The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Psy-Fi]

Osama bin Laden may have sent secret messages in porn videos, documentary claims

The National Geographic special – titled “Bin Laden’s Hard Drive”

[Mindy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ek1_aUlfo

Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Sep 8, 2020

Sep.08 -- In a matter of weeks, California has been hit with two record-breaking heat waves, hundreds of blazes, freak lightning storms and dangerously poor air quality, and now unusually strong winds are threatening to knock down power lines and ignite more wildfires. That's causing the state's largest utility, PG&E Corp., to cut power for more than 500,000 people.

[Mindy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5skkRq2Aw

Associated Press
Sep 8, 2020

A new Netflix documentary is setting out to expose social media’s corrosive effects on society during a pandemic that's left people more dependent than ever on tools that keep them connected with friends, family and colleagues. (Sept. 8)

[OccultHawk]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/u...e=articleShare

These pictures of the Bay Area at around 10 AM are ****ing insane

[SGR]

About a month after the giant explosion at the Beirut port, there is now a massive fire.

Beirut Port Fire - CNN

[OccultHawk]

Right up before that first explosion demonstrators were burning down corrupt banks.

Just sayin

[SGR]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Right up before that first explosion demonstrators were burning down corrupt banks.

Just sayin

For real? I never heard that - you got a source?

[OccultHawk]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...060510405.html

Beirut, Lebanon - At least a dozen Lebanese banks across the country were torched and vandalised during the second consecutive night of angry protests fuelled by frustration over the national currency's unfettered depreciation.

[Psy-Fi]

Thick swarms of mosquitoes are killing livestock in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura

Clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick in southwest Louisiana since Hurricane Laura that they're killing animals, including horses and cattle. The vast number of bites leave horses and cattle anemic and bleeding under their skins.

The animals also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the biting insects, a large-animal veterinarian based in Ville Platte told The Associated Press this week.

"They're vicious little suckers," said Dr. Craig Fontenot.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Thick swarms of mosquitoes are killing livestock in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura

That is a ****ing global warming horror story. Holy ****.