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Situational Awareness – An Introduction (1,331)
Don’t Be ‘That Prepper Guy’ (868)
Fan of the Ammo Can – Top 10 Uses (639)
Top 10 Prepper Mistakes (593)
Prepping with Garage Sales (534)
Top 10 Preparedness Uses of Mineral Oil (495)
Top 10 Initial Steps to Preparation (488)
OCOKA – A Key Survival Acronym (406)- Difference Between .223 Caliber & 5.56mm (354)
Prepper SALUTE Report – An Observation and Reporting Tool (323)- Best Prepper Caliber? (323)
Jefferson’s Top 10 Commandments for Living (312)
Browne on Government Help – Today’s Quote
The government is good at one thing…it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for the government you wouldn’t be able to walk’.
OCOKA – A Key Survival Acronym
Every infantryman and Army leader knows the acronym OCOKA, pronounced OH-coke-A. It’s a mnemonic that helps soldiers survive on the battlefield and dominate the enemy by evaluating their terrain. OCOKA is also a key survival acronym for preppers and survivalists. You should use OCOKA to evaluate the terrain around your workplace and home (and your retreat if you have one) but you should also use it to evaluate temporary locations or positions you occupy even for a few minutes if you live or are operating in a degraded security environment. Today’s article will introduce some concepts that we will return to in more detail in future articles.
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Rubio On Culture of Intimidation – Today’s Quote
So in the span of four days, [there were] three major revelations about the use of government power to intimidate those who are doing things that the government doesn’t like. These are the tactics of the third world. These are the tactics of places that don’t have the freedoms and the independence that we have here in this country. And it is shocking to Americans that this would come to light in the way that it has. I would submit to you, however, that none of this is new. That what we see emerging here is a pattern, a culture, a culture of intimidation, of hardball politics that we saw both on the campaign trail and now through the apparatus of government.
Senator Marco Rubio via Rubio On Obama’s “Scandalous” Behavior: “These Are The Tactics Of The Third World” | RealClearPolitics.
Prepography Glossary Updated
If you haven’t checked out Prepography’s Glossary lately, take a look. It’s a continual work in progress with a great deal recently added on chemical weapon terms, terms used to describe toxins and the medical terms used in describing and treating chemical injuries. These terms will come in handy with an upcoming article series.
Drudge’s Warning – Today’s Quote
Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored. Time to move back to the parking garage.
Matt Drudge
Water or WARter – Today’s Quote
Water is the essence of life. But drinkable, fresh water is at a premium. Rising populations, poor water use and shortages in key areas are all major factors.
NATO Review Magazine via Water or WARter Video?
The Ready Store is running their (up to) 40% off Sale now through the end of May. The Ready Store offers survival and storage food and supplies from small packages up to multi-year stockpiles.
The World Owes You Nothing – Today’s Quote
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Happy Mother’s Day – Today’s Quote
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
Tools of Tyranny – The IRS
If we don’t want a future U.S. government to become tyrannical we must work every day to limit the creation of government powers, laws, regulations and departments with the potential to be used as tools of tyranny. The tax collector has been an unfortunate but necessary fixture in society for thousands of years and will continue to be so. The power to tax is necessary (but certainly not at the levels we’ve chosen the past few years) but is also ripe for abuse and is definitely a potential tool of tyranny. Let’s not forget that one of the rallying cries that created our nation was tax related… “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
I must admit that when the cries of unfair treatment from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by conservative nonprofits was raised during the election I discounted them as oversensitivity encouraged by election year politics but as it turns out there was preferential treatment for non-profits which espoused views similar to President Obama’s. It seems that organizations ‘friendly’ to the incumbent President weren’t selected for additional scrutiny but organizations with ‘patriot’ or ‘tea party’ in the title were.
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Ashe on Preparation – Today’s Quote
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
King on Love – Today’s Quote
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Prepping with Garage Sales
It’s that time of year again when people turn their yards and garages into second hand stores for a day or a weekend. I hate looking at other people’s junk but I love some of the deals I get when I’m Prepping with Garage Sales.
In our neck of the woods garage sales generally start at about 8 a.m. on Thursdays and many of the towns and subdivisions set aside just one weekend a year or one weekend a month for garage sales. I don’t tend to do a lot of research ahead of times but the local paper and Craigslist will give you a good set of marching orders. I tend to stop at garage sales that are along my way as I’m driving except for the city garage sales which are worth going out of your way for.
Ovid on Luck – Today’s Quote
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.
Rawles on Knives and Bayonets – Today’s Quote
If your rifle has bayonet lug, then buy a bayonet for it. A bayonet can also be a useful knife, but a knife is not also a bayonet.
e-Foods Direct Offers Free Survival Meals
e-Foods Direct is offering its Food Planning Pack and 6 Meals (12 Servings) for FREE if you pay shipping and handling. Their offer includes:
- Three (3) Pouches of Quick-Fix Meals
- Food Planning Guide Helps Calculate How Much Food You Need
- 30-Minute Audio CD by Steve Shenk, e-Foods Direct Co-Founder
- 12 Servings including Tortilla Soup, Cheesy Chicken Rice Casserole, and Creamy Potato Soup
The Water is Calm – Today’s Quote
Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb
A Hero’s Widow on Evil – Today’s Quote
I challenge anyone to tell me there isn’t evil in this world… from the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
Taya Kyle (widow of Navy S.E.A.L. Chris Kyle) via Must Watch: Wife of Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle Gives Heart-Wrenching Speech at NRA Event
Also Read Prepography’s Book Review: American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Physical Security and the Principles of Protection
In Part One of this two article series we introduced Physical Security and Protection by discussing Physical Security Challenges, the similarities and differences between threats and hazards and the five Forms of Protection (Prevention, Deterrence, Passive Defense, Active Security and Mitigation). This topic has been adapted from the U.S. Army’s doctrine on Physical Security for application by the prepper, prepper family or preparedness group. Today we’ll expand our discussion to include the Principals of Protection.
As we discussed in Part One our goal in this series is to help you develop a cognitive model for assessing your own Physical Security in a continuum of security environments from today’s Rule of Law (ROL) environment (at least here in the U.S.) through increasingly degraded security environments, short term WROL situations and all the way to a full, long term, WROL environment.
Army doctrine teaches that successful protection is characterized by the integration of the five principles of protection and these principles can be used to counter a myriad of physical security challenges. Although these principals of protection are applied differently depending on your resources and environment they do provide the prepper, along with the Forms of Protection from Part One…a way to approach protection and improve your Physical Security situation no matter the security environment. Remember that your plan should be tailored not only to the hazards and threats you face, but also to the legal and political environment you face…and might face. It’s a sad testament to our society that a man or woman isn’t judged just by their actions but are also, often judged by how their actions are perceived through racial, gender, political affiliation or economic (class) charged lenses.
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Hayek on Foolishness – Today’s Quote
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
