40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug “Like They Didn’t Even Happen”

Human history is notorious for strange events. No wonder there are tons of conspiracy theories surfing around that aim to explain them in one way or the other. Some are totally bogus, others are somewhat debatable.

So when someone posed an illuminating question “What strange events have gotten swept under the rug like they didn't even happen?” on the Ask Reddit community recently, it seemed to have hit a soft spot for many. People shared some of the most incredible events that got totally forgotten, or that everyone pretends they forgot, including an extreme personal data breach on a global scale, an audit that found $8M of taxpayers' money missing, and unidentified snipers taking out cars starting last summer. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Below we collected some of the strangest events that people shared in the thread and it makes you wonder if someone has a solid explanation for each and every one of them.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Identifying all the rich men who participated in Jeffery Epstein's island.

Bsmyth84 , wikipedia Report

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Kira Okah 2 years ago (edited)

I heard the book that had names about the Epstein stuff get legally sealed after Maxwell's trial instead of being investigated. If it did, then why wasn't it investigated as well?

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The leader of Scientology's wife vanished after an argument in 2005, nobody knows what happened to her.

thedrakeequator Report

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333points

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Kira Okah 2 years ago (edited)

If you have even a passing knowledge of Scientology, you have probably heard of this. Shelly Miscavage's disappearance is not kept quiet by those not in the cult.

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Covid depression Is one of the most predominant factors that most of us have experienced throughout the past 2 years, yet no one talks about it. You know that thing that makes you feel so used up that you download a bunch of apps that you know won’t make you happy? Maybe eat more, sleep more, stay in your house more. Then a war hits and you feel so incredibly useless to the perpetual tragedy that you just shut down. Yeah, that thing.

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

I acknowledge that Covid has affected people's mental health drastically. What I feel is REALLY being swept under the carpet is Long Covid, which is affecting a huge number of people with effects that may well be permanent, and many of these people are health workers who were forced into Covid situations without sufficient PPE or vaccinations. Governments are not doing anything about that.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The Phoenix lights. My whole immediate family and tons of people on the street we lived on saw the aircraft come overhead. We all stood there speechless and terrified until it passed then the whole block freaked out. Nobody will ever convince me it was flairs. We all saw the outline and structure of the craft clearly. It was so big and slow it was amazing it was staying in the air. My hair still stands on end even thinking about it right now.

JeffCogs80 , azcentral Report

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Libstak 2 years ago

Wish I had seen this.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" In my hometown, the police chief was accused of having sexual relations with an underage girl. The father of the girl was one of the officers on the force. He was later found passed away near the property of the chief. People believe he was there to confront the chief about the relations. 9/11 happened, and the attention of the public got focused on the nation's tragedy. HE IS NOW THE MAYOR.

Tio_Paya559 , R.D. Smith Report

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Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

Dead. Just say dead

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Hong Kong protests

NotEnoughNoodle , Manson Yim Report

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

apparently one in seven people in hong kong have been involved in protesting annually at the very least. Yet, governmental and bureaucratic crackdowns have shoved it under the radar. The real problem is the media's non-reporting of such issues because people get 'bored' of it and they're corporations which pander to people.

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When the government gave college loan companies money. So the loan companies could forgive some school debt from students. But instead, the companies just kept the money and told everyone that called in they didn't qualify for forgiveness. And the government did nothing about it.

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Betsy Devoss and her band of rip off artists masquerading as a legitimate college loan administrators. The government did something about it- Trump made her his education secretary!!

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The metric s**t ton of Covid relief money that was given to companies, that was misappropriated and will never be paid back, and is only marginally being analyzed/investigated.

So it’s all on the US taxpayers

scepticalbob , Karolina Grabowska Report

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247points

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GenericPanda09 2 years ago

Yeah, the British taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for all the billions that the UK government have written off due to their lack of oversight about who they were handing money over to for covid relief. They're not even trying to solve those crimes even though there's a literal money trail, and as we have a conservative government who don't like taxing the rich, as usual it'll be the poor and disabled yet again paying for their negligence.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Nobody seemed to remember Ukrainian passenger flight being shot down by the Iranian government last year.

