The southwest experienced some unusual winter weather this year, with record rainfall, record snowfall and now rare waterfalls. Snow is still melting off the mountains, leaving a beautiful water wonderland at Gunlock State Park. It was a great year for Utah's snowpack -- most of the state 200 to 400 percent above average. In southwest Utah, the melted snow is running into the Santa Clara River, and the overflowing water causes waterfalls like the ones at Gunlock State Park.

The winter that wouldn't quit showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada on Tuesday. The fast-moving, blustery storm wasn't expected to last long, but it was enough to require chain controls on some trans-Sierra highways and add to staggering snowfall totals left by an exceptional series of winter storms. "A blast back to some wintry weather today with wind and snowfall," the Mammoth Mountain ski resort wrote on its web page. The early morning temperature was just 18 degrees (-8 Celsius).

It has been a winter to remember, especially in the western United States. California and Utah saw huge snowfall totals. All these resorts are raising a banner for record snowfall during the 2022/23 season. The list is in ascending order based on total snowfall. All snow totals are from April 15, 2023, meaning they could still add to their already impressive records. Snowfall Records Eagle Point, UT - 367 inches Cherry Peak, UT - 459 inches China Peak, CA - 549 inches* (701 inches at summit) Heavenly, CA - 566 inches

Palisades Tahoe has had the most iconic year yet, unveiling the Base to Base Gondola, opening the new high-speed six-pack Red Dog Chair, hosting the Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup, and now Mother Nature has gifted Palisades Tahoe with the most snowfall since the turn of the millennium, breaking the previously held record of the 2016-2017 season. With last night's snowfall of 10 inches, the previously held record of 707 inches of snowfall for the 2016-2017 season has been broken as Palisades Tahoe is now sitting at 710 inches of snow, which is 178% of its average season snowfall of 400 inches.

A strong earthquake shook Papua New Guinea on Wednesday but no serious damage or casualties were expected, officials said. The magnitude 6.3 earthquake was centered in West New Britain province at a depth of 55.7 kilometers (35 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said the quake caused strong shaking, but economic losses and casualties were expected to be small.

Blink and you might miss it. While delivering food for Doordash, driver Steve Salmasian was on East Torino Parkway about 8:30 p.m. April 7 when his dashcam caught a bright blue-green meteor illuminating the evening sky. Meteors also called fireballs, falling stars or shooting stars are common occurrences in the Earth's atmosphere. Every day, there are several thousand meteors of "fireball" magnitude, meaning -4, which is about as bright as the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky, according to the American Meteor Society.

This gorgeous bolide was spotted over Spain on April 17, at 5:59 local time (equivalent to 3:59 universal time). It was almost as bright as the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from Comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) that hit the atmosphere at about 178,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the province of Toledo (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 96 km over the locality of Pulgar (province of Toledo), moved along an almost vertical trajectory, and ended at a height of around 59 km. This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Faro de Cullera (Valencia). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).

We received 96 reports about a fireball seen over Bremen, Drenthe, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Nedersaksen, Niedersachsen, Noord-Brabant, Noord-Holland, Overijssel, Rgion Wallonne, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holsten, Utrecht and Zuid-Holland on Tuesday, April 18th 2023 around 19:57 UT. For this event, we received one video.

We received 287 reports about a fireball seen over Brussel, Drenthe, England, Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Hauts-de-France, Limburg, Noord-Brabant, Noord-Holland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Overijssel, Rgion Wallonne, Utrecht, Vlaams Gewest, Waals Gewest, Wallonia, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on Monday, April 17th 2023 around 19:31 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos.

A lightning strike killed two people and critically injured two others in Nargasai area of Birmal Tehsil of Lower South Waziristan Tribal District. Two person of the same family died and two others were injured due to lightning strike. According to police sources, two members of the same family died and two others were injured when lightning struck their house in Nargasai area of Birmal Tehsil of Lower South Waziristan tribal district. According to the police report, Noorshah Khan son of Asal Khan and her daughter Malala Bibi aged 09 years died due to lightning falling on a room of a house in Nargasai village.

The authors of a peer-reviewed meta-analysis of national and international COVID-19 vaccine adverse events during the first two years of the rollout said their findings highlight the importance of reevaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups. The cost of injecting healthy people, "especially children," with a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine "outweighs any claimed though unvalidated benefits," according to researchers who analyzed adverse events data from more than 10 regulatory surveillance and self-reporting systems during the first two years of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. "Our meta-analysis of both national and international vaccine adverse events emphasizes the importance of re-evaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups," said the authors of a peer-reviewed study published this month in the International Journal of...

The US cartel is doubling down on war As events are moving so fast in the region, I will try to update more regularly in a condensed format: US continues its murder of civilians in central Syria using its ISIS proxies to carry out brutal attacks . On the 16th April at least 26 civilians were massacred in an attack on truffle hunters in the Duizen eastern countryside of Hama governorate. It is reported by the terrorist-biased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) that 12 of the martyrs were members of the National Defence Forces but the majority of the attacks and kidnap victims are civilians. The US is known to have planted ISIS cells in the area east of Homs and the threat to civilians or military is high. Syrian civilians trying to eke a living in a country under economic attack from the West are forced to hire military protection to survive. Added to this, the desert is still also littered with ISIS and other terrorist group mines and IEDs. On 17th February 53 people were...

Japanese museum curator and astronomer Daichi Fujii spotted something irregular last September in several motion-sensing cameras he had set up: three brilliant green lights that streaked across the sky. After studying the footage and comparing it to orbital data, Fujii found the responsible party: NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2, or ICESat-2, which had flown over Japan that night. According to Tony Martino, an instrument scientist for the satellite, it's the first time the team has seen footage of the instrument's lasers pulsing through the sky. "ICESat-2 appeared to be almost directly overhead of [Fujii], with the beam hitting the low clouds at an angle," Martino said in a NASA release. "To see the laser, you have to be in the exact right place, at the right time, and you have to have the right conditions." https:// ICESat-2 launched in 2018 and is used to measure the height of Earth's surfaces. It is basically a space-based lidar scanner, similar to those used by...

