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It's about time! At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the...

https://www.sott.net/article/491510-NIH-official-finally-admits-taxpayers-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-Wuhan-after-years-of-denials

At least 10 people have died in floods caused by torrential rains in Brazil's south, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for nearly two dozen individuals reported missing. Deluges in...

https://www.sott.net/article/491078-151-dead-104-missing-and-600000-homeless-after-heavy-rains-and-floods-in-Brazil-Worst-flood-in-over-80-years-UPDATED

Comment: Oh yeah folks, we're in the middle of it now! On the south Pacific island of New Caledonia, no one expects to see auroras. Ever. Situated about halfway between Tonga and Australia, the c...

https://www.sott.net/article/491486-Unprecedented-South-Pacific-auroras-confirm-recent-geomagnetic-storm-as-Great-Storm-in-same-class-as-1859-Carrington-Event

The Grayzone has obtained a dossier detailing the identities of the Zionist hooligans who assaulted UCLA anti-genocide student protesters. It was sent to LA police, but no arrests have been made....

https://www.sott.net/article/491485-UCLA-attackers-exposed-meet-the-violent-Zionist-agitators-LA-police-havent-arrested

France imposed an emergency Wednesday in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting security forces' powers to quell deadly unrest in the archipelago where indig...

https://www.sott.net/article/491465-France-deploys-military-to-quell-independence-protests-and-serious-rioting-in-Pacific-territory-of-New-Caledonia

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting, according to his official Facebook page. "He was shot multiple times and is currently i...

https://www.sott.net/article/491440-Slovakias-PM-Robert-Fico-in-life-threatening-condition-after-assassination-attempt

Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit - a concept that has already been discussed by the financia...

https://www.sott.net/article/491412-De-dollarization-bombshell-The-coming-of-BRICS-decentralized-monetary-ecosystem

What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA — renamed DARPA) in...

https://www.sott.net/article/491404-FBI-file-on-Jeff-Bezos-grandfather-a-DARPA-co-founder-has-been-destroyed

AP removed the US Special Operations chief's mention of London's clandestine activity from the original article A senior US military official has apparently inadvertently acknowledged to the medi...

https://www.sott.net/article/491396-AP-reports-then-retracts-statement-by-US-general-about-British-commandos-operating-in-Ukraine

Former Brexit campaign chief says the West is 'getting f**ked' by supporting Ukraine. Boris Johnson's former top adviser Dominic Cummings launched a sweary attack on Western support for Ukraine T...

https://www.sott.net/article/491391-Ex-UK-govt-advisor-Dominic-Cummings-The-corrupt-Ukrainian-mafia-state-has-conned-us-all-and-we-re-going-to-get-f-ked

Drug shortages in England are now at such critical levels that patients are at risk of immediate harm and even death, pharmacists have warned. The situation is so serious that pharmacists increas...

https://www.sott.net/article/491354-Medicine-shortages-in-England-beyond-critical-patients-at-immediate-risk-of-harm-and-even-death-pharmacists-warn

Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe interview Professor Karaganov from Russia's leading public foreign policy organisation, conversing with him on an array of issues, including Western escalation again...

https://www.sott.net/article/491352-Geopolitical-paradigm-shifts-and-coping-with-psychopaths-An-Interview-with-Professor-Sergei-A-Karaganov

Update — May 10, 2024 at 7:31 PM EDT NOAA Warning: Seven Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are racing towards Earth NOAA scientists have witnessed severe (G4) geomagnetic storm conditions today. Se...

https://www.sott.net/article/491327-Severe-Geomagnetic-Storm-hits-Earth-NOAA-warning-in-effect-all-weekend

If you've ever taken a lifesaving course, you know there's a real possibility that a drowning person will drag you under and you'll both die. It's a lesson that should be kept in mind when discus...

https://www.sott.net/article/491306-King-Bibis-Land-Grab

The sheer scale of the poison flowing into the country's rivers and waterways is starting to emerge after scientists took a look at one of America's biggest meat processors. Tyson Foods released ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491305-Tyson-Foods-dumps-87-BILLION-gallons-of-toxic-waste-including-cyanide-blood-and-feces-into-US-rivers-and-lakes-in-just-4-years

Comment: We told you so... AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced that it has started the global withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine, days after the UK pharmaceutical company admitted that its vaccine h...

https://www.sott.net/article/491281-AstraZeneca-says-it-will-withdraw-Covid-19-vaccine-globally-BECAUSE-IT-CAUSES-BLOOD-CLOTS

Washington is doing nothing about its deteriorating finances because there is nothing it can do without risking major upheaval It can appear puzzling why at certain times in history a government ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491267-Drowning-in-debt-The-paralysis-at-the-heart-of-the-US-fiscal-crisis

A young patient died due to cardiac arrest after receiving Pfizer's (PFE.N), experimental gene therapy being tested in a mid-stage trial for a muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular dys...

https://www.sott.net/article/491257-Child-dies-during-Pfizer-trial-for-muscular-dystrophy-gene-therapy-boys-sudden-cardiac-arrest-noted-as-a-serious-adverse-event

Donald Trump has accused US President Joe Biden's administration of stooping to the level of the Nazi secret police to prevent him from winning this year's election. "These people are running a G...

https://www.sott.net/article/491177-Trump-on-Biden-admin-They-re-running-a-Gestapo-administration

Iranian firebrand MP Mahmoud Nabavian reveals the calculated strategy, diplomatic intrigue, and bold military prowess that showcased Tehran's 13 April missile strikes on Israel. Following the str...

https://www.sott.net/article/491167-Delivering-a-True-Promise-An-insiders-account-of-Irans-retaliatory-strikes-on-Israel