The Blaze

Comedian Tim Allen recently revealed the truth of what happened to his hit-ABC show “Last Man Standing,” after it was abruptly cancelled earlier this year. Network executives cancelled the show despite having very high ratings. Many accused the network of playing politics, but they denied politics played a role in the show’s cancellation.

What did he say?

“It tore me up. Every aspect of (that show), everything about it, I loved. I was grateful every day,” he said recently in an interview with the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Allen explained:   Continue reading “Tim Allen reveals truth of what happened to ‘Last Man Standing’ in new interview”

PressTV

American female veterans are committing suicide at more than twice the rate of civilian women, a US government study has found.

The survey released by US Department for Veteran Affairs on Friday, showed that the ratio of women veterans who took their own lives increased from 1.88 in 2013 to 2.15 in 2014 compared to non-veteran females.

The report’s findings were based on data gathered from 50 US states along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and analyzed more than 55 million people who left the US military between 1970 and 2014.    Continue reading “Suicide soaring among US female veterans: Government study”

Yahoo News

The monument in the heart of Moscow was supposed to be a tribute to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of the AK-47 assault rifle.

Unfortunately, things went wrong, spectacularly so. The etching on the plinth was not of a Kalashnikov but the StG 44 rifle used by the Nazis during WWII.

The mistake was spotted by arms experts, the BBC reported. It left the authorities having to use an angle grinder to remove the offending image.    Continue reading “Red faces as Russian monument to creator of Kalashnikov depicts German rifle”

Fox News

North Korea’s foreign minister called U.S. President Donald Trump “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania” and promised a strike on the American mainland was “inevitable” in a blistering speech to the United Nations General Assembly Saturday.

The address by Ri Yong Ho began as the Pentagon announced that it had flown bombers and fighter escorts to the farthest point north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone by any such American aircraft this century.     Continue reading “North Korea says strike on US is ‘inevitable’ as Pentagon flies bombers off coast”

Intellihub

HOUSTON, Texas (INTELLIHUB) — It looks like the Federal Emergency Management Agency may have converted a building which housed an old Walmart store into a base and storage facility.

A video published to the “joe mendoza” YouTube channel on Sept. 19 reveals how the federal facility which took about ‘two years’ to set up is now active and FEMA busses, trailers, and other equipment can be seen on site along with personnel.   Continue reading “Old Walmart store converted to FEMA base in Houston?”

KTLA

Videos posted on Twitter Friday morning show a Huntington Beach police officer struggling with and then firing multiple times on a man who collapses in front of a 7-Eleven. Police say the man was hospitalized and later died.

A 17-second video of the incident was initially posted to Twitter just after 9:30 a.m. It shows an officer firing multiple times at a man, who falls to the sidewalk.   Continue reading “Video Shows Huntington Beach Police Officer Fatally Shooting Man Outside 7-Eleven”

Global Research – by Paul Craig Roberts

Trump’s UN speech makes it clear that Trump’s presidency, in terms of his campaign promise to remove Washington from the “policeman of the world” role, exit the Middle East, and repair the damaged relations with Russia, is over. The CIA and the military/security complex are in full control of the US government. Trump has accepted his captivity and his assigned role as the enforcer of Washington’s hegemony over every other country. Washington uber alles is the only foreign policy that Washington pursues.  Continue reading “More Thoughts on Trump’s UN Declaration of War Against Iran and North Korea”

The Organic Prepper

Survival Saturday is a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared.

This Week in the News

Cyber-criminals are no longer just striking huge targets. They’re going after average people like you and me now.   Continue reading “Hackers Are Getting Personal: 4 Ways Every Person Using a Cell Phone or Computer Is at Risk”

Life Site News – by Lianne Laurence

ROCKLIN, California, September 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Forty-one families have pulled 73 children from the elite Sacramento-area Rocklin Academy charter schools as the board continues to defend a kindergarten transgender lesson several parents say traumatized their 5-year-olds and that parents weren’t told about beforehand.

A mother who pulled her son from Grade 6 and daughter from Grade 3 at Rocklin Academy Gateway, where the incident took place, has kept a tally of parents who’ve done likewise.   Continue reading “More than 40 families pull children from school that forced transgender lesson on 5-year-olds”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Florida’s Supreme Court has ruled that police may detain passengers any and all passengers during even minor traffic stops and that doing so does not violate constitutional rights to hold someone not suspected of any wrongdoing for a “reasonable” time, The Newspaper reported.

The high court made the ruling after evaluating a January 29, 2015 traffic stop in which a car with a broken tail light was pulled over in Gainesville for allegedly rolling through a stop sign. Gregory Presley was one of two passengers in the stopped vehicle questioned by Officer John Pandak about who he was and where they were going. The officer asked if any of the passengers had been drinking and Presley questioned why would that be a problem.  Continue reading “Florida Supreme Court Rules Police May Detain Passengers During Traffic Stops”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain said on Friday he opposes the latest Republican bill to dismantle Obamacare, dealing the measure what could be a fatal blow given the party’s slim Senate majority.

With several other Republicans still undecided on the measure, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said earlier this week he intended to bring it to the Senate floor for a vote next week, though he did not promise to do so.

A vote would set the stage for another dramatic Capitol Hill decision on the 2010 law that brought health insurance to millions of Americans and became former Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.   Continue reading “Senator McCain opposes Obamacare repeal bill, a possible fatal blow”

Reuters

KIEV/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko met U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday and said afterwards that they had a shared vision on a “new level” of defense cooperation, but not whether this included the U.S. provision of defensive weapons to Ukraine.

The United States is reviewing whether to send weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself, an option that previous U.S. president Barack Obama vetoed and which is opposed by Russia.

After meeting Trump in New York, President Poroshenko told a televised briefing: “It’s very important that there is a shared vision on a new level of cooperation in the defense sphere.”   Continue reading “Ukraine president says Trump shares vision on ‘new level’ of defense cooperation”

The Orange County Register – by Scott Schwebke

Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.

Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest said she was watching the HGTV channel via Cox Communications about 11:05 a.m. when suddenly an emergency alert flashed across her screen followed by a voice.   Continue reading “End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County”

Daily Mail

Vladimir Putin has expressed his fears over artificial intelligence by asking Russia‘s largest technology firm how long it will be until smart robots ‘eat us’.

The Russian president was speaking to Arkady Volozh, chief of internet firm Yandex, during a tour of the company’s Moscow headquarters.

Volozh was discussing the potential of AI when Putin caused surprise by asking when the technology will ‘eat us’.    Continue reading “Putin reveals fears that robots will one day ‘eat us’”