Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — December 15, 2021

December
15th
is
Bill
of
Rights
Day.
The
Bill
of
Rights
became
law
on
this
day
in
1791,
following
ratification
by
the
state
of
Virginia.
We
encourage
our
American
readers
to
gather
publicly
and
read
the
Bill
of
Rights
aloud.

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The
15th
of
December,
1923,
was
the
birthday
of
Uziel
“Uzi”
Gal
(born
Gotthard
Glas).
According
to
Wikipedia,
he
was
“…born
in
Weimar,
Germany.
When
the
Nazis
came
to
power
in
1933
he
moved
first
to
England
and
later,
in
1936,
to
Kibbutz
Yagur
in
the
British
Mandate
of
Palestine
where
he
changed
his
name
to
Uziel
Gal.
In
1943,
he
was
arrested
for
illegally
carrying
a
gun
and
sentenced
to
six
years
in
prison.
However,
he
was
pardoned
and
released
in
1946,
serving
less
than
half
of
his
sentence.”
He
is,
of
course,
remembered
as
the
inventor
of
the
famous
Uzi
submachine
gun.
Uzi
Gal
is
not
to
be
confused
with
Israel
Galili,
the
chief
weapons
designer
for
Israeli
Military
Industries
(IMI),
who
along
with
Yaacov
Lior
designed
the
Galil
improvement
to
the
AK-47.

—

For
those
who
have
asked… Yes,
we
will
be
making
another
batch
of
SurvivalBlog
Archive
waterproof/EMP-proof
USB
sticks
again
this
year. 
They
should
be
orderable
on
or
about
January
15th,
2022,
and
deliveries
will
start
around
February
10th.
This
year,
because
the
archive
has
become
so
large,
we’ll
have
the
first
10
years
on
one
stick,
and
the
six
most
recent
years
(through
Dec
31,
2021)
on
a
second
stick.
And
as
usual, 
the
bonus
book
selection
will
be
growing
again.
Stay
tuned,
for
details.

SurvivalBlog
Writing
Contest

Today
we
present
another
entry
for
Round
98
of
the

SurvivalBlog
non-fiction
writing
contest.
The
prizes
for
this
round
include:

First
Prize:

1. The
   photovoltaic
   power
   specialists
   at
   
   Quantum
   Harvest
   LLC 
   are
   
   providing
   a
   store-wide
   10%
   off
   coupon.
   Depending
   on
   the
   model
   chosen,
   this
   could
   be
   worth
   more
   than
   $2000.
2. A
   
   Gunsite
   Academy
   Three
   Day
   Course
   Certificate.
   This
   can
   be
   used
   for
   
   any
   of
   their
   one,
   two,
   or
   three-day
   course
   (a
   $1,095
   value),
3. A
   course
   certificate
   from
   
   onPoint
   Tactical
   for
   the
   prize
   winner’s
   
   choice
   of
   three-day
   civilian
   courses,
   excluding
   those
   restricted
   for
   military
   or
   government
   teams.
   Three-day
   onPoint
   courses
   normally
   cost
   $795,
4. 
   Two
   cases
   of
   Mountain
   House
   freeze-dried
   assorted
   entrees
   in
   #10
   cans,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Ready
   Made
   Resources
   (a
   $350
   value),
5. 
   A
   $250
   gift
   certificate
   good
   for
   any
   product
   from
   
   Sunflower
   Ammo,
6. 
   American
   Gunsmithing
   Institute
   (AGI)
   is
   providing
   a
   $300
   
   certificate
   good
   towards
   any
   of
   their
   DVD
   training
   courses.
7. Two
   sets
   of
   
   The
   Civil
   Defense
   Manual,
   (in
   two
   volumes)
   —
   a
   $193
   value
   —
   kindly
   donated
   by
   the
   author,
   Jack
   Lawson.

Second
Prize:

1. A
   
   Front
   Sight
   
   Lifetime
   Diamond
   Membership,
   providing
   lifetime
   free
   training
   at
   
   any
   Front
   Sight
   Nevada
   course,
   with
   no
   limit
   on
   repeating
   classes.
   This
   prize
   is
   courtesy
   of
   a
   SurvivalBlog
   reader
   who
   prefers
   to
   be
   anonymous.
2. A
   Glock
   form
   factor
   SIRT
   laser
   training
   pistol
   and
   a
   SIRT
   AR-15/M4
   Laser
   Training
   Bolt,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Next
   Level
   Training,
   that
   have
   a
   combined
   retail
   value
   of
   $589,
3. Two
   1,000-foot
   spools
   of
   full
   mil-spec
   U.S.-made
   750
   paracord
   (in-stock
   colors
   only)
   from
   
   www.TOUGHGRID.com
   (a
   $240
   value).
4. A
   transferable
   $150
   FRN
   purchase
   credit
   from
   
   Elk
   Creek
   Company,
   toward
   the
   purchase
   of
   any
   pre-1899
   antique
   gun.
   There
   is
   
   no
   paperwork
   required
   for
   delivery
   of
   pre-1899
   guns
   into
   most
   states,
   making
   them
   the
   last
   bastion
   of
   firearms
   purchasing
   privacy!

Third
Prize:

1. Three
   sets
   each
   of
   made-in-USA
   regular
   and
   wide-mouth
   
   reusable
   canning
   lids.
   (This
   is
   a
   total
   of
   300
   lids
   and
   600
   gaskets.)
   This
   prize
   is
   courtesy
   of
   
   Harvest
   Guard (a
   $270
   value)
2. A
   Royal
   Berkey
   water
   filter,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Directive
   21
   (a
   $275
   value),
3. Two
   Super
   Survival
   Pack
   seed
   collections,
   a
   $150
   value,
   courtesy
   of
   
   Seed
   for
   Security,
   LLC,
4. A
   transferable
   $100
   FRN
   purchase
   credit
   from
   
   Elk
   Creek
   Company,
   toward
   the
   purchase
   of
   any
   pre-1899
   antique
   gun.

—

More
than

$725,000
worth
of
prizes
have
been
awarded
since
we
started
running
this
contest.
Round
98
ends
on
January
31st,
so
get
busy
writing
and

e-mail
us
your
entry.
Remember
that
there
is
a

1,500-word
minimum,
and
that
articles
on
practical
“how-to”
skills
for
survival
have
an
advantage
in
the
judging.

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