A couple was in the northern woods of Wisconsin looking for a camping spot when they encountered‚ what turned out to be‚ a female Bigfoot and her juvenile.“I never told this story to anyone but my family and maybe three other people. I'm retired. I worked in science and I'm a skeptic of most of the things I hear about. This happened to me in 1964. My wife and I went out in the northern woods of Wisconsin‚ looking for a place to go camping. We weren't going camping‚ we were just looking. I was going through some really tall‚ wide grass and I saw a place up in front of me that looked like it was padded down‚ so I was very leery. So I went up there and peeked‚ and there's a bear in there. I told my wife to run and get my gun. She ran to the car. I ran over and swung up into a tree. And the bear was only maybe a first or second-year bear. I didn't see the mother around or anything. I was so scared‚ I couldn't figure out what to do.So I'm standing there‚ looking at this bear and I know bears climb trees but this one wasn't trying to climb it. It looked like he was playing with me. And all of a sudden a tree‚ a small tree‚ maybe eight feet long‚ with dirt on one end‚ came flying out of the bushes and hit this bear in the rump‚ and‚ boy‚ he took off. He ran under where I was in the tree. And I turned around and watched him disappear through the grass. I was ready to get down out of the tree and I turned around and there was this thing standing there. Up until this time‚ I'd never heard of a Bigfoot or anything like that. I grew up in the city in Ohio‚ so I'd never heard of such a thing.The first thing I really noticed was it had four arms. It had two long arms and it had two little arms that looked like it came out the back of its neck. And I think I froze. I don't know but I looked this creature in the eye. It had dark eyes and its face and eyes were one of the most peaceful things I had ever seen. And I just stood there on this limb‚ looking at it ten feet away from me. The first thing that popped into my head was‚ it was an alien that had come from somewhere off this world. I don't know how long I stared at it but all my fear left me and I was just calm‚ standing there looking at this creature. And my wife came running back from the car. I had told her to get my pistol out of the car but it was the wrong car. It was in my other car. I wasn't gonna shoot it. I was gonna shoot at the bear and make noise and run it away. But anyway‚ when I looked over at my wife I thought‚ Oh my goodness‚ I'm not dreaming. And I looked back and I saw it turn and walk about another ten feet away from me and go back into these bushes. Well‚ there were small trees and then in the back of that‚ there was a forest. Big trees.Anyway‚ hanging on the back‚ what I thought was two extra arms‚ was a baby hanging in the back of it and it had a hold of the hair on the chest. It didn't look like anything from the ape family. I gotta tell you‚ I have a very good memory and I took a picture‚ more or less‚ unconsciously‚ of its face. I looked at the feet of the baby and they were flat. It had toes like people's toes. It disappeared into the woods. And I'm just standing there. I'm just stunned still. My wife comes over and says‚ 'Where's the bear&;#63;' I said. 'It ran off.' She said‚ 'Why&;#63;' I said‚ 'That tree. That tree came flying out of the bushes and hit him in the rear end and he ran away.'”Transcribed Source: Ground Zero Radio with Clyde Lewis – August 30‚ 2016WENDIGO MYTHOLOGY - WHAT ARE THEY&;#63; | Join Us For LIVE CHAT | Questions &; Answers #Wendigo #CannibalLISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS REPORTS &; CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE‚ LIKE &; SHAREPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS &; MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter&;#63;Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. 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It’s no wonder‚ then‚ that doppelg&;auml;ngers are also common in frightening stories.Many times‚ a doppelg&;auml;nger is the double of another character. They are like the character in many ways‚ most often in looks. However‚ the things that make them different are more important. The doppelg&;auml;nger often differs from the main character in the values they hold. This results in them making choices that lead them down a different path. For example‚ “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this story‚ both characters share the same body. However‚ they are opposites‚ with Dr. Jekyll representing good and Mr. Hyde evil.There is also a historical attribute to this phenomenon. President Abraham Lincoln supposedly saw his doppelg&;auml;nger when he saw two faces in the mirror on the night of his first election in 1860. The second face was pale and sickly‚ which his wife‚ Mary‚ interpreted as a sign of death or sickness during his second term. Only a few months after his second election‚ Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.So‚ what do you think a doppelg&;auml;nger represents&;#63; Listen to these accounts and form your opinion.-----ORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONORDER THE AUDIOBOOK VERSIONProject Threshold: Finale-----Your financial support of Phantoms &; Monsters and our other pursuits is much appreciated. Please click the banner above. Thanks.Have you had a sighting or encounter&;#63;Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonContact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Also available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs‚CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.The Dark Arts of MISTER SAM SHEARON - Original Prints &; MerchandiseThis blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS &; MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. 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Most people know only that Pluto is a planet that wasn’t a planet that is extremely cold and far away‚ but it has a softer side as well. Researchers believe the huge heart-shaped feature on the planetesimal’s surface was likely caused by a “giant and slow oblique-angle impact”. A team of scientists from the University […] The post Did You Know Pluto Has a Heart&;#63; Scientists Solve Mystery as to Why appeared first on Good News Network.

