Preface:  As I’ve said before, the more extreme the prediction, the less likely it is to happen.  The term, “post-collapse” can imply a myriad of conditions.  For the purposes of this article, let’s assume total collapse of infrastructure. Many people say the producer is king in the post-collapse barter economy [...]

Following yesterday’s sneak peak at the future exodus in America, now happening in Spain; let’s switch gears to a new story today about separatism. From Financial Times: …the die may be cast in Spain, where separatism has stormed on to the agenda… Alongside the eurozone crisis and Spain’s worsening public [...]

From CNBC: In July, Americans withdrew a record … $94 billion, from their banks — an amount equal to 7 percent of the country’s overall economic output — as doubts grew about the durability of America’s financial system. More disturbing for America is that the flight is starting to include [...]

From Guardian UK: Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. There will not be enough water available on [...]

Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md) was recently profiled by the Washington Post.  What differentiates him from other congress critters is that he’s a self-proclaimed survivalist.  Survivalism is more and more often being picked up by the mainstream media and for good reason: people who prepare for disaster and collapse are doing the [...]

A reader recently shared this with me and I want to share with you.

Jim Rogers: There’s going to be a huge shift in American society, American culture, in the places where one is going to get rich. The stock brokers are going to be driving taxis. The smart ones will learn to drive tractors so they can work for the smart farmers. The [...]

Yes.  We need more governors to step forward and take steps to protect their states from overreaching federal “authority”.  The Federal Government has it’s role.  Face it: we’ve been living under virtually limitless “limited federal government” for 236 years. From Morning Sentinel: [Maine] Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio [...]

Pensions and Social Security are a way of the past.  I’ll get into a quick debate with someone over social security.  Generally, it goes like this: “There won’t be any Social Security left when we’re retirement age.” Oh, but there will.  We’ll get our social security money; they’ll just print [...]

I recently became an official resident of my little slice of the American Redoubt.  When I think about all the reasons I came to this state specifically, they almost all have to do with security and the ability to be independent of… well, just about anything outside the weather. But [...]