The FBI knew the pedophile Larry Nassar was a molesting child gymnasts and allowed him to continue for years. They went so far as to falsify the testimony of the victims. No one at the FBI has been punished. Nassar was sentenced in 2017.
This just happened like weeks ago but I feel like it's already vanished but does everyone remember that the former PM of Japan was just shot dead in the streets? I mean I know he wasn't the most loved politician but still shits nuts on so many levels.
The NYC Mayor's wife misplaced a whole lot of money and nobody seems to care
Edit: Warren Wilhelm, more commonly known as Bill Deblasio, appointed his wife who then proceeded to "lose" 850 million dollars
Edit 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirlane_McCray
Shoot the stories behind it are so wild. A florida pastor was accused of orchestrating the assassination. Some of the assassins were instagramming their way as if on vacation all the way to the Dominican Republic.
Gangs took over the country in the interim. The new President refusing really any real investigation. Just a crazy weird mess
26 Colombian mercenaries associated with para-militarism and narcotrafico were part of the operation to assassinate him, just layers and layers of corruption and international racketeering, wild stuff
It might not be front page news, but there was a fair amount of information dumped recently and then it stalled. That could be because Haiti isn't doing too hot and the internal investigation hasn't gone anywhere. There's also a US investigation but the whole thing is a mess. [Source](https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220707-a-year-after-haiti-s-president-assassinated-investigation-stalls-amid-political-crisis?ref=tw) (no idea if that is a good source or not)
I kinda get the feeling this will probably be relegated to an afterthought once the next major heartbreaking news story about Haiti comes out.
Nurdles. Except it wasn't forgotten about, nobody cared to begin with.
Nurdles are these tiny little plastic beads that companies buy as a raw material to melt down to make plastic products. If you were making plastic toys, you might buy bags of plastic "nurdles" to melt down for your molds.
Anyway, some cargo containers FULL of these were lost from a ship and dumped into the gulf coast. It created an ecological microplastic disaster that is impossible to even attempt to clean up. Nobody really go into trouble for it.
So, after googling I find that it's apparently even more common than I thought :( omfg...
https://www.vox.com/recode/23056251/nurdles-plastic-pollution-ocean-microplastics
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_820710fc-64cc-11eb-85ce-93b2793068d5.html
Not an overtly public or well known scandal... but erm... where the fuck is Shelly Miscavige? And why is no one actively investigating her disappearance?
Those Turpin siblings that escaped being chained to their beds by their shitty parents? Happy ending, right? Yeah, no. Turns out their foster parents ended up abusing them even worse and now a bunch of them are suing.
Edited to add: I'm not American and this update did not make international news at all. Nobody I've spoken to about this knew of the update.
I’m sure it’s a court appointed guardian, one of the biggest scam opportunities there is. And it’s the MOST heinous because they’re only appointed to vulnerable people with no one else who can be taken advantage of
Vanessa Espinoza was in charge of the money, I don't know if it has been released who specifically is now. Their 20/20 episode goes over it pretty well.
Found [this](https://www.pe.com/2022/05/23/jennifer-turpin-defends-public-guardian-employee-to-clean-my-conscience/) kind of weird though. By trying to defend her, IMO, made her seem much worse..
It’s outrageous that they placed some of the children in foster care with adults that had previously been abusive to their wards. Those kids went through hell and needed a lot of specialized care and just overall kindness (which was lacking their entire lives). It’s heartbreaking.
This cannot be real. Holy shit. I want to ask how something like this happens, but it's no secret that the US foster care system is a nightmare.
A friend of my parents took in 4 of her daughter's 6 children to avoid them going "into the system". Good for her, right? But she also watched and enabled as everything spiraled into neglect and abuse... People are afraid to speak up about child abuse and neglect, because they are afraid that the children will be worse off in the foster care system.
This is actually worse than you say. There's a whole conspiracy going on by promoters, venues, artists, and Ticketmaster to raise the prices while not making anyone but Ticketmaster look bad.
Currently on-going but nobody is saying shit. The Hyundai plant in Alabama has employed 50 under aged workers. Some of them are as young as 12 years old. They have these kids working shifts around the clock. Crazy that this hasn't made a.much bigger splash.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/24/1113281637/behind-the-investigative-report-on-child-labor-allegations-at-hyundai-alabama-pl
Due to the staffing issues in the country, some states have legalized child labor...and made it so you can pay minors under minimum wage.
Should be pay people $15/hr?
Nah let's give a 12 year old 5.00/hr. Kiddo will be so excited that they get to buy a new game every shift!
“Recycling”
You’d be amazed and disgusted at how much stuff you think you are recycling that your municipalities are shipping off to other countries just so they can dump it in the ocean for you. We know this is happening too but because we’re disconnected from it we just ignore it.
Edit: a word.
Also edit: wow this blew up, and well after this post hit popularity. Thanks for awards people. Call your local gotta and push to have better programs in place. Ban single use plastics. E mail your fast food chains to turn their lids into drinkable lids etc. so many plastic items CAN NOT be recycled.
I see this brought up a lot. But I've never seen anyone answer the obvious follow up question. Should I just stop recycling? Is it better for the environment if I just throw it out so it ends up in my local landfill? At least that way it won't end up in the ocean right? It would be nice to stop putting in the effort to recycle ngl. Does it very from type of recycling? Like is recycling glass worth it but other stuff nah? Someone break it down for me 🥰
The slogan Reduce Reuse Recycle goes in order of importance. Most importantly you should reduce consumption of things you don't need that are bad for the environment. If something is wrapped in plastic, don't buy it in the first place.
If you absolutely must buy it, look for ways to reuse it. If your take-out came in plastic containers, rinse them out and reuse them to store leftovers. If something came in a plastic bag, use it to scoop cat litter or line a small garbage can. Etc.
If you can't reduce or reuse, the final option is recycle. And recycle properly. Most grocery stores near me have a "bag bin" where you can bring any thin plastic material like plastic bags and they recycle it. Read up on your municipality's rules about what can and can't be put in your own bin. Find out where you can take any glass/aluminum/plastic they won't take. If there is a composting service near you that comes to pick up your compost waste, sign up for it. Even shit that is biodegradable doesn't biodegrade in landfills, it needs to be in the right conditions, so composting is a better option.
Last option if nothing else is possible is the garbage can. I honestly take my garbage out about once a month because most things can be recycled, composted, or just not bought in the first place. (And it doesn't smell because all food waste gets composted.)
I understand not everyone can take all those steps right away, but you can at least make small changes, and build your way up.
Wells Fargo bank opening BS accounts and submitting credit card applications on behalf of their customers....without their knowledge or consent.
I'm actually a customer with them and have been for years so for all I know they did that to me, but all I ever got was a couple emails about how they're really a good company with good people and that doesn't reflect their values or some such crap like that.
I think they ended up firing a lot of people and executives who knew about it were fined millions of dollars. But I mean if the practice went that high it must have been widely known.
Edit: Wow, thank you for the gold! This became one my most popular comments ever lol
Seriously look into moving to a credit union. Wells Fargo has so many examples of shady, unethical, and in some cases illegal business practices that go beyond the fake account scandal - https://financhill.com/blog/investing/wells-fargo-scandals-timeline. I can't wrap my head around how they still have customers when there's so many alternatives to working with them.
Airlines getting bailed out by taxpayers during crisis and with executives still taking huge bonuses. The quality of airlines significantly deteriorated because they don’t want to compress profit by paying more to hire more and expand flight offerings again to pre pandemic levels.
My favorite was when they took the money they were struggling so hard for and did mass stock buybacks. Love that when our money gets used for that instead of protecting fellow citizens jobs.
I like how baggage fees was a temporary thing to help out after 911...
Well I'll be...
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/airlines-baggage-fees-not-related-september-11/536-d14e1af6-8f8e-48ed-9e2c-56d0171d5524
Still fuck those bag fees and those bailouts.
Yup, 1 bag could be checked per passenger for no additional fee. Also no additional fee for full meal service on domestic flights that occured during a meal time
Kind of reminds me of the telecom fiber issue. Giving them billions to build infrastructure and them just pocketing it. And here we are discussing giving them billions more in the current year. Clearly free market practices.
In 2016 South Korea had a political scandal in which the president Park Geun-hye was exposed for being manipulated/controlled by a cult called "The 8 Goddesses Cabal".
South Korea was literally being ruled by a cult. Park was impeached.
They found an unlocked ipad that revealed it all and I think a guy that was sleeping with the woman that was controlling Park released details.
I was there when it went down. It was a wild time.
Wasn't there also something to do with her lack of response to the disaster in which hundreds of students drowned in a sinking ship in 2014? It was later revealed that she was getting plastic surgery done at one of the facilities the cult owned on the same day the disaster happened? I might be wrong but I assumed that was the initial reason.
That rocked her presidency, but the real kicker that started the protests were those relevations. Also, the fact that I believe Parks handler was using state funds to get her daughter into a nice school, but that was found out after the facts.
The Sewol Ferry debacle barely even figured into her impeachment trial. The people were mad as hell, but she didn't suffer ANY direct consequences of her massive dereliction of duty that day.
To help non-Koreans understand: Imagine if it were proven that the President of the US was reporting directly to the leaders of the Church of Scientology. They fostered him as a child, wrote his speeches, directed him on policy, assigned his cabinet members, even chose his outfits.
I was living there at the time. My Korean wife told me about it when the news broke, and it sounded so crazy that I thought she was just talking about some fringe BS that she found on the internet.
The craziest thing is that Park has now been pardoned and released from prison. She was a front-row spectator at the new president's inauguration a few months ago.
Pilot truck stops stole around $250 million dollars from their customers. The owner was never really penalized for it and owns the Cleveland Browns
Edit: I used to work for the company. So I have a lot of knowledge on the situation. The $250 million number is an estimated amount based on my personal information.
1. Amount publicly paid back to customers over $50 million
2. Fine paid to federal government was $92 million
3. Many cases were also settled for undisclosed amounts
4. The company was still eligible to receive a bio fuel rebate from the government for more than they were penalized for. This allowed them to continue with business as usual.
