Day: September 9, 2011

Notes from JWR:

A fan of my novel “Patriots” just produced an amazing five-minute ultralight flying video that is available free, via YouTube. Kudos! This gent shot some great footage that really captures the look and feel of some of the key locales in my novel. And in it you can see how pretty the Palouse Hills region is at harvest time. It is a High Definition (HD) video, so be sure to watch it at “full screen” size. I suppose that with the publicity of my blog, my books, this video and Radio Free Redoubt, the web traffic to SurvivalRealty.com will increase. …


Prepping: It’s Not Just for TEOTWAWKI, by Choctaw Prepper

In this day and age of being able to go to a store and get practically anything you would ever need or want, the concept of preparing for a disaster escapes some individuals.  The time of “Victory Gardens” and canning your surplus vegetables and fruits have fallen by the way side in our current culture.  Our society sees people storing vast amounts of food and supplies as paranoid because they are simply not accustomed with the practice, nor do they see the need.  Most people cannot conceive the idea that they can be left without food or water, or that …


Letter Re: CONEX Shipping Containers as Faraday Enclosures?

Hi Jim, and Readers, I read the piece about using a CONEX as a Faraday cage,  I made some RF measurements using a 2-meter handheld, and a small portable Sangean ATS-909 receiver quite a while back with that very subject in mind. I have an S-250 RATT Rig shelter also.  I don’t think you can really beat the S-250 shelter, with any other readily available equipment.  But in a pinch even the CONEX will work relatively well for EMI, EMP, and TEMPEST. The reduction of signals even with the wooden floor is  enough to help even with no EMI gasketing on the …


Letter Re: Making Your Range Time Real Time — Train as You’ll Fight!

Dear Sir, I’ve been a fan ever since I read your novel “Patriots” a couple of years ago.  I’d like to point out that with regard to the “Making Your Range Time Real Time – Train as You’ll Fight!” post, the ability to shoot and move and to shoot while moving should be included in your training.  Furthermore, the use of cover versus concealment should be included.   I bring this up because for years in federal law enforcement we qualified every three months, we did use silhouette targets, but all the shooting was done from a static position at varying …


Economics and Investing:

G.G. sent: Many baby boomers don’t plan to leave their children an inheritance Sunoco to Quit Oil Refining Business. (Thanks to F.G. for the link.) Stock Market Crash 1929, Mystery Unraveled? (The text is also available in the Dutch edition.) Items from The Economatrix: Millions of Americans Living in Long-Stay Motels Europe Stocks in Big Monday Drop US Postal Service Near Default The US Jobs Crisis Worsens Zoellick Warns of New Danger for Global Economy


Odds ‘n Sods:

Here’s one of those “clash of cultures” articles, datelined Ogden, Utah: Police called after man butchers cow in his driveway. What does the 9-11 caller want their kids to think? That beef comes from the store in neat little plastic packages, with a foam tray underneath? Momma cows don’t give birth to packaged beef. To quote a marketing slogan: Beef: Its what’s for dinner. But somebody has to gut the critter first.    o o o On the lighter side. Jeff H. liked this one: Bear Goes Joyriding in Family’s Prius. This might have happened because the Toyota Prius has …


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“If that (extensive printing of money) doesn’t weaken a currency, I don’t know what will. Extensive printing of money — get it from me, I have got experience in that so if there is something that I can teach the world as free advice to the US and those countries that are relying on the printing press is — Don’t do it!” – Dr. Gideon Gono, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. (As quoted July 21, 2011, at the Independent Dialogue sponsored by the Zimbabwe Independent in Harare, while responding to questions about when the country was likely to …