July 2011

Saturday Videos

July 30, 2011

Gerald Celente – RT America 29 July 2011 Two Days After a Cyber Attack… Are You Ready? SHTF Budget Grinders CITYS MIDNITE RUN SERIES Training observations and how it relates to the SHTF scenario What’s in Your Well? Power Monkey Explorer Review Off The Grid. Expedition One. 4 x 4 Survival Camper Planting a Bag [...]

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Bug Out Trigger Criteria

July 29, 2011

This is a guest post by a new contributing Author Mr-Jones. Mr-Jones and I know each other primarily from Facebook, and some of the same forums, and have become fast friends, online. I have asked him to contribute when he can, and I greatly appreciate it. Please welcome him… What exactly would it take to [...]

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Review of “The Prepper’s Pocket Guide, 101 Easy Things You Can Do To Ready Your Home For A Disaster.”

July 28, 2011

You know how you scour the Internet for information on prepping? Do you know how you tell yourself you need to print out and create a manual for emergencies? Do you know how you keep telling yourself you are going to organize those ideas some day, and make sure that everyone in your home [...]

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A Shout Out to PrepperJim and ST

July 27, 2011

This is a short post to give a shout out to PrepperJim and ST. Both are contributing authors here on the Suburban Survival Blog. These two contributing authors help me out when I least expect it. Besides being regular contributors, it seems when I get busy, am traveling, am at a loss for words with [...]

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Are Preppers Being “Set UP” on YouTube?

July 26, 2011

There are hundreds if not thousands of prepper video on YouTube. If you haven’t already tried it, just do a search for SHTF or WROL and you’ll see what comes up (and that doesn’t include “survivalist”, “prepper”, “survival”, “economic collapse” etc). The videos range in quality from someone with a PC cam and a headset [...]

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The Dirty Bomb Diaries

July 25, 2011

I wanted to share this with you. The series was mentioned to me by a friend that is also a prepper. It seems it came out in 2009, but thought it relevant as many urban and suburban preppers I know are worried about dirty bombs, especially in NYC where I am on a regular basis. [...]

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Saturday Videos

July 23, 2011

Suburban preppers HUGE stockpile of food Without Rule of Law: “Resurgence of Community” by Nutnfancy

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Doomsday Blues

July 20, 2011

Just like generations past, there are plenty of issues on the horizon that present a challenge to our day and age. Almost every day someone predicts doom is around the corner, mostly so they can point to their YouTube video or blog and say “I told you so.” We are continually hearing that: The Rapture [...]

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Cover vs. Concealment: Know The Difference!

July 19, 2011

“Take cover!” A common and clichéd line from everything from old westerns to sci-fi television shows and movies to even some cartoons. But while entertaining, it is a tactical issue to be understood in the event of an SHTF event that leads to WROL. Even without this it’s just possible to be caught in the [...]

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