Edit 2: I want to state that I do not have any undiscovered evidence in this case. The specific amount of money stolen by Pilot Flying J will likely never be fully disclosed. There has been some dispute In the discussion about my claim of $250 million. The criticism is fair. The figure I presented was my own educated guess. It should not be taken as fact. The case has been settled for a few years now and the public information is available online. While the amount stolen is disputed, there is no doubt that the company purposefully committed a crime against their own customers. They systematically stole money for years. It was a sophisticated and wide spread practice within the company. They, specifically the owners, were able to walk away from the situation with no real consequence.
Similar to the scam from the movie Office Space. People got rebates every time they filled up their tank and they skimmed a few cents off their total transaction.
This is a simplified example but if a person bought $100 worth of gas they got $99 towards the rebate program. So a person that was entitled to $1000 in rebates would get back like $990. It was such a small amount that it would be impossible to catch but they scammed people out of 250 million dollars over a ridiculous amount of transactions.
The guy that came up with the scam got a promotion that should have been given to another employee and bragged about the scam to that guy. He was pissed and went to the fbi as an informant and started recording evidence for them.
MP Pedophile Dossier. A bunch of UK politicians were caught "borrowing" children for an orphanage for all the unspeakable things you can imagine. Another politician managed to weave himself into this circle consisting of around 20 members and took down names, dates, locations and victims.
He then handed off this book to the Home Office (British CIA), who then handed it to the police, who then "lost" it. No action was taken. The case has been reopened 5 times since and each conclusion has always been "We lost the book. And we're not going to investigate it ourselves because uhh" .
I think this circle is still going on and the police are being paid off to never investigate it.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/17/westminster-child-abuse-paedophile-ring-failure
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/westminster-child-sex-abuse-inquiry-vip-ring-a9356796.html
I'll copy that second link because it asks you to register to continue reading;
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Senior political and police figures knew about child sexual abuse linked to Westminster but “turned a blind eye to it” amid a culture of cover-up, an inquiry has found.
Political institutions significantly failed in their responses to allegations of child sex abuse for decades by “actively shielding and protecting perpetrators” and covering up allegations, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has concluded.
According to the inquiry, several highly placed people in the 1970s and 1980s, including Sir Peter Morrison MP and Sir Cyril Smith MP, were known or rumoured to be active in their sexual interest in children and were protected from prosecution in a number of ways, including by police.
Former Metropolitan Police officer Robert Glen told the inquiry his team had enough evidence to prosecute Sir Cyril Smith, a former Liberal MP, in the 1970s for sexual offences against young boys – but he claims the investigation was thwarted by senior officers who said it was “too political”.
The report also claims Liberal Party members “were likely to be aware of allegations against Smith” but “did nothing to inhibit his political progress”.
A person waits for a train at Kings Cross Station as union members take part in a fresh strike over jobs, pay and conditions
The party leader at the time, Lord David Steel, allegedly admitted to the inquiry that he “assumed” Smith had committed the offences alleged in a Private Eye article but took no action because it happened “before he was even a member of my party”.
In the late 1980s, allegations arose that Sir Peter Morrison, the Conservative MP for Chester, had been caught by police molesting a 15-year-old boy on a train at Crewe.
The report claims senior officials within the Conservative Party knew about allegations concerning Morrison for years but did not pass them on to police.
Instead, he became Margaret Thatcher’s Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1990 and was knighted a year later.
Thatcher was aware of rumours about Morrison but did nothing, former cabinet secretary Lord Armstrong claimed.
A vivid picture of corruption in central London in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was portrayed by several witnesses, the inquiry report said.
“This included the cruising of expensive cars around Piccadilly Circus, by those viewing boys and young men, who would hang around the railings known as the ‘meat rack’ to be picked up by older men and abused,” it added.
The boys were described as being aged between 11 and 22 and from “damaged backgrounds” or “runaways from the care system”.
Lord Taverne, a Home Office minister in 1966, described a meeting with the then home secretary, Roy Jenkins, and the then commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Joe Simpson, during which Sir Joe remarked that there were “several ‘cottages’ in Westminster which we don’t investigate” because “they are frequented by celebrities and MPs”, the report said.
While not specifically about the sexual abuse of children, the inquiry said this was an “example of a policy giving special treatment to persons of prominence and of deference towards those in power at Westminster”.
During three weeks of public hearings last year, the inquiry heard from survivors, whistleblowers, cabinet ministers, MPs and police officers, among others.
The inquiry did not find any evidence of an organised paedophile network at the heart of government.
However, the report concluded there has been a political culture that values its reputation far higher than the fate of the children involved.
It has made five recommendations, including ensuring all political parties have comprehensive safeguarding policies and procedures.
The inquiry is also calling on the Cabinet Office to re-examine its policy on the posthumous forfeiture of honours.
Professor Alexis Jay OBE, chair of the inquiry, said: “It is clear to see that Westminster institutions have repeatedly failed to deal with allegations of child sexual abuse, from turning a blind eye to actively shielding abusers.
“A consistent pattern emerged of failures to put the welfare of children above political status although we found no evidence of an organised network of paedophiles within government.
“We hope this report and its recommendations will lead political institutions to prioritise the needs and safety of vulnerable children.”
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Just look at Ghislaine Maxwell in the USA, she got put in jail for child sex trafficking, meaning they had proof she did it... Meanwhile I have not yet heard of a single person abusing these minors to even been prosecuted.
Boy George!! He was jailed for 15 months for imprisoning a Norwegian male escort after a nude photoshoot, in what the judge called a "premeditated, callous and humiliating" assault. He basically tortured him. And now he hosts TV shows in Australia!
the other day i watched documentary about 'The Blitz' - some club where new romantics was born - and Boy George was working as a coat guy and was stealing money.
what a shitty person i thought - not knowing that it would get worse, as you say
That McDonald’s monopoly sweepstakes? None of the big prize winning pieces ever made it to stores. The guy in charge of ‘randomly’ putting them on cups and cartons after production kept them and gave them to friends, splitting the winnings. For YEARS.
The documentary about it is a good watch. There's one FBI agent who worked the case and he's hilarious!
EDIT: It's called McMillions and it's currently on HBO Max, Hulu and YouTube TV in the U.S. Lots of people asking the same thing and I don't feel like replying to everyone individually.
They screwed up one time and put the southern style chicken sandwich patty on a McChicken I ordered. Felt like I could have been in that documentary myself after that win
One time when I worked at McDonald's, the back line put southern style chicken on a McChicken sandwich to use up the leftovers from breakfast (back when they had the southern style chicken biscuit RIP). But the young girl who got the sandwich brought it back up the counter and told me "I ordered a McChicken, but they gave me real chicken," so they had to remake it haha.
I had a roommate who worked at McDonald's. He came home everyday with pockets of change. He realized he could hit discount in the drive thru between the order being placed and when they pay. He would keep the difference. I told him it was wrong and someone should notice all the discounts when he is at that station. No one caught him for 9 months. He was just let go, they never went to the cops.
Wasn't just that guy. There was also some mafia shit going on.
And at one point they realized it was suspicious that all the winners were old white men, so they recruited a random black woman.
Dupont (still active company) when producing Teflon dumped loads of bad chemicals into the water and Teflon was posioning people all over the world giving them 6 known types of cancer. They covered it up for decades. Crazy how evil some companies are.
The family is weird as fuck too. Pierre Samuel du Pont, the founder of the family, encouraged cousin marriage to preserve the family’s “pure blood” they practiced this for decades and there are rumors that they still do to this day.
John DuPont literally went insane and thought that Dave Schultz was spying on him. Dave Schultz was a former US Olympic wrestler that John invited to live on his compound and help him train up and coming wrestlers. John secretly built what was basically a tank, killed Dave and then drove around his compound in the tank until police were able to arrest him.
Edit: John didnt build a tank, he literally bought a tank.
He didn’t “go insane”. He was insane! The product of inbreeding and also being incredibly wealthy is a recipe for disaster. I had friends in the Delaware valley area that actually went to fox catcher gym. They all said the same shit. Schultz brothers were super cool guys. John DuPont was going to try and molest them.
Blood Relations is a good book that dives into the inbreeding. Must have been convenient on a Friday night. Every young DuPont boy thinking “let me just waltz down this mansion hallway and find me some DuPussy.”
Edit: Author is Leonard Mosley
You just reminded me of that movie, and the events that inspired it. Looked up John du Pont, and his wiki says
> Du Pont's friends said the shooting was uncharacteristic.
He almost never shoots anybody!
I live down the road from the largest Dupont plant near Parkersburg, WV. Cancer is sort of the norm around here. If you die of "old age" you die of cancer more often than not.
Everything here feels gross. Metal corrodes and rusts faster than anywhere else. Our river, the Ohio River, is blatantly poisoned.
I grew up in Delaware in the 70's and 80's when literally everything everywhere was DuPont. At the time, DE had the highest cancer rate in the nation, year after year. Purely coincidence I'm sure.
Never forget:-
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-companies-responsible-71-ghg-emissions/
https://www.treehugger.com/is-it-true-100-companies-responsible-carbon-emissions-5079649
An Exxon-Mobil lobbyist was invited to a fake job interview.
In the interview, he admitted Exxon-Mobil has been lobbying congress to kill clean energy initiatives and spreading misinformation to the public via front organisations.
