Survival Preparedness for Winter Weather ...

Here are a few tips to be prepared for big winter weather storms this year.

Before the winter storms hit, check the following preparedness items for your home…

• food supply
• your ‘everyday’ needs that you have (medical? other daily needs?)
• LED flashlights, and/or LED lantern (LED’s last longer)
• portable AM/FM radio
• NOAA weather radio
• plenty of extra batteries (Lithium batteries last longer)
• another source of heat, in case you loose power
• portable cook stove, and a percolator (for you coffee drinkers)
• warm sleeping bags that are rated for cold weather

If you are going to hit the roads this winter, make sure you let family and friends know where, and which route you are going to take, and be sure to have a plan (and supplies) just in case you get stranded.

If you have travel planned, at a minimum, it’s a good idea to have some or all of the following items in your car.

• blankets (for each person), and/or sleeping bags
• food supply (calorie-dense, at least a day’s worth, food bars are good…), and water
• flashlight and extra batteries
• road flares
• snow shovel
• road grit-salt-sand to help get out of a slippery situation
• tire chains (if applicable to your geographical location)
• ice scraper for windows
• extra windshield wiper fluid
• always have outdoor winter wear (either stowed or on your person)
• portable NOAA weather radio to stay up to date on any warnings or advisories
• portable CB radio, some come with NOAA channels and quick access to emergency ch.9
• always keep plenty of gasoline in your tank
• you can also purchase a pre-assembled emergency kit

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This Is How Protesters Are Dealt With In America: Pepper Spray To The Face, Rubber Bullets At Point Blank Range And Brutally Dragging Women By Their Hair ...

The American Dream

How in the world can the United Statescondemn other nations for how they are handling their protest movements when we treat our own protesters so brutally?  No matter what you may think of Occupy Wall Street and the other protest movements that have sprung up across the United States, the truth is that you should be incredibly alarmed about the tactics that law enforcement authorities are choosing to use against them.  If we decide to accept these tactics now, then the exact same “police state” tactics will be used againstyou when the time comes that you want to protest against the government.  In recent weeks, we have seen law enforcement authorities brutally dragging femaleprotesters to the ground by their hair.  We have also seen them use pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang stun grenades against protesters.  If this is how protesters are going to be dealt with from now in America, then we have completely lost the moral high ground.  How will we ever get other nations to take us seriously when we criticize their brutality against protesters when we are so brutal ourselves?

Yes, the Occupy Wall Street protesters have attempted to occupy some places that they are legally not allowed to occupy.  Yes, some Occupy Wall Street protesters have done some things that warrant arrest.  But that does not mean that the police have to act like they are working for Hitler, Mao or Stalin.

Yes, police have a very hard job.  But there is no excuse for thepolice brutality that we have seen happen all over the nation recently.  The police can enforce the laws and treat us all with gentleness and respect at the same time.  If there are any police out there that do not believe that they can do this, then they should quit their jobs.  There are lots of other people willing to fill them.

If you do not understand what I am talking about yet, just watch the videos posted below.

In this first video, a police officer walks up to a row of seated, unarmed protesters at UC Davis and sprays them repeatedly in the face with pepper spray.  This video is almost too crazy for words….

How in the world can such brutality be justified?

Sadly, we are now seeing pepper spray being used quite liberally all over the nation.  The following are a couple more very disturbing YouTube videos about pepper spray being used on protesters in recent weeks.

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Also, be sure to check out this incredible photo of an unarmed young woman getting sprayed directly in the face with pepper spray during the Occupy Portland protests.

Is this what America has become?

Another brutal incident that made headlines all over the nation recently is shown in the next video posted below.  In the video, you can see police brutally dragging three women by their hair to the ground.

One of the women is UCB English Professor Celeste Langan.  She actually offered her wrists to the police and told them that they could arrest her, but that wasn’t enough “fun” for the police.  Instead, they yanked her by the hair and threw her to the ground.  Then they did the same thing to two other women….-

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Is this how we are going to treat unarmed women in America from now on?

Do we now live in a country where “Big Brother” gets to do whatever it wants to do?

At the Occupy Denver protests recently, police fired rubber bullets at point blank range and showered the protesters with huge amounts of pepper spray in an attempt to get them to disperse.

This video speaks for itself….

For more about this shocking confrontation, check out the following video….

But it is not just at Occupy Wall Street protests where we are seeing these kinds of tactics.

For example, LRAD sound cannons are now being used by law enforcement authorities all over the United States.  If you have never encountered an LRAD sound cannon, you should be thankful.  They are absolutely brutal.

