8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (12)
#20094119 at 2023-12-18 16:52:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24660: If you want to save the world, try saving the Dough First Edition
SaxaVord Spaceport receives U.K. license
December 18, 2023
A launch facility under development in the Shetland Islands has become the first licensed vertical spaceport in the United Kingdom, although exactly when it will host its first launch remains uncertain.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced Dec. 17 that it issued a spaceport license for SaxaVord Spaceport, located on the island of Unst in the Shetland Islands. The license allows the spaceport to host up to 30 launches a year, including four in any month.
SaxaVord is the second spaceport to be licensed by the CAA and the first capable of hosting vertical launches. CAA issued a spaceport license in November 2022 to Spaceport Cornwall, located at Newquay Airport Cornwall in southwestern England, for launches by the now-defunct Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne air-launch system.
"Granting SaxaVord their license is an era-defining moment for the U.K. space sector," said Tim Johnson, director of space regulation at the CAA, in a statement. "This marks the beginning of a new chapter for U.K. space as rockets may soon launch satellites into orbit from Scotland."
"The award of our spaceport license is both historic for Shetland, Scotland and the U.K., and places us firmly at the leading edge of the European and global space economy," Frank Strang, chief executive of SaxaVord Spaceport, said in a statement. "There is much to do still but this is a fantastic way to end the year and head into Christmas."
The announcement of the license, though, provided few details about when the first launch from SaxaVord would take place. The spaceport noted in its statement that companies planning to launch from the spaceport include ABL Space Systems, HyImpulse, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and Skyrora.
Of those four, only ABL has attempted an orbital launch: its first launch in January from Alaska failed seconds after liftoff. It is preparing for a second launch in the near future, also from Alaska. ABL's launch from SaxaVord is in support of Lockheed Martin's "U.K. Pathfinder" mission funded by the U.K. Space Agency.
RFA is developing its RFA One small launch vehicle, and a company executive said in November that they expected to be ready for a first launch in mid-2024. The U.K. Space Agency is providing $4.3 million to fund infrastructure and test equipment needed for the launch.
HyImpulse signed a letter of intent Nov. 15 to perform launches from SaxaVord. That will begin with suborbital launches as soon as August 2024, with orbital launches expected to begin in late 2025.
In a Dec. 18 statement, Volodymyr Levykin, chief executive of Skyrora, said his company was working towards "an orbital launch from U.K. soil at the end of next year." Skyrora, though, said last November it was planning a 2023 orbital launch shortly after the failure of a suborbital launch from Iceland.
A fifth launch company, Astra Space, previously expressed interest in launching from SaxaVord, with the company announcing a partnership with the spaceport in May 2022. Astra has since slowed development of its launch vehicles because of limited cash, and SaxaVord no longer lists Astra as a client.
SaxaVord Spaceport has reportedly suffered its own financial problems that stopped construction work in the summer, according to local media. Strang told the Shetland News Dec. 17 that his company had made "enormous process in plugging the funding gap" and that he expected full-scale construction efforts to resume in 2024.
SaxaVord is not the only spaceport project seeking a license in the United Kingdom. Another is Sutherland Spaceport in northern Scotland, originally selected by the U.K. Space Agency as the country's preferred vertical launch site in 2018 and now being developed by Orbex for its Prime small launch vehicle.
"I think we will see the final flurry of spaceports for a while in 2024," said Colin MacLeod, head of U.K. spaceflight regulation at the CAA, during a Dec. 14 webinar by the Westminster Business Forum on the U.K. space sector. He said there were five to seven organizations pursuing spaceports in the U.K. "We're getting to the point now where most of them are in a position to either take the decision to apply for a license or not."
https://spacenews.com/saxavord-spaceport-receives-u-k-license/
#19412968 at 2023-08-23 19:25:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23841: Wagner Down Edition
>>19412964
Axel Klanderud
@Klanderverdig
Can you guys please turn the laser space beam from +10 to -10 for a while, in order to curb climate change,
@DRexplore
Tim Johnson
@TimberwJohnson
Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted a conspiracy theory that a space laser beam possibly fired by "Rothschild Inc" was used to intentionally start the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in California. https://mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018... via
@ehananoki
https://twitter.com/TimberwJohnson/status/1354856512242528260
#17187264 at 2022-08-08 03:14:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21292 We're in the Pipe
>>17186532
Former employee accuses Media Matters of 'covering up' sexual misconduct scandal, then is hit with legal threat
"Not too long later, I learned the truth of why he 'resigned.' He was dismissed because of his sexual misconduct. But only after years of people in authority positions knowing about what he was doing."
