• Japan to gradually lift 'state of emergency' measures for the first time in 6 months
• DARPA touts 'historic free flight test' of Raytheon's hypersonic missile prototype as US struggles to catch up with Russia
• SOTT Focus: RNA Vaccines, Obedience and Eugenics
• IRS would track all bank transactions over $600 under Biden plan - businesses revolt
• Biden says unvaccinated Americans are 'costing all of us' as he presses Covid vaccine mandates
• Yellen warns Congress has just three weeks before US expected to default
• Milley contradicts Biden during testimony, calls Afghan withdrawal 'strategic failure' as military leaders are grilled by Senate panel
• Inflation is the new normal: We are now seeing a critical shift in global markets
• ICC prosecutor seeks to resume Afghanistan war crimes probe with focus on Taliban and IS, but not US forces
• Hungary summons Ukrainian ambassador, blasts Kiev for 'interfering' in its internal affairs as row over Russian gas deal heats up
• An FBI informant was marching into the Capitol on Jan. 6 'riot' - testimony contradicts media spin
• Russian passenger plane plunges hundreds of feet then is struck by lightning, pilot manages emergency landing at nearest airport
• Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski who defied lockdown, ARRESTED again after landing at Calgary airport
• South Korea may ban dog meat consumption amid debate over animal rights
• Major crypto exchanges stop letting Chinese users sign up after Beijing's renewed crackdown
• Totalitarian nutjobs: Taliban prohibits barbers from shaving, trimming beards in Helmand province
• Early snow falling on mountains in Idaho
• School forced teacher to take down 'political' pro-police flag, despite allowing BLM symbols
• Glenn Greenwald & others give CNN's Stelter a proper roasting for heralding himself as part of 'reality-based media'
• Severe hailstorm strikes Tuscany, Italy with hailstones up to 8 cm (over 3 inches) in diameter

• SOTT Focus: RNA Vaccines, Obedience and Eugenics
• IRS would track all bank transactions over $600 under Biden plan - businesses revolt
• Biden says unvaccinated Americans are 'costing all of us' as he presses Covid vaccine mandates
• Yellen warns Congress has just three weeks before US expected to default
• Milley contradicts Biden during testimony, calls Afghan withdrawal 'strategic failure' as military leaders are grilled by Senate panel
• Inflation is the new normal: We are now seeing a critical shift in global markets
• ICC prosecutor seeks to resume Afghanistan war crimes probe with focus on Taliban and IS, but not US forces
• Hungary summons Ukrainian ambassador, blasts Kiev for 'interfering' in its internal affairs as row over Russian gas deal heats up
• An FBI informant was marching into the Capitol on Jan. 6 'riot' - testimony contradicts media spin
• South Korea may ban dog meat consumption amid debate over animal rights
• Totalitarian nutjobs: Taliban prohibits barbers from shaving, trimming beards in Helmand province
• Biden tacitly admits he's never letting US return to pre-Covid normal
• Russia scrambles fighter jets as US bomber crosses Pacific Ocean & approaches country's border
• "Evil intentions": China condemns UK warship's sail through Taiwan Strait
• 'Unelectable!' 'Woke' Labour condemned by Britons as conference delegates told too many white men putting their hands up to speak
• 'Blatant Big Tech interference, US cyberattacks' during recent Russian elections, ex-President Medvedev tells RT
• Australian gov't wants SECRECY protections for Covid cabinet meetings
• Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says
• With Clinton lawyer charged, the Russiagate scam is now under indictment
• Egg thrown at French President Macron during food trade fair - 'Vive la revolution'

