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Strong shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake off Vanuatu
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes near Santo, Luganville, Sanma Province, Vanuatu According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a shallow depth of 10 km. Shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones as they are closer to the surface. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report. A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, which listed it as a magnitude 6.1 earthquake as well. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) at magnitude 6.3, and France's Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) at magnitude 5.7. Generally quakes of this magnitude are recorded by more than one agency and the results can vary, with subsequent reports that come in after the first one often showing more accuracy.
https://www.sott.net/article/466540-Strong-shallow-magnitude-6-3-earthquake-off-Vanuatu

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Ebeko volcano eruption Kuril Islands, Russia
Ebeko volcano eruption today Kuril Islands.
https://www.sott.net/article/466541-Ebeko-volcano-eruption-Kuril-Islands-Russia

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The first 2022 snow is here! Lesotho in South Africa wakes up to stunning snowfall
It is cold. It is very very cold. While we're not quite in winter yet, parts of the country feel absolutely freezing this weekend. While flood warnings and rain pours down in parts of Gauteng, Lesotho has been blessed with some beautiful snowfall. Even though some snow was also expected in Drakenberg, it seems those mountains have remained snow-free as of Sunday morning. Pictures sent to local storm watchers Snow Report SA, show that residents and visitors to the AfriSki lodge in the Lesotho mountains, woke up to some beautiful scenes. The snow in the area is also expected to continue to fall throughout the rest of the day.
https://www.sott.net/article/466542-The-first-2022-snow-is-here-Lesotho-in-South-Africa-wakes-up-to-stunning-snowfall

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China's military cargo planes land in Serbia
A fleet of six Y-20 cargo planes of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force was reportedly spotted in Serbia on Saturday, with observers saying on Sunday that it could be the largest overseas operation by the Chinese domestically developed large transport plane yet, displaying the country's strategic transport capabilities. Citing commercial flight trackers, US news website thedrive.com reported on Saturday that the six Y-20 aircraft were first spotted heading west in Turkish airspace late Friday night, and later local residents took photos of the Y-20s, which allegedly landed in Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade, Serbia. The aircraft later flew over the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey again on their way back to China. China has not made an official announcement about the mission as of press time, but the Global Times learned that the Y-20s indeed have carried out such a flight. A whopping six Y-20 large transport aircraft could mark an unprecedented overseas operation,...
https://www.sott.net/article/466543-Chinas-military-cargo-planes-land-in-Serbia

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Escobar:The Total War to Cancel Russia
By now it's abundantly clear that the neo-Orwellian "Two Minute Hate" Russophobic campaign launched by the Empire of Lies after the start of Operation Z is actually "24/7 Hate". Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. The full psyops has de facto upgraded the Empire of Lies to the status of Empire of Hate in a Total War - hybrid and otherwise - to cancel Russia. Hate, after all, packs way more punch than mere lies, which are now veering into abject ridiculousness, as in U.S. "intelligence" resorting to - what else - lies to fight the info war against Russia. If the propaganda overdrive has been lethally effective amidst the zombified Western masses - call it a "win" in the P.R. war - in the front where it really matters, inside Russia, it's a major fail. Public opinion support for both Operation Z and President Putin is unprecedented. After videos of torture of Russian POWs that caused widespread revulsion,...
https://www.sott.net/article/466544-Escobar-The-Total-War-to-Cancel-Russia

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Mass shooting suspect served less time with California law
A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend's mass shooting outside bars near the California state Capitol served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release. Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records. Those count as nonviolent offenses under California law, which considers only about two dozen crimes to be violent felonies — things like murder, rape, arson and kidnapping. Martin, 27, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. He is among the 12 people wounded during Sunday's shooting, which killed six others. Police say the violence was a shootout between rival gangs in which at least five people fired weapons,...
https://www.sott.net/article/466494-Mass-shooting-suspect-served-less-time-with-California-law

