Operation Paperclip

Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left), a former V-2 rocket scientist and SS officer who became a NASA director, sitting between US president John F. Kennedy and US vice president Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse…

01Federici traces the witch trial peak to the exact decades when European feudal commons were being legally enclosed and privatized.
02She argues contraceptive knowledge — held by women healers — was the specific threat that made midwives and herbalists targets for execution.
03'Caliban and the Witch' was rejected by major publishers for 15 years before Autonomedia released it; it is now assigned in over 200 universities.

Logo of 1Malaysia Development Berhad

Zimbabwean banknotes ranging from 10 dollars to 100 billion dollars printed within a one-year period. The magnitude of the currency scalars signifies the extent of the hyperinflation.

Operation Paperclip

After 1945, the U.S. Army recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists — including men who used concentration camp prisoners as test subjects — then falsified or destroyed their SS and war crime records to grant them visas.

Caliban and the Witch

Silvia Federici's 2004 'Caliban and the Witch' reread the witch trials as primitive accumulation — capitalism's founding act required burning the women who held communal knowledge of contraception, land, and the body.

Pygmy slow loris

The pygmy slow loris is the only primate with a venomous bite — it licks a brachial gland on its arm, mixes toxin with saliva, and delivers a bite that can trigger anaphylactic shock.

Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud

In spring 2024, Kendrick Lamar alleged Drake had a secret daughter in addition to the already-hidden son — across certified gold and platinum releases. Two children, neither confirmed, both now public record.

WannaCry ransomware attack

NSA's stolen EternalBlue exploit encrypted 80,000 NHS devices in May 2017, forcing British hospitals to turn away ambulances. The kill switch was found by a 22-year-old researcher who registered a $10.69 domain.

Pyrrhus of Epirus

The greatest tactical mind of his era — a man who beat Rome repeatedly — was killed by a clay roof tile hurled by an anonymous old woman from a balcony in Argos. He was 46.

1MDB scandal

Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund — created to build schools and hospitals — bought a $250 million superyacht, a Picasso, and financed The Wolf of Wall Street. The fund lost $4.5 billion. The prime minister who authorized it won an election first.

Simmons Bedding Company

Simmons Bedding — maker of the Beautyrest mattress — was bought, loaded with debt, and sold seven times in a single generation of private equity deals, each time leaving workers with less and investors with more. The mattress never changed.

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

At its worst, Zimbabwe's inflation hit 89.7 sextillion percent annually. Workers were paid twice a day so they could spend wages before lunch erased the value.