Off the Grid News – by Steve Coffman

The 12-gauge shotgun is one of the most common, most versatile firearms a person can own. The right shotgun can be used for everything from survival hunting to protecting the garden from critters to home defense.

The wide variety of ammo, ranging from powerful slugs to lightweight small game loads, is what makes this weapon so useful, and it should be in the arsenal of any homesteader or survivalist. But having the gun is only half the battle; you need to have the right ammo, and more importantly, the right assortment of ammo. With these five best loads, you will be ready for anything that happens on the homestead.   Continue reading “The Five 12-Gauge Loads Every Homesteader Should Own”

Eureka Sentinel

The race to replace Harry Reid in the Senate is one of the most closely watched and highly contested elections in the nation this year. The most recent poll has Republican Rep. Joe Heck leading Reid’s hand-picked Democratic opponent, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, by 3 points — 38 percent to 35 percent with the substantial remainder undecided.

More than $11 million dollars has been spent by outside organizations on this race, the fourth highest in the nation, according to OpenSecrets.org.   Continue reading “Which Senate Candidate is Correct on Handling Social Security?”

Los Angeles Daily News – by Denise Quan

The Rev. Andy Bales heads out the glass doors of the Union Rescue Mission in a suit and tie. He rolls his wheelchair toward the sun-baked concrete of Skid Row, then stops and wrinkles his nose.

“That putrid smell you’re smelling right now — that’s somebody smoking Spice,” he says.   Continue reading “Inside Skid Row’s Spice epidemic, the dangerous cost of a dollar high”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

What would happen if some sort of major national emergency caused a massive transportation disruption that stopped trucks from running?  The next time you talk to a trucker, please thank them for their service, because without their hard work none of our lives would be possible.  In America today, very few of us live a truly independent lifestyle, and that means that we rely on the system to provide what we need.  Most of us take for granted that there will always be plenty of goods at Wal-Mart and at the grocery store whenever we need more “stuff”, and most of us never give a second thought to how all of that “stuff” gets there.  Well, the truth is that most of it is brought in by trucks, and if the trucks stopped running for some reason the entire country would devolve into chaos very rapidly.   Continue reading “The Day The Lights Go Out And The Trucks Stop Running”

The Anti-Media- by Carey Wedler

The Federal Reserve bank is well-known for its secrecy. But in an attempt to reach out to the people it claims to serve, the monolithic bank just created a Facebook page . . . and it’s probably really regretting that decision.

Unlike Twitter, where the Fed decides which comments to reply to — and therefore which show up publicly on its page — its public Facebook page, launched Thursday morning, is not as restrictive. In fact, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System page has been relentlessly trolled since it went up.   Continue reading “The Federal Reserve Just Made a Facebook Page… And It’s Getting Destroyed by Trolls”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Posting critical blogs is now a crime in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where sheriff’s deputies raided a blogger’s home and seized two computers and five cell phones.

The deputies were trying to identify the person behind a blog called ExposeDAT.

ExposeDAT accused a number of local officials, including Sheriff Jerry Larpenter, Parish President Gordon Dove and District Attorney Joe Waitz, of various forms of corruption, according to WWL-TV.   Continue reading “Blogger Criticizes Sheriff, So Sheriff Raids Home And Takes Computers”

Detroit News – by Holly Fournier

A 91-year-old concealed pistol license holder shot a man who was attempting to rob him Monday in Eastpointe, according to police.

The victim was exiting his car around 10:15 a.m. and heading into the Rite Aid on Gratiot near Nine Mile when an unknown suspect in his late 20s approached, Sgt. Martin Campbell said.   Continue reading “Police: Man, 91, shoots suspected robber in Eastpointe”

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black

The year was 1986.

Top Gun was the #1 movie in America.

Halley’s Comet was visible with the naked eye.

Microsoft went public, instantly making Bill Gates one of the wealthiest people in the world.   Continue reading “Here’s How The Government Is Stealing More Than Ever Before…”

Defense One – by Patrick Tucker

As military-grade robotics get cheaper and more capable, someone will arm them and put them on American streets.

