12160 Social Network2024-03-28T23:56:46ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBillhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1961376556?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/group/escapeevadesurvive/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=2spp8ymco8aso&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHunted: how to disappear without tracetag:12160.info,2015-09-19:2649739:Topic:15884472015-09-19T15:54:52.477ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBill
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<p>(<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11871980/Hunted-how-to-disappear-without-trace.html" target="_blank">Gerard O’Donovan</a>) Two of the experts on the trail of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11857262/Hunted.-episode-one-Channel-4-review.html" target="_blank">Hunted’s fugitives</a> – 2nd in command Peter Bleksley, a former undercover police officer and ace investigator, and cyber security specialist Paul Vlissidis, technical director of global information security firm NCC Group – help us come up with a list of dos and don’ts for <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11858330/Hunted-a-guide-to-the-fugitives.html" target="_blank">those who want to vanish</a>.</p>
<div class="thirdPar"><h3 class="was-h3">Do: ditch your smartphone</h3>
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<div class="fourthPar"><p>Bleksley and Vlissidis agreed the number one thing to do is ditch your mobile phone. Around 70 per cent us in the UK have a smartphone, most of which transmit a GPS signal of our current location, or apps that do so.</p>
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<div class="fifthPar"><p>“As soon as you make a digital connection with your phone,” says Vlissidis, the apps are up and running and giving info away about you. People often give these apps permission to geographically locate them without realising it.”</p>
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<div class="body"><p>“Basically a mobile phone is akin to having a tracking device on you,” says Bleksley. “Even if location services are disabled the state has the means to track you.”</p>
<p><strong>Timescale</strong>: minutes. “There has to be some communication between the mobile phone company and law enforcement,” says Bleksley. “But in a mission critical situation – life or death – the red tape is cut through and police are given that info in as close to real time as possible. “</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: use bank cards</h3>
<p>“You wouldn’t want to be using any kind of cards.” says Vlissidis. “Or your ApplyPay device unless you really want to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11855494/Could-you-vanish-without-a-trace.html" target="_blank">get picked up quickly</a>,” “If you have time to plan, gather quantities of cash.</p>
<p><strong>Timescale</strong>: minutes. “If a bank card or account is flagged by us that account is monitored 24/7” says Bleksley. “The minute there is any activity the information is quickly passed to the police,” says Bleksley. “Systems have been honed over the years to ensure that information comes almost instantly. From there it’s a just question of how quickly officers on the ground can move.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: torch your tablet, lay waste to your laptop, pulverise your PC</h3>
<p>“Before you run try and eliminate your digital footprint, which is difficult,” says Vlissidis. “We can gain an extraordinary amount of information from accessing accounts, social media etc. If you planned your escape, it will be in your search engine history.” If you asked questions online, there will be a record. “Anyone who thinks that private chats on social networks are actually private is an idiot. Even if you deactivate your account, it disappears from public view but all the information is still there and generally the state has the ability to access it.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: phone home</h3>
<p>With police monitoring your family and friends, this is an instant giveaway. 93 percent of police requests to access phone calls or emails are granted. Last year they peaked at just below 250,000.</p>
<p>“This would be the most difficult thing for me,” says Bleksley, who himself spent two years in witness protection after a contract was put out on him. “Fugitives find it incredibly difficult to cut themselves off from friends, family, loved ones. The lure is incredibly strong.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: check your emails</h3>
<p>“Email is tremendously useful, says Vlissidis. “We can monitor accounts and the second you log on it will be flagged and we can tell immediately where you’re coming from by reversing the IP address.</p>