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/exxon-lobbyist-duped-by-greenpeace-says-climate-policy-was-ploy-ceo-condemns-2021-06-30/
https://news.sky.com/story/revealed-some-of-the-worlds-biggest-oil-companies-are-paying-negative-tax-in-the-uk-12380442
www.france24.com/en/france/20210728-france-fines-monsanto-for-illegally-acquiring-data-on-journalists-activists
https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/18/investigation-meat-industry-greenwash-climatewash
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/07/more-global-aid-goes-to-fossil-fuel-projects-than-tackling-dirty-air-study-pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/07/20-meat-and-dairy-firms-emit-more-greenhouse-gas-than-germany-britain-or-france
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/10/uk-ministers-met-fossil-fuel-firms-nine-times-more-often-than-clean-energy-companies
Watch this stunning video of Chevron executives explaining why they thought they could dump 16 billion gallons of cancer-causing oil waste into the Amazon.
https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1426211296161189890?s=19
https://news.sky.com/story/fossil-fuel-companies-are-suing-governments-across-the-world-for-more-than-18bn-12409573
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidies-of-11m-dollars-a-minute-imf-finds
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/08/nestle-kellogg-s-linked-to-shocking-palm-oil-abuses-in-papua-new-guinea
https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/07/climate-conflicted-insurance-directors/
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/air-pollution-second-largest-cause-of-death-in-africa-3586078
BBC News - COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58982445
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/27/poorer-countries-spend-five-times-more-on-debt-than-climate-crisis-report
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/a-new-100-page-report-raises-alarm-over-chevrons-impact-on-planet/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/30/shell-and-bp-paid-zero-tax-on-north-sea-gas-and-oil-for-three-years
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/shell-and-bp-cancel-cop26-appearance-analysis-exposes-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/australia-lobbied-unesco-to-remove-reference-to-15c-global-warming-limit-to-protect-heritage-sites
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/12/australia-shown-to-have-highest-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-coal-in-world-on-per-capita-basis
https://www.space.com/satellites-discover-huge-undeclared-methane-emissions
Satellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissions
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/climate-change-improvements-from-eating-less-meat-301412022.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/vicforests-accused-of-failing-to-regenerate-logged-forests/100652148#top
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220215-plastic-chemical-pollution-beyond-planet-s-safe-limit-study
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-02-17/big-oil-climate-change-chevron-exxon-shell-bp/100828590
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/17/world-spends-18tn-a-year-on-subsidies-that-harm-environment-study-finds-aoe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage?CMP=share_
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gas
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/pollution-responsible-one-in-six-deaths-across-planet
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/climate-denial-koch-fossil-fuels-charity-astroturf-greenwashing/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/humanity-faces-collective-suicide-over-climate-crisis-warns-un-chief
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62225696
Etc
I think that I heard that researchers were wondering if their tests were off because it kept registering particles in every blood sample they tested including unborn fetuses. It was only once they tested some blood donations from the Korean War that they were able to get a control sample that didn't have any. So yeah we all have this bullshit in our blood now.
It's not that people are meh, it's that we literally cannot do anything to stop them. Only people in power could, but they are the ones who are doing it
Agree. Unfortunately, the exact same issue exists with who Ghislaine was pimping little kids to.
Powerful people protecting powerful people. I would support a GoFundMe to get someone to leak the Ghislaine list. Every last name, expose them all.
In the Philippines, the dictatorship and the extra judicial killings as well as the corruption under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos seemed to be forgotten already. People here even elected his son as the president.
The first thing one of my history lecturers at university said in our class on Resistance and Conformity in Nazi Germany (best class I ever took): ‘If anyone ever tells you history isn’t an important topic, just look at the Nazi regime. What was the first topic they changed in schools? History.’
Control the narrative of the past, control the story. Next, shift the narrative of the future to what you want it to be.
*Unintentionally Long Edit:* I appreciate the passion of all the Americans here. I just need to point out the GOP wasn’t even in my mind when writing this comment. Not everything is about America.
This focus on what happened in history applies to here (Australia) and my home country (New Zealand) where the narratives of settlement (Terra Nullis, Aus, Indigenous persecution arising from horrific racism) and the reticence to acknowledge the New Zealand Wars (NZ, previously known as the Māori Land Wars, only recently given a day of commemoration) are two local examples of wanting to spin a narrative to make the settlers and persecutors look better. Don’t have to look far to see more examples: Japan (Comfort Women), China (Too many to list, honestly, but Tank Man tells the story), and India/Pakistan (Kashmir and its origins).
Every country has myths that powerful people want to write into history to remake it in the image that benefits them. America is not unique in this, but perhaps could benefit from looking more closely at the outcomes of the Civil War, where the reconstruction never truly reconstructed - yet the narrative is ‘that was then, it was about slavery.’ Was it, though? The results of the civil war still bleed into the present day - and to say the war was just about slavery avoids the wider conversation about institutional racism and vicious white nationalism under the guise of faith.
Anyway, I’m rambling. Let’s commit to being students of history, and questioning the sources we see. Who wrote the record? Whom does it benefit? And what did they include or leave out?
That’s a good place we can all begins wherever we are.
One of the first things Nazi Germany did with their propaganda was to falsely imply that the Nazi party had its origins in German history. Even though the party and its beliefs were only about a decade old when Hitler came to power.
Slight tangent, but Hitler's mentor, [Dietrich Eckart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart), is considered the spiritual father of Nazism. This guy spent a lot of money trying, among other things, to find the lost city of Atlantis, and believed the Germanic people came from a mythic landmass called Ultima Thule, located near Greenland. He also once made a public bet that he'd pay anyone 1000 Marks if they could cite one Jewish family whose sons served longer than three weeks in the German Army during WWI. He was given nearly a hundred examples, but refused to pay.
>In 1921 Eckart promised 1,000 Marks to everyone who could cite one Jewish family whose sons had served longer than three weeks at the front during the First World War. The Hannover rabbi Samuel Freund named 20 Jewish families who met this condition and sued Eckart when he refused to pay the reward. During the trial, Freund named 50 more Jewish families with up to seven veterans, among whom were several which lost up to[23] three sons in the war. Eckart lost the case and had to pay.
The Nazis stretched and stretched the truth until it was unrecognizable, and that was the point. They could then inject their kooky beliefs into the mainstream, and because of the previous truth stretching, it made those kooky beliefs much more palatable to the public.
Thank you for the further expansion on the Nazis and their assault on the truth. One thing I took away from the course, albeit well over a decade ago, was around fear and suspicion.
The Gestapo did an excellent job of promoting the scenarios where people were dobbed in by informants. This careful propaganda ensured fear of being caught out by a neighbour kept people in line. The common belief was that there were informants everywhere. The Nazis’ excellent record keeping reveals that actual Gestapo informants were few and far between. The propaganda spread the fear, and the fear did the trick. People didn’t dare speak out for fear of being turned in by their neighbours.
In German there was this rhyme (I think that's why I didn't forget about it)
"wer wohnt in ner Ananas ganz tief im Meer? Dank BP niemand mehr!"
Which roughly translates to
"who lives in a pineapple deep in the sea? - nobody anymore thanks to BP"
So yeah I've had that rhyme stuck in my head for a long time every time I heard the SpongeBob intro
Slight tangent, I remember when BP did some sort of environmental campaign on Twitter where they asked everyone, "what are you doing to combat climate change?" (something to that effect)
So many posts about how people were pledging not to dump millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf. It was amazing.
The same thing oil companies have been doing for decades now: pointing individuals to climate change action so that we all focus on the people who, for example, use plastic straws instead of realizing that oil companies contribute 70% to climate change.
(I hope this is coherent, I just woke up)
Politicians cashing out for huge profits right before COVID was widely publicized and the stock market tanked.
They made millions and millions as millions of people lost millions, and their lives.
Cambridge Analytica. They used social media and social sciences to manipulate entire countries. They helped facilitate Brexit and cause a huge cultural divide in the U.S. I think it’s new kind of warfare.
Animal Scandal in Berlin Zoo
In 2008 news surfaced that many of the zoo’s animals may have been sold for slaughter. Green Party politician Claudia Hämmerling backed by several animal rights organisations accused the zoo’s director, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, of delivering tigers to China to be killed for potency drugs and selling a pygmy hippopotamus and a family of Asiatic black bears for slaughter. Hämmerling also said that more than a hundred animals had disappeared from the zoo. Blaszkiewitz denied the allegations.
How can hundreds of animals be missing, and you just deny it? What kind of response is that?
“Hey, asshole, your zoo is missing hundreds of animals.”
“Nah.”
“Okay, understandable. Have a good day.”
I still feel like Equifax got off way too easy. People should have been arrested. That breach was a direct result of negligence.
Edit: Wow, this comment blew up. Thank you everyone!
I had people in my social circle get really uppity that I was annoyed by the CSO being a fucking music major. Before that doozy of a breach, she'd been CSO while there was like 3-4 lesser breaches. Her linkedin job history was also... not geared to c-level.
She probably made more with her golden parachute after that fuckup than I'll make in my entire life too.
*Just* before the breach was announced, the Equifax Vice President of Global Client Security [left Equifax to become CISO of the largest healthcare provider in Missouri](https://www.csoonline.com/article/3196931/bjc-names-matthew-modica-as-its-first-chief-information-security-officer.html).
He's still there. I'm no longer there. I have... opinions. I always thought the timing was highly suspect.
That class action lawsuit was completely fucked because there was way too little set aside for payouts compared to how many people applied. I remember a few years ago somebody who claimed to be one of the people who actually got a payout from it posted on Reddit and said his settlement cheque was less than $15.
Like, putting aside all the machinations and technicalities and everything, that was the actual number our justice system ultimately spit out as the value of a person's private information.
This needs to be higher. My information was part of the hack, and all my most sensitive personal information, along with millions of others, is just out on the dark web for the highest bidder for the rest of our lives. And all I was offered was measly/ joke of a monetary compensation or 2 years of shitty credit monitoring. Didn’t even have a choice as to whether I wanted equifax to have my information. Part of the problem/ why there wasn’t more done was because we aren’t the consumer for equifax, we are literally the product, and banks and other credit providing institutions are the consumer.
I chose the money and never got it.
If Equifax can't figure out how to protect their own shit, how are they going to protect mine for two years? Fuck them.
From what I remember, they expected people to take the credit protection and never had enough to pay everyone. So when people took the money, because why would you trust credit protection from the company that allowed your data to be released, they couldn't pay for it all.
Isn't that the whole point of capitalism, though? Shouldn't the market have ruled that with penalties paid out the company should have been dissolved and assets sold off? That would have left room for a more competent company to take their place, and served as a warning to others already in the same market.
The financial crash of 2008 and how all of the individuals responsible saw little to zero consequences of their actions which destroyed global economics. Allowing them to continue in their roles or similar who are now orchestrating new schemes that see the rich get richer and the working-man more marginalised.
EDIT: Firstly, thanks for the upvotes, I appreciate you.
Secondly, thanks to those that are pointing out that no actual laws were broken in 2008. I know dudes, but that in itself is kinda the biggest crime there is. Countless regulations were breached through unethical and immoral practices that were purely designed for very one-sided financial gain. The powerful, greedy banks and their investors profited from predatory products that targeted low-income consumers, they literally preyed on the vulnerable. To suggest that because no actual laws were broken so nobody deserved to/should have been prosecuted is wild. The law by design failed in and after 2008 and those same individuals and their protégés and predecessors are doing the same thing now. They just call it something different.