Southwest Airlines departures all over the country were briefly halted on Tuesday due to a computer issue, causing significant disruptions at airports. At a little after 11 a.m. ET, 36 percent of Southwest's flights were paused, according to Leslie Josephs of CNBC. The pause ended not long after it was announced, but flight delays continued. As of this writing, many Southwest flights were still not departing on time. Jennie Runevitch, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, noted that the departure board at her local airport showed that "most" Southwest flights were delayed by roughly an hour. The board in her photo, it should be noted, also showed some Southwest flights departing on time.

China's State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu highlighted that the Russo-Chinese relationship, which is based on the principles of non-alignment and non-confrontation, goes beyond the Cold War-era military and political alliances during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. "Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu's visit to Russia is an important event following President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia, and one of the biggest events in diplomatic relations between China and Russia this year," Zhou Rong, a senior analyst at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, told Sputnik. "With US-led NATO under heavy pressure on Russia in Europe and on China in Asia, Moscow and Beijing need mutual support and a high degree of trust in military cooperation. Russian-Chinese cooperation will help prevent regional wars and conflicts. "It is hardly a coincidence that Li Shangfu went to Russia on...

At least one dead and four injured in NYC parking garage collapses as officials warn death and injury toll may 'change rapidly' and order At least one person has been killed and four others injured after a parking garage collapsed leaving cars piled up in New York City on Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred at Enterprise Ann Parking at 57 Ann Street between Nassau Street and William Street in lower Manhattan at 4:15pm resulting in a huge emergency response. A woman was heard screaming 'get out!' and images showed the top floor caved in with vehicles falling through crumbled concrete. People were also trapped in the elevator shaft which caved in. City officials said that as a result the floors 'pancaked' on top of each other.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), which operates a gender clinic, removed numerous videos and posts discussing childhood gender transitions, including irreversible surgeries, from its website amid public backlash, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The CHOP Gender and Sexuality Development Program came under scrutiny in September 2022 after some of its training videos on childhood gender transitions were circulated online, and the clinic said it was tightening its security that October due to threats. Resources including videos in which clinic staff promoted cross-sex medical interventions for minors and advised school workers to keep children's gender identity secret from their families have since disappeared from CHOP's website; these pages are saved in online archives, but their links either redirect to error pages or go to pages that have been heavily altered with certain links removed.

Casualties are mounting Smoldering tensions between rival armed forces erupted into all-out warfare in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, leaving at least 50 dead and 600 injured. What began as a peaceful clash over Sudan's political future is now a war for control of Africa's third-largest country . The battles pit the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo -- who's also known as Hemedti and has served as Burhan's deputy head of state. The two generals united in a 2021 coup to take shared control of the country. However, recent months have seen mounting tensions between the SAF and RSF, as the generals have clashing positions in negotiations for the establishment of civilian government -- something the country's been trying to achieve since a 2019 revolution overthrew the 30-year reign of President Omar al-Bashir.

In a campaign video published on Thursday, former President Donald Trump vowed to crack down on Soros-funded district attorneys that have taken office across the country if re-elected. "There is no more dire threat to the American way of life than the corruption and weaponization of our justice system. And it's happening all around us. If we cannot restore the fair and impartial rule of law, we will not be a free country. "As president, it will be my personal mission to restore the scales of justice in America. We want fairness and equality under the law. And to that end, I will appoint US attorneys who will be the polar opposite of the Soros district attorneys and others that are being appointed throughout the United States. Very unfair to our population, very unfair to our country. Trump stated: "These 100 attorneys would be the most ferocious legal warriors against crime and communist corruption that this country has ever seen. As we completely overhaul the Federal Department of...

Anyone who has been following the ongoing Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine is aware that there has been talk of a Ukrainian "spring offensive" for some time now. Since early fall of last year, the government of Ukraine has been aggressively advocating for increased provision of specific kinds of military equipment tanks, artillery, infantry fighting vehicles, and modern jet aircraft top the list which would enable the armed forces of Ukraine to execute a major military offensive designed to penetrate the so-called "land bridge" connecting the Crimean Peninsula with Russia's Rostov region. In particular, the Ukrainian military appears to be planning for a concerted attack to capture the city of Mariupol and re-establish itself on the shores of the Sea of Azov. From here, the Ukrainian military would be able to subject the totality of the Crimean Peninsula to punishing attacks, the goal of which would be to break the fighting spirit of Russia and eventually...

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Gandhi You might be among those who have noticed that the people in authority in our country appear increasingly insane. It ought to be self-evident that this is deeply disturbing, but I will explain anyway to allay any residual mystification. In a sane human society, authority is granted to those who are trustworthy. People earn trust by demonstrating their allegiance to reality. Things generally work better when the people running them maintain cordial relations with reality. Now, you understand why so many things don't work in the USA. What more subtle minds are asking these days is this: when does this insanity tip over into evil? Especially the insanity evinced in our authority figures. How about when someone positively denies reality in the act of doing harm. How about Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC. Ms. Walensky...

