Arkansas sold out by Boozman and Womack. Fort Smith officially set to host Singapore military pilot training at National Guard Base.

4/6/23. Two members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation visited Singapore this week in a show of support for the recent selection of Fort Smith’s Ebbing Air National Guard Base to host the Foreign Military Sales program. Daniel McFadin, nwaonline.com

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack and U.S. Sen. John Boozman made the trip almost a month after the selection of Ebbing, which will eventually host General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons from Singapore’s air force.

In addition to the relocation of an F-16 squadron, Ebbing will also be a used to train foreign pilots in F-35 jets.

Foreign Military Sales is a security assistance program authorized by the Arms Export Control Act. The act allows the U.S. to sell defense equipment, conduct training and provide services to a foreign country when the president deems doing so will strengthen U.S. national security and promote world peace.

Ebbing was selected in 2021 as the preferred location for a pilot training center for Singapore and other countries participating in the program. The proposal was to accommodate up to 24 foreign F-35 aircraft and move 12 F-16s from the Singapore air force, currently with the 425th Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.

According to a press release, during their visit to the Asian country Womack, R-Rogers, and Boozman, R-Rogers, met with the Republic of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and government leaders in trade and national security, and the chief of the Singaporean air force. They also visited U.S. military personnel deployed to the area.

“I was glad to travel to Singapore with Senator Boozman to deepen our strategic partnership and discuss ways to deter increasing threats from our adversaries,” Womack said in a statement. “We got to shake the hands of our allies and thank them for trusting Fort Smith to be the home of the Foreign Military Sales mission that will bring F-35 fighter planes and Singapore’s F-16 squadron to Ebbing Air National Guard Base. I look forward to welcoming the new U.S. Air Force personnel to the River Valley and continuing dialogue with our friends abroad.”

In his own statement, Boozman said the goal of the visit was “to ensure our partners feel welcome in our state and trust we will support their military personnel’s needs. Developing and strengthening this relationship is critical to ensuring global security. Arkansas welcomes the opportunity to give our allies the training and tools necessary to defend themselves and our shared interests while strengthening Ebbing Air National Guard Base’s role in our national defense and Indo-Pacific relations.”

The selection of Ebbing was announced on March 15.

During the announcement, Lt. Col. Drew “Gus” Nas, who is tasked with getting the training center at Ebbing operational, said the earliest any foreign pilots would arrive at Ebbing would be 2024.

Before any pilots from Singapore arrive, it’s expected that Polish pilots would be the first users of the training center. Poland is purchasing 32 F-35 Lightning II aircraft from Lockheed Martin.

The elements of the Singaporean air force will have a long-term presence at the base, while pilots and planes from other countries will be there on a temporary basis of about two years.

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3/15/23. Fort Smith officially set to host military pilot training at Ebbing Air National Guard Base. Jose Carranza, 5newsonline.com.

There was excitement across the River Valley as Fort Smith landed a foreign military sales pilot training program after nearly two years of work.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders,U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton and Congressman Steve Womack applauded the U.S. Air Force’s selection of Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith as the home of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) mission that will bring F-35 fighter planes and a Republic of Singapore F-16 squadron to the installation.

Tim Allen, the chamber of commerce president and CEO ways the center will not only bring hundreds of families and jobs to the area but interest from companies from the military sector.

“Today’s Record of Decision makes clear and cement Arkansas’ important role in training, equipping, and supplying our friends across the globe. This also means bringing jobs and economic prosperity to the state. I look forward to welcoming the new U.S. Air Force personnel who will be moving to our state and am excited for all our international partners to discover the meaning of Arkansas hospitality,” said Gov. Sarah Sanders in a release. 

Fort Smith Mayor George B McGill said that “when you hear those aircraft flying overhead— it’s the sound of freedom, but it’s also the sound of an engine for Fort Smith and the region.”

In 2021, Fort Smith was selected as the long-term training center supporting F-16 and F-35 fighter planes purchased by Singapore, Switzerland and other countries.

