Alaska Troops Deploy to Remote Shemya Island. Pentagon Announces More Troops for Middle East.

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

James Wesley Rawles September 26, 2024 September 25, 2024

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, we look at some “interesting” U.S. military deployments.

Alaska Troops Deploy to Remote Shemya Island

Alaska troops deploy to remote Shemya Island, less than 300 miles from Russia. JWR’s Comments: Shemya has been publicly revealed as a Cobra Dane space object and missile tracking RADINT/ELINT/MASINT site. It was once jointly operated as a Field Station (FS) by the Army ASA and the US Air Force.

Pentagon Announces More Troops for Middle East

H.L. sent this: WWIII Watch: Pentagon Announces More Troops for Middle East. A pericope:

“AP reports Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder would provide no details on how many additional forces or what they would be tasked to do. Their precise geographical region of deployment has also not been disclosed.

The U.S. currently has about 40,000 troops in the region. Just last month U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and told the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area.”

The Island Fortress of America’s Mega-Billionaires

Tim J. was the first of several SurvivalBlog readers to mention this interesting article that was also linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: Inside the island fortress of America’s mega-billionaires.

Canadian Prepper’s Food Forest

Reader C.B. sent us this Canadian Prepper video link: I Built an Apocalypse Food Forest in 3 Months.

Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies

D.S.V. recommended this essay: Property Rights, Civilization, & Their Enemies. This great aricle begins:

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress is rooted (emphasis added).

The story of the Pilgrims shows that America was literally created because of the recognition of this truth. In 1607 all but 38 of the original Jamestown, Virginia settlers were dead from famine. An additional 500 came and 440 died. This was known as the “starving time.” Sir Thomas Dale, the high marshal of the Virginia colony, recognize the problem to be what we would today call agricultural socialism. The residents of the colony worked the fields and shops and everything was put into a common store. Each family was given an equal allotment. Thus, the man who worked diligently fourteen hours a day was paid the same as the man who decided to work not at all.

Sir Thomas Dale gave each man three acres of private land to homestead, which was soon expanded to 50 acres. It made all the difference, as people realized that the harder, smarter, and longer they worked, they more they and their families would prosper.

The exact same scenario played out years later in Plymouth, Massachusetts where half of the original pilgrims died. The wife of William Bradford, the leader of the Mayflower expedition, committed suicide by jumping off the Mayflower because of all the death surrounding her. Her husband, like Sir Thomas Dale, finally figured out the problem—the absence of private property and secure property rights. Homesteading of private property was established, and the American colonists began to thrive.”