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February 25, 2026 Breaking

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Lawrence Summers announces Harvard resignation

Harvard University · Cambridge · Massachusetts · United States

On February 25, 2026, Harvard University confirmed that Lawrence Summers will resign from his academic and faculty positions at the end of the 2025–2026 academic year amid scrutiny over h...

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February 12, 2026 Breaking

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Bill Gates’ influence in global health, food supply, and population programs

Seattle · Washington · United States

Bill Gates’ influence in global health, food supply, and population programs Bill Gates, co‑founder of Microsoft and a private philanthropist, has been a major funder of global...

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January 15, 2026 Breaking

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Israeli espionage operations in the United States reported

Washington · District of Columbia · United States

Israeli espionage operations in the United States reported On January 15, 2026, U.S. intelligence officials disclosed that multiple espionage operations attributed to Israeli a...

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January 18, 2021 Breaking

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Duhamel Scandal: Abuse in French Academic Elite

Olivier Duhamel, a prominent French political scientist and academic leader, was accused in 2021 of sexually abusing his stepson over many years. The revelations, published in a book, tri...

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Davos · Graubünden · Switzerland

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April 9, 2020 Breaking

WEF Publishes Article Calling Global Lockdowns “The World’s Biggest Psychological Experiment”

On April 9, 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published an article titled “Lockdown is the world’s biggest psychological experiment – and we will pay the price,” examining the mental h...

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November 23, 2018 Breaking

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European Jewish Congress recommendation on contextual notes in Bible and Qur’an

European Jewish Congress Recommendation on Contextual Notes in Bible and Qur’an On 23 November 2018, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) presented a document titled “An End to A...

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January 29, 2016 Breaking

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Arthur Rathburn and Tel Aviv

Grosse Pointe Park · Michigan · United States

Arthur Rathburn was the owner and operator of International Biological, Inc. (IBI), a Michigan company that supplied human cadavers and anatomical specimens for medical and dental trainin...

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July 13, 2010 Breaking

Barbara Lerner Spectre Says Europe Has Not Yet Learned How To Be Multicultural

Barbara Lerner Spectre Quote On Europe And Multiculturalism On July 13, 2010, Barbara Lerner Spectre, an American academic and founding director of the Paideia, European Institut...

Cambridge · Massachusetts · United States

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July 1, 1997 Breaking

Christine Maxwell’s Technology Work and Family Connections

Christine Maxwell’s Technology Work and Family Connections Christine Yvonne Malina‑Maxwell is a British technology entrepreneur and co‑founder of software companies such as Magellan and ...

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Cambridge · Massachusetts · United States

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January 1, 1996 Breaking

Christine Maxwell Co‑Founds Chiliad Software

Christine Maxwell Co‑Founded Chiliad, Software Used in FBI Counterterrorism Data Warehouse Christine Yvonne Malina‑Maxwell was born on August 16, 1950, in Maisons‑Laffitte, France, and i...

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December 15, 1969 Breaking

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Attribution History of Golda Meir Quote on Children and Conflict

Attribution History of Golda Meir Quote on Children and Conflict Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. A statement widely attributed to her reads: “W...

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May 13, 1950 Breaking

Anton LaVey: Founder of the Church of Satan and Author

Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey on April 11, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, to Jewish parents. His father, Michael Joseph Levey, was of French-American descent, and his mo...

October 16, 1946 Breaking

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Michael A. Aquino Jr.: Military Officer, Political Scientist, and Religious Founder

Michael A. Aquino Jr. (October 16, 1946 – September 1, 2019) was an American political scientist, military officer, and religious founder. He served as a specialist in psychological opera...

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Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

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October 5, 1937 Politics

David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record

David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote a letter to his son Amos following the Peel Commission’s proposal to partition Mandatory Pales...

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Tel Aviv · Tel Aviv District · Israel

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October 5, 1937 Politics

David Ben-Gurion 1937 Letter Controversy

David Ben-Gurion 1937 Letter Controversy On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion, then head of the Jewish Agency Executive, wrote a letter to his son Amos during the period following the Br...

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May 27, 1924 Breaking

Barmat Scandal: Corruption in Weimar Germany

Berlin · Germany

In the 1920s, businessman Julius Barmat, who was Jewish, became involved in a political corruption scandal in the Weimar Republic. The affair implicated government officials in bribery an...

Trier · Prussia · Germany

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May 5, 1818 Breaking

Karl marx communism origins

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, and political theorist born in Trier, Prussia, in 1818. His work contributed to the development of socialist and communist political theory ...

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January 1, 1680 Politics

Dönmeh Ottoman crypto jewish community

Thessaloniki · Greece

The Dönmeh were a religious community that emerged in the late 17th century within the Ottoman Empire, originating from followers of Sabbatai Zevi, a Jewish rabbi who declared himself the...

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Davos Annual Meeting

The annual Davos meeting developed from the European Management Forum and became a recurring venue where political leaders, corporate executives, academics and other influential participa...

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European Management Symposium begins

Klaus Schwab organized the first European Management Symposium in Davos in February 1971. The meeting brought together hundreds of European business executives, academics and representati...

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Harvard University

Harvard University is an American research university where Klaus Schwab studied and where Henry Kissinger spent much of his academic career. Schwab stated in 2022 that he met Kissinger w...

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Trilateral Commission established

David Rockefeller established the Trilateral Commission in 1973 with the objective of encouraging cooperation among business leaders, academics and political figures from North America, W...

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Trilateral Commission founded

The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973 by David Rockefeller, bringing together political, business and academic figures from North America, Europe and Japan.