<p><strong>Timescale</strong>: It’s only a matter of minutes generally speaking. If you’re using a wireless system it might take a little longer – but not much. You can use systems like Tor that’s designed to anonymise you but the truth is, if we’re sitting on your email and we see you log in, and you’re using, say, a mobile phone for access then there are ways for us to track it.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: worry about CCTV</h3>
<p>Britain has <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveillance-camera-for-every-11-people-in-Britain-says-CCTV-survey.html" target="_blank">one CCTV camera for every 11 people</a>. It is estimated that the average city dweller is caught on CCTV 70 times a day.</p>
<p>“The majority of city centre CCTV systems are owned by local authorities and operated by police employees,” says Bleksley. “The systems are very, very extensive. In some you can track people from the moment they enter a city.”</p>
<p><strong>Timescale</strong>: “It’s simply a question of how quickly a human can impart that information to officers on the ground.” Although the likelihood of being identified by CCTV alone is small unless operators already know you are in the area, once your presence is flagged by other sources CCTV is the No 1 means for tracking you.</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: worry about facial recognition technology</h3>
<p>“It is one area of forensic science which is in its infancy,” says Bleksley, “but I’m sure in the years to come it will become prevalent.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: travel by bus or train</h3>
<p>As they take cash, but avoid station CCTV.</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: use motorways</h3>
<p>The Highways Agency operates an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera system<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11831533/Can-anyone-escape-Britains-surveillance-state.html" target="_blank">with around 8,000 cameras</a>. On the major road networks you are never more than 15 miles away from an ANPR camera.</p>
<p><strong>Timescale</strong>: “It’s a nationwide police resource and operates instantly,” says Bleksley. “There are also many private APNR systems, say, in supermarket car parks. In those the process can be a little lengthier because providers have to be brought on board.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: disguise your physical appearance</h3>
<p>“After technology, our best weapon is 100,000 pairs of eyes and ears on the ground – policemen plus the public who often are an enormous help. There’s also the massive media machine that the police are able to call upon.” So, delete any online photos. The less recognisable you are the better.</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: plan ahead</h3>
<p>Accumulate as much cash as you can in the weeks, preferably months, running up to departure. Plan your escape offline as much as possible. Prepare disguises, alternative identities. Share your plans with no one, unless it is to arrange communication channels. “The longer you’ve got before you run the better chance you have,” says Vlissidis. But stay away from tech. Roll the clocks back 15 years and pretend the internet doesn’t exist. If you have to devise a strategy for communicating with loved ones keep it old school – intermediaries, dead letter drops, proper spooks stuff.”</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: assume rural is remote</h3>
<p>You’ll stand out like a sore thumb in small communities, and sleeping rough/living wild is hard to keep up for any amount of time even if you’re trained. “I don’t think staying off grid necessarily means the back of beyond,” says Vlissidis. “That would be difficult for an extended period of time. I’d probably look at lower grade accommodation, things like hostels, B&B’s that take cash – old school basically.</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Do: be strong</h3>
<p>We all lay down patterns that can expose us, but the sheer psychological slog of keeping up the mask is tough. Maintaining an assumed identity can mess with your head too. “Living the adopted life of a completely different person in a strange environment, dreading leaving my front door, having to layer lie upon lie upon lie,” as Bleksley describes it. Longer term, this is the thing that will get you caught.</p>
<h3 class="was-h3">Don’t: whatever you do, challenge people to find you</h3>
<p>In 2009 Wired magazine offered a bounty of $5,000 to anyone who could locate journalist Evan Ratiff during his attempt to vanish for 28 days. The internet community’s response was extraordinary, <a href="http://archive.wired.com/vanish/" target="_blank">as was his story</a> – a cautionary tale for any wannabe fugitive.</p>
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<p>1 Large Can (should be a short but fat aluminum can ranging from 22-28ozcan)</p>
