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SAM206 USAF G5 west from JBA departure and currently over W. VA
SWATH09 USAF KC-135 tanker over Not AF1 Joe at Delaware position
Schedule sez he leaves New Castle Cty Airport for WH at 6pm EST
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
Mexico is Refinancing Pemex Debt After Receiving IMF Reserves
Mexico has begun a process of refinancing state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos’s debt, after the nation received a transfer of about $12 billion from the International Monetary Fund.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that refinancing had begun, and restated that he wants to use newly issued IMF reserves to pay debt, but that he couldn’t provide further details. His spokesman Jesus Ramirez confirmed to Bloomberg that Pemex’s debt is being refinanced.
AMLO, as the president is known, has prioritized aid to Pemex, seeking to reduce the company’s borrowing costs and free up cash to invest in exploration and production following a decade and a half of output declines. The company currently has $115 billion in debt. “I can’t say much, but a process of refinancing debt has begun,” the president said at his daily morning press conference. “But let me just say that Pemex is not being left adrift. It’s a company of the nation, of the Mexican people.” Lopez Obrador has been pledging for weeks to repay debt with the IMF’s so-called special drawing rights, or SDRs, which are allocated to member countries based on their share in the Fund. The nation’s central bank says Mexico can only use those funds, which were issued last month as part of efforts to help countries amid the pandemic, if it purchases them from the bank, which received the IMF transfer as international reserves.
Bolstering state energy companies Pemex and the Federal Electricity Commission has been a central part of Lopez Obrador’s platform. He seeks to have Mexico produce enough oil to meet domestic demand and has petitioned for a constitutional reform to give priority to the state electricity company over private firms. “The interest rates that Pemex pays are higher than what the government pays for its sovereign debt,” AMLO said. “That cannot be the case. How can they categorize us as better than Pemex, if Pemex belongs to the people of Mexico, just like the government? That is what we are attending to and resolving.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/mexico-is-refinancing-pemex-debt-after-receiving-imf-reserves-1.1648594
Qatar AF LHOB252 C-17 Globemaster south after an overnight visit to Moscow-Vnukovo Int'l Airport arrived yesterday from Al Udeid AB
SAM206 USAF G5 on descent for Peterson AFB, Colo. Springs from it's JBA departure earlier this morning.
Japan business lobby wants quarantine exemption for the vaccinated
Keidanren says blanket travel restriction hinders economic recovery. The Japan Business Federation on Monday put forward a set of proposals aimed at normalizing the nation's economic activity now that vaccinations have made steady progress.
One of the group's proposals is to exempt fully vaccinated travelers from Japan's mandatory 14-day quarantine. If the proposal is adopted, it could increase travel to Japan and help boost economic activity. The business lobby's move comes as the use of vaccine passports gains currency overseas. In some countries, people need to show a vaccination certificate to enter restaurants or use public transit. Now the business sector wants the government to review its use of blanket restrictions in dealing with the virus's spread.
Masakazu Tokura, the business lobby's chief, handed the proposals to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Tokura, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical, told reporters that vaccination certificates can be an effective tool in reviving the economy. The business lobby, also known as Keidanren, also called for reducing the quarantine period for unvaccinated travelers to 10 days from 14. Keidanren is not alone in asking the government to adjust its restrictions. On Friday, the government's own health experts proposed making it easier for fully vaccinated people or those who test negative to travel within the country.
Tight COVID controls have kept people from traveling since early in 2020. The number of visitors to Japan dropped 87%, to 4.11 million, that year, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. Worldwide, tourist traffic in the first five months of 2021 remained 85% lower than 2019 levels, according to the World Tourism Organization. It is hoped that once a large percentage of the population is vaccinated, the economy can reopen without causing a sharp increase in infections. Research has shown that vaccinations are effective in reducing the risk of death or severe cases from COVID-19.
Japan has started issuing vaccination certificates to people traveling overseas, but the certificates are not utilized domestically, which partly explains why Japan's economic recovery has been slower than those in the U.S. and Europe.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-business-lobby-wants-quarantine-exemption-for-the-vaccinated
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Qatar AF LHOB253 C-17 also departed Moscow-Vnukovo Int'l south after an overnight and arrival from Al Udeid AB.
This AC also went to Brescia Int'l airport on 090121 but not Beirut as LHOB252 did
This AC also went to Brescia Int'l airport on 090121 but not Beirut as LHOB252 did
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the Italian shit is so convoluted when it comes to dere 'policing organizations'
You member the Costa Concordia? (still want to know wut was in dat ship cause there was something they told no one about) the Finanza (Italian Financial Police) were the first on scene of that-kinda odd they were all ready to go and broadcast the first pics instead of the Guardia Costiera-dis from memory so may be wrong on dat
Also the Kennedy bonds seized in Chiasso 2009 they were also the first on scene wif dat-which is actually what should of habbened but in the crusie ships you'd think it should have been the coast guard.
The system had to say they were fake cause the Finanza were gonna get a huge cut of that (per Italian law) if they came out and said they were real.
BOXER48 USAF C-40C had a ground stop at Chievres AB, Belgium for a refuel and departed Kyiv, Ukraine earlier today after arriving from Milan, Malpensa Int'l yesterday
This AC departed JBA on 0901 to Rome, Ciampino Int'l Airport and then arrived at Milan on 0903