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Five Marines Confirmed Dead in Helicopter Crash During Training Flight outside San Diego

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A military helicopter that went missing on a flight from Nevada to California was located by rescuers Wednesday morning. All five Marines who were aboard when it went down in the mountains outside San Diego Tuesday night have been confirmed dead, the Marines announced Thursday morning.

“It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that I share the loss of five outstanding Marines from 3d Marine Aircraft Wing and the “Flying Tigers” while conducting a training flight last night,” Major General Michael Borgschulte said in a statement. “These pilots and crew members were serving a calling greater than self and were proud to do so. To the families of our fallen Marines, we send our deepest condolences and commit to ensuring your support and care during this incredibly difficult time.”

The Marines were on a training flight aboard a CH-53E Super Stallion from Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas to Marine corps Air Station Miramar Tuesday night and were eventually reported “overdue,” the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing said Wednesday.

National Review reports the helicopter was discovered near its last known location over the Cleveland National Forest, a 720 square mile area of mostly undeveloped land that lies approximately 50 miles east of San Diego.

Pine Valley, where the helicopter was located, is part of the San Diego County Mountains — a region that was under a winter storm warning at the time of the crash. The National Weather Service warned of “Heavy wet snow. Additional snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches with 10 to 14 inches on the highest peaks. Winds gusting as high as 60 mph tonight and early Thursday.”

The San Diego Sheriff’s Office dispatched a helicopter to begin the search immediately, but the aircraft was called off due to the “atmospheric river” still flooding Southern California. The region has been battered by record-setting rain since Sunday — three people in the state have been killed by falling trees as the storm spawned flooding and mudslides.

Efforts to recover the bodies are ongoing and an investigation into the crash is underway.

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Organization Launches Campaign to Spin Immigration Narrative by Suppressing Free Speech

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Billionaire Lauren Powell Jobs is fighting “immigration misinformation” through her new group Catalyze/Citizens by seeking to suppress mainstream public criticism of Extraction Migration policies. According to Breitbart, Jobs is demanding changes be made to Internet law to allow her to do so, which would require an anti-free speech law from Congress or a major Supreme Court decision.

In a statement released on December 3, Catalyze/Citizens said that Section 230 of the [Internet-related] Communications Decency Act would need to be reformed to allow the group to “counter far-right disinformation campaigns” and “build safer online spaces and AI technology.”

“Through these efforts, C/C aims to champion and elect pro-immigrant leaders, mobilize uncommon allies, and drive narrative interventions that protect immigrant communities and strengthen democratic values,” the statement added.

According to Breitbart:

“The group’s blame-the-narrative campaign echoes the view of many pro-migration groups that Donald Trump won the election by manipulating the voters via distorted media reports. That claim sidelines the evidence that voters recognize the vast economic and civic damage caused by the elite-driven desire for the extraction of many more foreign blue-collar and white-collar workers, renters, and consumers from poor countries.”

Andrea Flores, the chief lobbyist at Mark Zuckberg’s FWD.us pro-migration group, suggested that President Joe Biden take the blame for not spreading a “pro-migration narrative” enough, which allowed the campaign of now President-elect Donald Trump to succeed with their reports on the border crisis and the snowball effect it had on multiple aspects of American life including on businesses, housing, crime and security overall.

Catalyze/Citizens is an extension of Jobs’ Immigration Hub group and is to be headed by Beatriz Lopez who backed the mission to “tackle the source of disinformation by championing policies and solutions that ensure social media responsibility and online and AI safety.”

Each proponent cited discussing the mission of Catalyze/Citizens appears to consistently reference the need to address “dangerous online disinformation.” It is noteworthy that social media companies have come under scrutiny for their information policing of users, which critics argue hamper First Amendment rights.

The group Catalyze/Citizens also pointed out that Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign failed to focus on immigration policies and frame them in a favorable light. A report released by the group shows that Trump, on the other hand, focused largely on immigration spending millions to “frame immigration as a national threat.”

According to Breitbart, the Extraction Migration policy championed by Jobs and criticized by Trump can be explained as follows:

“The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.”

Breitbart adds, “The little-recognized economic policy has loosened the economic and civic feedback signals that animate a stable economy and democracy. It has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced Americans’ productivity and political clout, slowed high-tech innovation, shrunk trade, crippled civic solidarity, and incentivized government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate of discarded, low-status Americans.”

President-elect Donald Trump recognized the implications of this policy, and has worked hard to warn Americans against it. In an effort to defend the policy however, supporters of it are calling Trump’s efforts “narrative trickery,” which led to the development of Catalyze/Citizens. If able, progressives see that the solution is in shifting the narrative by targeting speech critical of the policy.

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