Movies &; TV Star Trek: Discovery It’s Not Easy Being Breen — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Mirrors” Burnham and Book partner with Moll and L’ak to find the next puzzle piece… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on April 25‚ 2024 Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Comment 1 Share New Share Credit: CBS / Paramount+ One of the longstanding questions in the Star Trek franchise that has been unanswered since it was first asked in 1995 when we saw our first Breen in DS9’s “Indiscretion.” That question‚ which remained unanswered despite the Breen becoming major players in the Dominion War arc of DS9’s final two seasons‚ was: What do the Breen actually look like&;#63; Their initial appearance showed them in full-body armor and helmets that covered their entire persons. (They also bore an unfortunate resemblance to the outfit Leia Organa wore in the opening bit of Return of the Jedi.) Discovery has finally answered that question. In fact‚ it turns out they answered it a few weeks ago‚ as L’ak—whose species was unknown to anyone prior to “Mirrors”—is a Breen. The Breen suits have been redesigned to look less Star Wars-y‚ and when they first undo their helmets‚ their skin is translucent‚ not becoming opaque until the helmet’s off for a while. A large chunk of “Mirrors” is given over to The Secret Origin Of Moll And L’ak‚ and it’s a story that’s as old as the hills. L’ak is a member of the royal family‚ but he’s on the outs with his family‚ given crap customs duties as punishment for being a ne’er-do-well. Moll is a Courier who takes a shine to this disgraced aristocrat‚ and they fall in love. When she gets a better contract with the Emerald Chain‚ she urges him to come with her‚ otherwise they’ll never see each other again. He agrees‚ but it puts him on the outs with the royal family‚ who put a contract out on him. This is why Moll and L’ak are so hot to find the Progenitors’ tech: it’ll enable them to buy L’ak’s freedom from being a Breen fugitive. They can go to the planet in the Gamma Quadrant where Moll has always wanted to go ever since her father promised it. Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Ah yes‚ the Cleveland Booker connection. The prior iteration of the Dread Pirate Booker had promised Moll and her mother that they’d be able to retire to a planet in the GQ. (Presumably accessed via the Bajoran Wormhole&;#63;) But he never returned home. Moll‚ of course‚ hates his guts‚ which torpedoes Book’s plan to appeal to their mutual relationship with her Dad. The confrontation takes place on the I.S.S. Enterprise‚ which is just hilarious. Apaprently there’s a pocket dimension in Tzenkethi space that has a bunch of busted-up ships in it‚ and it’s where the next piece of the puzzle is hidden. The scientist responsible is a woman named Dr. Cho‚ who is actually from the Mirror Universe. She and some others crossed over to the mainline universe in the Enterprise before the Terran Empire fell. We know from DS9’s “Crossover” that Spock-with-a-beard rose to the position of emperor and then tried to initiate reforms‚ which led to the empire being conquered by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. The notion that Cho crossed over and hid the Enterprise in the dimensional pocket is an interesting one. It also enables Discovery to make use of the Strange New Worlds sets‚ as the bridge‚ corridors‚ and sickbay of the I.S.S. Enterprise are re-dresses of the ones used on the sister show. There’s a lovely moment when Burnham looks with sadness at the science station‚ as that was “my brother’s” station‚ though she never saw the Enterprise or encountered the MU Spock in her visit there in