Day: December 30, 2015

Notes for Wednesday – December 30, 2015

December 30, 1865 is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling. I should mention that his writings about Afghanistan have sparked a modern-day revival of interest in Kipling among British, Australian, and American officers and NCOs deployed to Afghanistan. o o o Senator Rand Paul Announces Senate “Audit the Fed” Vote (Warning: Requires a Forfeiture of Privacy Facebook account to access) JWR’s Comment: This is great news. Among other things, I am confident that a full forensic audit will reveal that the “ended” rounds of Quantitative Easing (QE) in fact never really ended. They were replaced by secret debt swaps between the …


Seven Survival Tips For the Modern Feminist- Take II, by J

Greetings, Following-up to a previous article submitted with the same base title, I decided to continue the discussion. The modern feminist is a hindrance to survival and preparedness in our society. This essay is much harsher and more straight-forward than the last, because frankly there is no time to waste. It does no service to a hard-core feminist to be soft spoken and patient now, especially knowing that she needs to hear the cold, hard truth! With the recent graduation of two female Rangers, this country has quickly propelled itself towards a full-speed push for women in combat. Who is …


Letter Re: Good Samaritan Bag

HJL, I commend B.F. for their forethought to pack for others, items that could mean life or death when exposed to the elements, especially during this time of year. In the 1990’s, I was a police officer in an uptown, N.Y.C. precinct, working the midnight tour (shift). One area of the precinct had thousands of elderly residents who lived in their apartments as they had for decades, some alone, many with home-health aids who would just go to sleep and ignore those in their care. (Many of the elderly were Jewish, with the tattooed numbers of the Nazi’s still plainly …


Economics and Investing:

Debt distress level at highest since recession – GG o o o The death of the American pension: Shifting the retirement burden from employers to workers has created an enormous financial crisis. – RBS o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: U.S. News Millions in Fraud on Government Credit Cards (Waste Fraud and Abuse) Some waste is absurd, but the words disgusting and despicable come to mind over reports like this one. From the Article: “That law was inspired in part by a report earlier this year from the Defense Department finding that government credit card holders from across the …


Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:

D.S. suggested that this book should be on every prepper/survivalists bookshelf. Know how to cook with wood. o o o Reader H.L. suggested the movie The Good Lie. It’s about the Lost Boys of Sudan. Several of the Lost Boys are in the movie. It tells their story of the long walk and becoming boy soldiers. It’s a story that few Americans know. o o o Do you have a favorite book, movie, or video that would be of interest to SurvivalBlog readers? Please send it via e-mail. Thanks!


Odds ‘n Sods:

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!: VA GOP to defund “protective services” in wake of political banning of CWP reciprocity – Sent in by RBS o o o G.P. sent a link with some charts showing some critical societal institutions and how public perception of them has slipped tremendously since the 1990s: America’s Decaying Institutions The rule of law is clearly in trouble in the United States. o o o MtH sent in this update to the ridiculous trampling of rights over your right to refuse service: Oregon bakery owners pay more than $135G in damages …