Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — November 11, 2025

Today is of course Veteran’s Day. If you value your freedom, then thank a veteran. — Today is also the birthday of General George S. Patton, Jr..  He was born in 1885 and died December 21, 1945. — Today is the birthday of Hugh Everett (born 1930, died July 19, 1982), the American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his “relative state” formulation. — November 11th also marks Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), in 1965. Remember Rhodesia. — Today’s feature piece is a brief update from JWR. — We still need …




Where Have All The Real Prepper Blogs Gone?

I recently visited the Gun Blog Blacklist site.  One of its key features is lists of gun and prepping blog sites. The “Prepper Blogs” are linked down in their lower-right column.  I was taken aback when I found that the majority of those linked sites are now either offline, or they haven’t had any posts in more than two years. And of the few that are still active, many of those have switched to all un-dated posts, presumably to obfuscate a bit on how often they post. (Which in fact is infrequently.)




SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week

This weekly item features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. The photo of the Veseth Ranch, below, is click-expandable:       Redoubt Region News Links: Couple Donate Legacy 38,000-Acre, $21 Million Cattle Ranch To Keep It A Ranch. No, Zelenskyy Isn’t Buying 916,000-Acre Pathfinder Ranches — But Someone Is. Flitner Family Buys Bighorn Mountain Ranch Back From Kanye West. As Idaho Grows Ever Redder, Boise Worries About Its Isolation. Send Your Media Links Please send your links …