This week, Tokyo hosted the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, which brought together the two countries’ defense and foreign ministers. Although these “2+2 meetings” are fairly mundane…

ANKARA, Turkey —  Turkey's communications authority blocked access to the social media platform Instagram on Friday, the latest instance of a clampdown on websites in the country. The Information…

Presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced her running mate earlier today, an unknown yet oddly familiar politician named Moe Schmiden, sources confirm.  “It’s the strangest thing,” said…

WASHINGTON — America and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with…

It’s difficult to make substantive arguments against the Democrats’ Supreme Court “reform” proposal, since everyone knows it’s just a cynical ploy to delegitimize both the court and the Constitution.…

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Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, we look at the decline of the Canadian Standard of Living. (See the Economy & Finance section.) Precious Metals: Those dastardly COMEX Silver Shorts have been up to their mischief again, pushing down the price of silver contracts. When I checked on Thursday morning, spot silver was at $28.75, while spot gold was at $2,460.10 … The post Economics & Investing For Preppers appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article. Handloading to Getting Top Performance from Classic Rifles For the same reasons that the military has developed high-performance ammunition, I’ve worked hard to find this load in a common cartridge that is the .30-06 and 6.5×55 for my personal rifles.  It is competitive or superior at mid range to extreme long ranges out to 1,200 yards with .300 Winchester Magnum commercial hunting loads, because the bullets used have extremely high ballistic coefficients.  Like the .300 Win Mag, 7mm Magnum, .30-06, and others in this class, they are good all-around cartridges for any … The post Ballistics, Rifle Marksmanship and Why They Matter – Part 2, by Tunnel Rabbit appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On August 2nd, 1973, American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. — August 2, 1909, the Army Air Corps was formed as Army took first delivery from the Wright Brothers. — August 2nd was the birthday of Peter O’Toole (1932–2013). When his name is mentioned, Lawrence of Arabia immediately comes to mind. But one of my favorites was his 1971 film titled Murphy’s War. That film had some very memorable seaplane flying scenes. — August 2, 1972: Gold hit a record $70 per Troy ounce in … The post Preparedness Notes for Friday — August 2, 2024 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

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