TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Alpha Rubicon (Public Side)

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. More precisely, water in the newly drilled well – but none to mix mortar with.  The well drilling company hadn’t put the pump, pipe or electrical cable down the hole yet, so I decided to make a well bucket out of PVC pipe and an old inner tube so I could get some water. This well bucket will work with any drilled well at least 4” in diameter. The capacity of the bucket depends on how long you make the main pipe.  I made this one a little over 3’ in length, which gives me about 1.5 gallons every time I raise it out of the well.

Hayden’s Note:

I did not write this article, obviously.  But I find myself in a similar situation with my “Homesteading with a Shipping Container” project over at ElysianFieldsProject.com.  I have an 8″ well casing, 140 feet deep, and will be placing a manual well pump on it.  I debated a standard 3/4 HP electric pump, tied into a generator and cistern tank, but ultimately, I wanted self-sufficiency in a grid-down situation.  Thus, a manual pump (potentially a solar-powered attachment at a later date, but will be able to maintain the manual ability).  However, those pumps cost approximately $1,650 and I find myself with far too many other projects – including living day to day in the corporate rat race while working on the project 50 miles away. 

So, in the meantime, a PVC well bucket is the perfect fix when I need a few gallons of water to mix concrete with, filter a bit of drinking water or flush a toilet (until I get my waterlines finished, anyway).  And yet another side note: Paracord could work well for this, depending on how large you make the PVC bucket....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Tiny House Blog

Kevin Casey from New Avenue Homes and builder of the Berkeley Backyard Cottage was featured last year. He has since introduced a new home called the Clean Energy Showcase Home. I wanted to get this up ASAP as it is being featured at the Pacific Coast Builders conference this weekend June 24 – 26th. If you are in the area you will want to get down and see it. To get get a free pass go to www.pcbc.com/go/freepass. At check out, use the discount code newavenue.

This home is a one bedroom with an additional sleeping loft. New Avenue Homes calls it 7 rooms in 500 square feet.

The cost for this home is $85,000. (Hayden’s Note: What?!  I was building a 14×24′ cabin with a similar design and could of have it dried in and sheathed for around $2,000.  Wow.  That’s a bit steep for a tiny house!)  I have attached pictures of it and a floor plan rendering to give you a good sense of the home. I hope to visit it either this weekend or when it is relocated back to San Jose for a personal first-hand view and to take pictures....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

In the world of genetically modified foods, it is rare to find a country or nation that has not been over-run with genetic contamination.  In the United States, the vast majority of all corn and soy is either intentionally engineered or has been contaminated.  Countless small farmers have gone bankrupt due to contamination of their corn crops and the subsequent lawsuits from Monsanto that quickly follow.  Large parts of Mexico continue to lose family heirloom varieties due to passing trucks dropping GE kernals on the sides of roads or pollen blowing in the wind from adjacent GMO fields.

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: NASA .gov

In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average¹ solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t sure how to categorize it.  The blast peppered Earth with the most energetic protons in half-a-millennium, induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire, and sparked Northern Lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again?

“A similar storm today might knock us for a loop,” says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters. “Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS, and satellite communications–all of which are vulnerable to solar storms.”

Hayden’s Note:

I’ve been noticing a LOT of activity and talk about solar storms, emergency preparedness and disaster contingency directly from NASA lately.  A LOT. 

She and more than a hundred others are attending the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum—”SWEF” for short.  The purpose of SWEF is to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society especially among policy makers and emergency responders.  Attendees come from the US Congress, FEMA, power companies, the United Nations, NASA, NOAA and more....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Haaretz

The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday.

The five Russian experts were among the 44 passengers killed when the Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk on Monday.

The experts – who included lead designers Sergei Rizhov, Gennadi Benyok, Nicolai Tronov and Russia’s top nuclear technological experts, Andrei Tropinov – worked at Bushehr after the contract for the plant’s construction passed from the German Siemens company to Russian hands.

The sources said that the death of the scientists is a great blow to the Russian nuclear industry.