Robot-maker Sean Bielat says he’s fine with the Dallas Police Department’s apparently unprecedented use of a police bomb-disposal robot to kill a gunman on Thursday. “A robot was used to keep people out of harm’s way in an extreme situation,” said Bielat, the CEO of Endeavor Robotics, a spinoff of iRobot’s military division. “That’s how robots are intended to be used.”
Continue reading “Military Robotics Makers See a Future for Armed Police Robots”

Las Vegas Sun – by Chris Kudialis, Ricardo Torres

It began as a vigil to honor black people killed by police officers nationwide and ended peacefully, but a tense standoff involving Las Vegas-area police and residents Saturday night reflected racial tensions simmering nationwide.

Hundreds of people gathered at 7 p.m. at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas near the Martin Luther King statue, a symbol for racial justice and peaceful demonstration. Organizers and children lit candles arranged in the form of 138, the number of black people reportedly killed by U.S. police officers this year.   Continue reading “Peaceful vigil in North Las Vegas turns tense; 3 arrested”

Daily Mail

President Barack Obama’s Republican adversaries piled on the criticism on Friday after he turned the overnight Dallas police massacre into a political platform – and then grinned from ear to ear as he reconnected with world leaders at a NATO summit in Poland.

Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, both on their way out of office soon, seemed in a particularly light-hearted mood despite the day’s grim and dominant subject matter.   Continue reading “Republicans slam grinning Obama for politicizing Dallas police massacre as he laughs his way through NATO summit”

Miami Herald – by Kate Irby

People deal with stress in different ways. Some talk it out, others exercise or give themselves a treat to feel better.

A Florida man dealt with stress by trying to bury his boss, according to reports.

Erick A. Cox, a 32-year-old man who goes by Pork Chop, was arguing with his 57-year-old boss at a construction site of a new Walmart in DeBary, Florida Wednesday morning.   Continue reading “Man nicknamed Pork Chop tries to bury boss with front-end loader, cops say”

ABC News

From shootings on the Strip to the killing of a liquor store clerk who couldn’t open a safe to an April weekend that saw five slayings in separate cases, crime is spiking in the shadows in Las Vegas — and spurring questions about causes and cures.

The local sheriff, police union officials and district attorney have various theories about what’s behind the body count: 64 homicides by the end of April, compared with 29 killings after the first four months of 2015; 75 slayings as of Wednesday, compared with 45 by the same date last year.  Continue reading “Spike in Crime in Las Vegas Spurs Search for Causes, Cures”

My Northwest

Another May Day in Seattle is here and gone, but this one looked a little different. Only nine arrests were made, as compared to 16 in 2015. Five officers were injured and property damage was relatively minimal.

After a peaceful immigration rally and march earlier in the day, the scene quickly escalated well before the sun set. Police reported rocks, broken windows, and even molotov cocktails early in the evening. Officers deployed pepper spray and blast balls around 7:30 p.m.   Continue reading “Nine arrests, five SPD officers injured in May Day march”

Off the Grid News – by Jared Moss

Anxiety. Worry. Fear. Whatever you call it, these three words describe the reality for millions and possibly even billions of people from every race, every walk, and every way of life. Worrying is like a growing cancer within both unbelievers — and believers in Christ. It starts small, but when fully grown, completely overtakes the weary soul and trains the mind to fear the outcomes of any given situation.

If you’re one of the desperate people mentioned above, or just know a friend who is seeking answers to this awful issue, you need not look any further than the Word of God.
Continue reading “What Does The Bible Say About Worrying?”

France 24

An Israeli man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, as a court rejected his insanity plea for a crime that helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war.

Prosecutors said Yosef Haim Ben-David organised the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, who was bludgeoned, strangled and burned alive. Two Jewish youths who helped him abduct the teen were sentenced in February, one to life imprisonment and the other to a 21-year term.   Continue reading “Israeli convicted of burning Palestinian teen to death”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Civil asset forfeiture hit a new low in Oklahoma when sheriff’s deputies seized $53,249 intended as donations to a Christian school and an orphanage from the manager of a Christian band. Even worse, deputies accused the band manager of being a drug dealer and labelled the cash drug money.

“I realized that they were seizing all of the money,” the manager, Eh Wah, told The Washington Post. “I was like, ‘This can’t be happening.’ But I didn’t know what to do.”   Continue reading “Police Found $53,249 In Cash From A Christian Ministry, And, Well, You Know How This Ends”