Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.
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The Economist reports: The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers.
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From Deutsche Welle (DW): EU crisis preparedness: Bulking up states’ disaster response.
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Meet Britain’s Doomsday preppers stockpiling for World War Three.
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Here is a partly tongue-in-cheek account recently published by the statist and snobbish New York Times: My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse.
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Myanmar earthquake death toll climbs to over 2,700, local media reports.
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At Medium: How the CIA Blends Tech and Tradecraft to Hunt Modern Threats.
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From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades.
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Mike in Alaska mentioned this video: .45-70 Lever Action vs. Bear Attack.
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A classic 1948 Army manual, now publicly available at the NSA website: Fundamentals Of Traffic Analysis. And here is some declassified related history: A Collection of Writings on Traffic Analysis. JWR’s Comments: Many of the NCOs that I supervised held the 98C Signals Analyst MOS, and a good portion of their tasking was old-school Traffic Analysis (TA) work. I suspect that many of the unclassified basic concepts in the 1948 manual are still included in the latest iteration of the classified joint service TA-103 Traffic Analysis course. That course was originally developed by and for the Army Security Agency (ASA). Back when I served in the 1980s and early 1990s, most company-grade operational SIGINT officers had the TA-103 course as part of their professional development curriculum.
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Video commentary: Admin Losing 2nd Amendment Support FAST.
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Deepest lake in the U.S. to close to swimmers and boat tours for two years. (A hat tip to D.S.V. for the link.)
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Report: Top Vehicles Most Likely To Last 250,000 Miles.
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