On days when conditions—water, nourishment, heat, lions—permitted, the woman, her mate, and the boy would gather great bunches of the fragrant plant known as “parfum d’Ethiopia.” Artemisia arborescens was a most useful tool in the survival of this “family.” You see, it provided cover. More specifically, it provided reliable cover for the entrance of the […]
Finger Pointing And Paper Towel Tossing: Disaster Relief Disasters

As catastrophes of all kinds occur more frequently, government does what’s best—for government “… I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So, I was […]
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Hundreds of new U.S. communities are cropping up with important physical centers—farms Reducing the sizes of private, single-family backyards. Offering instead anywhere from 5 to 300 acres of land for farming that benefits the entire community and neighboring ones. An outgrowth of the farm-to-table movement, this model for city planning is coming into a bumper […]
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Survival prep isn’t only “bugging out” to the boonies A few months ago here on my ULTIMATE ERROR blog, I wrote about the burgeoning real estate submarket for disaster preppers. Perhaps not surprisingly, places like rural Montana and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado are leading the way. However, the capitalist cheer of “different strokes for […]
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At the junction of fear and entrepreneurship, survival lessons for cash What isn’t a commodity in America today? Capitalism is a robustly effective economic system, yet, as forces of industry and government embark on ever-bolder experiments towards purer exercises of it, every solid, liquid, gas, and concept—corrupt or otherwise—is up for sale. Consider an article […]
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Much depends on how large a disaster you will allow yourself to imagine A “bunker food” company called Augason Farms offers a package of freeze-dried food (for around $3,600.00) that will feed four people for one year. Think about that for a moment. What type of disaster that is survivable (at least by some) would […]
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“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” –Matthew 8:36 As we enter the home stretch of the 2016 election cycle, it seems little escapes appropriation by “Team Red” or “Team Blue” – two sides ever rooting for themselves and never acknowledging the virtues of […]
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On Saturday night, a 26-year-old man wearing body armor and armed with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle and a .357 Magnum revolver drew the attention of a citizen at a Kentucky Walmart. Police were called, and they removed the occupants of the car (which also included a 19-year-old man, a 20-year-old woman, and a six-month-old infant) […]
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Popular theme helps spread the message and the knowledge It was inevitable. The wildly contagious television show The Walking Dead has spawned educational, zombie-themed disaster preparedness programs. The multimedia guides, which include interactive elements come from the venerable Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquartered in Atlanta. What started as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to […]
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At some point, you’ve probably noticed Hollywood’s – and by extension moviegoers’ – fascination with apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic and disaster films. From Fire! (1901), to The Day of the Triffids (1962), to San Andreas (2015) and a thousand others in between, these films provide ready-made action (in the actual destruction) and the adrenaline rush of witnessing the scramble […]
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