On Saturday, Jack Posobiec posted a screenshot of a now-deleted 2018 tweet from Greta Thunberg, which linked to an article predicting humans would go extinct by 2023 due to climate change. "A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years." Thunberg's post read from 2018.

Gates adds that it is not realistic to expect that the climate crisis could be addressed by personal choices such as giving up eating meat. Microsoft founder Bill Gates reiterated his view last week in the contentious debate about whether individual sacrifice can make a tangible difference in the fight against climate change, casting doubt on the idea that living an "impoverished lifestyle" or becoming a vegetarian could put a dent in rising greenhouse gas emissions. "In climate movements, you can get this 'Hey, we've been consuming too much,' and 'Hey, maybe we shouldn't travel anymore,'" Gates said last week in remarks delivered in India. "I don't think we can count on people living an impoverished lifestyle as a solution to climate."

Three people reportedly died after being struck by lightning while they were watching football on Saturday afternoon at Ntara village, Kavango West region. Two days earlier, a teenager was also struck dead at the Ncamagoro village in the same region. "The incident at Ntara village occurred at around 17h00 when five people were standing watching soccer at Ntara sports field when they were struck by lighting. Two of the victims survived, while three others died on the spot," said Kavango West regional police commander Julia Sakuwa-Neo. The deceased persons in the Ntara incident were identified as 43-year-old Maseka Joseph Kasinga, Haingura Paula Mbunze (16) and her 11-month-old daughter Lontine Ndambu, whom she was carrying on her back at the time of the incident.

A shocking and horrifying incident made headlines where two siblings were mauled to death by start dogs in Delhi. The police on Monday informed that two brothers, aged 7 and 5 were killed in stray dog attack in two separate incidents in the Vasant Kunj area of South Delhi. A case has been registered and the probe is underway. Two siblings killed by stray dogs in separate incidents Delhi Police informed that the first incident took place on Friday, March 10, 2023, when the elder sibling, aged 7 years went missing. His body was recovered later with animal bites-like injuries. '2 siblings, aged 7 and 5 were killed allegedly in stray dog attack in 2 separate incidents in the Vasant Kunj area. A 7-year-old boy went missing on 10th March & his body was recovered later with animal bite-like injuries,' Delhi Police said.

Josef Mengele the Nazi "Angel of Death" was hounded to the ends of the Earth by the US and other Western governments in the aftermath of WWII for his sadistic medical experimentation on Jews in his custody during the war. That's how America used to treat psychopathic war criminals. Now, America pays them the highest salary in the whole government, fellates them on television, and lavishes them with $100K per speech in retirement. We are speaking, of course, of the one and only COVID Warlord Anthony Fauci.

Residents of Rwamuyoora village in Rubanda district, western Uganda were on Sunday afternoon gripped with fear and shock after lightning killed three people: A father and his two sons. The incident happened during an afternoon downpour at Rwamuyora cell, Nyarurambi parish, Muko sub-county. According to a statement released by Kigezi region police spokesperson Elly Maate, the incident occurred at about 2:00 pm on Sunday as Ambrose Kanunu, 35, was in the main house with his two sons identified as Justus Asiimwe, 7 and Arnold Habomugisha, 5.

The 'Covid Origins Story' reemerged recently with FBI Director Christopher Wray stating that the pandemic "most likely" stemmed from a "lab incident" in Wuhan, China. This energized Republicans' Covid probes, resulting in unanimous Congressional support for "publishing all government files on Covid's origins." If such happens, you can bet that all resulting "revelations" will be "dynamically shaped" to smear China. Together with "Balloon-gate," this is grist to the mill of "containing China," something President Xi of China this week, for the first time, explicitly stated is the US' "grand geopolitical strategy" for thwarting China's rise. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has brokered a tentative peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, something the US had nothing to do with, and which signals diminishing American influence in the Middle East, the "energy spigot" of the whole world... Running Time: 01:11:49 Download: MP3 49.3 MB

The Cradle reveals confidential clauses of the agreement struck between Tehran and Riyadh, which was reached courtesy of Beijing. Under Chinese auspices, on 10 March in Beijing, longtime regional competitors Iran and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement to restore diplomatic relations, after a break of seven years. In its most optimistic reading, the deal can be seen as a historic strategic agreement, reflecting major changes underway in West Asia and the world. At worst, it can be characterized as an "armistice agreement" between two important rivals, that will provide a valuable space for direct, regular communications. The Sino-Saudi-Iranian joint statement on Friday carried strong implications beyond the announcement of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Riyadh, severed since 2016. The statement is very clear: The embassies of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic Iran will reopen in less than two months. Respect for the sovereignty of States. Activating...

US regulators unveiled emergency measures on Sunday to shore up the banking system and took control of another bank, as they moved to stem contagion from the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank. The Federal Reserve announced a new lending facility aimed at providing additional funding to eligible depository institutions to ensure that "banks have the ability to meet the needs of all their depositors". In a statement, the US central bank added it was "prepared to address any liquidity pressures that may arise". The facility is part of a broader effort by regulators, including Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, Fed chair Jay Powell and Martin Gruenberg of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to reassure customers that their money is safe.

Protesters in Bilbao underline that they are against NATO's strategy, against military support for Kiev, and against the increase of EU countries' military budgets. More than 2,000 people took to the streets of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao as part of a march in support of Russia, a representative of an anti-NATO movement told RIA Novosti. "Russia has been striving for peace since 2014. But the West leaves Russia no other choice. For this reason, we express our solidarity with Moscow," the representative said.

Ukrainian refugees in Poland will have to cover half of their accommodation costs from March onwards, according to plans the European Commission says it was not notified of. From 1 March, Ukrainian refugees that stay in Poland for more than 120 days and live in common housing facilities have to cover half of their accommodation costs with a cap of 40 zlotys (8.50) per day. Vulnerable groups, including children, retirees, pregnant women, single parents, parents with children under 12, and people in a particularly difficult financial situation, are exempted. Comment: Isn't that likely to be most of the refugees since fighting age men were barred from leaving?

