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Solutions Are Scary: Part 2 – Economic Rebellion And Black Markets
Solutions Are Scary: Part 2 – Economic Rebellion And Black Markets September 30, 2023 8 Comments In the first article in this series I examined the issue of militias and the public taking its security into its own hands. I did this because frankly, without security, you have nothing. There are millions of people out there, each with […]
Why OpSec Has NEVER Been More Important
Why OpSec Has NEVER Been More Important If you’ve been in prepper circles for long, you’ve probably heard the term OpSec. It is taken from military jargon and it’s short for Operations Security. In the preparedness and survival world, it generally means not letting other people know that you are prepped, or if they know, […]
How Empires Die
How Empires Die When the state / empire loses the ability to recognize and solve core problems of security and fairness, it will be replaced by another arrangement that is more adaptable and adept at solving problems. From a systems perspective, nation-states and empires arise when they are superior solutions to security compared to whatever arrangement […]
Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more
Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others. A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law […]
The Insecurity Industry
The Insecurity Industry The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it 1. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart. I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate. Fixing […]
The Surrender of Liberty in the Name of Security
The Surrender of Liberty in the Name of Security QUESTION: It seems that as we get closer to a change-over of economic systems that as a society we are more willing to give up our rights to the State. Is that part of a pattern during these types of events? Was it seen as Britain, Rome, […]
SELCO: Strategy and Mobility Are More Important Than Storing Lots of Physical Things for the SHTF
SELCO: Strategy and Mobility Are More Important Than Storing Lots of Physical Things for the SHTF Years after my SHTF I am definitely better prepared and organized for anything similar in the future, but just like all things in prepping it is so easy to get again in the same false feeling of being “secure.” […]
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional “For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. […]
What’s the Real Meaning of the Stock Market Swoon?
What’s the Real Meaning of the Stock Market Swoon? Nobody dares discuss it openly for fear of triggering a panic, but there aren’t enough lifeboats for everyone. There’s no shortage of explanations on the whys and wherefores of the US stock market’s recent swoon / swan-dive / plummet. Here’s a few of the many credible […]
US Nuclear Safety: A Critical Problem That Has Largely Been Kept Out of the Public Eye
US Nuclear Safety: A Critical Problem That Has Largely Been Kept Out of the Public Eye The issue of nuclear safety has been a hot topic in the second half of 2018. It has just been discussed in detail at the 62nd International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference in Geneva, which was held Sept. 17-21. The international […]
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks: “America” does what it wants — this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]
An Urban Survival Course with Selco: Noise, Light, and Your Mind Playing Tricks
An Urban Survival Course with Selco: Noise, Light, and Your Mind Playing Tricks NOTE: If you missed the first article in the Urban Survival Course series, go here to read it. Today, we’ll continue on with Selco as he teaches us the lessons students learned in his last course in Croatia. Urban Survival: Keeping a […]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Gordon Parks Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Football practice 1943Here’s a delicious little rant from Dr. D., by now a regular contributor at the Automatic Earth. Dr. D: The schizophrenia surrounding the tariff plan is really startling. But then I could just say, “the level of insanity everywhere is startling.” Self-avowed schmartz-guys […]
State Property
State Property Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal wrung from the trauma of the 1930s a lasting legacy of economic and social reform, including the Social Security Act, new banking and financial laws, regulatory legislation, and new opportunities for organized labor. Taken together, these reforms gave a measure of security to millions of Americans who had […]