<p>1 Small Can (a typical Cambells soup can would do, they are slightly tall and skinny around 15oz can)</p>
<p>1 Heavy Duty Scissors (or anything that could cut aluminum, this tutorial uses Tin Snips or Penny Cutters)</p>
<p>1 Sharpie</p>
<p>1 Electric Drill (use a 3/16 and a 3/8 bit)</p>
<p>Continue reading with instructional video here: …</p>
<p><strong>Materials Needed:</strong></p>
<p>1 Large Can (should be a short but fat aluminum can ranging from 22-28ozcan)</p>
<p>1 Small Can (a typical Cambells soup can would do, they are slightly tall and skinny around 15oz can)</p>
<p>1 Heavy Duty Scissors (or anything that could cut aluminum, this tutorial uses Tin Snips or Penny Cutters)</p>
<p>1 Sharpie</p>
<p>1 Electric Drill (use a 3/16 and a 3/8 bit)</p>
<p>Continue reading with instructional video here: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/self-sufficiency/2013/04/how-to-make-a-wood-gas-stove-2455628.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/self-sufficiency/2013/04/how-to-make-a-wood-gas-stove-2455628.html</a></p> Survive this: Make a Garbage Bag Shelter Part of Your Survival Kit (Great Video)tag:12160.info,2013-04-10:2649739:Topic:11719722013-04-10T14:20:22.718ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBill
<p>I’m not sure how the early settlers along the Oregon Trail or the western frontier got along without duct tape, WD-40 or trash bags, but life surely would have been easier with them!Trash bags, in particular, are included in all my survival kits. They have a multitude of uses, including being containers for picking up trash! But in an emergency, when correctly used, trash bags can prove a quick, temporary shelter from the elements.</p>
<p>This shelter will keep the wind and rain off you…</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the early settlers along the Oregon Trail or the western frontier got along without duct tape, WD-40 or trash bags, but life surely would have been easier with them!Trash bags, in particular, are included in all my survival kits. They have a multitude of uses, including being containers for picking up trash! But in an emergency, when correctly used, trash bags can prove a quick, temporary shelter from the elements.</p>
<p>This shelter will keep the wind and rain off you (Peter Kummerfeldt photos)</p>
<p>Your best protection from the elements is your clothing. Always dress for the weather conditions, and never depend on a shelter to make up for inadequate clothing. Obviously, if you anticipate bad weather, be prepared for it, stay home or take along a lightweight, four- season backpacking tent.</p>
<p>But, c’mon, how many of you are going to lug around a tent on every outing? Most of us will carry it a time or two, and eventually, the tent will end up getting left at the trailhead. Then, some day late in the afternoon, you realize you’re lost or in a survival situation. You’ll have to build some sort of shelter before it gets dark.</p>
<p>Reality shows to the contrary, you probably won’t be able to build a shelter out of natural materials, says survival expert Peter Kummerfeldt.</p>
<p>“I believe it is impossble for the survivor to build a waterproof, windproof shelter from natural materials,” Peter writes in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977645908?ie=UTF8&tag=survivalcommo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0977645908">Surviving a Wilderness Emergency</a>. “Shelters made from natural materials require time, natural resources, a cutting tool and a fully-functional survivor who has practiced building emergency shelters in the past! The survivor needs a waterproof, windproof shelter now!”</p>
<p>Large, heavy grade (3 or 4 mil)can make a good short term shelter. But don’t just crawl in and hunker down. Like any survival technique, you need to prepare and practice to use this shelter.</p>
<p>“Totally encapsulating yourself inside a plastic bag is not a good idea,” Peter advises. “Apart from the need for oxygen, the water vapor in the air you exhale, and your perspiration, will condense on the inner surfaces, and you will get quite wet.”</p>
<p>To avoid this problem, cut an opening in the closed end of the bag just large enough to allow you to pass your head through. The bag is then passed over your head until your face aligns with the hole and the moist air is exhaled outside.</p>
<p>Continue at: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/04/survive-this-make-a-garbage-bag-shelter-part-of-your-survival-kit-2468924.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/04/survive-this-make-a-garbage-bag-shelter-part-of-your-survival-kit-2468924.html</a></p> The Best Bug-Out-Bag Essentialstag:12160.info,2012-12-22:2649739:Topic:10728452012-12-22T14:57:08.898ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBill
<p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jD-T4d9ovds/TPfmkvj2X7I/AAAAAAAAF2g/vQShpywfZKU/s1600/Photo+with+numbers.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jD-T4d9ovds/TPfmkvj2X7I/AAAAAAAAF2g/vQShpywfZKU/s1600/Photo+with+numbers.jpg"></img></a></p>
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<p>The best bug out bags will prepare a family for at least 72 hours after evacuation…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jD-T4d9ovds/TPfmkvj2X7I/AAAAAAAAF2g/vQShpywfZKU/s1600/Photo+with+numbers.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jD-T4d9ovds/TPfmkvj2X7I/AAAAAAAAF2g/vQShpywfZKU/s1600/Photo+with+numbers.jpg"/></a></p>
<h2 id="title"><a target="_blank" href="http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-best-bug-out-bag-essentials/28842/" title="http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-best-bug-out-bag-essentials/28842/" rel="nofollow">The Best Bug-Out-Bag Essentials</a></h2>
<p>The best bug out bags will prepare a family for at least 72 hours after evacuation (three days is the average time for help to arrive in an emergency situation). With extra emergency supplies on hand, a family can evacuate quickly and with little notice, and are better able to help others instead of waiting for help to arrive.</p>
<p><a href="http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-best-bug-out-bag-essentials/28842/">http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-best-bug-out-bag-essentials/28842/</a></p> Survival Basics by russ kolkmantag:12160.info,2012-09-28:2649739:Topic:10040762012-09-28T14:28:17.177ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBill
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<tr><td width="99%"><p><span>Whether you are out on a short day hike, canoeing, riding your ATV, hunting white tail or making a short flight; survival situations happen, and they can happen quickly. In fact, most survival</span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bestglide.com/Tools_and_Sharps.html"><img alt="Victorinox Soldier Swiss Army Pocket Knife" src="http://www.bestglide.com/product_images/victorinox%20_soldier.jpg" border="0" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="6"/></a><span>situations happen to folks who did not expect trouble and therefore, did not plan for it. They often find themselves thinking, “I’m only going to be gone a few hours“. They also fail to tell anyone where they are going. Finally, people more often than not, don’t bring anything with them that would help them out of the jam they find themselves in.</span></p>
<p><span>If you enjoy the outdoors, fly, or drive long stretches of isolated roadways, you need to be prepared for a survival situation. It can and does happen to anyone, at any time. So what do you do? How do you prepare for such an event? Well, there are just a few basic things you need to keep in mind and a few simple tasks to accomplish to keep yourself alive in a tough spot. This article is designed to bring you up to speed on the tasks that you need to complete and in what order.</span></p>
<p><span>Before setting out, even on a short hike, let someone know where you are going. If possible, let</span><span>them know when you will be back, and call them when you return. If you take a Friday afternoon</span><span>off to go hiking, then fall down and break your leg at the bottom of a ravine, you might not be missed until work Monday morning. You will have been incapacitated and exposed to the elements for 36 hours before anyone starts looking for you. In cold weather, that could prove deadly. So, let someone know. On your vehicle, leave a note, even on the dash. It should state who you are, what you are wearing, where you went, why, and when you expect to return. A park ranger will notice a car parked at a trail head for a day or more and check on it.</span></p>
<p><span>Okay, so you screwed up and now you are in a survival situation. What next? First of all, get</span><span>yourself out of danger: sinking car, burning aircraft, swift water, falling rocks, attacking bear, etc.</span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bestglide.com/celox.htm"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><img alt="Celox traumatic wound treatment" src="http://www.bestglide.com/product_images/celox%2015gr%20packet.jpg" border="0" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="3"/></font></a><span>Stop the danger and then check yourself out. Render first aid immediately. Stop any bleeding first. You will need to keep as much blood inside you as possible. You can’t put it back in! </span><span>Stabilize any fractures. Don’t move if you think you may have broken your back or pelvis. Many survival scenarios start as the result of an injury or medical emergency, so be prepared by having 1<sup>st</sup> aid supplies and some basic training on how to use them.</span></p>
