The Organic Prepper

This week on Survival Saturday, learn about how astronomical consumer credit card debt is providing Americans with the deadly illusion of prosperity, get proof that the average diet is more akin to Soylent Green than actual food, and hear about the government’s latest volley in their determined assault on privacy- it’s for your own good, you know.

Survival Saturday is  a round-up of the week’s news and recommended reading material for folks who are interested in being prepared.   Continue reading “Survival Saturday: Monstrous Credit Card Debt, the Assault on Privacy, and Fake Food”

11 Alive

A newly-released 911 call provides more information about the final moments for a Florida man who was killed shortly after being Tased on Interstate 85 by two Coweta County Sheriff’s Deputies.

Chase Sherman’s parents said their son was hallucinating Nov. 20 after having a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana.   Continue reading “911 call released in Coweta County Taser death”

ABC News

Donald Trump‘s Chicago rally Friday night was canceled as large crowds of protesters amassed inside and outside the venue, leading organizers to fear for the safety of those gathered.

Five arrests were made and two police officers were injured, interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said during a press conference Saturday night. Of those five arrests, two each were made by the Chicago Police Department and University of Illinois police, and one arrest was made by Illinois State Police. One of the individuals arrested was a journalist.   Continue reading “Trump Rally Postponed in Chicago as Large Crowds of Protesters Gather; 5 Arrested”

Rolling Stone

Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. His bandmate Carl Palmer and the trio’s official Facebook confirmed Emerson’s death. TMZ reported that police found Emerson with a single gunshot wound to the head, though they could not confirm that Emerson died by suicide. “We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family’s privacy and grief be respected,” the band wrote.   Continue reading “Keith Emerson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer Keyboardist, Dead at 71”

“JOHN HUMBLE’s,” following piece was published in the Independent Gazetteer, October 29, 1787.

The humble address of the low-born of the United States of America, to their fellow slaves scattered throughout the world – greeting:

Whereas it hath been represented unto us that a most dreadful disease hath for these five years last past infected, preyed upon and almost ruined the government and people of this our country; and of this malady we ourselves have had perfect demonstration, not mentally, but bodily, through every one of the five senses. Continue reading “The Anti-Federalist Paper No. 27 – The Use Of Coercion By The New Government (Part 2)”

News Target – by Tara Paras

A 2012 Polish study, published in the journal Progressive Health Sciences, highlighted what we’ve all known — and what the mainstream media and vaccine fanatics keeps denying — all along: The risks of vaccines far outweigh any of their perceived benefits.

Researchers from the Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation at the Medical University of Bialystok looked at the typical childhood vaccination schedule in Poland and compared it to that of other countries around the world. They evaluated the adverse effects associated with the administration of multiple vaccines at once, as well as how individual vaccines affect immunological development and response.   Continue reading “Polish study confirms what mainstream media’s been trying to hide all along: Vaccines are dangerous!”

CBS News

A durable plastic called PET is considered a major environmental hazard because it’s highly resistant to breakdown. But researchers have found a potential new match for this hardy plastic: a newly discovered microbe that is astonishingly good at eating it.

An estimated 342 million tons of plastic are produced annually worldwide, and currently, only about 14 percent is collected for recycling, according to the World Economic Forum.   Continue reading “Plastic-eating bacteria could help make trash disappear”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

Greene County, MO – The epidemic of mass incarceration is coming back to bite authorities in one American city. Because the Greene County jail is completely full, Springfield (pop. 165,000) is unable to arrest more than 12,000 people accused of crimes such as traffic infractions and misdemeanor assaults.

Missouri’s third-largest city has lost almost half a million dollars in less than a year from unpaid fines and fees. These lost extortion fees are likely the biggest concern to city officials.   Continue reading “City Had to Stop Arresting Actual Criminals Because They Filled Up Jail with Non-violent Offenders”

Activist Post – by Joe Wright

Boy that was quick. Stir up a bit of fear in the media about a disease that is not even proven to be dangerous and what do you get? Several vaccine projects and mutant mosquitoes programmed to mate with Zika-carrying mosquitoes to make them sterile. What could go wrong?

