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Did The iCloud Celebrity Nude Picture Scandal Have Something To Do With Harvey Weinstein? In September of 2014, Apple was getting ready to announce a massive iPhone upgrade: bigger iPhones than anything it sold before. But just a few days ahead of the iPhone 6 press event, an iCloud security scandal broke out. Nude pictures belonging to Jennifer Lawrence and many other celebrities leaked online, originating from iPhone backups. Apple explained at the time that its iCloud security was not breached and that hackers probably used phishing schemes to obtain the usernames and passwords of the celebrities. Here is a...

Police are revealing finally what was written on the note that was found with the Las Vegas murderer Stephen Paddock. What was on the note? Officers who tried to confront the killer in his hotel room were interviewed on “60 Minutes,” and said that it included hand-written calculations on where Paddock needed to aim in order to maximize the number of fatalities and injuries to the concertgoers below. “I could see on it he had written the distance, the elevation he was on, the drop of what his bullet was gonna be for the crowd,” Officer Dave Newton from the...

The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. A report compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele identified Russian businessmen and others whom U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded are Russian intelligence officers or working on behalf of the Russian government. Trump was told by former FBI director James Comey that Steele’s report contained salacious material about the businessman-turned-president. In a report published in...

Hillary Clinton hatched up a dirty tricks campaign portraying “disloyal” Caroline Kennedy as an adulteress, according to claims in a bombshell new report. The notoriously ruthless former Secretary of State, 69, allegedly decided to take “revenge” on JFK’s daughter after she refused to back her 2008 campaign for the White House and instead endorsed Barack Obama. The plot – reportedly orchestrated by Hillary’s top henchman, Clinton Foundation adviser Sidney Blumenthal – centered on derailing Caroline’s own political ambitions by leaking cheating rumors to the media. “Bill Clinton was always loyal to the Kennedy’s. They were his role models and heroes,”...

Full Title: Was The Las Vegas Shooting A Preview Of The Violent Chaos That Antifa Plans To Unleash Starting On November 4th? On November 4th, Antifa is pledging to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country”, and they are promising not to end their protests until “the Trump/Pence Regime” is “removed from power”. But of course these won’t be entirely peaceful protests. In fact, Antifa activists are very open about the fact that “violence is necessary” in order to achieve their goals. This open embrace of violence has gotten the attention of federal...

The killer was a white guy, a Christian by birth if not belief. He was not radical, just a crazed man given the means by the gun lobby to terrorize innocent concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday night, shooting to death 59 of them. Stephen C. Paddock was, by all accounts so far, an ordinary American. That is what most terrifies the right. And so, some on the far right have convinced themselves that Paddock could not be what he seems, what the authorities say he is. They say facts—alternative facts, perhaps—will inevitably reveal the truth, even as mainstream media...

White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly’s personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials. The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined the West Wing. Tech support staff discovered the suspected breach after Kelly turned his phone in to White House tech support this summer complaining that it wasn’t working or updating software properly. Kelly told the staffers the phone hadn’t been working properly for months, according...

The investigation of the shooting in Las Vegas continues. A crime scene so massive and with so many different crime scenes will be completely covered and no question will go unanswered. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo is doing a masterful job and both he and other investigators both local and federal have worked countless hours attempting to find out the what and why of what happened. As always, we will not get all the answers that the American people are seeking. In the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in American history it is imperatives that the answers are clear, concise and...

Although Donald J. Trump lacked political experience when he became president, the gods of politics have not given him a soft transition into the job. The most active American hurricane season in 12 years, rocket-launching North Korea, horrific acts of terror from London to Las Vegas – the latter being the worst mass shooting in American history -- have tested the mettle of our nation’s first neophyte commander-in-chief. Recently Puerto Rico was ravaged by two consecutive hurricanes, Irma and Maria. The very practice of naming hurricanes seems strange to me and, in this case, they have ironically wonderful sounding Latina...

