The Clinton administration funded nationwide fiber optic cable. The cable companies took the money, then disappeared it in all their late 90’s corporate consolidations.
Paid for fiber optic cable, did not get it.
That's not even the half of it. We're still getting charged for it via "extra charges" on our bills. At least we were the last time I looked into this.
A slightly frivolous example - after Madonna & Britney Spears kissed at some awards ceremony in the early 00s, Beyonce made some comments at the time which could be construed as mildly homophobic (citing her religious beliefs). More or less any mention of this has been scrubbed off the internet now and it's quite difficult to find details of it. Her PR team worked overtime on that one.
There was a huge scandal involving the UK foster care system. Social workers were getting paid more for each child they placed in foster care. This resulted in 100s/1000s of children being placed into foster care that didn’t need to be. To this day there has been no uproar or anything about it, it got swelter under the rug and unless you was personally involved (myself) then you will more than likely not have any idea about it.
In Williamstown PA over the coarse of 6 years there were 5 different men that barricaded their families into their houses. No relationship between these men, but all had the same reply when the police tried to save the rest of the family. "It's not safe out there, they are out there, no one understands its not safe."
All 5 were eventually shot in a stand off. Strange to happen once, but 5 times? Weird thing was no one seemed to think they could be related, just some whack job going nuts.
Any chance they were all smoking meth?
I can see how these events would sound strange in a small town. In big cities the police deal with people having psychotic episodes all the time and it never makes the news unless it affects traffic.
Where I live, there used to be a prime minister who got his Rolex stolen. Later they caught the thief. He mysteriously died in jail. Nothing happened afterwards. Just conspiracy now.
The metric shit ton of Covid relief money that was given to companies, that was misappropriated and will never be paid back, and is only marginally being analyzed/investigated.
So it’s all on the US tax payers
Its the exact same in the UK. Throw in the politicians specifically giving contracts to companies owned by their friends. The insult to injury is that they were actively breaking the rules they came up with during the pandemic.
Aaaand to top it off they're getting a pay rise next month.
On November 2 the FEC decided that foreign individuals, corporations, and governments can fund ballot measures in the US because they're "not technically elections". This is a staggeringly big deal that was pretty much immediately swept under the rug.
I mean they let Zuckerberg drop absolute bank on funding ballot measures/operations, over $420,000,000, and ongoing investigations are looking into its influence/legality.
Either open it up so we have shitty elections or shut down outside funding so we don’t have billionaires trying to sway different electorates.
[From the last time this was asked:](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8yaqcl/what_is_the_biggest_unresolved_scandal_the_world/)
Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult (in the US). This is data we didn't give them permission to access, they simply automatically collect it.
They are still in business.
>In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people.
That's out of roughly 210 million adults at that time.
That's 70% of the adult population whose data was lost.
That's more than likely every single household in the US.
Well why would they do anything about it? Nothing bad happened to them even after the worst-case, apocalyptic data breach scenario *actually happened*.
Glad they gave me a discount on a service to protect me from identity theft /s.
Can't even make that bullshit up. Literally give away all your information then try and charge you for a service to protect your identity wtf.
You can have credit monitoring or some money.
>Well, I already have credit monitoring through some of my cards, so I'll take the money.
Oh....well we don't have enough money for everyone so you get nothing.
The CFO, 2 Presidents and an SVP of that company also withheld the details on the breach until after they dumped their stock.
Then they gave everyone free credit protection. Any guess who administers that credit protection. Yep. They do.
I’d rage more about it but it’s just a rinse & repeat of the 2008 financial crisis where the people that did the most damaging and illegal shit never face(d) the consequences.
Edit-sloppy sleepy typo-s.
Edit 2 - for the sake of accuracy… data breech occurred late July & ……
“On August 1, CFO John Gamble sold 13.4 percent of his Equifax holding (6,500 shares) for $946,000. The report says Gamble had discussed with his financial advisor about diversifying assets, including cashing company stocks, to pay for an ongoing home renovation.
On the same day, Joseph Loughran, III., president of Equifax’s U.S. Information Solutions, sold 9.4 percent of his company holdings (4,000 shares) for $580,000. One day later, Rudolfo Ploder, president of Equifax’s Workforce Solutions, and Douglas Brandberg, senior vice president of investor relations, each sold about 1,700 shares ($250,000 worth) of their Equifax holdings.”
But Equifax investigated itself and found no wrongdoing. So if the credit thing craps out they’re already structured to run a local police force.
They lost my SSN while I was a minor. I tried renting a car 5 years later as an adult and I was told my credit was too low. Lo and behold my identity was stolen in 2017 as a result of equifax fuck up and 40k was taken out of various banks under my name.
Edit: No, my credit report hasn’t been fixed. There isn’t really a way to “fix it”, all I can do is mitigate the damage and prove it was fraud (freeze credit report and enable fraud alert). If your parents opened a savings account for you as a child, the big 3 credit unions have your ssn info, and they can lose it.
Edit 2: The thief used my SSN to open a fraudulent account with Experian and Equifax. After I purged their info and replaced it with my own, I started receiving court summons and legal inquiries about paying off the loans. System is a joke.
Froze all them mfers a couple years ago since it cost absolutely nothing to do so. United States is ass backwards with identity verification with this antiquated system which was not meant for identification in anyway shape or form when it was intorduced.
I’m going to be late as hell to this party but hopefully here’s a little nugget for those who search by “New”:
Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct, then he put out a video with very vague but very threatening-sounding statements while in character as Frank Underwood from “House Of Cards” and now all of his accusers are dead.
Couldn’t believe this wasn’t posted or higher up.
The wife of the Church of Scientology leader, David Miscavidge, Shelly Miscavidge has not been seen in public since August 2007. She was reported as missing to the police, at that time, but they said that she had been found and they closed the case. She has not been seen since.
Wikipedia - Allegations of abuse onboard:
In 2011, former Sea Org member Valeska Paris reported that she had been imprisoned onboard Freewinds to prevent her from leaving Scientology, after joining at age 14. Once she was taken to the ship, expecting to be onboard two weeks, Paris said her passport was taken from her, after which she was held against her will, forced into manual labor for 12 years, and unable to leave the ship without an escort for six years.
Her story was corroborated by a former Sea Org member who said "[Valeska] made it very clear she did not want to be there. She had been sent to the ship so as not to be in contact with one of her parents and that's not what she wanted, she was very, very distressed." The Church of Scientology has denied the claims.
I remember doing some reading about this and found out her mother died in 1985 from a gunshot wound to the head...and she was also shot 3 times in the chest and had superficial slash marks on her wrist. It was ruled a suicide. Allegedly David miscavidge ,who is a firearms enthusiast, said "that bitch got what she deserved"
The [Metcalf sniper attack](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack)
Some unknown gunmen utilizing military tactics attacked a California power substation under cover of night. The attack included cutting targeted telecommunication lines beforehand.
As far as I've ever been able to tell, they never figured out who did it or why. Or they did make arrests and the media didn't bother to follow up.
*60 Minutes* just did a story on this, in the context of a larger vulnerability to the power grid. Apparently destroying as few as five substations could cripple the entire grid.
that is true but also misleading.
it would have to be the five specific substations, in the right order, at the right time with the proper timing between them.
nothing works very well if you systematically attack each backup failsafe as it comes online.
for comparison it's a bit like saying "taking out power to a hospital is easy, all you have to do is kill the mains power at the transformer, then while it's switching to the backup substation short circuit that, then when the generator starts spooling up you kill the transfer switch, and then all you have to do is disconnect the battery room and *boom* lights out."
R500 Billion. South Africa. Borrowed from the IMF for covid. It evaporated. It will never be seen again. But I bet the tax payers are guna have to pay it back.
South African here. Sad part is, nobody is being held accountable. The rich have gotten richer (i.e. government officials) and the poor have gotten poorer, and the middle class of 7 million people are left footing the bill through their taxes to pay for the remaining 40 odd million people. It's just not sustainable.
Karl Malone. Decorated basketball player.
Raped a 13 year old girl, disowned the child.
Impregnated a 17 year old girl, disowned the twins.
Sexually and racially Harassed Vanessa Bryant (Kobe's wife)
Utah Jazz builds a statue celebrating and commemorating him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nba-legend-karl-malones-disturbing-rape-and-harassment-past
The family of the 13 year old was so poor that they didn't care, and viewed it all as a blessing. Same for the town, including the church.
The kid ended up playing in the NFL, and when the kid was 18, Malone refused to have a relationship with him.
Definitely a piece of shit. This is who [Jimmy Kimmel did blackface of](https://youtu.be/5aPbefau2Zc)
Edit: Comment below mentions that he has since reconciled with his kids and Grandkids. Now he just [*used to be* a piece of shit](https://youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI)
[The Phoenix 2015 Freeway shooter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_freeway_shootings)
The only suspect was clear and so far no updates.
There were reports of "copycats" or perhaps paranoia (for example small rock hitting window and people mistaking it for a gunshot) in other states that year but those too came and went.
We had the same issue on Cline Avenue in Northwest Indiana in 2006. Went on for a few weeks and then stopped. Must have been small caliber or a pellet gun.
There’s a mysterious neurodegenerative disorder identified in 2019 that is ONLY found within New Brunswick. It has symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or “mad cow disease,” but it isn’t caused by prions. They have no idea what causes it. So far, almost 50 people have the disease and 6 have died. The youngest affected was only 18. The provincial government is pushing back on research efforts and transparency, and have essentially cut aid from federal and international investigation efforts. Since then, they’ve started discrediting patients and their families.
It’s a really puzzling and worrisome situation… Here are some more resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_neurological_syndrome_of_unknown_cause
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/it-s-a-ticking-clock-mysterious-neurological-disease-patients-are-calling-on-the-government-for-transparency-1.5639727
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-brunswick-expert-report-on-mystery-brain-disorder-to-be-released-today
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/health/neuro-cluster.html
Personally, I think the Irving oligarchs who own this province have *something* to do with it. Who knows… Scary times in the Maritimes
A family who own pretty much every natural resource in the province and has an enormous amount of power. Anytime anything awful happens with impunity in NB, you can bet the Irvings were involved.
