Are Preppers Being “Set UP” on YouTube?

by ST | Jul 26, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Politics

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... Read more

Cover vs. Concealment: Know The Difference!

by ST | Jul 19, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Guest Posts, Guns & Weapons, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

“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... Read more

Higher Standards

by ST | Jul 5, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Personal, Psychology

Survivalists/preppers have nev­er been por­trayed well in the mod­ern media and enter­tain­ment fields.  At best, they are por­trayed in as a com­i­cal cliché like in the 1983 movie “The Sur­vivors” (Wal­ter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jer­ry Reed – very fun­ny... Read more

Learn To Read A Map!!

by ST | Jun 28, 2011 | General, Guest Posts, Navigation, Personal

This is as much an arti­cle as a rant. I can’t believe how many peo­ple can­not fol­low sim­ple trav­el direc­tions or read a basic road map! I’m not talk­ing about a topog­ra­phy or geo sur­vey map. Not even a marine chart. Just a basic road map. Nor am I refer­ring... Read more

Would YOU be a shelter? (Remembering Anne Frank)

by ST | Jun 21, 2011 | Crime, Economy, Guest Posts, Politics, Shelter, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Every­one loves a scape­goat. Through­out his­to­ry when­ev­er some­thing ter­ri­ble hap­pens either for rea­sons too com­plex for the com­mon per­son to grasp or just the cul­mi­na­tion of many oth­er events peo­ple as a whole try to seek out some­one, some group of... Read more

A Cold Winter in Urbania

by ST | Jun 14, 2011 | Economy, Energy, Guest Posts, Personal, Urban Survival

It may not be the cold­est win­ter on record but the win­ter of 2010/2011 sure felt like it was in the North­east. And it is def­i­nite­ly one of the snowiest in liv­ing mem­o­ry and on record. Pret­ty much every week since the begin­ning of the New Year has brought a... Read more