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Prepping with pets: How to prep for dogs and other pets before SHTF

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Pets are multiple times more vulnerable during disasters, highlighting the need for an emergency preparedness plan to ensure their safety. Pets should be part of your evacuation plan and their care should be taken into consideration when looking into transportation, shelter and potential hazards in your area.

Follow the tips below to ensure that you have the supplies and plans in place to keep your pets safe in any crisis.Keep pet records updated

In an emergency, it’s ...

Emergency food prep: Stock up on manuka honey, a must-have survival food and barter item

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If you're not sure what to stock up on, you can buy extra food supplies and versatile items like raw manuka honey, which offers several health benefits and has a long shelf life. (h/t to SurvivalFrog.com)Tips for choosing the best barter items

Bartering refers to the act of trading goods or services in exchange for others without using money as payment. When the grid goes down, even your prepping stockpile may run out of certain items, which is why bartering is a crucial ...

Senate report: Meta has been harvesting personal and financial data from tax prep companies for years

July 14, 2023 -

A probe led by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has found that the tax prep companies had potentially violated privacy laws by sharing taxpayers' sensitive personal and financial data with Meta for years. Violating taxpayer privacy laws can lead to fines of up to $1,000 per violation and up to one year in prison.

The privacy breach was first reported last year by the nonprofit journalism outlet The Markup. (Related: Google and Meta caught harvesting your sensitive financial ...

Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2025 includes $12 billion for student loan forgiveness

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The proposed $12 billion is set to go to a new federal program called Reducing the Costs of College Fund that would support federal strategies to improve college graduation rates and make costs more affordable for students. (Related: Biden DID NOT wipe away debt via student loan forgiveness program – he only redistributed it to other taxpayers.)

Along with funding ways the executive can lower college costs and improve graduation rates, the $12 billion will go toward increasing ...

Congress passes ANOTHER stopgap spending bill, delaying long-term solution to budget crisis

November 16, 2023 -

By a vote of 336 to 95, with 209 Democrats and 127 Republicans supporting it, the House passed another stopgap government funding bill. Ninety-three Republicans and two Democrats were opposed to the measure.

The measure extends government funding through mid-January and now heads to the Senate, where a bipartisan group of supporters has expressed support for the stopgap bill.

The current bill gives lawmakers in both the House and the Senate more time to agree ...

Canada’s budget allots millions of dollars for “vaccine passports” until 2026, memo shows

August 03, 2023 -

A recently leaked memo from Health Canada dated March 23, nearly a year after vaccine passports were officially withdrawn from Canadian society, requested increased funding for Fauci Flu shot passports and tracing measures for the next three-plus years.

"The purpose of the funding is to ensure the continued provision of the Canadian COVID proof of vaccination credentials both as a health record and to facilitate mobility in the context of international travel as well ...

U.S. budget deficit climbs in May amid big government spending and falling revenue

June 14, 2023 -

The Monthly Treasury Statement showed a May shortfall of $240 billion, which is a full $66 billion over last May’s figure. This brings the cumulative deficit for the first eight months of this fiscal year, which started in October, to $1.165 trillion, which marks a rise of $426 billion over last year. The government has spent $4.16 trillion during this period while collecting just $2.99 trillion worth of revenue. In fiscal year 2022, in contrast, they spent $3.8 trillion while ...

NYC Mayor Adams halts final round of budget cuts after slashing spending on illegals

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The Democrat mayor first unveiled the three-round budget cuts in the fall of last year. Under this plan, all city agencies would have to shave 15 percent of their budget in three months' time. This would offset an estimated $10 billion cost generated by providing shelter, food, medical care and legal services for the unlawful border crossers flooding the Big Apple.

The first two rounds of budget cuts – five percent each – were enacted in January and February 2024. These ...

DEBT SURGE ALERT: $8.9T government debt to mature, $1.4T budget deficit expected in 2024

February 14, 2024 -

The Federal Reserve has also been running down its balance sheet by $60 billion per month. The bottom line, experts said, is that someone will need to buy more than the said amount in U.S. government bonds. It is more than one-third of the U.S. outstanding federal debt and more than one-third of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

According to education platform Apollo Academy's Chief Economist Torsten Slok, this is going to be a particular challenge when the ...

Public NUMBS as government DEBT BOMB explodes to $33T, annual budget DEFICIT approaches $2T

September 22, 2023 -

"We are becoming numb to these huge numbers, but it doesn't make them any less dangerous," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB), claimed in a statement. According to her, policymakers need to be honest with the American people and present a plan to "bring our debt under control." (Related: DEBT BLOWOUT: US debt has soared $1.2T since debt ceiling suspension – and the Treasury expects to add another $1.5T by year's end.)

Meanwhile, ...

