Have you ever wondered what makes a person snap? What causes a normal, quiet, everyday citizen, loving mother, or doting father to lose it all and fight like a caged animal? What can cause a small village to rise up and rebel against an oppressive police force and start killing them? What is the switch that gets flipped that causes a city to pour two million people into the streets, chanting and demanding to be heard by their government?

Lately it feels more and more as though we are on standing on the edge of some yawning precipice peering over the crest into darkness. What is more troubling to me is that we have been down this path before. The sense of unease is almost palpable to me sometimes; it is more evident if you are paying attention. If you are able to eliminate the white noise of the world for a minute; hit the pause button on the playlist of daily life for a while and look around, listen, you may start to recognize that you too are caught up in events that will soon change all our lives.

For several years I have felt an unsettling sense that we need to be prepared, that life is going to throw us a big, fat, greasy curve ball soon and we better not be caught napping. To try and proactively address that warning voice I started planning and taking steps to prepare my family to be able to weather events in the future. I am certainly not alone in this concern as you can easily see by the tremendous growth of the prepper movement. In the spectrum of probable events, there are a lot of potential scenarios. Natural disasters and emergencies occur every day all over the world, but you have to broaden your gaze and look to current events and history as well. One of the things that I think is a valid potential event to consider is a collapse of our way of life which leads to an authoritarian oppressive government.

Are we reaching a tipping point?

We have seen in recent events, by now almost too numerous to mention, the effects of a rising frustration with the way things are. It isn’t necessary to go into all of the individual reasons, but as a society there are more and more outpourings of frustration on a global scale. There are increasingly tightening restrictions against people. There is a manipulation of markets and the economy. There is a great increase in the loss of freedom and there is a more open antagonism and almost outright animosity by Government towards their people.

Governments exist either because they have come to power through force and violence or they have been elected and given power by the people. The force and violence crowd usually have their roots in the military and we like to call them Dictators. There have been a ton of them throughout history; Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong iL and now his son, Saddam, Gaddafi, the list goes on and on. Dictators don’t care about the people and usually kill anyone who gets in their way. It is a fact that government has killed more people than any other cause, disease or reason.

The other side of the coin is what is usually called Democacies. I am lumping a lot of governments in here I know, but the democracies are usually elected and formed with the consent of the people with the noble goal of securing rights or protecting the people over whom they govern. Almost without fail however, Democratic Governments eventually do not want to answer to the people and at some point they most certainly will not be told what to do by the people to the point of ignoring the will of the people (for the people’s own good of course). Now these governments that are supposed to secure the liberties of their people are becoming more openly hostile to the same people they have sworn to defend. Funnily enough the democratically elected governments now seem to want to hang on to power with the same methods of force and violence as dictators. How else can you explain arming themselves with ammo, ignoring the constitution, purchasing assault vehicles and preparing to confiscate firearms?

When governments will steal money outright from the citizens in order to pay bills that were not incurred by the people we have a problem. When government spies on its people and uses that information against them punitively we have a problem. When Government uses the force of the military that was supposed to defend the people that was paid for by the people, for the purposes of killing the people, we have a big problem. When someone brings to light crimes by the government and is labeled as the one who is a danger, we have a problem.

The problem is that governments around the world are viewing their people as the problem and there really seems to be only one way throughout history that this is ever rectified. My fear is that we are already set on a course that won’t be changed with laws, great political leaders, or a return to the values of a golden age in time long past.

The Fine Line – The Straw that breaks the camel’s back

The fine line between someone who is a law-abiding citizen and a murderer is one that exists purely in our souls. There is nothing physical that is different from a person who follows the rules and someone who breaks them. The urge to pull the trigger isn’t something you can see and it isn’t a trait to test for, so it must be our own individual sense of right and wrong. Of good and evil.

I know that some will argue that a psychopath is definitely recognizable by character traits and maybe even brainwaves or chemistry. That may be true, but you can be a psychopath (clinically) without ever hurting anyone. By the same token, you can take a life while being perfectly “sane”.