• Japan to gradually lift 'state of emergency' measures for the first time in 6 months
• Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski who defied lockdown, ARRESTED again after landing at Calgary airport
• Major crypto exchanges stop letting Chinese users sign up after Beijing's renewed crackdown
• School forced teacher to take down 'political' pro-police flag, despite allowing BLM symbols
• Glenn Greenwald & others give CNN's Stelter a proper roasting for heralding himself as part of 'reality-based media'
• "This is completely avoidable" - New York hospitals prepare for staffing crisis as vaccination mandate forces mass firings
• Outspoken Marine officer who went viral blasting military leaders over Afghanistan is jailed
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Politicization of Science in the Covid Era
• 'Appalling slander': Stop Antisemitism org ripped after branding GOP congressman 'Jew hater' for voting against Iron Dome funding
• 25 injured after explosion in residential building in Gothenberg, Sweden
• Rowdy celebrations erupt in Norway as COVID restrictions end
• Two more UK energy suppliers collapse as gas crisis deepens, over 1.5 million customers reportedly affected
• New Yorker magazine lambasted for giving platform to climate change activist calling for pipelines to be blown up
• One rule for me, and one rule for ye: 'The View' co-hosts reportedly 'pissed' over their false positive coronavirus tests
• Facebook confirms Instagram made girls with body issues feel worse - but denies it is harming teens in other ways
• WHO looks to revive probe into COVID-19 origins: report
• R. Kelly convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking by a federal jury in New York
• UK Met Police upgrades 'massively invasive' face recognition tech net, watchdog warns of 'public trust' cost
• Antifa member charged with shooting anti-vaxxer in Washington
• China's tutoring ban hits overseas teachers and cultural links - creates instant black market

• A human skull fossil dating back 32,000 years has been unearthed in Henan, China
• 'Ancestor' of Mediterranean mosaics discovered in Turkey
• Bull geoglyph twice as old as Nazca Lines (Peru), predates Uffington Horse (UK) found near Siberia's 'Sacred Sea'
• Etruscans were locals not migrants, contradicting claims by Herodotus, genetic analysis reveals
• DNA analysis sheds light on the 'Segorbe Giant' of medieval Spain
• The Great Reset: How a 'Managerial Revolution' was plotted 80 years ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA neocon
• Declassified files expose America's double dealing with revolutionary Iran from day one
• Earliest evidence of human activity found in the Americas
• Stone Age humans used personal ornaments to communicate about themselves
• Earliest modern humans in Europe may have experienced much colder climates than previously thought
• Thousands of years of long-distance trade links shaped Siberian dogs
• Human species you may not know about
• Ancient Tunguska sized airburst demolished city in Jordan Valley
• Ancient sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids and Stonehenge
• Ancient DNA rewrites early Japanese history
• Whale hunting and 'magic mushroom people' seen on 2,000 year old, northernmost petroglyphs in Eurasia
• China's mysterious Sanxingdui ruins reveal more stunning relics
• 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding Chinese supernova of 1181AD solved
• Roman port discovered underwater off north-eastern Crete
• Bone tools used to produce clothing in Morocco 120,000 years ago says study

• DARPA touts 'historic free flight test' of Raytheon's hypersonic missile prototype as US struggles to catch up with Russia
• Jupiter's great red spot is spinning faster says NASA
• Radiation therapy reprograms heart muscle cells
• Nearly all of evolution is best explained by engineering
• Three record-breaking quakes detected on Mars, and they're fascinating
• Covid-19 appeared in the US before Wuhan, Chinese scientists claim in new research paper
• Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure
• New way to solve the 'hardest of the hard' computer problems
• Study confirms that it was a giant meteorite impact that caused massive extinction in the late Cretaceous
• Ironic: The role of variants in driving Covid surges is good news for sceptics
• The 'pandemic' has ended for much of India - how did they do it? Ivermectin
• Satellite photo reveals wreckage of $2 BILLION US B-2 Stealth bomber, landing gear gave way after emergency landing - reports
• Bootstrapping geometric 'theory space'
• Paradoxes in the reporting of Covid19 vaccine effectiveness
• Ioannidis on the politicization of science
• Unique quantum physical effect demonstrated in Russian lab
• Potty-training cows - The MooLoo holds great pootential for reducing carbon emissions
• Magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier arrives in France as part of nuclear fusion project
• Impact flash on Jupiter captured on video by amateur astronomers
• Could Earth's magnetic field be reversing due to remains of ancient planetary collision embedded in the deep mantle?