Available-anyways , wikipedia Report

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Meike H 2 years ago

I seriously can't remember ever hearing about this

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Boris Johnson lockdown parties, he was on the verge of being forced out of the office and then, oh there's a war now we've got other stuff to worry about

simian_fold , BackBoris2012 Campaign Team Report

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User# 6 2 years ago

There's still an ongoing police investigation.

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#11

Mark Zuckerberg created two AI robots for Facebook named Alice and bob, and they started communicating with each other in some unknown language so they had to shut down the program, and still to this day they never figured out what the robots were saying to each other.....

czear04 Report

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

'Hey Alice, let's kill all humans' 'Ok Bob, let's do it'

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Panama papers

WhileIwait4s**t , Charles Hutchins Report

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

The only thing that happened is that the journalist who discovered this is beeing killed..

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#13

There’s a mysterious neurodegenerative disorder identified in 2019 that is ONLY found within New Brunswick. It has symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or “mad cow disease,” but it isn’t caused by prions. They have no idea what causes it. So far, almost 50 people have the disease and 6 have passed away. The youngest affected was only 18. The provincial government is pushing back on research efforts and transparency and has essentially cut aid from federal and international investigation efforts. Since then, they’ve started discrediting patients and their families.

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

this is horrible

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#14

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" T.I. (rapper) and his wife have serially drugged and r*ped over 30 victims. According to 30+ allegations.

If you google T.I. it doesn't even come up unless you specifically search for it

SteadyWaiting , troubleman31 Report

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Deiya Doyle-Mujakperuo 2 years ago

disturbing

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#15

Congress being able to insider trade legally

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Jo Choto 2 years ago

Should not be legal, ever.

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#16

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Who the hell destroyed the Epstein camera tapes

toothyboiii , Elijah O'Donnell Report

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194points

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

Are you talking about the jail cell? well obviously whoever killed him wanted to get rid of proof. This is one of those 100% believable conspiracy theories. Imagine what would happen to your currency and economy if they released a list of names of current or past senior politicians or economists who were guilty? Totally not suprising

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#17

Over 800 tons of dead sea life including dolphins, washed up in Tampa Bay due to a fertilizer plant spill - never heard about this disaster again.

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Jaguarundi 2 years ago

Sorry to disagree, but, the shuttered Piney Point phosphate mine spill is still being actively cleaned up and the stack is still being repaired. The ongoing progress of the cleanup is reported every week or two on the local news and in the Tampa Bay Times. I live here, that's why I know.

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#18

The floods on the east coast of Australia super recently, we experienced 1000ml of rain in less then a day, whole towns have been wiped out, there are landslides and people are still missing. There are no supplies, no food, no fuel, no electricity and no water. They are still finding bodies, and there are still people stranded on cliff faces and mountains that could collapse any minute.

If you drive through Lismore NSW right now, everyone’s belongings are all in piles larger then the houses on the street, there is sewage and toxic waste covering thousands of square metres. Civilians have had to rescue people from bridges, off roofs and off mountains, risking their lives while suffering their losses to save others that are in a worse position. Thousands of civilians have been donating their own money, time and resources to help those in need.

Our government has done nothing, and is shadow banning anyone speaking out on social media. The newspapers aren’t covering it even though this is the worse natural disaster Australia has experiences in decades. Deaths are going unreported and the media is not covering anything. People have been screaming for the army and other qualified professionals to help. They have been begging to declare a state of emergency.

It’s taken 6 days for our prime minister to speak on this, and today he posted on Instagram some very staged images of the military “helping”. These photos show the army in clean clothes, pretending to do tasks and pretending to help. The army was literally instructed to go down there, get some pictures and leave. People literally have been taking photos of them getting photos done with ring lights and other professional lighting equipment. When civilians asked for their help they said that’s not our duty and went back to scrolling on their phones.

It’s a disgusting response from our government, and probably the most blatant sweep under the rug I’ve ever seen

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

We saw this all over the world in various papers. Nothing being hidden.

