K.T. suggested: I Built This AK-47. It’s Legal and Totally Untraceable. And speaking of do-it-yourself guns: F.G. sent these items: NSW Police issues warning on 3D printed guns and CNC killed the gun control star.
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Historic vote: Boy Scouts to allow gay youths to join. Sadly, the Boy Scouts are history. I recommend withdrawing your sons from the organization, and instead joining a morally straight group.
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J. McC. sent this: Terceira: China’s interest in strategic Lajes Air Field unfolding – Azores. J. McC.'s comment: "This is not your Grandpa's Geostrategic Template, Boy."
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I noticed that Camping Survival just revamped their web site. BTW they have extended the coupon code "survivalblog" for 5% off with every order.
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Video: Pro-Second Amendment speaker at New Jersey hearing hits home run! And speaking of eastern gun politics, some consider themselves slightly "more equal" than others: Retired N.Y. LEOs seek exemption from SAFE act.
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Several readers sent:
Swedes Take to the Streets to Defend Their Neighborhoods. Note that the polisen are busy arresting "vigilantes" instead of the rioters. Typiska nonsens!
came closer, but it was still short of the mark.)
is on sale for just 99 cents at Amazon.com, for just this week. This 137-page book is a quick, informative read. I found it to be well-written and fairly comprehensive.
.
has finally been released on DVD in the North American DVD format. Judging from 
and 
. In the second episode the plot has thickened, but I still consider the show sub-par, at least alongside a show like 
. There are now nine foreign publishing contracts in place to produce the novel in eight languages including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, and Korean. 
--something by the way that I recommend for all freezers. You simply leave the "outdoor" sensor-transmitter inside the freezer.) He noted, however, that since the freezer is equipped with two burners, it does consume a substantial amount of propane. These freezers are perfect for off-grid houses, or to prepare your on-grid house for grid-down situations.
") is now available in both paperback and Kindle editions. The cover is a bit garish (and dare I say "
), but it is nice to see that the novel available in yet another language. (There are now nine foreign publishing contracts in place to produce editions in eight languages including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, and Korean.)
. Yet another post-apocalyptic novel makes it into Amazon's Top 100.
by former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley reports that 
-- the 1975 Robert Redford movie based on my 
novel -- inspired the KGB to create a 2,000 man secret division to do the kind of work KGB Generals saw Condor /[Robert] Redford doing in the film. Essentially, my novel about spies who read fiction became a film that inspired the real world KGB to create a secret division of spies who read fiction."
and 
is released without his permission.
by Keith Lowe. This book validates my warnings about becoming a refugee in the aftermath of a disaster.
is now available quite inexpensively, via Amazon.com. This is a collection of Buppert's essays since 2003. Several of his essays deal with family preparedness. I highly recommend it.
by John L. Casti will be released today. I recently received a review copy and I can vouchsafe that it is a book worth reading. Casti is a great author, and while a couple of the scenarios are far-fetched (such as "gray goo"), many of them will be of great interest to SurvivalBlog readers. Here is a summary: "X-Events provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the preindustrial age: global financial "black swans"; a worldwide crash of the Internet that would halt all communication; the end of oil; nuclear winter; "nanoplagues"; robot uprisings; electromagnetic pulses; pandemic viruses; and more. You won't ever look at the world the same way again."
(by "Enola Gay", of the 
is available at lower cost.
by Matthew Bracken.)