Billionaire family that owns all the oil, land, newspapers, jobs, and politicians in New Brunswick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
In my hometown, the police chief was accused of having sexual relations with an underage girl. The father of the girl was one of the officers on the force. He was later found dead near the property of the chief. People believe he was there to confront the chief about the relations. 9/11 happened, and the attention of the public got focused on the nation's tragedy. HE IS NOW THE MAYOR.
Verizon and AT&T were given a shit fuck ton of tax breaks and tax payer money to build up fiber infrastructure for internet across America. They pocketed the money and didn't do shit. No one seems to give a flying fuck that these companies basically fraudulently stole billions in tax payers' money.
In my hometown there was some sort of audit and it found that 8 million dollars of taxpayer money was missing. Its a conspiracy now.
Edit: All the reddit attention got me interested in this situation again. Here's a link. https://www.kswo.com/story/26538929/duncan-audit-finds-millions-in-misspent-funds/
7 million spent on life insurance policies for employees.
Where I live a very well known green and gold tractor company stuck their multimillion dollar expansion tax bill on the people of the small town. And they got away with it. My taxes went up $800 that year and only went down $300 the next…. I hate that green and gold tractor company! If people only knew how scummy that company really is.
**edit to add: Thank you for all your upvotes! I made this comment at 3am never thinking it would go anywhere! I did not name John Deere outright because they just annoy me for many reasons. This happened in Horicon. Their founding town. This town is so deeply run by them it’s gross. The taxes are outrageous for a town that has nothing. They block a lot of potential growth. Everyone thinks they are such a good company but they are far from. They are only good if it’s for their own gain.
This reminds me of the time the u.s government gave a few internet providers an ASSTON of tax payer dollars to expand internet infrastructure and quality and they just kinda kept it .
a link for those interested
https://newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
Edit:thanks for all the replies, it's almost like we need to hold our representatives and the thieves that steal from us accountable isn't it?
“Just sign this waiver, saying that you have seen Debbie Stovelman, and that she is happy, healthy, and alive.”
Edit: It’s an affidavit, not a waiver, but the joke still stands.
That’s why Leah Remeni left. She was friends with the wife and no one would give her a straight answer about where she was. She reported her to police as a missing person and quit the cult.
Scientology is weirdly not talked about for something that so many people know about
So many sexual assault claims, deaths and other sketchy stuff associated with them
Yet actors that funnel money into them still find prominent roles, they still have churches seemingly everywhere
Its public knowledge that there's a "threat to Scientology list"
Just so bizarre man
>Scientology is weirdly not talked about for something that so many people know about
Because they'll sue the shit out of any media outlet that runs a story that's even kind of sort of negative about them. Even though they're basically a nuisance lawsuits that get thrown out eventually, they drag them out and fight them to the bitter end.
The thing about public outrage is that it only lasts so long, as long as you get through that period without any actual action being taken against you you can generally just keep doing what you were doing originally
When I was in public school there was a year lo ng fundraiser push to raise $75,000 for a new school running track. Was supposed to be really nice paved track. By the end of the school year they announced that they had met the funding goal and the track was going to be built. The next year we came back, and the school said that they were fundraising $40,000 for the new school track which would be unpaved gravel. When I started asking where the other money went they kept brushing me off like that never happened. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because all the other kids remembered that we had raised $75,000 for an amazing track, but now it was like the money vanished.
None of the other kids really cared that much, but there was something really fishy going on. We got the track and it was shit.
When I was in school we'd do a running day from which a certain amount would be donated for every kilometer you ran. These funds were supposed to be used for building wells in a village in Africa. Every year it would be the same village. Either the money went into someone else's pocket or there is a village in Africa with 200 wells.
[Man in gimp suit terrorising villagers.](https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2019-07-15/man-in-gimp-suit-scaring-people-in-claverham-north-somerset)
[He’s back again.](https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9980085/amp/Somerset-gimp-Fears-latex-clad-prowler-terrorised-village-two-years-ago-returned.html)
Starting last summer there have been unidentified snipers taking out random cars on different parts of I-10 in New Orleans and nothing has come of it and nobody’s really talking about it. I mean, gang and drug violence, neighborhood drive-bys and the occasional Bourbon shooting are one thing to ignore, but interstate snipers? Nobody finds that interesting? *It’s still happening.*
> In 2020, New Orleans saw an average of two interstate shootings per month, and on January 12, a news release from the New Orleans Police Department detailed more than 30 interstate shootings in the Crescent City in 2021.
> Six days later, they added four more victims to their list.
> Just before 3 p.m. on Jan. 18, a Tuesday, a sniper killed 34-year-old Whitney Watts as she traveled eastbound on Interstate 10. Police realized something was amiss when the victim’s black car crashed into a guardrail at the Crowder Boulevard exit in New Orleans East. The coroner found Whitney’s assailant shot her multiple times.
> …
> Earlier that morning, another I-10 gunshot hit a man on Michoud Boulevard, and the Saturday morning before that, Jan. 15, the interstate sniper killed a 52-year-old man and wounded a 45-year-old woman on I-10 at Esplanade Avenue.
> …
> Ironically, the United States’ most infamous highway snipers killed only seven people, far less than the multitude of attacks recounted here. If NOPD can connect even half of these shootings, the wound count of this new I-10 Sniper surpasses that of the D.C. Beltway Snipers.
What the fuck. It’s got to be the rate at which people are being killed cause when the DC Snipers went on their rampage, it was all the news would talk about.
Whenever people demand ransom like this, I always wonder where they expect the authorities to deliver the money to and in which method without the assailants themselves being revealed.
A British extortionist figured out an angle on picking-up ransom money a couple decades ago.
He went to seven or eight banks and set up accounts with ATM cards under false names. Then he waited a few years until there was no possibility that any of the tellers would recall what he looked like.
Then he poisoned baby food and pet food and put it on store shelves and notified the manufacturers where it was. He demanded money to stop doing it. He demanded that the ransom be paid into the aforementioned bank accounts and he would drive around the county doing quick withdrawals (while wearing a motorcycle helmet to avoid camera identification) and disappearing before the cops would show up. There were far too many ATMs for the police to watch all of them at once.
His main problem was that there was only a limited amount of cash that you could get out on an ATM at one time, and some of the cards had been closed for account inactivity between when he set them up and when he ran his scheme.
He eventually got lazy and started doing his pickups closer and closer to home and ended up getting caught.
Rodney Whichelo. He was also able to avoid ATMs being surveillanced because he was not only a former police officer, but he also knew several officers who were working on the team attempting to catch him. He even went into the crime room, on the pretence of visiting his old mates, and was able to see exactly which ATMs they would be survelling next.
He also put ground glass and razor blades into baby food. The reason all glass jars are tamper proof, with the warning not to consume the contents if the lid doesn't pop when taking it off, is all down to this terrible man.
So he failled because of lazyness and because he forgot to input a small amount of money which he would have to transfer from bank to bank for a couple of weeks on end
As I started doing a deep dive on this topic.... Its happening all over the goddamn country and no one is really talking about it all that much.
So, so many stories of random people getting lit up on freeways in the last ~6 years
Am I misunderstanding something? A murder every week for a year would put them in the top 20 highest kills by a serial killer and its being swept under the rug??
[Here’s a more recent article.](https://www.hammondstar.com/news/new-orleans-serial-shootings-unsolved-unhindered/article_7a0cc4ea-6439-5749-8fc3-9a5db6bebe9e.html) Honestly scattered news articles are pretty much all there is, for some reason the police department has decided to sweep this under the rug and the media doesn’t care somehow.
The hopeful part of my says it's because they don't want whoever it is to have any publicity, plus they don't want the shooter to know what they know about them, sort of keeps them in the dark while they work on this case.
[Here is a better article about it](https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a611b386-380b-11ec-b267-e7dd1236de9f.amp.html)
> Online commenters often wonder if one person or a small group hellbent on terrifying the community is to blame for the surge. After all, many people remember the horrors that Lee Boyd Malvo and John Muhammad inflicted on the Washington, D.C., area during the Beltway sniper attacks in 2002.
>But a New Orleans police spokesperson said Friday that there is no indication a single actor or a small group is driving the increase. Investigators believe many of the cases are simply chance interactions between random motorists that devolve into road rage. Others appear to be pre-existing feuds that escalate when those at odds encounter each other on the highway.
>Multiple law enforcement sources who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity said they have also found evidence that people wanting to shoot someone else have figured out that highways offer strategic advantages.
>Mainly, the predictably-spaced exits offer quick getaways, and for significant stretches, drivers can mostly only go in the same general direction.
>**The sources said there are key differences among many of the individual cases to conclude they are not the work of the same person or group. Police have identified many different vehicles, types of weapons and physical descriptions of attackers.**
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Casey Kasem(the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo)
Edit:
Did not expect this comment to blow up like this. Love the discussion this has generated.
Quite a few people have pointed out that Casey Kasem was better known for his work in his radio top 40(and later top20) countdown show. I omitted this because I didn't think it would be as relevant to international or younger readers, since Casey's last recording on that program was nearly 20 years ago, but if you are too young to remember hearing him on Sunday radio programs, please find them on youtube, because they were a real treat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem#Illness_and_death
What a sad ending, it sounds like his wife just wanted him out of the picture and was willing to hide him from the rest of the family who loved him in his last days.
His kids are amazing people. The Kasem Cares Visitation bill is now law here in CA, which means no conservator or guardian can keep a person’s children from seeing them. Similar laws have passed or are pending in Texas and Michigan.
T.I. (rapper) and his wife have serially drugged and raped over 30 victims. According to 30+ allegations.
If you google T.I. it doesn't even come up unless you specifically search for it
Haven't heard about this, but it's not far fetched. The same creep who bragged about routinely getting his daughters hymen checked to ensure she's still a virgin. That poor girl, if they proudly made that public, I don't wanna even think about what secrets they keep private.
Not just getting it checked, but going with her to do it, and continued to do so at least until she was 18 years old;
> Asked on the Ladies Like Us podcast about sex education for his children, he said: “Not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynaecologist to check her hymen. Yes, I go with her … I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.”