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#19

The Saudi’s murdered a Washington Post journalist and nothing happened

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GenericPanda09 2 years ago

Same as with #70, they're too cowardly to do anything to Saudi because of the defence contracts and the oil. Even more so in a future where Russian oil isn't on the market.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The Apollo 10 turd. It's been half a century and nobody has owned up to the floating turd on Apollo 10.

chalk_in_boots , BrownWinged Report

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GaeFrog 2 years ago

The last line got me lmaooo

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#21

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" On November 2 the FEC decided that foreign individuals, corporations, and governments can fund ballot measures in the US because they're "not technically elections". This is a staggeringly big deal that was pretty much immediately swept under the rug.

Notsotired2 , Edmond Dantès Report

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Kisses4Katie 2 years ago

No. What the hell? Why should foreign govt fund any US measure???

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Starting last summer there have been unidentified snipers taking out random cars on different parts of I-10 in New Orleans and nothing has come of it and nobody’s really talking about it. I mean, gang and drug violence, neighborhood drive-bys, and the occasional Bourbon shooting are one thing to ignore, but interstate snipers? Does nobody find that interesting? It’s still happening.

mercurialpolyglot , Daniel Stuben Report

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154points

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

That happens when you sell guns at walmart..

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#23

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult (in the US). This is data we didn't give them permission to access, they simply automatically collect it.

They are still in business.

In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people.

That's out of roughly 210 million adults at that time.

That's 70% of the adult population whose data was lost.

That's more than likely every single household in the US.

maglen69 , Markus Spiske Report

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153points

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Dave P 2 years ago

They legally can access and collect that data under US because they are one of 3 companies authorized by the US Govt to collect data related to credit score and rank you. The Data breach was a big issue, which is now why the NSA helps all 3 companies with their security. And the Data breach was a big deal for the feds because it was partially their fault, and why the FBI went on it full force

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#24

When I was in public school there was a year-long fundraiser push to raise $75,000 for a new school running track. Was supposed to be really nice paved track. By the end of the school year, they announced that they had met the funding goal and the track was going to be built. The next year we came back, and the school said that they were fundraising $40,000 for the new school track which would be unpaved gravel. When I started asking where the other money went they kept brushing me off like that never happened. I felt like I was taking crazy pills because all the other kids remembered that we had raised $75,000 for an amazing track, but now it was like the money vanished.

None of the other kids really cared that much, but there was something really fishy going on. We got the track and it was s**t.

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Magoomba 2 years ago

Yeah but the super, the principal and the track coach got new cars, right?

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Ghislain Maxwell knew many names, yet no one was publicly mentioned

MatsRivel , Just_in_time_17 Report

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152points

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Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

I don’t think she wants to be murdered in her jail cell.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Several nuclear weapons the US DOD straight up lost.

knotpolkadottie , The Official CTBTO Photostream Report

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

Good to know that those weapons are in good hands..

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#27

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" I am pretty surprised how no one really reacted when the Navy, and pentagon said UFOs were real and we don’t know what they are, or have anything that can really match and fight them.

Not saying it’s aliens and UAP instead of UFOs.

Magic_Taco1221 , Albert Antony Report

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149points

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

well anything can be a ufo if you don't observe it well. i could potentially shoot a rock in the air and it would be classified as a ufo.

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 *Trillion* dollars, the night before 9/11

DAT_DROP , History in HD Report

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140points

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

correlation isn't causation.

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#29

Facebook experimenting with human emotions, without their knowledge or consent.

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140points

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adiiantryx 2 years ago

haven't forgotten it really - there is a growing exodus of people away from meta

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" A bit random. But there was a meteor over Scotland that blazed through the sky, slowed right down, and changed direction. That was pretty weird.

be47recon , stanislao d'ambrosio Report

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138points

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

Tthe path that it was taking was elliptical maybe? Wasn't in the atmosphere but arching by?

