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Lorna Shore was formed in 2010 in Warren County, New Jersey, by guitarist Adam De Micco, drummer Scott Cooper, and vocalist Tom Barber. They started out in the local metalcore scene but quickly gained attention for their technical musicianship and their willingness to blend brutality with melody. Over time, the group evolved far beyond their early deathcore roots into one of the most dynamic and influential acts of their generation. Their debut EP, Triumph, was released in 2010 and was soon followed by Bone Kingdom in 2012. These early releases helped Lorna Shore gain traction within the underground metal scene, The post Complete List Of Lorna Shore Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Danish researchers have found a molecular switch that lets plants partner with nitrogen-fixing bacteria instead of fighting them, opening the way to self-fertilizing cereal crops like wheat and barley. Their new research highlights an important biological clue that could help reduce agriculture’s heavy reliance on artificial nitrogen fertilizer. Plants require nitrogen to grow, and most […] The post Genetic Mutation Could Pave the Way for Self-Fertilizing Cereal Crops and a Revolution in Agriculture appeared first on Good News Network.

By the author of Prepper’s Natural Medicine and Prepping for a Pandemic Did you ever think about the fact that pharmacies are just as vulnerable as grocery stores during SHTF? Images of empty grocery store shelves in Venezuela and Puerto Rico are stark reminders of why we store extra food. But, if you have an illness that requires medication, such as asthma, it’s time to get prepped. In an already bad situation, can you imagine the helplessness you’d feel if your child or other loved one was having an asthma attack and you weren’t prepared to treat them? According to the CDC, 1 in 12 people suffer from asthma and that number is increasing every year. So, chances are, you or someone you care about needs to be prepared for dealing with asthma during an emergency. You may not always be able to rely on rescue inhalers. It’s time to get some backups – and then backups for your backups. Asthma Overview Asthma is a condition that makes breathing difficult. The airways swell, constrict, and can fill with mucus. Sometimes asthma manifests as wheezing, coughing, and tightness in the chest. Other times, people with asthma can have a full-blown asthma attack. These attacks can range from minor to life-threatening. We don’t know what causes asthma. We do know that there are some common triggers. According to the Mayo Clinic, asthma commonly flares up under the following situations: Exercise-Induced Asthma (worse when the air is cold and/or dry) Occupational Asthma (triggered by exposure to various chemicals) Allergy-Induced Asthma (triggered by airborne irritants, like pet dander, pollen, mold, etc.) While asthma cannot be cured, symptoms can be managed. This is commonly done with medications. Rescue inhalers provide immediate, short-term relief for acute symptoms. Corticosteroids help reduce the frequency of asthma symptoms. Allergy medication may also help prevent triggering asthma symptoms. Are Pharmacies Really At Risk? Pharmacies are just as vulnerable as grocery stores and every other business that relies on frequent shipments for inventory. Pharmacies rely on the same “just in time” inventory systems that grocery stores do. Any form of disruption could leave a drug store without resupply. The NotPetya ransomware attack back in 2918 disrupted international shipping giant Maersk’s operations for two weeks. A trucker strike would bring the US to a screeching halt. How to Prep for Asthma in a Crisis From working with asthmatics in my herbal practice, as well as helping an asthmatic friend get better prepped for long-term emergencies, I have a number of tips to pass along. Here are some easy, actionable steps you can take to manage asthma symptoms in an SHTF situation. Conventional Options Order your meds ahead. Many pharmacies will give people an option of buying 2-3 months worth of medication in advance when ordering online. Ask your doctor for an extra script. Not all doctors will do this, and not all health insurance plans will pay for this. But, some doctors will write you an extra prescription to have on hand for emergencies, so it never hurts to ask. Store OTC asthma medicine. Primatene Mist is no longer available because it contained CFCs. (Chlorofluorocarbons have been banned since 1996 because they destroy the ozone layer.) However, non-prescription medicine for use with a nebulizer is available free of CFCs. These aren’t a perfect solution. If you use too much, it can make you lightheaded and cause your heart to race. But, they can be an important part of your emergency SHTF healthcare preps. Basic, at-home diagnostic equipment. Two relatively inexpensive items to have on hand are a pulse oximeter to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood, and a peak flow meter which will measure how well the air is moving out of your lungs. Protect your equipment against EMPs. Ever since North Korea launched its latest ICBM, concern over EMP