If you hold a knife in your hand, you are just as capable of using that to stab or cut someone as the murderer in the next town, but that thought never enters the mind of an overwhelming majority of people. A baseball bat in your hands can easily be swung with great force connecting it to the back of a skull, but this thought never appears in our heads; that is unless we are forced into a corner. When a person is in desperate fear for their lives, the unspoken rules of right and wrong are broken. The processes that we follow every day are overridden in the cause of rage or self-preservation. What was unthinkable before is now very real, necessary and even righteous with the right circumstances.

When the right buttons are pushed, anyone can lose it. When the fear of dying or of losing someone you love is so overpowering, the “fine line” that has been keeping us sane, law-abiding and good is easily shattered. When this happens, all bets are off.

We as a people, a country are still rather firmly attached on the good side of this line. We have not yet completely been driven to abandon all hope and lash out. We have not yet been so harmed, have not gotten to the point that we have nothing to lose and are ready to lose it, but this may be coming in the future.

The force and violence that is being used now to quell the dissatisfaction of people globally is increasing. The methods to cease the complaining of the rabble has been relatively minor with some exceptions. Tear gas, rubber bullets, mace and batons only work up to a point though. When the time comes that people can no longer abide, there won’t be enough police to stop them using riot control techniques. The military doesn’t have enough people to stop the entire population unless those people peacefully agree to surrender, so what will they do? Do you believe any government will quietly step down and admit that they are obviously not speaking for the people anymore? No. They will resort to more force and violence and people will die. Either that or you have a coup like they had in Egypt and guess who took over to “restore order”? Yep, the Military.

What will be the inevitable response by the authorities?

The Chinese people who started to revolt against the police in their town did so because the authorities were “placing restrictions on their culture, language and religion”. China is no picnic compared to America and we clearly know they have lived through far worse oppression than we have, but this was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them?

The protests which turned into an estimated two million citizens of Brazil had started simply enough with a protest over a rise in the rates of public transportation.

In America, what will be the trigger that causes people to rise up and say we aren’t going to take this anymore and more importantly what will happen when/if we do?

What will happen if we don’t change the path we are on?

There is a quote that has always struck me as very sad and telling from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his book The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn was a Russian who was sentenced to 8 years in a Soviet prison camp for essentially writing things about Stalin that the government didn’t like. During this time in Soviet Russia, to stifle dissent, millions were killed or sent to prison camps. In this passage Solzhenitsyn is talking about regret that everyone felt because they simply went along with this tyranny and didn’t oppose it.

 “AND HOW WE BURNED IN THE CAMPS LATER, THINKING: WHAT WOULD THINGS HAVE BEEN LIKE IF EVERY SECURITY OPERATIVE, WHEN HE WENT OUT AT NIGHT TO MAKE AN ARREST, HAD BEEN UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE WOULD RETURN ALIVE AND HAD TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO HIS FAMILY? OR IF, DURING PERIODS OF MASS ARRESTS, AS FOR EXAMPLE IN LENINGRAD, WHEN THEY ARRESTED A QUARTER OF THE ENTIRE CITY, PEOPLE HAD NOT SIMPLY SAT THERE IN THEIR LAIRS, PALING WITH TERROR AT EVERY BANG OF THE DOWNSTAIRS DOOR AND AT EVERY STEP ON THE STAIRCASE, BUT HAD UNDERSTOOD THEY HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE AND HAD BOLDLY SET UP IN THE DOWNSTAIRS HALL AN AMBUSH OF HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE WITH AXES, HAMMERS, POKERS, OR WHATEVER ELSE WAS AT HAND?… THE ORGANS WOULD VERY QUICKLY HAVE SUFFERED A SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS AND TRANSPORT AND, NOTWITHSTANDING ALL OF STALIN’S THIRST, THE CURSED MACHINE WOULD HAVE GROUND TO A HALT! IF…IF…WE DIDN’T LOVE FREEDOM ENOUGH. AND EVEN MORE – WE HAD NO AWARENESS OF THE REAL SITUATION…. WE PURELY AND SIMPLY DESERVED EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AFTERWARD.”  – ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Will this be our fate too? Will we slowly be conditioned to accept atrocities like this and to be completely defanged so that we can be herded into camps without so much as a whimper as well? That’s crazy you say! Is it? Right now, our government is hunting down someone who simply exposed how they (government) were illegally spying on all of us. Our government is buying arms and stockpiling weapons for use domestically not in some war. Our government has the IRS actively harassing a single political/opposition party. Our government has shown that they will lock down a town and go door to door while making the citizens stay cowered inside. Our government has stated that they can imprison anyone without cause for an indefinite amount of time.

