Rabbits in Colorado are being spotted with strange, tentacle-like growths on their heads. The tentacles are caused by a relatively common and harmless virus called Shope papillomavirus. Reports of these infected rabbits date back to 2024, when a resident posted a photo online showing the creature’s entire head covered in black, spike-like protrusions, as reported…
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Unmanned ground vehicles ‘real crucial’ in fight against Russia: Ukrainian official
GVSETS 2025 — As the war against Russia grinds on, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have identified more and more uses for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), from serving as hosts for electronic warfare payloads to medevac, but they’re always on the lookout for more, according to a Ukrainian official. “I saw today some [unmanned] systems over…
Sedona City Council to discuss automated license plate reader cameras at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13
From Sedona Red Rock News: The Sedona City Council will discuss Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers at a work session at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13. The public will be able to speak to council during the public comment portion of the meeting. Concerns about the city of Sedona’s installation of 12 automatic…
An autonomy blueprint is essential to keep legacy platforms relevant in modern warfare
Russia’s drone and missile attacks on Ukraine – and Ukraine’s own asymmetric tactics – have accelerated the need for rapid adaptation on the modern battlefield. The days of relying solely on new platform development are gone. Like the urgent deployment of blast-resistant vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan to counter IEDs, today’s mission demands faster paths…
Global Food Prices Surge To Two-Year High Amid Supply Crunches
This article was originally published by Willow Tohi at Natural News. Global Food Price Index hits its highest level since February 2023, driven by surging vegetable oil and meat prices. Vegetable oils rise 7 percent to a three-year high amid lower palm oil output and biofuel demand for soy oil. Meat prices hit an all-time…
Looking for Some Post-Apocalyptic Fiction? Check Out G. Michael Hopf
Author of Be Ready for Anything and Build a Better Pantry on a Budget online course If you’re anything like me, you’re always in search of more post-apocalyptic fiction. I’ve recommended quite a few books that I’ve enjoyed. I loved the books by A. American, L. L. Akers, and Boyd Craven. Now I have another author…
False Stories in the New York Times and the Seattle Times on Western Washington Megafires
From the Cliff Mass weather blog, via WattsUpWithThat. [Last week], the New York Times ran a story that was blatantly false, with the Seattle Times featuring it as well. The claim: that Western Washington will experience more “megafires” due to human-caused global warming (climate change). Unfortunately, the writer of this story (a Washington State stringer for…
Super carriers, smaller carriers rise across the Indo-Pacific
SYDNEY — Japan, for the first time since World War II, will once again have a navy that includes aircraft carriers — technically, at least, after retrofitting two helicopter-destroyers to host recently arrived F-35 stealth fighters. While they are not the immense super carriers of the US Navy like the Gerald R. Ford, the vessels,…
Canada Attacks Private Property Rights – Video #241
In a recent Canadian court case, private property was awarded to a First People’s/Indigenous People’s tribe. It will be appealed, but if the result holds, this has far-reaching implications for private property rights. Is this the land grab agenda via UNDRIP? Shownotes: https://thefreedomarticles.com/undrip-land-grab-via-fake-care-for-indigenous-p1/ https://thefreedomarticles.com/undrip-land-grab-via-fake-care-for-indigenous-p2/ https://thefreedomarticles.com/manmade-climate-change-hoax-becomes-embedded-in-law/ https://thehub.ca/podcast/video/the-case-is-so-consequential-could-a-b-c-first-nations-land-claim-upend-canadian-property-rights/ ***** Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media…
Canada’s Climate Lockdown Testing Your Compliance – Video #240
In Canada, it’s now no hiking, camping or fishing in some areas. Camping is only allowed in designated campgrounds. In other areas, no paddling or kayaking. The Canadian Government is running a trial Climate Lockdown to test citizen compliance. Shownotes: https://www.narcity.com/wildfires-canada-woods-bans-fines https://x.com/bruce_barrett/status/1954168373148782955 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/09/my-carbon-an-approach-for-inclusive-and-sustainable-cities/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59115203 ***** Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent…
Pull Your Children from Public Schools, Senator Says
Senator Ralph Babet has called on parents across the state of Victoria to remove their children from public schools, after it was revealed that children as young as five years old were being taught their body parts may not match their gender. In a statement posted Tuesday on X (formerly Twitter), Senator Babet criticised what…
The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here
This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute. This Friday, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to sit down together in what will be the first face-to-face meeting between leaders of each country since the war in Ukraine broke out almost three and a half years ago. For…
