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• Another step toward de-dollarization
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• Pakistan's Senate body passes bill for ban on smoking in cinemas
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• Italian PM Salvini says EU deficit reduction rules limit infrastructure spending which risks lives
• No exceptions: Chain-smoking Italian manager of Chelsea Football Club comes to terms with UK's totalitarian anti-smoking culture
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• What happens when powerful people get scared? Censorship
• Rand Paul interview: Russia promised not to mess with 2018 election
• SOTT Focus: Media Manipulation is Conditioning us With False Narratives
• Beijing, fuming at new US defense bill, warns of interfering in its internal affairs
• NY Times: Sessions sends home a 'record' number of asylum-seekers
• Waterspout splitting in two filmed off Italian coast
• Manafort Trial: US prosecutors rest their case
• Qatar makes a $15B pledge of direct investments in Turkey

• Pepe Escobar: The Caspian sails towards Eurasia integration
• Italian PM Salvini says EU deficit reduction rules limit infrastructure spending which risks lives
• What happens when powerful people get scared? Censorship
• Rand Paul interview: Russia promised not to mess with 2018 election
• SOTT Focus: Media Manipulation is Conditioning us With False Narratives
• Beijing, fuming at new US defense bill, warns of interfering in its internal affairs
• NY Times: Sessions sends home a 'record' number of asylum-seekers
• Manafort Trial: US prosecutors rest their case
• Qatar makes a $15B pledge of direct investments in Turkey
• Remember that time Omarosa was fired from the Clinton White House?
• Russian and Chinese firms targeted over N. Korea sanctions breaches
• Trump strikes back! Revokes arch criminal John Brennan's security clearance (VIDEO)
• Why did PM May tell Parliament the Skripals were "in critical" condition, when they were in fact recovering?
• White House: Bolton to meet Russian counterpart for 'Helsinki summit follow-up'
• Devin Nunes: Clinton campaign colluded with 'nearly every' top official at the DOJ and FBI, media not covering it
• 'Moscow's genius move': Syrian Kurds will join Syrian Army and Russians to cooperate on assault on Idlib
• Turkey green-lights Moscow's proposal for ditching dollar, switching to trading in national currency
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• Crimea ditches Visa and MasterCard in favor of Russia's Mir payment system
• The real reasons the FBI fired Peter Strzok

• The damning Monsanto guilty verdict is just the beginning...
• SOTT Focus: Is There a Hidden Hand Behind The 'Clash of Civilizations' in Europe?
• Seattle police sergeant sentenced to 23 years for repeatedly raping his own children
• Another step toward de-dollarization
• Pakistan's Senate body passes bill for ban on smoking in cinemas
• No exceptions: Chain-smoking Italian manager of Chelsea Football Club comes to terms with UK's totalitarian anti-smoking culture
• Outrage: As if 'straight from Nazi handbook', Aussi MP vows 'final solution' to Muslim immigration
• Omarosa's claim of Trump using the 'n-word' is falling apart very quickly
• Transport Security head claims armed surveillance of innocent flying Americans 'makes a lot of sense'
• Canadian company to use cannabis waste to brew beer
• Small world: Defendant in recent New Mexico terrorism/child abuse is son of a man connected to the infamous "Blind Sheikh's" Brooklyn mosque
• 'Subsidising criminals': Israel's Culture Ministry funds settlers 'squatting illegally' in Palestinian home
• After 15 years of war US changing its tune in Afghanistan as 'barbaric' Taliban becomes bulwark against ISIS
• Work with us or die! Facebook threatens Australian press saying: 'Work with us or end up in a hospice'
• Best of the Web: Now they're censoring censorship? Twitter suspends Alex Jones for tweeting a call to end censorship
• Suicide bomber kills 48, injures 67 in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Oh, the irony! Congressional candidate who fought for strict gun control laws charged with the shooting death of her partner
• San Francisco deploys the Poop Patrol after residents complain about stinky streets
• New report reveals Vatican covered up sex abuse by 300 'predator priests,' 1000s of victims possible
• 'Violence is wrong but motivation matters': CNN continues to defend Antifa violence

• 'Vela incident': Radioactive sheep boost claims of secret Israeli nuke test 39 years ago
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• 2000-year-old Roman shipwreck found off Crimean coast
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• 3,400yo Bronze Age citadel, three times larger than Troy unearthed in Romania
• A Short History of the 20th Century: Bolsheviks Robbed Russia of What Would Have Been 'The Russian Century'
• How Norse Greenlanders once dominated the walrus ivory trade
• SOTT Focus: 'Beacon of liberty': 10 years since Georgia attacked South Ossetia and Russia - not the other way around
• Sub­merged Stone Age set­tle­ment found in south­east Fin­land
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• When Western 'democracies' orchestrate ethnic cleansing: Croatia celebrates the 1995 US-backed horrific genocide against Serbs
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• The truth about the Hamas Charter, its context and significance
• SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Solzhenitsyn's Warning to the West: Why It's Still Relevant Today

