• 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits western Japan, no tsunami warning issued
• Kiev demands Israel-style security guarantees
• Red states fight growing efforts to give 'basic income' cash to residents
• John Kiriakou: NATO is losing the proxy war against Russia, so expect a surge in false-flag terrorism
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• The end of the Neo-Liberal Order
• New NPR CEO gave Ted Talk asserting "truth" is a "distraction"
• 'Googlers against genocide': Tech workers protest AI and cloud contracts with Israel
• Food is now an investment - here's why inflation isn't going away anytime soon
• 2009 US policy paper planned current Israeli-Iranian tensions
• This major pillar of Western civilization is crumbling. Here's why
• House Republicans walk over Alejandro Mayorkas' impeachment articles
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• A turf war threatens to break out after the EU takes the Irish government to court
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• Flashback Best of the Web: 'Fortress of Zion': Israel's underground military command bunkers buried beneath Tel Aviv
• Founder of Telegram says US government wanted 'backdoor' to app
• Iran's 'new equation' reaches way beyond West Asia
• Checkmate

• Kiev demands Israel-style security guarantees
• John Kiriakou: NATO is losing the proxy war against Russia, so expect a surge in false-flag terrorism
• Best of the Web: The Great Dispossession: Part 1
• Best of the Web: Middle East redefined: Iran's retaliatory attack on Israel signaled a major change in the region
• 2009 US policy paper planned current Israeli-Iranian tensions
• This major pillar of Western civilization is crumbling. Here's why
• House Republicans walk over Alejandro Mayorkas' impeachment articles
• Flashback Best of the Web: 'Fortress of Zion': Israel's underground military command bunkers buried beneath Tel Aviv
• Founder of Telegram says US government wanted 'backdoor' to app
• Iran's 'new equation' reaches way beyond West Asia
• Checkmate
• Neil Oliver: A Madness That's Growing!!!
• New Zealand's MPs claim online harassment rising, cite lockdowns and vaccine mandates as primary reasons, study reveals
• Telegram founder: Apple, Google more dangerous than gov'ts; Jan 6 data demands; company has no ties to Russian gov't
• Iran's President warns of 'massive' response if Israel launches even the 'tiniest invasion'
• US told Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries - WaPo
• Ukrainian link to Moscow terror attack 'confirmed' - Russia's security chief
• Zelensky signs draconian mobilization bill
• Jonathan Turley: A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump - an embarrassment for the New York legal system
• Iran on the rise: Retaliation, 'important military targets'

• Red states fight growing efforts to give 'basic income' cash to residents
• The end of the Neo-Liberal Order
• New NPR CEO gave Ted Talk asserting "truth" is a "distraction"
• 'Googlers against genocide': Tech workers protest AI and cloud contracts with Israel
• Food is now an investment - here's why inflation isn't going away anytime soon
• A turf war threatens to break out after the EU takes the Irish government to court
• An ultra-Orthodox ultimatum, and the future of the 'Jewish' state
• Transport Minister threatens Germans with an "indefinite weekend driving ban" to meet mandated emissions targets
• Veteran editor Uri Berliner, who blew whistle on liberal bias at NPR, has been suspended
• Odessa University boss says Ukrainians 'beginning to dislike' US
• Who is funding this chaos? Anti-Israel protesters block highways near O'Hare Airport, shut down Golden Gate Bridge
• Leaked NYT Gaza memo instructs 'journalists' to avoid words "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," and "occupied territory"
• Who (or what) are these people, anyway?
• Best of the Web: Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames, cause of fire unknown
• 3 bomb attacks in 1 night in Belgium, thought to be linked to drug gangs
• US pharmaceutical drug shortages worst on record
• Fire breaks out at US ammunition factory
• Facebook censors Climate: The Movie after 'fact check' by science feedback
• Abu Ghraib survivors to get their day in court
• Crib notes for the Trial of the Century

• Flashback Best of the Web: The dark origins of the Davos Great Reset
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• Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city
• The Milky Way illuminated ancient Egypt's goddess of the sky
• 'Intriguing' evidence of female mobility during the 630AD Christian Conversion Period
• Roman cavalry parade helmet recreated
• Newly discovered prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred Christian site in Lincolnshire
• Archaeologists probe claims of giant skeletons in Nevada caves
• A 130,000-year-old stingray sand sculpture maybe the world's oldest animal art
• A circular building with six towers of the Achaemenid period discovered in Iran
• Links between elusive Denisovans and China's 150,000-year-old 'dragon man' found in new study
• NATO's illegal 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia 'a huge tragedy' - Putin
• Human activity on Curaçao began centuries earlier than previously believed
• 4,000-year-old teeth highlight the harm agricultural diets have had on humans over the centuries
• Plant material on obsidian blades on Rapa Nui suggests settlers there visited South America and returned
• Best of the Web: The ruins of Yugoslavia: How Russia learned that NATO poses a serious threat
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• 'Honey glazed venison': The surprisingly sophisticated lives of the stilt-house, marshland dwellers of England 3,000 years ago
• 8,200-yr-old rice pollen found in China may be oldest evidence of rice cultivation yet
• 7,000-year-old canoes reveal early development of nautical technology in Mediterranean