Democrats Propose Letting Any Adult Claim Legal Rights Over a Child, Raising Trafficking Fears
Any adult will be able to claim legal rights over a child if a new nightmare proposal passes in California. Named the Family Preparedness Plan Act (AB495), Democrats want the definition of parent to include anyone “with an established familial or mentoring relationship with the child, or with a relative of the child.” Criticising the…
Hamas Continues to Praise Western Countries for Recognizing Palestinian State
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at a Labor party election night event, after local media projected the Labor Party’s victory, on the day of the Australian federal election, in Sydney, Australia, May 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hollie Adams The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is once again praising Western countries for recognizing a Palestinian state, most…
Democratic Socialists of America Makes Support for Israel’s Right to Self-Defense an ‘Expellable Offense’
A protester holds a sign that reads, ”From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” during a pro-Palestinian emergency demonstration outside the Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2025. Photo: Reginald Mathalone via Reuters Connect At its 2025 National Convention this past weekend, the Democratic Socialists of America adopted…
New York Man Sentenced for Firing Shotgun Outside Synagogue
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader. Photo: Screenshot. US federal law officials on Tuesday announced the sentencing of a man who fired a pump-action shotgun outside the Temple Israel synagogue in Albany, New York to express his anti-Israel views and intimidate Jewish community members. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, committed the offense on Dec. 7, 2023, exactly…
Hungary Says “Russia Has Won The War”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that “Russia has won the war.” Orban added that the only issue is that Ukraine’s backers are refusing to admit defeat, but once they do, this war is over. Without military aid and weapons, Ukraine would have lost this fight a long time ago. Like Orban, we have…
Arsonists Hurl Firebombs at Russian Synagogue in Second Attack
An attempt to set fire to the synagogue in Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia. Photo: Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS. For the second time in just over a year, law enforcement in Russia responded to an attempt to burn down a synagogue in Obninsk, Russia. The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC),…
Argentina’s Milei Launches $1 Million Isaac Accords Initiative to Strengthen Israel–Latin America Ties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the signing of MOUs with Argentine President Javier Milei. Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO) Argentine President Javier Milei has helped to launch a $1 million initiative, the American Friends of the Isaac Accords (AFOIA), aimed at deepening diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties between Israel and Latin American countries. On Tuesday,…
GS Engineering’s REAPr unmanned ground vehicle designed for US Marines
GVSETS 2025 — Michigan-based vehicle-maker GS Engineering this week is using the GVSETS Conference here to promote what one company official called a “small, cost-effective” ground vehicle platform designed for use by the US Marines. The Remote Expeditionary Autonomous Pioneer System or REAPr was developed as part of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project….
Mike Huckabee Blames Hamas for Hunger in Gaza, Says Terror Group ‘Doesn’t Care’ if Palestinians Have Food
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee looks on during the day he visits the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Hamas is to blame for widespread hunger in Gaza, according to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who asserted in a new media appearance that…
Advances in propellants, made in America, are crucial to long range-artillery fires
The U.S. industrial base for munitions and energetics is at a crossroads, with the Army investing heavily in munitions technology and production capacity. This includes a critical focus on artillery shells, which complements a simultaneous pursuit of vitally needed howitzer capability improvements – all in search of desperately needed improved long-range precision artillery fires. But…
Switzerland weighs cuts to F-35 order amid cost dispute, tariff pressure
WASHINGTON — Swiss officials said today negotiations with the US have failed to resolve a pricing dispute over an order for F-35 fighter jets, raising the possibility that Bern will have to reassess its planned buy. After selecting the jet in 2021 and inking a contract in 2022, Switzerland says its order of 36 F-35A…
Sterile Screwworm Flies Have Been Released To Combat Parasite
As an invasive flesh-eating parasite moves its way closer to Texas, the United States has recognized the threat to cattle. In order to combat the possible impact on the meat supply, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released sterile screwworm flies in order to combat the parasite. Bird Flu May Have Disappeared, But A…
Mike Stone – The Illusion of an American Revival