The Biden administration has put Catholic individuals and organizations under an unprecedented level of scrutiny by using the FBI and Department of Justice to infiltrate churches and prosecute members, according to experts that spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation. President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy, has talked about his faith on multiple occasions during his career, saying in 2012 that "my religion defines who I am," but the president's political positions on abortion and LGBTQ issues have put him and his administration at odds with the church on several occasions. The administration has been criticized for its attacks on the church, including issuing an FBI memo earlier this year calling traditional Catholics a domestic threat. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the Conscience Project and a fellow at the Institute of Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, told the DCNF that the president's administration has "embraced the...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a warning to the public that the global push for "digital cash" is being driven by an agenda to usher in an "ultimate mechanism" for "social surveillance and control." Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2024 nomination, is speaking out against central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). His comments come in direct contrast to top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, who are aggressively advancing plans to replace physical cash with a "digital dollar." The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy made it clear that he's pro-digital and financial freedom by opposing CBDCs, calling out de-banking, and blasting Digital IDs. Kennedy's criticism of CBDCs comes as the Biden administration prepares to launch FedNow. FedNow is an instant payment infrastructure developed by the Federal Reserve that's set to launch in July. Kennedy warns that FedNow is "the first step toward a CBDC." 114 countries, which represent more than 95% of the world's...

This weekend, I contributed to an article for the New York Post with an exclusive on a move by the new board governing Disney properties to declare the recent transfers of power to the company to be null and void. Below is my column on the legal implications of that move and how Disney may be set for a truly wild ride in the weeks ahead. Here is the column: Walt Disney used to say, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to put Disney's own motto to the test against Disney. According to a high-ranking Florida official, the newly created Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is set early this week to call Disney on one of the worst bluffs of all time. The result could prove the House of Mouse made a costly miscalculation.

Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, a European Commission spokesman said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine to protect the local agricultural sector. After Russia's invasion blocked some Black Sea ports, large quantities of Ukrainian grain, which is cheaper than that produced in the EU, ended up staying in Central European states due to logistical bottlenecks, hitting prices and sales for local farmers. The issue has created a political problem for Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice party in an election year, as it has angered people in rural areas where support for the party is usually high. A spokesman, in an e-mailed statement said: "We are aware of Poland and Hungary's announcements regarding the ban on imports of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine. In this context, it is important to underline that trade policy is of EU exclusive competence and,...

Transgender basketballer Lexi Rodgers has lashed Basketball Australia for its decision to block her application to join the Kilsyth Cobras women's side in the WNBL1 South basketball league. The decision came after a three-person panel assembled by Basketball Australia concluded that Rodgers was ineligible to play elite-level basketball. However Rodgers has slammed the decision and vowed to continue to fight to pursue her basketball career. 'I sought a different outcome from Basketball Australia. I participated fully and in good faith with the process and eligibility criteria. Consistent with the views expressed by so many, I firmly believe I have a place as an athlete in women's basketball,' she wrote on Instagram.

I have previously made the case that Anthony Fauci should be indicted and prosecuted for negligent homicide both for his vaccine lies as well as for his reckless funding of illicit-gain-of-function research in a now-infamous Wuhan, China biolab. Here, we will explore his potential legal exposure under the federal RICO statute. The 1970 RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) Statute was ostensibly crafted, in the Department of Justice's framing, to "strengthen the legal tools in evidence gathering... and new remedies for dealing with the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized crime."

After suffering significant public relations and financial backlash after making trans activist and TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney a spokesperson, parent company Anheuser-Busch is confident their new Bud Light commercial featuring a drag queen waving American flags will fix everything. "We've definitely learned our lesson!" said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth in a statement released along with the new ad. "We heard the public outcry and we've obviously seen the impact of our mistake on our bottom line and our stock price. That's why we've created this new ad returning to our strong, patriotic roots. Who isn't inspired by a drag queen waving the good ol' red, white, and blue?" The beverage giant's marketing department was sent back to the drawing board to perform damage control on the Mulvaney situation, settling on an emotionally stirring commercial depicting a flamboyantly dressed, flag-waving drag queen riding a star-spangled chariot pulled by the iconic Budweiser...

A heckler called out Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California for talking about former President Donald Trump at a Monday hearing on crime in New York City. "You're the only one talking about Donald Trump," a protester said, cutting off Schiff as he claimed the House Judiciary Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government hearing was more about defending Donald Trump, then labeling the Congressman a "scumbag." "This is not a coincidence at all," Schiff said. "Instead, it is the GOP leadership in Congress doing what it has done best for the last six years, and that is to act as the criminal defense counsel for Donald J. Trump."

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps spotting galaxies that are too big to exist, scientists have claimed. Six of these star clusters are far too massive to be the age their data suggests they are, which is between 500 and 700 million years old. This means that, unless the data has been analysed incorrectly, there is still something fundamental to learn about how galaxies formed after the Big Bang. 'If the masses are right, then we are in uncharted territory,' said the study's author, Dr Mike Boylan-Kolchin from the University of Texas at Austin. One theory is that the universe expanded much more quickly after the Big Bang than is currently assumed.

Corrupt Maricopa County blocked a Gateway Pundit writer from attending on-site election news conferences, a federal appeals court said on Tuesday, giving a victory to independent media. Hopefully, this will set a precedent for other reporters who want to serve the public with real news. During their coverage of the 2022 midterm elections, which was highly suspicious, Jordan Conrandson of Gateway Pundit and also Ben Bergquam of Real America's Voice and Frontline America were both harassed and removed from covering official AZ government press conferences as ballots were being transported and counted and reported upon. Bergquam reported on his Twitter that he had received an official letter from the board of supervisors telling him that he was, like Conradson, not approved to cover the aftermath of the election.

This is an important testimony to add to the historical record. When I originally made this Substack, I found myself in a very frustrating position I had something I felt was essential for the world to know (that we were repeating the disastrous smallpox vaccination campaign, its cruel mandates, and the widespread counterprotests against them by the working class). Still, I had no way to get the message out. I tried to find a way to do so for a while, and eventually, Steve Kirsch generously gave me a platform to do so. Because of this, I have a considerable degree of empathy with people who find themselves in a similar position to mine. Thus one of my goals in building the subscriber base here has been to make that platform available to those in a similar situation to me, and I periodically publish compelling things readers share with me I believe are accurate (e.g., this citizen's survey of blood clots amongst the vaccinated). Recently a longtime reader contacted me to share his...

