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Thomas Bzik's avatar

My earliest awareness that I was living in total bullshit world came courtesy of the Baltimore Sun a few decades ago. The body of a retired senior CIA officer was found the prior day near his abandoned boat in Chesapeake Bay. He had been shot twice through the back of his skull, his hands were tied behind his back and over 20 lbs of weights were attached to the body. The story had the police (in less than a day) concluding that he had committed suicide holding the gun behind his back in his tied hands using the momentum of the two shots he put into the back of his head to roll his body into the water. It claimed he wanted to make his suicide look like a murder, again all in less than a day with no other supporting evidence. It read like the unedited CIA press release it likely was. Once a convenient BS narrative is quickly formulated, there is unbelievable tenacity shown in protecting the narrative and viciously attacking all dissent.

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Curtis's avatar

I don't know why, but I'm still shocked that they expect even the blindest, stupidest people to believe something so ridiculous. Are they even trying? What was his name?

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Rebekah Ewbank's avatar

> "The implications stretch far beyond one crashed aircraft and 150 lost lives—this is about how modern disasters get packaged into digestible narratives that protect institutional power while sacrificing inconvenient truths. Thorne’s investigation reveals a pattern where complex systemic failures involving aircraft manufacturers, airlines, maintenance contractors, and regulatory bodies get reduced to individual blame, where media outlets become willing conduits for official leaks rather than independent investigators, and where families seeking answers are dismissed as being in denial"

This is the absolute truth.

Not many people know this because none of the 'journalists' in the courtroom bothered to report on it, but 4 weeks ago a Boeing whistleblower flew himself down to Dallas after requesting an opportunity to make a statement at the victim's families last attempt at begging the court to do the right thing about the 737Max atrocities (plural). Judge O'Connor granted his request and listened to his statement that included the fact that he was also submitting a TWENTY TWO PAGE DOCUMENT describing the evidence he has previously (and repeatedly) provided to the FBI, DOJ prosecutors, FAA and NTSB officials, as well as Senators and Congressional Reps and their staffers. Evidence that has NEVER been appropriately investigated or addressed as the DOJ instead focused their efforts on the sham Forkner trial.

At least one of the victim's attorneys acted surprised to hear his statement, as if perhaps they were unaware of the hundreds of hours this human factors engineer had spent over the years trying to improve aviation safety while his career & reputation was destroyed? (Hard to read lawyers though, lacking souls the way they all do...)

Even the Senate Whistleblower Report that he was intimately involved in creating COMPLETELY OMITTED the most damning evidence he provided, and the Senate Commerce Committee stopped communicating with him entirely a couple years ago when he expressed his displeasure at their self congratulatory satisfaction with new legislation that does absolutely NOTHING CONSEQUENTIAL to prevent the institutional failures that allowed the certification of this deadly airplane that clearly and obviously didn't meet FAA requirements despite Boeing's (provably false) claims that it did in the first place!

I was very naive to hope that maybe the next wave of news stories about Boeing would include that bombshell, about his statement and the document he submitted to the court, but nope, a month later all we get is the "great news for stockholders" because the FAA has decided to restore Boeing's self-certification privileges.

It's utterly demoralizing to know firsthand how deep and insurmountable this corruption is, so as grim as this subject and interview is to read about - that paragraph of yours that I highlighted above made my heart sing that at least there are others that get it too.

"Get it" about this specific subject I mean, because with the covid stuff, the election stuff, the border stuff, the Gaza stuff, the autism stuff, the AI stuff, the climate stuff, the sex crimes and blackmail stuff, the assassination stuff, the economy stuff, the culture war stuff, all of it getting more attention (some of it understandably) than this aviation stuff; that it feels like nobody at all cares about the breathtaking wall of protection built around military supply contractors, except to make the occasional joke about what Boeing does to their whistleblowers. A literal punchline.

Last year at a Christmas party my good friend encouraged to me to tell the truth to another friend of hers about why we were being forced to sell our home that we absolutely loved. Her friend, the woman I had just met, was an aerospace-adjacent engineer herself and seemed very friendly and interested, but she had been drinking. I told a very truncated version of what had happened to his career and how 20+ interviews later had made it clear that he was being blacklisted from much higher up. She tipsily said "well yeah, duh, who wants to hire a squealer?"