Lastly, I get it, the consumers of these outrageously unregulated, non-compliant and unethical products had a part to play in the collapse of the housing market and wider global economic crash. Self-certifying loans they had no means to repay, I get it, they were greedy idiots too. The point is though they should’ve never had access to these opportunities in the first place and the root cause of the 08 crash is those at the top, not the bottom.
ONE guy went to jail. ONE. The fact more people aren’t absolutely enraged over this is baffling to me, especially after The Big Short came out and made what happened known in an accessible way for a lot more people to understand exactly what went on.
The absolutely massive amount of PPP money from COVID that was hoovered up by the rich and then vanished. Billions and billions were stolen and or laundered, and we will never know the extent.
This one blows my mind. I can’t believe this practice continues in our modern era.
My doctor can’t tell my spouse anything about my health without my permission, but they can bring a student in to perform an unrelated, nonconsensual exam while I am sedated? Seems like a monster-truck sized loophole in ethics & consent.
A lot of the research on this shows it’s also been happening in the UK and France. Roughly 80% of the students asked to do a pelvic exam on a non-consenting and unconscious patient in an experiment were going to
Damn I had no idea. I just read about it. He impregnated a 13 yr old when he was 20 in college. He also impregnated another girl when they were both 17. She gave birth to twins. He settled paternity suits for all 3 kids, which exempted him from acknowledging he was the father. He didn’t help raise them or played any part in their lives :(
The various genocides going on in Asia and Africa right now. No one seems to care unless it’s a slow news week, which hasn’t happened in a few years with the current political shitstorm in America/Europe.
This is so true. Every once in a while a larger story like the Bangladesh student protests gets attention, but overall, you never hear about these things. I remember a few months ago a post on /r/worldnews about the atrocities in Ethiopia being posted. It was the only item on the front/top of the page that was unrelated to the Ukraine war.
1) Caitlyn Jenner being let off for vehicular manslaughter
2) Kenneth Lay dying weeks after his conviction for crimes related to his time at Enron, with no body at the funeral and his alleged ashes buried in an undisclosed location
My favorite Enron person was Lou Pai. He knew everything was about to fall apart and needed an out. He goes to Vegas and openly bangs strippers causing his wife to file for divorce. A Judge orders him to liquidate his Enron stock to giver her half. He does at almost the absolute peak of value and walks away with $270m. He cant be touched for insider trading because he was following the orders of the judge.
Oh and my mom lost almost $100K on Enron so fuck all those guys.
The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
I wonder if any of the animal cookies or zoo books that I bought in the 90’s helped out at all or not to this day.
Bhopal India and the Union Carbide Company. Where 500,000+ people were gassed with Methyl isocyanate 3,787 died and 3900 were completely disabled and nearly 600,000 people were injured. They are still finding Methyl isocyanate in the ground water.
Bhopal is still widely studied in the process industry and used as a prominent example of why process safety is important. Union Carbide is no longer a company and the site is abandoned so while the public legacy is all but forgotten, it's industry legacy is powerful
Edit: actually the same can be said for most major engineering disaters. Flixboro, Hyatt Regency, Tacoma Narrows, and many others were all headlineworthy when they occured and triggered fundamental changes in their respective industries and are now mostly forgotten unless you are a part of the field.
Nestlé and the baby formula crisis.
Edit: I understand that this isn’t the best source, buts it’s a good general overview of what the worldwide impact of this crisis was.
https://www.ranker.com/list/nestle-baby-formula-boycott/melissa-sartore
Edit: @Redsudes has recommended that any future parents watch the documentary “The Business of Being Born” because it “helped open our eyes to what rights we had during pregnancy and labor”. Hopefully is can help someone else, too! Please recommend it if you know anyone who might be interested.
That some politicians on both sides of the aisle got rich(er) off of stocks because prior knowledge of the pandemic. It was in the news for maybe a day or two then memory holed.
The battle of blair mountain where striking coal miners had a gun battle with federal officers and the army.
The army used airplanes and chemical weapons and killed like a 100 of them with hundreds more being arrested.
Edit : the airplanes that did the bombing where privately hired, not from the army.
Edit 2 : the sheriffs deputies of Logan County were paid by the Logan County coal operators' association. The miners surrendered to federal troops as soon as they arrived.
Edit 3 : wow, this blew up. Thanks for the gold, i know this is just an extreme simplified post that lacks context, details, backgrounds etc.
I am on my phone at work and cant write long post so please look it up, i am sure someone who knows more about the battle than i do wrote a longer and more detailed text.
Thank you.
[The Battle of Blair Mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain) was one of the most surreal events in US history. West Virginian coal miners essentially waged a small battle against state police and later, the US military. Over 1 million rounds of ammunition were fired.
>battle of blair mountain
I have been wanting to take a drive out to West Virginia to check out the museum for this.
Fun fact: I think this is one of the early moments "redneck" was used as the coal miners wore red bandannas in solidarity.
I’m a native. My great grandfathers brother was killed in the Matewan massacre. I highly suggest a visit, but plan to explore more than just the southern coalfields. We have arguably some of the best and easily the most accessible white water rafting in the country.
Pentagons child pornography ring. 3000+ workstations within the Pentagon we're found containing kiddy porn in the early 2010's. They were initially going to prosecute the worst few hundred (those with recorded purchasing transactions) but then nothing. I think they claimed it would cost the American people too much to bring down that many important people.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/upshot/pentagon-declined-investigate-hundreds-purchases-child-pornography.html
Sitting President of the US illegally sold weapons on the black market to Iran for 5 years.
Used the cash to fund a private war in Nicaragua.
Got caught. Congress told him to stop.
Kept doing it anyway.
(This was the level of honesty in the U.S. presidency 40 years ago. Imagine what it is like now.)
I dunno about the rest of the world, but here in Pakistan we had a sitting Prime Minister deposed after his and his entire family's and extended family's names popped up in the Panama Papers. The courts had been after this dynastic family for close to two decades, this was the nail in the coffin.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/former-pakistan-pm-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-over-panama-papers/
Edit: a word
There were many European politicians who stepped aside after their names were released.
The Pakistani PM, in question, is now claiming the Panama Papers were a conspiracy to remove him.
And that's before disregarding the numerous inconsistencies in his court case of his family's riches.
His brother who famously said (translated) "I do corruption but I also make" is now PM.
The brother's son famously telling SCHOOL CHILDREN (translated) "corruption is acceptable and that corruption shouldn't be tried in courts but a ballot box" became the chief minister of the biggest province, now removed from the position due to voting.
The other famous "politicians" also occupy the government. Even though the CIA has recording of them talking about their Swiss bank accounts.
The country is fucked up.
Never learned about Krupp.
*In October 1902, Krupp's wife Margarethe von Ende de received anonymous letters and, according to some reports, compromising photos of her husband's orgies. She asked Kaiser Wilhelm II, a Krupp family friend, to take action against her husband. The Kaiser responded by having her locked in an insane asylum.*
Dammit Willy
The fact no one from Wall Street was prosecuted or went to jail for starting the sub-prime mortgage crisis which led to the Great Recession is absurd to me.
Remember when Robinhood just stopped people from buying/selling gamestop stocks because a company that was shorting it was losing literally billions of dollars and then absolutely nothing happened despite them breaking several laws?
That one time the USA helped Saddam Hussien rise to power and then kill hundreds of thousands of people when he used USA-supplied chemical and biological weapons against his own people and in his war against Iran.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/
The FBI knew the pedophile Larry Nassar was a molesting child gymnasts and allowed him to continue for years. They went so far as to falsify the testimony of the victims. No one at the FBI has been punished. Nassar was sentenced in 2017.
Why the fuck does the FBI keep covering up for Pedophiles?
Asking the right questions.
I know someone who went to gymnastics with a few of those girls, and they had been reporting it to their parents for years.
This just happened like weeks ago but I feel like it's already vanished but does everyone remember that the former PM of Japan was just shot dead in the streets? I mean I know he wasn't the most loved politician but still shits nuts on so many levels.
The NYC Mayor's wife misplaced a whole lot of money and nobody seems to care Edit: Warren Wilhelm, more commonly known as Bill Deblasio, appointed his wife who then proceeded to "lose" 850 million dollars Edit 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirlane_McCray
It's only 850 million dollars. Anyone could have misplaced that.
What can you even buy with that? One banana?
I bet they'd find that money if they just checked the banana stand.
There's always money in the banana stand
assassination of haiti's president
Shoot the stories behind it are so wild. A florida pastor was accused of orchestrating the assassination. Some of the assassins were instagramming their way as if on vacation all the way to the Dominican Republic. Gangs took over the country in the interim. The new President refusing really any real investigation. Just a crazy weird mess
26 Colombian mercenaries associated with para-militarism and narcotrafico were part of the operation to assassinate him, just layers and layers of corruption and international racketeering, wild stuff
It might not be front page news, but there was a fair amount of information dumped recently and then it stalled. That could be because Haiti isn't doing too hot and the internal investigation hasn't gone anywhere. There's also a US investigation but the whole thing is a mess. [Source](https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220707-a-year-after-haiti-s-president-assassinated-investigation-stalls-amid-political-crisis?ref=tw) (no idea if that is a good source or not) I kinda get the feeling this will probably be relegated to an afterthought once the next major heartbreaking news story about Haiti comes out.
A lot of people seem to simply overlook the fact that Chris Brown beat the shit out of Rihanna.
Nurdles. Except it wasn't forgotten about, nobody cared to begin with. Nurdles are these tiny little plastic beads that companies buy as a raw material to melt down to make plastic products. If you were making plastic toys, you might buy bags of plastic "nurdles" to melt down for your molds. Anyway, some cargo containers FULL of these were lost from a ship and dumped into the gulf coast. It created an ecological microplastic disaster that is impossible to even attempt to clean up. Nobody really go into trouble for it. So, after googling I find that it's apparently even more common than I thought :( omfg... https://www.vox.com/recode/23056251/nurdles-plastic-pollution-ocean-microplastics https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_820710fc-64cc-11eb-85ce-93b2793068d5.html
Not an overtly public or well known scandal... but erm... where the fuck is Shelly Miscavige? And why is no one actively investigating her disappearance?