• Artificial placenta created in the laboratory
• Scientists find new properties of water
• Auroras discovered around brown dwarfs
• Dormant California supervolcano found to sit atop 240 cubic miles of magma
• Scientists track the speed of death as it moves through a cell
• NASA working to cut dependence on Russia, hopes to still preserve 'unique' space cooperation
• Powerful magnetic field and auroras detected on Brown Dwarf 'star' 20 light years from Earth - Discovery defies (known) astrophysics
• Has Google accidentally revealed secret military base in an abandoned airport in Gobi Desert?
• China investing in infrastructure to build world's longest tunnel link to Taiwan
• Spectacular lightshow or harbinger of doom? 5 facts about tonight's Perseid meteor shower
• 40,000 year old, perfectly preserved foal unearthed from permafrost in Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld'
• New Horizons spacecraft spots wall of hydrogen near edge of Solar System
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• Researchers find sound waves a source of strange 'negative' gravity
• Your brain contains magnetic particles, and scientists want to know why
• New water memory research may lead to a better understanding of Homeopathic medicine
• NASA launches solar probe in daring mission to "touch" our Sun
• China looking for ways to employ Artificial Intelligence to help shape its foreign policy
• Science as social control: Political paralysis and the genetics agenda
• 'Inverse spectre attack': The newest security flaw with Intel processors

• Worst floods in a century kill 67 across Kerala state in India
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• Waterspout splitting in two filmed off Italian coast
• Japan prepares to evacuate Kuchinoerabu island as volcano warning level rises
• Rare mountain tornado touches down near Eagle Nest, New Mexico
• Hundreds of thousands of dead fish discovered in rivers across New Taipei City, Taiwan
• 200 troops deployed to help fight 600 wildfires across British Columbia
• Couple dead, child missing after landslip collapses house in Malappuram, India after heavy rainfall
• Shallow M4.4 earthquake felt across Southern California
• Evacuations, rescues as 'historic' floods hit the US Northeast
• Dust devil sweeps through African town throwing plastic chairs into the air
• Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Are the New Madrid and Alaskan fault zones waking?
• 19 dead following torrential rainfall in Himachal Pradesh, India - Nearly 7 inches of rain in 24 hours
• Strong shallow mag. 6.2 earthquake in the South Sandwich Islands region
• Another dead Cuvier's beaked whale found on beach in Donegal, Ireland - 3rd for the county in recent days
• More than 30 dead harbor seals wash ashore in southern Maine in 2 days
• "Dozens" dead as massive section of motorway bridge collapses during "violent cloudburst" in Genoa, Italy
• 'Unprecedented' flash floods kill dozens in Kerala, India
• Waterspout caught on camera off Long Beach Island, New Jersey
• Another shallow magnitude 6 earthquake hits Alaska - 2nd in under 24 hours

• Loud boom reported by hundreds in Canberra, Australia remains a mystery
• Two mystery bangs heard across Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• Meteor fireball seen over Great Yarmouth, UK
• Mystery explosion that shook walls in Auckland, New Zealand blamed on school fireworks
• Meteor fireball streaks through the night sky above Sydney, Australia
• February 2018 fireball activity higher than previous 5 years of same period combined over Benelux countries
• Spectacular meteor fireball caught on camera as it blazes across Siberia
• Fireball above US base in Greenland puzzles NASA scientist - jokes about 'Russian strike'
• 'Big green' meteor fireball lights up Queensland sky
• Meteor fireball streaks over Melbourne, Australia
• Loud boom heard, felt by some in Charleston, South Carolina
• Stunning meteor fireball flies over the Mediterranean Sea (again)
• Meteor fireball caught on dashcam near Anchorage, Alaska
• Mysterious boom heard in Nanaimo, BC, may have been 'meteor passing overhead' says professor
• Bright meteor fireball recorded over Mediterranean Sea
• Green, blue flash seen on Mars
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• Meteor fireball plunges into Mediterranean sea off the coast of Spain
• Bright meteor fireball streaks over Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
• Meteor fireball seen across US Midwest evening skies

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• 'Lunatic farmer' Joel Salatin: The rise of rogue food
• Italy: Senate overturns mandatory vaccination law, prepares 'freedom of choice' option
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• From the mess hall to your kitchen: How the military played a role in America's obesity crisis

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• SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: The Great Debate: Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson's Epic 4-Night Battle of Ideas
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• Research suggests talk therapy could permanently change depressive personality traits
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• Psychology is undergoing a house cleaning

• Missing 411? Crews search for missing hiker in the North Cascades, Washington
• Aliens blamed for spate of cow mutilations in Argentina after 'strange lights' seen in sky
• 'Alien craft' discovered at the Bermuda Triangle using maps made by NASA astronaut
• Plymouth, UK paranormal investigators receive major spike in calls over June, July
• Reflection in the window or 'Gollum' in Canadian woods?
• 'Gargoyle' seen in eastern Massachusetts
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• Are these UFOs? Eerie videos showing mysterious lights over Chongqing, China
• Missing 411? Search for Colorado hiker continues with K-9 units, aerial support
• Trailer for paranormal documentary 'Hunt For The Skinwalker' released
• Mysterious orb captured in the Cambridgeshire, UK skies
• 2017 UFO survey: 1,101 people reported seeing unusual lights, shapes in Canada's skies
• Mysterious disappearances in Humboldt County, California
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• UK feared Soviets, Chinese would acquire UFO tech according to declassified files
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• New extremist political movement espouses reckless engagement in civil discourse
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• Super blood moon eclipse on July 27th has bible thumpers predicting the apocalypse-rapture-end of days-armageddon, again
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• Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Who Is America?' takes aim at Republicans
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Hmm.... The irony of an authoritarian society It's OK to drink beer, to eat processed food and snacks that are on offer, smoke a bit of weed, but...

Or is this going to give trouble in Idlib?

"Starting in 1977, the government started telling all Americans to eat less fat, and starting in the mid-'80s, we started producing these low-fat...

Hmm dont recall seeing half the US looks like it’s melting last year: [Link]

I posted this comment on another article on SOTT, but I think the comments are valid for a comment to this article, this is the article I...