Since then, members of the delegation have worked Singapore leaders and allies who have an interest in enhancing their air power with the F-35 in addition to recently securing $28 million to support the F-35 FMS program.

The U.S. Government approved the sale of up to 12 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to Singapore through an FMS program in early 2020. Singapore requested to co-locate its Arizona-based F-16 training detachment with its future F-35 training site. With the Arizona base reaching its hosting capacity in the coming years, the U.S. Air Force identified other locations for potential relocation sites. 

“This is a gamechanger for Fort Smith and our state that will enhance economic development and opportunity in the region and strengthen Arkansas’s role in defending our national security. The Arkansas Congressional Delegation has worked tirelessly along with state and community leaders to demonstrate to the Air Force what we all knew – Fort Smith is the best location for this mission,” said U.S. Senator John Boozman.

Air Force officials toured four other sites across the U.S. before making their decision. Over the last year, legislatures from Arkansas have promoted Fort Smith as a capable place for military training and readiness. 

State leaders have delivered critical funding in support of an expanded runway while community leaders have invested in the project through the welcome of foreign dignitaries and hosting public comment events.

In 2022, those public hearing meetings were hosted to give people an idea of what work will be done on the base. Some of those plans included constructing simulator training facilities, renovating existing buildings and additions to runways.

The military pilot training could possibly have an economic impact on the region as high as $1 billion a year.

Lt. Col. Drew Gus Nash, Commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing Detachment said that they are “expecting flying operations to start anywhere from September 2024 through September 2025.”

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Sanders, Boozman, Cotton, Womack Applaud Selection of Fort Smith for F-35 Fighter Planes, Singapore Air Force Squadron. Arkansas press release.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton and Congressman Steve Womack applauded the U.S. Air Force’s selection of Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith as the home of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) mission that will bring F-35 fighter planes and a Republic of Singapore F-16 squadron to the installation. 
 
“Today’s Record of Decision makes clear and cements Arkansas’ important role in training, equipping, and supplying our friends across the globe. This also means bringing jobs and economic prosperity to the state. I look forward to welcoming the new U.S. Air Force personnel who will be moving to our state and am excited for all our international partners to discover the meaning of Arkansas hospitality. The Arkansas Congressional Delegation and the Fort Smith community were instrumental in securing this major new mission for Ebbing Air National Guard Base – they have my deepest gratitude for their hard work,” Sanders said.
 
“I’m pleased that the Air Force has selected Fort Smith as the location for this training mission, another positive step in bringing a manned flying mission back to Arkansas. I will continue to work with the Air Force, our congressional delegation, and Governor Sanders to bring the sound of freedom back to the River Valley,” Cotton said.
 
“Today’s Record of Decision makes official what Arkansans have known since the start of this process—Fort Smith is the premier location for F-35 FMS training and Singapore’s F-16 mission. Fort Smith’s central location, existing infrastructure, and airspace were essential differentiators but the people of Fort Smith and their desire to support national defense were truly the deciding factor. I’m proud the Air Force has made this final decision and look forward to hearing the ‘Sound of Freedom’ soon in the River Valley,” Womack said. 

How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke

4/17/23. How Walmart pushed Arkansas Public Schools to go Woke. Aaron Sibarium, Freebeacon.com

In January 2020, Walmart approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas, about hosting diversity training sessions for the district. “We want people to feel welcomed, comfortable, and safe living here” in Northwest Arkansas, Candice Jones, Walmart’s head of diversity, emailed district leaders, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. To that end, the company was offering to arrange teacher training sessions with a North Carolina-based consultancy known as the Racial Equity Institute, a group “devoted to creating racially equitable organizations and systems.””This would be great for teacher development and a great way to connect with the community,” Jones said.

By August, teachers were learning that “perfectionism” is “white supremacy” and that “all our systems, institutions, and outcomes emanate from the racial hierarchy on which the United States was built.”

