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Killer whales are 'attacking' sailboats near Europe's coast - Scientists don't know why
Ester Kristine Storkson was asleep on her father's small yacht earlier this month, sailing off the coast of France, when she was violently awakened. Scrambling on deck, she spotted several orcas, or killer whales, surrounding them. The steering wheel swung wildly. At one point, the 37-foot sailboat was pushed through 180 degrees, heading it in the opposite direction. They were "ramming the boat," Storkson says. "They [hit] us repeatedly ... giving us the impression that it was a coordinated attack." "I told my dad, 'I'm not thinking clearly, so you need to think for me,'" the 27-year-old Norwegian medical student says. "Thankfully, he is a very calm and centered person, and made me feel safe by gently talking about the situation." After about 15 minutes, the orcas broke off, leaving father and daughter to assess the damage. They stuck a GoPro camera in the water, she says, and could see that "approximately three-quarters of [the rudder] was broken off, and some metal was bent." For...
https://www.sott.net/article/471296-Killer-whales-are-attacking-sailboats-near-Europes-coast-Scientists-dont-know-why
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People were living in South America as far back as 18,000 years ago, chromosomal study suggests
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Argentina has found chromosomal evidence of people living in South America as far back as 18,000 years ago. The group has published a paper describing their work and findings on the open access site PLOS ONE. Over the past several years, scientists have found evidence of people first traveling to North America from Siberia approximately 14,000 to 17,000 years ago, using what was then a land bridge to Alaska. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence suggesting that the timeline may have to be pushed back a bit.
https://www.sott.net/article/471297-People-were-living-in-South-America-as-far-back-as-18000-years-ago-chromosomal-study-suggests
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Details about assassination of Darya Dugina revealed
A blast that claimed the life of Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, was caused by a bomb that had been attached underneath her SUV on the driver's side, investigators said on Sunday. According to Russia's Investigative Committee, the explosive device ripped through the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving in Moscow Region, near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, on Saturday night. It has been reported that the vehicle belonged to her father. "It has already been established that the explosive was planted under the bottom of the car on the driver's side. Darya Dugina, who was driving, was killed on impact," the agency said, reiterating that investigators believe the attack to have been premeditated and to be a contract job.
https://www.sott.net/article/471298-Details-about-assassination-of-Darya-Dugina-revealed
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Congress implies UFOs have non-human origins
In Congress, where legislation is drafted, debated and enacted, clear and concise definitions are of paramount importance. As military aircrews increasingly encounter unidentified flying objects (UFOs), lawmakers recently made several striking revisions to the definition of "UFO." Key among them: The explosive implication that some UFOs have non-human origins. As first reported by researcher Douglas Johnson, a draft bill approved unanimously by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rebrands UFOs as "unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena." Expanding the definition to include objects in space and under the oceans significantly broadens the scope of a muscular new office tasked by Congress with investigating UFOs. The revised definition of "UFO" also includes "transmedium" objects which, according to lawmakers, "transition between space and the atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water." In short, members of a key national security-focused committee believe...
https://www.sott.net/article/471299-Congress-implies-UFOs-have-non-human-origins
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'I am the state, the state is me': Tucker Carlson mocks Fauci's alleged lies about covid-19
Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson mocked White House senior medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci's alleged false claims and inconsistencies about COVID-19. Carlson noted that Fauci has made several incorrect conclusions about both the virus and the vaccine in an attempt to "give more power" to the Biden administration. "Tony Fauci has been consistent on one point, one point really only," Carlson said. "And that is that you need to give more power to the Biden administration. His patrons." Fauci announced Monday that he will step down from his position at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and from advising the White House this upcoming December. He played a segment of Fauci in July arguing there should have been "more stringent restrictions" imposed in order to prevent asymptomatic individuals from spreading the virus.
