• Zelensky 'yelling at generals' - The Economist
• Dirty tactics: How the US tries to break China's soft power in Africa
• Zelensky approves military enlistment of convicts
• Victory: Federal Court rules University of Colorado vaccine policies "motivated by religious animus"
• Another Connecticut town tramples Constitution with onerous town green rules
• EU members would have to arrest Netanyahu if ICC issues warrant, admits policy chief Borrell
• Israel blocks Associated Press from livestreaming of Gaza under new censorship law, US urges it to reverse decision
• Klaus Schwab retires to spend more time with his lizard family on Planet Zarkon VII
• Macron and Cameron, a BAD comedy duo for Ukraine!
• The 'inside track' of Putin-Xi Jinping talks
• 2024 and the inevitable rise of biometrics
• Klaus Schwab steps down as World Economic Forum executive chairman
• EU approves sending Russian money to Ukraine - Czech FM
• China dumps record $53.3 billion of US debt treasuries
• Major hailstorm causes damage in Yuma, Colorado
• 'Unprecedented' Google Cloud error WIPES data of $135 billion pension fund account and backups 'for no reason'
• Severe turbulence on UK-Singapore Boeing flight, 1 dead, 30 injured
• Raging bull attacks woman on Mexican beach as tourists scream in horror: video
• Man killed by stray bull in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Seismic storm hits Italy's Campi Flegrei super volcano with strongest earthquake in 40 years

• Zelensky 'yelling at generals' - The Economist
• Dirty tactics: How the US tries to break China's soft power in Africa
• Zelensky approves military enlistment of convicts
• EU members would have to arrest Netanyahu if ICC issues warrant, admits policy chief Borrell
• Israel blocks Associated Press from livestreaming of Gaza under new censorship law, US urges it to reverse decision
• Macron and Cameron, a BAD comedy duo for Ukraine!
• The 'inside track' of Putin-Xi Jinping talks
• 2024 and the inevitable rise of biometrics
• Klaus Schwab steps down as World Economic Forum executive chairman
• EU approves sending Russian money to Ukraine - Czech FM
• 'Saddened and shocked': World leaders extend condolences after President Raeisi's martyrdom
• A new Russian offensive is stretching Ukrainian forces. Possibly to the breaking point
• 'Afraid I would win': RFK Jr. accuses opponents of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates
• Was Israeli intelligence behind death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi?
• Search for Iranian president's downed helicopter hampered by rain, fog
• Best of the Web: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
• A former Ukrainian MP blew the whistle on Burisma's connections to terrorism
• Netanyahu's government in chaos after key member of his war cabinet threatens to quit and pressure mounts over bombardment of Gaza
• NATO countries already training troops in Ukraine - Estonian PM
• Best of the Web: Saudi king hospitalised for 2nd time, follows rumours of assassination attempt on prince

• Victory: Federal Court rules University of Colorado vaccine policies "motivated by religious animus"
• Another Connecticut town tramples Constitution with onerous town green rules
• China dumps record $53.3 billion of US debt treasuries
• 'Unprecedented' Google Cloud error WIPES data of $135 billion pension fund account and backups 'for no reason'
• Severe turbulence on UK-Singapore Boeing flight, 1 dead, 30 injured
• Shocking headline of the day: Germany to re-introduce slavery
• UN author says "cull" of humanity is only "realistic way" to avert climate catastrophe
• Unpacking Ray Dalio's alarmist prediction of civil war
• CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
• I was thrown out of California public library for discussing if it's fair for men to compete in women's sports
• New Zealand: Covid-19 vaccine death of Rory Nairn - report highlights failures in informing consumers of risks
• Fugazy Land
• Best of the Web: Helicopter carrying Iranian president crashes - reports
• North Carolina could ban face masks in public
• UK's Sky News one of many Western media outlets expressing barely concealed delight at the shooting of Robert Fico
• Beekeeper forced to burn 10,000 hives after fungus detected in New Zealand, industry has halved in just 2 years
• It's a Democrat thing to make up stories of your youth?
• NYC mayor calls migrants 'excellent swimmers,' possible lifeguards
• Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker slams Biden's 'delusional' stance on abortion in commencement speech
• Blast strikes top military academy in St. Petersburg, 7 injured

