Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Apparent Suicide (npr.org) 148
A Boeing quality manager for more than 30 years "learned of and exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner," according to his lawyers, "and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment."
After retiring in 2017 he'd filed a whistleblower retaliation case, and "was in the middle of giving deposition testimony... when he died, his lawyers, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, told NPR." "He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on," the South Carolina-based attorneys said in a joint statement. "We didn't see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it."
Police said officers were sent to the hotel to conduct a welfare check after people were unable to contact Barnett, who had traveled to Charleston to testify in his lawsuit against Boeing. "Upon their arrival, officers discovered a male inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound to the head," police said in a statement sent to NPR. "He was pronounced deceased at the scene...."
Barnett, who spent decades working for Boeing at its plants in Everett, Washington, and North Charleston, South Carolina, had repeatedly alleged that Boeing's manufacturing practices had declined — and that rather than improve them, he added, managers had pressured workers not to document potential defects and problems.
"We are saddened by Mr. Barnett's passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends," Boeing said in a statement sent to NPR....
Barnett filed a whistleblower complaint against Boeing in early 2017; his case against the company was heading toward a trial this June, his family said. "He was looking forward to having his day in court and hoped that it would force Boeing to change its culture," the family said in a statement shared with NPR by his brother, Rodney Barnett. The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.
"He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."
"Two of his attorneys called on police to fully investigate how he had died," reports the BBC.
And for what it's worth, the New York Post says Barnett "made a grim prediction that he could potentially end up dead after raising safety concerns about the jetliner giant, allegedly telling a family friend: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide.'"
UPDATE: Fortune just published an article called "The last days of the Boeing whistleblower."
Thanks to Slashdot readers wgoodman and sinij for sharing the article.
After retiring in 2017 he'd filed a whistleblower retaliation case, and "was in the middle of giving deposition testimony... when he died, his lawyers, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, told NPR." "He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on," the South Carolina-based attorneys said in a joint statement. "We didn't see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it."
Police said officers were sent to the hotel to conduct a welfare check after people were unable to contact Barnett, who had traveled to Charleston to testify in his lawsuit against Boeing. "Upon their arrival, officers discovered a male inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound to the head," police said in a statement sent to NPR. "He was pronounced deceased at the scene...."
Barnett, who spent decades working for Boeing at its plants in Everett, Washington, and North Charleston, South Carolina, had repeatedly alleged that Boeing's manufacturing practices had declined — and that rather than improve them, he added, managers had pressured workers not to document potential defects and problems.
"We are saddened by Mr. Barnett's passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends," Boeing said in a statement sent to NPR....
Barnett filed a whistleblower complaint against Boeing in early 2017; his case against the company was heading toward a trial this June, his family said. "He was looking forward to having his day in court and hoped that it would force Boeing to change its culture," the family said in a statement shared with NPR by his brother, Rodney Barnett. The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.
"He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."
"Two of his attorneys called on police to fully investigate how he had died," reports the BBC.
And for what it's worth, the New York Post says Barnett "made a grim prediction that he could potentially end up dead after raising safety concerns about the jetliner giant, allegedly telling a family friend: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide.'"
UPDATE: Fortune just published an article called "The last days of the Boeing whistleblower."
Thanks to Slashdot readers wgoodman and sinij for sharing the article.
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Boeing essentially is a mercenary branch of the US government.
This was not a suicide, it was a warning. Nothing will be found.
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My reaction exactly. I don't see corporate management ordering a hit like this. But for the CIA it would be business as usual. Remember Gary Webb who was found shot twice in the head; it was ruled suicide.
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Given the whistle had already been blown what would be the point? Sure, if none of the stuff had yet come out it would make sense but the FAA is all over Boeing now so whats to be gained? Officila revenge? Oh please.
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Given the whistle had already been blown what would be the point?
According to TFA, he "was in the middle of giving deposition testimony".
Perhaps someone didn't want him to finish his testimony, or be available for whatever the next thing in legal proceedings that happens after that?