Discovery’s first season. (She doesn’t mention that she met Sarek‚ interestingly enough.) She also finds out that Mirror-Saru—whom she met—was one of the movers and shakers behind getting Cho and the others to safety in the mainline universe‚ prompting Book to comment that he’s “Action Saru” in any universe… Burnham and Book find Moll and L’ak on the Enterprise. There are lots of confrontations‚ shootouts‚ hand-to-hand combat‚ and working together‚ sorta-kinda. In the end‚ Moll and L’ak still don’t trust Starfleet and are in this to win it‚ and they escape‚ while Burnham and Book manage to save the day and salvage the Enterprise. Oh‚ and they get the next clue/puzzle piece. (Burnham puts Detmer and Owosekun in charge of bringing the Mirror Enterprise back to Federation HQ‚ and this is the second time this season that the pair of them have been mentioned but not seen‚ with this side mission possibly meaning we won’t see them next week‚ either‚ which is annoying. Emily Coutts and Oyin Oladejo have done a wonderful job of making these two a compelling pair at the front of the bridge despite scripts that give them almost nothing‚ and I was hoping to get more‚ not less‚ of them in this final season.) Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Back on Discovery‚ Rayner is left in charge and he has to enocurage the various science nerds in the senior staff to come up with a way to improve communications with the interior of the pocket dimension and also rescue Book and Burnham. To his credit‚ he does it well‚ making sure to get everyone involved. Burnham also is able to communicate her intentions to Rayner by using some Kellerun folklore she read up on. (Yes‚ Rayner is a Kellerun‚ one of the two species with really terrible hair from DS9’s “Armageddon Game.” Thankfully‚ hairstyles have improved among the Kellerun over the last eight centuries…) Burnham‚ Rayner‚ and Stamets’ time-travel adventure last week had one particularly important revelation: the destruction of Federation HQ was accomplished by the Breen—the very people Moll and L’ak want to sell the Progenitor tech to. So now our heroes are even more motivated to stop Moll and L’ak‚ because they know exactly what will happen if they use the tech to get the Breen royal family off their backs. I said in my review of the season premiere that Moll and L’ak on the one hand reminded me of other genre Bonnie and Clyde riffs‚ to wit‚ Spike and Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Pumpkin and Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction. But on the other hand‚ they didn’t quite rise to the level of those other two. The backstory on the pair of them does do some good work in that regard‚ mostly by showing what’s at stake for L’ak. Moll rescued him from a life he despised‚ and which he will do whatever’s necessary to never go back to. The source of his love is made abundantly clear in the flashbacks. (Moll’s passion for L’ak is less obvious‚ but Eve Harlow at least makes the devotion convincing.) We also get some who-counsels-the-counselor bits‚ as Culber is having trouble processing what he went through on Trill. Tilly volunteers to be his sounding board‚ wherein we find out (among other things) that he can’t really talk to Stamets about it. Which is‚ y’know‚ bad. But it’s nice to see that having Jinaal occupy his meat suit was something that affected him‚ and which also dredged up his mixed feelings about dying and being resurrected. Next week‚ we’re on to the next puzzle piece‚ with Moll and L’ak now using an MU medical shuttle to fly around in…[end-mark] The post It’s Not Easy Being Breen — &;lt;i&;gt;Star Trek: Discovery&;lt;/i&;gt;’s “Mirrors” appeared first on Reactor.

