Preparedness Notes: June 16, 2026

This Week in History:

On June 16, 1779 US General Anthony Wayne (pictured) captured Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British.

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June, 1462: Vlad III the Impaler (the inspiration for “Dracula”) attempted to assassinate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in a night attack at Târgoviște. But the failure of that attack forced him to retreat from Wallachia.

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And in 1873: US President Ulysses Grant declared a portion of Wallowa Valley, Oregon are a reservation for the Nez Perce Native American tribe. But the order was rescinded two years later and the tribe was forcibly re-located to Oklahoma.

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Saving Western Civilization, by Single Farmer

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see his article posted on July 13th, 2025: My Quest for a Wife: I’m Willing to Move, and in his May 6, 2026 article on rural migration starting at the bold section on “A Golden Opportunity to Move”

Please remember all of my writings are a Gedankenexperiment, not a form of advice, but an extended thought experiment. This will surely be a controversial article. But consider that sometimes medicine is useful even if it initially tastes bad.

White people are being oppressed around the world and are a minority group who are under constant assault. White people are often systematically discriminated against, are declining as a percentage of population, and if you examine this without any labels just examining the population’s percentages over time it could be characterized as a genocide. There has even been an effort to deny that White people even exist as a distinct group or culture to the point of many people [including journalists and academics] refusing to use capitalization for the term “White,” but capitalizing “Black.” Those are strong ideas that many people have never heard of previously. In this article, I intend to demonstrate further information in support of this idea along with providing a potential solution and to give my thoughts on Afrikaner refugees who are fleeing South Africa.Continue reading“Saving Western Civilization, by Single Farmer”

Recipe of the Week:

The following recipe for Mock Soylent Green Hardtack Crackers is from SurvivalBlog reader L.E., who notes: “You can also experiment with making Soylent Yellow and substitute orange juice for the beer, and use yellow split pea powder and yellow lentil powder, and substitute mushroom powder for the seaweed, and sugar and cinnamon/nutmeg for the spices.”

Ingredients
  • 1 cup cornmeal
  • 1/2 cup green lentil powder
  • 1/4 cup split pea powder
  • 1/4 cup powdered seaweed
  • 1/2 cup beer (adjust for consistency)
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder and/or garlic powder
  • Soy sauce, to taste (about 1 teaspoon)
Directions
  1. Mix Dry Ingredients: In a large bowl, combine cornmeal, lentil powder, pea powder, seaweed, and salt and spices. Mix well.
  2. Add Beer: Gradually add beer to the dry mixture, stirring until a dough forms. Adjust the amount of beer to achieve a workable consistency.
  3. Roll Out Dough: On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes and prick all over with a fork. Use a gingerbread boy cookie cutter for that “human” touch.
  4. Bake: Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Place the crackers on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden and crisp.
  5. Cool and Store: Let the crackers cool completely before storing them in an airtight container.

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Do you have a well-tested recipe that would be of interest to SurvivalBlog readers? In this recipe column, we place emphasis on recipes that use long-term storage foods, recipes for wild game, dutch oven recipes, slow cooker recipes, and any recipes that use home garden produce. If you have any favorite recipes, then please send them via e-mail. Thanks!

SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic is a map showing the United States divided by watersheds, as proposed by explorer, cartographer, and USGS Director John Wesley Powell. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit and the Sonoran Institute.)

The thumbnail image below is click-expandable.

US Watersheds Map

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Economics & Investing Media of the Week

In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers.

Economics & Investing Links of Interest

Economics & Investing Media Tips:

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The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, Tulsi Gabbarrd’s big biolabs data declassification announcement.

‘Never Before Seen’ Intelligence on Biolabs is Released

Via Forbes: Tulsi Gabbard Announces Release Of ‘Never Before Seen’ Intelligence On Biolabs. “In a social media post on Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard previewed ‘intelligence’ on U.S. biolabs.” Here is an excerpt from the transcript of her video post:

“…this release today breaks new ground as the information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these US-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people who falsely claimed that these biolabs didn’t exist. Now, they accuse anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America. Now, [the] ODNI and I will continue working closely with partners across the US government to identify exactly where these labs are and what pathogens they contain to end dangerous gain of function research that threatens the health and well-being of the American people and people around the world.”

The U.S. European Force Drawdown

At Task & Purpose: US to cut fighters, warships from NATO mission in Europe.

PPI Acid Reflux Drugs Could Increase Dementia Risk

Reader C.B,. flagged this in The Mirror, by way of MSN: Drug taken by millions found to increase dementia risk by 33 per cent. JWR Adds: The article failed to include a list of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) drugs. Some PPIs available in the U.S. include: Dexlansoprazole (Dexilant), Esomeprazole (Nexium), Lansoprazole (Prevacid), Omeprazole (Prilosec), Omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate (Zegerid), Pantoprazole (Protonix), and Rabeprazole (Aciphex).

Continue reading“The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods”

SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.

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Some great news: ATF’s “Engaged in Business Rule” – struck down!

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To file under Threat Spirals: Ukraine’s New Missile Flies 1,900 Miles With a One-Ton Warhead. One Russian Factory Has Now Felt It Twice.  JWR’s Comment:  I’m confident that most SurvivalBlog readers recognize the missile design’s distinctive profile.

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Over at Paul Joseph Watson’s Modernity: Google’s New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With ‘Approved’ Devices.

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A SurvivalBlog reader in North Dakota wrote me, bemoaning the ban on most incandescent light bulbs over 25 watts in the United States. He complained that both compact fluorescent and LED bulbs bother his eyes.  Thankfully, there is a solution, at least for one type of bulb.  There is an exception in the Federal incandescent bulb ban for “rough service” incandescent bulbs.  At eBay.com, simply put this phrase in the Search box: Case of 120 GE 75w rough service light bulbs. Stock up! – JWR

Continue reading“SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets”

SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week

This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest.

