Day: November 25, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — November 25, 2025

On November 25, 1491, the siege of Granada began. The city was the last Moorish stronghold in Spain. — November 25th is the birthday of economist and comedian Ben Stein. He still spends part of each year at one of his three homes in Sandpoint, Idaho. (At last report, he also owns homes in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Rancho Mirage, California.)  He has always leaned toward tangible investing. — November 25, 1834: Delmonico’s, one of New York’s finest restaurants, first provided a meal of soup, steak, coffee, and half a pie for 12 cents. — Today’s feature aricle is a …


Is Global Technocracy Inevitable Or Dangerously Delusional?, by Brandon Smith

The bewildering truth behind human technological enslavement is that it is impossible without the voluntary participation of the intended slaves. People must welcome technocracy into their lives in order for it to succeed. The populace has to believe, blindly, that they cannot live without it, or that authoritarianism by algorithmic consensus is “inevitable.” For example, the average person living in a first world economy voluntarily carries a cell phone everywhere they go at all times without fail. To be without it, in their minds, is to be naked, at risk, unprepared and disconnected from civilization. I grew up in the …


SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week

This weekly column 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. Pictured above is the town of Steptoe, in the Palouse Hills, which straddle the Idaho-Washington state line. Presumably photographed from Steptoe Butte. (A Wikimedia Commons photo by Dana Hutchinson.) American Redoubt News Links I’ve posted this video before: Patriots – Surviving the Coming Collapse -Trike Flying. The Seven Wonders of Washington State: The Palouse. Air 4 Adventure: Harvest time on the Palouse. Published back in February: Community voices …


The Editors’ Quote Of The Day:

“No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God’s revelation. Because the Christians had an absolute, universal standard by which to judge not only personal morals but the state, they were counted as enemies of totalitarian Rome and were thrown to the beasts.” –  Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?