SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large Michael Z. Williamson spotted this: Mapping the World’s Population by Latitude, Longitude. Mike’s comment: “An interesting pair of charts, but it is skewed a bit by China and India.”
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Reader R.B.S. sent us this: San Francisco considers 220-square-foot micro-apartments
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Reader W.C.P. forwarded a link to a diatribe by the West Point Academy’s Director of Terrorism Studies (an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences) in which he parrots the SPLC‘s Party Line and tars survivalists with a very broad brush, equating us with skinheads, the KKK, and neo-Nazis: Identifying Three Trends in Far Right Violence in the United States. He claims that right-wing extremism is in part characterized by “ideological associations promoting anti-taxation, gun rights, and a ‘survivalist’ lifestyle…” and “strong convictions regarding the corrupted and tyrannical nature of the federal government and its related natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civilian lives and constitutional rights…” [JWR’s Comment: <Sarcasm On>Those radical Americans who talk about Constitutional rights. They must all be subversives. <Sarcasm Off>]
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I noticed that the second episode of the post-power grid collapse drama television series Revolution is now available at the NBC web site, and on Hulu.com. In just the first 15 minutes of it there was a bushel basket full of familiar memes from The Postman
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F.G. sent word of a bad legal precedent: Florida: Court Approves Detaining Motorists at Toll Booth for “large bills”
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The folks at Safecastle are wrapping up their last maximum Mountain House sale of the year. They are offering 33% discounts on many of the most popular #10-can entrees through September 30 only, and 25% discounts on everything else. Then, after September 30th, they will still offer 25%-off all the Mountain House can varieties through October 7th. They also offer additional member incentives to Safecastle Royal club members.