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• Trump: UAE to open relations with Israel, halting West Bank annexation UPDATE
• The real problem with test and trace in the UK: Contact tracers have nothing to do because there are so few cases
• Trump succeeds against abusive Democrats in economic stimulus showdown
• Best of the Web: Let there be gas: Putin & Merkel gave Trump the finger
• Bees use shark 'supersense' to help find food
• Betelgeuse's mysterious dimming due to a traumatic outburst - NASA
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Follow the Leader - Étienne de La Boétie's Politics of Obedience
• Kamala Harris led the Kavanaugh character assassination attempt
• Providing for the future: Despite Covid-19 crisis & falling oil prices, Russia's gold & foreign exchange reserves reach all-time high
• Best of the Web: The Only Foreign Interference America Should Worry About is British: Rhodes Scholar Talbott's Hand Revealed in Russia Gate
• How The Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy
• Did the FBI mislead the Senate Intel Committee on the Steele Dossier? The media is uninterested
• Atheists for Trump? David Silverman reacts to Biden naming Harris with 'Are You Serious?' face, saying he might vote red
• Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai freed on bail as activist Agnes Chow calls her arrest 'political persecution, suppression'
• Epstein's suspected 'madam' claims her conversations with lawyers are illegally recorded
• Best of the Web: New Zealand acclaimed 'world leader' in handling Covid-19 as it announces enforced relocation of 'infected' to 'quarantine centers'
• Russia's approval of a COVID-19 vaccine is less than meets the press release
• Music professor threatens to sue university for investigating him over defense of 'racist' composer
• Too little, too late - but the open letter 'It's time to rethink our Russia policy' at least opens the free-speech gates in the US
• Mother of arrested Key West boy suing city, police officers, teacher and school district

• Trump: UAE to open relations with Israel, halting West Bank annexation UPDATE
• Trump succeeds against abusive Democrats in economic stimulus showdown
• Best of the Web: Let there be gas: Putin & Merkel gave Trump the finger
• Kamala Harris led the Kavanaugh character assassination attempt
• How The Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy
• Did the FBI mislead the Senate Intel Committee on the Steele Dossier? The media is uninterested
• Best of the Web: New Zealand acclaimed 'world leader' in handling Covid-19 as it announces enforced relocation of 'infected' to 'quarantine centers'
• Too little, too late - but the open letter 'It's time to rethink our Russia policy' at least opens the free-speech gates in the US
• Homeland Security chair Johnson subpoenas FBI in review of Russia probe origin
• New report reveals US Special Forces active in 22 African countries
• Soros reveals how he's invested amid "Fed liquidity bubble"; says Trump "very dangerous"
• Lithuania, Latvia & Poland's ultimatum to Belarus: Let us mediate election talks between Lukashenko & opposition or face sanctions
• Rep. Ilhan Omar beats back Democratic primary challenge in Minnesota
• Best of the Web: Sputnik V, world's first Covid-19 vaccine, launched - Putin's daughter among first to take it - Vaccine will NOT be mandatory in Russia
• Flashback: Kamala Harris' ancestors owned slaves, her father says
• US reaction to Putin's COVID vaccine both predictable and dishonest
• Beirut: A tragedy that threatens the region with war and chaos
• Horror in Beirut: Was it an accident or a warning?
• If Bill Gates Was President...
• Germany warns US against imposing sanctions on Nord Stream 2, says no country has right to 'dictate' its energy policy

