While government economic stats keep telling a rosy tale of recovery, many are skeptical of Washington's "good news" stories. What are some of the big players doing to prepare for a possible economic collapse? Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne joins th
I've been posting SurvivalBlog for more than 10 years. I've seen a lot of great products come to market, but very few of them have been truly novel concepts.
Editor's Comment: Hard times may be coming for many more Americans, so learning to adapt to these conditions and survive - in an everyday sense of things - is becoming increasingly important.
Some of the things that the elite are demanding for their own protection go beyond even what we would see in a James Bond film, and serving the prepping needs of the elite has become a multi-billion dollar business.
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne's crusade against naked short sellers in particular, and Wall Street and the Federal Reserve in general, has long been known and thoroughly documented (most recently with his push to use blockchain technology to revolution
Millions of Americans were gearing up for some huge event to happen in September, but the world didn't end and now many of them have given up entirely on prepping.
Way back in 2007, when I first became aware of the need to prepare for an increasingly uncertain future, I was convinced that our family needed to move from the city to a hidey-hole or a cabin in the woods, commonly referred to as "rural survival r
There is a primal link between man and fire. For ancient man, fire provided warmth, protection from wild animals, light in the dark wilderness, and a place to cook food.
Why are the global elite buying extremely remote compounds that come with their own private airstrips in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the planet?
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural disaster. Michael McDaniel took this as a design challenge. His Exo housing system--
Damian McBride is the former head of communications at the British treasury and former special adviser to Gordon Brown, erstwhile Prime Minister of the U.K. Yesterday he tweeted some surprising advice in response to the plunge in global equities mark
Structural vulnerability comes from financial neglect, which leads back to politics. "There's a lot of political incentive to fund new, shiny infrastructure, but less of an incentive to be a responsible caretaker of stuff that's already built,
I fully realize that most of us Americans cannot fathom a world in which food cannot be obtained from the supermarket or fuel cannot be obtained from the corner gas station or that the power grid could be offline for more than a few hours.
We're always on the look out for new ideas for shelters in the case of an emergency, or disaster situation. Recently we ran across a modular survival shelter known as the Bunkhouse.
Skip, the Village Armorer and Praxis Editor just put together a major project on the EDC bag. He and I are both Maxpedition fanboys and love the slingbag concept. Can't be beat. We have an entire discussion board devoted to both EDC and Village Pra
As preppers, if we stored a different product for each of our cleaning needs, we'd need a storage room the size of Costco to put it all in. That's why I love vinegar.
Leo Magpoc (Magpoc Homestead) talks about this past weekend at the Jackalope Freedom Festival, the changes over the years at the event, and what to look for in the future at the event - Paul Rosenberg (Freeman's Perspective) on living free
Three North Carolina men fearing a government takeover and martial law stockpiled weapons, ammunition and tactical gear while attempting to rig home-made explosives, according to charges announced by the Justice Department on Monday.
Three North Carolina men fearing a government takeover and martial law stockpiled weapons, ammunition and tactical gear while attempting to rig home-made explosives, according to charges announced by the Justice Department on Monday.