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• France's protests against Macron gov't continue despite police brutality
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• US Air Force admits ARRW hypersonic missile test failed
• Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive 'einstein' tile
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• The EU is losing relevance in the emerging new world
• US threatens Mexico with tariffs in an attempt to force it to privatize its energy sector
• Ukraine being obliterated - Trump
• Netanyahu fires Minister of Defense after he pressed for halting judicial overhaul
• Burying key evidence, new OPCW report covers up Douma's unsolved deaths
• US democracy 'a facade' - Russian security chief
• Zelensky disappointed to learn Orlando Bloom not actually a fearsome elf warrior
• Orwell strikes again: Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for 'modern sensitivities'
• Brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected defies explanation
• US-led economic alliance - Doing the 'Humpty Dumpty' blindfolded
• South Australia's wildlife flourishing after floods along parts of the river Murray floodplain for the first time in over 60 years

• Pope ready to act as mediator in religious dispute in Ukraine, meanwhile Kiev's Nazi-aligned forces storm remaining Orthodox churches
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• High stakes as Uncle Sam's days of impunity are finally over
• The EU is losing relevance in the emerging new world
• US threatens Mexico with tariffs in an attempt to force it to privatize its energy sector
• Ukraine being obliterated - Trump
• Netanyahu fires Minister of Defense after he pressed for halting judicial overhaul
• Burying key evidence, new OPCW report covers up Douma's unsolved deaths
• US democracy 'a facade' - Russian security chief
• US-led economic alliance - Doing the 'Humpty Dumpty' blindfolded
• Biden meets with Trudeau as US, Canada announce immigration agreement
• Putin: West building WWII Axis-style alliance
• Moscow waiting for Western leaders 'to sober up' - Lavrov
• Kremlin spokesman vaguely backs ex-president's 'piracy' call
• How they convinced Trump to lock down
• My would-be assassins are still in office - former Pakistani PM
• The big questions that weren't answered by the Telegraph's Lockdown Files
• Germany now addicted to US LNG - German MP
• Russia outproducing West's ammunition supplies to Kiev - Putin
• UN finally sounds alarm over Ukraine's crackdown on churches

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• NPR deletes false claim that biological male athletes have no physical advantage over females
• 'I thought I would be crushed to death' - Kellie-Jay Keen on her harrowing encounter with trans activists in New Zealand
• TUCKER shows MSNBC video of Trump supporters on Jan 6 throwing things at Capitol police - because police were killing Rosanne Boyland
• Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale identified as transgender and had detailed manifesto to attack Christian academy, shot and killed six people
• Athletes 'pretended to be women' in world championship - organizer
• Climate hysteria and woke gobbledegook are becoming inseparable
• Corporatism, the new, new left and the gender industry
• Cost of living soars in Britain with 4/10 people using credit cards to pay for essentials
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• Fauci should be prosecuted for negligent homicide for vaccine lies

• 2,000 ram heads discovered at Temple of Rameses II in Egypt
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• Unique and very well-preserved prehistoric engravings found in southwestern Catalonia
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• 'Prehistoric' mummified bear discovered in Siberian permafrost isn't what we thought, nor do we know how it got there
• Ancient ring ditch unearthed in Derbyshire, UK
• Ancient structures in the Arabian desert reveal fragments of mysterious rituals
• The world's oldest swords discovered in Turkey
• Magnetic fields to be used to explore submerged civilisations
• Researchers help reveal evidence of rare Romano-Celtic temple near Lancaster Castle
• Oldest reference to Norse god Odin found in Danish treasure
• Roman era sphinx uncovered at Dendera temple complex
• Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing, says researcher
• World's first horse riders found near the Black Sea
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• Minoan civilisation may have used celestial 'star path' navigation techniques
• Archaeologists discover secret chamber inside Great Pyramid of Giza
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• Further details emerge of unknown lineage of ice age Europeans that vanished at end of last ice age

• Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive 'einstein' tile
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• Russian company unveils ChatGPT competitor
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• New experiment translates quantum information between technologies in an important step for the quantum internet
• Eminent Oxford scientist says wind power "fails on every count"
• Oldest evidence of a meteor collision with Earth discovered in Australia
• DNA from Beethoven's hair offers clues to cause of death
• Colossal solar tornado spotted swirling over Sun's surface
• Breakthrough in the understanding of quantum turbulence
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: ChatGPT and the Heralds of AI's Subjugation of Humanity - with Joe Allen
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• A 'fire wolf' fish could expand what we know about one unusual deep-sea ecosystem
• Two active volcanoes on Venus revealed in images taken by NASA's Magellan spacecraft 3 decades ago
• Peer-reviewed paper cites Stephen Meyer to critique Darwinian Evolution
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• Scientists offer evidence that Venus is volcanically active
• New discovery could speed up burn healing
• Webb captures rarely seen prelude to a supernova
• Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma

