Ask a Prepper – by C. Davis

Most of the questions I receive on my website AskaPrepper.com are about EMP’s and Faraday Cages.

What I realized is that there are a lot of EMP myths generated by movies and even some internet sources. The situation is so bad that the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs EMP” (which is not available to the public). It seems that the Air Force wanted to make sure that Hollywood fiction would not confuse those who must deal with real EMP events. (Source)   Continue reading “EMP Myths and Facts. What’s BS and What’s True?”

Politico – by Jake Sherman

Speaker John Boehner, who rose from bartender’s son to the most powerful man in Congress, will retire at the end of October, ending a tumultuous five-year tenure atop the House of Representatives.

Boehner, 65, planned to leave Congress at the end of 2014, one of his aides said Friday morning, but returned because of the unexpected defeat of Eric Cantor.   Continue reading “Speaker John Boehner retiring from Congress at the end of October”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — The training session asked workers how they would respond to troubled people — a drug user, an abuse victim or someone with bipolar disorder — that they might encounter on the job.

They weren’t doctors or therapists, and their employer, a wide-ranging youth outreach organization called The Door, isn’t only a counseling center. But mental health how-tos are part of everyone’s training, whether they’re career advisers or basketball coaches, and reaching out to offer help is part of everyone’s job.   Continue reading “NYC plan trains lay people as mental health screeners”

Independent – by Paul Gallagher

The motor industry has been accused of withholding a report that reveals US cars are substantially less safe than European vehicles – for fear that the findings would hamper the drive to harmonise safety standards as part of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

The major study was commissioned by the car industry to show that existing EU and US safety standards were broadly similar.   Continue reading “Car industry ‘buried report revealing US car safety flaws over fears for TTIP deal’”

RT

New cellphone footage allegedly shows Delaware police officers in a fatal encounter with a man in a wheelchair on Wednesday. The officers had responded to a call reporting that the man had shot himself. A relative called the death an “execution.”

The video allegedly depicts the grizzly shooting of Jeremy McDole, a 28-year-old African-American who was sitting in a wheelchair, by three white Delaware police officers.   Continue reading “‘Execution:’ Cellphone footage shows Delaware cops shooting man in wheelchair”

Washington’s Blog – by Eric Zuesse

America’s best and most reliable video ducumentarian of war-crimes and of lies by the U.S. Government is now being hit by a new Youtube policy of blocking income to, or even obliterating, videos that Youtube determines to be about “Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if grahic imagery [unsuitable for children] is not shown.” (That’s from the statement by Youtube.)

He asserts that, “This change is essentially an attack on independent journalists who cannot afford the video and sponsorship infrastructure used by the corporate media.”   Continue reading “Youtube Escalates Censorship”

Q 13 Fox – by Steve Kiggins

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Kids at the Mercer Island School District are now banned from playing the popular childhood game of tag on the playground.

Parents told Q13 Fox News they had no idea about the ban until their kids told them.  Now, moms and dads are asking why they weren’t part of the decision-making process.

“Good grief, our kids need some unstructured playtime,” said mom Kelsey Joyce.   Continue reading “School district bans game of tag to ‘ensure physical, emotional safety of students’”

KHOU

FORT BEND COUNTY – A man is in jail today after allegedly making a threatening phone call to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.

Gustavo Garcia is in the Fort Bend County Jail under $50,000 facing a third degree felony charge for making a terroristic threat.   Continue reading “Man accused of making terroristic threat to FBCSO”

Daily Mail

Giant Sequoiasgrowing in California’s Sierra Nevada are among the largest and oldest living things on earth, but scientists climbing high up into their green canopies say they are seeing symptoms of stress caused by the state’s historic drought.

Patches of brown, dead foliage are appearing more than in past years, say researchers studying the iconic trees, which only grow naturally in the Sierra Nevada.    Continue reading “California’s Giant Sequoias under threat from drought”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

At least six illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala have been killed, multiple others injured, and two arrested following a high-speed chase that ended with a crash in the rural town of Edna just northwest of Victoria, Texas. At least 15 people were crammed into the SUV.

The fatal wreck took place shortly after 1:30 a.m. along Highway 59 when police in Edna tried to pull over a Ford Explorer over a traffic violation, Houston’s ABC13 reported. Edna is located in Jackson County.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Car Crash Kills 6 in Central Texas”

The State Journal – by Mandi Cardosi

A Wood County man is behind bars after allegedly making threats of terrorist acts on state government officials.

Thomas David Deegan, 39, of Mineral Wells, was arraigned in Wood County Magistrate Court Sept. 23 and is being held on a $300,000 cash only bond. He is being held in North Central Regional Jail.   Continue reading “Wood County, WV man arrested for making ‘threats of terrorist acts’”

Daily Mail

Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed Silicon Valley’s titans, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and billionaire investor Warren Buffet, in a closed-door conference in Wednesday.

At the event with America and China’s top business leaders, Xi vowed to work to remove barriers to foreign investment and improve intellectual property protections in a bid to crack down on his country’s rip-offs of US products.   Continue reading “Chinese President Xi Jinping address Silicon Valley’s titans”

Trains – by Fred Frailey, Sept 9, 2015

In a candid letter to a U.S. senator, BNSF Railway’s chief executive, Carl Ice, said September 9 that BNSF would in effect shut down most of its network rather than violate a federal law mandating that positive train control be operational by December 31. CSX Transportation has said it, too, questions whether it should violate federal laws, and other Class I carriers are likely to follow suit. This set up the real possibility of a national transportation crisis at the beginning of 2016. The public may be unaware of how closely the U.S. economy is tied to railroads, but the reality is that without railroads, this country will quickly cease to function normally. Imagine, for instance, no electricity to heat homes.   Continue reading “BNSF: We will shut down”

Ukraine Today

US Republican Senator John McCain visits Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa on Wednesday, September 23, where he is meeting the head of Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili.

Having arrived in Odesa McCain said that the US will continue to help Ukraine. At the same time, he emphasized the importance of Ukraine’s fight against corruption.   Continue reading “John McCain visits Odesa”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

GLITCH.news has posted a timely and much-needed article entitled How to kill a Google robot.

The article anticipates the inescapable conclusion that Google’s military robots will sooner or later be turned against the people, Terminator style. It offers advice on various ways to take out a Google robot, including running over it with your car, setting it on fire, and decapitating it.   Continue reading “Human survival 101: Top ten ways to kill a Google robot”