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Note to whistleblowers. If you intend to do this, make sure someone else has the information you are willing to proffer, e.g. give a lawyer your notes, and make sure that it is publicly known that you did so.
It's only worth killing you if it will stop the release of information or make prosecution significantly harder, so don't keep it all in your head until the deposition or trial.
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Note to whistleblowers. If you intend to do this, make sure someone else has the information you are willing to proffer, e.g. give a lawyer your notes, and make sure that it is publicly known that you did so.
It's only worth killing you if it will stop the release of information or make prosecution significantly harder, so don't keep it all in your head until the deposition or trial.
No, it's still worth killing someone even if they've already handed all their pertinent information off to someone else. It's a warning shot to other would-be whistleblowers. A single whistleblower can be fought against. A whole group of them is much harder to fend-off. Destroy the appeal of blowing the whistle by making it clear that you will have an "accident" and far fewer people would ever think to step forward.
Gonna be interesting watching what happens with Boeing with all the current legal balls they
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I seem to recall reading that he was scheduled to testify again?
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Maybe there is even more damaging allegations about to come out and his death, no matter how convenient the timing, may be "easier to handle" compared to the actual new allegation.
Of course I have no idea if that is the case or if there are any more allegations about to come out.
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And? So what? They killed a guy. Who cares? You? You don't matter. Neither do I. Just sit there, smile, and say, please sir, may I have another?". This is just the way it is. Smile and accept it... or don't. It doesn't matter because you don't matter. You could be next if you speak too much. :)
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My guess is that it was someone taking advantage of an opportunity to manipulate Boeing's stock price for a few days.
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Why would you skip over the most obvious choices and go straight to assuming some kind of military conspiracy?
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The US military also has an interest in receiving planes that don't fall apart.
Such as this one [bbc.com] from Friday?
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The US military probably realized its a hit to national security if Boeing goes bankrupt.
Why would they care? They could just bail out the company. I agree with your premise but it's absurd to think that this kind of situation would lead to an assassination.
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The US military probably realized its a hit to national security if Boeing goes bankrupt.
Ummm, if Boeing products are no longer reliable, then the hit to National Security has already been taken. Failing to realize that will be the downfall of national security.
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Nothing I hate more than stupid conspiracy theory bullshit, and you reek of it.
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suicide by ... (Score:3, Insightful)
Cf. Jeffrey Epstein, Vince Foster, Henry Marshall DoA (Dept of Agriculture)
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Let's not forget Seth Richards (Hillary Clinton 's IT guy) seems he was shot in a botched robbery attempt. Something about emails and leaks.
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Let's not forget Seth Richards (Hillary Clinton 's IT guy) seems he was shot in a botched robbery attempt. Something about emails and leaks.
You mean Seth Rich [wikipedia.org], an employee of the DNC who was murdered in a suspected mugging.
And then GRU along with a bunch of "disgusting sociopaths" (quote from his family) in the US decided to exploit his death by claiming he was the one who leaked the emails.
I mean that's a pretty special kind of assholery, a young man is murdered, and you start jumping with joy at the chance to lie about his beliefs and use his death to destroy the things he fought for.
"Disgusting sociopath" sounds about right.
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No kidding, I did believe that he was the leaker. Never heard anything to the contrary, this is the first time. I am disgusted more by the behavior of the political animals than anything else.
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Never heard anything to the contrary, this is the first time.
7 years ago
The Seth Rich conspiracy shows how fake news still works [washingtonpost.com]
TV news can be an easy mark. This iteration of the Seth Rich story started when the District's own Fox 5 ran a Monday night “exclusive,” citing one source — a Fox New legal commentator, Rod Wheeler — for a “big break in the investigation.” Reporter Marina Marraco reported that “conspiracy theories” could “be proven right,” as Wheeler was saying what had been rumored since last year: Rich might have leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks, making him the target of an assassination.
“You have information that could link Seth Rich to WikiLeaks?” asked Marraco.
“Absolutely. Yeah. That's confirmed,” said Wheeler, who Fox 5 identified as the Rich family's investigator.