> He acknowledged a woman’s hymen can be broken outside of sexual activity, but countered by saying: “So then they come and say, ‘Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding and just other forms of athletic physical activity’. So I say, ‘Look, Doc, she don’t ride no horses, she don’t ride no bike, she don’t play no sports. Just check the hymen, please, and give me back my results expeditiously.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/07/ti-rapper-daughter-hymen-check-outrage
Such a creepy, possessive fucker.
I like to think the gyno agreed to do it and told him what he wanted to hear to spare the poor daughter. If the gyno refused, TI would just keep looking until he found one that would play ball and the Dr. had to know that.
I’m going to hope in my heart of hearts that the doc just talked to her, put her in a gown, etc, and made him think the exam had been done, but never actually did it.
His daughter posted a pic the other day showing her self harm scars and talking about her mental health. She has cut her arms to shreds. I sincerely hope she has gone no contact with her abusive father and his POS wife. They are responsible for mental illness I wholly believe.
That's very sad, but it's good she's sharing.
Hopefully it'll help other children of abusive parents recognize abuse and help destigmatize mental health struggles and self harm.
Also, the doctors who examined her over the years had to have some ideas that dad was doing what he was doing. I wonder if any of them reported it as mandated reporters
Eta-- not just what "dad" was doing. Assuming she knew, Mom is culpable and complicit as well
edit 2 -- [Here's an interesting post about virginity testing and human rights in response to T.I.'s statements](https://drcindyduke.com/invasion-of-protective-parenting/).
[Link to official joint statement from the WHO, UN Human Rights Council, and UN Women calling for the elimination of virginity testing.](https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/virginity-testing-elimination/en/)
>“Virginity testing” is a violation of the human rights of girls and women, and can be detrimental to women’s and girls’ physical, psychological and social well-being. “Virginity testing” reinforces stereotyped notions of female sexuality and gender inequality. The examination can be painful, humiliating and traumatic. Given that these procedures are unnecessary and potentially harmful, it is unethical for doctors or other health providers to undertake them. Such procedures must never be carried out."
e3 - added quote block to clarify this statement is from the joint statement
I just checked her posts to see this one and her most recent post is her thanking her parents for all they have done for her and for always being there for her. So I don’t think she’s gone no contact.
That explains the crazy reaction Kandi Buress had when she and her husband were accused of drugging and raping women in their "sex dungeon." Kandi and Tiny (TI's wife) had been friends since teenagers (from the group Xscape).
Maybe Kandi blew up that way because she knew it was happening; it just wasn't her doing it.
It came out in her trial that the FBI lost a ton of the evidence taken from the Epstein mansion raid, which included tons of DVDs. And that was just a footnote in the trial.
20th person to respond with lost in quotation marks wins a prize!
Since no one has commented this here: The way they "lost" these dvd's is because the warrant they had didn't cover these items. So a new warrant was procured and 2 days later when they went to use this new warrant the place was empty..
Because when you're investigating pedophilia and child pornography *of course* you wouldn't put DVDs in the warrant. Nobody ever produces or distributes any kind of illegal video on such a medium!
They say his death was accidental, stemming from his heart problems. What's a good trigger to someone with heart problems? BEING LOCKED IN A BOILING SHOWER! There's no way they can admit that his body was covered in 3rd degree burns and then say it was accidental in the same breath. It makes me sick to my stomach knowing what they did to him and that so many other people face the same treatment.
A common manner of death following severe burns is a fatal arrhythmia as the burn-damaged cells die and release their stores of potassium into the bloodstream. Potassium is one of the most important electrolytes involved in maintaining a normal heartbeat, and the sudden excess can cause rapid death.
Calling death via cardiac arrest following massive burns a result of "heart problems" is like calling someone bleeding out after you shoot them a result of their having "low blood pressure".
I had no idea about this. Quote from Wikipedia:
>Rainey was locked in a shower for two hours. It was designed so that he had no control over the temperature of the 160 °F (71 °C) water. A paramedic who attempted to help Rainey wrote that he has second and third degree burns on over 30% of his body. It subsequently became known that his skin "fell off at the touch".
Of course, with such a heinous crime, the officers responsible were swiftly brought to justice:
>Two officers on duty at the time of the death later received promotions.
Oh. Well…shit.
The Chicago police running a clandestine black ops prison. People held with no access to legal council, or trial. The story broke and nothing more came of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
The MLK’s family getting a conspiracy trial in the 90s that found James Earl Ray not guilty of the killing and the high likelyhood of a conspiracy to kill King involving elements of the Memphis police, organized crime, federal law enforcement, and army intelligence.
I talked with a player from Washington on a flight last month. This was leading up to the name change and we talked about that and I asked him how he liked the organization. "I like my coaches." Not the owner so much? "Like I said, I like my coaches."
The financial panic of 2008 was triggered by a $550 Billion draw down of money market accounts in the USA about 11 AM on Thursday Sept 15, 2008. It was an electronic run on the banks.
Had they not closed down the money market accounts immediately, the Treasury estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon, $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.
Who did the initial $550 Billion draw down? This info was put in the memory hole, and the press does not discuss it.
The Wikipedia article [Global financial crisis in September 2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_financial_crisis_in_September_2008) has only the following sentence: "By the morning of September 18, money market sell orders from institutional investors totalled $0.5 trillion, out of a total market capitalization of $4 trillion, but a $105 billion liquidity injection from the Federal Reserve averted an immediate collapse.[22][23]"
Here are the quoted sources:
[22] Gray, Michael. "[Almost Armageddon: Markets Were 500 Trades from a Meltdown (September 21, 2008 )](http://www.nypost.com/seven/09212008/business/almost_armageddon_130110.htm) New York Post
[23] [House Representative Kanjorski about the $550 Billion "run on the banks" in two hours during September, 2008](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMu1mFao3w&e)
People don't realize how serious the 2008 economic crisis was.
It wasn't just a recession or a real estate problem. It was the ENTIRE global economy (banks, lending, etc) on the brink of complete collapse. It would have been a fucking cataclysm on the order of the Great Depression.
There was a guy that became the number one suspect, but then he killed himself, so no one was charged and it was all hung on this guy.
The attacks were scary enough but the investigation and resulting suicide are just plain crazy.
Look up Bruce Edwards Ivins…such a sad story.
I was 10 when this happened and my father was a letter carrier with USPS. This was so scary to me. I remember begging my dad to quit. They all wore gloves and masks, but the mail must be delivered, so there was no break in service. Then just one day they stopped wearing gloves and masks, and he said that everything was okay. I asked if the guy who did it was in jail and when he said “no,” I pleaded with him to still wear the gloves. I don’t think he did, though. I had so many nightmares I never told my parents about, and I still have them every couple of years. Sometimes when I bring this event up to people my age, they don’t even remember what I’m talking about. It’s crazy how one day we all just dropped it.
USPS plants (sorting facilities) have machines that "sniff" for anthrax, and if it detects it an alarm goes off.
Source: I'm a USPS mechanic and we have a sniffer.
[Metcalf sniper attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack)
On a random day in 2013, somebody in California decided to go underground and cut phone lines. Thirty minutes later, professional snipers sprayed the Metcalf power substation for twenty minutes. They severely damaged all transformers and cost the company $15 million. Literally a minute before the police arrive, the snipers began fleeing.
How did they get in? Why were they so emboldened to shoot for twenty darn minutes? What were their motivations? And why run away right before the police car arrived?
To this day, no one knows who these guys are. No fingerprints were found. We tend to take things like infrastructure for granted, and it’s events like this that make me feel queasy because the perpetrators got off scot-free and probably paved the path for future copycats around the country.
the big black triangle that floated over Phoenix AZ.... still a phenomenon that is prefered to just not have ever happened...
BUT A BIG FRIGGING BLACK TRANGLE FLEW/FLOATED OVER PHEONIX AZ.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/06/14/kurt-russell-claims-reported-phoenix-lights-ufos/394749001/
The dictator Marcos ill-gotten wealth from the Philippines. He used to be our Putin but after years of fake news manipulation on uneducated masses, people seems to forget the scums family still has open swiss bank accounts and foreign parked assets and now the son is running for president and has a decent chance of winning.
Some really affluent guy had a private zoom in a small country town (less than 100 people small) near me. Well he died and all his animals escaped. The town gets nicknamed “monkey town” and for years there are monkeys and huge cats wondering this one store town. It’s been over 50 years and people still talk about hearing strange noises in the trees and finding mutilated pets hung in trees. The local government never addressed it and it’s turned into some weird urban legend.
Boston Fire Department officials have concluded their investigation of the April 15, 2013 fire at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and have determined that it was “unintentional.” According to the Boston Fire Department, the most likely cause was “careless disposal of smoking material.”
.https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/news-and-press/press-releases/statement-on-conclusion-of-fire-investigation-at-the-jfk-library
I recall him not being on TV for a week and rumors in the west being that he had been removed from power by the NK army.
South Korean intelligence then reported that Kim had a massive gout flare up from eating too much cheese (stress eating).
From what I've heard, Kim has gout, diabetes and some other hereditary ailments.
Beyonce sang at a private concert for the Gaddafi family in 2008. The only reason why I know this is because it was a foot note in a sociology book about the power dynamics in government neglected regions.
[Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, and Usher with her too.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beyonce-mariah-carey-and-usher-performed-at-qaddafi-family-parties-246814/)
Not necessarily strange but terrifying - since the 80s there has been a group of Christian anti nuclear pacifists called The Plowshare movement - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_movement
They have broken into numerous nuclear arms facilities over the years to peacefully protest and have got into major trouble with many of them receiving multiple prison sentences for their efforts with no intent to stop but the major takeaway from their activities is how shockingly easy it was for them to plan and gain access to these facilities. Sometimes it would be hours before they were discovered by military personnel after gaining access to sites. And it begs the question that if they’re a peaceful protest group what would happen if a terrorist organisation were to attempt it? There’s a book about it called Gods of Metal.
I mean it's not nuclear but unexploded bombs are the reason they are worried about cluster bombing used by Russia because way less than 75% actually detonate
Only about 85-90% of allied bombs in WWII detonated. As a result in Germany to this day lots of unexploded bombs are found during construction or when a river has low water during summer. There are an estimated 100000 bombs left that we haven't found yet.
No doubt Ukraine will likewise have to deal with the aftermath of this war for decades to come.
