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In an effort to tamp down the outcry around Musk’s autocrat & illegal power grabs -TSY Dept: sent a letter to Congress *casts his takeover in benign terms -suggests Musk’s access to TSY’s payment systems *granted by Trump -are the conduit for🚨$6T in annual govt payments to an enormous range of recipients—merely amounts to an innocent “AUDIT” process, portraying this as part of a broad govt reform agenda.

TSY Sec Bessent is complicit in the "coup."

#USPol #CoverUp #DOGE newrepublic.com/article/191191

The New Republic · Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling TurnAs the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this “reeks of a cover-up.”

Good ol' #KerrMcGee. You remember them, right? #KarenSilkwood's employer!

Karen #Silkwood's sudden death unpacked in ABC documentary

The four-part podcast unearths never-before-heard audio tapes.

ByDoc Louallen
November 14, 2024

"Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old #plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation.

"The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. She was on her way to meet a New York Times journalist, reportedly to hand over documents she'd secretly been collecting at her job at a #NuclearFacility. The Oklahoma State Highway Patrol concluded that Silkwood fell asleep at the wheel -- possibly under the influence of prescribed drugs --- drove off the highway, crashed into a ditch, and died.

"'We’ve never believed it,' Mike Boettcher said of the official narrative. Boettcher and his reporting partner Bob Sands, both veteran Oklahoma journalists, say many in Oklahoma speculate that Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew.

"Silkwood's story has become widely known, inspiring several books, articles, and a major motion picture.
Silkwood worked at a nuclear fuel production plant that manufactured #plutonium fuel rods to power a new type of nuclear reactor, which was part of a multi-million dollar experiment to enhance #nuclear energy. When she noticed what she felt were #unsafe working conditions -- such as leaks, spills and co-workers frequently getting #contaminated with #RadioactiveMaterial -- she spoke up and tried to make improvements.

"'Karen became nuclear energy's first #whistleblower, though the term whistleblower was just starting to be used,' Boettcher said. 'This was at a time when the idea of someone inside of a big corporation exposing alleged misdeeds was shocking.'

"Silkwood's allegations, contamination, and untimely death sparked an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, an FBI inquiry, a civil lawsuit, several appeals, a congressional hearing and two appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court."

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#CoverUp #NoNukes #NuclearIndustry #BigOilAndGas #WhoKilledKarenSilkwood #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies

ABC News · Karen Silkwood's sudden death unpacked in ABC documentaryBy Doc Louallen

Scottish Labour received Cammy Day complaint 'almost two years' ago

Happy though I am to bash Scottish (well English) Labour, all (well most) of the political parties in the UK have a problem of this sort. And all (most) attempt to drive it under the carpet.

As someone said about Nixon - it wasn't the crime that did for him, it was the coverup.

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So, apparently the #Republicans who run the #HouseOversightCommittee are claiming, in a generally partisan report, that #COVID came from a lab in and that the "real" #coverup within the Trump administration was that. While that would be interesting, and I'm certainly not opposed to looking into it, they don't seem to have any evidence, and Democrat members of the committee released a scathing counter statement.

This is an example of what we keep saying, that part of how #Fascism prevents counter-discourse is by creating an environment of #misinformation and conflicting reports where people don't know what to believe. Rather than coalescing around evidence to get actual conclusions, we see a partisan fight over a single theory.

I'm just going to fall back to what I've been saying this whole time: if we think it came from a lab, this needs to be investigated and found with facts. Otherwise, it doesn't necessarily matter where COVID came from, what matters is the need to respond to it.

Note comments on the vulnerability of freelancers in our brave new world.

However, the allegations (and they are only that at this moment) the history of the BBC and other broadcasters sweeping allegations of abuse under the carpet is something we all need to be worried about. Next Parliament….

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

The Guardian · Gregg Wallace accused of inappropriate behaviour in letter sent to BBC in 2022By Rachael Healy