Summary

Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.

The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.

Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.

Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.

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    This is a great time for anyone thinking of flying to the U.S. to reconsider.

    America is becoming a very dangerous country to visit and travel inside.

    Best to find another destination to travel in that’s safe and can ensure you remain safe. American cannot.

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        That’s usually how it goes. It comes tumbling down very quickly. Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days. We’re 4 weeks, 28 days, into Musk’s Trump’s presidency.

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        Nope. Took Hitler 53 days. Let’s circle back on that statement in a few weeks and see if the government is still here or not.

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        It’s not new. This has been part of “The Game” forever. There are no real rules to life and the people playing the game have been trying forever to get what they want.

        There never was authentic protection or security. They just corralled the population into a lifestyle of consumerism while they did whatever they want. Each side entices the people, markets them, uses them as a product, and plays them out. It’s all game.

        I like immortal techniques line; “I laugh at America’s fears of a new world order controlling the hemisphere, because my people have been living that for the past 500 years.”

        Same game different storyline. Some us didn’t have life before trump so what’s happening now is just the same old war on humanity. That’s not downplaying the advancement.

        We shouldn’t have settled for what was, and we shouldn’t settled for what’s becoming.

        A great documentary about manipulation of society is The Century of Self, and The Trap series by Adam Curtis. If you’re interested you can see them on YT.

        Basically western life has been a series of false hope used to persuade people to being tools for what more wealthy people want. The street works the same way. Looks at gangs, mafia, cartels… Scale that same ideology up and you have governments. Military paid for by tax, mafia hits paid for by dues. Nationalism and pride used for numbers of power, loyalty used in gangs for numbers of power. …so if the problem which group is doing it? Or is the problem all groups that are doing it? They are powered by the same essence. People with an existential crisis trying to make the world for their perception but it never will. Ever.

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      Despite everything, the odds of being in an airplane accident are still extremely low. But they are always even lower if you don’t fly.

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      I have heard of the Plane and Helicopter over Washington DC, killing some 70 or so people and another one with a small plane, killing 6 or so. Which other two have i been missing?

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        The move comes less than three weeks after a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet that was about to land in Washington, D.C., killing 67, and an air ambulance crashed in Philadelphia, killing seven. Ten people died when a regional flight in Alaska went missing and was found crashed, earlier this month. Days later one person died in Scottsdale, Arizona, when a plane veered off the runway and collided with a parked aircraft.

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    How to artificially impose a curfew by making people too afraid to fly. Is this what happens when you get King Musk mad about getting his flights publicly tracked? Gonna bet so, the guy is bitter and corrupt enough the he would want to replace the entire aviation system with one that won’t track him regardless of how many deaths it would mean.

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    Interesting to be cutting oversight during a time when Boeing was having so much trouble with its planes.

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    They tested the drones (NJ, UK)… They promoted flight crashes to ease into projecting a new fear… Now they will replace ATC with AI and utilize their drones on a mass scale.

    For surveillance?