News The Exorcism The Devil Gets Meta in The Exorcism Trailer By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 25‚ 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Russell Crowe is entering his exorcism era&;#33; You might remember his turn as a priest in the 2023 film The Pope’s Exorcist. This year‚ Crowe is donning the clerical collar once again in The Exorcism‚ a film from writer-director Joshua John Miller‚ whose father was in The Exorcist in a memorable role. “The origins of the film stem from my childhood spent watching my father‚ Jason Miller‚ playing the doomed Father Karras flinging himself out a window at the climax of The Exorcist‚” Miller said in a statement. “If that wasn’t haunting enough on its own‚ my dad never shied away from telling me stories of just how ‘cursed’ the movie was: the mysterious fires that plagued the production‚ the strange deaths‚ the lifelong injuries—the list went on and on. The lore of any ‘cursed film’ has captivated me ever since.” As the trailer released today reveals‚ Crowe plays an actor with a troubled past who is hired to play a priest in a horror production that is supposedly cursed. He’s there with his daughter (Ryan Simpkins)‚ who sees him slipping and goes to get help from a priest played by David Hyde Pierce. Here’s the official synopsis: Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe stars as Anthony Miller‚ a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter‚ Lee (Ryan Simpkins)‚ wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play. “With The Exorcism‚ we wanted to update the possession movie formula (‘Heroic man rescues woman from forces she’s too weak and simple to battle herself&;#33;’) for a world where no one group owns goodness and decency over another‚” said Miller. “We were gifted with an extraordinary cast and creative team to tell a story about how we’re all vulnerable to darkness‚ to perpetuating it‚ if we fail to face our demons.” In addition to Crowe‚ Simpkins‚ and Pierce‚ the movie stars Sam Worthington‚ Chloe Bailey‚ and Adam Goldberg. It was co-written by Miller and M.A. Fortin and produced by Kevin Williamson‚ Ben Fast‚ and Bill Block. The Exorcism is set to premiere in theaters on June 7‚ 2024. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post The Devil Gets Meta in &;lt;i&;gt;The Exorcism&;lt;/i&;gt; Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

President Joe Biden has pledged to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” in the U.S. electricity sector by 2035. This fantastical plan is‚ we are told‚ advancing along two tracks simultaneously. On one side is a systematic reduction of fossil fuel usage; on the other‚ a push to deploy renewable energy substitutes. Of course‚ the plan is predicated on the second track advancing at least as fast as the first. But it isn’t—and Biden’s own policies are partly to blame. Case in point: The administration’s new “solar energy plan” for western states‚ where the vast majority of land is owned by the federal government. The Bureau of Land Management‚ or BLM‚ is proposing a new plan for “Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development”  that is supposed to expand the development of solar projects across 11 western states. In fact‚ far from expediting the permitting of solar projects‚ the new solar plan throws pointless obstacles in their path and could shut down solar energy development in the desert West altogether. Author Mario Loyola’s official comments on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Western states solar plan.Download I am no fan of solar energy—much less boondoggles that are viable only because of inordinate subsidies. But BLM’s presentation of the new solar plan to the public as fostering solar energy‚ when‚ in fact‚ it will do the opposite‚ is a violation of the public trust and will‚ in the end‚ contribute to the major energy crisis now looming on the horizon. The 2012 solar plan‚ implemented during the Obama administration‚ sought to alleviate permitting bottlenecks amid a renewable energy project surge. It designated multiple solar energy zones across six southwestern states. These zones were intended as high-priority areas for development‚ chosen for their solar capacity and lack of “resource conflicts‚” such as significant environmental and cultural impacts. Predictably‚ however‚ the solar energy zones were generally in the middle of nowhere‚ hopelessly far from any transmission interconnection point. Developers balked‚ and few applications for solar energy development were ever even proposed for the zones. Instead‚ developers favored areas closer to infrastructure and populations‚ which often raised resource concerns and triggered opposition from the Not in My Backyard (“NIMBY”) types and the Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody (“BANANAS”) crowd. The Trump administration‚ in which I served as associate director of the Council on Environmental Quality‚ sought to cut the red tape facing all infrastructure projects. We significantly revised the council’s regulations to enhance project predictability and reduce delays. The main beneficiaries of these changes in the short term were renewable energy projects‚ which are disproportionately dependent on federal