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After World War II, the possibility of gaining control over a person's mind became one of the top pursuits for intelligence services. Amid never-ending spy games, the capacity to make someone tell the full truth during an interrogation, or to wipe out a subject's personality and impose another - perhaps, a controlled one - became quite attractive to secret services. In 1979, former US State Depart
It’s the usual apocalyptic headline, hyped from a press release smoked out of a Nature paper, which was pumped from a climate model: “Climate change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080” An Israeli study published on Thursday found that climate change is already causing a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080
Baseload futures for electricity on the Australian market used to sell for $60 a megawatt hour last year. Now prices are rising by $30 in a single day. Paul McArdle at WattClarity calls it “staggering”. Prices rose from $260/MWh at the end of Tuesday 24th May to $291.20/MWh at the end of Wednesday 25th May 2022. …. Click to enlarge It’s a bloodbath. It appears that no one wants to provide a guara
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Before being elected President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Commander of NATO. In February 1951, a few months after taking office, he wrote the following, "If in 10 years all the American troops stationed in Europe for the purpose of ensuring national defense have not returned to the United States, then this project, NATO, will have failed." The troops did not return, a
This week on the New World Next Week: Kissinger warns Ukraine must give Russia territory; the monkeypox script unfolds exactly like the coronavirus script; and the digital ID agenda rolls out in country after country after country. The post first appeared on The Corbett Report .
[iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/J73BnMHODvUa/" width="90%" height="320" allow="fullscreen"] Richard Cox of DeepStateConsciousness.com and author of The Essence of Anarchy joins me today to help answer a question about anarchy: How can we defend voluntarism in the face of arguments about the positive benefits of state regulation? The post first appeared on The Corbett Report .

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We did it: We got the teaser for the new Star Wars video game. During the Star Wars Celebration event , the company showed a teaser trailer to the sequel of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order . This one is called Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and, if it's anything like its predecessor, it's going to rule. The game features the return of Cal Kestis and his droid BD-1. He'll be rebuilding Order 66 five years
There's a chance you might see a slight meteor shower known as the tau Herculids this long weekend. Earth will pass through debris trails of a broken comet, according to NASA . The comet, 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, broke into big ol' fragments about 25 years ago. If the fragments that popped off the comet were ejected at great speeds — we're talking twice the normal speeds — then it'll be
Images of anomalous objects on the Red Planet have been doing the rounds for years, but none of them are quite what they seem. Enthusiasts lit up soci...
A video clip recorded in a residential back yard shows a strange pint-sized creature covered in hair waddling around. Captured outside the family home...
Via: The Buffalo News: Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist’s plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, two law enforcement officials told The Buffalo News. Authorities believe the former agent – believed to be from Texas – was one […]

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It would have been unimaginable for previous leaders, but polls suggest the prime minister is in serious danger of losing his constituency Could Boris Johnson lose his seat at the next general election? It’s a question that would have been risible for any other prime minister, but defeat in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency is not unthinkable. The local elections in London earlier this
The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said that it disagreed with the Moscow Patriarch’s position on the war.
Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance The film-maker Richard Curtis realised during the first lockdown that he would at last have time to immerse himself in books. More specifically books by women, “to compensate for 63 years of male bias”, he explains. “It’s b
The paper’s employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story.
Opposition from African delegates to the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, has forced hours of informal dickering on possible revisions to President Joe Biden's proposals to grant new powers to the World Health Organization (WHO) to deal with viral pandemics. As previously reported by The Epoch Times, Biden's 13 proposed amendments to the UN's International Health Regulation
The Biden Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that all state and local agencies that receive federal funding for meals, a category that includes schools, must not discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In a press release dated May 5, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced it would now interpret the ban on discrimination based on sex included in Title

