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On October 25, 1415, the Battle of Agincourt (aka Azincourt): Henry V‘s forces defeated a larger French army as the longbow overcame the French armored knights. — October 26, 1774: Minutemen were organized in US colonies. — October 26, 1881: Perhaps the most famous shootout in the history of America’s Wild West took place at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. On the one side stood the so-called forces of law and order: Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday. By reputation these were power-hungry and ruthless men. Opposing them were the outlaws Billy and Ike Clanton, …
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A voluntary association begins when two or more people agree to pursue a common purpose together. That arrangement can be remarkably simple. People who already buy many of the same necessities, possess different skills, or have resources that complement one another, can decide to cooperate rather than approach every need as an entirely separate and individual household problem. The significance of that decision is economic as much as organizational. When individual households combine a predictable demand, they can sometimes obtain purchasing opportunities or services that would be difficult to obtain separately. If the resulting savings are retained rather than immediately …
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During the summer of 2025, I was enjoying a picnic in a park with my wife, “Kari” and my youngest daughter “Rivka.” Part way through the meal, Rivka commented, “Wow, the cicadas certainly are deafening. My immediate response was: “What cicadas?” In the days of my youth, we had access to earmuff style hearing protection. The problem was that they were dumb muffs. They prevented the wearer from hearing both what he wanted to hear and what he did not want to hear. Therefore, I didn’t wear hearing protection whenever there might be something that I wanted to hear. I …
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Today’s graphic is a map that shows every license plate reader volunteers have mapped in the US: 144,000+, 81% of them are Flock cameras. Note the dearth of ALPR cameras in the American Redoubt, in most of Nevada, and in the Dakotas. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. Notes on the available data: OpenStreetMap via DeFlock (mapped by volunteers, so it’s a floor, not a census). An interactive version with city/county/state breakdowns: https://takip.dev/country/united-states/flock-cameras The densest big city per person is Sandy Springs, GA (~193 per 100k); the most in absolute terms is Houston …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest Housing Starts Collapse Near COVID Lows As Homebuilder Confidence Crashes. US pending home sales tumble to record low in September. Zillow: United States Housing Market update. Streaming Now Costs $144 a Month. That’s More Than Cable Cost When You Cut It. JWR’s Comment: This ties in to my recent article: Endless Expenses: Modern Life in The Subscription Model. Feds Say Bank Of …
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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, some more technological risks. Sleepwalking Into World War III? Are we sleepwalking into World War III? Riots are Spreading Across Western Europe Reader D.S.V. suggested this New York …
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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. — Ukraine carries out first ever aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier from the frontline. JWR’s Comment: Drone medevac may soon become the norm for all but the most severe trauma cases. o o o A practical essay by our friend Patrice Lewis: The power of repurposing. o o o Reader Tim …
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REDOUBT NEWS LINKS This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. Oregon Father Tracks, Kills School Shooter in Bend. (Kaylub Giamanco is pictured above.) Note that this is the second time in four months that armed citizens in The American Redoubt have stepped up to save lives when psychopaths opened fire on innocents. – JWR) Video: Interview: Bend father who fatally shot teenage school shooter. And in related news, D.S.V. sent this: Parent Who Stopped Oregon School …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: There Is Artificial Intelligence… And Then There Is Genuine Stupidity Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“The relative freedom which we enjoy depends on public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.” – George Orwell
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Ruger is one of the world’s premier firearms manufacturers, and certainly one of the USA’s – and it has been much in the news today. First, the allegations that Italy’s Beretta was trying to take over this quintessentially American company, and second, the sudden discontinuance of some of Ruger’s most classic models.As to the latter, […]The post First Version of the Czech ZK-383P Made For Bolivian Police first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
Gone to drop trou and found a gun in a public lavatory? Here's the ins and out of safely addressing the situation.
The unintended actions flagged by Anthropic included a model submitting a fake tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police department. The US state department also revealed this month that Anthropic model had filed 19 visa applications in August.
So did Claude also request naturalization for its agents? Or does birthright citizenship apply to clankers, too?
I am doing rebuttals of expert declarations again. One of the declarations make a claim about the absence of firearms in U.S. military hospitals in the Framing Era. This is not intrinsically absurd but the expert claims to have read James Thacher's Military Journal and found evidence contradicting her claim. It is 600 pages. I need to read it myself rather than rely on AI to characterize its contents.
Requiring a historian to read a contemporaneous, often eye-witness account of the American Revolution is rather like being paid to taste test every pizza joint in your town.
At 10:25 a.m. in the 3100 block of West Cermak Road, a 23-year-old man was outside at the above l when two people approached on foot. Police said a fight ensued, at which time the 23-year-old male, who is a valid CCL and FOID cardholder, produced a firearm and fired shots toward the individuals. One of the individuals was shot in the body and was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
Detectives said other surveillance video shows McIntosh returning and throwing a cup of hot coffee in West’s face before charging at him multiple times and punching him.
Police said the altercation escalated when McIntosh knocked West to the ground and used a firearm magazine that had fallen from the guard’s vest to repeatedly strike him in the head. McIntosh also threatened to kill West, according to police.
The two continued struggling around a car, along with a second security guard. McIntosh broke away from the altercation, with West then firing three shots at him.
I had an unusual experience on my afternoon walk today. Let me set the stage… I live in a very upscale outer suburb of Austin, Texas. There are tons of city and neighborhood parks nearby. The area is extremely safe with a responsive police force and a really low crime rate. Violent crime […]
I started posting straight up classical music on Sunday back in 2011 or so. I had run down by late in that decade - how many times can you post Beethoven, no matter how great a composer he was? But The Queen Of The World suggested that I start posting music from Hollywood films because there is so much great music there. And modern compositions, not reaching back into dusty historical archives.
And it's been fun doing this, precisely because there is so much great "classical" music at the cinema. But what I've never talked about is how truly great music can fuse with truly great acting to make something extraordinary. Something where 2 + 2 = 400. That's what we have here, with an Oscar-nominated performance by Kenneth Brannaugh and what really should have been Oscar-nominated musical scoring by Patrick Doyle is what was his first film score.
You see, today is the feast of Crispian.
The fusion of Shakespeare's timeless script, Branaugh's magnificent performce, and Doyle's amazing score results if one of the top ten scenes from any Hollywood film. Remove any of those three components and you have something forgettable.
But not this. Patrick Boyle showed how it's done.
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It happened around 5 p.m. outside of a beauty supply store near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road.
Police say a 32-year-old man was working as loss prevention at the store when he confronted Edgar Perez Lopez, 33, and Lopez’s girlfriend, who were reportedly smoking pills.
The employee told the couple to leave, leading to a confrontation between the three. Investigators believe Lopez reached for a firearm, and the employee shot him. Lopez was rushed to the hospital and later died.
Texarkana, Texas, police are searching for an 18-year-old man accused of shooting a man multiple times during an armed robbery early Friday at River Crossing Apartments on College Drive. The 17-year-old accused of taking part in the robbery was shot when the victim returned fire, police said.
