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When we’ll have no running water, no hyperactive emergency services, no electricity… we are going to turn back to what people did 100 years ago. Here you’ll find some “little” survival tricks popular in the early 1900’s and (some of them) useful even today. 100 years ago Gallaher Ltd printed a short “How-To” series, with clever hintsContinue reading “24 Lost Survival Tips from 100 Years Ago – with Illustrations”

Relief should look beyond the immediate medical emergency and toward new policy that would spark manufacturing, here. Just as it was not an accident that the U.S. was unprepared for a global pandemic, it is not an accident that America is overly vulnerable to global supply chain disruption. The two phenomena are related: Four decadesContinue reading “How Our COVID Response Could Lead To An Industrial Renaissance”

I’m confident that most of you have plenty of food stocked away. Many of you have at least a small vegetable garden, and some of you even have livestock of some sort. That’s great, but what happens during an extended disaster or a total collapse of society? Eventually, your freeze-dried food and canned goods will run out. You’ll haveContinue reading “Now Is The Time to Get Ready: 9 Places to Find Food After a Collapse of Society- Will You Be Able to Survive When It Happens?”

Now is the time to offer sanctions relief to safeguard against instability, and perhaps make an opening for peace. North Korea doesn’t get a lot of press these days. Yet as with all pandemics, our current coronavirus crisis will end, and Washington and its allies will once again be forced to consider policy options whenContinue reading “The Coronavirus Could Spark A Nuclear Meltdown In North Korea”

During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we went. Creeks and ponds dried up (some never recovered) and the water table dropped, forcing a few neighbors to have their well pumps lowered or to even have deeper wells drilled. Many folks sharedContinue reading “100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel”