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, more about the threat of AI-generated fakery.
Iran: ‘Full-Scale War’ with U.S., EU, and Israel
Reader H.L. was the first of several readers who sent us this: Iran Warns ‘Full-Scale War’ Underway with U.S., Europe and Israel. (Pictured above are some Iranian military generals, attending a parade.) The article begins:
“The U.S., Israel and Europe have been warned. Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with all three ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with President Donald Trump.
Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the website of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the war is worse than Iran’s deadly war with Iraq in the 1980s, AP reports.”
A.I.-Gen Videos Will Soon Become Indistinguishable
A video about A.I. fakery, from Canadian Prepper: ALERT: Youtube is Coming to an END. JWR’s Comments:
“I am so glad that I haven’t done an on-camera video interview in more than 25 years. And I only have one circulating black and white still portrait image, and that is now almost 30 years old. (Although I noticed that someone recently colorized it, fairly convincingly.) They can’t create believable fake videos if they don’t have fairly recent reference footage to work from. But I presume that I must be at risk of fake audio interviews, because there are thousands of hours of audio of me from radio interviews and podcasts for the AI Fakesters to reference.”
10 Senate Races: The Balance of Power in 2026
A left-biased NBC News piece, linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: The 10 Senate races that will decide the balance of power in 2026.
Hundreds Of Islamist Sleeper Agents In UK
Another from H.L.: Ex-MI6 Spy Sounds ALARM: Hundreds Of Islamist Sleeper Agents In UK Poised For New 9/11.
U.S. Student Test Scores Still Falling
Record school spending across U.S. fails to reverse decline in test scores.
A.I. Data Centers: Modern Day Vampires
At The Sons of Liberty: AI Data Centers: Modern Day Vampires For Which We Are Expected To Sacrifice. JWR’s Comments: The key points here are that: A.) they want to eventually mandate the use of residential “smart thermostats”, and B.) the cost burden of higher rates in a stressed grid will be “shared.” But, since they are big customers, data centers get the lowest rates–often as low as 6 cents per kilowatt hour. So, in the next few years, their rates will rise from 6 cents to 8 cents, while residential rates will presumably (on average) rise from 15 cents to 21 cents. We can only conclude that we are subsidizing the data centers!
Swan Lake Heard on Russia’s Doomsday SW Station
Over at The Liberty Daily: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Just Played on Russia’s Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station.
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