Can you seriously argue that we aren’t headed down the same path as others have in our not too distant past?

This is not a call to armed Revolution, but I do think we should all be very wary of this course we are on and the echos of history. We should not be silent in the face of increasing oppression. We should not simply go along quietly because of the fear that we may get in trouble, or worse that we believe the government is only looking out for our best interests. You only need to look at the people in Poland who quietly went into the Warsaw ghettos. You don’t have to look any further than the Holocaust to see what quietly going along will get you.

This is not a fate that I will be bringing on my family.

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I’m going to alert you to what many are considering to be on of the worst doomsday scenarios for free American patriots. One that apparently not many are prepping for, or even seem to care about.

By now everybody knows that the government ‘alphabet agencies’ including mainly the NSA have been methodically collecting data on us. Everything we do, say, buy and search on the internet will be on permanent data base file by next year. All phone calls now are computer monitored, automatically recorded and stored with certain flag/trigger words (in all languages).

As technology improves, every single phone call will be entirely recorded at meta-data bases in government computer cloud storage, when ‘They’ finish the huge NSA super spy center in Utah. Which means they will be available anytime authorities want to look them up and personally listen for any information reference to any future investigation. Super computer algorithms will pin point search extrapolations of ANY relationship to the target point.

You can rest uneasily, but assured, that in the very near future when a cop stops you and scans your driver license into his computer, he will know anything even remotely ’suspicious’ or ’questionable’ about ALL the recent activities and behavior in your life he chooses to focus upon!

This is the ‘privacy apocalypse’ coming upon us. And you need to know these five devices that you can run to protect your privacy, but you can’t hide from.

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When Security Overlaps Freedom

The NSA does more spying on ‘We the People’ than it does on the enemies of the country! Even simple text messages over a certain number of characters will join the wealth of stolen private communications flagged by certain trigger words, in the happy hunting grounds of mega-data heaven.

The two biggest fallacy arguments are that ‘those with nothing to ‘hide’ have nothing to fear’, or ‘this is the price we pay for living in a fast paced convenient modern computerized world if we want to improve our security and safety’.

Why does all these lame excuses remind me of something the old sage Ben Franklin used to say to slap that kind of thinking? “Those who are willing to give up any freedoms for a little more security deserve neither.’

The factual true reality is that these egregious violations of our privacy rights are premised on the never ending lies of the government. Maybe ‘They’ still get away with it because for some reason people are so dumbed down or not paying attention, or simply don’t know or see the bigger picture.

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So assuming that most of us really don’t want the government or police to know our most private business just because it’s so easy for them to do so even though we are not doing anything wrong, we’ll provide a little edification herein about the cold hard realities.

With the increase of technology that we don’t even really need for everyday use in most of our lifestyles, the value it does NOT produce in comparison to the dangerous violations of our liberties, exemplifies the true intention of ‘the invention’. The government argument for having cameras everywhere in public is that the courts ruled that generally we have no expectation of complete privacy in a public domain.

And of course they took that as a green light to mean that they can now put surveillance cameras literally everywhere in the city and roads and take public pictures of anybody for their meta/data bases. Also, they put face recognition technology in use with the cameras to literally search people’s identity and background, at will, anytime when you’re in public, 4^th/A notwithstanding!

In my personal opinion, this is a much better way to replicate the old fashioned Nazi way of saying ’papers, please’.

But our homes are supposed to be insulated and highly protected from what the courts call ’unreasonable search and seizure” which guarantees our inalienable right to privacy in our own homes? There are specific guidelines and nobody is supposed to know what goes on in the sanctity of your castle without your permission or without a court designated warrant, which is issued on the basis of serious probable criminal cause.

But in their anti-privacy compulsion the next inevitable turn in the down spiral of destroying our basic liberties cannot be surprising anymore.

