CIA Officer Jason Hanson: Four Things I’m Doing After This Election.

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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Video from former CIA Officer Jason Hanson: Four Things I’m Doing Immediately After This Election. JWR’s Comment: I find it interesting that he pointed out the importance of owning some Pre-1899 guns.

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Mark in Florida suggested this video:

Counter Drone Technology Has Come to Deer Hunting and Landowners Are Starting to Fight Back.

Mark also provided a link to their website: Drone Detection System.

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Has your car or truck (or its tires) been recalled? You can check here: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls

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A very useful piece over at the Rural Revolution blog by our friend Patrice Lewis: Yogurt-making tutorial.

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Reader Don B. in Oregon — who bought most of his silver at under $20 per Troy ounce — wrote:

“Hi James.
This article at StockTwits made me laugh out loud:

“Veteran trader Peter Brandt said silver’s sharp decline was being driven by investors who bought above $90-$100 per ounce and had previously insisted they would never sell. He said those investors were now selling their positions and saying they would never buy silver again.”

We corresponded via e-mail last December about strategies for unwinding a silver position and you gave me some very good ideas. I sold a small chunk of my holdings but I am still taking a long view – I’m about your age.”

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This week marks the 20th anniversary of our family’s move to our current closer-to-the-border Rawles Ranch. (My first ranch was down in Clearwater County, Idaho, back in the 1990s.)

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Texas has flipped to a Blue State: Gun Rights on the Chopping Block in Texas: The Truth.

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Reader Jeff C wrote to ask:

“I am struggling to find reliable news outlets these days. I am not overly absorbed with world events that I have no real control over nor information on the lives and happenings of people I do not know, i.e. Hollywood and other social media persons. I am however interested in real news about events in the world that have highly probable consequences for life here the USA. News about real science and technology advancements, health, and medical news that is relevant to normal life. Basically I am asking what sources you would recommend for someone who is looking to cut through the fluff and get to the news.”

JWR Replies: I’m currently in a bit of a rut reading local and regional news outlets — mainly because I write my American Redoubt Column once a week. And this also partly because I don’t trust most of the big outlets — both newspapers and news aggregation sites. Many years ago, I read The Drudge Report quite a bit, until they sold out to the Dark (Blue) Side. I now look at Whatfinger.com several times a week, and WorldNetDaily (WND) about once a week. Perhaps some SurvivalBlog readers will chime in with their favorites. (Via e-mail.)

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Grim details emerge after apparent grizzly bear attack kills woman and daughter in Canada. JWR’s Comment: Many of my readers will recall Bella Coola as one of the locales in my novel Liberators.

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Brandon Smith: The Globalists Just Came Out Of Hiding For A Secretive Summit In China.

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The hard left Salon website is ceasing publication. JWR’s Comment: Good riddance to their propaganda masquerading as journalism. Among other things, they posted tripe from the Southern Poverty Law Center verbatim, as if it was legitimate and reliable news reporting.