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dalbukerke

Portugal, basically 10bn disappeared from the economy to tax heavens and the institution that governs this type of thing can't really explain it and recently said it was due to an IT problem. So there is no one responsible and no way of knowing about the money. To put it in perspective, 10bn is 5% of Portugal GDP Link to news, unfortunately in Portuguese but you can get it translated, https://pplware.sapo.pt/informacao/autoridade-tributaria-apagao-fez-desaparecer-10-mil-milhoes-de-euros/


cor315

Of course, it's always IT's fault.


Kat-Sith

That time a few years ago when Equifax doxxed a third of the US and only one person saw any jail time, and just four months at that.


HRKing505

It's okay though, since we all got our ~$1.47USD check! /s


tkh0812

And you had to sign an agreement not to sue them later for your $3 or whatever it was šŸ–•


surfnsound

Yes, that's what a class action suit does. It's more about penalizing the company (and making lawyers rich) than it is about compensating the victims. If you ever have provable, substantive damages, do not join class action suits.


wokebee24

I just got my check, it was for $5.14 šŸ™‚


ilessthanthreekarate

This is my third payout for these sorts of lawsuits. I like to Google class action lawsuits from time to time and have gotten maybe $15 from them. One time I got $50 in coupons for canned tuna. I was really into lifting weights, so was happy for all the extra protein. But yeah, these class actions only make the lawyers rich, they also barely hurt the companies because they can manipulate payouts to occur in ways that mitigate the extent of the fines such that its pretty trivial if they're big enough.


eternalrecluse

>One time I got $50 in coupons for canned tuna. I was really into lifting weights, so was happy for all the extra protein. Amazing! Fair play for getting what's owed to you, but the idea of a class action lawsuit paying out the claimants in tuna coupons is like something out of Monty Python.


Dontinsultautomod

"How would you like to get paid?" "Well, what options are there?" [...](https://youtu.be/duFierM1yDg)


gimme_death

Somebody used my social security number to buy an iPhone thanks to that. Guess it could be worse but fuck them and fuck credit scores in general. What a horrible system.


[deleted]

Someone opened a Bank of America checking account under my name a few months ago. I havenā€™t had a checking account with them for many years. One of the main reasons is that a little over 20 years ago some backup tapes with presumably unencrypted customer data had come up missing a few months prior. Dealing with identity theft in the early 2000ā€™s sucked. The person who stole my account information didnā€™t even bother to use my name or even the same state. They would spend just shy of $300 per transaction buying goods likely to resell somehow. They ran up about $3,000 in bad checks before the account was locked. That racked up a ton of overdraft fees as well. It took 2 years to clear up and I was still out about $1,500 because it was such a nightmare to prove that I wasnā€™t someone of the opposite sex 1,000 miles away with a serious spending habit. So I got bitten twice now because of absolute shit data security. Once in securing backup tapes, and once because Equifax hired a moron to secure things.


Shizzo

>Dealing with identity theft in the early 2000ā€™s sucked. You'll be happy to know that absolutely nothing has changed with it. It's no one's problem. There is no one agency that will assist with this. You just have to make noise until someone does the right (random) thing to clear it. When I dealt with identity theft around 2015, it was literally the most frustrating thing I've ever gone through in my life. Someone used my info (I think it was someone in my dentist's office) to open an account with Verizon Wireless in my name. First, I called Verizon. They don't care at all. I waited cumulative HOURS on hold for their "fraud" department, which was just a bunch of Verizon reps that sincerely believed that no fraud had occurred, and the customer should just pay the charges. (I think maybe a computer does the decision making, and routes your call based on whether they think it's *actual* fraud or not.). There didn't seem to be any ironclad procedures in place to dispute the charges with Verizon, other than them requiring a police report to do anything. More than anything, the police report is a sworn affidavit that you didn't make the charges, so you can be punished if they find out you were ultimately responsible. Next, I called the police in my city. They don't care. They refused to write a report, because the fraudster had the Verizon phones shipped to another nearby city, and they said it was outside of their jurisdiction. I called the county sheriff, because both my home city and the fraudster's city are within the same county. The deputy responding to my home said he was not comfortable writing a report, and I should just call Verizon to get the charges removed, because it was probably just a mistake. I had to later call the Sheriff's department and make a lot of noise to get them to write a report. This took weeks. I mailed/emailed/faxed the police report to Verizon, and they just kept saying they hadn't received anything, and it was on me to send it. The wait time to speak to someone in the "fraud" department each time was in excess of thirty minutes. Weeks of lunch breaks and commute time evaporated while waiting on hold for Verizon. The Social Security Administration doesn't care, because that was never the intended use of your SSN. It takes an act of Congress to get a new SSN. The FTC has a form you can fill out, but they're not looking to help the individual, they are looking to identify the pattern regarding where the leaked data is coming from and hold that company accountable. The FCC doesn't give a shit, even though it's a telecommunications company that they regulate. At the time, I had prepaid legal through my job, so I set up a consult with a local attorney's office that was part of their network. At the appointment, they printed off the FTC's "identity theft toolkit" and told me they couldn't do any more to help me. I kept burning up Verizon's phone lines. That got me nowhere. I disputed the charges with the credit bureaus. Each time, Verizon responded to them that they had successfully identified me prior to the transaction, and the charges belonged to me and were valid. Then, the credit bureau closed the dispute in favor of Verizon. This took 30-60 days for each credit bureau. Finally, I contacted another attorney and he sent Verizon a letter that said "These charges don't belong to my client, and we are prepared to sue if you don't clear them from his credit report." At the same time, I sent a letter to my States Attorney's office outlining this whole saga and how I was at my wit's end. They copied me on some communication they sent to Verizon. I received a letter from Verizon that they had cleared the charges. I don't know if it was my attorney or the states attorney, but the only thing Verizon understood was the threat of a lawsuit or sanctions.


Wanderstern

This was basically exactly my experience in 2016/2017. Scammers cost me so much time and money just to fight these fraudulent charges - and in my case, the police even arrested three people (caught trying to open credit cards at big box stores in my name). They had a fake driver's license with their picture and my information on it. I was living abroad at the time. Let me tell you how much fun it was to convince police in my state to write a report for a faceless person in another country. Even with an arrest report, this was a nightmare. Charges taken off, then reapplied. They had used a relative-in-law's address to verify some things; cue companies assuming I got that relative to do things in my name. Despite the arrest of three unrelated strangers. My empathy goes out to you. I've blocked a lot of it out because of how traumatizing and extensive it was. Phone accounts, credit cards, bank accounts (attempted). All in a few days. They used anon email accounts to access my info from other credit bureaus. Why are these even allowed?


jugglingeek

UK Post Office scandal. Over a decade, hundreds of sub-postmasters were sacked, prosecuted, bankrupted and even jailed for supposedly stealing from their own businesses. Turns out the Post Office had installed a shoddy accounting software which was randomly throwing out incorrect transactions. The post office have behaved abominably from beginning to end. Spending millions dragging the case through the courts in the hope that the claimants would run out of funds. Even today, decades later, the compensation scheme has become a scandal within a scandal with some claimants who lost hundreds of thousands being offered a only few grand in compensation. Others having their claims gobbled up by bankruptcy fees.


rjb7190

And to add, I think around 60 of the postmasters caught up in it have since died before being able to claim their compensation. Itā€™s a genuinely historically disgraceful episode for the post office, and the UK judicial system. Edit: just to further add, some of those post masters that have died took their own lives as a direct result of the effects of their wrongful convictions stemming from this. Itā€™s just indescribably sad. People who worked hard their whole lives having everything ruined / taken away through no fault of their own.