This article was originally published by The Defender Children's Health Defense's News & Views Website. The U.S. government will spend $5 billion on a program to accelerate the development of new coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, White House officials announced this week. Project NextGen, a successor to Operation Warp Speed, has bipartisan support and will receive funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations. The U.S. government will spend $5 billion on a program to accelerate the development of new coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, White House officials announced this week in an interview with The Washington Post. Dubbed "Project NextGen," the new initiative will serve as the successor to the Trump administration's "Operation Warp Speed," launched in March 2020 to expedite the development of COVID-19 vaccines.

In an article for the Telegraph, policing minister Chris Philp says the moves will stop police wasting time investigating 'trivial' reports. Police are to stop recording neighbour rows and Twitter spats as offences under a major crime shake-up by the Home Office. In an article for the Telegraph, Chris Philp, the policing minister, said it would stop police wasting time investigating "trivial" reports of people offended by rude text messages or chasing up neighbour disputes which had been settled by the time officers arrived.

A late season winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some parts of Wisconsin Sunday night into Monday morning. The latest accumulation leaves the Twin Ports area of Duluth and Superior just short of an all-time record. The latest system created a wide range of snow totals with southeastern Wisconsin seeing 1 to 3 inches and between 5 and 19 inches in the far western and north-central parts of the state. The Town of Northfield in Jackson County reported 22 inches of new snow. Black River Falls, slightly southeast of Northfield, reported 19.5 inches as of 8:48 a.m.

In Denmark, 4.2 percent of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine batches accounted for 71 percent of suspected adverse events (SAEs), according to Danish researchers in a recent study published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation on March 30. The study has raised serious concerns about the inconsistencies in the quality of different vaccine batches and the implications for vaccine recipients.

The State Emergency Service in Ukraine reported several rivers have broken their banks causing flooding in 8 regions of the country. The State Emergency Service reported "a seasonal rise" of numerous rivers in the country including the Dnipro, Desna, Seym, Sozh, Pripyat and Horyn rivers. As of 16 April, flooding had affected a total of 950 households across the oblasts (regions) of Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Rivne, Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr.

Drone video shows the scale of flood devastation in Tulare County, California.

We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over England and Northern Ireland on Monday, April 17th 2023 around 20:57 UT. For this event, we received 2 videos.

A strong earthquake jolted the South Pacific island nation of Fiji on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Richter scale hit southern Fiji at around 4.31 p.m. (0431GMT) with a depth of 562.5 kilometers (349.5 miles). There has been no registered damage, according to the latest reports.

The Post Millennial has now obtained and is reviewing radical curricula used in public schools around the US after a Washington State Superior Court judge rejected a restraining order aimed at blocking the release of the material. In January, Ari Hoffman, The Post Millennial's West Coast editor, filed a public disclosure request (PDR) to view all curricula developed by Washington Ethnic Studies Now (WAESN) that was in use in Washington state public schools. Hoffman filed the request after it was revealed that the founder of the organization Tracy Castro Gill claimed that white, Jewish people benefit from systems of oppression that disenfranchise people of color. After the PDR was filed, Castro Gill was informed on January 4 by Matt Schultz, Chief Legal and Civil Rights officer for Washington's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) that the request had been made as per an agreement already in place when the agency began working with Castro Gill's organization and...

The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire. The Xiongnu, contemporaries of Rome and Egypt, built their nomadic empire on the Mongolian steppe 2,000 years ago, emerging as Imperial China's greatest rival and even inspiring the construction of China's Great Wall. In a new study researchers find that the Xiongnu were a multiethnic empire, with high genetic diversity found across the empire and even within individual extended elite families. At the fringes of the empire, women held the highest positions of power, and the highest genetic diversity was found among low-status male servants, giving clues to the process of empire building that gave rise to Asia's first nomadic imperial power. Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire - the Xiongnu - is at last coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence. Arising on the Mongolian steppe 1,500...

Only 4% of reported assaults ended in someone being charged, women's rights activists said. Despite the prevalence of CCTV and security guards, more than 6,500 rapes and sexual assaults - some against children under 13 - have been committed in hospitals in England and Wales since 2019, according to a report by the Women's Rights Network (WRN) published on Monday. A least 2,088 rapes and 4,451 sexual assaults in hospitals were recorded by police forces in the UK between January 2019 and October 2022, the organization said, citing Freedom of Information requests to 43 police forces. One in seven of these attacks took place inside hospital wards, the report stated. Among the crimes reported were the rape of a female child under 13 and the gang rape of a female over 16 in two West Midlands hospitals. Three rapes of a female under 16 were reported in Cambridgeshire, while six girls under the age of 13 were raped in Lancashire, the report alleges.

We promised a longer take on the Pentagon "leaks", and here it goes. Regular readers will probably be familiar with my view on leaked documents in general, but if you're not allow me to quote my own 2019 article on the (absurd) "Afghanistan papers": An awful lot of modern "leaks" are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation [...] carefully making sure the "establishment" and the "alternative" are joined in the middle, controlled from the same source. That's not to say ALL "leaks" are automatically and ubiquitously narrative control exercises, clearly some are real...but it's usually pretty easy to tell them apart. In fact here's a little checklist. 1. If your "leak" tells you stuff you already know, it's probably a fake leak. "Leaking" widely known, publicly available information is a very common tactic. In the Pentagon "leaks", for example, it was "revealed" that the US has been spying on South Korea, Israel and Ukraine. But the US spies on...

Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) determines that one factor rising sea level likely played a major role. "There are many theories as to what exactly happened," to drive the Vikings from their settlements in Greenland, said Marisa J. Borreggine, lead author of the "Sea-Level Rise in Southwest Greenland as a Contributor to Viking Abandonment," which published this week [April 17] in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "There's been a shift in the narrative away from the idea that the Vikings completely failed to adapt to the environment and toward arguments that they were faced with a myriad of challenges, ranging from social unrest, economic turmoil, political issues, and environmental change," said...

The Supreme Court of Russia's Tatarstan Region has delivered a verdict in the case of a school shooter who killed nine people and injured dozens two years ago. Ilnaz Galyaviev will spend the rest of his life in prison. On Thursday, the 21-year-old was found guilty of murder and attempted murder of two or more people, as well as possession of explosives and deliberate destruction of property. The shooter's defense attorney had asked the court to exempt Galyaviev from criminal liability and send him to a psychiatric institution instead. The judge, however, sided with the public prosecutor. Back in November, the shooter pleaded guilty to the murder charges. On May 11, 2021, Galyaviev, armed with a shotgun and an improvised explosive device, forced his way into a school, severely wounding a guard at the entrance. The young man then proceeded to fatally shoot a teacher. He subsequently killed seven eighth-graders, with several children managing to flee by jumping out of windows from the...

In this edition of Eat the Rich Weekly, the President and CEO of MillerKnoll, a company hawking the uninspired and overpriced furniture that likely litters your own place of employment, told staffers inquiring about a bonus via Zoom to "leave pity city." Andi Owen, the woman at the helm of MillerKnoll who took home just shy of $5 million (including a $1.2 million bonus) in 2022, hopped on a video call last week to inform employees that from where she's sitting in Very Bad Person Valley, they have some gall for asking for an acknowledgement of their labor. "Questions came through about, 'How can we stay motivated if we're not going to get a bonus...What can we do? What can we do?'" Owen began in the viral clip of what appears to be an internal meeting. "Some of them were nice, and some of them were not so nice." Gee, lady who looks like she took a little too much inspiration from the litany of Gwyneth Paltrow litigation chic think-pieces, I wonder why some questions would be...

The mRNA vaccines were released globally in early 2021 with the slogan 'safe and effective'. Unusually for a new class of medicine, they were soon recommended by public health authorities for pregnant women. By late 2021, working age women, including those who were pregnant, were being thrown out of employment for not agreeing to be injected. Those who took the mRNA vaccines did so based on trust in health authorities - the assumption being that they would not have been approved if the evidence was not absolutely clear. The role of regulatory agencies was to protect the public and, therefore, if they were approved, the drugs were safe. Recently, a lengthy vaccine evaluation report sponsored by Pfizer and submitted to the Australian regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) dated January 2021 was released under a Freedom of Information request. The report contains significant new information that had been supressed by the TGA and by Pfizer itself. Much of this relates...

In Part 1 of this series on Dissent Into Madness, I recounted the sordid details of "The Weaponization of Psychology," noting how the psychiatric profession has been turned into an instrument for repressing and marginalizing political dissidents. In Part 2 of this series, "Crazy Conspiracy Theorists," I detailed how conspiracy theorizing is being pathologized as a mental disorder and how this false diagnosis is being used to justify the forced psychiatric detention and medication of 9/11 truthers and COVID dissenters. This week, I will examine the great irony of the situation we find ourselves in: that those who are wielding the psychological weapon against any would-be dissenters are themselves driven by a psychopathological disorder . . .

Russia will start serving summons electronically, using a digital database of eligible citizens... Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed into law amended conscription and mobilization rules, establishing a unified digital database of citizens subject to military service. The measure was fast-tracked through the legislature in Moscow in less than a week. The Ministry of Digital Development was tasked with establishing the registry, which will be operated by the Ministry of Defense. The government will draw on its existing databases to populate the registry, including tax, election, medical, police and court records, and those drawn from employers and universities. The register will help track the summons sent out to eligible conscripts not just by mail but now also electronically, using the "appropriate" platforms, such as the state services portal 'Gosuslugi'. The summons will be considered served within seven days of being posted to the registry. From the moment the...

A new global currency just launched, but 99 percent of the global population has no idea what just happened. The "Universal Monetary Unit", also known as "Unicoin", is an "international central bank digital currency" that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new "global currency" would be a giant step forward for the globalist agenda. The IMF did not create this new currency, but it was unveiled at a major IMF gathering earlier this week... Today, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF. Universal Monetary Unit (UMU), symbolized as ANSI...

President Biden's embattled son was invited to accompany his dad and aunt to Ireland this week, despite continued scrutiny over the Biden family's foreign business dealings and dual investigations. In 2011, Hunter's partners at his now-defunct investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners discussed making contacts to expand their energy investments in various state-owned investment funds, including in China, Ireland, Oman and Qatar, according to emails reviewed by Fox News Digital. On March 8, 2011, Eric Schwerin, the firm's former president, sent Hunter and then-CEO Devon Archer an email containing the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute's (SWFI) current list of the top sovereign wealth fund[s], which are state owned, and their rankings at the time. "Let's discuss today what else we can be doing to connect with these groups," Archer responded, adding that Rosemont Seneca was "already working" with several funds on the list, including two in China.

Germany is about to shut down its last three nuclear reactors. For the country's Green Party, it's a long-held dream come true. Meanwhile in Asia, nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance, despite Fukushima. At the end of March, Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Green Party used just a few words to put an end to the dispute that has kept the country in suspense for years: "The risks of nuclear power are ultimately uncontrollable; that's why the nuclear phase-out makes our country safer, and avoids more nuclear waste." Nuclear power extended to April 15 Last year, the government found itself once again caught up in a dispute over nuclear power. In their coalition agreement, the governing SPD, Greens, and the FDP had agreed to stick to Germany's nuclear phase-out, which was decided under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011. Accordingly, the last nuclear power plants were to close at the end of 2022. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything, because Russian...

