The Federal Reserve has indicated that they will continue to hike up interest rates in spite of criticism from president Donald Trump and others who see the hike as damaging to the economy.  The Feds officials are dedicated to the belief that rising rates will contribute to a more stable economy.

Weekly mortgage application fell a whopping 7.1% as the cost of borrowing money surged.  Interest rates are climbing higher making debts more expensive, so naturally, fewer people can now afford to buy homes.

If you’ve been at it for a while, having a homestead can be a wonderful survival plan and a rewarding lifestyle. But if you think you’re going to go straight from the city to live off the land, you’re in for a horrible – and potentially fatal –  surprise.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s current Ebola outbreak is the nation’s 10th in 40 years.  It was officially declared an outbreak on August 1, shortly after the end of a previous outbreak in the country that claimed 33 lives.

Facebook is creating a new video chat camera and they want you to install it in your living room.  Dubbed The Portal, the camera will spy on your phones calls in order to sell advertising.

As the video below shows, Clinton’s motorcade quickly entered the parking garage where the campaign event was being held. They were in such a hurry, however, that they didn’t notice the cement pillar right in front of them.

Fauxcahontas – er, Elizabeth Warren – is still feeling the heat regarding her Native American ancestry claim.

The latest escalation of what I consider an inevitable battle between the Trump Administration and the Federal Reserve is not at all what the mainstream or much of the alternative media think it is.

The two main holders of United States Treasuries, the countries of China and Japan, have dumped the dollar. Both nations have dramatically cut their ownership of notes and bonds in August, according to the latest figures from the US Treasury Department, released on Tuesday.

As politicians continue to point to a booming economy with a low unemployment rate, the real evidence that those surface numbers aren’t reflecting reality are becoming more apparent.  The student loan crisis in the United States is about to go from bad to worse too, heightening economic woes.

Should other media organizations confirm these reports (which has become a pattern since Khashoggi disappeared into the consulate on Oct. 2 after being asked to return to pick up a marriage license), calls for sanctions, an arms sales ban – or even the deposing of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman could grow louder.

Returning to old-fashioned pioneer values and ways of sustainable home farms and economies will help the country get back on its feet…and along with it, you need the modern savvy of one well-rounded in current events, business practices, and forming alliances with others who hold similar values.

Facebook is going all out for censorship in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections.  Citing “fake news” (news the social media giant doesn’t like or disagrees with) Facebook will begin banning certain types of speech from the platform.

A polio-like illness called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been confirmed in the state of Massachusetts. The Department of Public Health told WBZ-TV Tuesday there is one case of AFM in the state and five more possible cases are being investigated. But is it the mystery the media wants you to believe?

President Donald Trump is demanding Elizabeth Warren apologize for being a phony and a fraud.  Warren infamously claimed Native-American heritage to give her privilege at Harvard in what Trump called a “fraud” against the public.

Physicist Stephen Hawking just had his final publication revealed, and in it, he declares that “there is no God.”  In what could be considered his last “profound realization” he also says that there is no afterlife.

If you really want to see what election interference looks like, you’re getting a live demonstration right now.

Simon Derrick, an economic chief strategist, warned that the ongoing sell-offs in equity markets are drawing slight parallels with the crash of the late 1980s.  Derrick alleges that this sell-off could get worse as it continues to echo the 1987 crash.

Elizabeth Warren just owned herself after releasing a DNA test confirming that she’s as little as 1/1024th Native American – about half the percentage of the average white person.

Incrementally, it creeps forward: the “soft” tyranny. Curing, refining itself, and hardening, there will be a point of no return that is reached…a point where it has metastasized until it is both all encompassing and ubiquitous.

It’s the most critical economic resource you’ve never heard of.

Alec Baldwin recently said that we should overthrow the United States government. “In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump,” Baldwin said Sunday night at a major fundraising dinner for New Hampshire’s Democratic Party.

We all tend to pay much attention to acquiring stuff – physical things – in order to be more prepared, but we often fail to prepare ourselves more, physically and mentally.

Odd-looking structures which appear to be artificial have been spotted on the Moon using Google tools.  This discovery has been leading some alien conspiracy theorists to believe that extraterrestrials have established a lunar base – or several of them.

The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi raises the question: did Saudi rulers fear him revealing highly damaging information on their secret dealings? In particular, possible involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks on New York in 2001.

Russin submarines have recently carried out a mock nuclear attack against their “enemies.” The Russian government has released footage of the atomic strike and it is sparking fears that the third world war is quickly approaching.

“The threat is so significant that it may be wise to begin encouraging norms of caution among authors, peer reviewers, editors, and journalists.”

Economic guru Peter Schiff is saying that the next market crash will be “far more painful” than that of the Great Recession in 2008. With rising interest rates and tariffs spiking the cost of living, Americans will have some difficult financial times ahead.

Dozens of witches say they plan to gather in New York City this month to hex Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was sworn into the nation’s highest court last week.  Kavanaugh’s journey was a rough one, with women coming forward seemingly out of nowhere with allegations of sexual misconduct.

