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, a link to another mainstream media documentary on the growing prepper movement.
Meet the ‘Preppers’ Stockpiling for Doomsday
A British television journalist meets American survivalists: Meet the ‘Preppers’ Stockpiling for Doomsday.
A Russian “Stay-Behind” Cache?
A reader sent me the YouTube link to this interesting 2019 Russian news television segment: Tайник с оружием из 90-х годов. (“A cache of weapons from the 90s“.) Although its origin is attributed to a criminal gang, this has all the marks of a resistance cell or “Stay-Behind” cell‘s arms cache. One oddity can be seen at the 1:49 mark: A Winchester Model 1873 receiver! There are also a few revolvers that might seem antiquated and out of place, but they are actually apropos for up-close-and-personal assassination since, unlike autopistols, they don’t leave any fired brass litter at a crime scene. Note the suppressed Makarov pistol at the 2:09 mark. Also, the LAW-rocket clone Russian RPG-18 anti-tank launchers at the 4:10 mark. Hmmm… – JWR
Evidence of mRNA “Vaccine” Genocide
Reader D.S.V. sent this: COVID-19 “Vaccines” Reduce Life Expectancy by 37%. JWR’s Comment: Taken together with the jab’s diminution of fertility, I can only conclude that the end result will be genocide.
USDA Chief: No Taxpayer Funds for Solar Panels on Prime Farmland
Reader H.L. sent us this link: Secretary Rollins Blocks Taxpayer Dollars for Solar Panels on Prime Farmland. The USDA announcement begins:
“Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins alongside Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Bill Hagerty, Representative John Rose, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden, announced USDA will no longer fund taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland or allow solar panels manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA projects. Subsidized solar farms have made it more difficult for farmers to access farmland by making it more expensive and less available. Within the last 30 years, Tennessee alone has lost over 1.2 million acres of farmland and is expected to lose 2 million acres by 2027. This problem is not just in Tennessee, since 2012, solar panels on farmland nationwide have increased by nearly 50%. That is why the Department is taking action.”
Further Confirmation That Wikipedia Cannot Be Trusted
Here is some more confirmation of the control exerted by Wikipedia’s liberal editing cabals: A Woman Was Stabbed to Death on a Train. Wikipedia Wants to Erase Her Story. JWR’s Comments: Wikipedia is notoriously biased. Here is a datapoint for you: Wikipedia’s “James Wesley Rawles” biography page has been the target of cabal attacks many times. Most notably, the entire bio page was nominated for deletion as “Non-Notable.” And then later, the Wiki page on my book How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It was deleted as Non-Notable by “consensus” of a majority of voting wiki editors. And that was after it was on bestseller lists!
The NFA Made Full-Autos a Rich Person’s Hobby
A succinct yet pointed essay, linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: The NFA in 2025: How America Made Guns a Rich Person’s Hobby. JWR’s Comment: Just as bad as the NFA was the Hughes Amendment (‘Machinegun Freeze”) that was added to the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. That is what triggered the mass inflation of transferable machinegun prices.
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