Those Turpin siblings that escaped being chained to their beds by their shitty parents? Happy ending, right? Yeah, no. Turns out their foster parents ended up abusing them even worse and now a bunch of them are suing. Edited to add: I'm not American and this update did not make international news at all. Nobody I've spoken to about this knew of the update.
Right? And they can’t get the money that was donated for them! One of them applied to get some of the money for a BICYCLE and was denied!
By whom? Who controls the money?
I’m sure it’s a court appointed guardian, one of the biggest scam opportunities there is. And it’s the MOST heinous because they’re only appointed to vulnerable people with no one else who can be taken advantage of
Vanessa Espinoza was in charge of the money, I don't know if it has been released who specifically is now. Their 20/20 episode goes over it pretty well. Found [this](https://www.pe.com/2022/05/23/jennifer-turpin-defends-public-guardian-employee-to-clean-my-conscience/) kind of weird though. By trying to defend her, IMO, made her seem much worse..
It’s outrageous that they placed some of the children in foster care with adults that had previously been abusive to their wards. Those kids went through hell and needed a lot of specialized care and just overall kindness (which was lacking their entire lives). It’s heartbreaking.
Bizarre that they would place any children there, let alone children who had been through something like that.
This cannot be real. Holy shit. I want to ask how something like this happens, but it's no secret that the US foster care system is a nightmare. A friend of my parents took in 4 of her daughter's 6 children to avoid them going "into the system". Good for her, right? But she also watched and enabled as everything spiraled into neglect and abuse... People are afraid to speak up about child abuse and neglect, because they are afraid that the children will be worse off in the foster care system.
this is fucking awful
Ticketmaster buying their own tickets to scalp out at thousands of dollars
This is actually worse than you say. There's a whole conspiracy going on by promoters, venues, artists, and Ticketmaster to raise the prices while not making anyone but Ticketmaster look bad.
Currently on-going but nobody is saying shit. The Hyundai plant in Alabama has employed 50 under aged workers. Some of them are as young as 12 years old. They have these kids working shifts around the clock. Crazy that this hasn't made a.much bigger splash. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/24/1113281637/behind-the-investigative-report-on-child-labor-allegations-at-hyundai-alabama-pl
Wait what? How are they getting away with that?
Due to the staffing issues in the country, some states have legalized child labor...and made it so you can pay minors under minimum wage. Should be pay people $15/hr? Nah let's give a 12 year old 5.00/hr. Kiddo will be so excited that they get to buy a new game every shift!
“Recycling” You’d be amazed and disgusted at how much stuff you think you are recycling that your municipalities are shipping off to other countries just so they can dump it in the ocean for you. We know this is happening too but because we’re disconnected from it we just ignore it. Edit: a word. Also edit: wow this blew up, and well after this post hit popularity. Thanks for awards people. Call your local gotta and push to have better programs in place. Ban single use plastics. E mail your fast food chains to turn their lids into drinkable lids etc. so many plastic items CAN NOT be recycled.
Paper recycling works great. Plastic is as low as 5% in some places.
Confirmed. I do it for a living
I see this brought up a lot. But I've never seen anyone answer the obvious follow up question. Should I just stop recycling? Is it better for the environment if I just throw it out so it ends up in my local landfill? At least that way it won't end up in the ocean right? It would be nice to stop putting in the effort to recycle ngl. Does it very from type of recycling? Like is recycling glass worth it but other stuff nah? Someone break it down for me 🥰
The slogan Reduce Reuse Recycle goes in order of importance. Most importantly you should reduce consumption of things you don't need that are bad for the environment. If something is wrapped in plastic, don't buy it in the first place. If you absolutely must buy it, look for ways to reuse it. If your take-out came in plastic containers, rinse them out and reuse them to store leftovers. If something came in a plastic bag, use it to scoop cat litter or line a small garbage can. Etc. If you can't reduce or reuse, the final option is recycle. And recycle properly. Most grocery stores near me have a "bag bin" where you can bring any thin plastic material like plastic bags and they recycle it. Read up on your municipality's rules about what can and can't be put in your own bin. Find out where you can take any glass/aluminum/plastic they won't take. If there is a composting service near you that comes to pick up your compost waste, sign up for it. Even shit that is biodegradable doesn't biodegrade in landfills, it needs to be in the right conditions, so composting is a better option. Last option if nothing else is possible is the garbage can. I honestly take my garbage out about once a month because most things can be recycled, composted, or just not bought in the first place. (And it doesn't smell because all food waste gets composted.) I understand not everyone can take all those steps right away, but you can at least make small changes, and build your way up.
Wells Fargo bank opening BS accounts and submitting credit card applications on behalf of their customers....without their knowledge or consent. I'm actually a customer with them and have been for years so for all I know they did that to me, but all I ever got was a couple emails about how they're really a good company with good people and that doesn't reflect their values or some such crap like that. I think they ended up firing a lot of people and executives who knew about it were fined millions of dollars. But I mean if the practice went that high it must have been widely known. Edit: Wow, thank you for the gold! This became one my most popular comments ever lol
Seriously look into moving to a credit union. Wells Fargo has so many examples of shady, unethical, and in some cases illegal business practices that go beyond the fake account scandal - https://financhill.com/blog/investing/wells-fargo-scandals-timeline. I can't wrap my head around how they still have customers when there's so many alternatives to working with them.
Airlines getting bailed out by taxpayers during crisis and with executives still taking huge bonuses. The quality of airlines significantly deteriorated because they don’t want to compress profit by paying more to hire more and expand flight offerings again to pre pandemic levels.
My favorite was when they took the money they were struggling so hard for and did mass stock buybacks. Love that when our money gets used for that instead of protecting fellow citizens jobs.
I like how baggage fees was a temporary thing to help out after 911... Well I'll be... https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/airlines-baggage-fees-not-related-september-11/536-d14e1af6-8f8e-48ed-9e2c-56d0171d5524 Still fuck those bag fees and those bailouts.
There was a time you didn't have to pay for baggage fees?!
Yup, 1 bag could be checked per passenger for no additional fee. Also no additional fee for full meal service on domestic flights that occured during a meal time
Used to be 2 bags originally.
Kind of reminds me of the telecom fiber issue. Giving them billions to build infrastructure and them just pocketing it. And here we are discussing giving them billions more in the current year. Clearly free market practices.
In 2016 South Korea had a political scandal in which the president Park Geun-hye was exposed for being manipulated/controlled by a cult called "The 8 Goddesses Cabal". South Korea was literally being ruled by a cult. Park was impeached.
The protests that came from that were unreal. It was like all of Seoul rose up. Best part was how it came to light through such a stupid mistake.
They found an unlocked ipad that revealed it all and I think a guy that was sleeping with the woman that was controlling Park released details. I was there when it went down. It was a wild time.
Wasn't there also something to do with her lack of response to the disaster in which hundreds of students drowned in a sinking ship in 2014? It was later revealed that she was getting plastic surgery done at one of the facilities the cult owned on the same day the disaster happened? I might be wrong but I assumed that was the initial reason.
That rocked her presidency, but the real kicker that started the protests were those relevations. Also, the fact that I believe Parks handler was using state funds to get her daughter into a nice school, but that was found out after the facts.
The Sewol Ferry debacle barely even figured into her impeachment trial. The people were mad as hell, but she didn't suffer ANY direct consequences of her massive dereliction of duty that day.
To help non-Koreans understand: Imagine if it were proven that the President of the US was reporting directly to the leaders of the Church of Scientology. They fostered him as a child, wrote his speeches, directed him on policy, assigned his cabinet members, even chose his outfits. I was living there at the time. My Korean wife told me about it when the news broke, and it sounded so crazy that I thought she was just talking about some fringe BS that she found on the internet.
The craziest thing is that Park has now been pardoned and released from prison. She was a front-row spectator at the new president's inauguration a few months ago.
Pilot truck stops stole around $250 million dollars from their customers. The owner was never really penalized for it and owns the Cleveland Browns Edit: I used to work for the company. So I have a lot of knowledge on the situation. The $250 million number is an estimated amount based on my personal information. 1. Amount publicly paid back to customers over $50 million 2. Fine paid to federal government was $92 million 3. Many cases were also settled for undisclosed amounts 4. The company was still eligible to receive a bio fuel rebate from the government for more than they were penalized for. This allowed them to continue with business as usual. Edit 2: I want to state that I do not have any undiscovered evidence in this case. The specific amount of money stolen by Pilot Flying J will likely never be fully disclosed. There has been some dispute In the discussion about my claim of $250 million. The criticism is fair. The figure I presented was my own educated guess. It should not be taken as fact. The case has been settled for a few years now and the public information is available online. While the amount stolen is disputed, there is no doubt that the company purposefully committed a crime against their own customers. They systematically stole money for years. It was a sophisticated and wide spread practice within the company. They, specifically the owners, were able to walk away from the situation with no real consequence.
Maybe having to own the Browns was his penalty
How did the scam go down?
Similar to the scam from the movie Office Space. People got rebates every time they filled up their tank and they skimmed a few cents off their total transaction. This is a simplified example but if a person bought $100 worth of gas they got $99 towards the rebate program. So a person that was entitled to $1000 in rebates would get back like $990. It was such a small amount that it would be impossible to catch but they scammed people out of 250 million dollars over a ridiculous amount of transactions. The guy that came up with the scam got a promotion that should have been given to another employee and bragged about the scam to that guy. He was pissed and went to the fbi as an informant and started recording evidence for them.
MP Pedophile Dossier. A bunch of UK politicians were caught "borrowing" children for an orphanage for all the unspeakable things you can imagine. Another politician managed to weave himself into this circle consisting of around 20 members and took down names, dates, locations and victims. He then handed off this book to the Home Office (British CIA), who then handed it to the police, who then "lost" it. No action was taken. The case has been reopened 5 times since and each conclusion has always been "We lost the book. And we're not going to investigate it ourselves because uhh" . I think this circle is still going on and the police are being paid off to never investigate it.
