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• Sean Hannity Video – Urban Survivalists
  
  
  
• Earthbox Container Home Gardening Kit
  
  
• Iran’s Ayatollah Power Slipping Away?



• $134 Billion In Seized US Bonds Are Fakes –
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• Gates Orders Missile Interceptors To Hawaii
  
  
  
• Navy Tracking Possible North Korean Nuke
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• Continental Airlines Pilot Dies on Flight From
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Sean Hannity Video – Urban Survivalists Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:59 AM PDT Survival in the city, it’s not just for extremists anymore. From natural calamities to an economic collapse, would you be prepared to make it on your own? Ainsley Earhardt reports on Urban Survivalists in this Sean Hannity special investigation. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

Earthbox Container Home Gardening Kit Posted: 18 Jun 2009 10:34 PM PDT Earthbox is an innovative approach to container gardening. You can double your yields of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers with less fertilizer, less watering, and no weeding at all. During uncertain times there are a handful of industries and products do well, and for some very good reasons. Among them, home gardening tops the list. Just $50-75.00 invested in seeds and fertilizer can yield about $1500 worth of produce, which is a significant return on your investment. It takes a little bit of time and effort, but it’s not difficult, and during an emergency it can provide a fresh, nutritional source of supplemental food for you and your family. The Public News Service quotes the National Gardening Association (NGA) as saying that they expect a nearly 20% increase in personal home gardens across the U.S.this year. In fact, the NGA says at least 9 million Americans will grow vegetable gardens for the first time ever in 2009 and an estimated 43 million Americans will plant their own personal vegetable gardens this year. During World War II, Victory Gardens were a common sight. These gardens consisted of small plots of land, allotments, tubs of soil or sections of lawn prepared to grow fruits and vegetables so that private citizens could utilize some of their own food supply, in order that the nation’s farmed goods could support the war effort. It’s been estimated that these urban gardens produced about 40 percent of the produce consumed in the United States during that war. Surprisingly to many people, it doesn’t take a lot of land to produce a robust, productive vegtable garden. Thanks to products such as Eartbox, many people with little or no land at all are able to grow incredible gardens in some very unique spaces such as driveways, garages, rooftops and elsewhere. Container vegetable gardening is becoming increasingly popular and Earthbox makes it easy, enabling people with little gardening experience to become successful and confident food growers. Read Earthbox Reviews On Amazon This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

Iran’s Ayatollah Power Slipping Away? Posted: 18 Jun 2009 09:53 PM PDT Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared runaway winner of the presidential election last week, Iran has seen a daily wave of opposition demonstrations, police crackdowns and violence. Not since the 1979 Islamic Revolution when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the shah has Iranian society been so rattled and divided. According to the Iranian constitution, the Guardians of the Constitution are supposed to monitor and sign off on election results. After the votes have been counted and the winner announced by the interior ministry, the Guardians have the responsibility to endorse the result within 10 days if there are no complaints from the defeated candidates. The president-elect is then confirmed and later sworn in by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But last week’s election did not follow these procedures. Despite complaints by Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaei, the opposition candidates, Ayatollah Khamaenei congratulated Ahmadinejad in a public speech and pointed out that he had got 14 million votes more than the first time he was elected president four years ago. Read Full Article This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

$134 Billion In Seized US Bonds Are Fakes – Washington Posted: 18 Jun 2009 02:32 PM PDT U.S. government bonds found in the false bottom of a suitcase carried by two Japanese travelers attempting to cross into Switzerland are fake, a Treasury spokesman said. “They’re clearly fakes,” Stephen Meyerhardt, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of the Public Debt in Washington, said yesterday. “That’s beyond the fact that the face value is far beyond what’s out there.” Italy’s financial police last week said they asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to authenticate the seized bonds, with a face value of $134 billion. Colonel Rodolfo Mecarelli of the Guardia di Finanza in Como, Italy, said the securities, seized in Chiasso, Italy, were probably forgeries. Meyerhardt said Treasury records show an estimated $105.4 million in bearer bonds have yet to be surrendered. Most matured more than five years ago, he said. The Treasury stopped issuing bearer bonds in 1982, Meyerhardt said. Had the notes been genuine, the pair would have been the U.S. government’s fourth-biggest creditor, ahead of the U.K. with $128 billion of U.S. debt and just behind Russia, which is owed $138 billion. Source $134 Billion U.S. Bond Mystery Continues In Italy 2 Japanese Carrying $134 Billion In U.S. Bonds Detained In Italy This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

Gates Orders Missile Interceptors To Hawaii Posted: 18 Jun 2009 01:25 PM PDT The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. “We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii,” Gates said. Gates told reporters at the Pentagon he has sent the military’s ground-based mobile missile system to Hawaii, and positioned a radar system nearby. Together the systems theoretically could detect and shoot down a North Korean missile if it came to that. “Without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say … we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory,” Gates said. A Japanese newspaper reported today that North Korea might fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward Hawaii around the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the U.S. A new missile launch – though not expected to reach U.S. territory – would be a brazen slap in the face of the international community, which punished North Korea with new U.N. sanctions for conducting a second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of a U.N. ban. Read Full Article This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

Navy Tracking Possible North Korean Nuke Shipment Posted: 18 Jun 2009 01:08 PM PDT The Navy is tracking a North Korean cargo ship suspected of carrying illegal weapons, equipment or nuclear fissile material that North Korea has been prohibited from transporting by the U.N. Security Council, top U.S. defense officials said Thursday. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon that “clearly, we intend to vigorously enforce the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874,” although the Navy cannot use force to stop or board the vessel suspected of carrying the contraband. A U.S. warship could hail the North Korean ship and ask to search it, and if the ship’s crew didn’t comply, the U.S. sailors could order the vessel to sail to the nearest port and request officials in that port to do the search — although the U.S. ship couldn’t use force for that, either. [..] Mullen, who briefed reporters with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, gave few details about how the Navy was tracking the North Korean ship — whether U.S. warships or aircraft were shadowing it — and what led U.S. officials to believe it was carrying contraband material. The U.N. Security Council voted to place additional strictures on North Korea after the country detonated a nuclear bomb May 25 and launched ballistic missiles into the ocean off Southeast Asia. One of the restrictions was that North Korean ships suspected of carrying nuclear material would be interdicted at sea, but the North has said it would consider the boarding of any of its ships as an act of war. Read Full Article This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

Continental Airlines Pilot Dies on Flight From Brussels to Newark Posted: 18 Jun 2009 09:42 AM PDT The captain of a Continental Airlines flight en route from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, N.J., died during the trip. The pilot died Thursday aboard Continental Flight 61, and two co-pilots took over the Boeing 777 aircraft’s controls, FAA spokesman Les Dorr told FOX News. The plane with 247 passengers aboard made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport shortly before noon EDT Thursday. It left Brussels at 9:45 a.m. local time, CBS News reported. There were two first officers aboard the flight who flew the plane and a reserve crew who handled the landing. Read Full Article This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information.

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