Day: October 31, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Friday — October 31, 2025

Today, while most of America celebrates the pagan Halloween, our family celebrates Reformation Day. — On this day in 1517, Martin Luther sent his Ninety-five Theses to Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz, precipitating the Protestant Reformation. — And on October 31, 1952: The first thermonuclear (fusion) bomb was aboveground test-detonated at the Marshall Islands. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course …


A Top-10 Prepping List, Multi-Tool Not Included – Part 3, by St. Funogas

(Continued from Part 2.) 5. TOILET Now that we have a warm house, food, water, and a way to defend it all, we need a workable sanitation system. Many preppers won’t have enough water to waste it flushing toilets so an outhouse or composting toilet will be necessary. Regardless of whether you have a flush toilet or something else, find a way to save the urine. Not only is it the best garden fertilizer, it will also speed up the composting process as well. Best of all, fertilizing the pile with urine allows us to add things which we can’t …


Gold and Silver’s Rise are Actually Symptoms of the Dollar’s Demise

Today, in place of our usual Economics & Investing news column, we offer some brief commentary from Senior Editor JWR: — I’m often irritated to hear the mainstream financial media report on the gold, silver, and platinum markets.  In reporting the ups and downs of the spot and futures metals markets, they seem oblivious to the bigger picture.  The metals are all now in primary bull markets. They blithely report: “The price of gold rose today…” But the rise (in Dollar terms) of gold, silver, and platinum are actually symptoms of the U.S. Dollar’s demise. In fact, all of the …