America has softened and improved on many controversial topics over the last 50 years. There is a reason we have...
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Oil. Some of the everyday uses are obvious. We use oil as fuel for heating and transportation, we make plastics...
From FreedomPreppers.com Public opinion is largely shaped by the media in all formats including news, cinema and television shows. It...
When it comes to living in the land of the free, how free are we really? How does America's incarceration...
Bounty Hunters Are After Your Guns Actually, I don’t believe in “conspiracies” because the world and life is just too...
The horrific Colorado and Connecticut shootings are still being processed, as I write, into the collective conscience of America. Photo...
Host: The Gun Show The modern militia movement is much more than just a fancy term used to demonize the...
Host: I Am Liberty To me there are few things more demeaning than the idea of a military presence in...
By Linda Holliday Here in the Ozarks, we are expanding our growing areas, relearning old-time skills, acquiring hand tools and...
Midwest Storms Joplin, Missouri bore the brunt of it. But the results broke the hearts of millions of Americans, and...
Mathew Craft, from the Associated Press, wrote a great piece today that explains the EURO crisis brewing across the Atlantic,...
Photo by: touchyaneighbor.com Recently, a small firestorm was ignited by Valerie Lucus-McEwen, a government Emergency Management employee, who had...
Although my experience does not come anywhere near the seriousness of the tragic events like in Colorado, but it did...
It was called the "No Name Storm" and the "Perfect Storm". Yes, It was the same one they made the...
I plan on writing more about this later, but this just floated across my desk and I'm not sure how...
Take a look around you. Read the papers and the news online. Watch the news channels. Part of the...
Gun Control: The media brought it up as a topic almost simultaneously as they announced the Aurora shootings - just...
Introduction I am semi-retired with a small business that teaches disaster preparation training classes. My whole immediate family are preppers...
WHAT IS GROWING IN OUR GARDEN WHAT WE ARE ADDING TO STORAGE The start of fall vining crops: Canned...
One reader wondered why hot, tasty food is categorized as a survival item on SurvivalCommonSense.com, and why I claim recipes...
Sorry folks, I have been sick and slacking on my job, but I am back! Fukushima - is there anything we...
What the Bock Urban Farm is doing: WHAT IS BEING ADDED TO STORAGE WHAT IS BEING PRESERVED 1. 50 lbs...
A very common scene in post-apocalyptic fiction is where the hero, down to his last can of beans and out...
Prepping could be a fad. I mean, it’s possible that there is a combination of ‘end of civilization’, conspiracy and...
We grow all our own vegetables here in "Our Edible Suburb", but if there's one thing we specialize in, it's...
Perhaps as a result of having seen too many Rambo movies back in the day, there still exists this mentality...
Common items can become valuable survival gear when used properly. Among the most useful are some you probably already have...
You remember Rudolph. We sing about him every December (well, these days the Christmas songs start somewhere around the fourth...
If you are reading this you might be wondering: What it is that equips the author to speak on topics...
When I woke this morning and began my daily task, I began thinking on simplicity and what it really means...
The awe of living on a farm sometimes catches me so that I can barely breathe for a minute. This...
Today we live in a world where people believe that nothing bad could ever happen to them, and if it...
ReValue America™ Part 1 To Change a Nation, Start with Yourself Edited transcript of a live audience presentation delivered...
There has been much discussion of late in the Prepper community about National Geographic's "Doomsday Preppers". One frequented point is...
Have you ever wondered how likely it is that you’ll be able to produce all the calories you’ll need on...
This weeks winner for the APN blog post contest was Moomama from Wisconsin.Here is the winning article:http://www.americanpreppersnetwork.com/2011/03/storing-beans-and-rice-in-mylar-bags.html How we determine...