Fall is a great time to review your personal prepping – and to add additional depth to your preparedness skills. One of the most important thinking-tools is developing a holistic approach. The easiest way to explain this is to begin with my Seven Major Systems of life. Food Shelter Energy Communications Transportation Environment Finance Each … Read More

This  may be one of those articles to “click and save” especially if it has dawned on you that at some point, the global economic house of cards/system will crash and living in a city could become problematic. Of course, if/when that happens, the availability of Internet access might also become (how you say?) sketchy… … Read More

Hot off the press (release): NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for July 2018 shows that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months. YEAR-OVER-YEAR … Read More

Peoplenomics Subscribers Only: See the trading study invitation here. Rats Rustle, Rumors Ripple… Laughable ain’t it?  “Ar, ar, ar, ar….”  We’re (ar) laughing at the utter predictability of it all.  In the center ring of the National Circus (Circi?) Monday: Brett Kavanaugh won’t be intimidated. Senator Ted Cruz was heckled out of dinner by Webolutionaries. … Read More

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Reader Note:  Our local CenturyLink techs came through and we have enjoyed working internet again for most of the weekend.  The last I’ll mention of it.  Until next time… Circus Poster Monday Imagine you have been given the task of making up a “circus poster” for this week.  What would you put on it? See … Read More

Here’s one of those questions in Education that also applies broadly to Life, but also in spades to the idea of prepping. Ask yourself (honestly):  Are you a buyer or a maker? Elaine and I were talking about this recently because we have from friends who are “stuck” in their life because (to put it … Read More

The ongoing revelations  about forces within the US Government – Department of Justice planning and plotting against President Trump should be shocking-enough. But, what’s even more shocking, is that this is really the third long-wave economic timed coup d’état attempt has occurred in America. What’s more, in the next most recent attempt, the NY Times … Read More

Just a guess, of course, but now many people have even considered the concept of a “private animal language” with their significant one(s)? Ah…as I thought:  Effectively none. Since we live a very unconventional and inquisitive Life – which may offer some useful findings – our almost 19-YEARS of using a “private animal language” is … Read More

Reader Note (CenturyLink adventures, redux):  Here we are – again – SIX DAYS IN – without our full complement of Internet tools including the Nostracodeus server being down.  That’s the one dedicated to running Grady’s “news site-sniffing, word frequency shift-analyzing” code that guides some of our “futuring discussions.”  Out Saturday, Ticketed Sunday, techs locally on … Read More

Reader Note:  The UrbanSurvival HQ is still down two DSL lines.  We have rudimentary, incomplete CenturyLink access.  The lines won’t even complete the company’s own DSL Test online.  So, again, we are posting in pieces today.  The Good News? (Such as it is…) is that we have some very good techs on the case and … Read More

Pardon the long report this morning – something on the order of 5,000 words woth.  But we have some intriguing new ideas about physics that may have some break-through level payoffs. Q-P is Quality Potentiation and it turns out to be an under-studied part of three kinds of science:  Electrical, Mechanical, and Acoustical.  Perhaps, it’s … Read More

So, back to the End of the World.  The gangs have all been sent packing, the neighbors are looking at you like you’re something of a God, having had the good sense to stock up on a dozen GMRS/FRS radios to pass out in the neighborhood along with a month of batteries each.  Which…in a … Read More