THIS is the new America…

Like other empires throughout world history, will we be undone by our own excesses?

It’s almost that time of year again: the sniffling, aching, coughing, feverish misery that is flu season. Rather than relying on a government health agency to guide you, there are steps you can take to better prepare your family.

Just in time for midterms, Facebook has removed 559 pages and 251 accounts they claim have been spreading misinformation and spam.

In an attempt to feed the soaring debt and spending habits of the United States government, the US Treasury is issuing more bonds.  But they’ve run into a big problem: no one wants to buy those worthless bonds anymore.

Gun control advocate, Jamie Lee Curtis has become an icon for armed self-defense with her participation in the new Halloween movie sequel. She may have done so unintentionally, but the movie no doubt shows why those who are could become victims should arm themselves.

At the exact same time that Hurricane Michael was causing chaos in the Southeast, an October stock market crash was causing havoc in the Northeast.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is issuing a warning to hunters after bovine tuberculosis was discovered in deer. The disease originated in cattle and is a devastating bacterial infection which affects the lungs of the animal.

As good as your plan may be, you may have to leave it all behind. You must plan to be mobile.

Experts are warning that Australia could be hit by a destructive tsunami “at any time.”  As of right now, scientists are saying “so far, we’ve been lucky.” But that luck is bound to run out eventually.

Yesterday’s stock prices plunged spurring talks of a panic and comeuppance for the nearly 10-year old bull market. The sudden 832 point drop in the Dow set people on edge, and here’s why it happened seemingly out of nowhere.

If The Swamp describes the political establishment, the corporatocracy, globalists, elite bankers, unelected bureaucrats or the Military Industrial Complex – then those who buttress The Swamp should be referred to as The Slough.

Now, this is what unity looks like.  South Africa’s Zulu nation has joined forces with white farmers being subjected to racial land seizures in order to prevent the atrocity.

Heating your home with wood in a wood burning stove is about as cozy and comfortable you can get, however, be prepared for hard work to get ready for the winter season.

According to Jack Ma, a billionaire and the founder and outgoing executive chairman of Chinese tech titan Alibaba, it’s the United States that will end up losing out in a trade war with China. Ma said the U.S. would inevitably  “suffer more” and there was no logic behind the U.S.’s mass deployment of tariffs as a solution to the countries’ trade imbalance.

The extreme left is desperately trying to instigate a civil war, and prominent left-wing “leaders” are fueling the fire.

A truck owner who stopped for a drink in Vancouver, Washington says that his truck was set on fire because he put some pro-Trump stickers on it. “If you say anything that someone doesn’t like, you are ultimately a target,” Johnny MacKay told KOIN-TV of Portland, Oregon.

“There was definitely some kind of precious metal based on the readings of the instruments at the site. The fact they wouldn’t let them be there for the dig, it’s suspicious as hell and it doesn’t have to be.”

As Hurricane Michael barrels towards the East Coast, an eerie image from Tuesday’s satellite views of the storm was captured.  At the center of the hurricane, appears to be a likeness of a human skull.

Do not expect much of a warning before foreign creditors dump dollar-based assets, and do not expect a large window of time before the negative effects are visible on Main Street.

Giant mosquitoes have emerged in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. The floodwaters that followed the strong hurricane, which made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, have spawned thousands of mega-mosquitoes across the state, according to entomologists.

Our current economic system is fundamentally flawed, and in the long-term it is inevitably going to fail. The best that anyone can do in the short-term is to keep inflating the bubbles so that things will hold together long enough until they can become somebody else’s problem.

Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has said that private company Virgin Galactic is only a few “weeks” away from its first trip into space. Sir Richard is in a race with Elon Musk of Tesla and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to send the first fee-paying passengers into space.

Sadly, instead of replacing NAFTA’s managed trade with true free trade, the new USMCA expands government’s control over trade.

One problem that can interfere with survival is the unwillingness to be uncomfortable. Whether it is physical discomfort or mental (hearing things you do not want to hear) it is a very real problem if you cannot handle this.

The United Nations has declared that a $240 per gallon gasoline tax is “needed” to fight climate change. To limit global warming, the UN’s report says that $27,000 per tonne of gasoline will need to be stolen from the public by the year 2100.

The warnings against tariffs were not heeded by the United States government, and they are now coming to fruition.  Ford Motor Company has announced that the Trump Administration’s tariffs on imported Chinese goods and retaliatory tariffs have cost the company $1 billion and they will lay off workers to cover that cost.

Even though we are constantly being told by scientists to not worry about the Yellowstone supervolcano, NASA is now on a mission to save the earth from exactly that. NASA has ambitious plans to prevent the extinction of the human race by drilling into the supervolcano. 

“This storm will be life-threatening and extremely dangerous,” Scott said at a news conference Sunday. “This storm has the potential to bring devastating impacts to communities across the Panhandle and Big Bend and every family must be prepared.”

On a daily basis, the United States is “reshaping” itself, shifting the paradigm and molding the public consciousness to accept socialism…that final step prior to a full-blown totalitarian state.

There are some items that can be frozen that might surprise you.