Cover for No Agenda Show 1734: MEGA
January 30th • 3h 23m

1734: MEGA

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PAT25 Crash
The crash has distracted from the hearings
So many of the Media use DCA - that's why it's a big story and DROWINING OUT the RFK Jr hearings
I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.
I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings.
One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots.
Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation.
It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs).
I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.
These birds are designed to be hard to see at night.
The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.
Incredibly difficult to see.
If you are above the helicopter, even if it has it flood light or spot light (2 different lights) on, underneath it, it is still hard to see the bird because all of that illumination is below the airframe.
Another thing people should know is just how busy things can get on the aircraft.
Pilots are talking to each other about what they are observing on the instrument panels. This means neither are looking outside the aircraft.
The crew chief might be conducting a fuel check, where we would also be looking up into the cockpit at the fuel gages and the clock.
This CAN lead to moments where all 3 people on the aircraft are all looking inside the aircraft.
It's not supposed to happen that way. We are supposed to announce when we are "coming inside" or are "back outside" the aircraft. But that doesn't always happen.
Also, in cities like DC, the radio traffic is constant and can make it hard to filter out what is important for you to listen to.
Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen.
Anyone out there telling you that they find the aircraft collision to be suspect, have NEVER been in a flight crew and they have ZERO idea what they are talking about.
Ignore them all. Better yet, mock the hell out of them.
999 times out of 1000 aircraft incidents always come down to a series of pilot and crew errors.
Humans are involved. They aren't perfect.
Trump
Jack Smith Case confirmed illegal and a hoax
Adam—Another shoe falls. The government just moved to dismiss its appeal in Trump’s “classified” case—**with prejudice**. Highlighted motion attached. As you may recall, Judge Cannon dismissed the case on the grounds that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and that his funding was illegal. The government appealed to the 11th Circuit.
If the motion to dismiss is granted (the 11th Circuit would be hard-pressed to deny it), then Judge Cannon’s decision will stand unmolested. And no doubt it will be cited as precedent in future cases as necessary. And if the case is dismissed with prejudice as requested, it can’t be revived after Trump finishes his term.
**I repeat: We now have judicial authority that the Jack Smith appointment was a farce that cost taxpayers more than $35 million.** It’s not binding on courts other than the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, but it’s persuasive and it’s the only final decision anywhere addressing the subject. And remember, Justice Thomas raised this issue in his concurrence in the immunity case; and while that’s not binding either, it certainly adds gravitas.
Be on the lookout for M5M lamentations that Trump is improperly controlling DOJ.
You're Fired!
As a federal employee BOTG
Hey Adam,
So I have to weigh
in on all the stuff happening with Trump and the fedral workforce.
Mostly because this is complete bull crap. Fork in the road...okay
I
work from home. And I work my ass off and lot of us do. Im a Team Lead
HR Specialist for CBP. I don't mind going to work everyday in person.
But can we have a little respect?
There's
a ton of waste, systems that don't work, lazy and overpaid people.
Things need to change. But getting people to quit isn't actually going
to fix the problem. It's literally just a publicity stunt. "I cut down
the fedral goverment" No. You got a bunch of people to quit but you
didn't fix anything. We are just going to hire everyone back.
I
guess I'm really frustrated because they just introduced a new HR
payroll system at CBP that's a complete failure. We have to go with the
new system because we spent too much already. Pay gets delayed and our
hands are tied due to system glitche. No one is going to be held
accountable. It's all bull crap. And we, on the lowet level, are left to
take the blame for leadership and programmers bad work.
So,
as much as I don't regret voting for Trump...don't talk to me about
forks in the road and self richous bull shit. It's a publicity stunt. I
lived through the Vax mandate. I'll live through this. Because people
still need to get paid and someone needs to sort through people's
mistakes. Mistakes made by the higher ups that we get blamed for.
Draining
the swamp my ass. It should be steady and malticulus,. I see waste
everyday. Maybe they should ask me. But insulting your whole workforce
and getting people to quit won't change anything.
It's a scam!
Boots on the ground disability perspective
anonymous dude named Ben. I work in accessibility at Salesforce, but
there are very few of us blindies, so mentioning Salesforce, or
blindness would definitely identify me.
I work in
accessibility at a big tech company. Everyone is all a flutter over the
DEI executive order including DEIA programs, where the A is
accessibility. I have to hold my tongue and just let people rant, but
the truth is, no matter the spin, that the executive order was meant to
cut DEI programs that gave preferential treatment, over merit
in employment. Since everyone knew this was coming though, they started
adding other things to the end, like Belonging, or in this case
Accessibility.