Within 24 hours, reporters at NBC News, CNN and The Washington Post had debunked the story. First, Rich's family quickly corrected the idea that Wheeler was on their payroll; he was hired by Ed Butowsky, a Texas businessman who had grown interested in the case. Next, Wheeler told CNN he hadn't actually obtained information linking Rich to WikiLeaks — Fox 5, he insisted, had told him to say so.
Marraco did not cite any sources except Wheeler — not the Rich family, not D.C. police, not the mayor's office, not the DNC. Wheeler, a very occasional TV pundit, was noticeably skimpy on details, suggesting he had a source who'd told him eyeball-to-eyeball that Rich's computer was in lock-up and that it had evidence of WikiLeaks contact. But he was murky on whether D.C. police or the FBI allegedly had the laptop, and the family quickly reported that neither did.
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Within 24 hours, reporters at NBC News, CNN and The Washington Post had debunked the story. First, Rich's family quickly corrected the idea that Wheeler was on their payroll; he was hired by Ed Butowsky, a Texas businessman who had grown interested in the case. Next, Wheeler told CNN he hadn't actually obtained information linking Rich to WikiLeaks â" Fox 5, he insisted, had told him to say so.
Now why would a businessman from Texas be involved in all of this? Hm.
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No kidding, I did believe that he was the leaker. Never heard anything to the contrary, this is the first time. I am disgusted more by the behavior of the political animals than anything else.
So, I'm glad you updated your beliefs in the face of evidence.
But I think you also need to readjust some of your priors about the likelihood of certain events.
I assume you've heard of Watergate? It's basically senior officials in Nixon's Whitehouse orchestrated a breakin and wiretapping of the DNC headquarters, they got arrested, Nixon tried to cover it up, was forced to resign, and even the fact that his successor pardoned him was controversial.
It's basically the biggest US political scandal of all time an
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It was discussed extensively among certain progressive news sites which is where I was hanging out at the time. I hope nobody thinks the DNC is somehow liberal or left -- they aren't. Except to those who are so far to the right that everything else is left of them. And yes, I recall watergate, and the pentagon papers. Was there and alive at the time.
You can certainly find people further left (in the US and abroad), but in the US they're on the fringe. And even if the fringe is where the proper policy lives, the mere fact it's the fringe will collect conspiratorial types.
But I do think it's important to restate, the relatively subdued reaction to the DNC supposedly murdering an employee should have been a big red flag.
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I get my news from CNN and MSNBC so I'm well informed.
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Slashdotters, you've come a long way since covid.
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are not calling questions about his death a conspiracy theory. Slashdotters, you've come a long way since covid.
Citizen! It is a very good thing that you see through the web of lies promoted by the illuminati, and the Democrats. We have the proof, and will be presenting it any day now .
Pizzagate is real - Hellary Clinton and magick Negro Nigerian citizen Barack O'Blama operated Pizzagate which had an Elon Musk provided hyperloop to Area 51 where the faked moon landings were shot, where they harvested the blood of virgin children to put in the chemtrail juice that Biden has ben poisoning the precious fluids of Amer
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The Boeing hit doesn't qualify as a conspiracy theory--yet.
I define a conspiracy theory as: A belief that a conviction should occur, in the absence of a credible indictment.
Since the coroner hasn't even issued a report yet AFAIK, this can't be a conspiracy yet. Note also that in order to be a conspiracy theory by my definition, mere suspicion is not sufficient. You must *believe* whole heartedly that the crime occurred. Thus, you can be suspicious of Epstein's death and not be a conspiracy theorist. I
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so many Slashdot comments
Too many to be mere coincidence. It must be a conspiracy.
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The government's reaction to covid has made the majority people question just what the f*ck they are paying for with their taxes.
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The government's reaction to covid has made the majority people question just what the f*ck they are paying for with their taxes.
When you look at who was in office back then, and all the grifting going on, is it any wonder?
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Not saying one prez is better or worse than the other.