American strategic bomber B-52H Stratofortress worked out the possibility of launching a missile attack on St. Petersburg Yesterday, 06: 59 109 The United States continues the practice of provocations near the Russian borders, this time the Americans have worked out the possibility of launching a missile attack on St. Petersburg using the B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber. Data on the flight route of the American strategist was provided by the Flightradar service. The US Air Force B-52H strategic bomber worked out an attack on the Russian northern capital, entering the city from the Baltic Sea near Gogland Island, while being in neutral airspace. According to the service, the American bomber took off from the territory of Poland, after which it flew over the Baltic Sea towards the Russian city, simulated a missile attack over the Gulf of Finland, after which it turned around and went to the base through the Baltic airspace. During the "attack" the American strategist was at a...

The Biden administration is expected to soon push ahead with a massive northern Alaska oil drilling project that is forecasted to create thousands of jobs and 600 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifespan, according to multiple reports. Senior administration officials have signed off on three of the five drilling sites proposed by oil company ConocoPhillips as part of its Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve located in North Slope Borough, Alaska, Bloomberg reported Friday evening. ConocoPhillips previously stated that, for the project to remain economic viability, the federal government would need to approve at least three of the sites. The Department of Interior (DOI) will publish the final decision on the Willow Project, but President Biden and senior White House officials have been actively involved in overseeing the approval process. Industry groups, Alaska lawmakers and local communities urged the president to approve the project for its economic benefits...

The American exit from Kabul might be taste of the future for officials in Kiev... In the spirit of better late than never, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published an extensive investigation into the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) following the US withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021. The report not only offers, at-times shocking, detail on the level of Washington's betrayal, but important lessons for America's international allies today. If only you knew how bad things really are The ANDSF's collapse was quite a sight to behold. The vast fighting force, constructed at a cost of $90 billion over 20 years, seemed to vanish even faster than the American aircraft escaping Kabul airport. This is despite US officials endlessly claiming in the leadup to the West's wholesale pullout from Afghanistan that the government was more than capable of defending itself without foreign support. However, SIGAR's...

US-funded biological research laboratories are continuing to operate in Ukraine in spite of official statements indicating that they had been 'deactivated', the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Friday report on Washington's international pathogen research programs. According to the commander of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Moscow has obtained documents that suggest Kiev has continued to coordinate with the Pentagon in the military biological field, including the transfer of pathogenic biomaterials. Kirillov pointed to an official appeal from 'ch2m-hill' - a key Pentagon contractor - to Ukrainian companies participating in a "program to counter particularly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine." The document reports on the continuation of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) biological program in Ukraine and outlines future tasks, such as consolidating collections of dangerous pathogens and deploying systems for...

We are starting to get a better, a more precise sense of what it means when Joe Biden brags about the strongest and most equitable economic recovery in modern history. What it means is it could be time to buy gold and stockpile food. Oh, there's a deal on Russian steel case and then go pick up a pallet. Just kidding, sort of. Yesterday, some of the biggest banks in this country, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley collectively lost more than $50 billion in market value in one day. That's quite a hit. On the other hand, those banks still exist, and you can't say that for Silicon Valley Bank. As of this morning, Silicon Valley Bank or SVB has gone under completely. That makes the second-biggest bank failure in the history of this country, and that's significant. SVB financed nearly half of all venture-backed health care and technology companies in the United States. It also apparently held significant cash reserves for some of the biggest cryptocurrencies, and it's...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) was informed on Friday that its monks and clergy had until March 29 to vacate the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, after a government commission decided they were violating the terms of their lease from the state. The church has refused, saying there are no legal grounds for the eviction. Founded in 1051, the Pechersk Lavra ('monastery of the caves') is considered the most prominent Orthodox Christian site in Ukraine. Legally it is the property of the state, as a national historic preserve, and administered by the UOC under a 2013 agreement with the government. According to a memo from the Ministry of Culture, published by multiple Ukrainian outlets, a commission established by President Vladimir Zelensky's decree in December had determined that the UOC is in violation of the deal, and therefore must turn the monastery over by the end of March. The UOC does not intend to leave, however. Its head, Metropolitan Kliment, told the outlet Liga: "The document does...

The 5,000-year-old swords found 43 years ago during the excavations in the old mud-brick palace structure in Malatya Arslantepe Mound are the oldest swords in the world. Many archaeologists believed that the earliest swords only dated to around 1600 or 1500 BCE before the discovery of a cache of swords at the archaeological site of Arslantepe in Turkey. The nine swords from the archaeological site of Arslantepe (Melid) attest to the use of this weapon for the first time in the world - at least a millennium before the already-known examples. They date back to the Early Bronze Age (c. 33rd to 31st centuries). In the 1980s, Marcella Frangipane's team at Rome University discovered a cache of nine swords and daggers dating all the way back to 3300 BCE. Frangipane declared the swords of Arslantepe the world's oldest and first swords ever discovered. They are made of an alloy of arsenic and copper. Three of the swords were exquisitely inlaid with silver. These weapons have a total length...

A Japanese astronomer captured the telltale flash of a meteorite impacting the moon, causing a brief flash on our celestial neighbor's nightside. Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, recorded the event using cameras set to monitor the moon. The time of the flash was 20:14:30.8 Japan Standard Time (7:14 a.m. EST, or 1114 GMT) on Feb. 23. The meteorite appears to have struck near Ideler L crater, slightly northwest of Pitiscus crater, Fujii said.

Extreme conditions continue to haunt the American state of California. A fresh storm has hit the Western coastal state and raging flood waters have prompted fresh evacuations orders in the U.S. state. The Pajaro river in the state overflowed due to heavy rain and several people living nearby had to be transported to shelter.