Exactly how much “damage” can an LRAD sound cannon do?  Well, it turns out that they can actually do an immense amount of damage.  The following is how Alternet recently described these weapons….

The Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, built by American Technology Corporation, focuses and broadcasts sound over ranges of up to hundreds of yards. LRAD has been around for years, but Americans first took notice when police used it in Pittsburgh to ward off protesters at the 2009 G-20 summit. It is generally used in two ways: as a megaphone to order protesters to disperse; or, if they disobey, as an “ear-splitting siren” to drive them away. While LRAD may not be deadly, it can permanently damage hearing, depending on how it’s used.

LRAD sound cannons can be incredibly deadly.  According to Wikipedia, they can “destroy the eardrums” and while they are supposed to be non-lethal the reality is that they can “kill under certain conditions“.

If you get too close to an LRAD sound cannon while it is in use, permanent damage can result.  Small children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable.

Sadly, these vicious weapons are now being used in a wide range of situations.  As the video below shows, an LRAD sound cannon was actually used to help break up a college block party near Western IllinoisUniversity earlier this year….

This kind of stuff didn’t happen in America back in the old days.

Is this what we are degenerating into?

Should we just accept that our future is going to be filled with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, LRAD sound cannons and lots of police brutality?

Yes, our society is becoming incredibly unstable.  But when law enforcement authorities do crazy stuff like this it just adds fuel to the fire.

Another major U.S. financial crisis is coming.  Unemployment is going to go even higher.  The economic crisis is going to get a lot worse.  The protests in our streets are going to grow larger and more intense.

So will cooler heads prevail, or will confrontations between protesters and police become even more brutal and even more violent?

Once again, I am not defending all of the behavior of these protesters.  Neither am I defending the things that all of them stand for.

However, the brutal crackdown that we have seen in recent weeks is an attack on all of us.  The message that is being sent is that if you decide to stand up and say something in America today, you might be the next one to get pepper spray in the face or a boot on your neck.

America is becoming a much different place.  All over America hearts are growing cold.  It has become “normal” to be brutal and cruel to others.

What has happened to us?

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How Protesters Become Terrorists ...

More and more lately, it seems I find myself asking the question just how and when the ‘Occupy’protesters in the U.S. will be considered a threat to America’s Homeland Security? And then of course, treated as such. Surely I am not off in the wilderness in literally feeling such an eventuality all but inevitable? It’s hard for one in fact, not to imagine that our Federal Government’s outrageously overzealous “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign has been perfectly tailored to include those who are presently demonstrating in the streets of America against economic injustice and inequality. After all, aren’t explosive devices or chemical agents small and powerful enough to fit neatly into some ‘hippy’ backpack these days?

Naturally, the line of thought here embarked upon vis-à-vis a government so eagerly paranoid to keep Americans safe and increasingly hell-bent on conducting witch hunt-like, intrusive domestic counter-terrorismpolicies; not to mention, being overly enthralled with its own Military Industrial Complex, leads one to further postulate that there are at least a few pesky laws in place to protect an individual’s right to free speech and/or constitutional civil liberties, which very well might be evaded or suspended by politicians or police should the supposed threat which faces certain corrupt folks in lofty positions of money and power, conveniently morph into ‘national security’ issues. Creating a situation, of course, which obviously amounts to taking what have been up to this point, relatively peaceful protesters or demonstrations and thwarting or crushing their existence, as being terror-related?

There are some thoughtful Americans who believe that a so-called ‘lone wolf’, alleged terrorist suspect (supposedly under surveillance for two and-a-half years) arrested by New York City Police recently, was but a mere, good old-fashioned, war on terror ‘patsy’, and that the cash and organization for his supposed plot; evidently foiled via the services of a paid FBI informant; as has been reported, was actually provided by none other that the U.S. Government. And so as fate would have it, supposedly, and quite suitably enough for the Mayor of New York City – as a result of this particular obscure and isolated ‘terrorist’ incident and/or apparent bit of federal entrapment, there next comes the disproportionate repercussion from Michael Bloomberg reportedly of deploying at least 1000 extra ‘counter-terrorism’ police to be on stand-by (one must assume) even within the very midst of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement?

