Above Photo: Painting of Sierra Miwok at the Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt. Albert Bierstadt / Wikimedia Commons. In a May 2021 article in The Atlantic magazine entitled “Return the National Parks to the Tribes,” Native American author and activist David Treuer details the genocidal violence through which Native American tribes were expelled from some of the US’s earliest and most famous national parks. He begins with the story of the Mariposa Battalion, a white militia composed largely of miners who came upon the Yosemite Valley in 1851 during an expedition to hunt and kill members of California’s Miwok tribes. The […]
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Maki, the 21-year-old male ring-tailed lemur was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors, zoo and police officials said. They’re seeking tips from the public in hopes of finding the lemur, explaining that Maki is an endangered animal that requires specialized care. Marianne V. Hale/AP hide caption toggle caption Marianne V. Hale/AP Maki, the 21-year-old male ring-tailed lemur was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors, zoo and police officials said. They’re seeking tips from the public in hopes of finding the lemur, explaining that Maki is an endangered animal that requires specialized care. Marianne V. Hale/AP […]
In late 2019, US President Donald Trump openly admitted that Washington had “left troops behind” in Syria “only for the oil.” Damascus has blasted Trump for pillaging the Arab Republic’s resources, but President Bashar Assad also praised him for openly admitting the real reason US forces continue to occupy part of his country. A convoy of 20 tankers laden with oil pumped from wells in US-occupied region of al-Jazeera left Hasakah province heading toward the illegal al-Walid border crossing between Syria and Iraq on Saturday night, local sources have told the Syrian Arab News Agency. SANA’s sources did not provide any […]
A stolen, 9-foot Chinese calligraphy scroll believed to have been written by former Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong has been found sliced in half by an unsuspecting, second-hand buyer. Hong Kong authorities announced Thursday that they had located the whereabouts of a Mao calligraphy scroll valued at around $645 million. “Someone thought the calligraphy was too long – 2.8 meters in length – and it was difficult to show and display it. That’s why it was cut in half,” said Tony Ho Chun Tung, senior superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, as reported by the […]
Authorities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania admitted that a laptop and several memory sticks used to program voting machines were stolen from a warehouse, but insisted that the integrity of the election is not in question. Election officials scrambled to investigate the theft from an East Falls warehouse and make sure the machines would not be compromised on election day, after city authorities confirmed the theft to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. They initially refused to do so, according to the Inquirer, until the paper told them it intended to run the story based on anonymous sources briefed on the incident. “This matter should […]
Huffington Post: President Donald Trump helped himself to art treasures he fancied in the U.S. ambassador’s historic 1842 mansion in Paris when he visited two years ago —and had them shipped to the White House with him on Air Force One, Bloomberg reported Sunday. Heh. The artworks Trump took from the ambassador’s mansion in Paris turned out to be all replicas and fakes. https://t.co/sxVcoQQMbA pic.twitter.com/5GUiFuD7yz — Amanda Kolson Hurley (@amandakhurley) September 6, 2020 Trump had extra time on his hands during his visit to Paris to commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I when he controversially skipped a trip to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery outside […]
Coming to a town near you — By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor and Jeff Smith ———————- Under Bill Richardson’s watch at DOE………………An apathetic approach towards reducing the inherent dangers of plutonium stored in unsafe and highly unstable forms;Incompetence bordering on negligence in caring for more than 12,000 plutonium pits; Secretly developing new capabilities for plutonium pit production while touting dual-use plutonium processing facilities as “nonproliferation missions;” While DOE has continued to declassify information and more information is available than ever, this is not the true mark of openness. Openness and honesty is characterized by up-front revelations about the real hazards, uncertainties, […]