• Pagan-Christian trade networks supplied horses from overseas for the last horse sacrifices of 14th century Europe
• The new study presents evidence suggesting the use of threshing sledges in Neolithic Greece as early as 6500 BCE
• Discovery of ancient Ahramat branch of the river Nile may explain location of Egypt's pyramids
• Mysterious L-shaped structure found near Egyptian pyramids of Giza baffles scientists
• The IRA, MI6's not so secret army, remains the global hallmark in personal and political treachery
• Undersea scans of 'Gateway to Europe' reveal astonishing detail of sunken landscape
• Unprecedented evidence humans occupied 'lava tubes' could fill in gaps in the archaeological record
• It's written in the stars - Assyriologist solves archaeological mystery from 700 BC in Iraq
• Odessa massacre 10 years on... Western media silence covers up NATO incrimination
• Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas
• Rare Roman dodecahedron found in England, purpose continues to baffle archaeologists
• Roman snail dye found in UK for first time, and it's beautiful
• Experts say that the Stone of Destiny was a doorstep
• 7000-year-old settlement discovered in Serbia
• Cranky to the end: Ancient scroll claims Plato spent his last night listening to music, criticized slave-girl flautist's 'lack of rhythm'
• Israel's complex relations with Iran
• Flashback Israel-Saudi Arabia: Netanyahu promotes normalisation with new map erasing Palestine
• Russia's "Fourteen Points" for a European Security Policy: Why was Moscow's 2009 proposal rejected?
• La Colonisation: French history of death, torture and indescribable violence in the pearl of its evil empire
• 'We have provided everything possible for their freedom': How the USSR helped France's most important colony stick it to Paris

• Fossil discovery: 308-million-year-old spider ancestor with prickly legs
• Global auroras on Mars
• Best of the Web: Unprecedented South Pacific auroras confirm recent geomagnetic storm as 'Great Storm', in same class as 1859 Carrington Event
• Scientists discover huge magnetic toroids in the Milky Way halo
• Writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning
• Climate change is driven by changes in orientation of Earth to Sun, not carbon emissions, new analysis of Berkeley Earth data shows
• China launches 'secret robot' to far side of the moon, new Chang'e 6 photos reveal
• Assuming design, researchers achieve a breakthrough in understanding circulatory system
• The Gulf Stream stopped pumping nutrients during the last ice age — and the same could be happening now
• Research shows some Alzheimer's cases may be caused by copies of a single gene
• Recognizing a 'radar-confirmed tornado'
• Researchers discover the dial in the brain that controls the immune system
• US DARPA Manta Ray military drone passes first ocean test
• For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms have truly merged into one organism
• Best of the Web: Weak geomagnetic field coincided with significant diversification of life on Earth, new study reveals
• The Policy Makers: Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean
• Why climate change ISN'T going to end the world
• Scientists claim they've had a 20 minute conversation with a WHALE - and say it could pave the way for conversations with aliens someday
• Orangutan observed treating its own wound with medicinal plant for the first time
• New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

• Major hailstorm causes damage in Yuma, Colorado
• Raging bull attacks woman on Mexican beach as tourists scream in horror: video
• Man killed by stray bull in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Seismic storm hits Italy's Campi Flegrei super volcano with strongest earthquake in 40 years
• Freak storm leaves Polish city blanketed in hail
• Mount Semeru eruption accompanied by hot clouds in Indonesia
• Man dies in moose attack in Homer, Alaska
• Lightning strike kills 3 in Sunamganj, Bangladesh
• Woman dies in attack by registered XL bullies at east London home
• Something strange is happening with Earth's magnetic field tail
• State of emergency imposed in Russian Yakutia due to large-scale flood
• Indonesia's Ibu volcano erupts again, forcing nearby villages to evacuate
• 4 year old girl killed by stray dogs in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Teen dies in flash flood at waterfall in Tamil Nadu, India
• Rare deep-sea angler fish found near Cannon Beach, Oregon - 1st time for the state
• Flood kills at least 80 in Faryab province, Afghanistan
• Shallow magnitude 6.0 earthquake near Aleutian Islands, Alaska
• Germany: Floods hit large parts of Saarland
• Flood again wreaks havoc in Afghanistan, another 50 killed in Gor province
• Cold air blob makes 'full tour' of Alaska, prolonging winter weather