The news outlet claims hopes have been dampened, with a 30 km (20 mile) advance now seen as a realistic objective... Some EU nations supporting Ukraine have started to doubt whether Kiev will be able to recapture large swathes of territory this year, Bloomberg has reported. Even a modest advance would likely result in heavy casualties among Ukrainian personnel and require considerable amounts of ammunition and hardware, the outlet claimed, citing anonymous EU officials. In an article on Friday, Bloomberg alleged that the high hopes prevalent among Ukraine's backers late last year, after Kiev's troops managed to regain a large area, have now mostly dissipated. Fewer people in Western capitals are counting on a decisive push in 2023, with the fighting expected to continue well into next year. The news agency quoted unnamed European officials "involved in efforts to support Ukraine's military" as predicting that a realistic goal for Kiev would be a 30 km (20 mile) advance. This, if...

Former Vice President Mike Pence received a not so warm welcome during his appearance at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention on Friday afternoon. After being introduced by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, Pence faced loud boos from across the room as attendees expressed what appeared to be a strong dislike for the former vice president and attempted to drown out those applauding him. "Well hello NRA," Pence began, to more boos.

Iran has sentenced 10 members of the armed forces to prison on charges of involvement in the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian airliner that killed 176 people, according to the Iranian judiciary's website. Mizan Online on April 16 reported that a commander was sentenced to 10 years in prison while nine others received terms of one to three years. "Examining this case has been one of the most important, sensitive, and complex judicial processes in the last few years of the country. The commander's action in leading the downing of the craft "was due to his ignorance of the situation and his misplaced belief that the discovered target was hostile." Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed on January 8, 2020, while en route to Kyiv, killing all 176 people on board. Days after official denials, Iran admitted that a unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had inadvertently shot down the plane amid heightened tensions with the United States over the U.S. drone...

If they are really serious: a colder, hungrier population with extremely limited freedom. And it seems people were very surprised to hear that.. Two days ago I posted what I thought would be quite an innocuous twitter thread about the implications of the UK Government's target of "net zero" by 2050. Specifically, I showed this graphic from the UK Government funded FIRES project that summarised their recommended necessary strategy to achieve net zero by 2050 based only on evolutionary technological developments (the report it's from has been around since 2021 and I've even posted about it before): Now, for clarification "net zero" means total greenhouse gas emissions (including methane) must be less than their removals (such as from planting trees). The FIRES report instead focused on an absolute zero target because they recognise the absence of novel revolutionary scalable technologies for 1) capture and removal of these gases; and 2) non-fossil fuel mass transportation and energy...

The Judiciary Committee's top Democrat wants everyone to know that surging Big Apple crime is only an illusion manufactured by the party's political enemies. Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler said he will come out swinging in defense of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during the panel's Monday hearing in New York. The hearing will focus on the victims of Bragg's soft-on-crime policies.

Secret military documents reportedly included in the mass Discord leak posted by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira reveal critical weaknesses in Taiwan's air defenses. The classified Pentagon assessments of the island nation's military readiness state that Taiwan officials themselves question their ability to "accurately detect missile launches" from China, the Washington Post reported Saturday. US analysts found that only half of Taiwan's aircraft would be "fully mission capable" in the event of a Chinese attack and suggested that Beijing could successfully control Taiwan's airspace if it chose to invade. Last week, three days of Chinese "combat readiness patrols" signaled a warning to independent Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory. Here's what we know about Jack Teixeira and the leaked docs

A famous Flat Earther spent a staggering $20,000 on a DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is round. Bob Knodel was in the middle of filming for a Netflix documentary titled Behind the Curve when he realised his pricy mistake. Seeking to disprove the mass of research led by NASA experts, he explained the particulars of the DIY experiment using a laser gyroscope.

A trend of lawlessness has unfolded in cities run by progressive leaders this spring. The latest incident occurred on Saturday night in Downtown Chicago, where hundreds of teenagers wreaked havoc by smashing car windows and destroying public and private property. They also attempted to enter Millennium Park, which prompted a significant police response. There was even a shooting that resulted in multiple injuries. FOX 32 Chicago reported massive crowds of teenagers that unleashed chaos in the downtown district last night. Besides the rogue kids smashing and breaking anything in their sight, there were reports of shots fired and two teenagers wounded by gunfire near the corner of Madison and Michigan. Even FOX 32 said the chaos last night was "unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene." There was even footage of kids jumping on top of a bus.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed in an interview that the U.S. government has "full access" to users' private direct messages, saying knowing that information blew his mind. In an excerpt of his Fox News interview with host Tucker Carlson, Musk told Carlson that he was shocked to find out about the government's ability to read users' direct messages on his platform. "The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind," Musk, who recently founded an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, told Carlson in the interview set to air on Tuesday. "I was not aware of that."

Indiana and Idaho are the latest to join the growing list of American states imposing limits on the freedom to obtain gender reassignment surgery. These laws outright ban or substantially limit the ability of doctors to prescribe drugs like puberty blockers and perform this surgery on youngsters. Opponents of these laws argue they infringe the right of trans people to "gender affirming" care.

A former Connecticut Planned Parenthood honcho took his own life days after police failed to arrest him on child pornography charges botching the raid by knocking down the door of the suspect's New Haven neighbor. Tim Yergeau, 36, the former director of strategic communications at the Southern New England branch of Planned Parenthood, died by suicide on Tuesday amid a child pornography investigation in Connecticut last week. "The person who died was definitely the suspect in a child pornography investigation and the person who committed suicide," New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the New Haven Registrar.

Its the thing most of humanity survives on Now it is firmly ensconced among the climate change cult that eating meat is killing the planet and you must 'eat ze bugs', the same people have a new target, rice.