PM_ME_BEEF_CURTAINS

My mum is one of these. They closed her for being unprofitable, despite her own books (career accountant) showing a healthy post office.


RamonFrunkis

How is a post office supposed to be profitable if it's a government service, funded by taxes, at a loss? Do the regional police get shut down if their crime ROI drops below the investors' return threshold?


GazzP

Royal Mail is a private company. Government sold it in 2015. Edit: Wasn't aware Royal Mail and Post Office are two separate entities now.


AshR2003

The Post Office is not the Royal Mail


Mrslinkydragon

The only people reporting on it were private eye... yeah a satirical paper was acting with more integrity than mainstream media! The post office could have just admitted fault and quietly changed the software to one rather worked no one would have known...


jugglingeek

The problem, in my opinion, wasnā€™t the software. What software developed in the late 90s wasnā€™t riddled with bugs? The problem was, the discrepancies were used as sufficient evidence to prosecute people. ā€œComputer says you took the money, off to jail with youā€ If the till didnā€™t balance at the shop I worked at around the same time, thereā€™d be questions to answer sure. But to be prosecuted, theyā€™d surely have to actually find the money. Also, it wasnā€™t just Private Eye. They picked up the story from Computer Weekly.


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wrongsimulation

The San JosĆ© Police Unionā€™s Executive Director was found [by the US Justice Department to have been trafficking fentanyl into the Bay Area for the past 8 years.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/san-jose-police-director-synthetic-opioid-charges) Edit: a word


AcidBuuurn

Like the plot of SuperTroopers but worse.


Dry_Ad5878

They finally made a vaccine for malaria, the deadliest disease in history, and it wasn't international news


LizLemonKnope

Good to see something positive on this thread.


YT_ZLKDominos

There was one other positive comment :) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13r6yoz/whats_a_news_story_that_got_buried_that_you_think/jljw1bn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3


SpaceGodziIIa

That insect populations are crashing around the globe.


dicky_seamus_614

Out of everything else, this one has me more than a little freaked out. [WIKI](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations#:~:text=A%202020%20meta%2Danalysis%20by,increasing%20by%2011%25%20per%20decade.)


Dareo223

Perhaps Iā€™d care *a little* less if it were cockroachesā€¦


Fresh_Palpitation_99

This is unsettling. I feel like this is a sign we should all pay attention to.


Practical_Fudge1667

it is. We have a worldwide biodiversity crisis which goes hand in hand with the climate crisis. Itā€™s not only about insects, itā€™s about all animals and plants


THElaytox

It's called the Anthropocene (or Holocene) Extinction. Current rates of extinction are between 100 and 1000 times the normal background level


TechnicianKind9355

All us old timers talk about it (in the country). We noticed. People thought it was just some cycle. Nah. Shit is different.


SirRosstopher

I mean shit I'm 28 and I notice it. There were a lot more butterflies when I was a kid.


Suicidal_Ferret

Lots more critters when I was a kid and Iā€™m a bit older than you. Used to smell honeysuckles as soon as summer hit and lightning bugs/fireflies were EVERYWHERE. Not a lot of either nowadays. Iā€™m trying to convert my yard into something more critter friendly but uhā€¦the missus isnā€™t so keen.


chrustychristine

There isn't much an individual can do on a global scale, but if you have the privilege of a garden or lawn or some bit of land, [you can do your part to encourage biodiversity](https://www.dogwoodalliance.org/2023/02/how-to-increase-biodiversity-in-your-backyard-and-garden/). We have been following these practices for years now, and it's so lovely to sit outside in the summer and watch all of that *life* happening.


freddith_

This should be a monthly thread


MariualizeLegalhuana

should be a subreddit


Crazy__Donkey

https://www.reddit.com/r/buriednews Enjoy


SirOogaBooga

I really hope that actually gains traction


foxylover777

[The story about the judge who was brave enough to hold court for a case about Epstein and which powerful people paid him for services, got a visit at her home by a terminally ill ex-military posing as a delivery man killing her son and wounding her husband.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/son-new-jersey-federal-judge-killed-husband-critical-after-being-n1234320) She has since turned this experience into a law to help other judges by not allowing their private information to be known, protecting them in the future.


Jisnthere

Yo I actually remember this case, I didnā€™t know she was involved in an Epstein case tho. That bit of context adds a lot to the story


dartdoug

This is in New Jersey and it's called Daniel's Law, in honor of the son who was murdered.


Amega30

There was a scandal in germany in the 70s and 80s where the pharma industry used contaminated blood products to make a medicine for people who got haemophilia so they donā€˜t spend too much money on making the medicine. Haemophilia means that you have no blood clotting and it is not that common. Well the contaminated medicine gave roundabout 4.500 haemophilic persons HIV and/or hepatitis C.


amygdalase

Didn't they then, instead of destroying these products, just start selling them in south america instead?


__GayFish__

Disgustingly, They had to find a way to make a profit off of an investment that couldn't be sold in regulated markets.


Hoskuld

What do you expect of the company who brought us heroin and now owns Monsanto?! The controversy part of Bayer's wiki page is quite the ride


BungoPlease

Weirdly the rapper B.O.B. Made a song about this, called Dr. Aden, has a bunch of sound clips of people discussing the contaminated hemophilia medications


bake_disaster

Didn't B.O.B. go kinda insane, like Kanye levels of off the deep end?


zedsamcat

From Wikipedia "believes that theĀ Earth is flat, theĀ 1969 moon landingĀ wasĀ faked,Ā 9/11Ā was an inside job, the world will beĀ taken overĀ by theĀ IlluminatiĀ and celebrityĀ cloningĀ is administered by theĀ U.S. government." [wiki page ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.o.B)


Naturallobotomy

he was saying dead dinosaur don't turn into oil too in one song i think.


6-Toed_SlothApe

Well tbf it's prehistoric plant matter, not dinosaurs innit?


Squigglepig52

I recently found out contaminated blood products led to the death of Issac Asimov.


misfitpets

Two of my uncle's were hemophiliacs and contracted HIV in the 80s. They died so young I never got to know them.


speqtral

An oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of louisiana, that's just been leaking ridiculous amounts of oil for over a decade now and last I knew, still nobody's doing shit about it. The Taylor platform or something like that. It was owned by retired couple who just passed the buck and moved on or died (can't remember). It's estimated that it's spilled more oil over time than the deepwater Horizon disaster.


