The big news on the Gulf oil spill now is where has all the oil gone? The size of the slick has shrunk tremendously and it has a lot of folks, including Government officials and tree huggers, wondering where the oil has gone. Some say it has sank to the ocean’s floor and is sitting just under the silt, other say it has been taken away by the Gulf stream and still others say it has all washed up into the marshes. There are even those who say that the oil is sitting in the water column, somewhere between the surface and the bottom. But preliminary results tend to show that perhaps Nature is cleaning up the Gulf oil spill.
Is Nature Cleaning Up The Gulf Oil Spill?
· Gulf Oil Spill
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The Colony – Season 2 on Discovery Channel
· Survival Skills
I first thought about writing a review on Season 1 of Discovery Channels reality show called ‘The Colony‘ that was about a group of people playing Survivalist after a catastrophic event in L.A. Then I thought better of it after watching the show. I knew that many of you people out there saw it for the same thing I did. A show developed by Hollywood in an attempt to entertain the masses. I imagine that just like me, you thought most of it was utterly ridiculous. They show’s producers really went out of their way to tell anyone who would listen that this closely simulated a survival situation that could happen after a real disaster.
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10 Best Places To Survive In America
· Self Reliance
Well, it’s that time again, the time when Money magazine comes out with their top 100 places to live in America. Of course, you and I know this list is flawed simply by the criteria Money magazine uses to come up with the list. I should say, you and I know this list is flawed if you want to survive! It’s a great list if you must live near crowds, ballet, art museums, colleges and other nonsense. You know, places me and you would rather NOT live! Especially during a man made disaster or economic collapse. So this year, I decided to come up with the 10 best places to survive in America. If you don’t agree with some of these places, that’s fine. It’s MY list, not yours! 
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Can America Survive An Argentina Style Economic Collapse?
· TEOTWAWKI
Note: This is an anonymous guest post. I approved it as a refresher since I wrote an article a while back about a possible economic collapse in America.
Can you just imagine the stress of walking up to an ATM and it having no money? Can you imagine the shock of walking up to another ATM and it also having no money? What about a third ATM having no money…that’s horror! It could happen if the United States suffers the same tragic economical collapse that Argentina suffered back in the 1990’s.
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Earthquake Preparedness Begins With Earthquake Kits
· Emergency Preparedness
The thing about earthquakes is that there is no “season” for them like there is for hurricanes or tornado’s. An earthquake can hit at any time of day or night and at any time of year. The occur with little to no warning and they do not discriminate. They can ravage poor places like Haiti or affluent areas such as California. This is one reason it’s so important to practice earthquake preparedness and develop earthquake emergency plans of action. If you don’t have a plan or haven’t started preparing for an earthquake in your area, the best think you can do is start with an earthquake kit.
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The Survivalist’s Instant Garden
· Gardening, Survival Skills
I can’t take credit for this idea I had about making an instant survival garden. I once read about this topsoil bag gardening method in a magazine, the name of which I can’t remember. But I do remember that I found it very interesting and filed it away in the back of my mind as something I wanted to try. Well, recently I realized that it’s almost May and I never got around to planting a herb garden. I’ve never been a herb gardener and I always wanted to try and raise my own and start practicing a few herbal remedies I’ve been researching.
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30-30 Winchester – Is It The Best Survival Gun?
· Survival Gear, survival guns
It seems no matter what you read, there’s some “guru” telling you what is and is not the perfect survival gun. Well, I might as well put my two cents in to this debate as well. My pick is the 30-30 Winchester cartridge and the rifle I choose is the Marlin lever action. Now that I’ve said that, I’ll tell you that the perfect survival gun is the one you happen to have in your hand when a survival situation occurs.
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Survival Seeds Bank – Save Money By Making Your Own
· Self Reliance
It seems that everywhere you look, someone is offering Survival Seeds or a “Survival Seed Bank” for sale. I don’t know which is more unbelievable. The prices they’re asking for these Survival Seeds or the Survival Seed Banks or that there are actually people willing to pay the asking price! Many of these offers don’t have $10 worth of seeds in them and they’re being sold for $50 to $150!
Buying and storing seeds for survival is not hard and not expensive, certainly not as expensive as some of the survival seed packs being offered on the Internet.
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Have You Considered A Solar Generator For Emergency Backup Power?
· Emergency Preparedness, Self Reliance
One of the ironic consequences that I saw in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike is people running out of gas for their generators and then leaving them without electrical power. You see, when they went to get gas at the store, the stores didn’t have electricity to run their gas pumps plus the gasoline distributors were only delivering gas to the stores with power, which were on the edge of the storm path, some 1 1/2 hours or more away. It really hit home why I needed a Solar System or at least a solar generator for emergency backup power.
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Did You Survive The Holidays?
· Emergency Preparedness
I hope this post finds you well and you implemented your plans to survive the Holidays! (pun intended ) Hopefully everyone rested up a bit and spent some quality time with family and friends. Preparedness and planning for SHTF situations doesn’t have to take every waking minute. Sometimes it’s nice to put all your worries out of your mind and just think of nothing and enjoy the moment.
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