Electric universe: Lightning strength and frequency increasing

• Work till you die: UK town where life expectancy is lower than planned state pension age
• Whooping cough outbreak in children declared in Canada
• SOTT Focus: Viktor Orban: West Is 'In A War With Russia'
• Belgium won't back EU ban on Russian diamonds, PM says the sanction is 'pointless unless its global'
• Blast reported at military plant in Iran, footage shows multiple explosions & fires at other locations
• New Czech president is a former NATO commander
• Best of the Web: Move over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, media fraud's new king
• Tennessee sheriff opens new investigation into two deputies after Tyre Nichols bodycam video is released
• Best of the Web: Tonic Intersectionality
• Radoslaw Sikorsk, ex-Polish FM names two major Ukrainian problems
• Pentagon think tank warns against 'long war' in Ukraine
• Watchdog accuses Democrat Adam Schiff of violating federal law, House ethics rules
• Georgia governor declares state of emergency over Atlanta protests, mobilizes 1,000 National Guard troops
• Germany apologizes after African Union accuses it of insult
• Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule in Western Australia
• Never forget the Soviet heroes who liberated Auschwitz
• Hillary Clinton boasts of having no classified documents from her time as President
• Pfizer consultant assaults James O'Keefe, Project Veritas journalists after being confronted over comments on 'mutating' COVID-19 virus
• Best of the Web: Humans get sterilised or euthanised when AI is given free rein to 'save planet'
• Mozart Group trains Ukrainians to 'kill Russians' - founder

• SOTT Focus: Viktor Orban: West Is 'In A War With Russia'
• Belgium won't back EU ban on Russian diamonds, PM says the sanction is 'pointless unless its global'
• New Czech president is a former NATO commander
• Radoslaw Sikorsk, ex-Polish FM names two major Ukrainian problems
• Pentagon think tank warns against 'long war' in Ukraine
• Watchdog accuses Democrat Adam Schiff of violating federal law, House ethics rules
• Judge to Biden DHS: Release files on agents who allegedly helped censor election 'misinformation'
• FBI seizes Biden's notebooks - NBC
• Moscow expels Latvian ambassador
• 'Maybe Germany is at war with Russia. Good luck, maybe this time it will turn out better than WWII' - Croatia's president
• Trump 'not far away from truth' in suggesting US could end Ukraine conflict - Kremlin
• Kim Jong-Un's sister says Western weapons in Ukraine will get turned 'into scrap', N. Korea will always stand 'in the trenches' with Russia
• Turkish officials call Pompeo a LIAR and say he had a 'meltdown' outside Erdogan's door
• The Kiev Purge: What has spurred a wave of resignations among senior Ukrainian officials?
• Russian media watchdog takes on CIA website
• Mark Zuckerberg to end suspension of Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram
• Israel said to rebuff US request for old anti-aircraft missiles to give to Ukraine
• No shame: US official Vicky 'f*ck the EU' Nuland praises Nord Stream 2 destruction
• 'Doomsday clock': 90 seconds to midnight
• Warmongers 101 - Who is the Institute for the Study of War?

• Work till you die: UK town where life expectancy is lower than planned state pension age
• Blast reported at military plant in Iran, footage shows multiple explosions & fires at other locations
• Best of the Web: Move over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, media fraud's new king
• Tennessee sheriff opens new investigation into two deputies after Tyre Nichols bodycam video is released
• Georgia governor declares state of emergency over Atlanta protests, mobilizes 1,000 National Guard troops
• Germany apologizes after African Union accuses it of insult
• Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule in Western Australia
• Pfizer consultant assaults James O'Keefe, Project Veritas journalists after being confronted over comments on 'mutating' COVID-19 virus
• Mozart Group trains Ukrainians to 'kill Russians' - founder
• Some thoughts on Project Veritas' Pfizer scoop
• Zookeeper mauled to death by brown bear in Uzbekistan
• Russia didn't blow up gas pipeline - Nord Stream boss
• UK's Ukrainian refugees complain about 'skin colour' of local ethnic minorities - Channel 4 News reports
• Red states slap Biden administration with lawsuit over climate friendly retirement fund rules
• DeSantis proposes making child rapists eligible for execution, allowing death penalty without unanimous jury
• Death toll rises to 10 following Israeli army 'massacre' in Jenin
• Not your imagination: Elon Musk confirms secret Twitter labels are still causing shadow bans against conservatives
• 'Who is DirecTV protecting?': Newsmax host Salcedo blasts DirecTV over end of service
• Tucker Carlson: US should 'liberate Canada from Trudeau'
• Cashless society: Big banks prepare to launch digital wallet to compete with Apple Pay and PayPal

