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Alec Baldwin reportedly didn't know that the prop gun which killed one and seriously injured another on the set of Rust on Thursday contained live rounds.It better be that, because if it wasn't the accidental discharge of one live round that hit Hutchins and ricocheted into Souza, then it's possible we're looking at the deliberate discharge of at least one, and more likely two, blanks at very close range, suggesting a 'prank gone wrong' that Baldwin will never be able to live down.
The actor is said to have cocked and fired the gun on set of the Western movie and hit the film's director and cinematographer...
"Ultimate responsibility for gun safety on movie set rests with the armorer. There should have been blanks in the gun, the on-set armorer's job is to check that before handing the weapon over. They then make sure that the actor stands on a mark and never points the gun at the crew or cast. The editing makes it seem like they were pointing at their co-actor. That's why everyone in the industry is very confused. How this happened is a total mystery at the moment."One Hollywood union - not that representing Baldwin or the victims, but which represents prop masters on film sets - is claiming with certainty that the gun was loaded with live ammunition, but there's no official confirmation of that yet.
"Ali wasn't a high-flyer, but was a hard-working child, especially good at maths. We had plenty of naughty boys, but he wasn't one of them. He was a good boy, polite and friendly and readily joined in with the other children. I think he was a chess player.Ali later attended Riddlesdown Collegiate School in Purley where he passed A-levels and went on to study at university in 2015.
"I would never have said he was on course for anything other than a positive outcome. He wasn't an isolated child and engaged with his classmates."
"The reason the mandate was put in by [the] president, I believe, was because they wanted to make sure companies had a plan to get their employees vaccinated. A month before the president came out with the mandate, we had already announced our plan to get all of our people vaccinated. And the good news is the plan is working.Back in August, Bastian's memo warned unvaccinated employees enrolled in Delta's health care plan they would be subject to higher premiums to cover increased costs associated with COVID.
"I acknowledged that there will need to be religious and medical accommodations made for those who wish to remain unvaccinated while avoiding having to threaten employment status. By the time we're done, we'll be pretty close to fully vaccinated as a company without going through all the divisiveness of a mandate.
"We're proving that you can work collaboratively with your people, trusting your people to make the right decisions, respecting their decisions and not forcing them over the loss of their jobs."
Comment: The drip-drip-disclosure continues.
As a side-note, this is largely why we've taken the position that nuclear war is not (and never really was) on the cards: 'the UFOS' (the Control System surrounding and interpenetrating our world) disallows it.
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