2008 – Page 4 – HISTORY HEIST

Merck Settles Lawsuit for $650 Million for Overbilling Government

LeeF February 7, 2008 April 8, 2023

Merck agreed to pay more than $650 million to settle charges that it routinely overbilled the government for its most popular medicines, the arthritis drug …

John Glasgow, CFO of Firm that Constructed the Clinton Library, Disappears

LeeF January 28, 2008 April 8, 2023

John Glasgow served as the Chief Financial Officer of CDI Contractors. John Glasgow was 45-years-old and was a very successful and well-known businessman within the …

Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein argues in Academic Paper that heavy Tax should be Imposed on Conspiracy Theorist

LeeF January 15, 2008 April 8, 2023

In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban “conspiracy theorizing” by the Government …impos[ing] some kind …

2007-08 Financial Collapse Begins with the Filing for Bankruptcy by New Century Financial

LeeF April 2, 2007 April 8, 2023

New Century Financial, one of the largest sub-prime lenders in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 2nd of 2007, beginning the collapse …

On This Day in History…

First Openly Trans NH Lawmaker Who Made Earlier Bomb Threats Is Arrested for Stalking Woman

2 years ago

Stacie Laughton, the first openly transgender representative in New Hampshire, was arrested for violating a protective order that had been filed against Laughton. The 38-year-old, who was born Barry Charles Laughton Jr., was arrested on November 12 for violating the protective order by allegedly trying to contact the victim, an unidentified woman, through social media. The Hudson Police Department said that Laughton had also been arrested in September for violating the same order by attempting to contact the victim in August. Laughton had been arrested and then released shortly after … Read More

2-week (Oct 31 thru Nov 12) UN Climate Change (COP26) Summit Ends

3 years ago

More than 400 private jets carrying politicians and business executives to the COP26 conference belched out 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide, exceeding the emissions of 1,600 average Scots for a full year, according to an estimate by the UK’s Sunday Mail. Private jets are very prestigious, but it is difficult to avoid the hypocrisy of using one while claiming to be fighting climate change,” environmental activist Matt Finch told the newspaper. Heads of states and other leaders from across the globe were among the private jet-setters – from … Read More

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Issues a ‘COVID-19 Research’ Contract in Ukraine 3 months Before Covid-19

5 years ago

The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia-like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organization officially named the novel coronavirus disease; Covid-19. So with this being the official truth, why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a contract on the 12th November … Read More

Study: Statin Use Linked to Dementia

6 years ago

Worldwide, someone develops dementia every three seconds, and by 2030 it’s estimated that 75 million will be living with the condition.1 In the U.S. alone, 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, and someone develops the disease every 65 seconds.2 Meanwhile, the use of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs doubled among U.S. adults from 2000 to 2011,3 and U.S. doctors write more than 200 million prescriptions for such drugs every year.4 In the fervor to lower cholesterol levels — a misguided strategy still … Read More

European Space Agency Stages a Mock Celebration of the Alleged Landing of the Philae Lander on a Comet

10 years ago

On November 12th, 2014, the European Space Agency, staged a mock celebration of the alleged landing of the Philae Lander on a comet, after the Rosetta spacecraft had supposedly been orbiting the comet – or so the story goes. The Rosetta spacecraft was sent out into space in 2004 for the purpose of landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The immediate response from most people around the globe was, ‘That’s a great feat!’ Of course it would have been… if it actually happened; but the fact of the matter is, … Read More

Sloan-Kettering Rejects Laetrile (derived from Apricot Kernels) as Effective Cancer Treatment

47 years ago

This is despite positive results from Sloan-Kettering’s own famous researcher, Kanematsu Suguira. In November of 1977 Dr. Ralph Moss, Assistant Director of public affairs at Sloan-Kettering, held a press-conference about the success and potential of laetrile, despite the centers desire to cover it up. Ralph Moss was fired the next day for “failing to carry out the most basic job responsibilities.” …more to come on this article. Please add comments and links from your own research. Thanks! … Read More

Epperson v. Arkansas: The U.S. Supreme Court Ruled that a Law Prohibiting the Teaching of Evolution in Tax-Supported Schools is Unconstitutional

56 years ago

The evolution controversy did not come before the U.S. Supreme Court until Epperson v. Arkansas,[39] a 1968 challenge to the constitutionality of an Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of evolution.[40] By this time, the nonestablishment clause had been applied to the states, and in this case the Jeffersonian and Madisonian view of that clause carried the day. In other words, the challenge to the Arkansas law was successful because the case was seen as a dispute between religion and science. An amicus brief in Epperson demonstrated to the … Read More

Thomas Jefferson: “I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government&#…

208 years ago

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” ― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817 … Read More