Food rights activists are rallying behind raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger. Criminal charges filed against the Baraboo, Wisconsin dairy farmer could land him behind bars for up to 30 months. The husband and father faces four separate charges stemming from providing raw dairy products to members of his Grazin’ Acres food club. If convicted, Hershberger could also be slapped with a $10,000 fine. As previously reported by Off The Grid News, raw dairy farmers from around the country have come under attack for offering raw milk and cheese to eager consumers. The Wisconsin Department of
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The IRS scandal is not going away any time soon, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration. After the initial media bombshell about the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party, patriot, and other conservative groups dropped, more information about politically motivated misdeeds have surfaced. Yesterday Off The Grid News was among the first to publish details about the amazingly quick IRS processing of Malik Obama’s, Barack H. Obama Foundation tax-exempt application. The foundation garnered non-profit status in just a single month, despite telling potential supporters that their donations were tax exempt for several years
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The abuses at the Internal Revenue Service are much worse than we thought. An article run on Tuesday at Off the Grid News about IRS abuses in regard to conservative groups and their tax exempt statuses appears to be just the tip of the iceberg. A lawsuit filed in California indicates the agency stole the medical records of as many as 10 million people in an illegal raid. If that wasn’t bad enough, a press release about the same suit indicates a pattern of behavior that includes warrantless raids and the routine violation of federal
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Solar flare activity has increased significantly in recent days. There have been a total of four X Class solar flares since Mother’s Day last Sunday. While none of the coronal mass ejections (CME) were Earth-directed, NOAA now expects the active region to be facing Earth by this weekend. The first X Class solar flares of 2013 went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media. If just one of the CMEs had been directed at Earth, the power grid would likely have gone down, ended life as we know it, and resembled a scene from Rob Underhill’s
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A week of public relations disasters for the Obama administration does not appear to be ebbing just yet. A “charity” run by the president’s half-brother maneuvered through the IRS tax-exempt process in just a single month. Despite reportedly soliciting tax-exempt donations for years prior to garnering the stamp of approval from Internal Revenue Service, the Barack H. Obama Foundation still got the go ahead. It is illegal to solicit tax-deductible donations for longer than 27 months without non-profit approval from the IRS.  The available paperwork stemming from the Barack H. Obama Foundation reveals that the
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A man from Saudi Arabia was carrying a pressure cooker when reportedly arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on May 11. Hussain Al Kwawahir flew from his home country and through Amsterdam before reaching the United States. Kwawahir supposedly told law enforcement officials that he was in America to visit a nephew attending the University of Toledo. Hussain Al Kwawahir was scheduled to appear in federal court on charges related to allegedly lying to a Customs and Border Protection agent. The Saudi Arabian man allegedly told the agent that he had packed a pressure cooker
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Conservative groups which have long held the suspicion that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting them for increased scrutiny and audits were vindicated last Friday when the Internal Revenue Service “apologized” for the over-zealous activity toward groups with the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their name. An apology seems hardly enough for this breach of the public trust by an agency that answers to no one and has a long history of taxpayer abuse. IRS abuse through targeting of conservatives has long been a concern of the Republican Party. New evidence suggests that
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Buying hydroponics equipment in Kansas is apparently justification for a search and seizure warrant. The Harte family’s desire to live a more sustainable existence resulted in a gun-toting raid on their home recently. Robert Harte’s “crime” was the purchase of growing equipment to raise melons and tomatoes in his basement. Harte stated during interviews with local media outlets that the raid was like a scene from the Zero Dark Thirty movie when soldiers stormed the compound. Police dogs entered the Leawood, Kansas home, followed by armed agents. The law enforcement officers then reportedly accused the
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Off The Grid News recently sat down with Doomsday Preppers’s star Jay Blevins to discuss the various approaches and aspects of prepping. In addition to appearing on the hit National Geographic television show, Blevins is also an accomplished author and former law enforcement officer. This is part two of our interview with him. Jay’s newest book, Survival and Emergency Preparedness Skills, or SEPS, goes into great detail about both the physical and mental skills needed to survive a disaster. The beyond-the-bug-out-bag novel began as an informative supplement Blevins was adding to the emergency kits he
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Prepping for a catastrophe is a daunting task. There are a whole lot of bases that need to be covered. How you prepare is directly impacted by both location and professional background. Those with a military, law enforcement, or medical background definitely have an edge when preparing for life after the power grid goes down or during a civil unrest scenario. Fortunately for those of us who do not fall into those professional categories, more and more training survival and medical prepping classes are popping up around the country. Off-the-grid or homesteading families are undoubtedly
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