Just my opinion, but I think if you are going to have an exclusionary awards show that honors only members of one particular race (or gender, or religion, or ethnic origin, or whatever), it takes a lot of nerve to have awards like "best actor" or "best male hip-hop artist". As an example I will use a fictitious awards ceremony, the Bulgarian Entertainment Television Awards. If the promoters of the awards show were honest, they would give awards like the "best BULGARIAN actor" or the "best BULGARIAN...

There is so much going on in the world these days. It seems like all this bad stuff is converging at this point in history. I don't want to sound like one of the tin-foil hat gang, but it's easy to see why they buy in to the various conspiracies. Some of the things that are happening include:

There have always been insane despots in the world. BUT AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY they have at their disposal weapons capable of annihilating entire cities or countries. North Korea now claims...

As most of you know, I'm a relative newbie to prepping. I have been interested in it for a long time, but didn't do anything about it until recently. I was always prepared for a hurricane or a short term problem, but nothing more. What pushed me to get serious about prepping was listening to Neal Boortz talk about the book One Second After. Once I read the book earlier this year, I really saw the need to start stockpiling.

According to the book, modern cars will be inoperative...

There is a lot of talk on this and other forums about BOL's. In my area of the country, a lot of people talk about bugging out to the Ocala National Forest. It's a good location. I have camped and hiked in that area my whole life, and I love it, but I don't want to live in the woods. I'm not an animal.

Being a relative newbie in the area of prepping, maybe I'm being somewhat naive. I own a house in town. If/when the SHTF I understand the need for bugging out temporarily. I have...

I've been reading different advice about bartering, and I've reached a couple of conclusions. A lot of people think that gold is the end-all bartering metal. Here's my problem with gold as a bartering tool... The small denominations that would be useful to barter for everyday items are tiny. I think that most of the individuals looking to barter with you would be leery of accepting such tiny coins or bullion. Plus, if they are not familiar with the denominations, they may not trust it as being...