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#31

Epstein had to jump through like 3 tiers of a coincidence to commit suicide the way he did. either he was coerced into actual suicide and told when the guards were going on break and when the CCTV would go out randomly, or we are supposed to assume the former. I still don't buy it.

charley46 Report

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128points

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Libstak 2 years ago

I don't like conspiracy theories but this one I have a lot of questions about. My gut just does not agree that it was a suicide.

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#32

There was a huge scandal involving the UK foster care system. Social workers were getting paid more for each child they placed in foster care. This resulted in 100s/1000s of children being placed into foster care that didn’t need to be. To this day there has been no uproar or anything about it, it got swelter under the rug and unless you were personally involved (myself) then you will more than likely not have any idea about it.

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126points

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

Or the Rochdale circle of child traffickers who weren't investigated despite several tips out of fear that the police would be accused of racial profiling. In the end nine men were convicted, of whom eight were of British Pakistani origin and one was an Afghan. But that was only after a woman informed the media about their practices and how the police chose to look away.

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#33

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The Las Vegas shooting. The worst mass shooting in America’s history. Dozens passed away. Hundreds injured. No one has any idea why this random dude stockpiled weapons and went on a mass murder spree. Or why he ended when he did.

We all just collectively went “I guess we’ll never know” and then forgot about it.

AvatarofBro , Ameer Basheer Report

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122points

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Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

I'm sorry, but you don't 'pass away' if you're murdered. You pass away in a bed when it's your time. Saying people 'passed away' when you mean they were killed just sugar coats it, and it really shouldn't be. We should be angry. We should be made to feel the impact of it. Stop trying to be so pc

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40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" In my hometown, there was some sort of audit and it found that 8 million dollars of taxpayer money were missing. It's a conspiracy now.

betosanchito , Giorgio Trovato Report

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107points

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Devon Britton 2 years ago

$8 million.... those are rookie numbers... ~laughs in South African~

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#35

Robinhood shutting off the buy button to stop GameStop’s price from climbing

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102points

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Lucifer 2 years ago

This one is explained in an episode of 'The Problem with Jon Stewart'.

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#36

Not necessarily strange but terrifying - since the 80s there has been a group of Christian anti-nuclear pacifists called The Plowshare movement.

They have broken into numerous nuclear arms facilities over the years to peacefully protest and have got into major trouble with many of them receiving multiple prison sentences for their efforts with no intent to stop but the major takeaway from their activities is how shockingly easy it was for them to plan and gain access to these facilities. Sometimes it would be hours before they were discovered by military personnel after gaining access to sites. And it begs the question that if they’re a peaceful protest group what would happen if a terrorist organization were to attempt it? There’s a book about it called Gods of Metal.

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101points

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Dave P 2 years ago

They claim to break into the facilities but evert arrest was made in the outer perimeter. They are braggarts, and never have proof they ever got in.

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#37

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Random scary clowns in like 2016?

waiting_for_rain , Robert Zunikoff Report

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Buren 2 years ago

You didn't hear? He became president at the end of that year.

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#38

Every single major news event that's more than a few weeks old....the media only care about the latest headlines to grab attention.

DavijoMan Report

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89points

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User# 6 2 years ago

That is the nature of news. The clue is in the name. If you want old news, read an encyclopedia.

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#39

The financial panic of 2008 was triggered by a $550 Billion drawdown of money market accounts in the USA at about 11 AM on Thursday, Sept 15, 2008. It was an electronic run on the banks.

Had they not closed down the money market accounts immediately, the Treasury estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon, $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

Who did the initial $550 Billion drawdown? This info was put in the memory hole, and the press does not discuss it.

The Wikipedia article Global financial crisis in September 2008 has only the following sentence: "By the morning of September 18, money market sell orders from institutional investors totaled $0.5 trillion, out of a total market capitalization of $4 trillion, but a $105 billion liquidity injection from the Federal Reserve averted an immediate collapse.[22][23]"

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Paul Ellis 2 years ago

Sorry, it was me. I was shopping in Tesco and realised I didn't have enough in my account to cover the cost of my groceries. Sorry.

