Category: Odds ‘n Sods

From the desk of Mike Williamson, SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large: Widener’s is out of Mosins, but has M48 Yugos for $199. My Mosin Nagants arrived well packed, arsenal refurb new, with bayonets and accessories. An excellent quality deal. o o o SLC man gets stolen shotgun back 37 years after it was taken. – T.P. o o o Where is the mainstream media on this one?Christian Man Asks Thirteen Gay Bakeries To Bake Him Pro-Traditional Marriage Cake, And Is Denied Service By All Of Them. – RBS o o o For everyone who thinks that small towns will escape trouble …

GOP rep attempted late bid to kill spy bill – CDV o o o From the “You-just-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” department: FDIC insurance will soon cover swaps and derivatives. – CDV o o o DHS: 100 Million Americans Could Lose Power in Major Sun Storm. – P.M. o o o The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing To The Police State. – B.B. o o o So, you think you’re a real man? Video: Flintknapper and primitive skills educator, Mike Cook of www.artofishi.com creates and shaves with obsidian blades.. – K.T.

Gruber: Killing ‘Marginal’ Babies ‘Saved the Government over $14 Billion’. – H.L. o o o Big Banks Conspire with Gov’t to Confiscate Accounts o o o Obama administration claims a right to hide evidence before Supreme Court. – B.B. o o o 9 Ways to Boost Your Immune System and Avoid Being a Victim of the Flu Season . – D.S. o o o Courtesy of The Daily Sheeple: If you are like me, and you worry about the life span of your water filters in a collapse situation, and how you’ll keep purifying drinking water after your supply of …

FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in its NGI Face Recognition Database by Next Year. – RBS o o o Why flu shots are the greatest medical fraud in history. – D.S. o o o Al Qaeda Terrorist Wanted by FBI Crossed Back and Forth Into U.S. From Mexico. – P.M. o o o With future uncertain, Colorado shields its water. – D.S. o o o The Treasury Department is Seeking Survival Kits for Bank Employees and Thousands of Cellphone Users Received a Government “Emergency Alert”. – B.B.

JWR was recently interviewed by Rick Austin of the Secrets of a Survival podcast. o o o NJ gun owners dodge new ‘smart gun’ regs. – D.S. o o o Government In Action: Guns Being Seized By Police From People On Secret List. – T.F. o o o Another reason to make sure you have your press credentials in order: Illinois General Assembly revives recording ban. – T.P. o o o Krayton Kerns, DVM: Mind Neutrality

The dark secrets of a surveillance state – RBS o o o “Careening Toward A New & Different Kind Of Civil War” – B.B. o o o Russia To Conduct Observation Flight Over US. – M.B. o o o Beloit Police Ask Residents To Volunteer To Have Their Homes Searched For Guns. – T.P. o o o Continuing the open source discussion: Linux Mint 17.1 review—less change is good change. – P.S.

Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper has released a 242-page book called “The Organic Canner”. o o o From the Wranlerstar video blog: No More Broken Axe handles along with part 2. o o o From SurvivalBlog reader T.G.: This is a link to a well done video providing an update on Ebola and, more particularly, the misinformation and obfuscation being promulgated by the CDC, et al. I found it interesting that the video cited many of the same sources I cited in my previous writings on the subject. Some of you on this distribution were so kind as to …

Austin Police Chief: ‘Spy on your neighbors, if they have guns turn them in’. – D.S. o o o 19 Signs That You Live In A Country That Has Gone Completely Insane. – H.L. o o o Police Video: Judge obviously fails sobriety test – (The court still drops her DUI charges.) o o o UK ‘Drifting Towards Police State’, Free Speech in Peril Says Top Cop. – G.P. o o o San Francisco passes retail worker ‘bill of rights’ . – RBS

Use Enough Club: Golfer Killed by 12 foot ( 3.9m) Crocodile in South Africa Park. – T.P. o o o Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes “Ministry Of Truth”. – H.L. o o o Birds to be trained to bring down drones?. – G.P. o o o Americans Bought More Guns Than Flat Screen TV’s On Black Friday. – B.B. o o o How police stripped ‘patriots’ of their guns and threatened them with arrest as they guarded businesses in Ferguson – but let rioters set fire to building after building. – T.P.

Alarm bells toll for human civilization as world’s 12th largest mega-city to run out of water in just 60 days. – H.L. o o o Arnie is Back o o o Courtesy of Sipsey Street Irregulars: “Military-style AR-15 rifles: ‘The market is saturated’” That’s got to be rated pretty high on the all-time “epic fail” list of collectivism.. – RBS o o o The Complete Guide To Knife Blades . – J.S. o o o Very Cool: New Interactive Map Shows Lack Of Popularity In Gun Control. – G.W. As usual, the Redoubt comes off looking good!

Video: Manny Edwards fights off dark without a flashlight. – H.L. o o o Lead ammunition ban passed after feds withheld key data, hunters group says . – P.M. o o o Feds turn to antiquated law to open locked iPhones. – RBS o o o How to Pull an All-Nighter: Tips from the Special Forces. – G.P. o o o SurvivalBlog reader MTH suggested a 550 paracord alternative that I have been experimenting with myself. The Hennessy Hammock, which was recently purchased by my son, has a strand of Spectra cord that is 1/3 the diameter of 550 paracord, …

We’re adding a migrant city the size of Birmingham every 30 months reveals MP who co-chairs migration group . – J.C. o o o Directed Deep Impact: The Next Arms Race?. – G.P. o o o Magpul finalizes departure from Colorado in response to gun-control bills. – B.B. o o o School has hissy fit over Creation invitation. – H.L. o o o Bird flu outbreak in India caused by strain humans can contract: OIE. – K

Ferguson protester used (modified) police radios to interfere with cops, charges allege. – T.P. o o o The Anatomy of a Protected Battery Is my battery protected? – P.M. o o o Putin’s government now says Russians can now carry guns for ‘self-defense’. – RBS o o o How to remove a fish hook from a finger o o o Venezuela’s future? ‘Barbarity and people looting’ – H.L.

CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’. – T.P. o o o KnifeRights’ First Annual Ratings of Worst Anti-Knife Cities and Best States for Knife Owners. – G.G. o o o Christian beliefs put student in danger of expulsion. – D.S. o o o Vaccines Will be Made from Human Cancer Tumors. – RBS Even if you weren’t previously anti-vaccine, this should make you pause. Human tumor cells!?! Human embryo cells!?! Has the FDA lost its collective mind? o o o What a Single Nuclear Warhead Could Do. – T.P.

Do We Own Our Stuff, Or Does Our Stuff Own Us? o o o Courtesy of the “thoughtsfromfrankandfern” blog: Radio – Stay In Touch o o o After shooting a 12-year-old, cops waited 4 minutes to give him medical help. – D.S. o o o Police shut down mysterious ‘Oath Keepers’ guarding rooftops in downtown Ferguson. – T.P.