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Six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems found dozens of problems in the 737 Max manufacturing process

The Federal Aviation Administration’s six-week audit of the clowns running Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems has found dozens of problems in the 737 Max manufacturing process, according to The New York Times, citing an FAA presentation.

During Boeing’s audit, the FAA conducted 89 product reviews, which evaluated the manufacturing process. Of the 89 audits, the planemaker passed 56 but did not meet specific standards in 33, resulting in 97 alleged noncompliance. 

The presentation comes two months after a door plug ripped off a 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight. Since then, Boeing has come under intense scrutiny over its manufacturing process. The latest findings should concern airlines operating fleets of these planes and passengers. 

The audit then focused on Spirit AeroSystems, which makes fuselage or other parts for the 737 Max. According to the presentation, Spirit only passed six audits while failing seven. 

FAA investigators noticed mechanics at Spirit using a hotel key card to measure door seals. Some mechanics also used Dawn soap as a “lubricant” during the door fitting process. 

When asked about mechanics using hotel key cards or Dawn soap, Spirit spokesman Joe Buccino said the company was “reviewing all identified nonconformities for corrective action.”

Additionally, the Spirit audit found five problems with the door plug component. It shockingly failed the installation part. The audit also raised concerns about the technicians who carried out the work. 

Many of the problems found by auditors fell in the category of now following an “approved manufacturing process, procedure or instruction. Other issues include a lapse in quality control in the manufacturing processes. 

The FAA gave Boeing three months to develop a comprehensive plan for quality-control improvements. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said, “We have a clear picture of what needs to be done.” 

Meanwhile, Boeing and federal regulators have their hands full after several aircraft incidents last week. 

• ZeroHedge (Tuesday): “Plane Was Nosediving”: United Airlines Boeing 737 Engine Erupts In Flames Over Texas
• ZeroHedge (Friday): United’s Boeing 737 Max Jet Veers Off Runway In Houston, Marking Third Incident In Week
• ZeroHedge (Friday): Tire Separates From Boeing 777, Crushes Cars In San Francisco Parking 

And there’s this from Monday evening: 

• Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead In A Truck From “Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound”

All the chaos surrounding Boeing’s “death trap” planes has caused a boycott, as passengers are using online travel booking website Kayak’s plane filter to find Airbus flights only for their next trip. 

Oh, and there’s this. 

What a disaster.

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Allocating more aid could enable Ukraine to launch a new counteroffensive next year, William Burns told the US Senate

The US is standing at “a profoundly important crossroads” in terms of whether to continue funding Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, according to CIA Director William Burns.

With a White House request to appropriate over $60 billion in additional aid for Kiev stalling in the US House, events can go down two paths, the intelligence chief told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Monday.

In one scenario, lawmakers could release the money and allow for the “real possibility of cementing a strategic success for Ukraine and a strategic loss for” Russia, he claimed, citing a CIA assessment.

“With supplemental assistance, Ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024,” Burns said. The money would allow Kiev to conduct more “deep penetration strikes in Crimea,” and continue targeting the Russian Black Sea fleet. In early 2025, it “could regain the offensive initiative” and start regaining ground.

The other scenario leads to a “much grimmer future,” Burns warned, with Ukraine losing more battles like the one for the town of Avdeevka in Donbass. The heavily fortified position within striking range of Donetsk had been held by Kiev’s troops since 2014, but Russia liberated it in mid-February. The CIA chief said he was told during his visit to Kiev earlier this year that the Ukrainians “ran out of ammunition” and were forced to retreat.

Without aid, Ukraine is facing “more Avdeevkas” in 2024, resulting in a “probably significant” loss of territory, he said. Burns added: “That, it seems to me, would be a massive and historic mistake for the United States.”

He claimed that Russia’s goal was to “subjugate” Ukraine, while the US wanted it to be a “strong sovereign independent country” anchored in Western institutions.

Moscow’s stated goals in the conflict are to ensure Ukraine’s military neutrality, curb the influence of radical nationalists on Kiev’s policies, and stop its discrimination against ethnic Russians. It considers the current government to be a pawn of the US and its allies, who are using Ukraine to contain and damage Russia. Ukrainian soldiers are being sacrificed as “cannon fodder” for Western interests, Russian officials have said.