Former senior writer Tim Johnson exited the far-left outlet Media Matters and took to Twitter talk about an alleged covered up sexual misconduct incident back in April. After he posted his thread of tweets, he was hit with legal threats by his former employer.
Johnson wrote a lengthy Twitter thread regarding his departure that began "After about 10 years, I no longer work at Media Matters."
Johnson continued, "Not too long later, I learned the truth of why he 'resigned.' He was dismissed because of his sexual misconduct. But only after years of people in authority positions knowing about what he was doing. He apparently was still allowed to come into the office (to participate in a poker game)."
As a clear indictment of his former boss he wrote: "Ben: Do you want to talk about how you covered up for a man who preyed on our colleagues?" LinkedIn lists Johnson's title as "Gun and Safety Program Director" and a senior writer.
He ended his tweet thread with "I am ashamed that I did not share this publicly until now. It most likely makes me a clown myself. But brass tacks, I didn't, and I'm sorry."
After Johnson's thread, Media Matters reached out with legal threats. Attorney's for Media Matters said that Johnson was "in violation of the Transition Agreement and General Release signed by Johnson upon his departure from the media enterprise. Johnson, the attorney states, was fired for cause.
"As a result of your actions," the letter reads, "MMFA has suffered and will continue to suffer reputational injury," and demands that Johnson delete the tweets.
The attorney further states that Johnson will no longer be entitled to any health insurance payments due to this violation and his tweets, whether he deletes the tweets or not.
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-employee-accuses-media-matters-of-covering-up-sexual-misconduct-scandal-then-is-hit-with-legal-threat
#16410025 at 2022-06-07 18:47:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20760: (You) Have Been Lied to all your Life Edition
Former employee accuses Media Matters of 'covering up' sexual misconduct scandal, then is hit with legal threat
"Not too long later, I learned the truth of why he 'resigned.' He was dismissed because of his sexual misconduct. But only after years of people in authority positions knowing about what he was doing."
Former senior writer Tim Johnson exited the far-left outlet Media Matters and took to Twitter talk about an alleged covered up sexual misconduct incident back in April. After he posted his thread of tweets, he was hit with legal threats by his former employer.
Johnson wrote a lengthy Twitter thread regarding his departure that began "After about 10 years, I no longer work at Media Matters."
Johnson continued, "Not too long later, I learned the truth of why he 'resigned.' He was dismissed because of his sexual misconduct. But only after years of people in authority positions knowing about what he was doing. He apparently was still allowed to come into the office (to participate in a poker game)."
As a clear indictment of his former boss he wrote: "Ben: Do you want to talk about how you covered up for a man who preyed on our colleagues?" LinkedIn lists Johnson's title as "Gun and Safety Program Director" and a senior writer.
He ended his tweet thread with "I am ashamed that I did not share this publicly until now. It most likely makes me a clown myself. But brass tacks, I didn't, and I'm sorry."
After Johnson's thread, Media Matters reached out with legal threats. Attorney's for Media Matters said that Johnson was "in violation of the Transition Agreement and General Release signed by Johnson upon his departure from the media enterprise. Johnson, the attorney states, was fired for cause.
"As a result of your actions," the letter reads, "MMFA has suffered and will continue to suffer reputational injury," and demands that Johnson delete the tweets.
The attorney further states that Johnson will no longer be entitled to any health insurance payments due to this violation and his tweets, whether he deletes the tweets or not.
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-employee-accuses-media-matters-of-covering-up-sexual-misconduct-scandal-then-is-hit-with-legal-threat
#15346921 at 2022-01-11 01:47:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19412: Crow Wing County residents seek new audit of already certified vote Editi
>>15346914
The day before the piece was to air, an exasperated Tapper called me to say that ABC's corporate officials ordered him to pull the story. The network's pharmaceutical advertisers were threatening to cancel their advertising.