Redoubt News Links

Send Your Media Links

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Editors’ Prepping Progress

To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year.  We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds ‘n Sods Column or in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!

Jim Reports:

Now that I’ve transitioned to a weekly posting schedule for SurvivalBlog, I’ve had time to catch up on some projects around the ranch.  I have just a couple of weeks to handle many projects before hay-hauling season begins in July.  First up will be cross-cutting and splitting the firewood logs that I’ve been gathering in the past three months. Typically, I cut the large-diameter logs to stove length, but the smaller ones I cut to two or three stove lengths. So, those I’ll have to  be cross-cut before I can split them.

I padded, packed, and mailed out several Elk Creek Company orders. That always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to deliver some nice anonymous small arms to good homes.  And I enjoy the friendly feedback that I get from my customers.  They are always pleased with the quality pre-1899 cartridge guns that I sell, and they often remark that they were pleasantly surprised with the bonus items that I’ve included.  I’m expecting a lot more orders this week, since spot silver is back above $70 per ounce and we’ve correspondingly raised our silver divisor to 50.  (You can take the total for your order and divide by 50, if paying in pre-1965 U.S. 90% silver coinage. For example, a $345 order would cost just $6.90 face value in 1964-or-earlier silver dimes, quarters, and halves..)

After an unexpected fence-hopping entry by our yearling bull, I had to reinforce one side of our main garden fence with several 16-foot-long welded-wire livestock panels, to keep the cattle out. Those Bovine Delinquents!  Oh, speaking of them… Yesterday, I completed construction of a 4-foot wide “friendship gate” on our north property line.  It is mostly there so that we can escort errant fence-jumping cattle back onto our ranch. There will eventually be two such gates on that property line.

Last week, we had a setback when the clutch failed on our 15-year-old pickup truck. Thankfully, this happened when I was close to home, and only just heading back from a short errands trip when I didn’t have a trailer in tow. I can only imagine what it would have been like if that had happened when I was a hour away from the ranch, with a load of 30 hay bales in the trailer. The pickup will be at the dealership for about 10 days. They tell me that the repair work done before we need it for hay-hauling. That work will cost $2,500+. Ouch.

Now, Lily’s part of the report…

Continue reading“Editors’ Prepping Progress”

JWR’s Meme Of The Week:

The latest meme created by JWR, based on an old pun:

Elevator Meme

Meme Text:

We Call It An Elevator, But The Brits Call It A Lift

I Suppose We Were Just Raised Differently

Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks!

Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.

The Editors’ Quote Of The Week: 

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” – Galatians 2:16-21 (KJV) 

Preparedness Notes — June 9, 2026

On June 9, 1628: The first deportation from what is now the United States: Thomas Morton was deported from Massachusetts. For the local Puritans, Morton’s behavior was just too much. He was a drunken womanizer who constructed a May Pole, organized orgies, and sold guns to Indians.

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And on June 9, 1772: The first naval attack of Revolutionary War took place in Providence, Rhode Island.

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A reminder: SurvivalBlog is now a weekly web blog, delivered Fresh Every Tuesday.

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Today’s feature article is the conclusion of a guest piece by long-time SurvivalBlog reader “Tunnel Rabbit”, who makes his home in northwestern Montana.

Modern Handloads for Antique 7mm Mauser Rifles – Part 2, by Tunnel Rabbit

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.)

Considerations for Projectile Selection

There are many different bullets and powders to choose from.  Given the very long throats of their chambers, we are mostly limited to heavier and flat based bullets.   Choosing the best projectiles for the antique Mausers will help us get the best all around results, quickly.

For the purposes of hunting, I would like it to shoot no larger groups than 2 MOA with iron sights and that would limit my shoots to 250 yards if I had 20-20 or better vision and had the rifle on a rest for the shot. The bullet must of soft construction so that it expands instantly and adequately wide enough at lower impact velocities, and have enough weaght to penetrate through the game at wood ranges with quartering away shots.

Cup and Core Traditional Hunting Bullets

There are many good bullets that might be used and I have considered some of them, yet not all.  There is simply not enough time to do so and it is not necessary.  The bullets discussed have a wide following and are well tested over the decades. These are traditional cup and core that tend to be of softer construction, and many had to have been designed specifically for 7mm Mauser.Continue reading“Modern Handloads for Antique 7mm Mauser Rifles – Part 2, by Tunnel Rabbit”

4Patriots 72-Hour Survival Food Kit, by Thomas Christianson

The 4 Patriots 72-Hour Survival Food Kit is misnamed. In terms of caloric requirements and nutritional value, it does not quite qualify as a 48-hour food kit. In terms of packaging, it would be best suited as a 24-hour food kit.

The food is packaged conveniently for things like camping trips. But it is important to realize that the number of servings listed on each package is hopelessly optimistic. Double each serving size, and it will be just about right. Also make sure to take other foods to supplement the packaged courses.

At the time of this writing, the kit cost $29.95 at 4patriots.com. I don’t believe that the kits offer a cost-effective solution for emergency food storage. It would be more cost-effective to select foods that you regularly eat and that have a long shelf life. Purchase significant stocks of those foods, and regularly rotate those stocks so that you first eat those items that have been on the shelf the longest.Continue reading“4Patriots 72-Hour Survival Food Kit, by Thomas Christianson”

SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

Today’s graphic is a map that shows the status of social media age verification legislation around the United States. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.)

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SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week

 

 

 

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