<p><span>Once you are out of danger and have patched yourself up, sit down and think. Figure out where </span><span>you are. Take an inventory of what you have with you that will help you survive. Do you have a knife, dry clothing, matches, a cell phone that works? Start making a plan. Unless you know you are right by a road, or people, it is best to stay put and let your rescuers come find you. Moving around will only make their job harder since they typically search by grids. You could potentially travel into a grid they already searched.</span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bestglide.com/Survival_Kits.html"><font size="2"><img alt="Emergency Survival Kits" src="http://www.bestglide.com/product_images/BGCK028_tmb.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10"/></font></a><span>Prioritize. The single most important thing to maintain, in any situation, is your core body temperature. If it is cold, you really need to stay warm. If it is hot, you need to stay cool. After breathing and blood loss, this is more important than anything else. If you get too cold, you will make bad decisions and start a downward spiral to your demise. It really does happen this way and it is ugly. If you get too hot, you will slip into a coma and never wake up. Not a pretty way to go either. So protect yourself from the elements.</span></p>
<p><span>The next most important thing is shelter. If it is cold, make sure you have dry clothing and layers. Wet cotton kills. It wicks heat away from your body. Take it off. Wool, and polypro are good materials. Gore-Tex is awesome. If your clothing is wet, dry it in the wind or near your fire if you have one. Stuff leaves inside to insulate your clothing. Get off the ground. The ground robs you of heat through conduction. Build a pile of leaves, or other insulating material, to sit on. Build a lean-too shelter to block the wind or lay down behind a rock ledge or large tree. A shelter will help hold in heat, block the winds and keep you off the ground. If it is hot, it will shade you and keep you off the hot sand and rocks.</span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bestglide.com/Warmth_and_Shelter.html"><font size="-1"><img alt="Esbit Pocket Stove - MPI Outdoors" src="http://www.bestglide.com/product_images/WS1014_tmb.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="3"/></font></a>Next, if it is cold, make a fire. Always carry a method of starting a fire. Better yet, carry two ways. Fire will save your bacon. It will keep you warm, help signal rescuers and boost your morale. A small bic mini lighter and some matches are all you need. However, the really small fire rods (flint and magnesium w/striker) are awesome and will spark even when wet. A fire needs three things to start: heat (spark), air and fuel. Tinder can be dryer lint in your pockets or shredded dollar bills. Think outside the box.</p>
<p><span>After fire, you will need water. This is especially true in a hot dry environment. In the desert, I’d</span>say water is more important than fire, even though it gets cold at night. It is best to carry water with you of course. If you did not bring any on this trip, you will need to go get some. Any container will do to carry it in, but make sure you treat your water before drinking. It may look pure and clean, but you don’t know how many raccoons and possums used your drinking water as a toilet. Hint: a lot! A filter is best, but boiling works too. A drop or two of iodine per quart will kill the bad stuff and so will a drop or two of chlorine bleach.</p>
<p>The Katadyn Micropur tablets are the best hands down because they kill bacteria and viruses. The Micropur MP1 tablets also kill cysts, which are often hard to kill. Another advantage is that they are easy to carry since each tablet is sealed in foil. Regarding solar stills; they are a worthless and foolish method of attempting to get water. You will expend more sweat making one than water you will gain. Making solar stills will quickly put you upside down in a desert environment.</p>
<p><span>A note on food. You probably don’t need any for a 72 hour survival situation. </span><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bestglide.com/Mainstay_Emergency_Rations.html"><img alt="Emergency Food and Water" src="http://www.bestglide.com/product_images/Mainstay_Super_Ark_Survival_Kit.jpg" border="0" align="right" hspace="6" vspace="6"/></a></span><br/>Yes, you will be hungry. Yes, your energy will decrease. But most of us in America have a reserve of body fat we can pull from if needed. However, food is helpful in the cold because it helps create heat during digestion. Bringing some food with you is great, but don’t put yourself at risk trying to spear trout in a fast moving rocky stream. Many people expend more calories in the pursuit of food than they get from the food once they catch it.</p>
