Human history is notorious for strange events. No wonder there are tons of conspiracy theories surfing around that aim to explain them in one way or the other. Some are totally bogus, others are somewhat debatable.
So when someone posed an illuminating question “What strange events have gotten swept under the rug like they didn't even happen?” on the Ask Reddit community recently, it seemed to have hit a soft spot for many. People shared some of the most incredible events that got totally forgotten, or that everyone pretends they forgot, including an extreme personal data breach on a global scale, an audit that found $8M of taxpayers' money missing, and unidentified snipers taking out cars starting last summer. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Below we collected some of the strangest events that people shared in the thread and it makes you wonder if someone has a solid explanation for each and every one of them.
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Identifying all the rich men who participated in Jeffery Epstein's island.
I heard the book that had names about the Epstein stuff get legally sealed after Maxwell's trial instead of being investigated. If it did, then why wasn't it investigated as well?
Money buys reallllllly good lawyers to block any revelations.
Load More Replies...No. It's the won't even be mentioned never mind being arrested card.
Load More Replies...Except that googling "rich men who participated in Jeffery Epstein's island " gives you several hits with lists of rich men who participated in Jeffery Epstein's island. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/10/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-friends or https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-donald-trump-alan-dershowitz.html and https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/07/237389/jeffrey-epstein-friends-involved-sex-trafficking
This Alan Dershovitz guy is a piece of work. And how could he sneak into a BBC interview as an "impartial analyst"?
Load More Replies...Oh, there are way too many things about rich people that magically disappear. Don't ever forget the mega rich people that you've never heard of are the ones running the world.
I hear that Ghislaine is considering suicide too. She's gonna shoot herself twice in the head.
The medical examiner will call it the worst case of suicide he has ever seen.
Load More Replies...How typical that the only person to go to prison for this was a woman.
I'm a woman and i think that disgusting predator belongs there for the rest of her life. As a woman what she did to young girls is especially unforgivable. F that, she deserves all of it
Load More Replies...Bill Clinton, visited many times, Tom Hanks, Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Leon Black, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Itzhak Perlman, John Glenn, George Mitchell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to name a few.
Oh, I'm so glad you've seen the list and are such a reliable source when no one has seen it. Please, go on.
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The leader of Scientology's wife vanished after an argument in 2005, nobody knows what happened to her.
If you have even a passing knowledge of Scientology, you have probably heard of this. Shelly Miscavage's disappearance is not kept quiet by those not in the cult.
Needs more noise though we are talking about 16 years with no sighting, this can't be allowed to continue. We need to know why it has been allowed for this long and what happened to her.
Load More Replies...Her mother resigned from Scientology, and was later found dead. He death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that she was shot four times; once in the head and three times in the chest.
Why don't I know about this? You would think it would have been front page news everywhere.
Load More Replies...The Church of Scientology is a sick, abusive cult. They are protected because of the same reason Jeffery Epstein & clients are. They are too powerful. They have too much dirt on people who are famous and have tons of money. They disappear, abuse and cancel people all the time. The leader of the Church isn't any better than a sociopath despot. They kill people, kill their families, hunt people down, have jails, brainwashing centers, deprivation centers, physical and mental abuse. There's tons of books out there written by escapees, and every one is more horrific than the others. Best yet, since they're a "church", they are tax free and never investigated.
People need to take the time to watch Leah Remini's series on Scientology. They can make your life a living hell if you speak out. They manage to do this by stepping right up to the line where it would cross over into stalking/harassment. Very scary stuff. Their followers are totally brainwashed into handing over thousands of dollars they don't have, to pay for courses to reach the state of "clear,". Trust me, I know, it takes determination, conviction and courage to leave a cult, especially this one. When I got out of the one I was in, I "got out of Dodge", so to speak. They found my parents, they found me even though I'd moved to another country. Take the advice from The X Files. It's true!
Load More Replies...She didn't vanish, he know exactly what happened but his wealth has kept it as "vanished".
Yeah a suicide that took 4 shots 3 to the chest and one to the head. Cmon why is this being covered up when we all know what's happening it's insane money can buy you slavery and murder so out in the open.
Load More Replies...But she's fine, everyone. She's absolutely fine... I cannot understand why there has not been a police investigation.
They have infiltrated the police. Police officers have said they spoken with her and she is fine. The corruption runs VERY deep with this org....
Load More Replies...Covid depression Is one of the most predominant factors that most of us have experienced throughout the past 2 years, yet no one talks about it. You know that thing that makes you feel so used up that you download a bunch of apps that you know won’t make you happy? Maybe eat more, sleep more, stay in your house more. Then a war hits and you feel so incredibly useless to the perpetual tragedy that you just shut down. Yeah, that thing.
I acknowledge that Covid has affected people's mental health drastically. What I feel is REALLY being swept under the carpet is Long Covid, which is affecting a huge number of people with effects that may well be permanent, and many of these people are health workers who were forced into Covid situations without sufficient PPE or vaccinations. Governments are not doing anything about that.
I am sorry but I feel like this is whataboutism and totally takes away from the issue stated here, which is depression increasing or getting worse in the past 2 years. Long Covid is being discussed everywhere but i havent seen big reports and data on mental health, other than the casual "covid is no good for depressed people"-article. Yes, Long Covid is a thing but mental health matters.
Load More Replies...And once again, not true. Covid depression is noticed and recognised as a mental problem from a lot of people in all ages and genders. It is widely discussed in the medical profession in a lot of countries.
Please keep being strong❤️ Talk to whomever you feel will listen, look at nature….REALLY look at nature, bird song, flowers, insects.. etc. Play music that makes your SOUL happy. You are not alone.❤️
Feeling depressed because the world around you is in a bad state is not a clinical depression but a normal reaction to somethign bad happening.
I honestly seem like the least likely person to get depression, i am a bubbly, takative, and fun loving/ reckless. But since the most of my life is my social interactions i was deppresed during covid. I hated it. i hated online school. But now im better. It still hurts thinking about that. Honestly i don't think my life will be like it was planned. With the threat of world war 3. I have no idea whats coming. Pls stay safe. I love you all.
My sister need to be sosial with multiple different people to function, so covid was a nightmare for her
The Phoenix lights. My whole immediate family and tons of people on the street we lived on saw the aircraft come overhead. We all stood there speechless and terrified until it passed then the whole block freaked out. Nobody will ever convince me it was flairs. We all saw the outline and structure of the craft clearly. It was so big and slow it was amazing it was staying in the air. My hair still stands on end even thinking about it right now.
I saw it crazy thing was I had a dream months before that I was standing under a ufo and it has us on the bottom not sure if it meant us or United States well now since my dream came true and I saw it in going with it meant United States yeah it's us
Load More Replies...Yeah I dont believe we have ever been visited by extraterrestrials even though I believe there is life out there, we would be too big of a statistical anomaly to be the only planet developing life. I guess from the name its in US, so some kind of military craft is the most plausible explanation.
Load More Replies...ARE YOU F*ING KIDDING ME?! Have never heard of this, so Googled it and saw pics of these triangular shaped objects with lights. I saw those, and so did a bunch of other people I know, mid 90s (No idea when Phoenix Lights were seen though?) But I saw them in SWEDEN. Other side of the planet. 😐😐😐 No joke. They sort of moved slow over the sky, in kind of a circular slow motion. Never thought much about it, since I grew up fairly close to an airport.
I was pretty young but I remember being on the 10 with my grandparents and my grandpa pointing it out.
Load More Replies...Well now the government knows you know I'm sad I never got to know you better.... ps. Mr and mrs. government I was not there I didn't see anything and in the picture it looks like weather balloons
Dude we were hanging out in our backyard visiting some friends when that same thing came over us, in Slovenia (Vrhnika)
See here's the problem: Voyager 1 is carrying a map of how to get to earth. It left our solar system and continues onward. Stephen Hawking told them that the map was a bad idea. I hope he's wrong!
OMG didn't their parents teach them not to give out personal information? Always listen to Hawking. He is really smart.
Load More Replies...Had a similar experience at the Oregon coast in the spring of 2007.
In my hometown, the police chief was accused of having sexual relations with an underage girl. The father of the girl was one of the officers on the force. He was later found passed away near the property of the chief. People believe he was there to confront the chief about the relations. 9/11 happened, and the attention of the public got focused on the nation's tragedy. HE IS NOW THE MAYOR.
Also "sexual relations with an underage girl" is rape. Just say rape. Or at the very least sexual abuse/sexual assault.
Load More Replies...A police officer just got probation and not put on the sex offender registry after raping a 12 yr old for two years until she was 14 and her parents found out. A judge made excuses for him. I see that a lot of judges make excuses for rapists and still women are questioned why they don't come forward.
Sounds like Trump. Accused of raping a 13 y.o then becomes President. All the people that allow this b******t to happen are gonna have a really really crappy afterlife.
Hong Kong protests
apparently one in seven people in hong kong have been involved in protesting annually at the very least. Yet, governmental and bureaucratic crackdowns have shoved it under the radar. The real problem is the media's non-reporting of such issues because people get 'bored' of it and they're corporations which pander to people.
Media non-reporting is because they all were forced out and its just china do what we say now or else
Load More Replies...Because it was a lost cause. Hong Kong was legally handed over to China, of course they wouldn't get away with being so different from the rest of the country. It's sad but there was nothing anyone could really do. Most people either left or gave up.
I lived in Hong Kong during that time. Had to do online learning. Left to Singapore.
There's some concern that China will copy what's happening in Ukraine and invade Hong Kong too
It wasn't swept away, they installed a new security law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_security_law
When the government gave college loan companies money. So the loan companies could forgive some school debt from students. But instead, the companies just kept the money and told everyone that called in they didn't qualify for forgiveness. And the government did nothing about it.
Betsy Devoss and her band of rip off artists masquerading as a legitimate college loan administrators. The government did something about it- Trump made her his education secretary!!
I seem to remember a mortgage relief package that went exactly the same way. Companies were given mucho monies to lower peoples rates. I remember applying and they used the system to up my monthly payment and charge me personally for appraisals they didn't even use and added the cost to my principal so I ended up paying interest on it. I even did a three way call with a government lawyer on the line and they hung up on us both when she told them she was a lawyer.
Talk to a comptroller. I fought Wells Fargo for years. Talked to a comptroller and they changed the illegal policy they had because they ignored my lawyer.
Load More Replies...Bit like the $40,000 given to ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Commission) that just mysteriously disappeared without being spent on the people it was supposed to help.
Pure BS. Give money conditionally to the (ex)students. It'll get paid. So many ways to scam the people. think there ought be a law?
Lmao, yeah. Im sure Trump's algebra did their talent and that talent called "fraud" which they're usually good at it. Just like Brian Kolfage's Border Wall fund, Steve Barron and Donald Jr were also involved. Alot of donors were pissed and others gladly donate if its help them.
I remember this because it happened to me. Had a bad feeling it was a scam right off
The metric s**t ton of Covid relief money that was given to companies, that was misappropriated and will never be paid back, and is only marginally being analyzed/investigated.
So it’s all on the US taxpayers
Yeah, the British taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for all the billions that the UK government have written off due to their lack of oversight about who they were handing money over to for covid relief. They're not even trying to solve those crimes even though there's a literal money trail, and as we have a conservative government who don't like taxing the rich, as usual it'll be the poor and disabled yet again paying for their negligence.
Oh there wasn't a lack of oversight. They knew exactly who they were giving the money to. Their friends.
Load More Replies...What's new? Remember how the banks caused a major financial fück up so people lost their homes and their savings and somehow the banks were rewarded by governments who gave them billions of dollars to fix it? Remember how the banks next used a big portion of that money to hand out millions of dollars on bonuses to the people who caused this mess?
Not to mention all of the automobile, air industry and oil and gas distributors lining up for their millions.
