The Gut Wrenching Reality: One of the Best Bug-Out Strategy Guides You'll Ever Read. SHTFplan Editor’s Note: At some point in the future many of us will be faced with a life-altering decision: To bug-in at home or to bug-out and head for the hills. In the following strategy guide our friend Todd Savage explores the former and discusses some critical considerations that must be made once you and your family come to the determination that it’s time to get out of Dodge. Todd knows a thing or two about survival retreats, perimeter defense strategies and what it will take to survive should the world around us collapse overnight. He is the founder of Survival Retreat Consulting and recently launched the Strategic Relocation For Sale By Owner web site which pairs like-minded people offering strategic properties with those looking for primary residence outside of densely populated areas or simply a back-up retreat in the event of an emergency.
We all have ideas of how a worst-case scenario event may play out. Bugging Out: Dreams vs. Don’t be the Last Out without a Destination! Thumbnail. So Why Be Concerned About the Data Tracking of Personally Identifiable Information? A Congressional Candidate Tells You Why. | Missouri Education Watchdog. What questions are on your district’s kindergarten enrollment form? Who is accessing this information and why? There has been a spirited discussion on a Facebook thread about information needed on a kindergarten admission form about the mother’s pregnancy: details of how the child was delivered and if the baby was premature.
This is ostensibly to determine if the child is suffering any delays from a difficult birthing process and would aid educational professionals for teaching strategies. We wrote about the new forms for kindergarten entrance in October 2013 and one’s mother refusal to fill out these forms. The principal tied the data requirement into the CCSSI (as the Initiative requires the expansion of longitudinal data systems for data tracking). I marched over to the elementary school office with the first page filled out in the registration packet only, and handed it to the secretary. The Principal took me into her office and shut the door. Common Sense About the Common Core | teaching/math/culture. This is a guest post by Alan Schoenfeld, a professor of Mathematics Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan has been instrumental in many of the developments in mathematics education over the last few decades.
Full disclosure: he was also my dissertation advisor and continues to be a mentor and friend. Faithful readers of this blog will know I have expressed my own views on the Common Core here and here. Is the Common Core the best thing since sliced bread, or the work of the devil? Is it brand new, or a rehash of old ideas? Is it anything more than a brand name, or is there substance? Can it work, given the implementation challenges in our political and school systems?
What follows is a Q&A based on that experience. Take a look for yourself – the Common Core documents are available here. At heart, the CCSSM are about thinking mathematically. It’s important to understand what the Common Core is not. High quality content and practices. So what’s different? Like this: NC Common Core review commission holds first meeting, elects supporter of standards as its co-chair. Andre Peek (L) and Jeannie Metcalf (R) will co-chair the Academic Standards Review Commission. Peek is a supporter of Common Core. A North Carolina commission tasked with reviewing and replacing the Common Core State Standards met for the first time on Monday to determine first steps and elect two co-chairs, one being McCrory-appointed IBM executive Andre Peek, who declared himself a supporter of Common Core after the meeting. “I am a supporter of Common Core, and I have been since its inception,” Peek told N.C. Policy Watch. “I do realize it’s [Common Core] a divisive issue for our state, though.
But I don’t know the details of why…so through the efforts of this commission we’ll get to the facts…and how to change it to be more effective for our state.” Peek added that he believed any changes made to the state’s academic standards will be based on fact and not just a feeling of “we don’t like it.” The evolution of Common Core in North Carolina Nonetheless, Sen. The players House Appointments. Thumbnail. Mark Alexander: ObamaCore: 'Why Johnny [Still] Can't Read'
Alexander's Column “If a nation expects to be ignorant – and free – in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” –Thomas Jefferson (1816) In William Shakespeare’s “Tempest,” Act V, Miranda observes, “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! It is those words from which Aldous Huxley drew the title of his 1932 novel, “Brave New World.” In that celebrated work, Huxley describes a utopian future in which a central authority maintains totalitarian rule and obedience by re-education – replacing historical comprehension with a common core of indoctrination, utilizing sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning.
