IMPORTANT SAFETY RECALL NOTICE - May 29, 2009

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gear is never a single item.  The Flame Retardant (FR) coveralls and Smoke/Fire Escape Hood are a great foundation.  But additional PPE is required for success.  I am thinking that the minimum, additional PPE would include:

Footwear –
Unless you are ready to pull a John McClane and walk barefoot over broken glass without stopping (yipee-ki-yea), footwear can easily make or break survival.  Especially since most modern, professional women wear heels or sand [ ... ]

If you accept the assertion that the primary or secondary danger most likely to affect the ultra-urbanite is fire, then smoke/fire escape hoods can be worth the investment.  With all the modern plastics and other man-made materials and finishes, the primary killer in a structure fire is not the flame itself, but the toxic smoke.  Many autopsies show the victims were dead from the smoke (or lack of oxygen) long before the body burned.

Smoke/fire hoods can be expensive.  At least the ones that h [ ... ]

As far as I can tell, the number one threat facing the modern megalopolis, skyscraper dweller (either primarily or as a secondary concern) is fire.  Train derailment sparking a conflagration.  Civil unrest (or professional football/baseball/hockey game fan rejoicing) is often highlighted  with fires.  An underground power station transformer blows setting the cooling oil on fire.  A jack-knifed, suicide jockey pulling a tandem for the downtown gas station gets punctured and goes up in flame [ ... ]

The potential emergencies for the skyscraper dweller includes what most other preppers have listed – hail storms, fire, radioactive release, blackouts, civil unrest, etcetera – just with some twists.  Specifically, the impact of the density of human beings, the height of the structures people work, sleep, and play in, and the lack of space to store all the “stuff”.  This is what makes survival in the downtown core a little different than in the rural to wild environments.

First and fore [ ... ]

Many can't/won't live in a small village or isolated retreat.  The overwhelming majority of modern, first world nations, live in cities with buildings taller than any fire truck ladder.  How about a BOB/GOOD/GO bag for the modern office worker and downtown megalopolis, skyscrape dweller?

Just as there are different considerations when living out on the edge of the wild, there are unique concerns in the big city.  It is a trade off.  I don't think I need to worry about a grizzly roaming around [ ... ]

Monday's Lessons Learned: June 29, 2009   Or rather Friday's Lessons Learned   I have to mention that I totally blame Ferfal for opening my eyes to some of the things that I have started to notice. If I had not started to read his blog it is likely that I would not have noticed a pattern forming around me. Canada is likely to be the next Argentina, maybe even before the States.   There are several things that Ferfal mentions in his blog about the new normal Argentina. One of the  [ ... ]

Here's a link to a post by Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest back in May, that made it to my must watch list in my head. I though it would be a good one for a Sunday Morning Cartoon. - Wolfe

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Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Inserted Update)   (Continued from part 3)   Important Additions, Updates, and Notes:
Using Cash and Credit Cards:
It is important to mention something here that I should have mentioned at the beginning. Cash is King. Cash is untraceable, and should be used when making purchases of any kind, including those that are for other things like your BOB.   Even when using the internet to make a purchases it is good to use cash to get th [ ... ]

Monday's Lessons Learned: June 22, 2009   Hobo Spiders
So this last week was a lesson in spiders. Only I wasn't the one to learn this one, my wife did instead. British Columbia being part of the great white north has very cold winters from time to time. But not always. Vancouver is also known for very mild winters, it is also an international port city, and as a result we tend to end up with invasive species from all over the globe, including tropical plants and insects. Most of these  [ ... ]

 Here's a Sunday Must Read that I found back in April, ever wonder what it was like to actually live in New Orleans during Katrina? Then read this .... link.  - Wolfe

Secret Messages and Secure Communications Part 3   (Continued from part 2)   All About Being On line:   Welcome to the world wide web. Within this realm of virtual space you can buy anything, sell services and objects of desire. You can pay your bills, while working for a company half way around the world, without even getting out of bed. The Internet provides you with entertainment, information, education and even help you find the love of your life. And it can ruin your life.  [ ... ]

From Comics should be good

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Monday's Lessons Learned: June 15th, 2009   Grapple This:   OK, a little back ground on this part first. Way back in the 1990's I was involved in a little unknown underground movement in Toronto. The purpose of this group was to bring to light what was happening to our food supply, namely GMO food. Alta was a major target at the time, they were altering the genes of cows via selective breeding, and artificial insemination before it was common practice. Our approach was to access thei [ ... ]

Here's a refresher course on primitive skills. I know you don't like studing on a Sunday, but hey think of it as Sunday school. Let's get started on our Primitive Ways class.- Wolfe 

From Capitalism Magazine

Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Part 2):   (Continued from Part 1)   Yet another passport:   Your name itself isn't enough to identify you, if your name happens to be John Smith there are 50,628 other people in the United States alone with that same name. You real identity is a combination of the name you were given at birth by your parents, the place where you were born, your family tree, your citizenship, and where your permanent residence is. You can not change yo [ ... ]

  Cheryl Catherine Smith This post, which is without a doubt a total plug on my behalf, is to share with you the reader to the following up coming star... but my wife and I are going to hog her all to ourselves for coffee next week.  BuMM74bJo20
 You can come out to see her in person if your in the Lower Mainland of BC... Beans On Lonsdale
1804 Lonsdale Ave
North Vancouver, BC
July 16th, 8 to 10 pm more info of upcoming events on Cheryl's home page her [ ... ]

Secret Messages and Secure Communications (Part 1):
This post grew on me, so I have broken it up into parts. - Wolfe
  No one can stand alone. I know there is a common mind set amongst survivalists that we are a hardy set of individuals, but you can not keep watch twenty four hours a day on your own. Even if all you are relying on are close family members, there are security issues that you should consider.   I have a poll up on my blog here as to which 'how to guide' I should  [ ... ]

Monday's Lessons Learned: June 8th, 2009   Track This:   I love watching that television show 'Mantracker' on the Outdoor Life Network. Now being a survivalist with a very high ego, I naturally assumed that most of the people that the cowboy tracked where a bunch of boobs. I mean how hard can it be to hide your tracks in the woods? This is North America people, there are roads everywhere, creeks and small rivers, and heck just plain grass! Well, it turns out I'm the boob...   I' [ ... ]

Last week I put a plug on this site for Paladin Press, this week it is just for one book, which also has a related web site. Last Christmas I bought one of my sons a book called "Worst Case Scenarios", I freely admit it was an attempt to brain wash him into becoming a survivalist, by the way it worked. Here is a link to the constant updates, extras, and interesting reads from the publishers.Worst Case Scenarios - Wolfe

  From Les jones

Monday's Lessons Learned: June 1st, 2009   Passport Day
Today, if you want to enter the USA as a Canadian Citizen you need a passport. Every border crossing in Canada now has that requirement and armed guards. That is all of them except one. My friends in Cornwall are at a crossroads in history as I write this, Cornwall has never had a real Canadian side to the border. When I left Canada for New York, I crossed at the Cornwall border crossing, it was located on US soil at the time, and n [ ... ]