🚨 It’s Serious – April 28 2025

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Lead: Iran Talks “Serious”

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Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. on Saturday took place in a ‘serious atmosphere’ according to reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he was “satisfied” with the progress and “hopeful but cautious” that the two sides would come to a technical arrangement.

The United States has indicated that it would be satisfied with an Iranian nuclear power program but not a nuclear bomb program. It is also negotiating removal of sanctions put in place since the Obama administration. It would seem that the devil is now in the details.

Israel remains undeterred in its plans to bomb Iran—no matter what comes of these talks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to demand that Iran’s entire nuclear infrastructure be dismantled but he is not a party to the negotiations.

The next round of negotiations will be next Saturday, May 3.

Helicopter Crash the Entirely Pilot’s Fault

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The New York Times published a lengthy investigation into the helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane in late January. It concludes that the female pilot, Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, was to blame.

Voice recordings from the Black Hawk show Capt. Lobach flying too high and being told so repeatedly. She said that she would descend but two and a half minutes after that command, she doesn’t.

The control tower gives her repeated instructions but she may not have heard them if she was pressing the microphone to speak to the tower at the same time, like how two walkie talkies can’t speak to one another at the same time.

Capt. Lobach is also told by her flight trainer to turn left away from the jet but she does not.

The Times indicates that the air traffic controller could have “done more” to prevent the crash such as alerting the jet that the Black Hawk was not following commands and in their way but the controller and the flight trainers aboard the Black Hawk did repeatedly instruct Capt. Lobach to move away from the jet. Why she didn’t is anyone’s guess.

There are other worrying aspects of the report though. Moments before the crash, the Black Hawk had asked permission for “visual separation” after it was warned by Air Traffic Control about the passenger plane. This means that a pilot takes “control of navigating around other aircraft, rather than relying on the controller for guidance.” It is reportedly routine but since the crash, the F.A.A. has limited its use.

Couldn’t this be seen as…they practice on us, the civilians? They practice NOT being guided around civilian planes? Couldn’t they practice that on each other!? Should this many people have had to die before they quit that?

During a recent press briefing on the crash transportation secretary Sean Duffy said this about it:

“Having helicopters fly under landing aircraft, and allowing helicopter pilots to say, ‘I’ll maintain visual separation’ — that is not going to happen anymore. That is too risky. You’re threading the needle. And it’s going to stop.”

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Moderna In Hot Water

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Moderna is in trouble in the U.K. for “offering children £1,500 and teddy bears to take part in Covid vaccine trials,” among other things.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is auditing Moderna for “unacceptable” practices that they say “brought discredit upon the industry.”

The money and teddy bears scheme earned Moderna a £44,000 fine. Executives claimed that they didn’t know about it but new documents show that they did.

The full audit is due out shortly and the ABPI could suspend Moderna’s membership but that would amount to mostly a slap on the wrist. Novo Nordisk was suspended in 2023 but restored in March of this year and they were able to continue selling their products.

Esther McVey MP, a former member of the all-party parliamentary group on Covid vaccine damage, said this about it: “They know they can get away with it, and so they do; time and time again. It’s hardly surprising that public trust in the pharmaceutical industry and its regulators is through the floor.”

News By The Numbers

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55. That is how old Melania Trump turned this weekend. She attended the funeral of Pope Francis on her birthday and posted this.

800. That is how many “illegal aliens” we arrested in Florida during the first four days of what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement calls “#OperationTidalWave — a massive, multi-agency, immigration enforcement crackdown.”

100. That is how many “illegal aliens” were taken into custody during a nightclub raid in Colorado Springs this weekend. ICE says that “drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.”

Democrats Stage Sit-in

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Democrats Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in on the front steps of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday for more than 12 hours.

Senator Booker said that this was inspired because “Congressional Republicans are preparing to gut Medicaid and essential services to give the ultra-wealthy a tax cut. Talking with Leader Hakeem Jeffries on the Capitol steps this morning about how we make our voices heard in this moral moment.”

There is no evidence that any Republican wants to cut Medicaid. Paul Ryan wanted that in 2012 but no Republican in office has actually proposed this.

Representative Jeffries said that this was to “have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America.” You can watch while a few dozen other people joined them throughout the day and eventually broke into song.

Is this the populist movement that can win the Democrats back the hearts and minds of their voters? What do you think?

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