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SPAR86 USAF G5 NATO AC on descent for JBA from Stuttgart Int'l Airport
02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B wn from Fayetteville Regional Airport ground stop >>97100 pb
ABIDE99 USAF E-4B Nightwatch back to Wright-Patterson AFB (not the same AC that has had the 80's movie call signs..that is tail #75-0125 and the current ABIDE99 is 74-0787) >>97101 pb
That AC (75-0125) is sitting on da ground at Wright-Patterson AFB and arrived on 0928 from Dyess AFB Abilene, TX it arrived as ABIDE99 as well.
from May 2018
Evidence Grows that Hawaii Volcanic Eruption Caused by Puna Geothermal Venture
The surge in volcanic activity in the lower Puna region of the Big Island of Hawaii is concentrated in the area surrounding the Puna Geothermal Venture. Scientific data clearly links the unacknowledged fracking activity at the Puna Geothermal Venture as a factor in what is occurring with lava flows and earthquakes.
More scientific data shows how the fracking may have been deliberately designed to create a geological process by which lava would drain from Kilauea’s summit into the East Rift Zone so as to create large new vents that would destabilize the geology, and possibly trigger a major collapse in the Hilina Fault System.
A video prepared by Pacific Tsunamic Warning Center clearly shows that the epicenter of earthquake activity centered in the lower Puna region is adjacent to the Puna Geothermal Venture.
https://exopolitics.org/evidence-grows-that-hawaii-volcanic-eruption-caused-by-puna-geothermal-venture/
That author can be a leetle pie-in-da sky but this is fairly solid.
member dis well....went to Oahu instead of Big Island cause of dis....it slowed by the time trip taken but kept me from going dhere-still would like to go
afaik it not werking nao
Lawsuits filed in Nov. 2020
3 lawsuits filed by opponents of Big Island geothermal plant
Environmentalists and Hawaii island residents have filed three lawsuits seeking further review of the state’s only geothermal power plant before the facility is allowed to produce electricity for consumer use.
The lawsuits were filed late last month in Hilo Circuit Court against Puna Geothermal Venture, The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Sunday.
The Hawaii Department of Health determined in September that Puna Geothermal did not require additional environmental review before Nevada-based parent company Ormat Technologies Inc. restarts the facility.
The 38-megawatt power plant’s geothermal wells were isolated or covered by lava in the massive Kilauea volcano eruption that began in May 2018. Puna Geothermal supplied 31% of the Big Island’s electricity before the shutdown.
The lawsuits name the state health department and Puna Geothermal as defendants and claim that the plant’s environmental impact statement is inadequate and outdated. The project was originally completed in 1987.
Two of the lawsuits were filed Oct. 21. The first case is on behalf of the nonprofit environmental group Puna Pono Alliance and residents living near the plant who claim the plant adversely affects health and property.
The second lawsuit claiming the state and Puna Geothermal violated environmental regulations was filed on behalf of an environmental activist and two residents.
Puna Pono Alliance and others have for years fought the company over emissions of hydrogen sulfide gas in incidents including a well blowout in 1991 and a smaller leak in 2014.
The third lawsuit filed Oct. 23 accuses Puna Geothermal of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and claims fluid injection into geothermal wells during the 2018 eruption caused explosions that ejected lava under the plant out through a fissure. Mike Kaleikini, Puna Geothermal senior director of Hawaii Affairs, denied the fracking claim in 2019.
Kaleikini did not comment on the lawsuits, but said in an email he hopes the power plant will be back online sometime next week.
https://apnews.com/article/environment-lawsuits-hawaii-hilo-kilauea-36091a0e2d9593a00268c7cd0049fedc
Looks like it went back online in Nov. last year too.
Puna Geothermal resumes production after 2-year shutdown
https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2020/11/12/puna-geothermal-resumes-production.html
SAM377 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast on descent for MacDill AFB from JBA depart
Powell Says Diversity a ‘Big Focus’ for Boston, Dallas Fed Jobs
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said diversity will play a key role in deciding who fills the top jobs at the Boston and Dallas regional Fed banks, whose current presidents are stepping down following criticism of their trading activity. “I can absolutely guarantee you that we will work hard in both of these processes to find and give a fair shot to diverse candidates for those two jobs,” Powell said Thursday in a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. “It’ll be a big focus of both of those processes.”
The presidents of the two Fed banks on Monday separately announced plans to take early retirement following criticism of their financial-market trading activity last year. Each bank’s board of directors will select a replacement candidate, which must then be approved by the Fed’s Board of Governors in Washington.
