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Name: William Barbe
William joined the SOTT news team in 2014. A 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, in 2007 he began being interested and paying more attention to world events and living a healthier lifestyle. Hobbies and interests include hiking, photography and reading non-fiction books on history, economics, psychology, science, unexplained anomalies and politics.
Latest News
- Indian military warns over spread of fake news as viral video on Assam protests found to depict 2017 mock drill
- 'Years of upset'? What PM Johnson's 'getting Brexit done' will really look like
- Best of the Web: German MPs in uproar over US' Nord Stream 2 sanction threats, call for retaliation
- Archaeologists unearth lost town from Aksumite Empire
- Paternity deposition: Hunter Biden must answer questions under oath including his financial record
- Analysis: What's good-bad-ugly about US-China trade breakthrough
- NATO may be all about values, but pay up! Pentagon's Esper reprimands US allies (vassals?)
- Defense Secretary Esper point blank tells Syrian Kurds the US never promised them a state
- Hungarian FM Szijjarto: Pity that human rights are used as excuse to interfere in another state's domestic issues
- Dozens of villages cut off by up to 5 feet of snow in north of India
- London scuffles between police and angry anti-Brexit protesters in mass march on 10 Downing
- NASA's NICER delivers precise pulsar measurements and first surface map
- The 1508 League of Cambrai and BRICS reveal how to not repeat history
- State to pay $400K in kidnapping, sexual assault case
- Snowfall will become a thing of the pass: 18 inches of new snow in 24 hours for White Pass, Washington
- South Dakota upholds death sentence in 2000 torture killing
- Boeing refuses to compete for Pentagon's multibillion-dollar ICBM program
- The Shakespearean tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn: Destroyed by appeasing his enemies
- Paternity suit will force Hunter Biden to disclose finances, Bursima cash; mother demands Secret Service for son
- Clint Eastwood hounded for 'sexist' movie, but is the director a misogynist or a master troll?
- 'Years of upset'? What PM Johnson's 'getting Brexit done' will really look like
- Best of the Web: German MPs in uproar over US' Nord Stream 2 sanction threats, call for retaliation
- Paternity deposition: Hunter Biden must answer questions under oath including his financial record
- Analysis: What's good-bad-ugly about US-China trade breakthrough
- NATO may be all about values, but pay up! Pentagon's Esper reprimands US allies (vassals?)
- Defense Secretary Esper point blank tells Syrian Kurds the US never promised them a state
- Hungarian FM Szijjarto: Pity that human rights are used as excuse to interfere in another state's domestic issues
- The Shakespearean tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn: Destroyed by appeasing his enemies
- Paternity suit will force Hunter Biden to disclose finances, Bursima cash; mother demands Secret Service for son
- DOJ won't release records on Imran Awan: Court docs cite 'technical difficulties' and a secret case
- Defense lawyers complain about lack of access to Assange in jail
- Assange lawyer discloses conditions for British justice to rethink his extradition
- Turkey summons US envoy over resolution declaring Armenian killings as genocide
- SOTT Focus: Someone Meddled in the UK Election & It Wasn't Russia
- Russia retaliates by declaring 2 German Embassy diplomats personae non gratae over Berlin murder case
- How India's new ballistic missile sub changes regional power balance
- IG report confirms suspicions of FBI misconduct and abuses in anti-Trump probe of Russia collusion hoax
- United Ireland in the cards? UK election results 'reflect dramatic & historic shift in Northern Ireland'
- Investigating Bill Browder: Why SPIEGEL is standing by its Magnitsky research
- 'No need to panic': Eurozone may need €20 billion cash injection as economies stagnate - Lagarde
- Indian military warns over spread of fake news as viral video on Assam protests found to depict 2017 mock drill
- London scuffles between police and angry anti-Brexit protesters in mass march on 10 Downing
- State to pay $400K in kidnapping, sexual assault case
- South Dakota upholds death sentence in 2000 torture killing
- Boeing refuses to compete for Pentagon's multibillion-dollar ICBM program
- Clint Eastwood hounded for 'sexist' movie, but is the director a misogynist or a master troll?