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#40

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Shortly after fans held a massive "Beyoncé Mass" worshipping the pop singer, she purchased a large church in Louisianna. Haven't heard anything else about these masses or what she decided to do with the church. But it has always bothered me

squishman1203 , Stephanie Overton Report

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GaeFrog 2 years ago

Omg it reminds me of Klaus's cult Destiny's Children BAHAHAH

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#41

I think the Canadian government hiding the fact there are thousands of missing children with no trace. Some children actually burned inside furnaces… they actually burned tons of the paperwork to hide it.

They occasionally find massive unmarked graves than nothing.

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Imogene Cargeaux 2 years ago

Or all of the missing and murdered indigenous women?!?! THATS WHAT I CANT BELIEVE! I didn't know about this until I went to Canada and saw so many ppl wearing shirts and I looked into it and couldn't fucken believe how many indigenous women are going missing and ending up dead and NOBODY is doing a fucken thing about it!

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#42

Panama papers came out, and the only thing that happened is that the journalist took her life with a bomb in her car. Thank you for your service, Daphne Galizia !

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Maria Bowers 2 years ago

to all the people commenting, op is being sarcastic

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#43

The Iranian government is trying to ban worldwide Internet in Iran so people can't access any website besides the ones used in Iran. This is scary because Iran is running by f**king dictators, 2 years ago was a massive riot on the streets and Iran shut down the internet so people can't send any videos and pictures of police shooting people. Now they are trying to ban their access to the Internet completely which god knows why it's not for the best

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Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

Did you hear abour Russia these days?

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#44

That time the United fruit company/Chiquita brands overthrew the government of Guatemala

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Magoomba 2 years ago

Every single member of the US government who had any decision making power in that incident was a stockbroker in United Fruit, including Pres. Eisenhower.

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#45

The New York district attorney, Alvin Bragg, no longer charges armed robbery as a felony. It's now a misdemeanor petit larceny, meaning that an armed robber won't even lose his right to carry a weapon if he gets caught and convicted.

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

Sounds like American 2nd amendment rights don't get taken away, but if you go to jail you can't vote. Totally makes no sense at all.

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#46

The story about the male masseur who accused John Travolta of sexual battery. Whatever happened with that?

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Poultry Geist 2 years ago

Right I always feel funny now when I see him but can’t remember exactly why ! So much to look up from this article !

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#47

A slightly frivolous example - after Madonna & Britney Spears kissed at some awards ceremony in the early 00s, Beyonce made some comments at the time which could be construed as mildly homophobic (citing her religious beliefs). More or less any mention of this has been scrubbed off the internet now and it's quite difficult to find details of it. Her PR team worked overtime on that one.

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De Gueb 2 years ago

Religious beliefs!! for someone who's main talent is lip-syncing and dancing half naked it comes has a shock. God loves da booty, male of female girl!!

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#48

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Beyonce sang at a private concert for the Gaddafi family in 2008. The only reason why I know this is because it was a footnote in a sociology book about the power dynamics in government neglected regions.

Vexonte , beyonce Report

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Kira Okah 2 years ago

She was far from the only famous singer who did private concerts for the Gaddafis. Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, and Usher did too, and quite likely more.

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#49

I feel like everyone in New Zealand has just forgotten that the laser kiwi flag existed.

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Laura Mende (Human) 2 years ago

But laser kiwi is almost the only thing the world knows about New Zealand??!! Everybody jokes about it!

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#50

Washington NFL football team running a forced prostitution ring with their cheerleaders.

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Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago

But kneeling down is unamerican..

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#51

The invasion of the murder hornets was an alarming storyline in 2020 that just never went anywhere.

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29points

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

Although the media stopped reporting about them, scientists are still very worried about their invasion and the impact on the bee populations that pollinate food crops.

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#52

The Chicago police running a clandestine black-ops prison. People held with no access to legal counsel, or trial. The story broke and nothing more came of it.

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Travis GoblinKing 2 years ago

I just read about it in the news yesterday. The state is looking into it now. Their conditions there are horrific

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#53

The Clinton administration funded nationwide fiber optic cable. The cable companies took the money, then disappeared it in all their late 90’s corporate consolidations.