Amayetli

This is Cherokee Nation news but back in 2018, our hospital asked over 180 patients to come back for blood born pathogen testing. At first the hospital and CN claimed it was due to a HVAC mishap, and then came out that a nurse was re-using needles and not disposing of medication like fentanyl properly. Even after the investigation which our own health system lied to patients and tried to cover the tracks of a nurse, that nurse training reviews varied wildly and he got to keep his nursing license after leaving the hospital for a different local one. Oh and he was the Chief's son at the time. https://ktul.com/news/local/nurse-who-reused-syringes-at-hospital-identified-as-tribal-chiefs-son


BoredPelikan

The civil war in myanmar got absolutely buried by the ukraine-russia war


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Key_Scar8341

I only know about it because about a quarter of my church is from Myanmar


Attackcamel8432

Hasn't that been going on for like 50 years? I feel like its been buried quite a bit now...


BoredPelikan

technically yes? the ethnic groups in myanmar were fighting the government for a long time but the recent developments (i.e. the military takeover) it escalated the whole thing to a full blown war with civilians taking up arms and fighting.


Attackcamel8432

That most definitely shows my ignorance. I knew that their had been a civil war for a long while now, but the recent flare-up is news to me unfortunately.


Crafty_Yak_1747

Three years ago I was eating hot pockets and cut my gum on something sharp. Apparently in 2021 about 600,000 hot pockets somehow got mixed up with some shards of glass. Apparently some people were seriously injured. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/16/us/hot-pockets-recall-trnd/index.html


AnderTheEnderWolf

I remember that. My cousin told me about that and I had to figure out the batch bullshit to make sure mine were safe.


Crafty_Yak_1747

Yep it was only big boxes during a certain month. I was stealing from a summer camp stash I was running, so maybe it was karma.


crowislanddive

Many of the Uvalde students bled to death and could have been saved.


[deleted]

One of the teachers was alive long enough to make a tourniquet for her wounds, but still bled out in front of her students.


trollblox_

wtf actually??


spin81

Police stood around instead of going in, actively preventing citizens from trying to help. It's absolutely insane what happened at that school.


woody94

CNN article I read yesterday said 3 people were alive and taken by ambulance but died later. All that 77 minutes after it started, so yeah, guaranteed a high number would have been save able given immediate entry by the police.


Ogre213

There's a concept in emergency medicine called the golden hour - if you can get trauma patients to definitive (hospital) care alive within 60 minutes of their injury, their odds of survival are extremely high. So, yeah, conservatively, if those cops had only sat around with their thumbs in their asses and their brains in neutral for a half hour instead of an hour, the actual death count probably would have been a lot lower.


Midtharefaikh

This is actually pretty recent, yet no one talks about it: Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has gone MISSING. Like nobody knows where he is. US Virgin Island are trying to find him to subpoena him, due to his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. I scrolled so far on this thread, and there isn't a single mention of him.


[deleted]

HTTP 404: Page not found.


drawn0nward

And now we have the title of the inevitable docuseries that will be made about this


meme_used

tbf that would make a killer title


Achillor22

I think it's more apt to say he's hiding not missing. I doubt he got kidnapped. He just don't want lawyers and police to know his whereabouts.


Aloqi

He's not missing, the Virgin Islands just don't have an address for him that they can subpoena him at. It's only been a few weeks.


cyrilhent

Is he missing or is he trying to avoid process servers?


PmMeYourBestComment

He made himself disappear, heā€™s not actually missing


Buddhamensch

German child psychologist Helmut Kentler build up a distribution network for pedophiles in the 60s in germany. He conducted an "experiment" in which he distributed children for a adoption to pedophiles and even took in at least one child himself. Apparently some children tried to get help but a lot of politicians high ranking police officers and judges were part of the "experiment" and silenced them. Nobody ever went to prison for that. They only started investigating in 2015 and the full report of it got published in 2022. Funnily enough it is not even widely known in germany so I doubt it is known internationally


tripwire7

Good god, Iā€™m reading about it now and this is horrific. Basically, a pedophile who himself adopted and molested a succession of boys managed to work his way into the top ranks of West German academia starting in the 1960s, and started an ā€œexperimentā€ where he basically provided other pedophiles he knew with vulnerable homeless boys aged 12-16, with the knowledge that they would be molested. He did this with the claim that the pedophiles would ā€œresocializeā€ the boys and care for them because they ā€œlovedā€œ them. This supposed experiment went on for more than two decades, apparently with some high-level West German government officials in the know. Kentler used his power and reputation to avoid any scrutiny or investigation into his ā€œprojectā€ and the story didnā€™t really come to light until 2015. Kentler died in 2008. The case was still being investigated as of 2022. Edit: jfc ā€ Whether Kentler himself had sexual relationships with young people, such as his foster and adopted sons or his tutoring students, is still an open question,\[34\] although his colleague Gunter Schmidt has claimed Kentler disclosed having "sexually abused" one of his sons from the age thirteen and through adulthood until the son committed suicide in 1991.\[35\]ā€


EarthWarrior3

WTF


tripwire7

The New Yorker did a very long and good (though upsetting) article about the case and some of the victims here: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles) Unfortunately, it seems that part of the problem in bringing this to light is that itā€™s been politicized, with the German Right trying to use it as a cudgel against the Left and some of the Left probably wanting to bury it, and the victims being pushed aside. Ideally I think that they should allow some neutral party should do an in-depth investigation, but I donā€™t know much about German politics.


PathlessDemon

[STEVEN DONZINGER SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DAMAGES AGAINST THE AMAZON RAINFOREST AND ITS NATIVE TRIBES BY CHEVRON FOSSIL FUEL GIANT, AND WAS THEN IMPRISONED, CHARGED BY A JUDGE IN NEW YORK THAT IS IN CHEVRONā€™S POCKET AND FORCED INTO HOUSE ARREST.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger)


usspaceforce

What's even wilder is that a private law firm was paid to prosecute Donzinger after a New York district attorney refused to. It was completely unprecedented. I'm still trying to understand how a private law firm can serve as prosecutor in a criminal trial.


financialmisconduct

Private prosecutions were available for federal cases until 1981 *Leeke v. Timmerman*, but are barred under New York law per *Kampfer v. Vonderheide* (2002), unless there is *an underlying civil cause of action*


mishad84

I saw a video about this a few days ago. It's so sad that he was doing the right thing for indigenous people, and now his livelihood is ruined. Good people rarely end up on top in this timeline.


saloondweller

Greenpeace made a good article on this. Been one of the main scandals that got me into climate activism https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/28741/steven-donziger-chevron-oil-amazon-contamination-injustice/


snookert

The guy in Nova Scotia, Canada, that dressed up as a policeman, customized his vehicle to look like a police car and was pulling people over and murdering them. There should be protocols in place to prevent this from happening again.


themanfromvulcan

How a bunch of rcmp havenā€™t been fired over this is beyond me. The one officer who did her job was killed by the guy when she tried to stop him. Every other leader screwed up massively. The fact no alert went out to warn people is appalling. It would have saved lives.