Huxley’s utopian apparition contrasted that of George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian narrative, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and that of Ayn Rand in her 1957 work, “Atlas Shrugged,” but all three were, and remain, exceptional expositions of the discordant coexistence of Essential Liberty and the collectivist state. Of Course ISIS Would Pick Chicago - For More Reasons Than You Think -
The first thought I had when I heard about the Islamic State threats on Chicago was probably not much different than many of yours. Of course they would want to attack Chicago. Isn’t it obvious? The gun laws are some of the toughest, if not the toughest, in the country. Islamists love to prey upon fear and weakness. Chicagoans also understand their limitations all too well. There are numerous other reasons that Chicago makes sense. More on this in a moment. Hopefully there is nothing to this, other than typical Muslim intimidation, but WGNTV reported Friday: They’re reacting to one of the tweets which shows the ISIS flag in front of the White House.But scroll down a little farther and you see a picture that might look familiar. This is of course the same tweet that seemed to validate the perceived threat of the raising of the “Flag of Allah” in the White House. So the tweet had a pic of the White House and a building in Chicago.
Let’s see. What do those two things have in common? Wake up. Europe is burning our forests for “renewable” energy. Wait, what? If you’re driving through the South and you see a denuded field filled with stubby new plantings where lush forest once stood, the blame might lie with an unlikely culprit: the European Union and its well-intentioned clean energy rules. In March 2007, the E.U. adopted climate and energy goals for 2010 to 2020. The 27 member countries set a goal of reducing carbon emissions 20 percent by 2020 and increasing renewables to 20 percent of their energy portfolio. Unfortunately, they underestimated the carbon intensity of burning wood (a.k.a.
“biomass”) for electricity, and they categorized wood as a renewable fuel. The result: E.U. countries with smaller renewable sectors turned to wood to replace coal. Of course, wood is in some sense renewable: Trees can be regrown. Wood accounts for a majority of renewable energy generation in Poland and Finland, and nearly 40 percent in Germany. Drax, a major British utility, announced last year that they will convert three coal-burning plants to wood.
EXCLUSIVE: EVIDENCE RE: OBAMA CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Michael Thomas 3-8-14 How is the Obama criminal probe related to the preplanned Ukraine ‘Color Revolution’ executed by the Anglo-American Axis? March of 2014 may shape up to be a series of defining moments in both US and world history. The staged coup in the Ukraine, which was orchestrated by the US et al., may very well lead to an even more bellicose confrontation between Russia and the Western powers. Russia is quietly supported in their various moves to protect Ukrainian sovereignty by many other nations including China, another permanent member of the UN Security Council. There are several other key nations that have been victimized by US military action and/or threats of aggression which also stand firmly behind the Russian response. The same bloc of nations is well aware that the USA carefully premeditated the color revolution staged in Kiev as a means of deliberately provoking the Russian “bear”.
Yes, the birth certificate has been scientifically proven a fake. Author’s Note: 35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists. The U.S. is backing Ukraine’s extreme right-wing Svoboda party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse through the looking-glass of U.S. propaganda wars against fascism, drugs and terrorism. The ugly reality behind the mirror is that the U.S. government has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists, dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global power. Behind a firewall of impunity and protection from the State Department and the CIA, U.S. clients and puppets have engaged in the worst crimes known to man, from murder and torture to coups and genocide.
The trail of blood from this carnage and chaos leads directly back to the steps of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. 1. 2. 3. U.S. documents declassified in 2003 detail conversations between U.S. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Camouflage Photo Series Shows Just How Well Snipers Can Hide in Plain Sight. We spend all day staring at pixels, but really, just how good is our vision when it comes to noticing the small details in photographs? Well, I can’t speak on behalf of everyone, but using the tricky images below, you can get a good idea for yourself. German artist Simon Menner created an interesting photo series that features military snipers hiding in various landscapes. The photos show just how well these highly trained individuals can blend into their surroundings, which vary from empty fields to rocky valleys. Each photograph will be presented twice, with the second one revealing where the sniper is hiding using a red circle. Let us know how many of the eight you got right (no cheating!)
Obviously the smaller images make it even tougher to pick out the hidden sharpshooter when he’s further away from the camera, but if we’re being honest, these things could be wall-sized and we’d still miss him 90% of the time. (via The Guardian) Duke Energy Corp : Investigation into N.C. coal ash spill widens. Why Facebook Just Spent $19 Billion on a Messaging App - Robinson Meyer. Facebook wants to dominate in the three areas WhatsApp excels in: apps, messaging, and usage in the developing world. Reuters Updated, Thursday 2:30 p.m. Late Wednesday, Facebook announced its purchase of WhatsApp for $16 billion. $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in Facebook stock were granted to the company, with an additional $3 billion worth of Facebook stock to come.
