Atlantic Ocean's Sudden Cooling Baffles Climate Scientists.

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

James Wesley Rawles August 29, 2024 August 25, 2024

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 some weather and climate news. It bears mention that several of today’s news links can be credited to the oft-mentioned Whatfinger.com news aggregation site. I recommend bookmarking it. – JWR

Atlantic Ocean’s Sudden Cooling Baffles Scientists

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Matt Bracken: When The Music Stops

Reader H.L. suggested this 2012 two-part essay by Matt Bracken that is still quite timely:

The Shofarian Preppers of the Ozarks

From the generally left-biased Vice News: The Doomsday Preppers Preaching Deep In the Ozark Mountains. The article begins:

“Nestled in the American Midwest is an often overlooked region of dense forests and mountains: the Ozarks. A place where you can easily detach from society and must learn to fend for yourself, it’s no surprise the Ozarks are home to a few serious prepper communities, teaching and practicing survival skills—often with an eye toward the end times.

In 2021, VICE visited and spoke with some of the members of the Shofarians, a religious community of preppers based on Shofar Mountain in northwest Arkansas.”

“A small jewelry business owned by Henry and Minh Cheng, a husband-and-wife team, finds itself in a legal battle after $43,000 sent to them via FedEx was seized by police. The incident has sparked outrage and raised questions about the fairness and legality of civil forfeiture laws.

The trouble began when the Chengs received a package of cash from a client in Virginia as payment for gold chains. However, before the money could reach them, authorities in Indiana intercepted the shipment at a FedEx facility. According to the lawsuit filed by the Chengs, the police, acting on suspicions often tied to such cash shipments, decided to seize the money. Despite claims from the Marion County prosecutor’s office that such shipments are typically linked to illegal activities, no actual evidence of wrongdoing was found in the package. Even drug-sniffing dogs, brought in by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, reportedly detected the smell of narcotics, but nothing illegal was discovered.”