We all should take breaks from SHTF bombardment. Enjoy life and life a little. The best that we can atleast

There is a war on boys today. We can keep burying our heads in the sand, but that won't help. In this video, I unpack this "war" and explain how to raise boys to be men, as providers and protectors for themselves, their families, and their communities. Men & Masculinity Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwfHxVqiroKSCbeOUshmfmpaba9mx70k #boys #masculinity #provider #protector #manhood ____________________________________ SELECT SPONSORS & AFFILIATES Vertx – https://shrsl.com/4u673 Premier Body Armor – https://alnk.to/3ycXja6 5.11 Tactical – https://511.pxf.io/bOPr7b USCCA – https://tinyurl.com/2ne78wy4 Princeton Tec – https://alnk.to/6IGaqFp Mountain House – https://alnk.to/2QykGlD Elite Survival Systems – https://alnk.to/bPfNc8R Bradford USA Knives – https://bradfordknives.com Blue Force Gear – https://alnk.to/7X5til6 Magpul – https://alnk.to/clYOtja POM Pepper Spray – https://alnk.to/dWduBVM Optics Planet – https://alnk.to/c08TRbN Buck Knives – https://alnk.to/hhBDhzb Off-Grid Knives – https://bit.ly/3ZBHWjI Montana Knife Company – https://alnk.to/44WNIrO Skallywag Tactical – https://alnk.to/4XwXrC8 StopBox USA – https://amzn.to/40GD6Cg Black Beard Fire – https://alnk.to/880ehcH My Medic – https://alnk.to/hswogsx MedicBox – https://alnk.to/8iV0mUV Tigrett Outdoors – https://tigrettod.com/collections/radio-go-bags Disclaimer: I may receive commission from the links above and/or tagged products at no additional cost to you. Provide & Protect YouTube channel, videos, products, and/or shop(s) are protected under Provide and Protect LLC. The opinions shared in this video are only that, opinions, and should not be taken as legal, financial, or other forms professional advice or counsel. Viewers who take any advice or instruction from this or any other Provide & Protect (channel) videos do so at their own risk. Be wise and be safe!

SHTF News Ep. 14, February 2026 Welcome to the fourteenth episode of SHTF news! This isn't a news channel, but paying attention to current events is definitely part of the 80/20 of being a survivalist and prepper. In this video, we go over many of the big events that have occurred during February, 2026, and why they concern us and our future. Follow my wife's channel, Watch Me Cook: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchMeCook-629?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe to Efficient in the Field! https://www.youtube.com/@efficientinthefield?sub_confirmation=1 Here's a quick breakdown of the video: 00:00 Intro to SHTF News and Shameless Self-Plug 02:01 WAR with IRAN 04:32 Future War with CHINA 07:34 Chinese Bio Lab in LAS VEGAS 09:37 Bill Gates is a ****head 11:24 More on the Epstein Files

House and Senate members, along with prominent veterans’ organizations, hope 2026 will be the year Congress passes legislation to give 54,000 wounded veterans their military retirement pay and Veterans Affairs disability compensation — without one offsetting the other. In the past two weeks, veterans groups, including Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, lobbied lawmakers for passage of the Major Richard Star Act, a bill that would allow medically retired U.S. military personnel to receive both their full retirement pay and VA disability compensation. While the legislation has been a major focus for advocates since 2020, concerns about the estimated 10-year, $9.75 billion cost have stymied its passage. Lingering cost worries cloud plans for veterans disability reform billSen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the committee’s ranking Democrat, took to the Senate floor Tuesday to support the bill, with Blumenthal calling for the chamber to accelerate its passage by bypassing the committee process. “I’m heartbroken for a nation that can afford to spend tens of billions of dollars, as we are doing right now in a conflict far away, putting Americans’ lives in harm’s way, when we are failing to match [service members’] bravery with our own,” Blumenthal said. “Let’s agree to a vote.” Moran, a cosponsor of the bill, pledged to find a path forward for the legislation, which must be considered by the Senate Armed Services Committee before receiving a vote in the chamber. “I want to make certain that combat-injured veterans receive their full benefits. They have upheld their oath; they have fulfilled their duties. The question before us is whether we will fulfill ours,” Moran said. Currently, the legislation has bipartisan support of 77 senators and 316 representatives. The House version is cosponsored by Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla. Despite the significant support, however, the bill has failed in both Democrat- and Republican- controlled Congresses. Advocates hoped last year they had found a way to pay for the bill by using savings from terminated government contracts or by eliminating wasteful spending. This year, VFW Commander-in-Chief Carol Whitmore argued the money should come from the federal Military Retirement Fund, which finances military retired pay and has more than $1.7 trillion in assets.“The explanation most often given is cost — specifically, the requirement to identify a budgetary offset as though correcting an injustice for disabled retirees must come at the expense of another defense or veterans priority. That framing is misplaced,” Whitmore said in a statement during a joint hearing Tuesday of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees. “Ending the concurrent receipt offset does not require DOD to trade readiness, delay procurement, or sacrifice national security investments.” During Senate floor remarks Tuesday, however, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said the legislation would affect military readiness, adding that the original estimate of $9.75 billion was now $70 billion. “We all revere and respect those men and women who have served and sacrificed to defend our liberty,” Johnson said. “But we can’t just come down here and talk about how much we love vets and how we want to support them. We have to look at the reality of the situation in dollars and cents. We are $39 trillion dollars in debt.” The legislation was named for Army Reserve Maj. Richard Star, who died in 2021 from lung cancer after being exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2004, veterans who receive military retirement for serving 20 years or more, as well as VA disability benefits, receive both benefits in full if they have a disability rating of at least 50%. But those veterans who retired early from the service because of military injuries are subject to dollar-for-dollar offsets in their military disability and VA disability benefits, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars in lost income. If the bill were to become law, veterans eligible for coverage would have to be medically retired, able to qualify for combat-related special compensation and have a combat-related disability of at least 10%. Richard Fetro, national president of the Fleet Reserve Association, said Tuesday during the hearing that passage of the Richard Star Act would restore faith among veterans who suffered debilitating injuries as a result of their service. “Regarding double dipping, that claim ignores reality. Military retirement pay compensates for years of service already rendered. VA disability compensation exists because veterans were wounded during service. Providing both benefits honors service and sacrifice,” Fetro said.