The experts were tasked with completing construction of the plant and ensuring that it would be able to survive an earthquake.

Read Full Article Here…...

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Source: ABC 7

A magnitude-7.3 earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Thursday evening, sending residents of small coastal towns to higher ground as officials issued a tsunami warning in the temblor’s wake.

The quake was centered about 122 miles east of Atka, about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage. It was recorded at a depth of 26 miles, the Alaska Earthquake Information Center said.The quake was felt through the central Aleutians and as far east as Dutch Harbor and Unalaska, but no damage was reported, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesman with the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

“It was shaking, it was just a little rumbly” and lasted about 20 seconds, said Atka resident Rodney Jones.

The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center posted a tsunami warning for some coastal areas of Alaska, but canceled the warning about an hour after the quake. The warning covered an area from 80 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor to about 125 miles west of Adak.

Jones said it appeared all of the town’s 61 residents took to higher ground when they heard the tsunami warning, which he heard issued over CB radio....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: The Sovereign Man

Harold Camping has a pretty dismal track record. Thrice now, the 89-year old California evangelist has been very public about predicting the end of the world. Somehow he managed to convinced legions of followers that his complex calculations were accurate.

Camping was obviously very wrong all three times, in addition to other times he was wrong in making smaller predictions in his radio broadcasts.  We can, however, forgive Mr. Camping’s ‘miscalculations’ for the precise date and time of the world coming to an end, writing them off as twaddling, harmless entertainment.

Why? Because Harold Camping doesn’t control the money supply for the largest economy on the planet.

You see, there’s another guy whose track record is about as impressive as Harold Camping’s. His name is Ben Bernanke. And every time he opens his mouth with a prediction about the economy, it’s wrong. Dismally, dreadfully wrong.

Like Camping, Mr. Bernanke and his cronies make complex calculations, culminating in impressive-sounding prophesies for future rates of inflation and GDP growth. He makes predictions about economic recovery in 2010… er, 2011… er, 2012, and declares emphatically that a housing slowdown will not affect the broader economy....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

The Central Intelligence Agency often reports interesting tidbits in their online publication, The World Factbook.  A reader sent me a link pointing towards the “current account balance” of all the countries in the world.  The entry records a country’s net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified.

Guess who is in the lead?  And guess who it towards the bottom?

China leads the world by a long shot, with Greece, Portugal and other EU countries such as France bringing up the tail-end (hence, the austerity measures, riots, etc).  Of course, as we all guessed it; the United States is in dead last place with a total account deficit of around $561 Billion.  And these are the 2010 figures.  At this rate, we will soon be into the trillions, if not already.  Depending on what part of 2010 these figures are from, it could be close to 18 months old....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Natural News

Ron Paul, Barney Frank join forces to end the insanity

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: The Dot Connector - Doug Yurchey

Hayden’s Note:

For the record, this article is a bit conspiratorial and unscientific.  This is very much an “opinion piece” from Doug Yurchey.  While its a good read and quite informative, I wanted to post a small disclaimer: I believe marijuana, and specifically hemp, has been supressed for a variety of reasons – cancer research, industrial uses, textiles, medical purposes, healthy food source, etc etc.  I also believe that we need to simply repeal marijuana laws.  Let me repeat that; repeal the laws – NOT “legalize.”  With legalization comes massive regulation.  Simply repeal the simple possession and personal use laws and there won’t be an issue, there won’t be loopholes for greedy politicians, there won’t be expansive government.  If they – the ominous “they” – want to regulate and “legalize” the distribution and commercial sales of marijuana, I understand… to a degree.  But no more regulation than alcohol.  I support 18+ age requirements for commercial purchases or similar.

But for personal consumption, we need to simply nullify or repeal the laws.  Enjoy the article but please don’t leave 50 comments ranting about the sometimes-unsupported scientific or medical statements. They are not mine.  Hit the link for Dot Connector and inform Doug.  Cheers, Hayden....