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SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man accused of wanting to kill police officers and blow up a police station to trigger an anti-government uprising is set to be sentenced Thursday.
John Huggins faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of an unregistered destructive device in a deal with prosecutors. In return, they dropped two other charges related to explosive devices. Continue reading “Utah Man Planned To Bomb Police Station, Trigger Anti-Government Uprising”
Garden City, KS — Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn’s Disease. He had spoken up about her use at an anti-drug presentation at his school. This prompted the school to call to Child Protective Services and authorities, which led to a raid on her home on March 24.
The raid found what local Garden City authorities described as “‘1.25 pounds of marijuana in plant, oil, joint, gel and capsule form and drug paraphernalia’ along with what was characterized as a ‘lab used for manufacturing cannabis oil’” (it should be noted that at the time, the Washington Post reported police found just 2 ounces of cannabis oil). Banda has seen her eleven-year-old son only once since he was taken from her. Continue reading “Mother Faces 30 Years in Prison for Using Cannabis to Treat Crohn’s Disease”
Thanks to a treasonous President and a cabal of backstabbing, spineless Republican leaders, America stands tonight on the verge of plunging into outright “trade totalitarianism.”
The Drudge Report (see below) is headlining the news today, announcing “Republicans rush vote on Obamatrade before anyone reads it.” Congress and the President, in other words, are now behaving like a group of high school party boys in a mad rush to remove all the bear cans and vodka bottles from their family living room after learning their parents are returning home early from a family trip. Continue reading “America descends into trade totalitarianism: Republicans rushing vote on secret Obamatrade before anyone has a chance to read it”
It is really a shame.
Under the regime of Barack Obama, the US Army has become a festering pustule of moral corruption and ethical blindness.
For a lot of budgetary and political reasons, the Army — my Army — has never been big on moral courage at the senior leadership levels. It doesn’t have bombers, fighters, submarines, or aircraft carriers so it is always vulnerable to the big ticket services. Heaven knows, there is no Army component vaguely comparable the awesome and voracious public relations machine the US Marine Corps unleashes at the slightest hint of danger. Continue reading “The US Army: an institution corrupted to its very core”
A Cleveland judge on Thursday found probable cause that a police officer who shot to death a 12-year-old boy last year should face a murder charge in an opinion that puts pressure on prosecutors.
Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine said Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, who shot Tamir Rice, should face charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, negligent homicide and dereliction of duty. Loehmann’s partner, Frank Garmback, should face negligent homicide and dereliction of duty charges, he found. Continue reading “Ohio judge recommends police officers face charges in Tamir Rice case”
Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged.
Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, said on the Senate floor that the December hack into Office of Personnel Management data was carried out by “the Chinese” without specifying whether he meant the Chinese government or individuals. Reid is one of eight lawmakers briefed on the most secret intelligence information. U.S. officials have declined to publicly blame China, which has denied involvement. Continue reading “Union: Hackers Have Personnel Data on Every Federal Employee”
Colombian officials are blaming rebels for an attack on the country’s energy infrastructure that left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had blown up an energy pylon and blacked out much of the southern region of Caqueta Wednesday night. Continue reading “Rebel Attack in Colombia Leaves 300,000 in the Dark”
The French nuclear safety watchdog says it has found “multiple failure modes” that carry “grave consequences” on crucial safety relief valves on the Flamanville nuclear plant in northern France, which could lead to meltdown.
The new-build facility, that has been beset by problems for years, will be one of the world’s biggest nuclear power plants. It was designed by French nuclear giant Areva and is being operated by energy giant EDF. Continue reading “Alarm Spreads Over Meltdown at French Nuclear Plant”
Traveling through the T. F. Green Airport of Providence, Rhode Island?
If so, the Department of Homeland Security may be collecting video of you as part of a project to sniff out behavioral indicators of “malicious intent.”