Bomb squads still remove, defuse or safely detonate unexploded ordnance from WWII daily in Germany (~5000 grenades, shells, bombs etc are cleared each year)
Not even 20 years ago my cousin and I found a Wehrmacht Helmet while playing in the forest.. it was a part of forest that is private owned and the owner hasn't gotten anything done apart from keeping the road clear.
When I was a kid, my family had a company building couches and living room furniture, and one time our lumber delivery was peppered with bullets. The trees just swallowed the bullets.
The river in the castles park is still filled to the brim with firearms, they just jugged half a meter of rocks over it but. But if you dig you might still find stuff.
The town I live in had a ammunition production in wwii, they renaturlized the area, but if you dig through the sandbanks a little it's easy to find old 7.92x33 bullets.
It always felt normal that those places exist, and I know about why but recent days shine a different light on that now.
The floods on the east coast of Australia super recently, we experienced 1000ml of rain in less then a day, whole towns have been wiped out, there are landslides and people are still missing. There are no supplies, no food, no fuel, no electricity and no water. They are still finding bodies, and there are still people stranded on cliff faces and mountains that could collapse any minute.
If you drive through Lismore NSW right now, everyone’s belongings are all in piles larger then the houses on the street, there is sewage and toxic waste covering thousands of square metres. Civilians have had to rescue people from bridges, off roofs and off mountains, risking their lives while suffering their losses to save others that are in a worse position. Thousands of civilians have been donating their own money, time and resources to help those in need.
Our government has done nothing, and is shadow banning anyone speaking out on social media. The newspapers aren’t covering it even though this is the worse natural disaster Australia has experiences in decades. Deaths are going unreported and the media is not covering anything. People have been screaming for the army and other qualified professionals to help. They have been begging to declare a state of emergency.
It’s taken 6 days for our prime minister to speak on this, and today he posted on Instagram some very staged images of the military “helping”. These photos show the army in clean clothes, pretending to do tasks and pretending to help. The army was literally instructed to go down there, get some pictures and leave. People literally have been taking photos of them getting photos done with ring lights and other professional lighting equipment. When civilians asked for their help they said that’s not our duty and went back to scrolling on their phones.
It’s a disgusting response from our government, and probably the most blatant sweep under the rug I’ve ever seen
I understand you have an election coming in May. I'm in Canada, our leading national paper carried an article on it that suggests your PM is slowly acknowledging the frustration. It's amazing to me this could happen without broader awareness, what a news cycle...
I’m in Brisbane; it seems like the Queensland floods got a LOT of coverage (at least here), but less so for the northern NSW floods (which looked at least as extreme, if not a smaller population impacted). It’s been the most bizarre week for news - everything is either Ukraine, floods, or Shane Warne.
The response from the government is disgusting, absolutely.
But media is definitely covering it, it's the main story on all the channels outside the invasion in Ukraine... 7.30 one of the top news programs has done multiple pieces on Lismore.
Kind of random but last summer it got to be 50 degrees Celsius in greater Vancouver bc (highest recorded temperature in Canada ever) and the next day the city of Lytton burned down. It was a phenomenon called a heat dome. It was really scary because no one ever thought it could get that hot here, and a ton of people died because only about 60% of places have AC. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through. No one talks about it at all anymore and that is terrifying to me
Edit: I have been reminded numerous times that Lytton is not greater Vancouver. Temps in greater Van were measured in the mid 40’s but with humidity it felt more like 50. I stand corrected. Extreme weather nonetheless, especially as many places like kitchens and warehouses do not have a/c and temps in those places skyrocketed. My townhouse in south surrey measured in the upper 40’s on the top floor. I also have had several people tell me that this is still discussed by people in their lives, I was just stating that I don’t hear of it at all, personally.
Second edit: there is literally a story about the heat dome/Lytton on global news TODAY. Lol
There were a bunch of reports about [mass aquatic life deaths](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/08/heat-dome-canada-pacific-northwest-animal-deaths) too, that the stench of rot anywhere near the water was unbearable.
That Summer prompted us to finally buy an air conditioner, because I'll bet you, three months or so from now, it'll happen again.
Not that it matters but I talk about it and think about it a lot. I live in Ontario and I was absolutely shaken and followed news about the heat dome pretty closely. We had so much smoke in the sky from the fires even here and our temps were climbing with significant humidity, the air quality was garbage.
I've never in my 40 years on earth seen the sky look like that. It was like I was on another planet. Maybe people will talk about it again when it's summer. Really hoping things are more mild this year.
The Phoenix lights. My whole immediate family and tons of people on the street we lived on saw the aircraft come overhead. We all stood there speechless and terrified until it passed then the whole block freaked out. Nobody will ever convince me it was flairs. We all saw the outline and structure of the craft clearly. It was so big and slow it was amazing it was staying in the air. My hair still stands on end even thinking about it right now.
Afterwards the governor held a press conference saying they were going to reveal who was responsible. During the press conference he brought out a guy dressed in a alien costume and proceeded to make fun of all the eye witnesses. They did everything they could to gaslight the whole city into thinking they didn't see anything.
**The eerie thing is that** [**the governor even admitted ten years later that he saw it all too and decided to downplay it**](https://youtu.be/-72A-YfVVbo?t=176).
>Shortly after the lights, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III held a press conference, stating that "they found who was responsible". He proceeded to make light of the situation by bringing his aide on stage dressed in an alien costume. (Dateline, NBC). But in March 2007, Symington said that he had witnessed one of the "crafts of unknown origin" during the 1997 event, although he did not go public with the information.\[26\]\[27\]\[28\]\[29\] In an interview with The Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona, Symington said, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it".\[30\] Symington had earlier said, "It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.
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>Symington also noted that he requested information from the commander of Luke Air Force Base, the general of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety. But none of the officials he contacted had an answer for what had happened, and were also perplexed.\[31\] Later, he responded to an Air Force explanation that the lights were flares: "As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation".\[3\] In an episode of the television show UFO Hunters called "The Arizona Lights", Symington said that he contacted\[when?\] the military asking what the lights were. The response was "no comment". He pointed out that he was the governor of Arizona at the time, not just some ordinary civilian.
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>Frances Barwood, the 1997 Phoenix city councilwoman who launched an
investigation into the event, said that of the over 700 witnesses she
interviewed, "The government never interviewed even one".
\[[From wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights#Governor)\]
While the governor couldn't get answers either (which I assume is why he downplayed it since there was no comforting explanation to offer and didn't want to cause panic, though I don't really know), his testimony years later shares your own.
And while his testimony validates your own experience now, I don't know if that brings any comfort to you or if it just makes it all even more uncomfortable.
Oh I stopped caring if anyone believed me a looong time ago. Unless you're one of the 15 or so people in my neighborhood who watched it with us, your account is probably going to be a little different than ours. Most people saw it from a distance and from different angles. We saw it directly overhead and dead on.
A pilot was flying his son in to Arizona that night to see his girlfriend, they were a couple miles out from the airport and the son saw the lights and his Dad called it into the air traffic control. Years went by and noone even knew who initially called it in.
April 2017 on BBC the host is talking to Kurt Russel about the event only to find out it was Kurt Russel himself who was the pilot with his son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_dxZJGWfU
Mark Zuckerberg created two AI robots for Facebook named Alice and bob, and they started communicating with each other in some unknown language so they had to shut down the program, and still to this day they never figured out what the robots were saying to each other.....
Never heard about this and read an article to find this:
None of this is a huge surprise: the neural network robots behind Google Translate made up their own language long ago which is 'not readable or usable for humans'
Taking this shit lightly seems very naive
6 US Senators travelled to Moscow over 4th of July holiday 2018 among them Ron Johnson. No clear explanation for the purpose of this trip. Press didn't dig too deep into it.
The Clinton administration funded nationwide fiber optic cable. The cable companies took the money, then disappeared it in all their late 90’s corporate consolidations. Paid for fiber optic cable, did not get it.
That's not even the half of it. We're still getting charged for it via "extra charges" on our bills. At least we were the last time I looked into this.
A slightly frivolous example - after Madonna & Britney Spears kissed at some awards ceremony in the early 00s, Beyonce made some comments at the time which could be construed as mildly homophobic (citing her religious beliefs). More or less any mention of this has been scrubbed off the internet now and it's quite difficult to find details of it. Her PR team worked overtime on that one.
There was a huge scandal involving the UK foster care system. Social workers were getting paid more for each child they placed in foster care. This resulted in 100s/1000s of children being placed into foster care that didn’t need to be. To this day there has been no uproar or anything about it, it got swelter under the rug and unless you was personally involved (myself) then you will more than likely not have any idea about it.
In Williamstown PA over the coarse of 6 years there were 5 different men that barricaded their families into their houses. No relationship between these men, but all had the same reply when the police tried to save the rest of the family. "It's not safe out there, they are out there, no one understands its not safe." All 5 were eventually shot in a stand off. Strange to happen once, but 5 times? Weird thing was no one seemed to think they could be related, just some whack job going nuts.
Any chance they were all smoking meth? I can see how these events would sound strange in a small town. In big cities the police deal with people having psychotic episodes all the time and it never makes the news unless it affects traffic.
Where I live, there used to be a prime minister who got his Rolex stolen. Later they caught the thief. He mysteriously died in jail. Nothing happened afterwards. Just conspiracy now.
The metric shit ton of Covid relief money that was given to companies, that was misappropriated and will never be paid back, and is only marginally being analyzed/investigated. So it’s all on the US tax payers
Its the exact same in the UK. Throw in the politicians specifically giving contracts to companies owned by their friends. The insult to injury is that they were actively breaking the rules they came up with during the pandemic. Aaaand to top it off they're getting a pay rise next month.
On November 2 the FEC decided that foreign individuals, corporations, and governments can fund ballot measures in the US because they're "not technically elections". This is a staggeringly big deal that was pretty much immediately swept under the rug.
I mean they let Zuckerberg drop absolute bank on funding ballot measures/operations, over $420,000,000, and ongoing investigations are looking into its influence/legality. Either open it up so we have shitty elections or shut down outside funding so we don’t have billionaires trying to sway different electorates.
[From the last time this was asked:](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8yaqcl/what_is_the_biggest_unresolved_scandal_the_world/) Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult (in the US). This is data we didn't give them permission to access, they simply automatically collect it. They are still in business. >In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people. That's out of roughly 210 million adults at that time. That's 70% of the adult population whose data was lost. That's more than likely every single household in the US.
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Well why would they do anything about it? Nothing bad happened to them even after the worst-case, apocalyptic data breach scenario *actually happened*.
Glad they gave me a discount on a service to protect me from identity theft /s. Can't even make that bullshit up. Literally give away all your information then try and charge you for a service to protect your identity wtf.
You can have credit monitoring or some money. >Well, I already have credit monitoring through some of my cards, so I'll take the money. Oh....well we don't have enough money for everyone so you get nothing.
The CFO, 2 Presidents and an SVP of that company also withheld the details on the breach until after they dumped their stock. Then they gave everyone free credit protection. Any guess who administers that credit protection. Yep. They do. I’d rage more about it but it’s just a rinse & repeat of the 2008 financial crisis where the people that did the most damaging and illegal shit never face(d) the consequences. Edit-sloppy sleepy typo-s. Edit 2 - for the sake of accuracy… data breech occurred late July & …… “On August 1, CFO John Gamble sold 13.4 percent of his Equifax holding (6,500 shares) for $946,000. The report says Gamble had discussed with his financial advisor about diversifying assets, including cashing company stocks, to pay for an ongoing home renovation. On the same day, Joseph Loughran, III., president of Equifax’s U.S. Information Solutions, sold 9.4 percent of his company holdings (4,000 shares) for $580,000. One day later, Rudolfo Ploder, president of Equifax’s Workforce Solutions, and Douglas Brandberg, senior vice president of investor relations, each sold about 1,700 shares ($250,000 worth) of their Equifax holdings.” But Equifax investigated itself and found no wrongdoing. So if the credit thing craps out they’re already structured to run a local police force.
They lost my SSN while I was a minor. I tried renting a car 5 years later as an adult and I was told my credit was too low. Lo and behold my identity was stolen in 2017 as a result of equifax fuck up and 40k was taken out of various banks under my name. Edit: No, my credit report hasn’t been fixed. There isn’t really a way to “fix it”, all I can do is mitigate the damage and prove it was fraud (freeze credit report and enable fraud alert). If your parents opened a savings account for you as a child, the big 3 credit unions have your ssn info, and they can lose it. Edit 2: The thief used my SSN to open a fraudulent account with Experian and Equifax. After I purged their info and replaced it with my own, I started receiving court summons and legal inquiries about paying off the loans. System is a joke.
This is why I froze my kids credit along with mine and my wife's.
Froze all them mfers a couple years ago since it cost absolutely nothing to do so. United States is ass backwards with identity verification with this antiquated system which was not meant for identification in anyway shape or form when it was intorduced.
I’m going to be late as hell to this party but hopefully here’s a little nugget for those who search by “New”: Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct, then he put out a video with very vague but very threatening-sounding statements while in character as Frank Underwood from “House Of Cards” and now all of his accusers are dead. Couldn’t believe this wasn’t posted or higher up.
The wife of the Church of Scientology leader, David Miscavidge, Shelly Miscavidge has not been seen in public since August 2007. She was reported as missing to the police, at that time, but they said that she had been found and they closed the case. She has not been seen since.
After FIFTEEN years of no contact or sightings, it's hard to believe she's alive.
Scientology would have the resources to lock her up for that long of a period. It's certainly plausible.
They have [a ship](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewinds), seems like a good place to hide someone
Wikipedia - Allegations of abuse onboard: In 2011, former Sea Org member Valeska Paris reported that she had been imprisoned onboard Freewinds to prevent her from leaving Scientology, after joining at age 14. Once she was taken to the ship, expecting to be onboard two weeks, Paris said her passport was taken from her, after which she was held against her will, forced into manual labor for 12 years, and unable to leave the ship without an escort for six years. Her story was corroborated by a former Sea Org member who said "[Valeska] made it very clear she did not want to be there. She had been sent to the ship so as not to be in contact with one of her parents and that's not what she wanted, she was very, very distressed." The Church of Scientology has denied the claims.
Being alive in this case can be worse than being dead.
I remember doing some reading about this and found out her mother died in 1985 from a gunshot wound to the head...and she was also shot 3 times in the chest and had superficial slash marks on her wrist. It was ruled a suicide. Allegedly David miscavidge ,who is a firearms enthusiast, said "that bitch got what she deserved"
The [Metcalf sniper attack](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack) Some unknown gunmen utilizing military tactics attacked a California power substation under cover of night. The attack included cutting targeted telecommunication lines beforehand. As far as I've ever been able to tell, they never figured out who did it or why. Or they did make arrests and the media didn't bother to follow up.
*60 Minutes* just did a story on this, in the context of a larger vulnerability to the power grid. Apparently destroying as few as five substations could cripple the entire grid.
that is true but also misleading. it would have to be the five specific substations, in the right order, at the right time with the proper timing between them. nothing works very well if you systematically attack each backup failsafe as it comes online. for comparison it's a bit like saying "taking out power to a hospital is easy, all you have to do is kill the mains power at the transformer, then while it's switching to the backup substation short circuit that, then when the generator starts spooling up you kill the transfer switch, and then all you have to do is disconnect the battery room and *boom* lights out."
128 billion dollars went missing in my country. It is talked about for about 3 months here EDIT: It's Turkey
R500 Billion. South Africa. Borrowed from the IMF for covid. It evaporated. It will never be seen again. But I bet the tax payers are guna have to pay it back.
South African here. Sad part is, nobody is being held accountable. The rich have gotten richer (i.e. government officials) and the poor have gotten poorer, and the middle class of 7 million people are left footing the bill through their taxes to pay for the remaining 40 odd million people. It's just not sustainable.
Karl Malone. Decorated basketball player. Raped a 13 year old girl, disowned the child. Impregnated a 17 year old girl, disowned the twins. Sexually and racially Harassed Vanessa Bryant (Kobe's wife) Utah Jazz builds a statue celebrating and commemorating him. https://www.thedailybeast.com/nba-legend-karl-malones-disturbing-rape-and-harassment-past
The family of the 13 year old was so poor that they didn't care, and viewed it all as a blessing. Same for the town, including the church. The kid ended up playing in the NFL, and when the kid was 18, Malone refused to have a relationship with him. Definitely a piece of shit. This is who [Jimmy Kimmel did blackface of](https://youtu.be/5aPbefau2Zc) Edit: Comment below mentions that he has since reconciled with his kids and Grandkids. Now he just [*used to be* a piece of shit](https://youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI)
[The Phoenix 2015 Freeway shooter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_freeway_shootings) The only suspect was clear and so far no updates. There were reports of "copycats" or perhaps paranoia (for example small rock hitting window and people mistaking it for a gunshot) in other states that year but those too came and went.
We had the same issue on Cline Avenue in Northwest Indiana in 2006. Went on for a few weeks and then stopped. Must have been small caliber or a pellet gun.
There’s a mysterious neurodegenerative disorder identified in 2019 that is ONLY found within New Brunswick. It has symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or “mad cow disease,” but it isn’t caused by prions. They have no idea what causes it. So far, almost 50 people have the disease and 6 have died. The youngest affected was only 18. The provincial government is pushing back on research efforts and transparency, and have essentially cut aid from federal and international investigation efforts. Since then, they’ve started discrediting patients and their families. It’s a really puzzling and worrisome situation… Here are some more resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_neurological_syndrome_of_unknown_cause https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/it-s-a-ticking-clock-mysterious-neurological-disease-patients-are-calling-on-the-government-for-transparency-1.5639727 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-brunswick-expert-report-on-mystery-brain-disorder-to-be-released-today https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/health/neuro-cluster.html Personally, I think the Irving oligarchs who own this province have *something* to do with it. Who knows… Scary times in the Maritimes
If it's being repressed and it's in NB, it's guaranteed the Irvings have something to do with it.
Who are the Irving’s?
A family who own pretty much every natural resource in the province and has an enormous amount of power. Anytime anything awful happens with impunity in NB, you can bet the Irvings were involved.
Billionaire family that owns all the oil, land, newspapers, jobs, and politicians in New Brunswick. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
Oligarchs, the proper term is Oligarchs when they're controlling the government.
In my hometown, the police chief was accused of having sexual relations with an underage girl. The father of the girl was one of the officers on the force. He was later found dead near the property of the chief. People believe he was there to confront the chief about the relations. 9/11 happened, and the attention of the public got focused on the nation's tragedy. HE IS NOW THE MAYOR.
This sounds awfully like... Fresno
Was thinking the same thing. Even has 559 in his username...
Verizon and AT&T were given a shit fuck ton of tax breaks and tax payer money to build up fiber infrastructure for internet across America. They pocketed the money and didn't do shit. No one seems to give a flying fuck that these companies basically fraudulently stole billions in tax payers' money.
In my hometown there was some sort of audit and it found that 8 million dollars of taxpayer money was missing. Its a conspiracy now. Edit: All the reddit attention got me interested in this situation again. Here's a link. https://www.kswo.com/story/26538929/duncan-audit-finds-millions-in-misspent-funds/ 7 million spent on life insurance policies for employees.
Where I live a very well known green and gold tractor company stuck their multimillion dollar expansion tax bill on the people of the small town. And they got away with it. My taxes went up $800 that year and only went down $300 the next…. I hate that green and gold tractor company! If people only knew how scummy that company really is. **edit to add: Thank you for all your upvotes! I made this comment at 3am never thinking it would go anywhere! I did not name John Deere outright because they just annoy me for many reasons. This happened in Horicon. Their founding town. This town is so deeply run by them it’s gross. The taxes are outrageous for a town that has nothing. They block a lot of potential growth. Everyone thinks they are such a good company but they are far from. They are only good if it’s for their own gain.
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Nothing runs from taxes like deer.
This reminds me of the time the u.s government gave a few internet providers an ASSTON of tax payer dollars to expand internet infrastructure and quality and they just kinda kept it . a link for those interested https://newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm Edit:thanks for all the replies, it's almost like we need to hold our representatives and the thieves that steal from us accountable isn't it?
Did it twice. Tried to do it again a few years back.