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• Lightning strikes truck in Van Wert, Ohio
• Snowbasin ski resort in Utah breaks all-time seasonal snowfall record with 504 inches
• Shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hits off Japan - no tsunami or injuries reported
• Ecuador - At least 7 dead, over 60 missing after landslide in Chimborazo Province
• 6.1-magnitude earthquake hits off Solomon Islands
• Floods disrupt life in Iraq
• Bolivia - Thousands affected by floods in Santa Cruz and Pando Departments
• Elderly woman dies in dog attack in Ladakh, India
• Lightning kills 4 family members in Uganda
• At least 14 perish in Somalia flash floods
• Coyote injures 2 toddlers in separate attacks in Scottsdale, Arizona
• Lightning kills 350 sheep and goats in Uttarakhand, India
• Massive Aurora Australis solar storm seen over Tasmania, Australia and New Zealand
• At least 23 dead in 'destructive' Mississippi tornado outbreak
• Utah's record snow is so deep it buried measuring equipment
• Auroras shine unusually far south in the US amid strongest solar storm since 2017
• Argentina: Disruptions due to flooding ongoing in parts of Cordoba Province
• Heavy floods hit Port St Johns, South Africa

• Best of the Web: Night turned into day by bright meteor fireball over Beijing, China
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• Meteor fireball over the Mediterranean Sea (March 21)
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• Meteor fireball over Arizona and Texas on March 23
• Stunning bolide over south of Spain (March 21)
• Meteor fireball explodes three times over Hungary on March 18
• Meteor fireball over Puerto Rico on March 20
• Meteor fireball over Spain (March 18)
• Meteor fireball over Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada on March 18
• Meteor fireball over the Mediterranean Sea (March 14)
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• Meteor fireball over New Jersey and nearby states on March 14
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• Meteor fireball over south of Spain (March 8)
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• Meteor fireball over Canada on March 7

• Expert calls for vitamin B test on dementia patients following meta-analysis showing supplementation is three-times as effective as any drug
• Dozens of families damaged by AstraZeneca jab launch legal fight
• Myocarditis spiked 130% in US military in 2021, new data show
• Vaccine-makers prep bird flu shot for humans 'just in case'
• Pfizer, CDC withheld evidence of myocarditis after COVID shots, new documents reveal
• Polio outbreak in Burundi caused by oral vaccine - ABC News
• Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
• Report linking fluoride to lower IQ in children made public after CDC, HHS tried to block it
• Broken Science Initiative
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• Best of the Web: Study: More infant vaccines lead to higher infant mortality
• Bombshell from Germany's Federal Minister of Health
• mRNA vaccine contamination much worse than thought: Jabs "up to 35%" DNA that turns human cells into long-term spike protein factories
• Why isn't the CDC warning parents that masking their kids creates unacceptably high levels of CO2?
• Dissolution of Spike Protein by Nattokinase
• Getting good quality sleep could add several years to your lifespan
• D.C mother sues doctor who secretly gave her children COVID vaccines without consent
• Humans don't hibernate but they do need more sleep in winter, new study suggests
• Best of the Web: mRNA vaccines contain DNA that may turn human cells into long-term spike protein factories - study
• Urgent: mRNAs jabs may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide, a huge peer-reviewed study shows

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• SOTT Focus: Reclaiming Diversity
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• Is life after death incompatible with physics?

• Pentagon officials suggest alien mothership in our solar system could send mini probes to Earth
• Trucker's dashcam video records creepy ghost-like figure on Arizona highway
• Hundreds of UFO sightings in Southwestern Ontario since the 1990s
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• Metallic-looking orb is seen flying over Iraqi city of Mosul in 2016 - first ever publicly revealed UFO footage taken by US spy plane in a conflict zone
• Best of the Web: US govt receives more than 350 new UFO reports, mostly from US military personnel
• 'We have nothing' showing UFOs are of alien origin, says US Defense official
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• Mystery of History - Flight 19, the lost squadron
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• FBI conducts "no-knock warrant" at home of owner of website devoted to Area 51
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• New documentary reveals people claim they saw aliens after UFO crash-landed in Brazil in 1996
• NASA announces 16 people who will study UFOs to see what's natural—and what isn't
• Dramatic videos of UFOs over the Pacific are revealed by airline captains and Air Force pilots
• Government report claims 'cosmic' and 'phantom' UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies
• Best of the Web: Navy warns watchdog site releasing all UFO videos would 'harm national security'
• 2 separate Bigfoot sightings reported in South Carolina this year
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• Zelensky disappointed to learn Orlando Bloom not actually a fearsome elf warrior
• Kanye West changes his mind about Jewish people
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• Government demands TikTok stop spying on Americans: 'That's our job'
• Biden assures Americans their bank deposits are safe in Ukraine
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• For convenience, Treasury Secretary Yellen gives Zelensky own key to US Treasury
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• Southern California covered in 6 feet of Global Warming
• CNN's rating for 'This Morning' jumped 5% without Don Lemon: report
• Hunter asks dad to pick up his paycheck as long as he's in Kyiv
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• Nikki Haley officially launches campaign for someone to pick her as Veep
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