SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column: More saber-rattling and general angst, in the news.
Election Fears Ignite ‘Preppers’
The leftist NBC News reports: Election fears ignite ‘preppers’ already planning for the catastrophic unknown.
What Countries Will Be in World War 3?
Over at the MIRA Safety blog: 2024 Conflict Analysis: What Countries Will Be in World War 3?
The Prepper Supply Business is Booming
Peter in Ohio sent this: In uncertain times, the prepper supply business is booming.
Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III
At the left-biased The American Prospect: Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III but Were Afraid to Ask.
Wars and Rumors of Wars
David Haggith: Chaos Blankets the World and Leaves No Easy Answers. An excerpt:
“We’re in a situation more dangerous in nuclear terms than the Cold War ever was. The answers to evil dictators like Kim Jung Un and Putin who has reverted to former Soviet ways of boundary expansion, consolidating power around himself with constitutional revisions that are solely to his benefit, and imprisoning those who pretend they have freedom of speech but use words he’s outlawed while assassinating his detractors are not easy answers to come by when the imperialist have nuclear weapons and threaten all the time to actually use them.
No wonder, with all of that in a day’s news, that 41% of Americans say they’re at ‘peak stress’ right now, listing, of course, many reasons besides politics, such as economic duress and global issues like war.”
Ukrainian Desertion Rates Increase
From The Libertarian Institute: About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year.
Stealth Edit: FBI Revises Violent Crime Stats Higher
Reported by Zero Hedge: Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats Higher.
Bill Gates to Stand Trial in Holland for mRNA Shots
18 Court-Ordered Vaxxes Put 5-Year-old in Intensive Care
Reader D.S.V. suggested this article: Healthy Unvaxxed Boy, 5, Ends Up in ICU After Judge Orders Him to Take 18 Shots in One Day.
“Threats To Our Democracy”
From conservative pundit Jonathan Turley: Panic Politics: The Press and Pundits Face Devastating Polls on the Threat to Democracy.
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