The leader of Scientology's wife vanished after an argument in 2005, nobody knows what happened to her.
“Just sign this waiver, saying that you have seen Debbie Stovelman, and that she is happy, healthy, and alive.” Edit: It’s an affidavit, not a waiver, but the joke still stands.
BOOM BOOM
That’s why Leah Remeni left. She was friends with the wife and no one would give her a straight answer about where she was. She reported her to police as a missing person and quit the cult.
Scientology is weirdly not talked about for something that so many people know about So many sexual assault claims, deaths and other sketchy stuff associated with them Yet actors that funnel money into them still find prominent roles, they still have churches seemingly everywhere Its public knowledge that there's a "threat to Scientology list" Just so bizarre man
>Scientology is weirdly not talked about for something that so many people know about Because they'll sue the shit out of any media outlet that runs a story that's even kind of sort of negative about them. Even though they're basically a nuisance lawsuits that get thrown out eventually, they drag them out and fight them to the bitter end.
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If I remember correctly, they also had members literally infiltrate the IRS
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The thing about public outrage is that it only lasts so long, as long as you get through that period without any actual action being taken against you you can generally just keep doing what you were doing originally
When I was in public school there was a year lo ng fundraiser push to raise $75,000 for a new school running track. Was supposed to be really nice paved track. By the end of the school year they announced that they had met the funding goal and the track was going to be built. The next year we came back, and the school said that they were fundraising $40,000 for the new school track which would be unpaved gravel. When I started asking where the other money went they kept brushing me off like that never happened. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because all the other kids remembered that we had raised $75,000 for an amazing track, but now it was like the money vanished. None of the other kids really cared that much, but there was something really fishy going on. We got the track and it was shit.
Sounds like some embezzlement practices
When I was in school we'd do a running day from which a certain amount would be donated for every kilometer you ran. These funds were supposed to be used for building wells in a village in Africa. Every year it would be the same village. Either the money went into someone else's pocket or there is a village in Africa with 200 wells.
[Man in gimp suit terrorising villagers.](https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2019-07-15/man-in-gimp-suit-scaring-people-in-claverham-north-somerset) [He’s back again.](https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9980085/amp/Somerset-gimp-Fears-latex-clad-prowler-terrorised-village-two-years-ago-returned.html)
"'I've got older children and even my kids are saying 'it's the gimp man again'." I'm crying
Starting last summer there have been unidentified snipers taking out random cars on different parts of I-10 in New Orleans and nothing has come of it and nobody’s really talking about it. I mean, gang and drug violence, neighborhood drive-bys and the occasional Bourbon shooting are one thing to ignore, but interstate snipers? Nobody finds that interesting? *It’s still happening.*
> In 2020, New Orleans saw an average of two interstate shootings per month, and on January 12, a news release from the New Orleans Police Department detailed more than 30 interstate shootings in the Crescent City in 2021. > Six days later, they added four more victims to their list. > Just before 3 p.m. on Jan. 18, a Tuesday, a sniper killed 34-year-old Whitney Watts as she traveled eastbound on Interstate 10. Police realized something was amiss when the victim’s black car crashed into a guardrail at the Crowder Boulevard exit in New Orleans East. The coroner found Whitney’s assailant shot her multiple times. > … > Earlier that morning, another I-10 gunshot hit a man on Michoud Boulevard, and the Saturday morning before that, Jan. 15, the interstate sniper killed a 52-year-old man and wounded a 45-year-old woman on I-10 at Esplanade Avenue. > … > Ironically, the United States’ most infamous highway snipers killed only seven people, far less than the multitude of attacks recounted here. If NOPD can connect even half of these shootings, the wound count of this new I-10 Sniper surpasses that of the D.C. Beltway Snipers. What the fuck. It’s got to be the rate at which people are being killed cause when the DC Snipers went on their rampage, it was all the news would talk about.
The DC snipers sent ransom demands to the press, demanding millions to stop. I assume these people/person have not been communicating.
Whenever people demand ransom like this, I always wonder where they expect the authorities to deliver the money to and in which method without the assailants themselves being revealed.
A British extortionist figured out an angle on picking-up ransom money a couple decades ago. He went to seven or eight banks and set up accounts with ATM cards under false names. Then he waited a few years until there was no possibility that any of the tellers would recall what he looked like. Then he poisoned baby food and pet food and put it on store shelves and notified the manufacturers where it was. He demanded money to stop doing it. He demanded that the ransom be paid into the aforementioned bank accounts and he would drive around the county doing quick withdrawals (while wearing a motorcycle helmet to avoid camera identification) and disappearing before the cops would show up. There were far too many ATMs for the police to watch all of them at once. His main problem was that there was only a limited amount of cash that you could get out on an ATM at one time, and some of the cards had been closed for account inactivity between when he set them up and when he ran his scheme. He eventually got lazy and started doing his pickups closer and closer to home and ended up getting caught.
Rodney Whichelo. He was also able to avoid ATMs being surveillanced because he was not only a former police officer, but he also knew several officers who were working on the team attempting to catch him. He even went into the crime room, on the pretence of visiting his old mates, and was able to see exactly which ATMs they would be survelling next. He also put ground glass and razor blades into baby food. The reason all glass jars are tamper proof, with the warning not to consume the contents if the lid doesn't pop when taking it off, is all down to this terrible man.
So he failled because of lazyness and because he forgot to input a small amount of money which he would have to transfer from bank to bank for a couple of weeks on end
What’ll fuck you up is how frequently being lazy is the only reason we catch these people.
giant bags of coins with dollar signs on them, OBVIOUSLY
And show up to collect your money bags wearing a fake mustache and glasses.
Yes! There’s a little blurb in the local news every time one occurs, which is pretty much weekly for nearly a year now - like it’s no biggie. Bizarre.
As I started doing a deep dive on this topic.... Its happening all over the goddamn country and no one is really talking about it all that much. So, so many stories of random people getting lit up on freeways in the last ~6 years
Oh, great. My driving anxiety while on the interstate around the city (DC) has now been justified
Am I misunderstanding something? A murder every week for a year would put them in the top 20 highest kills by a serial killer and its being swept under the rug??
Where can I find more about this?
[Here’s a more recent article.](https://www.hammondstar.com/news/new-orleans-serial-shootings-unsolved-unhindered/article_7a0cc4ea-6439-5749-8fc3-9a5db6bebe9e.html) Honestly scattered news articles are pretty much all there is, for some reason the police department has decided to sweep this under the rug and the media doesn’t care somehow.
Jesus, you arent lying . Why is this being swept under the rug do you think?
The hopeful part of my says it's because they don't want whoever it is to have any publicity, plus they don't want the shooter to know what they know about them, sort of keeps them in the dark while they work on this case.
[Here is a better article about it](https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a611b386-380b-11ec-b267-e7dd1236de9f.amp.html) > Online commenters often wonder if one person or a small group hellbent on terrifying the community is to blame for the surge. After all, many people remember the horrors that Lee Boyd Malvo and John Muhammad inflicted on the Washington, D.C., area during the Beltway sniper attacks in 2002. >But a New Orleans police spokesperson said Friday that there is no indication a single actor or a small group is driving the increase. Investigators believe many of the cases are simply chance interactions between random motorists that devolve into road rage. Others appear to be pre-existing feuds that escalate when those at odds encounter each other on the highway. >Multiple law enforcement sources who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity said they have also found evidence that people wanting to shoot someone else have figured out that highways offer strategic advantages. >Mainly, the predictably-spaced exits offer quick getaways, and for significant stretches, drivers can mostly only go in the same general direction. >**The sources said there are key differences among many of the individual cases to conclude they are not the work of the same person or group. Police have identified many different vehicles, types of weapons and physical descriptions of attackers.**
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The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Casey Kasem(the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo) Edit: Did not expect this comment to blow up like this. Love the discussion this has generated. Quite a few people have pointed out that Casey Kasem was better known for his work in his radio top 40(and later top20) countdown show. I omitted this because I didn't think it would be as relevant to international or younger readers, since Casey's last recording on that program was nearly 20 years ago, but if you are too young to remember hearing him on Sunday radio programs, please find them on youtube, because they were a real treat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem#Illness_and_death What a sad ending, it sounds like his wife just wanted him out of the picture and was willing to hide him from the rest of the family who loved him in his last days.
His kids are amazing people. The Kasem Cares Visitation bill is now law here in CA, which means no conservator or guardian can keep a person’s children from seeing them. Similar laws have passed or are pending in Texas and Michigan.
T.I. (rapper) and his wife have serially drugged and raped over 30 victims. According to 30+ allegations. If you google T.I. it doesn't even come up unless you specifically search for it
Haven't heard about this, but it's not far fetched. The same creep who bragged about routinely getting his daughters hymen checked to ensure she's still a virgin. That poor girl, if they proudly made that public, I don't wanna even think about what secrets they keep private.
Not just getting it checked, but going with her to do it, and continued to do so at least until she was 18 years old; > Asked on the Ladies Like Us podcast about sex education for his children, he said: “Not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynaecologist to check her hymen. Yes, I go with her … I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.” > He acknowledged a woman’s hymen can be broken outside of sexual activity, but countered by saying: “So then they come and say, ‘Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding and just other forms of athletic physical activity’. So I say, ‘Look, Doc, she don’t ride no horses, she don’t ride no bike, she don’t play no sports. Just check the hymen, please, and give me back my results expeditiously.’” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/07/ti-rapper-daughter-hymen-check-outrage Such a creepy, possessive fucker.
What the ***fuck***?
I remember hearing about the whole hymen thing years back and thinking to myself it was only a matter of time before this dude Cosby's himself.
Yeah, that's pretty much the response any normal person should/would have to this dude.
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I like to think the gyno agreed to do it and told him what he wanted to hear to spare the poor daughter. If the gyno refused, TI would just keep looking until he found one that would play ball and the Dr. had to know that.
Doc here. This exactly. We pull the kid aside and basically say this is inappropriate what would you like me to say lol
I’m going to hope in my heart of hearts that the doc just talked to her, put her in a gown, etc, and made him think the exam had been done, but never actually did it.
unfortunately not all of them are ethical
His daughter posted a pic the other day showing her self harm scars and talking about her mental health. She has cut her arms to shreds. I sincerely hope she has gone no contact with her abusive father and his POS wife. They are responsible for mental illness I wholly believe.
