For much of history, human survival was dependent upon the ability to make fire. Most modern humans will never find themselves in a situation where their survival depends upon their ability to make a fire, but creating fire without matches is still a pretty neat trick to know. There are emergency fire-making kits available commercially, but they tend to be costly. Besides, if you can manage to carry an emergency fire-making kit everywhere you go, you can manage to carry a lighter. In a real emergency, you will likely have to make do with common materials you can forage from around you. Here is a method for starting a fire using your cell phone. You may even want to grab a (Read more....)

The following is a guest post by Dennis Evers, the author of an upcoming book entitled "How to Handle a Crisis". In this article, Evers gives us some basic disaster and emergency survival tips that all Americans should be putting into practice but are not. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans always leave things until the last minute. But unfortunately, in the economic hard times that are coming "preparing at the last minute" is just not going to cut it. Right now Americans need to be storing up food, medical supplies and emergency equipment.  There are millions of Americans that have become "preppers" and more are joining the movement every day.  Hopefully what Evers has to say will inspire all of us to (Read more....)

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst environmental disaster in all of U.S. history.  It has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage (at least) and it has permanently altered the Gulf of Mexico for the remainder of our lifetimes.  The loss of wildlife and habitats is incalculable.  The survival of hundreds of species is now in question.  This is a national nightmare that is going to stay with us for decades.  It would be incredibly difficult to understate the scope of this tragedy.  Let us hope that authorities can find a way to keep this kind of massive oil spill from ever happening again.

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Haiti has become yet another example (just like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina) of how when society breaks down, evil comes out to play.  We have all seen pictures or video footage of the machete-wielding gangs and looters that have been ravaging Port-au-Prince since the earthquake.  If not for the U.S. and U.N. troops that have been inserted into Haiti, the whole nation would be an utter madhouse at this point.  But the point of this article is not to dump on Haiti.  The truth is that we have seen this kind of thing all over the world when society breaks down.  After all, have we forgotten the horrors in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina so quickly?  The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted every day only exists as long as society (Read more....)

Most Americans have absolutely no idea that over the past couple of decades, one giant corporation has achieved a virtual monopoly on some of the most important seed markets in the United States.  Not only that, but this same company has done more to push genetically modified food on to the dinner tables of America than any other corporation.  The name of that giant corporation is Monsanto, and today approximately 95 percent of all soybeans and approximately 80 percent of all corn in the United States (Read more....)

Mass graves are being prepared in Houston, Phoenix, California and in other major metropolitan areas across the United States, and nobody seems to know what they are for. The most common cover story is that these mass graves are for burying U.S. military casualties, but is the U.S. military really expecting thousands upon thousands of additional deaths in the near future? Watch the following videos and decide for yourself. Are these mass graves completely innocent in nature, or is there something much more disturbing going on here?

The most recent video of mass graves is out of Houston, Texas. The scope of this project appears to be absolutely massive. What could be the purpose of such a large number of mass graves?.....