I'm pretty irritated by this,
not at the administration, but at the DEI whackos that decided to loop
disabled people into their misguided crusade for alphabet people. Not
that disabled people don't have their fair share of alphabet people, but
we were for the most part out of the DEI argument, especially when
things really ramped up in 2020. This attempt though is to build a
coalition of so-called under represented groups, so they can make more
noise in the media. They know that programs for accessibility are built
into other legislation, which an executive order won't effect, so they
think that by adding accessibility, the courts will force them to
maintain that program. The crappy part of the situation is that some
people have taken this to heart, and have started to shut down
accessibility efforts, even though this EO has nothing to do with
providing accessible web pages, or any sort of accessibility to those
who need it.
I have heard, that the VA has
decided to suspend all their Accessibility programs due to the EO. If
true, it is just more political grandstanding, of the same order as
Tiktok shutting down for less than 24 hours. They hope to get the
disability folks to stand up and fight for this, and hope to slide their
other DEI nonsense in under the wire. If they truly cared about
accessibility, they would work to ensure that this EO doesn't cover
those efforts, and continue to provide services to the people they claim
they represent. But instead, they have chosen to grandstand, so that
they can say that disabled veterans are suffering.
And
for the disability "community", this is why you shouldn't be waving the
accessibility flag around all the time, for things that don't need it. I
don't want to tie my future to these DEI nut jobs, because in the end,
they're not going to include us. We're doing just fine with out them,
and we don't need to be the ones opening the door, just so they can slam
it in our face because we don't have enough letters in our alphabet
soup.
DEI Cuts included Veteran's Equity Positions BOTG
When the memo came down to determine the programs, they used whether the name DEIA, or if DEIA was in the budgetary indication. That A is accessibility and VA took it literally. This flagged the entirety of Veterans Health Equity with important programs supporting our hardest to reach Veterans, like rural and urban Veterans.
Dozens of researchers, program and project managers were hit and based on recent memos will not be able to be reassigned.
The same thing for benefits with an office establishes to review Veterans claims of their discrimination of equity to benefits. A lawsuit and studies found that black PTSD claims were rejected more or were compensated less than white Veterans at the same deployments.
All the best but needed to share as I have not heard a anything about these kinds of programs discussed.
Thanks, a soon to be fat former bureaucrat.
Big Tech AI and the Socials
Cheapseek is still just parlor tricks - People benchmark with search and Wikipedia style questions as well as image generation
So what?!
These are not benchmarks
Entropy will now accelerate
Climate Change
TikTok
MIC
RFK Jr

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A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting from Africa to Asia to Ukraine • FRANCE 24 English.mp3
ABC GMA - Karoline Leavitt (1) mass federal employee buyout.mp3
ABC GMA - Karoline Leavitt (2) concern we risk losing doctors & scientist.mp3
Bannan quoted on NPR.mp3
Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr. a ‘predator’.mp3
CBC - chinese AI, deepseek.mp3
CBS - Dr. Celine Gounder (1) CIA shifts stance to 'lab leak theory'.mp3
CBS - Dr. Celine Gounder (2) what is the 'lab leak theory'.mp3
CBS - Dr. Celine Gounder (3) agency don't even agree.mp3
CBS - Dr. Celine Gounder (4) prevent the next one 'wastewater testing'.mp3
CBS E - Dr. John LaPook (1) what would RFK Jr. oversee at HHS.mp3
CBS E - Dr. John LaPook (2) what would be his powers.mp3
CBS E - Dr. John LaPook (3) what do other doctors make of RFK Jr..mp3
CBS E - Jim Axelrod (1) China using 'virtual espionage'.mp3
CBS E - Jim Axelrod (2) China trolling professional networking sites.mp3
CBS E - Jim Axelrod (3) China denies.mp3
CBS E - Jim Axelrod (4) China casting a wide net.mp3
CBS E - Jim Axelrod (5) why did the FBI go public with this story.mp3
