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Sedona City Council tells SPD and city staff to turn off Flock cameras
The Sedona Police Department’s Automated License Plate Reader program with Flock Group, Inc. has been indefinitely shut off following a majority consensus of Sedona City Council members at a special meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 13, with about 50, sometimes clamorous, attendees in the audience. The majority consensus was reached through Councilwomen Melissa […]
Ancient botanicals meet modern science: Essential oils as natural anti-aging allies
As the global anti-aging market exceeds $400 billion, a growing number of consumers are turning to natural alternatives to combat wrinkles and skin aging. Herbalist Erica Kuo, in her latest recommendations, champions essential oils like cistus, myrrh and rose as potent allies for restoring skin elasticity and radiance. Supported by recent […]
Dogs Are Being Trained To “Sniff Out” A Screwworm Parasite In Cattle
Mexico has started training rescue dogs to detect flesh-eating screwworm larvae in livestock wounds. The invasive “flesh-eating parasite” is an aggressively annoying fly, and could pose another risk to the United States’ meat industry. Senasica’s Canine Trainer Center, Ceacan, has recruited rescue dogs for a three-month intensive training program, teaching […]
Deception, Trojan Horses, and the Carrot/Stick Combo
Remember the primary way people used to sell things? Particularly the tinkers and snake-oil guys. They would try to trick you into believing what they were selling was something it wasn’t. “Buyer beware” was the motto (well, not their motto, but one nonetheless). The idea was, if you could get […]
How to Set Up An Email Alias – #SolutionsWatch
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed What is an email alias, why might you want to use one, and how do you set one up? Find out in today’s important edition of Solutions Watch with special guest Hakeem Anwar of Above Agency. Video player not working? Use these links to watch it somewhere […]
Economics & Investing For Preppers
Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, we look at the volatile global silver […]
Dare To Hope
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia. Dare to be encouraged. The light is breaking […]
Suspicious Minds
“It was a coup, and I’m using that term literally … One egregious felony after another.” — Stephen Miller America is tired of being driven insane, of having absurdities crammed into our collective consciousness. Reality is an agreement about what is going on in the world. That act of faith […]
On Independence Day, Foreign Agribusiness Will Be Told Get Out, “Quit India!”
On 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. There will be the usual celebratory flag-waving and flypasts in Delhi along with sound bites about ‘the world’s biggest democracy’. But what has ‘independence’ come to mean? Placing an X on a ballot paper every now and then does not constitute democracy. If […]