"Corporate told us to shut it down," Tapper fumed. Tapper told me that it was the first Time in his career that ABC officials had ordered him to kill a story.
ABC had advertised the Simpsonwood expos?, and its sudden cancellation disappointed an army of vaccine safety advocates and parents of injured children who deluged the network with a maelstrom of angry emails.
In response, ABC changed tack and publicly promised to air the piece. Instead, following a one-week delay, the network duplicitously aired a hastily assembled puff piece promoting vaccines and assuring listeners that mercury-laden vaccines were safe.
The new "bait and switch" segment precisely followed Pharma's talking points. "I'm putting my faith in the Institute of Medicine," ABC's obsequious medical editor, Dr. Tim Johnson, declared in closing. Two pharmaceutical advertisements bracketed the story.
After that piece aired, I called Jake to complain. He neither answered nor returned my calls.
During the 16 intervening years, Pharma has returned Mr. Tapper's favor by aggressively promoting his career. Pfizer shamelessly sponsors Tapper's CNN news show, announcing its ownership of the space - and Mr. Tapper's indentured servitude - before each episode with the loaded phrase: "Brought to you by Pfizer."
Under the apparent terms of that sponsorship, CNN and Tapper provide Pfizer a platform to market its products and allow the drug company - a serial felon - to dictate content on CNN.
This arrangement has transformed CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper into a propaganda vehicle for Pharma and effectively reduced Mr. Tapper to the role of a drug rep - shamelessly promoting fear porn, confusion, and germophobia, and ushering his audience toward high-yield patent pharmaceuticals.
Tapper's main thrust during the pandemic has been to promote levels of public terror sufficient to indemnify all the official lies against critical thinking.
All that Pharma money naturally requires that Mr. Tapper kowtow to Dr. Fauci, and the CNN host's slavishness has helped make Tapper's show the go-to pulpit for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director.
It's a safe place for Dr. Fauci to hit all Jake's reliable softballs out of the park.
"The bootlicking competition at CNN is pretty nauseating," observed investigative journalist Celia Farber who has chronicled Dr. Fauci's mismanagement at NIAID for more than 25 years. "It's ruinous for both democracy and for public health."
Another journalist has compared Tapper's mortifying on-air servility toward Dr. Fauci to the adulation of a loyal and obedient canine. "It's like a dog watching a chess match," says former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. "So much intensity and so little understanding."
Tapper has gone two years without asking Dr. Fauci a single tough question. He has covered up Fauci's involvement with Wuhan, suppressed news of vaccine injuries, gaslighted the injured, and defended every official orthodoxy on masks, lockdowns, social distancing, vaccines, remdesivir, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
He has never asked about the public health, mental health, and economic costs of lockdown, about the disproportionate burdens of Dr. Fauci's policies on minorities, the working class and the global poor.
He has never asked Dr. Fauci to explain why countries and states that refused Dr. Fauci's prescription have consistently experienced dramatically better health outcomes. For example, why are U.S. death rates 1,000x the death rates of African countries like Nigeria and Indian states that widely use hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin? Mr. Tapper simply never allows contrary views on his show.
