Odds ‘n Sods:

PrepperPress.com has just published R.P. Ruggiero’s sequel to his novel Brushfire Plague. This is the second book in a planned three part series, and it brings the total prize package they’re giving the Second Prize winner of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest to 25 books. The latest novel is Brushfire Plague: Reckoning.

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The FBI can secretly activate a computer’s webcam to spy on an individual without turning on the indicator light, a former official revealed to the Washington Post.

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Todd Savage with Survival Retreat Consulting has recently completed an evaluation on a great cabin retreat in the American Redoubt that will support up to eight separate hydroelectric sites from a extremely large volume year round spring (over 1,000 gpm). This fantastic bug-out or full-time retreat meets every aspect of the survival criteria: Water, Food, Energy and Defense. The property has the potential to support a year round aquaponics/greenhouse food production system, all powered from a sustainable power source. Please contact Todd via e-mail for more information www.survivalretreatconsulting.com 

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An observation on Mikey Bloomberg’s Special Mayors Club: After they are caught red-handed (taking bribes, conspiracy to extortion, and extortion), and then indicted and tried by a jury of their peers (at taxpayer expense), and found guilty, and sentenced, they still have the best attorneys that all that copious cached graft money can buy, so they can finance unlimited appeals, until they get a new trial. (Again, at taxpayer expense.) This is the new norm for corrupt politicians. For instance, I have no doubt that Kwame Kilpatrick will spend much of his 28-year sentence filing appeals. (He is another one of Bloomberg’s MAIG members that was quietly removed from their roster.)

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File Under “Burning Irony”: A SurvivalBlog reader who open carries wrote to mention that he was turned away from the Jordan Page liberty concert in Cocolalla, Idaho on Wednesday by a man at the door who told him that “no guns are allowed.” Some patriot event!

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Tattler Reusable Canning Lids has made a 50% off sale announcement. For just Friday the 13th, they are having a Christmas sale! Everything they sell (except All American Pressure Canners) will be 50% off for 24 hours! Use coupon code “madness” during checkout.