Author: Paraclete

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Gear Layering

What is gear layering? Gear layering is arranging equipment in lines, layers, and levels, to achieve the same thing. It is a technique for prioritizing the carriage of the most essential gear for the specific job over gear that may still be important, but not as high on the priority list as other items. Many sources divided their levels of gear into 3 or 4 layers. DTG recommends and uses 3 layers.

Level 1: Gear that is essential to survival and ALWAYS on your person. If all else fails and an individual loses their harness and ruck, they still will have their level one items with them to help them survive until they can reach support.   Continue reading “General Purpose Gear Load Outs: Part 2”

The Hill – by Mark Hensch

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Wednesday said President Obama was working to force the socialist “ideology of Karl Marx” on the country.

“And his calculation is not what’s true and just and right or even good for America, it’s how he can exploit his power base and move our country to the left towards the ideology of Karl Marx, how far he can go and get away with it,” King said on “The Glenn Beck Program,” according to BuzzFeed.   Continue reading “Rep. Steve King: Obama pushing ‘ideology of Karl Marx’”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Public resistance to Common Core is exploding across America, and officials are not happy about it. The Obama administration’s Department of Education, along with pro-Common Core government officials across the country under pressure from the feds, appear to be in panic mode. Facing a growing nationwide “opt out” movement to refuse participation in the unconstitutional federally funded testing regime aligned with the Obama-backed national school standards, senior bureaucrats, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, have actually started resorting to lawless threats against parents, teachers, students, and entire state governments. Some parents were threatened by officials with jail time. Even small children are being punished by the state for “opting out” of the deeply controversial tests, with one California mother telling The New American that her daughter was publicly denied ice cream in retaliation.   Continue reading “Feds Panic on Mass Common Core Test Refusals, Threaten Reprisals”

Sparks 31

The Anytone TERMN-08R is a recent entry into the amateur/land mobile HT market. It is a dual-band (2m & 70cm) FM handheld amateur radio transceiver that is also FCC Part 90 certified for land mobile radio (LMR) use. The FCC ID numbers on the radio are T4K-QZQX3318 and T4K-8RSERIES. The Grantee ID indicates this radio is made by Qixiang Electron Science & Technology Co. Ltd. in Quanzhou, Fujian China. An FCC ID search shows an authorization granted for Part 90 operation and denied for Part 95 (GMRS & MURS) operation.   Continue reading “Signal-3: Anytone TERMN-08R Review”

Guns America – by DAVE HIGGINBOTHAM

Comparing a Coonan .357 Magnum to an old Colt Python may not seem like a logical paring. The Coonan is in production now. The Python is not. And in this specific case, I’m looking at a compact Coonan and a stretched out Python. Clearly it isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison. The only similarity is the .357 Magnum round. Every other aspect of the guns is markedly different. At stake here is something much more than the Coonan V Python question; this is the revolver pitted against the automatic.   Continue reading “.357 Shoot-off-Coonan Vs. Python”

Free North Carolina – by Mike Scruggs

On November 21, 2014, President Obama declared a unilateral executive amnesty for about five million illegal immigrants. This action was not within President Obama’s constitutional authority.  But in early March 2015, after promising strong opposition to this unlawful amnesty,  Republican Speaker John Boehner of the U.S. House and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell of the U.S. Senate and their leadership teams essentially joined the Obama Administration and 100 percent of the Democrats in Congress to block conservative Republican attempts to defund it. Boehner and McConnell actively worked to secure enough Republican votes to assure Obama could have his amnesty. Thus a great outrage against the Constitution and the American people was allowed to begin its course to change the nation from a center-right political majority to a center-left political majority relentlessly pursuing a radical left social and economic majority with only token conservative opposition in the foreseeable future.   Continue reading “Nine Million More Immigrant Voters by 2016? Changing America by Invasion”

Fox News

U.S. officials said Monday that President Obama will nominate Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A combat-hardened commander, Dunford led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transition in 2013-2014 and has served as an infantry officer at all levels.

