• Best of the Web: Generative Optogenetics: brought to you by DARPA!
• Massive hailstorm shatters car windows and dents vehicles in northern China on June 16
• Chaos in Guatemala: a sudden flood sweeps away dozens of vehicles and causes serious damage in Almolonga and Fraijanes
• Meteor fireball over Colorado on June 17
• Meteor fireball over Germany on June 16
• Shallow 6.6 earthquake - Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• The "Narrative" Cracks: Independent media, lobby power, and the price of speaking out
• Crash or provocation: What Netanyahu's final months will mean for Israel and the world
• Latvia's dangerous game: How Ukrainian drones risk dragging NATO into direct conflict with Russia
• Hardline Israeli politicians livid over Iran deal, want Netanyahu out so they can do 'real regime change'
• Is California reaching critical mass?
• Sweden approves 'Good Behaviour' Law, will kick out migrants acting improperly
• What the Iran-U.S. MoU is all about
• Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People" Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras
• Radical woke Mount Sinai Hospital exposed: DEI, child sex changes & Epstein ties were prioritized over patients
• A villainous blueprint for managed poverty
• Sinkhole opens on road, swallows up traffic light in Malacca, Malaysia
• Child mauled by pack of 7 stray dogs in Uttar Pradesh, India, shocking CCTV video sparks outrage
• Worker killed in rare lion attack in Gujarat, India - 7th such attack in the state in 7 months
• Officials reviewing how deadly dog attack on 2-year-old girl happened in Rocky Mount, North Carolina

• The "Narrative" Cracks: Independent media, lobby power, and the price of speaking out
• Crash or provocation: What Netanyahu's final months will mean for Israel and the world
• Latvia's dangerous game: How Ukrainian drones risk dragging NATO into direct conflict with Russia
• Hardline Israeli politicians livid over Iran deal, want Netanyahu out so they can do 'real regime change'
• What the Iran-U.S. MoU is all about
• FBI raids Soros-backed voter group's headquarters in fraud probe
• Blame the Climate Yeti again for making your life more expensive! (It's a smokescreen)
• Buttigieg drinks the court-packing Kool-aid
• So who won the third Gulf War? (Hint: it wasn't Israel)
• Iranian strategic thinking
• The US-Iran Deal: Why it happened and what it proves
• RFK Jr. Warns Vaccine Committee Not 'Functioning', Asks Court To Accelerate Decision
• Starmer to ban under-16s from 10 social media apps, including X, but NOT leftist, pedo cesspool Bluesky
• Shadowy UK government 'thought police' unit set up to keep a lid on Britain's simmering racial tensions
• The Fantasy of Disarming Hezbollah
• Best of the Web: Deal is reached to end Iran war, Trump orders stop to US naval blockade
• 'The suicide of Europe' - Historic EU Migration Pact goes into force today as fracture lines grow
• The defense agreement between France and Norway: A new stage in European security?
• Former NIH Head Secretly Helped With Paper Dismissing Theory COVID-19 Came From Lab
• War on the cheap: Hezbollah's low-cost FPV drones are making Israel's high-tech military obsolete

• Is California reaching critical mass?
• Sweden approves 'Good Behaviour' Law, will kick out migrants acting improperly
• Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People" Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras
• Radical woke Mount Sinai Hospital exposed: DEI, child sex changes & Epstein ties were prioritized over patients
• A villainous blueprint for managed poverty
• Thousands of Italians take to the streets of Rome demanding remigration
• Well, duh: Violent crime drops as more Americans pack heat
• New study reveals how the Left turned mental illness into a political identity
• The Dutch Covid inquiry is not looking for the truth
• 'Trump has sold us out': Israelis react with anger and anxiety to new Iran deal
• Major U-turn: Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants
• Canada's social media ban for under-16s goes to parliament
• 4 Thing's you CANNOT say about the UK's 'Social Media Ban'
• LA mayoral candidate Pratt says fire at his Pacific Palisades crystals office 'not an accident'
• Under the bus: How Bill Gates fell from globalist grace
• Split with Russia won't end well for Europe
• GiveSendGo yanks convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony's fundraiser
• A Conservative's audit of the Left's ruling assumptions
• Hunter Biden invested in a pandemic firm collaborating with Daszak's EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab
• Israel 'emptying' Al-Aqsa facilities to undermine Waqf, watchdog warns