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SOTT FOCUS: NewsReal: Kramatorsk False-Flag - Ukraine EU Delusion - Khan Ousted in Pakistan
The endless stream of provocations continues in Ukraine, where Western media focuses its attention on each latest atrocity allegedly committed by Russian forces, and Western politicians respond by promising to deliver more weapons into the war zone that Ukraine has no chance of winning. Last week was 'Russia' butchering civilians in Bucha, this week was 'Russia' bombing Kramatorsk train station... What provocation will next week bring? This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall analyse the latest developments in Ukraine, sans Western ideology, and connect the latest global events in these turbulent times, particularly the ouster of Pakistan's popular prime minister Imran Khan and the role he claims the US government played in it. Running Time: 01:43:40 Download: MP3 — 71.2 MB
https://www.sott.net/article/466545-NewsReal-Kramatorsk-False-Flag-Ukraine-EU-Delusion-Khan-Ousted-in-Pakistan

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America is still paying the price for Hillary Clinton's election campaign treachery
However this era of angry polarization, crime and violence ends, it will be left to historians to decipher how America got so far off track. Instead of building on our unprecedented prosperity and role as the world's ultimate superpower, we declared war — cultural, political and social — on each other. Even our nation's Founders are not spared. The reasons will be better understood in hindsight, but it's hard to believe the 2016 presidential campaign won't be seen as an inflection point. Our move toward disunion didn't begin then, but it certainly gained steam and vitriol during and after the election of Donald Trump. Two recent developments illustrate how that campaign remains a radioactive hot spot. With both developments centering on Hillary Clinton, they underscore her role and the depths of her venality. Just when you think you've seen the worst of her, proof emerges that she was even more duplicitous than we knew.
https://www.sott.net/article/466546-America-is-still-paying-the-price-for-Hillary-Clintons-election-campaign-treachery

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Texas begins dispatching busses to the border to transport illegal immigrants to DC
The Texas Division of Emergency Management tells Fox News Digital each bus can 'carry up to 40 migrants' Texas has dispatched buses to the southern border to retrieve illegal immigrants after Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that he planned to send those released in his state to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Within the last 24 hours, the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) has dispatched an unspecified number of buses to small Texas communities that are said by officials to be overwhelmed by an influx of migrants placed there by the federal government. Seth Christensen, chief of media and communications for TDEM, told Fox News Digital: "In the last 24 hours, TDEM has dispatched buses to areas where communities have expressed concerns about the federal government dropping off migrants and has the capability to send as many as is necessary to fulfill the requests from mayors and county judges."
https://www.sott.net/article/466547-Texas-begins-dispatching-busses-to-the-border-to-transport-illegal-immigrants-to-DC

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Orban's conservative-multipolar example exposes Kaczynski as a liberal-globalist fraud
The New Cold War has officially come to Central Europe after Polish grey cardinal Jaroslaw Kaczynski strongly condemned his supposed ally Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the latter's skeptical stance towards the Bucha incident and refusal to support Kiev against Moscow in general. The most powerful man in Poland said that "My assessment is unequivocally negative — I must admit that it is all very sad. When Orbán says that he cannot see what happened in Bucha, he must be advised to see an eye doctor. We cannot cooperate as we had in the past if this continues." This strong condemnation comes after Kaczynski's ruling "Law & Justice" (PiS per its Polish abbreviation) party sacrificed its conservative-nationalist credentials by reversing its anti-refugee stance and accepting literally millions of such people from neighboring Ukraine. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also boasted about how Poland set the global standard for Russophobia. Poland has done everything in its...
https://www.sott.net/article/466548-Orbans-conservative-multipolar-example-exposes-Kaczynski-as-a-liberal-globalist-fraud

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Explosive Pennsylvania testimony explains how Leftist money infiltrated election offices in 2020
This evidence should be enough for the Pennsylvania legislature to recognize there is a real problem when private money and private actors collaborate with election officials. The Democrat governor's office in Pennsylvania colluded with left-wing activists to secure millions of dollars in private money to run get-out-the-vote efforts in blue counties in the swing state in 2020, new, explosive testimony revealed. The Pennsylvania legislature heard this testimony, backed up by email evidence, on Tuesday during the first public hearing on two new bills seeking to block private grants. Tuesday's public hearing began with statements by the respective primary sponsors of the bills that seek to ban dark money from elections, with Sen. Lisa Baker speaking in support of Senate Bill 982 and Rep. Eric Nelson encouraging passage of House Bill 2044. Pennsylvania investigative journalist Todd Shepherd then testified at length on the results of his extensive probe into the insertion of private...
https://www.sott.net/article/466549-Explosive-Pennsylvania-testimony-explains-how-Leftist-money-infiltrated-election-offices-in-2020

