When customers walk into Farmers Feed Co., Mike Fleming’s first priority is to make them feel at ease. He goes out of his way to befriend his clientele, “whether they spend a dollar or $300.” When he sees a customer struggling to speak English, he uses his bit of Spanish […]
Daily Archives: October 17, 2017
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Ri Jong-ho, a North Korean defector who previously ran an international network of North Korean businesses, claims the current sanctions could devastate the hermit dictatorship. He told crowds at an Asia Society event in New York: “The sanctions that the White House has imposed on North Korea are of a […]
Sebastian Kurz is set to become the continent’s youngest leader after his Austrian People’s Party topped the polls after Sunday’s vote. But, despite warnings from the EU, he may need to form a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) to secure a government. Now reports in the Polish press […]
Marc Faber, also known as “Dr Doom”, launched a racially charged attack in his latest newsletter when he discussed racial conflict in America. He wrote: “And thank God white people populated America, and not the blacks. “Otherwise, the US would look like Zimbabwe, which it might look like one day […]
Conservationists can be ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the prospect of sustainable subsistence hunting by Amazonian communities, according to new research. The research team spent over a year working with 60 Amazonian communities and hiked for miles through trackless forests to deploy nearly 400 motion-activated camera traps — in a bid to […]
After a four-month battle, American-backed forces in Syria captured Raqqa on Oct. 17, taking back a city that was the center of power for Islamic State’s “caliphate” since 2014. While the victory was a military one, the real heroes may be the Muslim civilians forced to live under the harsh […]
1. A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of U.S. backed militias, holds up their flag in Raqqa on Oct. 17. The SDF said Tuesday they had taken full control of Raqqa from ISIS, defeating the last jihadist holdouts in the de facto Syrian capital of their […]
Google’s Advanced Protection Program relies in part on physical security keys — which you’ll need to purchase. Google It’s natural to be feeling a little nervous about online security these days, what with nonstop reports of new ransomware, password thefts, Equifax breaches and Wi-Fi vulnerabilities (namely KRACK). There’s another security […]