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originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: ELECTEDOFFICIAL
Baby is that you?
Pm now plz!
HILLSBORO, Ore. — The state of Florida paid $615,000 to an Oregon-based aviation company to fly 50 Venezuelan migrants to Massachusetts as part of the state's "relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," according to Florida government records.
Vertol Systems Company is registered through the Oregon Secretary of State's office under a Hillsboro address.
On Friday, the VSC website said it was founded in 1996 and based out of Hillsboro, although the web page later became inaccessible.
KGW visited addresses listed for the company on Friday but no one answered.
The primary place of business listed for Vertol Systems Company on its Oregon Secretary of State corporation filing is a residential home in Hillsboro, although the company's website lists a location in Destin, Florida as well.
The website said VSC provides customers with "specialized helicopter and aircraft solutions specific to those organization's unique requirements."
In addition to the $615,000 spent on flights to Martha's Vineyard, DeSantis said he will spend up to $12 million on transporting migrants to other states.
"We're going to spend every penny of that to make sure that we're protecting the people in the state of Florida," he said.
KGW8 News
Destin, FL (PRWEB) February 25, 2014
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– Dr. Andrew J. Cutler, MD, clinical faculty at the University of Florida Department of Psychiatry
Bert Rodriguez Tells His Story in New Book
It is not the family’s first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah’s cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years apart in age and do not appear to have known each other well.
At the start of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli officials called Mr. Jarrah to reassure him that his village would be spared and that he should stay at home, investigators said.
Mr. Jarrah has said he was recruited in 1983 a year after Israel began a major invasion of Lebanon by Israeli officers who had imprisoned him, according to investigators. He was offered regular payments in exchange for information about Palestinian militants and Syrian troop movements, they said.
Lebanese in Shock Over Arrest of an Accused Spy
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
Circling back to Bill Gates and his obsession with Mosquitoes.
Creepy Gates Notes. 5X5... Dropped August 17th, 2020.
If we had any doubt that he has some plans, big plans about those mosquitoes that he is manufacturing and releasing in Africa.
Not sure why that didn't work.
Link Gates Notes Mosquito Week
On Trolls and Nuclear Signaling: Strategic Stability in the Age of Memes
In August an image of a Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer adorned with anthropomorphic Shiba Inus of the North Atlantic Fellas Organization (NAFO) emerged online. Spelled across the tube in block letters was "SUPERBONKER 9000.” The absurdist humor employed by NAFO rings appropriate to ridicule Putin’s absurd and cruel war. Russia, known to formally employ internet trolls of its own, cannot directly engage NAFO ridicule without elevating the notoriety of the NAFO project.
After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.
On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words "The Storm is Coming." In QAnon lore, the "storm" refers to Trump's final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television.
Trump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds React
In Ohio, a dark address by the former president featured music that was all but identical to a theme song for the conspiracy theory movement.
While speaking in Youngstown in support of J.D. Vance, whom he has endorsed as Ohio’s Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr. Trump delivered a dark address about the decline of America over music that was all but identical to a song called “Wwg1wga” — an abbreviation for the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”
As Mr. Trump spoke, scores of people in the crowd raised fingers in the air in an apparent reference to the “1” in what they thought was the song’s title. It was the first time in the memory of some Trump aides that such a display had occurred at one of his rallies.
Aides to Mr. Trump said the song played at the rally was called “Mirrors,” and it was selected for use in a video that Mr. Trump played at the conservative meeting CPAC and posted on his social media site, Truth Social. But it sounds strikingly like the QAnon theme song.
In the politics of the 21st century, political memes are some of the most powerful tools a person or group can use to spread their message. Memes like “Make America great again” helped bring Elizabeth to D.C. in the first place, as did memes like “1776!,” which people had been sharing as hashtags and chanting at rallies to indicate that this January day was, as Elizabeth had said, a revolution. Amid the chaos, flags told the story. As Elizabeth cried into the camera, her fellow rioters walked into the frame carrying American flags, MAGA flags, Trump flags, and the familiar Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled rattlesnake hissing the warning “Don’t Tread on Me.” All of these were memes.
The central idea animating the insurrection—that Trump had been denied his rightful victory in the election—was itself a memetic slogan, #StopTheSteal, which had been hashtagged, printed on T-shirts, and adopted by politicians and millions of voters. In three short words, #StopTheSteal managed to convey the complicated idea that Joe Biden was an illegitimate president and Donald Trump had been wronged by a powerful system intent on subverting the will of the people. Declaring it announced membership in the MAGA community.
originally posted by: OveRcuRrEnteD
a reply to: dashen
Here's a link with no paywall