- Scientists warn against errors in digitisation of education
- Race baiting for fun and profit? Mere reality won't stop #Resistance from blaming 'white supremacy' for Jersey City shooting
- Utter soulless degeneracy: Woman spent $100,000 to look like "blowup doll", facing complications from multiple surgeries
- Trump tweets obvious satire: Snopes triggered; CNN's Don Lemon rendered speechless by Avengers meme
- School bullies viciously beat 14 year old boy in a MAGA hat
- Los Angeles and Chicago preparing to erase 68,000 nonviolent marijuana convictions
- Neigh-neigh: Man tortures neighbors with horse sounds at night for almost 2 years & now faces prison
- The 2014 coup through eyes of a grown-up student: 'Maidan was for nothing, I'm ashamed of it'
- Corporate giant sells Aussie water rights to Canadian fund during one of worst droughts in history
- Georgia man, Santa at mall for 50 years, fired this week for posting photo in a Trump hat on Facebook
- Italian court orders Facebook to restore page of neo-Fascist party in name of political fairness
- 13-year-old suspect arrested in fatal stabbing of Barnard College student, sources say
- Award-winning journalist Vanessa Beeley faces "deplatforming" at six Canadian venues
- Overly sensitive Twitter bullies try to cancel a vlogger with Tourettes after she blurts out 'kill the Jews' during a livestream
- Archaeologists unearth lost town from Aksumite Empire
- The 1508 League of Cambrai and BRICS reveal how to not repeat history
- Mossad: How it won its reputation as world's most mysterious secret service
- Ritual killing of high status Mayan prisoners of war revealed in isotope analysis
- Rare bust of Ramses II discovered near Giza
- Strange ancient Egyptian 'head cones' discovered in burials
- Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia
- Roman shipwreck from around 1BC carrying thousands of wine amphorae is found on the Greek seafloor
- Flashback: The first US-led Iraq war was also sold to the public based on a pack of lies
- Best of the Web: The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history of the war
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Ordinary Men: What Makes Normal People Do Monstrous Things
- Exceptional 23,000 year old "Venus" discovered in Amiens, France
- George H. Walker Bush: The Bush family and the Mexican drug cartel
- Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 10,000 years of cultural interaction across Africa
- The Habsburg jaw: Facial deformity in royal dynasty linked to inbreeding
- How radar detected prehistoric footprints beneath White Sands National Monument
- Elizabeth I revealed as translator of historic Tacitus manuscript
- Ancient Egyptian High Priest hid mummies from grave robbers during Kingdom's decline
- 1,400 years ago Bamburgh Castle was center of 'Northumbrian enlightenment', hosting visitors from as far as North Africa
- The Harappan script: An enigma from the ancient world
- NASA's NICER delivers precise pulsar measurements and first surface map
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
- Revealing the physics of the Sun with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
- NASA spacecraft spies huge new storm on Jupiter
- Hubble Space Telescope records the best view of the first observed interstellar comet, Borisov
- A 'beautiful' dinosaur tail found preserved in amber
- High-precision map reveals Antarctica's ice sheet bed topography
- 1,000 mile long "Dark River" may be flowing beneath Greenland's ice
- NASA's Juno spacecraft captures stunning photos of newly discovered Jovian tempest
- Study suggests genetics can predict a species' maximum lifespan
- We need to know what happened to CRISPR twins Lulu and Nana
- Granny killer whales pass along wisdom — plus extra fish — to their grandchildren
- MBARI: Thousands of holes discovered on seafloor off California coast
- Electrons flowing like water imaged for the first time
- Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells
- Asteroid Bennu is shooting out rocks - and NASA isn't sure why
- Plants thrive when climate warms, study of last ice age shows
- Jonathan Wells was right: Non-coding 'junk' DNA continues to show function
- Fooling ourselves: Even with accurate info, humans 'self-generate their own misinformation'
- C-section would increase risk of obesity in a child debunked by Swedish study
- Dozens of villages cut off by up to 5 feet of snow in north of India
- Snowfall will become a thing of the pass: 18 inches of new snow in 24 hours for White Pass, Washington
- Ice Age Farmer Report: IT IS BEGUN: Corn shortage Brazil - Food scarcity means submit to Greta
- Thousands' of dead mackerel found in Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand
- Delhi records highest 24-hour December rainfall in 22 years
- Strange sky sounds recorded in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands
- Two feet of snowfall hits areas of Nepal
- A foot of snow dumped overnight on Mount Washington in British Columbia
- 'This is crazy!' Cricket ball-sized hailstones destroy home in Queensland, Australia
- Lightning strikes kill 6 in Malawi
- Thousands of innkeeper worms wash up on a California beach
- World Snow Wrap, Dec 13 - Big snow totals for the US and Europe
- Signs and Portents: Cat gives birth to a two-headed kitten in Thailand
- At least 5 people killed in Afghanistan landslide, 35 missing
- Man dies after being savagely mauled by his 2 pet rottweilers in Italy
- Massive sinkhole suddenly opens up, swallows cars in Xiamen, China
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Is the Great Freeze returning to our planet?
