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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Shadow Broker

A character from the Mass Effect video game series.[

Matt Suiche quoted the following description of that character: "The Shadow Broker is an individual at the head of an expansive organization which trades in information, always selling to the highest bidder. The Shadow Broker appears to be highly competent at its trade: all secrets that are bought and sold never allow one customer of the Broker to gain a significant advantage, forcing the customers to continue trading information to avoid becoming disadvantaged, allowing the Broker to remain in business."[13]


While the character has no article, the above is from an article about The Shadow Brokers

Monday, January 27, 2025

Susan Shannon (blogger who falsely accused Col. David "Wil" Riggins of rape)

 A woman who accused a former Army colonel of raping her when they were both cadets at West Point in 1986 has been ordered to pay him $8.4 million. A jury in Virginia sided with Col. David "Wil" Riggins against blogger Susan Shannon in Riggins' defamation lawsuit, the Washington Post reports. Riggins was about to be promoted to brigadier general in 2013 when Shannon made the accusations on her Short Little Rebel blog. He was removed from the promotion list, despite the Army's Criminal Investigative Division concluding that it could not "prove or disprove Ms. Shannon’s allegation she was raped." Riggins retired soon afterward and sued Shannon, saying her account was "provably false."

https://www.newser.com/story/247147/blogger-who-accused-colonel-of-rape-ordered-to-pay-84m.html

She will never be found on Wikipedia

Go ahead, try it and watch what happens.

Like so many people, or events that are not allowed to have an article, you will not be able to find updates to the case, or any info about Susan, or David Riggins.

Col. David "Wil" Riggins is another person who will never be allowed to have an article.  And yes, it's censorship.  

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

1969 New York Times article - "the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two..."

 New York Times - Feb 20, 1969

"the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two..."
"A number of specialists believe that an ice-free Arctic Ocean would not freeze again If so, it has been predicted that storm paths would change and the food-producing areas of the United States and Eurasia might become deserts..."

source

I tried finding a second source for this, and of all things, found the complete article in a textbook.

It's quite interesting for many reasons.





Will never be found in Wikipedia