For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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- Nancy Pelosi: There will be 'collateral damage' to those who disagree with us
- Russia to take 'military-technical' measures if US continues breaking treaties - Russian Deputy FM
- The Deep State was revealed this week - did you notice?
- Ex-State Dept. worker gets 26 years for child porn
- Study finds Mars' salty water likely to have enough oxygen to support life
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- A murder in the consulate: Jamal Khashoggi timeline
- SOTT Focus: 700 Hostages Taken by ISIS Under US Military Watch? America's Spiteful Efforts to Prevent Syria's Recovery
- Bolton: Russia's position is clearly understood but US has yet to finalize its position on START treaty
- Analyst: A US pullout from INF treaty may prompt other countries to revise military plans
- Two US warships enter Taiwan Strait as feud with China over 'freedom of navigation' escalates
- Senior FBI official caught accepting gifts from journalists but "criminal prosecution was declined"?
- All you need to know about the Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia that Trump wants to quit
- Beijing slams Trump's plan to ditch 'crucial' INF treaty, bodes 'multilateral negative effect'
- The Khashoggi murder exposes Trump admin's dependency on Saudis
- Saudi Arabia claims scandal over Khashoggi killing won't trigger oil crisis
- Professor gives reasons why Trump's exit of INF treaty focuses in-part on China
- Pompeo slammed by China after he warns Latin America against Asian powerhouse
- Syria: The US military has disabled Russian signaling devices for the first time
- Three-finger salute: The little-known story of ctrl+alt+del
- Nancy Pelosi: There will be 'collateral damage' to those who disagree with us
- Russia to take 'military-technical' measures if US continues breaking treaties - Russian Deputy FM
- The Deep State was revealed this week - did you notice?
- Ex-State Dept. worker gets 26 years for child porn
- USA - Has America become a dictatorship disguised as a democracy?
- A murder in the consulate: Jamal Khashoggi timeline
- SOTT Focus: 700 Hostages Taken by ISIS Under US Military Watch? America's Spiteful Efforts to Prevent Syria's Recovery
- Bolton: Russia's position is clearly understood but US has yet to finalize its position on START treaty
- Analyst: A US pullout from INF treaty may prompt other countries to revise military plans
- Two US warships enter Taiwan Strait as feud with China over 'freedom of navigation' escalates
- Senior FBI official caught accepting gifts from journalists but "criminal prosecution was declined"?
- All you need to know about the Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia that Trump wants to quit
- Beijing slams Trump's plan to ditch 'crucial' INF treaty, bodes 'multilateral negative effect'
- The Khashoggi murder exposes Trump admin's dependency on Saudis
- Saudi Arabia claims scandal over Khashoggi killing won't trigger oil crisis
- Professor gives reasons why Trump's exit of INF treaty focuses in-part on China
- Pompeo slammed by China after he warns Latin America against Asian powerhouse
- Syria: The US military has disabled Russian signaling devices for the first time
- India continues offloading US Treasuries and buying gold to bolster its national currency
- Withdraw first, ask later: Having nuked Russia-US relations, now Bolton arrives in Moscow 'to talk'
- Slavoj Žižek: Might our future be Chinese 'capitalist socialism'?
- We should be thanking Julian Assange for Wikileaks' service to journalism, not smearing him
- Knife crime hits record high in England and Wales as violence soars, statistics reveal
- Syrian army recovers Roman-era artifacts looted by Daesh terrorists from Palmyra
- What Americans really fear: Corrupt leaders, water pollution, sick loved ones
- Sputnik interviews ex-White Helmets: "We were used then discarded"
- Huge stash of WADA banned anabolic steroids found in Norwegian hospital
- NYPD suspends almost 3,000 body cameras for cops after device explodes
- Scientific fraud: Harvard calls for retraction of dozens of studies by noted cardiac researcher
- MIT professor accuses Bellingcat's Higgins of enabling war criminals to walk free in Syria
- Somali deportee removed from plane by cheering do-gooders was convicted gang-rapist
- Hundreds of buildings across UK at risk of collapse
- McConnell and wife berated in packed restaurant; Diners side with Mitch
- Right rising in Canada? Meet would-be 'Toronto's next mayor' Faith Goldy
- More terrorist infighting: Huge explosion reported at Tahrir Al-Sham base in central Idlib
- 5,000 now heading north, mystery men hand out cash as migrant "attack caravan" regroups at Guatemala-Mexico border
- Japan is awash in plastic trash thanks to China's waste import ban
- American Psychological Association wants back into Guantanamo - and the Pentagon's good graces
- Jacksonville: Six people shot in possible gang-related shooting, suspect still at large
- SOTT Focus: Please Remember Not to Vote!