CBS E - John Dickerson - Bob Menedez sentenced to 11 years in prison.mp3
CBS E - Maurice DuBois & John Dickerson - intro - Trump reopen Gitmo.mp3
CNN This Morning - Kayla Tausche - justice department purge.mp3
CNN This Morning - Kayla Tausche - milley's security stripped.mp3
CNN This Morning - Kayla Tausche - transforming the pentagon.mp3
Daily Tech Headlines - chatGPT in your Govt.mp3
Daily Tech Headlines - Visa and X equal X MONEY.mp3
ditmo and condom bombs ntd.mp3
Doomsday clock 2024 set to 89 seconds before midnight.mp3
Doomsday clock [REDUX 2023] set to 90 seconds.mp3
Elon Musk’s X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal CNBC.mp3
FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS, and NBC Washington Examiner.mp3
French AI Chatbot Shut Down After Giving Bizarre Responses AI READ NEWS.mp3
gitmo npr.mp3
Govt grant fiasco npr.mp3
Hostage report.mp3
immigrant round up ntd'.mp3
Inside Edition - Elon at an AFD rally in Germany.mp3
Inside Edition - Valentine's Day crisis dodged.mp3
Investigate TV+ - Chris Nakamoto (1) intro Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.mp3
Investigate TV+ - Chris Nakamoto (2) death of a mother from covid vaccine.mp3
Investigate TV+ - Chris Nakamoto (3) CICP $26M budget -11 claims paid for $41k.mp3
Investigate TV+ - Chris Nakamoto (4) CICP act in secret -only reviewed 450 cases.mp3
Investigate TV+ - Chris Nakamoto (5) VICP and the Office of Special Masters (OSM).mp3
ISO More than good.mp3
ISO The best.mp3
Jim Acosta on Substack Live.mp3
Kennedy Bennet CO Lymes.mp3
Kennedy rundown NTD.mp3
kennedy to Johnson 1.mp3
kennedy to Johnson 2.mp3
Kennedy vs Warren 1 softball.mp3
Kennedy vs Warren casing in.mp3
Kennedy Whitehouse harange.mp3
Kennedy Wyden opener.mp3
Kristie Noem on stopping NGO funding.mp3
Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts NBC.mp3
META Lawsuit paid.mp3
Meta Offers TikTok Creators $5,000 to Switch to Facebook or Instagram.mp3
NATO chief says Russia 'trying to destabilize our countries' and calls for more defence spending EURONEWS.mp3
NBC N - Ann Thompson (1) Tuberculosis outbreak.mp3
NBC N - Ann Thompson (2) what can we do to protect ourselves.mp3
NBC N - Erin McLaughlin (1) RFK Jr. is a predator and misleads parents.mp3
NBC N - Erin McLaughlin (2) will people die from vaccine skepticism.mp3
New bird flu strain identified in California ABC 13.mp3
NJ drones were no threat, according to Trump's press secratary - Says some were authorized by FAA ABC NYC.mp3
NPR Up First - china and AI - 1.mp3
NPR Up First - china and AI - 2.mp3
Overlooked Bob Menendez ntd.mp3
PAT25 Collision alert - visual call probably looking at AA3130 behind it.mp3
PMQT - parliment_dont_sell_out_to_trump.mp3
Press Sec Leavitt - New Media access to WHC Press Core.mp3
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds first White House Briefing - DOGE pauses $50 million for condoms to gaza - 3.mp3
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds first White House Briefing - podcasters welcome - 1.mp3
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds first White House Briefing -BREITBART Q- podcasters welcome - 2.mp3
Rep retreat nntd.mp3
Rep retreat nntd2.mp3
RFK jr - Bernie and the Onesies.mp3
RFK Jr - Wyden - Measles Book.mp3
RFKj vs Tina Smith (D-MN) SSRI's - 1.mp3
RFKj vs Tina Smith (D-MN) SSRI's - 2 - SCIENCE!.mp3
Sen. Schumer turns off social media users after claiming ‘people are aroused’ by Trump’s federal loan freeze.mp3
Singer Avery in 'shock' after revealing deadly disease from taking Ozempic Osteopenia.mp3
SkyNews analysis of Runway 33 PTA mid-air.mp3
Tapper and Miller - Americans don't want to do these jobs.mp3
The Sean Hannity Show - Tom Homan - cartel shoot at US border patrol.mp3
TOK idiot.mp3
Trump Layoff scheme WAMU.mp3
Trump legal update.mp3
trump_fucks_up_eu_military_sales_part_1 - Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast.mp3
trump_fucks_up_eu_military_sales_part_2.mp3
TS NEWS Wrong puberty.mp3
Un reported MEGA 2.mp3
Unreported MEGA 1.mp3
Unreported MEGA 3.mp3
US Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts, angering Trump - TRANSITORY UNCERTAINTY • FRANCE 24 English.mp3
Watters - Vivek Ramaswamy teases next steps after leaving DOGE BROGE.mp3
WH Press - Karoline Leavitt - New Jersey drones authorized by FAA.mp3
Worker buyouts ntd.mp3
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