CBS News

President Trump on Thursday afternoon declared the opioid crisis sweeping America a public health emergency.

The president has long-promised to do something about the crisis that has ravaged the nation and claimed more than 64,000 lives in 2016 alone. But a public health emergency is not the same as the national emergency the president initially promised to announce in August, and only directs the acting secretary of Health and Human Services, Eric Hargan, to issue a nationwide public health emergency under the Public Service Act. A public health emergency, unlike a national emergency, does not free up additional funding, instead relying on existing funding to be redirected. Declaring a national emergency would free up Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding, public health worker deployment, and state requests for federal aid, among other things.   Continue reading “Trump declares opioid crisis a public health emergency”

Jon Rappoport

Socialism for the good of all, sponsored by “the people?”

Please. If you buy that one, I have beachfront condos for sale on the dark side of the moon.

I continue to expose the expansion of socialism—“the revolution by and for the masses,” which is in fact a plot of ultra-rich monopolists.   Continue reading “The plot to overthrow America—oh that’s just a fantasy”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A dramatic rollercoaster of a day for Catalonia and Spain is ending ominously, with the Catalan president Puigdemont announcing that he would let the region’s parliament decide the fate of the Catalan declaration of independence from Spain, capping off a day of furious reversals. The announcement follows a dramatic reversal from the Catalan leader who until just a few hours ago, was expected to announce that he’d call an early election in the region to avoid Spain’s takeover of the Catalan government. In the last moment he decided against it, saying there were no guarantees from the Spanish government it would be implemented while facing rebellion from his separatist allies at home; as a result he has washed his hands and decided to leave a decision on independence to his parliament.   Continue reading “Spain Showdown: Catalan Parliament To Decide On Independence Tomorrow, Chaos To Follow”

WFTV News

PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) – A police officer accidentally tasered a 10-year-old boy after telling him and his brother that the stun gun was dangerous and shouldn’t be touched.

The Sun Sentinel reports Plantation police Officer Iris Stan was staying with a friend and her two sons after being displaced by Hurricane Irma. She decided to discuss gun safety on Sept. 14 because her bedroom door didn’t lock and there were children in the house.   Continue reading “Officer accidentally tasers boy,10, during gun safety lesson”

RT

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the “reign of the Assad family” in Syria is coming to an end, and the “only issue is how that can be brought about.”

Tillerson’s comments were made following a meeting with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva.

“The United States wants a whole and unified Syria with no role for Bashar al-Assad in the government,” Tillerson said, as quoted by Reuters. “The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end. The only issue is how that should that be brought about.”   Continue reading “Tillerson: Assad family reign coming to end, only issue is how to bring it about”

The Organic Prepper

November 4th is approaching quickly and that is that date that groups like Antifa, Resist Fascism, and the Revolutionary Communist Party plan to protest the “Trump-Pence Regime.” They’ve been meeting for months to openly plan sedition and organize what they promise will be massive protests all over the country. Don’t be surprised if things become violent.

As promised, here’s the list of planned events. These will be good places to avoid on November 4th.   Continue reading “Here’s a List of Locations for the November 4th Anti-Trump Protests”

CBC News

No one can say how many guns are in Saskatchewan, or who owns them.

RCMP suspected that John Strang had killed his wife and was likely armed when they pulled him over on a road near North Battleford, Sask., in August 2015.

They were right on both counts.

Strang had shot his wife, Lisa, twice with a .357 Magnum at their home in McLean, Sask., about 40 kilometres east of Regina.   Continue reading “Killer’s gun arsenal highlights challenges facing police in tracking weapons”

Sun Sentinel – by Adam Sacasa

It had been just 90 minutes after paramedics took a dying 85-year-old man from his West Boynton home to the hospital.

With no one home, in came an intruder of the unusual kind: A sheriff’s deputy who knew exactly how to carry out a burglary, authorities say. He had gotten the home-garage code from the sheriff’s dispatch log and used it to creep inside the residence, they say.