At least six people have died in Peru as a powerful cyclone unleashed torrential rains, battering hundreds of homes and causing major disruptions in northern areas. The government has declared a state of emergency as it seeks to bring relief to regions including Lambayeque, Piura and Tumbes hit by the cyclone known as Yaku. The National Institute of Civil Defense early on Friday said flooding caused by Yaku had claimed six lives. "Cyclone Yaku is a very unusual phenomenon causing intensifying rains in the north," said the director of civil defence, Csar Sierra. Later, the institute said 58 people had been killed since the start of the rainy season. President Dina Boluarte visited parts of northern Peru on Saturday as the government delivered humanitarian aid to areas badly hit by the cyclone.

China needs to call Rihanna to get them a few umbrellas to weather their newest nature phenomenon. Citizens of the Chinese city of Liaoning were told to find shelter after it looked like it started to rain worms. A clip of the vicinity allegedly being showered with little worms crawling all over cars has gone viral on social media. The video showed residents covering themselves with umbrellas as they go along their daily routine. While the cause of the slimy creatures has yet to be uncovered, the Scientific Journal of the Mother Nature Network suggested that the animals were dropped after being swept up by heavy winds. Read more at: https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/china-pummeled-by-rain-of-worms-as-residents-asked-to-carry-umbrellas/

We received 15 reports about a fireball seen over FL on Sunday, March 12th 2023 around 01:55 UT. For this event, we received 3 videos.

The controversial bill will raise the legal retirement age of French workers from 62 years of age to 64 and is a major win for President Emmanuel Macron despite mass protests against the plan nationwide. On Sunday France's Senate passed a controversial reform bill that will raise the retirement age for those in France by two years. The Senate passed the bill by 195 votes to 112. It will now go to a joint parliamentary committee (CMP), after which the chambers of Parliament will vote separately on the bill. The bill plans to gradually raise the retirement age by three months a year starting in September of 2023 until 2030, when the age of those who will be able to retire reaches 64. "After hundreds of hours of discussions, the Senate adopted the pension reform plan. It is a key step to make a reform happen that will guarantee the future of our pension system," Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne wrote on Twitter.

Hackers can make Bing's AI chatbot ask for personal information from a user interacting with it, turning it into a convincing scammer without the user's knowledge, researchers say. In a new study, researchers determined that AI chatbots are currently easily influenced by text prompts embedded in web pages. A hacker can thus plant a prompt on a web page in 0-point font, and when someone is asking the chatbot a question that causes it to ingest that page, it will unknowingly activate that prompt. The researchers call this attack "indirect prompt injection," and give the example of compromising the Wikipedia page for Albert Einstein. When a user asks the chatbot about Albert Einstein, it could ingest that page and then fall prey to the hackers' prompt, bending it to their whims for example, to convince the user to hand over personal information. The researchers demonstrated this attack using mocked-up apps integrating a language model, but they found that it works in the real world,...

Executive summary Del Bigtree was right: CO2 levels have been confirmed to rise to unacceptable levels in kids in a paper published in September 2022. The CDC refuses to warn parents of the danger, even after the paper was published. So it's our job to warn since everyone else (mainstream medical community, mainstream press, and CDC) are remaining silent. The original Highwire demo Here is the original video of Del and his son Ever. The fact check Even the AFP Fact check admits that 2,000 ppm is problematic and that 13,000 is very problematic:

An Egyptian pro-government talk show host has prompted angry reactions since his statement on Wednesday that encouraged cash-strapped citizens to eat horse and donkey meats, which he claimed are "very healthy". "Why don't we eat donkey and horse meats? They are sold and eaten in many countries," Tamer Amin, the host of the Akher al-Nahar (Arabic for late afternoon) show on the local al-Nahar television channel, said on 8 March. Comment: Says the man who won't be eating it. "Horse meat is very healthy and safe, and I believe it is not religiously forbidden," he added, a day before Egypt's statistics agency announced that urban consumer inflation has shot to a five-and-a-half-year high, reaching 31.9 percent.

An American geostrategic analyst and writer has said that the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is "a catastrophe for US hegemony, which is founded on permanent instability between any potential allies and competitors." After several days of intensive negotiations hosted by China, Iran and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement on Friday to restore diplomatic relations and re-open embassies in each other's countries; seven years after ties were severed over several issues. Daniel Patrick Welch said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, "It's huge."

More than 10,000 Dutch farmers protested in The Hague on Saturday against government plans to limit nitrogen emissions, a policy they say will spell the end of many farms and hit food production. Many symbolically held the national flag upside down during the demonstration, which took place ahead of March 15 regional elections and followed similar protests by farmers in Belgium this month over nitrogen emission rules. Elsewhere in the city, thousands of environmentalists blocked a major thoroughfare in an unauthorised protest against tax rules they say encourage the use of fossil fuels. Police used water cannon to disperse a group of about 100 of the activists late in the afternoon. Comment: The agenda of these environmentalists is actually quite in line with the establishment goal of deindustrialisation, which, if successful, would result in an unimaginable amount of misery and death: Thousands of farmers protest in Brussels over nitrogen limits that will cause 'socio-economic...

Dismissing requests for a suspension to allow for negotiations on the contentious proposal, Prime Minister Netanyahu's cabinet is hell-bent on going through with its legislative agenda to pass the judicial reforms. Continuing the ten-week streak, thousands of Israeli settlers have protested against the government's bill for judicial reform which they [protestors] have described as a threat to democracy. Dismissing requests for a suspension to allow for negotiations on the contentious proposal, Prime Minister Netanyahu's cabinet is hell-bent on going through with its legislative agenda to pass the judicial reforms.

Nationwide demonstrations were held in Paris and other French cities for the seventh time this year with thousands rejecting the government's pension reform plan, according to media reports. The protests started earlier in cities such as Nice and Toulouse, while thousands started rallying in Paris in the afternoon. Tense scenes were witnessed in Paris during the protests, as some groups threw projectiles at police officers who intervened with force, according to broadcaster BFMTV.