• New study links Göbekli Tepe's vulture stone to Europe's Trypillia culture
• Archaeologists excavating a Spanish monastery have identified the remains of a 14th-century queen
• Study details epic transportation of Stonehenge stone across ancient Britain
• Ancient mega-structure discovered in Romania
• Ancient DNA reveals patchwork of families more than 5,000 years ago
• Ancient Greek theatre mask discovered in Illyrian sanctuary cave
• Were the deceased cremated already in the Stone Age? The first signs of human cremation date back 100,000 years
• Study reveals one of world's first cities prospered as wealth-gap shrank
• Neanderthal molar from Siberia points to possible dental treatment 59,000 years ago
• There is a long history of members of Congress calling out Israel's nuclear arsenal. It is now time to take action
• Did you know the US and Israel helped create Iran's nuclear project? Here's the story
• 260 Monumental tombs older than Egypt's pyramids discovered in the Sahara
• Hall of Records theories explode as CIA doc mentioning 'temple under Sphinx' found
• Prehistoric discovery in North America older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history
• CIA Ran MK-Ultra Experiments on Korean Prisoners of War in US Custody, Declassified Docs Confirm
• On humanity's earliest attempts to make a home
• 13-year-old boy finds ancient Greek bronze coin in a Berlin field
• A mysterious 4000-year-old 'lost' writing system has finally been decoded, in a modern 'Rosetta Stone' breakthrough
• New discoveries at 12,000-year-old Karahantepe: Human statues, animal carvings, and surprising diet uncovered
• 5 ways ancient Persia has shaped our modern world

• Best of the Web: Generative Optogenetics: brought to you by DARPA!
• Scientist set clocks made from an atomic nucleus running for the first time
• Researchers accidentally discovered strange, hidden rule of human behavior
• Bots now generate more web traffic than humans - Cloudflare
• Vampire Planet: Data centers, far bigger disasters than you even thought
• Scientists have found a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states
• How to stop a killer asteroid
• Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
• NASA pronounces Mars orbiter MAVEN dead
• New catalyst strategy boosts key battery and fuel-cell reaction from 12% to 52%
• Investigation launched into Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explosion
• Listening to Sun's 'heart' hints our star could be changing
• The Marxist in the machine
• There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite
• Ice core discovery finds volcanic eruptions could cause greater global disruption than previously thought
• Japanese genome study reveals traces of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA
• The first atomic bomb test in 1945 created an entirely new material
• Mount St. Helens: the eruption that changed the U.S. in 1980 has an unexpected "culprit"... and no, it is not a volcano (it is animals, and the story is surreal)
• AI Bots Placed In Virtual Town For 2 Weeks Go Apesh*t, Prompting Concerns
• The lines we thought machines wouldn't cross

