Some of the most-read preparedness bloggers & authors sound off.
Preserving meat requires energy to be expended. Very simple concept. It is the method of using that energy that is of interest to us. The use of electrical energy via freezing is the most common form of meat preservation today — and…
MAKING JERKY Modern store bought jerky is not real jerky. It is too thin, too small, too soft, and is often preserved with chemicals. Real homemade jerky is thicker, longer, and very stout! It is tough! To eat real jerky, you “worry”…
I am so often disheartened as I see in the news the numbers of people, especially women and children, who die by violence in their own homes. A particularly horrible home invasion/rape/murder* of a mother and her two daughters in nearby Cheshire,…
I sometimes wonder at the seeming scarcity of female preppers and survivalists. My theory is that there are lots of them, just not labeling themselves as such. In fact, I didn’t always identify this way myself. I simply went about my daily…
Not Louisiana or Texas! After last week’s horrifying news of tornadoes that swept across the South, killing over 350 people, you had to wonder: Is anywhere in America safe? On the Mid-Atlantic coast, there’s hurricanes, which every year seem to be getting…
Life is an amazing and complex wonder. Only on Earth are there life forms that can live in waters hundreds of degrees temperature, life that lives in well below freezing, life that lives in environments without water, or light. There is even…
Anyone can suddenly find themselves in an emergency survival situation, or have a disaster land in their lap without any warning. How well one survives or IF one survives at all could be a matter of luck, but as it has been…
Welcome! The Prepping Pointers column aims to provide practical advice and how-to information on increasing your self-reliance by improving your level of emergency preparedness. Our intent is to foster a freer, stronger society by helping you realize: …how your lifestyle, which relies…
Mutually Assured Economic Destruction (MAED) defines the concept of a group of nations whose economies are so interdependent on one another to maintain solvency that the failure of one assures that all nations that are economically tied to it also experience failure….
Communications Security is the discipline of preventing unauthorized individuals from accessing communications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients. In the United States Department of Defense culture, Communications Security is often referred to by the abbreviation COMSEC….