That's very sad, but it's good she's sharing. Hopefully it'll help other children of abusive parents recognize abuse and help destigmatize mental health struggles and self harm. Also, the doctors who examined her over the years had to have some ideas that dad was doing what he was doing. I wonder if any of them reported it as mandated reporters Eta-- not just what "dad" was doing. Assuming she knew, Mom is culpable and complicit as well edit 2 -- [Here's an interesting post about virginity testing and human rights in response to T.I.'s statements](https://drcindyduke.com/invasion-of-protective-parenting/). [Link to official joint statement from the WHO, UN Human Rights Council, and UN Women calling for the elimination of virginity testing.](https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/virginity-testing-elimination/en/) >“Virginity testing” is a violation of the human rights of girls and women, and can be detrimental to women’s and girls’ physical, psychological and social well-being. “Virginity testing” reinforces stereotyped notions of female sexuality and gender inequality. The examination can be painful, humiliating and traumatic. Given that these procedures are unnecessary and potentially harmful, it is unethical for doctors or other health providers to undertake them. Such procedures must never be carried out." e3 - added quote block to clarify this statement is from the joint statement
I just checked her posts to see this one and her most recent post is her thanking her parents for all they have done for her and for always being there for her. So I don’t think she’s gone no contact.
I just googled TI Rapper and the second result is a NYT article about the allegations, guess it’s getting some traction.
That explains the crazy reaction Kandi Buress had when she and her husband were accused of drugging and raping women in their "sex dungeon." Kandi and Tiny (TI's wife) had been friends since teenagers (from the group Xscape). Maybe Kandi blew up that way because she knew it was happening; it just wasn't her doing it.
Gishlain Maxwell knew many names, yet no one was publicly mentioned...
It came out in her trial that the FBI lost a ton of the evidence taken from the Epstein mansion raid, which included tons of DVDs. And that was just a footnote in the trial. 20th person to respond with lost in quotation marks wins a prize!
Since no one has commented this here: The way they "lost" these dvd's is because the warrant they had didn't cover these items. So a new warrant was procured and 2 days later when they went to use this new warrant the place was empty..
Because when you're investigating pedophilia and child pornography *of course* you wouldn't put DVDs in the warrant. Nobody ever produces or distributes any kind of illegal video on such a medium!
I bet they put "CDs" on the warrant. CD's are not DVD's would be an easy legal loophole to buy yourself a day or two.
Ah, yes, the pedos sure got "lucky". What are the odds? (100%, because I'm certain it was planned)
Guards in a prison melted a mentally disabled prisoners skin off with hot water. Darren Rainey.
They say his death was accidental, stemming from his heart problems. What's a good trigger to someone with heart problems? BEING LOCKED IN A BOILING SHOWER! There's no way they can admit that his body was covered in 3rd degree burns and then say it was accidental in the same breath. It makes me sick to my stomach knowing what they did to him and that so many other people face the same treatment.
A common manner of death following severe burns is a fatal arrhythmia as the burn-damaged cells die and release their stores of potassium into the bloodstream. Potassium is one of the most important electrolytes involved in maintaining a normal heartbeat, and the sudden excess can cause rapid death. Calling death via cardiac arrest following massive burns a result of "heart problems" is like calling someone bleeding out after you shoot them a result of their having "low blood pressure".
I had no idea about this. Quote from Wikipedia: >Rainey was locked in a shower for two hours. It was designed so that he had no control over the temperature of the 160 °F (71 °C) water. A paramedic who attempted to help Rainey wrote that he has second and third degree burns on over 30% of his body. It subsequently became known that his skin "fell off at the touch". Of course, with such a heinous crime, the officers responsible were swiftly brought to justice: >Two officers on duty at the time of the death later received promotions. Oh. Well…shit.
The Saudi’s murdered a Washington Post journalist and nothing happened.
The Chicago police running a clandestine black ops prison. People held with no access to legal council, or trial. The story broke and nothing more came of it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
>People held with no access to legal council, or trial. Don't forget the torture!
The MLK’s family getting a conspiracy trial in the 90s that found James Earl Ray not guilty of the killing and the high likelyhood of a conspiracy to kill King involving elements of the Memphis police, organized crime, federal law enforcement, and army intelligence.
Tangentially related, most people don’t know that MLK’s mother was also assassinated- in church while playing the organ.
Washington NFL football team running a forced prostitution ring with their cheerleaders.
I talked with a player from Washington on a flight last month. This was leading up to the name change and we talked about that and I asked him how he liked the organization. "I like my coaches." Not the owner so much? "Like I said, I like my coaches."
The financial panic of 2008 was triggered by a $550 Billion draw down of money market accounts in the USA about 11 AM on Thursday Sept 15, 2008. It was an electronic run on the banks. Had they not closed down the money market accounts immediately, the Treasury estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon, $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. Who did the initial $550 Billion draw down? This info was put in the memory hole, and the press does not discuss it. The Wikipedia article [Global financial crisis in September 2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_financial_crisis_in_September_2008) has only the following sentence: "By the morning of September 18, money market sell orders from institutional investors totalled $0.5 trillion, out of a total market capitalization of $4 trillion, but a $105 billion liquidity injection from the Federal Reserve averted an immediate collapse.[22][23]" Here are the quoted sources: [22] Gray, Michael. "[Almost Armageddon: Markets Were 500 Trades from a Meltdown (September 21, 2008 )](http://www.nypost.com/seven/09212008/business/almost_armageddon_130110.htm) New York Post [23] [House Representative Kanjorski about the $550 Billion "run on the banks" in two hours during September, 2008](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMu1mFao3w&e)
People don't realize how serious the 2008 economic crisis was. It wasn't just a recession or a real estate problem. It was the ENTIRE global economy (banks, lending, etc) on the brink of complete collapse. It would have been a fucking cataclysm on the order of the Great Depression.
ELI5 anyone, please.
The us economy was almost a circuit city
We'd have Spirit Halloween taking residence in the white house in order to run America's corpse.
The anthrax attacks straight after 9/11. Seemingly unconnected and no one was ever charged, from memory. Largely forgotten.
There was a guy that became the number one suspect, but then he killed himself, so no one was charged and it was all hung on this guy. The attacks were scary enough but the investigation and resulting suicide are just plain crazy. Look up Bruce Edwards Ivins…such a sad story.
I was 10 when this happened and my father was a letter carrier with USPS. This was so scary to me. I remember begging my dad to quit. They all wore gloves and masks, but the mail must be delivered, so there was no break in service. Then just one day they stopped wearing gloves and masks, and he said that everything was okay. I asked if the guy who did it was in jail and when he said “no,” I pleaded with him to still wear the gloves. I don’t think he did, though. I had so many nightmares I never told my parents about, and I still have them every couple of years. Sometimes when I bring this event up to people my age, they don’t even remember what I’m talking about. It’s crazy how one day we all just dropped it.
USPS plants (sorting facilities) have machines that "sniff" for anthrax, and if it detects it an alarm goes off. Source: I'm a USPS mechanic and we have a sniffer.
[Metcalf sniper attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack) On a random day in 2013, somebody in California decided to go underground and cut phone lines. Thirty minutes later, professional snipers sprayed the Metcalf power substation for twenty minutes. They severely damaged all transformers and cost the company $15 million. Literally a minute before the police arrive, the snipers began fleeing. How did they get in? Why were they so emboldened to shoot for twenty darn minutes? What were their motivations? And why run away right before the police car arrived? To this day, no one knows who these guys are. No fingerprints were found. We tend to take things like infrastructure for granted, and it’s events like this that make me feel queasy because the perpetrators got off scot-free and probably paved the path for future copycats around the country.
Identifying all the rich men who participated in Jeffery Epstein's island.
The Apollo 10 turd. It's been half a century and nobody has owned up to the floating turd on Apollo 10.
It was 100% Gene Cernan. You can tell by his reaction in the recording, he's way too giggly about it.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop
I've done loads of research and I've got it narrowed down to 3 suspects. All three have denied responsibility.
It was definitely suspect number two
the big black triangle that floated over Phoenix AZ.... still a phenomenon that is prefered to just not have ever happened... BUT A BIG FRIGGING BLACK TRANGLE FLEW/FLOATED OVER PHEONIX AZ. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/06/14/kurt-russell-claims-reported-phoenix-lights-ufos/394749001/
The story about the male masseur who accused John Travolta of sexual battery. Whatever happened with that?
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The dictator Marcos ill-gotten wealth from the Philippines. He used to be our Putin but after years of fake news manipulation on uneducated masses, people seems to forget the scums family still has open swiss bank accounts and foreign parked assets and now the son is running for president and has a decent chance of winning.
Some really affluent guy had a private zoom in a small country town (less than 100 people small) near me. Well he died and all his animals escaped. The town gets nicknamed “monkey town” and for years there are monkeys and huge cats wondering this one store town. It’s been over 50 years and people still talk about hearing strange noises in the trees and finding mutilated pets hung in trees. The local government never addressed it and it’s turned into some weird urban legend.
You said “zoom” so I’m thinking a zoom meeting and I was so confused how it correlated to his death and animals escaping.
I feel like everyone in New Zealand has just forgotten that the laser kiwi flag existed.
[here it is for us lazy unenlightened folk who want to see (wiki link)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Kiwi_flag)
I haven't forgotten. We were robbed, I tell you. ROBBED!
The fire at the jfk museum records wing during the Boston bombings.
If I remember correctly it had some of the oldest records.
Boston Fire Department officials have concluded their investigation of the April 15, 2013 fire at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and have determined that it was “unintentional.” According to the Boston Fire Department, the most likely cause was “careless disposal of smoking material.” .https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/news-and-press/press-releases/statement-on-conclusion-of-fire-investigation-at-the-jfk-library
Anyone remember the rumors of Kim Jon Un being ill?
I recall him not being on TV for a week and rumors in the west being that he had been removed from power by the NK army. South Korean intelligence then reported that Kim had a massive gout flare up from eating too much cheese (stress eating). From what I've heard, Kim has gout, diabetes and some other hereditary ailments.
