guardian.co.uk: US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles
Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran.
The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait – and keeping two ships in the [...]
SurvivalBlog.com: An Insider’s View of the Real Estate Train Wreck
The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we're very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in the nation I wanted more [...]
Stealth Survival: Got Ants?
Here’s a short video showing a large fire ant mound. They can have a large surface area and be even larger underground, sometimes being as much as 30 or 40 feet underground. The larger ones are usually a combination of several colonies and can have as many as three of four queens. This makes large [...]
Stealth Survival: Everyday Survival – Recognizing Life Threatening Situations
Being prepared for a medical emergency needs to include the knowledge of which situations may require you to immediately call emergency services. When dealing with a life threatening situation and other means of safe and immediate transport are unavailable, it is important to remember that EMS should be called immediately, even prior to starting CPR [...]
Keep It Simple Survival: “Awareness”
Here’s the kind of “awareness” I want you to have, and there ain’t no friggin ribbon required (well, camo if you really have to…); I want you to be aware of everything. All that surrounds you, everything that effects you, or could possibly effect you. I want you to be aware of what you’re doing, [...]
bison survival blog: why survive?
Today, the prospects of nuclear war have increased in probability. But more likely than not it will be a limited war rather than a global one. Not guaranteed, but then what is anymore? Most likely we’ll just get a Chernobyl amount of fallout and die in our fifties rather than sixties, assuming we avoid ending [...]
bison survival blog: gun control to major tom
First off, the government has to simply start totally regulating the manufacture of ammunition to get its 80/20 results. It doesn’t have to kick down every door. Not that they would have the manpower. It simply over taxes ammunition. Or declares their components “vital to the national security under Patriot Act Four” or something similar. [...]
Accept The Challenge: Video Tutorial: Long-Term Food Storage
When preparing dried foods for long-term storage, keeping the food away from oxygen, moisture and vermin is paramount (and as a commenter on YouTube noted, it keeps the food away from light – a BIG destroyer of nutrients – as well).
This video tutorial demonstrates how to store rice in mylar bags and food-grade buckets. [...]
Yahoo! News: Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.
The administration argues that the boost is needed to ensure that U.S. [...]
RawStory.com: Beijing sanctions US defense firms, freezes arms control talks
China said Saturday it was suspending military exchanges and security talks with Washington and would impose sanctions on US firms involved in a 6.4 billion-dollar deal to sell arms to Taiwan.
A statement from the foreign ministry a day after Washington approved the sale said Beijing would also halt high level talks on arms control and [...]
