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Silver alert: Most want brain test for Biden and Pelosi
In a growing sign of voter concern about the cognitive abilities of the nation's elderly leadership, a majority of voters back brain tests for both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "SILVER ALERT 58% say cognitive test time — 55% say Biden won't last his term," tweeted John McLaughlin in drawing attention to the latest McLaughlin & Associates survey. In the survey, shared with Secrets, 58% said Biden should take a test and release the results. Just 30% said he shouldn't. The results follow a series of apparent mental flubs by the 79-year-old president, the latest being a flip, flop, flip on calling for the ouster of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yesterday, his staff wrote him a notecard titled "Tough Putin Q&A Talking Points."
https://www.sott.net/article/467349-Silver-alert-Most-want-brain-test-for-Biden-and-Pelosi

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Amish farmer faces $250K fine, jail time and losing his sustainable farm for processing his own meat
Amos Miller's private food club members say they don't want their grass-fed meat treated with the chemical preservatives required by all USDA-approved processing plants. Miller practices rotational grazing on his small, holistically managed, century old farm in Bird-In-Hand Pennsylvania. His heritage-breed cows are raised on organic pastures, with the chickens following behind, eating the bugs from their dropping, and whey-fed pigs trampling all the fertilizer back into the ground after that. Around 4000 customers of his private, members-only, food buying club are dependent on his meat, eggs and dairy products, as well as fermented fruits and veggies... and are willing to spend top dollar to get it shipped to them all over the country, as they don't trust food from the grocery store. But a couple of weeks ago, a federal judge told Miller to cease and desist all meat sales, and sent armed U.S. marshals to search his property, farm store and freezers. They took an inventory of all...
https://www.sott.net/article/467350-Amish-farmer-faces-250K-fine-jail-time-and-losing-his-sustainable-farm-for-processing-his-own-meat

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Turkey to boycott NATO war games in Greece
Turkey will not participate in NATO drills amid escalating tensions with neighboring Greece, local media reported on Saturday, citing security sources. Ankara was scheduled to send its F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to the annual 'Tiger Meet' drill, which will be held at the Araxos Air Base in western Greece from May 9 to May 22. According to reports, the Turkish Air Force Command considered that the wording used by Athens in technical documentation relating to the drills was contrary to international law and demanded that it be changed, but Greece refused to do so. A security source, as quoted by Sabah newspaper, claimed: "Despite all of Turkey's attempts and conciliatory efforts, Greece, which could not tolerate even its neighbor's participation in an exercise in its country, moved the exercise away from the purpose of friendship and interoperability and tried to use it against Turkey's rights and interests." As a result, on April 22, Turkey made a decision not to participate in the...
https://www.sott.net/article/467351-Turkey-to-boycott-NATO-war-games-in-Greece

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Zelensky lays out security guarantee demands for Ukraine, Macron claims to want a solution to conflict as France sends 'major military equipment'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that security guarantees for his country should empower guarantor countries to make a decision within a day. During the last in-person meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul, Kiev had propose an international agreement along such lines. Speaking to Polish journalists amid the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine, Zelensky said that guarantors would need to make decisions within hours rather than days or weeks, as any delay in providing emergency military assistance would cost lives. The Ukrainian leader described this relationship between casualties and delays by saying "hours equals people." He explained that Ukraine now knows "what works on a battlefield and what doesn't," what should be done in various situations and what exactly is needed. Therefore, he explained, speedy decision making by Ukraine's guarantors would be a key factor.
https://www.sott.net/article/467352-Zelensky-lays-out-security-guarantee-demands-for-Ukraine-Macron-claims-to-want-a-solution-to-conflict-as-France-sends-major-military-equipment

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Elon Musk, others respond to Biden administration's disinformation board
President Joe Biden and his administration have made an announcement that has many free speech advocates frightened, and it happened just days after Elon Musk purchased the Twitter platform in an effort to bring back free speech. On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that the administration has created a Disinformation Governance Board to fight online disinformation and said that it will be led by Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers and principal deputy general counsel Jennifer Gaskill, Fox News reported. He quipped to members of Congress: "The goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat. I just read a very interesting study that underscores the importance of the point that you make, the spread of mis- and disinformation in minority communities specifically, and we are focused on that in the context of our CP3 and other efforts, and I'd be pleased to share more." During a press briefing, White House Press...
https://www.sott.net/article/467353-Elon-Musk-others-respond-to-Biden-administrations-disinformation-board

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The real Zelensky: From celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal - Interview
Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha details Volodymyr Zelensky's embrace of widely loathed neoliberal policies, his repression of rivals, and how his actions fueled the current war with Russia. A comedic actor who rose to the country's highest office in 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky was virtually unknown to the average American, except perhaps as a bit player in the Trump impeachment theater. But when Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Zelensky was suddenly transformed to an A-list celebrity in US media. American news consumers were bombarded with images of a man who appeared overcome by the tragic events, possibly in over his head, but ultimately sympathetic. It didn't take long for that image to evolve into the khaki-clad, tireless hero governing over a scrappy little democracy and single-handedly staving off the barbarians of autocracy from the east. But beyond that carefully crafted Western media image is something much more complicated and less flattering. Zelensky was...
https://www.sott.net/article/467354-The-real-Zelensky-From-celebrity-populist-to-unpopular-Pinochet-style-neoliberal-Interview

