Elizabeth Holmes must begin her more than 11-year prison sentence on 27 April after a federal judge denied the disgraced Theranos founder's request to remain free while she appeals her conviction. Holmes, who was convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the failed blood-testing startup in January 2022, is "not likely to flee or pose a danger" to the public, US district court judge Edward Davila wrote in his ruling. However, the San Jose-based judge found that her appeal was unlikely to result in a reversal of the verdict or a new trial - a requirement for a defendant to remain free post-conviction. Prosecutors had attempted to argue that Holmes did pose a flight risk, revealing that her partner had bought her a one-way flight to Mexico shortly before the verdict was returned. While Davila called the travel plans a "bold move" and Holmes's failure to cancel the ticket post-conviction a "perilously careless oversight", he accepted her assertion that she was not...

Britain's top police force currently employs 161 officers with criminal convictions, some of which pertain to serious sexual offenses. This is just one revelation unearthed from an update by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to the British government on the action being taken by the force to clean up its image after numerous recent reports concluded it was no longer capable of protecting the public. The letter by Rowley to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, seen by the British press, highlights the uphill task ahead of those at the helm of Britain's largest police force to address public concerns over the force's recruitment and the conduct of its officers.

A giant sinkhole in Daisetta, Texas, is continuing to expand, swallowing trees, cars, and homes in its path. A new video released by Bluebonnet News provides a harrowing look at the massive expanse. The sinkhole became active again this month after it first emerged in 2008 as a 20ft expanse. It remained stable for 15 years, but has since undergone rapid expansion, worrying residents of the town that their homes may be doomed if the hole continues to grow. Daisetta is approximately 55 miles northeast of Houston. City officials learned that the hole was again expanding on 3 April, which prompted them to notify residents in the area of the possible threat, according to My San Antonio.

An 11-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Maharajganj district. The incident took place at Shastri Nagar Intermediate College ground, police said on Tuesday. The deceased, Adersh, had left his home around 11 am on Monday to go to a market. His family members started looking for him after he did not return. The minor's body bearing bite marks was recovered late at night, the police said. His face and right arm were bitten off, the police said, adding that the boy appeared to have put up a fight. Inspector, Kotwali, Ravi Rai said the boy was mentally unwell and a pack of dogs attacked and killed him. Further action was being taken after taking possession of the body, he added.

Snowbasin, UT, has seen a record snowfall of 600 inches this season, beating its previous record by a mind-blowing 125 inches. The 22/23 season has seen endless powder days, but the weather is slowly shifting, and temperatures are warming up, and spring skiing is officially here. Snowbasin announced two weeks ago that the resort will stay open until April 23, 2023. Here is an update on what to expect for the next two weeks of spring skiing at Snowbasin. Although it is hard to believe, spring is here, and this historic season is coming to an end. We've enjoyed endless powder days, record snowfall, and all-time conditions. After experiencing our longest ski season in history and pushing things out as far as we can, we have to start scaling back our operations. We have already begun saying goodbye to some of our incredible team members that are off to their next season's adventures, and with these hard farewells comes the need to prioritize our offerings for the remainder of the...

(Readers sensitive to discussion of inappropriate adult behavior toward children may want to skip this one.) There's a really gross video going around of the Dalai Lama kissing a young boy on the lips and telling him to suck his tongue while an adult audience looks on approvingly. A tweet from Tibet.net last month shows a video clip of the Tibetan spiritual leader with the child and says the encounter took place during his "meeting with students and members of M3M Foundation," though Tibet.net's clip cuts out the sexually inappropriate part of the encounter. Here is a hyperlink to a video of the interaction. For those who understandably do not wish to see such a thing but are comfortable with a text description, here's a new write-up from News.com.au:

We received 47 reports about a fireball seen over CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT on Tuesday, April 11th 2023 around 01:18 UT. For this event, we received 3 videos and 3 photos.

And then there were none (books, that is). Last week The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie's novels are being sanitized for re-release. HarperCollins, their publisher, is removing references to physique, race and ethnicity in new editions of Miss Marple and selected Poirot novels. Christie joins Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming on the list of dead literary icons whose works have met similar fates in recent weeks. Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss and Mark Twain have been curbed in other ways. If it seems like small potatoes, you may be missing the big picture. When publishers defile literature, you know the writing is on the wall. These rewrites are not censorship, at least not in the legal sense. Governments don't need to order it. Publishers are choosing to sanitize their literary icons on their own. Anyone who holds copyright can alter a work as they please, especially when dead authors are not around to object. Just as Christie had no obligation to write her books in the first place and...

Western arms meant for Kiev are also falling into the hands of organized crime and terrorists, Moscow's UN envoy has said. Weapons being sent to Ukraine by its Western backers often end up benefitting malicious actors across the globe, Moscow's permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said on Monday. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on risks associated with weapons exports, Moscow's envoy claimed that while Western countries had been trying to promote "responsible behavior" over arms trafficking, the Ukraine conflict proved "how insincere their claims" on the matter actually were. Nebenzia recalled that Russia has "long been stressing that pumping up of the Kiev regime with weapons would bring those weapons in black markets and also in the hands of organized crime and terrorists."

Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision on Friday. An Indiana music theory teacher pushed out of his job for refusing to call transgender students their preferred names and pronouns took a hit from a federal judge Friday who upheld a lower court's ruling that the school district did not violate his rights. Former Brownsburg High School teacher John Kluge sued the school district alleging religious discrimination after he cited his personal religious convictions for refusing to abide by the name and pronoun policy, opting to address transgender students by their last names instead. The school district, after enacting the policy in 2017, initially agreed to let Kluge use last names to address the students instead, according to The Associated Press.

Louisville gunman Connor Sturgeon began his rampage Monday by shooting a woman who'd just said "good morning" to him and it took him just a minute to carry out the massacre before he paused and waited for police to arrive, according to his Instagram livestream. The footage documenting the harrowing incident has been scrubbed from the social media platform, but a Louisville city official described its contents to CNN. Sturgeon, 25, was reportedly suicidal and on the verge of getting fired from Old National Bank when he carried out the mass shooting, which left five people dead and eight others wounded.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) allegedly used an undercover agent to target the clergy and leadership of the Catholic Church, according to GOP Representative Jim Jordan. On Monday, Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray alerting Wray that he was being subpoenaed for an investigation into the agency's handling of a domestic extremism analysis that proposed developing sources among church leaders to look for signs of radicalization among Catholic parishioners. The subpoena is the latest development in Jordan's probe into the FBI's alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources. House Republicans first accused Wray of exploiting those resources for "political purposes" after an eight-paged internal memo was leaked by a former special agent.

The federal law enforcement agency said that public phone charging sites are vulnerable to "bad actors". The FBI has urged Americans to stay away from free phone charging stations found at airports, hotels, and other public places, saying they could be used to hack into devices and may pose a threat to privacy. While it's unclear what prompted the advice, the bureau's Denver office recently made a case against public charging sites in a social media post, reflecting a similar guidance offered on the FBI's website.

Army Majors currently attending ILE (intermediate level education) at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth are being taught that only the dominant racial group can be racist (whites), and all other ethnicities are simply prejudiced in their actions. The course is also teaching that gender is a social construct while sex is a biological category given at birth. According to students going through the course right now, an individual who is white and male is not allowed to feel like someone is racist or sexist towards them because they're in the majority. Army Majors attend ILE as a prerequisite to become eligible for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. According to their mission statement, "The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) educates and develops leaders for full spectrum joint, interagency and multinational operations; acts as lead agent for the Army's leader development program; and advances the art and science of the profession...

I don't normally do the "take" thing in my columns, but I'm making an exception this one time, because I just watched the Mehdi Hasan Show interview with Matt Taibbi, and ... well, damn. OK, this isn't really my "take" on the interview. It more a free lesson on how to deal with character-assassination theater, which is what the "interview" in question was. Let me make a few points clear before I do that. (1) Matt Taibbi blew the interview. It was not a good performance for Matt Taibbi. I'll get into why it wasn't in a minute. (2) I'm a huge Matt Taibbi fan. I'm not at all objective about Matt Taibbi. I like Matt, and I respect him as a journalist. Matt has blurbed my books, and interviewed me. (3) I've also been pretty tough on Matt regarding the "Twitter Files" and Elon Musk, but that doesn't change the fact that I like him, and respect him, immensely, and applaud his reporting on the "Censorship Industrial Complex." So, there you go ... full disclosure. I am extremely biased in...

Google, Twitter, Meta and TikTok's executive ranks have included over 200 former employees of surveillance government agencies, creating an employment pipeline between the government and Big Tech companies, a Daily Caller investigation found. The technology companies recruited 248 employees from the DOJ, FBI, CIA and DHS, a LinkedIn search revealed. The hiring occurred mostly between 2017-2022, with several filling top director positions after having decade-long careers in the surveillance agencies. Google hired 130 former DOJ, DHS, CIA and FBI employees, the Daily Caller's key term search on LinkedIn found. Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, employed 47 people for those three entities who were previously at the DOJ, FBI or DHS. TikTok, the Chinese-based app embattled with national security concerns, employed 25 former DOJ, FBI, DHS or CIA employees. Twitter had 46 executives who had previously spent time working for the three-letter agencies. Reed Rubinstein,...