- Iceland blizzard brings 149 mph winds, up to 10 feet of accumulating mountain snow
- Floods wreak havoc in 22 areas across south Trinidad
- Signs and Portents: Two-headed snake found in Bengal village, India
- Asteroid to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th
- Near-Earth asteroid numbers grow
- Bright meteor fireball reported over Phoenix, Arizona
- Video shows stunning meteor fireball light up sky over Houston, Texas
- Bright meteor fireball streaks through night sky over Alabama
- ANOTHER large asteroid, discovered last week, to make Earth fly-by on Friday
- Best of the Web: Astronomers suspect 2016 meteor fireball event in Australia was caused by asteroid that had been 'captured' by Earth's gravity
- SOTT Focus: Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle
- Night sky lit up by apparent meteor over Camarillo, California
- Marlboro, New Jersey's late-night mysterious booms remain unexplained
- Flash of light, window-shaking boom heard in Peru, Illinois
- Mysterious 'fireball' streaks across Oregon sky, leaves cops scratching their heads
- 'Boom!' Sonoma Valley, California residents look to skies for answer following nocturnal noises
- Meteor fireball videoed over Lake Mendota, Wisconsin
- Gigantic, 500ft asteroid to fly past Earth on Monday & come back in 7 years
- Meteor fireball lights up night sky over northern New England
- Meteor fireball lights up sky in Costa Del Sol, Spain
- More incoming: NASA detects three asteroids currently approaching Earth
- They just keep coming! NASA tracking THREE asteroids headed this way, two spotted just 2 days ago
- Kilkenny, Ireland early risers spot giant meteor fireball in the frosty sky
- Frmr NHS psychologists warn children are being over-diagnosed, over-medicated for gender dysphoria as staff fears being branded 'transphobic'
- The benefits of reading books compared to reading from screens
- Eating out is hammering Americans' savings and contributing to the expanding waistlines of millions
- The dark side of plant-based food - it's more about money than you may think
- 300 medical students complete first mandated plant-based nutrition program in the US
- Addiction medicine: Ibogaine-based wonder drug due to start human trials
- Obesity is an epidemic — why haven't we responded accordingly?
- Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice after unpublished data and conflicts of interest come to light
- Former vegan influencer gets savaged by fans after revealing new carnivore diet improved her health
- 'Cannot be trusted ... causing harm': Top medical journal takes on big pharma
- Man's DNA changes after bone marrow transplant, replaced by German donor following treatment for leukemia
- Playing sports may play a role in the brain's ability to hear properly
- How myofascial release therapy can reduce pain, improve posture and flexibility
- US flu season arrives earliest in 15 years, driven by unexpected virus
- Buyer Beware: GMO Stevia is everywhere
- Dr. Google Will See You Now
- Hepatitis A outbreak linked to blackberries spreads to 6 states: CDC
- Flashback: Vaccine boom, population bust: Study queries the link between HPV vaccine and soaring infertility
- Institutional Inertia: Is enough being done to protect children from Aluminum toxicity?
- Medicinal mushrooms cut herpes suffering time in half
- The ideas that bring harm and weaken the minds and emotions of my generation
- Ice baths and deep breaths: How 'rewilding' myself left me feeling superhuman
- God Fearers: An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton
- "The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation"
- New research suggests anthropomorphising your emotions can help you control them
- 10 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People: Instead of looking for traits to emulate, focus on ones to avoid
- Ikigai: The Japanese secret to living a long and more fulfilling life
- A surefire cure for despair
- SOTT Focus: Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything
- If memory serves, can it be trained? A new study offers hope
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Finding Meaning through Mythological Representations: Delving Further into Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning
- New dream study reveals nightmares help brain prepare for real anxiety-provoking situation
- How dancing gives your brain and mood a big boost
- Marcus Aurelius's utterly practical Stoic guide to inner freedom
- Ben Shapiro interviews David Berlinski on his new book, Human Nature
- Medical scientists take Near Death Experiences seriously now
- Sleepwalking is still a mystery to scientists
- SOTT Focus: Gratitude Heals: How a Neuroscientist Used His Research to Recover From Grief
- A whole branch of science turns out to be fake
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Reality and Implications of an Afterlife
- Winged being observed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
- 'Giant UFO' or drones over California town?