Here’s how far and fast the ‘tactical tech’ invasion of our privacy has slid down the extremely slippery slope of totalitarianism in just the last couple of years:

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1. FLIR Devices (Forward Looking Infrared Devices) 

These have actually been around for almost 20 years now in the form of heat seeking devices but the advanced laser electronics and microprocessors now make it into a new and more dangerous tool called thermal imaging detection devices.

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Based on (FLIR) the military and civilian search and rescue community immediately recognized the benefits of such devices for aerial environmental tracking search purposes and as the market grew sophistication became enhanced.

The original mechanical concept in application was to pinpoint differential temperature variation between humans and ambient environmental temperatures, in order to determine the potential of locating individual human presence with a color spectrum visual image especially in total darkness by their own body heat.

But rapid developments in the imaging technology and penetration/ranging and portability bring this device to new heights of ‘clearly pictured’ intrusion.

Deployment is rapidly becoming enhanced, as well, as the science improves more powerful devices with better range and penetration in smaller devices are emerging.

That small neighborhood police ‘crime watch drone’ will no longer only be able to peek in your window from under your tree branches but will soon be able to see through your walls into the most private places in your home!

A cop can pull up quietly and unnoticed in their unmarked cars or vans– and ‘see’ through your walls and spy on you right from the curb in front of your house by aiming their new handheld FLIR Thermal Imaging device through walls, and get quite a clear telling image of what you and your husband are doing under the bed sheets or in the personal sanctity of your bathroom.

And if you have a solid concrete home or are down deep in the corner of your basement, there’s this next device here in the form of unholy diabolical ‘son of FLIR’ to eventually find you no matter where you are hiding your home.

2. RANGE-R – Hand Held Obstacle Penetrating Radar

Remember the classic movie series Aliens with Sigourney Weaver where the baby alien monster popped out of the belly of one the space exploration team on the space craft?

And then the aliens were sneaking around the innards of the spacecraft closing in on the Lt. Ripley & Crew and Corporal Hicks pulls out his handheld tracking device–remarkably identical to these RANGE-R devices– and right through the walls and metal bulkheads and pinpointed all the alien monsters sneaking around with their exact location, distance, and movement.

Well the future is here and now. Pretty cool, huh? Well, not if you are a private American citizen trying to appreciate your Constitutional liberties in the enclosed security of your own home expecting that neither the uninvited thief nor the government can invade that privacy.

The RANGE-R handheld locating device is based on specially tuned and direction enhanced radar wave technology. This is currently being used by dozens of federal agencies including the U.S. Marshal Service, the BATF and FBI, and even some local municipalities which can afford the purchase of it, usually with their drug seizure profits.

The detecting power of the RANGE-R literally can penetrate many walls to detect humans. This device, along with its bigger two handed more enhanced version–the RADAR VISION 2, which is pressed up against the outside of even a brick wall and is so sensitive and can detect a motionless human’s breathing even if they are sitting still– gives the operator a discernable 3D image that can be analyzed for detail at distances over 100 feet!

When USA Today broke the story last month many of us were surprised that the government had already secretly and with a legally questionable application use, deployed these devices in numerous investigations and arrests. Well, you really didn’t expect them to publicly announce that they were violating the 4^th Amendment, did you?

The official unbelievable excuse this time was that these devices were supposedly used in conjunction with a warrant (sometimes?). The probable cause was that government agents and police needed to know who and what was inside before they entered.

Well, that’s a bumpy, but woefully unconvincing convenient slide down the slope from the usual suspects ‘public safety’ and extreme ‘crime prevention’… Just like the use of an officer’s sidearm in the killing of unarmed person(s) behaving strangely, if a cop perceives his life is in danger.

3. FADS – Frisk At Distance Scanners

Perhaps this is the most insidiously egregious of this Unholy Technical Trinity so far here because states like New York have been planning to implement this technology in conjunction with their ubiquitous surveillance camera deployment directly against private citizens walking around the city for over a year now. Which means that they are likely now in covert use, possibly even more compact and stealthy, and mounted in discreet police vehicles for routine patrol.

