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Just now, Hagbard Celine said:

the source with kaitlan collins about 90 mins ago

Oh snap, time to break out the debit card.  My honoree screen:

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accuweather dude says there is a NOAA weather radio transmitter in kerrville

anyone with a NOAA "SAME" weather radio would have received all of the alerts and if the radio was on no way they could sleep through it

all the magat gubbmint had to do was pass out NOAA weather radios to each of the camps and every resident or business owner in the floodplains

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3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

all the magat gubbmint had to do was pass out NOAA weather radios to each of the camps and every resident or business owner in the floodplains

That's like $30 each!  Ain't nobody got that kind of spare change!

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13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

That's like $30 each!  Ain't nobody got that kind of spare change!

Radios, maybe throw in life preservers for each cabin?  Sounds like waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money.

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Meanwhile, my idiot BIL is posting on Facebook “Cloud seating has GOT to stop!”

And that’s exactly how every politician is going to escape accountability. And it’s exactly why the GQP cultivates that type of stupidity.

if any of you think any positive change is going to come from this disaster, you’re very sadly mistaken.

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The partial transcript, which I assume is genuine, shows county commissioners acting on emotions and feelings instead of analyzing costs and benefits. It's sad when people like that are elected to positions with power. 

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15 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Meanwhile, my idiot BIL is posting on Facebook “Cloud seating has GOT to stop!”

I would like to sit on a cloud. That sounds fun. I don’t think it’s possible.

Did he really spell it that way?

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17 minutes ago, Bookman said:

The partial transcript, which I assume is genuine, shows county commissioners acting on emotions and feelings instead of analyzing costs and benefits. It's sad when people like that are elected to positions with power. 

As pointed out, the 2016 CC that turned down the grant because OBAMA was a seasoned NASA admin who commanded shuttle and ISS missions. Dude WAS smart, he's just a selfish fuck

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So, there's an active group that wants to disable/destroy weather radar across the nation because they believe it is how the weather is controlled.  The ringleader, who claims to be an independent journalist,  has livestreamed from radar locations, showing the exact location,  fences and other security measures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Internet broke this country. "Oh, I see you are interested in loony f'n conspiracy theories ....let me serve you hundreds more so you click and make me rich"

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24 minutes ago, Captainant said:

As pointed out, the 2016 CC that turned down the grant because OBAMA was a seasoned NASA admin who commanded shuttle and ISS missions. Dude WAS smart, he's just a selfish fuck

Yeah it's about how they make decisions, not intelligence per se. 

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https://archive.is/RomvD#selection-293.0-297.152

 

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An anti-government group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.

In emails widely shared with National Weather Service staff this month and obtained by The Washington Post, the NOAA Office of Security warned of threats it said are being coordinated by Veterans on Patrol, an extremist group motivated by anti-government beliefs and conspiracy theories.

 

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NOAA’s central office said in the emails that there were no specific or credible threats at this time, but it did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we are asking all regions to notify their field offices and radar technicians to maintain increased vigilance when at or near radar sites,” NOAA’s central office informed leadership across the country in a May 1 memo, which advised NWS staff to notify local law enforcement of any suspicious behavior.

 

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Experts who track domestic extremism say the group has not taken overtly violent action before, but they say its rhetoric comes amid a rise in domestic extremism fueled by conspiracy theories about the government’s legitimacy. Veterans on Patrol often mobilizes in communities hit by disasters, as it did in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, and criticizes the government response.

Veterans on Patrol’s messaging is “just another cog in the wheel of anti-government conspiracy theories,” according to Luke Baumgartner, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

 

 

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Veterans on Patrol on Wednesday posted a response from founder Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer to The Post’s requests for comment to its account on social media app Telegram. Meyer said the group will move forward with its plans to target the radars.

“We intend to take as many NexRads offline as possible once our attack simulations have prepared us,” Meyer wrote. He said he had “full authority” to do so. Meyer said the “attack simulations” would go until June but potentially into August, without giving details about the operations.

Meyer, who is not a veteran, originally founded the group as Walking for the Forgotten Ministry, according to Baumgartner and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It first aimed to raise public awareness of the disproportionate rates among veteran suicides, before embracing conspiracy theories like QAnon and vigilantism, the SPLC said.

NOAA said Veterans on Patrol was recruiting people for “penetration drills” on locations hosting Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) systems, which are composed of white, spherical Doppler weather radars that detect precipitation, wind and thunderstorms. The equipment is also operated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Air Force to chart aircraft, according to NOAA.

Veterans on Patrol believes the infrastructure is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military against Americans, NOAA wrote in an email. The group’s leadership wrote on repeated messages to Telegram that the equipment was “poisoning our skies.”

The group shared images of radar sites last week, encouraging followers to investigate whether the equipment can be “easily sabotaged.” Messages sent Sunday identified an unspecified NEXRAD site supposedly in Northern California that was visited by a “lone wolf.”

The group also said it had “boots on the ground” gathering information in Washington and Oklahoma. The Veterans on Patrol Telegram group has more than 6,000 followers.

The group has a controversial past, including encouraging armed individuals to conduct border patrols in Arizona, going as far as illegally holding migrants, Baumgartner said.

Similar to other far-right groups, VOP recruits people by offering themselves up as a “safe haven” to those who are struggling, he said.

“Conspiracy theories prey on the vulnerable, and they prey on those seeking answers to the questions that they have about their own lives,” Baumgartner said.

Veterans on Patrol drew national attention last October when members descended on parts of western North Carolina days after Hurricane Helene devastated the region with massive flooding.

At one relief center in a grocery store parking lot in the town of Lake Lure, members of the group began leading an effort to collect and disseminate donated supplies, including bottled water, food and clothing.

But when it became clear to some residents that the group was spreading misinformation — including claims that the government somehow steered Helene into the region so it could take land and harvest minerals, and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was directing aid toward undocumented immigrants, terrorists and criminals — they pushed back against the group, prompting it to abandon the relief site, The Post previously reported.

 



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