Year: 2015

Survival Sherpa – by Todd Walker

I, an incurable Ax Junkie, hereby nominate the man or woman responsible for hafting a stone to the end of a stick as the first inductee in the Tool-User Hall of Fame. Second only to clubs, axes are possibly the oldest tool known to man. This wooden lever attached to a stone, a simple machine, was in use over 30,000 years ago revolutionizing not only our “survival kits”, but our destiny as tool-users!

anachronisim [uh–nak-ruh-niz-uh m] – a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Continue reading “Cutting to the Chase When Choosing an Ax for Self-Reliance”

RT

Poland’s minister of defense has announced plans to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles for future submarines. With the conflict in neighboring Ukraine as a pretext, Warsaw is actively modernizing its armed forces with a focus on purchasing first-strike weapons.

Warsaw is ready to buy SLCM (Submarine-launched cruise missile) version of long-range Tomahawk missiles either directly from the US or from any other country ready to assist, Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told Polish radio on Thursday.   Continue reading “Poland seeks to acquire submarine-based Tomahawk missiles”

Mail.com

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican Mafia hit man convicted of beating and strangling a San Antonio woman because she didn’t pay the gang’s 10 percent tax on her illegal drug sales was executed Wednesday evening.

The injection of Manuel Vasquez with a lethal dose of pentobarbital leaves Texas with enough of the powerful sedative to carry out only one more execution. Vasquez was the fourth Texas inmate put to death this year, and at least six are scheduled for execution in the coming weeks.   Continue reading “Texas executes gang hit man for killing woman over drug tax”

Mail.com

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The triggerman in the Pamela Smart murder trial was granted parole Thursday, nearly 25 years after he killed his school instructor’s husband and launched a global spectacle packed with lurid details of sex and manipulation.

William Flynn was 16-year-old “Billy” in 1990 when he and three teenage friends carried out what prosecutors said was Pamela Smart’s plot to murder Gregg Smart. Flynn pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison, minus time served before trial.   Continue reading “Teen killer, Pamela Smart’s lover, is granted parole”

WND – by CHERYL CHUMLEY

Two high-ranking agents with the Secret Service are under fire for allegedly driving while drunk, and smashing their government vehicle into a White House barricade.

The Washington Post reported the Obama administration is investigating the pair. And Brian Leary with the Secret Service confirmed the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is leading up the probe.   Continue reading “Secret Service agents face fire for alleged drunk driving”

Here is what I saw on the way to work this morning. They have been doing the “short run” spraying this morning. Notice the tandem planes I caught halfway to work. No denying they started and turned in tandem, and were at such a low altitude I could see the engine cowls on the fuselages – no contrails were they.

I have also noticed the brown haze of late – remember, we live in flat-land Indiana – no smog here, and it is too early in the season for it to be dust from field plowing operations (see last pic).   Continue reading “Indiana Chemtrails”

The Hill – by Mario Trujillo

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released the full text of its net neutrality rules, which were approved two weeks ago.

The document runs 400 pages, which includes the statements of the five commissioners. Without the statements, the document runs 313 pages.    Continue reading “FCC releases 313 pages of Internet rules”

Guerrrillamerica – by SAMUEL CULPER III

One of my favorite things about Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield/Community (IPB/IPC) is learning more about where I live.  Many people point out that now is the time to collect information, when information is so freely available.  We don’t yet know what Net Neutrality will do to the internet (although we have some good ideas), we don’t know that the sources of information we take for granted will be allowed to continue in their current forms, and we don’t know how a collapse-style event, even just a regional one, will affect the rest of us and our ability to collect relevant and timely intelligence information.   Continue reading “ASCOPE Factors in Intelligence Collection for the Patriot-Prepper”

The Anti-Media – by Nick Bernabe

Washington, D.C. — Congress has really outdone itself this time. On Monday, neoconservative Republicans in the Senate were apparently so eager to go to war with Iran that they broke a federal law known as the Logan Act in the process. The Logan Act has been around since 1799 and has remained mostly unchanged, created to keep rogue members of Congress from undermining foreign relations.

How did Senate Republicans violate the Logan Act? Well they did that by being war mongers. But more specifically, when 47 members of Congress signed onto a letter that was sent to Iranian officials in an attempt to undermine the peace deal with Iran, they clearly violated the act — and also all committed felonies. According to Cornell University, the act reads:   Continue reading “Half of the US Senate Just Committed Felonies, Could Face 3 Years in Prison”

My News 13 – by Caroline Rowland

ORLANDO — An Orlando man believes Orange County deputies went too far and violated his civil rights after forcing him to delete video he took with his drone.

Aaron Bitler said he flies his drone every day. He thought it was normal to send it up in the air when he saw deputies in his neighborhood Monday night.

“I’m bringing it up and I’m trying to see what the police (are) looking at,” Bitler said. “I want to make sure there is no one coming near us or our property.”   Continue reading “Orlando man said deputies forced him to delete video he captured on drone”

Yahoo News – by Jon Herskovitz

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier accused of running a prostitution ring at Fort Hood, one of the largest Army bases in the country, pled guilty on Wednesday to 15 charges related to the accusation, officials said on Wednesday.

Sergeant 1st Class Gregory McQueen is expected to be sentenced as early as Thursday at the court-martial after pleading guilty to charges including conspiracy to solicit prostitution, adultery and dereliction of duty, the base said in a statement.   Continue reading “U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty to sex ring charges at Texas base”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

The groundswell of public and congressional opposition against the ATF’s proposed ban on 5.56 M855 rifle ammunition was so swift and strong that the agency announced on Tuesday that it was backing down. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was not only bombarded with more than 80,000 negative responses to its latest anti-Second Amendment maneuver, but it also was blasted in Congress, where 238 House members and 52 senators signed letters opposing the ammo ban. Not only that, but legislation has been introduced to abolish the agency.   Continue reading “ATF Drops Proposed Ammo Ban; Agency’s Very Existence Threatened”

ABC 7 News – by Laura Anthony

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — A disturbing video has surfaced out of the Oakland Unified School District.

In the video you will only see on ABC7 News, you can see school security officers dragging a student and then allegedly punching the student off camera.

It happened last year at Fremont High School, but now Oakland Unified Police Chief Jeff Godown is calling for a review of the incident.   Continue reading “Caught On Tape: Oakland Officers Attack High School Student”

WSFA 12 News

HAMMOND, LA (WVUE) – A search for 11 service members missing after a helicopter crash off the Florida coast was called off for the night Wednesday because of weather, according to Air Force spokesman Maj. Craig Savage.

Savage said he expects the search to resume Thursday morning.

Human remains washed up on a Florida beach as crews search for 11 missing military members involved in an Army helicopter crash. The Pentagon said all 11 service members are presumed dead, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Weather suspends search for 11 service members missing in crash”