Alex Jones has been banned for life from Twitter because they don’t like what he writes. Problem is, they’re hiding behind a Terms of Service when in fact, they have just banned a questioning conservative who asks inconvenient (OK, and sometimes dumb) questions. Twitter’s announced a life-time ban for InfoWars founder Alex Jones, telling us what … Read More
First thing out of the chute this morning we have the ADP and Challenger Job Cut numbers to go over. These are in advance of the Federal jobs report tomorrow morning… Down in the detail of the press release, this caught our eye: “The pace of downsizing in August rose to the third-highest total for … Read More
One of the last classes I took in college (it was the first class in the doctoral track following the MBA) was something called “Business Research Methods.” Although the course book is now hopelessly out of date, the general idea of “personal research” into anything that grabs your attention is a fertile area of study. … Read More
OK, you wake up tomorrow morning and the SHTF has actually happened. People have gone crazy and there’s been a surprise EMP blast. Phones are down, your power is “iffy:” and you don’t know what will happen next… You whip out your EMP Emergency kit – and what’s in it? Good-quality shortwave radio. A couple … Read More
With a fresh inch-and-a-half of rain in the gauge here at the ranch, the Labor Day weekend was marked mostly by an end to the drought that has nibbled at the edges of East Texas. And, after a respite early this week, we will be into the tropical storm – hurricane remnants by next weekend. … Read More
A lot of people – especially those smart enough to even consider prepping – will ask from time-to-time “What’s it like to really get out and do it – you know…conquer some land?” We recently turned off our RuralPioneer.com project, but there were a whole slew of great articles on the site about how to “get ‘er … Read More
This being a holiday weekend, and because a lot of people will have a bit of extra “personal time” tomorrow, it’s a dandy time to take a steely-eyed look into the future. The bull market the stock market has been in will end one of these days. The specific cause doesn’t matter. What does matter … Read More
There’s a path opening in our modeling to yet-another event that could become a paving stone on the path to regional nuclear war. Not happy news to focus on, but a nickel’s worth of analysis is more than justified by evolving events today in Ukraine. More for Subscribers ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW! ||| Subscriber Help Center
I know what you’re thinking: “George, how can you think of something like a chainsaw as a prepping tool???” Well, the answer is simple: Once you leave the “call 9-1-1 for any problems – or the water department – or whatever – and you get back to Nature, you finds that nature isn’t going to … Read More
The longwave economics view brings many terrible thoughts to mind. It’s like standing at the shoreline, sometimes, watching the tide come in. Then realizing it’s a tsunami. Amidst the odd machinations of the news lately, we are reminded of a huge story lurking behind the headlines. Namely that America has some exceptional drought impacts evolving. … Read More
With the quickly approaching Long Last Weekend of vacationing almost here, I’ll drop back into our “B-mode” today and tomorrow. Short, punch, broadcast writing, since time is tight. Especially if you’re heading out… The main point his morning – despite the temporary insanity being spread virally around Internet, there are still signs that all home … Read More
As you may have inferred from the article on the UrbanSurvival site Tuesday morning, we are taking on the task today or looking a bit more deeply into some of the possible timing marks that are coming along shortly if the historical rhyming with 1929 continues. It certainly is rhyming nicely on trade… We’ll get … Read More
One of our nephews is off to college now up in Tyler, Texas, where he’s hoping to do well in his chosen physical trainer program. Before he took off, we spent a little time a couple of weeks back and I helped him with some of the mental “prepping” for school that most people don’t … Read More