It's every traveler's worst nightmare – a plane crash. Specifically YOUR plane crashing. Certain death, right? It turns out that between 1980 and 2000, almost 90% of airplane...
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Before the kids start glowing…
In this day and age of radioactive threats from a variety of sources, your emergency preparedness should include radiation detecting equipment. You could choose to stick your...
Survival knives – did Rambo have a clue?
For those in the reading audience younger than us, cinematic memory might not stretch back far enough to encompass a set of movies starring Sylvester Stallone as the ex-Vietnam...
Food supply nightmare scenario
We're not saying this absolutely HAS happened but with the explosion of genetically modified crops (GMO), get ready for tomorrow's headline - “GMO Crops Out of Control in...
The EPA can’t protect your water
Last year (September 13) the New York Times published an article detailing how 1 in 10 Americans are drinking tainted tap water. Their source? The Environmental Protection Agency...
You WILL buy healthcare
The Obama regime's new health care mandate requires all American citizens to purchase health insurance. This should come as a surprise to no one. It's simply more of the same...
The next security threat – old copier machines
One of the best examples of urban survival we've run across... Technology allegedly makes your life easier, then sucker punches you in the gut. Exhibit 459,231A is your standard...
Survival in the face of diminishing rights
The concept of eroding liberty is well known to certain segments of the country – namely those who don't turn on the television as soon as they get home. Pull out a copy of the...
Moving to the exurbs
In 1955, Auguste Spectorsky coined the term “exurb”, which was intended to describe that new area of settlement in urban areas even FARTHER out than the traditional suburbs. It's...
Urban survival is more than a bunch of dehydrated food
You can't really fault people for being a bit clueless when it comes to preparing for any of a half dozen urban survival emergencies that could pop up. Sure, a backup food...