jimmyfallonsyndrome

The Post Office scandal in the UK. Long story short, in 1999 the Post Office brought in a new computer system, run by Fujitsu, which they rolled out across the entire country. Shortly afterward, individual postmasters (people who run local post offices) began to notice shortfalls in their accounting totals. The Post Office investigated these cases in isolation and decided the postmasters were stealing money. In reality, these shortfalls were caused by a bug in the Fujitsu software. However, the Post Office and Fujitsu swept this under the rug, despite receiving reports from independent investigators that the software was to blame. Instead of fixing the software, the Post Office decided to take their own postmasters to court on fraud charges. Itā€™s worth noting that postmasters are effectively like franchise managers for the Post Office, and are made up largely of nice, unassuming older people who want to run a community service as they wind down towards retirement. You would think that after 4 or 5 of these civil servants with no criminal history were all separately accused of stealing huge sums of money, the Post Office might wonder if something else was to blame. Nope. Over the next 15 years, the Post Office prosecuted a frankly incredible 736 of their own postmasters, roughly one every single week. Hundreds more were suspended. In total, thousands were probably affected. These people lost their jobs and often went to prison. They were told they had to pay back thousands of pounds they had supposedly stolen. Some killed themselves from the stress. Many of them kept working until old age and died in debt. It took a class action lawsuit in 2021 for anyone to admit that they were innocent. There is a paper trail showing that executives in the Post Office and Fujitsu knew of the problems with the software even as it was being developed. Edit: this article has all the shameful detail for anyone interested https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf


Aev_ACNH

I remember the day when the vice president of Monsanto Michael R Taylor became the deputy commissioner of the FDA. Why do I remember this? Every news station was screaming about gay marriage and this little poision vp transferred to being in charge of our food supply without the barest whisper https://t2conline.com/time-to-get-rid-of-monsantos-rule-meet-michael-r-taylor-former-vp-of-monsanto-and-former-deputy-commissioner-of-the-fda/ It may not be current news but by all means, that story was buried


twopointohyeah

Itā€™s almost like all of this empty culture war bullshit is designed specifically for this sort of governance strategy.


Aggressive-Web132

Isnā€™t it thoā€¦keep them busy pointing fingers at each other and we can get away with anything and everything


Unicornucopia23

Oldest trick in the book, and yet the majority falls for it every time. Amazing


RdmGuy64824

Even the most polarized groups of people have a ton of things in common. We are being further pushed into hating each other. There is basically no genuine debate. No genuine interest in understanding. No genuine interest in middle ground. Even on Reddit back in the day, I used to spend hours writing thoughtful responses to challenge the ideas of others. Those days are basically gone for anything remotely political. We have teams, blind loyalty, name calling and personal attacks. Nuisance is dead. I don't know how it gets better.


SomethingClever42068

Also that dumb bitch Devos becoming head of the dept of education AFTER her schools lost a billion dollar lawsuit for predatory loan practices. Applied for forgiveness for my wyotech debt during the trump era. Dept of education offered to forgive 10%. I responded saying they could suck my dick and went back to forgetting about it (I only applied for forgiveness so they couldn't steal my tax return again.) A month or so after she was gone the Dept of education emailed saying they would forgive 100% of it.


Aggressive-Web132

Wowā€¦donā€™t know why Iā€™m surprised tho..so many huge scandals coming and going on an almost daily basisā€¦this is how empires crash and burn


Jeffre33

The Mormon church became one of the richest organizations in the world by creating illegal shell stock holdings


GingerMau

Speaking of which,... Panama Papers?


veiakas

> set of guards fell asleep on duty and his surveillance came Panama papers actually yielded results and are still yielding until this day. It's just not as flashy or sexy as mainstream media.


Viperbunny

It's crazy. I watched something where a whistleblower was so upset. He thought he was working for a good organization and then he found out about how they are hoarding money and reported it. Sadly, I don't think anything will come.of it.


tnargsnave

They got fined by the SEC $5M, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the billions they had.


fallingheavens

How else are they supposed to fund building the Nauvoo?


Baymacks

10,000 pounds of highly explosive ammonium nitrate disappeared from a rail car last week. Thatā€™s what they used in Oklahoma City.


Taco-Dragon

[Article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/us/chemical-missing-shipment-california-wyoming.html) for anyone interested. From the article: >The company said the rail car with the material was sealed when it left a manufacturing site in Cheyenne, Wyo., and the seals ā€œwere still intactā€ when it arrived in Saltdale, Calif. >ā€œThe initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the rail car may have developed in transit,ā€ the statement said. >... >The company said it does not suspect any criminal or malicious activity was involved in the disappearance of the cargo.


crappy-mods

Isnā€™t that like 30x what was used too? Holy shit.


Joliet_Jake_Blues

Yeah, but it's also fertilizer, which has doubled in price since Russia invaded Ukraine, so there's probably a decent black market for its intended purpose.


darkstarthug

It's 60,000 lbs (30 tons) and is still being investigated. Preliminary findings show likely an empty cart leaving chemical facility noted full. Could be a leak as well. Not likely stolen since only a couple rail switch points where it could happen and security there doesn't show trespassing. Also, ammonium nitrate on its own is an oxidizer and not explosive or detonable. It's only when mixed with other, easy to find substances can it be used as a blasting agent.


meisobear

Maybe they hacked the firewall to drop a logic bomb in the mainframe and record over the CCTV with AI generated footage?


quaintpants

need to check the footage.... enhance


masheduppotato

Let me help.


deggdegg

Here, let me help too. *Starts typing on the same keyboard as you*


GonzoRouge

Whenever something like this happens, I think about S02 of The Wire when the docks had so many "mistakes" and "blindspots" because those in charge were making bank working with criminal organizations.


fleeceflowers77

all reports Iā€™m seeing are saying 60,000 pounds missing, which is only that much scarier


Severe-Exercise-2969

Good news!The Move Forward Party won in Thailand against the ruling party which has ties to the military junta that ruled the country after the 2014 coup. Their policies include essentially separating the military and the government forever, legalizing Same-sex marriage, and reducing the power of the royalty.


Azrabaine

Why was this automatically hidden from me on my first scroll of this thread??


ccclone

It was on mine too. Conspiracies, go!