• Russian passenger plane plunges hundreds of feet then is struck by lightning, pilot manages emergency landing at nearest airport
• Early snow falling on mountains in Idaho
• Severe hailstorm strikes Tuscany, Italy with hailstones up to 8 cm (over 3 inches) in diameter
• 10 dead after heavy rain, floods in Maharashtra, India
• Two trekkers die of cold at Khemenger glacier during unseasonal snow in Himachal Pradesh, India
• Two killed, 12 missing after heavy rains trigger mudslide in Sichuan, China
• Lightning strikes kill at least 9 in Madhya Pradesh, India
• Sandstorm turns day into night in state of São Paulo, Brazil
• Tropical Storm Dianmu brings flooding to north and central regions of Thailand - almost 8 inches of rain in a day
• Cyclone Gulab slams coastal cities of India with heavy rain, thunder and lightning
• Federal, state officials launch investigation after 6th rare monk seal found dead on Molokai, Hawaii
• River otter attacks baffle authorities in Anchorage, Alaska
• Dramatic flash flood kills 1, sweeps away 2 others in Cebu, Philippines
• Heavy snowfall in Kemerovo, Russia
• Heavy rains and floods in Henan, China - affects nearly 300,000 (UPDATE))
• Best of the Web: Great Barrier Reef experiencing 'record high' levels of coral coverage
• Heavy sand storm engulfs Kuwait
• Tour guide dies in elephant attack at game reserve in South Africa
• Three killed by lightning strike in Chhattisgarh, India
• Lightning strikes kill 5 people and over 80 animals in Pakistan

• Meteor fireball seen over British Columbia and Washington on September 25th
• Meteor fireball seen over Gemany on September 26th
• Meteor fireball seen over North Carolina and 3 other states
• NASA says 'boom' and shaking in Virginia was a fireball
• Meteor fireball seen over Shanghai, China
• Very bright meteor fireball falls in Spain (Sept. 15)
• Meteor fireball over Germany, Austria and Czech Republic
• Meteor fireball over Morocco (Sept. 11)
• Meteor fireball over Spain on September 9
• Meteor fireball seen over Denmark and Germany
• Meteor fireball seen over Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France
• Best of the Web: Spectacular meteor fireball lights up night sky over northern France and southern UK
• Meteor fireball seen over Indiana and 7 other states
• Meteor fireball seen over Pennsylvania and 6 other states
• Meteor fireball seen over Ohio, Michigan and Ontario
• Meteor fireball seen over Alabama and 7 other states
• Meteor fireball seen over Texas and New Mexico
• Meteor fireball filmed over Croatia on August 14
• Spectacular meteor fireball over South Africa
• Meteor fireball seen over Shanghai

• Study finds life expectancy of American men fell by two years amid COVID pandemic
• Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all
• Sandpaper throat: Sufferers describe non-Covid infection as 'worst cold ever'
• UK health officials recommend adding fluoride to water supply, dismiss cancer fears as 'exaggerated'
• Vaccine effectiveness drops further in the over-40s, to as low as minus 53%, new PHE report shows - and that's a fact
• Reflections on the Covid mania
• SOTT Focus: COVID Mass Vaccination Experiment: Prepare For The Worst With This Health Protocol
• A tenth of prescription medicines given out by GPs unnecessary, finds review
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Australian Medical Fascism: Coming Soon to Your Country‌
• Best of the Web: Did Pfizer conduct an experiment on an entire country?
• FDA meets to decide whether to approve Pfizer booster shots, as company releases stats showing major decline in vaccine efficacy
• More than half of people with long Covid might NOT have 'long Covid' after all
• Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs
• As expected from a flu: World Health Organisation reports drop in new coronavirus infections
• Pfizer says Israel data shows third Covid shot restores protection from infection to 95% as it makes case to FDA for boosters
• Flashback: Down the memory hole: NIH paper says lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - In The News: Covid Vaccines Don't Work
• Drugs that mimic effects of tobacco smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2's ability to enter cells, supports multiple studies showing lower cases of coronavirus amongst smokers
• Study finds teenage boys six times more likely to suffer heart problems from vaccine than be hospitalized by COVID
• Nipah bat-borne virus kills 12-year-old boy, potential to become new scourge in India

