{"id":150479,"date":"2023-12-07T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150479"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:03:40","slug":"p-8a-recovered-oil-and-gold-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150479","title":{"rendered":"P-8A recovered, Oil, and Gold Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As someone observed in the comments a few days back, the Navy managed to get its wannabe flying boat P8A out of the waters off Kaneohe Bay<\/p>\n

The plane was floated from where it had come to rest using inflatable airbags and then slowly rolled \u2013 sometimes at a pace of just five feet per hour \u2013 across those bags back onto the runway.<\/p>\n

The jet, which belongs to the Navy’s Patrol Squadron Four (VP-4) based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington State, ran off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay last month.<\/p>\n

Work has been ongoing since the incident occurred to assess the state of the P-8A and mitigate impacts to the local environment, including coral that was damaged when the jet entered the water. After overshooting the runway, the aircraft continued for a short distance and pivoted to the left before coming to a stop.<\/p>\n

The retrieval effort then involved rolling the aircraft along a row of airbags, first back into alignment with the runway and then into position to get it back ashore, as can be seen in the graphic shown at the process conference below.\u00a0 The Drive<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When you were kids, they told you the big stones used in the Pyramids or Stonehenge were probably moved by rollers? Same sort of thing with airbags. Pretty ingenious, given the fragile coral they were rolling it across. Worth reading.<\/p>\n

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Remember when PINO Joe sold off a solid chunk of the US Strategic Oil Reserve to “drive down” oil prices when the market was expressing alarm after Russia rolled further into Ukraine.<\/p>\n

… the Energy Department can purchase to about 3 million barrels a month, Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk<\/a><\/span> said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the physical limit of how much we can buy back,\u201d Turk said in a Bloomberg TV interview on the sidelines of the COP28 climate conference. \u201cWe hope we can bring more capacity on line at these price levels to buy as much as we can to refill. We will buy back as much as we possibly can, but there are some physical constraints.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First they couldn’t replace it due to high oil prices. (Oil has been falling for the last two months per the article.) Then they claimed the oil had to meet certain unspecified new standards before it could be purchased. And now, the same people who should have prepped to buy whenever that became possible, shut down the available capacity for maintenance. Been how long since Russia rolled in, and NOW they are doing maintenance? We were able to ship 180 million barrels OUT fast enough, but now can barely manage to refill 2% of it a month?<\/p>\n

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And as long as we have moved fully into “their story STINKS” territory, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is getting investigated for bribery, and four suspicious kilogram gold bars were found at his house.<\/p>\n

According to a sprawling indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in September, Menendez and his wife allegedly played a role in a years-long bribery scheme that involved the Egyptian government and local businessmen including Fred Daibes, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer. Prosecutors revealed they retrieved multiple gold bars from Menendez’s home which were allegedly used as payment in the scheme.<\/p>\n

At least four of the gold bars discovered by investigators can be linked to Daibes, both because of their unique engraved serial numbers and thanks to court documents related to a 2013 robbery which Daibes was a victim of, an NBC New York investigation revealed Monday. In November 2013, four assailants beat and robbed Daibes at gunpoint in his Edgewater, New Jersey, apartment, stealing 22 gold bars, jewelry and cash.\u00a0 Fox<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not a good crime in which to be implicated. To give an idea of the trouble Menendez is in – even Mr. Hoodie Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is calling for him to be thrown out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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