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

September 11th – 10 Years Later

by ST | Sep 6, 2011 | Airport Security, General, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Personal, Politics

This 9/11 marks not just anoth­er pass­ing year but an anniver­sary. It’s been 10 years since that fate­ful day in 2001. I was work­ing in low­er Man­hat­tan off Wall Street at that time. The whole thing unfold­ed before my eyes. But this day isn’t about me. It’s... Read more

Important Lessons From the S&P Downgrade and Market Reaction.

by ST | Aug 16, 2011 | Economy, General, Government, Guest Posts, Levels of Awareness, Politics, Preparedness

Not even a week after the S&P down­grade of Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment debt, and the finan­cial mar­ket reac­tion to it, and a very clear set of lessons for prep­pers is emerg­ing clear­ly. As the sce­nario unfolds more analy­sis can be applied and more con­clu­sions... Read more

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

Famine

by ST | Jul 12, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Economy, Food, Gardening, Politics

Famine — a severe short­age of food, as through crop fail­ure or over­pop­u­la­tion. (“famine.” Collins Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary — Com­plete & Unabridged 10th Edi­tion. Harper­Collins Pub­lish­ers.) More than mere­ly a short­age or high­er prices, “famine” is the... Read more

CERT Training Completed

by Prepperjim | Jul 6, 2011 | first aid, Health, Jobs, Politics, Self Reliance, suburban survival

I recent­ly com­plet­ed my Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team (CERT) train­ing. First some back­ground and then an eval­u­a­tion from a prep­per per­spec­tive. CERT’s were formed in the wake of the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks via exec­u­tive order. The train­ing... Read more