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elennemigo · 1 month

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May 1st : Happy International Labour Day! / Feliz día Internacional del Trabajo! 👷💼 [insp]

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prentissrollins · 3 months

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Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac

The Whistleblower (2010) - dir. Larysa Kondracki (2/∞)

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popcorn-plots · 1 month

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Benedict Cumberbatch Movies

based on this post by @elennemigo

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021, Romance/Comedy, PG-13 – Prime Video)

The Courier (2020, Thriller/Action, PG-13 – Amazon Prime, YouTube, Apple TV)

Doctor Strange (2016, Action/Fantasy, PG-13 – Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, YouTube)

The Child in Time (2007, Drama/Romance, unrated – YouTube, Apple TV)

The Whistleblower (2010, Thriller/Crime, R for violence – Hulu, Apple TV, YouTube, Sling TV, Amazon Prime)

Sherlock (2010, Mystery, 4 seasons, PG-13 – Hulu, Amazon Prime, BritBox, Roku, Apple TV)

1917 (2019, War/Action, R for violence, language, disturbing images – YouTube, Amazon Prime, Apple TV)

Broken News (2005, News, 1 season)

The Imitation Game (2014, Thriller/War, PG-13 – Tubi, Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube)

The Power of the Dog (2021, Western film/Romance, R for brief sexual content/full nudity, violence – Netflix)

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livesinyesterday · 1 year

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David Strathairn Appreciation:

Beard - Pt. 1

#david strathairn #billions #showtime billions #louder than bombs #the whistleblower #david strathairn appreciation #my gifs #my david gifs

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scifidancer · 2 years

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David Hewlett and Rachel Weisz in the movie THE WHISTLEBLOWER (2010)

#the whistleblower #rachel weisz #kathryn bolkovac #david hewlett #fred murray #movies #not mckay #but that typical hand gestures #scifidancer screen caps

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victusinveritas · 3 months

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#boeing #boeing whistleblower #montgomery burns #simpsons meme

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probablyasocialecologist · 3 months

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#boeing #whistleblower #aviation

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cappedinamber · 6 months

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The Whistleblower (2010)

Directed by Larysa Kondracki

Cinematography by Kieran McGuigan, Adam Swica

#i usually don't screencap rewatches but there were some good shots #also rachel weisz devours. naturally #the whistleblower #larysa kondracki #kieran mcguigan #adam swica #2010

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kropotkindersurprise · 1 month

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May 1, 2024 - It seems Boeing has murdered a second whistleblower. [link]

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle. He died after two weeks in critical condition, his aunt Carol Parsons said. Spirit spokesperson Joe Buccino said: “Our thoughts are with Josh Dean’s family. This sudden loss is stunning news here and for his loved ones.” Dean had given a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit and also filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit.

#boeing #murder #whistleblower #capitalism #2024

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phaeton-flier · 1 month

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The Boeing Whistleblowers Weren't Assassinated

Anyone who looks into this past a few memes and headlines realizes that it's not actually much of a conspiracy.

The first whistleblower, John Barnett, did his whistleblowing back in 2017. The legal proceedings he was in before he died were related to a defamation case against Boeing, who "he claimed deliberately hurt his career and reputation because of allegations he’d made of grave safety breaches on the aircraft company’s production line."

He was suffering from PTSD and Anxiety Attacks from the length of the case, which shows the unjust levels of stress you get form being a whistleblower, but which also are not surprising comorbidities from suicide. Add to the fact that his wife had died a little over a year before, and it's a lot less suspicious that he would kill himself.

He did not tell his family "If I die, it wasn't suicide". The alleged witness was a friend of his mom who claimed he said it. That's not something we should treat as solid evidence.

The second whistleblower, Joshua Dean, got the Flu, then pneumonia from the Flu, then got MRSA in the hospital. These are very common diseases that also have C-grade death rates: Only ~30% of patients die of it, so it hardly makes sense as an assassination weapon.

Boeing has 32 whistleblower complaints, which is shocking but if they're going around killing whistleblowers they sure seem to be behind the fucking curve on it.

In both cases these deaths came long after the initial complaints, such that killing them doesn't get rid of the complaints, and given the 32 other cases it sure doesn't seem like they're trying to scare off new ones.

And beyond that, killing off whistleblowers is a strategy that only makes sense if you think of Boeing as a single organism and not an abstraction made of thousands of people. Yes, it's theoretically better for Boeing's bottom line if whistleblowers die, but the executives responsible for the fuck-ups these whistleblowers are pointing out? Won't go to jail for them. They will go to jail if they're caught hiring an assassin, something they would have zero practice doing and would be highly likely to fuck up like they did the company if they tried, and that risk isn't worth a little extra bonus on your stock options or whatever.

I really do not want this "Boeing killed the whistleblowers OMG" shit to stick around because it's blatantly unsupported and it will scare off future whistleblowers if this becomes common bullshit wisdom.

#copying this from a comment I made so it's not attached to a long post people might skip over #Boeing #Whistleblowers #1k

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yuriinadress · 2 months

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I'M GONNA BITE SOMEONE

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#yoi #yuri on ice #ice adolescence #yuuri katsuki #victor nikiforov #victuuri #the more i learn about what we had the angrier i get #im taking that industry whistleblower rumor with the LARGEST grain of salt but oooooooo if it's true...#yuri yelling

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prentissrollins · 2 months

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Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac

The Whistleblower (2010) - dir. Larysa Kondracki (3/∞)

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asynca · 1 month

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"okay doctor, make this guy die of something that cannot possibly be linked to boeing. something natural."

