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News The Secret Life of the Gay Jewish Immigrant Whose Company Sells Your Medical Information
We may think that what happens in our doctor’s office is confidential, but, in reality, our medical secrets fuel a multi-billion-dollar trade in patient information. The leading firm in this opaque data trade is QuintilesIMS, a company founded as IMS in 1954 by an enigmatic German immigrant named Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich. Today, the company that…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Slams Trump for ‘Nazi’ Jibe at American Intelligence
Vice President Joe Biden criticized President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday for comparing the U.S. intelligence establishment to Nazi Germany and said it was damaging to the United States’ standing in the world to denigrate agencies that protect the nation. Trump said leaks from intelligence agencies about claims that he was caught in a compromising position…
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Opinion Paul Ryan Should Know Better Than To Make This Nazi Flub
Designers on social media enjoy going apoplectic when a famous or infamous logo is borrowed or stolen. Flagging these misuses has become a veritable pastime, like trainspotting. The designer of the recent “Paul Ryan Speaker” logo was either blind to or ignorant of the logo’s similarity to the Grosse Deutschland symbol — the national emblem…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Doubles Down on Comparing American Intelligence to Nazis
In a heated exchange during a Trump Tower press conference today, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his Tweet comparing the U.S. intelligence services to the Nazis. “I think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out,” Trump said, referring to the mysterious dossier posted…
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Fast Forward Adolf Eichmann’s Right-Hand Man Actually Died in Syria in 2001
Alois Brunner, an Austrian SS officer found responsible for the World War Two deportation of 125,500 European Jews to Nazi death camps, died in a Syrian jail cell in 2001, according to a report by two journalists published in France. Until now, Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man, was reported to have died around 2010 in…
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Fast Forward Enraged Donald Trump Compares United States to Nazi Germany
Incensed at news reports that the Russian government holds compromising information about Donald Trump, the president-elect vented his anger on Twitter on Wednesday morning, including a comparison of the United States to Nazi Germany, the fascist state led by Adolf Hitler that killed about 15 million civilians, including 6 million Jews. Intelligence agencies should never…
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News Mass Killer Breivik Makes Nazi Salute Again at Jail Conditions Appeal
Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik gave a Nazi salute on Tuesday to a court where Norway appealed against a ruling that it has violated his human rights by keeping him in virtual isolation since he massacred 77 people in 2011. Breivik, in a black suit and striped tie and a beard he has grown in…
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News Jewish Couple Gets Nazi Letter After Hanging ‘Black Lives Matter’ Sign
After Sonya and Michael Franklin hung up a “Black Lives Matter” sign outside their Rockville, Maryland, home, the Jewish couple received an anti-Semitic threat letter and saw their property vandalized. “It has come to our attention that you support the black terror group that is ant-white and anti-police,” the letter pinned to their windshield read….
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News Dutch Jews grapple with ‘weaponization’ of their fear following attack on Israelis
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Fast Forward Trump AG nominee Matt Gaetz has left a trail of antisemitic comments
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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