• Massive hailstorm shatters car windows and dents vehicles in northern China on June 16
• Chaos in Guatemala: a sudden flood sweeps away dozens of vehicles and causes serious damage in Almolonga and Fraijanes
• Shallow 6.6 earthquake - Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Sinkhole opens on road, swallows up traffic light in Malacca, Malaysia
• Child mauled by pack of 7 stray dogs in Uttar Pradesh, India, shocking CCTV video sparks outrage
• Worker killed in rare lion attack in Gujarat, India - 7th such attack in the state in 7 months
• Officials reviewing how deadly dog attack on 2-year-old girl happened in Rocky Mount, North Carolina
• Shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles China, at least 1 dead, multiple injured
• Heavy rain triggers dangerous flash flooding across Texas, prompting multiple water rescues - up to 4 inches of rain per hour reported
• Heavy rain floods southern China's Guangdong, Guangxi, forcing school closures, evacuations - 30 inches of rain in 24 hours
• Massive sinkhole forms near I-70 and the Dome in St. Louis, Missouri
• Arctic cold vs the melt season
• Shallow magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes near Indonesia's Palu
• Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off southern Philippines
• Best of the Web: 61 killed, 1,200 injured after 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocks southern Philippines - 3 aftershocks of mag. 6.5, 6.0 and 6.0 (UPDATE)
• Severe hailstorm strikes Ankara, Türkiye leaving layer of ice 5 cms thick
• Intense rains cause severe flooding in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
• Lightning strike kills shepherd and 13 goats in Maharashtra, India
• Child killed in lioness attack in Gujarat, India - 6th such attack in the state in 7 months
• Rare twin waterspouts filmed off coast of Guangdong Province, China

• Meteor fireball over Colorado on June 17
• Meteor fireball over Germany on June 16
• Meteor fireball over Missouri and 17 other states on June 15
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut, 2 other states and Ontario on June 9
• Meteor fireball over Brazil on June 8
• Meteor fireball over southern Spain on June 6
• Meteor fireball over New Mexico and Colorado on June 5
• Meteor fireball over Italy on June 4
• Meteor fireball over Hong Kong on June 5
• Meteor fireball over France and 5 other countries on June 2
• Meteor fireball over Michigan, 7 other states and Ontario on June 2
• Meteor fireball over Maine, New Brunswick and Québec on June 1
• Meteor fireball over Italy and 2 other countries on May 31
• Best of the Web: Power of meteor fireball explosion over the US on May 30 reached 300 tons of TNT — NASA
• Meteor fireball caught on camera near Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico on May 28
• Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 2 other states on May 28
• Meteor fireball over Germany and the Netherlands on May 27
• Meteor fireball seen in sky across western New York state on May 27
• Meteor fireball over Germany on May 25
• Meteor fireball over Italy and 4 other countries on May 25

• HHS launches tick-control pilot targeting deer and mice to cut Lyme disease cases
• RFK Jr. responds to "explosion" in tick-borne, WEF-touted Alpha-Gal syndrome
• PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide) as Supplement: Gaining in Popularity, And For Good Reason
• Babies are being given and dying from a vaccine that was created for sexually active adults
• Global mental disorders have nearly doubled since 1990, now affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide
• Tick-Borne Alpha-Gal Syndrome incidence skyrocketed 9,800% in the U.S. since 2013
• Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum: Peer-reviewed paper says genetically engineering ticks to spread meat allergies is "morally obligatory"
• Unregulated wireless 5G rollout under HR 2289 would be catastrophic for human health and the environment
• Hantavirus - A pandemic treaty 'wake up call'?
• New research finds almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins
• Why Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine could work for Hantavirus
• Is this Hantavirus a bioweapon?
• Health insurers and organizations literally bribe pediatricians to give your baby vaccines
• The WHO's Pandemic Agreement fails again (thankfully)
• Inflamed guts: How everyday plastic exposure worsens chronic Inflammatory Bowl Disease (IBD)
• The American medical establishment didn't discover a mental health crisis: It created one
• What is hantavirus, suspected in deaths of three people on cruise ship?
• Flashback Hidden CIA document detailing potential cure for cancer declassified after 60 years
• Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says
• A reckoning is underway at the FDA after report is made on child deaths due to Covid vax

• Raising girls who won't be bullied off the starting line
• Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says
• Sophrosyne: An ancient Greek virtue that matters more than ever in the age of AI
• Discipline!
• Are World Leaders Possessed? The Ancient Technology of Demonic Transfer
• The Demonization of Men (and everyone else too)
• The importance of inexpert opinion
• France: 19-year-old wakes up from 3-week coma, asks to meet her babies who never existed
• The Noble Savage
• We may be entering a second Axial Age
• Can we really trust our feelings?
• Euthanasia is now 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands; experts urge caution against youths choosing to die
• Fear, time preference, and the distortion of human action
• Managing the hypercurious mind
• Should society help you to die? The EU now has a case to answer
• Believe Anything; Believe Nothing
• The modern workplace wasn't designed for humans - and it shows
• Forewarned: Understanding the psychology of advertising
• How your brain creates 'aha' moments and why they stick
• Imagine All the People: Food, freedom and what it means to be human