WhatsApp makes a glorified texting app. Why, you may be wondering, would Facebook spend $19 billion on it? To answer, it helps to tell a story about two of my friends. On the home screen of Nick’s iPhone (at right), there aren’t many apps. And there’s WhatsApp. They aren’t the only ones. That’s 315 million people using WhatsApp every day. (For reference, by the way, Facebook said it had 945 million monthly active users for its own, non-WhatsApp mobile* services in January.)
But is it worth $19 billion? What’s more, buying WhatsApp fits into a pattern that’s emerged from Facebook. 1. 2. Is anyone using their services? 3. Today's Fun With Maps: Where the People Are, and the Trees - James Fallows. As John Tierney mentioned recently, and as Google's Michael Jones explained in an Atlantic interview last year ago, maps are both the most rapidly evolving and often the most useful ways to make sense of changes around us.
Two illustrations for the day. First, from a group called RTI, the "Synthetic Population Viewer," developed from Census data and originally intended to study disease and epidemiology patterns. That's a screen shot of one aspect of its map, above: it's greater Los Angeles, with differently colored dots representing the race of each household, against a black background. Below is how the Greenville-Greer-Spartanburg area looks, with a map background and a closer-in view. Here's the comparable view of Washington DC and environs, which conveys one of the demographic realities of the area: The maps can also show households differentiated by income, age, and household size -- or all four at once, in the "quad view. " Previous post Next post. DARPA announces scary new web search tool for law enforcement called “Memex” | Military, News.
DARPA – the research and science arms of the Defense industry announced its plans for “deep search” of the web. called “Memex.” Not your average web search engine. Move rover George Orwell – the Defense Advanced Research (DARPA) announced recently its new “deep web” search program for police and law enforcement called: “Memex” which will be able to search the far corners of internet content that is unattainable by modern, mainstream search engines, offering DARPA“technological superiority in the area of content indexing and Web search on the Internet.” According to DARPA’s website: “Today’s web searches use a centralized, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the Internet with the same set of tools for all queries.
While that model has been wildly successful commercially, it does not work well for many government use cases. To help overcome these challenges, DARPA has launched the Memex program. Metal-band-skinny-puppy-send-us-government-invoice-after-finding-out-their-music-was-used-as-torture-device-in-guantanamo-bay-9100005. "We heard through a reliable grapevine that our music was being used in Guantanamo Bay prison camps to musically stun or torture people," founder cEvin Key told the Phoenix New Times. "We heard that our music was used on at least four occasions. " While Metallica politely asked the US military to stop using their music for the sleep deprivation of detainees, Skinny Puppy took it one step further. "So we thought it would be a good idea to make an invoice to the US government for musical services," Key added. "Thus the concept of the [band's new] record title, Weapons. " Despite the band's aggressive sound, they said they had never envisioned their music being used in such a way.
Asked how he felt about their songs allegedly being used in the detention camp, Key replied: "Not too good. We never supported those types of scenarios. … Because we make unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way. HAARP, Chemtrails, Strange Phenomenon Strange Sounds (Video) | Beyond Science. Is Butter Secretly Ruining Your Health? Growing up, butter was an absolute staple in my household. We thankfully never got into the margarine craze because my mother believed that butter was good for the brain. Turns out, she was right about that and scientists have now concluded that butter is actually good for you in other areas too. It’s high in a compound call CLA that protects you from tumor growth and cancer, is not inflammatory like man-made oils from corn, canola or soy, and provides a nice dose of Omega 3 fatty acids, if you get it from the right source.
But finding the right source can be tricky given all the buzz words and fancy marketing these days. Choosing the wrong type of butter can secretly ruin your health without you even knowing it! Here’s a look at what’s really going on and how to choose the healthiest butter for you and your family. Beware of Monsanto Butter Over 49% of all GMO corn is fed to animals or livestock. Land O’Lakes = Monsanto Butter Land O’ Lakes was a staple in my household growing up. Sploid.gizmodo. 12 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake. Maybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government's Ever Sent. List Of FEMA Camps, Underground Bases, HAARP Locations And Maps (Video)
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