- Three-finger salute: The little-known story of ctrl+alt+del
- Honduras and Israel form a new special relationship
- Hurricane Michael's wrath so powerful it revealed shipwrecks buried for 120 years
- Dogs accompanied people from Near East to Europe 9,000 years ago DNA studies reveal
- 1,500-year-old farming and carpentry tools found in Northwest Turkey
- Middle Ages weren't 'dark', it was an enlightened era - British Library expert
- Archeological find changes date of Pompeii's destruction
- The great tornado of London in 1091
- Norwegian wood: Rare Viking ship found buried beneath a field
- Hidden documents that indicate the true borders of Israel and Palestine
- Ongoing Santorini excavation brings to light impressive new finds
- Vampire of Lugnano: Researchers unearth 'extremely eerie and weird' ancient Roman grave
- Deep under the covers: Some of the world's strangest spy sex scandals revealed
- Ancient shipwrecks found in Greek waters help map trade routes
- (Always) Ten years left to save the planet
- Exploded skulls and vaporized bodies: Pompeii finds reveal horror of Vesuvius eruption
- To Zionists, the 'two-state solution' has always meant more ethnic cleansing
- Declassified memo: US general prepped to nuke Vietnam behind President Johnson's back
- Dressing for the ages - ancient Egyptian style
- Flashback: The myth of the generous offer: Distorting the Camp David negotiations
- Study finds Mars' salty water likely to have enough oxygen to support life
- UK MoD report warns future International space station nukes may hit Earth
- 'Kilonovae' explosions could be flinging gold and platinum across the universe
- Southern Ocean's 'headless chicken monster' captured on video for the first time
- China set to open world's longest sea bridge connecting to Hong Kong & Macau
- World's oldest fossils aren't actually fossils, new research suggests
- Climate change likely killer of "specialized" Australian marsupial lion
- Rethinking evolution: Researchers find evidence of rapid genome adaptation of Burmese pythons
- Holobiont: Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?
- King of the Monsters Godzilla, gets its own constellation
- Space junk that crashed into Californian orchard identified
- 4 earthquakes strike days after fracking restarts in Blackpool, UK
- Truck-size asteroid makes fourth-closest pass by Earth on record
- China is launching an artificial, extra-bright moon to cut the cost of city lights
- Eerie 'singing' sounds heard coming from the Antarctic ice shelf
- From magnets to sex toys, biohackers are implanting everything
- Human brains carry electrical signals differently to other mammals, may explain unique computing power
- Hyperion: Scientists discover largest and oldest supercluster of galaxies ever
- 130,000 year old 'woolly' mammoth and rhino bones discovered during road works in Cambridgeshire, UK
- Expecting an asteroid? Proposed budget for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office suddenly increased three-fold
- Rome turns to ICE: Italian capital comes to a standstill after it was battered by torrential rain and giant hailstones
- Life threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall predicted as Hurricane Willa expected to reach Cat 5 before landing on Mexico's west coast
- Flake news: More October snow on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Mudslide triggered by heavy rains kills 9 in Colombia, 5 still missing
- Strong and shallow M6.7 earthquake strikes near Vancouver Island, Canada
- Full scale-emergency as flash floods rip through villages in south Spain - 15 inches of rain 24 hours
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Earth's crop yields are now affected by the sun
- National disaster declared in Trinidad after catastrophic flooding
- Over 300,000 lightning strikes recorded across New South Wales, Australia
- New Zealand surfer in hospital after being bitten on arm by shark in rare attack
- Finback whale washes ashore in Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Landslide triggered by heavy rain sweeps away family of 4 in northern Nicaragua
- Desert state Qatar drenched by floods as almost a year's rain falls in ONE day
- The planet is cracking up: Eruption of fire from cracks in earth causes panic in Kurnool, India
- Fourth body found at landslide site in Malaysia
- Thousands of fish found dead in Bayou Desiard, Louisiana
- Stray dog mauls man to death in Pakistan
- At least 6 killed in landslide after heavy rain in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Pine bunting from Eurasia turns up on Vancouver Island, Canada - first time ever south of Alaskan islands
- Summits in Hawaii receive October snowfall
- Meteor fireball observed over Hokkaido, Japan
- Loud house-shaking boom heard in Sweetwater, Texas
- Two bright meteor fireballs streak over Argentina and Brazil, sonic boom reported
- Japan: 4.5 billion y.o. meteorite slams into home
- Meteor fireball flashes across Eugene, Oregon sky
- Green meteor fireball streaks over Florida
- 'Most valuable specimen I have ever held': Rock used for doorstop confirmed as $100k meteorite
- Meteor fireball blazes across the sky of the St John's area in Newfoundland
- Meteor fireball seen over Washington D.C.
- Video shows meteor fireball blazing over Reunion and Mauritius islands - third most energetic meteoric event of the year
- Reports of meteor fireballs streaking across the skies in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ontario, Canada.