What Palm Beach County sheriff’s Deputy Jason Cooke may not have known: The home’s surveillance system detected motion inside the home and instantly notified Moe Rosoff’s sons, who watched the footage from afar and notified authorities, a sheriff’s report says.  Continue reading “Deputy accused of burglarizing home of man who was dying at hospital”

High Country News – by Tay Wiles

When the third in a series of trials over the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada gets underway, prosecutors will be able to use testimony from an expert in extremism and domestic terrorism, the judge in the case has ruled.

Defense attorneys for one of the accused Bundy supporters, Ryan Payne, of Montana, had sought to keep much of the federal agent’s testimony out of the case, saying his expertise on militias and terrorism would prejudice the jury.   Continue reading “Defense wants ‘domestic terrorism’ out of Bundy case”

The Organic Prepper

Madagascar isn’t getting this epidemic of the pneumonic plague under control as everyone had hoped. In fact, the opposite seems to be true.

When I wrote about the plague less than two weeks ago, I cited a source that said there were 200 infections and 33 deaths. As of today, those numbers have increased dramatically to more than 1300 infections and 124 deaths. And according to many infectious disease experts, the outbreak has not yet reached its peak.   Continue reading “The Pneumonic Plague Is Spreading: Warnings Issued to 9 Countries”

Survivor’s Fortress – by Conrad Novak

In this series, we will walk you through the necessary steps required to ensure that you are prepared in the event of a catastrophic disaster. If you think about it for a short amount of time, you will be surprised by the numerous steps you can come up with on your own to provide the best chance for you, your family, and friends–often called “your party”–to come out the other side of a disaster healthy and whole.

However, just because you feel confident in your abilities to work through this type of problem on your own does not mean you have accounted for the litany of potential issues that can bring everything to a crashing halt. That is why we have developed this series: to help guide you from random Joe Schmo to master prepper in no time.   Continue reading “Bug Out Bag Essentials List: Our Complete Guide to Build a Good BOB”

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday it will hold a lease sale for land in a federal reserve in northern Alaska to oil and gas drillers, the largest number of tracts ever offered from the reserve.

The sale, to be held on Dec. 6, will involve 900 tracts in part of the Indiana-sized mass of public land known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The federal government set aside the public lands in 1923 when the country was converting Navy vessels to run on oil instead of coal.   Continue reading “U.S. offers record lease sale in Alaska reserve to oil, gas drillers”

Mother Jones – by Samantha Michaels

The country’s biggest private prison company last week held its annual leadership conference at a golf resort owned by President Donald Trump, underscoring an increasingly cozy relationship between the ever-expanding industry and the White House.

GEO Group executives met for several days at the Trump National Doral near Miami, the Washington Post reports, as the company continues to hold multiple lucrative prison contracts with the federal government.    Continue reading “America’s Biggest Private Prison Company Just Hosted Its Annual Conference at a Trump Golf Resort”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by  Michael Krieger

I know I must sound like a broken record by now, but Wall Street owns the U.S. economy and until that’s dealt with, the American public will continue to be preyed upon voraciously and lawlessly by some of the most unethical parasites the world has ever seen. Obama was a historical disaster on this issue, coddling and protecting banker oligarchs every step of the way. Trump’s no different.

The latest evidence that things are getting even worse came last evening when the U.S. Senate voted to deliver Wall Street another gift on a silver platter.   Continue reading “America First is a Joke. Wall Street Wins Again”

NBC New York – by Greg Cergol

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and one of his top aides have been indicted on charges that they obstructed a federal civil rights investigation into the beating of a handcuffed prisoner by a police chief.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, Christopher McPartland, were named in an indictment charging them with obstruction of justice, witness tampering and other offenses related to the case against former county Police Chief James Burke.   Continue reading “Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota Indicted in 2012 Police Brutality Cover-up”