Paid for fiber optic cable, did not get it.

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Sue User 2 years ago

They did give us optic cable in my rural town. But just that. No switching, no other infastructure. Still in the ground useless.

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#54

The Muller report.

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Vorknkx 2 years ago

Which indicated that Russia had indeed affected the results of the 2016 election, though it couldn't prove any active collusion between them and Trump (but I am strongly convinced there was collusion).

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#55

Boris Johnson's recorded phone conversation plotting to hire a hitman to target a journalist. Now he's UK's prime minister.

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Buren 2 years ago

WHAT??

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#56

The issues that caused the 2008 financial crisis were never fixed. They kicked the can down the road and it’s on the verge of happening again.

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bumble bee 2 years ago

Get your money out before something happens. You can always reinvest it once things settle down

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#57

The fact is that in the US, people under 20 and people with mental and physical disabilities can be paid less than minimum wage. The reasoning? To “increase employment opportunities for these individuals.”

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Elise Thompson 2 years ago

California passed legislation banning the practice. What's sad is that many sheltered workshops were good for people and shut down rather than pay them minimum wage. https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/employment-and-labor-laws/states/california/wage-and-hour/minimum-wage/#:~:text=Beginning%20January%201%2C%202022%2C%20California%20minimum%20wage%20laws,the%20standard%20minimum%20wage%20for%20all%20hours%20worked.

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#58

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" 128 billion dollars went missing in my country. It is talked about for about 3 months here

EDIT: It's Turkey

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De Gueb 2 years ago

Erdoğan, Er da gone!

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#59

Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct, then he put out a video with very vague but very threatening-sounding statements while in character as Frank Underwood from “House Of Cards” and now all of his accusers passed away.

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Bella Wexhome 2 years ago

anthony rapp is not dead. he was the first and most vocal accuser.

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#60

Havana Syndrome. S**t gives me chills every time I read about it.

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Laura Mende (Human) 2 years ago

What is Havanna Syndrom?

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#61

Anthrax attacks straight after 9/11. Seemingly unconnected and no one was ever charged, from memory. Largely forgotten.

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Scagsy 2 years ago

True. There was a bit of a worldwide panic about the threat of an Anthrax attack and a spate of 'white powder in the mail' events. Then, suddenly, it was all forgotten as if Anthrax never existed. Weird.

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#62

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" Kind of random but last summer it got to be 50 degrees Celsius in greater Vancouver bc (the highest recorded temperature in Canada ever) and the next day the city of Lytton burned down. It was a phenomenon called a heat dome. It was really scary because no one ever thought it could get that hot here, and a ton of people passed away because only about 60% of places have AC. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through. No one talks about it at all anymore and that is terrifying to me

Edit: I have been reminded numerous times that Lytton is not greater than Vancouver. Temps in greater Van were measured in the mid ’40s but with humidity, it felt more like 50. I stand corrected. Extreme weather nonetheless, especially as many places like kitchens and warehouses do not have a/c and temps in those places skyrocketed. My townhouse in south surrey measured in the upper 40s on the top floor. I also have had several people tell me that this is still discussed by people in their lives, I was just stating that I don’t hear of it at all, personally.

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Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago

A bit south of Vancouver, BC, but the same time here in the Vancouver/Portland area we too experienced the heat dome. Trees and the landscape are still scarred. MANY death occurred.

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#63

Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis and is probably facing genocide at the hands of the Saudis.

There are a few US senators trying to bring attention to it as the US is backing the Saudis. However, no one is taking it seriously and we do not see anything about it in the MSM from either the left or right side.

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Elise Thompson 2 years ago

I just heard about it, because it appears they have gone too far... https://en.mehrnews.com/news/184779/Saudis-launch-heavy-airstrikes-on-Yemen-s-Saada

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#64

Basically any stunt the CIA pulled since its conception.

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

Well yes, that's their job right?

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#65

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Casey Kasem(the original voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo)

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Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago

Why everybody on this photo looks like wax figurine?

