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BORDER PATROL AGENTS REVEAL THE UN IS IN CONTROL OF THE BORDER
By TLB Contributor: Dave Hodges The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) has…
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Take Action: Support U.S. Advisory Troops Combatting LRA Violence
Editor’s Note: This blog is cross-posted from Invisible Children and first appeared on their website. Right now, approximately 100 U.S. military advisors are in central Africa, assisting the regional mission to end LRA violence and arrest Joseph Kony
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Study Finds Kids Prefer Healthier School Lunches. School Lunch Lobby Refuses to Believe It.
From all of the commotion around the new federal school lunch standards, you’d think they were really Draconian. Republican legislators have railed against them . Districts have threatened to opt out
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Why is One-Third of US at High Risk For Earthquakes?
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US Independent July 19, 2014 The US Geological Survey (USGS) has released a map of potentially hazardous areas prone to earthquakes with percentages and probabilities for insurance corporations, city planners and other companies that would lose billions to a disaster. Mark Peterson, seismologist for the USGS and lead author of the report said: “To assess the risk of where and how often future earthquakes will occur, and how hard the ground will shake, scientists are constantly seeking new data from these regions and using them to develop new ways of modeling…
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Did Politics And Incompetece Trigger Unintended Gaza War? “…The June 12 kidna…
Did Politics And Incompetece Trigger Unintended Gaza War? “…The June 12 kidnapping of three Israeli yeshiva boys…
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Judge Orders Christie Administration to Release Records
ACLU-NJ represents activist wrongfully denied request for public records in wake of Bridgegate scandal July 21, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 212-549-2666, media@aclu.org NEWARK – After a hearing this morning, Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ordered the Christie Administration to turn over by August 15 th records requested by a government transparency activist who wanted to review requests others had made in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey represents Harry Scheeler of Cape May County, who has been auditing local, county and state agencies for years to see if they are compliant with the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Scheeler conducts his audits by requesting – and receiving – records of all Open Public Records Act requests submitted to various government agencies. Earlier this year, however, Scheeler received a much different response to a request that he and fellow activists, as well as journalists, consider routine
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Putin vows Russia will use influence on Ukraine rebels
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his government will use its influence with separatists in eastern Ukraine to allow a full investigation into the downing of flight MH17. But he told a meeting of defence and security chiefs in Moscow that the West must also put pressure on the Ukrainian government to end hostilities.
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Getting outta Dodge
We have all seen this picture, or ones like it. A major city is in the path of a hurricane, or wildfire, or some other disaster, and the call goes out to evacuate the city, and chaos ensues. Our transportation grid just isn’t designed to handle the entire population of a metro area on the road all at once.
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Prepping As A Form Of Personal Activism
There are some days when I feel as though I am out there in the world alone, fighting a battle that can not be seen or heard. The battle is one of preparedness and is one I endure day in and day out in spite of my best effort to step away and live a normal, middle class, mainstream life. I have given a lot of thought to this and even though I tell strangers that I am a “crazy old prepper lady”, in my heart of hearts I know that I am doing both myself and every other prepper-type a disservice by minimalizing the importance of embracing preparedness and self-reliance. If I paid attention to the memos issued by the alphabet soup agencies, I suppose I would be considered a domestic terrorist. As far back as 2011, people that stored lots of food were identified as “potential terrorists” by law enforcement authorities. I would like to think that things have changed since then but to be honest, most people I know look at me glassy eyed when I talk about prepping. That includes my family
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Brazil: ‘Indians in This State are Not Even Worth a Traffic Sign’
Rick Kearns | Ictmn After eight Guarani were run over and killed, public prosecutors are seeking $630,000 (1.4 million reals) from the Brazilian government for damages and the installation of road signs for the indigenous community that has been forced to live on the side of a busy road in the Apy Ka’y village in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. In early July Public Prosecutor Marco Antonio Delfino de Almeida announced that he was making the formal request on behalf of the Guarani community to force the state to install signs and speed warnings on the road. (The Brazilian legislature had passed a law in 2007 mandating demarcation of lands.) Earlier this year, another court had turned down his request and the government had declared the road to be safe.
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