Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T13:36:03+00:00

This sort of culture of trying to silence staff seems to be widespread at Boeing.

Keep in mind that the danger is that some of these could be fatal flaws in the design of aircraft.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T13:21:57+00:00

You can debate whether or not the UK was right to vote for Brexit, but one thing is for certain, the UK has executed everything post-Brexit in a very incompetent manner.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T13:05:05+00:00

https://archive.ph/QX1e1

Essentially the West and Ukraine, having lost the conventional war, are resorting to terrorism, as the Crocus City Hall Attacks indicate.

The problem for them is that these attacks tend to harden Russian opinion.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T13:03:24+00:00

Yep - the issue is the neocons did something truly dumb - take on Russia rather than a weaker power and now they are getting hammered.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T13:02:37+00:00

https://archive.ph/4icWU

Action and reaction are, in many ways, the eternal law. Causality. Only White Empire would impose such massive violence on a population and then call them terrorists. This is the Resistance they designed in many ways. It evolved in response to imperial predation. Empire asks why the Resistance isn't secular, after killing or couping the socialists or communists. They ask why they're not non-violent, after shooting the unarmed March of Return in the knees. They ask why there isn't peace in the Middle East, while being the warring party. They ask why the Resistance is seemingly everywhere, without even the dimmest sense of everything.

It's all falling apart now due to their own greed.

The revolution is slowly happening.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-09T03:38:01+00:00

https://archive.ph/Gf09m

The bottom-line is simple — the United States and NATO are not equipped, organized or trained to fight a peer force like Russia or China in a war of attrition. One of the biggest short-comings are the costly, fragile weapons that account for NATO’s supposedly premier means for pursuing a war. Take the F-35 joint fighter. This is a boondoggle and a turkey, but it has made Lockheed Martin shareholders wealthy. Matt Gaetz dissected the problems with the F-35 while grilling U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin:

Pretty much the US is weak, but pretending to be tough.

The United States excels at producing very expensive weapons — e.g., $13 billion aircraft carriers and $10 million Abrams tanks, which require 8 hours of maintenance for every hour of combat operations. Yet, these weapons systems are very vulnerable to inexpensive countermeasures, such as a drone or artillery shell disabling the Abrams tank.

The limits of U.S. military power, especially with respect to aircraft carriers, is on display right now in the Red Sea. Tiny, backwards Yemen has thwarted a U.S. and NATO combined operation to open the sea-lanes and shut down Yemen’s missile threat to commercial ships. After almost six months of Operation Prosperity Guardian, Yemen is still attacking ships.

Yep. After the current conflict, the limits of American military power are going to be apparent.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T16:20:07+00:00

https://archive.ph/gbp0w

I've been very reluctant to link the BBC, as I see them as the UK's propaganda outfit. Nonetheless, the Swedish rise of the really rich is a very bad thing. It's not the egalitarian society it was and no model for the left.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T16:13:01+00:00

https://archive.ph/kMtmO

From last month, but still relevant - what can the US offer to the Turkish people these days? They clearly seem to think that Turkiye is theirs to command.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T15:59:09+00:00

https://archive.ph/b7JgH

Behind all of the talk of social responsibility and all of that corporate propaganda, the big banks are really about making as much money as they can no matter what the human cost.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T15:56:38+00:00

Yeah there's a lot of dirt that is behind closed doors we need sunlight on.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T15:55:22+00:00

Yep Colin Powell was an example, and he was forced to lie for Bush for that. But he opposed war unless there was no alternative.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-08T15:54:42+00:00

https://archive.ph/SaGfT

Evidently, the "Real News" is nothing more than a "fake news" outfit of the Establishment that doesn't tolerate dissent from people like Hedges and Kucinich.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-07T20:22:38+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20240506204949/https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/liberalism-without-accountability

Feels like we have the worst of both worlds - claims of being liberal, but really authoritarian.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-07T16:45:52+00:00

https://archive.ph/tGIfy/

The US seems to be relying on triple agents a lot. I guess we will find a lot more.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-07T16:24:01+00:00

https://archive.ph/agdR2

No western force is currently configured and equipped to defeat a near peer competitor force. Twenty-five years of 'war of terror' have left those armies in a very sorry state. At least during the first year of an expanded war their troops would have no chance to survive. The Russian forces, by now a well oiled machine with plenty of excellent weapons, would defeat them within one or two weeks. What then?

This hasn't come through to the Western elites and their thick skulls.