Weak sauce. One prez presided over the outbreak, told everyone not to worry about it, and mocked people for taking precautions. While the other was stuck trying to clean up that mess. And here you are comparing absolute numbers of deaths like it's meaningful. You are absolutely spinning this as hard as you can.
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I wonder if there are any studies that compare countries and if the different ways they approached the pandemic made a significant difference in the outcomes. Because it's easy to compare hypothetical ("if only my party had been in power...") scenarios, but we do have real data. Some countries locked down earlier, more strict, etc. - can we say if we compare globally, which strategies worked and which didn't? I'm sure someone has done the math.
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So I'm both weak sauce and spinning it as hard as I can. Got it.
Right, yes. Is that confusing? You are both weakly protesting your evenhanded innocence, and obviously spinning this as hard as you can.
As for the rest of the weirdnesses you've posted here... This is such an odd thing to say: "should maybe admitting that basic factual reality that covid is airborne be part of it?"
How do you know that this claim that you are making is basic factual reality? Even if you're the most brilliant of pathologists, you're still just one person and your own data is limited in nature. "Basic factual reality" is something which is generally established by aggregating data from many sources. You of course, pathologist that you are, should know this. As an expert in your field you should also know why the WHO and similar organizations have been reluctant to label COVID as airborne: because it behaves differently from other diseases which have been established to be airborne. It doesn't fit that pattern.
But that's small potatoes. Because if you want to pin this on Biden (somehow... like it's his job to identify the behavior of diseases) then we're not talking about the WHO, we're talking about the CDC. And the CDC published a statement that COVID can spread in an airborne-like way back in 2020 [cdc.gov]. So the whole premise of your complaint seems to be nonsense.
As for ripping out and re-doing the HVAC system in every school in the country: no. No, that should not be part of dealing with COVID. I'm sure that would help, but that's just crazy. Well, all right. Maybe in an ideal world where we spent less money on our military, and didn't have such an expensive healthcare system, and our taxation system wasn't so compromised, then we'd have the money to do things like that. And in that case it might not be such a bad idea. I guess.
And for the record: I haven't said anything here about Biden being good.
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Covid is in the air, carried by aerosol water droplets breathed, sneezed, and coughed out by infected people, and when you breathe that air there is a high chance you get infected; it's the main infection vector it has. That's a textbook case of what airborne means. The idea that there is anything off or unclear about it is a meme pushed by the powers that be, to escape the inconvenient responsibilities that logically follow from the fact. Seriously, take a look at e.g. the Covid science Twitter, there is a
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People have a basic need to have someone good and just in the world, and to be on the side of the good and the just, and be one of them. They will find someone to attribute these qualities to, mostly based on this someone's opposition to someone else that is percieved as bad. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that; the possibility that the enemy of my enemy might just be another my enemy escapes people 99,999% of the time. If people do not have someone to fill the good guy spot, they feel the exist
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Many died, but I believe many many more have encountered sobering reality checks such as yours. The government's reaction to covid has made the majority people question just what the f*ck they are paying for with their taxes.
God bless you - when you and the other people who are actually paying attention and rise to heaven to sit with God, Jesus, and Trump, who is the second coming, you will be richly rewarded for your understanding how there is only one true party, and one true second coming of God.
Remain steadfast, and all the answers are on Hunter Biden's laptop. God is loving, kind, and merciful. And when he Trump and Jesus cast into hell to be tortured for eternity those who do not obey their every command, you and I w
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I can't understand why so many leftist are pro-Trump-vaccine.
Speaking for myself I can separate the individual policies from how I feel about the man in general. As much as I defend my own ideology I do try not to let it be the lens I judge everything by because that would really cloud how I can determine reality about anything.
I have always said Operation Warp Speed is the single best accomplishment the Trump admin did and we should apply a lot of those measures to the FDA process in general. I can think Trump is a lazy ineffective President and hold that position, they are not contradictory.
Even if I grant your premise that the vaccine doesn't help spread or infection what it inarguably does in *all* the data is highly reduce the severity of infection, hospitalization and death. Is that not good? Is that not an effort worth pursuing? We have not *cured* HIV but through treatment people infected can have a pretty "normal" quality of life. Does the failure of the former make the latter invalid? No? What are we really saying here? Rhetoric is more important than results?
