Today: The imminent rockslide threat to Brienz, Switzerland.

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, we look at the imminent rockslide threat to Brienz, Switzerland.

Steinschlag: Swiss Village Under Threat of Huge Rockslide

‘It is a question of a few days or a couple of weeks before the side of the mountain will fall’: Rocks and debris come crashing down and threaten to completely collapse and destroy Swiss village. (Our thanks to F.J. for the link.)

The Last Electronics Store in the United States

A video tour of an amazing store that verges on being a museum: The last electronics store in the United States. A Side Note From JWR: I should mention that if you watch closely, you’ll see that they zoom past some big Grass Valley Group (GVG) video switchers, just after the 6-minute mark. Back in the late 1990s, I wrote technical manuals for GVG. And by the way, it was a GVG switcher panel that was used as the prop for the control panel for the Death Star’s main weapon, in some of the Star Wars films.

TSA Testing Facial Recognition Technology at 16 Airports

Reader C.B. sent this: TSA testing facial recognition technology at 16 airports across US to enhance airport security, travel. JWR’s Comment: “This is all for your safety. It won’t be expanded to other travel terminals. Nothing to see here, move along.”

Legacy Media To “Reimagine” Crime Coverage

Legacy Media Teams Up To “Reimagine” Crime Coverage, Push “Public Safety Journalism”. A pericope:

“…here’s the notorious Poynter Institute (which receives government funding by the way) announcing there are 27 “news” rooms who have signed up to learn how to create basically “more acceptable narratives” – seemingly rather than giving their audience the news.

It’s called, “public safety journalism.”

The goal: creating “more accurate and comprehensive community narratives about public safety,” Poynter has announced.

But, what – the very idea of “accurate” (whatever the fact may be), and, a “narrative” (that would be whatever somebody crafts as an interpretation of a fact) clashes right away.

After all its variously embarrassing “third party moderation” efforts, Poynter is really pushing the wrong envelope here.”