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Diversity politics undermines federal air traffic control skills-based testing

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A lawsuit that has flown under the radar for years shows how the Federal Aviation Administration undermined a skills-based test to help select air traffic controllers in an effort to promote workforce diversity.

The Federal Aviation Administration under the Biden administration has pledged to continue diversifying its workforce under its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility goals.

At the same time, a lawsuit that has long flown under the radar provides a glimpse into just how far the agency is willing to go to achieve those goals, even at the expense of skills-based tests for air traffic controllers.

In December 2013, thousands of students who had participated in the FAA's Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) — a program specifically designed to prepare individuals to become Air Traffic Control Specialists — were informed that their previous scores on a cognitive and skills-based test — known as the AT-SAT — would be discounted. Instead, these students would have to pass a biographical survey before retaking the cognitive portion of the test.

Comment: Add to this the vax lunacy and general corner-cutting: Is the goal to make the general population afraid to travel by air? Or at all?


Bad Guys

75% of House Democrats voted against deporting criminal migrants who commit Social Security fraud

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Democrats talk a big game about 'Republican attacks on Social Security,' but 75% of House Dems just voted against deporting migrants who commit Social Security fraud.

Introduced by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) in December, H.R. 6678 passed with 172 "yea" votes, and 155 "nay" votes - all Democrats, with 55 of them voting with the Republicans.

As former Trump adviser and head of the America First Legal Foundation Stephen Miller posted on X, "155 HOUSE DEMOCRATS — 75% OF THEIR CONFERENCE — JUST VOTED AGAINST DEPORTING CRIMINAL MIGRANTS WHO COMMIT SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD AND ROB OUR SENIORS."

Comment: Tlaib is confusing immigrants with illegal aliens who broke US law the minute they crossed the border. A functioning system of justice would see them deported immediately.


Whistle

NATO 'playing with fire' with latest military exercises, Medvedev warns

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© Yekaterina Shtukina/POOL/TASSRussian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stressed that Russia doesn't plan to attack any of the bloc's members
Moscow has no plans to attack any NATO country, something that is clear as day to anyone with an ounce of sense in the West, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wrote on the VKontakte social media platform.

Commenting on NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise, the largest since the end of the Cold War, he noted that this was "playing with fire in a very dangerous way."

"We don't plan to attack any of the bloc's members. This is clear to all reasonable people in the West. However, if they get carried away playing and encroach on our country's integrity, they will immediately receive an appropriate response," Medvedev pointed out. According to him, "it will mean one thing - a big war that NATO won't be able to dodge."

Comment: About the exercise, see: More from Medvedev: Russia urges Japan to end claim over islands for peace treaty, Medvedev suggests seppuku for any disgruntled samurai


TV

US claim that 'Yemen's Ansar Allah plan to cut undersea global communication cables' debunked

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FILE: Map of communications network near Yemen, February 7, 2020
A pro-Israeli media institute has theorized that Yemen's Ansar Allah planned on destroying cables that supply 99% of the world with internet, but these claims were entirely fabricated.

Blackdot has recently examined the claim that Yemen's Ansar Allah plans to cut off 99% of the world's internet following the circulation of the news on different social media platforms, and eventually refuted it and confirmed its falsity.

Claim: A 'Houthi' attack on Red Sea fiber optics cables?

On December 24, several platforms claimed that an Ansar Allah-affiliated Telegram channel shared a photo of the seabed that contains submarine cables that connect several regions of the world and supply them with internet.

Comment: Considering that there is at least one entity responsible for severing submarine cables in various places, and long before this conflict, it's worth noting that Ansar Allah have explicitly stated that they do not intend to do it, but that it certainly could happen (even if it's unlikely at this early stage):

Although, yet again, it highlights just how vulnerable critical infrastructure is: Also check out SOTT's Focus from 2012: Undersea Internet Cables Cut AGAIN!


Attention

It's now: people vs. the banks

The struggle is now, it's ongoing and we, the people will prevail.
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© Alex Krainer's TrendCompass
In my last Substack article, "The system is failing; we're on our own," I discussed the systematic demolition of our structures of government and suggested that the façade of effective checks and balances was largely fictitious, there only to lull us into passive acquiescence to the covert rule of a hidden force behind the throne. I did not elaborate further, but it's clear that such force exists and that it is shaping global events.

As Carol Jones astutely wrote in her comment to an earlier article ("C0VlD l9 hoax goes to court"), "For this level of medical coup to be successful... there has to be coordinated neutering of all countries' governing documents/constitutions. ... the ability to carry out any coordination at the right time, everything being in place etc. is frankly just as possible as 1000 elephants flying by my window right now." She also correctly pointed out that the fact of 159 countries bowing to the WHO doesn't explain this coordination.

