By Dan Sullivan

There’s been a sort of weird relaxation in the prepping community after Donald Trump won the elections. People think that just because the Republican nominee will become President, everything’s going to be ok and they don’t need to prep anymore.

Wrong.

In what follows, I’m going to give you a few very good reasons to continue to prepare, and start right away if you haven’t done so. Prepping is a lifelong journey and you should never stop doing it, regardless of who’s in the Oval Office.   Continue reading “No, Prepping is Not Dead Just because Trump Won”

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Tax Revolution Institute – by Chloe Anagnos

Americans are being taxed in ways that many don’t even notice. Commonly referred to as “hidden taxes,” these tolls are built into the cost of certain products. Often, these taxes don’t even appear on a bill or receipt. Here are some of the five most common hidden taxes:   Continue reading “5 Hidden Taxes You Didn’t Know You’re Paying”

Yahoo News

Search efforts today resumed by water, air and shoreline for a plane that disappeared four days ago near Cleveland carrying three adults, including a CEO, and three children, officials said.

A bag from the plane was recovered Sunday near the Shoreby Club harbor, which is along the coast about 6 miles north of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, city officials said.  Continue reading “Search Resumes for Plane That Disappeared Over Lake Erie With CEO and Family”

The Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is being questioned by detectives on suspicion of illegally accepting valuable gifts from prominent businessmen in a scandal that is roiling Israeli politics.

Police officers came to the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem on Monday evening to question him about claims that he took designer suits and overseas trips his son from at least two businessmen.   Continue reading “Netanyahu questioned by Israeli police over allegations he took gifts from businessmen”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

Here we go again with more Russia hysteria, courtesy of the Washington Post.

Any time a story comes out of Washington Post, readers should realize three things. First, WAPO is a regular attendee at the secretive elite Bilderberg annual conference, has been for decades. Two, so is WAPO’s relatively new owner, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos. Three, Bezos literally works with the CIA, having taken contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency to provide its cloud data storage.   Continue reading “Washington Post Forced To Retract Fake Story That Russia Hacked US Power Grid”

LA Times

A swarm of more than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists.

The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, striking directly underneath the town of Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles.    Continue reading “Quake swarm near the California-Mexico border gets scientists’ attention”

KFOR 4 News

OKLAHOMA CITY – A Valley Brook police officer is in critical condition after being shot in the leg during a traffic stop.

The shooting took place around 5:30 p.m. near I-240 and Eastern.

The officer had his back turned and was making his way back to his vehicle when the driver shot him in the leg.   Continue reading “Officer shot after traffic stop, suspect at large”

Yahoo News

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered a halt to another Obama administration effort to strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that social conservatives say could force doctors to violate their religious beliefs.

The latest injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor comes four months after he blocked a higher-profile new set of transgender protections — a federal directive that required public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. Several of the Republican-controlled states that brought that lawsuit, including Texas, also sued over the health regulations that were finalized in May.   Continue reading “Texas judge halts federal transgender health protections”

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Simple to Remember

In 46 B.C.E. the Roman emperor Julius Caesar first established January 1 as New Year’s day. Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking forward and one back.  Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door” to the year.  Caesar celebrated the first January 1 New Year by ordering the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in the Galilee.  Eyewitnesses say blood flowed in the streets.  In later years, Roman pagans observed the New Year by engaging in drunken orgies—a ritual they believed constituted a personal re-enacting of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos was ordered by the gods.   Continue reading “A History of New Years”

ABC News

A manhunt is underway for an armed and dangerous suspect who fatally shot a Pennsylvania state trooper Friday night while investigating a domestic-related incident, police said.

Pennsylvania State Police wrote on its Facebook page, “PSP regrets to announce that Trooper Landon Weaver was tragically shot and killed while investigating a domestic-related incident at a home on Bakers Hollow Road in Juniata Township, Huntingdon County around 6:30 p.m. on December 30th.”   Continue reading “Manhunt Underway For Armed and Dangerous Suspect After PA State Trooper Fatally Shot”

CBS News

New York City is preparing to welcome nearly two million people to Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

According to the NYPD, nearly 7,000 police officers will be on patrol, some in plain clothes to blend in with the crowd.    Continue reading “Massive sand trucks added to NYC’s New Year’s Eve security plans”

The Federalist – by John Daniel Davidson

In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”
Continue reading “EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm”

Tulsa World

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer shot another officer and a man he was trying to arrest during a confrontation following a traffic stop.

Police in Weatherford near Fort Worth say officer Chris Bumpas was conducting the stop Thursday evening when he discovered there was a warrant for the arrest of one of three people in the vehicle.   Continue reading “Texas officer trying to arrest suspect shot by fellow cop”

Yahoo News

Russian President Vladimir Putin today said he will not expel 35 U.S. diplomats, rejecting his own foreign minister’s recommendation to do so in response to U.S. sanctions.

Putin said he views the latest moves by the outgoing Obama administration as a provocation aimed at further undermining U.S.-Russia relations.   Continue reading “Vladimir Putin Rejects His Minister’s Proposal to Expel 35 US Diplomats”

Fox News

Shopping malls across the nation were taking additional security precautions Tuesday following a string of disturbances the day after Christmas that resulted in minor injuries, evacuations and scores of arrests.

Police were beefing up patrols and mall security guards were out in force after melees involving mostly young people erupted around malls in Elizabeth, N.J.; Fayetteville, N.C.; East Garden City, N.Y.; Aurora, Colo.; and Tempe, Ariz., among others.   Continue reading “Malls across US beef up security after brawls”

CT Post – by Jim Shay

Come January 2017, a new baby will be born in the United States every eight seconds and a person will die every 11 seconds.

And every 33 seconds, a new international immigrant – legal or otherwise – will be added to the population of the US of A.     Continue reading “U.S. Adds A New Immigrant Every 33 Seconds”

NPR – by Nathan Rott

President Obama has designated two areas in the deserts of southern Nevada and Utah as national monuments, after years of fighting and debate over the management of both areas.

The newly created Bears Ears National Monument will protect roughly 1.35 million acres of land in southeast Utah from future development. Gold Butte National Monument will give federal protections to roughly 300,000 acres in southwest Nevada, not far from the site where local ranchers and law enforcement had an armed standoff just two years ago.   Continue reading “Obama Designates Two New National Monuments In Nevada And Utah”

Haaretz

President-elect Donald Trump said that the U.S. “cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect” hours before Secretary of State John Kerry was set to give a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but……. not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!” Trump tweeted.   Continue reading “Trump: Stay Strong Israel, January 20th Is Fast Approaching”

LA Times

A series of earthquakes was reported early Wednesday morning near the Nevada-California state line, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The first temblor, with a magnitude of 5.7, occurred at 12:22 a.m. PST near Hawthorne, Nev. At least seven quakes with magnitudes between 3 and 5.6 were reported shortly after.  Continue reading “Series of earthquakes hits near California-Nevada state line”