• Observation of the Earth shows that deforestation and urbanization cause three times more warming than CO2
• 2,000-foot-wide 'city-killer' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth
• Is Natural Law irreducible?
• Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered 'extremely close' to Earth
• Rogue waves: Southern Ocean expedition reveals wind as key cause, phenomenon occurs more frequently than thought
• UK scrambles to fit DragonFire laser 'death ray' onto warships
• Defunct Russian satellite escapes crash with US Timed satellite by just 10 metres
• Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes "as big as millstones"
• New analytic technique sheds light on memory and learning
• New paper finds effect of human-caused carbon emissions on climate is 'non-discernible'
• Is your DNA an EMF antenna?
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• Airbursts: An underappreciated hazard
• 'Internet of Bodies may lead to Internet of Brains' by 2050: RAND
• The 'Devil Comet' is now a naked eye object
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• Speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans, new study reveals
• Scientists search for mysterious 'ghost particles'
• Why NASA will fire three rockets at the solar eclipse
• Wild bird seen to gesture "after you"

• 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits western Japan, no tsunami warning issued
• Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupts, forces evacuation of 800 to nearby Islands
• Colorado sees nearly 3 feet of April snow after Denver hits 80-degree mark
• Best of the Web: Dubai submerged in floods as United Arab Emirates gets over year and a half's worth of rain in 24 hours
• Toddler killed, mauled by 3 dogs at babysitter's Duncanville home in Texas
• Storm-related incidents kill 41 people across Pakistan, including 28 by lightning strikes
• Tanzania floods kill 58 in 2 weeks
• Storm leaves 5 people dead and infrastructure flood damaged in Margate, South Africa
• Large rock avalanche on Piz Scerscen in Switzerland
• At least 66 killed in Afghanistan as heavy rains set off flash floods (UPDATE)
• Congo landslide caused by heavy rains kills at least 15 and up to 60 others are missing
• 6.5-magnitude earthquake hits Papua New Guinea: USGS
• Residents evacuated as flood waters rise in western Finland
• Flash floods hit Oman - at least 18 killed (UPDATES)
• Symbolism? Bald eagle eats 2 of its hatchlings in West Virginia
• Toddler mauled to death by stray dogs in Hyderabad, India
• 18 killed as landslide hits Indonesia's South Sulawesi
• Huge sinkhole causes closure of Illinois 185 southeast of Hillsboro
• Heavy snow blankets Khalkhal, northwestern Iran, during spring
• Hawaii's Kauai Island swamped by flash flooding after a foot of rain in 12 hours

• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and New York on April 16
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 6 other states on April 16
• Meteor fireball over Arizona and 3 other states on April 17
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and nearby states on April 14
• Meteor fireball over Shetland, Scotland on April 13
• Stunning meteor fireball over Spain (April 14)
• Meteor fireball over Spain (April 11)
• Meteor fireball streaks across the sky of 8 Brazilian cities on April 10
• Meteor fireball over the Netherlands and nearby countries on April 10
• Meteor fireball over New Jersey and nearby states on April 10
• Meteor fireball over New Mexico and Nevada on April 2
• Meteor fireball over the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium on April 2
• Meteor fireball over New Zealand on March 29
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 2 nearby states on March 25
• Meteor fireball crosses the sky of 5 cities in the southern region of Brazil on March 26
• Huge blue meteor fireball lights up Spain's night sky on March 22
• Meteor fireball over Italy and nearby countries on March 23
• Meteor fireball seen on video falling just south of Galveston, Texas on March 19
• Bright meteor fireball crosses the sky of 10 cities in the northeast of Brazil on March 18
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and nearby states on March 19

• How Ivermectin trials were designed to fail
• Did highly toxic 'blue' vaccine batches contain Pfizer, not BioNTech, mRNA?
• Now that puberty blockers have been banned, it's time to ban Covid vaccines for children too
• PFAS exposure from high-seafood diets may be underestimated, finds study
• CDC has quietly admitted to Covid policy failures
• As an epidemiologist, I could see straight away that Covid was being over-hyped
• Dr. Pierre Kory: FDA & CDC destroyed Ivermectin to inject CV19 bioweapon vax
• Chicago migrant shelter reports tuberculosis outbreak following measles reports
• Poor Sleep Causes Toxic Brain Buildup, Exercise May Help Detoxify and Reduce Sleep Debt
• Best of the Web: Doctors report mysterious worldwide cancer 'epidemic'
• Moderna vaccine recipients have greater risk of developing chronic condition: study
• Neurological conditions #1 cause of disease worldwide, major US study reveals
• Does time-restricted eating increase the risk of cardiovascular death?
• Best of the Web: Ivermectin could be a 'powerful drug' for fighting cancer, here's why
• Workout in a pill? Scientists move one step closer to an exercise-mimicking drug
• FDA loses its war on Ivermectin: Must remove all related social media content and consumer advisories
• Risks associated with blood transfusions from Covid mRNA vaccinated individuals exposed in new study from Japan
• Biden DOJ asks supreme court to toss abortion pill restrictions
• Best of the Web: 'Deep genetic and cellular changes relating to detoxification' found in tissue of tobacco smokers
• Global cancer phenomenon: UK, Japan, South Africa, among dozens of countries suffering 'mystery' spikes of tumors

