Today’s graphic: What Antarctica Looks Like Without Ice. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit. Posted by “vladgrinch.”) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.” – Elbridge Gerry
The Battle of Nancy was fought on January 5, 1477. The Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeated the Duchy of Burgundy’s army. 7,000 of the Burgundian invaders were killed, including the Duke of Burgundy, Charles The Bold. (Pictured.) — January 5th is the birthday of the late John Pugsley (born 1934, died April 8, 2011), libertarian and economics author. Pugsley was well known in preparedness circles as the author of The Alpha Strategy. (The book is out of print, but a PDF is available for free download.) — This is also the birthday of General Courtney Hodges (1887 …
Perhaps the biggest boost you can give your garden is great soil. The seed/plant needs all the help it can get to grow and fruit. Soil will over time lose its nutrients and minerals so it is important to keep adding to it all year round. You can spend a lot of money on bags of fertilizer, worm castings and bone meal or you can get resourceful and do it cheaper or for free. The ideal PH for garden soil is 6.0 to 6.5. You can send in soil samples to various labs or the county cooperative extensions and receive …
The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Hey There, My Fellow Preppers: When It Comes to Long-Term Food Storage… Just a Few Purchases Can Shift Your Prepping From Banal To Anal Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same …
On January 4, 1642, King Charles I and 400 of his soldiers stormed the English Parliament, demanding the arrest of five members. — On January 4, 1896, Utah became the 45th state of the Union. One condition for statehood was that a ban on polygamy had to be written into the state constitution. — And, on January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt signed a contract for sales of his first revolver to the United States government. — Today’s feature article was too short for an entry in the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $935,000 worth of prizes have been awarded …
To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; …
On January 3rd, 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses. Luther’s doctrine sparked the Protestant Reformation. — January 3, 1777: General George Washington‘s army defeated British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. — January 3, 1868: The Meiji Restoration returned authority to Japan’s emperors. — Today’s feature article is a repost, so it is not eligible for judging in the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. We are in need of articles for Round 116 of the writing contest. More than $935,000 worth of …
I hope that you get at least 10 cents worth of knowledge, entertainment, and motivation each day from SurvivalBlog. It has been posted with fresh content daily, since August, 2005. In nearly 20 years I’ve only missed posting on a few days — most notably in the week after my first wife passed away. I do my best to mention the Ten Cent Challenge editorially only once each year — and this post is it, for all of 2025. Unlike PBS, we don’t run agonizingly endless pledge drives. Just this one brief reminder, annually. But we do depend on voluntary …
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 some 2025 market predictions. Precious Metals: 2025 Silver Price Predictions. o o o Gold set for brightest year since 2010 on rate cuts, safe-haven demand. o o o Matthew Piepenburg: Gold in 2025? Tragically Predictable. o o o Gold Price 2025 Forecast: Rising Support Sets Stage for Second-Half Breakout. JWR’s Comment: With …
“The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” – Friedrich Hayek
On January 2, 1492, Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrendered his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile. This ended both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula. — January 2, 1890: A record 19.2 foot-long alligator was shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny. — Today’s feature article was too short to qualify for the judging in the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. We need more entries for Round 116 of the contest. More than $935,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. …
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, some news on the prepper development of the former Black Hills Ordnance Depot (BHOD). Bunker Residents Raise Financial, Safety Concerns Over at the leftist Yahoo News: Trouble in ‘prepper’ …
