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First Aid Kits

In most wars, more people die from disease and infection than from combat wounds. The ability to provide immediate first aid to family members and guests can mean the difference between an interesting story to tell the grandchildren and a disaster that ends with a shovel and a bouquet of flowers. You cannot count on emergency medical personnel to always be available — or to respond in a timely manner. In the event of a real disaster, your “emergency” could be put on hold for days while first responders are dealing with other wounded. It is the responsibility of each [...]

Thieves have discovered an easy way to get into vehicles — car remote jammers. These are cheap electronic devices which block the signal between your car remote and your car. Many people click their car remote to lock their vehicle and then fail to verify that their vehicle actually locked. The thieves know this and they wait for vehicle owners to leave their cars and jam the signal so that the cars do not successfully lock. The thieves may not be intending to steal the vehicles, but may only be interested in stealing the contents of the vehicles. This can [...]

Surviving the Economic Collapse has one seriously important advantage over almost all other disaster preparedness books — the author has really lived through the disaster he writes about. Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre was a young man in Argentina when the socialist government’s tax and spend policies caused a drastic devaluation of the peso and a contraction of the economy so severe that is led to social collapse. In the last 42 years the Argentinian government has dropped thirteen zeros from the value of a peso. One 2011 peso is the equivalent of ten trillion 1969 pesos. This is inflation far surpassing [...]

The question is not “will the food supply fail?”, the question is “when and where will the food supply fail next?” Food scarcity caused famine and death in China in the 1950′s, across Europe in the 1940′s, in Russia in the 1910′s, and in the American South in the 1860′s. During these time periods, millions of people were cut off from reliable supplies of safe and nutritious foods. In China alone, approximately 30 millions people died of starvation during Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.” Historically, bad government is the #1 cause of famine, but food shortages can also be caused by [...]

A good security camera system will enable you to conveniently view remote portions of your property. It will also enable you to record violations of your property rights to aid in the apprehension and prosecution of offenders. Wired vs. Wireless Security Cameras Wireless security cameras are quite popular right now, but they are susceptible to RF jamming and are theoretically susceptible to signal interception. RF jammers are widely available and inexpensive. With an RF jammer, an attacker can prevent your wireless security camera from successfully transmitting it’s signal back to the viewing and recording equipment. An attacker might do this [...]

The United States has been a model of stability since the end of the Civil War in 1865. Over one hundred years of domestic tranquility has caused many Americans to forget that all governments tend towards tyranny. The United States faces many risks, some created by the nations successes, others by its failures, and still other which are simply bad luck. The wealth and power of the United States attracts fear and resentment from members of less capable cultures. The U.S. has largely been able to ignore those people up to this point, but within a few decades many groups [...]

Food security is something most of us take for granted, because we have enjoyed easy access to relatively inexpensive food all of our lives. This is a relatively new phenomena for humanity and is still only true for a small portion of the more than six billion humans living on this planet. In a civil emergency or natural disaster, the food distribution chain can easily become disrupted. You may be able to go to your local grocery store, but your local grocery store may not have food available for you to purchase. Worse, in a real civil emergency, it may [...]

Access to a resource or resources can be controlled by any number of ways and resources can include property such as buildings, data, financial information or personal privacy. Access control systems can be as simple as putting a coin in the door to gain entry to a bathroom stall or as sophisticated as biometric scanning before entry is granted. The control systems themselves can be anything from physical barriers to armed guards checking authorization before entry can be granted. The guards in many cases will simply verify and compare your name against a list of authorized personnel. Typically, before technology [...]

We are at our most vulnerable when traveling. We step out from behind the shelter of our walls and security systems and leave our best security tools behind due to convenience and legal restrictions. An attacker with a bit of patience will wait until their victim is traveling to conduct their attack with the greatest possibility of success. However, there are steps we can take to make the attackers job more difficult. Timing Never tell anyone when you are planning to leave your home. If you are attending a scheduled event, leave earlier than necessary in order to make it [...]

Charlie bars are an extremely simple and cheap way to significantly increase the security of sliding doors and windows. Sliding doors can be insecure because many can be pried open fairly easily. They tend to be secured with small hook locks which can be forced up and out of their loops. A charlie bar will make this technique far less effective. You can make a charlie bar yourself from an old broomstick or rake handle. Just cut the handle to the right length and place it in the track of the sliding door or window. Heavier stock works better, because [...]

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Car Remote Jammers

Surviving the Economic Collapse

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