It is an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in New Testament history and one of the oldest textual witnesses of the Gospels: a small manuscript fragment of the Syriac translation, produced in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century. A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered the fragment with the help of ultraviolet photography. About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often erased and reused. A medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has now been able to make the lost words on this layered manuscript, a so-called palimpsest, legible again: Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century, on individual surviving pages of this manuscript.

After the appearance on the network of hundreds of photos and videos with footage of incredibly overgrown cemeteries in Ukraine with burial places of Ukrainian servicemen who died during the hostilities, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada decided to get involved. There was information that the Verkhovna Rada had prepared and submitted a bill, on the basis of which information about military graves in Ukraine is recognized as being of a secret nature. Based on this "fact", the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada propose to introduce a ban on photo and video filming in cemeteries where there are burials of military personnel. This bill did not come about by accident. The fact is that one of the Ukrainian bloggers in the Lviv region alone, based on photos and videos from cemeteries, estimated the number (since February 2022) of the graves of military personnel at least 7,5 thousand. If this is extrapolated to the entire territory controlled by the Kyiv regime, then the number of dead will...

France is considered the cultural home of bread baking. In fact, French bakeries are such a quintessential part of the nation's history that French President Emmanuel Macron ensured the baguette was given UNESCO heritage status in 2022. Unfortunately, skyrocketing costs are shuttering small businesses like bakeries across France. French bakeries are the lifeblood of many cities, towns, and villages, providing daily sustenance to people at every point of the socioeconomic spectrum. Therefore, the loss of a beloved bakery has a strong impact when it happens. But the costs of energy and raw ingredients are doubling and tripling so fast that many bakers simply call it quits. CNN interviewed Elodie Chavret, a bakery owner and part-time firefighter in the small town of Millery, France. She is worried that she cannot keep up with the electric bill any longer. It multiplied nearly tenfold between December and January.

China has called on the US to make more significant efforts to resolve debt issues faced by African countries, following allegations by Washington that Beijing was hindering financial relief on the continent. Speaking in the Chinese capital on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin dismissed accusations that his country was responsible for a debt trap in Africa, arguing instead that China had always engaged with African nations based on mutual benefit and equality. Wang accused "some Western politicians" of attempting to sabotage China's cooperation with developing countries. "Their tricks have been seen through by developing countries and the international community, and there is no market for them," the official told reporters.

The US believes that elements of Ukraine's intelligence service carried out a cross-border attack on a Russian spy plane in Belarus without approval from the Ukrainian government, Breaking Points journalist Saagar Enjeti reported on Monday, citing leaked documents. The attack saw a drone inflict minor damage to a Russian A-50 early warning and control aircraft stationed at the Machulishchy air base in Belarus last month. Belarusian authorities arrested a number of suspects, one allegedly linked to the Ukrainian secret police organization, the SBU, which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused of orchestrating the attack with help from the CIA. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry "categorically" denied any involvement by Kiev, while Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak blamed the attack solely on "local partisans."

Russian lawmakers have passed a bill which would put e-cigarettes, including heated tobacco products and vape devices and cartridges, on a par with traditional cigarettes and tobacco products. This would mean a total ban on sales to minors and restrictions in terms of promotion and trade. The Russian State Duma passed the proposal in the third reading on Tuesday in a landslide vote, with over 400 MPs supporting it. It now has to be approved by the upper chamber of the Russian parliament and signed by the president before coming into force. The bill amends several existing laws, including the law that regulates the trade and consumption of tobacco. It also applies to vape cartridges that do not contain nicotine and bans flavored varieties which experts consider to be more attractive to younger consumers.

The targeting of healthcare professionals who express dissenting views by left-wing activist medical boards and associations is a concerning trend. Belgian Psychologist Steve Van Herreweghe has received a two-year suspension for his statements on social media about The Great Reset and the World Economic Forum. Van Herreweghe intends to appeal the decision made by the disciplinary board of the Psychologists' Commission, which is an independent body responsible for protecting the title of psychologist and has the authority to take disciplinary action. Van Herreweghe took to Twitter to express his opposition to the suspension, stating that the issue is not about his title but rather the perceived injustice of the decision and the rejection of his right to free speech. He believes that everyone should have the right to express their opinions on matters related to public health and well-being without fear of political or commercial interference. Van Herreweghe used his social media...

Chinese military drills simulated a blockade to "seal off" Taiwan. China's military declared it's "ready to fight" after wrapping up three days of combat drills simulating a blockade to "seal off" Taiwan. The large-scale land and sea exercises follow last week's meeting by Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and hasn't ruled out taking the self-governed island by force. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Monday it tracked a record 91 Chinese fighter jets in the final day of the exercises, with dozens of warplanes crossing over the sensitive maritime median line of the Taiwan Strait. The drills involved Su-30 and J-11 fighters, navy destroyers and missile speedboats, practicing to "encircle" Taiwan. China said it was simulating attacks on key targets, with the People's Liberation Army even releasing an animation of what hitting those targets would look like.

This is an excerpt from Alexander Dugin's Last War of the World-Island (Arktos, 2015) In the same period, opposite geopolitical tendencies, "color revolutions," began to unfold intensely. Their meaning consisted in bringing to power openly anti-Russian, pro-Western, and often nationalistic political forces in the countries of the CIS, and thereby finally tearing these countries away from Russia, to frustrate integration, and in the long term to include them in NATO as occurred in the Baltic countries. The peculiarity of these revolutions was that they were all aimed at bringing about closer relations of the countries in which they occurred with the USA and the West, and they followed the method of "non-violent resistance,"1 which American strategists had elaborated in the framework of the "Freedom House" project.2 This was carried out through subversive measures and the organization of revolutions that had been executed in the Third World under the direction of the CIA. In November...

In observing cat-and-mouse games, the rule of thumb is if observers of the war in the Ukraine have a thumb to recognise the difference between the cat and the mouse. On the Ukrainian battlefield, it is now the Russian cat who is waiting for the US, NATO and Ukrainian mouse to break out of his hole and make his run. When he does, the mouse is going to get the surprise of his life. That last noun is the wrong one. These are the real strategic secrets which have been revealed in the battle plans which spilled into the internet last month, and which the Pentagon arranged for the New York Times to discover and then publish for the attention of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on April 6. Not to mention the Russian General Staff if they didn't already know and could be persuaded to misinterpret.

Neocon control of America has led to the collapse of American global hegemony and the shredding of our nation's moral authority, according to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom's new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power." Kennedy said Monday on Twitter, sharing an article from Reuters on OPEC+ cutting production to spike the price of oil in defiance of the Biden regime. "China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. "The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived 'American Century.' The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our...

Moscow wants to send atomic weapons to Belarus, but the US has already deployed such assets in Europe, Dmitry Peskov has said... Western countries are hyping up hysteria around Russia's plan to place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov suggested in an interview released on Sunday. Speaking to Russia 1 TV, Peskov blasted what he called the West's "extremely unrestrained" reaction to President Vladimir Putin's decision to deploy nukes in Belarus this summer, which followed repeated requests from his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. "The collective West is not inclined to recall... [that] American nuclear weapons are stationed here, in Europe, around our country," the spokesman said. He also claimed that the West "is prone to hysterical reaction" in relation to Moscow's plans to build a nuclear storage facility in Belarus, which is widely regarded as a key Russian ally.

Extreme weather continues to batter California. Heavy rains, flooding, hurricane-force winds, and tornadoes left hundreds of thousands without power and prompted evacuations from the hardest-hit areas. To top it off, the state reported the second snowiest late winter on record and the third snowiest month on record. The anomalously heavy snow buried Southern California mountain communities under 12.5 feet of snow and caused the indefinite closure of Yosemite National Park, which received 15 feet of snow and broke a decades-old snowfall record in the process. Utah also recorded its snowiest late winter, breaking a record set in 1983. Snowbasin Resort in Weber County officially had its snowiest month on record. And the same system that affected parts of the West Coast also hit southern states with snow, flooding, golf-ball-sized hail, and tornadoes, leaving more than 1 million without power and killing at least 13. And the northeastern U.S. also got its share of extreme weather, as a...

"Having lived through a reality-optional period of history, it will come as an ecstatic shock to learn that the world requires us to pay attention to what is really happening and to act accordingly." JHK On Easter Sunday, fate put me on the Jersey Turnpike at 5:30 in the morning. I was motoring home from our nation's capital where I traveled for the memorial service of a favorite aunt who passed away last month at ninety-five after a richly rewarding life. Her husband, my favorite uncle, enjoyed a long and colorful career in America's Intel Community, and passed-on back in 2002. They recruited him at the founding of Spooks Inc in the late 1940s, since he came out of the army intel corps in Southeast Asia during World War Two. In the 1950s, Uncle "B" and his family were posted to Africa, first Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. In the early 1960s, with colonialism crumbling, "B" operated all over Africa, making subtle arrangements in one new country after another for things to come...