What's the driving force behind the agenda?

I attempted to shed some light on this question in an article I published in August 2020. The title gives it away, "Covid 19: the banking cartel is driving the agenda," but let me elaborate with a shortened version of that article here.

For many months during 2020 and 2021, the media and "health" authorities have relentlessly promoted fear-inducing narratives about the alleged Covid 19 "pandemic," sensationalizing the emergency nearly 24/7 while ignoring and censoring hundreds, perhaps thousands of experts who diverged from the official versions of news. Supposing that we were up against a "once-in-a-century" pandemic that nobody could have predicted (ehm..), one would expect a lively debate among experts about how best to tackle the crisis. Journalists might have sought out as many domain experts as possible so we could arrive at the clearest possible understanding of the new health challenge and how to confront it. Effective treatments should have been promoted, celebrated, screamed from the rooftops. But that's not what happened.

Public health measures - virtually identical in most nations - were handed down from the World Health Organization through shadowy bureaucratic hierarchies that aggressively claimed monopoly on science and truth. All discussion was discouraged and hundreds of experts were being aggressively silenced. Several effective treatments like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were identified, but the officialdom was outright hostile to any mention of them.

Doctors and patients have been strongly discouraged from using such remedies and in some nations HCQ was abruptly pulled from the market. In Australia, prescribing HCQ has even been made a criminal offence. Instead, the authorities aggressively pushed the hastily developed, untested, experimental vaccines, all for a disease which was lethal for only 0.004% of the population (even by the overinflated U.S. CDC statistics).

Info

RFK Jr slams American attacks on Syria and Iraq

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© Rebecca Noble / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFPIndependent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on December 20, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona.
The US should withdraw its ground troops from Middle Eastern countries that do not welcome them, independent candidate for US president Robert F. Kennedy Jr has said.

He said the escalation could have been avoided, reacting in an X (formerly Twitter) post to Washington's attack on more than 80 targets allegedly linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) in Iraq and Syria in a wide-ranging air assault.

US Central Command says it hit 85 Iranian-linked targets in Syria and Iraq in retaliation against the recent "Iran-affiliated" fighters' attack that killed three US servicemen in Jordan. President Joe Biden's X post read that the US does not "seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But to all those who seek to do us harm: We will respond," despite Iran denying involvement in the incident.

"If we 'do not seek conflict,' then let's get the troops out of there," Kennedy said, apparently reacting to Biden's statement. "They are not welcome. They are not needed," he added.

Comment: While the US should pull it's troops out of the region, that isn't enough. The US should also pull it's support of Israel, but Kennedy won't go near that topic.


USA

French military agrees with Russia on downed plane - AP

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© AP / Michal DyjukPatriot missile launchers acquired from the US are seen deployed in Warsaw, Poland, February 6, 2023

Comment: France and the French military, who early on had passed on the suspicion that it was American missiles that downed the Russian Il-76 with 65 Ukrainian POW about to be released according to an agreement with Kiev, decided it was the better course of action to do away with formalities and call a spade a spade. The news from France comes interestngly enough following a statement from Vladimir Putin: "I state this officially: We ask for international experts to be deployed [here] to conduct an analysis, assess the existing material evidence of the fact that the plane was downed by the Patriot system," While it does not enter into the Russian proposal, it nevertheless can be interpreted as an answer. It is a bit like saying: International investigation! What for?


France has determined that Ukraine used a US-made Patriot missile to kill 65 of its own POWs

The French military has concluded that Ukrainian forces used an American-supplied Patriot air defense system to shoot down a Russian plane carrying prisoners of war, an official told the Associated Press on Friday. Russian investigators have reached the same verdict.

Comment: See also: Biden has made Americans complicit in Ukrainian POW deaths - Moscow which has other links to the case, including excerpts from other article from the same source:

1 Feb, 2024 10:05
US-supplied missile shot down plane carrying Ukrainian POWs - investigators (VIDEO)
Kiev used two foreign-made missiles to destroy the Il-76 last week, authorities have said
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The Investigative Committee said that Ukraine fired two missiles from a staging area in Kharkov Region, not far from the village of Liptsy, some 10km from the Russian border.

Officials said that during the investigation they found 116 missile fragments bearing inscriptions in English, with one of them reading: "CONFIDENTIAL classified by PATRIOT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION GUIDE DATED: 9/22/83 ADDENDA DATED 11/28/83 8/8/84 CONTRACT NO/DAAH01-86C-A018."
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Source: Russia’s Investigative Committee
1 Feb, 2024 11:56
All victims of Ukrainian POW plane crash identified - investigators
In a statement on Thursday, Russia's Investigative Committee said that it had identified the remains of the deceased as part of the ongoing criminal case. It noted that it had found and recovered more than 670 body fragments in the area of the crash as well as some surviving personal documents.