• How to spot the next mania: Each new panic follows the same playbook
• Flashback Best of the Web: Israel's Biblical Psychopathy
• Snakes in the grass
• The new (hard) science of death
• Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it, study in mice finds
• A philosopher investigates near-death experiences
• New study suggests 'woke' people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed
• What deathbed visions teach us about living
• Best of the Web: How to Fight the Censorship Mindset
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Woke Psychopathology Taxonomy with David Abramowitz
• The recognition of reality destroys the dystopian dreams of The Borg
• Optimistic mindset linked to poor decision-making
• Embracing realism with an attitude of pessimism and a foreboding sense of fatalism
• John Sailer: The DEI rollback
• A nation of non-compliers
• Resilience is a skill that can be cultivated, a psychologist explains
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: From Archons to the Matrix: Understanding American Gnosis with Arthur Versluis
• The time traveling mistake we make when we procrastinate
• Research shows that sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men
• Gladness and silence amid chaos and violence

• The Pentagon's new UAP report is seriously flawed
• Western US residents report the most UFO sightings
• French couple 'disappears' while hiking in Madeira - Portuguese island records 6 'missing tourist' cases in 3 years
• Flashback Alienated: Peter Levenda on the alien 'threat' narrative
• Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies publishes pattern study 1945-1975 military and public activities
• The unexplained: Giant Swedish archive logs paranormal phenomena
• The Pentagon's new historical review of UFOs picks and chooses its history
• Veteran paratrooper reveals British special forces recovered downed UFO in northern England in late 1980s
• Forget UFOs, ex-US Navy officer warns of unidentified underwater objects
• Mysterious 'drones' swarmed Langley AFB for weeks
• Pentagon's flawed UFO report demands congressional action
• US scrapped plans to create program for reverse engineering UFOs, Pentagon report says
• AARO Report: Flawed, unresponsive, clueless, and knavish
• Canadian government's top science advisor provides update on official UFO study
• Concerns grow over UFO pushback effort, while whistleblowers remain silenced
• Video shows Ukrainian soldiers' sighting of mysterious UFO-shaped object in sky
• Future of Rep. Turner in question after rare public statement on national security threat, amid continued dismissal of UFOs
• Govt whistleblower reveals he watched infamous Big Sur UFO film
• Major airport crowned 'UFO hotspot' after countless strange sightings
• Couple captures image of 'flying saucer' on road trip: 'You had to see it to believe it'

• Biden throws tantrum after being called from beach just because World War 3 starting
• Biden retaliates against Iran by attaching note to pallet of cash that says 'Please Do Not Use For Terrorism'
• White House: Inflation numbers are great if you hold the chart upside down
• Roger, too playful to be drug-sniffing canine, becomes star of Taiwan quake response
• Judge orders Trump to stop noticing that the people trying to jail him are Democrats
• Trump ups Mar-A-Lago worth to $500M by hanging up 3 Hunter Biden paintings
• DeSantis turfed from Republican party for accomplishing too many things
• Trump announces he will pay entire NYC bond with bags of nickels
• Manual of the freedom-loving, democracy-admiring American citizen
• Illegal immigrants politely decline free flight on a Boeing
• Terrorists cancel plane hijack after realizing it's a Boeing
• Boeing share price rises on news they're ruthless enough to potentially murder whistleblowers
• White House explains Capitol security fence keeps president from wandering off grounds during speech
• Democracy suffers major blow - Supreme Court rules voters can vote for favorite candidate
• Russian soldier thanks Biden for sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine
• Biden arrives at border to address his voters
• Hunter Biden jealous after Don Jr. receives envelope of white powder
• New York prosecutes couple for fraud for listing their house at$499,000 after it sells for $485,000
• Trump indicted for removing mattress tag in 1997
• 'Trump is the greatest threat to America,' says man overseeing invasion of America

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H. L. Mencken

I wouldn't be surprised if Katherine turns out to be trans.

"Putting NATO forces directly in conflict with Russian forces - I think that would be a dangerous escalation," British Foreign Secretary David...

The neo-liberal order is simply transforming into a totalitarian technocratic dictatorship. Let's see, we can call it the "freedom from life", the...

I am sure Iran, Russia, China are aware of this "strategy", which is why it is failing.