Howell Cobb – HISTORY HEIST

Banking Suspended in the US at the Climax of the Panic of 1857

LeeF October 14, 1857 May 28, 2024

The major financial catalyst for the panic of 1857 was the August 24, 1857, failure of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and …

Canadian Covid Care Alliance Report: The Pfizer Inoculations For COVID-19 – More Harm Than Good

3 years ago

The Canadian Covid Care Alliance, which consists of over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists, and health care practitioners, released an in-depth analysis of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine claiming that it can do more harm than good to people. According to its website, the Pfizer 6 month data shows that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines cause more illness than they prevent. Also, an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution. “They have failed to prove that these inoculations are safe. It doesn’t matter if you reduce case numbers … Read More

CDC Warns Americans NOT to Get (non-NIAID patented) J&J Shot Over Blood Clot Risk

3 years ago

A panel of health advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday unanimously that adults seeking boosters should go with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine rather than Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 15-0 that the mRNA vaccines are “preferred” to the J&J vaccine because they’re the safest and most effective vaccines. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to decide whether to adopt the panel’s advice as agency policy later today. Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to rare … Read More

Report Alleges China’s ‘Mass Surveillance’ Of Americans Using Caribbean Cell Networks

4 years ago

New technical analysis compiled by a veteran cybersecurity expert previously at Mobileum, a mobile security company whose job it is to track threats to mobile operators, has detailed likely efforts of Chinese intelligence to surveil US mobile phone subscribers using phone networks out of the Caribbean. Gary Miller, who has since started the cybersecurity company Exigent Media, has alleged and detailed to The Guardian that China is engaged in “active” surveillance attacks through foreign telecoms operators. The Guardian report offers little to nothing in the way of forensic or technical evidence to back the claims, but is … Read More

Texas, Nine U.S. States Accuse Google Of Working With Facebook To Break Antitrust Law

4 years ago

(Reuters) -Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in violation of antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising business. The states asked that the Alphabet Inc-owned company, which controls a third of the global online advertising industry, compensate them for damages and sought “structural relief,” which is usually interpreted as forcing a company to divest some of its assets. The Texas lawsuit is the second major complaint from regulators against Google and the fourth in a series of … Read More

The Senate Holds an Oversight Hearing to Examine Irregularities in the 2020 Election

4 years ago

Witnesses at a Senate hearing on election “irregularities” testified about a litany of alleged instances of election fraud occurring in certain states. Some also expressed concerns over last-minute changes to election laws and other issues they argued were unconstitutional. Republican senators said they believe fraud did occur and that taking an honest look into the growing mountain of evidence is necessary for a democracy, noting how many Americans have similar concerns. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken after the election found 70 percent of Republicans didn’t believe it was free and fair. However, trust in the election … Read More

Project Veritas Releases Shocking Never-Before-Heard Phone Call Between Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton’s State Department

4 years ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: “We have intelligence that the State Department Database Archive of 250,000 diplomatic cables…is being spread around and…within the next few days it will become public.” Assange: There is time “in case there are any individuals who haven’t been warned that they should be warned.” Assange to State Department: Rogue former employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg intends to release classified State Department cables without redactions or other precautions. James O’Keefe: “There is an integrity to Assange’s conduct that cannot be denied, whether you welcomed his releases or … Read More

FBI, CISA and Office of DNI Release Statement — Are Pursuing Significant Cybersecurity Incident with SolarWinds Orion Products

4 years ago

The FBI, CISA and Office of the DNI released a joint statement tonight on the SolarWinds cybersecurity incident. The three government investigative bodies are reportedly working together on the SolarWinds breach that was announced earlier this week. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 44-20 Dec. 16, 2020 Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have … Read More

Lawsuit: Apple, Google, Tesla Profit from African Child Labor

5 years ago

A slew of high-tech companies including Apple, Google, and Tesla are being sued by a group of Congolese families whose children allegedly died or were severely injured while mining cobalt that is used to produce lithium-ion batteries found in smartphones and electric cars. The human rights organization International Rights Advocates filed the suit Sunday in a Washington, D.C. federal court on behalf of 14 families from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Their suit claims that the companies knowingly aided and abetted the “cruel and brutal” use … Read More

