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VENUS96 USAF C-32A departed JBA to the sw with a fly over (at altitude) of Nashville Int'l and now a u-turn just ne of Kansas City and west of Kirksville, MO and heading se with a direction change to the ne just north of St. Louis
AZAZ09O9 US Army just passing Louisville, KY still nw
SAM135 US Army G5 strating descent to Memphis and passing to the east of city
R30016 USMC C-560 nw from Dobbins ARB and currently over Tims Ford Lake on a holding pattern
WING44 US Army C-560 with a fly over of Port Clinton-Erie Ottawa Regional Airport and just passing over NASA Plum Brook Station
WING28 US Army C-560 north from McGuire AFB, NJ on descent at Syracuse, NY-Hancock Int'l Airport
MAGMA89 Dornier C-146A departed Eglin AFB se to Miami or Ft. Lauderdale
Adding that the Citation flight(s)-various C-560's) have picked up a bit in the last week.
Some of that is inability to watch all of them all the time but they have increased in frequency lately.
do we need a second meme intervention?
80-1094 USAF U2 Dragon Lady out of Beale AFB just nw of Las Vegas at 60k/ft
One of the United States’ most secret aerial reconnaissance platforms for more than half a century, the storied U-2 Dragon Lady still flies some of the U.S. military’s most sensitive spy missions worldwide.
The U-2S is a single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude/near space reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft providing signals, imagery, and electronic measurements and signature intelligence, or MASINT. Long and narrow wings give the U-2 glider-like characteristics and allow it to quickly lift heavy sensor payloads to unmatched altitudes, keeping them there for extended periods of time. The U-2 is capable of gathering a variety of imagery, including multi-spectral electro-optic, infrared, and synthetic aperture radar products which can be stored or sent to ground exploitation centers. In addition, it also supports high-resolution, broad-area synoptic coverage provided by the optical bar camera producing traditional film products which are developed and analyzed after landing.
The U-2 also carries a signals intelligence payload. All intelligence products except for wet film can be transmitted in near real-time anywhere in the world via air-to-ground or air-to-satellite data links, rapidly providing critical information to combatant commanders. MASINT provides indications of recent activity in areas of interest and reveals efforts to conceal the placement or true nature of man-made objects.
https://www.military.com/equipment/u-2-dragon-lady
Dodd-Frank Is 10 Years Old Today and the Fed Is Back to Bailing Out Wall Street
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, named after its two sponsors, former Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and former Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA). The massive piece of legislation was signed into law on July 21, 2010 by President Barack Obama at a time when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress – meaning there was no excuse not to put tough Wall Street reform legislation in place.
While the progressive wing of the Democrats was demanding the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act, which would have completely separated the federally-insured, deposit-taking banks from the Wall Street casino (the trading firms known as investment banks and broker-dealers), the Wall Street wing of the Democrats didn’t want to upset their big political campaign donors on Wall Street. The result was that the Wall Street wing of the Democrats won and 2300 pages of mostly worthless “reform” measures were signed into law. Federally-Insured Banks Blow Up from Derivatives: Thanks to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 during the Clinton administration, by 2008 almost every major investment bank on Wall Street owned or had merged with a federally-insured, deposit-taking bank. JPMorgan owned the sprawling Chase bank; Citigroup owned Citibank; Lehman Brothers owned two federally-insured banks while Merrill Lynch owned three.
With the exception of JPMorgan Chase, every one of the above-named institutions would blow up and require massive, secret bailouts from the Federal Reserve. Despite receiving $183 billion in secret emergency loans from the Fed, Lehman Brothers filed bankruptcy. It took $2.5 trillion in cumulative, secret Fed loans for two and one-half years to resuscitate Citigroup; and it took $1.9 trillion in cumulative Fed loans to make Merrill Lynch viable enough for Bank of America to buy it at the height of the crisis in September 2008.
Unfortunately, there was no formal government audit of what the Federal Reserve had done until a year after the Dodd-Frank legislation was passed by Congress.
When the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its audit of the Fed loans in July 2011, it found that the Fed had secretly sluiced over $16 trillion, much of which had been made in almost zero interest rate loans, to Wall Street banks as well as foreign banks. At the time the news broke, Senator Bernie Sanders said: “No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president.”
But there has not been any ruckus in Congress as the Fed has engaged in another massive bailout and pumped more than $9 trillion cumulatively into its primary dealers in almost zero interest rate repo loans since September 17 of last year. Of the Fed’s 24 “primary dealers,” half are units of foreign banks. And despite a promise from both Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the Vice Chair for Supervision, Randal Quarles, to provide transaction level information on to whom its trillions of dollars are going, the public doesn’t know where a dime of the repo loans went nor do we know where a dime of the Fed’s Primary Dealer Credit Facility bailout program has gone.
The $16 trillion in secret bailout loans made by the Fed that the GAO had located in 2011 was only the tip of the iceberg. When the Levy Economics Institute added in other Fed bailout programs that the GAO had not included, the actual tally came to $29 trillion.
See enclosed .pdf
While the Fed was secretly conducting the most unprecedented bailout of Wall Street banks in history from December 2007 through at least the middle of 2010, millions of Americans were struggling to make the mortgage payment on their home as a result of losing their job to an economic crisis caused by these very banks. Then those same banks moved in to foreclose on millions of homeowners, while secretly receiving these windfall bailouts from the Fed. In the case of Citigroup’s Citibank, it sometimes hid behind an alias of Liquidation Properties to foreclose on homes. Because mainstream media is obsessed with coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the exclusion of the latest massive bailout by the Federal Reserve to the very same banks it bailed out the last time around, Wall Street On Parade has become the sole archiver of what the Fed is doing. (See our archives in timeline order here.)
Is this really the way that American democracy should work? Giant, corporate-owned media outlets can’t find the time or inclination to report on the second largest bailout of Wall Street in U.S. history and Congress can’t summon the courage to conduct an investigation into the matter.
moar here
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/07/dodd-frank-is-10-years-old-today-and-the-fed-is-back-to-bailing-out-wall-street/
VENUS96 USAF C-32A heading back to JBA with VENUS32 USAF C-40B departing to the nw
WING44 US Army C-560 on ground at Yeager Airport-Charleston, WVA
R30016 USMC C-560 on fly-by duty at Huntsville Int'l, AL