Day: January 17, 2018

Preparedness Notes for Wednesday – January 17, 2018

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In his farewell address to the nation on January 17th, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the American people to keep a careful eye on what he called the “military-industrial complex” that had developed in the post-World War II years. We didn’t do a very good job of listening to his warnings. o o o Seed for Security, LLC is having an exceptional sale. Their Colossal Security Pack is now 15% off. This pack is a total of 7 pounds of vegetable, herb and grain seeds. All are open-pollinated and non GMO. Included are their 3 most popular collections: Their …


Apartment Dweller Prepping- Part 2, by AKM295

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When I relocated to the big city and moved into a shared apartment, I began to simultaneously look at prepping and consider how to make this work– living with others and trying to be prepared for a disaster. What I’ve Learned From Experience (continued) I’m writing about what I’ve learned over year’s of experience of living through power outages and disaster, including Hurricane Sandy. In covering topics for apartment dwellers, we have taken a look at storage, food, and water. Security When I was moving out from my childhood home, I tried to figure out how I could get my …


Economics & Investing For Preppers

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Here are the latest items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. And it bears mention that most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of JWR. (SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor.) Today’s focus is on a possible boom in commodities in 2018. Precious Metals: Hedge Funds Kick Off 2018 Piling Into Gold and Silver o  o  o Next, at The National: Will 2018 mirror 2011 as a landmark year for precious metals? Stock Markets: Three reasons the 2018 stock market …


JWR’s Recommendations of the Week

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on the documentary film and companion book Unbranded. Books (Unbranded): Unbranded–written by filmmaker Ben Masters–as a companion piece to his documentary film.  (Described in the Movies section, below.) This has some fabulous photography, and the text fills in some huge gaps in the movie. o o o Montana Homestead: How I Built My Homestead Off Grid In The Wilderness o o o Movies (Unbranded): Back in 2016, I mentioned this great western horsemanship documentary: Unbranded. This is a …