• Best of the Web: Bright meteor fireball illuminates night sky over Spain and Portugal on May 18 [Update: Calculated total impact energy 0.13kt TNT]
• Meteor fireball over Washington and Oregon on May 13
• Meteor fireball over Idaho and surrounding states on May 12
• Green meteor fireball over British Columbia, Canada on May 8
• Meteor fireball over Indiana and other states on May 4
• Huge meteor fireball over Zaragoza, Spain on May 3
• Meteor fireball over Washington state on May 3
• Meteor fireball over California on May 2
• Meteor fireball over Arizona on May 1
• Meteor fireball over Japan on May 1
• Meteor fireball over Colorado and nearby states on April 29
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and nearby states on April 27
• Bluish meteor fireball explodes in the sky of central-west and southeast Brazil on April 25
• What caused a flash and loud boom over Stockton, California?
• Explosive meteor fireball over Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on April 18
• Meteor fireball over Badajoz, Spain on April 18
• Meteor fireball over Toledo, Spain (April 17)
• Meteor fireball over Arizona and California on April 17
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and New York on April 16
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 6 other states on April 16

• 'I was paralysed after getting the jab... but the payout won't cover the cost of my disability': AstraZeneca victim lashes out at Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
• Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche: Healthcare is much more corrupt than people think
• 'Flesh-eating' streptococcal disease cases skyrocket in Japan in just 1 year, surge followed covid vaccine rollout
• First recorded case of cow to human bird flu transmission occurred in US, new study reveals
• Tide turning? Research on COVID vaccine injuries, once a taboo subject, now appearing in some medical journals
• This is what happened after several schools banned cellphones
• Coffee is anti-aging, linked to prevention of dementia and sarcopenia: study
• I'm an Herbalist, and This Is My Secret Herb for Pain-Free Aging
• Systematic Review Reveals Many COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Experienced New-Onset Psychosis
• More vaccine doses lead to more Covid infections, major study finds
• Can dogs and cats be vegan?
• AstraZeneca just pulled their Covid jab....why?
• New study from Czech Republic confirms covid vaccines have around zero efficacy against death
• French survey finds majority of population are 'vaccine hesitant'
• Best of the Web: Child dies during Pfizer trial for muscular dystrophy gene therapy, boy's 'sudden' cardiac arrest noted as a 'serious adverse event'
• AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide
• Scientists tried to reinfect people with Covid - and failed
• Lithium: The untold story of the magic mineral
• AstraZeneca admits for first time its Covid vaccine CAN cause 'rare' side effect in tense legal fight.
• Best of the Web: Japan's most senior Oncologist condemns Covid mRNA vaccines for causing 'turbocancers, autoimmune, and neurodegenerative' disorders

• Behavioural science at its worst
• SOTT Focus: The Goldilocks Enigma
• Remembering Daniel Kahneman: Seven theories that can help you understand how you think
• Anti-Communist, Russian nationalist, enemy of Hitler: Who was 'Putin's favorite philosopher'?
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Transforming Darkness: Shadow Work and Pathocracy with Colin E. Davis
• This is when it's okay to annihilate somebody
• What an inner monologue can reveal about you
• Dark enchantment: A review of 'Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come'
• How to spot the next mania: Each new panic follows the same playbook
• Flashback Best of the Web: Israel's Biblical Psychopathy
• Snakes in the grass
• The new (hard) science of death
• Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it, study in mice finds
• A philosopher investigates near-death experiences
• New study suggests 'woke' people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed
• What deathbed visions teach us about living
• Best of the Web: How to Fight the Censorship Mindset
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Woke Psychopathology Taxonomy with David Abramowitz
• The recognition of reality destroys the dystopian dreams of The Borg
• Optimistic mindset linked to poor decision-making