Not wanting to start an uncomfortable fight with my friend's friend at this party, I gently switched the conversation over to my house that was for sale instead and showed her some pictures, it's a beautiful and unusual home, and I hoped that she might have known someone that wanted to move to the great neighborhood... As she looked through the photos and saw that it really was(is) a very special place (atriums, stained glass, pond and waterfall, peaceful and secluded) she busted out something like "Man, I bet you wish they just killed him like the other ones instead, huh?" She laughed and laughed at her cleverness. I was living in constant fear and despair at that point, and my husband's possible pending suicide weighed heavy on my heart every hour, and it had been reduced to a cultural punchline. That's where we are. People are dead, people are tortured and possibly murdered to keep covering up how and why. The courts enforce nondisclosure agreements signed under extreme duress and good people lose everything, including their very lives, and people find it FUNNY.

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belted radial's avatar

When corruption is policy, a cold heart and a dead conscience are part of the job description.

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Right Side of History's avatar

Didn’t 2 of the whistleblowers wind up “committing suicide” within a couple of weeks of one another?

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Rebekah Ewbank's avatar

Lol @ this comment after my last two paragraphs

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Pelican72's avatar

I am so sorry. Hope you guys have left, sold and moved. Thank you for standing up.

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Rebekah Ewbank's avatar

Thank you very much. We've moved across the country to a much more modest life, but the old house has had two offers fall through so far, so it remains a lingering chapter that we REALLY need to close, but our realtor is working on it - it's just a tough market for a custom home that isn't easy to flip or rent out.

In happier news though, he has a new job now, and where we have ended up is very rural which has allowed me to finally fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming the crazy chicken lady I've always felt deep down that I was somehow destined to be :)

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Lapun Ozymandias's avatar

One of the major societal corruptions that now degrade the quality of life in Western countries is the fact that the people who run the corporate media have largely become a collective of congenital liars. For example, if they applied the ethics of professional journalism and told the truth about the Covid disaster and the dangers associated with the new technology mRNA genetic injectables, then millions of innocent people would not have gone to an early death or suffered serious post-vax injury. To quote Shakespeare - “A pox on all their houses” !

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Right Side of History's avatar

The same perpetrators of the crimes are the same ones who own and control the propaganda mainstream media outlets. It’s all spelled out in the protocols of the elders of zion if you have not yet read it.

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GerdaVS's avatar

It was until I read the 'Protocols' that I learned that certain cultures are 'Masters in twisting the truth', it come natural to them like breathing.

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Neil Pryke's avatar

What a difference a few months can make...events of impossible plausibility seem to be much more likely nowadays...

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

The Germanwings crash wasn’t just metal in a mountain — it was the parasites showing how fast they can script a story before truth even hits the ground. 🐺

First hook: speed is their weapon — the prosecutor had a villain on camera before the black box was even found.

Second hook: scapegoat the dead man — one life burned to shield Airbus, regulators, and the sulfur suits who keep the contracts flowing.

Third hook: leaks to the New York Times — the illusion of journalism while narrative managers plant seeds in the herd’s memory.

That’s the template. Once you see it here, you see it everywhere.

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Bearnairdine Beaumont's avatar

to the point!

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Christine Mose's avatar

The speed of the post event narrative is a tell of a premeditated act. The forensics of the media narrative spin often pre-date the events themselves (building 7 collapse reported prior to its actual collapse) The passenger list, the passenger list, the passenger list.

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Curtis's avatar

Great interview about an intriguing case. I can understand that Sam wrote it as fiction to make it more engaging, but I'm curious how the reader is able to differentiate between what is fact and what is embellishment.

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Sam Thorne's avatar

Very easy: get to this page and just read the conclusion if you don't wanna do the entire report. https://andreas-lubitz.com/en/expert-report-on-the-crash-of-germanwings-flight-4u9525/

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Curtis's avatar

Thank you! I read the online preview and will be purchasing the book shortly! My comment was not meant to to be disparaging, simply looking g for the proper context!

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Webe1's avatar

Until such info reaches the masses, the asleep slumber blissfully.

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me's avatar

and add the ritualistic details of the case , that always are, to these contradictions

end times

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Ivan De Mey's avatar

Off topic question: how do you create the lovely artwork for each post? It looks painted but I guess it's AI generated?

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