The pilot responsible for crashing a Delta plane upside down at the Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17, 2025, has been identified as 26-year-old First Officer Kendal Swanson.
A beauty pageant winner from Minnesota, Swanson had only completed her training in April and had logged fewer than 1,500 flight hours at the time of the incident.
The more experienced captain, James Henneman, was managing communications during the crash while Swanson piloted.
No one should want to be put in a job they are not able to do. Swanson should not have wanted this and should have refused to attempt the landing, especially considering the stormy conditions. DEI fails at every level. And it especially fails at the level of the person who is promoted above their skill level. Swanson got lucky as no one died but the risk she took should be a warning to her for the rest of her life and to all of us that ideologies like DEI are not just stupid and wrong but extremely dangerous. Under Biden and his ilk we have been betting our entire nation and civilization on DEI. That kind of thinking must go. We will destroy USA and the West if we persist and then, even immigrants will have nowhere to go. ABN
UPDATE: Thanks to pimacanyon for providing the video below in his comment, which is well-worth reading. The video is a sort of rebuttal of my post above, which I am going to leave up since the public has a right to know what happened and if they don’t tell us even the basics, we are going to talk anyway. If Swanson didn’t land the plane, who did? If she was ‘qualified’ in some way or other, she was also only minimally experienced, so why did the pilot have her land the plane in such bad weather? I have seen a video analysis of the landing which claims whoever landed the plane failed to do a mandatory maneuver, which raises the plane’s nose, thus causing the aircraft to slam onto to the runway and overturn. When was the last time we saw a plane slam onto a runway and overturn like that? ABN
Robert F Kennedy Jr has pulled promotional ads for vaccines and postponed a meeting of key vaccine advisors, in one of his first moves as health secretary.
Kennedy ordered the CDC to scrub its digital ‘Wild to Mild’ flu vaccine campaign that juxtaposed a lion next to a kitten as an analogy for how the shot ‘tames’ the virus.
But Kennedy wants the CDC to move away from nudge tactics and focus its vaccine communications on ‘informed consent’ – which involves telling the patient the medical risks and benefits and letting them come to their own decision.
Meanwhile, the year’s first meeting of the CDC’s influential panel of vaccine experts has been delayed indefinitely, marking the first time the meeting has been postponed in over 40 years, except for during the emergency Covid pandemic.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was due to meet next week to discuss its recommendations on shots for Covid, meningococcal virus, influenza, RSV, HPV, and monkeypox.
The orders, which come at the tail-end of Kennedy’s first week as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, have sparked worry among some health professionals.
For years, thousands of Americans who suffered debilitating side effects after getting the Covid vaccine were told there was no evidence the shot was linked.
Some were branded antivaxxers, others told their symptoms were imagined or related to other conditions, like long Covid.
On Wednesday, a team from Yale University known for their rigorous work revealed the mRNA shots can cause a previously unknown condition known as ‘post-vaccination syndrome.’
The syndrome appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, extreme fatigue and biological changes to patients’ immune systems.
Dr Akiko Iwasaki, the lead researcher behind the paper, told DailyMail.com she understands her findings could be seen as controversial. But she wants patients to know her team will keep studying to bring them ‘better transparency and safer vaccines.’
Dr Iwasaki told this website: ‘For patients who are suffering from post-vaccination syndrome, we want them to know that we see you, we listen, and we will keep on doing more research in this area so that this condition can be recognized, and better medical care can be provided.’
Readers of this site knew before the vaxxes even came out that they were going to be dubious at best. There were many warnings and as they were introduced to the public, there was zero evidence the vaxxes were ‘safe and effective’. Since early 2021, after full rollout, we have provided many posts detailing the dangers and side effects of the covid vaxxes. There is good evidence as many as 17 million people worldwide died due to the covid vaxxes. Given their reproductive harm and official insistence that children and young adults get the vaxxes, it appears likely they are actually bioweapons directed, principally, against Western civilization; yet another vector of unrestricted warfare against the West. ABN
The Department of Justice under President Trump has determined that the multiple layers of removal restrictions shielding administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional.
The DOJ has concluded that current laws make it too difficult for the government to remove ALJs from their positions. These laws require multiple steps and layers of approval before an ALJ can be fired, which limits the President’s power.
ALJs in the United States are supposed to be “impartial officials” who preside over administrative hearings within federal agencies. They operate within the executive branch, not the judicial branch.
A letter from Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) outlined the DOJ’s stance, explaining that restrictions preventing the removal of ALJs under 5 U.S.C. 1202(d) and 7521(a) are unconstitutional under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
A rescission package is absolutely necessary to actually to end the waste uncovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during an interview on Breitbart News Daily.
“We need to do what’s called a rescission package, meaning get rid of the spending right now. None of the spending has really been eliminated, so they’re finding the waste, they’re talking about it, and it’s the same thing I’ve been doing for a decade, but it has to be sent back,” Paul began, explaining that the administration should “bundle it all together.”
“When it comes back to Congress, it can be passed with a simple majority, Republicans only because we won’t get any Democrats. But then once we pass a bill getting rid of that spending, then the savings actually occurs,” he said.
“Then the money goes back to the Treasury and [is] not spent. Right now, when they find waste, it’s still being spent. They’re temporary, delaying it or stopping it, but it hasn’t come back to the Treasury and won’t come back unless Congress votes on it. We can do this, but not enough people are talking about it,” he continued, contrasting this with impoundment, which he said will lead to countless legal battles.
NABU (National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAPO have exposed large-scale money laundering by a former executive of a state-owned special exporter.
During the investigation into the embezzlement of funds from Ukroboronprom defense concern, it was discovered that the suspect, in collusion with other persons, illegally transferred the funds of state-owned enterprises to foreign company accounts under the guise of “agent services” for selling Ukrainian military equipment. The total amount of these transfers exceeds USD 46 million.
At least EUR 13 million of these funds were funneled through multiple intermediary companies and ultimately ended up in the suspect’s accounts. He then used the money to purchase luxury real estate in France, including:
a villa worth UAH 86 million;
a winery, corporate rights, and 105 land plots worth UAH 229 million;
an additional 27 vineyard plots worth UAH 37 million.
Currently, a French court has seized the mentioned assets. NABU is seeking the suspect’s extradition to Ukraine.
If it is illegal to question the Holocaust in any Western nation, it behooves all of us in the West to question the Holocaust. The West is as nothing without freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech. ABN
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