(Good genes signal white America is back) If America was truly back, every doctor, nurse, pharmacist and nursing home attendant who gave injections of the fake vaccine would be rounded up, sent to Gitmo, and tried in military tribunals for crimes against humanity. Every politician, school official, teacher, and media influencer who helped push the…
The best Trump can hope for in Alaska
Admittedly, spending time with Vladimir Putin is not exactly a day at the seashore. But, US President Donald Trump is perhaps the best prepared of any modern president for dealing with Putin and Xi Jinping types. Consider his experience dealing with corrupt local governments, corrupt labor union bosses and the mafia itself during his years…
Senator Rick Scott Should be Commended for the “PROTECT the Grid” Act
The new PROTECT the Grid Act currently under debate in Congress will definitely help to secure the United States’ power grid. On August 7, 2025, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) announced his “PROTECT the Grid” Act. The Florida senator should be commended for authoring and filing the Preventing Remote Operations by Threatening Entities on Critical Technology for…
Time for a Rethink on Holocaust Memorials
The Boston skyline stands behind the Tobin Bridge and the city of Chelsea as seen from Everett, Massachusetts, US. Photo: Brian Snyder via Reuters Connect Sometime in late 2026, commuters who enter and exit Park Street Station in downtown Boston will be confronted with a daily reminder of one of the great catastrophes of the…
PBS & the AP Give Hezbollah the ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Treatment
Supporters of Hezbollah attend a protest organized by them against what they said was a violation of national sovereignty, near Beirut international airport, Lebanon, Feb. 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Emilie Madi If PBS and the AP had been covering World War II with today’s “journalists,” they might have used a headline like: “Survivors of Strike on…
Army, Clemson University unveil upgraded Deep Orange semi-autonomous vehicle
GVSETS 2025 — The US Army, in partnership with Clemson University, recently revealed the Deep Orange 16 semi-autonomous vehicle, the latest upgrade over previous Deep Orange vehicles designed to work in support of emergency response in extreme conditions. The vehicle was on display Tuesday here at the GVSETS Conference in Novi, Mich. Deep Orange 16…
Kugel, Campfires, and the Key to Jewish Continuity
Children at summer camp. Photo: Foundation for Jewish Camp. This summer, my young son went off to Jewish camp. No helicopter-parent texts. No screens. No antisemitic signs calling for harm, which have become ubiquitous in New York. Just a safe wooded campus, a pack of new friends, and — unexpectedly — pure joy. He’s not…
Gaza ‘Journalist’ Was a Hamas Terrorist — But the Media Ignores the Evidence
The Al Jazeera Media Network logo is seen on its headquarters building in Doha, Qatar, June 8, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon Outrageous reporting this week enabled terrorism to hide behind the mask of journalism, portraying an Al Jazeera reporter targeted by Israel in Gaza as a heroic figure. In reality, it was a sea of…
Israeli Military Says Chief of Staff Approved ‘Main Concept’ for Attack Plan in Gaza
The new Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, visits the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City, March 5, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun The Israeli military said on Wednesday that chief of staff Eyal Zamir has approved the “main concept” for an attack plan in the Gaza Strip. Israel has said it will launch a new offensive and seize control of Gaza City,…
France, Germany, UK Willing to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran Over Nuclear Program
European foreign ministers talk over lunch at the offices of the honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Geneva, Switzerland June 20, 2025, before meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/Pool via REUTERS France, Germany, and Britain have written to the United Nations to say they…
Israel Says It Kills 5 Terrorists Posing as US Charity Personnel
A picture released by the Israeli Army says to show Israeli soldiers conducting operations in a location given as Tel Al-Sultan area, Rafah Governorate, Gaza, in this handout image released April 2, 2025. Photo: Israeli Army/Handout via REUTERS Israel‘s military has said it killed five armed terrorists in the Gaza Strip pretending to work for…
No Armed Groups Allowed in Lebanon, President Tells Hezbollah’s Backer Iran
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, in this handout image released on Aug. 13, 2025. Photo: Lebanese Presidency Press Office/Handout via REUTERS No group in Lebanon is permitted to bear arms or rely on foreign backing, its president told a visiting senior Iranian official on…
South Sudan Refutes Claims of Talks With Israel to Resettle Palestinians From Gaza
Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli offensive, shelter in a tent camp on a beach amid summer heat in Gaza City, Aug. 12, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa South Sudan is not in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from war-torn Gaza, South Sudan‘s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Associated Press, citing six people with knowledge of the matter, reported that Israel was holding discussions with Juba to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in the…