Should this strategy taking place via Bloomberg to protect the corporate interests of Wall Street ripen to fruition, then I don’t know about anyone else, but I will find his excuse for installing an army and near police state in the heart of America’s biggest city; during an ongoing protest movement to protect New Yorker’s from some elusive and abstract so-called terror threat, to be just a whole lot of ill-conceived, very dangerous, patronizing bullshit. I am not that gullible a fool, nor stupid enough an American citizen, thank you very much. Are you? The very last person this woefully deceitful ‘Nanny’ of a Mayor of New York, seeks to protect, is an ordinary New Yorker.

Not surprisingly, given the victory that terrorists have already achieved over the American psyche, at least in Tampa, Florida, – where a not so bright public servant had the silly enough idea to roll out a tank out of the garage in response to a few dozen ‘Occupiers’, we have all been shown the writing on the wall, so to speak, and just how the corporate status quo intends to proceed in the end with the threat to its security and foundation, ahead of time.

by R.F. Goggin

R.F. Goggin – is the editor of The New World Reporter, where he is a contributing author.

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Most Terror Attacks Are Committed By Our CIA And FBI. Ted Gunderson Former FBI Chief ...

Hard to believe this comes out of an insiders mouth.

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Definition of Survival Preparedness ...

Survival Preparedness is a process or a condition of being prepared to survive.

To Survive. The phrase could be taken literally – that is, to stay alive. The words, ‘to survive’, could also be interpreted less literally – more like staying healthy or healthier than otherwise.

In the context of survival preparedness, some will describe this notion to its very basic core – like the ability to survive in the wilderness without any modern help whatsoever, you are on your own, life and death circumstances, black and white. Others will describe survival preparedness more-or-less in the context of living within today’s modern society parameters, and utilizing the modern tools available today in order to prepare or be prepared for various problems that may occur tomorrow.

What I’m trying to convey is that there are some ‘survival preparedness’ folks that are more hard-core than others and I’ve noticed that the movement has been coined with two labels in an apparent attempt to delineate their core values. I’m not so sure that I agree with labels and definitions, knowing that there are all sorts of ‘shades of gray’, but having said that, the two labels are Survivalists and Preppers.

Survivalists are the hard core while the Preppers are the soft core. Again, I do not agree with the labeling here, but the fact is that it exists.

The Prepper is thought of as someone who is fully functioning within the system of modern society, preparing for minor disruptions that may come their way, while the Survivalist is considered to be on the edge, perhaps already hunkered down in their bunker or survival retreat – ready forArmageddon.

As in all walks of life, there are truly the extremes, and lots of in-between. When it comes to survival preparedness, I believe that the spectrum is all pretty much OK, so long as it’s within the law of the land.

Since there are so very many different types of people, personalities, skills, and interests, there will likewise be a multitude of variety when it comes to how one prepares, and what they are preparing for. People will interpret risks differently from one another and people will be in varying vicinities of the risk themselves. Some face much higher risk than others based on their geographical location, their occupation, their own current financial and preparedness situation, etc.

Personally, I think that it’s great how more and more ordinary folks are waking up and realizing that things are not all Rosy out there and that there are very real risks facing us all as the world’s economic systems are teetering on the brink of failure while the rumor of wars fill the air.

There will always be ‘newbies’ to survival preparedness and there will always be veterans of the same. There’s room for everyone.

Just remember this… by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Interpret it as you will. Be prepared…

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9 More Ways The U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America ...

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!” – Pericles.

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington.

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” – Samuel Adams.

By the “U.S. Government” I mean the globalist traitors and evil banksters who hijacked America in 1913, and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. These power hungry tyrants come from a worst place in hell than Stalin and Mao. Their political program for America and humanity is more evil and authoritarian than anything else that’s been done in history.

The globalist terrorists who control Washington, London, Ottawa, Paris, and other Western capitals have killed upwards of two million innocent people in Iraq from 1991 to 2011. Everything in that nation has been destroyed except the people’s will to fight and resist.

Add the number of two million slaughtered Iraqis with three thousand Americans who were sacrificed on September 11, thousands of Afghans, and thousands of Pakistanis, Yemenis, Libyans, Lebanese,Palestinians, and, soon to be, Syrians.

If the globalist death cult and zionist monsters attack Persia next, the death toll of the war on terror will exceed 10 million, and maybe even more.

The evil psychopaths in Washington, London and Tel Aviv will drop nuclear bombs on Iran to save face and make Iran submit. That act alone will cause the deaths of millions of Iranian civilians.

But it’s not just Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, and other Middle Eastern nations that have been targeted for destruction by the globalist conquerors. America, Canada, and Mexico have also been targeted for economic, cultural, spiritual, and political destruction.

We will all be forced to live in globalist slavery if we don’t fight back.