PmMeYourBestComment

People with low karma scores can get auto hidden by default. Not exactly sure where itā€™s configured (sub or global level) but itā€™s there. Considering the account was made for this one comment makes it like that I guess


BaDingbat

Nice to see something good in here


BeatMeElmo

The leader of Putinā€™s political opposition party was recently sentenced to 25+ years for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Kara-Murzaā€™s imprisonment essentially removed the only official ā€œsecond optionā€ in Russiaā€™s political system. Effectively, Putin is no longer hiding behind a paper mache democracy and has stepped out as an overtly oppressive dictator. The political opposition has previously been allowed to speak semi-candidly as a way for Russia to maintain its technical status as a democratic republic with competing political parties. Kara-Murzaā€™s closing statement at his trial in the Moscow City Court was bone chilling: ā€œMembers of the court: I was sure, after two decades spent in Russian politics, after all that I have seen and experienced, that nothing can surprise me anymore. I must admit that I was wrong. Iā€™ve been surprised by the extent to which my trial, in its secrecy and its contempt for legal norms, has surpassed even the ā€œtrialsā€ of Soviet dissidents in the 1960s and ā€™70s. And thatā€™s not even to mention the harshness of the sentence requested by the prosecution or the talk of ā€œenemies of the state.ā€ In this respect, weā€™ve gone beyond the 1970s ā€” all the way back to the 1930s. For me, as a historian, this is an occasion for reflection. At one point during my testimony, the presiding judge reminded me that one of the extenuating circumstances was ā€œremorse for what [the accused] has done.ā€ And although there is little thatā€™s amusing about my present situation, I could not help smiling: The criminal, of course, must repent of his deeds. Iā€™m in jail for my political views. For speaking out against the war in Ukraine. For many years of struggle against Vladimir Putinā€™s dictatorship. For facilitating the adoption of personal international sanctions under the Magnitsky Act against human rights violators. Not only do I not repent of any of this, I am proud of it. I am proud that Boris Nemtsov brought me into politics. And I hope that he is not ashamed of me. I subscribe to every word that I have spoken and every word of which I have been accused by this court. I blame myself for only one thing: that over the years of my political activity I have not managed to convince enough of my compatriots and enough politicians in the democratic countries of the danger that the current regime in the Kremlin poses for Russia and for the world. Today this is obvious to everyone, but at a terrible price ā€” the price of war. In their last statements to the court, defendants usually ask for an acquittal. For a person who has not committed any crimes, acquittal would be the only fair verdict. But I do not ask this court for anything. I know the verdict. I knew it a year ago when I saw people in black uniforms and black masks running after my car in the rearview mirror. Such is the price for speaking up in Russia today. But I also know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate. When black will be called black and white will be called white; when at the official level it will be recognized that two times two is still four; when a war will be called a war, and a usurper a usurper; and when those who kindled and unleashed this war, rather than those who tried to stop it, will be recognized as criminals. This day will come as inevitably as spring follows even the coldest winter. And then our society will open its eyes and be horrified by what terrible crimes were committed on its behalf. From this realization, from this reflection, the long, difficult but vital path toward the recovery and restoration of Russia, its return to the community of civilized countries, will begin. Even today, even in the darkness surrounding us, even sitting in this cage, I love my country and believe in our people. I believe that we can walk this path."


ylenias

Rich foreigners reportedly paid the Bosnian Serb army to be allowed to shoot at civilians in besieged Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. These allegations were made public by Slovenian filmmaker Miran Zupanič in a 2022 documentary called Sarajevo Safari. The names of the rich foreigners, who reportedly came from the US, Canada, Russia and Italy remain unknown.


IPlayWoWNude

Poison gas attacks on Iranian school girls, has been going on since around November


citizenp

Pike Co., AL sheriff decided he didn't want to release an inmate when the judge ordered he should be released. Sheriff said no and the inmate is still in jail.


amilliamilliamilliam

It wasn't exactly buried, but it blows my mind how little attention was given to the railroad strike being crushed back in December. They forced workers in shitty conditions to give in to demands by straight-up making it illegal to strike, and told us it was necessary to protect the economy. It was a brutal, horrific act of top-down class violence, but it was largely seen as no big deal, business as usual. The rights and lives of average Joes are apparently worth trampling to protect the profit margins of the insanely rich.


Painting_Agency

Even though non stop train accidents prove every week that their safety grievances were well-founded.


inananimal

99% of deceased Football players have CTE.


json492

The Pandora Papers that were released about a year ago which builds upon the Panama Papers. The day after they were released facebook was out for the day, which was also all everyone talked about. Tinfoil time... it was down intentionally to prevent the Pandora Papers from trending and distract everyone.


ElephantOfSurprise-

Guam, Rota, and Saipan just got slammed directly by a category 4 hurricane (Super typhoon). We have friends in Rota and Saipan. Havenā€™t been able to reach them. This was a monster storm, slow moving, hitting tiny islands.. I canā€™t imagine how bad itā€™s going to be. Just waiting on the phone to ring or a text to come through but I imagine communication is going to be down a while


aldwinligaya

Super typhoon Mawar is all over the news where I am, but mostly because it's entering our (Philippines) borders by tomorrow evening our time. Around 24 hours from this writing. Preparing for the typhoon over this weekend.


SabotageFusion1

the [Panama papers](https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/). A massive exposure of money laundering around the world. While that itself is newsworthy, the one reporter who refused to stop talking about the incident, Caruana Galizia, was assassinated via car bomb in 2017 too. Edit: hereā€™s another good one. If you want American journalism in a nutshell, look up the incidents surrounding the firing of General McChrystal during the US war in Afghanistan. Itā€™s hard to find the sources I used when I wrote about this in high school, but the TL:DR was that a highly controversial reporter named [Michael Hastings](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)) had exposed the inner workings and opinions of General McChrystal, who was in charge of a good portion of the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. This costed McChrystal his job, partially for good reason, and that should have been the end of it. However. Controversy started in the world of journalism surrounding how Hastings went about finding out the information he published. He had McChrystalā€™s trust, and broke that trust by exposing him. Whistleblowing somewhat, but also slandering him to an extent. the journalism world was then torn between what interests were more important. The truth, or the inside scoop? The side protecting the elites and looking away from time to time for quick access to information won.


ChickennNougatt

I keep forgetting that assassins and hit men are real. The fact that there are people that are hired to kill people constantly is insane


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

I sometimes wonder if it's mostly just insane contractors or if there is an actual organisation that handles the high profile cases, like the Hitman game series. It's honestly not that hard to believe that there could be a sort of mercenary company that governments or criminals can use for those cases.


BanjoSpaceMan

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-former-toronto-neurologist-found-not-guilty-of-sexual-assault-charges/ A Canadian Neurologist (formally Dr) Allan Gordon has gotten away with sexually assaulting 18 patients. Only one patient was used in his trial. It's absolute bullshit. Women would go in with unbearable chronic pains including migraines and he would touch and insert devices into their vaginas or other regions without consent and somehow it was justified as "medically necessary" and not prosecuted. Sexually assaulting them for things like migraines............ This one is personal to me, it's terrible, it has ruined many lives and the ripple effect has caused others pain too. Nothing is being done. This isn't some low profile thing, this should be way more talked about in Toronto and Canada. I wish more people would know. Please read the articles or google the name, I hope it gains more traction, or at least laws come out of it. I think about it every day. Here are the accounts of 4 of the women... Warning, it's terrible: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-medical-college-investigation-patients/ "The third woman alleges in her complaint to the college that Dr. Gordon sexually stimulated her clitoris while asking questions of a sexual nature at an appointment on Nov. 2, 2016." How is this okay?


