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H&M fined more than $40 million for Spying on Employees

LeeF October 6, 2020 April 8, 2023

A German privacy watchdog is fining clothing retailer H&M 35.3 million euros ($41 million) after the company was found to have spied on some of …

Lindsey Graham Announces He Will Give Senate Judiciary Chair back to Chuck Grassley in 2020

5 years ago

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has increasingly come under pressure for doing nothing as the powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that he will be abdicating his chairmanship immediately after the 2020 presidential election. Sen. Graham plans to hand the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee back to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) in the next Congress. Graham took over the panel this year from Grassley, who left to chair the Senate Finance Committee. In an interview Thursday, Graham said Grassley asked to come back after his tenure … Read More

Iraqi PM to Resign as Violent Protests Grip the Country

5 years ago

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi is set to resign amid growing nationwide anti-government protests, Al-Sumaria television has reported. Up to 250 people have already been killed in the ongoing protests, with demonstrators accusing security forces of violence and heavy-handedness. In a televised address, President Barham Salih said the PM had “agreed” to submit his resignation — but said he would only resign if a replacement was decided upon to avoid creating a “constitutional vacuum.” Salih also vowed Monday to deliver an early election in response to the growing protests after a new … Read More

“Terrorizing the Populace”: Report Finds CIA-Backed Death Squads in Afghanistan Committing War Crimes, Atrocities

5 years ago

CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan have committed a number of human rights violations over the last year, a Human Rights Watch report found Thursday, and the militant groups are likely to be the lasting legacy of the U.S. war in the country. “They do counterinsurgency the old-fashioned way,” tweeted Daily Beast national security reporter Spencer Ackerman, “terrorizing the populace.” The HRW report reviewed cases of abuse from late 2017 to the middle of 2019 in Afghanistan, interviewing 39 Afghans and a number of rights groups in the country. The group found … Read More

Congress approves ‘impeachment’ resolution authorizing Schiff’s secret probe of Trump

5 years ago

The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution authorizing the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, despite Republican opposition arguing that the “Soviet-style” bill lacks transparency and due process. The 232-196 vote ended up being almost entirely along party lines, with only two Democrats voting against and no Republicans voting for the resolution. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham issued a statement strongly condemning the vote, criticizing House Speaker Pelosi’s (D-CA) “unhinged obsession with this illegitimate impeachment proceeding.” The resolution, she argued, only codified “unacceptable violations of … Read More

Two Former CIA Directors Admit: ‘Thank God For Deep State’ Involvement Pushing Impeachment

5 years ago

Former CIA Directors John Brennan and former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin were being questioned on a panel by Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan. The panel was at George Mason University and also had former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in attendance. Margaret Brennan asked about the concern that many have, including President Donald Trump, that there is an effort to take him out including by some in the intelligence community, which some have termed the “deep state.” She noted the fact that the ‘impeachment’ proceedings started with … Read More

Internet Censorship Continues as Facebook Bans CRTV Host Gavin McInnes

6 years ago

The social-media ideological purge continues. Facebook has now banned Gavin McInnes, the host of CRTV’s Get off my Lawn and the founder of the Proud Boys organization, which is known for confronting vicious Antifa agitators during their usually violent, anarchist protests. The social network has also begun banning individuals with ties to McInnes or Proud Boys. Instagram joined Facebook, also banning McInnes and Proud Boys content. Twitter had already banned McInnes earlier this year. The purge is ongoing, as the main pages of McInnes and Proud Boys have … Read More

Proud Boys Purged from Facebook

6 years ago

On October 31, 2018, the powers that be at Facebook decided to purge (i.e. disable or delete) the accounts of all Proud Boys presidents and vice-presidents across the world, including in Australia. This follows Proud Boys accounts being deleted on Twitter back in August. While regular members of the Proud Boys are not believed to have been targeted in this “malicious” crackdown, the fact that an organisation that publicly denounces neo-Nazis – and bars suspected White Nationalists from entry into their ranks – has been obstructed on social … Read More

Fast and Furious Begins: Secret Government Gun Smuggling Operation

15 years ago

It started during the George W. Bush administration. Back then it was termed “Operation Wide Receiver.” The program later became known as “Gunwalking” and ended up being labeled “Fast and Furious.” An ill-conceived scheme from its outset, it eventually cost the lives of an unknown number of Mexican citizens and one U.S. Border Patrol agent. Operation Fast and Furious began when a local gun store reported to the Phoenix ATF that four individuals had purchased multiple AK-47 style rifles. In November 2009, the Phoenix office’s Group VII, which would … Read More

Last McDonald’s Burger Sold in Iceland Goes on Display with Livestream to See if It Would Decompose. Check it Out Live!