• Never forget the Soviet heroes who liberated Auschwitz
• Archaeologist hails possibly 'oldest' mummy yet found in Egypt
• Russian POW recalls horrors of Nazi death camp in declassified papers
• 52-foot-long Book of the Dead papyrus from ancient Egypt discovered at Saqqara
• The hidden truth about the war in Ukraine
• Feminism was never about equality: The true history of a movement dominated by male-hating zealots
• 11,000-year-old human remains discovered in northern Britain
• 5000-year-old stoneware workshop found in Iran
• Archaeologists shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
• Child buried with 142 dogs in Ancient Egyptian Necropolis
• World's oldest runestone found in Norway
• Under Nazi siege: How Saint Petersburg survived the bloodiest blockade in human history
• Most humans haven't evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates
• Fathers have been older than mothers for the past 250,000 years, study finds
• Viktor Medvedchuk: Total Western support for Zelensky tells us that the US and NATO don't want peace in Ukraine
• First cousin marriages frequent in Minoan Crete, ancient DNA analysis reveals
• 5,000 year-old mass grave of decapitated skeletons found in Slovakia
• Ceramic production came to Europe through Siberia, study of ancient pottery reveals
• Things we should understand: The aristocracy is eating the peasants
• Flashback: Confession of a CIA agent: They gave us millions to dismember Yugoslavia

• Best of the Web: Humans get sterilised or euthanised when AI is given free rein to 'save planet'
• T-1000 soon? Scientists create shapeshifting humanoid robot that can liquefy and reform
• Car-size laser used to deflect lightning atop Swiss mountain
• Microsoft announces new multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
• Asteroid to come exceedingly close to Earth, but NASA says it will miss
• NASA and DARPA collaborating on a nuclear-powered rocket for quick trips to Mars
• James Webb Space Telescope discovers coldest interstellar ice ever seen
• Study finds sea spiders can regrow whole body parts, not just limbs
• Record-breaking detection of radio signal from atomic hydrogen in extremely distant galaxy
• A seismic climate connection?
• Monster meteorite found in Antarctica is among the largest in 100 years
• The Green Games: Hydrogen will not save us. Here's why.
• 'Anti-tail' appears on Comet E3 ZTF, becomes visible to unaided eye 1 week earlier than expected
• Light pollution worsening, new study reveals
• New brain research appears to support free will
• A 500-year-old 'paradox' by Leonardo da Vinci has finally been solved, study says
• 'Universal language network' identified in the brain
• Amateur astronomers find glowing gas arc near Andromeda
• Scientists steer lightning bolts with lasers for the first time
• Sweden opens first satellite launch port on EU mainland

