SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large Michael Z. Williamson spotted this: Mapping the World’s Population by Latitude, Longitude [1]. Mike’s comment: “An interesting pair of charts, but it is skewed a bit by China and India.”
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Reader R.B.S. sent us this: San Francisco considers 220-square-foot micro-apartments [2]
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Reader W.C.P. forwarded a link to a diatribe by the West Point Academy’s Director of Terrorism Studies (an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences) in which he parrots the SPLC [3]‘s Party Line and tars survivalists with a very broad brush, equating us with skinheads, the KKK, and neo-Nazis: Identifying Three Trends in Far Right Violence in the United States [4]. He claims that right-wing extremism is in part characterized by “ideological associations promoting anti-taxation, gun rights, and a ‘survivalist’ lifestyle…” and “strong convictions regarding the corrupted and tyrannical nature of the federal government and its related natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civilian lives and constitutional rights…” [JWR’s Comment: <Sarcasm On>Those radical Americans who talk about Constitutional rights. They must all be subversives. <Sarcasm Off>]
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I noticed that the second episode of the post-power grid collapse drama television series Revolution [5] is now available at the NBC web site, and on Hulu.com. In just the first 15 minutes of it there was a bushel basket full of familiar memes from The Postman [6]
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F.G. sent word of a bad legal precedent: Florida: Court Approves Detaining Motorists at Toll Booth for “large bills” [9]
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The folks at Safecastle [10] are wrapping up their last maximum Mountain House sale of the year. They are offering 33% discounts on many of the most popular #10-can entrees through September 30 only, and 25% discounts on everything else. Then, after September 30th, they will still offer 25%-off all the Mountain House can varieties through October 7th. They also offer additional member incentives to Safecastle Royal club members.