Strategic Development Consulting Group, Inc.

04/28/2024

https://www.nps.gov/articles/southern-christian-leadership-conference.htm

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, R...

11/21/2023

New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

11/21/2023

There have been over 50 recent reports of frightening cyberattacks that have altered planes’ in-flight GPS, leading to what experts described as “critical navigation failures” onb…

11/01/2023

10/21/2023

Flight of evacuees from Israel lands in Tampa

10/21/2023

"Project Dynamo was founded in 2021 to help rescue people from Afghanistan after American troops withdrew from the country and has conducted missions everywhere from Ukraine to Sudan. The flight to Tampa Sunday was the group’s 602nd evacuation mission.

Stern spoke about the rescue missions during a press conference Monday. Stern said he was raising money to pay for the Tampa flight when the state of Florida stepped in to offer assistance.

“We were fundraising right up until Gov. DeSantis and his office came in… bottom line is we would have figured it out,” Stern said. “We’ve done it six hundred and one times without government help, six hundred and two was not going to be the one that we failed on. But it makes it so much easier when you have backing by a state entity for sure.”

A Florida state of emergency and an opportunity..."

DeSantis lauded an effort funded by Florida to rescue people trapped in Israel. The evacuations likely would have happened without his help.

10/21/2023

"What does it mean when Florida declares a 'state of emergency?'
According to Florida Law, it says that “a state of emergency shall be declared by executive order or proclamation of the Governor if she or he finds an emergency has occurred or that the occurrence or the threat thereof is imminent."

What exactly happens during 'state of emergency' in Florida? How does it help residents?
Declaring a state of emergency allows the state and local governments much more freedom to coordinate their emergency agencies, relax restrictions, cut through red tape and reallocate resources to quickly deal with an imminent or ongoing threat that local services can't handle on their own.

Once a state of emergency has been declared the governor may take "direct operational control" over any or all of the emergency management functions of the state and assign people to coordinate and direct them.

The governor may suspend regulations that would slow emergency response, commandeer or utilize any private property needed to deal with the emergency (with some restrictions), order evacuations, direct or delegate control of the National Guard to help rescue or cleanup operations, suspend the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, fi****ms, explosives and combustibles, establish emergency housing, limit power services as needed, impose or allow exceptions to curfews, and quite a bit more as needed by the specific emergency.

The declaration also triggers certain conditions:

It activates the emergency mitigation, response, and recovery parts of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency management plans
It authorizes control over the use and distribution of supplies, equipment, materials and facilities that have been readied for emergencies
In some cases, it grants authority for a health care practitioner licensed in another state to assist in providing health care in the disaster area
In some cases, it constitutes a formal request to the president of the United States to mobilize the military"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in Florida due to the Israeli-Hamas war. Here's what that means and what it is

10/21/2023

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"The group, founded by three Florida men, expanded its operations after Afghanistan, rescuing U.S. citizens in Ukraine in 2022 and aiding in the evacuation of Maui in the wake of devastating wildfires there this summer.

But some in the U.S. government expressed concern that the group took risks that other nonprofits would not...

DeSantis has direct access to a $500 million Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund that the Florida Legislature approved last year to give him spending flexibility when he declares emergencies. While it is unclear if the fund was used to pay for the Israel flights, DeSantis has historically tapped into the fund to pay for his priorities, including border security initiatives in Texas.

Stern said the nonprofit took the lead on all the logistics.

“Essentially, we did the ground piece and the manifesting and the case management and all the hard stuff in the war zone,” Stern said. “(The state) funded the aircraft and we landed and got to meet Gov. Ron DeSantis.”"

“This is the first time where any government agency has assisted us financially,” the nonprofit’s co-founder said.