In the Fed’s 107-year history, just one regional bank president has been Black, the current leader of the Atlanta Fed, while no Hispanic American has led one of the 12 branches and only two Asian Americans have.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/powell-says-diversity-a-big-focus-for-boston-dallas-fed-jobs-1.1659905
yep
The dude is really piling it on today and they want to just eliminate the debt limit altogether if they could get away with it.
U.S. default would cause 'irreparable' harm, Yellen warns again
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday agreed that any default on U.S. debt would cause irreparable harm as well as an ensuing financial crisis and recession.
Yellen, asked by a member of the House Financial Services Committee if the damage done by failure to meet the federal government’s debt obligations would be “irreparable,” answered: “Yes.”
Her remarks were the latest in a series of dire warnings Yellen has issued as Congress remains deadlocked over the matter of lifting or suspending the debt limit amid wrangling over the legislative agenda of the Democratic majority and Biden administration. Yellen has said the government will run out of cash around Oct. 18 unless Congress raises the limit on the federal debt, currently capped at $28.4 trillion. After that date, the Treasury would be “simply in an impossible situation,” Yellen said during an appearance before the committee on Thursday. “We won’t be able to pay all of the government’s bills.”
The debt ceiling came back into effect in August after a two-year suspension, and the Treasury Department has been employing “extraordinary measures” to fund the government since. Yellen earlier this week told lawmakers those measures will be exhausted around the middle of October, earlier than most analysts had expected, after which the government will have insufficient funds to meet all of its obligations, ranging from Social Security payments to the principal and interest due on Treasury bills, notes and bonds. Failure to meet those obligations would mark a first-ever U.S. default, which Yellen has repeatedly said would be “a catastrophe.” “We’re likely to end up with a financial crisis, certainly a recession,” Yellen told the House committee on Thursday. It would also have “longer-lasting consequences of higher interest rates for everyone who borrows.”
That’s because the U.S. credit rating would certainly be slashed, and international creditors who have long owned Treasury debt on the basis of it being backed by “the full faith and credit” of the U.S. government would no longer view those securities as “risk free.” That would make it more expensive for the federal government - and everyone else - to borrow.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank’s ability to contain the fallout of such an event is limited. “No one assume that we can really do much,” Powell told lawmakers on Thursday. “No one should assume the Federal Reserve or anyone else can shield the American people from the consequences of that.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-treasury-yellen-debt/update-1-u-s-default-would-cause-irreparable-harm-yellen-warns-again-idUSL1N2QW2AA
Mexico Raises Key Rate a Third Time Amid Spike in Prices
Mexico’s central bank raised borrowing costs for the third consecutive meeting Thursday as policy makers’ efforts to slow above-target inflation failed to head off a jump in consumer prices.
Banco de Mexico, known as Banxico, increased its key interest rate by a quarter-point to 4.75%, in a split decision. All but one of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the 25 basis-point hike. Consumer prices in Mexico and across Latin America have spiraled up above official targets as economies reopen to pent-up demand and snarled supply chains. At the same time, households have faced surging food and energy costs, prompting Mexico’s government to impose a cap on prices for cooking gas last month. Inflation did ease somewhat in August, but headed back up in early-September toward 6%, nearly twice the central bank’s 3% target.
The central bank forecast earlier this year that inflation would rise as the economy’s rebound gained traction, and then slow again as pandemic-related disruptions proved temporary. In fact, it’s spent 15 months above target since closing out May 2020 at 2.84%. As consumer prices remained elevated and inflation expectations moved higher, Banxico in June unexpectedly raised borrowing costs for the first time since 2018 with a quarter-point hike and matched that increase in August.
Banxico’s post-August decision communique and the minutes of that meeting suggested policy makers were in a data-dependent mode, but the mid-September reading reported last week showed annual inflation had jumped to 5.87% from the prior 5.60%. Perhaps more concerning to Banxico, core prices, which include less volatile items such as tradable goods, surpassed economists’ expectations in early September and accelerated to 4.92% in comparison with a year earlier.
High core prices could create expectations that supply shocks are lasting. Economists in a survey by Citigroup Inc.’s local unit Banamex published last week raised their year-end inflation forecast to 6.1%, up from 5.6% in early July.
The same survey puts the key rate at 5% by year-end whereas the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg is 5.25%. The central bank sees core inflation peaking at 5.1% in early 2022 before converging to target only by the second quarter of 2023.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/mexico-raises-key-rate-a-third-time-amid-spike-in-prices-1.1659962