Ms. Agnes Kalibata of Rwanda Appointed as Special Envoy for 2021 Food Systems Summit

5 years ago

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Agnes Kalibata of Rwanda as his Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit. In 2021, the Secretary-General will host a Food Systems Summit with the aim of maximizing the co-benefits of a food systems approach across the entire 2030 Agenda and meet the challenges of climate change. As a key contribution to the Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, the objectives of the Food Systems Summit are to generate momentum, expand the knowledge and … Read More

Wikileaks Releases Secret Tapes & Transcripts of AbilityOne / SourceAmerica Scandal

9 years ago

WikiLeaks publishes the 30 hours of secret tapes and transcripts at the heart of the AbilityOne / SouceAmerica scandal. 13 Presidential Appointees (10 Obama, 3 Bush) are embroiled in a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal being probed by the US Department of Justice and 4 Inspector Generals. The appointees oversee the federal government’s $3billion a year “AbilityOne” program which is meant to pay for the employment of more than 50,000 disabled people- the largest such program in the US. Most of that money, $2.3 billion a year, is funneled … Read More

Operation Desert Fox: US and UK Bomb Iraq / Saddam. Huma Abedin, Hillary’s former Closest Aid Claimed the Attack was to Deflect from the Monica …

26 years ago

December 16-19, 1998 – Operation Desert Fox: US/UK bomb Iraq/Saddam: The contemporaneous justification for the strikes was Iraq’s failure to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions and its interference with United Nations Special Commission inspectors, however an article in the Muslim journal where Huma Abedin was assistant editor claimed Bill Clinton bombed Saddam Hussein to deflect from his Monica Lewinsky affair. Abedin, who is not an academic, has been Hillary Clinton’s closest aide since spending time as an intern at the White House, at exactly the time the Monica Lewinsky scandal was … Read More

Ximena Survives the Abortion Attempted by her Mother and is Later Found Alive, although Damaged, in the Dead Fetus Storage Area

39 years ago

Ximena’s odyssey with Vancouver General Hospital began, the day she was born. After attempting an abortion at a free-standing mill in Bellingham, Wash. Ximena’s birth mother entered VGH, where she gave birth. According to court documents, staff delivered the child into a “hat”–a plastic pot–and then senior nurse Vera Wood whisked her away. Ximena was placed in a room “where dead fetuses were stored,” even though she was “moving, gasping, (and) crying weakly.” Ximena miraculously survived. Court documents say Wood checked back some 26 minutes later, to find … Read More

Wujek Coal mine massacre during Solidarity-era Poland

43 years ago

Radio Poland reported that the criminal cases against police accused of killing nine mine workers and wounding dozens more at the Wujek and Manifest Lipcowy mines, will pass to the archives at the Institute of National Remembrance. On December 16, 1981, communist security police were dispatched to the mines to quell the upstart Solidarity-led opposition, three days after martial law was declared. The miners were striking against the imposition of martial law. As Radio Poland describes it: The forces used against the miners consisted of eight companies of riot police … Read More

Honoré Daumier’s ‘Gargantua’ Censored

193 years ago

In this controversial lithograph, which was to be published in Charles Philipon’s newspaper La Caricature on December 16, 1831, Daumier depicted the corpulent monarch Louis-Philippe seated on a throne, gobbling bags of coins being hauled up a ramp by tiny laborers, the coins having been wrung from the poor of France by his ministers. On the lower right, a crowd of his poverty-stricken subjects stand waiting miserably to turn over what little money they have. Milling around the throne are Louis-Philippe’s favorites, also extravagantly fat; they are collecting commissions, … Read More

The Boston Tea Party: American Patriots Protest the Tea Tax by Throwing 342 Tea Chests into the Boston Harbor

251 years ago

On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty, many dressed in disguise as Mohawks, boarded three British ships docked in Boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the chilly waters of Boston Harbor. The sunken chests held over 45 tons of tea, worth almost $1 million today. Many believe the colonists’ actions had been spurred by the words of Samuel Adams during a meeting at the Old South Meeting House. In the meeting, Adams called on colonists from all towns surrounding Boston to “be in readiness … Read More