January 2010

Bug Out Bag Guns (What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You)

January 30, 2010

I’m not a big fan of the bug out bag survival strategy. In a nutshell you’re voluntarily becoming, a refugee, but looking at the recent disasters in New Orléans and Haiti it is obvious that a bug out bag and get out of dodge strategy are not only needed but required for anyone who is prepared. A few days [...]

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Reader Feedback

January 29, 2010

It’s time for a reader question – How can I make The Survivalist Blog more useful for you? I plan to ask readers this question every six months to a year in an effort to keep improving the blog and making it more effective in helping to improve your survival preps. Everyone has an idea [...]

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Bugging Out With Children

January 28, 2010

M.D. – I have been asked this question and I wonder if we could get your feed back? A family with children, say 6 to 10 years old, male and female parent. If they have to leave for 2 days or a little more before they can come back, what should they have in each [...]

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Full Feed RSS Enabled! Subscribe Now!

January 28, 2010

This is my second blatant attempt to get more people to subscribe to my RRS feed (now at 2,008 readers). The RSS feed is now a full feed. That means you can read my blog directly from RSS without having to come here. The RSS feed has no advertising.

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Collapse – It's coming are you ready?

January 28, 2010

Huge Tax Hikes ComingU.S. Households Struggle to Afford Food: SurveyMassive Depression In America: Poverty Levels Near 30%Job Cuts Get Brutal: Sprint, Pfizer, Home Depot, CaterpillarChinese Takeover Of America10,000 Laid Off Now At Sams Club

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I'll Be Back

January 27, 2010

Look for my regular posting later this afternoon – I’ve got to go two counties to the north to help out a friend. It seems a tree fell across the top of his house, doing some major damage in the process. Fortunately no one was hurt, he just needs help repairing the damage.

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Thanks to The Survivalist Blog Sponsors!

January 26, 2010

Just a quick note to say thanks to the sponsors who allow us to strive for bigger and better things for you, The Survivalist Blog audience. Pay them a visit to see what they have to offer, won’t you? Paladin Press Ready Made Resources The Ready Store Emergency Essentials Security Pro U.S.A. Red Barn Workshop [...]

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Do You Have a Post-TEOTWAWKI Trade?

January 25, 2010

Mr. Creekmore, I am a regular reader of your Survival Blog and appreciate your insights, advice and hard work. As you too are a recent reader of Mr. Rawle’s How to survive teotwawki, I was wondering what your opinion is of his admonition that everyone should have an “iron age occupation” to fall back on? [...]

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Survival and Emergency Preparedness Information

January 24, 2010

1,737,898 bytes of free survival and emergency preparedness information – everything from first-aid, food and shelter. Break out the printer.

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Reader Feedback

January 24, 2010

Mr. Creekmore: I don’t have a blog or any kind of url to link back to, I just wanted to let you know my opinion of your book, “It’s the end of the world as we know it-and I feel fine .” I have been growing increasingly concerned over the past couple years about the [...]

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Unemployment Funds Running Out

January 24, 2010

The record 20 million Americans who collected unemployment insurance benefits last year landed on a safety net that was already deeply frayed. New Interactive: ProPublica Predicts if Your State’s Unemployment Insurance Fund Is About to Hit the Skids A historical compromise has left responsibility for unemployment benefits largely in the hands of states, and they [...]

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An Economic Emergency

January 24, 2010

How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children. The door is being slammed on the American dream and [...]

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Are you a Prepper or a Survivalist?

January 22, 2010

From The Urban Dictionary – 1. Prepper: Someone who focuses on preparedness, generally for various worst-case scenarios By all indications political correctness has found its way into the ranks of the preparedness movement. In the late 1980s those preparing for an uncertain future embraced the term survivalist – a term Kurt Saxon claims to have [...]

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CIA has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government

January 22, 2010

US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government , and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said: There’s been a [...]

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No Recovery: Economic Stats Have Been Faked

January 22, 2010

Author, investor and longtime Wall Street observer James Dale Davidson says the government is lying to us: There is no genuine economic recovery happening. “I think what we have seen … is a simulated recovery which has been generated by the government faking it in a lot of different ways,” putting out what he calls [...]

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U.S. Financial Obligations Exceed The Entire World’s GDP

January 22, 2010

The total liabilities of the United States government, including future social security and medicare payments that the U.S. government is already committed to pay out, now exceed 65 TRILLION dollars, which is more than the entire GDP of the whole world. According to the 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government, which is an [...]

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Blast From The Past

January 21, 2010

I’ve been blogging for several years now. However, a lot of the current readership has discovered this blog only in recent months. While some readers have gone and read every single post I’ve written, most are just keeping up with my current ramblings. I understand it can be a daunting task to read over 1,000 [...]

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Seagal Tactical Gear

January 21, 2010

What? I hope his “Seagal Tactical Gear” is better than his last few movies.

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The Big Question: Are You Better Than Yesterday?

January 20, 2010

Big goals? Learn to think small. (Photo: H. Koppdelaney) Many of us have a hard time getting and staying motivated. As time goes on, we lose focus of our preparedness goals or are sidetracked  by other unrelated issues. Life happens. But at the same time so does disaster. We need to stay focused and strive [...]

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Travel Berkey

January 20, 2010

Jeff at Directive 21 wanted me to let you know about the special he is having on the Travel Berkey Systems – I have one of his Big Berkey filters and love it – now if I could get him to send me the Travel Berkey for review, I’d be set.

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