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The Commodity Futures Modernization Act Signed into Law by President Bill Clinton which Deregulated Derivatives & Caused the 2008 Crash

LeeF December 21, 1999 April 8, 2023

In the waning days of the 106th Congress and the Clinton administration, Congress met in a lame-duck session to complete work on a variety of …

Trump supporter shares what he uncovered after infiltrating anti-fascist group in Sonoma Co.

3 years ago

The ABC7 I-Team has been investigating the group’s possible connection to recent acts of vandalism, including an incident at the former home of a Derek Chauvin defense witness one week ago. The Trump supporter tells the I-Team he infiltrated a group of activists in Sonoma County who call themselves anti-fascist, and he gave us what he says is their “target list” and recordings of their planning sessions. Former Santa Rosa Police Officer Barry Brodd testified as a use of force expert in the George Floyd trial, defending the … Read More

CBS’s Junk Poll Claims “85% Approved of Biden’s Speech”

3 years ago

A stunning CBS poll which claimed 85 percent of Americans embraced Joe Biden’s joint address speech last night has turned out to be a fraud, with pollster YouGov surveying just 169 Republicans as part of the broader 943 people polled. In a stunningly duplicitous story aimed at shoring up the response to Biden’s speech, CBS claimed on television and on their website: “Most viewers who tuned in to watch President Biden’s speech liked what they heard and came away feeling optimistic about America.” What they didn’t tell their viewers, … Read More

‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Library Reader Exposed as Convicted Child Sex Offender

5 years ago

April 29, 2019 (MassResistance) — Last month we reported how Houston MassResistance activists exposed a Houston Public Library “Drag Queen” as a convicted child sex offender. Now, it turns out that a second Houston Public Library Drag Queen was convicted of multiple sexual assaults against young children, according to records uncovered by Houston MassResistance activists. The man has also written a lurid article describing his work as a transgender prostitute. And he was photographed at a Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) event carrying a rubber chicken — a … Read More

ABC57 Claims a Picture of the Chicago Skyline that should be Hidden by the Earth’s Curvature at nearly 60 Miles is a Mirage

9 years ago

A year ago, I showed this amazing picture on air and online. The story has been one of the most viewed stories on our website, ever. Most clicked because of its rarity, and also because there are skyline skeptics that say my explanation is a cover-up. A cover-up to their belief that this picture is proof the earth is flat. Joshua Nowicki captured it through a lens. He’s an amateur turned semi-pro photographer “I moved to southwest Michigan about 4 years ago and fell in love living along the lake and photography just kinda … Read More

Four LAPD Officers Who Beat Rodney King are Acquitted, Prompting LA Riots

32 years ago

The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County from April 29 – May 4, 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for usage of excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King, which had been videotaped and widely viewed in TV broadcasts. The rioting spread throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area, as thousands of people rioted over a six-day period following the announcement of the verdict … Read More

Hitler’s Last Day: He Summons his Secretary to Record “His Political Testament”

79 years ago

A day before his death in his beleaguered command center in central Berlin, Adolf Hitler summoned Traudl Junge, his youngest secretary, for an important task. Standing at a large table in the conference room of the cramped underground concrete bunker complex, he paused a bit before he began dictating “My Political Testament,” a declaration that would be his final words to the German people, as well as a statement for coming generations. It was about two a.m. on Sunday morning, April 29, 1945, when the 25-year-old secretary began … Read More

Elizabeth O’Farrell, a Fearless Nurse, Risks her Life to Deliver Pádraig Pearse’s Terms of Surrender to the British Forces

108 years ago

An Irish nurse and member of Cumann na mBan, Elizabeth O’Farrell performed nursing and courier duties, delivering dispatches and ammunition to rebels over the days of the Easter Rising. She further risked her life to deliver Pádraig Pearse’s terms of surrender to the British forces on Friday, April 28, and stood with him when he surrendered to General Lowe later that day. ℘℘℘ It may have taken 100 years, but finally the hidden heroes of the Rising – the women who fought, those rebels shoved to the margins … Read More

Martial Law, a Frame-Up Attempt, Kidnapping, and Murder Result from an Idaho Mining Building Bombing

125 years ago

The Idaho murder trial: Labor unites to defeat a frame-up It began with the bombing of a building. The explosion led to a hunt for terrorists. Men were seized without warrants, transported long distances, and placed in solitary confinement. Those judicial kidnappings were defended by the Supreme Court. But the events did not originate from the mountains of Afghanistan (or anywhere in the Middle East); they sprang from the Rocky Mountains of the American West. It’s important to remember an intense campaign which the labor movement waged to … Read More