The recent crackdown on worshipers at the Al-Aqsa compound has confirmed the fears of many in Gaza: the Netanyahu government is provoking Palestinians as a pretext to launch another war... It started on Thursday at 11:34 pm, when Israeli warplanes soared across Gaza's skies, launching the first airstrike on sites affiliated with Palestinian resistance factions in different locations in the besieged coastal strip. As the sound of bombs fills Gaza, people immediately start posting on social media, checking up on each other in anticipation of the breakout of yet another war. Minutes later, nearly at midnight, the airstrikes are heard again, this time louder and with greater persistence. The Israeli warplanes continue to occupy the sky as the constant buzzing of drones normalizes the war's prospect.

Biden administration and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby addressed the media on Monday, asking in so many words that pretty please would journalists not report on the trove of highly classified documents which were leaked online. "This is information that has no business in the public domain... It has no business... on the front pages of newspapers or on television." But Kirby is a bit late, given already days ago major outlets from the NY Times to Washington Post to foreign outlets like The Guardian and RT have widely reported on them. They classified reports have circulated widely on English-language and foreign social media as well.

Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. The experiment relies on materials that can change their optical properties in fractions of a second, which could be used in new technologies or to explore fundamental questions in physics. The original double-slit experiment, performed in 1801 by Thomas Young at the Royal Institution, showed that light acts as a wave. Further experiments, however, showed that light actually behaves as both a wave and as particles - revealing its quantum nature. These experiments had a profound impact on quantum physics, revealing the dual particle and wave nature of not just light, but other 'particles' including electrons, neutrons, and whole atoms. Now, a team led by Imperial College London physicists has performed the experiment using 'slits' in time rather than space. They achieved this by firing light through a material that changes its...

A Whole Foods location in downtown San Francisco reportedly closed this week over high crime and unsafe conditions for employees. The number of arrests in San Francisco has fallen significantly over the past three years amid calls from prominent officials, including San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed, to defund law enforcement. Whole Foods will shutter a location at Trinity Place at Eighth and Market Streets over rampant drug use outside the store. "We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being," a spokesperson for Whole Foods said in a statement to the San Francisco Standard. "If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location." A source in San Francisco City Hall told the outlet that drug use and criminal activity from individuals near the store played a role in the closure. The downtown portion of San Francisco has also suffered from declining foot traffic in the years since government...

Western and Ukrainian intelligence services are trying to recruit Russian youth to carry out terrorist attacks against their own country, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday. Speaking at a session of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK), over which he presides, Bortnikov claimed, according to the NAK statement, that amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, "Ukraine and their Western sponsors' special services have launched an aggressive brainwashing and recruitment [campaign] on our citizens." One of the main tasks of Kiev and their Western backers is to target "especially the younger generation to involve them in sabotage, terrorist and extremist activities," he added. Since February 2022, when Moscow launched its operation against Ukraine, Russia has prevented 118 terrorist crimes being prepared by young people and minors, Bortnikov said.

During a talk at an archaeological society meeting I heard mention of St Bartholomew and a 'flaying knife' - or had my imagination run wild and it was a flying knife used by the saint. When I got home I looked up the Wiki where we have quite a bit of info on the subject, much better than at other sites that came up on my search engine. Flaying is another word for skinning. A dead animal can be flayed when preparing the meat as food - or to obtain its hide, or fur. This is more commonly known as skinning rather than flaying. At this point we may note that flaying of humans became a form of torture and torment - which is why it was applied to St Bartholomew. Flaying alive was an especially horrible form of punishment. It seems this is a practice going back a long way - deep into the depths of time. For example, we know from Iron Age Assyrian records that prisoners were on occasion flayed alive - usually resulting in their death via hypothermia, as an example. It is commemorated in...

The World Bank will look for solutions to the mounting challenges facing developing countries, the organization's president, David Malpass, has vowed ahead of its spring session. "Resolving the impasse in debt restructurings, especially for the world's poorest countries, is going to be at the center of discussions," Malpass wrote on Sunday in a blog. The World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings are set to be held this week. The World Bank president indicated that he will discuss the issue with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and the finance ministers of India, Ethiopia, and Jamaica. "I'm looking forward to discussions of the debt crisis itself and approaches to achieving debt transparency and sustainability," Malpass wrote. The official added that he would like to see "serious consideration of a debt 'standstill' meaning formal debt service suspension at the request of the debtor country at the beginning of debt restructuring process." Malpass outlined two fundamental...

No one but the terminally nave should be surprised that security services lie - and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations. Which is reason enough why anyone following the fallout from explosions last September that ripped holes in three of the four Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea supplying Russian gas to Europe should be wary of accepting anything Western agencies have to say on the matter. In fact, the only thing that Western publics should trust is the consensus among "investigators" that the three simultaneous blasts deep underwater on the pipelines - a fourth charge apparently failed to detonate - were sabotage, not some freak coincidental accident. Someone blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, creating an untold environmental catastrophe as the pipes leaked huge quantities of methane, a supremely active...

The widower of a BBC presenter who died from coronavirus vaccine complications has launched legal action against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on behalf of 75 people whose 'relatives died or suffered injuries related to the jab'. Mother-of-one Lisa Shaw, 44, died from 'vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia' in May 2021, about a week after receiving her first Covid jab. She worked for BBC Radio Newcastle. Lawyers for her husband, Gareth Eve, reportedly sent pre-action protocol letters to AstraZeneca last year on the behalf of nearly 75 people who allege that their relatives died or suffered injuries related to the vaccine. Her husband, Gareth Eve, reportedly spent two years trying to get the Government, MPs and three prime ministers to address what happened to Lisa and now feels he has 'no alternative' but to pursue legal action.

Texas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson have alleged that after they had a home birth and chose to treat their days-old child at home for jaundice, their pediatrician reported them to authorities, setting off a chain of events that led to Rodney Jackson's brief arrest and the infant being placed in foster care. The Jacksons, who have two older children and live in Desoto, a suburb of Dallas, elected to do a home birth after Temecia Jackson had two prior Cesarean sections, the couple's midwife, licensed professional counselor Cheryl Edinbyrd, told CBS News. Edinbyrd said that she first began providing care to the Jacksons in September 2022 through The Tree of Life Wellness Center. Their daughter, Mila Jackson, was born on March 21, 2023. The Jacksons declined to speak with CBS News, but Edinbyrd said that Mila was born at home in the family's bathtub and described the birth as "beautiful." There were no signs of jaundice within the first 24 hours, Edinbyrd said. The midwife, who...

Last year I reported1 on a paper2 that showed 87 genes were broken in genomes of recovered extinct woolly mammoth remains, compared to their modern elephant relatives. The authors of the paper noted previous research had shown that "gene losses ... can be adaptive" and thought that was the case for the mammoths they studied, too. I pointed out that, while such a process might indeed aid adaptation of a species to its changing environment, nonetheless it constitutes de-volution, not e-volution, in the sense that the species is losing genetic information, not gaining it. A new paper strongly bolsters that conclusion.3 In "Genomics of adaptive evolution in the woolly mammoth" a large international team of researchers sequenced genomes from 23 woolly mammoth remains and examined genes for proteins that had the most "fixed" amino acid mutations (that is, mutations that occurred in all of the genomes that were sequenced, and so very probably were widely present in the mammoth...

Back in the spring of 2020 we learned that Operation Warp Speed was hard at work creating a vaccine faster than one had ever been created before. From the decades-long history of vaccine development, we knew that vaccines took 5 to 10 years to make. The subsequent clinical trials could take longer. How was this possible? When did this scientific leap take place? What was this fantastic new technology that would make such rapid development a reality? We quickly learned that the new vaccine would use something called mRNA technology. And there were several companies ready to make it happen. The way mRNA works is not like the way any vaccine worked before. Formerly, vaccines were created by taking a weakened or dead form of the virus and injecting that into humans. The human body would create antibodies to fight and beat the weakened virus, thus giving the body the instructions to create antibodies against it if the full force virus were to ever attack. The individual was immune. This...

The US wanted to leverage a potential attack on Nord Stream to deter Moscow from an offensive against Ukraine, the journalist has claimed The US intended to use the threat of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to dissuade Russia from attacking Ukraine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued. In an expos published online in February, Hersh claimed that the US orchestrated the September 2022 bombing of the Baltic Sea pipelines built to deliver gas from Russia to Germany. Speaking to German online magazine Tichys Einblick on Monday, the journalist said President Joe Biden originally viewed the threat of sabotage as a deterrent.

These days, it's hard to find any globalist who will let go of power gracefully, let alone retire from the stage of politics. This seems to be the case with New Zealand's increasingly unpopular radical Marxist former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who also just happens to also be a World Economic Forum young leader, and mentored by none other than Tony Blair. Undoubtedly, a brilliant resum for any aspiring technocrat. Not content with destroying her country's economy and society over the last three years with her fanatical "zero Covid" lockdown and brutal vaccine mandates, Ardern is now being positioned by the Establishment to become the country's de facto censorship Tsar... Bloomberg News reports: Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead the nation's push for greater safeguards against terrorist and violent content online. Ardern has been appointed Special Envoy for the 'Christchurch Call', a global initiative she set up in the wake of a terrorist attack in the...

