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An information tech professional, former DJ, present avid explorer, evolving writer and lover of knowledge and all that’s true, Ryan has been honing his storytelling kung-fu via years of blogging and more recently, submitting his work to the forge of journalistic rigour that is sott.net. His constellation of interests includes technology, geopolitics, ponerology, psychology, philosophy, history and astronomy, and you can also find his writings on his personal blog knpr.net, Twitter, and Steemit.
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- 11 dead, 360,00 affected as flood situation in Assam, India remains grim
- Man killed by pack of dogs on trail in Henning, Tennessee
- Chile declares state of emergency over deadly rainfall
- Flash floods kill at least 23 in eastern Afghanistan, some 100 missing
- "Ceasefire is over": Why America still cannot secure the Strait of Hormuz
- Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact
- Mamdani weighs possible Netanyahu arrest at September U.N. General Assembly
- The DSA and the myth of Scandinavian socialism
- Europe's heatwave is becoming an energy crisis
- Where's Israel?
- Ancient Rome's strange hair law: Long locks out, bald heads in
- Best of the Web: The Great Woke College Experiment Is Collapsing Under the Weight of Reality
- Russia's decision point
- Best Picture no longer means best: Why most contemporary movies suck
- Cars swept away as powerful flash flood hits Romania's mountain town of Bușteni
- Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts, sends ash 12 km high
- Leopard enters liquor shop, attacks 3 in Rajasthan, India
- Lightning strike kills 6 children in Nigeria
- A chorus of poets: On the possible existence of multiple Homers
- "Ceasefire is over": Why America still cannot secure the Strait of Hormuz
- Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact
- Russia's decision point
- The day Democrats return to Wall Street
- Trump 'betrayal' puts US on path to revolution - Tucker Carlson
- The Guardian Myth: Why America's Hormuz toll plan is already sinking
- Best of the Web: The Great Normalization
- Kiev sells victory while eating its own
- The Hormuz Extortion: How Washington's maritime toll weaponizes global trade for big oil
- Iran attacks Kuwait's power and water desalination plant
- IRGC targets US command center in Syria un unprecedented attack
- Israel advances crocodile plan to stop Palestinian prisoners escaping
- Zelensky's deckchair rearrangement: Cabinet reshuffle backfiring as new defense minister named
- China's rare earth squeeze reshaping global economy: "The killer chokepoint"
- Europe's China dilemma: Why the EU still cannot decide what China is
- Vance slams Israeli PR campaign to keep war going 'indefinitely', and undermine him
- Europe making South China Sea crisis worse: Philippines now Washington's front line
- CrossTalk: War without purpose
- The Killing Machines - Governments and Technology Obsessing Over Efficient Death
- Trump's Iran Trap
- Mamdani weighs possible Netanyahu arrest at September U.N. General Assembly
- The DSA and the myth of Scandinavian socialism
- Europe's heatwave is becoming an energy crisis
- Where's Israel?
- Best of the Web: The Great Woke College Experiment Is Collapsing Under the Weight of Reality
- Best Picture no longer means best: Why most contemporary movies suck
- Oil traders warn the market is running on fumes: "We've burned through all the buffers"
- Survey finds nearly half of Poles now want to stop arming Ukraine
- "Secret nazis" are fine If they advance DSA agenda: Member Emma Vigeland inadvertently exposes socialist playbook
- France is building an Orwellian state in plain sight
- First $1 billion, now $50 million: Khanna says wealth tax "must not stop at billionaires"
- 'Sip your coffee while watching the sunrise': How Israel is colonizing the West Bank by selling Palestinian land to Jewish Americans
- Humanoid Loses Its Head In World's First Full-Size Robot Combat Tournament... And Keeps Fighting
- West Hollywood water main break floods homes, cars, opens massive sinkhole in key roadway
- Is private enterprise best?
- The lockdown disaster must not be forgiven
- Britons urged to take 'small steps' to prepare for potential national crises
- How the American Republic became a Managerial State
- The Digital Euro: Control and the end of financial privacy
- While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State
- Ancient Rome's strange hair law: Long locks out, bald heads in
- A chorus of poets: On the possible existence of multiple Homers
- Underwater ruins off Louisiana have revived the theory of a 12,000-year-old lost city
- The strange death of James V. Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense
- 'They used axes to spare the ammo': How modern Ukraine's Nazi heroes massacred civilians during WWII
- 'Crimes against humanity': The CIA's sickest secret may finally be exposed
- Uncovering three new kings of Assyria
- Declaration of Independence copy seized by British navy in 1776 uncovered in London's National Archives
- "Studebaker!": The rise and fall of a US industrial dream and a forgotten alliance
- Egypt uncovers a complete Byzantine city in the Dakhla Oasis
- French archaeologist cracks 4,000-year-old Elamite script from Iran
- WTF happened in 1971?
- 4,000-year-old sealed cuneiform letters from Anatolia read without breaking their clay envelopes
- How the crossword conquered America and reigns even to this day
- The American Revolution and the danger of standing armies
- Enormous 2,000-year-old luxurious Roman bathhouse uncovered in the Netherlands
- The world government that wasn't
- The Middle Ages, "enlightenment," and propaganda
- Stonehenge's solar alignment may be older than we thought
- New study links Göbekli Tepe's vulture stone to Europe's Trypillia culture
- A century-old stellar mystery may finally have an explanation
- Astronomers make landmark discovery on next-door 'super-Earth'
- Underwater oxygen loss threatens Earth's stability, researchers warn
- NASA's Hubble discovers first of star cluster Omega Centauri's missing black holes
- 'Alien chemistry' discovered on meteorite that plunged through New Jersey home
- China beats Musk's Neuralink to commercial brain-chip implant
- Mathematicians are closing in on the hidden order inside chaos
- Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
- Hidden deep-sea turbulence could alter climate and fisheries within one lifetime
- Did a passing star shower us with Comets?
