Category Archives: By Ourselves, For Ourselves

Versatile SHTF Clothing Item

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Alaska

A hooded sweatshirt has many uses. It keeps you warm. It breaks up the outline of protective vests and web gear. It can be easily layered. A pair are even better — combine a medium-weight and a thin lightweight, preferably … Continue reading →

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Outrageous Use of SWAT

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Alaska

…from 1973. Admittedly, that was LAPD, which was SWAT-crazy back then anyway (LAPD invented it, after all). But it sure feels like that ridiculous attitude has spread like a virus to every police department in the country.

Posted in By Ourselves, For Ourselves, Color me confused | 1 Comment

Ya wanna be on the TeeVee?

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Phil Kadath

Got this in the email folder the other day, thought y’all might like to know. Hello, I’m currently casting for a pilot television show about preppers/survivalists. I think you may be a great resource for finding well prepared people, who … Continue reading →

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Incredible Shrinking Survival Cans

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Alaska

  While repacking our pantry, I noticed something. Over the past two years, for both our pantry and our survival packs, I’ve been buying Libby’s canned beef thru Amazon (I stopped this year when Costco started carrying its superior canned … Continue reading →

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Ground-Penetrating Radar Finds Your Cache

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Alaska

A colleague just resigned to go work on a ground-penetrating radar project to locate unexploded ordnance from an airborne remote-sensing device at 10,000 feet. A decade ago, this fellow was doing the same work in Columbia. They’d see the cocaine … Continue reading →

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Menagerie of Thoughts

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Alaska

A while back Tam posted a link to this excellent Managing Unknown Contacts presentation. Xavier’s posts Standing on the X and Recognizing Threats are also worth a quick read. For some reason they put me in mind of this Gangstagrass … Continue reading →

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A Solution to the Crisis!

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Alaska

As a proud Gen-Xer (born in the year men first walked ON THE MOON, baby!) I’ve said more than once that most of our problems will end as soon as the last Baby Boomer’s dead & buried. This ‘Boomer’s just … Continue reading →

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Fuel Thieves — What to Do?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Alaska

I came home yesterday to see a local TV news crew doing a live standup halfway down the block. After they finished, I asked what was up, and apparently fuel thieves hit the neighbors, draining one car and attempting to … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/27/11

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Alaska

THERE’S an audible crackle, not loud or piercing, but as if someone is screwing up sweet paper close to your head, and like a string of green fairylights, tracers arc their way almost lazily towards the darkened homestead. Immediately, or … Continue reading →

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Interesting Surgery Video

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Alaska

This video shows a male patient, 26yo with a hepatitis C, dry gangrene of the foot and a wet gangrene of the thigh – the result of intravenous injections of Koaxil – new drug that is popular among heroin-addicted people … Continue reading →

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