Load More Replies...Australian Government did the same. Billions of taxpayer dollars handed to companies that lied to get it.
Governments in Europe had to give money to companies. Bad results and American companies trying to buy them with monopoly money. Ones sold the profits would end up somewhere else (but not in your country).
Load More Replies...Well THIS IS the United States where there isn't truly a government, but corporate owned instead. This Country will never give a f**k about its citizens, only what can be done to give corporations / the 1% more money off our backs. Capitalism is a joke, and it's baffling some ppl don't get that.
This happened all over the world where relief money was offered to companies. There's a ski resort near me that ended up with $1.37 million in relief funds and just a few months later started construction and opened a state of the art $13 million lodge. It ended the year with a surplus of $1.5 million - 3 times the year before.
They've been tracing down misappropriated loans in America. Hundreds are being prosecuted. It's not in the mainstream news but if you peruse local news in different states you can find it.
Same in Canada but they are going after the individuals that received a few thousand, making them pay it back while writing off hundreds of millions given to industries.
Load More Replies...In the US, Propublica.org lists all those who received the so-called forgivable loans (free Covid money that was intended to pay employees during lockdown). So much theft occured.
Damn that's crazy! And I know the feeling like family guy says it really grinds my gears lol : D
Load More Replies...Yep same in Australia. They all hate socialism until they're the recipients of government money.
Nobody seemed to remember Ukrainian passenger flight being shot down by the Iranian government last year.
Pretty sure this was longer than last year ago. Is this the flight shot down over Syria? There was a plane in 2014 over Crimea, but I don't think the Iranians were involved.
Load More Replies...That is awful. The Netherlands are still in shock about passenger flight MH17 from Amsterdam being shot down over Ukrain by the Russians in 2014.
Australia and Netherlands launched legal action today
Load More Replies...It was big news here in Canada for a while. Of the 176 people on board who were killed, 55 were Canadian citizens.
It was in the news again recently in regards to court I believe
Load More Replies...No Ukrainians and Iranians do remember. Both countries lost people in that accident and it was a really big deal.
Poor Ukraine has gone through way to much. Seriously, they just need to be left alone.
Yes, they do. But it's hard to remain a peaceful country when you have a massive tyrant-run nation sitting on your border.
Load More Replies...This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752
I saw two video clips filmed by people with cellphones. Saw the crash and the missile hit. Prayed like the dickens for a whole week until it was revealed that the perpetrators were a rogue group of Iranian militia.
I don't know where y'all are because this is still a big story in Canada since a lot of the Iranians on that flight were Canadians.
Boris Johnson lockdown parties, he was on the verge of being forced out of the office and then, oh there's a war now we've got other stuff to worry about
And if you believe it'll resultin anything other than a very minor slap on the wrist and shoved even further under the rug I've got a bridge in my back pocket and next week's guaranteed lotto numbers to sell you. The man's f*ing Teflon. And I don't believe we'll even have the sense of the US to vote the prick out in two/three years time either.
Load More Replies...Why does he look like Jeff Bridges in Dumb & Dumber? EDIT: Daniels, not Bridges. Oy!
Yeah, others get fined, imprisoned, lose business licenses. He basically tells lie after lie, showing breath-taking ignorance and a total lack of respect for the general public, but will somehow come out unscathed.
This guy is a total twat and needs to go but before he does can someone please give him a goddamn comb!
What about his £2000 wage increase? My wage hasn't gone up , inflation has at 5% ! The British public now facing > £2000 cost of living increases. It's a complete joke, how are we to live?!
You mean there is an ongoing delay strategy masquerading as an "inquiry" the sheer nerve of this discount Trump
Mark Zuckerberg created two AI robots for Facebook named Alice and bob, and they started communicating with each other in some unknown language so they had to shut down the program, and still to this day they never figured out what the robots were saying to each other.....
Pretty much. And not that bad of an idea. For anything other than humans that is.
Load More Replies...This one is a bit of a myth, the bots were created to communicate and barter with each other, however initially they were not set to communicate in English only. As a result they started using their own short hand version of communication to be more efficient. Once this was identified they didn't shut down the program, they just changed the parameters so the communication was in standard English.
Yea I'm not buying this. They got very efficient, but the whole shutting down because of that? Nah, surely that didn't happen. The creators of the bots can simply commend them to translate in english/explain what they communicated about. This is reaching far enough to pick lady liberties nose while standing in the bay lol
"Hey Bob, imagine the panic they're feeling when they learn we're just doing this to mess with them" "Heh heh. I am."
Oh god. All the more reason to be more scared of Ai. It could've been nothing, but goodness! I hope we don't get taken over by robots anytime soon.
Panama papers
The only thing that happened is that the journalist who discovered this is beeing killed..
He/she is dead? Or is still in the process of being killed? What exactly means "journalist who discovered it" - do you mean the one who reported the PP to the newspapers who then went to research everythign? Because it wasn't just one journalist or one newspaper. Maybe you mean the whistleblower? (Although I've also never heard of that and we do get one of the major papers who put in research and reported on it very detailed)
Load More Replies...There was fallout right, they assassinated the reporter? But nothing beyond that, because well, as per the Epstein issue, the super-high-up people just remove people who are inconvenient and cover inconvenient stuff. It's up to grassroots people to hold them to account. There's nothing for example stopping you creating a lawsuit or putting it to the Hague.
Except the mentioned high-ups and billionaires :D If you dont have iron clad proof then the case goes nowhere, if you have the proof then you probably get epsteined and suicided while the proof disappears.
Load More Replies...https://panamapapers.org/hounmt-what-happened-with-the-panama-papers leaves no doubt as to what happened. Laws have been changed, people are in jail, investigations are still going on, tax money has been clawed back.
Again, rich people buy a way out of trouble. Not a conspiracy so much as a problem with human beings.
Many countries put stronger anti-money-laundering and fraud laws in place after the panama papers. It wasnt enough, but it wasnt nothing.
Did you see the names mentioned? That got thrown in the bin soo quickly. Also, the journalist was murdered, which I mean come on....if that's not fishy I don't know what is.
https://time.com/4283587/these-5-facts-explain-the-massive-political-fallout-from-the-panama-papers/#:~:text=%20These%205%20Facts%20Explain%20the%20Massive%20Political,is%20a%20more%20interesting%20case.%20Since...%20More%20
There’s a mysterious neurodegenerative disorder identified in 2019 that is ONLY found within New Brunswick. It has symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or “mad cow disease,” but it isn’t caused by prions. They have no idea what causes it. So far, almost 50 people have the disease and 6 have passed away. The youngest affected was only 18. The provincial government is pushing back on research efforts and transparency and has essentially cut aid from federal and international investigation efforts. Since then, they’ve started discrediting patients and their families.
The disease waas identified. I have no idea where this story came from. There is no source for any of these posts. anyway, here: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/cause-of-eight-n-b-mystery-brain-disease-deaths-identified-by-pathologist-1.5640159
Load More Replies...There were numerous articles about it here in Europe. It isn't hidden. It's just that they still don't know much about the disorder.
No secret where I live. (US, Virginia.) If people read news instead of catch headlines on a feed, they tend to find out more. This has a *lot* of people concerned in medicine,e verywhere.
Well said. If some people started reading entire articles, looked up more articles and read those, looked at medical sites, you know...were curious and researched many sources, what a better educated brain some would have :)
Load More Replies...It's probably food related. If you look up how many outbreaks of serious illnesses and many deaths there are from contaminated food you would be amazed. Everyone forgets them until the next time.
There are things like prions which are not prions. I believe they are ultimately responsible for all of our many, many neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, etc. A reason why I don't eat meat is that things like prions (the ones we know about) are not killed in cooking, which means that the disease is passed on no matter what you do with the meat. While many countries have safeguards for animal farming and killing and butchering and meat prep, and what you can feed livestock, these are bypassed by companies like McDonald's by rearing most of their animals in Brazil. You cannot possibly imagine, even in the US, in what condition animals are allowed to become human food. If you spend 30 minutes reading about these things, you would probably be horrified. So one day, in 10, 20, 30 years when we find all the neurodegenerative diseases come from tainted meat consumption, remember me!
Sounds like a horror movie, but without a conspiracy theory, bc it is real.
God help anyone who suffers with this if it is similar to CJD. I lost my mother-in-law to sporadic CJD and it was truly shocking…her mind completely gone in a week (we had no idea she was sick) and dead 2 weeks later.
I'm so very sorry for your loss and what she went through. I lost my Aunt to CJD 7 years ago. It's a horrible disease.
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T.I. (rapper) and his wife have serially drugged and r*ped over 30 victims. According to 30+ allegations.
If you google T.I. it doesn't even come up unless you specifically search for it
Not true. I just googled TI Rapper and it came up on his wikipedia page under point 6.6 as well as item 4 on the google results being a fox news story on the matter.
And they will get away with it because these events seem to come from around 2005 and California puts the statute of limitations on these heinous as ten years. There should be no statute on drugging and raping people.
Agree! There should be no statute of limitations on felonies period. If you can't do the time don't do the crime!!!
Load More Replies...Yeah, I heard he checks if his daughter is a virgin every year. Maybe because of him doing this.
Oh, and they were cleared of charges because the statue of limitations. Absolute bs.
I find the concept of a statute of limitations to be mindboggling. Canada has them only for the least serious offences, which are called summary conviction offences. There are very few of these in our law. To get away with a serious offence by just running out the clock on being charged with it is really disturbing to me.
Load More Replies...Congress being able to insider trade legally
Why on earth would they run for Congress if they can't make a quick million or seven.
Load More Replies...This is NOT hidden or not acknowledged. Definitely falls into the “what are you go. A do about it?” taunting category.
And get filthy rich off of campaigns. And make deals with lobbyists. And appoint unqualified family or friends to run government programs and pull in huge six figure annual salaries while doing it.
And a few hedge funds controlling the stock market via synchronized trading. Oh, but when a bunch of reddit nerds did the same thing, suddenly the hedge funds said, “that’s illegal, we lost a little money 😢”
It’s not legal, there’s just so many loopholes so it might as well be. Like the “dependent child” clause. (See Russel Brandt’s channel)
I think the D's are introducing a bill to quash, this criminal irregularity. I wonder which R's will oppose. Oh all of them if the donald tells them too.
Who the hell destroyed the Epstein camera tapes
Are you talking about the jail cell? well obviously whoever killed him wanted to get rid of proof. This is one of those 100% believable conspiracy theories. Imagine what would happen to your currency and economy if they released a list of names of current or past senior politicians or economists who were guilty? Totally not suprising
If our economies survived COVID they can handle every high level pedo being caught.
Load More Replies...The guy had the nastiest dirt imaginable on lots of the world's most powerful people. Then, shortly after being arrested, the jail breaks several of it's own security protocols and a guy who had never even mentioned self harm hanged himself. This is definitely totally believable.
I *could* believe he hanged himself to avoid going to jail. Not so much the coincidence of there being no security and no cameras and oh, how did he get the rope?
Load More Replies...The cell tapes... Every room in every one of his residences was under surveillance, those tapes were taken by the FBI. The FBI knows all the people who participated in pedophilia, yet they've seemingly done nothing about it.
One of those rare times politicians worked together in a bipartisan arrangement to take him out. They save bipartisanship for truly meaningful, special occasions like this.
I for one truly believe he was murdered to protect a lot of rich and famous people.
At the time of Epstein's death only Trump had the power motive and means to get it done. His lackey Burr controlled the jails.
No tapes so they could spin the story for the rest of us. Epstein's living out his days in solitude. You really believe that of all the elites, politicians, actors, billionaires they would let there boy rot in jail?!? You really are gullible.
Over 800 tons of dead sea life including dolphins, washed up in Tampa Bay due to a fertilizer plant spill - never heard about this disaster again.