Bentonville—the site of Walmart’s corporate headquarters—wasn’t alone.

In nearby Fayetteville, the district’s public schools embarked on a five-year “equity plan” funded and designed by Walmart-funded groups, including a DEI “research institute” at the University of Arkansas. School leaders attended trainings on the “six tenets of critical race theory,” learned that “systemic inequality = trauma,” were drilled on the harmful effects of “microaggressions,” and sat through PowerPoints on “intersectionality.”

The district also implemented a “restorative justice” program—designed to combat the allegedly “disproportionate” discipline of black students—that discouraged teachers from breaking up fights and instructed them to sit on the floor with students to “dispel any sense of hierarchy.”

This report is based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through public records requests submitted by families in Bentonville and Fayetteville. It reveals how the world’s largest retailer is transforming schools in its hometown through grants, nonprofits, and corporate outreach, laundering its ideology as a kind of noblesse oblige.

The transformation highlights the tension between democracy and DEI, which—as one Walmart and Walton-funded diversity program, “TRUE,” put it in a presentation to Fayetteville Public Schools—”sometimes must be imposed from the top down.”

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Fort Smith, AR to start poisoning their water with Fluoride on March 7th

3/4/16. Fluoride will go in Fort Smith water on Monday, March 7th. Fort Smith voters rejected fluoridation in the 1970’s and 1992.

The people have a Tenth Amendment right to oppose this.  

Poisonous effects of Fluoride: Acute Toxicity. Arthritis. Bone Fracture. Brain Effects. Cancer. Cardiovascular Disease. Diabetes. Endocrine Disruption. Gastrointestinal Effects.
Hypersensitivity.
Kidney Disease.
Male Fertility.
Pineal Gland.
Skeletal Fluorosis. Thyroid Disease.

ArkansasOnline.com reported that Fort Smith is going to put Fluoride in the water on Monday, March 7th.

“The city will begin Monday adding fluoride to the water it provides for its 160,000 users in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.

Once the chemical is introduced into the water system at the Lake Fort Smith and the Lee Creek water treatment plants, it will take about 36 hours for th water to reach Fort Smith, Lance McAvoy, the Utilities Department’s deputy director of operations, said Thursday.

McAvoy said it will take two to four weeks for the cavity-fighting chemical to get into the entire distribution system, which includes Van Buren and 13 other clients, mostly in Crawford County, buying water from Fort Smith.

Officials have been working for the past 18 months to purchase and install fluoridation equipment at the two water treatment plants. The project has cost about $2 million, McAvoy said, with most of it being paid for by a grant from the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation.

McAvoy said weeklong tests were run on the new equipment to ensure it will feed the proper amount of fluoride into the water. He said the tests were successful and equipment is running as it should.

A news release from the city said fluoride will be fed into the water system at 0.7 milligram per liter, the level recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide public health benefits while preventing fluorosis of teeth and bones.

Fluorosis is a chronic condition caused by the excessive intake of fluorine compounds, marked by mottling of the teeth and, if severe, calcification of the ligaments.

Weldon Johnson, executive director of the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation, said Thursday numerous studies have shown the effectiveness of fluoridated water regarding dental disease. It also has been shown children who have access to fluoridated water and are on Medicaid save states an average of $24 per child annually.

“The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation has a long-term goal to end dental disease in children,” Johnson said. “Fluoridated water systems are instrumental in achieving Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation’s goal.”

Arkansas Act 197 of 2011 required municipalities of 5,000 or more to fluoridate their water if the funds are available. The Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation, which is associated with Sherwood-based Delta Dental of Arkansas, a dental-benefits administrator, agreed to provide that funding.

Johnson provided figures that showed 24 cities have completed fluoridation affecting 316,000 people at a total cost of $3.75 million.

Projects are underway in seven towns that will affect 301,000 people at a cost of $3.5 million, the figures showed. Two projects have not begun but are budgeted to cost $450,000 and affect 30,000 people when completed.