#14863869 at 2021-10-27 00:14:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18801: For God and Comfy Edition
>>14863816
2005 Senators
Alabama[edit]
?2. Jeff Sessions (R)
?3. Richard Shelby (R)
Alaska[edit]
?2. Ted Stevens (R)
?3. Lisa Murkowski (R)
Arizona[edit]
?1. Jon Kyl (R)
?3. John McCain (R)
Arkansas[edit]
?2. Mark Pryor (D)
?3. Blanche Lincoln (D)
California[edit]
?1. Dianne Feinstein (D)
?3. Barbara Boxer (D)
Colorado[edit]
?2. Wayne Allard (R)
?3. Ken Salazar (D)
Connecticut[edit]
?1. Joseph Lieberman (D)
?3. Christopher Dodd (D)
Delaware[edit]
?1. Tom Carper (D)
?2. Joe Biden (D)
Florida[edit]
?1. Bill Nelson (D)
?3. Mel Martinez (R)
Georgia[edit]
?2. Saxby Chambliss (R)
?3. Johnny Isakson (R)
Hawaii[edit]
?1. Daniel Akaka (D)
?3. Daniel Inouye (D)
Idaho[edit]
?2. Larry Craig (R)
?3. Mike Crapo (R)
Illinois[edit]
?2. Dick Durbin (D)
?3. Barack Obama (D)
Indiana[edit]
?1. Richard Lugar (R)
?3. Evan Bayh (D)
Iowa[edit]
?2. Tom Harkin (D)
?3. Chuck Grassley (R)
Kansas[edit]
?2. Pat Roberts (R)
?3. Sam Brownback (R)
Kentucky[edit]
?2. Mitch McConnell (R)
?3. Jim Bunning (R)
Louisiana[edit]
?2. Mary Landrieu (D)
?3. David Vitter (R)
Maine[edit]
?1. Olympia Snowe (R)
?2. Susan Collins (R)
Maryland[edit]
?1. Paul Sarbanes (D)
?3. Barbara Mikulski (D)
Massachusetts[edit]
?1. Ted Kennedy (D)
?2. John Kerry (D)
Michigan[edit]
?1. Debbie Stabenow (D)
?2. Carl Levin (D)
Minnesota[edit]
?1. Mark Dayton (DFL)[8]
?2. Norm Coleman (R)
Mississippi[edit]
?1. Trent Lott (R)
?2. Thad Cochran (R)
Missouri[edit]
?1. James Talent (R)
?3. Kit Bond (R)
Montana[edit]
?1. Conrad Burns (R)
?2. Max Baucus (D)
Nebraska[edit]
?1. Ben Nelson (D)
?2. Chuck Hagel (R)
Nevada[edit]
?1. John Ensign (R)
?3. Harry Reid (D)
New Hampshire[edit]
?2. John E. Sununu (R)
?3. Judd Gregg (R)
New Jersey[edit]
?1. Jon Corzine (D), until January 17, 2006
?Bob Menendez (D), from January 18, 2006
?2. Frank Lautenberg (D)
New Mexico[edit]
?1. Jeff Bingaman (D)
?2. Pete Domenici (R)
New York[edit]
?1. Hillary Clinton (D)
?3. Chuck Schumer (D)
North Carolina[edit]
?2. Elizabeth Dole (R)
?3. Richard Burr (R)
North Dakota[edit]
?1. Kent Conrad (D-NPL)
?3. Byron Dorgan (D-NPL)
Ohio[edit]
?1. Mike DeWine (R)
?3. George Voinovich (R)
Oklahoma[edit]
?2. James Inhofe (R)
?3. Tom Coburn (R)
Oregon[edit]
?2. Gordon Smith (R)
?3. Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania[edit]
?1. Rick Santorum (R)
?3. Arlen Specter (R)
Rhode Island[edit]
?1. Lincoln Chafee (R)
?2. Jack Reed (D)
South Carolina[edit]
?2. Lindsey Graham (R)
?3. Jim DeMint (R)
South Dakota[edit]
?2. Tim Johnson (D)
?3. John Thune (R)
Tennessee[edit]
?1. Bill Frist (R)
?2. Lamar Alexander (R)
Texas[edit]
?1. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)
?2. John Cornyn (R)
Utah[edit]
?1. Orrin Hatch (R)
?3. Robert Bennett (R)
Vermont[edit]
?1. James Jeffords (I)
?3. Patrick Leahy (D)
Virginia[edit]
?1. George Allen (R)
?2. John Warner (R)
Washington[edit]
?1. Maria Cantwell (D)
?3. Patty Murray (D)
West Virginia[edit]
?1. Robert Byrd (D)
?2. Jay Rockefeller (D)
Wisconsin[edit]
?1. Herb Kohl (D)
?3. Russ Feingold (D)
Wyoming[edit]
?1. Craig Thomas (R)
?2. Mike Enzi (R)
#13461204 at 2021-04-19 14:23:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17052: Succinct Edition
no fucking privacy
we are the commodity
https://statescoop.com/smart-cities-contemplate-turning-big-data-into-big-money/
Smart cities' contemplate turning big data into big money
Getty Images
Written by Benjamin Freed
APR 3, 2019 | STATESCOOP
"Smart city" initiatives that make use of traffic monitors, environmental sensors and mobile apps have given local governments mountains of new data, and while new information on transportation habits, public health, and air and water conditions raises a host of questions about what cities should do with all of it, there is one potentially lucrative solution: selling it.
