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• Putin: Russia is prepared to extend New START arms treaty w/o conditions or further discussion
• Devin Nunes sues CNN for 'demonstrably false' Ukraine report
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• Media linking NHS leak to Russia is absurd, but using the Atlantic Council & Ben Nimmo as the source is journalistic malpractice
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• Putin: Russia is prepared to extend New START arms treaty w/o conditions or further discussion
• Devin Nunes sues CNN for 'demonstrably false' Ukraine report
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• Israel: President Rivlin considering pardoning Netanyahu, strings attached
• Barr disputes major Horowitz finding based on Durham, CIA evidence
• Putin: 'Bulgaria is deliberately holding up TurkStream gas pipeline extension to Serbia'
• Iranian President Rohani: Release 'innocent' unarmed protesters
• The '80s called! Impeachment witness Karlan mocked for suggesting Ukrainians are helping prevent Russian invasion of US
• India "Keenly Watching" China's Presence In Indian Ocean: Navy Chief
• Another 'deplorables' moment? Buttigieg calls all Trump supporters racist
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• US Navy seizes suspected Iranian missile parts set for Yemen
• Den of vipers: Netanyahu's top aides indicted on corruption charges
• Pelosi: Full speed ahead with articles of impeachment against Trump
• Betraying the Constitution: Who will protect us from the unpatriotic Patriot Act?

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• Extinction Rebellion brutally mocked after 'bee' activists glue themselves to Liberal Democrat's electric bus
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• Australian court to decide whether Indigenous people can be deported via citizenship test
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• India: Woman's charred body found in West Bengal's Malda; rape suspected
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• 'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users
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• Ancient Egyptian High Priest hid mummies from grave robbers during Kingdom's decline
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• A 1970 law led to the mass sterilization of Native American women. That history still matters
• Long-lost overpainted portrait reveals young Queen Elizabeth I
• 8,000-year-old stone structure unearthed on Turkish island
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• Two lion cub mummies discovered in Egypt for the first time
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• Flashback: The 'mosque to commerce' - ISLAMIC architectural features were incorporated into World Trade Center destroyed on 9/11
• US DOJ ignored allegations that Cheney's Halliburton paid bribes to obtain Venezuelan oil contracts
• Impact crater in Australia happened far more recently

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• Accessing higher-energy light to fight cancer
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• 'Deliberate falsehood': Scientists shred Chinese CRISPR babies experiment after leak of unpublished research
• Certain brain regions smaller among women using birth control pills
• France's armed forces minister: How Artificial Intelligence figures into operational superiority
• Study shows electric cars become practically useless in cold weather
• Researchers successfully create artificial neurons that behave like real ones
• Some say transhumanism may hold key to eternal life - but others correctly point out its problems and ethical dilemmas
• Scientists are playing sounds underwater to bring dead coral reefs back to life
• Climate change delusions are undermining science
• Stars seen slinging comets at Earth for the first time
• New circuit a step toward purely magnetic computers
• Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally Identified as new species
• Music therapy: Underwater loudspeakers could help restore damaged coral reefs
• Living in the Mootrix: Russian cows try out VR headsets to lighten their mood
• Researchers discover mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA
• Astronomers locate a galaxy containing three supermassive black holes at the center
• How the sun affects temperatures on Earth: Interview with Professor Valentina Zharkova
• Best of the Web: Design from the beginning: It didn't take long for animals to master physics and engineering

• SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - November 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
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• Climate engineering no longer a conspiracy theory
• Deadly floods and landslides in Uganda - at least 5 dead, 38 missing
• Michigan's snow season already adding up, one location almost at 5 FEET of snow
• Planetary wave supercharges extremely rare southern noctilucent clouds event
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• Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Unthinkably rare climate events are the new normal globally
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• Hungry brown bear breaks into house, devours man and his dog in Irkutsk, Siberia
• Giant waterspout filmed off Loiza, Puerto Rico
• Floods, landslides kill at least 132 in Kenya
• Typhoon Kammuri slams into Philippines, half-million people in evacuation centers, 17 killed - UPDATE
• 2 feet of new snow in Sierra, 6 feet in a week above Tahoe
• Ice Age Farmer Report: ONE-TWO PUNCH: 2020 Spring floods - #NoPlant20? - Farmers under surveillance
• 27 dead in Tamil Nadu, India after days of heavy rain
• Snow cover reaches early-December record in Lower 48 U.S. states after back-to-back storms
• Three people missing after giant 100ft sinkhole swallows up lorry and scooter in Guangzhou, China
• Shallow magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile

• Bright meteor fireball streaks through night sky over Alabama
• ANOTHER large asteroid, discovered last week, to make Earth fly-by on Friday
• Best of the Web: Astronomers suspect 2016 meteor fireball event in Australia was caused by asteroid that had been 'captured' by Earth's gravity
• SOTT Focus: Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle
• Night sky lit up by apparent meteor over Camarillo, California
• Marlboro, New Jersey's late-night mysterious booms remain unexplained
• Flash of light, window-shaking boom heard in Peru, Illinois
• Mysterious 'fireball' streaks across Oregon sky, leaves cops scratching their heads
• 'Boom!' Sonoma Valley, California residents look to skies for answer following nocturnal noises
• Meteor fireball videoed over Lake Mendota, Wisconsin
• Gigantic, 500ft asteroid to fly past Earth on Monday & come back in 7 years
• Meteor fireball lights up night sky over northern New England
• Meteor fireball lights up sky in Costa Del Sol, Spain
• More incoming: NASA detects three asteroids currently approaching Earth
• They just keep coming! NASA tracking THREE asteroids headed this way, two spotted just 2 days ago
• Kilkenny, Ireland early risers spot giant meteor fireball in the frosty sky
• Leonid meteor shower light up night sky with spectacular shooting stars
• Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid could hit Earth in 2022
• Amateur Crimean astronomer discovers new comet in solar system: C2019V1 (Borisov)
• Spectacular meteor fireball caught on camera above St. Louis, Missouri - Event seen from across US Midwest

• Stress in early life may extend lifespan
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• Canadian firm launches class-action lawsuit against Bayer
• Study outlines concerns around natural psychoactive substances
• A wicked cocktail of corporate greed, social media and opioids is slashing US life expectancy rates
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• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health: #38 - The Failed Medical System
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• Careless medical mistakes that have even cost people their lives
• 'There's something terribly wrong': Americans are dying young at alarming rates
• FDA shocking study: Cells used in vaccines contaminated with serious viruses including cancer
• Meat is crucial for feeding the planet, and going vegan is not more green, say scientists
• Nursery goes entirely vegan, but not everyone is happy
• HIV-positive sperm bank opens in New Zealand
• Flashback: Facebook bans all content on vaccine awareness, including ingredients, injury and industry collusion
• More polio cases are now caused by vaccine than by wild virus
• Cargill's GMO stevia hoodwinks consumers

• A surefire cure for despair
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• Study: Autistic adults who were not diagnosed until later in life grew up believing they were 'bad people'

• UFO hunter claims spike in sightings of 'snake-like objects' in US skies - speculation runs rampant
• Area 51 and CIA vets reveal what Cold War-era radar-tricking program has to do with recent UFO sightings
• Ontario, Canada: Internet puzzled by mysterious howls coming from the woods
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• 'Seinfeld' actor Charles Levin's death details leave Oregon police baffled
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• Missing 411: 'Expert' hiker found dead at bottom of Appalachian Trail embankment
• 'UFO crashed after battle with red object in Australian sky', locals claim
• US Army announces agreement with To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science to study 'mystery materials' of unexplained origin
• Bigfoot prints found in western North Carolina?
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• UFO? Lantern? Mysterious light seen on Lincolnshire, UK coast

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