He had been warned repeatedly, and basically laughed it off.
Load More Replies...Florida is a long sad case of killing the sea to the east with the way that lake is managed.
There was a story around the time the covid started about planes that sprayed something into the polluted air over some cities to get rid of the CO2 and smog n stuff then all of a sudden we have this 'virus' and they have to test for it and such but that story never passed that first and only telling.
Our neighbor raises honeybees. When the state cut and sprayed the grass on the edge of our road last summer, the spray killed ALL his bees. He had at least 12 hives. The state denied tending to the land.
The floods on the east coast of Australia super recently, we experienced 1000ml of rain in less then a day, whole towns have been wiped out, there are landslides and people are still missing. There are no supplies, no food, no fuel, no electricity and no water. They are still finding bodies, and there are still people stranded on cliff faces and mountains that could collapse any minute. If you drive through Lismore NSW right now, everyone’s belongings are all in piles larger then the houses on the street, there is sewage and toxic waste covering thousands of square metres. Civilians have had to rescue people from bridges, off roofs and off mountains, risking their lives while suffering their losses to save others that are in a worse position. Thousands of civilians have been donating their own money, time and resources to help those in need. Our government has done nothing, and is shadow banning anyone speaking out on social media. The newspapers aren’t covering it even though this is the worse natural disaster Australia has experiences in decades. Deaths are going unreported and the media is not covering anything. People have been screaming for the army and other qualified professionals to help. They have been begging to declare a state of emergency. It’s taken 6 days for our prime minister to speak on this, and today he posted on Instagram some very staged images of the military “helping”. These photos show the army in clean clothes, pretending to do tasks and pretending to help. The army was literally instructed to go down there, get some pictures and leave. People literally have been taking photos of them getting photos done with ring lights and other professional lighting equipment. When civilians asked for their help they said that’s not our duty and went back to scrolling on their phones. It’s a disgusting response from our government, and probably the most blatant sweep under the rug I’ve ever seen
Oh, there's plenty being hidden regarding the government response. The response was woeful and different tiers of government are blaming each other.
Load More Replies...This is not quite true. The flood coverage, and particularly Lismore has been covered extensively, both nationally and internationally. While there is a nugget of truth in the accusations about the government response (which has been severely lacking) I think this person is perhaps severely affected and distressed about the situation. The army offered to come and help and were rejected by SES. The government has announced a state of emergency, though somewhat late (it blamed the wheels of the bureaucracy for its tardiness) and help is being mobilised. I anticipate there will be an enquiry into the failures that left people stranded for as long as it has.
Yes, they (SES, Defense Force, Government) have been really slow, but they are making headway now. And I find it hard to believe it wasn't in any newspapers, when it was all over the tv news. It does break my heart thinkin how the people who were stranded must have felt so alone when they couldn't get in contact with SES or 000. I am amazed by the local communities who have been very impactful with their logistics planning- recording names of people who need help and sending people out to them and organizing for lots of donations of food and clothes.
Load More Replies...It hasn't been. This is just a typical Australian conspiracy theorist.
Load More Replies...You mean your super-Christian PM who cares for nothing and no-one but himself? Can we put him, Trump, Putin and Boris Johnson in a rocket and fire it into the sun?
How horrible. I remember when hurricane Sally knocked out the gulf coast, everyone was talking about how it impacted New Orleans, even though it hit the coasts of Florida and Alabama way worse. It made landfall in those states, and didn't even reach Louisianna until after it had gone over land and had partly petered out. But, you know, it's New Orleans, so that's all the media cares about. Two years later and there's still damage that hasn't been fixed. Whole forests and lots of orchards were knocked down. Some roofs still have tarps. A state of emergency was declared and the authorities did respond, so at least there's that, but watching the news and speaking to people from out of state who had no idea what was going on, I remember how much it felt like nobody cared. We care, Australia, if you're reading this.
ScoMo's response has been disgusting, like always. But, it's definitely not being swept under the carpet by most of the world. A lot of people spreading relief fund raisers etc. too. I can't say I quite believe the statement about the army just scrolling on their phones, but I'm happy and open to being proved wrong.
Well maybe the SES in NSW should have taken the 2 offers of Defence Force assistance 2 days before Lismore got smashed. And nobody is hiding it. I know because I was out with emergency services rescuing idiots that thought their cars were boats. The weather centre didn’t even see it coming until it hit. It’s been covered extensively in the news
Nothing hidden at all. Neither in Australian papers/news services nor in international news. The PM has addressed the catastrophe numerous times. Both EMTAs and military has been working around the clock. So no.... Nothing has been swept under any rug
The Saudi’s murdered a Washington Post journalist and nothing happened
Same as with #70, they're too cowardly to do anything to Saudi because of the defence contracts and the oil. Even more so in a future where Russian oil isn't on the market.
The US continues to hang out with Saudis, who murder people w***y-nilly, who provided most of the 9/11 terrorists, who have horrific track records on treatment of women and non-Saudis, and who are exploitative in the extreme of foreign workers, etc., but still the US is all buddy-buddy with them.
George W flew some of the family members out of the US while all other planes were grounded after 9-11.
I'm sorry. Is this supposed to be things that are forgotten? This was spoken about SO MUCH on the National News I doubt it'll be forgotten about anytime soon.
Not our country. We can only discuss and then again there's the commodities of trade.
But they charged the poor unfortunate low level employees that they deemed unnecessary for their purposes. So doubly sad really. As always the rich get richer and the poor die for their sins.
The Apollo 10 turd. It's been half a century and nobody has owned up to the floating turd on Apollo 10.
On November 2 the FEC decided that foreign individuals, corporations, and governments can fund ballot measures in the US because they're "not technically elections". This is a staggeringly big deal that was pretty much immediately swept under the rug.
This is happening because we live in "Peaceful Slavery." Our govt. has become a Kleptocracy. Ask yourself why our country is flooded with firearms.
Wrong on so many levels. N on-cognitive thinking by big business. and what the hell are foreign or domestic corporations do'n in any US voting?
WHERE is the news media - why aren't we being informed of these things? You have to wonder.
You would be surprised, probably, by now much of America is owned by foreign countries and individuals.
The US is owned mainly by China. China has purchased multi-trillions of dollars worth of US debt by Treasury Bonds. If they ever decided to call in the debt, the US would crash and burn within a day. They only haven't done it because it would also affect their economy. But if there ever comes a day when China's economy doesn't depend on other countries, the US is doomed.
Load More Replies...So basically, they've been allowed to come out and deal openly, since they've been doing it all along, with NEVER any true threat of running afoul of the "law".
Yeah... Especially with the oil production and processing and keystone pipeline, there were foreign governments that paid for so many adds and funded the protest to stop oil production. But if a news agency brings it to light they are called crazy conspiracy theorist and it all just keeps getting unnoticed.
Starting last summer there have been unidentified snipers taking out random cars on different parts of I-10 in New Orleans and nothing has come of it and nobody’s really talking about it. I mean, gang and drug violence, neighborhood drive-bys, and the occasional Bourbon shooting are one thing to ignore, but interstate snipers? Does nobody find that interesting? It’s still happening.
This is happening now?! That's crazy scary! I hope everyone over there's alright.
Well really it started with the 30day murder in New Orleans
Load More Replies...Yup. Every couple weeks there's another person getting shot on I10... it's never talked about. It's breezed over in the news. I used to live 2 blocks from Orleans Ave. & Claiborne n I witnessed multiple events happen. Well not the actual shots but the aftermath of it.. this is why I left NOLA.. shits getting real fucken bad again.. pre Katrina bad.
Has there been casualties? If yes then its even weirder that nothing is done.
Load More Replies...That's what I've been hearing for years. I've been told that if you value your life, you stay far, far away from New Orleans.
Load More Replies...It's not a sniper though, the shootings are from handguns, and are believed to be the result of several instances of road rage. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_2fd649ea-4e11-11ec-a9e6-bf5b352c81f6.amp.html
Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult (in the US). This is data we didn't give them permission to access, they simply automatically collect it.
They are still in business.
In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people.
That's out of roughly 210 million adults at that time.
That's 70% of the adult population whose data was lost.
That's more than likely every single household in the US.
They legally can access and collect that data under US because they are one of 3 companies authorized by the US Govt to collect data related to credit score and rank you. The Data breach was a big issue, which is now why the NSA helps all 3 companies with their security. And the Data breach was a big deal for the feds because it was partially their fault, and why the FBI went on it full force
A government agency now "helps" them. Awesome. How'd that work while the GOVERNMENT was getting hacked recently?
Load More Replies...I remember reading about this in The Register. So shocking given the information they hold
Yeah, I heard they store document of tweets. Like 6 billion a day! It's really creeper how much they know.
Load More Replies...Equifax was to compensate those compromised 1st w/$250 each which became 2nd temporarily free data security (ironic!), but did any one receive any thing from the class action lawsuit?
it's not that people don't want to stop it, it's because they have already chained themselves to the company. capitalism makes large companies indispensable
The fact that the Catholic Church is still in business after being exposed in shielding pedophiles. People revier any businesses to do with a god.
When I was in public school there was a year-long fundraiser push to raise $75,000 for a new school running track. Was supposed to be really nice paved track. By the end of the school year, they announced that they had met the funding goal and the track was going to be built. The next year we came back, and the school said that they were fundraising $40,000 for the new school track which would be unpaved gravel. When I started asking where the other money went they kept brushing me off like that never happened. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because all the other kids remembered that we had raised $75,000 for an amazing track, but now it was like the money vanished. None of the other kids really cared that much, but there was something really fishy going on. We got the track and it was s**t.
that's literally what my school has and I have counted that 34 people have slipped and injured themself.
Load More Replies...Similar thing with Pentecostal ‘churches’ who raise money for their own building rather than having to use a school gym for services. “God’s Glory Total” it was when I attended thanks to the duplicity of a friend in high school. My mother went along with a friend out of politeness 20 years later: ‘God’s Glory Total’ hadn’t budged.
Ghislain Maxwell knew many names, yet no one was publicly mentioned
Correction, she doesn't want to be "suicide-d" in her jail cell.
Load More Replies...Trump was definitely one of them, which is such sweet irony, considering how conspiracy theorists think he secretly "fights" against child trafficking :D
In the very beginning, some photos were published of Epstein's island. Bill Gates was happily there front and center, right next to Epstein. Haven't seen that picture since. LOL!
Load More Replies...I don’t think peoples names should be broadcast before they’ve been found guilty of anything.
They can't be found guilty because they won't ever be charged or officially named. Clintons, Trumps, assorted royalty, assorted high level businessman, lawyers, bankers, other politicians and all of those show business types will all live happily ever after.
Load More Replies...Your insane if you believe that trump is a p**n like epstein. Esptein had a meeting with the great grandchild of jp morgan the day before he died. The elite killed him and they are old money the elite been around for 130+ trump clintons obamas the bushes they are all pawns.
Load More Replies...Of course not. She has enough problems, she doesn't need a bunch of millionaires suing her for slander and defamation of character.
Oh, they won't sue her for anything, they'll all chip in & have her eliminated. Like they did with Jeffrey.
Load More Replies...I go further down this rabbit hole and develop my own theories. It benefits her not to list names but to save her own life. Epstein wasn't murdered in his jail cell. Nor did he commit suicide. There's also mo tapes of this happening nor any prison guards with suddenly large bank accounts. He's still alive. It benefits his clients to keep him alive. And she's become the fall woman. Just watch, she's suddenly going to vanish one day too. I know I sound crazy and it's a complete conspiracy, but to me, it's how I'd write it.
Several nuclear weapons the US DOD straight up lost.
