Year: 2015

The Organic Prepper

Home canning is a great way to preserve food. It’s an old-fashioned skill that has undergone a lot of research, resulting in modern updates.

Sometimes people are resistant to these updates. When I recently published my book, The Organic Canner, I can’t tell you how many emails I received telling me, for example, that a pressure canner isn’t necessary. That the reader’s grandma used a water bath canner for everything and she lived to the ripe old age of 114. That by my adherence to the guidelines set forth by the USDA, I’m “selling out” and kowtowing to the government. One person even wrote that he “used to read my website but no longer would” since my book followed the USDA recommendations for canning.   Continue reading “Washington Man Paralyzed by Botulism from Improperly Canned Food”

UPI – by Daniel J. Graeber

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) — The national average retail price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States has increased for 15 consecutive days, AAA data show Tuesday.

Oil prices in the United States were in a free fall last year and in early 2015, with the national average price flirting with the $2 per gallon mark. A national average price for Tuesday of $2.18 per gallon is about a penny more than Monday and 12 cents more than one week ago.   Continue reading “Gas prices rise for 15th straight day”

RT

The beautiful monarch butterfly, which is also a major pollinator, is being threatened by herbicides that eradicate milkweed, its primary food source. Now, a desperate rejuvenation program is under way to save the species from possible extinction.

A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.   Continue reading “Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House was ready to share with lawmakers Tuesday its plan to seek authority for the use of military force against the Islamic State group, setting up the first war vote in Congress in 13 years.

Presidential counsel Neil Eggleston was set to address the Senate Democrats’ luncheon, the day before President Barack Obama is expected to formally unveil his proposed authorization, a Democratic official revealed.   Continue reading “Obama to send his new war powers request to Capitol Hill”

Mail.com

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United Arab Emirates fighter planes roared out of an air base in Jordan on Tuesday to pound Islamic State militant positions, marking a return to combat operations by one of the United States’ closest Arab allies in the fight against the extremists.

The Emirates’ decision to launch fresh airstrikes from the kingdom after a more-than-monthlong hiatus was a strong show of support for Western-allied Jordan, which has vowed a punishing response to the militants’ killing of one of its pilots.   Continue reading “Emirates launches airstrikes from Jordan on Islamic State”

The Verge – by Elizabeth Lopatto

In at least 57 clinical trials conducted from 1998 to 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration found evidence of falsification, problems with reporting side-effects, inadequate record-keeping, and more. But only three of the resulting 78 publications monitored in today’s report mentioned the misconduct uncovered during inspections. And no corrections, retractions, or other comments were added after publication. The author of today’s report blames “regulatory capture” for the lapse, or a type of corruption where a public agency protects the interests of the groups it’s meant to regulate rather than the interests of the public at large.   Continue reading “The FDA doesn’t tell you when it finds scientific fraud”

Reuters

VIENNA – The United States has derailed a proposal to toughen nuclear safety standards by amending a global atomic treaty, diplomats said, with opponents of the move arguing it would get mired in lengthy parliamentary ratification.

Months of wrangling about the future of the 77-nation Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) culminated at a Vienna meeting diplomats feared could expose divisions over safety standards four years after the Fukushima disaster started.   Continue reading “U.S. derails amendment to toughen nuclear safety pact: diplomats”

Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

Are we on the verge of a major worldwide economic downturn?  Well, if recent warnings from prominent bankers all over the world are to be believed, that may be precisely what we are facing in the months ahead.  As you will read about below, the big banks are warning that the price of oil could soon drop as low as 20 dollars a barrel, that a Greek exit from the eurozone could push the EUR/USD down to 0.90, and that the global economy could shrink by more than 2 trillion dollars in 2015.  Most of the time, very few people ever actually read the things that the big banks write for their clients.  But in recent months, a lot of these bankers are issuing such ominous warnings that you would think that they have started to write for The Economic Collapse Blog.  Of course we have seen this happen before.  Just before the financial crisis of 2008, a lot of people at the big banks started to get spooked, and now we are beginning to see an atmosphere of fear spread on Wall Street once again.  Nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next, but an increasing number of experts are starting to agree that it won’t be good.   Continue reading “If You Listen Carefully, The Bankers Are Actually Telling Us What Is Going To Happen Next”

Silver is the New

In some countries, the ‘solution’ the state chooses for its ignominous billionaire class of inequality-garnering, economy-wrecking individuals is to either a) turn one’s back for a brief enough moment as to allow the tyrant to leave the country in search of a golden beach upon which to lament how great a trade being long European bonds would have been’ or b) enhance their wealth further on a quid pro quo basis. In China, the ‘treatment’ for corrupt billionaires who love casinos, cigars, and luxury cars is much simpler…execution.   Continue reading “China’s Solution To “Tyrannical” Billionaires Who Harm The Economy: Execution”

RT

Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, said the US-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake and helped to create the Islamist State militant group. He also blamed regional powers for making the conflict worse.

“I was against this invasion and my fears have been founded. The break-up of the Iraqi forces poured hundreds if not thousands of disgruntled soldiers and police officers onto the streets,” Kofi Annan told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. He added that some of these former security force members went on to join the Islamic State.   Continue reading “US invasion of Iraq helped create ISIS – former UN chief”

MassPrivateI

Are you, your family or your community at risk of turning to violent extremism? That’s the premise behind a rating system devised by the National Counterterrorism Center, according to a document marked For Official Use Only.

The document–and the rating system–is part of a wider strategy for Countering Violent Extremism, which calls for local community and religious leaders to work together with law enforcement and other government agencies. The White House has made this approach a centerpiece of its response to terrorist attacks around the world and in the wake of the Paris attacks, announced plans to host an international summit on Countering Violent Extremism on February 18th.    Continue reading “Police and social workers using gov’t questionnaire to see if you & your family could be terrorists”

Down Trend – by Brian Anderson

The state of Okalahoma is on a roll with introducing unconstitutional unenforceable laws as of late. Yesterday Downtrend’s Robert Gehl told us how the state wants to ban people from wearing hoodies and today we learn that they also want to keep people who have been convicted of DUI from buying and consuming alcohol.

Fox 25 reports that state Senator Patrick Anderson (no relation) has introduced legislation that would further punish those convicted of driving under the influence:   Continue reading “Oklahoma Looks To Ban Alcohol Sales To DUI Convicts”