This device replicates the eerily X-Ray eyes type detailed contrast and definition of the walk in TSA devices which were minimalized because of the dangerous radiation output. But they don’t really care about ‘public safety’, at least not at the sacrifice of their obsessive compulsive need to confiscate your firearms.

What, say you? They’ll never get all your guns because you carefully conceal them inside your walls in secret hiding places?

Well, sorry to bust your door down but just because these devices can look through your walls, doesn’t mean they can’t be adjusted to also look INSIDE your walls and plumbing and ducting, and etc.

Check out these more sophisticated mobile privacy intrusion Franken FADS and have your anti-depression meds handy.

 4. ZBVs – Z-Backscatting Vans

Just when you thought you were about to wake up with a huge headache from this Orwellian technology nightmare, it gets even worse!

Made by the same company that brought you unhealthy things like the TSA airport body scanners, this is a specialized advanced mobile version which is supposed to be able to frisk people, look inside of vehicles and walls and see everything clearly enough to read label writing or tell how many rounds you have in the gun! It can differentiate between drugs and explosives and who knows what else they are not telling you?

From a liberty and privacy standpoint this is one of the most intrusive devices conceivable. They’ve sold several hundred of these already and they usually use white Mercedes small cargo vans.

Seems like supposedly greedy entrepreneurs are buying them and ’renting’ them out to any police agency for specific times/needs so they don’t have to pay out the big bucks to own one.

So if you see one of these white vans with the familiar Mercedes emblem on the grill hanging around you know it ain’t a NAAPA auto parts delivery truck. They’ve been seen several times in New York in the last few months.

What? You say don’t care anymore, because you don’t HAVE anything in your walls or house or vehicle that you care about them taking? You have anything of real ’value’ buried in an underground ‘vault’ deep enough where even metal detectors can’t reach it.

Well, now you’re thinking! But ‘They’ won’t be using metal detectors that much for underground search’.

They’ll be using this next device if they think you got a little ‘Mole’ in your blood.

 5. GPR – Ground Penetrating Radar Equipment

This equipment is so ’useful’ in various construction and underground search applications from archeology to treasure hunters or construction companies, to homicide detectives that they are now readily available and portable. A single operator can use one and simply walk around and create an ’anomaly’ map sort of like sonar but for the ground instead of water, and show an image of an underground cave, sink hole, buried body.

Your stashes of ammo boxes and ’stuff’ would stick out like the proverbial horse’s ass, even though you buried it and completely covered it with no entrance and planted grass over the top of it!

The really bad part is that the good ones can go down pretty deep, like over 30 or 40 feet or more depending upon strata composite! And don’t forget they don’t need a warrant to search on public lands, if that’s what you are thinking.

There’s actually a couple more peripheral tools to help narrow down searches on undeveloped land when GPR equipment is used for people tracking or stash hiding but I think you get the idea now.

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The added bad thing here is all this technology is only what WE know currently but not necessarily what really secretly exists at this point in time and the near future. Radar wave technology combined with computer algorithms have exponentially advanced to a point where even the relatively low tech Russians have supposedly developed radar capability to detect even our newest supposedly radar detection proof F-36 and B plus series stealth fighters and bombers!

So who knows what they’ll have by next year to much more easily ‘see’ everything and anything inside your home in minute detail anytime they feel like it? It may be closer than you think because the military just got the nod to fly two humongous blimps over the Eastern third of the country to ‘look for things’. Supposedly for homeland security? What’s in that big wallet?

The government agencies have been using these devices for almost a year now with little or no oversight and not many, if any, valid usage based on obtaining the appropriate warrants. This raises serious Constitutional issues.

Under the guidelines of a rogue administration, these alphabet agencies do anything they want and justify their civil rights violations by saying it helps protect their officers when involved in dangerous terrorist hostage situations by knowing how many terrorists are inside the building.

And remember it’s not only the Feds who are creating a ‘Minority Report’ bad movie. Now even local police departments are beginning to use these devices as commonly as they use their flashlights!

The really depressing aspect of all these super intrusion technology is that we have to face the difficult to believe reality that… your personal home privacy is now gone completely, all of it. And it is just a matter of time before it affects everybody, even those nitwits who claim they don’t mind because they think they have nothing to hide.