• US govt's UFO office confirms has not received information on 'drone' incursions over Langley AFB, as new details emerge
• BBC journalist allegedly threatened by CIA over 1994 UFO landing case in Zimbabwe
• Vatican preparing 'guidelines' for 'apparitions', 'other supernatural phenomena'
• Top senators believe the US secretly recovered UFOs
• The Pentagon is lying about UFOs
• SOTT Focus: Hyperdimensional Realities: The Most Dangerous Idea in the World, Explained by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• Chris Mellon releases 2020 Signal exchange about insider search for crash-retrieval program
• The shocking history of UFOs and nuclear weapons
• Kona Blue insiders reveal how US agencies allegedly involved in legacy UFO programs rattled Department of Homeland Security officials
• SOTT Focus: Tucker Carlson on Joe Rogan Podcast: 'UFOs and Intelligences Behind Them are Essentially Supernatural'
• Canada joins secret Pentagon meeting on UFOs - DND can't figure out who attended
• Drones or UFOs? Alarming incursions demand answers
• New documentation reveals significant flaws in US government's UFO investigation
• The Pentagon's new UAP report is seriously flawed
• Western US residents report the most UFO sightings
• French couple 'disappears' while hiking in Madeira - Portuguese island records 6 'missing tourist' cases in 3 years
• Flashback Alienated: Peter Levenda on the alien 'threat' narrative
• Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies publishes pattern study 1945-1975 military and public activities
• The unexplained: Giant Swedish archive logs paranormal phenomena
• The Pentagon's new historical review of UFOs picks and chooses its history

• Klaus Schwab retires to spend more time with his lizard family on Planet Zarkon VII
• White House installs breathalyzer on Kamala Harris's microphone
• "I used the blood spilled by British Empire to get the reds" Charles portraitist explains
• Latest polls show Biden will need twice as many fake ballots to win election this year
• Dead worm found in RFK Jr.'s brain polls higher than Biden in 11 States
• Trump forced to wear Hannibal Lecter muzzle for gag order violations
• New York DA indicts Trump for bringing firefighters pizza but no salad or cheesy bread
• US House votes to protect every country not named the United States
• NPR suspends journalist, leading to shocking discovery there was a journalist at NPR
• Biden throws tantrum after being called from beach just because World War 3 starting
• Biden retaliates against Iran by attaching note to pallet of cash that says 'Please Do Not Use For Terrorism'
• White House: Inflation numbers are great if you hold the chart upside down
• Roger, too playful to be drug-sniffing canine, becomes star of Taiwan quake response
• Judge orders Trump to stop noticing that the people trying to jail him are Democrats
• Trump ups Mar-A-Lago worth to $500M by hanging up 3 Hunter Biden paintings
• DeSantis turfed from Republican party for accomplishing too many things
• Trump announces he will pay entire NYC bond with bags of nickels
• Manual of the freedom-loving, democracy-admiring American citizen
• Illegal immigrants politely decline free flight on a Boeing
• Terrorists cancel plane hijack after realizing it's a Boeing

Now that's Schwab is stepping down, he can focus on his favorite pastime... Cosplaying as Smoke from Mortal Kombat [Link]

Things to add. Klaus as he leaves the WEF stage, says to Harari, "I can finally shape shift back to my reptile body, thank Zarkan."

Two puppets, two clowns, influencing war. Zakharova has it right: "This is the first time that a Western politician has so frankly acknowledged...

Hey Seth, Sergei Shoigu is now head of the Russian security council. [Link] Medvedev has been given a newly created position which will allow him...

What a shame this move will only generate a handful of new recruits. After reading that "It does not extend to people who have been convicted of...