"the guy is 45, super fit and eats really well, his cholesterol panel is genuinely beautiful. he doesn't take any medications. he's going to live to 100"

"well how do you make a guy like that sick?"

"idk man, give him some massive dose of immuno-suppressants or steroids or something? It would have to either be huge or continuous, but someone's going to notice that, I reckon."

"would they test for that in hospital?"

"probably not, they'd just ask his medical history"

"do it"

this is a work of fiction based entirely on nothing at all related to the SECOND boeing whistleblower, a healthy middle-aged man, dying suddenly of multiple things in 2 weeks.

#boeing #boeing whistleblower #whistleblower

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livesinyesterday · 1 year

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David Strathairn Appreciation:

Peter Ward in The Whistleblower (2010)

#david strathairn #the whistleblower #david strathairn appreciation #my gifs #my david gifs

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 days

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The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD

On June 20, I'm keynoting the LOCUS AWARDS in OAKLAND.

Let's take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption, with the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, that Supreme Court), and which is only speeding up!

A little background. The CFPB was created in 2010. It was Elizabeth Warren's brainchild, an institution that was supposed to regulate finance from the perspective of the American public, not the American finance sector. Rather than fighting to "stabilize" the financial sector (the mission that led to Obama taking his advisor Timothy Geithner's advice to permit the foreclosure crisis to continue in order to "foam the runways" for the banks), the Bureau would fight to defend us from bankers.

The CFPB got off to a rocky start, with challenges to the unique system of long-term leadership appointments meant to depoliticize the office, as well as the sudden resignation of its inaugural boss, who broke his promise to see his term through in order to launch an unsuccessful bid for political office.

But after the 2020 election, the Bureau came into its own, when Biden poached Rohit Chopra from the FTC and put him in charge. Chopra went on a tear, taking on landlords who violated the covid eviction moratorium:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cfpb

Then banning payday lenders' scummiest tactics:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/planned-obsolescence/#academic-fraud

Then striking at one of fintech's most predatory grifts, the "earned wage access" hustle:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

Then closing the loophole that let credit reporting bureaus (like Equifax, who doxed every single American in a spectacular 2019 breach) avoid regulation by creating data brokerage divisions and claiming they weren't part of the regulated activity of credit reporting:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

Chopra went on to promise to ban data-brokers altogether:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/13/goulash/#material-misstatement

Then he banned comparison shopping sites where you go to find the best bank accounts and credit cards from accepting bribes and putting more expensive options at the top of the list. Instead, he's requiring banks to send the CFPB regular, accurate lists of all their charges, and standing up a federal operated comparison shopping site that gives only accurate and honest rankings. Finally, he's made an interoperability rule requiring banks to let you transfer to another institution with one click, just like you change phone carriers. That means you can search an honest site to find the best deal on your banking, and then, with a single click, transfer your accounts, your account history, your payees, and all your other banking data to that new bank:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

Somewhere in there, big business got scared. They cooked up a legal theory declaring the CFPB's funding mechanism to be unconstitutional and got the case fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, in a bid to put Chopra and the CFPB permanently out of business. Instead, the Supremes – these Supremes! – upheld the CFPB's funding mechanism in a 7-2 ruling:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-cfpb-funding-stand/

That ruling was a starter pistol for Chopra and the Bureau. Maybe it seemed like they were taking big swings before, but it turns out all that was just a warmup. Last week on The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner rounded up all the stuff the Bureau is kicking off:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-07-window-on-corporate-deceptions/

First: regulating Buy Now, Pay Later companies (think: Klarna) as credit-card companies, with all the requirements for disclosure and interest rate caps dictated by the Truth In Lending Act:

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/06/cfpb-applies-credit-card-rules

Next: creating a registry of habitual corporate criminals. This rogues gallery will make it harder for other agencies – like the DOJ – and state Attorneys General to offer bullshit "delayed prosecution agreements" to companies that compulsively rip us off:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-creates-registry-to-detect-corporate-repeat-offenders/

Then there's the rule against "fine print deception" – which is when the fine print in a contract lies to you about your rights, like when a mortgage lender forces you waive a right you can't actually waive, or car lenders that make you waive your bankruptcy rights, which, again, you can't waive:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-warns-against-deception-in-contract-fine-print/

As Kuttner writes, the common thread running through all these orders is that they ban deceptive practices – they make it illegal for companies to steal from us by lying to us. Especially in these dying days of class action suits – rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to "mandatory arbitration waivers" that make you sign away your right to join a class action – agencies like the CFPB are our only hope of punishing companies that lie to us to steal from us.

There's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world right now, and much of it – including an active genocide – is coming from the Biden White House.

But there are people in the Biden Administration who care about the American people and who are effective and committed fighters who have our back. What's more, they're winning. That doesn't make all the bad news go away, but sometimes it feels good to take a moment and take the W.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

#pluralistic #cfpb #consumer finance protection board #rohit chopra #scotus #bnpl #buy now pay later #repeat corporate offenders #fine print deception #whistleblowing #elizabeth warren

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damiengravehill · 2 months

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it was just supposed to be a doodle... just a doodle... (said for the umpteenth time)

#cw blood #eddie gluskin #outlast #outlast whistleblower #fanart #digital art #illustration #art of gravehill

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