attack has been through the roof. Simple blackout bags can protect your healthcare equipment. You will still need a power source to run the nebulizer, so plan for that too. Stock up on OTC allergy medicines. If allergies trigger your asthma attacks, this is a no-brainer. Over-the-counter allergy medicines are readily available now. You can get these at your local drug, grocery, and even wholesale stores. Herbal and Natural Remedies Stock up on coffee. The caffeine in a hot cup of coffee can often stop an asthma attack if you catch it early. Make sure to have an off-grid way to make coffee, such as with an emergency stove for heat and a French press for brewing. Coffee also helps with constriction in cases of bronchitis. Grow Codonopsis pilosa. Grow codonopsis, aka dang shen, in your medicinal herb garden. The root is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remedy for asthma. Codonopsis is traditionally used to reduce the frequency of asthmatic symptoms, as opposed to acute asthma attacks. Codonopsis isn’t something you typically find at your local nursery, but you can get the seeds from Strictly Medicinal Seeds. Have a cup of Mormon Tea. Mormon Tea is made from any of several types of ephedra species, such as Ephedra nevadensis and Ephedra sinica. The FDA took ephedra off the market because of serious reactions when abused as a weight loss supplement. Even though the amounts used are not naturally found in a cup of tea, the FDA banned all use of ephedra in commercially prepared products. You can, however, grow it and wildcraft it. Lobelia tincture. One of the most helpful herbs for the lungs is lobelia. Lobelia is an herbal antispasmodic and expectorant. It is a specific for asthma in Traditional Western Herbalism.  Lobelia has tall stalks of lovely blue flowers. Make sure to prepare lobelia as a tincture, and not as a tea. When taken in tea form, lobelia is emetic, and emetic herbs can make a person nauseous enough to vomit. Making a tincture eliminates this effect. I have seen good results with 10-15 drops under the tongue every 15 minutes for acute asthma. Mullein smoke. While this might sound counter-intuitive, mullein leaf smoke works wonders to relax bronchospasms. Smoke is the fastest way to bring mullein to the affected tissues. Blend mullein with lobelia and lemon balm for an effective asthma remedy. However, if smoking mullein leaf isn’t going to work for you, you can use it as an herbal steam instead. Grindelia tincture. This is an effective herbal expectorant and is historically known for its use as an antitussive. It is helpful for coughs, bronchitis, and asthma. Use herbal sources of antihistamines. Did you know that some herbs are sources of antihistamines? Herbs like nettle and ginkgo both contain antihistamines. If allergies trigger your asthma, a hot tea of these herbs may help you weather allergy season. Good People Will Get Pushed to Do Bad Things And when that happens, the last place you want to be is in a drug store, fighting for life or death medication, in the middle of a crisis. Addicts will do anything to get their next fix. Desperate parents will do desperate things to get necessary medication back home to their kids. You don’t want to be anywhere in that volatile mix. Take action to be ready now, and you will thank yourself later. Do you have any special preps you’ve made for people you love who suffer from asthma? Share your ideas in the comments section. About Cat Cat Ellis is an herbalist,  massage therapist, midwifery student, and urban homesteader from New England. She keeps bees, loves gardening and canning, and practice time at the range. Cat is a member of the American Herbalists Guild, and the author of Prepper’s Natural Medicine and Prepping for a Pandemic. 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The White House, federal regulators, and Congress are scrambling to develop a national approach to artificial intelligence. Yet almost no one is examining AI from an ethical or civil-society perspective. Policymakers frame it as an economic or national security issue. Those angles matter. But the deeper question — what it means to live in an AI-dominated world inside a constitutional republic — remains almost entirely unaddressed.AI is already reshaping our political life, our civic discourse, and our education system. One of the clearest windows into this shift is the outsized influence of Wikipedia and Reddit. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini consume a training diet heavy on both sites. AI systems don’t “know” anything in a human sense. They mirror patterns. And the patterns they ingest come from platforms run by anonymous editors, ideological moderators, and unaccountable gatekeepers.No special-interest group today is fighting for Americans who will soon live in a world saturated with AI slop.The Oversight Project examined the underbelly of this problem, beginning with Wikipedia. After noticing what looked like coordinated ideological editing campaigns, we sought to understand who was shaping the platform. What we found was a small, powerful cadre of editors with the authority to dictate what information is permitted. These editors operate anonymously — or so they believed.We identified several of them and, more tellingly, where they were editing from. Some connections were foreign. Others showed activity that aligned with a 9-to-5 workday. It was clearly inorganic. That raised obvious questions: who pays these people, who coordinates them, and whether intelligence services are involved.The most aggressive coordination appeared on politically sensitive topics, especially anything involving Israel or the Arab world. Automated tools tracked and reverted edits across thousands of pages to enforce a narrative. When Wikipedia realized we were mapping these networks, it panicked. To protect anonymity, the platform changed its internal rules to obstruct outside scrutiny. Then it retaliated by downgrading us to “deprecated” status — a ban in all but name. Anything sourced to us became unacceptable on the site.We are sounding the alarm because foreign actors and domestic ideologues understand the power of controlling Wikipedia’s information flow. Our own intelligence agencies almost certainly understand it as well. In a recent interview, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger told me that intelligence services would be negligent if they were not influencing the platform.Sanger also expressed regret about founding Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales, noting that like so many other institutions, it has been conquered by the ideological left and turned into a political instrument, a shift made even more consequential in the age of AI.RELATED: Almost half of Gen Z wants AI to run the government. You should be terrified. Man_Half-tube via iStock/Getty ImagesThis is where the danger becomes unmistakable. Most people treat Wikipedia and Reddit cautiously when browsing the internet, aware of the bias. AI does not. When you ask an AI system a question, it generates polished, authoritative-sounding answers built from those same sources — stripped of context, caveats, or transparency. What appears neutral is often laundered opinion.This information-laundering must become part of the national conversation about AI. Some policymakers seem to understand the stakes. The Senate Commerce Committee has sent oversight letters and plans a hearing. The House Oversight Committee has signaled similar interest. Even Ed Martin, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has demanded information from Wikipedia.But the truth is blunt. No special-interest group today is fighting for Americans who will soon live in a world saturated with AI slop. There is plenty of lobbying in Washington for everything except preserving an honest information ecosystem. Without intervention, public knowledge will be shaped by opaque networks of foreign actors, ideological activists, and machine-driven amplification on a massive scale.Policymakers must recognize what is at stake and act before the architecture of public knowledge is fully captured. The future of AI — and the future of democratic self-government — depends on it.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and his team are desperately trying to save a woman in the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan who has been failed by her country's socialist health care system.Jolene Van Alstine of Regina has for eight years suffered from a rare parathyroid disease called normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism, which causes nausea and vomiting and draws calcium from the bones into the blood, resulting in extreme bone pain, weakened bone density, and fractures.'I've been alone lying on the couch for eight years, sick and curled up in a ball, pushing for the day to end.'Van Alstine has undergone three surgeries but still requires a specialized procedure to remove her overactive parathyroid gland.The problem, according to Canadian state media, is that there is presently no surgeon in the province able to perform the operation. While there are apparently capable and available surgeons elsewhere in Canada, Van Alstine has indicated that she must first obtain a referral — and cannot secure one, as none of the endocrinologists in her region are accepting new patients.Until this week, Van Alstine was running short on hope."My friends have stopped visiting me. I'm isolated. I've been alone lying on the couch for eight years, sick and curled up in a ball, pushing for the day to end," she told state media.Glenn Beck noted Wednesday on his show, "She's riddled with pain. Yesterday, we found out that she was in the ER because she's having all kinds of complications because of this. And she can't take it any more.""This one is so grotesque," continued Beck, "because the state would rather have her die."'We expect to see more than 16,500 "medical assistance in dying" or euthanasia deaths.'The prospect that her treatable disease might go untreated prompted Van Alstine to contemplate state-facilitated suicide, which is euphemistically referred to in Canada as Medial Assistance in Dying.RELATED: 'Pro-death legislators' want euthanasia in Illinois — Canada reveals why that's a terrible idea Photo by ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP via Getty Images "I understand how