Endless Fall – Part 5: Hell Comes To Frog Town

by ST | Nov 15, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Food, Government, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Note: The fol­low­ing is the fifth install­ment of a series that rep­re­sents a first-hand chron­i­cle of a fic­tion­al eco­nom­ic col­lapse in the Unit­ed States. This series is to be viewed as only one pos­si­ble sce­nario.   April 2 – 165 days after Black Swan... Read more

Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse

by Prepperjim | Nov 9, 2011 | Barter, Books, Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, first aid, Gold and Silver, Guns & Weapons, Health, Knives, Levels of Awareness, Physical Fitness, Psychology

I recent­ly heard of a man called Fer­nan­do “Fer­fal” Aguirre from Jack Spirko over at The Sur­vival Pod­cast. Fer­fal is from Argenti­na and has lived through their eco­nom­ic crash from Decem­ber 2001 until today. He wrote a booked about his expe­ri­ence... Read more

It’s All About the Jobs

by Prepperjim | Nov 2, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, Prepping

I read this arti­cle and became real­ly con­cerned, fright­ened even. The fig­ures from pay­roll tax­es report­ed to the Social Secu­ri­ty Admin­is­tra­tion on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. Even more alarm­ing is this graph with the title “Few­er Jobs,... Read more

Endless Fall – Part 1: So It Begins

by ST | Oct 18, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Economy, Entertainment, Government, Guest Posts

Note: The fol­low­ing is the first install­ment of a series that rep­re­sents a first-hand chron­i­cle of a fic­tion­al eco­nom­ic col­lapse in the Unit­ed States. No one can say with any cer­tain­ty how such an event would unfold or the social impact it would have.... Read more

Saddened, Stupidity, and Concerned. The Occupy Wall Street Protest(s)

by suburban | Oct 3, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Politics

It’s Mon­day morn­ing.  I am work­ing from home, and I just have to get this off my chest before I actu­al­ly start work­ing.  This has been burn­ing all week­end long in my brain…  I was going to wait to post this until lat­er in the week, but just... Read more

The $5.00 Tipping Point?

by ST | Sep 13, 2011 | Bug Out, Civil Unrest, General, Guest Posts, Money, suburban survival, Urban Survival

As of writ­ing this crude oil is still flow­ing in the Mid­dle East and through the Suez Canal (as well as oth­er prod­ucts) in spite of the chaos in Egypt. Will that last is the ques­tion. And yet even with the con­tin­u­a­tion of oil world prices for crude are... Read more