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Survival Sunday: February 18, 2024

Happy weekend, friends!

Survival Sunday is a personal note and a round-up of the week's news
and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared. This
curated collection of information is only available to email and Patreon
subscribers.

Have a great week ahead!

Daisy

A PERSONAL NOTE

 

Last week, I went to lunch with a neighbor. She's a very intelligent and
kind person. We've gotten to know each other a bit since I've been back
to the US and we decided to go out for Mexican food. I knew (based on a
sign in her yard and a few things she's said in passing) that we didn't
agree at all politically, but I also know that she is a good person who
feeds birds, takes in stray pets, and is beloved by every kid in the
neighborhood.

I've mostly avoided discussing politics (which pains me because, as
everyone knows, I'm all about the current events.) But over lunch, the
conversation somehow veered that way, and we both were floored by what
the other person was convinced was factual.

Now, before you go thinking, "Daisy, shut up and eat your taco," let me
be absolutely clear that even though we didn't agree on the details, we
did mostly agree on what we'd like to see in America. We left that lunch
laughing and joking and making plans to get together again. We weren't
just being polite - we've texted back and forth since then, too.

Remember how it used to be when you could have different opinions and
still be friends?

Yeah. Like that. It was glorious.

But regarding the meat of the conversation, I was stunned by how
different one's perspective is when they get all their news from the
mainstream instead of alternative sources. And not just any mainstream
but certain parts of the mainstream. The absolute conviction because
someone has followed a story closely is not foreign to me. I tend to be
convinced that I know what happened because I've checked so many
sources, too.

But it's all about one's sources.

And it got me thinking about the two Americas we see. You could easily
divide them by who thinks Biden is a kind old guy doing a great job and
is very effective and people who think he's a senile, doddering old man
who has gotten rich selling favors.

This is what fuels our division when you have people who can't put those
differences aside and talk about educating children to be curious
people, and feeding the birds in our yards, and that one neighbor who
steals kids' balls if they go into his yard and the parent has to go get
it back, and the eye-watering price of groceries.

There's no way I could say that my friend is not a critical thinker -
she is. And she'd say the same of me. But we draw such different
conclusions about the same events that it boggles the mind. And how
terrifying it is that these two input streams of information are
creating this division in the United States.

I know that we all know you see a story differently based on whether you
watch MSNBC or Fox. That's not an epiphany. But to see it so close up
and yet still have a pleasant conversation where we both walked away
feeling like we'd learned something was very refreshing.

We can't broadly condemn people who have formed their opinions based on
the input they're getting. The problem isn't them - it's the input. 
It's the shocking scope of the mainstream media and its ability to
conform thinking. But it also makes me wonder if we aren't doing a
little bit of the same. Of course, as a libertarian, I firmly hold
certain beliefs about what powers our government should and should not
have, and I am also well able to see the corruption in our highest
offices. But - how much of what I "know"  is happening comes from
biased information, too?

If there is a court case going on and you hear most of the details and
excerpts from someone on the side of the defendant, you'll have one
perspective. But if you hear most of the details and excerpts from the
prosecution, without input from the side of the defense, you'll see it
entirely differently.

And therein lies the problem. Nobody gets the full story. We do our
absolute best on The OP to present things fairly and evenly, and I know
a lot of other alternative media folks do the same thing. But when you
really sit and think about it, are any of us really getting "the whole
story?" Add in deep fakes and AI, and getting the truth will soon be
even more difficult.

I don't know how we bridge this gap. My neighbor and I will never agree
on everything, but we can get around that and still be friends. I think
we're the exception instead of the rule, though. And it's because we're
both willing to suspend our disbelief and listen to the other person. We
can let them have opinions that are totally different and still see the
person inside with a good heart and a snarky sense of humor.

Maybe we need to work a little harder to find points in common again
instead of writing people off for holding different opinions. I'm
certainly never going to be a Biden fan, but I should be able to accept
that other people have heard a different story of him than I have.

Perhaps it's a place to start. Because if we don't start somewhere our
divided nation cannot stand.

 

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WHAT I'M READING, WATCHING, AND LISTENING TO

Here's some content from the previous week that you may find
interesting.

* Tightwad Gazette Tips: Fruits and Vegetables on a Budget

* Resilience: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How To Stay Mentally
Strong

* How to Create the Perfect Seed Starting Soil

* Prepping Basics: Best Prepping Like a Pro Guide

* Rain Barrels - DIY, Cheap, Decorative Options (+ Care Tips)

* 35 Survival Items You Can Make At Home

* What to Do When You Have Sudden Money Problems

* How Do Phone Scams Work? Avoid Becoming a Victim

* Introduction to Aquaponics: Growing Fish and Vegetables Together

* The Everyday SHTF.

* 5 Homemade Healing Salves a Century Ago

* How To Preserve Food Without Electricity

* Cheap Chickpeas: 14 Ways to Prepare This Frugal Staple

* Risk Management: How-to Manage Risks Made Easy

* Where To Go During the Collapse

* Don't Make These 5 Food Gardening Mistakes!

* 20 Best Plants For Your Vertical Garden

* Survival Skills You Should Learn From The Amish

* 5 Ways to Downsize and Save Money

* The Urban Survival Toilet

* The Widow in the Woods: Part 2

* The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs and Artificial Scarcity

* Trump Slams 'Election Interference' And 'Tyrannical Abuse Of
Power' After $364 Million Verdict; Vows To Appeal

* 50 Flicks for Prepper Movie Nigh

* All Of The Elements Are In Place For An Economic Crisis Of Staggering
Proportions

* Climate Agenda Set To Push Food Prices Even Higher, Analysts Say

* A Lot of Folks Really Didn't Like Tucker Carlson's Interview with
Putin

* What Everyone Is Missing About the Putin/Carlson Talk

* Scientists Try Risky Air and Water Experiments Hoping to Stop Climate
Change

* A Different Kind of Survivor

* Elon Musk Is Right And The NY Times Is Wrong About Illegal Voting By
Non-Citizens

* Just Wait Until You See What Happens When They Realize What Is Really
Happening To The Economy...

* Will China Use the Supply Chain as a Weapon Against the US?

* Mail-In Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump 'Almost Certainly' Won In
2020

* Rand Paul slams $95.3 billion foreign aid bill, predicts House won't
take it up

* Neuralink: Here's What We Know About This Brain-Computer Interface

* Household Belt-Tightening: Will the Trickle Become a Flood?

**The top 0.1% will weather a recession just fine, but that will offer
cold comfort to the other 130 million American households.**

* Bombshell: Treasury Dept. Admits Targeting 'MAGA' Finances Without
Due Process

* Free Puzzles for People Who Love America

* Global Economic War Is Coming And The Threat To The US Dollar Is Real

* Be Ready for Anything! Now More Than Ever... IMPORTANT UPDATES.
Mannarino

* Peter Schiff: We Are On The Brink of A Catastrophe

**As Federal Interest Payments Reach $750 Billion**

* The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American
Taxpayer

* Homeland admitted in emails it fails to track illegal immigrants
released into US interior

* A Hole in the System - The Border Crisis Exposed

**Border Closed to Journalists, but Not Illegal Crossers**

* Doug Casey on Why the Carbon Hysteria is a Huge Threat to Your
Personal Freedom and Financial Wellbeing

* "Cash In Envelopes": How The US And UN Are Funding The Border Crisis

* Fact Check Funder Publicis Pays $350 Million for Role in Opioid
Epidemic

**systematically misled doctors about the drug's addictiveness to
drive up sales...**

* US Companies Talk Layoffs Like Never Before

* "This Is A Date With Disaster": Net-Zero Is Pulling The Plug on
America's Electrical 'Life Support System,' New Documentary Says

* Medicine Has Been Fully Militarized

* Speaker Johnson reveals 64 instances Biden where sabotaged border
security and encouraged illegal migration

* Ohio sheriff tells of FBI director's ominous warning. "More red
flags than before 9-11″...

* Chaos Reigns In The Streets Of America As An Epic Crime Wave
Terrorizes The Nation

* Peter Schiff: We Are On The Brink of A Catastrophe

* Tucker Carlson: The Putin Interview

* Biden classified memos report re-ignites debates about dual justice,
'diminished' president

**"too cognitively impaired to be charged with a crime, but not too
cognitively impaired to be the Commander-in-Chief?"**

* 3 Shocking Truths Most People Don't Know About Money in Bank
Accounts...

* The Guy That Could Replace Putin Warns That War With The West Would
Result In An "Apocalypse" And "The End To Everything"

* New York's Illegal Alien Compounds Exposed: Stabbings, Drugs,
Deaths...

 

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