President Joe Biden on Monday signed a measure ending the Covid-19 national emergency in the US. Though he originally planned to extend the legislation until May 11, Biden ended up signing the Republican-proposed law that Congress had approved over the objections of many of his own Democrats. The White House released a one-sentence statement about Biden's signature around 6pm local time, indicating that the president had agreed with House Joint Resolution 7. Drafted by Congressman Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, the bill was approved by the House of Representatives in February (229-197), and by the Senate at the end of March (68-23). Biden's Democrats had argued that ending the emergency would "create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the healthcare system," but a handful ended up voting in favor of the GOP-proposed bill in the House, and about half in the Senate.

It's been nearly a year since the Taliban banned Afghan poppy farming used for the production of opioids. The impact of the move is set to hit global markets sometime soon, given the delay from farm to customer. You'd think that would bring a welcome sigh of relief. Apparently not. Reports are now suggesting that a lack of Afghan heroin on the global market and a reduction of available natural opioids like heroin could lead to increased use of synthetic opioids like fentanyl. If that's the case, then it's only because Washington and the West are about as competent at curtailing skyrocketing drug overdose deaths as they were at tackling the cultivation of Afghan opioids back when they had control of the country. Synthetic opioids from China and Mexico are increasingly being used, as are those procured through prescriptions within America's own healthcare system. Over the course of the US-led Global War on Terror that kicked off in Afghanistan in 2001, heroin overdoses in the US and...

Elon Musk's Twitter has labelled the BBC as "government funded media" on its official account, prompting the British Broadcaster to object. In an article on its own website, the BBC said it "has contacted the social media giant over the designation on the @BBC account to resolve the issue as soon as possible." What's to resolve? The BBC gets funding from the government via an enforced license fee which everyone who owns a TV in the UK is made to pay. If people refuse, they are hounded and threatened with fines or prison.

A massive fire broke out in a market area in Rampur of Assam's Nalbari district. According to the police, around seven to eight shops were gutted in Monday night's blaze. As per latest information, the fire was brought under control by the fire department and police. "Firefighters brought the situation under control with the help of police and the locals", informed the police officials. Further details on the incident are still awaited.

The bank branch manager mauled by his celebrity chef neighbour's unchained pit bull has died in hospital after spending more than a month in a coma. The dog pounced on victim Mohamed Moheb Al-Mawi as he and his son returned to their home in Sheikh Zayed City, in Egypt's Greater Cairo Area, on February 27. The pit bull severed some of his nerves and tendons in the vicious attack, which was only stopped when his son managed to restrain the dog and free him. Mohamed, 42, was taken to Dar Al Fouad Hospital in 6th of October City, where surgeons transferred nerves from his foot to his arm in an emergency operation. In the operating theatre, his heart reportedly stopped for 30 minutes.

Some parts of Saudi Arabia, particularly the Al Baha region, were hit by unusual hail and snowfall on Monday morning. Cumulus thunderstorms were responsible for the unusual precipitation, which resulted in the closure of several roads and disruption of traffic in the area. Video clips shared on social media showed accumulation of hail that caused vehicles to get stuck on the closed roads. Emergency teams from the municipality had to remove stones and hail from the roads while the city's parks turned white.

There have been 12 eruptions in the last 24 hours at Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico. Ash fell in the city of Atlixco, close to the volcano. Authorities warned to stay away from the volcano's crater. Explosions continue at Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico. In the statement made by the Mexican National Center for Disaster Prevention (CENAPRED), it was stated that 12 new eruptions took place in Popocatepetl Volcano in the last 24 hours, and 199 gas and ash outputs were recorded. It was reported that the ash from the mouth of the volcano spread to the east and southeast directions with the effect of the wind, and it was stated that ash precipitation occurred in the city of Atlixco, which is located just southeast of the volcano.

One of Russia's most active volcanoes has erupted, with a vast cloud of ash rising into the sky and smothering villages. The eruption triggered an aviation warning around the county's far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula. Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight local time, reaching a crescendo about six hours later. Villages have been carpeted in grey ash as deep as 8.5cm amid warnings of mud slides. Source: Reuters/RIA TRIO

Comment: Long story short, they're probably legit. Russia-Ukraine War analyst 'Big Serge' explains why he thinks so... Another winter has ended, and spring has again arisen on the war in Ukraine. Amid the thaw and attendant mud, Russian forces - including the indominable Wagner Group - have pushed the Ukrainian grouping in Bakhmut to the brink, with the AFU now clinging its last defensive toehold in the city. Bakhmut has become the largest battle of the 21st century, and is now entering its climactic phase. Nevertheless, battlefield developments have been upstaged to some extent by the apparent leak of classified US military intelligence documents which provide a sweeping view into the inner workings of the Pentagon's war. I am not entirely clear on Substack's content policies as it relates to such documents. It is certainly too late for the US Government to contain the leak, as the images have by this point been shared, screenshotted, and downloaded countless times, but that does...

The BBC recently ran a story claiming that the Antarctic ocean currents were heading for collapse, and to drive home the scare there was even a reference to the 2004 climate disaster film, The Day After Tomorrow. Rapidly melting Antarctic ice was reported to be causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents, "and could have a disastrous effect on the climate". Like most of these fanciful scare stories, "could" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting work. But alas, missing from this Net Zero-promoting, model-inventing Armageddon tall tale was a note that the Antarctica ice cap appears to be in balance, and is not actually melting.

Editor's note April 10, 2023: The report has been updated with new information. The Post Millennial can exclusively report that the suspect in the Easter Sunday stabbing murder of a Portland cab driver is a trans person with a history of threatening behavior. Moses Jacob Lopez, who presents as a woman and appears to have addresses in both Portland and Coos Bay, Ore., has been charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon. The deceased victim, who has not been named, was identified by Radio City Cab as one of its veteran drivers. Lopez allegedly stabbed him to death during a taxi ride.

Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, was hit by a tornado, leaving a trail of destruction just months after the wider region was devastated by cyclone Gabrielle and deadly flooding. Emergency Management said it began receiving reports of "localised havoc" around Auckland and nearby areas since Sunday evening as photos and videos emerging of widespread destruction show roofs knocked off and trees uprooted. The tornado passed through Golflands to East Tamaki, including Tamaki Heights, Flatbush and Huntington Park. Authorities say around 70 houses were inspected and while there was physical damage, no injuries have been reported.

St. Louis meteorologists' best guess at what caused the damage Tuesday evening is a rare wind event. Walt Humburg, along with his wife and his dogs, woke up Wednesday morning as the only people in Lincoln County with extensive damage to their home. "The winds were just howling really bad," Humburg told 5 On Your Side late Tuesday night, "Then about 10, 15 minutes later it got real loud, my ears popped and the roof folded in on itself." It was windy, but not storming and not raining. Remember the ear-popping part? We will get back to that.

Five friends died while their companion was hospitalized after lightning struck them in Digos City, Davao del Sur on Sunday. Four of the victims died instantly. Three of them were identified as Jeramae Cartagena, Hersalia Gabrielle and Jonmel Galicia. Another victim, identified as Joy Villocino, was declared dead on arrival at the Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital, where their friend Clarence Cate Chatto is undergoing treatment. Police said the group was on their way home from a picnic at Camp Madeger in Barangay Binaton when they encountered thunderstorms along the way.

Gorsad Kyiv is a collective of photographers that collaborates with the world's largest brands. Apparently, everybody's ignoring the fact that their work revolves around the graphic abuse and sexualization of children. Even worse, some of these "models" appear to be actual victims of child trafficking. Here's a look at Gorsad Kyiv. Warning: This article contains disturbing pictures. Comment: Many more sick photos in the original article. Gorsad Kyiv is a photography collective consisting of three artists: Viktor Vasiliev, Maria Romaniuk, and Ulik Romaniuk. Based in Kyiv, Ukraine, the group has collaborated with many galleries, magazines, musicians, and brands such as I-D Vice, Dazed & Confused, Skim milk, Hood by Air, Ariel Pink, and others. In 2022, Gorsad Kyiv was named in PhotoVogue's list of "100 Next Great Fashion Image Makers".

We received 94 reports about a fireball seen over County Laois, Cymru, England, Normandie, Wales and Zuid-Holland on Monday, April 10th 2023 around 20:01 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos.

Just over one year ago, I wouldn't have imagined that I'd find myself barricaded inside a classroom in a building on the campus of San Francisco State University. Outside the door a violent, racist mob chanted threats against me. 'Open the door, we want Riley,' they screamed. 'Why are you protecting a white woman?' the mob spit at security.

Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies is leading a boycott of Nike for its partnership with a transgender influencer to promote its female sports clothing range. Dylan Mulvaney, 26, posed for a series of pictures and videos promoting the brand's sports bra and leggings. Mulvaney identifies as a woman and uses the pronouns 'she/they' but has not yet had gender reassignment surgery.

Browbeaten virus pest Karl Lauterbach has declared the pandemic over, just before the last German virus ordinances are set to expire. That whole storm of lies, restrictions, exaggerations and panic, which descended upon us like a hurricane three years ago, has now been withdrawn, with vastly less fanfare. It's awkward; nobody wants to talk about it. The German pandemic is not ending because the virus is suddenly safer or because the vaccines have saved us or because we finally masked our way into a world free of respiratory pathogens. No, it is ending according to a timeline established last Fall, which idiotically synced virus restrictions to winter tyre rules. In this way, our rulers finally abandoned all pretence that their measures were anything more than public health theatre, performed to soothe the feelings of terrified ageing urbanites. Even that schedule proved hard to maintain, and the most visible and obnoxious restrictions had to be withdrawn months ago, as all...

