Category: Odds ‘n Sods

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.

It’s not strictly survival related, but an inspiring story nonetheless: This tribute was almost lost to the ravages of time but even in its less than HD format it bears striking witness to what one man can do even when they are given less than a fair shot at life. – RBS o o o Homeless woman’s stun gun spurs 2nd Amendment case. – G.P. o o o Footage shows elderly man attacked with his own oxygen supply and carjacked by protesters in Ferguson as a third night of protests take place nationwide. – T.P. o o o From the …