"There's a lot of stupidity in public discourse, and most of it is not worth paying attention to. But once in a while, there is a kind of stupidity that is so grotesque that its very existence to any substantive degree tells us something about our culture." Richard Hanania Time, they say, is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Whoever "they" are and these days it is liable to be just one person obviously hadn't tried living in the USA in 2023, because now everything is happening at once. The cosmic weirdness has left some observers, such as the formidable and admirable Naomi Wolf, to wonder if we are under the sway of something supernatural, and not a good something. The old movie Poltergeist comes to mind. Remember? Every evil entity in the pop culture universe came spewing out of a TV all at once, to disorder a perfectly banal and serene suburban neighborhood, representing all of us, of course. These days, when I drive to the supermarket to...

Beijing's continued militarization is a forced response to US pressure. But can it keep its cool? During the two sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) over the weekend, China announced that its military budget would increase by 7.2% year on year. The news made headlines around the world. The Chinese premier's work report, submitted to the NPC, says the country's military "should intensify military training and preparedness across the board," and points to escalating "external attempts to suppress and contain China." The country's state media reacted conservatively, stressing that the defense spending increase is in keeping with the "single-digit" growth pattern of recent years (7.1% in 2022, 6.8% in 2021, 6.6% in 2020). Western media took a much different angle, with many outlets making obligatory mention of warnings from analysts and officials that China's real military spending could be much higher than the announced budget. For example the Guardian cited the US...

In another example of Washington's inexorable slide into banana republic territory, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to call for the removal of an American journalist. During his seven-minute authoritarian tirade, he said: "I don't think I've ever seen an anchor treat the American people, and American democracy, with such disdain. And he's going to come back tonight with another segment. Fox News should tell him not to. Fox News, Rupert Murdoch tell Mr. Carlson not to run a second segment of lies. You know it's a lie." Schumer later reiterated his demand to a group of journalists who, rather than denounce one of the most powerful government officials in the country attempting to silence an influential member of the media, dutifully reported Schumer's bleating without question. Republican senators including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joined the fray, echoing...

From March 17, 2022, to the end of January 2023, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) increased its federal funds rate from practically zero to 4.50-4.75 percent. The rise in lending rates came in response to skyrocketing consumer goods price inflation: US inflation rose from 2.5 percent in January 2022 to 9.1 percent in June. Notwithstanding inflation falling to 6.4 percent in January 2023, the Fed continues to signal to markets that it will continue to hike rates to bring down consumer price inflation. This is understandable. The Fed wants to maintain its inflation-fighting credentials; it wants people to believe it is really determined to bring inflation back to 2 percent. It is presumably well aware that the US dollar's world reserve currency status needs to be protected more than ever, as it gives the US government (and the powerful special interest groups that harness it for their purposes) tremendous power, not only nationally but internationally.

Xi Jinping was re-elected as the President of China on Friday, securing an unprecedented third five-year term in power. Last year, Xi was also re-confirmed in the key position of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader. His candidacy was endorsed by a unanimous vote from the National People's Congress, China's legislature and supreme authority. Apart from being kept as the nation's president, Xi was also retained as chairman of the Central Military Commission, which is in charge of the overall administration of the country's armed forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Chinese counterpart on his re-election, describing it as "a testament to the recognition of your accomplishments as the head of state." He also pointed to "broad public support" for Xi's course seeking to promote China's socio-economic development and protect Beijing's national interests on the global stage. "Russia highly appreciates your personal contribution to strengthening comprehensive...

The House vote followed the Senate's unanimous vote last week... House lawmakers made it clear Friday that it's time for the Biden administration to come clean on what it knows about COVID-19's origin. Republicans and Democrats voted unanimously 419-0 to require the Biden administration's director of national intelligence to declassify all intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and possible links to the origins of the COVID-19 virus. That release would be required 90 days after the bill is signed into law. The vote followed new assessments from the Department of Energy and the FBI that a lab leak in China was the most likely source of the pandemic that killed millions of people around the world. After those assessments were revealed, the Senate unanimously passed the GOP bill last week, and the House followed with its own unanimous vote a little more than a week later. On the House floor, Republicans made it clear they believe the information that's still...

The U.S. Navy envisions a submarine hub in Australia from which the service can oversee the entire range of undersea activities in the Asia-Pacific region, from boat production to repairs to missions, service Secretary Carlos del Toro said last month. His comments, made ahead of a major announcement about the U.S.-U.K.-Australian submarine partnership dubbed AUKUS, reveal how Washington views its future relationship with Australia as a key foothold in closer proximity to rival China. Bloomberg reported earlier this week President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are expected to address the way ahead in the pact on March 13 in San Diego, California. With most of the plans for a fleet of nuclear-powered boats for Canberra still up in the air, the U.S. sea service has its eyes on the near-term benefit of being able to base and repair U.S. Virginia-class attack submarines in Australian ports. Del Toro told Defense News last...

Chinese officials want to bring in lockdowns to combat the flu, leaving many furious about a prospect of returning to the strict restrictions seen during the Covid-19 outbreak. The city of Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province in central China, said it may enforce lockdowns 'when necessary' if an outbreak of the common flu virus poses a 'severe threat'. The emergency response plan for the city published on Wednesday is intended to combat the rising number of influenza cases in the country, as Covid-19 cases continue to fall. Authorities in the Chinese city have not suggested that a new set of lockdowns are imminent, but locals in the area have still dubbed the plans excessive. China's zero-Covid lockdown plans were implemented throughout the country during the pandemic and were seen as extreme by many. The plan by the Xi'an local government accounts for four levels of flu outbreak. If the common virus was to reach a critically high level, lockdowns would likely be reinstated.

Chinese officials want to bring in lockdowns to combat the flu, leaving many furious about a prospect of returning to the strict restrictions seen during the Covid-19 outbreak. The city of Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province in central China, said it may enforce lockdowns 'when necessary' if an outbreak of the common flu virus poses a 'severe threat'. The emergency response plan for the city published on Wednesday is intended to combat the rising number of influenza cases in the country, as Covid-19 cases continue to fall. Authorities in the Chinese city have not suggested that a new set of lockdowns are imminent, but locals in the area have still dubbed the plans excessive. China's zero-Covid lockdown plans were implemented throughout the country during the pandemic and were seen as extreme by many. The plan by the Xi'an local government accounts for four levels of flu outbreak. If the common virus was to reach a critically high level, lockdowns would likely be reinstated.

