The 5 Tools You Must Have in Your Bug-Out KitThe Organic Prepper

What’s the difference between an arm-chair survivalist and the real deal? The difference between someone who could get by for a few weeks and someone who could thrive indefinitely?

One word – action.

I was lucky enough to meet someone who is the real deal recently.  Mark is a long-term survivalist, and he graciously answered about a million questions about his lifestyle.  The end result was, I learned a lot, including how little I actually know in comparison to someone who lives an off-grid, non-consumer life every single day. Even better, I have permission to share this information with the rest of you in the form of a new series: Long-Term Survival.   Continue reading “Long-Term Survival: These Are the 5 Tools You MUST Have in Your Bug-Out Kit”

Reggio Calabria head of Police Guido Longo, left, gives the thumbs up next to FBI special agent Leo Taddeo following a joint Italian-U.S. authorities' press conference on an anti-Mafia blitz with numerous arrests reported on both sides of the Atlantic, at Rome's National Anti-Mafia headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Italian anti-Mafia police said the 'New Bridge' operation targeted a new cocaine trafficking route from South America to the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro that united the U.S. branch of the Sicilian Mafia with the Calabrian 'ndrangheta crime syndicate. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Lohud

NEW YORK — An Italian-U.S. investigation into drug smuggling has resulted in two dozen arrests — including seven in the New York City area.

Anti-Mafia police in Italy say the operation targeted a cocaine trafficking route between South America and the Italian port of Gioia Tauro.

Officials say undercover agents in both countries prevented the delivery of cocaine hidden in shipments of coconuts and pineapples. They also confiscated heroin and marijuana.   Continue reading “NYC arrests in Italy-US drug crackdown”

CenturyLink – by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Investigators said Tuesday that a package sent to a rural Tennessee home exploded, killing a lawyer who lived there and injuring a woman.

Killed was 74-year-old Jon Setzer and 72-year-old Marion Setzer was in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Hospital on Tuesday, police said.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials declined to say what kind of package was sent to the Lebanon home.   Continue reading “Package explodes, killing Tenn. lawyer at home”

This happened right down the road from our house!! Gotta Love It!

KATC News – by Ian Auzenne

A Lafayette man is behind bars after deputies say a gun-toting woman prevented him from stealing her purse.

The incident took place at a convenience store in the 200 block of West Milton Avenue.   Continue reading “Deputies: Victim pulls gun on alleged purse snatcher”

Washington’s Blog

Can American States Rein In An Out-Of-Control Federal Spy Agency?

The American people aren’t falling for NSA’s propaganda. They want the rogue agency reined in.

But Obama refuses to rein in the NSA, Dianne Feinstein says that Congress “doesn’t have the votes” to do anything about mass surveillance, and at least some judges are supporting the NSA’s spying (and it’s not clear what the Supreme Court will do).   Continue reading “11 States Fight Back Against NSA Spying”

Great Lakes iceCNS News – by Barbara Hollingsworth

Lake Superior hasn’t completely frozen over in two decades.

But an expert on Great Lakes ice says there’s a “very high likelihood” that the three-quadrillion-gallon lake will soon be totally covered with ice thanks to this winter’s record-breaking cold.

The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994.   Continue reading “Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter”

21st Century Wire

Talk of Texas reclaiming its independence as a republic again is normally brushed off as nonsense, and those who speak of it are often ridiculed. Times are changing though…

Consider the current trajectory of the Washington DC – ever downwards, and taking on new debt every month – debt that could never be paid back in a 1000 years… a number of states could soon benefit from cutting themselves loose from a toxic US economy and its directionless and highly draconian Federal Reserve banking system.   Continue reading “Not Just a Pipe Dream: Texas gets ready to leave the U.S.”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – National security experts have expressed alarm over the announcement by Iran that it will position its warships off the coast of the United States, from where they could launch a nuclear warhead to explode at high altitude to create an electromagnetic pulse.

That could knock the American electrical grid out of commission, disrupting supplies of energy, food, communications, fuel and more for a long period.   Continue reading “Approaching Iranian Warships Raise EMP Threat”

Before It’s News – by Lisa Haven

World domination is the focus of this “masterminded blueprint!” The graphic artists, who are two French men who call themselves, Bureau d’Etudes, designed these charts as an extensive outline of the major global infrastructure connections controlled by the world’s elite. These charts are valuable in helping researchers, activists, and patriots to  aid in identifying individuals, organizations, and networks responsible for criminally collaborating to take away our sovereignty.   Continue reading “NWO/Illuminati Blueprint Exposed Through Two French Men’s Graphic Art”

Gov Slaves

(Richard Moyer) In hopes of catching more terrorists, the FBI released twenty five instructional pamphlets intended for everyone from hobby store owners to karate instructors. The idea being that these businesses will turn in their customers to the FBI as suspected terrorists. Every single one of these examples were taken directly from FBI lists distributed to places of business in how they can help fight the war on terror. Do one of these, and you might end up at FEMA camp.   Continue reading “15 Ridiculous Ways to get on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist”

Part of Ga. under state of emergency for stormYahoo News – by KATE BRUMBACK and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

ATLANTA (AP) — With memories of gridlock on icy Atlanta highways still fresh, Georgia officials got a second chance Monday to prove the state could prepare for winter weather. The governor declared a state of emergency hours ahead of the storm, something he didn’t do two weeks ago.   Continue reading “Part of Georgia under state of emergency for storm”

My Fox Houston – by Randy Wallace

HOUSTON (FOX 26) -“Dad and Mom is the world to them when they see dad they’re like where’s mom when they see me they’re like where is dad,” said Shmarian Jackson said.

Jackson can’t help but tear up when she thinks about the last 8 months without her three little girls living at home.   Continue reading “Couple say CPS told them to get divorce if they want kids back”

stores closing retail apocalypse best buyOff the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

Hundreds of stores across the nation are closing as some of America’s most famous retailers struggle to stay in business.

The country is facing what CNBC has labeled a tsunami of store closings and blogger Michael Snyder has called a retail apocalypse.

Sears, K-Mart, Best Buy and JC Penney are among the big names in American retail that could disappear in the coming years, according to investment analysts. If or when these chains collapse, thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue will disappear.   Continue reading “Retail Apocalypse? Major Chains Closing Hundreds Of Stores”

algeriaplanecrash.jpgFox News

An Algerian military transport slammed into a mountain Tuesday in the country’s rugged eastern region. A civil defense official said 102 people on board were killed but one managed to survive.

The U.S.-built C-130 Hercules transport crashed about noon near the town of Ain Kercha, 30 miles southeast of Constantine, the main city in eastern Algeria.   Continue reading “1 survivor, 102 dead in Algeria plane crash, official says”

Shirley TempleMail.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.

Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home near San Francisco. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, publicist Cheryl Kagan said. “We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black,” a family statement said. The family would not disclose Temple’s cause of death.   Continue reading “Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85”