JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

James Wesley Rawles January 11, 2017 January 11, 2017

Books:

The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, by Dave Ramsey

The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life, by Travis Stork

Movies:

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Now also available with Amazon Prime.)

97% Owned (Documentary on the global debt-based monetary system. Note that although the producers of this film obviously have a leftist bias, the information included about how modern “money” is created is correct. Amazon Prime members can watch it free.)

Television:

Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl (Now available with Amazon Prime.)

1916: The Irish Rebellion. (Now available with Amazon Prime.)

Music:

The Essential Guy Clark

Firefly Soundtrack (Greg Edmondson)

Instructional Videos:

Active Self Defense YouTube Channel. (Thanks to reader Peter S. for the link suggestion.)

Dave Delany: Winter Survival Shelter under a large conifer

Podcasts:

Folk Alley’s AlleyCast

Gear:

(Both of the following Glock pistol home armorer tools were recommended to me by Tamara at the great View From the Porch blog. They work great!)

Truglo Glock Front Sight Installation Tool

Ameriglo Sight Pusher Tool for Most Glock Models, Angled Sided

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James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) is Founder and Senior Editor of SurvivalBlog, the original prepping /survival blog for when the Schumer Hits The Fan (SHTF). He began SurvivalBlog in 2005. It now reaches more than 320,000 unique visitors weekly.
JWR is a journalist, technical writer, and novelist. His survivalist novel Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, is a modern classic that reached #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list. Two of his other novels have also been best New York Times bestsellers.
Jim is the originator of the American Redoubt movement and a frequent talk show and podcast guest. He is also a retreat consultant specializing in off-grid living, rural relocation, and survival preparedness.