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Ukraine wants more weapons and faster as part of security guarantee, Macron claims to want a solution to conflict as France sends 'major military equipment'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that security guarantees for his country should empower guarantor countries to make a decision within a day. During the last in-person meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul, Kiev had propose an international agreement along such lines. Speaking to Polish journalists amid the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine, Zelensky said that guarantors would need to make decisions within hours rather than days or weeks, as any delay in providing emergency military assistance would cost lives. The Ukrainian leader described this relationship between casualties and delays by saying "hours equals people." He explained that Ukraine now knows "what works on a battlefield and what doesn't," what should be done in various situations and what exactly is needed. Therefore, he explained, speedy decision making by Ukraine's guarantors would be a key factor.
https://www.sott.net/article/467352-Ukraine-wants-more-weapons-and-faster-as-part-of-security-guarantee-Macron-claims-to-want-a-solution-to-conflict-as-France-sends-major-military-equipment

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Cutting more ties with the West: Russia has set space station exit timetable
Russia will use its remaining time on the ISS to demonstrate it's ready to proceed with its own orbital station, the Roscosmos chief says Russia has decided when it will pull out of the International Space Station (ISS), and will give a year's notice to its partners, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday. In an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, the head of the space agency said that although a timeframe has been set, the authorities "are not obliged to speak about it publicly." Rogozin earlier said Western sanctions imposed over Russia's military offensive on Ukraine are preventing Roscosmos from proceeding with "business as usual" when it comes to joint work with the US and other Western countries on the ISS. He also said that if he could he would already have cased cooperation.
https://www.sott.net/article/467355-Cutting-more-ties-with-the-West-Russia-has-set-space-station-exit-timetable

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Russia makes bond payments in dollars, concedes on ruble mandate to avoid default
Russia previously insisted on completing payments in rubles Russia appeared to narrowly avoid default on Friday as it paid off a number of overdue international debts in dollars, reversing its recent policy requiring transactions occur in rubles. The finance ministry said it paid $564.8 million on a 2022 Eurobond and $84.4 million on a 2042 bond in dollars, as specified on the bonds, Reuters reported. Russia has repeatedly faced the threat of default since the West announced crippling sanctions that Moscow and bank officials managed to combat through a number of strict and extreme measures, including capital controls and suspending trading on the Moscow exchange for almost a month. Officials remained keen to avoid the country's first default since a financial crash in 1998.
https://www.sott.net/article/467356-Russia-makes-bond-payments-in-dollars-concedes-on-ruble-mandate-to-avoid-default

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150 mostly female skulls ritually decapitated over 1,000 years ago in Mexico
When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital. It turns out it was a very cold case. It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday. "Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez," the state capital, the institute, known as INAH, said in a statement.
https://www.sott.net/article/467357-150-mostly-female-skulls-ritually-decapitated-over-1000-years-ago-in-Mexico

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Have researchers finally answered what Bronze Age daggers were used for?
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought. First appearing in the early 4th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland. Yet archaeologists have long debated what these objects were used for. As daggers are often found in weapon-rich male burials, or "warrior graves," many researchers speculated that they were primarily ceremonial objects used in prehistoric funerals to mark out the identity and status of the deceased. Others suggested that they may have been used as weapons or tools for crafts.
https://www.sott.net/article/467358-Have-researchers-finally-answered-what-Bronze-Age-daggers-were-used-for

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Who were the Picts?
The Picts were an Iron Age people who lived in the northern and eastern parts of what is now Scotland, flourishing from approximately the fourth century A.D. to the ninth century. Originally, the Picts were tribal peoples organized into loose confederations, but they later created two politically and militarily powerful kingdoms and dominated a large part of Scotland. "Picti is a Latin term that literally means 'painted people,"' said Alex Woolf, a medieval historian at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. The term is likely a reference to the prevalent Pictish custom of body painting or tattooing. "At first Picti is a pejorative term used by Romans," Woolf told Live Science. "But when you get to the 'Dark Ages,' perhaps around 600 or 700, it's clear that something has happened, and those tribes have now come to self-identify as Picti."
https://www.sott.net/article/467359-Who-were-the-Picts

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'Unprecedented' Phoenician necropolis discovered in southern Spain
Workers upgrading water supplies in southern Spain have come across an "unprecedented" and well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone vaults where the Phoenicians who lived on the Iberian peninsula 2,500 years ago laid their dead. Archaeologists exploring the site - which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville - say the Phoenician-Carthaginian cemetery dates back to the fourth or fifth century BC and is highly unusual as such sites are normally found in coastal areas rather than so far inland. Although the local ruins of the Roman city of Urso are well known, the discovery of the Phoenician necropolis has stunned archaeologists and locals. The only similar finds have been made around the coast of Cádiz, which was founded by the Phoenicians in 1100BC and which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe.
https://www.sott.net/article/467360-Unprecedented-Phoenician-necropolis-discovered-in-southern-Spain

