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Saturday Videos

Nov 12, 2011 | General

Understanding Chickens & Eggs : The History of Chickens httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsU86KfIWU& How Clean and Dress a Squirrel httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Q5REMgc90& How to Make a Foxhole Radio httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKmwT0EccE&…

What’s Missing in Your Food Storage

Nov 11, 2011 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

A very short post today… So, I took it upon myself to to re-arrange my food storage last night, repack some of it, consolidate some of it, and just make it a bit more organized. Honestly, it is still not where I want it. However, I needed to make some space since…

Hydration for Adults, by ShaneTheNurse

Nov 10, 2011 | first aid, Health, Hydraton, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Water

We have all heard the phrase “hydrate or die.” unfortunately most Americans fail to heed this advice. When I was working the Arizona desert I noticed an increase in the incidence of pulmonary embolisms. So I did a small study and found that every single person was…

Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse

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 called Surviving The…

Endless Fall – Part 4: Beware the Ides of March

Nov 8, 2011 | Economy, Entertainment, Guest Posts, Personal, Preparedness

Note: The following is the fourth 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. March 12 – 144 days after Black Swan Day My…

Saturday Videos

Nov 5, 2011 | General

This week, I looked for more thought provoking videos than the standard stuff from week to week… As preppers in the burbs of a city, I think we all forget where stuff really comes from, and some of these videos address this. If you are thinking about a bug out…

Wound Repair, by Shanethenurse

Nov 4, 2011 | first aid, Preparedness

NOTE: Shanethenurse is a gentleman I consider a friend, is a prepper, and someone I met on Facebook of all places well over a year ago. We continue to be in touch, chat from time to time, and he offered a few posts around first aid, medicine, etc. since this is an…

A Prepper Ammunition Discussion

Nov 3, 2011 | Guns & Weapons

The other night at dinner we got talking about ammunition caches… We discussed at a high leve what we thought everyone should have (personally speaking, of course). One of the guys brought up JWR’s guide to ammo storage. As you may or may not know, I think JWR, is…

It’s All About the Jobs

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, Less Pay”:…