New research suggests that somewhere between 30 to 50 percent of the world’s water supply is being illegally siphoned off and is not being paid for or counted, reviving debate about how we define water. In their paper, the researchers argue that a lack of any widely-accepted definition of what constitutes water theft, or whether it can even exist at all, precludes coordinated effort from governments, regulators and communities and therefore hamstrings any efforts at enforcement and policing of water resources. The study points the blame squarely at the political, legal and institutional establishments which it says are fundamentally flawed and […]
Evan Shapiro is CEO and co-founder of O(1) Labs, the team behind Coda Protocol, a lightweight chain that affords all participants fully P2P, permissionless access from any device. A hint: It’s not you. And it’s a far cry from the decentralized utopia many claim it to be. Systems of power are rapidly asserting control over Bitcoin. And their incentives are not your incentives. As an industry, we’re at a critical juncture, and we have to choose. We either demand that the properties of user ownership and censorship resistance pioneered by Bitcoin persist. Or, we accept the facade of false-decentralization that has […]
Greece recently welcomed back 12 stolen Greek Orthodox icons from the United Kingdom. The priceless religious art pieces were stolen in 2005 from the Monastery of the Dormition of the Visokos Virgin, which is located near the village of Kalouta in the Zagori municipality of Epirus. They were returned by the UK last month, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports announced on Tuesday, reported the Greek City Times. According to the ministry’s announcement, the icons were returned through a collaborative effort by Greek and British officials, as well as some help from Athens’ embassy in London. A 19th-century icon showing […]
Sore loser Hillary Clinton is the most pathetic woman in US political history. Hillary Clinton appeared virtually on Monday’s “The Daily Show” and told host Trevor Noah that Trump may refuse to leave the White House if he loses the 2020 election. Hillary also whined about losing in 2016 and claimed the election was stolen from her. “…Finally we will see how illegitimate his victory actually was and how he was involved in the seeking of foreign help and then the utilization and how Roger Stone was critical to that,” Hillary said calling Trump 2016 victory the “original sin.” TRENDING: GREAT […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0e/1079884875_0:234:2843:1834_1200x675_80_0_0_eeac409b531071ce50af26c7c3a9913f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007141079885023-italy-returns-stolen-banksy-piece-in-memory-of-bataclan-shooting-to-france–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A piece of art attributed to famous street artist Banksy in commemoration of the 2015 Paris terror attacks has been returned to France after it was stolen and discovered in Italy, media reported on Tuesday. The so-called Gate of Banksy was painted in 2018 on an emergency exit door of the Bataclan theater, where 90 people were killed by terrorists during a concert three years prior. It was stolen in 2019, before being discovered by Italian law enforcement officers in the Abruzzo region. “This work has high artistic value, it witnessed […]
Another day, another hate hoax…Umatilla County commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez admitted this week he faked the hate mail he posted on his facebook page. Lopez posted the hateful letter filled with racist, homophobic and misogynist slurs.What a nut. And Lopez said he served in the US Coast Guard.It was another lie and violation of the Stolen Valor Act. KOMO News reported: TRENDING: Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems” (VIDEO) A man who claimed he received a hate-filled, racist letter from an anonymous person allegedly wrote the letter himself, Hermiston Police say. Chief Jason […]
Multiple shootings have been reported in the lawless “CHAZ” area of Seattle just days after two people were shot there, one of them fatal. A man who was filming had his phone taken by one of the CHAZ “protesters” who was demanding that he delete his footage. The idiot thief did not realize that it was livestreaming and continued to film from the stolen phone, also broadcasting his face. From the sound of the livestream footage coming from the scene, there may be multiple people shot, as the CHAZ inhabitants were calling for medics. BREAKING: 2nd CHAZ shootout caught on video […]
Robert David Steele, former US spy recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2027, has completed his two month project on Wall Street financial crime. His task has been to raise public awareness of $100 trillion in documented theft by Wall Street from Main Street (inclusive of pension funds and the life savings of cops, firefighters, teachers, and nurses). There is an additional $100 trillion in illicit wealth from money laundering. All tangible assets existing today that have been purchased with $200 trillion in illicit wealth — waterfront mansions, super-yachts, private aircraft, art collections, private islands, stocks of gold and […]