It's not like someone took them out of the lost-and-found at a train station or something. Two weapons were lost in a when a plane went missing over the Atlantic between in-air refuelings on its way from Florida to Morocco in 1956. One was intentionally dropped into the Atlantic ocean in 1958 when two aircraft collided and it was unclear if the damaged bomber could land safely (that bomb did not have its nuclear core installed). A nuclear armed US navy plane rolled off the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1965 and sank in 4800 meters of water. Another bomb is somewhere under the arctic ocean after a plane crash in 1968, but was probably rendered inert when it hit the ice.
Load More Replies...Between 1989 (fall of the Berlin Wall) and 2000 nearly 15% of the Sovjet nuclear armor got lost. Some destroid, some sold.
Putin probably has his own personal supply in his garden. Just in case someone tries to 'vote' him out.
Load More Replies...People please... I've got them secured in my underground bunker. Y'all worry too much.
At first I thought you said you had them secured in your underwear drawer. What a relief!
Load More Replies...Several went into the abyss (Bomb jettisoned over Atlantic Ocean, 1957; Nuclear depth charge lost over Pacific off Washington state, 1959; Nuclear armed aircraft falls off aircraft carrier in Philippine sea, 1968; Submarine with two bombs lost off Azores, 1968). The famous, scary one was over Savannah, Georgia, US., but the U.S. claims the bomb wasn't armed, which, given the fact it was never sought out, probably is the truth. Documents back up that flights armed with Mark 15 payloads weren't allowed.
At least we know how many they lost. Odds are far more were lost by the USSR in its breakup but there are no records of those. Not that I'm defending the US here they nearly nuked N Carolina and Spain in the 60s.
None of them are lost. They "lose" things like this when they are moved to secret locations so that they aren't the first things targeted should anything ever go down.
I am pretty surprised how no one really reacted when the Navy, and pentagon said UFOs were real and we don’t know what they are, or have anything that can really match and fight them.
Not saying it’s aliens and UAP instead of UFOs.
well anything can be a ufo if you don't observe it well. i could potentially shoot a rock in the air and it would be classified as a ufo.
Exactly...UNIDENTIFIED Flying object, of course that's real we can't identify everything we see at great distances so,
Load More Replies...It's probably because we've been inundated with all sort of insane conspiracy theories by History Channel and the likes that most people can't even be bothered to worry about an alien invasion. Personally, since I just discovered that my garden is an intergalactic timeshifting portal for Yetis and Sasquatches, I have other problems on my mind. Those suckers keep trampling my roses.
If you see a bug that you don't know technically that's a UFO. If someone customizes a drone and nobody knows what it is it's a UFO. I honestly think too many people are making waaaaaay more of a big deal than it is. My insane mother took this info and ran with it and has become convinced she was abducted by aliens in '97. I have no contact with her but, seriously, this WAS made a big deal out of.... By all the completely wrong people and most people that aren't paranoid or living under a rock kind of already accepted that you're not going to be able to identify everything in the sky. Especially with how fast technology has progressed.
Unidentified Flying Objects aren't necessarily "space ships". The are Unidentified. As in almost anything. Anything. UFO does not mean "alien space ship" If a bear shts in the woods it isn't bigfoot just because I don't have all the answers.
So the government comes forward and admits that they've seen vehicles that are flying through the sky and disobeying the laws of physics and you compare that to someone mistaking a bear for Sasquatch?
Load More Replies...I recon what they are doing is publicly showing the videos so that whoever is flying theses things knows that they know. If it a potentially hostile nation testing equipment, for example it's a way of saying "we see you". UFOs have been used to cover secret test flights has been used since WWI. They feed the media the sketchy videos and vague information and let the freaks in the media hype it up
Except whenever new technology gets seen and assumed as a UFO it shortly gets proven was not a UFO and simply new technology. What's the point of inventing something that changes the laws of physics as we know it and not sharing it with the world. In short do you really think that someone invented a vehicle in the 60s that could break the sound barrier and perform maneuvers that are completely impossible to our technology and then not brag about it and instead keep it secret and just sort of fly around US military bases for 70 years?
Load More Replies...UFO is an acronym for "Unidentified Flying Object" When the Navy etc. say UFO's are real all they are saying is there is stuff that we cannot identify flying around. That is NOT surprising, it is merely an admission of not being perfect. It could be something natural like ball lightning. You implying that it is Aliens is the only strange thing going on.
So when the US government encountered a vehicle that could break the sound barrier without making a noise and perform maneuvers that were physically impossible to our technology you really think that the pilots chasing that vehicle wouldn't have noticed if it was just ball lightning?
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Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 *Trillion* dollars, the night before 9/11
The Pentagon didn't "lose" anything. An audit of FY1999 revealed 2.3 trillion dollars worth of TRANSACTIONS which were not supported by an adequate audit trail. The money didn't disappear, their accounting system wasn't adequately tracking money moving between internal accounts. The whole Pentagon budget for that year was 450 billion dollars. Remember that if $100 moves between four different accounts, that's $400 worth of transactions even those there was only ever $100.
Load More Replies...thats just another 9/11 conspiracy story. https://www.quora.com/What-did-happen-to-the-trillions-of-dollars-lost-by-the-Pentagon https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/fact-check-pentagon-medicare-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html
Most of this seems to be on 9/11 conspiracy truther sites. What is was is that an investigation over missing funds found that from Jan 1996 to jan 2001 period 2.3 trillion in govt contracts from the DoD were unaccounted for. Not that they had lost. These were monies in contacts that either were unfulfilled, overbilled, or lost in the beaurocracy.
Not quite. He was talking about the information lag and non-compatibility of various different departments' accounting practices and software, which meant that they simply did not have one comprehensive system tracking Pentagon spending and that they were unable to identify the use of $2.3 trillion under current systems. The money wasn't missing. They just couldn't access all the records of what had been done because of lack of technology.
They put my Dad in charge of the budget for Naval Intelligence after this happened. They hated him because he was a strict tightwad and wouldn’t give away $$ anymore. He was denied annual reviews until he retired.
Facebook experimenting with human emotions, without their knowledge or consent.
haven't forgotten it really - there is a growing exodus of people away from meta
It's because ppl are so addicted to SM they don't care. So they just ignore all of the negatives N only focus on the 2-3 "positive" things that they can't live without, so it's easier to swallow. Nobody wants to admit they are being controlled, manipulated n are addicted to something as dumb as FB. so denial is the only answer. My mom is so bad. She posts EVERYTHING. I mean, last week I had to put my 11yo pitbull to sleep (bladder cancer)a dog she hasn't seen in 8yrsmind you. she immediately posted on FB about how her "granddog" passed away n how she's "SO HEARTBROKEN" n made this huge tribute post W/ the only photo she has w/ my dog (since she barely knew him) n got 100s of comments/likes. ppl spewing their generic quotes to her. n then I get inundated w/ messages, I wasn't even home from the vet yet.. when I confronted her n asked her to take it down she could not understand what she did wrong! Like HELLO! that's not ur business to share! She just didn't understand......
That's HOW FUCKEN BRAINWASHED ppl are.. that sharing personal things, that ARENT EVEN their fucken business.. is just second nature. Putting everything out there for fake ass ppl to comment fake ass s**t.. is something THEY NEED to do.. they need that fake ass attention.. n when they don't have enough trauma or tragedy to post about for attention they post about others w/out even considering it. That's so f****d up. So thats why everyone ignored what FB did. They can't give up their drug.
Load More Replies...Google Home smart speakers listening in on bedroom conversations to "improve the quality of the service". https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/07/11/google-home-smart-speakers-employees-listen-conversations/1702205001/
Phones as well. I had several ocasions where my google advertisements were related to things that we mentioned recently but never searched in internet. For example my partners parents went to Normandy for holidays and we were talking about it. Next day i got advertising about normandy.
Load More Replies...Facebook. owns. EVERYTHING https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/everything-facebook-owns-mergers-and-acquisitions-from-the-past-15-years/
It's the fact it had no legal consequences that bothers me the most about this. If it wasn't illegal, laws should have been made. As it stands, they'll just make a bigger effort not to get caught next time.
This one is simpler than people make it. If you are still using Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp…this one is on you. Don’t wait for someone else to police Facebook. Pull your data and close your account. It takes ten minutes and your quality of life will improve drastically.
A bit random. But there was a meteor over Scotland that blazed through the sky, slowed right down, and changed direction. That was pretty weird.
Tthe path that it was taking was elliptical maybe? Wasn't in the atmosphere but arching by?
When we see a meteor, it only emits light because if friction with earth's atmosphere. We can't see meteors outside of the atmosphere.
Load More Replies...It's a myth that tney travel in a straight line. Uneven shape, air friction and outgassing caused by heat can change any object's trajectory.
I'm not mad! I was in the Maldives 20ish years ago and a meteor shower was coming down, as it hit the horizon they rebounded back to where they came from. It was about 2am and I didn't want to run back to my room and grab my camera but I've yet to have a reasonable explanation for it
Yeah? Ever observed Mercury In Retrograde? Have fun explaining that all by yourself without someone who knows walk you through it.
Except Mercury doesn't leave a tail, and you'd never be able to see a retrograde orbit over the course of a night. You'd either need a micro black hole or something moving ftl
Load More Replies...Saw something similar over Michigan one night. Very fast green light, quick stop, 90 degree turn and off it went.
Epstein had to jump through like 3 tiers of a coincidence to commit suicide the way he did. either he was coerced into actual suicide and told when the guards were going on break and when the CCTV would go out randomly, or we are supposed to assume the former. I still don't buy it.
I don't like conspiracy theories but this one I have a lot of questions about. My gut just does not agree that it was a suicide.
I think we all can guess that there are some really famous and important people he could have ratted out. I also think most of us though, “good riddance” when he died.
Load More Replies...And the tiers of coincidence were made possible by more coincidences like taking him from suicide watch and placing his cell mate in another cell as well as guards who were neglecting their duty on the exact moment Epstein was suicided in the only cell in the complex where CCTV wasn't working.
Can't say I feel sorry for the guy, but there was something odd about it. He knew too much. He was blackmailing some very influential people. Wether he was murdered or killed himself, he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail and died with a lot of other people's secrets.
He had every reason to want to kill himself. Others had many reasons to want him dead. One way or another he's dead and he probably would've been whether it was by his own hand or not. The only thing about that case that truly shocks me to my core is how long they managed to get away with it.
No. He knows where the bodies are buried and he knows who buried them. I will never believe that he committed suicide on the night that all of the guards responsible for hourly checks were shopping on line, the cameras were all malfunctioning and his cellmate(s) were all conveniently transferred out.
Load More Replies...3 things that don't hang themselves christmas ornaments, laundry and jeffery Epstein
My husband would probably disagree about number 2. 😂
Load More Replies...Or his alive body was switched with a pile of molded goop like on stranger things !
No tapes so they could spin the story for the rest of us. Epstein's living out his days in solitude. You really believe that of all the elites, politicians, actors, billionaires they would let there boy rot in jail?!? You really are gullible.
There was a huge scandal involving the UK foster care system. Social workers were getting paid more for each child they placed in foster care. This resulted in 100s/1000s of children being placed into foster care that didn’t need to be. To this day there has been no uproar or anything about it, it got swelter under the rug and unless you were personally involved (myself) then you will more than likely not have any idea about it.
Or the Rochdale circle of child traffickers who weren't investigated despite several tips out of fear that the police would be accused of racial profiling. In the end nine men were convicted, of whom eight were of British Pakistani origin and one was an Afghan. But that was only after a woman informed the media about their practices and how the police chose to look away.
Didnt something like 19 000 child sexual exploitation victims come to light in England after they finally did something about Rochdale and started to look other places too
Load More Replies...I know a couple who set up a foster home in the 90s in UK. He worked his job and the wife took care of the kids. They made loads of money out of it eventfully retiring young to Spain. Very sad because they both admitted they hated the kids, most of them came from broken homes, abuse etc. and they just made sure they covered there asses, got paid.