A recent Politico article, citing unnamed US officials, claims that China is "ghosting" the US, ignoring American attempts to re-establish diplomatic communications after they broke down in February. If you aren't familiar with the term, 'to ghost' someone is social media-era slang that means to leave a conversation hanging by suddenly ceasing to reply. This, according to officials cited by Politico, is what's going on between the US and China, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken attempting to reschedule his Beijing visit, which he canceled after the recent 'spy balloon' incident, and the Chinese giving him the diplomatic cold shoulder. The way the article frames it, Washington is making attempts to "stabilize an increasingly volatile relationship," but "thin-skinned" Beijing is avoiding engagement because it, among other things, resents US arms sales to Taiwan and US officials' contacts with Taiwan's pro-independence politicians.

Did the original lockdown of January 2020 work in China? It was the original example of how extreme restrictions could be effective in 'controlling' the new virus, praised and commended by the WHO in its visit the following month. Even if there was uncertainty at the time about whether Western nations could or should emulate the authoritarian state, there was no doubt among all the main players that China's intervention had been successful and brought the virus under control. It was this apparent success that inspired governments around the world to take the plunge and follow China's lead, beginning with Italy in February and March, and it likely lay behind the constant sense over the following years that restrictions should be working, even when they plainly were not. So did China's original extreme lockdown work? My colleague Dr. Noah Carl is among those who think it did. Noah accepts the well-attested evidence that lockdowns in the rest of the world largely didn't work. But he...

The New York Times has reported "a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine" through the leak of classified documents which have been shared on social media. It correspondents cited "senior Biden administration officials" who apparently tipped the outlet off to the story. Documents circulating on Telegram which closely resemble those referred to by the Times are reproduced at the end of this article. The Times writes, "Military analysts said the documents appear to have been modified in certain parts from their original format, overstating American estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understating estimates of Russian troops killed. The modifications could point to an effort of disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said... The analysts warned that documents released by Russian sources could be selectively altered to present the Kremlin's disinformation." Neither the New York Times nor the "military analysts" it cited explain how the documents were...

[Source: mronline.org] First, Obama falsely portrayed Gaddafi as a monster; then, he lied about the need for harsh sanctions to punish him for crimes he never committed and, finally, he launched an illegal war under a pretext as phony as Lyndon Johnson's Tonkin Gulf Resolution and George W. Bush's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Once upon a time, in a faraway land that was very rich because of its oil wells, a bad king kept his people in poverty and subjected women to sexual and domestic abuse. But after many years of oppression, a charismatic young officer overthrew the bad king in a bloodless revolution that lasted less than two hours and in which nobody died. Even the bad king was allowed to live out his life in a luxurious villa, surrounded by family and servants, until he died peacefully of old age many years later, at age 93. The dashing young officer quickly abolished the monarchy and established a People's Congress. He threw open the royal treasury and distributed its riches...

NEVER has the sun been seen in quite this way. This dazzlingly detailed shot of our star was recently created in the aftermath of a solar tornado of record proportions that was whipping up the sun's atmosphere. Titled Fusion of Helios (pictured above), it is the result of a painstaking five-day collaboration between astrophotographers Jason Guenzel and Andrew McCarthy, who are "always looking for fresh and creative ways to present views of the universe", says Guenzel.

The Louisville gunman who shot dead four bank employees live-streamed the massacre and left a note to his parents saying he was going to carry out the attack following his firing, it has been revealed. Connor Sturgeon, 25, stormed Old National Bank shortly after 8.30am Monday - around half an hour before the downtown branch opened to the public. The victims included a close friend of the governor Thomas Elliott, 63, and three other bank employees, Joshua Barrick, 40, Juliana Farmer, 45, and James Tutt, 64.

The BBC may have leaned towards pro-lockdown coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in a reaction to the threat to its funding, former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption has said. "The BBC, which is probably the most influential single media organ, was consistently pro-lockdown. It was, of course, under threat to its financial model from the Government and it therefore wanted to show that it was 'good boys'," he told the Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast with Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan. He continued:

China is done playing with Tsai Ing-wen, and her own constituents are increasingly nervous Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen met US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last Wednesday as she was transiting through the States on a visit to Central America. Many US anti-war and Chinese-American activists as well as Chinese commentators have criticized the meeting as political theater aimed at ratcheting up cross-strait tensions. Beijing's response to the event has been even more serious. First, a word on what Tsai said on her visit to the third-highest constitutional official in Washington. "It is no secret that today the peace we have maintained and the democracy which [we] have worked hard to build are facing unprecedented challenges," she said in joint remarks alongside McCarthy. "We once again find ourselves in a world where democracy is under threat and the urgency of keeping the beacon of freedom shining cannot be understated."

Thousands are peacefully protesting ahead of Easter in Berlin, calling for halting arms supplies to Kiev and starting peace negotiations in Ukraine, an RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Saturday. Easter marches are a practiced tradition in Germany, with this year's weekend peace demonstrations expected to be held in over 120 cities across the country. The organizer of the Berlin march, Netzwerk Friedenskooperative (Peace Cooperation Network), estimated that up to 3,000 people took part in the march, which began at Berlin's central quarter of Wedding. The participants can be seen carrying flags depicting the dove of peace, as well as banners that read "US and NATO Get Out of Ukraine," "Diplomacy, Not Arms," "Against Pointless Sanctions, Cheap Energy Now," "Tanks Never Bring Peace," as well as other slogans against Europe's dependence on the United States.

The Dalai Lama has apologised after an unsettling video appeared on social media in which he kissed a young Indian boy on the lips before asking him to 'suck' his tongue. Footage of the uncomfortable incident showed the moment the Tibetan spiritual leader invited the boy on stage during a charity event at his temple in Dharamshala, India in February. Comment: It's notable that this occurred in February but it's only just coming to light now. In the video, the boy asks the Dalai Lama 'can I hug you?', to which Tenzin Gyatso responds: 'Okay - come!'

Ukraine will disappear because its Western backers, the rest of the world, and even its own citizens have no need for the troubled country to keep existing, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has implied. "Why would Ukraine disappear? Because nobody needs it," Medvedev, who now holds the position of deputy head of Russia's Security Council, wrote in a post on the VK social network on Saturday. The EU doesn't need Ukraine because supporting the country amid the conflict with Russia "on the order of their American mentor, plunged the Europeans into a real financial and political hell," he insisted. Detrimental anti-Russia sanctions, spiking inflation, high energy prices and the "decay" of businesses have already led to protests in various parts of the continent, the official pointed out. "The prospect of decisively planting Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the neck of the shriveling EU" is real and, if it happens, it's going to signal the demise of the bloc, Medvedev...

A recent memo sent to every Republican member of Congress is urging lawmakers to dismiss the United Nations' "alarmist report" on climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently called on wealthy nations to move up its net-zero emissions goal from 2050 to 2040. But a memo sent by the Competitive Enterprise Institute offered Republicans talking points for refuting both the UN's findings and the Biden administration's push to accelerate the transition to renewable energy. "In the wake of the latest alarmist report from the United Nations about emissions and climate change, I wanted to draw your attention to three new developments and realities that you should be aware of as debate about climate continues," the memo stated. The memo started by picking apart various claims from those who warn that global warming will lead to catastrophic changes to human and animal life. For example, it noted a short-term projection by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Only a few months after it was revealed that the FBI labeled Catholics who attend Latin Mass as extremist, an information request from the Heritage Foundation found that the FBI uses some dozen words to flag "violent extremism." These slang terms, as seen on social media, are Chad, Looksmaxxing, It's over, Roastie, NEET, Normie, Blue Pill, Red Pill, Black Pill, Stacy, Based, and LARPing. The FBI defines the key terms, along with other terms that are decidely racist, and links the slang terms to these racist ideas. The FBI's "Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide" on "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism" offer a threat overview for incels that aims to identify them by the slang they use. It discusses how "incels" are men who "seek to commit violence in support of their belief that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled." The guide goes on to describe that these men "blame political or social movements, such as feminism, for...

U.S. and European officials scrambled to understand how dozens of classified documents covering all manner of intelligence gathering had made their way online with little notice... On Saturday, as U.S. officials and their foreign allies scrambled to understand how dozens of classified intelligence documents had ended up on the internet, they were stunned and occasionally infuriated at the extraordinary range of detail the files exposed about how the United States spies on friends and foes alike. The documents, which appear to have come at least in part from the Pentagon and are marked as highly classified, offer tactical information about the war in Ukraine, including the country's combat capabilities. According to one defense official, many of the documents seem to have been prepared over the winter for Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior military officials, but they were available to other U.S. personnel and contract employees with the...