A drive-by mugging in Karachi, Pakistan, ended in an unexpected way when the robbers appeared to have a change of heart and gave their victim back his belongings. They even shared an embrace, viral CCTV footage shows. The video shows a Foodpanda delivery rider being approached by a pair of robbers who pull up alongside on a moped. The thieves steal the rider’s bag and belongings from his pocket, but after he appears to plead with them, they seem to relent and give everything back to the distraught victim. One of the muggers even slaps the victim on the back in […]
After two weeks pillaging shops under the cover of George Floyd protests, over-confident looters are boasting about their hauls on Facebook. The police and FBI claim to be hot on their trail – but currently have their hands full. As if the chaotic scenes of lawlessness were not enough for Chicago, a local TV network was shocked to discover looters brazenly showing off their hauls on social media. CBS affiliate WBBM reported on the phenomenon on Monday, airing excerpts of multiple clips posted by one woman, who apparently took part in a heist and documented it all in a Facebook Live. […]
In what looked like a carefully planned carjacking, a vehicle full of face masks went missing in southwestern Germany within just ten minutes – as if to prove that personal protective gear has become the new gold. The prelude to the brazen theft saw a local driver make a brief stop near the town of Wertheim in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. He parked his white Ford van – loaded with a whopping 400,000 protective masks – outside a fast food restaurant and went inside to take a break. The driver was absent for only ten minutes, but it was enough for […]
Suspect Brenden Michael Wolfe was wearing police gear stolen from the 3ed Precinct when it was looted and torched. A federal court charged Branden Michael Wolfe with looting and torching the Third Precinct last week during the leftist riots and looting. He was wearing his police gear when he was arrested.What a winner. KIMT reported: A federal charge has been filed against a St. Paul man for the burning down of the Third Police Precinct in Minneapolis. United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald says Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, is accused of aiding and abetting arson. He is scheduled to make his […]
A crypto trader is trying to seize nearly 500 bitcoin from Xapo and Indodax through a new lawsuit that accuses the two crypto exchanges of harboring his stolen funds. Plaintiff Dennis Nowak, a German resident, and his counsel, longtime crypto lawyer David Silver, filed their demand for jury trial Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They alleged the exchanges aided and abetted an unnamed thief who they claimed stole 500 bitcoin from Nowak and the exchanges remain in possession of the funds. The suit accused Xapo and Indodax of aiding and abetting unauthorized access of […]
Photo by JCT Firearms on Facebook. A gun store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was targeted during the riots and looting that have gripped the country. Federal and local authorities are investigating the heist, in which 150 total firearms were stolen. The shop’s power was severed beforehand, cutting power to the security cameras. The Albuquerque journal reports: The break-in and theft of 115 pistols and 35 rifles of “various models and calibers” happened around 2:30 a.m. at JCT Firearms on Old Coors, just south of Central, according to a news release from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “It’s a […]
The rioting went on late into the night Thursday in Minneapolis, stretching into early Friday morning with protesters stealing and torching several U.S. Postal Service vans to protest the death in police custody of George Floyd on Monday. Photos and videos show the vans being driven for joy rides and at least one set on fire. By my count there have been four postal vans stolen and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/EoXFFXbDvy — robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) May 29, 2020 The overturned postal van at East Lake and Minnehaha pic.twitter.com/WCztP4tfdA — robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) May 29, 2020 TRENDING: “What They Are Doing Is Tantamount to Monopoly” – […]
Binance has frozen funds linked to the $49 million breach of the Upbit crypto exchange, as hackers tried to liquidate some of their ill-gotten gains. Most of the action around the news took place on Twitter. At just after 16:00 UTC Wednesday, bot Twitter account Whale Alert warned Binance – which has previously committed to freezing any funds stemming from the hack – that roughly 137 ether (worth around $27,000 at press time) had moved from an address linked to the Upbit hacker group to its wallets. Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao tweeted soon after that the funds had been successfully […]