https://www.sott.net/article/471300-I-am-the-state-the-state-is-me-Tucker-Carlson-mocks-Faucis-alleged-lies-about-covid-19
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France to hire 3,000 'green police' to improve investigation of environmental issues, medicine tracking, and bioterrorism
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced plans to launch 3,000 "green gendarme positions" to improve the investigation proceedings in environmental issues - particularly in cases of arson. Comment: Apparently the government has room in the budget for these new hires, despite the fact they won't address actual, critical issues like the looming food shortages, the energy crisis, and the country's tanking economy. "The aim is to have gendarmes (police officers) trained in attacks on ecology in each gendarmerie brigade... It will be a revolution", the minister said on Sunday. This summer, "there were between 80 and 120 fires per day in France; to date we have carried out 26 arrests of suspected arsonists." Comment: With so many fires, and just 26 arrests, it seems highly unlikely that these officers, who will likely be spread across the country, will make much difference. Darmanin hopes that the move will "massively strengthen local and central authorities in the fight...
https://www.sott.net/article/471292-France-to-hire-3000-green-police-to-improve-investigation-of-environmental-issues-medicine-tracking-and-bioterrorism
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Boston Children's Hospital gender clinic sees children 'ages two and three'
A psychologist at the Boston Children's Hospital claimed that children know they are transgender "seemingly from the womb," explaining that the gender clinic sees children as young as ages two and three. A shocking video produced by the Boston Children's Hospital Gender Multispeciality Service features psychologist Kerry McGregor claiming that children may identify as transgender from the womb. In the video on transgenderism, McGregor remarks "A good portion of children know ... seemingly from the womb." Some children identify as transgender "as soon as they can talk," she continues. "Kids know very very early," McGregor claims. Comment: No, they don't. These people are insane.
https://www.sott.net/article/471301-Boston-Childrens-Hospital-gender-clinic-sees-children-ages-two-and-three
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ISIS suicide bomber en route to India intercepted - Russia
The terrorist recruit was tasked with killing a senior figure in the Indian leadership, law enforcement reported. A person who allegedly plotted to blow himself up to kill a senior Indian politician was intercepted during transit through Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Monday. The would-be suicide bomber was recruited in Turkey by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the statement said. The man was radicalized on social media and met a representative of IS in Istanbul to record a pledge of allegiance before going on a mission to India, the FSB said. Russia served as a transit nation for the trip, the agency said.
https://www.sott.net/article/471302-ISIS-suicide-bomber-en-route-to-India-intercepted-Russia
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3 Arkansas officers suspended after video of violent arrest emerges
Three cops in Arkansas were suspended after a video emerged that showed them brutally beating a detainee. In the TikTok video posted on Twitter, one officer holds the man down to the ground as another repeatedly and relentlessly punches the man's head and a third forcibly nails him with his knee multiple times in a row. At one point, the officer punching the man in the head lifts the man's head up from the ground and slams it back down into the cement sidewalk as the man tries to protect his head with his hands, the video shows.
https://www.sott.net/article/471303-3-Arkansas-officers-suspended-after-video-of-violent-arrest-emerges
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NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels: analysis
The Big Apple could be on the hook for more than $300 million per year to provide shelter space in hotels for newly arrived migrants, a Post analysis shows. City officials have either rented or announced plans to secure roughly 5,800 hotel rooms over the last month in response to the influx from the southern border, which quickly overwhelmed the already-strained homeless shelter system. One of the largest operations is planned for the ROW NYC hotel on 8th Avenue in Midtown, where officials are looking to rent as many as 600 rooms and provide intake and other services for the recent arrivals.
https://www.sott.net/article/471304-NYC-could-spend-300M-annually-to-house-migrants-in-hotels-analysis
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Bulgaria says it's 'inevitable' that talks with Gazprom will resume
Bulgaria must hold talks with Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom on the resumption of gas deliveries that were halted in April, interim Energy Minister Rossen Hristov said on August 22. Hristov did not say when talks would take place. He said Sofia would hold talks with Azerbaijan this week to boost Azerbaijani gas supplies and would discuss such deliveries with Turkish gas traders.
