Survivalism

Review of “Without Rule of Law, Advanced Skills to Help You Survive: Hide, Evade, Scavenge, and Infiltrate”

February 20, 2013

This review is probably months overdue. I’ve had “Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive” for months. It also took me a couple months to get through because I picked it up just every now and then to read it when I had a spare moment. To be sure I did not [...]

Tagged as: civil unrest, Gear, Preparedness, prepping, SHTF, skills, suburban survival, Survivalism, Urban Survival, WROL

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Survival is a Fools Game; I Want to Live by Jesse Mathewson

November 20, 2012

Jesse Mathewson is a contributing author to the Suburban Survival blog. He is an individual who believes in Liberty, Non-Aggression, Self-Defense, Self-Ownership and a Free Market without state interference it is Jesse’s firm belief that we should all be better students in life. His autodactic education in American History, World Religious History, Government and accredited education [...]

Tagged as: Jesse Mathewson, Survivalism

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Book Review: The Survival Template, by Captain John A. Heatherly

November 21, 2011

When I picked up the book “The Survival Template,” I thought it was going to be something different than what it was. I thought it was going to be instruction in something different. Upon further reading I found that it was a John’s high level philosophy on how to prepare “yourself.” for life’s challenges or [...]

Tagged as: Book Review, John A. Heatherly, John Heatherly, The Survival Template

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100 Items a Prepper Must Have for Survival and Barter

October 7, 2011

I was cleaning off the hard drive of my notebook computer, and found a list that I copied and pasted to Microsoft Word a few years ago. I don’t know where I picked it up, but thought I would share it with everyone… 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy…target of thieves; [...]

Tagged as: Barter, Preparedness, prepping, Survivalism

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Lessons Learned from Hurricane Floyd Employed in Hurricane Irene

October 5, 2011

This generous post was contributed by Cameron Green, of Green Academy of Personal Protection. Cam has contributed several other posts, and I continue to value his help and contributions. Please visit his Website at GAPPNJ if you live in the NY, NJ or PA area, and are looking for certification for CCWs, or learning how [...]

Tagged as: Cameron Green, Flooding, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Irene, Natural Disaster, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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Who Will Help me Eat My Bread?

October 4, 2011

There is an old children’s story about someone who asks “Who will help me make my bread?” No one helps. No one helps plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, make the dough, or bake it. But at the end when it is asked who will help eat the bread everyone comes running [...]

Tagged as: Barter, Bartering, Food, Money, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism

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Promises To Keep : Your New Post-SHFT Credit Card

September 27, 2011

There is no honor among thieves. But, thankfully, most people aren’t thieves. Even in a SHTF scenario, with some exception (e.g. Katrina), most people do behave well. For the most part. Living in or near a big city it can be hard to understand that a persons’ word still holds value for a large number [...]

Tagged as: Barter, Batering, Money, Survivalism

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Rural Land for Bug Out Location: A Response to Suburban

September 20, 2011

This article is a response to Suburban’s May 31st article “Thinking About Buying Rural Land for Your Bug Out Location”. A good article certainly. I too have been looking into the possibility of buying some undeveloped (“raw” as Suburban puts it) land, both as a BOL and simply a second get-a-way home for the family. [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out Location

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Rant About the Main Stream Media, Post Hurricane Irene. Following a Post from Modern Survival Blog

September 2, 2011

This post is probably more of a rant, and you will want to read the post over at Modern Survival Blog about Hurricane Irene: Main-Stream Slams Hurricane IRENE Preppers. Honestly, I am fired up. How is it possible the main stream media say something like this? Please read the Main-Stream Slams Hurricane IRENE Preppers post before reading my rant. You will [...]

Tagged as: Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Katia, Rant, Survivalism

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Benefits of CERT Training

August 5, 2011

I live in a community of less than 10,000 people in rural Cache Valley on the ID/UT border with volunteer fire and ambulance service. It’s been 8 months now since I joined my local Community Emergency Response Team. Since then: I have completed CERT level I training (Taught by my city’s FD battalion commander) and [...]

Tagged as: CERT, Personal, prepping, suburban survival, Survivalism

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