Backwoods Survival Blog

Hemp is truly one of nature’s miracle plants. It can be eaten, woven into fiber, and made into paper and even oil. It is hardy and durable, easy to grow, and — believe it or not — it can be made into a variety of construction materials — from pipes to insulation to a concrete substitute called Hemcrete — that rival their industrial counterparts in cost and functionality.     Continue reading “Hemp as a Building Material? Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It!”

New York Observer – by Alyssa Berlin

Forget the great outdoors.

The Department of Consumer Affairs has sent notice to 17 New York restaurants, telling them that that they will have to close their sidewalk seating areas unless they are willing to comply with the city’s zoning regulations.   Continue reading “City Cracks Down on Sidewalk Cafes Just in Time for Summer”

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Press TV

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has criticized recent remarks by the Saudi foreign minister about the Islamic Republic as media hype.

Amir-Abdollahian said Monday that leveling unsubstantiated accusations and propaganda campaigns do not benefit the relations of the two countries.    Continue reading “Saudi foreign minister’s remarks, media hype: Iran diplomat”

Veterans Today – by Stephen Lendman

Since early 2011, Obama’s been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme’s familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism’s dark side.

In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan’s Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them “the moral equivalent of our founding fathers.” He characterized Contra killers the same way.   Continue reading “Another Anti-Assad False Flag”

Mediaite – by Anjali Sareen

According to director/producer Noam Shalevand researcher Pablo WeschlerAdolf Hitler lived out his last days in an luxurious Argentinian hotel, instead of committing suicide in a Berlin bunker as previously thought. Their new documentary, Hitler in Argentina, attempts to make their case and is set to be released next year.   Continue reading “New Documentary Claims Hitler Died In 1965, Did Not Commit Suicide After WWII”

U.S. army soldier of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, walks past cropped opium poppies during a patrol in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.(Reuters / Shamil Zhumatov)RT News

Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then.

“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,”Viktor Ivanov said at the conference on the drug situation in Afghanistan.   Continue reading “‘1mn died’ from Afghan heroin, drug production ’40 times higher’ since NATO op”

Doug Ross@Journal

After a gun battle that changed his life, Sergeant Timothy Gramins dramatically upped the amount of ammunition he carries with him each and every day on the job. And no one tell the aspiring dictators Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg of New York: but Gramin also carries multiple high-capacity magazines.   Continue reading “SHHH, No One Tell Cuomo or Bloomberg: Why one police officer carries 145 rounds of ammo with him every day”

poison question mark 263x164 Vitamin B17: Able to Treat and Prevent Cancer, or Pure Poison?Natural Society -by Christina Sarich

So, you’ve heard of B6, B12, and even B-complex vitamins, but likely not vitamin B17. This powerful vitamin substance shown to halt cancer has also been called poison. So which is it: a natural treatment, or ‘quackery’?

Vitamin B17 is patented in the U.S. as Laetrile, but used in Mexico simply as crushed apricot pits, without boiling the seeds and turning them to ethanol, which then produces benzaldehyde. You can also find the tampered-with version as laevomandelonitrile, the man-made version of  B17, and amygdalin, the natural version of B17.   Continue reading “Vitamin B17: Able to Treat and Prevent Cancer, or Pure Poison?”

File photo shows the violent Saudi-backed crackdown on Bahraini protesters.Press TV

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is reported to be clinically dead as the monarch is not recently seen in the public.

A Saudi journalist working for London-Based Asharq Alawsat says the Saudi monarch has been clinically dead since Wednesday.    Continue reading “Unconfirmed: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah clinically dead: Report says”

Area police officers salute as the body of slain Police Officer Jason Ellis is brought for an autopsy by the Kentucky Medical Examiner, May 25, 2013.Reuters – by Jane Sutton

A Kentucky policeman was shot and killed in an apparent ambush when he stopped to pick up debris on a highway exit ramp, the Courier-Journal newspaper said on Sunday.

Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis, 33, was found shot to death on an exit ramp on the Blue Grass Parkway in north central Kentucky early Saturday morning.   Continue reading “Kentucky policeman shot and killed in apparent highway ambush”

Resist 1776 – by Molon Labe (Gabriel)

For many shooters, it’s a ritual to pack the range bag and head off to the shooting range. Shooting ranges are great places to, well, send rounds downrange. You show up, unpack your things on the little bench, pull out your weapon, break out into your favorite weaver or isosceles stance, and fire off a few dozen rounds. At the end of all that, you pack it all up and head home. Rinse, repeat.   Continue reading “Why You Should Avoid The Shooting Range”

babylon=usuryReal Currencies – by Anthony Migchels

Usury is the original sin in the economic sphere and the root cause of all our economic problems. It causes unfathomable suffering. It is so pervasive, so normalized, it seems unavoidable.

The truth is we have everything we need to create an interest-free money supply and eradicate usury and associated rent-seeking completely from our economic and social lives. A Usury-Free economy ends poverty and brings abundance to the many. It will save our souls in the process.   Continue reading “Babylon = Usury! We want Interest-Free Money!”

New York Times

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — The founder and president of a Connecticut military museum was shot and killed at his home by police after he pointed a handgun at officers, state police said Sunday.

State police identified the man killed Friday in Ridgefield as 75-year-old John Valluzzo.

Valluzzo was armed when Ridgefield police arrived at his home following a call about a possible domestic incident on Friday evening, state police said. He was shot after authorities said he refused to comply with orders to put the gun down and instead raised it on officers.   Continue reading “Police Fatally Shoot Conn. Military Museum Chief”

Iran Defense Ministry hands over a large number of long-range surface-to-surface missile launchers to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps on May 26, 2013.Press TV

A senior Iranian military commander says Iran is currently at the peak of its deterrence might, stressing that no power in the world is capable of countering Iran or inflicting harm on the country.

Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh made the remarks on Sunday on the sidelines of a ceremony held to hand over a large number of long-range surface-to-surface missile launchers by Iran’s Defense Ministry to the IRGC.   Continue reading “No world power can counter, harm Iran: IRGC cmdr.”