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• Uruguayans take to the streets to protest 5G technology
• Facebook posts could help doctors spot alcoholism, diabetes or depression, study says
• Best of the Web: US exceptionalism: Exploiting certain Syrians, ignoring others
• Erdogan says former Egyptian leader Morsi was murdered
• Moscow: 'Age of digital terrorism' is coming, impact may be as dangerous as WMDs
• Boeing's newest problem: Pilots are too weak to use the cockpit hand-crank
• Kyle Kashuv responds to ex-GOP rep who compared him to school shooter
• Biden to wealthy donors: I don't want to demonize the rich
• 'US dollar becoming toxic' - more nations searching for alternatives according to Russia's foreign intel
• Nanny state: San Francisco votes to ban e-cigarettes not approved by FDA
• Congress opposes US border crisis as 'manufactured,' but actual bogus 'emergency' in the Balkans is OK?
• Israeli high court gives okay to demolish 13 Palestinian apartment buildings in southeast Jerusalem
• Assange judge refuses to step down despite being tainted with intelligence and defence links
• Snow falls on a major British Columbia highway in June
• Over 40,000 displaced by floods in Mindanao, Philippines
• Greek farmer tragically dies from a lightning strike in Korinthos
• Nevada becomes first state to ban employers from testing workers for marijuana use
• Nanoparticle additives in your food
• FBI examining 2010 domestic fight involving acting defense secretary Shanahan; accounts differ on aggressor
• Facebook cryptocurrency launch meets widespread skepticism, demand for safeguards

• Best of the Web: US exceptionalism: Exploiting certain Syrians, ignoring others
• Erdogan says former Egyptian leader Morsi was murdered
• Moscow: 'Age of digital terrorism' is coming, impact may be as dangerous as WMDs
• Biden to wealthy donors: I don't want to demonize the rich
• 'US dollar becoming toxic' - more nations searching for alternatives according to Russia's foreign intel
• Congress opposes US border crisis as 'manufactured,' but actual bogus 'emergency' in the Balkans is OK?
• Israeli high court gives okay to demolish 13 Palestinian apartment buildings in southeast Jerusalem
• Assange judge refuses to step down despite being tainted with intelligence and defence links
• FBI examining 2010 domestic fight involving acting defense secretary Shanahan; accounts differ on aggressor
• Terrorist rocket fire kills 12 civilians south of Aleppo, Syria
• Governments made more money from smoking than the companies they're suing for damages
• Paris air show: Airbus' autonomous planes, Boeing ghosted, while France, Germany & Spain agree to Euro jet fighter
• Ocasio-Cortez says Trump admin has set up 'concentration camps' on border
• Israel directs 'sophisticated campaign' of anti-BDS social media posters using shady front group
• Canada's Elliot Abrams: Ottawa hires a hit man to overthrow the legitimate Venezuelan government
• Spain refuels Russian ships despite NATO pressure, says UK has to leave Gibraltar
• Iran blame game: UK govt slams Corbyn as unpatriotic over Gulf attacks but EU also urges caution
• China warns US don't open "Pandora's Box" in Middle East
• Two neo-Nazis jailed after calling for 'race traitor' Prince Harry to be shot
• Lavrov to host S. Korean FM to discuss 'New Russian, Chinese Initiative' on Korean Peninsula