15 years ago

In 2009, McDonald’s closed in Iceland and on October 31st that year, Hjörtur Smárason bought the last McDonald’s hamburger in the country. Smárason kept the burger, accompanied by fries, in a plastic bag for three years during which it remained unchanged. The hamburger, which still shows no signs of decomposition is now exhibited at Snotra House in Þykkvibær, South Iceland, but previously at Bus Hostel in Skógarhlíð in Reykjavík. “I had heard something about McDonald’s never decaying so I just wanted to find out for myself whether this … Read More

‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Released a White Paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” and the Idea was Officially Born

16 years ago

Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudo-name) publishes a design paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” through a metzdowd.com cryptography mailing list that describes the Bitcoin currency and solves the problem of double spending so as to prevent the currency from being copied. The internet-based money enabled online payments without a third party and also wasn’t issued by a government or corporate entity. Nakamoto’s brilliant paper sums up Bitcoin’s primary attributes in the first few sentences that state: [Bitcoin] a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online … Read More

NSA Whistleblowers, William Binney & Kirk Wiebe, Resign Because of the NSA’s ‘Acting in Deliberate Violation of the Constitution&#821…

23 years ago

William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe are National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers who worked at the agency in excess of 36 years. As Technical Director, Binney developed a revolutionary information processing system called ThinThread that, arguably, could have detected and prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but NSA officials ignored the program in favor of Trailblazer, a program that not only ended in total failure, but cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Concerned over national security, Binney and Wiebe blew the whistle on the mismanagement over Trailblazer, using internal channels … Read More

The Dissappearance of Egypt Air Flight 990

25 years ago

(Statement of Walid Batouty, nephew of Gameel El-Batouty, co-pilot on flight 990) “On October 31st 1999, Egypt Air Flight 990 bound for Cairo mysteriously, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of the island of Nantucket,Massachusetts, killing all 217 people aboard. The Boeing 767-300ER exploded at 11,000 feet after 40 minutes of its take-off from Kennedy International Airport in New York. Controversy surrounds the crash to this day, but here is an interesting “series of events or “coincidences, according to crash investigators: 1. There were 34 generals … Read More

Mount Rushmore Dedication Ceremony is Held which has Become One of the Most Iconic Images of America

83 years ago

The southeastern face of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest is the site of four gigantic carved sculptures depicting the faces of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Led by the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, work on the project began in 1927 and was finally completed in 1941. Over that time period, some 400 workers erected the sculpture under dangerous conditions, removing a total of 450,000 tons of rock in order to create the enormous carved heads, each of which reached … Read More

Famous Magician (and Intelligence Asset?), Harry Houdini, Dies After being Poisoned?

98 years ago

by Paul A Drockton M.A. After reading “Gematria 9-11” aloud to my wife, and then showing her the “1164 Facade” where “Bewitched” was filmed, she commented that it sounded like the Laurel Canyon research of D McGowan. McGowan has uncovered the strange nexus of entertainment, politics and perverted and deadly partying that exists in Laurel Canyon, a suburb of L.A. So I did a search for “1164 Laurel Canyon” and guess what? It’s the address of the Laurel Canyon Association. http://www.laurelcanyon.org/YourLCA.html “Laurel Canyon– a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, … Read More

King George III speaks for first time since American independence declared

248 years ago

On October 31, 1776, in his first speech before British Parliament since the leaders of the American Revolution came together to sign of the Declaration of Independence that summer, King George III acknowledges that all was not going well for Britain in the war with the United States. In his address, the king spoke about the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary leaders who signed it, saying, “for daring and desperate is the spirit of those leaders, whose object has always been dominion and power, that they have now openly renounced all … Read More

Protestant Reformation Begins: Martin Luther Nailed his 95 Theses to the Door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, Protesting the Sale of Indulgences and …

507 years ago

Sometime during October 31, 1517, the day before the Feast of All Saints, the 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. The door functioned as a bulletin board for various announcements related to academic and church affairs. The theses were written in Latin and printed on a folio sheet by the printer John Gruenenberg, one of the many entrepreneurs in the new print medium first used in Germany about 1450. Luther was calling for a “disputation on the power and efficacy … Read More