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#66

The dictator Marcos ill-gotten wealth from the Philippines. He used to be our Putin but after years of fake news manipulation on uneducated masses, people seem to forget the scums family still has open swiss bank accounts and foreign parked assets, and now the son is running for president and has a decent chance of winning.

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Roxy Eastland 2 years ago

Jeez, I did not know his son is running for president

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#67

That time the Australian prime minister just disappeared

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Laura Mende (Human) 2 years ago

I thought he drowned?

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#68

I'm very surprised how many people don't know about the Yugoslav wars (1991-2001) even in eastern Europe.

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Imogene Cargeaux 2 years ago

Most Americans don't even know where Yugoslavia was or what is now... I'm Serbo Croatian... when I tell Americans that they're like "cro-Asian?" ...... American school systems have failed us all.

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#69

Why did Pope Benedict really resign

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

Because he discovered that the entire Vatican is a cesspool of liars and conmen and the Catholic religion is just a lot of smoke and mirrors like any Las Vegas illusion show.

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#70

Snoop Dogg changing his name to Snoop Lion for about a month

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

I remember this, it was just after his visit to Africa or Jamaica or something.

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#71

Anyone remember the rumors of Kim Jon Un being ill?

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

Yes, but thanks to the good wishes and prayers from his lover Donald he recovered.

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#72

Magnetic Poles beginning to shift.

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Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

I may be wacko, but I keep a backup hard drive of all my important files inside of an old metal pencil box because of this sort of thing. The box acts like a faraday cage.

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#73

Metcalf sniper attack

On a random day in 2013, somebody in California decided to go underground and cut phone lines. Thirty minutes later, professional snipers sprayed the Metcalf power substation for twenty minutes. They severely damaged all transformers and cost the company $15 million. Literally a minute before the police arrive, the snipers began fleeing.

How did they get in? Why were they so emboldened to shoot for twenty darn minutes? What were their motivations? And why run away right before the police car arrived?

To this day, no one knows who these guys are. No fingerprints were found. We tend to take things like infrastructure for granted, and it’s events like this that make me feel queasy because the perpetrators got off scot-free and probably paved the path for future copycats around the country.

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Big fat nerd 2 years ago

Why do you feel the need to say that oopsydaisy

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#74

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" I saw a news report about people attacking and eating people like they were zombies. 12 hours later nothing about it, not even a retraction. This was about 12 years ago. I just figure they fixed zombies really fast.

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Giovanni 2 years ago

It was a single case of one man intoxicated by unknown chemicals that bit the face of an homeless.

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#75

Ghislaine Maxwell's trial where she got convicted of selling children to…

NOBODY!!!

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WilvanderHeijden 2 years ago

She was convicted of recruiting underage girls who were then sexually abused by Epstein which is not "selling children". It takes just a brief internet search to debunk this statement.

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#76

The fact that brokers made it impossible to buy stocks in a couple of companies (GME, AMC, BBY, BB, etc…) that were insanely shorted (fake shares created to bring the price of a company artificially down) beyond their available shares, and only allowing people to sell their shares. This insane collusion between market makers, brokers, and even the governing body of markets (SEC) was quickly swept under the rug….until people started buying in mass and holding said stocks of each company to push the hedge funds to insolvency

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Lol gamestop gate

4points

#77

There’s been massive student-led protests in Thailand against the military junta throughout 2021 with the leaders being jailed yet barely a peep from western newspapers

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Ekaterina S 2 years ago

It was all over the news for quite some time. I don’t wanna sound rude, but why does every country believe that western countries don‘t have their own set of problems to deal with?

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#78

The fire at the JFK museum records wing during the Boston bombings.

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Twodogsandapicnictable 2 years ago

That time I stepped in dog poop on 9/11. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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#79

The Government of Canada gave billions of dollars in aid -- ostensibly as pandemic-related aid - but won't say which companies have been the beneficiaries of such aid. In fact, they have fought to keep this information secret. This is despite pre-election promises to be an open and transparent government.

Canadians have long forgotten.

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Sasha Twin 2 years ago

No, we havent.