• Uruguayans take to the streets to protest 5G technology
• Boeing's newest problem: Pilots are too weak to use the cockpit hand-crank
• Kyle Kashuv responds to ex-GOP rep who compared him to school shooter
• Nanny state: San Francisco votes to ban e-cigarettes not approved by FDA
• Nevada becomes first state to ban employers from testing workers for marijuana use
• Facebook cryptocurrency launch meets widespread skepticism, demand for safeguards
• Kim Kardashian strikes deal with Lyft to help 5,000 former inmates land jobs
• Extinction Rebellion protesters glue themselves to Brisbane's busiest street
• 'Could kill millions': $1bn worth of cocaine seized at Philadelphia port
• Hong Kong protesters make rest of the world look bad with 2am rubbish clean up
• You want 'em..you got 'em: New Mexico sanctuary city sues Trump admin for releasing too many immigrants into its borders
• Billionaires are investing in immortality
• Mexican feds team up with DEA to raid industrial-scale fentanyl lab in border state
• Texas governor signs bill making sex jokes on campus a criminal offense
• Indian Army soldier killed in battle with Pakistan based terrorists
• Normal, healthy six-year-old girl upset after being subjected to gender theory video in school: Ontario family files human rights complaint
• 'Fascist and tyrannical' or cultural preservation? Quebec passes controversial religious ban
• Russian lawyer from Trump Tower meeting kicked off Twitter
• Russia's Constitutional Court: Authorities can't ban protests by simply citing lack of security plan from organizers
• Campus food service worker hit with bias complaint after saying 'hello' to student in Japanese

• "Catastrophic" fire destroyed incredible British Bronze Age settlement a year after it was built
• New study says gender inequality arose 8000 years ago
• Impressive circular Neolithic building discovered in Cyprus
• Çatalhöyük: The 9,000 year old community troubled by climate change, over crowding and infectious diseases
• Soviet dissidents' enemy No.1: KGB general Bobkov dies in Moscow
• Did red-haired, cannibalistic giants exist? Unlocking Lovelock Cave
• Archaeologists uncover unique megalithic monument in Ireland
• 8,000-year-old carvings by ancient humans discovered in South Africa
• Oldest evidence of marijuana use discovered in 2500-year-old cemetery in peaks of western China
• Crannogs: Neolithic artificial islands in Scotland stump archeologists
• Mysterious flooding leads to discovery of 5,000-year-old underground city in Turkey's Cappadocia
• Pristina stand-off: How Moscow blindsided NATO with 'secret Kosovo airport raid' 20 years ago
• Ancient fingerprints help unravel just who was making pots at Chaco Canyon
• Giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakuti, Russia - still snarling after 40,000 years
• 3,000 year old city gates of 'Aramaic kingdom' found in Golan Heights
• Prehistoric stone engraved with horses and geometric motifs found in France
• In ancient China, pet crickets spent the winter in opulent gourds
• Three months after D-Day in 1944, French locals and American troops were on the verge of confrontation
• Hoard of the rings: Novel type of Bronze Age cereal-based product discovered
• Flashback Best of the Web: Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of history

• Facebook posts could help doctors spot alcoholism, diabetes or depression, study says
• The first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
• Mars has a dust cycle just like Earth has a water cycle
• NASA predicts weakest solar activity in 200 years
• Scientists: Since DNA is the software of life, how can you have its incredibly complex programming without a programmer?
• Is a long-dormant Russian volcano waking up?
• Earth is moving toward the same meteor swarm that scientists think caused the Tunguska explosion in 1908
• Light side of the moon: What causes flashes on the moon?
• Russia's next-gen MiG-35 fighters superior to F-35, half the price
• AI brings figures from still photos to life
• The ocean is sinking into Earth's mantle, and a dead supercontinent is partly to blame
• Aquaterra: Rising seas swallowed countless archaeological sites
• "Genes Out of Nothing"? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind
• Translation of genes more complex than expected
• What could go wrong department: Fungus genetically engineered to produce spider venom that kills mosquitoes
• Scientists find the weirdest magma on the planet below Bermuda
• Gene study suggests T. rex had an amazing sense of smell
• Researchers gathering clues to mysterious, gaping holes in Antarctic ice
• New discovery about origins of multi-celled animals 'turns core theory of evolutionary biology on its head'
• India sets sights on its own space station around 2030

