At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, the population of the world was under 500 million souls. By today's standards, much of the world was emp...
Keep a sense of history too. Race riots are just a fact of coexisting in the same geography. In 1980, 18 died in riots in Miami. In 1965, 34 died ...
I'll mention this as an alternative to ebay: aliexpress.I've picked up a few on ebay and amazon and they are all pretty much the same coming out of Ch...
Hey, gang.Just a quick heads up about the big Ali express sale next week. If you're looking for a cheap, effective HAM radio capable transceiver, pri...
I suggest one of the uniting commonalities be amateur HAM radio. Even if not licensed, everyone should have one to monitor a frequency used by the g...
CP Gear is having a 10 percent off everything sale until the 29th of October. I'll be picking up some gear made in Canada.
I say this not to alarm but to inform.The Spanish Flu of 1918 came in three waves. It showed up in America in the spring of 1918, and then came back ...
Again I'll mention Katrina. It was a very localized event, yet it impacted Texas and surrounding states as people went further afield, even as far as...
This is becoming a perfect example of why we prep. Not a theoretical model, but a real one.Update: The President of Liberia now says Ebola has "broug...
During Hurricane Katrina, there were some who decided to bug in. The high ground which escaped flooding consisted of older commercial districts and ...
There was limited time to chat about it at the Larose meetup, but programming with CHIRP works well for me. You order the cable from one of the Chine...
The US is refusing to place a travel ban on West Africa, even though most Eastern and Southern African countries have. The US is relying on screening ...
Ebola was a footnote when it first appeared weeks ago, now its front-page, and rapidly becoming a bigger concern than wars.Worth remembering is that d...
On the subject of pandemics, a quick review.1732-33 World-wide, very severe, number of deaths unknown.1781-82 Originated in China, spread to India, ...
Diatomaceous Earth (food grade) is warfare against internal parasites in the digestive tract. It works because it is made of the tiny, sharp-edged ex...