As the United States combats a recent flood of countries 'de-dollarizing' - trading commodities in other currencies, the last thing that was needed was French President Emanuel Macron amplifying this message. After spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of a three-day state visit to China, Macron made extremely clear that France wants nothing to do with WWIII, emphasizing that Europe must employ "strategic autonomy," presumably led by France, to become a "third superpower," according to Politico. While speaking with reporters aboard COTAM Unit, France's Air Force One, the French President said that the "great risk" facing Europe right now is that it "gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy." This isn't the first time Macron has suggested reducing dependence on the US. In November, the French President called for a "single global order" while discussing the power interests of Russia and China...

Former President George W. Bush's press secretary laid out a plan to end Democratic persecution and prosecution of Donald Trump during an interview Wednesday on Fox News. Network contributor Ari Fleischer told host Sean Hannity that Democrats will continue to go after the former president and leading contender for the 2024 GOP nomination until Republican prosecutors begin indicting top Democratic officials like Hillary Clinton and the Bidens. "One of the raps against Donald Trump is that he violates the norms and as a result the Democrats had no choice, prosecutors had no choice. What's happened to Donald Trump is actually the real violation of the norms. He was impeached the first time by a process that did not even go through the Judiciary Committee. They've wrecked a bipartisan intelligence committee at the hands of Adam Schiff to get Donald Trump. "The second time they tried to impeach him, knowing they would not succeed, they didn't even go through that process. They went...

US President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on a number of positions in northeastern Syria last month, after Washington announced the death of a contractor in a drone strike. What followed was an unprecedented response from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied militias, shelling US positions throughout the duration of the following day. This exchange of fire marks a turning point in the conflict between the two sides. On March 23, the US Department of Defense claimed that a drone of Iranian origin had struck US forces stationed near al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, killing an American contractor and injuring a number of service members. F-15 fighter jets were subsequently launched from Doha in order to target Iranian-allied militia groups in the Deir ez-Zor province of Syria. In recent years, there have been several exchanges between US and Iranian-allied militia groups in the east of Syria. However, these rarely resulted in American casualties and the brief escalations were...

Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson appeared on the Tucker Carlson show this week and suggested that the United States is in a revolution and people don't realize it. Hanson was referring to the Democrats and their relentless efforts to 'get' Trump no matter the cost. He called it third world election tampering and also said that the U.S. has lost all moral authority. Hanson told Carlson: "What we're seeing is not the end of it. Tonight was the very beginning. This is going to go on to three prosecutors for a year and a half, with the intent of getting just enough empathy for Donald Trump that he will be nominated and then see him gag-ordered and maybe even seeing him incarcerated to nullify his viability in the general election." "It's the worst example of third-world election tampering. They don't have a message, so whether it's symbolically tearing up the State of the Union or denying the Speaker or the Minority Leader in the House appointments or trying to...

The Tunisian president earlier said the cash-strapped nation would reject an IMF bailout... Tunisia is considering becoming a member of the BRICS economic bloc, the spokesman for the pro-presidential 'July 25 Movement' told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency on Sunday. Mahmoud bin Mabrouk cited unnamed sources in the North African country's government as saying the option of joining the organization - comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - is being considered among the other possibilities. "I have information that Tunisia is seriously considering joining the BRICS group." Earlier this week, Tunisian President Kais Saied spoke out against "foreign diktats" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in stalled talks over a bailout package for the cash-stripped nation. The head of state highlighted that the terms of a $2 billion loan deal proposed by the Washington-based organisation would worsen the poverty crisis in the heavily indebted country.

South Korean officials said Sunday they will "come up with our response accordingly" after revelations that the U.S. reportedly spied on its close ally and gathered signals intelligence related to South Korea's internal debate over weapons sales to the U.S., and Seoul's fears that those weapons would ultimately end up in Ukraine. Officials in Seoul said they'll raise the alleged spying which came to light as part of a major leak of sensitive documents over the weekend with their U.S. counterparts. For both countries, the timing is delicate. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is scheduled to visit Washington and join President Biden for a state dinner at the White House on April 26. "We will review precedents and instances involving other countries, and come up with our response accordingly," a South Korean presidential official said Sunday after being asked about the revelations, according to the country's Yonhap News Agency.

In a video podcast the other day, I made reference to the lockdown orders of March 2020. The host turned off the recording. He said it was fine to talk about this subject but from now on please refer to "the events of March 2020" with no specifics. Otherwise, it will be taken down by YouTube and Facebook. He needs those platforms for reach, and reach is necessary for his business model. I complied, but I was spooked. Are we really now in the position that talking about what happened to us is verboten on mainstream venues? Sadly, that seems to be where we headed. In big and small ways, and throughout the culture and the whole world, we are bit-by-bit being trained to forget and hence not learn and thus repeat the whole thing. This makes no sense since nearly every public issue in play today traces to those fateful days and the fallout thereof, including censorship, the entrenchment of industry-government oligarchs, the corruption of media and tech, the educational upheaval, the...

The script reads like a spoof straight out of legendary Mad magazine 1960's cartoon "Spy vs. Spy": Secret Pentagon Documents Fall in the Hands of Malign Russia. Well, actually in the hands of millions accessing Twitter and Telegram. So here, at face value, we have a major leak essentially detailing Pentagon planning for the next stage of the NATO vs. Russia proxy war in Ukraine: the interminably debated Spring "counter-offensive" that may, or may not, start in mid-April, as well as war plans shared with FVEY - the Five Eyes. The leaked intel might - and the operative word is "might" - be advantageous to Russia were this not to be misdirection: and the possibility is quite real. The inestimable Ray McGovern, who knows one or two things about the CIA, noted whether the Pentagon is "falsifying kill-ratio to gild Easter lilies in Kyiv? Recent leak of an apparently official NATO document shows 71,500 Ukrainians KIA and only 16,000 to 17,500 Russians, a far cry from earlier Pentagon...

When medieval monks were looking up at the night sky, writing down their observations of celestial objects, they had no idea that their words would be invaluable centuries later to a group of scientists in a completely different field: volcanology. A new study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature explains how descriptions of lunar eclipses by monks and scribes were key in studying some of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth. Using a combination of these medieval writings and climate data stretching back centuries, researchers were able to clarify the date of around 10 volcanic eruptions that took place between the year 1100 and 1300. "I was listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album when I realized that the darkest lunar eclipses all occurred within a year or so of major volcanic eruptions," lead author Sbastien Guillet, senior research associate at the Institute for environmental sciences at the UNIGE, said in a press release. "Since we know the...

In the wake of the of the recent mass shooting at the Nashville based Covenant Christian School in which three children and three staff were murdered by a trans activist (a biological woman named Audrey Hale) one would think that questions of mental health would be at the forefront of the discussion on what exactly happened. However, not surprisingly, Hale is instead being treated as a "victim" herself among leftists - A victim of society and a victim of an insidious anti-trans "genocide" that activists assure us is happening everywhere in America even though we can't seem to find any evidence of it. The political left has gone into overdrive in order to do spin control on the shooting, with pro-trans propaganda being flooded into every information venue by multiple corporations and government agencies. They are seeking to bury the lead story, and, much like pride month, saturate the market with a narrative of grievances and victimhood. Some on the political left have even...

Delegates representing Saudi Arabia and Oman arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Saturday to discuss a permanent ceasefire to end the civil war which has raged in the country since 2014. The fighting is being waged primarily between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels - both of whom claim to be the country's official leaders - along with their various allies. The Houthi-operated Saba news agency reported on Sunday that the Saudi and Omani envoys will attempt to negotiate with Houthi officials to end the fighting, bring to a close Riyadh's military involvement, and lift "the siege with all its repercussions." Saba also said the talks are aimed at restoring the rights of Yemeni citizens, including the payment of state salaries with revenue derived from oil and gas. The lifting of a Saudi-imposed blockade on Yemeni ports will also be discussed, as well as the establishment of a timeline for foreign military forces to leave the country, Reuters reported.

Government-controlled surface datasets, the bedrock of climate thermogeddon fears promoting Net Zero, cannot possibly be accurate, and are only "an estimate with high uncertainty". The claim comes from the noted U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts, who has spent the last decade highlighting the numerous flaws built into global temperature monitoring systems. Data are collected by government bodies from a weather station network, "that was never intended to detect a 'global warming signal'", notes Watts. He goes on to call for a new independent global climate database. Given that governments are spending billions of taxpayer dollars on climate mitigation programmes, "doesn't it make sense to get the most important thing - the actual temperature - as accurate as possible", he asks. To date, continues Watts, there is only one network of climate capable weather stations that is accurate enough to fully detect a climate change signal. This is the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN),...

The Pentagon announced it was trying to remove from the internet a major leak of secret documents which have exposed plans relating to Ukraine's war on Russia. For his part, Elon Musk sarcastically highlighted the vain attempt, saying on Twitter: "Yeah, you can totally delete things from the Internet - that works perfectly and doesn't draw attention to whatever you were trying to hide at all." The American billionaire derided on Twitter the Pentagon's attempt to remove social media posts containing leaked classified documents relating to the conflict in Ukraine. The day before his tweet, the New York Times newspaper indicated that officials were not successful in removing the publications from the internet. The leak was described to the New York Times by a senior intelligence official as "a nightmare for the Five Eyes," the intelligence sharing apparatus between the Anglo countries - the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Some of the documents were found on...