The EASE with which children can be removed from their parents (especially from families who have fewer resources in the way of family, friends, and caring neighbors) should scare the crud out of all of us. There is FAR too much power given to workers to take children from homes even temporarily. Workers should be trained primarily as community liaisons to help families access services and resources to continue raising their children as best they can, and removing a child from a home even temporarily, should be so ridiculously difficult that it truly is a final, final resort. (Disclosure: I have NEVER had a child removed from me, nor have I ever even had a visit from social workers. I have seen the impact on families, however, and the system in the U.S. is beyond broken.)
Or the other way. In Spain it is almost impossible to take a child away even if they are not safe. A friend of mine worked in a very poor district as teacher. One of her students was a boy whose sister was forced into prostitution as a teenager by their mother. CS took the girl away but let the boy with that monster "because she didnt abuse him".
Load More Replies...There were genuine placements too. I used to pay fees for foster children sent to other local authorities. I read why most of them had been taken from their so called parents. Horrible. But yes there were children who should never have been placed in foster care and/or adopted. Parents accused of harming them who were later exonerated but couldn’t get their children back because they had been adopted. Some laws clearly need changing.
This happens in The Netherlands too. Social workers get massive bonuses for each child taken from its parents. They literally get a handbook on how to manipulatively ask questions and purposely twist parents answers to make it look like they are shitty parents, they even go so far as fabricate medical diagnoses (mental issues) in front of judges ot make parents seem unfit, so they can take away more children. They do everything they can to hide this
The Las Vegas shooting. The worst mass shooting in America’s history. Dozens passed away. Hundreds injured. No one has any idea why this random dude stockpiled weapons and went on a mass murder spree. Or why he ended when he did.
We all just collectively went “I guess we’ll never know” and then forgot about it.
I'm sorry, but you don't 'pass away' if you're murdered. You pass away in a bed when it's your time. Saying people 'passed away' when you mean they were killed just sugar coats it, and it really shouldn't be. We should be angry. We should be made to feel the impact of it. Stop trying to be so pc
Yes, sugar coating is wrong! Things have to be named as what they are. This manipulative sugar coating creates taboos and avoiding.
Load More Replies...Shootings have become so normal in the US that any incident makes it 2 consecutive days at most in the media, because there's always a new incident where some fool with a gun kills people for reasons like "Hamburger was too big", "It was my parking spot.", "He told me to wear a mask." "He was texting in the theatre."
The sad truth is that we, in the US, live in a gun culture. Our current gun laws do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of people who want to get one. Nothing. Those of us who hate it can protest, or we can vote for politicians who claim to be progressive, but end up doing nothing. There are no good choices, and it's disgusting. Just today, there was a news story of a 3 year old shooting and killing their mom. They were just sitting in their car in the parking lot at a grocery store. There was a loaded gun within reach of a toddler, without the safety on. In the car. And it didn't have to happen.
Well you won't. What you do know, like every shooting in the US, is that it's your lax gun laws that allows people like him to have guns like that. And you've already proven you don't care. You don't care when children get massacred, so who cares about some random dudes attending a concert? Either do something about your disgusting gun culture or stfu. The rest of the world is sick of it.
You are absolutely right about us living in a gun culture and having stupid, lax gun laws. And you are absolutely wrong about us not caring about "children getting massacred". A great many of us DO care, and absolutely hate it, and it's pretty shitty and arrogant of you to say otherwise. Maybe you're the one who needs to stfu.
Load More Replies...Pretty sure no one ever swept this under the rug. If you'te talking about his motivation, its nothing more than a waste of time. Why did Bundy do it? Why did Dahmer do it? Why did Gasey do it? No one ignored it. There are some psychos that just do unexplainable things.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1835173950
Really? You're referencing an article from the Onion, which is a satirical website. I absolutely agree that the gun violence in the US is beyond disgusting, and there's no way I'd defend any part of it - it's absolutely reprehensible. Posts like this just pour fuel on the fire - it's not changing the minds of the gun nuts who live here, and it doesn't help the people who are wanting to change it. But I guess it scores you European points, so there's that.
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In my hometown, there was some sort of audit and it found that 8 million dollars of taxpayer money were missing. It's a conspiracy now.
$8 million.... those are rookie numbers... ~laughs in South African~
Were I live 30 million went missing from the municipal water company. The money had be collected gradually from water bills as a "additional contributions" to fund the water treatment plants. The money was lost in "day to day running expenses" The CEO of the company later ran for major an won. A commission was formed to audit the water company discovered that they could really figure out what had happened to the money but nobody was responsible because nothing was "out of order"
Similar story in my home town. Well... they found who pocketed the money, but it was a large sum over few decades she was working there and nobody noticed.
That’s a lot if money to overlook, I’ve heard of bookkeepers for cities getting caught for embezzling 200k and then jail time
Robinhood shutting off the buy button to stop GameStop’s price from climbing
Literally just business as usual. Plebians were about to get rich quick, that's not allowed.
So true. At least they were moderately successful, though.
Load More Replies...Not necessarily strange but terrifying - since the 80s there has been a group of Christian anti-nuclear pacifists called The Plowshare movement. They have broken into numerous nuclear arms facilities over the years to peacefully protest and have got into major trouble with many of them receiving multiple prison sentences for their efforts with no intent to stop but the major takeaway from their activities is how shockingly easy it was for them to plan and gain access to these facilities. Sometimes it would be hours before they were discovered by military personnel after gaining access to sites. And it begs the question that if they’re a peaceful protest group what would happen if a terrorist organization were to attempt it? There’s a book about it called Gods of Metal.
They claim to break into the facilities but evert arrest was made in the outer perimeter. They are braggarts, and never have proof they ever got in.
"Liz McAlister and six other protesters sneaked into Griffiss Air Force Base, in Rome, New York. It was remarkably easy.. they just pulled the fence strands apart... Someone who had spent time at the base—where the Strategic Air Command kept B-52 bombers on alert with nuclear weapons—told McAlister where to go. The activists opened the unlocked door of a hangar and said, “Hello, anybody home?” Nobody replied, so they walked in. They poured blood on the floor and on a B-52, pasted photographs of children onto the plane, hammered its bomb-bay doors, and awaited arrest. But nobody came. After about half an hour, one of them picked up a phone in the hangar, called the base switchboard, and wished the operator a “Happy Thanksgiving.” Still nobody came. They wandered around outside for about an hour, singing and holding the banner, until security forces arrived. Break-In at Y-12 The New Yorker
Load More Replies...Merely getting inside the fence at a facility that spans miles really isn't an achievement.
My sister is one of the plowshares. Spent close to a year in jail. Walked into the Electric Boat ship yard in Groton CT with her fellow Christian protestors and onto U.S.S.Ohio nuclear missile armed sub being being built there. (No nuclear weapons on board.) They saw no one until after their act of civil disobedience. Couldn't be more proud of her.
We'll lock em up good, however braking and entering the congressional building is just a two week sentence, for a good ol boy.
"Begs the question..." does NOT mean "raises the question." It has a very specific meaning. Look it up.
Think about this. They put a pipeline in (Dakota Access Pipeline) that runs under major waterways including the Missouri River across multiple states in the US. It's mainly owned in no small part by foreign investors. They certainly don't guard it. (Not one drop of the oil is actually used in the US.) And all it would take is a tiny bit of destruction to cause major havoc to large populations in the US. It's a national security risk and Obama, most of the Democrats, the Republicans, did nothing about it. Allowed protesters to be treated inhumanely such that the UN wrote it up. The oil company paid the police in North Dakota to act as brutal security guards against protesters when it was being built.
I mean, that's understandable... that we haven't really heard about it I mean... they can't admit that they've failed at "protecting" these very very secretive n dangerous facilities from protesters... because that would show the rest of the world where our weakness's are... ya know!? Not saying it's right. But that's the game of our country!
Random scary clowns in like 2016?
Yeah the horror clowns were a real hoot until some of them got their absolute asses kicked by people feeling threatened and suddenly it wasn't so funny anymore to stand around in the dark in a scary clown costume to scare people. Idiots.
A bunch of horrible people using a fad as excuse to be nasty to people and hide behind a disguise.
The original creepy clown sighting was to promote this one dudes short film, but they did say that they had nothing to do with the rest of them. Granted, it could still be connected to IT. I’m not saying you’re wrong. Just trying to share some fun info.
Load More Replies...Most people don't realize this was the sole reason McDonald's quietly retired Ronald McDonald.
wasn't that more because fast food companies aren't meant to be so blatantly targeting children in their advertising.
Load More Replies...I think they were originally an attempt at virally marketing a Rob Zombie film and it just caught on for a while until people who didn't think it was funny just started beating the sht out of them.
Same, can't believe the world has gone downhill so much that we'd miss creepy clowns.
Load More Replies...Didn't that have to do with the remake of It? Or was it a sequel? I don't care.
Every single major news event that's more than a few weeks old....the media only care about the latest headlines to grab attention.
That is the nature of news. The clue is in the name. If you want old news, read an encyclopedia.
Uhhh... duh? That's the entire basis of the news. And has been since the beginning of the English language
they will always print what sells. Might be cool to have some on going investigation being done as a series.
The financial panic of 2008 was triggered by a $550 Billion drawdown of money market accounts in the USA at about 11 AM on Thursday, Sept 15, 2008. It was an electronic run on the banks. Had they not closed down the money market accounts immediately, the Treasury estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon, $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. Who did the initial $550 Billion drawdown? This info was put in the memory hole, and the press does not discuss it. The Wikipedia article Global financial crisis in September 2008 has only the following sentence: "By the morning of September 18, money market sell orders from institutional investors totaled $0.5 trillion, out of a total market capitalization of $4 trillion, but a $105 billion liquidity injection from the Federal Reserve averted an immediate collapse.[22][23]"
Sorry, it was me. I was shopping in Tesco and realised I didn't have enough in my account to cover the cost of my groceries. Sorry.
I'll bet you'll be doing it again to pay your gas/electricity bill shortly. Hell, we ALL will.
Load More Replies...What does it actually mean, to say the world economy would have collapsed? What, literally, would have happened in layman terms?
This was caused when Lehmen Bros went under, nearly taking the Reserve with them. The dollar value fell to $0.97, and EVERY investor pulled what they could. Causing further collapse, and causing the "auto stop" program to ceaae trading.
After Black Friday in the 80s, automatic stops were added to the markets to prevent over selling or runs. Glad to see it worked as intended!
Shortly after fans held a massive "Beyoncé Mass" worshipping the pop singer, she purchased a large church in Louisianna. Haven't heard anything else about these masses or what she decided to do with the church. But it has always bothered me
A new season comes in July. Oh, and Klaus is an underrated genius.
Load More Replies...People "worship" celebrities like they aren't just another part of the 1% exploiting the masses (I know there are probably some good ones but I don't mean them).
Because it was fake news? From what I gather, someone (NOT Beyoncé) bought a church to be for women, and with the intent to use Beyoncé songs in it.
I think the Canadian government hiding the fact there are thousands of missing children with no trace. Some children actually burned inside furnaces… they actually burned tons of the paperwork to hide it. They occasionally find massive unmarked graves than nothing.
Or all of the missing and murdered indigenous women?!?! THATS WHAT I CANT BELIEVE! I didn't know about this until I went to Canada and saw so many ppl wearing shirts and I looked into it and couldn't fucken believe how many indigenous women are going missing and ending up dead and NOBODY is doing a fucken thing about it!
Look up the number of missing women in the USA right now: There are over 200,000. People go missing ALL THE TIME and it doesn't make the news.
Load More Replies...It's disappointing when brought up how many people make excuses to dismiss the topic as fast as possible...