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George Soros funds 13 radical Democrats running for Congress in 2022
Billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros and his daughter, Andrea Soros Colombel, are funding candidates that are in favor of defunding the police, such as Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), according to Fox News. Democrats have attempted to distance themselves from defunding police, but radical Democrats backed by Soros continue to push the Democrat issue. "We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police; it's to fund the police," President Biden controversially stated during the State of the Union. A February poll revealed 75 percent of American voters believe defunding police contributes to soaring crime rates. In October, only 15 percent supported defunding the police, down from 25 percent in 2020.
https://www.sott.net/article/466550-George-Soros-funds-13-radical-Democrats-running-for-Congress-in-2022

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The Ukrainian conflict is a US/NATO proxy war, but one which Russia is poised to win decisively - Scott Ritter
The West has sown the wind in sanctioning Russia; Russia will not reap the whirlwind, says Scott Ritter in an interview with the Strategic Culture Foundation. Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who has gained international respect for his independence and integrity as a commentator on conflicts and foreign relations. This week, he was banned on the Twitter social media platform for challenging Western claims of a massacre in Bucha, Ukraine, allegedly carried out by Russian troops. Moscow denies the claims, as have other independent analysts who point to evidence that the incident was a false-flag provocation perpetrated by NATO-backed Ukrainian Nazi regiments to undermine Russia internationally and bolster Western objectives. It is a foreboding sign of the times that Ritter should be banned for daring to question dubious narratives. (He was later reinstated following a public outcry against censorship.) In the following interview for Strategic Culture...
https://www.sott.net/article/466551-The-Ukrainian-conflict-is-a-US-NATO-proxy-war-but-one-which-Russia-is-poised-to-win-decisively-Scott-Ritter

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Rex Murphy asks 'Will anyone apologize for falsely accusing truckers of attempted arson in Ottawa'
The attempt to burn down an apartment building in Ottawa, which was so widely and wildly heralded during the Freedom Convoy protest, had nothing to do with the truckers This week, we found out that the attempt to burn down an apartment building in Ottawa, which was so widely and wildly heralded during the Freedom Convoy protest, had nothing to do with the truckers. Please let this sink in. At the time, such was the volume of assumption, innuendo and outright allegation that everyone from Nanaimo, B.C., to Nain, N.L., formed the impression that this despicable action, an outrage by any standard, was the work of the truckers. Not true. False. Nothing to do at all with the protesters. It was allegedly the work of two Ottawa miscreants who were working alone.
https://www.sott.net/article/466552-Rex-Murphy-asks-Will-anyone-apologize-for-falsely-accusing-truckers-of-attempted-arson-in-Ottawa

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Ukraine targets & kills civilians, claims Russia did it; US & EU media report the lie
On April 9th, the blazingly brilliant military analyst who blogs anonymously as "Bernhard" at his "Moon of Alabama" site and whose headlines customarily understate what he actually proves, headlined "More Evidence That Ukraine Fired The Missile Which Killed Dozens In Kramatorsk", and he or she supplied there not only ten screen-shots (plus links to many more of them) of the actual weapon that had been used in that bombing against Kramatorsk's train station, but also explained how ridiculously unlikely it is that its trajectory, which he proved had come from an area that definitely was controlled by the Ukrainian government (NOT by Russian forces). However, what is to be provided here will be a historian's take on this very question, which likewise displays manifestly the ridiculousness of the Ukrainian government's accounts of this matter (that it had been an attack by Russia, not by Ukraine). When both the physical evidence and the clearly established historical narrative account...
https://www.sott.net/article/466553-Ukraine-targets-kills-civilians-claims-Russia-did-it-US-EU-media-report-the-lie