For two decades, Leslie Daniels has owned a beachfront home in Palm Beach, Florida. His property includes a sandy beach parcel—land he holds title to, pays taxes on, and uses for family gatherings. For most of that time, the Town of Palm Beach agreed the beach was his. Town maps labeled it private. Police enforced trespassing laws on it. Officials even told Daniels to install posts marking his property boundaries so officers could keep unwanted visitors off his land. Then, in late 2021, the town changed its mind—and told Daniels everything it had said before no longer applied. Private beach turned public Officials announced that the public had an easement for “traditional beach use” on private sandy beaches where renourishment projects had added sand. Police received a directive to stop enforcing trespassing on Daniels’ land. The town forced Daniels to remove the very boundary markers it had told him to install, calling them prohibited “structures” under the town code. When he switched to small plastic cones with “Private Property” signs, the town ordered those removed too. When strangers settled on his beach and refused to leave, Daniels called the police—and officers told him they would not remove them. The town manager testified that the public could use Daniels’ land at any hour. The town council president told him his beach was simply not private. The town based its claim on a Florida statute that has been on the books for 60 years, but has never been interpreted by any court to impose a public easement on private land merely because sand was added. Daniels, now represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the town’s actions as an unconstitutional taking of his property and a violation of his First Amendment right to post signs on his own land. Governments turning private beaches into public land Daniels’ fight is not an isolated case. Across the country, Pacific Legal Foundation has seen the same pattern: governments declaring private beach property public, stripping owners of the right to decide who can access their property and refusing to pay a cent for it. In Rhode Island, PLF represents David Welch and Stilts, LLC. There, state lawmakers passed a law in 2023 that moved the public beach boundary inland—directly onto private property—without compensating the owners. A state court ruled the law resulted in an unconstitutional taking. When the state then tried to impose the same requirements through a permitting process, PLF went back to court and won an injunction blocking those conditions. Those cases are now before the state supreme court. In Malibu, California, PLF represented Dennis and Leah Seider, whose neighbor had posted a “Private Beach” sign to help beachgoers understand where the public easement ended. The California Coastal Commission ordered the sign removed. Without it, strangers wandered onto the Seiders’ property and refused to leave. Malibu’s code prohibited any signs marking the boundary between public and private beach—effectively keeping property owners silent about their own rights. PLF filed a federal lawsuit, and the commission ultimately settled, allowing the Seiders to post truthful signs on their land. The through line in every one of these cases is the principle the Supreme Court affirmed in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid: the right to exclude others from your property is one of the most fundamental rights of ownership, and the government cannot take it away without paying just compensation. A clear path to trial for Daniels Last month, a federal court delivered a strong ruling in Daniels’ favor. The court granted Daniels summary judgment on his First Amendment claim, finding that the town’s code bans too much speech by prohibiting all signs on his sandy property. As the court wrote in its opinion, Daniels “has a free speech right to say ‘Private Property’ on his own land.” The court also rejected every argument the town raised to dispose of the takings claim—including its reading of the Florida statute and its statute of limitations defense—and denied the town’s motion. A bench trial on whether the town’s actions constitute an unconstitutional taking is set for April. The town is entitled to change its policies. But it cannot simply declare private property public and strip an owner of any means to protect it. The post Federal court hands Florida property owner a major win in fight to protect his beach appeared first on Pacific Legal Foundation.

Tim Hawkins is a funny guy—so funny, in fact, that he’s been making a living at it for more than 20 years. As he says in his new comedy special Fist Bump (which’ll be released on streaming services everywhere March 17), he doesn’t have a plan B. That said, his pre-comedy resume is packed with everything from college baseball to customer support to substitute teaching. His favorite non-comedy job? He tells me that it was his gig as a waiter at Olive Garden. But don’t take my word for it: Hawkins says so himself in the YouTube video embedded in this blog. And rest assured, we talk about more things than breadsticks. We discuss comedy, Christianity and the intersection between the two. And I tell Tim what he taught me about Mickey Mouse watch faces. It was a fun conversation, even if I’m as awkward as all get-out during it. (I had a serious echo of myself in my earbuds, which forced me to talk over myself.) But Tim’s part? Great. Listen and watch, won’t you? The post INTERVIEW: Comedian Tim Hawkins Talks About Faith, Funny Things and ‘Fist Bump’ appeared first on Plugged In.