WCNC – by Dustin Wilson

ROCK HILL, S.C. — A Rock Hill woman was in for quite the surprise Monday when she opened up a package and found marijuana instead of hair care products.

Commander Marvin Brown with the York County Drug Enforcement Unit says drug trafficking has become more complex while utilizing an age-old system, daily delivery services, such as UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.   Continue reading “Police: Rock Hill woman finds marijuana in mail”

Global Research – by Eric Zuesse

U.S. President Obama’s central case against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (and his central argument against Assad’s supporter Russia on that matter) is that Assad was behind the sarin gas attack in Ghouta Syria on 21 August 2013 — but it’s all a well-proven lie, as will be shown here.

President Obama said this to the UN on September 24th: “The evidence is overwhelming that the Assad regime used such weapons on August 21st. U.N. inspectors gave a clear accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin gas at civilians. These rockets were fired from a regime-controlled neighborhood and landed in opposition neighborhoods.”   Continue reading “The War on Syria. Obama Lied When He Said This”

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Knifeista

Our community of fellow preppers is always trying to assess the best tools out there for surviving under almost any circumstances, which is why tool reviews and comparisons are some of the most popular features of our website. Unlike what other people think, preppers aren’t constantly stressed about being prepared for disaster striking, and fretting about it. On the contrary: a good prepper or survivalist expert is actually more relaxed about the possibility of bad times coming, precisely because he (or she) has done his (her) homework and knows how to tackle what may be coming.   Continue reading “The Prepper’s Checklist: Pocket Items You Need beyond a Good Knife”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

One of the truly fascinating revelations in the recent Freedom of Information Act emails acquired from university professors who whore themselves out to Monsanto is the fact that mainstream media journalists are also Monsanto prostitutes.

These Monsanto operatives pretending to be journalists write for The Washington Post, New York Times, Discover, Slate, Nature and various “science” websites. Many of them openly admit to being paid by Monsanto and gladly accepting the money. Then they turn around and write stories attacking clean food activists or hawking whatever GMO propaganda Monsanto is pushing that day.   Continue reading “Meet the sleazy Monsanto operatives pretending to be journalists for Discover, Slate, The Washington Post and the New York Times”

Update: NBC News

A gunman was in custody after he killed seven to 10 people and injured about 20 others Thursday at a community college in southwest Oregon, authorities said.

It wasn’t immediately known whether the gunman was dead or alive as authorities said simply that he was in custody after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which was called in at 10:38 a.m. (1:38 p.m. ET), officials said.   Continue reading “Deputies Respond to Active Shooter at Umpqua Community College”

Bloomberg – by John Lauerman

There are 70,000 ways to get sick, hurt or mortally injured, and the U.S. is making them official.

On Thursday, U.S. hospitals, doctors and other care providers have to start using internationally developed standards called ICD-10 codes to bill government programs and private insurers in the nation’s $2.9 trillion-a-year health-care system. The codes cover everything from parrot bites to getting sucked into a jet engine.   Continue reading “There Are Now Officially 70,000 Ways to Get Sick or Die”

Reuters

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies in a major ground offensive backed by Russian air strikes, two Lebanese sources told Reuters.

“The (Russian) air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies,” said one of the sources familiar with political and military developments in the conflict.   Continue reading “Assad allies, including Iranians, prepare ground attack in Syria: sources”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

The agency that enforces federal government’s war on drugs is full of hypocrisy, and the bosses don’t care.

Recent media investigations have found that Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) employees have used drugs, distributed drugs, lied to authorities and committed other serious offenses such as “improper association with a criminal element.”   Continue reading “200+ DEA Agents Use Drugs, Steal Guns, Drive Drunk & Keep Jobs”

Mail.com

MOSCOW (AP) — Reacting to criticism that it is targeting opponents of the Syrian government, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Thursday that Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are targeting not only Islamic State militants but also other groups.

Russia on Wednesday carried out its first airstrikes in Syria in what President Vladimir Putin called a pre-emptive strike against the militants. Twenty airstrikes destroyed a command center of Islamic State militants as well as ammunition depots, the defense ministry said.   Continue reading “Russia says it targets not just IS in Syria”

Mail.com

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip was just minutes away from his scheduled lethal injection, stripped of all his belongings in a holding cell just a few feet from the state’s death chamber, when he learned his execution had once again been delayed.

“I’m just standing there in just my boxers,” Glossip, who claims he’s innocent, told reporters in a telephone interview from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. “They wouldn’t tell me anything. Finally someone came up and said I got a stay.”   Continue reading “Oklahoma gets wrong execution drug, delays lethal injection”

Mail.com

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s lawyers are using the words “absurd,” ”forlorn” and “obtuse” to describe the legal arguments a county clerk has used to avoid issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who spent five days in jail for defying a series of federal court orders, filed a lawsuit against the governor, alleging he violated her religious freedom by asking clerks to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, which effectively legalized gay marriage across the nation. Beshear reiterated a request Tuesday that a judge toss the suit.   Continue reading “Kentucky Governor: Clerk’s arguments ‘absurd’ and ‘obtuse’”

The Organic Prepper

The East Coast is bracing for a hurricane that may rival the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. Hurricane Joaquin is expected to reach Category 4 proportions today, as it gains strength in the Bahamas.

Current projections have it heading due north, and it’s predicted to make landfall in the US this weekend.

If you happen to live in South Carolina, North Caroline, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, you’re likely to get hit, particularly in the coastal regions.   Continue reading “Prepping for a Hurricane: Are You Ready for Joaquin?”

CNS News – by Susan Jones

“The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns,” says a September 30 news release from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The announcement says HHS has contracted for the development of “four novel products to treat severe thermal burns.”

The products will boost the number of treatment options in case of disaster, and they’ll also be used in “routine” burn care situations.   Continue reading “HHS Boosting Nation’s Stockpile of Burn Treatments in Case of Nuclear Attack”

AP – by Mead Gruver

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday blocked new nationwide regulations for oil and gas drilling on federal lands from taking effect while a lawsuit moves ahead, pointing to a law that prohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating hydraulic fracturing.

Just because the EPA lacks authority to regulate fracking doesn’t mean the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has leeway to do so, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl wrote. “In the absence of a statute conferring authority, an administrative agency has none,” he wrote.   Continue reading “Judge blocks federal oil, gas drilling rules pending lawsuit”

DisInfo

The Meanwhile In The Future podcast (at Gizmodo) decides to look at ways to genetically modify humans to survive climate change:

A lot of researchers are thinking about how to genetically engineer crops and food animals to help them withstand post-climate change heat and parched conditions. But what about genetically engineering humans to slow our constant carbon contributions?

Continue reading “To Survive Climate Change, We Must Genetically Engineer Humans”