Category: Odds ‘n Sods

Reader JN-EMT mentioned a site that describes a straightforward method to refuel a propane-converted car or truck from a 20 pound barbeque LPG cylinder. Take a look at this page for the “gas can” and other propane ideas.    o o o F.R. found this piece at the New Scientist site: Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?    o o o Experts Now Saying Recent Cyber Attacks Came From Britain, Not North Korea    o o o Cheryl sent this article from Sacramento, California: Rise in County Gun Sales Tied to Fewer Cops, What Obama Might Do    …

Kevin A. sent a link to page with an amazing wealth of links: Magazines (and Websites) About Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency    o o o Reader PD sent this: Fall in World 2009 Food Production    o o o F.G. sent us this: Powerful Ideas: Military Develops ‘Cybug’ Spies    o o o Bobbi was the latest reader to mention the reader-generated Cool Tools web site. I’ve linked to it before in the blog, but so many of their recent articles tie in to SurvivalBlog topics that it bears mentioning again. For example, the current Cool Tools review of the recent …

Wild Weather in Year Ahead, Scientists Predict    o o o North Korean Army Behind Cyber Attacks    o o o North Korea’s Kim Has Pancreatic Cancer    o o o Care to predict a trend? Tiburon [California] may install license plate cameras. (Not to worry, folks. We’ve been promised that this is all for “public safety,”)

Hawaiian K. suggested this piece by Mas Ayoob, in Backwoods Home magazine: How to shoot a handgun accurately    o o o In the most recent Dr. Housing Bubble blog: Westside Los Angeles: The Ultimate Prime and Stagnant Real Estate Market.    o o o Reader Paul P. offered a link to a thought-provoking piece on self-sufficiency in Sharon Astyk’s blog: Eat What You Grow, Grow What You Eat?    o o o Greg. C. suggested this piece by Chaz Valenza: Three Rules for Living Through the Second Depression

Readers Chuck and Garnet both sent this link: Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.    o o o Safecastle Royal has added several new interesting products to their line, including a the new extra-large 8″-diameter Bury-‘Em caching tube, the K8 Nuke Safeguard Mini Alarm, and a 12-can variety of pack of Yoder’s canned meats.    o o o Chiming in on the recent discussion of transferring liquid propane between tanks, reader Chris M. mentioned: “Harbor Freight has an item with part #45989 for refilling propane bottles.”    o o o Richard Fleetwood (of SurvivalRing) has announced a new …

Ben M. sent this: Did an Ancient Volcano Freeze Earth?    o o o Concern over Ebola virus in pigs; Ebola can cause deadly disease in some forms. A form of Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and pose a new risk to humans. (Thanks to Andrew H. for the link.)From    o o o Cheryl flagged this: Frail Kim Jung-Il May Have Only Months To Live; Youngest Son May Not Be Successor Due To China’s Disagreement

Is “Sea-burn” a topic of interest to you? Richard H. mentioned that Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center (CBRNIAC) has a newsletter that is available for free distribution.    o o o Reader Sandra E. suggested: ” You can buy 500+ coffee filters for as little as $1, and a box of 500 takes up little space and is lightweight. They can be used for toilet paper, paper towels, filtering things other than coffee. Also, if you’re growing in flower pots or buckets with drain holes, put 1 or 2 filters in bottom of pot,and this allows …

H.H. and Hawaiian K. both mentioned this piece over at the Backwoods Home site, by Claire Wolfe: Preparing for Civil Unrest    o o o Randy K. sent us this history lesson: How the potato got hot; The foodstuff was once viewed as unnatural and dangerous. Its rise to a global staple may tell us something about today’s genetically modified crops.    o o o Richard S sent us a link to an amazing story: Do or die; A fellow soldier was impaled by a live RPG. For medics and a helicopter crew, there was only one choice    o …

Ed L. suggested this Wall Street Journal article: Guns N’ Grosses: Arms Makers Fall Back From Obama Surge. Methinks the next year represents a window of opportunity to stock up on guns, full capacity magazines, and ammunition at a discount prices–before MOAB-induced currency inflation kicks in, or worse yet, new civilian disarmament legislation is enacted. I recommend that you systematically round out your firearms battery , preferably with cash purchases from private parties at gun shows.    o o o Be sure to visit Bill Buppert’s new blog, titled Hezekiah Wyman    o o o Steve from Philly spotted this …

Eric S. spotted this: Grow 100 lbs. of Potatoes in Four Square Feet: How To    o o o MacLean’s (Canada’s most popular magazine) reviewed One Second After by William R. Forstchen: So your bank account’s wiped out; Given our massive debt load, this fictional apocalyptic scenario’s not looking that bad.    o o o DD spotted this: Live off the land — in the city; Wild greens, mushrooms, fruit and even fish and game can be harvested in America’s urban jungles. Dandelion salad, anyone? Or some batter-fried squirrel? That is ingenious, but if and when the Schumer Hits the …

The latest extended-length trailer for Roland Emmerich’s new 2012 movie looks more than a bit over the top. Yes, it is another popcorn-munching special effects-laden blockbuster. But that is not surprising, since Emmerich is the man that produced The Day After Tomorrow.    o o o Reader GG mentioned some recent commentary on “the big picture”, via the Dilbert syndicated cartoon strip.    o o o Also from GG: Tent revival; More families than ever are camping for vacation at state and national parks    o o o Jon in Iraq sent us an article datelined Madison, Wisconsin: Too many …

KAF recommended an interesting map that illustrates the ratio of Federal land to private land in the U.S.. (Click on it for a larger view.) BTW, I predict that some extensive tracts of Federal lands will be sold in the next 20 years    o o o The episode lineup for Michael Bane’s new Best Defense: Survival television series has been posted over at the DownRangeTV Blog. It looks like there will be 10 great episodes!    o o o America is Vulnerable to an EMP Attack. But for the sake of balance, I should mention that the ARRL claims …

US Judge Seeks to Ban Internet News Linking. (I guess that they’d better ban news broadcasters from mentioning news headlines, while they are at it…)    o o o Food Recall Alert: Dave C. forwarded a DoD bulletin warning that the current MRE Menus 1, 9, 21, and 22 contain a Dairy Shake Powder that is listed in a food recall. “Do not consume MRE and UGR-E Dairy Shake powder, Fortified with Calcium and Vitamin D”    o o o The result of sixty years of gun control in the U.K: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also …

Several readers wrote to say that The Discovery Channel will debut ‘The Colony’, a post-pandemic urban survival reality series on July 21. It will be interesting to see how the politically-correct Hollywood crowd will tiptoe around the topic of firearms used for self-defense. I suspect that they’ll create the absurd artifice that neither the looters nor the Colony defenders will have guns available. (I noticed that one clip showed a miscreant being ineffectively blasted with a fire extinguisher .As if that would so badly frighten the goblins, that they’d never come back. The folks in Hollywood, it seems, can only …

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