Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.
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First up, over at Zero Hedge: The Fix Is in to Defeat Alberta Independence.
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This piece by Paul Joseph Watson if one for the “England Has Fallen” file: He Didn’t See This Coming
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A quite useful video: Installing My Underground Propane Tank. JWR’s Comments: The crucial item is the connected sacrificial anode. Typically, those are composed of zinc. The anode will corrode before the steel of the tank. The same concept is used on steel-hull ships, with welded-on zincs. If you have fairly dry soil, then it is a good idea to have a vertical pipe of at least 1.5-inch diameter that leads down to the anode. With a semi-annual filling from your garden hose, that will keep the anode wet. Adding a coating of asphalt emulsion over the paint will make an underground tank last even longer.
Trump administration and Democrats at odds over risk to US weapons stockpiles from Iran war.
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At Popular Mechanics: The 8 Best Portable Power Stations for Outages and Outings.
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Suppressor Ownership Records Shattered, 30% used for Hunting.
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This new listing in Oregon at SurvivalRealty.com caught my eye: Privately Owned Subterranean Industrial Corridor With Water & Energy Assets.
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Reader Mike in Alaska sent these observations:
“Talking about the value of gold in dollars is like talking about the value of milk in quarts — makes no sense. Certainly, the “dollar” began as a fixed weight of gold (0.048375 Troy ounces), but as events have shown, that fix was very easily unfixed.
It was only a short step from there to Franklin Roosevelt “devaluing” the dollar from $20.675 per ounce to $35 an ounce in 1934. The gold was no longer valued in the weight called “dollars” but in pieces of government-printed paper called “dollars.”
Once the US and Germany abandoned silver in 1873, the basis of the world’s monetary system shifted to bank credit. National central banks then consolidated the banking system’s power to create money out of thin air. With the endless fountain of fiat money and bank credit opened to them, national governments were freed from the tyranny of the bond market and the resistance of taxpayers. Now they had a source of unfailing funding to create superstates and wage war on a scale never before experienced by the suffering humanity. The monometallic “gold standard” lasted only about 40 years. Totalitarianism, on the other hand, remains with us.
To ask today for an impartial hearing for bimetallism is to invite the rudest jeering and contempt. To study history, however, invites another conclusion entirely: bimetallism’s partisans were right.
Right then, and right today.
I guess you don’t really want to talk about the fact that we do not have a legitimate House of Representatives, or that the 16th & 17th Amendments were never ratified, and the Federal Reserve Act was a Hail Mary Pass around the Constitution requirement for an Article Five amendment process …”
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Best AR-15s by Budget 2026: Hands-On Guide.
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