Day: March 6, 2020

Preparedness Notes for Friday — March 6, 2020

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March 6th was the birthday of Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr., born in 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. This U.S. Air Force pilot and astronaut was aboard Mercury 9 and Gemini 5. Cooper had his exploits well documented in Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, and in the well-done film of the same name. Cooper died at age 77 from heart failure at his home in Ventura, California, October 4, 2004. Coincidentally, this is also the birthday of Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937), a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space (aboard Vostok 6). She was born in Maslennikovo, USSR. — …


A Prepping Reality Check – Part 2, by Mama Bear

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(Continued from Part 1.) Now that you have decided on a physical location that provides the best probability of survival for you and your family, let’s look at the next stage. Food Production Do you plant a garden each year? If not, why not? When you plant your garden each year, where does your seed come from? If you are ordering seed each year from a catalog or internet or purchasing seed at a local store, how are you going to plant your garden when that is not available? If you are raising hybrid or GMO varieties, how will you …


Economics & Investing For Preppers

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Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at a new tangibles investing niche: used oxygen concentrators. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: Gold price muted as Bank of Canada follows Fed with 50-basis-point cut o  o  o Steven Cochran (our Precious Metals Correspondent) sent this: Listen to how precious-metals sellers psychologically manipulate elderly conservatives o  o  o …