Natural Blaze – by Heather Callaghan

A new story about underground, Brooklyn urban gardeners shows that you don’t need to know much to go forth and bear grafted fruit. 

Trees perform many overlooked services for city life – allowing birds to perch and grace us with their sweet songs, cooling hot temperatures, and dampening noise pollution. Heck, they even clean toxic pollution. But are we overlooking another resource trees can offer? One that we facilitate ourselves?   Continue reading “Guerilla Gardeners Are Grafting Fruit Onto City Trees”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Thursday passed a $717 billion defense policy bill that would give the military a 2.6 percent pay hike, the largest in nine years.

The bipartisan 351-66 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where a key panel completed a companion measure in a closed-door session on Wednesday.   Continue reading “House passes $717B Pentagon policy measure”

Great Lakes Seaway Partnership – February 14, 2018

Construction will soon begin on a new iron plant in Toledo.  The Port Authority there says it’s a big step in the right direction for Great Lakes shipping.

Cleveland Cliffs – an iron ore manufacturer — is opening the plant, the first of its kind in the Great Lakes. It produces hot briquetted iron, using new technology. The iron will then travel to steelmaking companies in Ohio and Indiana.   Continue reading “Manufacturer Sees Growth in Great Lakes Shipping”

Chron

Texas oil and gas companies are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s pending steel tariffs, arguing they would cause job losses and the bankruptcies of some businesses.

The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, which represents 2,600 smaller oil and gas companies, submitted its comments to the U.S. Commerce Department, asking for the elimination of import quotas and exemptions for countries that provide a lot of steel piping to the energy sector.   Continue reading “Texas oil producers fight steel tariffs, import quotas”

ABC 13

NOBLESVILLE, Indiana — Authorities say two victims in a shooting at a suburban Indianapolis school are being taken to a hospital and the lone suspect is in custody.

Bryant Orem, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, says in a news release that the victims in Friday morning’s attack at Noblesville West Middle School are being taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and their families have been notified. He says no other information is available about the victims.   Continue reading “Authorities: 2 victims in Indiana middle school shooting headed to hospital, lone suspect in custody”

The Marshal Project – by Daniel Zwerdling

Police records in Bentonville, Arkansas show that James Bates called 911 on Sunday morning just before Thanksgiving 2015, and reported chilling news: he’d just opened his back door and found one of his buddies floating face down in the hot tub, dead. When police showed up, Bates said he had no idea how it happened.

He also said they could search his home, according to police. And they found his house and yard were equipped with smart gadgets that might have served as digital eyes and ears. Continue reading “Your Home is Your…Snitch?”

Fox 5 News

POLK COUNTY, Ga. – An attorney for a jail inmate said surveillance video supports his legal claim of unnecessary force deployed by a Polk County Sheriff’s supervisor.

The prisoner is Brandon Coffman. He is shown in the video seated alongside a second inmate. Both are in restraint chairs.   Continue reading “Inmate claims excessive force, jail supervisor resigns”

Reason – by Christian Britschgi

Improperly stacked wood. A cracked driveway. Chipped paint on a porch.

These are the kinds of offenses the government of Doraville, Georgia, is using to fine residents and threaten them with jail, all in an explicit attempt to balance the budget of the 8,000-person Atlanta suburb. Now people hit by some of those fines are suing the city in federal court, arguing that its direct financial interest in convicting people tried by its municipal court violates the 14th Amendment’s due process guarantee.   Continue reading “Atlanta Suburb Brags About Fines for Chipped Paint and Incorrectly Stacked Wood”

NBC

Fifteen people were injured by an intentional explosion at an Indian restaurant in a Toronto suburb Thursday night, authorities said.

Police said they were hunting for two men who are alleged to have walked into the Bombay Bhel restaurant and “detonated an improvised explosive device” before fleeing the restaurant in Mississauga, Ontario.   Continue reading “‘IED’ explosion in Toronto-area restaurant injures 15, two suspects sought”

The Organic Prepper

Urban survival vs. rural survival is a near-constant debate in preparedness circles. Those who live on acreage sometimes scoff at those who live in cities for reasons of business, education, or families. Those who live in the cities feel obligated to defend their choices. The truth of the matter is that there IS no perfect plan, and even if you had one, SHTF might have other ideas. In this reality check, Selco explains how even the best survival plans can go horribly wrong when the SHTF. ~ Daisy   Continue reading “Urban Survival vs. Rural Survival: Selco Explains How Even the Best Plans Can Go Horribly Wrong”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Portland, Oregon – A concerned family is speaking out after they claim that their Amazon Alexa device recorded a conversation they were having in their home, and sent it to a random contact who alerted them to the fact that he had heard everything they said.

A homeowner named Danielle, who asked for her last name to remain anonymous, told KIRO 7 that she and her husband were in their house, discussing home improvement projects and hardwood floors when they received an urgent call from one of her husband’s employees in Seattle.   Continue reading “Family Removes Alexa Devices After a Stranger in Another Town Heard Everything They Were Saying”

Yahoo News

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man armed with a pistol walked into an Oklahoma City restaurant at the dinner hour and opened fire, wounding two customers, before being shot dead by a handgun-carrying civilian in the parking lot, police said.

The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Louie’s On The Lake, a restaurant on Lake Hefner.   Continue reading “Police: 2 shot at Oklahoma restaurant; civilian kills gunman”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Piers Corbyn says we are entering a Grand Solar Minimum in 2019 and this means we will have more earthquakes and volcanoes due to decreased solar activity allowing more cosmic radiation (i.e. nuclear particles) to bombard the earth.

Arizona has been making plans for receiving 400,000 Californians after an earthquake. Dream on. There are 18.8 million people in the Los Angeles area and 8.8 million in the San Francisco Bay Area. Southern California borders Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Northern California borders Oregon and Nevada.   Continue reading “So What Happens To America After The California Earthquake?”

True Pundit

The FBI tweeted out a link to its files on Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday.

Twitter sleuth @Techno_Fog mined an interesting gem from the files, showing that Epstein likely served as an informant to the FBI. Robert Mueller’s FBI in 2008.

Yikes.   Continue reading “FBI: Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Was Informant for Mueller’s FBI; Special Counsel Under Fire for Deal with Sex Offender”

I’d like to share that I just watched a quality series on YouTube for free.  You might have seen it already but I just found it.  “Cobra Kai.”  It’s The Karate Kid story continued after 30 years.  I was excited, just for nostalgia reason since that film affected me a lot in many positive ways.  Anyhow, long story short, I believe there are 10 episodes, each under half an hour.  There will be a season two, but not ’till 2019.

I will say I was pleasantly surprised.  Yes, it starts out with a little bad acting, but it improves as it progresses.  And yes, it’s a bit sophomoric at first and not without a a few liberal tinges, but over all, and predominately, it is about teaching kids to fight, to stand up for themselves and not back down.  I’m surprised they got away with some of the things they did.  In snowflake reality these aggressions would land one in jail.
Continue reading “Karate Kid/Cobra Kai”