Monetizing data generated by new urban technology projects was the topic of an hourlong panel Tuesday at the Smart Cities Connect conference in Denver, where representatives of three local governments and one Sprint executive discussed whether cities can - and should - turn their new data streams into new sources of revenue by selling them to third-party developers in the private sector.
"It's the people's data," said Erik Caldwell, the deputy chief operating officer for San Diego. "It's on us to keep it that way. That being said, I'm very interested in monetizing the data."
San Diego - which has a large network of street lights outfitted with internet-connected sensors, and recently announced a collaboration with the U.S. Marine Corps on new smart-city projects - is not selling any of its data right now, Caldwell said, but it is increasingly solicited to do so.
"We're getting a number of requests so large that it freezes up our system during the day," he said.
Theresa Gaisser, a traffic engineer with the Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, said her Las Vegas-area agency is also not currently selling its data, but that "could be a solution down the road."
Short of selling data that's currently private to the city government, Caldwell suggested one new revenue stream could come through licensing third parties to create mirrors of San Diego's open-data portfolio, which includes more than 120 datasets. Such an arrangement, he said, could help ease the high number of requests the city gets through its application programming interface, which software developers use to pull data.
As local governments that maintain open-data platforms deliberate monetizing them, the demand for open data is made obvious given what outside developers have managed to create with municipal data, said Ulysses Vinson, the chief smart communities officer for San Mateo County, California.
"The most amazing thing about open data is that third parties were doing amazing things with it," Vinson said. "I now take the train and bus because I know what Time the trains and bus come. I didn't before."
The panelists also said that monetizing city data does not inherently mean putting a paywall around open datasets, but instead charging for uses of the data that go beyond simple browsing.
"The streetlight data, it's not that valuable by itself," Caldwell said. "It's more valuable when you blend it with other things. I think it's maybe appropriate to charge for it as we add value to the data. I think if developers start using it, we could look at the speed of availability."
Tim Johnson, a Sprint vice president of the wireless carrier's "internet of things" business development practice, proposed that monetizing government datasets could potentially replace tax revenue. Johnson said his family was "freaking out" as they moved from Washington state to New Jersey, which has the highest property tax rates in the country.
"What if you at the state and local level take all this data and make it a source of revenue?" he said. "I would far rather know my data is going to some big pool that the leaders of that state are selling to Sprint or other companies and it lowers the real estate tax."
Johnson compared cities' potential to sell data to a recent agreement between Germany and Bolivia for the German battery industry to access the South American nation's lithium reserves.
"You all and others are sitting on a huge deposit," he said. "There are data brokers out there. It's a great Time to take advantage of that."
-In this Story-
Big Data, San Diego, San Mateo County, Smart Cities, Smart Cities Connect conference
#12096073 at 2020-12-19 21:40:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15443: Cyber Hacks On The Federal Government - The 'NEW' False Flag Edition
>>12095966
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)funded by MoveOn and Soros
However, MoveOn also worked to raise money for Democratic candidates who actually supported the Iraq resolution, some of whom were locked in tight races in moderate or conservative states, including Missouri Sen. Jean Carnahan, and Senate candidates Ron Kirk in Texas, Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, Tim Johnson in South Dakota and Mark Pryor in Arkansas. All told, it raised $3.5 million for the 2002 election cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn
A national political action committee funded by liberal activists like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and actor Seth McFarlane is spending $200,000 on radio ads in New Hampshire to bolster the political fortunes of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen- the latest sign of concern over her ability to hold the seat in 2020.
https://www.insidesources.com/how-bipartisan-is-sen-jeanne-shaheen-we-have-the-data/
#10977248 at 2020-10-08 04:00:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14041: Shadow Rule Edition
2014 50 Most Beautiful …CELESTE WALLENDER
07/29/14 06:05 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/50-most-beautiful/2014/213600-celeste-wallander
CELESTE is into MARATHONS…..hmmmm
Celeste was in Moscow in 2009 when Obama was there……hmmmm…..
did we know obama went to moscow in 2009?