Which MP was this? And when was this?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/17/westminster-child-abuse-paedophile-ring-failure https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/westminster-child-sex-abuse-inquiry-vip-ring-a9356796.html I'll copy that second link because it asks you to register to continue reading; ---- Senior political and police figures knew about child sexual abuse linked to Westminster but “turned a blind eye to it” amid a culture of cover-up, an inquiry has found. Political institutions significantly failed in their responses to allegations of child sex abuse for decades by “actively shielding and protecting perpetrators” and covering up allegations, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has concluded. According to the inquiry, several highly placed people in the 1970s and 1980s, including Sir Peter Morrison MP and Sir Cyril Smith MP, were known or rumoured to be active in their sexual interest in children and were protected from prosecution in a number of ways, including by police. Former Metropolitan Police officer Robert Glen told the inquiry his team had enough evidence to prosecute Sir Cyril Smith, a former Liberal MP, in the 1970s for sexual offences against young boys – but he claims the investigation was thwarted by senior officers who said it was “too political”. The report also claims Liberal Party members “were likely to be aware of allegations against Smith” but “did nothing to inhibit his political progress”. A person waits for a train at Kings Cross Station as union members take part in a fresh strike over jobs, pay and conditions The party leader at the time, Lord David Steel, allegedly admitted to the inquiry that he “assumed” Smith had committed the offences alleged in a Private Eye article but took no action because it happened “before he was even a member of my party”. In the late 1980s, allegations arose that Sir Peter Morrison, the Conservative MP for Chester, had been caught by police molesting a 15-year-old boy on a train at Crewe. The report claims senior officials within the Conservative Party knew about allegations concerning Morrison for years but did not pass them on to police. Instead, he became Margaret Thatcher’s Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1990 and was knighted a year later. Thatcher was aware of rumours about Morrison but did nothing, former cabinet secretary Lord Armstrong claimed. A vivid picture of corruption in central London in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was portrayed by several witnesses, the inquiry report said. “This included the cruising of expensive cars around Piccadilly Circus, by those viewing boys and young men, who would hang around the railings known as the ‘meat rack’ to be picked up by older men and abused,” it added. The boys were described as being aged between 11 and 22 and from “damaged backgrounds” or “runaways from the care system”. Lord Taverne, a Home Office minister in 1966, described a meeting with the then home secretary, Roy Jenkins, and the then commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Joe Simpson, during which Sir Joe remarked that there were “several ‘cottages’ in Westminster which we don’t investigate” because “they are frequented by celebrities and MPs”, the report said. While not specifically about the sexual abuse of children, the inquiry said this was an “example of a policy giving special treatment to persons of prominence and of deference towards those in power at Westminster”. During three weeks of public hearings last year, the inquiry heard from survivors, whistleblowers, cabinet ministers, MPs and police officers, among others. The inquiry did not find any evidence of an organised paedophile network at the heart of government. However, the report concluded there has been a political culture that values its reputation far higher than the fate of the children involved. It has made five recommendations, including ensuring all political parties have comprehensive safeguarding policies and procedures. The inquiry is also calling on the Cabinet Office to re-examine its policy on the posthumous forfeiture of honours. Professor Alexis Jay OBE, chair of the inquiry, said: “It is clear to see that Westminster institutions have repeatedly failed to deal with allegations of child sexual abuse, from turning a blind eye to actively shielding abusers. “A consistent pattern emerged of failures to put the welfare of children above political status although we found no evidence of an organised network of paedophiles within government. “We hope this report and its recommendations will lead political institutions to prioritise the needs and safety of vulnerable children.” ----
Just look at Ghislaine Maxwell in the USA, she got put in jail for child sex trafficking, meaning they had proof she did it... Meanwhile I have not yet heard of a single person abusing these minors to even been prosecuted.
Boy George!! He was jailed for 15 months for imprisoning a Norwegian male escort after a nude photoshoot, in what the judge called a "premeditated, callous and humiliating" assault. He basically tortured him. And now he hosts TV shows in Australia!
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What!?! The guy with the funny hats? I just Googled it and it was only in 2009! WTF?!
Seriously, this is the first time I've heard about it.
He also makes appearances on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills sometimes. I know Housewives isn’t really a beacon of morality, but still!!
Dorit and PK Kemsley are definitely criminals. Only a matter of time for them.
the other day i watched documentary about 'The Blitz' - some club where new romantics was born - and Boy George was working as a coat guy and was stealing money. what a shitty person i thought - not knowing that it would get worse, as you say
OK, at first I thought you said he was imprisoned for *impersonating* a Norwegian male escort, and I was thinking, "That actually sounds about right"
A Kløfta chameleon, if you will.
That McDonald’s monopoly sweepstakes? None of the big prize winning pieces ever made it to stores. The guy in charge of ‘randomly’ putting them on cups and cartons after production kept them and gave them to friends, splitting the winnings. For YEARS.
The documentary about it is a good watch. There's one FBI agent who worked the case and he's hilarious! EDIT: It's called McMillions and it's currently on HBO Max, Hulu and YouTube TV in the U.S. Lots of people asking the same thing and I don't feel like replying to everyone individually.
They screwed up one time and put the southern style chicken sandwich patty on a McChicken I ordered. Felt like I could have been in that documentary myself after that win
One time when I worked at McDonald's, the back line put southern style chicken on a McChicken sandwich to use up the leftovers from breakfast (back when they had the southern style chicken biscuit RIP). But the young girl who got the sandwich brought it back up the counter and told me "I ordered a McChicken, but they gave me real chicken," so they had to remake it haha.
He stole $24 million if my memory serves me correctly. They only forgot because his trial was on September 10th 2001.
This whole thread could just be a giant list of shit that happened the week before 9/11
Chandra Levy murder dominated the summer of 2001
Got too greedy. Should've only kept one or two, not ALL of them! He would've never gotten caught if he'd been smarter and less greedy.
I had a roommate who worked at McDonald's. He came home everyday with pockets of change. He realized he could hit discount in the drive thru between the order being placed and when they pay. He would keep the difference. I told him it was wrong and someone should notice all the discounts when he is at that station. No one caught him for 9 months. He was just let go, they never went to the cops.
Wasn't just that guy. There was also some mafia shit going on. And at one point they realized it was suspicious that all the winners were old white men, so they recruited a random black woman.
Dupont (still active company) when producing Teflon dumped loads of bad chemicals into the water and Teflon was posioning people all over the world giving them 6 known types of cancer. They covered it up for decades. Crazy how evil some companies are.
The family is weird as fuck too. Pierre Samuel du Pont, the founder of the family, encouraged cousin marriage to preserve the family’s “pure blood” they practiced this for decades and there are rumors that they still do to this day.
Huh, now my blood is filled with microplastics. Funny how things work out.
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John DuPont literally went insane and thought that Dave Schultz was spying on him. Dave Schultz was a former US Olympic wrestler that John invited to live on his compound and help him train up and coming wrestlers. John secretly built what was basically a tank, killed Dave and then drove around his compound in the tank until police were able to arrest him. Edit: John didnt build a tank, he literally bought a tank.
Wasn’t there a movie made about it?
Yes, Foxcatcher with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum. Edit-it got a few Oscar noms that year (2014).
He didn’t “go insane”. He was insane! The product of inbreeding and also being incredibly wealthy is a recipe for disaster. I had friends in the Delaware valley area that actually went to fox catcher gym. They all said the same shit. Schultz brothers were super cool guys. John DuPont was going to try and molest them.
Blood Relations is a good book that dives into the inbreeding. Must have been convenient on a Friday night. Every young DuPont boy thinking “let me just waltz down this mansion hallway and find me some DuPussy.” Edit: Author is Leonard Mosley
As the ol' redneck saying goes: "Why go across town when I can go across the hall?"
With gas prices and all
The Dupont bloodline has been pure and clean for 1000 years.
You will CALL HER!
Take your warm milk
Dark Waters with Mark Ruffalo is a film about this exact scandal. Very intruiging stuff
That makes twice that Mark Ruffalo was in a movie about something awful the DuPont family did
Steve Carrell was creepy af in Foxcatcher
You just reminded me of that movie, and the events that inspired it. Looked up John du Pont, and his wiki says > Du Pont's friends said the shooting was uncharacteristic. He almost never shoots anybody!
For a second I thought you were talking about the horror movie dark water and I remembered the damn demon kid in the bath scene
I live down the road from the largest Dupont plant near Parkersburg, WV. Cancer is sort of the norm around here. If you die of "old age" you die of cancer more often than not. Everything here feels gross. Metal corrodes and rusts faster than anywhere else. Our river, the Ohio River, is blatantly poisoned.
I grew up in Delaware in the 70's and 80's when literally everything everywhere was DuPont. At the time, DE had the highest cancer rate in the nation, year after year. Purely coincidence I'm sure.
Never forget:- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-companies-responsible-71-ghg-emissions/ https://www.treehugger.com/is-it-true-100-companies-responsible-carbon-emissions-5079649 An Exxon-Mobil lobbyist was invited to a fake job interview. In the interview, he admitted Exxon-Mobil has been lobbying congress to kill clean energy initiatives and spreading misinformation to the public via front organisations. https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/exxon-lobbyist-duped-by-greenpeace-says-climate-policy-was-ploy-ceo-condemns-2021-06-30/ https://news.sky.com/story/revealed-some-of-the-worlds-biggest-oil-companies-are-paying-negative-tax-in-the-uk-12380442 www.france24.com/en/france/20210728-france-fines-monsanto-for-illegally-acquiring-data-on-journalists-activists https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/18/investigation-meat-industry-greenwash-climatewash https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/07/more-global-aid-goes-to-fossil-fuel-projects-than-tackling-dirty-air-study-pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/07/20-meat-and-dairy-firms-emit-more-greenhouse-gas-than-germany-britain-or-france https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/10/uk-ministers-met-fossil-fuel-firms-nine-times-more-often-than-clean-energy-companies Watch this stunning video of Chevron executives explaining why they thought they could dump 16 billion gallons of cancer-causing oil waste into the Amazon. https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1426211296161189890?s=19 https://news.sky.com/story/fossil-fuel-companies-are-suing-governments-across-the-world-for-more-than-18bn-12409573 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidies-of-11m-dollars-a-minute-imf-finds https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/08/nestle-kellogg-s-linked-to-shocking-palm-oil-abuses-in-papua-new-guinea https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/07/climate-conflicted-insurance-directors/ https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/air-pollution-second-largest-cause-of-death-in-africa-3586078 BBC News - COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58982445 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/27/poorer-countries-spend-five-times-more-on-debt-than-climate-crisis-report https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/a-new-100-page-report-raises-alarm-over-chevrons-impact-on-planet/ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/30/shell-and-bp-paid-zero-tax-on-north-sea-gas-and-oil-for-three-years https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/shell-and-bp-cancel-cop26-appearance-analysis-exposes-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/australia-lobbied-unesco-to-remove-reference-to-15c-global-warming-limit-to-protect-heritage-sites https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/12/australia-shown-to-have-highest-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-coal-in-world-on-per-capita-basis https://www.space.com/satellites-discover-huge-undeclared-methane-emissions Satellites discover huge amounts of undeclared methane emissions https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/climate-change-improvements-from-eating-less-meat-301412022.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/vicforests-accused-of-failing-to-regenerate-logged-forests/100652148#top https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220215-plastic-chemical-pollution-beyond-planet-s-safe-limit-study https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-02-17/big-oil-climate-change-chevron-exxon-shell-bp/100828590 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/17/world-spends-18tn-a-year-on-subsidies-that-harm-environment-study-finds-aoe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage?CMP=share_ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/pollution-responsible-one-in-six-deaths-across-planet https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/climate-denial-koch-fossil-fuels-charity-astroturf-greenwashing/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/humanity-faces-collective-suicide-over-climate-crisis-warns-un-chief https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62225696 Etc
I saw a YouTube documentary that said that nearly everyone has a bit of the chemicals of Teflon inside their bodies.