• The real problem with test and trace in the UK: Contact tracers have nothing to do because there are so few cases
• Providing for the future: Despite Covid-19 crisis & falling oil prices, Russia's gold & foreign exchange reserves reach all-time high
• Atheists for Trump? David Silverman reacts to Biden naming Harris with 'Are You Serious?' face, saying he might vote red
• Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai freed on bail as activist Agnes Chow calls her arrest 'political persecution, suppression'
• Epstein's suspected 'madam' claims her conversations with lawyers are illegally recorded
• Music professor threatens to sue university for investigating him over defense of 'racist' composer
• Mother of arrested Key West boy suing city, police officers, teacher and school district
• Hong Kong court acquits district councillor of police assault charge; magistrate says officers 'told lie after lie'
• Metro Nashville council member wants people not wearing a mask to be charged with murder or attempted murder
• Photos show Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel on Epstein's 'Pedo Island'
• The Belarusian protests are not a 'color revolution' - they're the result of Lukashenko repeating Soviet mistakes
• Half a million incorrect absentee ballot applications sent out in Virginia, including to dead people
• Chicago residents confront BLM protesters in tense standoff
• Alabama just passed a law to castrate child sex offenders
• Council revokes business license of NJ gym that defied COVID-19 order
• CCDH: The Centre for Cancel Culture and Digital Hypocrisy - Part 1
• Best of the Web: Lukashenko: Short-term victory, long-term defeat - Belarus protests overview
• NASA drops 'harmful' celestial nicknames such as Eskimo Nebula, Aunt Jemima
• Nearly five times more people dying of flu and pneumonia than coronavirus in UK
• Wrong narrative? US mainstream media mum on murder of 5yo white boy allegedly shot by black man in his own front yard

• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Follow the Leader - Étienne de La Boétie's Politics of Obedience
• Best of the Web: The Only Foreign Interference America Should Worry About is British: Rhodes Scholar Talbott's Hand Revealed in Russia Gate
• Oldest human cremation discovered in the Near East
• Europe's earliest bone tools found at Britain's Boxgrove "Horse Butchery Site"
• Humans have been making poison arrows for over 70,000 years
• Best of the Web: The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: A Forgotten Season of Riots and Urban Unrest Across America
• 8,000 years old fluted stone tools discovered in Arabia
• Nested 'DNA' of ancestor that mated with humans discovered
• Lithuania's alleged involvement in 2014 Ukraine Maidan coup
• Lost Viking waterway found in Orkney revealing Norse impact on local economy
• Atomic bombings at 75: John Pilger says another Hiroshima is coming - unless we stop it now
• America's 'Days of Rage': A look into the extensive left-wing bombings & domestic terrorism of the 1970s
• Figurines found at ancient dig site may depict face of God, says Israeli archeologist
• The Solar Minimum superstorm of 1903
• Pompeii's recent finds reveal new clues to city's destruction
• Mexico cave with evidence of early humans closed to visitors to prevent DNA contamination
• Five interlocked neolithic skeletons dating to the 6th Millenium BC discovered in the UAE
• Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland: The magical underground city carved entirely out of Salt Rock
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with Gary Lachman: The Return of Holy Russia
• Exact match for Stonehenge's 20 tonne sarsen stones found 15 miles away

• Bees use shark 'supersense' to help find food
• Betelgeuse's mysterious dimming due to a traumatic outburst - NASA
• Russia's approval of a COVID-19 vaccine is less than meets the press release
• Massive sunspot turning towards Earth could be bad news as we enter new solar cycle 25
• Modelling Main Belt asteroid Psyche's impact crater formations aids in planning exploratory mission
• Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: study
• X-rays indicate that water can behave like a liquid crystal
• Geologists confirm strange 'boomerang' earthquake deep beneath Atlantic Ocean
• USGS issues warning: San Andreas swarm could put California at risk of big earthquakes for over a week
• Two meteorites found in Madura, US, in just two weeks
• 'Largest impact structure' in solar system discovered on Jupiter's moon Ganymede
• First electrically injected laser developed by researchers
• NASA warns of upcoming close shave with asteroid as doomsday preacher predicts 'apocalyptic fireball'
• Helium structures in Sun's atmosphere found by NASA's sounding rocket
• Human engineers can't top these biological intelligent designs
• Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis
• Explaining the obvious, because apparently it's necessary right now: 2+2 never equals 5
• Amazon lines up $10 billion for satellite-based Internet project Kupier
• Volcanic or cosmic impact origin for the Younger Dryas mini ice-age?
• Next phase of ENCODE finds MORE functional information in genome 'junk'