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul has said the US may send troops to Taiwan should China invade the self-governed island. "If communist China invaded Taiwan, it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by Congress and with the American people," the Texas Republican told Fox News. "Are they prepared to do this? Is Taiwan worth it? I can argue for a lot of reasons why it is." The potential move would represent a stark contrast to the the war in Ukraine, where the US has sent billions in weaponry to Kyiv but has refused to send troops.

By the author of The Prepper's Guide to Post-Disaster Communications and The Faithful Prepper I'm watching a lot of very bizarre disasters take place on American soil, and given that there are a number of actors in the world that absolutely hate America, I find it incredibly suspicious. We've already seen the food facility fires that are going up in smoke all over the place. But when you add in all of the bizarre train derailments, chemical spills, and the like, the only conclusion I believe one can come to is that America is currently under attack. The problem is that most people mistakenly fall into the trap of thinking that unless tanks, Apaches, and bazookas are involved, it's not war. This is a mistake. The face of war has changed, and the more you understand 5th Generation Warfare and gray zone warfare, the better you'll understand the happenings of today. In short:

Behind the ghastly military conflict in Ukraine a proxy war has been declared against the Russian people. And deeper still, a spiritual conflict between the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a nationalist movement of stunning iniquity. The world has witnessed over the last year a shocking military collision between Russia and Ukraine. Yet behind the military conflict is a spiritual conflict between the historic Orthodox Church which has existed in Ukraine for over a thousand years, and a new nationalist sect created by the patriarch of Istanbul in 2018. The true shepherds of the Orthodox Church have always stood faithfully to defend the faithful, whether they were persecuted by pagan Rome, oppressed by the Ottoman Turks, or martyred by the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. The Zelensky state has sponsored soldiers to seize churches and monasteries, assault priests and monks of the canonical Orthodox Church. The regime has allowed a new nationalist sect created by...

The massive floods in Wadi Al Sarmi, the state of Al-Khaboura.

Disruptions due to flooding ongoing across Maranhao State, Brazil as of early April 9. Thousands displaced; casualties reported. Event Heavy rainfall has resulted in flooding and damage across parts of Maranhao State as of early April 9. The floods have especially affected communities near Trizidela do Vale. Around 7,700 people were reportedly displaced, and 35,900 were affected by rising levels of water following heavy rainfall. Six casualties have been reported. This is the second heavy flooding episode in Maranhao following a similar event in late March.

The actively growing lava dome in the inner Jonggring Saloko summit crater generated a block-and-ash flow yesterday. The pyroclastic flow descended along the steep southeastern ravine and reached approx. 1,5 km length as can be seen in the video recorded by local observers in Huntap. Grey ash plumes formed as they separated from the current (so-called phoenix clouds). The reason for this flow was presumably either accumulated lava material from the front of the lava flow or destabilization of the lava dome resulting in the partial collapse.

A large fire has gutted thousands of shops at a popular clothing market in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, with shop owners devastated by the loss weeks before Eid, the Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan. Hundreds of firefighters and army personnel battled the inferno as it tore through the clothing market, turning it into a pile of ashes. The blaze was brought under control at 12:45pm local time (06:45 GMT) more than six hours after it started at Bangabazar Market early on Tuesday. Several people have been injured but no deaths have been reported so far. Authorities were still trying to figure out the cause of the blaze.

On Thursday, some 200 firefighters worked several hours with tankers to control a large fire in Mexico City Central Market, the main food store in the Mexican capital. The flames, which started at about 19:00, caused a smoke column of more than 50 meters. Hopefully, they did not leave injured or dead people. Mexico DF Mayor Claudia Sheimbaum said fire brigades extinguished about 90 percent of them. The fire affected 5,640 square meters of the market's empty packaging sector, where cardboard, wood, plastic boxes, pallets, reed baskets, and raffia sacks were stored. Neighbors were worried about the flames since several gas stations are close to this market. Sheimbaum confirmed that these establishments have already been closed. She also asked locals to keep calm and contribute to the work of firefighters and emergency teams.

Dozens of dead sea turtles have washed ashore on parts of the Gulf Coast, according to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies. While stranding experts say it's normal to find carcasses this time of year, the number is reportedly higher than usual. Since April 1, 34 have been reported along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, WLOX reports. "Once we receive a report about a stranded sea turtle, we mobilize our team here and we go out," Institute for Marine Mammal Studies stranding coordinator Theresa Madrigal said. "What we do is collect photographs and basic data on the animal. We are looking at the scene basically like a crime scene."

Five people have been killed and one is missing after an avalanche near Mont Blanc in southeastern France. Among the dead were two mountain guides caught by the snow tumbling down the Armancette glacier, the prefecture for the Haute-Savoie department said on Sunday. Investigators have been called in to help with the search for the person still unaccounted for in the Alps. One person also suffered slight injuries in the avalanche while eight others also swept up were unharmed, the prefecture said. The avalanche covered an area of 1,000 metres by 500 metres.

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck Papua New Guinea on Monday. The USGS said the epicenter was at a depth of 10 km, at 3.50 degrees south latitude and 149 degrees east longitude, 224.6 km southeast of Kavieng city. There were no immediate reports of casualties or material losses due to the earthquake. Papua New Guinea is located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. This region includes 90 percent of the active volcanoes in the world.

Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including for people who are designated at high risk from COVID-19. Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health now says that "no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023." People designated at high risk also aren't recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine, authorities said. Officials attributed the change to the number of citizens who have received a vaccine, recovered from COVID-19, or have received a vaccine and also enjoy natural immunity from post-recovery protection. "Nearly everyone in Switzerland has been vaccinated and/or contracted and recovered from COVID-19. Their immune system has therefore been exposed to the coronavirus. In spring/summer 2023, the virus will likely circulate less. The current virus variants also cause rather mild illness," Swiss health officials said.

Residents of Hamburg have been alerted to a toxic smoke cloud drifting towards the center of the northern German port city, due to a large fire on Sunday morning that could "affect the air we breathe," according to local officials. "The population in the Hamburg area can be affected by smoke gases and chemical components in the breathing air due to a fire," read an official warning from the Hamburg fire department, which described the alert level as "extreme danger," saying "the cloud of smoke is moving towards the city center." According to reports from local media, a major fire engulfed "several warehouses" in the Rothenburgsort district of the Hamburg-Mitte borough in a blaze understood to have begun at around 4.30am local time on Sunday. Numerous explosions were heard, and images on social media have shown plumes of smoke billowing into the air.

Western Europe must pursue "strategic autonomy" and avoid getting dragged into confrontations on behalf of the US, Emmanuel Macron told Politico on Sunday. The French president has made similar assertions before, but has nevertheless followed Washington's lead on Ukraine. In an interview while traveling within China this week, Macron told the news site that "Europe faces a great risk" if it "gets caught up in crises that are not ours." "The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America's followers," Macron said. "The question Europeans need to answer... is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction."

Donald Trump's campaign fundraising is breaking records thanks to a lavish fundraiser hosted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and the Democrat Party. Sources say that as Trump arrived at a New York courthouse for the fundraiser this morning, his campaign raised millions from energized citizens eager to support the only presidential candidate indicted by a Soros-funded DA. "At this point, if someone hasn't been indicted by a corrupt Soros DA, can you even trust that person?" said local Trump voter Bubba Gruggs, while clicking the "donate" button on the latest email from the Trump campaign. Experts say that the Trump indictment will firm up his base of supporters who believe the country is run by corrupt, out-of-touch bureaucrats who also happen to be Satanic pedophiles and alienate him with kooky conspiracy theorists who think that America's leaders can be trusted. At publishing time, it had been revealed that half the donations to the Trump campaign came from Democrat activists who are...

As conservatives across the nation vowed to no longer drink Budweiser products, people who possess functional taste buds have promised to continue their decades-long boycott of Bud Light as well. "No way I'm ever drinking Bud Light," said local man Jimmy Billings. "Wait, there's a boycott?" According to sources, no human with taste buds has finished an entire bottle of Bud Light since the brand's inception in 1982. "We still have a pretty big following of people who don't have tongues," said CEO Brendan Whitworth. "Oh, and also people who burned their taste buds off with a Hot Pocket. Huge Bud Light fans. The taste bud boycott has been a challenge, but we have persevered." While Bud Light's partnering with Dylan Mulvaney has led to controversy, people with the ability to taste have no plans to change their beer choice. "I guess I would boycott Bud Light if I ever drank it, but that would require me to shave my taste buds off with a razor," said local man Ron McAllen. "And I don't...

An analysis of satellite images by Al Jazeera has revealed that Russian forces are fortifying the Crimean peninsula in anticipation of a Ukrainian attempt to recapture it. Experts say that those defences are likely to make any such effort difficult and bloody. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, eight years before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the war grinds on for more than a year, Ukraine's political and military leadership has made it clear that it defines victory as reclaiming its 1991 borders, which Russia had recognised. The United Nations and all of Ukraine's Western allies also recognise those borders, which include Crimea.