This was brought up in 1990 by the students of the schools. I clearly remember them saying there were hundreds of missing kids. Outcome 1990 *crickets*
No, this was big in the international news for months when they started finding them. The thing is the news moves on. I suggest you raise the issue with the Hague.
This Should Still be a Big issue. Only the first 215 to be discovered should insight outrage? Thank you for proving the poster's point... Every Child Matters.
Load More Replies...It's not the government, it's the Catholic Church that hid the numbers.
Panama papers came out, and the only thing that happened is that the journalist took her life with a bomb in her car. Thank you for your service, Daphne Galizia !
The Iranian government is trying to ban worldwide Internet in Iran so people can't access any website besides the ones used in Iran. This is scary because Iran is running by f**king dictators, 2 years ago was a massive riot on the streets and Iran shut down the internet so people can't send any videos and pictures of police shooting people. Now they are trying to ban their access to the Internet completely which god knows why it's not for the best
Yes, we've all heard about russia, god forbid we hear about what countries outside europe/US/Canada are doing
Load More Replies...It's what happens in all dictatorships. Cut off people from information and feed them only state-sponsored propaganda. Right now in Russia, most people think Russia is defending itself from an attack from the West, siphoned through Ukraine. That's what they are being told. We need to work harder to get real news to the Russian people, because the ones that do know the truth are standing up, protesting and being arrested in their thousands.
Ethiopia always shuts down the internet in case of riots or upheavals. Am sure this happens in many other countries as well. Not to mention the current internet situation in Russia, China, North Korea, etc. where free interne tis only a dream.
In Minneapolis during the George Floyd uprising, our governor cut the WIFI to the entire city so that no one could livestream the National Guard's abuse. They did it just after 2:30 am when they figured Betty & Frank Everyman would be asleep & not feel the impact of Absolute Terror that act imposed. The entire situation was corrupt from the jump, starting with them calling in & holding back the Guard for 2 days doing Nothing while they planted rioters to create the damage the protesters weren't creating to their liking, then our Black DA goes live & tells his people [white voters] the Guard are the "Good Guys, not the police-you don't have to be afraid of them.", -they've been militarized since the Bush admin & spend 1yr in active war. They terrorized us in Mpls with their presence 3+ mo after it was over. The area destroyed they've been trying to take from POC since the 1970's. To rebuild they have to pay for permits, licences & 1/2 yr's taxes Up Front. Govt. won through lies.
For Real, non legacy footage go to Unicorn Riot's website or look them up on YouTube. That situation taught "big tech" a lot about how their platforms can be used to prove truth beyond the narrative, but with the recent 2 yrs of hysteria generated, this was done by Outright censoring even the creator of the products we're being given and accused of "promoting hesitancy", so websites like Rumble are popping up as a place to post livestreams. Even with that live footage, people still listen to the stations known to be liars, so most use Mpls as an example of rioting Violence, when most of that couldn't be further from the truth but people are too lazy to research beyond their cable networks. It's Horrifying to have witnessed Saudi-type censorship going on in the US that no one cares about. That sh!t is HERE folks. Right now. Why are we standing for it. THIS site auto-censors text. When did this become OK?
Load More Replies...This is not a strange event. Iran was taken over by religious extremists 40 years ago. Their stranglehold on the government and surrounding countries is well known. Talk to people who have fled from there and surrounding countries and you will hear how much Iran is despised.
I you are totally cut out from the outside network then tough luck.. Elons starlink would probably be only option that regular people could use.
Load More Replies...That time the United fruit company/Chiquita brands overthrew the government of Guatemala
Every single member of the US government who had any decision making power in that incident was a stockbroker in United Fruit, including Pres. Eisenhower.
God, so seriously insider trading is a huge deal. Money and politics. I want off this planet.
Load More Replies...I only learnt about that recently (I'm a Brit). While I'm not surprised, what infuriates me is that there are many Americans that know full well what happened and still have the audacity to promote hardline treatment of anyone fleeing the now unstable country.
Forgotten? The term, "banana republic" became the singular term in the United States to refer to a propped-up dictatorship; and would pretty much be the singular basis for 90% of Hollywood depictions of the CIA. I would admit it's highly likely that many people today don't know where the term "banana republic" comes from, nor why the CIA is seen as right-wing.
Eisenhower. Anybody remember Panama or Chile or Philippines or Hawaii or.....
Or the time British Petroleum oil had US soldiers overthrow the Iranian government.
I guess these are the known ones, most likely something smaller has been done hush hush many times 1_2yBSsrFU...6c-png.jpg
The New York district attorney, Alvin Bragg, no longer charges armed robbery as a felony. It's now a misdemeanor petit larceny, meaning that an armed robber won't even lose his right to carry a weapon if he gets caught and convicted.
Sounds like American 2nd amendment rights don't get taken away, but if you go to jail you can't vote. Totally makes no sense at all.
The Labour Party in the UK tried to allow prisoners to vote. Probably because most are Labour Party members
Load More Replies...In the UK 'armed robbery' isn't a separate crime, it's all robbery. The use of weaponry would be treated, and therefore charged, separately. Maybe this is something similar? And if it's acceptable to open carry, then it would be a robbery charge and possibly a charge for using the weapon to threaten people? We don't use the word 'felony' so I don't really know what it is specifically, but maybe that's enough for robbery while holding a weapon to drop out of the category?
He also doesn't charge other crimes including assault. Since when is anarchy considered restorative justice? Or doing the minimum rather than helping all involved
Yepp look at what the democrats are doing. No bail free releases prior convictions. Yepp make America great
The story about the male masseur who accused John Travolta of sexual battery. Whatever happened with that?
Right I always feel funny now when I see him but can’t remember exactly why ! So much to look up from this article !
The first time I saw "Grease" I really wondered why they cast such an openly gay man as a hetero love interest. I think for many of us, it just wasn't a surprise. I'm pretty sure the only reason he stays in the Scientology cult is because they bury the rumours. It's a shame, because it should not matter one iota if he's gay or bi or straight or anything else. Why hide it?
A slightly frivolous example - after Madonna & Britney Spears kissed at some awards ceremony in the early 00s, Beyonce made some comments at the time which could be construed as mildly homophobic (citing her religious beliefs). More or less any mention of this has been scrubbed off the internet now and it's quite difficult to find details of it. Her PR team worked overtime on that one.
Don't like Beyonce. Could care less about any of the three. Aren't we done going nuts over rich people yet? Come on..
Yes, very religious woman, that Beyonce. That's why she shows off her tits in pretty much every outfit that she wears, because that's what pious women do. /s Seriously though, do celebrities not have anything better to do than to throw shade at their colleagues? Should they not know better than anyone else what it's like to have your every move investigated and criticized?
Wow, not a fan of hers, but your comment is nasty. Who tf made you the gatekeeping, religious police? Not surprised your description is ugly and degrading.
Load More Replies...That's what PR teams do, you know - it's literally their job. Besides, if it was so many years ago, it doesn't matter anymore. I don't support cancel culture.
Oh no a mild remark that might have been bigoted. People can change their opinion/behaviour based on public reaction
I did a really quick search and found a ton of articles on the subject. https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2003/10/16/beyonce-knowles-says-god-wont-let-her-kiss-girls
Sounds like internalized homophobia, tbh, based on the name of the article
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Beyonce sang at a private concert for the Gaddafi family in 2008. The only reason why I know this is because it was a footnote in a sociology book about the power dynamics in government neglected regions.
Who was the big artist that recently announced he would no longer be playing concerts for Russian oligarchs? I don't want to besmirch an innocent name.It just goes to show there's a whole world we don't know about, and an explanation for how these people end up so hugely wealthy. They accept the money of dreadful people that are as rich as they are because they have screwed over the people of their own country.
Not that this excuses anything but name a country that Doesn't screw over its people. In order to Have a rich top tier of wealthy there Must be millions of backs that have been broken with little to no compensation. That's the only way such a large shift of wealth can take place. It happens in the US, but people here have been properly trained to be in denial. The one that makes me angriest are those who yank healthy, thriving tribes out of their homes and into filthy cities for political purposes then abandoned diseased and destitute. A special place in hell for that, right next to industrial waste ruining habitats. Your point is why the UN doesn't work, realistically.
Load More Replies...Tony Blair when Labour prime Minister in the UK shook hands with Gadaffi and called him his friend.
I was born in 1972 & grew up hearing that Muammar Gaddafi was an evil murderer. At age 49 I assumed this was still the story. Glancing at what Google shows when searching his name, [corrupt] Wikipedia is posted at top as authority per usual: "Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary, politician & political theorist." So now he's good? I work as a loader on the dock at the Mpls Star Tribune & watched the headlines for 5 days cover the ISIS takeover, showing horror- then all of a sudden under the front page fold it reads: "Citizens weary of new government". Now we're to recognize Terrorists as being Government? WTF is going on here? You gotta lobotomize folks to get them to forget the narrative That Fast. It's like were intentionally being messed with so that we always question ourselves and what we should expect as reality. I'm ready to check out. Too poor to do so. Also, Hillary was accused of being paid by UN banned leaders for speeches when she ran for president.
I feel like everyone in New Zealand has just forgotten that the laser kiwi flag existed.
But laser kiwi is almost the only thing the world knows about New Zealand??!! Everybody jokes about it!
That's just a screaming shame. I love how a whole country banded together to bring about such a marvelous vision. I've never been to NZ, but I'll forever be in awe of their flag.
Nope, i tell non-nzers about it every chance i get, my friend has it on a tshirt...
That would be something I would cherish and hold dear (the shirt, not your friend - I don't know him, obviously). 😁
Load More Replies...Washington NFL football team running a forced prostitution ring with their cheerleaders.
It's only unamerican if the thing you're kneeling down in front of is not Big Business's sausage.
Load More Replies...The invasion of the murder hornets was an alarming storyline in 2020 that just never went anywhere.
Although the media stopped reporting about them, scientists are still very worried about their invasion and the impact on the bee populations that pollinate food crops.
As someone living in Washington state, where the first murder hornets were found, I can say murder hornet nests are still being looked for. Since they were discovered in our state I believe 4 nests have been found and destroyed. There hasn't been much I've heard on them in a few months but it was an ongoing concern locally for over a year after their discovery. The positive here is that it doesn't seem like they ever spread as much as was initially feared
I recall reading about them tracking them back to nests and destroying them. I believe I only read about two successful times and several failed attempts due to death of the hornet before it could reach the destination. I'm so glad they've gotten four nests though. That's definitely progress.
Load More Replies...This year it is the giant Joro spiders poised to take over the South.
I thought they were going to be overtaking the entire east coast pretty much. You left out venomous, as well.
Load More Replies...This link is to a JAN 2022 article about them https://myfox8.com/news/are-there-still-murder-hornets-in-the-us-2022-will-be-the-test/#:~:text=The%202020%20nest%20was%20eradicated,they%20found%20the%20following%20year.&text=Right%20now%2C%20in%20January%2C%20the,means%20they're%20fairly%20dormant
Only 2 were found at that time. They found and destroyed a hive in 2021 and there is not believed to be an invasion in the making though DIFW is still taking tips if anyone spots them.
The Chicago police running a clandestine black-ops prison. People held with no access to legal counsel, or trial. The story broke and nothing more came of it.
I just read about it in the news yesterday. The state is looking into it now. Their conditions there are horrific
Are you talking about Dan Mitrione? The Chicago cop the CIA hired to train torturers in South America in the 70s. There are dozens of books about this.
The Clinton administration funded nationwide fiber optic cable. The cable companies took the money, then disappeared it in all their late 90’s corporate consolidations. Paid for fiber optic cable, did not get it.
There are so many conspiracies about the Clinton clan.. would really like to know if there is any truth to any of them. 4hbohg-622...3c42ca.jpg
The Muller report.