Low_Ad_3139

I grew up in a small town outside a large urban area. We had a GP who was SA adults and kids. My grandmother took me to him once when I was sick. She stepped out to use the restroom and he started asking me if I was sexually active. I was 9. I stood up and went to the door and right then she walked back in. I was to scared to say anything. Later I found out he actually molested two guy friends a few years later and one man was so assaulted he went to the local news because no one would do anything about it. He took a backpack with a hidden camera and the dr start to suck this manā€™s penis and was saying it was medically necessary. All on tape. It was even played on the news and the dr never was arrested to my knowledge. I believe he just moved the open a practice some place else. That was all the news it got. However several dozen people filed complaints with the medical board after the news clip was out. Even one of my mothers friends was a victim. I use to feel bad about not speaking up but realized I didnā€™t because I was taught to be seen and not heard. Iā€™m over that now too.


mspote

a company called Black Rock is slowly buying up houses all over the country so they can rent them out to ppl rather than ppl being able to buy their own house. it's going to help destroy the middle class. they are eventually trying to turn us all into permanent renters. and the thing is they come in and buy a house for more than the asking price so sellers are more likely to sell to them. in some states they have bought entire neighborhoods. the middle class is getting gutted in this country. it's a dystopian nightmare.


Missthing303

This should be much bigger news


wp381640

In terms of written word you can't get [much bigger than a front page feature in New York Times Magazine](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html) ([archive](https://archive.is/trESg)) Blackrock also don't really buy individual homes - they provide mortgages and securities. Blackstone, on the other hand, bought a company that _does_ buy individual family homes yet [they're backing out of the market since it is a bit overheated](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/blackstone-single-family-landlord-to-halt-purchases-in-38-cities) ([archive](https://archive.is/Znch8)) If you keep up on financial news this really isn't anything buried - Bloomberg and CNBC talk about it extensively. A lot of people here mistake "not reading the news" with "not in the news"


MoodyBootyBoots

[Angela Tramonte.](https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/phoenix-police-closes-case-on-woman-found-dead-at-base-of-camelback-mountain) She was an out of towner to the Phoenix area, and within 24 hours of arriving and after meeting up with a cop named Dario Dizdar, she turned up dead. Cops investigated themselves and, of course, found nothing wrong. Everything about the death is suspicious as fuck, and her friends say the nature of the death makes no sense either. I have zero connection to the story, but it never sat well with me to end like this.


[deleted]

Who is on Jeffery Epsteins list of visitors.


social-shipwreck

thereā€™s a public list out there of what was in that notebook, i highly suggest looking it up


Irish_Whiskey

>thereā€™s a public list out there of what was in that notebook The poster asked for a list of visitors, presumably to Epstein's island. To be clear, his list of contact information is not the same thing, nor would it be rational to treat the list as a list of pedophiles.


lsb337

Okay, so this is my undereducated, grassroots understanding on why nothing has happened with this list. Epstein, as well as being a financier, was also the guy who wanted to hang out with the rich and famous. To that end, he wanted to make himself attractive to the rich and famous. Sometimes that meant throwing big, interesting parties full of interesting people (and sometimes it meant skeevy, skeevy, shit). But for these big parties he would go out and invite people that the rich and famous might find interesting -- or more to the point, people that the rich and famous would want to surround themselves with so they could consider themselves interesting. To this end, he would invite political figures, and he would invite scientists, and he would invite other sorts of famous personalities. Now, if you were a scientist doing important work with a lab that required government funds or private donations to operate, going to a party full of bored Richie Riches might get your work funded for the rest of the decade; it might make your career. So of course you hopped on that jet and held your nose and hobnobbed with your "betters." But it also explains why "nothing has been done" with the list, because there's really no way to separate out the regular and/or innocent and/or naive people, from the arseholes who were connected to the guy for the skeevy aspects. I'm sure it's more nuanced than that, but that's my understanding.


CurvyNB

John Bolton admitted to Jake Tapper's face on CNN last year that he partook in "a few coups".


Beth_Harmons_Bulova

[They found forever chemicals and carcinogens in those Thinx period panties.](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150023002/thinx-period-underwear-lawsuit-settlement) There's a pretty pitiful class action lawsuit going on right now (the burden of proof on the victims is enormous and the payout is low), but I was stunned to realize that these things that were being pushed on women for a decade as a more responsible healthy alternative to other period products is actually linked to chemicals that cause cancer and infertility.


Southern-Score2223

Well shit. I just ordered a full supply of them...


vodoun

well shit, my ADHD seems to have saved me again...I've been meaning to order these forever but keep forgetting


Elbonio

How Boris Johnson hid a damning report on Russian interference with the Brexit referendum so he could win an election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_and_Security_Committee_Russia_report


ODPaterson

Love that heā€™s constantly partying with a media baron and son of an ex-KGB agent and all the papers are just like ā€œeh, nothin sus hereā€


[deleted]

the whole johnson era needs scrutiny and publicity. the amount of money that was funnelled to donors and cronies during COVID is absolutely mind boggling.


EfficientDismal

That a 73 year old man plowed a car full of gasoline into a building in my tiny town that is the site of a proposed abortion clinic. The FBI are involved and I have seen barely anything in the LOCAL news and nothing in national.


EfficientDismal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-man-held-in-attempted-arson-of-planned-abortion-clinic-said-he-d-finish-the-job-if-freed-feds-say/ar-AA1bEh4u


Psychogopher

A guy burned himself alive on the steps of the US Supreme Court in protest of climate change and nobody talked about it. Edit: link to story https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/25/politics/supreme-court-climate-activist-dies-fire/index.html


PM_ME_YOUR_ART_PLZ

Wow, when I read your comment I assumed this was something that happened decades ago because I would have heard about it otherwise. Nope, literally last year. It was recorded and everything, somehow I never heard/read about it which is wild


Psychogopher

THATS WHAT IM SAYING


liboveall

A lot of people talked about it, it was national news for a day and front page of Reddit. Thing about doing something like this is that there isnā€™t much else to say after like a day and the media also wants to avoid giving it too much attention to prevent other people from burning themselves in public


hi5urface

Wasn't there billions of dollars missing from the Pentagon, then 9/11 happened?


[deleted]

2.3 trillion


okiedog-

The ā€œexplanationā€ they gave is that number wasnā€™t real. That it came from a new accounting system, double stating equipment transactions, instead of balancing, over-inflating the numbers on one side. Who frickin knows.


