Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader Sue C. sent us this: Solar superstorm could kill millions, cost trillions

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The folks at Camping Survival are now offering SurvivalBlog readers a 5% discount on LifeStraw Portable Water Filters.

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Over at novelist James Grady’s web site, an odd case of Life Imitates Art: “The nonfiction book Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War by former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley reports that Three Days of the Condor — the 1975 Robert Redford movie based on my Six Days of the Condor novel — inspired the KGB to create a 2,000 man secret division to do the kind of work KGB Generals saw Condor /[Robert] Redford doing in the film. Essentially, my novel about spies who read fiction became a film that inspired the real world KGB to create a secret division of spies who read fiction.”

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Simon’s Black’s comments on Svalbard Island: A secret paradise for gun rights and residency

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The NRA-ILA reports: Anti-Gun Lawmakers Push Ammunition Sales Ban