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Blockchain-based decentralized digital currency on rocket ship ride to all-time highs

Bitcoin is in new uncharted territory, surpassing the $72,750 mark for the first time ever in Monday trading, before sliding down to just shy of the $72,000 mark, according to Coin Metric.

US business media says SEC-approved ETFs are responsible for the flagship cryptocurrency’s spike in value as institutional investors pour into the market. Following the SEC’s lead, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority on Monday announced that it too would allow crypto-linked funds on the London Stock Exchange.

Bullish investors say the sky’s the limit on the cryptocurrency, with British multinational bank Standard Chartered predicting a price spike to $100,000 by the end of 2024, while NYC-based hedge fund SkyBridge Capital expects Bitcoin to reach $170,000 territory a year from now. Meanwhile, Florida-based investment manager Ark Invest believes the cryptocurrency could hit a dizzying $1.3 million per coin a decade from now due to its perceived “store of value” against inflation, its use as a decentralized payment tool and independence of central banks and government control.

Traditional money managers have long eschewed the cryptocurrency, pointing to its ethereal quality and the fact that the coin has value almost solely because of investor confidence, with its original use as a decentralized currency of exchange becoming secondary at best.

“Now that the Bitcoin ETFs have been pretty much approved by the SEC, it provides a vehicle that institutional money can get into. And that opens the door among Western investors primarily of where to put their money,” Paul Goncharoff, an analyst and management consultant at Dezan Shira & Associates, told Sputnik, commenting on the Bitcoin boom.

Investors are “looking at the stock market these days, the valuations, and they’re a bit in shock. They’re feeling fear. They’re looking for something else to generate a better return. The problem is, there’s an expression called ‘FOMO,’ or ‘fear of missing out.’ And right now, if we’re looking at the Greed and Fear Index, which is monitored daily, it’s well over 95. Which in any trading book is a highly overbought position. So I have a feeling that it’s not going to last. It could go higher – no one’s a magician, you can’t tell the future. But I think that the excitement should calm down in the next few days, and it could calm down rather significantly,” Goncharoff said, adding that Bitcoin could easily drop to $60,000 and below over the short term.

The analyst said he personally wouldn’t recommend investing in Bitcoin at its current valuation, and that any first-time investors interested in doing so should follow a simple but important rule: putting in money that they would not miss not having over a set period of time. Another important rule? Setting limits and having self-control.

“Set the limits of what you want to earn – if it’s 5%, 10%, 20% – and act on it. That is discipline. Because it’s going to go up and it’s going to go down, and violently and radically. So it’s not for a pension plan. Although hanging on to it for a period of five, 10, 15 years, I think is a rather good bet – then you will come out ahead,” Goncharoff said.

Investors’ search for alternative stores of value and payment methods are logical, according to the analyst, given the “weaponization of the dollar” and the targeting of countries whose foreign or domestic policies aren’t approved by Washington.

“It’s country after country. Dozens are already seeing that. And they’re trying now to get out from under the cloud of the dollar and find alternative means, be it their own national currencies, trading cross-border as is being tried within BRICS and BRICS+,” Goncharoff explained.

“This whole de-dollarization process is forcing countries to look very closely at the US dollar and the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and what they’re doing. Using an old expression, [the dollar] is not worth the paper it’s printed on. The debt load cannot be serviced, [with] interest rates that are larger than America’s defense spending. This can’t last for long. I wouldn’t venture to say how long it will last, but eventually it will implode. So better to be far away from it when it does,” Goncharoff summed up.

The US national debt recently surpassed the $34.5 trillion mark, with analyses of current trends showing debt rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days. America’s debt load has also accelerated. In January 2020, just before the pandemic and the pumping of over $5 trillion in “stimulus” into the economy, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the gross federal debt would surpass the $34 trillion mark only in fiscal year 2029.

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When airports began adopting body scanners Alex Jones exposed how they can be used for not just security purposes, but identification purposes as well.

From the earliest days of airports adopting naked body scanners, Alex Jones has been exposing their true purpose, the creation of a 360 degree biometric identification scan of each individual.

“And they store the 360 image, the biometric image of your naked body there,” Jones said on his show in 2009. “They can biometrically scan somebody on the street, their walk, their gait, even the shadow they cast and how they walk from above.”