The overnight collapse of SVB, (Silicon Valley Bank), has certainly got everyone's attention, but is this really any surprise at all? Absolutely not. The collapse of SVB is just a symptom of the current worldwide economic freefall being deliberately fostered by central banks. If you are at all familiar with any of my work or have paid attention to the many articles I have written for the Trends Journal, then you are already keenly aware that right now today the entire financial system is breaking down... and this is NOT any accident. (We are in the early stages of a deliberate systemic failure). Today the world economy is in an accelerating freefall, teetering on a knifes edge, being deliberately pushed off the financial cliff by central banks who are collectively attempting to crush the existing system only to issue in a new one. Roughly 8 months ago, I began to warn those who follow my work on YouTube, (check out my older videos), that the banks are in trouble. It just became too...

Nine people were killed across Ukraine on Thursday, as Russia unleashed a barrage of high-precision missile and other attacks that triggered a wave of power cuts, including at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant. The blackout at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant prompted the UN nuclear agency's chief to issue a dire warning that next time "luck will run out", while President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West to impose sanctions on Russia's atomic industry. Russia said the strikes, involving rare hypersonic missiles, were retaliation for a border incursion earlier this month.

In the aftermath of the release of the Lockdown Files, the public is slowly coming to terms with some fairly shocking facts: that the Government was willing to lie and mislead, and to scaremonger and manipulate the media, in order to achieve its Covid policy objectives (or even just to garner a few headlines). The news is still sinking in, but a day of reckoning for those involved looks likely. For those of us bearing the scars of long engagement in the climate and energy wars, however, none of this was a surprise. It has long been clear that the inhabitants of the Westminster village were happy to hype up fears of climate purgatory and to fib about the road to redemption - renewables - and the cost of taking it. Once the public understand the depth and extent of the deception, and the damage done to the economy and the prospects for our children, the trickery over Covid is going to look decidedly peripheral. The latest report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) is a case in...

Archrivals Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to restore diplomatic relations, a dramatic breakthrough brokered by China after years of soaring tensions between the Middle Eastern powerhouses. The deal, which will see the two leading oil producers reopen embassies in each other's capitals, was sealed during a meeting in Beijing a boost to China's efforts to rival the United States as a broker on the global stage. The agreement could put a damper on Israel's ongoing work to normalize relations with its Arab neighbors, and complicate U.S. and other Western powers' bid to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Saudi-Iran talks were held because of a "shared desire to resolve the disagreements between them through dialogue and diplomacy, and in light of their brotherly ties," according to a joint communique from Tehran, Riyadh and Beijing that was published by the official Saudi Press Agency.

And the negative returns of limited courage. The Incompetence of The Incompetents Theory People generally subscribe to one of two prominent yet conflicting theories regarding "Covid" events of the past few years. The Plandemic Theory The Incompetents Theory There is rarely someone who falls in between. The Incompetents theorist's favorite quote would be from Goethe: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." The planners of the plandemic love that quote. Goethe practically wrote it for them. It provides all the coverage they need to keep planning new crimes without ever facing consequences for their myriad of past crimes. The Plandemic Theorists see the evidence of malice everywhere. They can explain the actions of those in power through deliberate coordination and planning of malicious events in advance of their occurrence. Most of the evidence has been painstakingly documented and shows in the aftermath of criminal acts (Actus Reus) willful...

A senior Kiev official recently admitted that an increasing portion of the country's population wants peace talks with Moscow Some Ukrainians are realistic about future relations between Russia and Ukraine, which are bound to be restored in some capacity sooner or later, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov suggested on Friday. Speaking to reporters, Peskov said that while it was premature to talk about a diplomatic settlement of the conflict, "there are still small streams of sober thinking" in Ukraine about ties between Moscow and Kiev, despite "the flood of propaganda filled with hatred of Russia" and "efforts to brainwash the Ukrainian population." Relations between the two countries are "inevitable, because we are neighbors, that's obvious," he added.

Scientists studying a cousin of the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis and leprosy have discovered an enzyme that converts hydrogen into electricity, and they think it could be used to create a new, clean source of energy literally from thin air. The enzyme, which has been named Huc, is used by the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis to draw energy from atmospheric hydrogen, enabling it to survive in extreme, nutrient-poor environments. Now, by extracting and studying the enzyme, the researchers say they have found a new energy source that could be used to power a range of small portable electrical devices. They published their findings March 8 in the journal Nature.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted on Saturday (Mar 11), spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the country's disaster mitigation agency said. Images broadcast on local outlet Kompas TV showed ash-covered houses and roads at a village near the volcano, located on Java Island, near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta. The Merapi Volcano Observatory estimated the ash cloud reached 3,000m (9,600 feet) above the summit.

Tens of thousands of dead fish are washing up on southwest Florida beaches due to red tide, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A video posted to Facebook by Dawn Workman Lansing showed numerous dead fish washed up in Venice on Thursday. They ranged in size from very small to what appeared to be a goliath grouper, which can weigh up to 800 pounds. Red tide is a type of harmful algal bloom that occurs when colonies of algae grow out of control and produce toxins that can kill marine life, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Red tide can also cause human illnesses or make the air near the water difficult to breathe.

On Friday, 85-year-old actress and far-left activist Jane Fonda went on The View to say that "murder" was something that could be done aside from peaceful protest to change the opinions of pro-life lawmakers in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Fonda said, "We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have. We know what that feels like, we know what that's done for our lives. We're not going back, I don't care what the laws are. We're not going back."

Masks "have come to be about far more than blocking aerosolized secretions," one doctor and Yale University lecturer wrote. Sure enough, you could open the prestige journals of our culture from any time over the past three years and find a reason to wear a mask that, at best, was a few steps removed from the primary goal of containing viruses. "Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs," one New York Times reporter stated in spring 2021. "They can keep that too-chatty neighbor at bay or help the introvert hide in plain sight."

