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 … The post Editors’ Prepping Progress appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

With all of the recent discussion of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) threats in SurvivalBlog, I want to share a recent experience with what I assume was an A.I.-intervened technology. We were recently moving some of our supplies across state in a small cargo trailer to our cabin. We had unloaded the trailer and were returning home when I saw flashing lights in my mirror. I thinking to myself, I can’t be trailer lights, everything is rewired new, new tires, bearings, doors were locked. The State Trooper came up to the window and tells me that my plates on the trailer registration … The post Data Collection in Our Lives, by Anonymous in Ohio appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On August 30, 1645, Dutch settlers and local Indians signed a peace treaty in New Amsterdam (New York). — August 30th is the birthday of the late Joachim Rønneberg, a hero of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. He was born in 1919. His exploits earned him the War Cross With Sword, Norway’s highest military honor.  Rønneberg died in 2018, just one year short of his 100th birthday. — Today’s feature piece is too short to be included in the judging for the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $960,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started … The post Preparedness Notes for Saturday — August 30, 2025 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

from The National Pulse: ❓WHAT HAPPENED: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced an investigation into whether psychiatric medication is contributing to the rise in mass shootings, following a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a transgender gunman. ?WHO WAS INVOLVED: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human […]

Explore 10 bizarre fatalities on film sets, from The Crow's prop gun tragedy to wild animal attacks that claimed lives during movie productions. The post 10 Of The Strangest Deaths That Occurred During Movie Productions appeared first on Listverse.

An elderly woman in Japan nearly lost her life not once, but twice, after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots — first suffering a massive brain clot after her initial dose, then a crippling heart-related…

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