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The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) Bills to End Internet Freedom were Defeated

LeeF January 20, 2012 April 8, 2023

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (also known as the E-PARASITE Act, House Bill 3261, or H.R. 3261) was a bill that was being considered by the U.S. …

On This Day in History…

AG Barr on Lockdown Restrictions: Government May Not Impose Special Restrictions on Religious Activity

4 years ago

Last week the Justice Department warned US Attorney General Bill Barr was monitoring government regulation of religious services. Parishioners who attended a drive-in service at Temple Baptist Church in Mississippi were fined $500 each by police for violating ‘social distancing’ orders. 20 police cars swarmed King James Bible Baptist Church in Mississippi and pastor Charles Hamilton Jr., was told by a cop that his rights were suspended. US Attorney General Bill Barr on Tuesday issued a statement on the Mississippi church case. Barr said the government “may not impose … Read More

Inventor Mysteriously Dies After Inventing 100 Miles Per Gallon Device

43 years ago

While some people believe the story of American inventor Thomas Ogle is a myth or urban legend, the reality is that Ogle designed and implemented a “vapor carburetor” that allowed a vehicle to achieve over 100 miles per gallon of gasoline in 1977 — with no carbon emissions. Sadly, Ogle’s invention would never see the light of day. After surviving an assassination attempt, Olge subsequently died under suspicious circumstances only months later. “Are you afraid of oil companies or the Arabs coming after you?” journalist Ron Laytner presciently … Read More

A Trip Down San Francisco’s Market Street 4 Days Before the Earthquake and Fire that Destroyed 80% of It

118 years ago

“Produced as part of the popular Hale’s Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, 1139 Market Street, between 8th and 9th Streets; it was filmed 14 April 1906, four days before the devastating earthquake and fire of 18 April 1906, which virtually destroyed the entire downtown area. The negative was taken by train to the Miles New York office on 17 April 1906, narrowly saving it from destruction by one day and thus preserving a moment in … Read More

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, but Why?

159 years ago

Mimi L. Eustis, the daughter of Samuel Todd Churchill, a high level member of the secret New Orleans Mardi Gras Society called “The Mystick Crewe of Comus” recorded her fathers secret knowledge in his deathbed confessions. This Society, which reorganized the Mardi Gras festivities in 1857, was a chapter of the Skull and Bones that began as a front for the activities of Masons Albert Pike, Judah Benjamin, and John Slidell who became leaders of the Confederacy. The document describes the Illuminati role in the murders of Abraham Lincoln … Read More

The First American Abolition Society was Formed in Philadelphia. Thomas Paine, Benjamin Rush, & Ben Franklin were Among its Mostly Quaker Members…

249 years ago

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and held four meetings. Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, that is, members of the Religious Society of Friends. Thomas Paine was also among the Society’s founders. It was reorganized in 1784 as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, … Read More

Massachusetts Passes the First Education Law

382 years ago

Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. The Massachusetts School Laws were three legislative acts of 1642, 1647 and 1648 enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with he most famous by far, the law of 1647, also known as the Old Deluder Satan Law (after the law’s first sentence). The English Puritans who founded Massachusetts believed that the well-being of individuals, along with the success of the colony, depended on a people literate enough to … Read More