• The Hormuz Extortion: How Washington's maritime toll weaponizes global trade for big oil
• Iran attacks Kuwait's power and water desalination plant
• 'Sip your coffee while watching the sunrise': How Israel is colonizing the West Bank by selling Palestinian land to Jewish Americans
• Astronomers make landmark discovery on next-door 'super-Earth'
• New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients
• Underwater oxygen loss threatens Earth's stability, researchers warn
• IRGC targets US command center in Syria un unprecedented attack
• Humanoid Loses Its Head In World's First Full-Size Robot Combat Tournament... And Keeps Fighting
• 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
• Israel advances crocodile plan to stop Palestinian prisoners escaping
• Flash flood kills 4, leaves 4 others missing in Vietnam
• Lightning kills nearly 100 black-nosed sheep on a Swiss alp
• Landslide triggered by rain buries buildings, killing at least 8 in Pengshui County, China
• NASA's Hubble discovers first of star cluster Omega Centauri's missing black holes
• Zelensky's deckchair rearrangement: Cabinet reshuffle backfiring as new defense minister named
• China's rare earth squeeze reshaping global economy: "The killer chokepoint"
• West Hollywood water main break floods homes, cars, opens massive sinkhole in key roadway
• Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show

• 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
• Hamas's governance exit exposes Israel's real objectives
• Federal regulators order banks to scrutinize loans to illegal aliens
• Well, well, well: Israeli officials trying to push US refueling tankers out of Ben Gurion Airport amid disruptions
• Trump's new Iran strikes are turning failure into a wider disaster
• Open borders are a death sentence to Western nations
• The day the world moved on
• 'They don't want you there': Trump tells Netanyahu to leave Syria and Lebanon - Axios
• Majority of Iranian MPs say Trump's 'termination' of MoU shows talks with US won't solve problems

• '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
• CrossTalk: Generational Rejection
• Widow of Butler rally victim: Trump assassination attempt was "an inside job"
• The People vs. Flock (+ Redpill Real Talk)
• New York is hemorrhaging millionaires: Exodus costing billions in lost revenue
• Lawsuit contends Meta used AI to lay off workers with medical conditions
• German parliament moves to criminalize denying Israel's "right to exist"
• Caving to Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal's devices on return from Tehran reporting trip
• Some 300 evacuated after car with military-grade weapon found near Paris synagogue
• Saudi-led forces bomb Yemen's Sanaa Airport, reigniting war with the Houthis
• Anti-corruption probe links Kushner luxury resort to international drug trafficking network
• The Economics of the Surveillance State

• '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
• 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

• 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!
• Scientist set clocks made from an atomic nucleus running for the first time

• 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
• Landslide triggered by rain buries buildings, killing at least 8 in Pengshui County, China
• Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show
• Shallow 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits off coast of southern Mexico, tsunami alert lifted - aftershock of mag. 6
• 2 dead in Texas Hill Country flash flood - Guadalupe River rose 32 feet in just 4 hours - 20 inches of rain in 48 hours, 6 months worth of rain
• Powerful summer storm floods hundreds of homes in Russia's Urals
• National Weather Service confirms 100 mph EF-1 tornado damaged northwest San Antonio, Texas; no injuries reported
• Thousands of giant lion's mane jellyfish sightings trigger public safety alerts for New England beachgoers
• Massive hailstorm triggers flash floods, trap cars in Wittenburg, Mecklenburg, Germany
• Wild boar attacks 4 people in the city of Toyota, Japan
• SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2026: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
• Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes off southern Philippines following series of Pacific Ring of Fire quakes - 5th mag. 6 in 11 days
• Powerful microbursts damage buildings, topple trees across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Phivolcs records effusive eruption at Mayon Volcano, Philippines
• Lightning strike kills 60 sheep, a dog and buffalo in Jammu Kashmir, India
• Shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near New Caledonia in South Pacific

• 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
• 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)

• 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

• 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
• Clumsy eagle gifts man with "biggest bass I ever caught!"

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