https://www.sott.net/article/471305-Bulgaria-says-its-inevitable-that-talks-with-Gazprom-will-resume
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Russia to raise Dugina assassination at emergency UN meeting on Tuesday
Russia plans to raise the assassination of Darya Dugina at a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) emergency meeting set for Tuesday. The session is expected to focus on the ongoing crisis and standoff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which has come under fresh shelling that damaged transformers at the site, which Ukraine has blamed on Russia. There's growing alarm of a 'Chernobyl-like' catastrophic event. Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, confirmed that Russia is seeking the UNSC emergency session, but said Russia will also highlight and condemn this latest in a series of "Ukrainian provocations" targeting civilians on Russian territory- after on Monday the FSB (Federal Security Service) claimed to have identified a Ukrainian operative behind the Dugin car bombing. "We requested an urgent meeting on Zaporozhye, where Ukrainian provocations do not stop. Of course, we will talk about this episode [the murder of Daria Dugina]," Nebenzia said, as...
https://www.sott.net/article/471306-Russia-to-raise-Dugina-assassination-at-emergency-UN-meeting-on-Tuesday
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Navy dolphin's GoPro cameras reveals their weird and wonderful world in a way never seen before
At the risk of awarding the title prematurely, we think we've found the weirdest study published in 2022. Scientists strapped GoPro cameras to the bodies of six dolphins trained by the U.S. Navy, and recorded them hunting for food and consuming their prey in grisly detail. According to the study, there was a purpose behind this potential invasion of dolphin privacy; namely, to learn more about how the mammals hunted and ate. Scientists have previously made two competing assumptions about how dolphins ate. They engaged in either ram feeding, in which the predators swim faster than their prey and clasp the fish in their jaws as they overtake them; or suction feeding, in which predators move their tongues and expand their throats to create negative pressure and slurp up prey. The authors of the study, which was published on Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, set out to determine which method dolphins actually used.
https://www.sott.net/article/471307-Navy-dolphins-GoPro-cameras-reveals-their-weird-and-wonderful-world-in-a-way-never-seen-before
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Black Christian denied student government role after quoting Bible
Speaker of the senate criticized 'preaching about religion' in the post-Roe era. A black Christian female will not serve on the University of Houston student government's judicial branch this year after she quoted the Bible while interviewing for a position. Mya Little (pictured) opened a speech at an interview session over the summer with a Bible quote, according to The Cougar, the campus newspaper. Little had applied to be an associate justice on the SGA Supreme Court.
https://www.sott.net/article/471308-Black-Christian-denied-student-government-role-after-quoting-Bible
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LA Public Health Department faces backlash after offering COVID-19 test to animals, including seals
The Los Angeles Public Health Department is facing growing criticism over its decision to offer free COVID-19 testing for animals, despite there being no positive cases reported among animals in the area. LA Public Health announced the initiative on Aug. 20 and said it has received funding from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor COVID-19 in animals in Los Angeles County. "This project will help us to learn more about COVID-19 from a One Health perspective, meaning that we can learn more about the significance of COVID-19 in human, animal, and environmental relationships," the public health body said.
https://www.sott.net/article/471309-LA-Public-Health-Department-faces-backlash-after-offering-COVID-19-test-to-animals-including-seals
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Navy dolphin's GoPro cameras reveal their weird and wonderful world in a way never seen before
At the risk of awarding the title prematurely, we think we've found the weirdest study published in 2022. Scientists strapped GoPro cameras to the bodies of six dolphins trained by the U.S. Navy, and recorded them hunting for food and consuming their prey in grisly detail. According to the study, there was a purpose behind this potential invasion of dolphin privacy; namely, to learn more about how the mammals hunted and ate. Scientists have previously made two competing assumptions about how dolphins ate. They engaged in either ram feeding, in which the predators swim faster than their prey and clasp the fish in their jaws as they overtake them; or suction feeding, in which predators move their tongues and expand their throats to create negative pressure and slurp up prey. The authors of the study, which was published on Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, set out to determine which method dolphins actually used.
