Month: March 2015

Rodale News – by Jean Nick

An Easter without dyed Easter eggs wouldn’t be much fun at all. And why waste money on artificial Easter egg dye, especially when you’ve already grow your own natural Easter grass and made a basket from recycled containers?

Natural egg dye is easy to make using berries, vegetables, and spices, and you can create just about any color you want, from pastels to deep hues. The results vary from batch to batch, which adds to the fun in my book. In some cases you can have your dye and eat it, too! We will be having pickled red cabbage some night soon, with mashed berries over ice cream for desert. Even if you don’t eat the dye leftovers, you can toss them in the compost pile.   Continue reading “The Nickel Pincher: Homemade Natural Easter Egg Dye”

The Fifth Column – by Justin King

MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (TFC) – There are scores of rumors flying around about Jade Helm 15, a US Special Operations Command operation that will begin on July 15th in the Southwestern United States. It’s time to separate reality from fiction.

To start out it may be best to clarify what Jade Helm is not. It is not a precursor to martial law. It is not an operation designed to round up American citizens for FEMA camps. It is not a UN ordered invasion. The truth behind Jade Helm is much less conspiratorial, but much more interesting.   Continue reading “The Truth Behind Jade Helm 15”

KETV 7 News

Kansas will join a handful of other states that allow their residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit after a bill backed by the National Rifle Association was approved, The Associated press reported.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to sign the bill despite some lawmakers’ apprehensions about the state dropping its requirement that anyone seeking to carry a concealed firearm undergo at least eight hours of training. According to the NRA, Kansas would become the fifth state to allow concealed carry without a permit everywhere within its borders.   Continue reading “Kansas to allow concealed guns without permit”

Ammoland – by Jeff Moran

Geneva – -(Ammoland.com)- For much of the past month, the American shooting industry and pro-gun civil arms rights groups, along with the majority of lawmakers on Capitol Hill,[1] have been rightly preoccupied with the Obama Administration’s latest gun control proposal to effectively ban common center-fire ammunition used in popular AR-15 style rifles and pistols.

The resignation of the BATF Director last week should not be the end of the story however…the Senate and House Judiciary Committees should question the acting Director of the BATF, along with other officials at the Departments of State and Justice on the apparent transnational dimension of the aborted ammo ban.   Continue reading “Collusion Or Coincidence? ATF’s Ammo Ban Identical to UN Ammo Ban”

The Telegraph – by Louise Burke

A fisherman in Western Australia caught more than he bargained for when he reeled in a 13-foot tiger shark – using only a hand line.

Video emerged of the killer catch at Shelley Beach near Albany, in the Great Southern region, yesterday.

Local fisherman Brendon Hilder went to the beach in pursuit of salmon before the shark arrived and scared off his intended catch, the Albany Advertiser reported.   Continue reading “Fisherman lands a 13-foot shark – using a hand line”

8 News Now

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is backing New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to succeed him as Democratic leader.

Reid issued his endorsement Friday morning, shortly after announcing he would be retiring next year instead of running for re-election.

Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson says that the choice is up to Senate Democrats, “but Sen. Reid thinks Sen. Schumer has earned it.”   Continue reading “Reid endorses Schumer as his successor”

Truth and Shadows – by Craig McKee

Sometimes it really pays to be persistent.

That’s what Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth found out this week when the organization achieved something truly remarkable. It succeeded in getting a commitment from the largest association of architects in the U.S. to debate and vote on a resolution supporting an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.

The vote will take place at the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects, May 14-16, in Atlanta, GA. (If you’re not sure how much of a big deal this convention is, the keynote speaker is former president Bill Clinton.)   Continue reading “Major coup for AE9/11Truth – American Institute of Architects green lights Building 7 vote”

UPI – by JC Finley

DAMASCUS, Syria, March 27 (UPI) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave two recent interviews in which he discussed his relationship with U.S. officials, in one saying he would be “open” to dialogue and in another dismissing the United States as “colonialist” and “warmongers.”

“As principle, in Syria we could say that every dialogue is a positive thing, and we are going to be open to any dialogue with anyone, including the United States, regarding anything based on mutual respect,” Assad told Charlie Rose during an interview for CBS Evening News that aired Thursday.   Continue reading “Syria’s Assad open to U.S. talks — if demands change”

Before It’s News – by The Awake Zone

Sweden may have been neutral, but in great secrecy started as the fourth nation after Germany USA and Russia to develop Nuclear Weapons. When the Swedish nuclear weapons program began: It was done in order to protect themselves against Atomic weapons, but first one must know how they work and how they can be manufactured. It seemed that Sweden, as a major power in the Nordic countries, on whose shoulders rested the defense against the Soviet Union, would need to have nuclear weapons.   Continue reading “The Swedish Nuclear Weapons”

UPI – by Amy R. Connolly

BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) — A Boston woman who said she was injured as a result of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was indicted on charges she stole money from a fund for victims.

Joanna Leigh, 41, said she suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the explosions that killed three and injured 260. She denies the allegations she stole from One Fund Boston, established in the wake of the bombing to financially support victims. She said her indictment is retribution for her vocal criticism about the way the funds are dispersed.   Continue reading “Woman indicted for stealing funds from Boston Marathon victims”

Time – by Alex Rogers

There’s more to the retiring Senate Democratic leader than meets the eye

When Harry Reid retires in 2017, he will have served as the Senate Democratic leader for 12 years—longer than all but two other senators in the country’s history.   Continue reading “3 Surprising Facts About Senator Harry Reid”

USA Today – by Steve Reilly

About once every four days, part of the nation’s power grid — a system whose failure could leave millions in the dark — is struck by a cyber or physical attack, a USA TODAY analysis of federal energy records finds.

Although the repeated security breaches have never resulted in the type of cascading outage that swept across the Northeast in 2003, they have sharpened concerns about vulnerabilities in the electric system. A widespread outage lasting even a few days could disable devices ranging from ATMs to cellphones to traffic lights, and could threaten lives if heating, air conditioning and health care systems exhaust their backup power supplies.   Continue reading “Bracing for a big power grid attack: ‘One is too many’”