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Space Force releases decades of data on meteor fireballs
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also known as bolides) for the benefit of the scientific and planetary defense communities. This action results from collaboration between NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) and the U.S. Space Force to continue furthering our nation's efforts in planetary defense, which include finding, tracking, characterizing, and cataloguing near-Earth objects (NEOs). The newly released data is comprised of information on the changing brightness of bolides as they pass through Earth's atmosphere, called light curves, that could enhance the planetary defense community's current ability to model the effects of impacts by larger asteroids that could one day pose a threat to Earth. Bolides, very bright meteors that can even be seen in daylight, are a regular occurrence - on the order of several...
https://www.sott.net/article/466554-Space-Force-releases-decades-of-data-on-meteor-fireballs

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When I asked what my daughter would learn in kindergarten, the Teachers Union sued me
I'm just like any parent — when I enrolled my daughter in kindergarten, I wanted to know what she would learn. In response, our school district bullied, harassed, defamed, evaded, and stonewalled me. Then the teachers union sued me. I left public school because I no longer felt safe but I'm still taking action to get answers. Kindergarten is a precious milestone. Our babies are not babies anymore: They go to school for full days. Parents want to know their children are safe at school, and they want to feel confident that their children are receiving a quality education. I knew many public schools across the country have been politicizing lessons, so I called my principal in the South Kingstown School District in Rhode Island to ask if they teach concepts of Critical Race Theory or gender theory. That question and the events that followed changed my life.
https://www.sott.net/article/466555-When-I-asked-what-my-daughter-would-learn-in-kindergarten-the-Teachers-Union-sued-me

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Disney silent on reports it helps employees' kids get 'sex change' procedures through benefits program
The Walt Disney Company is staying silent following reports it helps the children of its employees with sex change procedures through its benefits program. A leaked video shared by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo Thursday purportedly showed a Disney internal meeting in which a man explained Disney's efforts to help employees "express their gender" at the company. Disney has not publicly addressed its efforts to help employees medically transition their children to the opposite sex following the release of the video, and did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The man in the video reportedly said employees could work with the company's benefits team to get information about gender transitions for themselves and their children, according to the video.
https://www.sott.net/article/466556-Disney-silent-on-reports-it-helps-employees-kids-get-sex-change-procedures-through-benefits-program

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Disney silent on reports it helps employees' kids get 'sex change' procedures through benefits program
A leaked video shared by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo Thursday purportedly showed a Disney internal meeting in which a man explained Disney's efforts to help employees "express their gender" at the company. Disney has not publicly addressed its efforts to help employees medically transition their children to the opposite sex following the release of the video, and did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The man in the video reportedly said employees could work with the company's benefits team to get information about gender transitions for themselves and their children, according to the video.
https://www.sott.net/article/466556-Disney-silent-on-reports-it-helps-employees-kids-get-sex-change-procedures-through-benefits-program

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Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time
Particles discovered in tissue of 11 out of 13 patients undergoing surgery, with polypropylene and PET most common Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people for the first time. The particles were found in almost all the samples analysed. The scientists said microplastic pollution was now ubiquitous across the planet, making human exposure unavoidable and meaning "there is an increasing concern regarding the hazards" to health. Samples were taken from tissue removed from 13 patients undergoing surgery and microplastics were found in 11 cases. The most common particles were polypropylene, used in plastic packaging and pipes, and PET, used in bottles. Two previous studies had found microplastics at similarly high rates in lung tissue taken during autopsies.
https://www.sott.net/article/466557-Microplastics-found-deep-in-lungs-of-living-people-for-first-time

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NJ first-graders to be subjected to gender identity indoctrination in new sex-ed lessons - Governor speaks out against it
Planned sex education lessons for first-graders in New Jersey will include discussions of gender identity — outraging some parents and Republican politicians including potential presidential candidate and former Gov. Chris Christie. A 30-minute lesson called "Pink, Blue and Purple" aims to teach the 6-year-olds to define "gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes," Fox News reported Friday. It also includes instructions for teachers to tell students that their gender identity is up to them, according to materials reportedly distributed to parents at a Feb. 22 meeting of the Westfield Board of Education and posted online.
https://www.sott.net/article/466558-NJ-first-graders-to-be-subjected-to-gender-identity-indoctrination-in-new-sex-ed-lessons-Governor-speaks-out-against-it