The move cuts short Dunford’s service as the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a job he began last October. But the rapid promotion is one of several that have marked Dunford’s fast-tracked military career, which saw him leap from a one-star brigadier general to four stars in about three years.   Continue reading “Marine General Joseph Dunford chosen as Joint Chiefs chairman”

Natural News – by Kali Sinclair

If you are making a transition from conventional medicine to an all-natural, organic approach to wellness, it helps to know which items to stock up on so your medicine chest and first aid supplies are ready for action.

Many of the items you willneed are likely to be found in your pantry or refrigerator. Try to keepextra on hand – especially the essentials.   Continue reading “The natural medicine chest and first aid kit”

Zero Hedge – by William M. Arkin via PhaseZero

It’s after midnight. From this mountaintop perch, he can still see the radioactive remains of what used to be Washington, D.C., illuminating the horizon as he exits the helicopter. The nuclear glow serves as stark proof that the intelligence community failed to foresee and prevent the worst, but at least someone was smart enough to build this mountain bunker in rural Virginia for him and his fellow spies to regroup and survive. He opens the reinforced steel door and begins his descent.

This isn’t paranoid conspiracy fiction. This exact scenario was played out this week.   Continue reading “The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide In When Washington Is Destroyed”

Natural Society – by Robert Harrington

Survivalist communities and preppers all over America have learned that properly tilled land can produce tremendous amounts of food. Well-balanced soil is quite generous and will give back much more than it receives. A few organic seeds, adequate watering, and some rich compost can provide even a novice farmer with a bountiful harvest.

Ever since Big Agra took over the farming of America’s vast farmlands, most people are disconnected from the process of food production from seed to table. Agribusiness has so thoroughly monopolized farming and husbandry that many children in the cities think that the food comes from supermarkets and grocery stores, not grainfields and orchard groves.   Continue reading “How to Produce 6,000 Pounds of Food in Small Spaces”

Years ago it was trendy to have “grills” …you know metallic work on one’s teeth, usually done in gold. Before that, it was swank to wear massive amounts of jewelry, mostly necklaces and rings. Most recently it’s become hip to wear one’s pants around one’s ankles, for some weird reason. It must be real hard for them to run from lootings ……..

But now, all that’s passé for the latest trend is taking the riot world by storm …..   Continue reading “The New Bling”

A Lake in Pomerania, Poland

Continue reading “As a Pilot Sees the World”

Straight Forward in a Crooked World

I get inundated with “security advice” questions all the time in life. Riot breaks out somewhere, the emails and phone calls come in. Spree shooter sets about murdering as many people as he possibly can, the emails and phone calls come in. A bad guy goes an…well you get the picture.

There’s always this string of questions. What caliber? What plan? What tactic? What bag should I EDC (every day carry) and what gear should I EDC in my EDC bag?   Continue reading “If I may offer some advice….”

Western Rifle Shooters – by Matt Bracken

I saw a fascinating covert DHS convoy Sunday in South Carolina on I-95.

On Sunday, April 27th at 3:30 pm I was driving by myself southbound on I-95 in the middle of South Carolina. The speed limit was 70 so I was going 80. I passed a convoy of DHS vehicles traveling in tight formation in the slow lane moving at about 75. None of the vehicles was marked in any way with any government or law enforcement decals or insignia. However, they all had black and white U.S. government tags on their rear bumpers.   Continue reading “.Gov OpTempo Increase?”

Liberty’s Torch – by Francis W. Porretto

Rahm Emanuel laid down the maxim “You never let a crisis go to waste,” and come Hell or high water, Barack Hussein Obama will abide by it:

     During a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Tuesday, Barack Obama used a question about Baltimore to further his views on federalizing local police forces without calling it federalization.     The Obama task force on policing is in Baltimore along with the attorney from the Civil Rights Division to push his agenda, he told the assembled…. Continue reading “Quickies: Crisis-Unwasted Dept.”