Archive for the 'Fraud' Category
Exposing Australia’s Recycling Lie
April 28th, 2019Via: 60 Minutes:
Trump: Get the Vaccines
April 26th, 2019Mmm hmm. Via: NBC: President Donald Trump on Friday urged parents to get their children vaccinated after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that measles cases had reached a record high since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. “They have to get the shot. The vaccinations are so important,” Trump […]
“Easter Worshippers”
April 26th, 2019Via: New Zealand Herald: John L Allen Jr is the author of The Global War on Christians. Referencing Angela Merkel’s response to the Sri Lanka bombings, “It is shocking that the people who gather to celebrate Easter together were consciously targeted in this malicious attack”. Except, he writes, “the shocking thing about the carnage is […]
Facebook Expects to be Fined Up to $5 Billion Over Privacy Scandals
April 25th, 2019In other news: Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act. Via: MIT Technology Review: To most of us (and to the FTC), $3 billion to $5 billion is a whopping sum of money. But Facebook, which earns $56 billion in revenue every year, can potentially just write it off as a cost of […]
U.S. Navy Drafting New Guidelines for Reporting UFOs
April 24th, 2019Via: Politico: The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with “unidentified aircraft,” a significant new step in creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings — and destigmatize them. The previously unreported move is in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly […]
A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
April 24th, 2019Via: Wired: In the process, and as detailed in a paper they published Tuesday, the researchers not only found that cryptocurrency users have in the last few years stored their crypto treasure with hundreds of easily guessable private keys, but also uncovered what they call a “blockchain bandit.” A single Ethereum account seems to have […]
Mystery Surcharge Among Taxes, Fees Added To Gasoline In California
April 19th, 2019Via: CBS: A University of California, Berkeley professor is drawing attention to a gasoline “mystery surcharge” in the state – unexplained price increases in gasoline which have cost drivers $20 billion since 2015. Severin Borenstein, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and former chairman of the state’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, has spent […]
After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking
April 18th, 2019Via: Scientific American: The $14 billion network of levees and floodwalls that was built to protect greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was a seemingly invincible bulwark against flooding. But now, 11 months after the Army Corps of Engineers completed one of the largest public works projects in world history, the agency says the system […]
Prosecutors Ask To Present Evidence That NXIVM Sex Cult Leaders Illegally Bundled Money For Hillary Clinton Campaign
April 18th, 2019Via: Big League Politics: Prosecutors have asked to present evidence in the NXIVM sex cult racketeering trial showing that NXIVM leaders including Nancy Salzman and Clare Bronfman illegally bundled money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign by compelling members to donate to Clinton and then reimbursing the members. … The prosecutors state: “Campaign Contribution Evidence […]
Deutsche Bank: Russian Laundromat
April 18th, 2019Via: Guardian: Germany’s troubled Deutsche Bank faces fines, legal action and the possible prosecution of “senior management” because of its role in a $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme, a confidential internal report seen by the Guardian says. The bank admits there is a high risk that regulators in the US and UK will take “significant disciplinary […]