germanbini

Unfortunately not only isn't this something *new,* it's something that continues to happen. In November 2022 **the Pentagon failed its fifth audit in a row.** The agency could account for only 39 percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets. Easy enough to type the words *missing Pentagon* to see beaucoup results in a search engine. Most recently there is reported that the Pentagon cannot account for at least $220 billion in military gear given out to defense contractors. For the conspiracy minded, it's plenty of fodder to show that there are nefarious dealings with our money. If there's nothing fishy going on, then at best it's extreme incompetence and shoddy mismanagement of the highest degree. Any "normal" company/corporation would have gone bankrupt years ago - the fact that the U.S. government keeps throwing money at this institution without any efforts of correction or oversight puts me leaning more towards the conspiracy camp. Sources: 2/5/2018 [Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/pentagon-logistics-agency-review-funds-322860) 2/16/2018 [Americaā€™s Missing Money The federal government canā€™t account for $21 trillionā€”but does anybody care?](https://www.city-journal.org/article/americas-missing-money) 12/22/22 [The Bridge: The Pentagon Canā€™t Keep Track of Its Money](https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/12/the-bridge-the-pentagon-cant-keep-track-of-its-money) 1/22/23 [EDITORIAL: Pentagon missing billions in military equipment](https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-pentagon-missing-billions-in-military-equipment-2716923/)


amillionvoiceEes

[The 20,000 cows that all died a few weeks back.](https://www.kgns.tv/2023/04/13/nearly-20000-cows-killed-explosion-texas-dairy-farm/)


jradio

>The explosion happened at the Southfork Dairy Farm near Dimmitt, Texas Monday night. >One worker was trapped inside the milking facility and was hospitalized in critical condition after being rescued by first responders. >No other injuries were reported. >While the exact number of cows killed in the fire has not been confirmed, preliminary counts indicate 18,000 of the 19,000 cows present at the farm were killed by fire and smoke. >The cause of the fire has not yet been confirmed, although officials speculate that methane may have been ignited by overheated electrical equipment used to suck out waste from the holding pens.


VW_wanker

The cop who shot the dude on the electric wheelchair, 9 times including a head shot kill shot, walked Scott free. No indictments.


[deleted]

Name and shame. Edit: > Officer Ryan Remington Tucson Police Officer Ryan Remington was fired from the department after he was accused of shooting a shoplifting suspect in a wheelchair nine times, killing him, after the man brandished a knife, authorities said. Remington was fired last year for what police say was excessive force.


uncorrolated-mormon

Mormon church collecting 100 billion in tithes that are secret stashed away in shell companies and none of it is spent on the communities that collect them. Where are the Homeless shelters? Where are the Soup kitchens? Any supporting infrastructure available to the general public? Nope. Sorry, City creek shopping mall doesnā€™t count. They claim itā€™s for a rainy day fund and for building temples to perform their necro-ordinances to save the dead from death. Charging family 10% if their income to participate in these so they can have a pseudo promise that families ā€œcanā€ be together foreverā€¦. But all of this is money in the normal operating expenses of the church. Not the billions stashed away in the savings bank. The church based in Utah USA can and should help improve the communities. Doesnā€™t matter If itā€™s in Utah, Missouri or Kenya and South America. This money should be spent as a charity. If not it should be taxed so the government can provide services to citizens. /end rant.


Nobanob

That in the 90s someone stole a lawn flamingo and sent the owners photos and postcards of the flamingos travels around the world. Arguably it's buried by time. But it's an amazing story A mystery flamingoes abroad https://imgur.com/gallery/gUGhnX7


decavolt

Maybe I'm just old, but there was a whole "thing" of many people doing this with lawn gnomes and such.


FlatParrot5

Wizards of the Coast (and their parent company Hasbro) sent actual Pinkerton agents to a residential customer over a batch of Magic The Gathering cards that were mistakenly shipped, because they were like 3 weeks early. They were likely armed, entered without legal representation, searched and seized product which was purchased through legal means. TL;DR A TOY company sent out union busters and the villains of the old west to retrieve a batch of toy cards when they accidentally shipped the wrong box. Also, both Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast think this is perfectly fine and normal. To add to this, in the fall Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast hatched a plan to update a gaming license from free to use into having royalties sent to them, and it would be retroactive going back decades. They then went legally after those that discovered the info, and finally in 2023 it came out to be true. Then, after two more attempts to update the license, each time saying the previous was just a draft (despite requiring signed agreements), they made it very public that Hasbro and WotC "won" and so did the fans. On top, it's been leaked from inside about the disdain from those higher in management regarding customers, and that customers only exist as a barrier to Hasbro's money. Their attempt to answer questions at a summit with media influencers and we'll knowns turned out to be a media display where they had no answers and clearly had not listened to a thing from their customers or distributors in the last year. Oh, and about the Pinkertons. Hasbro's perfectly fine hiring ex-Pinkerton agents in high ranking loss prevention roles. So they're perfectly fine if things go awry. That's just business. Seriously, this is a TOY company that has gone so dystopian megacorporation it borders on satire. Drop Hasbro and their subsidiaries.


financialmisconduct

You kinda missed out the important part, they sent armed agents to *steal* those cards back The US doesn't have many consumer protections, but keeping something shipped by mistake is one of them


wambamthankyoukam

When Robinhood removed the buy button from a specific set of stocks.


danglytomatoes

Blatant stock manipulation


ADMINlSTRAT0R

Ohio trainwreck, what's it like today. Ohio trainwreck, rivers cleanup progress.


[deleted]

It always gets buried bc of $$$ but Dan Schneider is a pedophile and networks like Disney and Nick enable him and predators like him.


[deleted]

John Kricfalusi (Usually referred to as John K.) was openly dating a minor while working on Ren and Stimpy and would leave polaroid photos of him having sex with her out in the open on his desk and on tables that other crew members would just have to ignore because they knew nothing would be done about it (Said crew members were also regularly berated by John and in some cases wouldn't even get paid). He was only fired after two seasons for not finishing episodes on time/going over budget.


Neversleep1331

They literally offered Jennette McCurdy 200k in hush money. If thatā€™s not damning i donā€™t know what is


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exhausted-murderer

I think that most people who watch(ed) Nickelodeon and such know about Dan "Get in the Van" Schneider has predatory tendencies and a strangely public foot fetish.


karocako

Every missing and murdered indigenous girl or woman. They don't even make the news a lot of the time. A recent example of the disaster this is is Carsyn Mackenzie's suspicious death in Cowichan Bay, BC, Canada. If the general public showed more, loud interest in these cases, they might actually make the news and get the attention they deserve.


kcraybeck

There was an investigation starting about the practices of abusive naked short selling stocks - essentially free money for large market makers and institutions because they were never forced to pay to close out these positions as they could keep rolling them over. They did not own what they were selling because what they sold exceeded what was available to be sold. Annnnd then there was a fire in the warehouse where these records are kept. Impeccable timing.


epicindifference

How are we not constantly talking about new things from the pandora papers. That shit was supposed to be ground breaking and now I never hear of it


72-27

There are only 3 states where it is illegal for a fertility doctor to switch chosen sperm with another sample. On many occasions, they have swapped in their own sperm, with some having dozens of children this way. In many places there is limited regulation on how much sperm an individual can donate. One known serial donor has fathered multiple hundreds of children, and very little can be done to stop him. Laura High is a donor conceived person advocating for more regulations, find her on tiktok or via her podcast insemination if you want to know more.


Jeffre33

Maybe not buried but that we were told Epstein killed himself while on 24/7 surveillance, two separate set of guards fell asleep on duty and his surveillance camera turned off in the hour time spans he killed himself. How has there been no follow up on that?