permits compared to fossil energy projects. Regardless‚ the determined opposition of environmentalists led to a partial rollback under Biden. Partly as a result‚ less renewable electricity capacity was permitted in 2022 than in the last year of the Trump administration. Significant permitting reforms were later incorporated into an unrelated bipartisan agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in June 2023‚ codifying many of the Trump-era changes and marking a historic amendment to the National Environmental Policy Act and potentially streamlining future infrastructure development. One of the most promising avenues for addressing the excessive burdens‚ delays‚ and uncertainties of the permitting and environmental review process is the programmatic review under the National Environmental Policy Act‚ particularly the programmatic environmental impact statement. The impact statement allows national policy to develop and guide the deployment of infrastructure across whole sectors and regions while giving due regard to local voices that often oppose anything in their backyard and often wield a veto. The ideal impact statement would establish priority areas where resource conflicts are similar and can be mitigated with similar strategies. Such a statement could provide for expedited‚ uniform permitting for relevant projects‚ which can then rely on environmental assessments (rather than a full-blown environmental impact statement). Unfortunately‚ the new solar plan goes in the other direction. After categorically excluding resource-sensitive areas‚ areas with slopes greater than 10%‚ and areas more than 10 miles from transmission lines‚ the 22 million acres left available for solar project development under BLM’s new plan reduces by more than half the 48 million acres available for solar project development under the 2012 solar plan.   Even that acreage is only nominal‚ however‚ because a series of “unmapped exclusions” will‚ in practice‚ further reduce the amount of land available for development. These exclusions would either apply definitively or send the project into a regulatory amendment process that would complicate and delay the permitting process to a prohibitive degree for most projects‚ effectively ending them.  The most prominent example of these unmapped exclusions relates to areas that are within the range of endangered and threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Currently‚ energy development in such areas is allowed‚ provided that concerned agencies engage in “consultation” to avoid‚ minimize‚ and mitigate any impacts. Under the new plan‚ however‚ all such habitats would be categorically off-limits as soon as it is discovered that the land is occupied by a listed species. Any potential impacts to endangered species habitats that are discovered in the course of site surveys (usually after millions of dollars have already been expended on the project application) would kill the project entirely. The permitting risk‚ already prohibitive for many new projects‚ could put whole states beyond the reach of all but the most hardy (or foolish) developers. The solar energy areas under the new solar plan overlap substantially with areas containing multiple endangered and threatened species. This endangered species exclusion alone would eliminate virtually all new solar development in Utah‚ Nevada‚ and Arizona‚ which lead the nation in solar capacity per acre.  Another blanket exclusion would apply to land with a greater than 10% slope. This is another nearly inexplicable exclusion given that solar capacity increases with elevation‚ which should make mountains prime solar development areas.  BLM’s new plan also excludes areas farther than 10 miles from existing or planned high-voltage transmission lines. It makes sense to expedite permitting for projects close to transmission lines‚ but it makes little sense to automatically exclude projects beyond an arbitrary 10-mile band altogether. The largest projects may have to be sited farther away because of resource conflicts‚ and economies of scale may make the longer “gen-ties” (the transmission lines that connect a power plant to the nearest high voltage lines) economical for those larger projects while also allowing greater sums to be invested in conflict mitigation. Even for the 14% of BLM land left available for solar project development after all these exclusions‚ the new plan imposes onerous permitting requirements. These include some 600 mandatory design elements. Some of these verge on the comical. BLM proposes a blanket prohibition on “grading” (leveling out land)‚ which is indispensable for access roads‚ utility-scale batteries‚ transmission poles‚ and construction staging. The plan also prohibits development within 200 feet of ephemeral streams (those that come into existence‚ for example‚ after heavy rainfall‚ and then go away) and requires 75% residual vegetation around the development. These requirements will be impossible to meet economically for many projects‚ and even where possible‚ would significantly expand the amount of land required per unit of electricity‚ thus defeating the goal of conservation. It’s clear that BLM didn’t consider cost or feasibility in developing these criteria or take