Nancy Cordes
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio)
Celeste Wallander
JJ Singh
Elizabeth Heng
Brooks Keefer
Dannia Hakki
Christian Dibblee
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Simone Perez
Tim Johnson
Rachel Racusen
Kelley Smith
Liron Bruck
Meredith Raimondi
Danielle Sikes
Kimberly Willingham
Devron Brown
Kristen Welker
Carmen Fuentes
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)
Gianelle Rivera
Vicky Vadlamani
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Josh Earnest
Hailey Sadler
Chad Prince
Andre Adeyemi
S.E. Cupp
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)
Ross Gage
Monique Dorsainvil
Austin Rich
Virginia Dent
Raffi Williams
Antonio "Tony" Williams
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.)
Bret Baier
Staci Cox
Mariel Saez
Jeremy Bernard
Wilsar Johnson
Caleb Crosswhite
Katie Hunter
Jason Spear
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
Dottie Bond
Neil Grace
Benjamin Paulsen
Heather Murphy
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Celeste Wallander
Celeste Wallander
HOMETOWN:
Chicago
AGE:
53
RELATIONSHIP STATUS:
Married
PARTY AFFILIATION:
Democratic
For Celeste Wallander, the only way to balance 14-hour days and intense working weekends amid unfolding international crises is to keep running.
The senior director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council has clocked three ultra-marathons, 36 marathons and more half-marathons than she can count.
"I run every morning. I get up and run, just both because I love it, and I need it, and because I run distance races, and so I have to keep my training up," Wallander said.
A member of the Montgomery County Road Runners Club, the mother of three says her runs provide her not only with a chance to work out, but "a great excuse to go off for a couple of hours and just catch up and talk" with friends who also like to pound the pavement.
And someTimes, her runs even provide her a chance to get some face Time with her boss.
During a July 2009 summit in Moscow, Wallander decided to get an early start by hitting the treadmill in the hotel gym.
"I come down to the elevator to the basement floor, and there's all these guys in suits or Secret Service," Wallander said. "I thought, 'Huh, that's weird.' I walk into the gym and there's the president working out," she said.
"I kind of went, 'I'm really sorry, sir,' " she said, but President Obama invited her in.
"He goes, 'Come on in, come on in.' So, I got on the treadmill, and I ran," she said.
When Wallander returned to her hotel room, she wrote her family an email with the subject line, "Another reason to get up and run in the morning."
"I wrote, 'Guess what? He was running on the treadmill at one point, so I said I can actually say that I've run with the president,' " she said.
#7993361 at 2020-02-01 20:23:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10230: General Flynn Coming Front and Center Soon Edition
>>7993357
Hsu, Peter
Hunt, Laura
Hunter Gordon, Kit & Georgina
Hunter, Carlyn & Laurie
Huntsman, Jon & Mary Kaye
Hurd, Nick & Kim (son of Douglas Hurd)
Hurley, Liz
Hurst, Anne
Hurst, Robert J.
Hussain, Ayla
Hussey, Simon
Hutley, Henry
Hutley, Lulu & Edward (attended Princess Eugenie & Jack's wedding)
Hutley, Mr & Mrs (parents of Charlotte de Klee) (Wintersall Estate)
Hulton, Lauren
Hymes, Ivan
Ind, Charlie
Inzerillo, Gerard J.