- Expedition Bigfoot' scours Oregon woods for signs of the mythical and elusive beast
- UFO hunter claims spike in sightings of 'snake-like objects' in US skies - speculation runs rampant
- Area 51 and CIA vets reveal what Cold War-era radar-tricking program has to do with recent UFO sightings
- Ontario, Canada: Internet puzzled by mysterious howls coming from the woods
- The secret séance rituals of America's largest Spiritualist community
- UFOs or satellites? A string of lights freak Hawaiians out
- 'Didn't match any known aircraft': Navy crew speaks out on 2004 UFO encounter, saw flying 'elongated egg' with 'phosphorus glow'
- 'Seinfeld' actor Charles Levin's death details leave Oregon police baffled
- Missing 411? Hiker found dead in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
- David Paulides details 'Missing 411: The Hunted' in Edge of Wonder interview
- UFO? Strange 'rotating disc' caught on video by driver stuck in North Carolina traffic
- 'This is crazy': Mysterious UFO lights appear in nighttime skies of Bountiful, Utah
- UFO enthusiasts stabilize shaky 2008 video footage from Turkey
- New book on Elisa Lam case looks at evidence of police coverup and botched investigation
- Exploring the fourth dimension: Possible implications for consciousness and the paranormal
- Missing 411: 'Expert' hiker found dead at bottom of Appalachian Trail embankment
- 'UFO crashed after battle with red object in Australian sky', locals claim
- US Army announces agreement with To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science to study 'mystery materials' of unexplained origin
- Superman criticized as unrealistic for portraying a journalist as heroic
- They call me Rocket: Drunken raccoon revels at Christmas market in Germany
- Will Greta accept the offer?
- Visually a-peeling: Reaction split online as duct-taped bananas sell for $120 THOUSAND at Miami art gallery
- Tiger, Tiger? looking slight: Indian farmer paints dog like tiger to scare away monkeys
- How to discuss "climate change" with a 'woke' teenager
- Smart cop: Indian police officer catches murder suspect by sending old photo, promising to marry him
- Stray dog found keeping abandoned newborn kittens warm on side of freezing road
- Shape-shifting reptilian overlords distance themselves from Prince Andrew
- Impeachment inquiry cancelled after five episodes due to dismal ratings
- "But I still get paid, right?" asked Prince Andrew
- 'Sums it up perfectly!' Donald Trump Jr uses 'Russian Slapping Champion' to mock Democrats & impeachment inquiry into his dad
- 'If elected, I will put AOC in charge of math' says Bernie
- Democrats make environmental commitment: Will use only 100% recycled talking points
- Poor choice of words! South Dakota spends nearly $500,000 on anti-meth ad campaign with tagline "Meth - We're On it"
- Kevin Spacey to play Prince Andrew in season 4 of 'The Crown'
- Derbyshire, UK: Swans are knocking on doors to demand food, and have taught cygnets to copy behaviour
- Prince Andrew: I couldn't have been interviewed by BBC Newsnight because I was at a Burger King in Swansea
- BREAKING: Epstein Island sold to wealthy Middle Eastern businessman Haadid Nahkil Muhssef
- Man tries filing for president in New Hampshire as 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself'
Quote of the Day
It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
- Dresden James
Recent Comments
Nonsensical article. Calling Corbyn a communist isn't a smear - it is the truth. Him winning the election would be the first step to a...
it looks like an amber/opalized chrysalis.
Wake me up when it's over - but by doing so, you might be playing 'Jesus' to my Lazarus - as I'll probably be over 150 years old then. R.C.
no one bothered to think about how NATO ally Turkey might feel about a chunk of their land being taken away for this state? they were just going...
Whole family is a class act.