• Hurricane Hanna hits citrus industry in Texas - around 30% crop loss
• Torrential rain wreaks havoc in SW China's Sichuan - 6 dead, 5 missing
• Typhoon Mekkhala makes landfall in China's Fujian
• Death tally from flood climbs to 202 in Bangladesh
• Residents concerned after thousands of dead fish appear in Biscayne Bay, Florida
• Millions of acres of crops in the central US have been destroyed by a series of historic natural disasters
• At least 184 dead and 54 missing so far this monsoon season in Nepal - risks of more flood, landslides not over yet
• More than 170 dead in Yemen flash floods over the past month
• Week of wild weather around the world
• Mt. Sinabung in Indonesia erupts yet again, spewing ash 2,000 meters high
• Major incident declared following train derailment in Stonehaven, Scotland - Landslip caused by flooding suspected
• Leopard kills 7-year-old in Gujarat, India - 3rd killing in under a month for the region
• Shallow M3 earthquake hits English Channel, felt in Sussex
• Large numbers of dead seagulls wash up on Lake Van's shores in Turkey
• UK battered by thousands of 'apocalyptic' lightning bolts and flash floods
• Rare M6.0 earthquake hits near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Floods destroy largest breeding ground for birds in Uganda as Lake Victoria hits record levels
• Deadly landslides and floods in Veracruz, Mexico
• Over 1,100 homes destroyed, 13,200 affected by floods in Mali
• 3 tornadoes hit Delaware in a week, normally sees 1 a year - Philadelphia region rainfall nearly 1,000% of normal

• Meteor fireball seen over Prince Edward Island, Canada during Perseid meteor shower
• Loud home-shaking boom in Saranac Lake, New York attributed to sonic boom
• Meteor fireball bursts over UK: 'I have never seen anything so bright'
• Bright meteor fireball blazes over southern Spain
• Meteor fireball lights up night sky over Colorado and New Mexico
• Home surveillance camera captures bright meteor fireball over southwestern Illinois
• Meteor fireball flashes over southern Spain
• Bright meteor fireball captured on video over Scottish Highlands
• Mysterious lights spotted over Calgary during thunderstorm likely a meteor
• Meteor fireball streaks over Irkutsk, Russia
• Comet Neowise, meteor, and mysterious aurora-like phenomenon called STEVE all share night sky in Manitoba, Canada
• Meteor fireball streaks across the sky breaking up over West Texas - UPDATE: Rocket re-entry
• Meteor fireball blazes over California
• Bright meteor fireball flashes over Michigan
• Comet NEOWISE and meteor fireball seen in Trinidad skies
• Largest meteorite discovered after sitting for decades in garden in Germany
• Exceptionally bright meteor fireball in the skies of southwest and central Florida
• Sydney skywatchers report stunning green meteor streaking across night sky
• Meteor fireball over Seville, Spain
• Source of early-morning boom that echoed in Aspen, Colorado remains mystery

• SOTT Focus: Facemasks, Lies, Damn Lies, And Public Health Officials: "A Growing Body of Evidence"
• Best of the Web: Still no conclusive evidence justifying mandatory masks
• Man dies of bubonic plague in western Mongolia
• 'Mask mouth' is a seriously stinky side effect of wearing masks
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health: Germ Theory vs. Terrain Theory - Why Not Both?
• New 'breakthrough' Alzheimer's drug fast-tracked by US watchdog
• The best way to measure rates of COVID immunity?
• New virus passed via tick bites emerges in China, seven killed so far
• Flashback Best of the Web: These NHS staff were told the swine flu vaccine was safe, now they're suffering the consequences
• 'Vaccines-or-masks' policy of Canadian health authorities ruled 'unreasonable' in 2015 arbitration case
• SOTT Focus: Fact-Checking a 'Fact-Checker' on Covid-19: A Response to HealthFeedback.org
• Lithium-laced drinking water could be curbing suicide rates, scientists say
• Mexico state bans sale of sugary drinks and junk food to children
• Flashback: EU numbers show correlation between flu vaccine and coronavirus deaths
• CDC warns parents to be on lookout for acute flaccid myelitis in children
• Statins may not slash the risk of dying from heart disease: Controversial study claims the cheap cholesterol-busting pills offer no 'consistent benefit'
• Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic primary pain
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Strange Push to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine
• Best of the Web: WHO admits: No direct evidence masks prevent viral infection
• Best of the Web: The disturbing push to discredit HCQ