• Snow falls on a major British Columbia highway in June
• Over 40,000 displaced by floods in Mindanao, Philippines
• Greek farmer tragically dies from a lightning strike in Korinthos
• Ice Age Farmer Report: Catastrophic growing seasons worldwide - Grand Solar Minimum "Trainwreck"
• Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Hottest temperatures on the planet but forget the record snow & cold please
• Flash flood kills at least 4 people in Trabzon, Turkey
• Shallow magnitude 6.8 earthquake jolts Kermadec Islands - 4th major event in 4 days, 5th for region
• Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Your life is about to change - are world events adding up yet?
• Mexican volcano's spectacular eruption captured on video from passenger plane
• All-time low temperature records tumble in Minnesota as jet stream draws brutal Arctic air southward
• Florida Keys waterspout forms with boater right underneath
• Sunday rainfall shatters record at Dallas/Fort Worth airport, Texas
• Birds fall from the sky as temperatures soar in Hyderabad, India
• Japan earthquake: Tsunami warning issued after 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes near Niigata
• Lightning kills man in Sofia, Bulgaria - second such incident in 2 days
• Two strong shallow earthquakes hit southwest China, at least 12 dead (UPDATE)
• Severe weather churns up tornadoes, unleashes powerful winds across central US
• Pit bulls involved in attack that killed woman in Bakersfield, California
• Underground fire triggers panic in Uttar Pradesh, India
• Rain-triggered flood leaves 5 dead in south China's Guangxi

• Bright meteor fireball filmed on June 15 over the province of Toledo, Spain
• Dashcam captures spectacular meteor fireball in Canberra, Australia
• Multiple reports of meteor fireball soaring over Brazil
• Massive meteor fireball over Adelaide, Australia
• Large Fireball Lights up Skies Over Andalucia, Southern Spain
• Driver shocked as meteor fireball flashes across south east England
• Mystery surrounds 'massive bang' in Plymouth, England
• Nighttime meteor fireball reported flying over Germany, France
• Meteor fireball captured over northern Germany
• Meteor fireball flies over La Aparecida, Spain
• Meteor fireball lights up Queensland sky in Australia
• Meteor fireball lights up Northern New Zealand's sky
• Meteor fireball detonates over Australia's Northern Territory, turns night into day
• Meteor fireball sails over southern Wales, UK
• Spectacular light show as meteor fireball lights up south-eastern Australia
• Home surveillance camera captures exploding meteor as it lights up sky in Seattle, Washington
• Meteor fireball seen over north-central and east Texas
• Powerful, mysterious explosion heard in Grand'Anse, Haiti likely a meteorite
• Mysterious, loud cannon-like boom heard in western Nebraska town
• Meteor fireball flies over Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Italy and France

• Nanoparticle additives in your food
• The corruption of evidence based medicine : Killing for profit
• Why isn't mainstream media looking into health concerns of 5G?
• Jessica Biel joins anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. to lobby against California pro-vaccination bill
• Hollywood dystopia? Sir Peter Jackson and James Cameron team up to promote meatless future
• Chronic inflammation removes motivation by reducing dopamine in the brain
• Cheap vitamin C brings hospital patients back from the brink of death by sepsis
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #19 - ADHD - Childhood Epidemic or Pharmaceutical Scam?
• The real gender gap is in heart disease
• First Canadian case of insect resistance to genetically engineered corn discovered
• How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
• Medical police state in action: AMA votes to allow minors to override parental objection to vaccines
• Statin Nation: How the 'most profitable drug ever created' is damaging the health of millions
• Forced vaccination: New York state ends religious exemptions to vaccine mandates
• What in the world is going on in the Dominican Republic? (Update)
• Breakfast cereals marketed to kids are loaded with glyphosate, says new report
• Monsanto paid American Council on Science and Health front group to hide evidence
• Lyme disease: The CDC's greatest coverup
• New cases of Ebola crop up in Uganda raising fears of further spreading
• Gluteomorphin: The opiate in your food

