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FINANCE & BANKINGThe 2008 Credit Ratings FailureSEC exams, FCIC, and Senate PSI treat issuer-pays AAA as an essential cog—not mere model error.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
ALT SCIENCEGlobe-Debunk Photo Arguments: Blue Marble, Composites, and Perspective CasesEarth pictures are called composites or perspective tricks, because an agency that needed a globe would publish one.
ESPIONAGEOperation GladioGladio is the stay-behind net ministers described; inquiries do not assign it a bombing or one secret command.
ALT HISTORYLalibela Rock-Hewn Churches: Stratigraphy of a Sacred LandscapeLalibela rock-hewn churches: UNESCO List 18 + multi-phase stratigraphy—not Templar folklore.
FINANCE & BANKINGSavings and Loan CrisisInsolvent thrifts stayed open while bad assets were papered over. The cleanup priced the delay, not a secret plot.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Apollo Moon Landings: A Critical ExaminationDistrust says the Apollo landings were staged; agency reports answer some charges and leave others open.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation SHAMROCK: The Telegram Dragnet (1945–1975)International telegrams were copied for the government, and the public was not told.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTiwanaku Calendar StonesUNESCO Gate of the Sun vs Posnansky deep-time calendar. Contested Altiplano sky-clock claims.
Operation Sea-SprayIn 1950 germs were sprayed over San Francisco in secret; in 1977 the Army called a hospital outbreak coincidental.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDeutsche Bank Russia Mirror TradesMoscow–London mirrors moved billions into dollars. NYDFS and FCA wrote the settlement; DOJ did not close beside them.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe 300-Ton Stones of BaalbekBaalbek's foundation blocks weigh hundreds of tons. Adherents ask how Roman cranes alone could have set them.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPodesta Emails and the Pizza-Code ReadingThe chairman's emails were posted, and readers treated cheese pizza in them as a code.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUN Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Inquiry)Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry found UN mismanagement and Iraqi surcharge-kickback schemes.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Great Sphinx and the Water Erosion AnomalyWater-erosion claims push the Sphinx thousands of years older than Old Kingdom timelines allow.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCastle Bravo Fallout (1 March 1954)The early public line said the exposure was small, planned, and already over.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSHobby 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.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDBAASS in the Field: A Black Triangle, Brazil and the Tic Tac Simulations, 2009–2010BAASS calculated the Tic Tac could drop 60,000 feet at Mach 10.7 and 75 g, then hover 50 feet over the sea.