• Longtime skeptic now accepts parapsychology as a science (with caveats)
• Conscientious objections to the COVID vaccine should be honored
• Study: Left-wing authoritarians share key psychological traits with far right
• Gut bacteria influence brain development
• Why words become harder to remember as we get older
• New reward circuitry discovered
• Hearing mother's voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggests
• Are incels a violent terrorist subculture, or collection of disenfranchised, misguided souls who need compassion and treatment?
• SOTT Focus: Mass Psychosis: How to Create a Pandemic of Mental Illness
• Gaslighting: The psychology of shaping another's reality
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Postmodern Bible: An Interpretation for Everyone!
• Best of the Web: Why Do Some People Support Tyranny While Others Defy It?
• Our brains perceive our environment differently when we're lying down
• Sleep loss sabotages new memory storage in the hippocampus
• Longer breaks during learning lead to more stable activation patterns in the brain
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Finding Your Red Line: Lessons from Milgram and the Holocaust
• Can consciousness be explained by Quantum Physics?
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Arthur Versluis: The New Inquisitions vs the Mystical State
• What does the sleeping brain think about?
• The language of totalitarian dehumanization

• UFO theories abound as video of mysterious object spotted in Louisiana sky goes viral
• Colombian mayor shares video of 'ghost attack' in his office
• Unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting in South Carolina stirs MUFON interest
• SOTT Focus: Noah Donohoe: Missing 411?
• The evidence of encounters with UFOs is mounting, uncontestable and, thank goodness, being taken seriously for the first time
• Best of the Web: 70 years of cover-ups over UFOs are finally coming to an end. I believe we're on the verge of a profound breakthrough
• 'What if we're the ants in this network of civilisations?' asks UFO expert, as he says we should prepare for imminent ET contact
• Best of the Web: Watershed Pentagon UFO report says 143 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' incidents since 2004 'unexplained', does not rule out ET origin
• From the plandemic to the alien threat?
• Strange lights spotted in night sky over India's Gujarat region
• 'Strange' lights captured in sky above Guelph, Ontario
• Former intel official admits 'aliens' interested in nuclear facilities, claims UFOs 'interfered' with US atomic capabilities
• Unclassified UFO findings to reveal US intel community can't explain aerial objects: report
• James Corbell: Newly released radar footage shows UFOs swarming Navy ship
• Two-year-old triplets seen talking to 'ghost' in their bedroom
• Mysterious giant stone road resurfaces from beneath the Pacific Ocean
• Pentagon's UFO PsyOps
• Ex-head of Pentagon UFO hunting outfit claims US government possesses 'exotic material' that needs to be studied
• Reports of strange sightings in skies over Montana
• 'We don't know exactly what they are': Obama says UFO sightings appear real

• FBI comes clean: Admits it's 'really hard' to solve crimes they didn't make up themselves
• Vaccinated man just wishes there was something that could protect him from COVID
• Babylon Bee scoop! General Milley releasing revised version of 'The Art Of War'
• Kamala Harris Instructed To Stop Answering All Her Phone Calls With 'Did He Die?'
• Animal rescue: CCTV shows goat and rooster save chicken from hawk attack, deer mauls hawk after it tries to capture a rabbit
• Biden unveils 'your body, my choice' vaccination program
• Democrats refuse to drink water as it's also prescribed to horses
• Joe Rogan Bounces Back From COVID To Win Kentucky Derby
• Amazing new discovery - Absolute cure for COVID
• White House solves budget crisis by renting out ad space on Biden's back
• Democrats say true lockdowns have never been tried
• Taliban enjoys deep belly laugh over US military's diversity training materials
• CNN praises Taliban warriors for wearing masks during attack
• Study finds most parents OK with government brainwashing their children if it means free babysitting
• 'Do come Again' says Taliban to withdrawing US troops
• CNN staffers axed for being unvaccinated wished they'd have just exposed themselves on a Zoom call instead
• War on COVID to wrap up as quickly as the War on Terror says government
• Man disguises self as illegal immigrant so Democrats won't care that he's unvaccinated
• CDC experts on 'Delta variant': Do all the things that didn't work the first time!
• 27 covid-skeptic memes to get you through the day - part 8

I sense a surge of archeological one-upmanship lately. What do they want to prove to each other, or us ?!?!?

I don't view DARPA or Russian reports about new weapon systems or ongoing developments as anything else than peception management.

Ashes to ashes, bones to dust. R.C.

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Had the exact same thing happen to me on a flight from Orlando to Newark in 87 or so. (This is a short version.) As we were in and out of the...