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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRunit Dome (Cactus Crater), Marshall IslandsUnlined Cactus crater, >100,000 yd³ Pu-contaminated waste, Compact claims closure—DOE “stable lid” vs RMI distrust.
AVIATIONBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresMCAS was left out of the manuals. Level B training kept a common type rating, so MCAS simulator time was not required.
HISTORICAL EVENTSAgent OrangeFor years the VA denied that Agent Orange made Vietnam veterans sick, until Congress wrote the link into law in 1991.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThule / Project Crested Ice (21 January 1968)Thule crash: officials said no yield. Crested Ice paper: gentleman's agreement, missing spark plug, Chrome Dome ended.
HISTORICAL EVENTSʿAin Ghazal Plaster Statues: Neolithic Figures from JordanʿAin Ghazal PPNB plaster statues—Smithsonian/Jordan doors; documented Neolithic figures, not giants.
ESPIONAGERobert HanssenHanssen's affidavit and DoJ OIG review document decades of FBI security failure—not master-spy myth.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Amazon Rainforest is a Man-Made ArtifactAmazon dark earth and earthworks keep feeding claims the rainforest was a managed landscape, not virgin wild.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Phoenix ProgramPhoenix hunted Viet Cong infrastructure with interrogation and assassination tallies that still stain the war files.
FINANCE & BANKINGGlencore Bribery and Market-Manipulation Resolutions (2022)DOJ/CFTC/SFO 2022: Glencore pleaded to oil bribes and benchmark games—three dockets, not one fine.
SURVEILLANCEOperation SHAMROCK: The Telegram Dragnet (1945–1975)International telegrams were copied for the government, and the public was not told.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAnniston PCBs and MonsantoAnniston's Monsanto PCB plant left a Superfund Alternative file DOJ still forced open.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Biden Replacement TheoryPosts say Joe Biden was swapped for a double, a masked actor, or clones; fact-checks and records answer specific posts.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCity of David Digs and the Eilat Mazar Palace DebateMazar called it David’s palace. Critics deny that. The dig is real. The palace is not confirmed.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHobby Lobby, Cuneiform Tablets, and the Museum of the Bible ScandalsPurchases were treated as a lawful private buy. Forfeiture papers alleged false customs labels and an illegal import.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYEnron and Mark-to-Myth AccountingEnron's 2001 collapse made "mark-to-market" a punchline and helped birth Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSIraq National Museum 2003: Looting, Investigation, and RecoveryIraq Museum 2003 looting + UNESCO/ICOM/DoS recovery—documented heritage crime, not war-porn.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVolkswagen DieselgateVW coded defeat devices so diesels passed lab tests while polluting far worse on the road. Regulators noticed.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMProject CORONA: America's First Spy SatellitesCORONA photographed the earth in secret while the public was told the flights were Discoverer research.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYPurdue Pharma and OxyContinPurdue minimized OxyContin addiction risk while the opioid death curve climbed. Settlements came later.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTeotihuacan's Feathered Serpent TunnelThe tunnel was told as a royal tomb. INAH published a closed conduit and offerings, and no named king.