The irony of this situation is that they brought it on themselves.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-06T18:03:29+00:00

https://archive.ph/QVtsK

This isn't a Canadian only problem, and is hurting young people everywhere.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-06T16:46:56+00:00

Note how the video discusses how Macron is now sending the French Foreign Legion to Ukraine.

ATACMS don't seem to be that effective as an artillery missile system.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-06T14:15:41+00:00

The answer is that censorship and police force is always easier than confronting the real causes.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-05T23:56:36+00:00

https://archive.ph/ZnfYf

Israel basically wanted something for nothing. Now it's all fallen apart.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-05T23:53:55+00:00

https://archive.ph/XsbdA

What is Macron thinking? He doesn't understand what he is doing - he has sent those French Foreign Legion to their deaths.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-05T23:52:25+00:00

https://archive.ph/H9pyF

There is probably a lot more corruption than we know about in public. No doubt Johnson got a lot of money from the latest bill for Ukraine.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-04T17:00:36+00:00

https://archive.ph/9NJ33

I think it is going to become obvious the Israelis have committed these mass killings. That's why the West doesn't want it to come out.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-04T16:38:13+00:00

https://archive.ph/mhyjZ

This war seems to be a spiteful attempt by t he US at regime change.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-04T16:16:34+00:00

https://archive.ph/0rTYL

If all they teach is the lies and propaganda the rich want you to believe, then no, that's not liberation.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-03T15:24:45+00:00

https://archive.ph/7Iaog

It would be stupid for any Italian to join in France's ill advised escapade.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-03T15:19:55+00:00

https://archive.ph/bDe1c

Starmer will take a nation already in decline and make it worse. He will end up as a more authoritarian version of Joe Biden for the UK.

Hopefully at that point in time, the mood in the UK will be revolutionary.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-02T13:12:13+00:00

https://archive.ph/MeQ5B

Keep in mind that they are mostly reporting the poll results here, so there isn't much room to spin this well.

I think the Democrats were delusional to think that Biden would see any gains from the polls from his State of the Union, as he isn't a good public speaker.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-02T13:06:07+00:00

https://archive.ph/wjYjW

Evidently you are being spied on when you stay at any AirBnB.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-01T17:47:01+00:00

Baud has some very good nuggets of wisdom. I don't always agree with his opinions (I think he has overrated the Leopard 2, for example), but I agree with the overall gist of what Baud is saying.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-01T17:45:46+00:00

https://archive.ph/h8iWd

The reality is that most of Africa knows that the relationship with France is not for Africa's benefit. It's just now as the West weakens, the African nations have the strength to fight back.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-01T14:48:07+00:00

https://archive.ph/Vze7Y

Obviously the Israelis are going to inflict a lot of casualties on purpose. This is a genocide after all.

RandomCollection · 2024-05-01T14:07:32+00:00

https://archive.ph/U5HIj

I hope that the Bolivian people can get a better future under BRICS. They've been the victim of the US and its regime change efforts to steal their natural resources.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-30T19:22:36+00:00

https://archive.ph/XyvuJ

But never mind, because now it is 2024, and the protesters against killing are coming out once again, and the police are coming to meet them and brutalize them for the crime of asking what are you doing? And those who want the killing to continue are equating a country's entire population with its violent government, as if doing so protects the people rather than the government. And they are equating Jewishness with allegiance to Israel, as if doing so isn't a foundation of antisemitism. And none of the protesters have power or influence to stop the killing they would like to see stopped, but all of them are being treated by our institutions of power and influence as if they have all power and influence, particularly those who are most ignorant and foolish, even though most protesters are not ignorant fools. All those opposed to the killing are being told that opposing killing means that they love terrorists, and hate safety.

The reality is that most Americans are not interested in war. The ruling elites are.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-29T21:10:49+00:00

Yeah it's the typical neoconservatives and their delusions. They don't understand that China is not declining and that they are starting from a much weaker point than against the USSR after WW2.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-29T17:10:28+00:00

This sort of waste is no doubt widespread across the entire US military.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-29T16:24:36+00:00

https://archive.ph/X3jsx

Europe is adopting the worst parts of the US fiscal policy on not spending money on the people and more on war.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T23:41:17+00:00

https://archive.ph/tvF4r

This is a book review, but it covers an important topic. Family farms have been destroyed in favor of corporations. Hopefully more Conservatives wake up and oppose this.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T23:38:00+00:00

https://archive.ph/e19gD

The Western folks claiming that the Chinese economy is in collapse are having to eat humble pie.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T23:28:16+00:00

https://archive.ph/j0GPD

The ruling class seem to be doubling down on the idea of a police state against the university students.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T08:11:13+00:00

There are 2 factors that are in play here. The first is that the US experienced a decline in the birthrate after 2008 with the recession. The second is that the fewer people are going to see college as worth it with so many underemployed graduates.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T08:06:00+00:00

https://archive.ph/qXuFg

So far, the Alliance of the Sahel States is winning the sovereignty-first information war, hands-down. But there's no question the Empire will strike back. After all, the whole game is tied to the Beltway's supreme paranoia of Russia taking over the Sahel and Central Africa.

