Home » Posts tagged 'disaster' (Page 3)
Tag Archives: disaster
Why and how to wargame your emergency/disaster plans
Why and how to wargame your emergency/disaster plans I spent a lot of years in the military and have worked with many different agencies and countries in that time. One thing I found universally true is the more effective and higher-level a groups (Delta, Special Forces, Navy SEALS, S.A.S, etc, the more they wargame their […]
How preppers prepare for hurricanes: a comprehensive look
How preppers prepare for hurricanes: a comprehensive look Everybody’s a prepper when the storm comes. Unfortunately this particular portrayal of peripheral preparedness not only did a disservice to the prepper community, it dissuaded many people from pursuing training or meeting others that could have helped them understand how to be ready for emergencies before they […]
Florida Stores Running Out Of Water, Gas As Gov Warns “Make Sure Your Disaster Kits Are Ready” For Irma
Florida Stores Running Out Of Water, Gas As Gov Warns “Make Sure Your Disaster Kits Are Ready” For Irma Hurricane Irma is hurtling toward the eastern US faster than meteorological models anticipated. According to the latest readings from NOAA, the storm will probably make landfall in Southeastern Florida next weekend, or perhaps earlier – that […]
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn How watching the right indicators will avoid disaster The planet-sized egos of rock & roll performers are legendary. Few things symbolize this better than the outrageous requests they often make when on tour. These requests are referred to as “riders”, and appear in the contract a tour […]
Prepping Lives Of The Rich & Famous: “Far Away From All The Issues Of The World”
Prepping Lives Of The Rich & Famous: “Far Away From All The Issues Of The World” It used to be that the term “doomsday prepper” evoked a certain visual of an ultra-conservative, bearded woodsman with slightly less than stellar hygiene practices living in the middle of no where with an arsenal of weaponry and a […]
What Is The Government Preparing For?
What Is The Government Preparing For? You may not be getting prepared for a major national disaster, but the government sure is. I have been informed that in recent months numerous emergency food companies have been contacted by the government, and they have been told that their inventories could potentially be seized in the event […]
Degrowth by designed disaster?
Degrowth by designed disaster? How the conflation with neoliberalism and austerity unfairly reduces the idea of degrowth to absurdity – and where the degrowth movement can turn for answers to the crisis. The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism’s comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the […]
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed “the Beast“, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]
Survival Communications After a Collapse: “Pringles Can And Broadband Routers Could Create a WiFi Network”
Survival Communications After a Collapse: “Pringles Can And Broadband Routers Could Create a WiFi Network” Are you truly prepared to survive what is coming? It could prove to be the darkest period yet for modern civilization and the age of technocracy. An EMP, a natural disaster, a nuclear attack, an economic collapse or a declaration […]
‘Thunderstorm Spiral’: Pentagon Trains for Underground War/Disaster In Densely-Populated MegaCities
‘Thunderstorm Spiral’: Pentagon Trains for Underground War/Disaster In Densely-Populated MegaCities As populations grow into cities across the globe, and increasing majority of people will live in urban areas – places which quickly become very desperate and vulnerable during a major crisis. Every prepper knows the dangers of being stuck in a major metropolitan city in […]
If You Don’t Warn The People, Their Blood Could Be On Your Hands
If You Don’t Warn The People, Their Blood Could Be On Your Hands Why are so few voices warning the people about what is coming? We stand at the door of a period of distress that will be unlike anything that any of us have ever known before. And even though the signs are all […]
Vehicular Survival Basics And Tools That Will Keep You Alive When Disaster Strikes And You’re On The Road And Away From Home
Vehicular Survival Basics And Tools That Will Keep You Alive When Disaster Strikes And You’re On The Road And Away From Home The world we live in today is unstable. We face the possibility of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, viral outbreaks, power outages, water shortages, the list goes on and on. Hurricane Katrina showed proved […]
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide Whether it’s a natural disaster, bioterrorist attack or pandemic, experts reckon society as we know it will collapse within 13 days of a catastrophic event. So what do you do next? Ubisoft’s role-playing shooter The Division wouldn’t be as much fun if players followed Nafeez Ahmed’s […]
Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience
Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience Requires a good map. Got one? Continuing our focus on solutions, this week we’re joined on the podcast by Jack Spirko. His daily podcast focuses on practical, actionable steps each of us can take to “live a better life, if times get tough or even if they don’t” — a mission […]