• New guidance on brain death
• Dark Triad traits and entitlement linked to both authoritarian political correctness and white nationalist beliefs
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: First Sight, Polyvagal Theory, and Contemplative Practices
• Best of the Web: John Waters: On escaping viral entrancement
• A mutilation of young lives: How the radical transgender bandwagon is wrecking girls' bodies and destroying their mental health
• New theory of why we dream
• Reading printed books to children more beneficial to child's development than e-books - study
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• Blindsight: A strange neurological condition that could help explain consciousness
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Ideal And Value of Beauty
• 'Sweet tooth' cells identified in brain
• SOTT Focus: Stoicism, Materialism and the Search for Divinity
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Father Joseph Azize Interview: Gurdjieff's Legacy and the 'New Work'
• The need to belong, not facts, is what draws people to Black Lives Matter
• Best of the Web: Narcissists, psychopaths, and manipulators are more likely to engage in 'virtuous victim signaling' - study
• How does aging shape our narrative identity?
• Discovering the link between gender identity and peer contagion
• How addressing so-called 'unconscious bias' and 'unwitting racism' could be the first step to brainwashing
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with James Carpenter: First Sight, Psi, and Consciousness
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Try Not To Lie: The Value Of Honesty With The Self And Others

• 'Barbaric' horse killings put French countryside on alert
• "The CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America as psychological warfare experiments" says Dr. Jacques Vallée in latest book
• Best of the Web: Investigations task force possible after more cattle mutilations in eastern Oregon
• Missing 411? Teen found alive in woods after going missing for 8 days and is unable to explain what happened
• Exorcist claims possessed woman threw 4 men across room and spoke demonic language
• Cow found mutilated in Eastern Oregon, investigators bewildered
• Evidence suggests UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar was telling the truth all along - world owes him an apology
• Best of the Web: Drip-drip disclosure: Pentagon UFO unit 'to publicly release some findings' after ex-official says 'off-world vehicle' found
• New never before seen pictures of Area 51 revealed
• Flashback: Greek merchant mariner recalls Burmuda Triangle UFO sighting
• 'Templar' crop circle appears in French field
• Mysterious lights spotted flashing in Houston, Texas sky
• US Senate Select Committee report refers to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
• UK's UFO hotspots named - Reports continue despite government shutting down official agency
• Bright, fast moving orb-like object spotted in the skies of India
• Video of 'orb-like craft' recorded over US space command base
• Haunted house? These people feel they are in isolation with ghosts
• Glowing spheres videoed hovering over Brazil spark UFO theories online
• The strangest unexplained UFO sightings in Scotland's skies
• Mysterious 'red lights' in Virginia and Nevada prompt UFO speculation

• Identity Politics: Party of the Poor and Oppressed nominates Old, Rich, White Man and Cop
• The only way to be healthy in 2020
• Biden says he's excited to find out who he picked for VP
• Innovative new process! Plants can be converted into meat by feeding them to cows
• Fauci recommends encasing entire body in bubble wrap to protect against Coronavirus
• Sheep dipping system adopted on trial basis for Irish schoolchildren
• Orcs march on Minas Tirith in mostly peaceful protest
• Riot police unsure if their tear gas worked since libs were already crying
• Man walks down Oxford Street wearing nothing but a face mask
• When racists and wokes actually agree on everything
• Far-right extremist suggests treating people of all races equally
• Vaccine trial #666 successful reports Oxford university
• White House adds crying room for fussy reporters
• Frustrated by lockdown? Iceland offers to release your screams over loudspeaker
• Liberals worried that without cancel culture they'd actually have to defend their ideas
• Only herd sanity can inoculate us against this madness
• Fired Ukraine minister dons skimpy bikini, launches new party to fight corruption of "pants-wearing idiots"
• Gavin Newsom alerted to illegal activity by the sound of children's laughter
• People that wear a mask in their car
• 'No lives matter' launched by atheists

Saw the headline; well, talk about a high (or, some say, 'low') hanging curveball.... S: Got 'woke'? HFL: World Brain Death Project? & 25...

Hell, if there were all those parts left, it weren't much of a cremation.

Bees use shark supersense ??? Hell, that's how I find suckers to pay for my bar beer bills. ;) RC

Did the FBI mislead . . . 'Stop right there!' That's all they've done for the last 112 years! (Or at least since 1963.) R.C.

the US oligarchy could care less which puppet is elected---financial policy, military waste remains the same