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When the reality is it did reduce effects but only for older and otherwise ill people
This is unquestionably good!
while increasing risks of various things for younger people.
This is not true to any reasonable degree. The cost/benefit here is very, very, very clear.
6 foot nonsense.
None of this has anything to do with vaccine effectiveness but general covid griping, which I don't even disagree with but this type of things muddies the subject up way too much. We can discuss the vaccine outside of all of this, bundling it up into one big grievance does the actual science work here a huge disservice.
I give Trump credit for getting something out the door.
So do I, even when I know his motivation was suspect. I remember the summer of 2020. Trump was *nonstop* about a vaccine because every reasonable person told him, correctly that a vaccine is the #1 by far most important thing we can do to end the pandemic. His motivation hardly matters though because they still got the work done. This is good.
Dumping raw hard cash into the economy was obviously going to cause inflation, that's just Econ 1.
And yet inflation is a global phenomenon and America is doing better on those numbers than most other similar countries. What does that tell us?
I'll take my risks without Pfizer's help, thanks.
No offense but that entire paragraph danced around my point so entirely It may as well give it a new name.
Applying the standard of perfection to treatments means we get zero new treatments.
Hopefully your last shot was in the last few months because after that the beneficial effects have worn off and you're actually in a weaker position immunologically speaking than someone who never got a shot. How is that good? Everyone needs 4-5 shots a year? I'll take my risks without Pfizer's help, thanks.
Yeah, this is common for many, many, many vaccines. If I cut myself deep enough what's the first question they ask me? "When was your last tetanus shot?". If it was long enough what do they do? Give me a booster. Does that mean we shouldn't use tetanus shots?
Also most of our "permeant" vaccines are only that way because we have such huge, mandatory uptick rates. Every child gets a chicken pox vaccine and that is good for a long while but when we get older we have to get it reboosted due to risk of shingles. This is good and not out of the norm.
Most CDC schedule shots for children come over a few years in 2-4 doses. This is normal.
Right now for covid the recommendation for most people is *once a year* and they package it with a flu shot. I got both in the fall at once. That is hardly a burden.
actually in a weaker position immunologically speaking than someone who never got a shot
If this was true you have to apply it to the entire last 70 years of vaccinations. We vaccinated the entire planet against smallpox and several other diseases. Where is the record of this weakened immune system? If our immune systems were strong enough to begin with we wouldnt need vaccination. Why would the production of *new and novel antibodies produced by our own immune system* result in a weaker immune system? What are we even saying here?
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Anyone young people injured or dead from the Covid vaccines should have been alive and well today. You can say "well it wasn't that many" but it should have been zero.
This is literally unattainable. You need to show a number of mortalities and permenant injuries in greater excess than the risk of those same from covid itself. This is an unattainable metric. An average of 458 people a year die from Tylenol. Can you show another mediation with a 0.0% risk profile?
I only look at what they say they'll do and the results.
lol what? That's been my point! You can just take it now and pretend I am saying something the opposite! wtf bro!
Your inflation statement doesn't answer the outcome though; Inflation in the USA is back close to norms and other countries aren't. Be specific you can't just say "lol we shoulda done nothing?!"
he problem is the effect is only a few months and then you're left off with a weaker immunity than you had before the shot
This doesn't compute. Your body creates the antibodies. The vaccine doesn't actually "take over" your immune system to fight the disease, it's your own antibodies, how is that making it weaker? Can you point me a study or an article that spells this out? it seriously doesn't make any sense.
if you want to say something like antibacterial soaps make our immune system weaker, than tracks. But vaccines? Doesn't track, two entirely different things happening there.
All my childhood shots last a lifetime or long enough that I don't need to care and I'm not weaker than if I had never taken those shots unlike with Covid. Your once a year shot is not enough. You should not have it at all or take about 4 per year.
Once again thats *my* point. If those vaccines didn't have mandatory 95% uptick you very well might have to get boosters more often. We all benefit collectively from everyone taking it.
