RACER18 C-17 Globemaster heading in to Pakiland

BLKWF13 USAF E-11A BACN GLEX heading in behind RACER18

See Cap#2-3

BACN is a communications relay and gateway system that provides military commanders with a versatile means of exchanging information from multiple air, ground, and maritime sources, to include host nation, joint, and coalition forces. It facilitates the transport of both voice and data across the battlespace enabling network connectivity among weapon systems, sensors, warfighters, decision makers, platforms, and command centers at all echelons of command and control (C2). BACN reduces line-of-sight issues, provides greater range for communication links, and provides commanders with versatile and flexible communications support across the range of military operations as well as a reliable means of communications between edge users across different waveforms and data formats.

https://www.acc.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/2241383/battlefield-airborne-communications-node-bacn/

Royal Australian AF Airbus A330 outta Pakiland

Court rejects many Tribune LBO fraud claims, revives claims against Citigroup, BofA

A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to resurrect fraud claims against shareholders involved in Tribune Co’s disastrous $8.2 billion leveraged buyout, but revived claims against two banks that advised the media company.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a trustee representing Tribune creditors failed to show that large investors who sold back their stock in the media company’s Dec. 2007 LBO were unjustly enriched. Writing for a two-judge panel, Circuit Judge Denny Chin also said that while it was a “close call,” the trustee could try to show that Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch unit did not deserve $12.5 million “success fees.” Marc Kirschner, the trustee, had accused shareholders of pushing for the buyout despite knowing Tribune would be insolvent, portending its December 2008 bankruptcy. He also said the banks knew Tribune’s financial forecasts had been too rosy and the company would become insolvent by more than $1 billion, yet failed to act. The panel rejected claims that the banks intended to defraud creditors or committed professional malpractice. It also rejected all claims against another Tribune adviser, Morgan Stanley, but revived a claim against a valuation research firm that had projected Tribune would remain solvent.

Tribune, which then owned the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and WGN superstation, sought Chapter 11 protection as ad revenue plummeted and more readers went online for news. The LBO left Tribune with about $13 billion of debt. Sam Zell, the real estate billionaire who led the LBO and became Tribune’s chief executive, has called the buyout the “deal from hell.” Lawyers for the trustee and Bank of America did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Citigroup said it was pleased with the decision. In July 2019, a Delaware bankruptcy judge approved a $200 million settlement of the trustee’s fraud claims against about 50 defendants, including Zell. None admitted wrongdoing.

The case is In re Tribune Company Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nos. 19-449 and 19-3049.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tribune-decision/court-rejects-many-tribune-lbo-fraud-claims-revives-claims-against-citigroup-bofa-idUSL1N2PR19Z

Not AF1 Joe Delivers Remarks

>>84786

https://youtu.be/4Fi0Ce-Sgx8

>>84791

yep

gibs me a minute

#531

>>84742, >>84744, >>84754, >>84761, >>84762, >>84763, >>84765, >>84773, >>84778, >>84783 TGIF eyez up

>>84786, >>84788 Not AF1 Joe delivers remarks-late as usual-y/t

>>84785 Court rejects many Tribune LBO fraud claims, revives claims against Citigroup, BofA-reuters

>>84784 Durham Grand Jury Investigating If Someone Presented FBI With Fabricated Evidence in 2016 Russia Probe-conservativebrief and anon submits some color on it.

>>84782 US envoy for North Korea to visit Seoul amid tensions over drills-nikkei

>>84780 For The First Time Ever, The FOMC Minutes Discussed Cryptocurrencies-zh

>>84775 Mayorkas Will Allow Woke DHS Officials to Grant Asylum at the Border-breitbart

>>84766 US Still Considering Bombing Military Equipment, Especially Aircraft, Left In Afghanistan-zh

>>84752, >>84759, >>84764, >>84776, >>84777 anon submits Trudeau family diggs "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has many family ties with the famous descendants of those Percheron pioneers." re: Canadian PM Spoke With HILLARY CLINTON >>84707, >>84708 pb and Zacherie Cloutier info. and discussion(s)

>>84751 Dollar hits new 9-1/2-month high as investors head for safety

>>84745 Japan offers $410 mil. in aid to support Turkey's hosting of refugees

>>84709 ICYMI - Biden’s America: 70 Percent of Voters Think Crime Is ‘Out of Control’

>>84707, >>84708 WTH? Canadian PM Spoke With HILLARY CLINTON About Afghanistan Because Biden And Harris Were AWOL

>>84706 BREAKING: Biden administration considering launching airstrikes on equipment left behind by US troops in Afghanistan - @Axios

>>84705 Dan Scavino w/CAP: Impressive French rescue convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan…

167110 USAF C-130J and 16-5850 USAF MC-130J Commando II into Pakiland

French AF NAG10YI Airbus A400M in between those

>>84801

huh?? wut?

kek

Blinken knows they are fucked.

>>84812

This from the Bailout "talks" in 2008

John Mack-Morgan Stanley right (left hand) and Vikram Pandit-Shitigroup left (right hand) telling everyone they just fucked us all

HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO REFERENCE BEAU

Shut the fuck up Joe!!!

JFC

SAM133 USAF G5 se from Anchorage

Departed Glasgow Int'l Airport after an overnight on 0819 nw and then appears heading sw in current position.

Departed JBA on 0818 for Glasgow

>>84834

>BOTUS BUNDLE OF BUNGLED BADNESS

perfect!!!!