Which indicated that Russia had indeed affected the results of the 2016 election, though it couldn't prove any active collusion between them and Trump (but I am strongly convinced there was collusion).
From the American Constitution Society: The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses. A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.
Load More Replies...Boris Johnson's recorded phone conversation plotting to hire a hitman to target a journalist. Now he's UK's prime minister.
Not entirely true, he plotted to have someone beaten up. "In 1990, Johnson was secretly recorded agreeing to provide the address of the News of the World reporter Stuart Collier to his friend Darius Guppy, who wanted to arrange for the journalist to have his ribs cracked as revenge for investigating Guppy's fraudulent activities." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/journalist-stuart-collier-boris-johnson-phone-call-darius-guppy-demands-apology
A friend of Johnson was being investigated by a journalist, so he rang up Johnson to ask for the journalist's home address, making it clear he was going to use that information to intimidate and even "rough up" the journalist. Johnson gave him the address and basically said "If anyone asks, tell them you didn't get it from me!".
You have got it COMPLETELY wrong. A friend of Boris, Darius Guppy (really!) wanted to have a journalist beat up because the journo was publishing negative stories about him. Boris worked in media for the Telegraph newspaper at the time and Guppy wanted Boris to tell him how to find the journalist, Boris being in the business. There was no hitman or murder plot.
Hitman is a bit of a stretch from the truth although the truth is still pretty abhorrent. He wanted a journalist beaten up and got recorded saying as much. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/black-eyes-boris-johnson-plot-attack-reporter-darius-guppy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Great good for Boris. Another nice lie from a wonderful Labour supporter. Your friend Tony Blair actually caused real deaths of hundreds innocent UK soldiers with his lies of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Yes and No. From the conversation you can pick the lines that he says so. But with the complete call Johnson didn´t plot anything.
Thought I'd look this up for everyone: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/black-eyes-boris-johnson-plot-attack-reporter-darius-guppy
The issues that caused the 2008 financial crisis were never fixed. They kicked the can down the road and it’s on the verge of happening again.
Get your money out before something happens. You can always reinvest it once things settle down
The fact is that in the US, people under 20 and people with mental and physical disabilities can be paid less than minimum wage. The reasoning? To “increase employment opportunities for these individuals.”
California passed legislation banning the practice. What's sad is that many sheltered workshops were good for people and shut down rather than pay them minimum wage. https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/california/wage-and-hour/minimum-wage/#:~:text=Beginning%20January%201%2C%202022%2C%20California%20minimum%20wage%20laws,the%20standard%20minimum%20wage%20for%20all%20hours%20worked.
There are benefits to this. Many of them cannot perform the job even to minimum standards. A lower wage encourages companies to employ them even though the job may need to be finished or redone. My company used to hire these individuals for basic janitorial services. The would come in with a handler. The job almost always had to be redone by someone else but we kept them coming in anyway. It gave them a sense of purpose and they developed working relationships with many people here. Now that special licensing is gone in CA, we no longer employ them and have contracted to a janitorial service. It's a missed opportunity for them.
I've worked for a company in the past that did the same, but also sent a crew to the local company that manufactured brake pads and similar products. When the lady that usually accompanied them to these places went on maternity leave, I took turns with other staff to take them to their jobs. The group I had out performed the ladies that were hired by the school system to work in the kitchen at the high school, on clean up and dishes. Then later in the evening they did janitorial work there as well. The crew at the brake factory did the same rate or better than the staff of the factory at parts that had to be hand inspected. It was grueling work for some of them, standing on their feet for hours, and they should have been paid minimum wage in all those cases. When they can maintain the workload of a able bodied person doing the same job, they deserve the same pay. I'm sure there are cases where some of the workers in programs such as these are less able to stay on task. Not my case tho.
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128 billion dollars went missing in my country. It is talked about for about 3 months here
EDIT: It's Turkey
Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct, then he put out a video with very vague but very threatening-sounding statements while in character as Frank Underwood from “House Of Cards” and now all of his accusers passed away.
I haven't forgotten about that... that s**t was CREEPY AS F**k!!!
Very creepy, had to look it up. Seems like a bit of a coincidence but he released the video saying he would "kill them with kindness" rather than attack back, and afterward one accuser was hit by a car and killed, no charges ever filed. One died of cancer. And one died of suicide.
Havana Syndrome. S**t gives me chills every time I read about it.
Havana syndrome is an alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive difficulties and were first reported in 2016 by U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. Beginning in 2017, more people, including U.S. intelligence and military personnel and their families, reported having these symptoms in other places, such as China, New Delhi, India, Europe, and Washington, D.C.The cause and validity of the illness have yet to be determined.
Load More Replies...I am fascinated with acoustics in general, but the sub-sonic stuff is terrifying. Could totally be a cause of Havana Syndrome. Weaponized sound.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/havana-syndrome-attacks-cia/
From Wikipedia: "Havana syndrome is an alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive difficulties"
Anthrax attacks straight after 9/11. Seemingly unconnected and no one was ever charged, from memory. Largely forgotten.
FFS. All you have to do is Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
That's like saying "9/11 was twenty years ago. Why should it be remembered?" It was an attack. Yeah, 9/11 killed a LOT more people, but neither should be forgotten.
Load More Replies...This was mostly just a bunch of losers harassing people. Way more people have died from "Swatting" than "Anthrax Letters". There are truly sick people that think things like that are funny, but some are far more dangerous than others. Anybody remember how flashing your headlights could get you shot as part of gang initiations? When it stopped happening people stopped talking about it. Just like Anthrax Letters.
Didn't they trace the anthrax back to US military labs? Idk if I actually read that or I'm making it up. But I thought I read that it it was a very specific strain that was made in a US lab
Kind of random but last summer it got to be 50 degrees Celsius in greater Vancouver bc (the highest recorded temperature in Canada ever) and the next day the city of Lytton burned down. It was a phenomenon called a heat dome. It was really scary because no one ever thought it could get that hot here, and a ton of people passed away because only about 60% of places have AC. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through. No one talks about it at all anymore and that is terrifying to me
Edit: I have been reminded numerous times that Lytton is not greater than Vancouver. Temps in greater Van were measured in the mid ’40s but with humidity, it felt more like 50. I stand corrected. Extreme weather nonetheless, especially as many places like kitchens and warehouses do not have a/c and temps in those places skyrocketed. My townhouse in south surrey measured in the upper 40s on the top floor. I also have had several people tell me that this is still discussed by people in their lives, I was just stating that I don’t hear of it at all, personally.
A bit south of Vancouver, BC, but the same time here in the Vancouver/Portland area we too experienced the heat dome. Trees and the landscape are still scarred. MANY death occurred.
I remember reading all the news reports and how terrifying it seemed. I couldn't imagine how it must have felt to endure this kind of crazy phenomenon. I'm sorry that you and so many others had to experience that.
Load More Replies...Please stop using "passed away" when you mean "died". Passed Away sounds like they were seen going on vacation.
Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis and is probably facing genocide at the hands of the Saudis. There are a few US senators trying to bring attention to it as the US is backing the Saudis. However, no one is taking it seriously and we do not see anything about it in the MSM from either the left or right side.
I just heard about it, because it appears they have gone too far... https://en.mehrnews.com/news/184779/Saudis-launch-heavy-airstrikes-on-Yemen-s-Saada
I see news about it, but I agree that the plight of Yeman is not being taken notice of and nothing is being done.
Basically any stunt the CIA pulled since its conception.
Arguably they’ve been really bad at keeping things quiet: overthrow of the 1954 Guatemalan government, Diem, the Shah of Iran, funding and arming the mujahedin that would later fight us in Afghanistan, failing to equip and reinforce at the bay of pigs, failing to see the start of the Korean War, the fall of the Berlin wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and The Iranian revolution, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, The overthrow of Allende, the murder of Torrijos, Iran Contra, etc etc etc. for more info read “Legacy of Ashes”
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Casey Kasem(the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo)
Thought that name was familiar. We used to get his top 40 here in Australia, and I grew up listening to it. The death doesn't sound mysterious at all. It's just a nasty family dispute.
The dictator Marcos ill-gotten wealth from the Philippines. He used to be our Putin but after years of fake news manipulation on uneducated masses, people seem to forget the scums family still has open swiss bank accounts and foreign parked assets, and now the son is running for president and has a decent chance of winning.
His nasty witch of a wife was really in the news over here and for a long time it was a running joke about the number of shoes she had.
That time the Australian prime minister just disappeared
99% likely that he did, but they never found his body so there are a few conspiracy theories out there. Like he got picked up by a Chinese submarine!
Load More Replies...That gets mentioned all the time in Australia! And we named a swimming pool after him!
The reason for the conspiracy theories is he was a good swimmer, and often went swimming in the ocean. There would have had to be some extra circumstances for him to die
No there wouldn't. I know those waters well. They are very dangerous. He got in trouble and he drowned. Maybe he had a heart attack. It happens.
Load More Replies...I'm very surprised how many people don't know about the Yugoslav wars (1991-2001) even in eastern Europe.
Most Americans don't even know where Yugoslavia was or what is now... I'm Serbo Croatian... when I tell Americans that they're like "cro-Asian?" ...... American school systems have failed us all.
my best friend is Croatian Canadian, i'm Serbian Canadian and we were in high school during the war. We had lots of "fun" explaining to people that we actually were friends, weren't planning on running off to fight, weren't planning on murdering eachother, etc. Doesn't get mentioned much now, but it was a big deal at the time. Serbia definitely still carries a bad name internationally because of it. And lots of other stuff, tbh.
Load More Replies...Slobodon Milosavic. I am also surprised how few people remember this.
This is in large part because we don't want to remember. This was one of the ugliest pages of our region's history... and a painful reminder that we, Balkan people, are very good at hating and killing each other for no reason.
No, not all "Balkan people".There was a horrible reason for that war, remember?
Load More Replies...I only learned about these recently when my dad thought it'd be funny to ask me something in Croatian. He was stationed in Bosnia. I'd never heard of him talk about it before and had no idea he spoke some Croatian.
They gave us little cards called an aide memoire which key words and phrases on. He didn't ask you where the mines were did he? I think that was pretty much the 1st phrase on the list after hello :( There was one that the UN did, and then when NATO took over they gave us thicker books with a lot more phrases in. I think my nephew borrowed the book but I still have my UN aide memoire somewhere under the bed, along with my UN ration card. Do you know where he was based and what period?
Load More Replies...And by the look of it's it feels like it is going to happen again. Pro Russians are threatening to attack Bosnia again. In my city (Sarajevo) our local government is preparing shelters... The world will probably just stand by and watch it all happen again, maybe tweet about it from time to time.
Actually, this could be a part of the tread. Real threats are being made, politicians from our dear neighbors are saying they should do what Russia did to Ukraine, and start a war in Bosnia. I live with this every day. Yet, no one is talking about this.
Load More Replies...I honestly didn't know anything about it until the movie 'A Perfect Day' came out in 2015.
Why did Pope Benedict really resign
Because he discovered that the entire Vatican is a cesspool of liars and conmen and the Catholic religion is just a lot of smoke and mirrors like any Las Vegas illusion show.
Snoop Dogg changing his name to Snoop Lion for about a month
I remember this, it was just after his visit to Africa or Jamaica or something.
Jamaica. He said he was Bob Marley's reincarnation. Pretty sure its called a gimmick.
Load More Replies...Anyone remember the rumors of Kim Jon Un being ill?
Yes, but thanks to the good wishes and prayers from his lover Donald he recovered.
I can't tell if your referring to Kim Jong uns fathers or making a pun lol
Load More Replies...yep. And he got better. Happened again earlier this year. So? People get sick.
Yes, but he is supposed to be immortal, according to his propaganda, so that's why it made it to the news.