- JWST detects mysterious compound on Pluto and Titan
- US 'very much in space race' against China - NASA chief
- World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
- Is Jason Herring the Elon Musk of hydrogen energy?
- The scientific case has been made for reading on paper, not screens
- Stressed-out soil bacteria can adapt to environmental conditions
- Cyber warfare is no longer directed by humans. It's being shaped by AI.
- Powerful seismic waves from Japan's 2011 earthquake struck Earth's core and bounced back up, moving the island eastward
- The targeted assassination of studies showing vaccines cause injury
- Best of the Web: Generative Optogenetics: brought to you by DARPA!
- Heavy rain caused flash floods in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia on July 18
- 11 dead, 360,00 affected as flood situation in Assam, India remains grim
- Man killed by pack of dogs on trail in Henning, Tennessee
- Chile declares state of emergency over deadly rainfall
- Flash floods kill at least 23 in eastern Afghanistan, some 100 missing
- Cars swept away as powerful flash flood hits Romania's mountain town of Bușteni
- Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts, sends ash 12 km high
- Leopard enters liquor shop, attacks 3 in Rajasthan, India
- Lightning strike kills 6 children in Nigeria
- Hiker dies after being struck by lightning near Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
- Provo firefighter, his wife, and 3 sons killed by flash flood in southern Utah
- New Yorkers, after days of heavy smoke and torrid temperatures, are met with thunderstorms and flash flooding
- 11 dead in flash floods caused by incessant overnight rain in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Death toll rises to 3 after heavy rains in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
- Car plunges into sinkhole in east Baltimore, Maryland
- Areas in Yemen covered in white due heavy hailstorm during the peak of summer
- Regina couple killed in bear attack at McTavish Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Animal rescue worker reportedly killed in dog attack in Manitoba, Canada
- Flash flood kills 4, leaves 4 others missing in Vietnam
- Lightning kills nearly 100 black-nosed sheep on a Swiss alp
- Meteor fireball over India and Pakistan on July 16
- Meteor fireball over Germany and 2 other countries on July 15
- Meteor fireball over Italy and 3 other countries on July 10
- Meteor fireball streaks across sky in Java, Indonesia, triggering loud boom on July 11
- Meteor fireball over Colorado and Wyoming on July 10
- Meteor fireball lights up Otago, New Zealand sky on July 11
- Meteor fireball over Romania on July 7
- Bright green meteor fireball spotted during northern lights in Alberta on July 3
- Meteor fireball over Montana and 2 other states on July 4
- Meteor fireball over Arizona on July 3
- Meteor fireball over Florida on July 2
- Meteor fireball lights up the sky over cities in Minas Gerais, Brazil on July 2
- Meteor fireball sighting reported in Venezuelan sky on July 1
- Meteor fireball over northeast Brazil on June 28
- Meteor fireball over Louisiana and 5 other states on June 28
- Meteor fireball over Germany and the Netherlands on June 27
- Meteor fireball over northwest France on June 22
- Meteor fireball over Connecticut, 7 other states and Ontario on June 20
- Meteor fireball flashes over Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and northern Michigan on June 19
- Meteor fireball over Colorado on June 17
- New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients
- Germany halts recommendations of COVID-19 vaccination for most people under 75
- RFK Jr. to issue list of injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines
- 11-year-old boy dies of rabies in Canada after waking to find bat on his face in the middle of the night in 2024
- Is healthcare a human right?
- HHS launches tick-control pilot targeting deer and mice to cut Lyme disease cases
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- 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'?
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- 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)
- Is Life Just Different?
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Human Predators in Power: How They Hide in Plain Sight | Karen Mitchell
- Why you should talk to your dead ancestors
- Putting men back into mental health
- Fear is overwhelming us
- Top-Down Solutions Don't Work
- 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
- U.S. conducted successful UFO "Luring Operation," advocate claims, as government files detail orb encounters
- Key revelations from 4th batch of Pentagon UFO files
- NASA reveals it has captured UFO imagery as space agency chief admits 'there's life everywhere'
- Releasing the UFO files is not enough, the UFO Trojan Horse Part 1: Whistleblowers
- SOTT Focus: The Alien-Demon Deception: How Humanity Gets Herded - Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview
- Melissa Casias took two key items: New details raise doubts over Los Alamos lab assistant's death
- US government establishes new interagency UAP Governance Board to coordinate investigations and declassification
- UAP forum will let public hear from lawmakers, whistleblowers on disclosure
- Newly released UFO files allege China, Russia retrieved downed UAPs — and attempted to reverse-engineer them: expert
- 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
- 10 Rejected titles for Biden's new memoir
- Aussie officials ask fans to respect the privacy of Neil, a 1-ton seal who respects nothing
- 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
"Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave." - Robert Frost
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Recent Comments
And on a related note, I wondered for quite some time why the Germans refused to send their Taurus missiles the Ukraine. The French and Brits had...
To be considered more "trustworthy" when you have no hair, could mean you are being (literally) "groomed" as an authoritarian follower...
Good luck listening to mad old women who gossip too much and never actually do any work. Pocahontas is no whistleblower.
Germany hasn't just lost money. It's lost its mind. Hard times are ahead for Germany. However, do not fear, the people in gov't won't be affected....
I read "long Covid", and I know that I can skip this article. The authors are ignorant at best.