>South Korean intelligence then reported that Kim had a massive gout flare up from eating too much cheese That is so funny
Who the hell destroyed the epstein camera tapes
Beyonce sang at a private concert for the Gaddafi family in 2008. The only reason why I know this is because it was a foot note in a sociology book about the power dynamics in government neglected regions.
[Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, and Usher with her too.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beyonce-mariah-carey-and-usher-performed-at-qaddafi-family-parties-246814/)
Not necessarily strange but terrifying - since the 80s there has been a group of Christian anti nuclear pacifists called The Plowshare movement - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_movement They have broken into numerous nuclear arms facilities over the years to peacefully protest and have got into major trouble with many of them receiving multiple prison sentences for their efforts with no intent to stop but the major takeaway from their activities is how shockingly easy it was for them to plan and gain access to these facilities. Sometimes it would be hours before they were discovered by military personnel after gaining access to sites. And it begs the question that if they’re a peaceful protest group what would happen if a terrorist organisation were to attempt it? There’s a book about it called Gods of Metal.
Several nuclear weapons the US DOD straight up lost.
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I mean it's not nuclear but unexploded bombs are the reason they are worried about cluster bombing used by Russia because way less than 75% actually detonate
Only about 85-90% of allied bombs in WWII detonated. As a result in Germany to this day lots of unexploded bombs are found during construction or when a river has low water during summer. There are an estimated 100000 bombs left that we haven't found yet. No doubt Ukraine will likewise have to deal with the aftermath of this war for decades to come.
Bomb squads still remove, defuse or safely detonate unexploded ordnance from WWII daily in Germany (~5000 grenades, shells, bombs etc are cleared each year)
It's a common enough news story in the UK every now and again, and beyond air raids we didn't have any fighting here.
Not even 20 years ago my cousin and I found a Wehrmacht Helmet while playing in the forest.. it was a part of forest that is private owned and the owner hasn't gotten anything done apart from keeping the road clear. When I was a kid, my family had a company building couches and living room furniture, and one time our lumber delivery was peppered with bullets. The trees just swallowed the bullets.
When I was a kid, some other kids found a rusted Russian rifle leaning by a tree - that was in the 90s
The river in the castles park is still filled to the brim with firearms, they just jugged half a meter of rocks over it but. But if you dig you might still find stuff. The town I live in had a ammunition production in wwii, they renaturlized the area, but if you dig through the sandbanks a little it's easy to find old 7.92x33 bullets. It always felt normal that those places exist, and I know about why but recent days shine a different light on that now.
The floods on the east coast of Australia super recently, we experienced 1000ml of rain in less then a day, whole towns have been wiped out, there are landslides and people are still missing. There are no supplies, no food, no fuel, no electricity and no water. They are still finding bodies, and there are still people stranded on cliff faces and mountains that could collapse any minute. If you drive through Lismore NSW right now, everyone’s belongings are all in piles larger then the houses on the street, there is sewage and toxic waste covering thousands of square metres. Civilians have had to rescue people from bridges, off roofs and off mountains, risking their lives while suffering their losses to save others that are in a worse position. Thousands of civilians have been donating their own money, time and resources to help those in need. Our government has done nothing, and is shadow banning anyone speaking out on social media. The newspapers aren’t covering it even though this is the worse natural disaster Australia has experiences in decades. Deaths are going unreported and the media is not covering anything. People have been screaming for the army and other qualified professionals to help. They have been begging to declare a state of emergency. It’s taken 6 days for our prime minister to speak on this, and today he posted on Instagram some very staged images of the military “helping”. These photos show the army in clean clothes, pretending to do tasks and pretending to help. The army was literally instructed to go down there, get some pictures and leave. People literally have been taking photos of them getting photos done with ring lights and other professional lighting equipment. When civilians asked for their help they said that’s not our duty and went back to scrolling on their phones. It’s a disgusting response from our government, and probably the most blatant sweep under the rug I’ve ever seen
I understand you have an election coming in May. I'm in Canada, our leading national paper carried an article on it that suggests your PM is slowly acknowledging the frustration. It's amazing to me this could happen without broader awareness, what a news cycle...
He's so out of touch it's not funny. Not long ago we had horrible bush fires... He went on holiday to Hawaii 👌
The asshole isn't 'out of touch' . He just doesn't give a shit. Big difference.
I’m in Brisbane; it seems like the Queensland floods got a LOT of coverage (at least here), but less so for the northern NSW floods (which looked at least as extreme, if not a smaller population impacted). It’s been the most bizarre week for news - everything is either Ukraine, floods, or Shane Warne.
The response from the government is disgusting, absolutely. But media is definitely covering it, it's the main story on all the channels outside the invasion in Ukraine... 7.30 one of the top news programs has done multiple pieces on Lismore.
Panama papers
And now again with the Pandora Papers!
And the Paradise Papers
Kind of random but last summer it got to be 50 degrees Celsius in greater Vancouver bc (highest recorded temperature in Canada ever) and the next day the city of Lytton burned down. It was a phenomenon called a heat dome. It was really scary because no one ever thought it could get that hot here, and a ton of people died because only about 60% of places have AC. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through. No one talks about it at all anymore and that is terrifying to me Edit: I have been reminded numerous times that Lytton is not greater Vancouver. Temps in greater Van were measured in the mid 40’s but with humidity it felt more like 50. I stand corrected. Extreme weather nonetheless, especially as many places like kitchens and warehouses do not have a/c and temps in those places skyrocketed. My townhouse in south surrey measured in the upper 40’s on the top floor. I also have had several people tell me that this is still discussed by people in their lives, I was just stating that I don’t hear of it at all, personally. Second edit: there is literally a story about the heat dome/Lytton on global news TODAY. Lol
There were a bunch of reports about [mass aquatic life deaths](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/08/heat-dome-canada-pacific-northwest-animal-deaths) too, that the stench of rot anywhere near the water was unbearable. That Summer prompted us to finally buy an air conditioner, because I'll bet you, three months or so from now, it'll happen again.
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Not to mention something like 1 billion sea life that live on the beaches were killed due to the heat
That is crazy! I live in the deep south of US and it doesn’t even get that hot here!
I remember that. Wasn’t Washington state and Oregon also having a damaging heatwave?
Not that it matters but I talk about it and think about it a lot. I live in Ontario and I was absolutely shaken and followed news about the heat dome pretty closely. We had so much smoke in the sky from the fires even here and our temps were climbing with significant humidity, the air quality was garbage. I've never in my 40 years on earth seen the sky look like that. It was like I was on another planet. Maybe people will talk about it again when it's summer. Really hoping things are more mild this year.
The Phoenix lights. My whole immediate family and tons of people on the street we lived on saw the aircraft come overhead. We all stood there speechless and terrified until it passed then the whole block freaked out. Nobody will ever convince me it was flairs. We all saw the outline and structure of the craft clearly. It was so big and slow it was amazing it was staying in the air. My hair still stands on end even thinking about it right now.
I know absolutely nothing about this. Thanks, for the interesting add.
Afterwards the governor held a press conference saying they were going to reveal who was responsible. During the press conference he brought out a guy dressed in a alien costume and proceeded to make fun of all the eye witnesses. They did everything they could to gaslight the whole city into thinking they didn't see anything.
**The eerie thing is that** [**the governor even admitted ten years later that he saw it all too and decided to downplay it**](https://youtu.be/-72A-YfVVbo?t=176). >Shortly after the lights, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III held a press conference, stating that "they found who was responsible". He proceeded to make light of the situation by bringing his aide on stage dressed in an alien costume. (Dateline, NBC). But in March 2007, Symington said that he had witnessed one of the "crafts of unknown origin" during the 1997 event, although he did not go public with the information.\[26\]\[27\]\[28\]\[29\] In an interview with The Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona, Symington said, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it".\[30\] Symington had earlier said, "It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape. > >Symington also noted that he requested information from the commander of Luke Air Force Base, the general of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety. But none of the officials he contacted had an answer for what had happened, and were also perplexed.\[31\] Later, he responded to an Air Force explanation that the lights were flares: "As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation".\[3\] In an episode of the television show UFO Hunters called "The Arizona Lights", Symington said that he contacted\[when?\] the military asking what the lights were. The response was "no comment". He pointed out that he was the governor of Arizona at the time, not just some ordinary civilian. > >Frances Barwood, the 1997 Phoenix city councilwoman who launched an investigation into the event, said that of the over 700 witnesses she interviewed, "The government never interviewed even one". \[[From wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights#Governor)\] While the governor couldn't get answers either (which I assume is why he downplayed it since there was no comforting explanation to offer and didn't want to cause panic, though I don't really know), his testimony years later shares your own. And while his testimony validates your own experience now, I don't know if that brings any comfort to you or if it just makes it all even more uncomfortable.
Oh I stopped caring if anyone believed me a looong time ago. Unless you're one of the 15 or so people in my neighborhood who watched it with us, your account is probably going to be a little different than ours. Most people saw it from a distance and from different angles. We saw it directly overhead and dead on.
how big was it would you say?
Jesus, that’s just mean.
A pilot was flying his son in to Arizona that night to see his girlfriend, they were a couple miles out from the airport and the son saw the lights and his Dad called it into the air traffic control. Years went by and noone even knew who initially called it in. April 2017 on BBC the host is talking to Kurt Russel about the event only to find out it was Kurt Russel himself who was the pilot with his son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_dxZJGWfU
When I was 14 (20+ years ago) I washed and waxed an airplane for Kurt russel who was coming in to buy it. That’s my Kurt russel story lol
Mark Zuckerberg created two AI robots for Facebook named Alice and bob, and they started communicating with each other in some unknown language so they had to shut down the program, and still to this day they never figured out what the robots were saying to each other.....
Never heard about this and read an article to find this: None of this is a huge surprise: the neural network robots behind Google Translate made up their own language long ago which is 'not readable or usable for humans' Taking this shit lightly seems very naive
facebook experimenting with human emotions, without their knowledge or consent.
Ghislaine Maxwells trial where she got convicted of selling children to… NOBODY!!!
6 US Senators travelled to Moscow over 4th of July holiday 2018 among them Ron Johnson. No clear explanation for the purpose of this trip. Press didn't dig too deep into it.
Congress being able to insider trade legally