G.G. was the first of several readers to send this: The great Asian gold theft crisis [1]
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I heard about some American-made Boost Regulators [2] that are useful off the grid. These can produce 14 volts with just 9 volts input.
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Linda U. suggested this article: Three Oregon mushroom pickers rescued after 6 days lost [3]. JWR’s Comment: It is indeed a miracle that they survived. Consider: Poor prior planning. (This was a case of PPPPP [4].) Pitiful clothing and equipment. No signaling capability. No map and compass. No GPS [5]. And if the temperatures had been any lower, they would have died of hypothermia. Learn from their mistakes, folks!
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Reader T.O.B. mentioned this monumental example of suicide-grade bad OPSEC [6] consciousness: New APN Facebook Group [7]. I recommend that readers keep a much lower profile rather than voluntarily adding themselves to a Nationwide Looting Targets Directory.
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Michael Z. Williamson [8] (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) mentioned that the Global Village Construction Set guys are stills expanding their project: Open Source Ecology [9]