long and how much she's suffered, and it’s horrific, the physical suffering, but it's also the mental anguish," Miles Sundeen, Van Alstine's partner, said late last month. "No hope — no hope for the future, no hope for any relief. I don't want her to do it, but I understand where she's at."George Carson, a MAID approval doctor, indicated this week that he assessed Van Alstine and provided her with his approval. Since she has apparently also received approval from a nurse practitioner, she now requires only one more approval in order to secure a spot among the tens of thousands of Canadians who will be snuffed out in the new year by their socialist health care system, which was originally founded by the eugenicist Tommy Douglas.MAID is among the top five leading causes of death in Canada and accounted for 4.7% of all deaths in the country in 2023.Rebecca Vachon, health program director at the Canadian think tank Cardus, recently told Blaze News that "based on current reporting from the most populous provinces, we expect to see more than 16,500 'medical assistance in dying' or euthanasia deaths in 2024, which is an increase from the 15,343 deaths reported in 2023. This will likely result in MAID deaths constituting 5% of total deaths in Canada that year."MAID — which Canada's Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer boasted in October 2020 would, with expanded access, "result in a net reduction in health care costs for the provincial governments" — appears to be fast becoming a relief valve for a health care system that has come under great strain in part because of an aging population but largely because of the immigration-driven population gains overseen by the Trudeau Liberals.'Imagine saving a woman's life for Christmas.'Average annual immigration from 2000 to 2015 was 617,800. Under the Trudeau Liberals, average annual immigration was 1.4 million from 2016 to 2024.As of April 1, 2025, Canada had an estimated population of just over 41.5 million people. According to the 2021 census, over 8.3 million people — 23% of the total population — "were, or had ever been, a landed immigrant or permanent resident in Canada." This, however, appears to be a gross undercount.A new government report revealed that 38% of non-permanent residents — roughly another 576,000 — were potentially "missed" by the 2021 census.According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, there were 2.41 physicians per 1,000 people. The United States, by comparison, reportedly has at least 3.6 doctors per 1,000. An estimated 5.9 million Canadians — around 14% — don't have regular access to a primary care provider."This is your socialized health care, gang," Beck said on Wednesday of Van Alstine's case. "This is the reality of compassionate, progressive health care. Canada has to end this insanity. And Americans must never let it spread here."After Van Alstine's last-ditch plea for help to Canadian lawmakers and officials failed to immediately produce the desired results, an American got involved."If there is any surgeon in America who can do this, I'll pay for this patient to come down here for treatment," Beck wrote Tuesday on X.RELATED: JD Vance to Canada: Stop blaming Trump for your decline Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBeck revealed in a series of announcements first, that multiple surgeons reached out with an interest in helping; second, that his team made contact with Van Alstine and Sundeen; and third, that his team had connected with the U.S. State Department after discovering that Van Alstine lacked a passport to gain legal entry into the United States."I'll fly her down. I'll put her up. I'll get her the doctors," Beck said on his show. "We need to get her the surgery.""Imagine saving a woman's life for Christmas," added Beck. "Is there anything better that we could do?"Sundeen told Canadian state media after Beck's team spoke with him, "For us to have it done in the States would be financially impossible otherwise."An Ipsos poll conducted last year for Global News found that 42% of Canadians would travel to the U.S. and personally pay for more routine health care if needed — up 10 percentage points over the previous year — and 38% would travel to the U.S. and pay out of pocket for emergency care — up 9 points over the previous year.Sean Simpson, vice president of Ipsos Public Affairs, noted, "I think the increase is happening because of the increasing level of frustration that Canadians have in the health care system.""It's not the quality of care that people are upset about; it is the timely access to care, meaning wait times in emergency rooms, wait times to see specialists, to get appointments, for screening," continued Simpson. "As a result, we have a significant chunk of the population say if they can get that service elsewhere, such as the United States, they may consider doing so." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Erika Kirk Torches Leftist Ghouls Celebrating Charlie’s Murder in Explosive Town Hall: Sick in Your Soul

In the world of consumer tech products, obsolescence is inevitable. These once-popular gadgets are now relegated to the dustbin of history, for better or worse.