Johnson said when the fluoridation projects began, 67 percent of the people on public water systems in Arkansas had fluoridated water. With the completion of 33 projects Johnson listed, the percentage will increase to 91 percent.

Donald Trump Says He Supports Reauthorizing Patriot Act, NSA Metadata Collection

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12/7/15. Trump Says He Supports Reauthorizing Patriot Act, NSA Metadata Collection. Barry Donegan, truthinmedia.com

2016 Republican presidential candidate and billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump said that he supports reauthorizing the USA PATRIOT Act and bulk cell phone metadata collection by the National Security Agency in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show earlier this month.

In the above-embedded clip, Hewitt asks Trump, “On metadata collection, Ted Cruz is glad the NSA got out of it. Marco Rubio wants it back. What’s Donald Trump think?”

“Well, I tend to err on the side of security, I must tell you,” Trump replied, “and I’ve been there for longer than you would think. But, you know, when you have people that are beheading if you’re a Christian and frankly for lots of other reasons, when you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security, and so that’s the way it is, that’s the way I’ve been, and some people like that, frankly, and some people don’t like that.”

“And I’m not just saying that since Paris, I’m saying for quite some time. I assume when I pick up my telephone people are listening to my conversations anyway, if you want to know the truth. It’s pretty sad commentary, but I err on the side of security,” said Trump.

Hewitt then asked, “Alright, so you would be in favor of restoring the Patriot Act?”

“I think that would be fine. As far as I’m concerned, that would be fine,” Trump responded.

Newsweek points out that Donald Trump has held the same position since before the Paris terror attacks. He said this summer, “I support legislation which allows the NSA to hold the bulk metadata. For oversight, I propose that a court, which is available any time on any day, is created to issue individual rulings on when this metadata can be accessed.”

A below-embedded CBS46 Atlanta Ben Swann Reality Check report challenges the notion that the NSA has stopped spying on Americans’ cell phones and notes that “under the USA Freedom Act, NSA computers remain at the carriers’ and service providers’ switching offices [collecting metadata]. But the NSA computer analysts return to their NSA offices and from there they operate remotely the same computers they were operating directly in the Patriot Act days.”

Ted Cruz supports a Biometric tracking system

Photo by Leszek Leszczynski on Flickr http://bit.ly/1KIPsca

11/16/15. Cruz pledges US biometric entry and exit system. planetbiometrics.com

Republican presidential candidate and senator Ted Cruz has pledged a biometric entry and exit system to track visa holders should he get into power.

Speaking last week, Cruz said one of his priorities would be to finish the biometric tracking system at our nation’s ports of entry.

“Amazon and FedEx can track packages around the world with down-to-the-minute precision. Google can provide street-view maps of almost any address in the country. It is unacceptable that our federal government cannot keep track of the foreign nationals who have entered the United States, particularly when millions of illegal immigrants currently in the United States entered legally but overstayed their visas – as several of the 9/11 hijackers had done.”

Cruz said it was “past time” for the federal government to fully implement a biometric tracking system so that authorities have full awareness of who is on American soil at all times.

“Since 1996, Congress has ‘required’ full implementation of an entry-exit system at all of our ports of entry, yet multiple administrations, both Democrat and Republican, have refused to follow that law. In the first 100 days of a Cruz Administration, those who have broken the law will be held accountable, regulations that stand in the way of finishing the system will be eliminated, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will complete implementation by the end of my first year in office”.

He also pledged to strengthen E-Verify. E-Verify – a federal digital identity program that lets employers verify the legal status of job applicants. He pledge to treat E-Verify as a national security tool: Push to have E-Verify both permanently reauthorized in statute and deemed an essential national security screening tool, to ensure that it operates in the event of a lapse in funding.

In July, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has revealed that it will pilot the collection of biometric and biographic information on selected flights from up to 10 identified US airports over the next year. In a notice published in the Federal Register, the CBP revealed that the programme will be called the “Be-Mobile Air Test”.

