Day: April 24, 2020

Preparedness Notes for Friday — April 24, 2020

April 24th is the birthday of Carolyn Cole (born 1961), a well-known staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, and long-time friend of the Rawles family. This is also the day that the Armenian Genocide began, in 1915. Ottoman (Turk) Muslims slaughtered 1.5 million of their Christian neighbors, intellectuals, and community leaders. The Ottoman government proceeded with multiple phases to round up men in mass executions and drive women and children into the desert on death marches. They also led the general Muslim citizens to participate in brutal periodic massacres within their communities signaled with the blow of a bugle. …


How To Zero Your Preps, by G.W.D.

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I’m sure by now most readers have had the opportunity to zero their rifle(s). (If you haven’t, please stop reading and do so now) When doing so, one of the first questions one must answer is, ”At what range should I zero?” Typically, we don’t know exactly at what range we will use our rifle, but we decide where to zero it based on two things, 1) What is the range of distances we want to be effective?, and 2) how far can we miss and still be effective? The answers to these two questions allow us to make some …


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 the huge fallout over the WTI Crude oil futures market going negative. Precious Metals: Gold, silver prices sharply down as buyers spooked by crude oil o  o  o Gold supply “decimated”; what will a recovery look like? – Perth Mint Economy & Finance: At Zero Hedge: Fed’s National Activity Index …