President Trump gave a scary warning at a dinner Thursday night with military leaders saying, "You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm," he said. "It could be the calm... before... the storm." Asked what the storm would be, "Is it Iran, ISIS, what's the storm?" one reporter called out — Trump replied, "you'll find out." JUST IN: "Maybe it's the calm before the storm," Pres. Trump says alongside US military leaders. "You'll find out." https://t.co/NMljtvsnJF— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 5, 2017

A celebration of free speech at William & Mary College in Virginia took an unexpected turn last week when protesters from Black Lives Matter swarmed the stage and forced organizers to end the event. “Liberalism is white supremacy!” the protesters shouted, and “ACLU, you protect Hitler too!” The disruption occurred before Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, could give a planned speech on freedom of expression. The protesters livestreamed the demonstration on Facebook and were heard shouting other slogans, including, "The oppressed are not impressed!,” “Blood on your hands!,” and “The revolution will not uphold the...

Tom Malinowski, who served as Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2014 to 2017, has admitted in a Washington Post article that the United States "meddled" in Russian elections by financing political groups. Malinowski says: "until the U.S. Agency for International Development was expelled from Russia in 2012 [it helped] fund some of the country’s leading nongovernmental organizations. These included the human rights group Memorial, the Committee Against Torture and, most important, given the drama to come, a group called Golos, Russia’s main nongovernment organization for election fraud monitoring." Malinowski demonstrates his imperialistic...

I have been trying to connect the dots for Natalee Holloway for years. In fact, I have researched her disappearance from the island of Aruba since that day she did not make her flight home. That horrific day was May 30, 2005, and it began one of the biggest investigations ever launched to find a missing person. Were there any gaps or clues that were missed from the time Natalee vanished in 2005 to now in 2017? below is an analysis of the 2008 documentary by Peter R. de Vries and the documentary ‘The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” on the...

This Is Not A Partisan Issue. 300,000,000 Americans Want To Know. Why Did The Killer Do This? What Did The Killer’s Note Say And Why Are You Hiding It? The fact that it’s right next to a pen, and clearly weighed down with the tape, means it surely must be a note of some sort. Another thing to note. They interview the brother Eric who lives on the opposite side of the map in Florida, but leave out the other brother Bruce with a criminal record who lives one state away in California?

You have to give Michael Moore this much, he says what many progressives are thinking but are afraid to vocalize. In this case, he’s not calling for the return of the assault weapon ban, he’s calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment: I, Michael Moore, along with all who support an end to this epidemic of gun violence, propose a new Amendment to our Constitution that repeals the ancient and outdated 2nd Amendment (which was written before bullets and revolvers were even invented), and replaces it with a new 28th Amendment that guarantees States can have State militias (a.k.a....

Suspicions of Russian meddling in U.S. elections were confirmed Monday, when in the course of the Wisconsin recount Russian hackers succeeded in adding 131 more votes to Trump's victory. "The real winners in this recount were the Russian hackers," DNC spokesperson Shepard Smith said in a statement during his regular FNC broadcast. "It is now absolutely clear that American election results accurately reflect the will of Vladimir Putin, regardless of whether the ballots were counted by hand or by machine." In the meantime, president-elect Donald Trump continued his post-election thank-you tour throughout the country, expressing gratitude to Russian hackers everywhere...

If you look at the website flightaware.com and search a tail number, in this case N5343M, you will see the N number belongs to a SR20 that at one time was registered to Stephen C. Paddock of Mesquite, Texas and Henderson, Nevada (Our Shooter). You will also see that it is currently registered to a company out of Roanoke, Virginia named VOLANT LLC. A company that works with the “Defense/Intelligence” community per their website. Wait it gets better.

Radical liberals and others on the far-Left took to Twitter Monday morning to not only send their condolences to those affected by the massive shooting in Las Vegas, but also to use the event as a way to climb on their soapbox and politicize the incident. Among them was failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who wasted no time in using the tragedy to her political advantage, tweeting:

"....According to police radio transmissions, a group of officers was at the gunman’s door, and had locked down the 32nd floor, by about 10:25 p.m. but waited until about 11:21 p.m. — more than an hour after the attack began— before they blew open the door to enter, the recording shows."

Any of you who have been around FR for long know I am NOT a conspiracy theorist. As a historian, I look at evidence first and foremost, then worry about motive. The shooting in Las Vegas has many as of yet very serious unanswered questions. Few go to motive. I believe in history if you solve the question of actual physical evidence, motives become clear. I'm not posting links with one exception. These are readily available on Twitter, and on other threads here today, but you have seen them. 1. There now appears to be at least three, and maybe...