The test will be rolled out over this one-year period at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California; Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida; Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia. The list also includes Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois; Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey; John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York; Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas; George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas; and Washington Dulles International Airport, Sterling, Virginia.

The  CBP says its BE-Mobile Air Test is designed to test both a new biometric exit concept of operations at selected airports with CBP officers using a wireless handheld device at the departure gate to collect biometric and biographic data and CBP’s outbound enforcement policies and workforce distribution procedures.

RINO Flip Flopper: John Boozman up for Re-election

RINO Arkansas U.S. Senator John Boozman is up for re-election in 2016 and faces Conservative challenger Curtis Coleman in the primary on March 1st. Boozman has been in the U.S. Congress since 2001 taking a general mix of liberal and conservative stances. Which has him with a 56% rating on conservativereview.com, and a Cumulative Freedom Index Score of 57% from thenewamerican.com.

“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” -James 1:8 

With being in Washington D.C. for 15 years there’s a alot of votes he’s cast but some of the worst include: Voted for the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act. Voted against bringing the troops home. Voted for No Child Left Behind. Voted for the $305 billion highway bailout bill. Voted for TARP and the Stimulus bill. Voted for CISA. Voted against limiting the authority of the Armed Forces to detain citizens of the United States under section 1031 of NDAA. Voted to give Barack Obama, Trade Promotion Authority. (and much more below.) 

Beware: Fort Smith Dr. Stephanie Ho also works for Planned Parenthood in Fayetteville

Stephanie Ho via Sparkshealth.com

People need to be aware that Dr Stephanie Ho from Fort Smith, AR (who’s listed on the Sparks Health website under Family Medicine) also works for Planned Parenthood in Fayetteville. She was the featured speaker at a Pro-Abortion rally in Little Rock at the state Capital on January 23.

RINO Flip Flopper: French Hill up for Re-election

RINO Arkansas U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district French Hill, is up for re-election in 2016 and faces Republican challenger Brock Olree in the primary on March 1st. Hill has been in the U.S. Congress since 2015 taking a general mix of liberal and conservative stances. Which has him with a 5o% rating on conservativereview.com, a 60% rating on thenewamerican.com, A 66% rating on heritageactionscorecard.com, and 67% rating on freedomworks.com.

“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” -James 1:8

Some of his worst votes include: Voting for the FY2016 Omnibus Spending bill to fund Planned Parenthood, increase foreign guest workers, increase refugee resettlement, and to grant the President authority to expand immigration levels without Congress’ consent via Trade Promotion Authority. Voted for No Child Left Behind through 2020. Voted the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act. Voted to repeal the requirement for meat products to be labeled with their country of origin. Voted against The First Amendment Defense Act which would protect individuals or groups, based on their beliefs that marriage is the union of a man and woman or that sexual relations are reserved for marriage. Voted against limiting surveillance of U.S. Citizens Under Section 702 of FISA. Voted for funding the DHS, TSA and E-Verify. Voted for $305 billion highway bailout bill that also renews the Export Import Bank. Voted for two cyber security bills that violate the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. Voted against removing John Boehner from Speaker of the House. 

Are Christians really too busy to care about what’s going on in America

Are Christians really too busy to care?  So many Christians are wasting their time with unimportant things.

From watching stupid things on TV and sports, to going to the movie theater, to going to concerts. Listening to heretic music and heretic music stations. Reading heretic books. Many being indoctrinated at public schools and colleges.

Many Christian are supporting exactly what they should be fighting against.
Drinking alcohol, sleeping around, watching pornography. Getting abortions. Committing adultery. Getting tattoos and piercings.

Many Christians don’t vote or vote for the wrong things. (Not an endorsement of a presidential candidate)

They should at least have a little time every weekday or even every week to be informed, do research, have discernment and take prayerful action.

The Gospel needs to be preached (1 Cor 9:16) and sound doctrine needs to be taught (Titus 2:1). Christians should seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness (Matt 6:33).

But we should also care about what happens in our country (and even in the rest of the world).