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Lessons from a life lost too soon
It was a story I just couldn't get out of my head. A young teen had died in a town not far from where I live, a town where I used to live. I knew people who had kids who knew this girl. I heard she was a swimmer, bright and popular. At first the talk was about how she'd died. I heard someone surmise that she was killed. Someone else said it was a horrible accident, and of course, there were murmurings that maybe she had done it herself. And then, I heard nothing. Months passed and I eventually put the whole incident out of my mind, until I came across an article in our major metro newspaper. The girl's parents had come forward to share the terrible truth about their beautiful teenage daughter who threw herself off an overpass.
https://www.sott.net/article/467361-Lessons-from-a-life-lost-too-soon

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Do Russians like Putin?
The following data is provided by the Levada Center, an independent Russian organization that is anything but "Putinist." It is so little so that it is even included in the list of independent analysis centers in Europe, published by Freedom House. The data from these polls represents yet another confirmation that the West's political and military strategy against Russia (a strategy that even penalizes Russian writers, artists and sportsmen) is not only leading to a barbarization of the political and social life of the West itself, but is also acting as a kind of terrible political and economic boomerang — it produces the opposite effects of what is desired by the promoters of such a strategy. These are the results of the March 2022 Levada Center polls:
https://www.sott.net/article/467362-Do-Russians-like-Putin

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Death at the Chesapeake: Who Whacked CIA Spy Chief William Colby?
Police investigation should be reopened due to evidence of foul play.Colby made many enemies inside the Agency by revealing the "Family Jewels." His "spooky" death 26 years ago today bore similarities to that of CIA veteran John Arthur Paisley, who disappeared on a boat off the Chesapeake Bay 18 years earlier. [This article is part of CAM's series on political assassinations. — Editors]
https://www.sott.net/article/467363-Death-at-the-Chesapeake-Who-Whacked-CIA-Spy-Chief-William-Colby

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Clown World: University midwife students taught to care for men giving birth 'through their penis'
A British university is teaching its midwifery students how to care for males giving birth. Feminism news website Reduxx revealed teaching materials from Edinburgh Napier University which state the person giving birth may still have "external male genitalia" after transitioning.
https://www.sott.net/article/467364-Clown-World-University-midwife-students-taught-to-care-for-men-giving-birth-through-their-penis

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Over 1.2 MILLION adverse events reported since the rollout of COVID shot
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data showing a total of 1,247,131 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 22, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. The data included a total of 27,532 reports of deaths — an increase of 183 over the previous week — and 224,766 serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 1,930 compared with the previous week.
https://www.sott.net/article/467365-Over-1-2-MILLION-adverse-events-reported-since-the-rollout-of-COVID-shot

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Hitting a new low: Ukrainian man posts video boasting of 'eating Russian soldier's meat'
The identity of the person behind the video is unknown, as the disturbing footage was his only clip on YouTube - still, this fact does not make the video any less chilling. An unidentified Ukrainian man shared a video in which he claims to have discovered a human bone with meat in a burnt tank in the Gostomel area - a bone which allegedly belonged to a deceased Russian soldier. In the chilling footage, the "blogger" proceeds to "cook" what he claims is the human meat of the Russian soldier, only to taste it afterward. He then notes it was always his dream to try the meat of a Russian.
https://www.sott.net/article/467366-Hitting-a-new-low-Ukrainian-man-posts-video-boasting-of-eating-Russian-soldiers-meat

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Hypocrites: 10 EU countries quietly buying gas with rubles, Hungary says
European leaders won't admit they're going along with Russia's deal, government official Gergely Gulyas said. While multiple European leaders have publicly proclaimed they won't buy Russian gas in rubles as Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded, 10 EU countries are technically going along with Putin's plan, Hungarian official Gergely Gulyas told public radio on Sunday. According to Gulyas, these countries' leaders aren't admitting this in order to be seen as "being a good European." Gulyas said that Hungary has opened a euro account with Russia's Gazprombank, which then converts payments into rubles before transferring them to suppliers in Russia. This system allows European buyers to comply with Putin's demand, made in late March, that "unfriendly" countries switch to Russia's national currency to buy its natural gas.
https://www.sott.net/article/467367-Hypocrites-10-EU-countries-quietly-buying-gas-with-rubles-Hungary-says

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Northern Ireland may have to lose one million cattle and sheep to meet climate targets
Around one million sheep and cattle across Northern Ireland may have to be lost in order for the agricultural sector here to reach net-zero carbon emission targets. The figures come from industry-commissioned analysis reported by the Guardian newspaper. The analysis from KPMG, commissioned by those in the farming sector including the Ulster Farmer's Union (UFU), suggests more than 500,000 cattle and around 700,000 sheep would need to be lost to meet the climate targets.
https://www.sott.net/article/467368-Northern-Ireland-may-have-to-lose-one-million-cattle-and-sheep-to-meet-climate-targets