The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.” – Justice William O. Douglas
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Preparedness Notes for Sunday — March 24, 2024
March 24th is the birthday of Dr. Art Robinson, who was born in 1942. Robinson was recently made ineligible for re-election to the Oregon legislature by the Oregon courts, as punishment for his principled stand in denying the state assembly a quorum. Now that those who denied a quorum have been drummed out, the democrat supermajority in Oregon’s senate, assembly, and governor’s mansion can run roughshod over the electorate. This is just one more reason why Oregon’s central, eastern, and southwestern counties should either seek separate statehood or shift their state lines, to become part of Idaho. — On this …
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JWR’s Meme Of The Week:
The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Why Is It That The “Majority” of People Who Live in Urban Hellholes Like Portland Think That They Can Dictate “Environmental Safety” On The “Minority” of People Who Live and Farm in the Larger Rural Land Areas? News Links: Public weighs in on industrial farm moratorium proposal. A group of small dairy farmers sues Oregon over new regulations they see as too burdensome. New significant dairy regulation takes effect with governor’s signature in Oregon. As Oregon enforces its water use requirements, small farmers face the consequences. Video from Pinball Preparedness: Oregon Orders …
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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
“And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present. And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to …
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Preparedness Notes for Saturday — March 23, 2024
In a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposed strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks. — Today is the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech. It was delivered to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention meeting at St. John’s Church, Richmond, on March 23, 1775. (2025 will be the 250th anniversary of the speech.) — This is also the birthday of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He directed 30 films. His samurai films (many starring Toshiro Mifune) such as Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Hidden …
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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
“There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I …
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Preparedness Notes for Friday — March 22, 2024
On March 22, 1820, U.S. Navy Commissioner Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel. — Today is the birthday of Benjamin Tyler Henry. (March 22, 1821–December 29, 1898) was an American gunsmith and manufacturer. On October 16, 1860, he received a patent on the Henry .44 caliber repeating rifle. The first Henry rifles were not produced for army use until mid-1862. — This is also the birthday of Louis L’Amour. (Born 1908, died 1988.) Some of his novels have survival themes. One of particular interest to survivalists is Last of the Breed. — The sale ends tonight. In honor of …
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Silver Stacking: Patience and Persistence Pays Off
I have been a “silver stacker” for many years. With money earned mowing lawns, at age 16 I started buying pre-1965 mint-date “junk” U.S. silver dimes and quarters in 1976 at a small local coin shop in Livermore, California. It was called Bob’s Coin Corner. Bob was patient in explaining silver coins to me. In 1979 I sold nearly half of my silver coins just after silver peaked, when spot silver was at $47.75 per Troy ounce. I started buying some silver and gold again in June of 1987, when silver was at $8.98 per ounce. A practical silver investor …
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Economics & Investing For Preppers
Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, we look at the planned European CBDC. (See the Forex & Cryptos section.) Precious Metals: At John Rubino’s substack: Accidentally Funny CNBC Grapples With Costco Gold Sales. o o o At Gold-Eagle.com: Gold Stocks Strongly Outperform After Gold Breakouts. JWRs Comment: Since starting SurvivalBlog in 2005, I’ve refrained from touting gold mining stocks. In my estimation …
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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
“As Always, Don’t Try This at Home. I’m What You’d Call a Professional.” – Paul Harrell (Please say a prayer for Paul. He has terminal cancer.)
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Preparedness Notes for Thursday — March 21, 2024
On March 21, 1685, German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who is generally considered the greatest composer of all time, was born. — March 21st, 1778: Just three days after Hessian mercenary forces assaulted the local New Jersey militia at Quinton’s Bridge, the same contingent surprised the colonial militia at Hancock’s Bridge five miles from Salem. In what became known as the Massacre at Hancock’s Bridge, at least 20 members of the militia lost their live — some after attempting to surrender. The Loyalists reputedly exclaimed “Spare no one! Give no quarter!” as they stormed the occupied house. Judge Hancock and …
The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods
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 the loss of arable farmland in the United States. Tennessee is Rapidly Losing Farmland ‘Where will we get our food?’ Tennessee on track to lose …
The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
“There are, of course, a few sociopaths in every town, I suppose, but in a rural population of two or three thousand, that number is very small indeed – probably no more than the cartridges contained in a single .45 magazine.” – Mel Tappan
Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — March 20, 2024
March 20th is the birthday of writer Mel Tappan. (Born 1933, died 1980.) His perennially popular survivalist books Survival Guns and Tappan on Survival have a well-deserved following. I designated March 20th National Survivalism Day, in his honor. It is also apropos that National Survivalism Day falls in March–one of the months that both Northern Europeans and Native Americans refer to as The Starving Season–when stored food runs low, but before spring bounty appears. Plan ahead. Stock up. Don’t let your family starve. I’m sure that Mel Tappan would approve. — On March 20, 1854, a meeting of Whigs, anti-Nebraska …
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
This 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. — I recently ran a test with Google’s publicly available AI tool, called Gemini. I asked it: “Paint me a picture of a famous 19th-century English inventor.” It replied: “We are working to improve Gemini’s ability to generate images of people. We expect this feature to return soon and will notify you in …