- Meteor fireball streaks over Alabama
- 'The Russians are coming': Meteor fireball filmed flying through the skies of Durham, England
- Military jets blamed for loud boom heard in eastern Ohio
- Fireball spotted over Nova Scotia
- Two meteor fireballs spotted over downtown Madison, Wisconsin
- Bright green comet will grace the skies in September
- Mystery boom creates scare in Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Reports of a huge meteor fireball spotted over Deeside, Wales
- Colorful 'fireball' in night sky seen by people in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, elsewhere on East Coast
- Flashback: Dr. Russell Blaylock warns: Don't get the flu shot - it promotes Alzheimer's
- A credibility crisis in food science
- 'No need to panic': Mad cow disease found on farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Spain will overtake Japan in world's life expectancy ranking, US set to plunge to 64th by 2040
- Jon Rappoport: Medical drugs - too big to fail
- CDC says: Only 1.3 percent of children in the U.S. are unvaccinated
- Why some people's allergies get worse in the fall
- Medicinal herbs that might live in your backyard
- Foods that sabotage your brain
- The healing benefits of fever
- Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
- Flotation therapy and the benefits of silence
- Fearmongering UK researchers link consumption of junk memes to teen obesity & other 'unhealthy' habits
- SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: The Assault on Salt
- CDC investigating cases of rare neurological 'mystery illness' in kids
- Human hair testing finds high levels of glyphosate
- CDC: 127 cases of child paralysis in 22 US states under investigation; acute flaccid myelitis confirmed in 62 cases
- India tackles new outbreak of Zika virus infecting up to 80 people
- Mad squirrel disease? Man dies from rare disease after eating fluffy rodent brains
- CDC warns rare polio-like spinal disease spreading across 22 US states
- Kaizen: The one-minute principle for self-improvement
- How to stop being busy all the time - Do fewer things, better
- SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: The Theory Of Positive Disintegration, Or How Not To Be An NPC
- The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
- On the value of the evolutionary psychology model
- David Hume and the reason why you're probably wrong about everything you know
- 'Becoming Homeless': Virtual reality experience found to boost empathy
- Best of the Web: Deepities and the Politics of Pseudo-Profundity
- Fundamental truths that could change your life
- Stoicism: An old approach for living a new life happily
- On biology, brains, and human suffering
- Illusion experiment claims brain can retroactively change perceptions of reality
- Bishop to set up exorcism ministry as he warns of the evils of reiki
- Study suggests humans can recognize 5,000 different faces
- Loneliness is a looming public health threat
- Recent study shows social media impairs your ability to think intelligently
- Hugs could buffer against life draining conflict stress
- Social contagion: Is transgender the new anorexia?
- Brain-to-brain communication is possible according to new study
- Study finds abused children carry the trauma in their cells
- Mysterious UFO captured on camera by stunned residents of Beijing
- Strange lights filmed during storm over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina spark UFO theories
- New sightings of Ogopogo - Canada's Loch Ness Monster
- 'Hunt for the Skinwalker'- First video released from UFO-obsessed billionaire's haunted ranch
- Mysterious hole shoots out flames for nearly an hour in Arkansas: Satan 'ruled out'
- The mysterious Min Min lights of Australia: Is there a scientific explanation for the phenomenon?
- Missing 411: Body of 53 y.o. hiker found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park one week after she went missing
- British psychic says motorway fatalities 'due to ghosts of Roman soldiers'
- Fireball-shaped object hovering in Toronto's night sky prompts UFO reports
- UFO, spy plane or drone? Triangular object flying above Texas claimed to be USAF spy craft
- Photos show unexplained cattle mutilation in Australia - Dead cows found in paddock with udders, ears and tongues removed
- Reflection on windshield, or UFO in the sky? Man takes picture of strange object in NC sky
- 'Ghost ship' reappears off the coast of Myanmar after being lost at sea for 9 years
- Canadian tourist spots Nessie hours before schoolgirl takes 'best Loch Ness Monster picture for years'
- Mysterious glimpse of the "Kingdom of Heaven" appears China sky
- Unidentified humanoid creature seen near Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Nick Redfern: From a Ouija Board to Sasquatch
- 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
- 'We are not mindless NPCs,' chant nation's liberals in perfect unison
- DNA test results proves she's only half lizard person
- Queen fondly recalls Bengal famine
- Elizabeth 'Pocahantas' Warren 'proves' she had a Native ancestor 10 generations ago
- Skinny dipper dives into shark tank for perilous swim at Toronto aquarium
- Hello cussstomer service: Huge python plunges through bank ceiling, terrifies staff
- Watch how a Sri Lanka community rescues an elephant from a well
- '3 tons max? Don't care!' Big rig attempts to cross flimsy bridge that collapses
- Massive apocalypse if billions are not spent on his books, predicts Al Gore
- Jonathan Pie: Rise of the UK free speech police
- 'Let the hate flow through you!' Cackles cloaked Hillary at campaign rally
- Ruff play: Top tier football match interrupted by dog wanting to have some fun
- Self-proclaimed 'Old Coots' offering life advice at Utah farmers market
- Freedom of speech doesn't apply to avocados: Costa Coffee radio advert banned for criticizing avocado breakfasts
- 'Take a pill!' Ukrainian panic over nukes in Crimea is groundless, says Russian MP
- US Senate to be replaced with room full of monkeys
- Swans now demanding gluten-free bread
- Rescue operations called off for Beluga whale spotted in the river Thames was confirmed to be skinny-dipping Boris Johnson
- Trump brags that he got much bigger laughs at U.N. than Obama
- Daredevil raccoon climbs high-rise in Ocean City, NJ, drops from about 8 stories
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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