Ireland, George
Irvine, Eddie
Isamel, Abdullah
Isham, Chris
Jackson, Michael
Jacobson, Julian
Jagger, Mick
Jagger, Hatti
Jameel, Mohammed
James, Susie
Janklow, Linda (married to Morton Janklow & daughter of Mervyn LeRoy)
Jarecki, Nancy & Andrew (Charitable Trust)
Jarecki, Nick
Jeffries, Tim
Johnson, Richard & Nadine
Johnson, Lucy
Jones, Mick & Ann (Ann is Mark Ronson's mother)
Josephson, Barry & Jackie (Barry w)
Karella, Kalliope & Michael Rena
Kastner, Ron
Katz, Anton & Robin
Katzenellenbogen, Mark
Keeling, Sarah
Kegan, Rory
Keidan Amanda
Keidan, Jon
Keller, Georgie
Kellet-Fraysse, Caroline
Kelmenson, Leo-Arthur and Gayl
Kennedy Cuomo, Kerry & Andrew
Kennedy Jr, Ted
Kennedy, Bobby & Mary
Kennedy, Ethel
Kennedy, Jo
Kennedy, Senator Edward
Kersner, Sol
Khayat, Antoine, Jana & George (1)
Kidd, Jemma
King, Abby
Kirwin Taylor, Charlie & Helen
Kirwin Taylor, Peter
Kissinger, Dr. Henry A
Klee, Rupert & Charlotte de (daughter of Hutley's) (Lochiehead, Fife)
Klesch, Johnathan
Koch, David
Kohl, Astrid
Kotic, Boby
Kotze, Alex Von
Kravetz, Anna
Krooth, Caryn
Kudrow, Alistar
Lal Dalamal (1)
Lalaounis, Demetra (daughter of Ilias Lalaounis)
Lambert, Christopher
Lambert, David
Lambert, Edward
Lambos, Duff & John
#5397229 at 2019-02-26 19:24:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6899: Untied Edition
NC Based Airline Implicated In Shipping Arms To "Rebels" In Venezuela
While the United States has done everything in its power to turn Syria into Libya 2.0, it appears the U.S. is now attempting to turn Venezuela into Libya 3.0. Using many of the same tactics utilized in Syria and Libya, the US is utilizing political pressure, sanctions, and the establishment of a parallel government to weaken and overthrow the Maduro government in Venezuela. Now, however, there is evidence that the U.S. is going further and adding the arming of "rebels" to its toolkit in South America.
According to a report by McClatchy, a North Carolina-based freight company has been implicated in an arms smuggling operation to Venezuela. After McClatchy's report was published, the company halted flights to the country.
This revelation comes after Venezuelan authorities claimed to have discovered 19 assault weapons, 118 ammunition cartridges, and 90 military-grade radio antennas on board a U.S.-owned plane that had flown into Valencia from Miami. The Boeing 767 is owned by 21 Air which is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Interestingly enough, the plane made around 40 round-trip flights between Miami and various locations in Venezuela and Colombia since January 11, the day after Maduro was sworn in to a second term as President. However, the flights abruptly ended after McClatchy first reported on them.
In a surprisingly coherent interview, Democracy Now! talked to Tim Johnson, the McClatchy reporter who broke the story. The transcript of that interview is below:
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to Venezuela. A North Carolina-based air freight company has halted flights to that country following a report by McClatchy linking it to possible arms smuggling. Last week, Venezuelan authorities claimed they uncovered 19 assault weapons, 118 ammunition cartridges and 90 military-grade radio antennas on board a U.S.-owned plane that had flown from Miami into Valencia, Venezuela's third-largest city. The Boeing 767 is owned by a company called 21 Air based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The plane had made nearly 40 round-trip flights between Miami and spots in Venezuela and Colombia since January 11th, which is the day after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in to a second term. The flights ended after McClatchy first reported on them. Venezuela accused the U.S. government of sending the arms as part of its attempt to topple the Maduro government. Bolivarian National Guard General Endes Palencia Ortiz said, "This materiel was destined for criminal groups and terrorist actions in the country, financed by the fascist extreme right and the government of the United States."
AMY GOODMAN: 21 Air has denied knowledge of the arms shipment, saying the flight had been chartered by another company called GPS-Air, which also denied sending arms. While no definitive links between 21 Air and the U.S. government have been established, McClatchy reports the chairman of 21 Air, Adolfo Moreno, as well as another employee at the company have ties to Gemini Air Cargo, which was involved in the CIA's rendition program during the administration of George W. Bush. In 2006, Amnesty International identified Gemini as a front company that had authorization to land on U.S. military bases worldwide.
The CIA has a long history of running front companies for covert actions. Most famously, the CIA ran a front airline called Air America, which operated from 1950 to 1976. In the '80s, a CIA front company called Southern Air Transport was used to send arms to the U.S.-backed Contras in Nicaragua.
We're joined now by Tim Johnson, who has been reporting on the story for McClatchy, joining us from Pennsylvania.
Welcome to Democracy Now! Tim, would you lay out what you found?
https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/nc-based-airline-implicated-in-shipping-arms-to-rebels-in-venezuela.html
#4454256 at 2018-12-24 20:40:01 (UTC+1)
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