An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated an array of crimes against humanity ranging from forced labor and sexual slavery to torture. Through its financial support of the Libyan Coast Guard and the Libyan Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), the European Union has aided and abetted crimes against humanity, according to a recent UN report. On March 27, 2023, the United Nations released the findings of a three-year investigation, confirming that "arbitrary detention, murder, rape, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance" has become a "widespread practice" in the once-prosperous nation of Libya, which was plunged into civil war by NATO's regime change war over a decade ago. While crimes against humanity were found to be widespread throughout the country, the report homed in on the plight of migrants and blamed the European Union for...

[This piece is an excerpt from The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty.] The notion that the world can be replicated and replaced by a simulated reality says a great deal about the beliefs of those who promote the metaverse [treated in the previous chapter]. The conception is materialist and mechanistic at base, the hallmarks of social engineering. It represents the world as consisting of nothing but manipulable matter, or rather, of digital media mimicking matter. It suggests that human beings can be reduced to a material substratum and can be induced to accept a technological reproduction in lieu of reality. Further, it assumes that those who inhabit this simulacrum can be controlled by technocratic means. Such a materialist, mechanistic, techno-determinist, and reductionist worldview is consistent with the transhumanist belief that humans themselves will soon be succeeded by a new transhuman species, or humanity-plus (h+) perhaps a genetically and AI-enhanced cyborg that...

65 cars stuck in snow were rescued, Kazinform refers to Kazavtozhol press service. Authorities were forced to close 15 road sections as snow and snowstorms grab Kazakhstan. Over 500 units of equipment continue plowing the roads. As earlier reported, the 0-11 grades of all secondary schools, students of the colleges of Astana switched to online learning today due to heavy snowfall.

Far beyond cracking down on TikTok, the bill envisages frightening powers to control citizens' access to 'unwanted' information. In an eerie semblance to George Orwell's '1984', the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act, or RESTRICT Act, looms as a dark cloud over American liberties. Branded as a mere "TikTok ban," this act possesses a sweeping reach that would empower the federal government to designate any nation a "foreign adversary," ban online services and products even indirectly controlled by an entity within their jurisdiction, and severely punish Americans who engage in almost any transaction with them.

A lightning strike in the rural area of the municipality of El Tambo, in the west of the department of Cauca killed five people and left 15 injured on Saturday night. A 16-year-old teenager was among the deceased in the incident. According to local media, the event occurred in the village of Loma Larga, in the Quilcace locality, while the community was gathered to participate in bingo and play a soccer game. The injured individuals were attended to by the units of the Volunteer Fire Department of the municipality of El Tambo, who arrived at the site to handle the emergency and were then transferred to a medical center for further treatment. At the same time, Fire Department units from the city of Popayan sent ambulances to transport the most seriously ill people to the capital of Cauca.

One person is dead after being caught in an avalanche in B.C. on Saturday while snowmobiling west of the Alberta border, according to Avalanche Canada. The organization said on its website that three people were snowmobiling in the Thunderwater Lake riding area, which is west of Invermere in B.C.'s Columbia Valley, about 180 kilometres west of Calgary. Avalanche Canada said two riders were swept up in a slide that was triggered near a rocky feature on the slope. "One rider managed to ride off to the side, the other was caught and buried approximately two metres deep on a bench feature mid-path," said the posting.

A major rescue effort was sparked after a Far North woman stumbled across a large pod of dolphins stranded on a stretch of Ahipara coastline. Kaitia Operations Manager Meirene Hardy-Birch said 25 rough-toothed dolphins were stranded on a reef at Tauroa Point, at the southern end of Ninety Mile Beach. The Advocate understands the woman raised the alarm with Te Papa Atawhai around 9.30am on Monday. About 30 Department of Conservation/Te Papa Atawhai staff, Ahipara takiw hap and volunteers assisted the pod - 10 of which were dead when DoC staff arrived.

Stunning video of twin waterspouts spinning near Australia's Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, was captured by fisherman on a boat on April 12. Video filmed by Murray Story shows two waterspouts rotating close to each other under a low cloud near an island. Story told Storyful that the video was filmed at 6:30 in the morning and that he got to within 400 to 500 metres of the waterspout before he stopped and took photos. "We could literally see the spout picking up the water and swirling it up into the very low cloud," said Story. Credit: Murray Story via Storyful

One person is dead and another is hurt after a lightning bolt struck a boat in Brevard County, Florida, on Sunday, officials said. A spokesperson for Brevard County Fire Rescue said one person was pronounced dead at the scene, while another passenger was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No other details were immediately released. Showers and thunderstorms are possible on Sunday from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, with a few that could turn severe with hail or gusty winds.

Located in the Takaichi District of Nara Prefecture, Japan, the village of Asuka is famous for its mysterious stones. The ancient origins of the village date back to the Tumulus period, also known as Kofun Jidai (c. 3rd century-538 C.E.). Kofun Jidai period (AD 250-552) is characterized by a specific type of earth mound in the shape of a key and surrounded by moats. However, the area is known for its many Buddhist temples, shrines, and statues. Stone monuments that do not match Buddhist-style sculptures or construction on the hills surrounding Asuka attracts curious visitors and explorers. Masuda-no-iwafune (literally "Rock Ship of Masuda", in Japanese), or Rock Ship of Masuda, is the name of the largest of these monuments. Its function is still unknown and it is located atop a hill close to Okadera Station. The largest of the mysterious rock mounds, the rock ship is made of solid granite and measures 11 meters (36 feet) by 8 meters (26 feet), 4.5 meters high (15 feet), and...

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned of "troubling" signs that the US is losing global influence as other powers align together and win favor among nations not yet aligned. "There's a growing acceptance of fragmentation, and maybe even more troubling I think there's a growing sense that ours may not be the best fragment to be associated with," Summers said on Bloomberg Television's "Wall Street Week" with David Westin. Summers was speaking on the sidelines of the spring meeting of global finance chiefs in Washington, where the key theme has been a warning about "fragmentation" of the world economy as the US and rich-world allies aim to reshape supply chains away from China and other strategic competitors.

