backyard-bushcraftSurvival Sherpa – by Todd Walker

Doing the Stuff of self-reliance takes time, resources, tools, and want to. More important than any of these is ACTION! With only 24 hours in a day, you can’t always trek to your personal space in the woods to practice wilderness survival skills. Hectic schedules and time constants eat away at your availability.

You’re family needs quality time… and no, staring at the TV or computer screen doesn’t count. No better way to hang out with your loved ones, even the indoors lover, than to introduce them to outdoor self-reliance skills in a controlled setting. Your adventures await one step over your door sill – no wilderness required!   Continue reading “Backyard Bushcraft Skills: No Wilderness Required”

Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is crucial, customer service being what it is today.

A lady died this past January, and the bank still billed her for February and March for its annual service charges on her credit card and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge.

The balance was $0.00 when she died, but now somewhere around $60. A family member placed a call to the bank. Here is the exchange:    Continue reading “Should I cancel my credit card before I die?”

Forbes – by Panos Mourdoukoutas

There is old news and new news about China’s affinity with US government debt.

The old news is that China’s Dagong Global Credit Rating cut its credit rating for US government debt by one notch to A-minus from A in the mid of last October, following an agreement reached by Congress to raise the government’s borrowing ceiling.   Continue reading “China Downgrades US Debt. Then Buys It!”

Publius Forum – by Warner Todd Huston

This is what happens when you allow Muslims to think they can impose their own laws on members of their community. In Philadelphia a local Muslim leader tried to carry out Sharia law and chop off a man’s hand after he was accused of stealing money from the Mosque.

As Reuters reports, ” Two men described as leaders of a Philadelphia mosque were accused of trying to cut off the hand of a suspected thief, whose wrist was sliced so deeply it required hospital treatment, police said on Friday.”   Continue reading “Muslims in Philly Try to Carry Out Sharia Sentence to Chop Man’s Hand Off”

Boston Herald – by Owen Boss

Some of the state’s poorest school districts — already overwhelmed by immigrant children — are bracing for a new wave of Central American kids enrolling this fall that officials fear will further drain limited resources for English-speaking students.

“We certainly don’t want to communicate that our city is not a welcoming place, especially for young children, but we have to be concerned about our finances and our ability to serve all of our citizens,” said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell. “If the point comes where we feel as though our resources are getting too strained, we’re going to look to the state and federal government for assistance because that is only fair.”   Continue reading “Schools wary of immigrant wave”

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. (MassLive)WSMV 4 News – by Chris Rueli

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WSHM) – Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said that the burden and the strain on services that would occur due to having illegal migrant children housed in Western Mass. would fall upon taxpayers.

Gov. Deval Patrick announced Friday morning that Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee is one of two proposed locations that could shelter immigrant children.    Continue reading “Mayor Sarno: Strain on services due to housing immigrants falls on taxpayers”

Prevent Disease – by Kelley Bergman

As many as 100 passengers on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 were bound for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, it emerged today. The disaster, which left 298 people dead, claimed the lives of some of the world’s leading experts in the battle against HIV and devastated their families, friends and colleagues. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, delegates arriving in Australia for the AIDS conference were told that 108 of their colleagues had perished.

He was one of the victims of 154 Dutch passengers on the jet apparently shot down over eastern Ukraine early on Friday while on its way to Kuala Lumpur, where he was scheduled to change planes.   Continue reading “Up To 100 Passengers on Board Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 Were Top Experts In HIV/AIDS”

Anti-illegals Chardon OhioFellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Yesterday, July 18, 2014, thousands of Americans protested against the Invasion of the Illegals across our southern border in 319 towns and cities across the country.

While the number of protesters in each locale was small, the fact that the protests took place ACROSS America certainly is significant. You would think that to be news, but you saw none of it in your local or national TV news because of a media blackout. In the Amerika of Obama, if the media don’t report it, then it didn’t happen.   Continue reading “Americans protest against Invasion of Illegals in 319 cities. Media blackout”

AFP image of MH17 wreckageRaw Story – by Kate Hodal, The Guardian

Ukraine’s government on Saturday accused pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine of removing bodies and trying to destroy evidence at the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed after being brought down by a suspected surface-to-air missile.

Kiev said in a statement that it had evidence 38 bodies had been taken to the morgue in Donetsk and that specialists with “strong Russian accents” said they would carry out autopsies. “The government of Ukraine officially states that the terrorists, with the help of Russia, are trying to destroy evidence of international crimes,” the statement said.   Continue reading “Ukraine: Separatists are stealing bodies and evidence from MH17 crash site”

Identification-Public-Domain-300x300The Daily Sheeple – by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse

Would you like to have a digital identity card that is automatically issued to you at birth?  In one European nation, residents use such a card when they go to the hospital, when they do their banking, when they go shopping and even when they vote.  This card has become so popular that this particular European country actually plans to start issuing them to millions of non-citizens all over the planet who request them.  Never heard about this?  Neither had I before this week.  The Economist, a well-known mouthpiece for the global elite, is calling for the entire planet to adopt this “national identification system” that the little nation of Estonia has adopted.  The Economist is touting all of the “benefits” of a “national identification card”, but are there dangers as well?  Could adopting such a system potentially open the door for greater government tyranny than we have ever known before?    Continue reading “Globalist Mouthpiece Calls For The Entire Planet To Adopt The ‘National Identification System’ One European Country Has Established”

Malaysia Airlines MH17 crashThe Guardian – by Shaun Walker in Kiev, Oksana Grytsenko in Grabovo, and Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Hopes for a proper investigation into the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17 – or even for some dignity in death for its 298 victims – faded on Saturday as chaos took hold at the disaster site in eastern Ukraine.

A small team of monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe were able to gain limited access to the site, but only under careful supervision by armed separatists. Journalists and local residents continued to roam the area of Thursday’s crash, while “experts” of unknown provenance moved bodies decomposing in the baking heat from fields to the roadside and used bags to collect body parts. A spokesman for the OSCE, Michael Bociurkiw, said: “Some of the body bags are open and the damage to the corpses is very, very bad – it is very difficult to look at.”    Continue reading “MH17 crash: pro-Russia rebels deny access to disaster site”

firthThe Raw Story – by Tom Boggioni

A London-based reporter for Russia Today resigned Friday in protest over the network’s coverage of the recent Malaysia Airlines plane crash.

Sara Firth, who has worked for RT since 2009, announced her resignation via Twitter, writing: “I resigned today from RT. I have huge respect for many in the team, but I’m for the truth.”

Firth told Buzzfeed that she resigned because she the felt the Kremlin-funded news channel was trying to pin the blame for the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on the Ukrainian government.   Continue reading “RT reporter quits over MH17 coverage: ‘We’re lying and finding sexier ways to do it’”

IB Times – by Catherine Dunn

Back in 1980, 28 million Americans lived in multi-generational households. Now, a study finds, that number has doubled: It hit a record of 56.8 million people in 2012 as more and more young adults, ages 25 to 34, bunked with their parents.

“By 2012, roughly one in four of these young adults (23.6 percent) lived in multi-generational households, up from 18.7 percent in 2007 and 11 percent in 1980,” according to the report from the Pew Research Center, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data.   Continue reading “Millennials Still Moving in with Mom and Dad”

Sacramento Bee

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Seismologists say a strong earthquake rattled a section of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory.

The Alaska Earthquake Center says the 6.0 magnitude quake struck at 3:49 a.m. about 62 miles northwest of Yakutat. There are no immediate reports of damage.   Continue reading “Strong earthquake jolts Alaska near Canada border”