• Area 51 Secrets: US government acknowledgment fuels conspiracy theories and UFO speculations
• Discs, orbs, 'heavenly' phenomena, more revealed in 3rd batch of declassified UFO files
• Trump releases THIRD tranche of UFO files revealing shape-shifting orbs over the US and CIA reports hidden for decades
• UFO over Zimbabwe in summer 2008 had CIA on 'high alert,' new files reveal
• An invisible Atlantic boundary where UFO reporting changes
• Lawmakers urge Trump to grant immunity to UFO crash retrieval operatives as whistleblower repeats non-human body claims
• UFO whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill with explosive claims about alien life
• Lue Elizondo: "There's No Going Back" on UFO Disclosure
• Remains found in New Mexico national forest ID'd as those of Melissa Casias, Los Alamos employee, who vanished last year
• Trump, the Vatican and the market shock: Inside the growing disclosure debate
• NASA boss reveals unsettling reality behind newly released UFO files
• Push for UAP (UFO) transparency intensifies as members of Congress and whistleblowers call for release of groundbreaking, conclusive files
• MITRE moves to comply with lawmaker's request for UAP records and assets dating back to 1930
• UFO-linked Air Force general met shadowy Pentagon unit hours before vanishing
• Latest UFO video drop solicits baffled explanations ranging from angels and demons to jetpacks and balloons
• CIA accused of searching Ancestry and 23andMe data bases to 'hunt down' alien bloodlines in millions of DNA tests
• Joe Rogan Discusses Aliens Abducting Americans in National Parks
• Highlights From 2nd Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Include A UAP Shootdown
• World-shaking UFO files release imminent as insider Jeremy Corbell hints at 'much bigger' secrets in next disclosure drop
• Eight never-before-seen UFO videos at center of explosive disclosure battle detailed by insider

• Latest Trump assassination attempt gets 2-star IMDb rating for 'Poor Pacing and Predictability'
• My Diary
• A closer look on the climate sinner, Keith the goat
• Barron reveals devastating diagnosis: Debilitating hereditary bone spurs
• 2-feet of snow blocks Ipswich residents' driveway
• Pit Bull Wins Westminster Dog Show After Killing All The Other Contestants
• Trump announces new round of tariffs on everyone who didn't laugh At his jokes in Davos
• Brigitte Macron snapped making cut-throat gesture as husband asked about sunglasses
• The earliest known customer complaint was made 3,800 years ago: An ancient Babylonian tablet records the rant
• New Paper Confirms Climate Change is Significantly Increasing the Risk of an Asteroid Existential Impact by 2100
• Average age of first time buyer now 92
• Cow has weird dream about milking farmer again
• White House launches 'Nobler Peace Prize'
• Clown world: Amazon deletes guns from every single James Bond film poster
• Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden White House portrait with picture of autopen
• Thug slug: Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turned out to be a gastropod
• British refugees travel to North Korea in search of freedom
• Man who made clothes you can't afford dies
• Clumsy eagle gifts man with "biggest bass I ever caught!"
• "Oh that Epstein!" Trump thought files were on Beatles manager Brian Epstein

“Simulacra + Simulation” by Jean Baudrillard is heavy going, but a great read.

Oh, now we're spinning the "cracking narrative," are we? Drawing a parallel between the two major (and incredibly clever) "limited hangout"...

Blade Runners, USA anyone? :)

You cannot reason with unreasonable people, you can only beat them into submission.

The problem with public awakening is that the blob is now planning an end run around us with total narrrative control and personal access control...