<p align="left">The last thing you need to consider is getting found. So you need to attract your rescuer’s attention. A whistle and a signal mirror are both great tools. Anybody can use a whistle and the sound carries much, much farther than your voice. Remember, three of anything is a distress signal: whistle blasts, gunshots, etc. A good signal plan would incorporate a ground to air signal: placed on the ground, stamped into snow, laid out with logs, etc. It would also include a signal mirror during the day (scanning the horizon and any passing aircraft), a strobe or flashing light at night and a whistle throughout the day. But have a plan. Of course a cell phone would be helpful, but it could have been broken in the initial emergency or you might not be able to get a signal where you are.</p>
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<li><p><span>Tell people where you are going and when you will return. Leave a note!</span></p>
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<li><p><span>When you do get in trouble, STOP! Get out of danger, patch yourself up, get your bearings, take an inventory of your gear and make a plan.</span></p>
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<li><p><span>Bring a few useful items with you all the time: a pocket knife, fire (a bic mini lighter,</span>matches or other fire starter), a whistle and signal mirror, water tablets and a small rolled up zip lock bag to carry water.</p>
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<li><p><span>Get food at your own risk. Understand the cost versus payoff in calories.</span></p>
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<li><p><span>Stay put until you are found.</span></p>
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<p>That’s it. It is not rocket science but it takes a little preplanning and the mindset to bring the basic gear that will help you survive. You also need to know how to use these items. An afternoon spent practicing the signal mirror with a friend, building a shelter and a couple fires would be time well spent. Proper prior planning will help prevent a search and rescue mission from becoming a body recovery mission.</p>
<p>Russ Kolkman<br/>Wilderness Survival Instructor<br/>Tactical Response</p>
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<p><em>This article was contributed by Dan and Sheila at <a href="http://www.survivingsurvivalism.com/">SurvivingSurvivalism.com</a></em></p>
<p>Here it is – <em><strong>Why Are You Trying to Survive?</strong></em> With the news being what it is, the world has now come to the point at which a huge shake-up is undeniable – to anyone who has 2 cents worth of brain matter between their ears. So hoards are joining the stampede to become “survivalists”. The movement has even spurred the…</p>
<p><em>This article was contributed by Dan and Sheila at <a href="http://www.survivingsurvivalism.com/">SurvivingSurvivalism.com</a></em></p>
<p>Here it is – <em><strong>Why Are You Trying to Survive?</strong></em> With the news being what it is, the world has now come to the point at which a huge shake-up is undeniable – to anyone who has 2 cents worth of brain matter between their ears. So hoards are joining the stampede to become “survivalists”. The movement has even spurred the development of the “survival industry”, with commercials now being played on mainstream media stations for freeze-dried storage foods and solar generators.<br/>There is an old saying, “If you don't know where you're going, any road will do.” So if you are going to go the path of being a “survivalist”, first you'll want to know where you are going – and why.<br/>Plenty of alternative news outlets are trumpeting that “martial law” is soon to be implemented – and the facts they present in support can only lead to that conclusion. So everyone wants to survive martial law. But what is on the other side of the marital law? The reality is that martial law can't go on forever, but what will society/government look like after it has been dismantled?</p>
<p>If 9/11 caused so much restriction – by law or by fiat – of travel, of personal dignity rights, of speech, of redress of grievances, what will the next event (planned by man or by the hand of The Almighty) bring? Will you take the chip to be given your ration of food? If you allow your children to stand naked to be viewed by pedophiles in order to shop in a mall or fly on a plane, will you say no to anything else demanded of you?</p>
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<p> </p> A simple A frame Shelter to keep the rain and snow off of you.tag:12160.info,2012-08-28:2649739:Topic:9720352012-08-28T22:59:19.109ZJust Billhttps://12160.info/profile/JustBill