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As citizens rally against the codification of the UN pandemic treaty, France leads the battle to ensure the Nuremberg Code violations continue

The French government is debating a bill that would enact jail time and massive fines for citizens who speak out against mRNA technologies such as the Covid shots.

Critics have labeled the bill “Article Pfizer” since it would shield the Big Pharma companies behind the jabs from criticism.

President of the Global Health Project, Dr. Kat Lindley, explained on X that the legislation will allow the government to jail citizens up to three years and be fined up to $45,000 euros for suggesting others abstain from taking the establishment’s suggested medicines.

Article 4 of the bill lays out the penalties for “provocation to abandon or abstain from following therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment.”

Popular actor-turned political commentator Russell Brand discussed the disturbing attack on free speech during a recent podcast:

The “Article Pfizer” bill has passed the French National Assembly and will soon be debated in the Senate for final ratification.

The medical dictatorship is here, which is why nations around the world are working with globalist groups like the World Health Organization to sign off on a pandemic treaty that would surrender their sovereignty to the unelected eugenicists who have blackmailed and bought out politicians in key positions.

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Meanwhile, violent criminals pouring over Biden’s open borders

…[F]or I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.” – Psalm 55:9,10

There is a Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal, A.C. (Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice).

This NGO releases an annual list of the world’s 50 most violent cities.

The list does not include cities located in war zones.

To qualify for the list, a city (or metropolitan area) must have at least 300,000 inhabitants.

The calculations are based on the rate of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

Of the 50 most violent cities on the 2023 list, 46 were in the Western Hemisphere.

The only exceptions were four cities in South Africa.

The country with the most violent cities on the list was our neighbor to the south, Mexico, with 16. In second place was Brazil, with 10 cities, followed by Colombia with eight.

The United States of America was #4 on the list with six cities.

Honduras had two cities on the list. Haiti, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica each had one city on the list.

The Central American nation of El Salvador had no cities on the list. Its president Nayib Bukele made an amazing discovery – if you put criminals in jail they can’t commit crimes against the general population.

The #1 most violent city on the 2023 list was Colima, Mexico. In 2023, this metropolitan area with 328,527 inhabitants had 461 homicides, which is a rate of 140.32 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

Last year, Colima was also #1 on the 2022 list.

From 2022 to 2023, Colima’s population decreased and its homicide rate and total went down. In 2022, the population was 330,329, with 601 homicides, at a rate of 181.94 per 100,000 residents.

Ciudad Obregon, also in Mexico, was #2 on the latest list with a rate of 117.83 per 100,000.

Mexico had seven cities in the top 10: #1 Colima, #2 Ciudad Obregon, #4 Zamora, #5 Manzanillo, #6 Tijuana, #7 Zacatecas, and #10 Ciudad Juarez.

Note that #6 Tijuana and #10 Ciudad Juarez are both located on the border with the United States. That should make Americans feel secure.

Other Mexican cities on the list were #12 Celaya, #13 Cuernavaca, #15 Acapulco, #18 Uruapan, #20 Irapuato, #23 Leon, #35 Chihuahua City, #40 Cancun, and #45 Morelia.

In 2022, Mexico had 17 cities in the top 50, while in 2023, it had 16. So I guess you have to say that’s a slight improvement, but still very bad.

Also in 2022, Mexico had nine of the top 10 cities, while in 2023, it had seven. Once again, a slight improvement, but still very bad.

Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince was #3 on the list, with a homicide rate of 117.24 per 100,000.

Ecuador’s largest city Guayaquil was #8 with 88.82 per 100,000.

South Africa’s most violent city was Mandela Bay at #9, with a rate of 78.33 per 100,000.

The most violent city in the U.S.A. was Memphis at #14, with a homicide rate of 69.66 per 100,000.

That means that Memphis is more violent than all but 13 cities in the world.

Memphis was followed by New Orleans at #22, Baltimore at #28, Cleveland at #30, Detroit at #32, and our glorious capital city of Washington, D.C. at #36.

There is a lot of violence in our country and in our hemisphere. Policymakers should do what they can to reduce it.

For starters, I just don’t think that letting in millions of unvetted foreigners is going to improve the situation.

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