The overwatch rifle is not just a tool, it is also a strategy, and when I refer to “overwatch”, I am referring to a guerrilla methodology, not the standard military usage involving sniper support.

Full-Spectrum Fiscal Disaster Is No Longer Theory; It Is Certain…

With the situation looking more grim by the day, it is very clear that stockpiling is not enough… We have become so dependent on the “buy it as you need it” lifestyle that despite our food storage, there are still gaps that must be filled… And the only way to fill these gaps is through that which is a step beyond prepping….self sufficiency.

What will have value when society falls apart? Here are some insights from someone who has lived it.

People are starting to see the cracks gaping holes in our society, economy, etc…, one thing that will be more and more important to everyone who moves towards a preparedness, self-reliant lifestyle is the skill to put the best plans in place. We know that it doesn’t come down to the best gear, it comes down to knowing how to do “the stuff.” This edition focuses on skills…

What we’re gonna do is teach you how to get about town without becoming a target, yet blend in perfectly…

The act of bugging out brings on its own set of potentially dangerous problems that you will have to deal with and suffer through “on the fly.”

Every day, the United Nations and the Powers That Be take steps towards food totalitarianism. They do so flying a standard of “sustainability” but what they are actually trying to sustain is NOT our natural resources, but their control.

When a true mega-scale cataclysm strikes, your choices today will determine your probability of death or survival. Which choice will you make?

Being shot, or, hit with indirect shrapnel, is not a problem many of us want to imagine having to deal with. Some preppers, believe it or not, refuse to acknowledge that fighting may ever occur.

Hope this gives you a few ideas on items you haven’t checked off your bug out bag checklist quite yet. We know one bug out bag isn’t right for every occasion, but this is how we are packing our bags for a TEOTWAWKI scenario.

According to the World Health Organization, the H7N9 bird flu virus is one the most lethal influenza strains ever identified… If this virus has become transmittable by way of human to human contact it’s likely that government officials, in an effort to prevent panic, will wait as long as possible before they disseminate information to the public.

I pray every day that these things never come to pass and that my children will be able to grow up in the land of the free and the home of the brave as I have. But know this; you will have in your life a defining moment in the upcoming world we live in. By taking some time now to write down different scenarios and analyze your response to different situations you will at least have the luxury of defining the moment on your terms instead of the alternative where you allow the moment to define you.

The truth is that this generation has never experienced anything resembling a time when the danger outside the front door caused normal citizens to pause before venturing out…

Building an emergency pantry is one of those lifelines that takes both time and planning to make it fully functional.

Like being at the poker table, to win you must either be all in, or don’t bother playing.

Do you want to know what it’s really like? If so, then the best place to acquire first hand information about what you’ll experience when the world as we know it collapses is from combat veterans and people who have been through the worst of what humanity has to offer…

Make no mistake, Cyprus is a trial run and they will be coming for money in your accounts very soon. So, what can you do about it?

Catastrophes occur all the time. Sometimes they are regional, sometimes they are national, and sometimes they are global. Since the age of the baby boomer, America has been spared widespread disaster for the most part, and this has bred in us a deep-rooted normalcy bias

According to first responders on the scene the plane was, “completely totaled in the wreck, after flipping and partially detaching the wings.”

SHTF doesn’t generally drop by at the best of times. In fact, SHTF thrives and grows exponentially under more adverse circumstances.

Start by preparing for small-scale emergencies and then slowly begin adding onto those existing preps to create a longer term preparedness supply.

Why would the government be spending hundreds of billions of dollars to prepare if there wasn’t a reasonable chance that such events could come to pass?

Where are you going to draw the line?

While most of us think of things like natural disasters, economic collapse and pandemics, many occurrences are much more mundane. They are those small personal disasters that can hit any of us, at any time.

Diversification and assuming that multiple events of varying degrees and effects can play out is critical to any complete SHTF plan. If you’re caught unprepared with none of these ‘hard assets’ in your personal inventory, how will you manage?

The first things to go will be food, clean water, sanitation and human decency.

The great dilemma in being a prepper: How do we divide or allocate our limited money and resources the wisest way possible? We want to be both prepared for eventualities and still have opportunities for profit. We want to be prosperous no matter what happens, either a free stable trend, or to hell in a hand basket. We will examine some of these decisions and what tools we need to land on the right side of profitable vs prepared.

Once again, preppers are left, shaking our heads, asking what it will take to wake people up.

What separates the prepper from the average Joe who buys insurance is the lifestyle of a prepper. Preppers just think differently than most people. Preppers are independent thinkers who instead of wanting to be taken care of, we want to produce and provide and sacrifice the now for the future.

Today, just a short time after a financial collapse that rocked global financial markets, Europe’s darling has turned into a frightening example of what happens when governments and their people take on more debt than they can ever hope to repay.

Preparing for an actual worst case scenario is similar to the preparations one would make for extended period without adequate food and water supplies and access to emergency services.

As you might have noticed by this point, there’s more to preps and gearing up for a civilization reboot than just stacking, racking, and packing. There’s more to it all than just getting good at the rifle range.There is civilization itself.

It was an astounding discovery. The mountain was more than 150 miles from the nearest settlement, in a spot that had never been explored. The Soviet authorities had no records of anyone living in the district.

Are you preparing for the collapse of society? If so, the truth is that you are definitely not alone.

You need to weigh the risks of bugging out vs. hunkering down and make your final decision based on logic and type of threat. That’s the way decisions should be made, unfortunately many people when making plans for survival side with emotion (that emotion being to run and hide) instead of the more tried and true form of decision-making known as logic.

When you ask someone a question, they are almost forced to think about what you just said and come up with a response. And without a doubt, the fact that America is in decline is undeniable. Those that would choose to blindly have faith in the system are foolish, because it is glaringly obvious that the system is failing.

There are three principles you need to learn: Disguise, distraction, and concealment.

Making its debut on January 17th, the Stealth Wear line will include hoodies, scarves, hats, and t-shirts that will make the wearer invisible to thermal imaging cameras widely used throughout the unmanned aerial vehicle community.

Here is a list of 100 things… Things that would add a brief moment of joy to the potentially dreary days ahead. Many of them have both luxury purposes as well as useful purposes with respect to survival mode…

I don’t live in fear – I live in security…

Supplies are so tight and reserves are so low that we literally have no room for an unexpected event in 2013.

Have you noticed that it has become trendy to bash preppers? For a long time the prepper movement was ignored, but now it has become so large that it is getting very difficult for the mainstream media to pretend that it is not there.

As survivalists who are preparing to make an economic end-game scenario as “comfortable” to live through as we can, it is incumbent upon us to consider the kind of company we keep during the gambit.

Gone are the days in which people were highly inspired to put away for tomorrow in the off-chance that things become lean and scarce. That kind of thinking has been replaced with the commercial paradigm of “living for the moment”…

The government has gone to great lengths to let us know that there are no potential threats on the horizon…

Instead of looking down our noses at citizen preppers, and smugly judge their reasons, we should focus on what we have in common, and learn to work with them…

If you can’t afford to have an off-grid electrical system installed at your home, does this mean that you are destined for an over-crowded shelter, or worse, doomed to failure in the event of a down-grid situation?

Now we were totally exposed. Vulnerable. As a result, we’ve had to move ALL of our supplies elsewhere – off-site – because we had mistakenly trusted…

Unlike most survival/preparation resources, we’re going to assume that civilization will break down completely, and will likely take at least a century or more to return to the level it is now…