The Organic Prepper

There are a lot of people stranded in the areas that are likely to be the hardest hit by Hurricane Irma. While it’s easy to say, “Oh, they should have left earlier” and run through the gamut of blame, the fact remains that there are all sorts of reasons that leaving didn’t work out.

Gas stations have run dry, which means that people can’t drive their cars to leave. Roads are at a standstill as people all try to leave at once in the biggest mass exodus in American history. Amtrak tickets are sold out. Plane tickets are outrageously expensive, in some cases more than three thousand dollars apiece. (However, American Airlines and JetBlue have capped their tickets out of Florida at $99, a service to keep in mind in the future if you plan to fly somewhere.)   Continue reading “What To Do If You CAN’T Evacuate Before a Hurricane”

Chicago Tribune

United Airlines won’t be punished by the federal government over the forced removal of a passenger from a flight in April that put a spotlight on the growing tensions between airlines and travelers on crowded flights.

The Department of Transportation has concluded its investigation into the dragging of passenger Dr. David Dao and found no reason to fine the airline, the department said in a letter to United dated May 12.   Continue reading “United Airlines won’t be fined for passenger-dragging incident, feds say”

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who have relationships with a resettlement agency should be exempt from an executive order banning refugees.

A three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel also ruled that grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of legal U.S. residents should be exempted from President Donald Trump’s order, which banned travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.   Continue reading “U.S. appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to bar most refugees”

AOL

HOUSTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Five former U.S. presidents joined forces on Thursday to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Harvey, aiming to help rebuild some of the thousands of homes and businesses destroyed from Texas to Louisiana.

The presidents will launch “One America Appeal,” to start collecting funds with a plea broadcast during Thursday night’s National Football League season opener, the group said in a statement. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter are behind the effort.   Continue reading “Five ex-US presidents join forces to support Harvey victims”

LA Times

A massive earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico late Thursday and was felt as far away as Mexico City, where residents fled violently swaying buildings and electrical transformers exploded.

The Mexican Seismological Institute said the earthquake measured 8.4 in magnitude, making it the most powerful to strike Mexico since the disastrous earthquake of 1985, which caused extensive damage in Mexico City and left at least 5,000 people dead.

The epicenter of Thursday’s earthquake was about 60 miles off the coast of Chiapas state, near the border with Guatemala, according to the United States Geological Survey, which measured the quake’s magnitude at 8.1.   Continue reading “Mexican authorities report an 8.4 earthquake off southern coast”

KDVR 31 Denver – by Tammy Vigil

HUDSON, Colo. — The tiny town of Hudson in northeastern Colorado is building its first elementary school since 1962.

And some of that money is coming from potheads.

The new Hudson Academy of Arts and Sciences will cost more than $15 million to build.

The school won a grant of $4.2 million, paid in part with marijuana taxes.   Continue reading “Marijuana taxes partially fund new elementary school in small town”

Gov’t Slaves – by Jayson Veley

If the decay of our constitutional system and the general success of the progressive movement over the past one hundred plus years all seems like some kind of elaborate plot unfolding before our very eyes, that’s because it is. The liberals know that they can’t just introduce totalitarianism overnight, as much as they might want to. Rather, the process must be slow and steady; so slow and steady, in fact, that most Americans don’t even realize what’s happening.

Recently, Donna Calvin of BeliefNet.com published a list of the 45 communist goals as read into the congressional record in the year 1963 by Hon. A. S. Herlong Jr. of Florida, who was quoting from Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.” The 45 steps towards the introduction of a communist state are as follows:   Continue reading “These are the 45 goals of communism’s takeover of America… more than half have already been achieved”

New York Daily News

A man armed with a knife was shot at Miami international Airport following a confrontation with a Miami-Dade police officer, according to authorities.

The conflict unfolded Thursday night and prompted the evacuation of Terminal J, CBS Miami reported. The airport confirmed there was a “security incident involving a single suspect & @MiamiDadePD.”    Continue reading “Man with knife shot by police at Miami International Airport as travelers scramble to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma”

NPR – by Bill Chappell

Two stained-glass windows honoring Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson at the Washington National Cathedral will be removed immediately, the cathedral says.

The facility’s leadership says the decision came after long deliberations on an important question: “Are these windows, installed in 1953, an appropriate part of the sacred fabric of a spiritual home for the nation?”   Continue reading “National Cathedral Is Removing Stained-Glass Windows Honoring Confederate Leaders”

Veterans Today – by Ian Greenhalgh

[Editor’s note: There is a disturbing trend going on on the internet right now of people spreading false information about the Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Katia. What is disturbing about it is that it looks very much like an orchestrated campaign of scaremongering and when notorious disinfo operations like Alex Jones get in on the act, it becomes even more suspicious.

Who is behind this campaign? To what purpose are they spreading fear? Who might benefit from causing people to panic? These are questions we have no answers to right now.   Continue reading “Hurricane Scaremongering Reaches Category 6 Proportions”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Credit-reporting company Equifax shocked investors, and more than a third of America, when it announced on Thursday afternoon that hackers had breached its data systems, compromising the personal information of approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. The information accessed “primarily includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.” In other words, pretty much everything that should have been hidden behind an n-number of firewalls, is now available to the dark net’s highest bidder.    Continue reading “Massive Data Breach At Equifax: As Many As 143 Million Social Security Numbers Hacked”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Republican bill to replace Obamacare will be unveiled in the U.S. Senate on Monday with backing from President Donald Trump, according to one of two Republican senators who have crafted the legislation.

The lawmaker, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, told reporters he was optimistic the legislation could pass before a Sept. 30 deadline, if it can attract the bare minimum of 50 votes needed to succeed in the Republican-led Senate with tie-breaking support from Vice President Mike Pence.   Continue reading “New Senate Obamacare repeal bill due Monday”

Washington Post

Hurricane Irma is not the only show in town. Two other menacing hurricanes, Jose and Katia, were swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin and forecast to strengthen and impact land areas late Friday into the weekend.

Hurricane Jose

Jose, which was rapidly intensifying Thursday afternoon, could hit some of the same small islands in the northern Lesser Antilles decimated by Irma. The hurricane, which formed as a tropical storm on Wednesday, is following behind Irma on a similar path.   Continue reading “Capital Weather Gang Tropical triple threat: Hurricanes Jose and Katia could join Irma striking land this weekend”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday filed papers at the U.S. Supreme Court backing a Christian baker in Colorado whom a state court ruled against for declining to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

In the brief, Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall said Jack Phillips should be exempt from Colorado’s anti-discrimination law because making custom cakes is a form of free expression protected under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.   Continue reading “Trump administration backs baker who refused to make cake for gay couple”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON ― House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Donald Trump told her on two occasions that he supports and would sign a bill to give legal status to young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

“We made it very clear in the course of the conversation that the priority was to pass the Dream Act,” she said at a press briefing. “Obviously it has to be bipartisan. The president supports that, he would sign it. But we have to get it passed.”   Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Promised Her He’d Sign The Dream Act”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

A devastating new food weaponization technology has been developed called “RNA interference.” This technology, initially rolled out to destroy the fertility of pests, could easily be expanded into a genocidal food-based weapon that targets African-Americans to destroy their fertility. The same technology could also be fine-tuned to target Whites, Latinos, Asians or other races with various “biological payloads” that could include shutting off their fertility, neurological function or ability to build new blood vessels, eventually leading to death.   Continue reading “New “RNA interference” crop technology WEAPONIZES food into the ultimate eugenics weapon… could target Blacks for covert sterilization”