Lessons From the First TEOTWAWKI- Part 1, by Sarah Latimer

Basics of the First “TEOTWAWKI” The first “end of the world as we know it” event that mankind experienced was initiated by a woman, and while there are plenty of reasons to finger-point at men in our world today over the problems it faces I want to focus primarily on the women in this article and their responsibility for some of the problems we face and discuss how we can correct these to create a better world, if only in our own homes and communities. I am talking to my “gender sisters” in this article. Yes, I know there are …




Letter Re: Taking Out the Trash: Secure Deletion

HJL, Technically, short of physically destroying flash media, there is no way to insure that something is securely erased. This applies to USB drives, SD cards of all sizes, and even SSD disk drives. It applies less so to magnetic hard drives. Hard drives can drift so there can be a thin shadow of old data, but that is something only someone with very deep pockets can recover, and it would be hit and miss. With flash drives, data is eventually erased, but what normally happens is the prior place the data was stored is mapped as “obsolete, erase when …




Economics and Investing:

Lee Adler: Warning Signs a Stock Market Crash Is Coming o o o Advice from Jeff Miller: Stock Exchange: How to Trade an Overbought Market o o o Over at Zero Hedge: How Heavy Is This? o o o Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Shuttering at a Record Pace – G.G. o o o Congress Considers Taxing 401(K) Contributions – B.B. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.




Odds ‘n Sods:

The recent terrorist attack on the Champs Élysées with an AK-pattern rifle has the French on edge, right on the eve of a national election. Joe Dassin is doubtless rolling in his grave. Some pundits suggest that this might sweep Madame Le Pen into office. – JWR o o o $128 ticket stands for Roseville man who left car running in driveway. JWR’s Comment: That decision would be considered absurd here in The American Redoubt. It is common practice here in the winter to leave unattended cars idling in post office parking lots. Oh, and having a “remote start” system …