In other words, the DHS wants to use video images of passengers to predict crimes. Continue reading “DHS secretly videotaping citizens to ‘predict crime’”
One of the most common questions I’m asked in interviews is how I got started prepping. That crucial moment when you decide that you need to change the way you live is paramount to understanding the motivation to live a prepared lifestyle
Recently, I asked many of you how you started out, too, for an article I was working on. You answered via email and social media, and I so thoroughly enjoyed hearing your stories that I decided to publish some of them in this collection, as opposed to merely quoting bits and pieces in the original article I had planned. Continue reading “Looking for Motivation? 21 Preppers Share the Stories of How They Got Started”
Over 5.5 million prisoners populate the five largest prison population states.
United States: 2,228,424
China: 1,701,344
Russian Federation: 671,700
Brazil: 581,507
India: 411,992
Continue reading “Modern Prisons and Their Predecessors”
Until now these pistols were classed as legal pistols by the ATF and did not get classification under the National Firearms Act as ‘Destructive Devices’. They had to be originally built as pistols and not converted from rifles. If they were converted they were classed as short barreled rifles and became ‘NFA Destructive Devices’. This ruling will change all that.
This is from Lock and Load Radio. They have a link the ATF proposal. As the proposal comes from the office of the President, what it looks like is President Obama is directing BATFE to do this. Continue reading “BATF To Reclassify AR And AK Pistols As NFA Items”
The Guardian – by Benjamin Lee and Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Sir Christopher Lee, known as the master of horror, has died at the age of 93 after being hospitalised for respiratory problems and heart failure.
The veteran actor, immortalised in films from Dracula to The Wicker Man, and via James Bond villainy to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, died at 8.30am on Sunday morning at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.
His wife, the former Danish model Birgit Kroencke, decided to hold back the information for four days until all family members and friends were informed. The couple had been married for more than 50 years and had one daughter, Christina. Continue reading “Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93”
It is no secret that US healthcare corporations have been among, if not the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare: by “socializing” costs and spreading the reimbursement pool over the entire population in the form of a tax, pharmaceutical companies have been able to boost medical product and service costs to unprecedented levels with the help of complicit insurance companies who have subsequently passed through these costs to the consumer, in the process sending the price of biotech and pharma stocks to levels not seen since the dot com bubble.
But when it came to the highly confidential TPP, it was unclear just which corporations were dominant in pulling the strings. Continue reading “Big Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy”
Sent to us by the author, Dan F. Sullivan
When they hear the words “survival weapons”, a lot of people think machetes, swords and other crazy things. The fact of the matter is, you don’t need to look like a Game of Thrones character in order to defend yourself without a firearm. In what follows I’m going to give you a quick list of items (some of them probably sitting in your room right now) that can double as survival weapons. Continue reading “10 Everyday Items That Double as Survival Weapons”
Medical examiners don’t have to return all organs from autopsied bodies to the deceased person’s family, New York’s Appeals Court ruled on Wednesday. The decision also added that it is not necessary to inform relatives if any body parts are missing.
A verdict allowing city coroners to return the body with missing organs for burial after performing an autopsy was ruled on in New York, AP reported. The appeals court had reversed a lower court’s decision, which involved a family who unknowingly buried their son with parts of his body missing. Continue reading “Grave concern: US medical examiners can keep organs from dead bodies, NY court rules”
A female police officer fatally shot an unarmed, 28-year-old white man named Keith Bolinger for allegedly “charging” at her vehicle following his “unusual” behaviour and a short car chase in Des Moines, Iowa.
Officer Vanessa Miller fired the round that hit and killed Bolinger at the scene, when he tried to approach a police car on Tuesday evening, the Des Moines Register reported. In the lead up to the shooting, police and witnesses, said Bolinger had led two officers in a car chase through the streets Des Moines. Continue reading “Cop kills man for ‘walking with a purpose’”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s central bank lowered its key interest rate to a historic low on Thursday, responding to a slump in exports and the prospect the economy will be hurt by the outbreak of the deadly MERS virus. Officials insist that the disease, which has killed 10 people, has peaked.
Bank of Korea policymakers cut the policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.5 percent, the second rate cut this year. In March, the bank lowered the key rate and downgraded its growth forecast for Asia’s fourth-largest economy as exports continued to slump. Continue reading “SKorea cuts key rate as MERS emerges as threat to recovery”
