Scandal

Scandal
An event that gets public attention and negative media coverage

A scandal is an event that gets public attention and generally negative media coverage due to perceived wrongdoing, or immoral behavior of people, organisations or the government.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
"Chinese interference in Australian politics"	China is accused of interfering in the 2019 Australian federal election. COVID-19 and AUKUS came soon after.
"Chinese interference in Canadian politics"	China is accused of interfering in the 2019 Canadian federal election and the 2021 Canadian federal election
"Iran-Contra"	A drug trafficking/weapons smuggling operation carried out in the 1980s with the approval of the top of the US government.
Arms-to-Iraq	A series of arms deals by UK companies during the Iran-Iraq War, when there was a UK government-endorsed UN embargo on such sales.
Ballets roses	French VIPaedophile event
Bofors Affair	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
Bullmastiff Affair	A Slovenian doctor, who regularly treated government ministers, found naked and fatally mauled by his dogs in highly suggestive circumstances
Bunga bunga party	A sex for TV work pyramid scheme, with children and ritual occult practices allegedly led by former Italian president Berlusconi. One whistleblower - Imane Fadil - died suddenly.
Cash-for-questions affair	1990s UK political scandal
Clinton–Lewinsky scandal	A political sex scandal involving US President Bill Clinton and 24-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky that took place in 1998.
Dreyfus Affair	Political scandal that polarised France 1894-1906
Fotopub affair	Abuse of young girls and possibly minors in a Ljubljana art gallery
Franklin child prostitution ring	A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed
Irish of Vincennes	French political scandal
Jeffrey Epstein/Affair	An SDS-backed billionaire financial fraudster and sexual blackmailer reportedly suicided in 2019.
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Mani pulite	Italian political corruption scandal 1992-2002
Muldergate	South African political scandal involving the Department of Information
Noricum scandal	Illegal sale of artillery guns to Iraq and Iran
Operation Fast and Furious	A "bungled gun-trafficking probe", suspected mid-level deep event involving the distribution of firearms.
Profumo Affair	A major scandal in twentieth-century UK politics
Spycops scandal	Undercover police officers who as part of their false persona entered into intimate relationships and in some cases proposed marriage or fathered children with activists
Susurluk car crash	A seminal but still rather poorly understood deep event. It led to the coining of the phrase "deep state", and by extension "deep politics" and "deep politician".
Watergate coup	This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the influential perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work.
Wedtech scandal	After it emerged that his close friend had worked as a lobbyist for the Wedtech, Ed Meese resigned
Zandvoort scandal	A private investigator discovered an early distribution network for child rape material in a small town in the Netherlands

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