Below are nine ways the globalist traitors in the U.S. government are waging war against the American people and the American Constitution. Sorry For Using Capital Letters In The Beginning of Every Word. I Hope You Will Still Read It.

1. Mexico Has Been Bankrupted And Destabilized By The Globalist Terrorists On Purpose. They Have Also Opened The Borders To Unlimited and Illegal Immigration From Mexico. The Globalist Corporations And Technocrats Have Used The New Cheap Labor Class To Drive Down Wages in America And Bankrupt States.

After The Damage Is Done On Both Sides of The Border, The Globalist Traitors Will Bring In A New Political And Economic System With New Draconian Laws. And They Are Making Trillions of Dollars In The Process.

2. Globalist Traitors In The U.S. Military And Intelligence Establishment Have Used Military Planes and Covert CIA Teams To Ship In Drugs Into America For Domestic And Foreign Purposes, As Well as For Political And Financial Gain.

List of Purposes: Finance Black Budgets In The Shadow CIA And Other Intelligence Agencies; Build Up The Police StateIndustry And Militarize Cops; Create A New Prison Industrial Complex To Create Jobs And A New Subclass of Convicts; Ruin The Social Stability of Black and Latino Communities By Denying Them Jobs And Making Drugs Easy To Sell and Buy; Make Well Trained Police Officers Play Cops N’ Robbers With Uneducated and Aimless Young Drug Dealers – Members of Both Groups Futilely Die By Playing This Sick and Sophisticated Tag Game of Death.

3. The Globalist Traitors Have Armed Mexican Drug Cartels With American-Made Weapons To Increase Drug War Violence As Part of A Bigger Ploy To Blame Gun Rights in America, Discredit Self-Defense Weapons, And Destroy The Second Amendment.

4. There Is No Justice For Victims of TSA And U.S./Israeli State Terror. Federal Judges Are Bribed, Deceived And Coerced By The Globalist Traitors To Kill National Security Cases And Destroy The Lives of Individuals Who Stick Up For Themselves And For America. The Court of Law Has Been Destroyed. A Trial By Media Society Has Been Created In Its Place. Bribed Judges Are Used To Dismiss Lawsuits Against The Government Brought Forward By Brave Individuals Like Former Governor Jesse Ventura And 9/11 Victim April Gallop.

5. Corporate And Banking Looting of Public Assets and Government Treasury By Globalist Insiders. These Snakes Think They Will Survive Without Getting Caught. But Some of Them Are Smart And Have Bought Homes In Latin America, Dubai, And Other Regions Around The World. These Rotten Thieves Will Burn America Down And Then Flee The Country.

6. Insider Trading by Traitorous Members of Congress. These People Think They Can Steal Billions of Dollars From The American People, Lie To Them For Decades, And Everything Will Turn Out Okay In The End. Idiots.

7. Assassination of Journalists, Dissidents, Soldiers, and Statesmen (President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Congressman Larry McDonald, Senator Paul Wellstone, Gary Webb, Pat Tillman, and Many Other Noble American Patriots).

The Obama Administration Has Made The Assassination of American Citizens The Official Government Policy. Be Prepared To See Killed Protesters and “Rioters.” Be Prepared To See Killed “Domestic Right-Wing Terrorists.” Be Prepared To See Death And Bullets Rain Down on America Thanks To Bush, Obama, and The Globalist Traitors Who Hide Behind These Psychopathic Puppets.

8. Formation of the North American Union By The Globalist Power Cult. This Will Be A Tyrannical And Fascist Union. The Plutocrats and Traitors Are Guilty of The Destruction of The American Republic and Canadian Democracy.

9. Shock And Awe Propaganda By The Globalist-Owned Mass Media To Make The American People Submit To A Lower Standard of Living, A Police State, And A Fascist Global Government.

Resistance To The Globalist Tyranny Is Marginalized And Demonized. The Criminal and Traitorous Establishment Media Likes To Demonize Anti-Government Protests And State Secession Movements Around America As “Racist.” They Are Referring To American Dissidents and Freedom Fighters As “Right-Wing Extremists,” “Anti-Semitic,” and “Terrorists.”

It Is A Crime That They Are Connecting Protest And Freedom With Racism. This Political Playbook Is From The Depths of Hell. The Globalist Vultures Are Misusing American History For Political Gain. They Are Also Turning American Guilt About The Legacy of Slavery And Secession, Especially on The Left, Into A Psychological Weapon To Destroy Individual Rights, States Rights, and The

American Constitution. Posted by Saman Mohammadi

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New Obama Law Warned Will Jail 500,000 Americans ...

Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth byPresident Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government.

Sparking the concern of Russian diplomats over the growing totalitarian bent of the Obama government is the planned reintroduction of what these reports call one of the most draconian laws ever introduced in a free society that is titled “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”.

First introduced in the US Congress in 2007 by Democratic Representative Jane Harmon, this new law passed the US House of Representatives by a secretive voice vote, but failed to pass the US Senate, after which it was believed dead until this past week when it was embraced by Obama who became the first American President to name his own citizens as a threat to his Nations security.

In what is called the National Security Strategy document, that is required of US Presidents by their Congress, that embraces the dictatorial ideals of the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”, Obama has ordered his Federal police and intelligence forces to begin targeting Americans opposed to him and his radical socialist polices.

Obama’s top counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, in speaking to reporters about this new “strategy” says it makes the problem of home-grown terrorists a top priority because an increasing number of individuals in the US have become “captivated by extremist ideology or causes.”

The Times of London is further reporting that Obama’s new National Security Strategy “officially” endsAmerica’s “War on Terror” in what they call “a sweeping repudiation of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive military strikes.”

And as Obama begins re-focusing his forces from fighting America’s foreign enemies, to those opposed to him in his own country, it is important to remember the warning about this new law given by the former CIA official, Philip Giraldi, who had previously warned of the Bush-Cheney plan to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, and who said:

“The mainstream media has made no effort to inform the public of the impending Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. The Act, which was sponsored by Congresswoman Jane Harman of California, was passed in the House by an overwhelming 405 to 6 vote on October 24th and is now awaiting approval by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is headed by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.

Harman’s bill contends that the United States will soon have to deal with home grown terrorists and that something must be done to anticipate and neutralize the problem. The act deals with the issue through the creation of a congressional commission that will be empowered to hold hearings, conduct investigations, and designate various groups as “homegrown terrorists.”

The commission will be tasked to propose new legislation that will enable the government to take punitive action against both the groups and the individuals who are affiliated with them. Like Joe McCarthy and HUAC in the past, the commission will travel around the United States and hold hearings to find the terrorists and root them out.

Unlike inquiries in the past where the activity was carried out collectively, the act establishing the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Commission will empower all the members on the commission to arrange hearings, obtain testimony, and even to administer oaths to witnesses, meaning that multiple hearings could be running simultaneously in various parts of the country.

The ten commission members will be selected for their “expertise,” though most will be appointed by Congress itself and will reflect the usual political interests. They will be paid for their duties at the senior executive pay scale level and will have staffs and consultants to assist them.

Harman’s bill does not spell out terrorist behavior and leaves it up to the Commission itself to identify what is terrorism and what isn’t.

Language inserted in the act does partially define “homegrown terrorism” as “planning” or “threatening” to use force to promote a political objective, meaning that just thinking about doing something could be enough to merit the terrorist label.

The act also describes “violent radicalization” as the promotion of an “extremist belief system” without attempting to define “extremist.”

As an example of those American’s Obama will be targeting, Giraldi further writes that The Simon Wiesenthal Center, in testifying before the US Congress in support of this new law, swore that an organization called “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth” was an example of a homegrown terrorist organization, leading one Russian diplomat in this report to state “If 1,200 of America’s top architectural and engineering professionals are deemed terrorists simply  because they question their governments propaganda than truly no one is safe in the United States anymore”.

As another example of how dictatorial the Obama regime has become, and as the Gulf of Mexico oil debacle has now become the worst ecological disaster our World has ever seen, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, this past week slammed American reporters for “asking too many questions about BP”.  Leading one to ask that if Obama’s regime can’t be asked about this disaster, what can they be asked about?

The answer is apparently none, as Obama himself, just this past week, in announcing his signing of a new law called the Press Freedom Act refused to answer any reporters questions and abruptly left them standing in stupefaction over the irony an ordeal that shows how far America has fallen.

Another irony apparently lost upon the American people is that their President Obama, who has been dubbed“The Great Communicator”, now holds the dubious distinction of having held less press conferences than any American President in modern history.  And if yesterday’s press conference, his first in nearly a year, was any example one can see why as incredulous press corps was left astounded that Obama had no knowledge of the firing/resignation of one of his top officials.

In all of these events one fact, beyond all others, stands out….in what was once called “The Land of the Free, And the Home of the Brave”…..the United States today has become “The Land Of Slave, And the Home of the Coward”….and these Americans have only themselves to blame.

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