Up to 40cm of snow expected in Peak District and Pennines, with warning of 'exceptionally cold night' on Friday. Snow and rain are expected to bring further travel disruption across large areas of Britain on Friday. Three amber warnings for blizzard conditions with up to 40cm (15.7in) of snow were issued by the Met Office on Thursday and remain in place until Friday morning.

You might think U.S. health authorities would be embarrassed. After all, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other agencies oversaw policies that produced more COVID-19 deaths per capita than nearly any other developed country. More humiliating, they earned that distinction while dictating draconian shutdowns and school closures that profoundly damaged our economy and our children's educations. And even though Americans had early access to the world's best vaccines. You would be wrong. Instead of adopting a humbler or more cautious approach to managing the waning virus, the CDC and the Biden administration are more truculent - and incomprehensible - than ever.

On the morning of July 25, 2020, Matthew Thomas took what he believed was Percocet, a prescription drug for pain relief. He died moments later, a victim of fentanyl poisoning. On Jan. 26, 2019, Austen Babcock took what he believed was cocaine. Unbeknownst to him, it was laced with fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid. He died shortly after, another victim of fentanyl poisoning. April Babcock, Austen's mother, and Wendy Thomas, Matthew's mother, have both become activists to raise awareness about illicit fentanyl. Babcock is the founder of Lost Voices of Fentanyl, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness on illicit fentanyl, and Thomas is the founder of Matthew's Voice.

For most people in America, the news that a 'bank in Silicon Valley' has failed will be forgotten quicker than a story about soaring shoplifting in their local supermarket. It shouldn't. Reality is that the contagion of the shuttering of the 18th largest bank in the US are widespread. SVB is in fact the second largest (by assets) bank failure in US history after WaMu.

After Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired Capitol surveillance footage this week exposing yet more falsehood from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 and leaving Democrats and their media allies irate, the committee chair on Wednesday said the panel never actually analyzed the crucial footage. On Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Fox News aired the footage of the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, undermining the select committee's narrative of a "deadly insurrection." Given access to the video by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Carlson's team reviewed over 40,000 hours of footage, which offered proof the committee manipulated audio and video to dramatize the riot for its made-for-TV hearings in an election year. But in a Wednesday night statement to CNN, select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., claimed the panel never analyzed the blockbuster footage Fox News aired this week.

Russia and the United Nations will hold talks in Geneva on Monday (Mar 13) on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, with the UN saying the fate of millions rested on its extension. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year saw Ukraine's Black Sea ports blocked by warships until a deal signed in July allowed for the safe passage of exports of critical grain supplies. Comment: That was to ensure that Ukraine didn't use the opportunity for war related activities, in the same way it abused the Minsk peace process to instead shore up its military to attack Russia; and that was done with the full blessing of the West. More than 23.7 million tonnes have been exported under the UN and Turkey-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to the United Nations. Comment: Some of the grain that was intended for Africa was instead taken by Western nations instead.

In a major expansion and overhaul of its navy, Australia is planning to buy up to five US Virginia class nuclear powered submarines beginning in the next decade, Reuters and others are reporting. US as well as European officials have disclosed the future deal as part of a "landmark defense agreement between Washington, Canberra and London, four U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a deal that would present a new challenge to China." Comment: Well, it's not so much a 'challenge' to China as it is a provocation, and further confirmation that the West is pathological in its plans to 'contain' the country. The impending agreement is seen as central to the relatively new AUKUS partnership, and the major sub deal is expected to be announced when President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet in San Diego Monday.

Quantum tunneling is a rare event that should be impossible under classical physics, but it is only now we are learning just how rare real-world examples are. The rate at which the rare but crucial quantum phenomenon known as tunneling occurs has been measured experimentally for the first time, and found to match theoretical calculations. The theoretical estimates in this area had been regarded as highly uncertain, so confirmation in one specific case allows for greater confidence in estimating the frequency of other tunneling events. Quantum tunneling is one of the many phenomena where subatomic particles behave in ways classical physics would say is impossible. In this case, an object trapped in a way that classically requires a certain energy to escape leaves the trap, despite having less than that amount of energy. It's a consequence, and proof of, the dual wave/particle nature of objects like electrons - a pure particle could not escape, but a wave occasionally can. Phenomena...

Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, The Associated Press has learned. A Pentagon report on reported assaults at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies shows an overall 18% jump in assaults reported by students compared with the previous year. The increase was driven largely by the Navy, which had nearly double the number of reported assaults in 2022, compared with 2021. It's unclear whether the phasing out of COVID-19-related restrictions contributed to the increase, including at the U.S. Naval Academy, which is directly adjacent to bars in downtown Annapolis, Maryland. An anonymous student survey accompanying the report shows increases in all types of unwanted sexual contact from touching to rape at all the schools. And it cites alcohol as a key factor. The military services and the academies have struggled for...

A Brazilian man convicted of skimming ATMs has named embattled US Congressman George Santos as the mastermind behind the fraud ring. Santos, then going by the name Anthony Devolder, was "the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested," Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha claimed in a letter to the FBI, published by Politico on Friday. "Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on ATM machines," Trelha wrote in the sworn statement sent on Wednesday. He was given a crash course in ATM-skimming upon renting a room from Santos in 2016 and was flown out to Seattle to work, splitting the profits 50-50 with Santos, he claimed. Trelha was soon caught and received a visit from Santos, who allegedly told him not to implicate him in the scheme and "threatened" his friends back in Florida. Trelha was deported back to Brazil in 2018 after serving a seven-month sentence.