Can you point me to the CDC or another body that is recommending 4 boosters for median age groups? I have 1 shot a year the last 2 years.
The Covid vaccine is unique among vaccines. It is broken. I never said all vaccines wear off and leave you with a weakened immune system. Only Covid vaccines do that.
And you have failed to actually present how or why or present any evidence. There are 12 on the WHO list. 2 of those are of the mRNA type. The rest are various established methods like attenuations and such. So why would covid be so special when it iself is just a variant of similar things like MERS that we already have workable vaccines for? Is it special? Why is every single country on Earth seeing the same things?
https://covid19.trackvaccines.... [trackvaccines.org]
You are not pro-vax, nothing about your statements are "the covid vaccines could be better" your implication is "they don't work, theyre not vaccines". This is 100% ideological.
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The number of young people dead from Covid vs the number injured or killed by Pfizer is at best a wash.
Demonstrate this, it's been 4 years, should be a glowing red number, world fucking wide. UNICEF reports around 18k deaths of 0-20 years olds in the US. Can you give me more Pfizer deaths? You wont because this is ideological narrative.
excuse me but prices are not back to where they would have been.
I am not your economics teacher, can you point to a time in history when this happens? Can you give me at time of economic growth that also has large amounts of deflations?
What your actual economics teacher would tell you the metric we *actually*care about is wages vs prices
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...it's just a coincidental conspiracy theory it started right after she got vaccinated to "stay safe".
I gather heaven is a pretty safe place.
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People develope problems like what you list every day in America. Meanwhile we are not in the midst of a mortality uptick which is what would be happening if the vaccine were causing problems like this.
So really it's the complete lack of evidence outside of circumstance (plus the ample evidence going the other way) and the near universal rejection from millions of trained experts around the world (doctors) that makes your nonsense a conspiracy theory.
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All the "money chart" is showing is the spikes in deaths that were caused by the wax and wane of Covid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] .
Maybe try getting your news from some place other than ideologically driven fringe sites.
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They have a suspect, it's a suspected suicide.
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I prefer speculating on evidence rather than attaching myself to conspiracy. I'll wait for the facts to come through on this.
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None, maybe go back and reread my post
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Correction, they have declared a suspect, himself.
The correlation between what they have and what they say is unknown at this point. It could be that that's exactly what they have. It could be that it's what they want to have. And it could be that it's what they want a potential suspect to think they have.
At this point in the game, all we know is what they're saying. What they're thinking may or may not be related.
It's also important to note that police forces have finite resources. If they think any likely
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gun owner thoughts on this (Score:4, Informative)
A suicide of a law-abiding, job holding gun owner would be with a nice, well-maintained gun purchased long ago by the victim, with background check records of the sale, and ammo that matches a half-full box back home, and fingerprints on the brass cases. A hit would be with an unregistered gun, probably junk, no matching ammo at vic's house, no fingerprints on the magazine/cylinder/brass cases.
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I can see why you posted Anonymously. Oh my lord you are special. Or you are the dumbest propaganda agent this side of the Solar System. Your logic is astute and unassailable. ROFLMAO
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So they cleaned their own finger prints off the gun and bullets but left the victims on and in the case of the gun they took the time to do so after it had been discharged (which makes a very loud bang)? I'm puzzled on how that would work, especially since the finger prints of multiple users would be almost guaranteed to overlap.
Dont get me wrong, the circumstances are a bit suspect here given his status as a whistle blower but I'm not going to latch onto unsound theories because of that.
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Again, if youâ(TM)ve never held a gun or do not know how it operates, this would sound plausible. I think it was Mythbusters or a similar show that demonstrated fingerprints are notoriously hard to get off a gun, especially if it is well kept, for those that do not know, you generally use gun oils on your gun which are rather destructive to the fingerprinting collection process, unless he clamped onto the gun after death it is very hard to leave clean prints. You certainly do not hold a spent casing be
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He had information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Have you looked in Hunter’s laptop for those missing emails?
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Most people don't know this (yet), but Hillary's basement email server was actually running on Hunter Biden's laptop!
