Endless Fall – Part 6: Trouble Comes For Dinner
Note: The following is the sixth 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. Contains explicit language. May 2 – 195 days after Black Swan Day My Dearest Children – April showers might […]
Endless Fall – Part 5: Hell Comes To Frog Town
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 Day My Dearest Children – Spring has sprung. Unfortunately the warmer […]
Book Review: Surviving the Economic Collapse
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 Economic Collapse. He also has a blog called The Modern Survivalist. I […]
It’s All About the Jobs
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”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61336135@N06/6273282342/ And from the rest of the article: More significantly, the number of people […]
Would YOU be a shelter? (Remembering Anne Frank)
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 people, to blame for the problem. Rarely do they see themselves as a cause […]
Criminals After the SHTF, or I’m Trying to Get Money for Food, the SHTF for Many Already
Not everyone is a hardened criminal. Not everyone will turn to crime when the SHTF. When people are desperate, they do desperate things when their back is against the wall. Being a former criminology major (a LONG time ago) one of the things I like to do is take the time to watch the crime […]
Car Broken Into In Front Of My Place, a Mini SHTF for Somebody
Living in the suburbs can be tedious at times. I don’t have a driveway, which means I have to part on the street. Which means that a minimum of twice a week sometime three, I am moving my car first thing in the morning for alternate side street cleaning rules. A personal pain in the […]