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  Growing the Surveillance State: Drones, Facial Recognition, AI Enlisted to Fight Crime but at What Cost? By  Jesse Smith Big Brother is at it again. With rising crime as the backdrop, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is growing the surveillance state with a plan to use drones to fight crime in Central Park. Sadly, neither rising crime or increasing surveillance are unique to NYC, as both are becoming global trends indicative of a much greater agenda. Gone are the days when “Robocop” and “Skynet” were just dystopian ideas for Hollywood blockbusters. The dark, distant future those films portrayed is now  a present reality . In classic problem-reaction-solution fashion, NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD are preparing to deploy surveillance drones to stop lawlessness in Central Park. According to the  New York Post , the drones could be patrolling the skies very soon: Central Park frolickers could soon find themselves under Big Brother surveillance from NYPD drones flyin...

  Rotten Meat & Fly Larvae: What You  Aren't Told About Traditional Diets Fermenting seals, botulism, ancestral foods and the use of decaying meat in prehistory Stone Age Herbalist Somewhere around 1950, botulism cases in Alaska began to trend upwards. The disease doesn’t wait long, and after about 15 hours or so the sufferer begins to rapidly lose control of their muscles, spreading downwards in a classic wave of paralysis. Curiously for health officials these new cases of botulism were affecting mostly the Inuit and other indigenous groups such as the Aleuts. Why would this be so? The culprits were eventually identified - putrid seal flippers, a beaver tail left to rot in a bag and then eaten, fermented fish heads buried in the ground. Who would eat this stuff, and why? The next few decades would see modern science come up against traditional circumpolar food knowledge and start to make sense of the problem. As we’ll see, diets around the world are nothing like as standa...