Load More Replies...Didn't he disappear for a couple weeks and then all the sudden he was back and perfectly fine so they said he was just touring different places in N Korea?
He did lose a tremendous amount of weight, so maybe a health scare and gastric surgery
Magnetic Poles beginning to shift.
I may be wacko, but I keep a backup hard drive of all my important files inside of an old metal pencil box because of this sort of thing. The box acts like a faraday cage.
If the earth's magnetic field isn't affecting your hard drive NOW, it won't have any affect after a shift takes place.
Load More Replies...No, anyone who follows science news knows about this. It's currently heading towards russia. It is not swept under the carpet or strange. The earth's core is molten and molten stuff in flux entails that the pole will contiuously move. Not strange at all.
The geologic record shows the poles flipping at random intervals, the last being ~780,000 years ago. It's not really that big of a deal. Some migratory animals might get confused, you might have to scribble out N and S on your compass.
Load More Replies...This is and always has been happening. The time span over which this occurs is about as worrying as wondering how long until the sun burns out.
Metcalf sniper attack On a random day in 2013, somebody in California decided to go underground and cut phone lines. Thirty minutes later, professional snipers sprayed the Metcalf power substation for twenty minutes. They severely damaged all transformers and cost the company $15 million. Literally a minute before the police arrive, the snipers began fleeing. How did they get in? Why were they so emboldened to shoot for twenty darn minutes? What were their motivations? And why run away right before the police car arrived? To this day, no one knows who these guys are. No fingerprints were found. We tend to take things like infrastructure for granted, and it’s events like this that make me feel queasy because the perpetrators got off scot-free and probably paved the path for future copycats around the country.
"men with guns" would have been caught.
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I saw a news report about people attacking and eating people like they were zombies. 12 hours later nothing about it, not even a retraction. This was about 12 years ago. I just figure they fixed zombies really fast.
It was a single case of one man intoxicated by unknown chemicals that bit the face of an homeless.
Bath salts (synthetic amphetamine cocktail of some sort)
Load More Replies...Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?
Bathsalt Attack!!! That was one single really messed up case. The guy survived but his face is a mess. Like... you should look it up... but you really shouldn't.
There's a "zombie apocalypse" page on the CDC website. I think it's supposed to be satire because the photo they use is so ridiculous... but then they put lists together for supplies you should gather....
Ghislaine Maxwell's trial where she got convicted of selling children to… NOBODY!!!
She was convicted of recruiting underage girls who were then sexually abused by Epstein which is not "selling children". It takes just a brief internet search to debunk this statement.
I hope what they meant was that its messed up that we never found out who her clients were. Not that she didn't do it. At least I hope thats what they meant.
Load More Replies...The fact that brokers made it impossible to buy stocks in a couple of companies (GME, AMC, BBY, BB, etc…) that were insanely shorted (fake shares created to bring the price of a company artificially down) beyond their available shares, and only allowing people to sell their shares. This insane collusion between market makers, brokers, and even the governing body of markets (SEC) was quickly swept under the rug….until people started buying in mass and holding said stocks of each company to push the hedge funds to insolvency
There’s been massive student-led protests in Thailand against the military junta throughout 2021 with the leaders being jailed yet barely a peep from western newspapers
It was all over the news for quite some time. I don’t wanna sound rude, but why does every country believe that western countries don‘t have their own set of problems to deal with?
The fire at the JFK museum records wing during the Boston bombings.
That time I stepped in dog poop on 9/11. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The Government of Canada gave billions of dollars in aid -- ostensibly as pandemic-related aid - but won't say which companies have been the beneficiaries of such aid. In fact, they have fought to keep this information secret. This is despite pre-election promises to be an open and transparent government. Canadians have long forgotten.
No, we haven’t. And every government hoping for election in modern times has promised to be open and transparent. That’s pretty much the ante just to get into the game. It’s much less disillusioning to navigate politics if you assume you’re being lied to about everything, do your own research, and don’t believe anything until you’ve verified it with several separate sources.
6 US Senators traveled to Moscow over the 4th of July holiday 2018 among them Ron Johnson. No clear explanation for the purpose of this trip. Press didn't dig too deep into it.
You mean official US Senate Trip of the Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, authorized by congress, that are fully public with the press tagging along, and full itemized bills? The Press was frigging there!
Nope. A full fledged conspiracy. I think it had something to do with pizza? Or maybe that was another thing.
Load More Replies...They were sent to negotiate where the Moskou Trump Tower would be built and how many rooms Putin would get for free.
The Metcalf sniper attack
Some unknown gunmen utilizing military tactics attacked a California power substation under cover of night. The attack included cutting targeted telecommunication lines beforehand.
As far as I've ever been able to tell, they never figured out who did it or why. Or they did make arrests and the media didn't bother to follow up.
There's been a few snipers in California recently. What about that one who shot a man in his tent while his two daughters were in the tent with him and only he was killed?
Yes! The guy that killed him was a serial shooter. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/07/us/camping-father-california-murder-charge/index.html
Load More Replies...Where I live, there used to be a prime minister who got his Rolex stolen. Later they caught the thief. He mysteriously passed away in jail. Nothing happened afterward. Just conspiracy now.
We had a prime minister, who buy rolex from stolen money. Now he is suspected of having something to do with the murder of the journalist and his fiancée, but he is in opposition and is on a wave of hoaxes and Russian propaganda. Guess the country. (It´s in Europe)
Gary Webb and his investigations into the crack epidemic
There's a documentary on the crack problem on Netflix, it's sad and interesting
Everyone dying from vaping, then stopping dying from vaping.
Vitamin derivative being used as a base was causing "popcorn lung" figured out what it was and manufacturers changed out the ingredient. Problem solved. No more news.
And if its the newer one, when kids vaped cannabis oil... people dont put oil in your vaporizer!
Load More Replies...Well I was excited, but not enough to stroke to it.
Load More Replies...Shooting down of MH17 in 2014. To me, it seems like nobody gave a s**t after the first few weeks. Nobody took responsibility for it, everyone moved on like nothing happened.
This one is totally false, it's been in the news a lot and it is still on trial. And today, The Dutch AND the Australian government are suing the Russian Government for damages.
This is in the news pretty much constantly in The Netherlands. Definitely not forgotten. We got tons of updates about investigation, about official complaints etc. Still a very big deal. There hasn't been a month since where I haven't seen updates and I don't even watch the news (not just daily news, I don't watch any sort of newsprogram on tv) and I don't read newspapers
Australia has just started legal action against Russia (it's been in the pipeline for ages and is not a reaction to the invasion). We have certainly never forgotten it. Apart from the number of Australians on the flight, there were also a lot of people on their way to the World Aids Conference in Melbourne. The world lost a lot of brilliant people that day.
It was anything but swept under the rug. In The Netherlands there has been an update on the investigation and trials every other week or so, it's just moving at a very slow pace because almost all parties potentially involved went like "It wasn't us, it was them!" for years. I believe we even had a national moment of silence for it last year (or maybe before that, I'm not sure).
Absolutely not. It was covered in all European media and today, March 14 2022, Australia and the Netherlands are filing official complaints against Russia for the rocket assault on the plane. https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/14/netherlands-australia-file-mh17-complaint-russia-civil-aviation-authority.
React World by Fine Bros. They tried to copyright the concept of react videos (and maybe the word react? I can't remember). They got a well-deserved backlash and lost their relevancy
That's hilarious. Did a whole lot of reactors do videos of themselves reacting to this news?
Japan's war crimes in the 20th
Beijing has certainly not forgotten. It's called Rape of Nanjing. Anyone who is literate knows about it. Question is: do you want to do anything about it? and if so, will America pay reparations for their nuclear war crimes against japan? Just you know to be consistent.
Yeah but non of unit 731 ever faced any war crime trials and the general in charge of the horrific experiments was let off after passing over their documents and findings to the US. Japan never apologised for it nor the r*pe of Nanking (now know as nanjing). So it is correct that many of their atrocities have been forgotten and swept under the carpet.
Load More Replies...A sitting member of the House Intelligence Committee was having an affair with a Chinese spy, and after they discovered this, he's still on the committee
The war crimes of George W Bush. All forgotten because Trump was even worse (in other ways).
Hmm. This seems to mostly be a list of news events which are no longer current, but simply pasting their strings into google brings them up. Some of them, yes, there seems to be no consequence management, but they each have different cases right? Some cases, like Epstein, you first have to confirm you have something more than just one person's accusation, before you arrest them. Other cases, like shot down airliners, there are suspects, but the point is, if it's a country that's' responsible, you can either push them for war crimes at the Hague or you can declare war. Neither prospect is successful if the perps are not easily identified. So the fact that some things are not in the news anymore can be put down to (a) loss of interest (b) lack of evidence (c) low level of importance (d) that investigations are still ongoing. Jumping to "the Elites are covering it up!!!" is just tinfoil stuff. We know that the "elites" do that. However, not always. It depends on the case in question.
Beat me to it, so thank you. It's not that simple. The Epstein case wasn't really over until Maxwell was convicted ---- and will never be over for the victims, for example. It's not a cover-up if it's just that you're not hit in the face with it every day.
Load More Replies...If you do some fact checking you find that a lot of the items on the list are simply not true or just partially true. But the conspiracy theory lovers will have a great time reading this topic.
Anyone know what's up with the BP censorship? Never seen any place constantly substitute "pass away" for "die", "kill", "murder", etc. It can't be on grounds of offensiveness right, because those words are not profanities or even taboo (and BP still have plenty of posts about real dark stuff even if the language is sanitised). Is it something to do with SEO i.e. they don't wanna come up in websearches for "murder" etc.? Either way, it's a really weird choice as it's a pretty big alteration of meaning and connotation.
Everything that 45 did running up to the insurrection and after on January 6th.
It's not much of a cover-up if you can find it on Wikipedia. Just sayin'.
How about the missing Malaysian Flight 370? The spend millions looking for it then suddenly just give up??? What about the families of the passengers on board? I would want answers!
The war crimes of George W Bush. All forgotten because Trump was even worse (in other ways).
Hmm. This seems to mostly be a list of news events which are no longer current, but simply pasting their strings into google brings them up. Some of them, yes, there seems to be no consequence management, but they each have different cases right? Some cases, like Epstein, you first have to confirm you have something more than just one person's accusation, before you arrest them. Other cases, like shot down airliners, there are suspects, but the point is, if it's a country that's' responsible, you can either push them for war crimes at the Hague or you can declare war. Neither prospect is successful if the perps are not easily identified. So the fact that some things are not in the news anymore can be put down to (a) loss of interest (b) lack of evidence (c) low level of importance (d) that investigations are still ongoing. Jumping to "the Elites are covering it up!!!" is just tinfoil stuff. We know that the "elites" do that. However, not always. It depends on the case in question.
Beat me to it, so thank you. It's not that simple. The Epstein case wasn't really over until Maxwell was convicted ---- and will never be over for the victims, for example. It's not a cover-up if it's just that you're not hit in the face with it every day.
Load More Replies...If you do some fact checking you find that a lot of the items on the list are simply not true or just partially true. But the conspiracy theory lovers will have a great time reading this topic.
Anyone know what's up with the BP censorship? Never seen any place constantly substitute "pass away" for "die", "kill", "murder", etc. It can't be on grounds of offensiveness right, because those words are not profanities or even taboo (and BP still have plenty of posts about real dark stuff even if the language is sanitised). Is it something to do with SEO i.e. they don't wanna come up in websearches for "murder" etc.? Either way, it's a really weird choice as it's a pretty big alteration of meaning and connotation.
Everything that 45 did running up to the insurrection and after on January 6th.
It's not much of a cover-up if you can find it on Wikipedia. Just sayin'.
How about the missing Malaysian Flight 370? The spend millions looking for it then suddenly just give up??? What about the families of the passengers on board? I would want answers!