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Something weird is up with La Nina, the natural but potent weather event linked to more drought and wildfires in the western United States and more Atlantic hurricanes. It's becoming the nation's unwanted weather guest and meteorologists said the West's megadrought won't go away until La Nina does.
NASA began "sonifying" its famous photos of outer space to help people who are visually impaired enjoy the images. Recently, it recreated the sound of a black hole 240 million light-years away. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/Columbia Univ./C. Hailey et al.)
NASA has unveiled incredible footage of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity on a record-breaking flight in April 2022.
A navigation system glitch on NASA's MAVEN orbiter at Mars earlier this year has hobbled science.
Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush.
A Cape Cod science center and one of the world's largest shipping businesses are collaborating on a project to use robotic buoys to protect a vanishing whale from lethal collisions with ships.

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Jim W. Dean - Seeing your ammo dumps go up in smoke is a great incentive to pull back to where you know you have the resources to fight.
FBI’s Friend? Intel casts shadows on the Mattarellas: Untouchable, Powerful Sicilian Statesmen
New poling results from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicate that Americans are increasingly wary of incurring economic costs in America due to efforts to inflict pain on Putin or, as the poll puts it, “sanctioning Russia.”
A dull light appeared in the blackness and gradually took on an element of depth. As it grew brighter it became a floating tunnel. From the bowels of the tunnel a humanoid figure crawled and heaved its way toward them.
For war veterans, adjusting from military to civilian life can be something that won’t be easy. This guide will show you the ten major problems and challenges that exist. Even after times of war, a peaceful time in someone’s life will be anything but that. They may be dealing with issues stemming from combat-related incidents […]
Washington seeks to stimulate Tehran “to solve social problems and replenish the nation’s budget by increasing oil supplies to the world market.

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Phoenix dad Tim Ralston is prepared for an EMP attack on America. Jason Charles is a New York firefighter, preparing for the eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano. Pat Brabble is a church-going Southern gentleman with a twist: he believes our country is on the brink of hyperinflation. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Nat Geo Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?lis
Indigenous peoples of Alaska must navigate a changing climate using the values of the past as a guide to their future. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Nat Geo Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivjPDlt6ApSiD2mk9Ngp-5dZ9CDDn72O ➡ Get more Nat Geo Wild Full Episodes: https://youtu.be/qAG2SkTPltw And check out more National Geographic series and specials here: ➡

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Anyone involved in the marketing of consulting and other professional services will be familiar with the funnel, which analyses how well a firm is performing from overall awareness (the top of the funnel) to final choice (the bottom). But looking at the purchase process through clients’ eyes reveals other, equally important lessons. The point at which a consulting firm’s funnel starts—a client’s
Picture the scene: You’re on your favourite wine merchant’s website, looking to buy a few bottles of wine. You find the perfect bottle and click “add to basket”. A form pops up asking you to fill in a list of personal details. You really do want to buy that wine, so you reluctantly comply, but you are then informed that you will receive an email when you have been approved as a purchaser. Thirty
Clients want consultants to stop selling promises. Really? “I get so frustrated with consulting firms,” commented the CIO of a Wisconsin-based manufacturing company we interviewed a couple of years ago. “They always operate at 30,000 feet, but many of the problems we face—and I deal with daily—are down in the weeds. I need consultants to be in the weeds more.” He’s being unfair, because the probl

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The 90,000-tonnes of Russian oil waited offshore for more than a month as Sri Lanka was unable pay for shipment.
Migrants 'extremely vulnerable' to rights abuses carried out by foreign fighters and armed groups, UN report says.
Utilizing tools for purposes they weren’t initially intended for is a strength of the astronomical community. Scrounging through data collected for one purpose and looking for hints of another seems to be a favorite pastime of many a professional astronomer. That tradition is alive and well, with a team reanalyzing the first few data sets from Gaia, ESA’s star cataloging explorer. They found hint
Considering the current crisis, solutions to combat energy poverty should be at the forefront of every conversation and news report. Yet it is ignored.
First, the growing alliance between big government and big business—with a little help from the media—carries substantial fascist overtones.

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