Bidenomics: Big Mac extra value meal now costs $10 more than it did during Trump’s era

December 07, 2023 -

A viral video of an enraged diner resurfaced, wherein he claimed that the fast food franchise is no longer affordable for the everyday American. "So, I get there's a labor shortage, I get there's wage increases and a number of other things," flabbergasted Idaho man Christopher Olive began in a clip posted to TikTok last year. Critics blame current President Joe Biden's terrible economic policies, dubbed "Bidenomics," saying the ever-surging costs of supposedly affordable fast ...

Month-over-month U.S. budget deficit rose by 50% in December as financial collapse looms

January 16, 2024 -

This deficit jump has sent total government debt above $34 trillion for the first time on record, with Treasury Department data showing that outstanding total public debt hit $34.001 trillion on December 29. The development did not come as much of a surprise as it surpassed $33 trillion just three months ago. Should the current pace continue, CNBC reports that 2024 will end with a deficit exceeding $2 trillion.

When you consider the fact that December is traditionally ...

Biden’s “fiscally responsible” budget plan for fiscal 2025 requires borrowing $16 TRILLION over the next decade

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The president claims his spending plan will trim deficits by $3 trillion over the next decade. But in reality, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, "the level of borrowing under the president's budget would be unprecedented outside a war or national emergency." (Related: Biden's budget request for fiscal 2025 includes $12 billion for student loan forgiveness.)

Biden seeks to spend $7.3 trillion, an 18 percent increase over two years. For perspective, ...

Sen. Rand Paul to hold up any stopgap government budget bill that includes funding for Ukraine

September 25, 2023 -

Paul's opposition to additional foreign aid to Ukraine comes as Congressional leaders are working to reach an agreement to pass a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded past the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. (Related: CNN poll: MAJORITY of Americans do not want taxpayer dollars to fund Ukraine's war effort.)

"Today I'm putting congressional leadership and [President Joe Biden] on notice that I will oppose any effort to hold the federal ...

WHO gets record-high $6.83 BILLION budget increase and approval for replenishment mechanism to raise MORE FUNDS

June 09, 2023 -

The staggering increase in budget and the launch of a new "replenishment" initiative for the agency were given the green light despite the fact that the WHA failed to come up with a final agreement on the pandemic treaty or amendments to the international health regulations (IHR). (Related: WHO pushing new pandemic rules to gain dictatorial control over UN's 194 member countries.)

WHO member states on May 22 agreed to the WHO budget hike, which is a 20 percent increase ...

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan wants government budget deal to include ban on federal funding of censorship activities

September 21, 2023 -

Jordan's demand comes as House Republicans and the GOP leadership are once again at odds over supplemental spending bills.

"We want certain language on these appropriation bills," said Jordan during an appearance on the "Just The News, No Noise" television program. "When we get to those that says, you know, no money can be used to censor Americans, if it's that kind of language, no money can be used to develop a disinformation governance board at the Department of ...

“Soulless GOP demons” use whistleblower’s FBI weaponization testimonies for political advantage, betray informant by approving budget for new FBI HQ

November 27, 2023 -

A year after, the informant, who is now a fellow on domestic intelligence and security services at the Washington-based think tank Center for Renewing America, surfaced to voice his frustrations, calling House Republicans "soulless demons," for actually "rewarding the FBI despite his disclosures," with $300 million worth of funds for a new headquarters (HQ). The Congress, whom Friend said has all the political will to reform the troubled bureau, has not even done anything ...

NHS receives $26.68M budget to roll out AI and automation technologies in British healthcare system that make it easier to TRACK DOWN people

July 10, 2023 -

British Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has announced a £21 million ($26.68M) fund to provide the National Health Service (NHS) with the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology and robotic process automation. The fund seeks to enhance patient diagnosis and treatment by equipping NHS staff with advanced AI imaging and decision support tools.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, backed by the Conservative Party, believes these ...

New law would make COVID vaccine makers liable for injuries, deaths

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(Article by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

The Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered Act, or the LIABLE Act, would “allow Americans who took vaccines that were misleadingly promoted and forced onto many Americans via federal mandates to pursue civil litigation for their injuries,” according to a summary of the bill publicized by Fox News.

“These vaccines were given emergency use authorization unilaterally and did not go ...

Sensible prepper rules to follow when building your emergency stockpile

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Here are some sensible or "sane prepper rules" on stockpiling delicious and nutritious food for long-term storage, plus water, medicines, tools, gear and other essentials – without burning a hole in your pocket.

Feel free to add what is not on this list using what you have learned from your experience and those of others.Start small, then grow

To even a seasoned prepper, stockpiling emergency survival essentials is a "logistical nightmare" in terms of budget and storage ...