The new currency should be able to become an "external money" storage of capital and reserves down the road, not just a settlement unit. Ah, the joys of the Big Circle Line (BKL, in Cyrillic): circumnavigating the whole of Moscow for 71 km and 31 stations: from Tekstilshchiki - in the old textile quarter - to Sokolniki - a suprematist/constructivist gallery (Malevich lives!); from Rizhskaya - with its gorgeous steel arches - to Maryina Roscha - with its 130 meter-long escalator. The BKL is like a living, breathin', runnin' metaphor of the capital of the multipolar world: a crash course in art, architecture, history, urban design, tech transportation, and of course "people to people's exchanges", to quote our Chinese New Silk Road friends. President Xi Jinping, by the way, will be ridin' the BKL with President Putin when he comes to Moscow on March 21. So it's no wonder that when a savvy investor at the top of global financial markets, with decades of experience, agreed to share...

Chinese President Xi Jinping was unanimously re-elected to a norm-breaking third term at a plenary session of the country's parliament Friday, with a new government leadership set to face challenges such as dealing with a deepening rivalry with the United States. Last October, the 69-year-old started a historic third five-year term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party. The party has supreme political power in China and senior government positions are held by party leaders. In 2018, China removed the two-term limit for the president from its Constitution, essentially enabling Xi to retain power for life. Comment: Russia did something similar, and Putin had an 81% confidence rating as of September 2022. Meanwhile the UK has staggered through three different leaders in just the last year, and a poll of France's citizens recently revealed that 56% support rolling strikes.

New York court workers must be rehired and given back pay with interest if they were fired because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, the state's Public Employment Relations Board has ruled. Under terms of the decision issued last month, the Unified Court System must immediately "cease and desist" from enforcing policies that require all non-judicial employees to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing. In addition, anyone "who lost accrued leave, compensation or employment" will have to be made "whole," with interest paid "at the maximum legal rate," according to the Feb. 24 decision obtained by The Post. The decision affects at least about 25 court officers who were fired, said Dennis Quirk, president of the New York State Court Officers Association, one of 10 unions that challenged the mandate.

The US opposed Georgia's "foreign agents" bill because Washington does not want the country to have political sovereignty, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, said on Friday. He argued that the legislation, which was withdrawn after protests and clashes with police in Tbilisi, was aimed at limiting Washington's ability to meddle in Georgia's affairs. "Washington has used the tools of soft power to lead people to the streets. The Georgian authorities were forced to submit - not to the will of the people, but to the United States," Volodin claimed in a post in his Telegram channel. The politician said the bill was "unacceptable for the US" because it would have "restricted Washington's influence on the country's internal political affairs." "With its withdrawal by the parliament, Georgia has lost the chance for sovereignty," Volodin said.

I'm gonna throw a lot of stuff at ya here, so HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS.

Evidence for Lukianoff's reverse CBT hypothesis In May 2014, Greg Lukianoff invited me to lunch to talk about something he was seeing on college campuses that disturbed him. Greg is the president of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and he has worked tirelessly since 2001 to defend the free speech rights of college students. That almost always meant pushing back against administrators who didn't want students to cause trouble, and who justified their suppression of speech with appeals to the emotional "safety" of students appeals that the students themselves didn't buy. But in late 2013, Greg began to encounter new cases in which students were pushing to ban speakers, punish people for ordinary speech, or implement policies that would chill free speech. These students arrived on campus in the fall of 2013 already accepting the idea that books, words, and ideas could hurt them. Why did so many students in 2013 believe this, when there was little sign of...

Yesterday, we witnessed the ex-director of the CDC, under oath, directly blame Dr. Fauci and the US Government for the deaths of millions of people. However, if you went to the headlines of Google News - there was nary a news story. I guess Google felt it wasn't important enough to warrant above-the-fold status. Seems like they had to make room for important news items, like these: A keyword search of Redfield on Google news did come up with the following stories:

I find the Daily Telegraph's 'Lockdown Files' revelations about Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages simultaneously reassuring and disturbing. Reassuring, because over the many months I analysed Covid related data for Lockdown Sceptics (as this site was then called) I often had periods of self-doubt. Official announcements by politicians and senior civil servants were so discordant with publicly available information, I assumed I must be missing something, or misinterpreting the figures. Worse, I worried about inadvertently misleading our readership. Recent revelations suggest that my analyses were roughly correct - I'm not claiming any credit because the answers were hiding in plain sight. Anyone with a modicum of common sense and a basic training in biological sciences could have seen it - and many did. On the other hand, the message trails are disturbing for what they tell us about the nature of decision making in government. It is easy to be misled by taking Hancock's adolescent...

Karl Richter asserts that Ukraine is facing an imminent end due to Russia's dominance in the ongoing conflict, weak Western military and economic support, and Ukraine's own nationalism, citing predictions by several Western military experts and predicting Western governments will soon have to justify the utter failure of their Ukraine policy. The faces of Ukraine supporters are now visibly getting longer. In fact, things are getting interesting now. In the next few months, the central lie of Western politics will burst: Ukraine is coming to an end. No more billions of dollars sinking into the Kiev quagmire, and certainly no handful of Western battle tanks, should they ever come, will make much difference to events. Russia is in the driver's seat and has all the means of escalation at its disposal, while the West is on its last legs economically, militarily and not least morally. At least four Western military experts who know something of their trade have contradicted mainstream...

Renewal came after four Americans were kidnapped, two of whom were killed, in Matamoros, Mexico... The U.S. State Department reminded travelers to avoid going to parts of Mexico as four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros last week - two of whom were killed while the other two returned to the U.S. on Tuesday. The reminder came just days before college students head off to tropical destinations like parts of Mexico for Spring Break. The State Department issued a Level 4 travel advisory for six Mexican states in October 2022, and last Friday the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued the reminder after reports of a shooting in Tamaulipas.

Tens of thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of the Georgian capital for a third straight day of demonstrations despite the ruling Georgian Dream party's pledge to withdraw its controversial "foreign agents" legislation from parliament. Protesters on March 9 again gathered outside the parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi, where they waved Georgian, Ukrainian, and EU flags and shouted anti-government slogans and called for early parliamentary elections. The protests began on March 7 as parliament took up the "foreign agents" legislation backed by Georgian Dream and passed it on first reading. Critics have warned that the bill, which would force civil society organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to be classified as "foreign agents," mirrors Russian legislation and could push the country toward authoritarianism. The March 7 demonstrations were marked by violent clashes between protesters and security forces, leading to the...