• Snow closes a number of roads on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, Spain
• 3-meter-high flood submerges Indonesia's North Sulawesi, 1 killed
• Flash flood in Maui, Hawaii after rainfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour
• The new year begins with a high number of manatee deaths (56) across Florida
• Diver killed in brutal shark attack after predator 'rips head and shoulders off' in Mexico
• Mysterious white spots are appearing in the ocean and nobody knows why
• New Zealand - State of Emergency as record rain causes flood havoc in Auckland - 10 inches of rain in 18 hours
• More than 4,000 displaced by floods in Johor and Pahang, Malaysia - 17 inches of rain in 24 hours (UPDATE)
• Rare outbreak of polar stratospheric clouds photographed in Iceland, NASA confirms sightings occurred alongside sudden temperature drop
• Algeria witnesses rare snowfall
• Two brothers killed by avalanche while heli-skiing in southeastern British Columbia
• Cyclone Cheneso hits Madagascar - 4 dead, 14 missing with over 15,000 affected - roads to capital destroyed
• Heavy snowfall continues, mercury drops below zero in many parts of Japan - 5 feet of snow dumped
• Indonesia - Sumatra Island floods leave 3 dead and 15,000 homes damaged
• Lowest temperature recorded in China's northernmost city
• 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits Campo Gallo, Argentina - 2nd major quake in area in 4 days
• Temperatures in northern hemisphere due to fall over next 25 years, according to six top international scientists
• Best of the Web: Polar freeze in Spain brings temperatures of -15°C and snow in Ibiza
• Heavy snow causes disruption in Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Mallorca
• 7-year-old boy dies after being attacked by dogs in Fort Hall, Idaho

• Meteor fireball over UK on January 24
• Meteor fireball over Oklahoma and over states on January 20
• Meteor fireball over Valencia, Spain (Jan. 19)
• Meteor fireball over Spain and Morocco (Jan. 16)
• Meteor fireball over Washington state on January 17
• Meteor fireball over Oklahoma and over states on January 17
• Meteor fireball over the Gulf of Cádiz, Spain (Jan. 15)
• Meteor fireball over the south of Spain (Jan. 11)
• Meteor fireball over Oklahoma and Texas on January 11
• Meteor fireball over England and Wales on January 9
• Meteor fireball over northern Italy on January 5
• Meteor fireball over Alabama and Florida on December 27
• Meteor fireball over France and 5 adjacent countries on December 26
• Meteor fireball over Georgia and 2 other states on December 24
• Meteor fireball over Missouri and other states on December 23
• Meteor fireball over Alaska on December 21
• Meteor fireball over southern Spain (Dec. 17)
• Dazzling meteor fireball illuminates night sky and falls onto village in China
• Best of the Web: Meteoroid hit suspected after major leak reported on Soyuz space capsule
• Bright meteor fireball over the Atlantic Ocean (Dec. 9)

• Whooping cough outbreak in children declared in Canada
• CDC aware of hundreds of safety signals for COVID jab
• UK deaths 26% higher than pre-pandemic levels - mRNA shots are the leading suspect
• 12 children die from mysterious illness in Ivory Coast
• Ivermectin efficacy finally proven in 'gold-standard' RCT - Prof Colleen Aldous
• DMT - the potent psychedelic in Ayahuasca - treats depression after a SINGLE dose, cutting-edge clinical trial shows
• Compound found in eggs linked to an enhanced risk of blood clotting
• The link between the massive drop in birth rates and mRNA vaccines is undeniable
• Fauci knew boosters could cause immune tolerance; pushed for them anyway
• Unequivocal safety signals for heart, blood and reproduction found in yellow card vaccine data, says top scientist - "withdraw them immediately"
• Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
• NHS Director confirms hospitals lied about cause of death to create illusion of COVID pandemic
• What your poop says about your health
• The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal
• CDC and FDA investigating link between Pfizer's bivalent COVID-19 shot and strokes
• Japan's experts baffled by high 'Covid' deaths from heart problems despite high vaccination rate
• FDA vaccine committee member calls for end to mass Covid vaccination
• Red Alert: Pharma plots to inject livestock with mRNA 'vaccines', likely to end up in food supply
• Senior Swedish doctors: Covid vaccines are "obviously dangerous" and should be halted immediately
• Excess deaths need proper investigation, not the BBC's guessing games

