The Organic Prepper

Last night, an explosion at a San Juan power plant regressed Puerto Rico’s efforts to restore power to the island five months after Hurricane Maria struck a massive blow. Much of Northern Puerto Rico has suffered another blackout, including the capital city.

The island’s Electric Power Authority said several municipalities were without power, including parts of the capital, San Juan, but they were optimistic it could be restored within a day as they worked to repair a substation that controls voltage…
Continue reading “Another Massive Blackout Struck Puerto Rico Last Night”

Washington Post – by Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

The pilot of a Grand Canyon tour helicopter and three British passengers were under intensive medical care Monday for burns and other injuries, two days after the chopper plunged into jagged rocks during a sightseeing flight.

Three others — also from Britain — were killed in the Saturday crash.  Continue reading “Medical teams fight to save 4 survivors of deadly Grand Canyon helicopter fireball”

Miami Herald – by Joshua Tehee

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a warning about an influx of large, semi-aquatic rodents that have been caught reproducing within the San Joaquin Valley.

Cut to “The Princess Bride.”   Continue reading “Rodent from hell: They weigh 20 pounds, breed like rabbits – and they’re on the move”

Talk Poverty – by Rebecca Vallas

Last week, President Trump’s Department of Labor (DOL) hid an internal analysis that showed that its so-called tip-pooling rule would allow employers to pocket billions in workers’ tips. They claimed that they were “unable to quantify” the rule’s effects. But we now know that they did, in fact, conduct an analysis—they just didn’t want the American public to see the result, so they buried it.

I discussed what happened and what this policy is all about with Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Obama.   Continue reading “The Department of Labor Buried Evidence Showing It’s Set to Steal Billions in Workers’ Wages”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Haaretz recently summed up Israeli Prime Minister’s legal woes. His wife will soon be arrested for a $110,000 fraud. Even his son is under possible indictment for accepting illegal gifts. In one case Thyssen Krupp’s man in Israel has already accepted a plea bargain which includes one year in jail. That case will take down Netanyahu’s key supporters within the government. And then are three other cases that could put Netanyahu in jail. The Israeli Attorney General might be a member of the cabinet but he is serious about these forthcoming indictments.   Continue reading “Bibi Netanyahu’s Very Bad Idea. Risk WW III To Avoid Jail”

Oaklandmofo

Disable 2G On Android To Block Stingray Devices
1) Pull up the phone dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#* (that spells INFO)
2) This brings you to the testing screen, select “Phone/Device information”.
3) Scroll down a little to “preferred network type”, select the arrow.
4) Change it to LTE/WCDMA Only.
It will now stay on 3G/4G/4GLTE and avoid the old school GSM 2G Data towers.
If you reboot your phone you will have to turn it off again.
But now you have to turn your Google tracking off.   Continue reading “How To Block Stringray Devices”

Fort Russ

Vyacheslav Ivanov  is a CFO of Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear energy company. He is alleged to have been involved in Hillary Clinton’s Uranium One deal with Russia back in 2009 under Barack Obama.

This name appears on the list of the deceased in today’s An- 148 air crash in Moscow. Reports are yet to be confirmed whether or not it is the same person.   Continue reading “Reports: “Trump Dossier” sources aboard the crashed Russian flight”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

Nashville – The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that individuals cannot be convicted of “Driving Under the Influence” if their test results come from forensics labs that receive financial incentives for positive results to lead to their convictions.

It may seem like an obvious conclusion, but the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been generating around $3 million in revenue each year from the $250 fine motorists are forced to pay for the test, if they are convicted.   Continue reading “Convictions Thrown Out After Police Caught Paying Labs for Positive DUI Test Results”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people in attacks in 2013 and 2017.

The most recent accusation provoked a massive Tomahawk strike ordered by President Trump that was quite provocative in the eyes of the Russian Federation and of course the Syrian government.   Continue reading “US Finally Admits “No Evidence” Assad Used Sarin Gas”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Amid the worst flu-season in nearly a decade, a Japanese drugmaker is hard at work conducting late stage trials on a pill that they say can kill the flu virus within a day – a third of the time it takes Roche AG’s Tamiflu.