Eventually I expect that the US ruling class will try to get us all into another war in Africa.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-28T07:59:32+00:00

Keep in mind that the Israeli economy is seeing double digit declines.

The US has totally failed to defeat the Ansar Allah and open up the Red Sea.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-27T21:26:36+00:00

https://archive.ph/lOr3v

There won't be any honest investigation of the Nordstream Pipelines because of the US. Everyone knows the US blew up the pipelines.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-27T21:22:11+00:00

https://archive.ph/k7Vp5

When even the German Establishment is aware of the dire economic situation.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-26T15:36:41+00:00

https://archive.ph/pwzSu

It’s worth keeping tabs on the various elements of elite disconnect with the lives of those they regard as the masses. An obvious one has been the economy, where pundits insist the meal is the menu, and because their preferred measures of labor market health look perky, and inflation has moderated significantly, those who dare say that the natives are unhappy with Biden policies are wrong and/or trying to foment discontent.

Never mind that even if food prices aren’t increasing by much in the US these days, they’ve risen by so much that many still have not adjusted to the higher baseline. Housing is not-to-barely affordable for many. Health care is too pricey and getting more so. And that’s before getting to health care shrinkage via service degradation, such as substitution of less-trained medical professionals for MDs.

Basically everything is falling apart for the working class, and the Democrats want to pretend it's a "messaging" problem.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-26T13:44:40+00:00

https://archive.ph/TopKP

You tell me what conceivable way Ukraine can prevail in this proxy war now without just tripping off the civilization-ending nuke exchange? America does not have enough tactical missiles and artillery shells at hand to send over there. What we did have is gone. NATO never had much to begin with. Ukraine has run out of available cannon-fodder to conscript from its dwindling population. Despite Mr. Macron’s recent bluster, NATO can’t raise a credible army, or even agree on which country would send what. Nobody is riding to the rescue. Instead, Russia is fortifying its home-grown armaments industry and its military while systematically turning off the electricity all over Ukraine by blowing up the power stations. Very soon, Ukraine will be reduced to medieval living conditions — no lights, no phones, no Internet, no shopping, no ability to conduct modern warfare. End. . . of. . . story.

That's the whole revealing thing about all of this - the US has been exposed as a paper tiger.

After that, America and the rest of Western Civ can get on with the collapse of their financial system and very likely a period of profound political and economic chaos in which governments fall, nations change boundaries and shapes, and their populations suffer dramatically from an imploded standard of living. That process may actually play out somewhat slower than the end of the Ukraine war over the coming years. It will look like a combined game of musical chairs and hot potato, with the opportunities to get a seat steadily fading, and the losers left holding things they can’t handle.

Yep - the elite will desperately try to sling onto power.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-26T13:38:23+00:00

https://archive.ph/AtxTB

Keep in mind that most of this wealth is not "earned" - it's stolen from the rest of us.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-26T13:36:32+00:00

The irony of this is that they should have negotiated with Niger to pay market prices.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-26T13:35:57+00:00

At Pitzer College, the College Council, which is made up of students, faculty, and staff members, adopted a resolution calling on the college to cut all ties with Israeli universities. Strom C. Thacker, president of the college, vetoed the measure, saying it violated Pitzer’s commitment to academic freedom. The college also closed its study-abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel, but maintained that it wasn’t in reaction to student protests.

Ultimately, universities are run by people who serve the rich. Otherwise they wouldn't be given roles in senior education management.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-25T17:45:56+00:00

https://archive.ph/U4g1m

The US was never going to voluntarily withdraw from Niger without a fight to try to persuade the Nigeriens to keep the troops there.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-25T17:25:30+00:00

https://archive.ph/uDPhk

The reason why I think this won't be done is because it won't make people who are already rich even more rich.

RandomCollection · 2024-04-25T17:23:37+00:00

https://archive.ph/adkms

Anyone who advocates a defense approach for their country should be able to show that they have a fully reasoned argument, which includes information about the effectiveness of the strategy and its affordability.

Wishful thinking, like what has happened in Ukraine, will at best be a recipe for tremendous expenditures for little capability.

Well, our ruling elite is full of wishful thinking with no basis in reality.

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