• Best of the Web: Tonic Intersectionality
• Near-death research slowly fills in the picture
• Brain area necessary for fluid intelligence identified
• Jordan Peterson against the spirit of totalitarianism
• Is life after death incompatible with physics?
• Pre-schoolers, puppets and promise: More evidence kids are smarter than you think
• We are at a metaphysical nexus
• Pope Benedict on intelligent design and the dangers of Darwinian materialism
• Religion is different
• Are plants conscious? Science writer says yes
• The WEF isn't a cabal, it's a cult
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Does Free Will Exist? Yes, Obviously - and Other Answers to Big Questions
• Danger-zone Psychopathy
• The Left's Grasp
• Zooming our way into oblivion
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Big Questions, Consciousness, and Gurdjieff - A Talk with Alan Francis
• David Ray Griffin (1939-2022). The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Gurdjieff, Death, and Help for the Dead with Joseph Azize
• Entire gender industry based on failed study that disproved scientist's theory: Psychiatrist
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Esoteric Christianity: A Glimpse into Theosophia

• Metallic-looking orb is seen flying over Iraqi city of Mosul in 2016 - first ever publicly revealed UFO footage taken by US spy plane in a conflict zone
• Best of the Web: US govt receives more than 350 new UFO reports, mostly from US military personnel
• 'We have nothing' showing UFOs are of alien origin, says US Defense official
• Residents in rural Wisconsin share extraordinary videos of possible UFO sighting
• US nuclear submarine 'buzzed by underwater object' traveling 'faster than speed of sound': Scientist
• Mystery of History - Flight 19, the lost squadron
• UFO releasing smaller UFOs over the Moon?
• FBI conducts "no-knock warrant" at home of owner of website devoted to Area 51
• Prepare for alien encounter now before it's too late, warn scientists
• New documentary reveals people claim they saw aliens after UFO crash-landed in Brazil in 1996
• NASA announces 16 people who will study UFOs to see what's natural—and what isn't
• Dramatic videos of UFOs over the Pacific are revealed by airline captains and Air Force pilots
• Government report claims 'cosmic' and 'phantom' UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies
• Best of the Web: Navy warns watchdog site releasing all UFO videos would 'harm national security'
• 2 separate Bigfoot sightings reported in South Carolina this year
• UFO shot down an ICBM in 1964 claims alleged witness
• Congress implies UFOs have non-human origins
• 'Best' UFO picture ever, the Calvine photo, found after 30 years missing
• Richard Dolan: UFO behavior and abductions
• Internet abuzz after mysterious red lights spotted in Atlantic ocean

• Hillary Clinton boasts of having no classified documents from her time as President
• U.S. tanks in Ukraine already destroyed after being easily recognized by their rainbow camouflage
• Send Cash: Ukraine begs Canada not to donate Canadian military tanks
• Unemployment among talking candies hits record high under Biden administration
• Gavin Newsom caught at French Laundry eating eggs cooked on gas stove
• Meet Kamala Harris's 6-Year-Old Speechwriter
• Al Gore again warns the Earth will not make it past the year 2012
• Confusion as politician not doing everything to cling onto power
• Biden calls for two weeks of not cooking on gas stoves to 'flatten the curve'
• Biden says he's unaware of any classified docs, or who he is, or why he's sitting in this oval-shaped office
• 'California is the state of freedom,' says man who locked everyone in their homes for 2 years
• Brigitte Macron backed an 'erect phallus with golden balls' as the new spire for Notre Dame cathedral, France's former culture minister claims
• Experts say they don't know what thing is causing suddenly collapse, but it's definitely not that one thing
• Biden declares the southern border as secure as America's elections
• Coal miner feels 'really sorry' for congressmen having to do all this hard work lately
• Nation in shock as politicians show up to work 4 days in a row
• Adam Kinzinger's mom lets him open one Jan 6th present in Jan 6th eve
• Republican approval rating at all-time high after bringing Congress to grinding halt
• FBI to host annual Jan 6 reunion
• Finally, a good law! Kyrgyzstan bans performers from lip-synching at state, public events

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