Both drugs take roughly the same amount of time to completely contain flu symptoms, but Shionogi says its treatment provides immediately relief much faster. Considering that the U.S. has been hit by one of the worst flu epidemics in years, with the most intense rates of transmission since 2009, the Japanese company’s treatment can’t come quickly enough.  Continue reading “Experimental Drug That Kills The Flu In 24 Hours May Come To U.S. Next Year”

Post News

A southern Indiana family has filed a lawsuit against two Department of Child Services (DCS) workers who allegedly tried to take their daughter away following cannabidiol (CBD) oil treatment for her seizures.

The story started last year, when Jade and Lelah Jerger started using CBD oil instead of the pharmaceutical drug Keppra to treat their daughter’s epilepsy.   Continue reading “Parents suing Indiana DCS workers after warrantless blood draw”

The Great Recession

Talk about the market busting a move … and a lot of people! In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third of the height it had developed over a period of sixteen months — the worst two-week drop since February 2009. (The market’s moves are so extreme by many measures that the Great Recession is the closest touchstone one can find to assay the last two weeks of market action.)

Most of the plummeting happened in two record-breaking 1,000-point plunges with the total fall taking all indices into the red for 2018. The remaining two-thirds of the Trump Rally remains at peril as the market probes downward to potentially test its 200-day moving average, with the Dow having readily broken through the 50-day and 100-day and now testing its 150-day average:   Continue reading “Stock Market’s Massive Moves Not Seen Since Great Recession: Many who didn’t see the bubble bursting have fallen”

CNN

A senator is asking the Treasury Department to turn over records of a lucrative real estate sale Donald Trump made to a Russian billionaire as the Senate Finance Committee looks into Trump’s ties to Russians.

Sen. Ron Wyden, the committee’s ranking member, on Friday requested the financial records of the sale of Trump’s former estate in Palm Beach to Dmitry Rybolovlev.

Continue reading “Senator seeking admin records on Trump’s sale of Palm Beach mansion to Russian”

Fox News

A gunman shot and killed four people at two locations Saturday afternoon in Johnson County, Ky., before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.

The county sheriff’s office identified the killer as Joseph Nickell, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The names of the four victims were not immediately released.   Continue reading “Gunman kills 4, then self, in ‘horrific murder spree,’ police say”

RT

The Pentagon reportedly plans a “major muscle movement” from the Middle East to East China, with thousands of extra Marines to be deployed. The goal is to “persuade Pacific nations to stand with the US” and not China.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the US plans to boost its military presence in the East Pacific with rotating deployment of Marine Expeditionary Units, or MEUs. An MEU is a group of about 2,200 Marines who operate from amphibious assault ships and have their own aircraft, tanks, heavy weapons, and other resources. A typical deployment lasts for seven months and may involve missions on the shore like patrols or military-to-military training.   Continue reading “US to send 1,000s of extra Marines to East Asia to counter China – report”

RT

The An-148 aircraft operated by Saratov Airlines went missing from radar shortly after take-off from the Moscow airport, according to the source.

The plane is understood to have been carrying 65 passengers and six crew.

A source told Russia’s Interfax news agency: “The airplane reportedly crashed outside Argunovo village in the Moscow region.   Continue reading “Russian passenger jet crash – 71 feared dead as plane goes down in Moscow”

Ron Paul Insitute – by Moon of Alabama

Wednesday, the illegal US occupation force in north-east Syria attacked a group of Syrian government aligned troops and their Russian support. The incident happened north-east of Deir Ezzor city on the east side of the Euphrates. The US claims that it killed some 100 Syrian soldiers that were allegedly attacking its proxy forces in an attempt to recover oil fields.

There is a factual separation of areas south-west of the Euphrates under Syrian government control and north-east of the Euphrates under US occupation. But several locations around Manbij, Raqqa and Deir Ezzor contradict that and are under control of the respective other side. The US claims that a “de-confliction line” along the Euphrates is agreed upon. The Syrian government says that no such agreement exists.  Continue reading “US May Have Arranged ‘Self Defense’ Attack On Syrian Government Forces”