It was also acting as the controller for the video cameras in the prison wing where Jeffrey Epstein died. But you don't hear about that because Epstein's final visitor was Donald Trump himself...
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There are no emails. They were cleaned with a cloth.
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Suicide while giving testimony? (Score:2)
Suuuuure. Obvious suicide. No need to ask questions.
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I think it safe to say that the number of police in Mensa isn't reflective of their percentage of the population.
I also think it safe to say that in election years, nobody wants to accuse a major political donor who might donate to the wrong person. Remember, police chiefs and judges are elected in much of the US.
And it's also pretty safe to say, in times of economic hardship, police aren't going to invest lots of resources into cases they're not confident they can score a court victory on. They're going to
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I think it safe to say that the number of police in Mensa isn't reflective of their percentage of the population.
Mensa membership will get you disqualified as a candidate in some police departments.
Hello Mr. Whistleblower, We will kill your family (Score:4, Interesting)
if you do not kill yourself. Comply ASAP or else....
He was murdered. It was NOT a suicide. (Score:2, Insightful)
The cold, hard fact is that it was not a suicide. And even his relatives have come forward to say that because he the whistleblower himself, was worried about being assassinated in retaliation for his whistle blowing. And he even made it public knowledge among his family to make sure they knew that when he was taken out, that they knew it wasn't a suicide.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/20... [vanguardngr.com]
Reminds me of an old joke (Score:2)
The mafioso is being questioned.
The prosecutor asks, how did Mr Scavatelli die?
The guy answers, "he cut himself while shaving"
The prosecutor replies, "27 times? In the back?"
Technically, it wasn't suicide. (Score:3)
He had cranial decompression, courtesy of Boeing.
For what it's worth? (Score:3)
The New York Post is worth nothing. In paper format it's worth something, you could use it for toilet paper. But I long for a Slashdot that would rather write nothing than link to a horrendously unreliable tabloid rag (in the actual sense of the word, not like the Fox news readers who don't like CNN).
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So you're saying it didn't happen?
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You mean that someone published that they heard form someone who heard someone else say that they are worried they are going to be assassinated? All without any verifiable reference to who these mysterious people saying things are?
Yeah I'm saying that didn't happen. If it did, there may be a verifiable trail. I don't even ask that it be published by someone of repute, just that it's not the equivalent of "I heard from a friend of 0xG that he likes to wear women's clothing".
My assertion, just like virtually
Who watches those in power? (Score:2)
We need tools that any person can use to protect themselves from "life". Easy, portable ways to record anything happening to them... Since even our own memories aren't able to, with 100% objectivity and reliability, record what happens.
Yes, being able to record "everything" has uses beyond self protection or improvement. But how else are we going to change bad behavior that continues because "nobody can prove it". Or "it's your word against mine". Or "those with the most money can do whatever they want
CEO had seen the warning signs (Score:2)
The CEO had seen his decline in person and had reportedly said 'John, if you ever need help, or just someone to talk to, my door is always blown wide open.'
Layers of wrong, like an onion (Score:2)
I talked to one aerospace engineer who said his company immediately destroyed defective parts so there would be no risk of accidentally installing them.
On top of that, in any healthy organization it would be unthinkable to install them deliberately.
On top of that, when someone reported the situation, it should have been corrected immediately.
On top of that, it is pathological to retaliate against someone for doing his job.
It is hard to imagine fixing a corporate culture so utterly rotten.
Getaway car seen with doors falling off (Score:2)
Thank You All (Score:2)
Re:This âoenewsâ is almost a week old (Score:4, Funny)
This âoenewsâ is almost a week old. EditorDavid, do your fucking job.
Sir, this is slashdot. If the news isn’t several day old third party scrapes of legitimate news then duped, we demand our money back.
Re:This âoenewsâ is almost a week old (Score:3)
I for one already got a refund of all the money I've ever spent on Slashdot.
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I for one already got a refund of all the money I've ever spent on Slashdot.
Next time complain harder, you could have gotten double the money you spent back.