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If you happened to be watching the Live CNN Polling the night of the debate, you may have noticed something odd about the results: Are we really to believe Ron Paul polled at 0% after having won the CPAC straw poll decisively in February of 2011? At the very same time CNN ran their “insider” [...]

After making national headlines last month the Texas anti-TSA legislation that aimed to prevent intrusive touching by agents of the Federal government through criminal prosecution under Texas State law went down in flames once theArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/kIf0fDeEZ5Q/texans-you-have-one-more-shot-at-anti-tsa-bill_06152011

While many will claim that solar storms are an unrealistic threat to our world, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom aren’t taking any chances. According to a report put together by Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub, the threat is not only real, but very likely, and could change the world [...]

While many will claim that solar storms are an unrealistic threat to our world, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom aren’t taking any chances. According to a report put together by Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub, the threat is not only real, but very likely, and could change the world [...]

Trend forecaster Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal advises subscribers of his quarterly newsletter that the collapse is on it’s way and will become apparent to the population of the entireArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/U0-IOoQCMTA/gerald-celente-collapse-it%E2%80%99s-coming-are-you-ready_06132011

NASA head Charles Bolden issued a weekend statement through the NASA Headquarters of Emergency Operations advising employees and their families to prepare for unforeseen emergencies and/or disasters. Some key excerpts from the video statement (available below) follow: They’ve given me a few minutes just to talk to all of you in our NASA family about [...]

Constitutional scholar Judge Andrew Napolitano tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time – should an individual be able to watch and record law enforcement policing actions on public property, as well as on his or her own property? Cameras now appear on just about every major intersection in the country, at sporting [...]

The concept of private barter and alternative economies has been so far removed from our daily existence here in America that the very idea of participating in commerce without the use of dollars or without the inclusion of corporate chains seems almost outlandish to many people.However, the fact remains that up until very recently (perhaps [...]

If there’s one thing we should have learned about all of our theories of the universe and our solar system, it’s that we really don’t know anything. Scientists can theorize about how events in our universe have unfolded in the past, or how they may or may not unfold in the future, but in the [...]

The only way to do it is what I advocate for now. I don’t support the third party movement anymore. I support the abolishment of all these political parties. The world is set up today so that you don’t vote for the person, you vote for the party. And it’s the parties that control the [...]

In Visualizing Emotional Collapse: From Euphoria to Despondency we provided our readers with a chart of the investor cycle of emotions. After the collapse of  market euphoria, like we experienced in real estate or the general state of the economy around 2007/2008, comes anxiety, denial and our current state of emotion – fear – which leads [...]

A father was dragged from his home and handcuffed in front of his children by a SWAT team looking for his estranged wife – to collect her unpaid student loans. A stunned Kenneth Wright had his front door kicked in by the raiding party at 6 am yesterday before being dragged onto his front porch, [...]

The good folks over at Financial Armageddon ask Are We Half Way There? with respect to the real estate market and cite an article from the News Observer that gives us some insight into would-be home seller sentiment: Although Donna Roberts’ Cary house is for sale, she was not among the hundreds of Triangle homeowners [...]

Despite an obviously collapsing economy, monetary system and fiscal condition, President Obama is not at all concerned: I’m not concerned about a double dip recession. I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as quickly as I want it to happen. Prior to this month we had [...]

It’s time to turn the tables on too-big-to-fail American banks, and one homeowner did just that. In this all too familiar tale, the homeowners paid for their home in cash and had no mortgage. Bank of America, for whatever reason, had paperwork showing that they did owe a mortgage and they subsequently foreclosed on the [...]

The following exchange between Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and the Fed’s attorney Scott Alvarez proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that The Federal Reserve has no gold backing the US dollar. Most in the alternative news sphere suspected it – now it’s fact. The Federal Reserve does not own any gold at all. We [...]

We’ve regularly discussed emergency response when the SHTF and have generally come to the conclusion that when the time comes that you need help, it won’t be available. This latest story from California highlights how austerity measures are already having an impact on Americans’ lives, and it’s only going to get worse. Residents of Alameda, [...]