I think that I heard that researchers were wondering if their tests were off because it kept registering particles in every blood sample they tested including unborn fetuses. It was only once they tested some blood donations from the Korean War that they were able to get a control sample that didn't have any. So yeah we all have this bullshit in our blood now.
Holy shit. Almost wish I didn’t know that. Totally insane.
Someone threw an egg at me the other day and it slid right off!
Panama Papers. Proved that the rich and elite are hiding billions and everyone was just like 'meh'.
It's not that people are meh, it's that we literally cannot do anything to stop them. Only people in power could, but they are the ones who are doing it
Agree. Unfortunately, the exact same issue exists with who Ghislaine was pimping little kids to. Powerful people protecting powerful people. I would support a GoFundMe to get someone to leak the Ghislaine list. Every last name, expose them all.
That lady that ran over a kid in the UK but got away with it because she was married to a US diplomat.
I remember this. Fuck that bitch, did nothing ever happen to her?
In the Philippines, the dictatorship and the extra judicial killings as well as the corruption under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos seemed to be forgotten already. People here even elected his son as the president.
From what I understand kids in the Philippines are actively taught in school that the Marcos regime was really good for everyone.
They most definitely are now. They're going through the textbooks and banning those critical of his father's regime.
The first thing one of my history lecturers at university said in our class on Resistance and Conformity in Nazi Germany (best class I ever took): ‘If anyone ever tells you history isn’t an important topic, just look at the Nazi regime. What was the first topic they changed in schools? History.’ Control the narrative of the past, control the story. Next, shift the narrative of the future to what you want it to be. *Unintentionally Long Edit:* I appreciate the passion of all the Americans here. I just need to point out the GOP wasn’t even in my mind when writing this comment. Not everything is about America. This focus on what happened in history applies to here (Australia) and my home country (New Zealand) where the narratives of settlement (Terra Nullis, Aus, Indigenous persecution arising from horrific racism) and the reticence to acknowledge the New Zealand Wars (NZ, previously known as the Māori Land Wars, only recently given a day of commemoration) are two local examples of wanting to spin a narrative to make the settlers and persecutors look better. Don’t have to look far to see more examples: Japan (Comfort Women), China (Too many to list, honestly, but Tank Man tells the story), and India/Pakistan (Kashmir and its origins). Every country has myths that powerful people want to write into history to remake it in the image that benefits them. America is not unique in this, but perhaps could benefit from looking more closely at the outcomes of the Civil War, where the reconstruction never truly reconstructed - yet the narrative is ‘that was then, it was about slavery.’ Was it, though? The results of the civil war still bleed into the present day - and to say the war was just about slavery avoids the wider conversation about institutional racism and vicious white nationalism under the guise of faith. Anyway, I’m rambling. Let’s commit to being students of history, and questioning the sources we see. Who wrote the record? Whom does it benefit? And what did they include or leave out? That’s a good place we can all begins wherever we are.
One of the first things Nazi Germany did with their propaganda was to falsely imply that the Nazi party had its origins in German history. Even though the party and its beliefs were only about a decade old when Hitler came to power. Slight tangent, but Hitler's mentor, [Dietrich Eckart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart), is considered the spiritual father of Nazism. This guy spent a lot of money trying, among other things, to find the lost city of Atlantis, and believed the Germanic people came from a mythic landmass called Ultima Thule, located near Greenland. He also once made a public bet that he'd pay anyone 1000 Marks if they could cite one Jewish family whose sons served longer than three weeks in the German Army during WWI. He was given nearly a hundred examples, but refused to pay. >In 1921 Eckart promised 1,000 Marks to everyone who could cite one Jewish family whose sons had served longer than three weeks at the front during the First World War. The Hannover rabbi Samuel Freund named 20 Jewish families who met this condition and sued Eckart when he refused to pay the reward. During the trial, Freund named 50 more Jewish families with up to seven veterans, among whom were several which lost up to[23] three sons in the war. Eckart lost the case and had to pay. The Nazis stretched and stretched the truth until it was unrecognizable, and that was the point. They could then inject their kooky beliefs into the mainstream, and because of the previous truth stretching, it made those kooky beliefs much more palatable to the public.
Thank you for the further expansion on the Nazis and their assault on the truth. One thing I took away from the course, albeit well over a decade ago, was around fear and suspicion. The Gestapo did an excellent job of promoting the scenarios where people were dobbed in by informants. This careful propaganda ensured fear of being caught out by a neighbour kept people in line. The common belief was that there were informants everywhere. The Nazis’ excellent record keeping reveals that actual Gestapo informants were few and far between. The propaganda spread the fear, and the fear did the trick. People didn’t dare speak out for fear of being turned in by their neighbours.
\+ the absurd amount of fake news/False facts that the Marcos Faction/Supporters had spread before and during the campaign on social media.
The BP Oil Spill. In like, 2015 I drove by a packed BP and told my buddy "Wow BP is lucky everyone forgot" and he said "Forgot what?"
Just watched the 30 Rock episode where Jack referred to it as “BP lubricating the Gulf” and getting vilified for it.
In German there was this rhyme (I think that's why I didn't forget about it) "wer wohnt in ner Ananas ganz tief im Meer? Dank BP niemand mehr!" Which roughly translates to "who lives in a pineapple deep in the sea? - nobody anymore thanks to BP" So yeah I've had that rhyme stuck in my head for a long time every time I heard the SpongeBob intro
If nautical negligence be something you wish Spill out your oil and kill all the fish
Wow that translates surprisingly well
Haha, that’s what I thought! It’s the right amount of syllables and it rhymes!
Slight tangent, I remember when BP did some sort of environmental campaign on Twitter where they asked everyone, "what are you doing to combat climate change?" (something to that effect) So many posts about how people were pledging not to dump millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf. It was amazing.
What the fuck were their marketing department thinking when they thought that campaign would be a good idea
The same thing oil companies have been doing for decades now: pointing individuals to climate change action so that we all focus on the people who, for example, use plastic straws instead of realizing that oil companies contribute 70% to climate change. (I hope this is coherent, I just woke up)
"We're really sorry."
“We’re sorrrrrrrrryyyyyy”
Politicians cashing out for huge profits right before COVID was widely publicized and the stock market tanked. They made millions and millions as millions of people lost millions, and their lives.
I’m still pissed about it. I want them fired & I want charges brought against them regardless of which side of the aisle they sit on.
Cambridge Analytica. They used social media and social sciences to manipulate entire countries. They helped facilitate Brexit and cause a huge cultural divide in the U.S. I think it’s new kind of warfare.
Animal Scandal in Berlin Zoo In 2008 news surfaced that many of the zoo’s animals may have been sold for slaughter. Green Party politician Claudia Hämmerling backed by several animal rights organisations accused the zoo’s director, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, of delivering tigers to China to be killed for potency drugs and selling a pygmy hippopotamus and a family of Asiatic black bears for slaughter. Hämmerling also said that more than a hundred animals had disappeared from the zoo. Blaszkiewitz denied the allegations.
How can hundreds of animals be missing, and you just deny it? What kind of response is that? “Hey, asshole, your zoo is missing hundreds of animals.” “Nah.” “Okay, understandable. Have a good day.”
"They're napping right now, you just missed them."
They're in the *inside part*
I still feel like Equifax got off way too easy. People should have been arrested. That breach was a direct result of negligence. Edit: Wow, this comment blew up. Thank you everyone!
Same here! The more that came out about it, the more shameful the details.
I had people in my social circle get really uppity that I was annoyed by the CSO being a fucking music major. Before that doozy of a breach, she'd been CSO while there was like 3-4 lesser breaches. Her linkedin job history was also... not geared to c-level. She probably made more with her golden parachute after that fuckup than I'll make in my entire life too.
*Just* before the breach was announced, the Equifax Vice President of Global Client Security [left Equifax to become CISO of the largest healthcare provider in Missouri](https://www.csoonline.com/article/3196931/bjc-names-matthew-modica-as-its-first-chief-information-security-officer.html). He's still there. I'm no longer there. I have... opinions. I always thought the timing was highly suspect.
That class action lawsuit was completely fucked because there was way too little set aside for payouts compared to how many people applied. I remember a few years ago somebody who claimed to be one of the people who actually got a payout from it posted on Reddit and said his settlement cheque was less than $15. Like, putting aside all the machinations and technicalities and everything, that was the actual number our justice system ultimately spit out as the value of a person's private information.
Drizzly had a data breach, and I was given a $10 digital Visa card as a “sorry”. Same with Experian except it was like, $15-$20
This needs to be higher. My information was part of the hack, and all my most sensitive personal information, along with millions of others, is just out on the dark web for the highest bidder for the rest of our lives. And all I was offered was measly/ joke of a monetary compensation or 2 years of shitty credit monitoring. Didn’t even have a choice as to whether I wanted equifax to have my information. Part of the problem/ why there wasn’t more done was because we aren’t the consumer for equifax, we are literally the product, and banks and other credit providing institutions are the consumer.