Biotech company Intrexon Corp announced today that its genetically modified mosquito has been deemed safe for the environment in preliminary findings by the FDA.   Continue reading “FDA Claims New Genetically Modified Anti-Zika Mosquito Is Safe”

Patch – by Beth Dalby

EASTPOINTE, MI – A judge who was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has agreed to stop routinely using a “pay or stay” practice that throws poor defendants in jail simply because they can’t pay court fines and fees.

The Macomb County Circuit Court’s order Tuesday settles the case filed against 38th District Court Judge Carl F. Gerds III, Eastpointe’s only district court judge. Gerds has agreed to stop jailing poor defendants who can’t pay up, the ACLU said.   Continue reading “Michigan Judge Told to Stop Jailing Poor People Who Can’t Pay Fees”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in early November we reported that in a shocking twist of events, Mikhail Lesin – a close ally of Putin and the man credited with “inspiring” the creation of Russia Today – was found dead on an upper floor in The Dupont Circle hotel in DC. Lesin was Russia’s Minister of Press, Television and Radio from 1999 to 2004 and also served as Putin’s media adviser. In 2013 he assumed a role as an executive at Gazprom-Media.   Continue reading ““Blunt Force Injuries To The Head” – Putin’s Multi-Millionaire, Media Mogul Was Murdered In A Luxury DC Hotel”

Breitbart – by Ildefonso Ortiz

MCALLEN, Texas — Over a period of three days, three illegal aliens from El Salvador with criminal records as rapists are facing immigration charges after getting arrested near the Rio Grande Valley of the Texas border with Mexico.

The most recent arrest took place on Wednesday in the border city of Hidalgo when U.S. Border Patrol agents found 28-year-old Manuel Alexander Chicas Contreras. Details of how the arrest took place are not listed in the criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas. Once in custody however, the agents requested a records check on Chicas and learned that he had previously been deported.   Continue reading “Three Illegal Alien Convicted Rapists Arrested Sneaking Back into Texas”

Oddity Central – by Sumitra

San Francisco entrepreneurs Geoffrey Woo and Michael Brandt have come up with a revolutionary way for coffee lovers to get their early morning caffeine fix – chewable caffeine cubes. Each 35-calorie bite-sized ‘Go Cube’  is the equivalent of drinking roughly half a cup of coffee. So if you’re running late with no time to brew a fresh cuppa joe, just pop two cubes and you’re good to go.   Continue reading “Chewable Coffee Cubes Offer a New Way to Kickstart Your Day”

Oregon Live – by Les Zaitz

BEND – Something didn’t seem right about the bullet hole in the top of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum’s white Dodge pickup.

Investigators from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office could account for bullet holes in the left front hood, the driver’s side mirror and the front grille. They came from the AR-15 of a state trooper who had fired three times at the truck as Finicum raced at 70 mph toward a police roadblock on Jan. 26.   Continue reading “Bullet hole on LaVoy Finicum’s truck traced to elite FBI team”

East Orlando Post – by Jacob Engels

While Ted Cruz proudly proclaims he is an Evangelical Christian, his campaign takes pains to hide the truth that Cruz and his pastor father, Rafael Cruz are Pentecostal Christians, a fact further hidden by having Ted and Heidi Cruz’s belong to the congregation of First Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Houston, as their home church.

Both Cruz’s parents, his father Rafael a Cuban-born immigrant, and his mother Eleanor, born in Wilmington, Delaware, grew up in Catholic families. Both were among the millions of that left the Catholic Church since the 1960s to embrace Pentecostalism, a Christian movement estimated to make up 4.4 percent of the U.S. population, accounting for some 13 percent of evangelical churches in the United States.   Continue reading “Ted Cruz: Closet Pentecostal”

The Newspaper

Police officers may not hold a Florida driver’s license and demand to search a vehicle. That was the conclusion last month of a three-judge state Court of Appeal panel that ruled the search of Joey Villanueva’s van unconstitutional.

Lakeland Police Officer Bradley Dollison, a rookie, pulled Villanueva over, claiming he blew through a stop sign. The officer opened with the standard request for license and registration. Villanueva’s papers were in order, except a computer check noted that he was on probation. At trial, Officer Dollison admitted that once the check was complete he had completed everything he had to do except write the citation. The officer decided to ask more questions — why was Villanueva on probation? Did he have any weapons or anything illegal in the vehicle?   Continue reading “Florida Court: Cops May Not Hold Licenses As Leverage To Search”