Year: 2016

Document It! The Pressing Need for More Citizen Journalists

The recent tragic police shooting events have made it clear that there is a need to have more citizens of all skin tones document their interactions with the police, federal agents, and all public officials. For your own protection and for the protection of our collective rights, I strongly recommend taking these steps, immediately: Get press credentials. Genuine press credentials with Photo ID are available free of charge and can be printed out immediately at our CFAPA.org blog spinoff web site. Carry a sign. Print and carry a “PRESS” sign to display on your dashboard. (Also available free at the …


Letter Re: Digital Currency Weapons and Intel Tools

Hello, I have recently been doing a bit of research for my Payroll and Accounting class, and part of that led me to a 2007 Kansas law that allowed employers to select the form of payment to employees. These include things you might expect, like cash, direct deposit, checks, and more interestingly for me payroll debit cards. The payroll debit cards led to further research I thought worth sharing and somewhat related. To be clear, I fully support a laissez-faire approach to private business, but the digital trend may be worth looking at. First, governments around the world are keenly …



Economics and Investing:

Silver Prices – What Next? “Silver spiked to 19 times above its exponential trend in 1980 during the silver bubble. Silver crashed to 30% of its trend in 2001, and 40% of its trend in late 2015, and the April 2011 high was less than two times its exponential trend.” o o o CONDITION RED: Important Silver Threshold Line Broken… What Next?? – RBS o o o The Lessons of the 1920–21 Depression o o o Financial stability should not become Fed’s third mandate: Mester o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please …


Odds ‘n Sods:

St. Paul Police Officer’s Spine Fractured as rioting thugs drop large concrete block on his head “Authorities say during the course of the protests on 94 and later, on Grand and Dale, 21 officers from multiple agencies suffered injuries. The injuries were primarily caused by fireworks, rocks, bricks, glass bottles and chunks of concrete that were directed at officers, some hitting them in the head. St. Paul Police said someone threw a Molotov cocktail at officers, as well.” – W.C. o o o WSJ Op-Ed: After 20 Years Of Teaching, I Am Banning Laptops In My Law School Classroom – …


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“Cage of freedom That’s our prison Where the jailer and captive combine Cage of freedom Cast in power All the trappings of our own design Blind ambition Steals our reason We’re soon behind those invisible bars On the inside Looking outside To make it safer we double the guard Cage of freedom There’s no escaping We fabricated a world of our own Cage of freedom, growing smaller ‘Til every wall now touches the skin Cage of freedom, filled with treason Changing sides as the losses begin Our suspicion tries escaping But they step up the security There’s no exit–there’s no …



Pat Cascio’s Product Review: S&W Bodyguard .38 Special

As I mentioned in a previous article, some SurvivalBlog readers have asked me to do some articles on good ol’ fashioned revolvers, so here’s another to consider. Many people mistakenly believe that a revolver is outdated or not of any use in survival. However, it depends on what you consider outdated and what type of survival we are talking about. Many people believe that “survival” means living off the land in the mountains or woods. Well, I guess that’s one type of survival. However, they are many other situations that can be considered survival. To many, it just means getting …


Recipe of the Week: Knockwurst With Hot German Potato Salad

Ingredients: 4 large potatoes 1 onion, sliced 1 tsp salt Water 4 slices of bacon, diced 2 Tbsp flour 2 Tbsp sugar 1 tsp dry mustard 1 tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper ¼ cup vinegar ½ tsp celery seeds 4 knockwurst links 1 Tbsp finely chopped parsley Directions: Peel and slice potatoes. Combine with onion in slow cooking pot, then sprinkle with 1 tsp salt and cover with water. Cover and cook on low for 5 to 6 hours, or on high for 2 to 3 hours. Remove from pot, drain thorougly and return to the pot. Cook the bacon …


Letter Re: Moving to Alaska

HJL, A recent contributor had a great letter about their move to rural Alaska. I wish them the best of luck. Living in rural Alaska myself, though off the road system, I can only hope they fair well here. My family are in the process of doing the reverse move from Alaska to the Redoubt. Interestingly enough, I had a letter posted on Survivalblog about eight years ago about my move from the city to rural off-road system Alaska. Alaska has some distinct advantages, mainly the lack of people outside cities and available subsistence in some areas. But everything else …


Economics and Investing:

Brexit Shows Why Central Planning Won’t Work o o o Ex-Barclays traders sentenced to up to six-and-a-half years for Libor rigging. Excerpt: “The sentences come four years after Barclays became the first of 11 powerful banks and brokerages to be slapped with a hefty fine for their role in the rate fixing scandal, sparking a political backlash that forced out former CEO Bob Diamond, an overhaul of Libor rules and the criminal inquiry.” o o o An economic riddle: Where are all the construction workers? o o o DANGER: The World Is Now On The Verge Of The Largest Destruction …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Amateur radio – HF go box – P.S. o o o They just don’t get it: TIME Suggests Another 9/11 Is Necessary to Re-direct American Anger o o o Video commentary from an older Brit on the chaos: We Saved Our Democracy o o o The Law Is Dying because Morality Is Dying Technically, morality is what we do, and ethics is what we ought to do, but you get the idea. – B.B. o o o Americans urged to ‘buy a gun, get trained, carry it always’ (Note: unrelated auto-starting video on the page.) – W.C.



Notes for Sunday – July 10, 2016

July 10th is the birthday of British novelist John Wyndham. (His full name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, but Harris shortened that to just John Wyndham for his pen name.) He was born in 1903 and died March 11, 1969. Harris was a good friend of fellow novelist Samuel Youd (1922-2012), who wrote under several pen names, including John Christopher. Both men were famous for writing what are often called “cosy catastrophies”. Several of Wyndham’s novels and short stories have been adapted to film, with varying degrees of success. One of the best of these was a parallel …


Budget Planning- Part 1, by Sarah Latimer

Let me start off by saying that I am not a Certified Public Accountant, lawyer, stock broker, licensed financial planner, or banker. I have no licenses or certificates that enable me to give special advice or guidance regarding your finances. I am also not an ordained minister, though I have attended seminary. What I am writing below comes from personal experience combined with a business degree and both business and home management experience along with my understanding of the Word given to us from YHWH– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (I believe it is necessary in these days …