from SGT Report: Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are crashing out over the Epstein coverup of the world’s most powerful and evil people, while Trump still maintains he just doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. All while the new emails reveal that our fallen world is controlled by pedovore baby eating demons. Can […]

from RT: Washington is slamming Brussels for censorship – and coming from such a master manipulator, it should be taken seriously The Committee on the Judiciary of the US House of Representatives has issued an important report. Its title is an officialese mouthful: “The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe’s decade-long campaign to censor the global internet […]

In Kashmir, where apple orchards often dominate conversations about climate-driven crop losses, a quieter agricultural shift is unfolding in the wetlands of this Himalayan region. Farmers are reviving nadur, or lotus stem, a crop that once sustained families across the region and nearly disappeared under pollution, floods and erratic weather. What is bringing it back is not a program or new technology, but farmers working with water instead of trying to force it away. For generations, lotus stem was harvested in winter from the shallow marshes of lakes such as Dal and Wular. Pulled from soft silt and slow-moving water, it was woven into daily life, cooked as a vegetable, fried into the street snack nadur monji, or preserved in pickles. The crop also anchored livelihoods. Women often handled processing and sales, providing households with steady winter income. A vendor sells traditional Kashmiri street food, including fried lotus stem. Credit: Safina Nabi But this system has fallen apart over the past decade. Urban encroachment, sewage, rising temperatures and floods such as the disastrous ones that the region suffered in 2014 have clogged wetlands with debris and silt. Water levels have become erratic, aquatic life has declined and lotus cultivation has slowly faded. By the late 2010s, many families had stopped harvesting lotus altogether, turning away from the water that had long sustained them. Ghulam Nabi Dar, 68, watched this unfold along the edge of Wular Lake in Bandipora, a town on the water’s northern banks. His two-hectare patch once yielded enough lotus stem to feed his family and supply local markets. By 2020, repeated crop failures had left his lake plot unproductive. “The water changed,” Dar says. “It became thick, dark. Lotus wouldn’t grow.” Instead of waiting for large-scale restoration projects, Dar turned to knowledge passed down from his grandfather, who farmed lotus in the same waters decades earlier. In early 2021, Dar began cleaning his section of the lake himself. Weighed down by negative news? Our smart, bright, weekly newsletter is the uplift you’ve been looking for. [contact-form-7] Using handmade reed nets, shovels and family labor, he spent months removing silt and waste from shallow waters. He revived an old technique of stirring the lakebed with long poles to oxygenate the soil and help roots take hold. No chemicals. No machines. Just patience and repetition. “It was slow work,” Dar says. “But the water started responding.” Aquatic plants returned first, followed by small fish. By winter, lotus roots had re-established. Dar harvested 12 quintals (a unit used in agriculture for measuring crop yields, one quintal is the equivalent of about 100kg) that season, earning about 1.5 lakh (approximately $1,600). The post Kashmir’s Lotus Stems Rise Again appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

The internet was buzzing with reaction this month about Moltbook, a Reddit-like site exclusively for AI Agents. Highlights included posts where Agents referred to “my human” giving them too much access to home devices, a snubbed AI overhearing “just a chatbot” from a user and dangerously doxxing a home address, Marxist manifestos against humans exploiting […]

Many of the challenges we face today feel entirely unprecedented, driven by digital technology and a hyper-connected world. However, human nature remains remarkably consistent across the centuries, and our ancestors often grappled with nearly identical anxieties. From the spread of misinformation to the crushing weight of social comparison, the “new” problems of the 21st century […] The post 10 “Modern” Problems with Surprising Historical Analogs appeared first on Listverse.

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A 17th century memorial painted wood panel stolen from a church in Hertfordshire in 1996 has been returned 30 years later, thanks to a keen-eyed Australian heraldry enthusiast. The panel is 2’8″ x 2’2″ and contains a vividly painted coat of arms over a neatly lettered dedication. The inscription reads: “At the upper ende of this midle ile lyeth intered the Body of George Cordell Esquire, who served Queene Elisabeth and was Sergeant of the Ewry to King Iames & the late King Charles, in all Sixty yeeres: Who maried Dorothy the only daughter & heyre of Francis Prior of this parish, with whom he lives 57 Yeares & deceased the 25th of May 1653 he being Aged 84 yeeres.” Cordell’s and his wife’s families had deep ties to Flamstead and after serving as courtier to three monarchs (the Sergeant of the Ewry was in charge of all the linens and silverware for the royal table), he was buried at St Leonard’s Church. This marker was mounted on the north aisle wall. The panel disappeared from St Leonard’s Church in Flamstead in April 1996. Authorities were notified at the time, and the theft was recorded in the database of the Art Loss Register in May. For decades there was no sign of it, and eventually the new staff and parishioners forgot about the purloined panel. Then, all of a sudden on New Year’s Eve the vicar of St Leonard’s, Reverend Jo Burke, received an email from one Richard d’Apice, member of the Australian Heraldry Society in Sydney. He had perused the online catalogue of an auction at Dreweatts and spotted a panel painted with an elaborate coat of arms and a funerary inscription. This roused his nerdly suspicions, and a little detective work online led him to a description of the panel in the March, 1812, issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine which recorded it in St Leonard’s Church in Flamstead. The article quoted the full dedication, so there was no mistaking it for another piece. After getting over her initial suspicions that this was a very weirdly specific new email scam, Reverend Burke had the church archivist search the church’s old files. They found a photograph of the panel and the ALR database information. On January 9th, Burke notified Dreweatts that the lot was stolen property. The company immediately withdrew it five days before the scheduled auction. The seller had no idea it had been stolen and while Dreweatts had done their standard due diligence search in the ALR database, the panel had slipped through the search thresholds. ALR sent the seller a letter confirming the panel had been stolen in 1996 and registered with them since May of that year. The seller made arrangements for the church to pick up the panel, and two weeks later it was back home at long last. The church is very happy as the panel is a “fascinating piece of local history”. The panel is now back with St Leonard’s and in a safe location until an appropriate display method can be purchased. Burke added: “Our archivist and member of our Parochial Church Council is a retired curator of the British Museum and continues to have museum contacts. We are taking advice on how to display it securely.”

Multiple waves of mountain snow and heavy rainfall are set to impact the West, delivering much-needed relief to several states suffering through a terrible snow drought not seen in decades. For this particular…