JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Cookin’ with Home Storage by Vicki Tate Raising a Calf for Beef by Phyllis Hobson Wolf And Iron by Gordon Dickson Movies Shane (IMHO, the best western film ever made) The Patriot
Category: Book, Movie, and Web Reviews
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Financial Reckoning Day Fallout: Surviving Today’s Global Depression by Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James H. Kunstler Movies Zero Dark Thirty Gravity Instructional Video: ?Patriots – Surviving the Coming Collapse – Trike Flying (The pilot of an experimental trike aircraft flies over the locales of my first novel.)
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Letter Re: Clayton Moore
Hugh, Regarding your top note on September 14th, this was an interesting story on The Lone Ranger and Houston. I worked for the Houston Post Newspaper at the time when this happened. A Southwest Airlines baggage handler stole his luggage, guns, and all. It was a slow news day I guess, so every newspaper and TV station covered it. The city of Houston had probably half the city detectives out looking for the luggage. The mayor, the governor, everybody was in an uproar. The governor even sent out some Texas Rangers to help on the case. Some years later I …
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook (it superceded the very out-of-date ST 31-91B) Wilderness Medicine, 5th Editionby Paul S. Auerbach Movies Shooter (Warning: Has many violent scenes.) Pale Rider (Warning: Has many violent scenes.) Instructional Video: Dave Gingery’s Green Sand Casting Techniques
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Tappan on Survival by Mel Tappan Outdoor Survival Skillsby Larry Dean Olsen Movies Open Range The Patriot
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books The Foxfire Book series (in 11 volumes, but the first five are the best) When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein (SurvivalBlog’s Backcountry Editor) Fiction Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe-out scenario. This book was another with an influence in my writing.) Movies Raiders of the Lost Ark (The later installments in the Indiana Jones movies aren’t nearly as good.) Groundhog Day
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli Preparedness Now!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Aton Edwards Fiction Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario. Note: It was later republished under the title: Defiance: An American Novel) Movies Amazing Grace (Biography of the abolitionist William Wilberforce) The Thing (Has some horrific scenes, but it is thought-provoking. NOT for kids!)
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Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:
Movies Gimme Shelter Holy Rollers Concussion The East(there’s a fine line between justice & terrorism)
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Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:
Reader T.J. recommended these books for your prepping library: ARRL’s Low Power Communications: The Art and Science of QRP, by Richard H. Arland, ARRL’s Wire Antenna Classics, by ARRL Inc., US Marines’ Field Antenna Handbook, MCRP 6-22D, Antenna Handbook, by US Marine Corps, o o o G.W. suggested The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why
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Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:
Reader J.B. recommended the Hardy Boys series: I’ve been reading the Hardy Boys series aloud to my children (three boys, one girl, ages 4,7,8,10), and I think I enjoy them as much as they do. Not only entertaining, it is quite refreshing to read how they solve problems with only their ingenuity and their bare hands. The boys are smart, funny, hard-working, and chivalrous to their young lady friends. They respect their parents. They know when and how to fight, build a fire, and track animals and people. They take the blame when necessary and work hard to make their …
A Timely Book Review from TM in Arkansas
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”, by Stephen P. Halbrook. ©2013 Stephen P. Halbrook Published by The Independent Institute, Oakland CA ISBN: 978-1-59813-161-1 Hardback; also available in Paperback and via Kindle. 246 pages, 12 chapters, bibliography, and index. “Gun control”, a politically loaded term for citizen control, seems to be an unrelenting topic for discussion and the rhetoric has grown more heated in recent years. Every time somebody goes wacko and sets out to settle differences of opinion or exact revenge with a firearm, there are new calls for “gun control”. The …
Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:
Survivalblog reader Patriotman suggested several books: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed The Collapse of Complex Societies o o o Reader DMS suggested these movies: Unconditional (the true story of “papa Joe”) Ring the Bell (my wife is buying a bell) Hoot (protecting Florida’s wildlife) Red Dog (true story)
JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books: Nonfiction: Modern Homesteading: Rediscovering the American Dream by Wranglerstar Fiction: Warday: And the Journey Onward by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka The Rackham Files by Dean Ing Movies: The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (suitable for ages 12 and up) Metropolis (The Giorgio Moroder Restoration) Music: Les Paul and Mary Ford: All-Time Greatest Hits Risotto by Fluke (Note: Only if you like electronic dance music.) Video Blog Posts: Wranglerstar: Back To Basics 3.0 Photography is Not a Crime (This ties in with the theme of our Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA) spin-off …
JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books: Making the Best of Basics – Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens Total Resistance by H. von Dach Movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai Saving Private Ryan Music: Best of Pure Prairie League Altan: The First 10 Years: 1986-1995 Video Blog Posts: SouthernPrepper1: Finding other preppers and joining a group. Wranglersatr: Bucking & Splitting The Big Wood Podcasts: SGT Report Urban Survival Podcast Very Useful Gear: Neiko 36-Inch Heavy Duty Bolt Cutters Trijicon TR20 AccuPoint 3-9×40 Riflescope with MIL-Dot Crosshair with Green Dot Reticle
Letter Re: Top Note on July 8th
Hugh, Your notice of Kevin Bacon’s birthday reminded me of a movie he was in that many people haven’t seen. Taking Chance is about the voluntary escort of a fallen Marine back to the hometown of the escort and the fallen Marine. It’s a sobering look at the price we pay. – S.G.