How NATO nations need to sell the 5 percent spending hike to their own people
At the NATO Summit earlier this summer, NATO allies agreed to raise their defense spending target to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 — with 3.5 percent focused on hard security and 1.5 allocated to defense-enablers like critical infrastructure and cybersecurity. The move, pushed by the White House, represents a much-needed increase in spending to…
New Zealand Prime Minister Says Israel’s Netanyahu Has ‘Lost the Plot’
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attends a press conference with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (not pictured) at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Aug. 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Wednesday that Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu had “lost the plot” as the country weighs whether to recognize a Palestinian state. Luxon…
Dozens of Prisoners Released from Gitmo “Confirmed of Reengaging” in Terrorist Activities
Over a decade after the U.S. government offered a $5 million reward for information on the whereabouts of an Al Qaeda operative it released from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay an intelligence report reveals that like him dozens of detainees freed from the compound have rejoined terrorist missions. They are part of the hundreds…
War Support COLLAPSES In Ukraine
The Ukrainian public is looking for a peace deal of any kind at this, as their support for the war collapses. This new poll data has been released just ahead of this coming Friday’s historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The talk between United States President Donald Trump and RUssian president Vladimir Putin will mainly revolve…
More power, no moving parts: The quest to fly a rotating detonation engine
P&W RAY Rotating Detonation Engine Animation. Photo courtesy of RTX. The engineers gathered at a lab in Connecticut, stood outside a testing chamber and listened. Inside was what’s known as a rotating detonation engine – a new style of propulsion system, and one their peers, colleagues and predecessors had been researching and theorizing about for…
USV maker Seasats says drone came within meters of Chinese warship during Pacific transit
WASHINGTON — The autonomous surface vessel producer Seasats had an unexpected encounter with a Chinese warship while transiting the Indo-Pacific earlier this year, its chief executive exclusively told Breaking Defense. The California-based company conducted a publicly tracked transit of one of its USVs, dubbed Lightfish, from San Diego to Japan, a roughly 7,500 nautical mile…
Trump Sends National Guard to Liberate DC from Gangs, Maniacs & Homeless
This article was originally published by G. Calder at The Exposé. President Trump has just made one of the most aggressive federal interventions in Washington, DC’s recent past. Described as “liberation day in DC”, the president has seized control of the city’s police force – for the first time in its history – and deployed…
New Navy-Marine AI and data strategy coming this fall, seeking rapid adaptation for wartime
WASHINGTON — The US Navy is drowning in data, but it can’t turn that intelligence into new tactics or tech updates fast enough for a 21st century war, warned the new Chief Data and AI Officer for the Department of the Navy Stuart Wagner. But, he said, a forthcoming strategy for “data and AI weaponization”…
Hearing Protection Isn’t Just for the Shooting Range
By the author of Dear Diary: It’s Me, Jessica I wanted to take a moment to discuss how important our hearing is. We often take it for granted but the other day I was doing some home repairs requiring the use of power tools. Hearing protection has come a long way from the simple foam…
Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Declining Academic Rigor Is Responsible for Falling Test Scores, Not Climate Change
The Los Angeles Times (LAT) recently published an article asserting that “rising heat is causing students to underperform across the globe.” This is false. This is the kind of tidy, single‑cause climate narrative that papers love for two reasons. First, it absolves one of their favorite liberal institutions, the public school system, of responsibility for…
‘Don’t Trade Me’: Israel’s Impossible Dilemma Amid Gaza War
US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, are escorted by Palestinian Hamas terrorists and Islamic Jihad terrorists as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 15, 2025. Photo:…
⚡I Totally F*#&ED UP! OFF-GRID for the Apocalypse? BIG MISTAKES! w/ Joel Salatin
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The Worst Herbal Mistakes I Know: Read and Learn
Although it’s still summer here where I live, I am now gathering my herbal medicines for the winter. I hang them up around my little cabin and set some on the metal drying rack I bought at a local thrift shop. When cold and flu season arrives, I will be ready. Yesterday, a friend of…
NO, You CAN’T Use Electric Pressure COOKERS for Canning
Author of Be Ready for Anything and Bloom Where You’re Planted online course Every few years, somebody proudly posts how they used their Instant Pot to home-can green beans or beef stew and saved a fortune by not buying a real pressure canner. The post gets widely circulated around Facebook, Instagram, and X (the actual…