https://www.sott.net/article/471307-Navy-dolphins-GoPro-cameras-reveal-their-weird-and-wonderful-world-in-a-way-never-seen-before
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Despite sanctions Moscow says Russian Arctic shipping will thrive as it plans 153 new ice-class ships & 10 icebreakers
The development plan that was adopted by the federal government on the 4th of August has grand ambitions for the Russian Arctic. Over the period until 2035, a total of 1,8 trillion rubles (€30,1 billion) is to be invested in 152 regional projects. Comment: Clearly Russia does not believe the demonstrably false claims that the arctic will be 'free of ice' due to man-made global warming; it wouldn't risk such massive investments without good reason to think otherwise: Two icebreakers sent to rescue TWENTY ice-locked ships on Northern Sea Route in the Arctic Among them is the building of 153 new ice-class ships, including ten icebreakers, twelve new seaports, twelve satellites, thirteen helicopters, several hospitals and search and rescue units. All of this will allow Russia to transport up to 100 million tons of goods per year by 2025 and 200 million tons by 2030, the federal Ministry of the Far East and Arctic informs.
https://www.sott.net/article/471310-Despite-sanctions-Moscow-says-Russian-Arctic-shipping-will-thrive-as-it-plans-153-new-ice-class-ships-10-icebreakers
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MSNBC says US already in civil war; repeatedly calls GOP a "fascist" party
Remember, Fox News, OAN and Newsmax are the extremist propagandists though. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross declared that the U.S. is already in a civil war, and blamed conservative news organisations for stoking violence, then in a subsequent broadcast brought on a guest who repeatedly claimed that the Republican Party is "fascist." Cross made the comments while filling in for race baiter Joy Reid last week, stating "At this point, I do think we have to have serious conversations around preparing for actual violence. People keep saying a civil war is coming. I would say a civil war is here. And I don't mean to be hyperbolic."
https://www.sott.net/article/471311-MSNBC-says-US-already-in-civil-war-repeatedly-calls-GOP-a-fascist-party
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Deadly flash floods in Texas after 15 inches of rain in 24 hours
As much as 385 mm of rain fell in 24 hours in parts of northern Texas, triggering flash floods across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 21 to 22 August 2022. Meanwhile heavy rain has taken its toll in parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, where one person is reported missing in flash floods.
https://www.sott.net/article/471312-Deadly-flash-floods-in-Texas-after-15-inches-of-rain-in-24-hours
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Texas builds 600 miles of border wall using U-Haul trucks from California
Discarded U-Haul trucks abandoned by Californians immigrating to Texas have been repurposed as over 600 miles of new border wall along the America/Mexico border. Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the wall is already cutting down on illegal immigration and California immigration since they've refused to send trucks back to California. "The state has been inundated with an influx of U-Hauls because of all the Californians leaving their state," said Henry Gugelface, lead engineer of the Texas border wall project. "We were hesitant to send the trucks back to California because we are so tired of Californians. Utilizing the excess U-Haul trucks for the border wall killed two birds with one stone!" The new stretch of border wall fills in gaps east of El Paso where migrants have been traveling into the country by the thousands. Now, though Hispanics have been braving an unforgiving desert landscape and river water to reach America, they are finding themselves stopped cold by a pile of...
https://www.sott.net/article/471313-Texas-builds-600-miles-of-border-wall-using-U-Haul-trucks-from-California
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Eavesdropping on a black hole: New NASA sonifications with a remix
Since 2003, the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound. This is because astronomers discovered that pressure waves sent out by the black hole caused ripples in the cluster's hot gas that could be translated into a note - one that humans cannot hear some 57 octaves below middle C. Now a new sonification brings more notes to this black hole sound machine. This new sonification - that is, the translation of astronomical data into sound - is being released for NASA's Black Hole Week this year. In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before(1, 2, 3, 4) because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or...
https://www.sott.net/article/471314-Eavesdropping-on-a-black-hole-New-NASA-sonifications-with-a-remix