Prior to his FAA appointment, Whitaker was a long time airline industry lawyer and executive.

Don’t confuse the job description on the FAA website, with the actual role he’s been appointed to fill.

It’s a country that heavily relies on the revenues generated by its state-run oil company.

This is “New Labour”, which systematically purges traditional Labour/leftist members from any position of power or leadership e.g. Corbyn.

If you’re Boeing, or even just a rogue Boeing executive/team, the best way to make sure you fail at this would be to leave an obvious trail of bodies.

These ambiguous deaths are plausibly unrelated enough to justify no one looking too closely, but are clear enough for their intended audience.

Hell, even if Boeing just got insanely “lucky” and these two deaths are as they appear, it’s still going to have a massive chilling effect on anyone else who might have been considering coming forward.

It’s the chain of events that could be suspicious, or totally random.

A person has trouble breathing, which could have been induced, or just bad luck, then goes to hospital and dies of MRSA - which also could have been induced, or just bad luck.

The most logical explanation is that bad things happen to people all the time and it’s usually not murder.

However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous “suicide”, it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

Remember, these were all long time employees. Boeing is going to have all sorts of information on them, including their medical history and that’s not even factoring in the resources they have available.

It’s not hard to imagine that they would know how to create a situation where a person gets hospitalized, without causing suspicion, and have the resources to finish them off inside that hospital with something like a rapid MRSA infection.

Or maybe all this means is that corporations really are people and Boeing is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Now, God is an enacting revenge on the people who have testified against his favorite son, and our Savior: Jesus Boeing Christ.

…you realize that other users can see both your account creation date, and old comments…right?

Your account is literally a day old…or rather, the account you’re using at this moment.

You probably shouldn’t make these ambiguous comments with your brand new alt/Smurf/shill account.

Without a post history I can’t tell if you’re recommending McKinsey in good faith, which would be hilarious btw.

Or if you’re trying to make a sarcastic recommendation because you think McKinsey would have some adverse affect on the efficacy, or posture, of the US DOD. Which would also be funny, as it would imply that you made that joke while being unaware that McKinsey already does quite a lot work within the US MIC.

Anyways, while I found you use of a brand new account to leave that specific comment amusing…still, fuck McKinsey and anyone who’s ever worked for them cough Mayor Pete.

The Democrats abandoned the Unions long before Union members largerly abandoned the Democrats.

You’re not wrong, but the appointment of Lina Khan to head the FTC is easily one of the only good things Biden has done while in office.

So, at least she’ll go down kicking and screaming before they finally snuff her out, metaphorically speaking.

Well…those were mugshots taken after their arrests on murder charges… wouldn’t it be even more disturbing if they were smiling and cheerful?

Anti-steroid propaganda was probably the only effective messaging from the war on drugs, but like all drugs, it’s relative, and not that simple.

Not to go on too long of a tangent here, but the complete restriction of these classes of drugs actually can cause a lot of unnecessary harm to athletes. For example, in helping athletes heal and recover from injuries, or surgeries.

Recovery time is really important in pro-sports where the ability to earn money is limited to a relatively short window e.g. professional fighting. Often time fighters will return before they’re fully healed, because they need to earn a living. In many of those cases, steroids could have significantly shortened their recovery time and reduced the risk of further injury.

I’m not here pretending that steroid use can’t also cause undo harm to athletes, just that it’s not as black and white as many people believe.

Edit: to be clear, steroids are some of the most complicated drugs to use correctly in order minimize long-term health effects, such as destroying your endocrine system. Professional or amateur, they should only be used under the close supervision of a specialized doctor.

…The Democrats don’t care either. Enabling corporate maleficence, stock buy backs, and deregulation of the railroads, is a bipartisan issue.

Don’t be an asshole, this is just a minor bump in the rode.

If anything, it validates Tesla’s stock price because it shows they are very close to a fully wireless steering.

Of course first gen will still have a chimp in the trunk with the brain implants, but I hear second gen they’ll install a Central American.

There’s absolutely organized crime involved. The hospital staff weren’t posting the babies on eBay. There was most likely a network of abductors, brokers, agencies, etc.

All done for profit, so yeah, it’s the definition of human trafficking.

That is a genuinely heart wrenching read. I look forward to more reporting, but this is type of story where digging too deep may result in a hit and run “accident”, or straight up car bombing.

They don’t go into too many details, but it sounds like hospital staff were paid to abduct the infants and tell parents their newborns died.

Given how widespread it was, I assume it was a system of brokers who paid off the staff, took the infants, and then acted as go-betweens for the agencies selling the babies for adoption.

That’s entirely speculation on my part. I hope they can dig deeper into this and bring some level accountability for the sake of those families.

He was mayor during 9/11, not because of it.

That aside, you’re right about him coasting off 9/11 for quite a while. His failed Presidential bid was basically him spamming "9/11” from start, to finish.

He had the same problem as Meatball Ron: the more the GOP base voters heard him and saw him, the more they were repulsed by him.

Soviet improvement as the war went on was a function of lend lease, Red Army finally recovering from the Stalinist officer purges, and Germany’s failures (incompetence, lack of material, overstretched supply lines, etc.)

Regardless, the Red Army no longer exists and Soviet Cold War doctrine isn’t really relevant to this conflict.

Wait… You don’t actually think the executives are actually going to switch from resource extraction mode to an invest in company strategy, right?

What do you think a blockade does…? What do you think siege warfare does…?