The Defense Secretary's tour of the region shows Washington's unwillingness to evolve Ahead of anticipated regional escalations in the coming months, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in the Kingdom of Jordan on Sunday, kickstarting yet another high-profile Middle East visit this year. Despite Washington's efforts to impose its agenda, its current approach may prove to be too out of touch to make a tangible difference. The Pentagon Chief arrived in the Jordanian capital on a tour aimed at assuring regional allies of US policy commitments, despite the Biden administration's focus on combating Russia and China. Austin's visit was originally tailored to be geared towards visiting Tel Aviv, Cairo and Amman, but has also included a surprise visit to Baghdad. The visit is the second high-profile US Middle East tour this year, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken also leading a delegation to the Holy Land in late January. Unfortunately for Blinken, his delegation's visit, which...

Gesture may not be civil or polite but 'it is not a crime' and is protected under Canada's constitution, judgment says Giving your neighbour the middle finger may not be polite but is protected as part of a person's right to freedom of expression under the Canadian constitution, a judge has ruled. In a 26-page decision, Dennis Galiatsatos dismissed a case against a man accused of harassing his neighbour in a Montreal suburb. "To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger," he said in a ruling dated 24 February. "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian," he added, referring to Canada's charter of rights and freedoms.

They thought it was a joke. A century ago, biologists could not believe that a one-celled creature had an eye. But since the warnowiid dinoflagellate was difficult to find and grow in the lab, detailed research was rare, until now. A team from the University of British Columbia gathered specimens off the coast of BC and Japan for a closer look. They found that the structure, called an ocelloid, has structures that mimic the complex eye of higher animals. Phys.Org says: In fact, the 'ocelloid' within the planktonic predator looks so much like a complex eye that it was originally mistaken for the eye of an animal that the plankton had eaten. "It's an amazingly complex structure for a single-celled organism to have evolved," said lead author Greg Gavelis, a zoology PhD student at UBC. "It contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes found in humans and other larger animals." [Emphasis added.]...

The New York Times and other Western news media ran with clumsy and blatantly diversionary claims this week, which in the end only serve to draw even more attention to the guilt of the United States in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Not only is the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden even more indictable over the criminal act; the absurd cover-up attempt this week exposes the Western media as nothing but a ministry of propaganda masquerading as journalism. Four weeks ago, the eminent independent American journalist, Seymour Hersh, published a blockbuster investigative report that revealed how President Biden and senior White House staff ordered the explosive detonation of the natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to the European Union via the Baltic Sea and Germany. The legendary Hersh has an impeccable record of groundbreaking stories, from the My Lai massacre committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968 to the Abu Ghraib prison torture in Iraq under American...

MAGNETIC fields could provide the key to understanding submerged civilisations in a pioneering study by the University of Bradford. Archaeologists have been researching an area under the North Sea, known as Doggerland, which was home to one of the largest prehistoric settlements in Europe. But with expansion of wind farms in the North Sea, the race is on to work with developers to piece together information about Doggerland in advance of development. PhD student Ben Urmston will look for anomalies in magnetic fields by analysing magnetometry data, which could indicate the presence of archaeological features without excavation. He said: "Small changes in the magnetic field can indicate changes in the landscape, such as peat-forming areas and sediments, or where erosion has occurred, for example in river channels. "As the area we are studying used to be above sea level, there's a small chance this analysis could even reveal evidence for hunter-gatherer activity. That would be the...

Lancaster University staff and student researchers have discovered evidence of a Romano-Celtic temple under public land near Lancaster Castle - only the second of its type found in northern Britain. What started as a team-building exercise to train a group of PhD hydrogeophysics researchers to use specialist equipment, ended up providing evidence of an extensive religious enclosure lying just outside the Roman military fort at Lancaster. Professor Andy Binley, an expert in hydrogeophysics at Lancaster Environment Centre, offered to use his research expertise and equipment to continue the work of the Beyond The Castle archaeological project, when heritage lottery funding ran out in 2017. "I had a few PhD students doing geophysical research and thought this was an interesting group hobby project, training them on techniques and getting them to work as a team," said Professor Binley, who uses geophysical methods to solve hydrological problems, such as assessing underground water in...

I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives about the Censorship Industrial Complex, i.e., the US arm of the global official propaganda and disinformation apparatus that has been waging an all-out war on dissent for the better part of the last six years. I know this couldn't have actually happened, and was just an extended hallucination (probably the result of the copious amount of drugs I consumed in my misspent youth, or the effects of a Commie bio-weapon with a fatality rate of less than one percent, because I've been writing about The War on Dissent (2018), and The Criminalization of Dissent (2021), and the global Corporate COINTELPRO op (2017), and The War on Reality (2021), and The Manufacturing of Reality (2021), and Manufacturing Truth (2018), and Manufacturing Normality (2016), and The Road to Totalitarianism (2022), and The...

A 15-year-old girl had her arm torn off in a shark attack at Piedade Beach in Brazil. Horror footage shows the moment her bystanders pull Kaylane Timteo Freitas onto the beach and set her down on the ground with a bloodied rag covering what remains of her arm. The teenager had her arm amputated at a nearby hospital and is reported to be in a stable condition. The attack came only a day after a 14-year-old boy was savaged by a shark on the same beach, requiring the amputation of his leg. Both attacks took place within 1640ft (500m) of each other at Piedade Beach, Jaboato dos Guararapes, Pernambuco State, Brazil.

Last month, Revolver profiled the Biden Administration's persecution of former Twitter anon Doug Mackey, who was a famous pro-Trump voice back in 2016 under the moniker of Ricky Vaughn. For those whose memory is foggy, a quick review: In the late stages of the 2016 race, Mackey posted several memes, designed to resemble Hillary Clinton campaign images, claiming that supporters could vote by simply texting a phone number.