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#80

6 US Senators traveled to Moscow over the 4th of July holiday 2018 among them Ron Johnson. No clear explanation for the purpose of this trip. Press didn't dig too deep into it.

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Dave P 2 years ago

You mean official US Senate Trip of the Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, authorized by congress, that are fully public with the press tagging along, and full itemized bills? The Press was frigging there!

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#81

40 Strange Events That Were Swept Under The Rug "Like They Didn't Even Happen" The Metcalf sniper attack

Some unknown gunmen utilizing military tactics attacked a California power substation under cover of night. The attack included cutting targeted telecommunication lines beforehand.

As far as I've ever been able to tell, they never figured out who did it or why. Or they did make arrests and the media didn't bother to follow up.

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Imogene Cargeaux 2 years ago

There's been a few snipers in California recently. What about that one who shot a man in his tent while his two daughters were in the tent with him and only he was killed?

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#82

Where I live, there used to be a prime minister who got his Rolex stolen. Later they caught the thief. He mysteriously passed away in jail. Nothing happened afterward. Just conspiracy now.

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Sarcastic Cow 2 years ago (edited)

We had a prime minister, who buy rolex from stolen money. Now he is suspected of having something to do with the murder of the journalist and his fiancée, but he is in opposition and is on a wave of hoaxes and Russian propaganda. Guess the country. (It´s in Europe)

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#83

Gary Webb and his investigations into the crack epidemic

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

There's a documentary on the crack problem on Netflix, it's sad and interesting

1point

#84

Everyone dying from vaping, then stopping dying from vaping.

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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago

Vitamin derivative being used as a base was causing "popcorn lung" figured out what it was and manufacturers changed out the ingredient. Problem solved. No more news.

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#85

Shooting down of MH17 in 2014.

To me, it seems like nobody gave a s**t after the first few weeks. Nobody took responsibility for it, everyone moved on like nothing happened.

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User# 6 2 years ago (edited)

Certainly not swept under the rug. There's a criminal trial going on as we speak.

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#86

React World by Fine Bros.
They tried to copyright the concept of react videos (and maybe the word react? I can't remember). They got a well-deserved backlash and lost their relevancy

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Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago

There was no rug sweeping here. There was a massive outcry,

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#87

Japan's war crimes in the 20th

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

Beijing has certainly not forgotten. It's called Rape of Nanjing. Anyone who is literate knows about it. Question is: do you want to do anything about it? and if so, will America pay reparations for their nuclear war crimes against japan? Just you know to be consistent.

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#88

A sitting member of the House Intelligence Committee was having an affair with a Chinese spy, and after they discovered this, he's still on the committee

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Magoomba 2 years ago

Total b******t. The dude reported the Chinese woman to the FBI when she volunteered to work for his re-election. There was no “affair”. Stop reading Q-anon.

28points

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Kesam 2 years ago

The war crimes of George W Bush. All forgotten because Trump was even worse (in other ways).

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Hmm. This seems to mostly be a list of news events which are no longer current, but simply pasting their strings into google brings them up. Some of them, yes, there seems to be no consequence management, but they each have different cases right? Some cases, like Epstein, you first have to confirm you have something more than just one person's accusation, before you arrest them. Other cases, like shot down airliners, there are suspects, but the point is, if it's a country that's' responsible, you can either push them for war crimes at the Hague or you can declare war. Neither prospect is successful if the perps are not easily identified. So the fact that some things are not in the news anymore can be put down to (a) loss of interest (b) lack of evidence (c) low level of importance (d) that investigations are still ongoing. Jumping to "the Elites are covering it up!!!" is just tinfoil stuff. We know that the "elites" do that. However, not always. It depends on the case in question.

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Beat me to it, so thank you. It's not that simple. The Epstein case wasn't really over until Maxwell was convicted ---- and will never be over for the victims, for example. It's not a cover-up if it's just that you're not hit in the face with it every day.

If you do some fact checking you find that a lot of the items on the list are simply not true or just partially true. But the conspiracy theory lovers will have a great time reading this topic.

Yes I can! 2 years ago

I sure did.

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