January 30th is the birthday of historian Barbara Tuchman (born 1912, died February 6, 1989). She wrote some of the most engaging history books JWR ever read. January 30th is also the anniversary of the 1945 Great Raid on Cabanatuan Prison Camp where U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino Guerrillas liberated Allied prisoners. See Rescue At Los Baños, by historian and bestselling author Bruce Henderson.
“We Need To Prepare Umbrellas For A Rainy Day”: Japan Gears Up For Trade War – H.L. o o o The Collapse of the Left o o o Should Cash be Abolished? o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Snow damage to Idaho-Oregon onion industry nears $100 million. A lot of people have no idea of the ripple effect of this disaster. Migrant workers will have to move on to find work, and the schools will lose a lot of students, which means cuts in teachers,. This will affect every business in town. The local Walmart closed several weeks ago, because their roof was collapsing from the snow. Many people are out of work. – Pat Cascio o o o Jaw Dropping – Mexican Official Threatens to Unleash Cartels, Flood U.S. With Drugs and Narcotics – B.B. o o …
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
UBS Clients Pull $15 Billion in Quarter as Margins Decline o o o Things to Watch in the Fourth-Quarter GDP Report o o o US UK Trade Talks to Begin Immediately In Defiance of EU Rules: What’s Trump Up To? o o o Don’t Threaten Business with a “Border Tax” — Instead, Make the US A Good Place to Do Business o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Trump argument bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens – P.M. o o o President Trump Readies Pen to Reverse Anti-gun Executive Orders – RBS o o o Facial Recognition at 1000 faces per sec – K.S. o o o Prosecutors In Nevada Beg Trial Judge To Protect The BLM From Scrutiny During Bundy Trial – B.B. o o o What to make of Trump’s Inauguration. Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy of TheRebel.media look back at their trip to Washington, DC to report on Donald Trump’s inauguration. – T.J.
“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” – Romans 9:14-15 (KJV)
January 28th is the anniversary of the rescue of General James L. Dozier from his Italian Red Brigades kidnappers. Tangentially, Colonel Jeff Cooper created a shooting drill in honor of those who freed him– The Dozier Drill. o o o Our sincere thanks to all the folks who ordered a limited edition SurvivalBlog 2005-2016 Archive loaded on a 8 gigabyte waterproof USB flash drive. Those orders have all been packaged and labeled, and about half of them have now been mailed out, via First Class Mail, with tracking. The rest should be mailed on or before Monday, January 30th. That …
Europe Proposes “Restrictions On Payments In Cash” – DSV o o o Gold Prices: Looking For A Bottom Next Week o o o Future Silver Supply Will Be More Vulnerable Than Other Metals o o o Switzerland’s Gold Exports To China Surge To 158 Tons In December o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord” Exodus 6:2 (KJV)
January 27th is commemorated at International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is also the birthday of the late Helen Chenoweth (born, 1938, died October 2, 2006). She was a controversial Republican congresswoman from Orofino, Idaho. o o o Camping Survival is moving to a new location just a few miles away. Their new address is 1000 North Horner Blvd in Sanford, North Carolina. You can take advantage of this today with a 10% discount off of everything with a coupon. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 68 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $15,000 worth …
US stocks are now the most overpriced since the 2000 crash. o o o Tech billionaires reportedly stock up on ‘apocalypse insurance’ o o o China Said to Order Banks to Curb New Loans in First Quarter o o o Gold Remains Down Despite 10% Drop In December New Home Sales o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.
Driver who shot Arizona State Trooper was a former Mexican Federal Cop & Illegal Alien – T.P. o o o Snopes Defends Planned Parenthood; We Rate Them [Snopes] ‘Mostly False’ – P.M. o o o Are they crazy!?! Democrats introduce bill to take nuclear football out of Trump’s hands. Picture this: Nukes are launched against the U.S. or about to be launched and the Dems want to debate if Trump should be allowed to use the nuke football and strike at them? Are they absolutely crazy? They have to hold a debate on if they should even take a restroom …
“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.“ – Frank Chodorov
January 26th, 1945 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. Established in 1941, Auschwitz was composed of a group of three large and 40 smaller camps used for slave labor, unethical medical experiments, and monstrous killing grounds where prisoners were gassed and cremated. As the Soviets headed for Auschwitz, the German Gestapo began a murder spree and began destroying the facility in an attempt to hide the evidence of their crimes. When the Soviets arrived, they encountered 648 corpses and more than 7000 starving camp survivors along with storehouses filled with hundreds of thousands of …