Eight people remained missing after the building they lived in exploded and collapsed early Sunday near the port of Marseille, leaving mounds of burning debris hampering rescue operations, officials said. More than 100 firefighters worked against a ticking clock to extinguish flames deep within the rubble of the five-story building, but more than 17 hours later "the situation is not yet stabilized," Marseille Prosecutor Dominique Laurens said at an evening news conference. Earlier in the day, officials had thought that between four and 10 people may have been trapped. Laurens said police have yet to confirm the apparent disappearance of a ninth person who lived in a next-door building. Five people suffered minor injuries from the collapse, which occurred shortly before 1 a.m. Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan said two buildings that share walls with the one that collapsed were partially brought down before one later caved in, another complication in the search and rescue operation. The...

Germany's ambassador to Chad will be expelled within 48 hours for his "impolite attitude" and "non-respect of diplomatic practices", the government in N'Djamena said in a statement Friday. The ambassador, Jan Christian Gordon Kricke, has been in the role since July 2021, and the government gave no official explanation for his expulsion. Government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh urged him to "leave Chadian territory within 48 hours." "We have not been officially contacted," a source at the German Embassy told AFP on condition of anonymity, who said he had heard the news via social media.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to task after former President Donald Trump was indicted, saying Bragg could be forced out of office and into court himself. "Wonder if DA Bragg remembers Durham DA Mike Nifong who withheld exculpatory DNA tests on the Duke lacrosse players. He was subsequently forced out of office, disbarred, and convicted of contempt of court." Paul refered to Nifong, the district attorney in the 2006 case accusing Duke University lacrosse players of rape. The three players were exonerated and Nifong even spent one day in jail. "A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power. The DA should be put in jail," Paul said in a separate statement just before news late last week about the indictment. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy declared that Congress will take action after former President Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan on Tuesday for his arraignment in the case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney...

Over a year and a half since the end of America's longest-ever war, President Joe Biden's administration has attributed the chaos and deadly violence that arose during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to former President Donald Trump. "President Biden's choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor," the White House said in a 12-page report released on Wednesday. Biden inherited the smallest US troop presence in Afghanistan since 2001, as well as an agreement by Trump to withdraw all of those forces by May 2021. The previous administration provided no plans for conducting the exit, the report said. The report essentially acknowledged no mistakes by the administration, although one "lesson learned" was to prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a "degrading security situation." White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that those lessons had already been applied in...

Judge Juan Merchan, who presides over the case of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, may be subject to an ethics investigation for violating New York's Code of Judicial Conduct. Outlined in the New York Code of Judicial Conduct, sitting judges are prohibited from engaging in any political activity, including making contributions to political organizations or candidates. Judge Juan Merchan's three donations to Democrats during the 2020 election could be a violation of this rule. Judge Juan Merchan made three donations to Democrats in 2020, which include $15 to Biden for President and $10 each to Progressive Turnout Project and Stop Republicans, according to FEC records.

Jim O'Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief economist who coined the acronym BRIC, said the bloc of nations that later adopted the name should expand and work to counter the dollar's dominance. In a paper published in the Global Policy journal on March 26, O'Neill called on the group to apply strict criteria to ensure the addition of any new members to its ranks helps further its aims and urged it to focus on climate finance, improving healthcare and boosting trade. "The US dollar plays a far too dominant role in global finance. Whenever the Federal Reserve Board has embarked on periods of monetary tightening, or the opposite, loosening, the consequences on the value of the dollar and the knock-on effects have been dramatic." Brazil, Russia, India and China established BRIC in 2009 and the bloc became BRICS a year later when South Africa was admitted. If it expands to include other "emerging nations with persistent surpluses," a globally fairer, multi-currency global...

The Tunisian president has rejected the terms of a stalled $1.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), citing unacceptable foreign influence and the risk of increasing poverty. Speaking on Thursday, Kais Saied said he "will not hear diktats" and argued that cutting state subsidies will cause social unrest, while warning that "public peace is not a game." Tunisia reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF in October 2022 for a loan to support the economy over a 48-month period under an Extended Fund Facility. However the deal, which was supposed to be approved in December 2022, was postponed after the North African country failed to meet key commitments. The loan conditions include cuts to food and energy subsidies, as well as a reduction in the public wage bill. "It's true that some people who don't need subsidies are benefitting from them, but we can find other ways to make sure they get to those who deserve them," the president told reporters in Monastir.

Executives at company like Nike, Anheuser-Busch and Kate Spade, whose brand endorsements have turned controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney into today's woke "It girl," aren't just virtue signaling. They're handing out lucrative deals to what were once considered fringe celebrities because they have to or risk failing an all-important social credit score that could make or break their businesses. At stake is their Corporate Equality Index or CEI score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world. HRC, which has received millions from George Soros' Open Society Foundation among others, issues report cards for America's biggest corporations via the CEI: awarding or subtracting points for how well companies adhere to what HRC calls its "rating criteria." Businesses that attain the maximum 100 total points earn the coveted title "Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality." Fifteen of the top 20 Fortune-ranked...

More than $100,000 in cocaine washed ashore in the form of three packages found on separate Florida Panhandle beaches over a period of about 24 hours Monday and Tuesday. According to the Walton County Sheriff's Office, the first call came Monday from Scenic Gulf Drive in Miramar Beach. A beachgoer reported finding a Ziploc bag, wrapped in clear plastic, and containing what appeared to be cocaine. Later Monday, deputies were sent to the Gulfview Heights beach access about a suspicious package. This one appeared to be a brick of cocaine, wrapped in a biohazard bag with some sort of logo on it. The package was taken to the WCSO's south substation, where it tested positive for cocaine. Tuesday morning, a call came from Grayton Beach State Park regarding yet another brick of cocaine, this one wrapped with a different logo. All three packages were submitted into evidence for destruction. The U.S. Coast Guard was notified of the finds and the WCSO's Vice/Narcotics Unit is also...

An elite force tried to seize the Zaporozhye NPP last autumn, the newspaper's sources have claimed A "highly dangerous" Ukrainian operation to capture the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant last year ended in failure due to heavy Russian resistance, The Times reported on Friday, citing sources. According to Kiev's military personnel interviewed by the British newspaper, the attack involved some 600 elite Ukrainian soldiers who tried to cross the Dnieper River on October 19 by boat. The operation hinged on the presumption that Moscow's troops would not be able to fire artillery so close to the nuclear power plant, which is the largest in Europe, one officer told The Times.

The true number of casualties will be acknowledged only once the conflict is over, Vadim Pristaiko has said Ukraine will reveal the extent of its "horrible" losses once its conflict with Russia is over, Vadim Pristaiko, Kiev's ambassador to the UK, said in an interview released on Friday. Asked by British tabloid the Daily Express to comment on casualties among Ukrainian military personnel and civilians, Pristaiko said "it has been our policy from the start not to discuss our losses." "When the war is over, we will acknowledge this. I think it will be a horrible number," he added.

Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation. The physical concept of resonance surrounds us in everyday life. When you're sitting on a swing and want to go higher, you naturally start pumping your legs back and forth. You very quickly find the exact right rhythm to make the swing go higher. If you go off rhythm then the swing stops going higher. This particular kind of phenomenon is known in physics as a parametric resonance. Your legs act as an external pumping mechanism. When they match the resonant frequency of the system, in this case your body sitting on a swing, they are able to transfer energy to the system making the swing go higher. These kinds of resonances happen all over the place, and a team of researchers have discovered that an exotic form of parametric resonance may have even occurred in the extremely early universe. Perhaps the most...

A son of billionaire George Soros has quietly become a de-facto White House "ambassador," making at least 14 visits there on behalf of the far-left kingmaker since President Joe Biden took office, records reviewed by The Post show. Alexander Soros a prolific Democratic fundraiser in his own right who likes to boast about his relationships with world leaders on social media scored at least a dozen meetings with White House officials in 2022, according to recently updated White House visitor logs. Soros, 37, also participated in two other confabs there in late 2021, the records show. His latest trips include visiting Dec. 1 with then-White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain's advisor Nina Srivastava, who also worked on Biden's presidential campaign, the logs show. Later that evening. the younger Soros was one of 330 people who attended a lavish state dinner on the White House South Lawn hosted by the president and First Lady Jill Biden honoring French President Emmanuel Macron and...

Colorado authorities thwarted a possible middle school shooting after they arrested a former student who was allegedly planning a massacre inside the building. William Whitworth, who prosecutors say identifies as Lilly, was taken into custody by the Elbert County Sheriff's Office on March 31 after it was discovered the 19-year-old had floor plans to Timberview Middle School and allegedly admitted to wanting to shoot up the school, according to an arrest affidavit obtained and reported on by local outlets. Whitworth was originally paid a visit by deputies when the suspect's sister called authorities to alert them she was lashing out and made school shooting references, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported, citing the affidavit.

The government says assessments in leaked American documents are "mendacious and without any foundation whatsoever" Israel's spy agency Mossad encouraged its staff and the general public to take part in massive protests against a judicial reform plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leaked papers from the Pentagon have reportedly revealed. The assessment was included in a Central Intelligence Update from March 1, found among a batch of sensitive documents from the US Department of Defense which recently appeared online, according to reports on Sunday by several outlets, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. In "early to mid-February" the top commanders of Israel's foreign intelligence service "advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest against the new Israeli Government's proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli Government," the assessment read, as cited by the media. The memo...