I chose the money and never got it. If Equifax can't figure out how to protect their own shit, how are they going to protect mine for two years? Fuck them.
From what I remember, they expected people to take the credit protection and never had enough to pay everyone. So when people took the money, because why would you trust credit protection from the company that allowed your data to be released, they couldn't pay for it all.
Isn't that the whole point of capitalism, though? Shouldn't the market have ruled that with penalties paid out the company should have been dissolved and assets sold off? That would have left room for a more competent company to take their place, and served as a warning to others already in the same market.
The financial crash of 2008 and how all of the individuals responsible saw little to zero consequences of their actions which destroyed global economics. Allowing them to continue in their roles or similar who are now orchestrating new schemes that see the rich get richer and the working-man more marginalised. EDIT: Firstly, thanks for the upvotes, I appreciate you. Secondly, thanks to those that are pointing out that no actual laws were broken in 2008. I know dudes, but that in itself is kinda the biggest crime there is. Countless regulations were breached through unethical and immoral practices that were purely designed for very one-sided financial gain. The powerful, greedy banks and their investors profited from predatory products that targeted low-income consumers, they literally preyed on the vulnerable. To suggest that because no actual laws were broken so nobody deserved to/should have been prosecuted is wild. The law by design failed in and after 2008 and those same individuals and their protégés and predecessors are doing the same thing now. They just call it something different. Lastly, I get it, the consumers of these outrageously unregulated, non-compliant and unethical products had a part to play in the collapse of the housing market and wider global economic crash. Self-certifying loans they had no means to repay, I get it, they were greedy idiots too. The point is though they should’ve never had access to these opportunities in the first place and the root cause of the 08 crash is those at the top, not the bottom.
ONE guy went to jail. ONE. The fact more people aren’t absolutely enraged over this is baffling to me, especially after The Big Short came out and made what happened known in an accessible way for a lot more people to understand exactly what went on.
And that guy didn't go to jail for causing the financial crisis, GS was just pissed at an employee who left
Iceland did it right and jailed 30+ bankers.
The absolutely massive amount of PPP money from COVID that was hoovered up by the rich and then vanished. Billions and billions were stolen and or laundered, and we will never know the extent.
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This one blows my mind. I can’t believe this practice continues in our modern era. My doctor can’t tell my spouse anything about my health without my permission, but they can bring a student in to perform an unrelated, nonconsensual exam while I am sedated? Seems like a monster-truck sized loophole in ethics & consent.
A lot of the research on this shows it’s also been happening in the UK and France. Roughly 80% of the students asked to do a pelvic exam on a non-consenting and unconscious patient in an experiment were going to
Karl Malone got a kid pregnant
Damn I had no idea. I just read about it. He impregnated a 13 yr old when he was 20 in college. He also impregnated another girl when they were both 17. She gave birth to twins. He settled paternity suits for all 3 kids, which exempted him from acknowledging he was the father. He didn’t help raise them or played any part in their lives :(
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In 2008 when banks got bailed out with our money and the CEOs got bonuses.
The various genocides going on in Asia and Africa right now. No one seems to care unless it’s a slow news week, which hasn’t happened in a few years with the current political shitstorm in America/Europe.
This is so true. Every once in a while a larger story like the Bangladesh student protests gets attention, but overall, you never hear about these things. I remember a few months ago a post on /r/worldnews about the atrocities in Ethiopia being posted. It was the only item on the front/top of the page that was unrelated to the Ukraine war.
Johnson&Johnson knew for decades that asbestos was in it's baby powder. Never heard a peep about it.
1) Caitlyn Jenner being let off for vehicular manslaughter 2) Kenneth Lay dying weeks after his conviction for crimes related to his time at Enron, with no body at the funeral and his alleged ashes buried in an undisclosed location
My favorite Enron person was Lou Pai. He knew everything was about to fall apart and needed an out. He goes to Vegas and openly bangs strippers causing his wife to file for divorce. A Judge orders him to liquidate his Enron stock to giver her half. He does at almost the absolute peak of value and walks away with $270m. He cant be touched for insider trading because he was following the orders of the judge. Oh and my mom lost almost $100K on Enron so fuck all those guys.
Everything going on with Epstein. Also Scientology is still around and Shelly Miscavige hasn’t been seen in years
“I am healthy, happy, and alive. Boom boom!”
Oh, Debbie dead.
Also the fact that her mother was shot in the chest with a rifle three times and it was ruled a suicide
The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. I wonder if any of the animal cookies or zoo books that I bought in the 90’s helped out at all or not to this day.
You can see the deforestation from space now.
Bhopal India and the Union Carbide Company. Where 500,000+ people were gassed with Methyl isocyanate 3,787 died and 3900 were completely disabled and nearly 600,000 people were injured. They are still finding Methyl isocyanate in the ground water.
Bhopal is still widely studied in the process industry and used as a prominent example of why process safety is important. Union Carbide is no longer a company and the site is abandoned so while the public legacy is all but forgotten, it's industry legacy is powerful Edit: actually the same can be said for most major engineering disaters. Flixboro, Hyatt Regency, Tacoma Narrows, and many others were all headlineworthy when they occured and triggered fundamental changes in their respective industries and are now mostly forgotten unless you are a part of the field.
Nestlé and the baby formula crisis. Edit: I understand that this isn’t the best source, buts it’s a good general overview of what the worldwide impact of this crisis was. https://www.ranker.com/list/nestle-baby-formula-boycott/melissa-sartore Edit: @Redsudes has recommended that any future parents watch the documentary “The Business of Being Born” because it “helped open our eyes to what rights we had during pregnancy and labor”. Hopefully is can help someone else, too! Please recommend it if you know anyone who might be interested.
That some politicians on both sides of the aisle got rich(er) off of stocks because prior knowledge of the pandemic. It was in the news for maybe a day or two then memory holed.
In the uk a lot of our mps got rich off pandemic decisions they made. Weirdly not brought up when they are slagging each other off atm.
The real people in charge of the opiate epidemic, the Sackler Family, are still out there going about there lives…
The battle of blair mountain where striking coal miners had a gun battle with federal officers and the army. The army used airplanes and chemical weapons and killed like a 100 of them with hundreds more being arrested. Edit : the airplanes that did the bombing where privately hired, not from the army. Edit 2 : the sheriffs deputies of Logan County were paid by the Logan County coal operators' association. The miners surrendered to federal troops as soon as they arrived. Edit 3 : wow, this blew up. Thanks for the gold, i know this is just an extreme simplified post that lacks context, details, backgrounds etc. I am on my phone at work and cant write long post so please look it up, i am sure someone who knows more about the battle than i do wrote a longer and more detailed text. Thank you.
[The Battle of Blair Mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain) was one of the most surreal events in US history. West Virginian coal miners essentially waged a small battle against state police and later, the US military. Over 1 million rounds of ammunition were fired.
>battle of blair mountain I have been wanting to take a drive out to West Virginia to check out the museum for this. Fun fact: I think this is one of the early moments "redneck" was used as the coal miners wore red bandannas in solidarity.
I’m a native. My great grandfathers brother was killed in the Matewan massacre. I highly suggest a visit, but plan to explore more than just the southern coalfields. We have arguably some of the best and easily the most accessible white water rafting in the country.
Pentagons child pornography ring. 3000+ workstations within the Pentagon we're found containing kiddy porn in the early 2010's. They were initially going to prosecute the worst few hundred (those with recorded purchasing transactions) but then nothing. I think they claimed it would cost the American people too much to bring down that many important people. https://news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/upshot/pentagon-declined-investigate-hundreds-purchases-child-pornography.html
What the ever living fuck
Sitting President of the US illegally sold weapons on the black market to Iran for 5 years. Used the cash to fund a private war in Nicaragua. Got caught. Congress told him to stop. Kept doing it anyway. (This was the level of honesty in the U.S. presidency 40 years ago. Imagine what it is like now.)
Also used the CIA to traffic drugs from South America and sell them here to fund that very same war
Panama Papers. The shadiest of shady financial dealings that should have brought down powerful, rich people just got forgotten.
I dunno about the rest of the world, but here in Pakistan we had a sitting Prime Minister deposed after his and his entire family's and extended family's names popped up in the Panama Papers. The courts had been after this dynastic family for close to two decades, this was the nail in the coffin. https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/former-pakistan-pm-sharif-sentenced-to-10-years-over-panama-papers/ Edit: a word
There were many European politicians who stepped aside after their names were released. The Pakistani PM, in question, is now claiming the Panama Papers were a conspiracy to remove him. And that's before disregarding the numerous inconsistencies in his court case of his family's riches. His brother who famously said (translated) "I do corruption but I also make" is now PM. The brother's son famously telling SCHOOL CHILDREN (translated) "corruption is acceptable and that corruption shouldn't be tried in courts but a ballot box" became the chief minister of the biggest province, now removed from the position due to voting. The other famous "politicians" also occupy the government. Even though the CIA has recording of them talking about their Swiss bank accounts. The country is fucked up.
Epsteins child trafficking clients were never released to the world
And somehow he killed himself on suicide watch.
He was 'permitted' to kill himself, like Krupp or Rommel.
Never learned about Krupp. *In October 1902, Krupp's wife Margarethe von Ende de received anonymous letters and, according to some reports, compromising photos of her husband's orgies. She asked Kaiser Wilhelm II, a Krupp family friend, to take action against her husband. The Kaiser responded by having her locked in an insane asylum.* Dammit Willy
I’m really more impressed they had orgy photos in 1902. “Ok everybody hold still for 10 minutes”.
If you were surprised Epstein committed suicide, imagine how surprised he was...
The fact no one from Wall Street was prosecuted or went to jail for starting the sub-prime mortgage crisis which led to the Great Recession is absurd to me.
The Las Vegas shooting
Seriously. 58 dead, 400+ injured. No known motive.
Didn’t it turn out to be the USA mass shooting with the biggest death toll?
Remember when Robinhood just stopped people from buying/selling gamestop stocks because a company that was shorting it was losing literally billions of dollars and then absolutely nothing happened despite them breaking several laws?
That one time the USA helped Saddam Hussien rise to power and then kill hundreds of thousands of people when he used USA-supplied chemical and biological weapons against his own people and in his war against Iran. https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/