developer views into account. Most surprisingly‚ the new plan does not address any of the major problems that years of experience have revealed in the permitting process for solar and other energy projects on BLM land. On the contrary‚ it makes the permitting challenges even worse for existing projects applications‚ which are not “grandfathered” in any respect. Many solar project applications already in process will have to start over‚ and many of those applicants will prefer to cut their losses instead. Many projects’ applications have been pending for years‚ and companies have already negotiated operational and power-purchase agreements of various kinds and would be bankrupted by having to start over. This demonstrates a problem with heavily regulated sectors: Officials feel all too free to “move the goal posts” with little concern for the enormous losses they are causing developers and investors and little understanding that these are social losses that impact everybody. For Americans to avoid a prolonged period of energy scarcity in the high-demand decade ahead‚ the nation will require a significant expansion in electricity generation. The bulk of that will need to come from nuclear and fossil sources‚ which are significantly more abundant‚ “energy dense‚” and reliable than renewable sources like solar and wind. With the EPA’s new fossil fuel power plant rules and the resulting and potentially devastating curtailments of fossil sources for generating electricity‚ Americans will soon need every megawatt of electricity they can get‚ from every available source. Energy scarcity is looming on the horizon. Yet the Biden administration is not taking the problem of overall energy supply seriously. It also has not taken the problem of inefficient permitting and environmental review seriously. The costs‚ delays‚ and uncertainties of the National Environmental Policy Act process hurt everyone. They constitute the most significant obstacle standing in the way of Biden’s own climate goals‚ and more importantly‚ they are depriving American families and communities of the modern electrical infrastructure they need and deserve. The new solar plan is being promoted as a partial solution‚ but even a brief review shows clearly that it will only make those problems worse. The plan is a clear sellout to left-wing environmentalists. And it shows that while those environmentalists hate fossil fuels‚ they don’t particularly love renewable energy—or energy of any kind. They mean to save the planet for what they think is the planet’s sake‚ not for our sake. And if in the process they plunge the world into energy scarcity—a much grimmer fate than all the doomsday climate scenarios put together—in their minds‚ that’s just too bad for us. The post Left-Wing Environmentalists Score Another Victory in Their Jihad Against Energy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties‚ subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation has sparked strong opposition amongst many of its citizens‚ with individuals complaining to their representatives about the potential risk of the country descending into an authoritarian police state‚ according to documents obtained by BreakingNews.ie through a Freedom of Information request. Critics of the proposed bill‚ dubbed the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022‚ have expressed ambiguity around the definitions of hate and gender within the legislation. The Taoiseach‚ Simon Harris‚ is resolute in modifying the Bill‚ which primarily seeks to revamp the 1989 incitement to hatred legislation‚ and pass it through successfully before the ensuing general elections. Critics contend that the Bill’s primary aim to count “hate” as an aggravating element in certain offenses is fraught with a lack of clarity. An alarming constituent email‚ forwarded to the Department of Justice by Fine Gael’s Michael Ring‚ a vocal opponent of the proposed law‚ emphasized that the Bill infringes on personal constitutional freedoms. The specific email highlighted the significant powers conferred on the police due to Section 15 of the Bill‚ arguing that such state control was reminiscent of a police state. Moreover‚ Ring relayed a multitude of similar constituent concerns to the justice minister‚ seeking an urgent response from him. Meanwhile‚ Senator Michael McDowell raised the question of whether transgender is a gender in Irish law and requested clarity on the term’s legislative definition. Numerous emails exposed further condemnation of the proposed laws and raised concerns about the potential implications they could have on freedom of speech. The post Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill Faces Backlash Amidst Authoritarian Fears appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Imagine a world where kindness meets necessity‚ where a young family finds a profound purpose amidst global chaos. This is the story of Roza‚ a woman from Sweden‚ and her baby Noah‚ who unexpectedly made the UAE their home during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Initially visiting her husband‚ Roza was caught in the whirlwind of... The post Baby melts hearts with adorable ‘response’ to meeting his eight cat siblings appeared first on Animal Channel.