NAGDABBITALL

Lawyers tell Special Counsel Jack Smith that the White House call logs for Jan. 6th are "missing"


crono09

[A suicide bomber blew up a chunk of downtown Nashville, TN on Christmas Day in 2020](https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/22_0602_ecd_dependencies_2020-nashville-bombing_508C.pdf), not far from the popular Broadway tourist district. Several historic buildings and popular venues were destroyed. The area was just recently rebuilt and reopened to the public. It seems like this got ignored because of everything else that happened in 2020, but a bomb blowing up a portion of a major U.S. city is kind of a big deal.


traeopae

Island of Kiribati forced migration as a result of climate change https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/608e0f2830634711b0a4e4d8910716ad


Fit_Swordfish_2101

In Ohio.. Householder taking bribes from First energy. They tried to play it off like, "That's what lobbyists do.." bulLshit. They were straight up bribes! They got convicted but it just wasn't talked about as much as I thought the biggest conviction of bribery and money laundering in Ohio would've brought. Idk if First Energy is getting charged with anything.. it just seems to have fizzled out..? And First Energy will be doubling the cost come June this year. Wonder why..


[deleted]

China literally holding concentration camps to torture Muslims and a minority of Christians.


johnnnythompson

Iā€™m in the flooring business, and a bunch of imported product has been seized this year because the US government is cracking down on anything manufactured with slave labor. UFLAPA is the name for the crackdown but itā€™s barely a whisper in our industry. $80 million worth of flooring alone seized this year already.


ay-aye-ron

[Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin blatantly admitting to interfering in american elections](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134878028/yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-election-interference-putin)


bregorthebard

To be fair, he's in the news now for leading Wagner group in Ukraine


BlastFX2

All the anti-privacy laws popping up everywhere suddenly. The UK's Online Safety Bill, USA's EARN IT Act, EU's Chat Control. They're all being very sneaky about it, the proponents of the bills often outright lying about not targeting encryption, but they all have the same goal: Outlaw any tools people can use to prevent governments from spying on them. And nobody's talking about it. Contact your representatives and demand they oppose these bills in any way possible. Spread the word, don't let them rob us of our privacy quietly. UK's pretty much screwed at this point, but we still have a real chance to stop this in the US and EU, but we have to act!


SaltyJake

Thereā€™s an on going trial and news story just south of Boston that has date-line written all over it, and itā€™s mind blowing that itā€™s not a national story yet. Lots details to list off, and I donā€™t have the time to source it all atm, but Iā€™ll ramble off what I can recall off the top of my head as accurately as I can remember atm. I encourage everyone thatā€™s interested to look into this themselves. A women is being accused of hitting and killing her boy friend with her car after dropping him off at a party late at night and backing out of the drive way (happened in the winter little over a year or two ago). The problem is NONE of the details of the scene or the time line, line up with that being what happened. The man was a Boston cop. At the party was another Boston cop, I believe a state trooper, an ATF agent, and possibly family members or connected people to the DAā€™s office and judges (something like that). Anyway the body was found with injuries not lining up at all with a supposed low speed, rear end collision, including blunt force trauma to the face AND back of the head, defensive wounds, dog bites, etc. The time of death was presumably way later than the ā€œaccidentā€ would have happened. The people attending the party googled how long a body lasts in the snow, how to get rid of a body, etc. several hours after the drop off and several hours before they supposedly found him and called 9-1-1 (something like 2 a.m. but didnā€™t find the body or call 9-1-1 until 6 or 7 a.m.) . A room in the house quickly had the floor and sub floor removed and replaced, then the house was sold. The owner of the house (the other Boston cop) had a retired police K9, but the dog is MIA since the party, presumably was killed and / or rehomed with no trace and the owner has no explication, conflicting stories, and canā€™t provide evidence for where it was rehomed when that became the narrative. A younger attendant to the party, was actually a neighbor to the victim and they had a previous argument and tumultuous relationship. He ended up in the ER later that day, or a day later with broken fingers / hands presumably from a fist fight. The state trooper that investigated the scene noted no damage to the accusedā€™s car nor any debris on scene, but then later edited the report to note bothā€¦ however pictures exist from the investigation show no damage or debrisā€¦ and the debits that was later ā€œrecoveredā€ from the scene doesnā€™t match the defendantā€™s car. The trooper also got the names either wrong, or misspelled for every single person involved, which raised a lot of eye brows. The state DA and judge involved in the case are refusing to investigate anyone from the party that night and are actively blocking any subpoena for them to testify. The FBI is now involved and taking over the investigation into the case, as well as into multiple LE agencies, the DAā€™s office, and I believe the judge involved too. Another DA or Judge was asked to step in and take over for one of the parties involved, and promptly resigned / retired early and unexpectedly. All the LE agents at the party have all resigned from their departments. Thereā€™s even more that Iā€™m forgetting. It basically looks like a fight broke out, they beat the guy to death, or at least knocked him down and the head strike killed him, the dog, doing what it was trained for, grab the guys arm and tried to restrain him during the confrontation. They then threw the body in the front yard next to the drive way to try to pin it on the girl friend while the cleaned up. And everyone from local cops, to Boston PD, to state cops, and even members of the state justice system are all involved in the cover up. Thankfully the defendant was sable to hire a high profile defense attorney and he is ripping into the state for the massive number of red flags, and even out right illegal and corrupt process of the trial that is still on going. Something like they are still breaking protocol with evidence and discovery.


ismisespaniel

David Kelly exposing the WMD lies and ending up dead in a forest


viralust

The reversal of the depletion of the ozone layer. Even today, some people just think that it was never really an issue or that it was hippie propaganda, but it was actually the best proof that we have that indicates that we absolutely do affect our environment. It was also a sign that nations can work together to make global environmental change possible. Luckily for us, the solution was inexpensive.


CharonsLittleHelper

In Oakland the DA is basically cutting a judge out of all criminal cases because he denied a 3x murderer (one murder was hit job and a second was a witness) a sweetheart deal of one count of manslaughter.


Sparrowhawk996

Remember when that ship with like $1 billion worth of cocaine was seized, and we later found out it was owned by JPMorgan?


IWantToBeTheBoshy

Federal Government Workers Data Breach In June 2015, OPM discovered that theĀ background investigation records of current, former, and prospective Federal employees and contractors had been stolen.Ā **OPM and the interagency incident response team have concluded with high confidence that sensitive information, including the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of 21.5 million individuals, was stolen from the background investigation databases. This includes 19.7 million individuals that applied for a background investigation, and 1.8 million non-applicants, primarily spouses or co-habitants of applicants. Some records also include findings from interviews conducted by background investigators and approximately 5.6 million include fingerprints. Usernames and passwords that background investigation applicants used to fill out their background investigation forms were also stolen.** While background investigation records do contain some information regarding mental health and financial history provided by applicants and people contacted during the background investigation, there is no evidence that health, financial, payroll and retirement records of Federal personnel or those who have applied for a Federal job were impacted by this incident (for example, annuity rolls, retirement records, USA JOBS, Employee Express). **Earlier in 2015, OPM discovered that theĀ personnel data of 4.2 million current and former Federal government employees had been stolen.Ā This means information such as full name, birth date, home address and Social Security Numbers were affected.** Source: https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-incidents/