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, More war rumblings in Eastern Europe.
Russia’s ‘Greyzone’ Invasion Plan
Russia’s ‘greyzone’ invasion plan to start WW3 before Christmas revealed by defector. Here is a quote:
“Moscow is preparing a “greyzone” attack on Poland before Christmas, a senior Russian military official has revealed. The warning, sent through an Eastern European ally during London’s DSEI arms fair last week, has triggered urgent discussions in the UK and US about the risk of a deniable strike aimed at fracturing NATO. It comes as Russia continues a new tactic to pressure NATO by sniping at its borders to test the alliance’s resolve.”
Was the Recent Cyber Attack on Airports a Test?
The Metro (UK) reports: ‘Cyber attack’ that crippled major airports ‘could be test for something bigger’.
‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Cases are Increasing
Reader C.B. sent us this AP wire service article: ‘Nightmare bacteria’ cases are increasing in the US. A pericope:
“Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists.
Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase, CDC researchers wrote in an article published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Only two antibiotics work against those infections, and the drugs are expensive and must be administered through an IV, researchers said.
Bacteria with the gene were once considered exotic, linked to a small number of patients who received medical care overseas. Though the numbers are still small, the rate of U.S. cases jumped more than fivefold in recent years, the researchers reported.”
Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War
A recent Chasing Ghosts podcast by our friend Bill Buppert: “The Devil’s Thermostat: Turning Up the Heat on American Civil War“. By the way, Bill mentioned that he recently suffered a heart attack. Please keep him in your prayers.
Man Charged With Lasing Trump’s Helicopter
Linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: Man charged with aiming laser pointer at Trump’s helicopter.
Readying For a Rare and Powerful Solar Storm
Tom Christianson sent this from the Smithsonian website: How Prepared Are We for a Rare and Powerful Solar Event? This article begins:
“In August of 1859, astronomers noticed an unusually large number of dark spots on the sun’s surface. One of those observers was Richard Carrington, an amateur skywatcher who lived just outside London. One day as he was projecting the sun’s image onto a screen, he noticed an intense “white light flare” that lasted about five minutes. We now know that this was a coronal mass ejection—a burst of hot gas (physicists call it a plasma) released by the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.
That mass of plasma sped toward Earth, where it collided with the magnetosphere—the region of space surrounding Earth where our planet’s magnetic field is most intense. The resulting disturbance, in which fast-moving particles transfer their energy to the magnetosphere, is called a geomagnetic storm. The “Carrington Event” as it’s now known, wreaked havoc on the high-tech equipment of the day: telegraph lines. “Telegraph operators were seeing sparks fly out of their equipment, and telegraph stations caught on fire,” says Shawn Dahl, a space weather forecaster at the Space Weather Prediction Center, in Boulder, Colorado. A conversation between two telegraph operators about the incident has even been documented: Anxious to keep their lines from overloading, they tried unhooking the batteries from their equipment. “They disconnected the batteries, and found they could still send signals, with no electricity hooked up. That was the power of the Carrington Event,” says Dahl. The event also triggered spectacular aurora borealis displays, which were visible as far south as Panama and Italy.”
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