Officials added that Moscow takes required samples of genetic material from Ukrainian POWs, which means it has the necessary information to identify the crash victims. As a result, they said, investigators were able to confirm that the remains indeed belonged to 65 Ukrainian captives as well as Russian crew members and military personnel.

The agency also released a heavily censored video showing an operative scouring the snow-covered crash site. Investigators can be seen gathering evidence into packages, with the rest of the clip showing what appear to be blood-stained body parts with conspicuous tattoos.
1 Feb, 2024 13:57
Americans likely part of crew that shot down Ukrainian POWs - TASS
Russia's Investigative Committee previously concluded that the Il-76 aircraft was destroyed with a US-made Patriot missile system
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On Thursday, Russia's Investigative Committee released a report claiming that the plane was brought down using two MIM-104A surface-to-air missiles launched from a Patriot missile system deployed at a staging area in Kharkov Region, Ukraine near the village of Liptsy, around 10km from the Russian border.

Following the Investigative Committee's report, a source within Russia's security services told TASS that it is very likely that the crew operating the Patriot system represented a mix of Ukrainian and American specialists.

The agency's source explained that Ukrainian officers are likely placed in lower positions while "Western specialists, including Americans, sit at the control and missile guidance stations." They added that Ukrainian servicemen are often only allowed to be involved with these systems as drivers or operators of transport-loading vehicles.



Alarm Clock

After fresh Israeli strikes on Damascus, whole region braces for US attack, possibly 'hours' away

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Prior Israeli airstrikes on Damascus
Sky News Arabia is reporting Friday morning that major US strikes against Iran-aligned targets may begin within hours, while NBC is once again reporting that Biden's counterattack plan in response to the killing of three Americans last weekend is expected to unfold over days and possibly even weeks.

The speculation over the scope of the expected attacks has grown with each passing day that there are no strikes. An overnight Israeli attack on parts of Damascus triggered initial speculation it could have been the start of the US operation, but it appeared another Israeli 'one-off' hit on Syria.

A southern district of the Syrian capital was targeted, reportedly resulting in the death of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards adviser. Recent weeks have seen an uptick in these Israeli operation which have as their aim the assassination of IRGC commanders in Syria.

Associated Press reported:
"The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the strike hit a farm housing members of Lebanon's Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group and other Iran-backed factions. It said the strike killed seven people, including four Syrians, one of whom was the bodyguard of a member of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. It did not give the nationalities of the others."

Warning

Stupid macho U.S. electioneering will push Biden into doomed war

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© Twitter/Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden's war in Ukraine: "It's about what we can wreck, stupid!"
The stupid American politicians are digging a hole for themselves and have no awareness of how to reverse it, Finian Cunningham writes.

Predictably, Joe Biden is being flayed by the Republicans over the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan by Iraqi militants. The Democrat president is slammed for being weak and a coward by his political opponents.

Donald Trump, his main Republican rival, mocked Biden as a "loser" and said the attacks on U.S. troops were because of the president's "weakness and surrender".

Nikki Haley, the other Republican vying for the presidential election this year, also taunted Biden for showing spinelessness toward Iran. She called for direct retaliation on the Islamic Republic "with the full force of American strength". Logically, that could imply the use of nuclear weapons.

Unanimously across the mainstream U.S. political spectrum, it was assumed that Iran was ultimately responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. military base on Sunday in Jordan where three military servicemen were killed and 34 were reportedly wounded, according to early reports.

Comment: Global balance has been grotesquely stretched, not cancelled.


Target

US encouraging Ukraine to commit new atrocities - Moscow

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© SputnikRussian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov
Russia's envoy to Washington has condemned the planned delivery of long-range GLSDB munitions to Kiev...

The US is essentially encouraging Ukraine to commit more atrocities by providing Kiev with a new shipment of long-range munitions, Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador to Washington, has said.

On Wednesday, during a visit to Kiev, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said that GLSDB (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb) munitions (which can hit targets at a distance of up to 150km) were already on their way to Ukraine.

Nuland, a foreign policy hawk, is widely seen as one of the key figures in the 2014 Maidan coup which led to the toppling of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and plunged the country into turmoil. The US official ended up in the media spotlight after she famously handed out pastries to protesters in the Ukrainian capital in late 2013.

Commenting on the announcement on Thursday, Antonov called it "irresponsible" and "simply shocking." He described the GLSDB delivery as "a kind of a reaction to the terrorist attack by Ukrainian thugs" on an Il-76 Russian cargo plane with 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, three Russian troops, and six crew members aboard.