Head of Russia's most prominent mercenary firm Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has issued an unexpected call for the Kremlin to declare an end of the war in order to consolidate territory already gained. A Friday statement by Prigozhin released by his press service suggested it's time to declare 'victory' and to focus on fully establishing Russian control over the occupied territories of Ukraine. "For the authorities [of the Russian Federation - ed.] and for society as a whole, it is necessary to put some kind of bold full stop in the 'special military operation'," the Wagner chief said

Ukrainian troops have shelled the city of Donetsk overnight and some of the rockets fell near the cathedral, where the Orthodox Easter service was taking place, a Sputnik correspondent reports. Ukrainian forces fired a total of 20 rockets at the Voroshilovsky District of Donetsk at around 03:25 a.m. local time on Sunday (00:25 GMT), the Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukraine's war crimes (JCCC) said on Telegram. One woman died and six other people were wounded, Donetsk authorities say. "Toward the morning on Easter night, when the parishioners were at the service, the enemy attacked the center of Donetsk, in the area of the Preobrazhenskyy Cathedral. At the moment, we know of one dead and six injured," acting DPR head Denis Pushilin said. Sputnik correspondent reported that some of the rockets landed near the Svyato-Preobrazhenskyy cathedral in central Donetsk, where the Orthodox Easter service was...

Israeli forces on Saturday restricted Christian worshippers from entering the Old City of Jerusalem to celebrate the Easter ceremony of the "Holy Fire" at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The police tightened restrictions at the gates of the Old City, setting up checkpoints around the area and metal barricades to close off the alleys leading to the Christian Quarters. Clergy and worshippers, including Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank and foreign tourists, gathered at the gates, with many jostling to get through as police forces struggled to push them back.

The World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) is facing a potential bloodbath, advocates say, after an Alabama judge subpoenaed a treasure trove of documents from the organization as part of an ongoing lawsuit over the state's laws on transgender treatments. WPATH is a leading advocate of child sex changes, recently pushing to remove any minimum age requirement to undergo sex change surgeries or cross-sex hormone therapy. Amy Tishelman, the author of the "Child" chapter in the 8th edition of WPATH's guidelines, said she changed the guidelines so doctors wouldn't "be sued because they weren't following exactly what we said." U.S. hospitals such as Johns Hopkins, Stanford and Brigham and Women's use WPATH's guidelines to guide their own practice of treating transgender-identifying children. A federal judge in Alabama requested WPATH supply documents pertaining to its guidelines for child sex changes in March. Plaintiffs suing the state of Alabama over its...

Never mind all the signs of US economic woes and collapsing Western hegemony, Joe Biden took his 'artistic' son on a 5-day trip to Ireland, where the natives gave them a better reception than they would receive anywhere in the US. Meanwhile, Macron is received with full state honors in China, Pentagon leaks reveal (among other things) a growing rift between the US and Israel, Middle East peace moves are freaking out Washington, and another string of industrial 'accidents' hits the US. Join Joe & Niall as they assess recent tectonic shifts in the changing world order! Running Time: 01:44:16 Download: MP3 71.6 MB

An embarrassing leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has endangered intelligence methods, exposed American strategy and undermined trust among U.S. allies, former defense department officials and intelligence experts tell CNBC. U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, a low-ranking member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, in connection with the investigation into the leak. America's control over its most valuable secrets has been thrust into question amid the fallout from the most damaging intelligence leak since Edward Snowden's breach more than a decade ago. "It's hard to trust us with your secrets if we can't protect them," said Bill Lynn, a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Barack Obama, who now serves as Chief Executive of Leonardo DRS.

The Chinese yuan may be the perfect foil for the rupee to usher in a new multipolar order for global trade India's new foreign trade policy, which took effect on April 1, seeks to pivot away from the US dollar's hegemony and promote the country's own own national currency, the rupee, in a bid to boost exports and conserve its foreign exchange reserves. In 2022, India's exports were $453.3 billion, a 14.6% uptick year-on-year, despite a slowdown in global trade. India became the fifth-largest economy in the world last September at $3.18 trillion, even though the Covid-19 pandemic slowed it's march towards $5 trillion by another two years. Amid a robust economic growth outlook, India is poised to trade in rupees with countries that are facing an acute shortage of dollars, according to the country's commerce secretary, Sunil Barthwal. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, head of the directorate-general of foreign trade (DGFT), has spelled out a national goal of $2 trillion in exports of merchandise...

The Twitter owner has defended state bans on the surgeries and medications for minors Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk has defended state bans on sex-change surgeries and medications for minors by arguing that people who provide such treatment should be sent to prison. "Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life," Musk tweeted on Friday. He made his comment in response to an MSNBC columnist's claim that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was destroying his state with "intolerant and authoritarian-minded" policies. Florida last month imposed a ban on sex-change surgeries, hormone therapies and puberty blockers for minors.

Where do people live? These marvelous spike maps mark out a 3D representation of the population density on each two-kilometer-square pixel of Earth's surface. There are no outlines for countries, yet for the most part we can still see where the land meets the sea. Credit goes to Alistair Rae, formerly a professor of urban studies and planning at the University of Sheffield. He used the EU's population density data with the mapping tool Aerialod to create these glorious 3D maps. And the map shouts "India". This is the global distribution of 8 billion people. The abundance of South East Asia is undeniable, as is the emptiness of the Sahara and the vacancy of Siberia. Antarctica is an invisible continent. Australia and New Zealand are barely there. We can see how isolated Perth Australia is (where I live). Hawaii and Auckland likewise, stand apart. Most maps originally came from Alastair Rae on Twitter in 2020 and later from the Visual Capitalist team which explains: The height of...