• How to raise mentally strong and resilient children
• The mindfulness conspiracy
• Science says silence is much more important to our brains than we think
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Triumph of Irrationalism and the Death of Metaphysics
• For health and well-being, spend two hours a week in nature
• The hippies were right: It's all about vibrations, man!
• Dogs mirror owner's stress
• Free will is real
• Imagination can change perception of reality on a neural level
• New discovery showing how the nervous system passes information to progeny
• Caitlin Johnstone: On authentic spirituality
• How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
• Stoic practices that can make us happier ...or less unhappy
• Men more likely than women to face mental illness and substance abuse
• Research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
• The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
• What does it mean to suffer consciously?
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Transformation or Degradation? The Many Faces of Suffering
• Illeism: New research finds this ancient rhetorical trick leads to wiser reasoning
• Research reveals majority of atheists believe in a supernatural phenomenon or entity despite their trust in science

• David Paulides: 'Bow hunters are now being found in bizarre circumstances'
• 'Wow, what is that?' Navy pilots report Unexplained Flying Objects
• 'Look at it fly!': Navy pilots report seeing UFOs
• The Paranormal Roots of the Pentagon's UFO Program
• Famed UFO researcher, Stanton Friedman, dead at 84
• Churches combine forces in Rome to learn best exorcism practices because of rise in possession cases
• UFO researcher claims there's an underwater alien base under the Great Lakes
• Best of the Web: What The Hell Is Going On With UFOs And The Department Of Defense?
• 'Yeti' footprint photographed near Nepal Base Camp, says Indian Army
• 'UFO falls from sky' against double rainbow after being 'struck by lightning'
• Secret US aircraft or UFO? San Antonio woman films mysterious 'craft' flying over neighborhood
• Best of the Web: UK police: 'Drone' that shut down Gatwick Airport for days last December 'could see what was happening on runways, was eavesdropping on radio communications'
• From AAWSAP to AATIP: How the Pentagon's UFO program changed names, and focus
• Best of the Web: 26 electricity poles in a row collapse on a street in Seattle for no apparent reason
• Russia's paranormal soldiers and military dolphin telepathy revealed by defense ministry magazine
• Michigan couple says they caught a ghost on camera after finding scratches on baby's face
• Drone films site of mysterious death of Russian hikers 60 years ago as probe reopened
• Helicopter pilot sees UFO through his night vision goggles over Las Vegas
• Oldest pyramid on Earth is hidden in Antarctica, claims researcher
• DNA testing needed to help identify mystery animal that attacked and killed North Carolina teacher

• Hundreds attend wedding ceremony for two frogs in India
• Jonathan Pie: The race to number 10
• 'When has the government ever lied about attacks on ships in a gulf somewhere just to provoke war?' - John Bolton
• Flashback: 50-foot dead parrot placed in Potters Field Park as London celebrates Monty Python reunion
• Vatican announces new changes to the Lord's prayer
• Stunned Finnish Coast Guard spots '3-headed sea monster'... turns out to be a 'Russian yacht'
• Giant 'Yoshi the Fish' helps keep Indian beach clean
• Key asset: Police dog sniffs out car keys lost in woman's backyard
• Google deploys squads to destroy offensive books, videos, websites
• Curious shark checks out swimmer at Panama City, Florida beach
• Hillary refers to herself 106 times during high school graduation speech
• Bolton announces 7 new wars in honor of Memorial Day
• 'Hot podium guy for PM': Twitter hails unlikely successor to Theresa May
• New York Times wins Pulitzer for publishing blatant lies
• Satire: Facebook claims party celebrating Candace Owens's suspension was 'honest mistake'
• "Only we are allowed to spy on people" says Google
• 'Trump, Russia, possible collusion' - fake news pundits' hysteria set to music
• No dairy projectiles: Cops ask McDonald's to halt milkshake sales while Farage is in town
• Puppy-loving president of Turkmenistan gifts military with delightful dogs
• In celebration of Russia's taste for speed and legendary bad roads, 'tractor racing' poised to become 'new national sport'

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