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Somewhere between people fleeing the tyranny of monarchy and the class system and the unfair practices it fostered, the folks looking for the freedom to practice their deeply held religious beliefs – those ordinary human beings who only wanted a chance to control their own lives and fortunes with their wits and sweat and the adventurers who wanted to be a part of taming a new land – yes, somewhere between this breed of men and women and the present day, America's train has jumped the track. There was a time when a mule and 40 acres was considered a...

LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO) -- The Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management has put out a new guide on how to prepare for a major disaster. The 100-page guide includes recommendations on how to survive and recover from a major event, like earthquakes, floods, fires, and civil unrest. The guide says that in the event of a major disaster, people should be prepared to be on their own for several days before professional emergency responders are available to help them. For more information and to view the guide, click [the link below]

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La Jolla.

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. - Hurricane season begins June 1. To be ready for a hurricane, or any other disaster, the Mobile County Health Department recommends that people collect and store these 10 essential items: 1. Water: Have one gallon per person per day to use for drinking, hygiene and cleaning as needed. Purchased bottled water has an indefinite shelf life as long as the seal has not been broken. If purity is uncertain, treat water with either of these methods: Boil at a rolling boil for 3-5 minutes. Let cool before drinking. To improve the taste, pour from one clean...

Scouts can earn activity badges for skills from skateboarding to global conservation, but the new chief scout could herald the prospect of members tackling some slightly trickier future pursuits – such as eating snakes and climbing Mount Everest. Bear Grylls, 34, the former SAS man and survivalist who, as television viewers will know, long ago earned his stripes for both the above, said he would be encouraging more adults to volunteer so that 33,000 youngsters on waiting lists could join scout groups. Grylls will become the youngest chief scout in the organisation's 102-year history later this year when he replaces...

Neil Strauss hardly seems like a guy who'd kill a goat and gut it with his own hands. A slim intellectual in silver jewelry and designer jeans, he doesn't appear to be the kind of person who would stash food in a forest or plot an escape from his Los Angeles-area home using fire trails and a motorcycle he barely knows how to ride. Yet that's precisely what Strauss has learned to do in the past three years in an effort to prepare himself should society collapse. It's a journey he not only chronicles in his new book, "Emergency: This...

In the serene hills of rural upstate New York, Kathie Breault is hunkering down for doomsday. It's not an all-out Armageddon that the 51-year-old grandmother is convinced of, but an imminent economic apocalypse. A few years ago, Breault began reading about what happens when the world surpasses "peak oil" -- a point where we will use more oil than we can produce. "I was afraid that any day that oil would disappear, that gas would start to disappear, that I wouldn't be able to get to work, I wouldn't have money, I wouldn't have food that I needed," she said....

I thought is was a good idea to add a page on the site about the core philosophy I have about being survival minded and modern survivalism. My hope is that individuals from those areas will enjoy this site but that the “average Joe” and the “average Jane” will also get a great deal from my site and podcast as well. The core of my philosophy about being prepared, life style planning, self sufficiency and energy independence can be summed up with in the following 10 core values… 1. Everything you do to “prepare” for emergencies, disasters or economic turmoil...