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We must all face the true facts of life and know we are never truly prepared to survive a total collapse in the United States. Unless your wading in greenback there is no way you could afford everything to assist your survival in the future. As we are bombarded with survival crap that just makes the sellers rich and in the long run does nothing for your survival. I am not saying it is all hogwash but the majority of the crap you pay top dollar for you can make in a few minutes or do not really need.</span></font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3">Once you have mastered the art of keeping your head the next objective is to prioritize your actions. What is the most important thing I can do and what can wait. A native American Indian from New york once told me a saying of what his views of the American people. He said”you are all sitting in a canoe and it has a hole in the bottom and heading for the falls. We have a paddle and a tin can in the canoe and we keep balling out the water so ewe don't drown” It took me a moment to understand what he was saying but it is what I mean we need to see what is important and not what will fix the moment. Sure we keep bailing the water so we don't drown but what the heck the falls is gonna kill you, so use the paddles and you won't have to worry about either. I always found it a wise thought even if he had a hot temper.</font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3">So your probably just what could happen in a total collapse. It would probably be easier to say what would not happen but I will touch on a few softly as I plan to submit follow up to this initial post on the subject. I might start by saying take a look around you and 90% of the stuff you see you will no longer see anymore. Then look at each item and see how it effects you way of living. And then think of all the thing that one little thing effects everyone and what it would be without it. When I mean 90% that leaves 10% if you lucky with that. That 10% includes what you have around you at that moment. In the closet in my bedroom sits a pack with food and clothes and a few survival items and that is my 10%. If a collapse happen tomorrow that would be my life. Hopefully I can drive my vehicle for a while as far as I can but I do not count on it. By the way I always have at least ¾ of a tank of gas for such an emergency. I know my routes and I know my objectives and this is my aim. I will go deeper in the topics to come.</font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3">Remember I mentioned television on how that would be controlled. Have you ever wondered why we went to digital from analog. Well for one it is more controllable as it is over the wires not through the airways where someone could broadcast out of a basement in an emergency. No with just a flick of a switch they control the broadcasting. Radio is now controlled by Clear Channel. Ye4s some pirates can still broadcast but unless you have a ham or close to the station you get nothing.</font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3">I want to go into more area in which you will affected such a fuel and food but I will save that for the next posts. Right know you must learn to be able to control your actions and keep your head. And one of the things I cannot stress enough is to read. Read books on self reliance, farming, gardening any thing that you wish to do and I stress learn how they did it the old way. There will be plenty of tractors but no fuel to run them so learn how to hitch a plow to a horse and how to operate a hoe. Learn how to make things. What I have done is put thousands of books and reports on CD and have them in my pack. You might say well without power how are you going to view the CD's Ah la go to Radio Shack and buy a small solar unit that will charge my notebook so I can view the CD of the topic I need. If my notebook gets damaged I am sure most people will leave them behind since there will be no power. If that fails my personal upbringing on a farm will allow me to be self sufficient enough to survive even with that I constantly try new things like making wine and beer and cheese. Just the other day I made my own ravioli which I have never done.</font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3">Before I go another item I have instituted is I have made a notebook and if you ever saw one of those troubleshooting guides they are like a what if guide. Pages are set up to diagnose what if and I used this method in a crisis base what if. What if a hurricane. What it the nuke plant warns us, what if well you get the picture. Its not that hard and when the crises hits you can take a quick look and follow a procedure and if you give a cop to your family they will be on the same page as you.. For instance my girls know if a collapse happens we meet at a certain place and go from there and that place is in their book. If a hurricane is forecast we all do this.</font></p>
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