Because someone they might be casually or inadvertently associated with such as a classmate or a neighbor, or some email correspondence that ‘They’ will be tracking under the presumption of terrorist activity, will also have a ‘knock’ on their door from the men in helmets, machine guns, jackboots, and body armor after they penetrated and scanned the private interior of your home.

The 4th Amendment is being stomped and thrown aside. By individual states as well like Conneticut and New York with their latest anti-2/A New York Safe Act.

Edward Snowden proved beyond any doubt that they were lying about spying on us but after the initial shock and surprise and outcry, nobody did squat to stop it. Because nobody seemed to care much after Snowden, the government took that to mean ‘implied consent’ and continued their spying right under our noses without even trying to hide it, or deny it, anymore.

If anyone doesn’t understand that we are in the end times of personal privacy then they better wake up fast and smell the coffee you might now be allowed to drink anymore due to the politically correct social engineers who control everything else, decide to ban it for health insurance purposes or some other lie?

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What to Do?

Remedies and solutions? I don’t know for certain anymore. Some say nothing short of a major revolutionary shift in social consciousness. I’ll just add one that should at least be considered because of the immediate impact it would have in our lives. They manipulated the laws to enslave and control us but now we have the dominant balance of power in our Legislative Branch.

All who care enough to preserve the great liberty of privacy, if not for us, for our progeny, should create political momentum to overturn/repeal all unconstitutional laws that have anything to do with limiting our rights to own guns or assets in the absolute protection of privacy. While we still can.

We must ALL unite and proactively charge our new Legislative ’employees’ to repeal the insidious laws that are making us all criminals and restore the Constitution to its former uninfringeable status. Otherwise here is my prophecy: if we don’t act soon enough the bottom of the slope ride to tyranny will begin to come up quickly and hit us hard with total ‘slavery’ before we even realize it.

The modern ‘Jeffersonian Solution’ is to politically unite and ‘change it all back’ by repealing and dissolving bad laws which enslave good people… before it really is too late.

When you think about the big picture, there’s not much you physically have that ‘They’ can’t already take away from you. All we really have left of freedom is our personal privacy and the single remaining right to vote.

What would we have left if they ultimately succeeded in removing all our privacy? Nothing!

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When it comes to herbal remedies, we can only speculate about our ancestors’ behavior, but clues and common sense tell us that they did, in fact, use plants to survive – whether for nourishment or medical treatment.

These plants were more than just food and medicine to those that preceded us. Plants not only healed but represented a connection to the supernatural world.

There are numerous studies that have investigated the diets of our distant cousins that have been unearthed in multiple sites throughout Europe (It is weird to me that bones of our ancestors have been ripped up, as it is similar to ripping up the graves of our own people, but I guess if your entire history has been erased for multiple decades, re-discovering who we were, and what plants we utilized is of some benefit – so that we can record and not mess up again next time).

With that being said, over 61 different taxa from 26 different plant families used by our descendants at 17 different archaeological sites have been found.

Among these plant foods and medicines included:
– Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)
– Dates (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
– Yarrow (Achillea sp.)
– Wormwood (Artemisia sp.)
– Safflower (Carthamus sp.)
– Basketflower (Centaurea sp.)
– Yellowstone thistle (Cirsium ochrocentrum A. Gray)
– Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.)
– Daisies like ragworts and groundsels (Senecio sp.)
– Birch tree leaves (Betula sp.)
– Bugloss (Echium angustifolium/judaeum)
– Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum L.)
– Nettle-leaf Goosefoot (plant in the amaranth family) (Chenopodium murale L.)
– Juniper berries (Juniperus sp.)
– Annual mercury (Mercurialis annua L.)
– Astragalus (Astragalus echinus L.)
– Marshmallow plant (Althaea sp.)
– Mallow (Malva sp.)
– Figs (Ficus carica L.)
– Pine (likely the fresh buds – high in vitamin C) (Pinus sp.)
– Wild grapes (Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris)

This gives us a pretty interesting insight in regards to what our ancestors used as plant food and medicine. From this list, we can gather what is medicine, and what would have been food (I decided to not include more foods, mainly because they were grain-based, but grains back in the day were much safer to consume than the Monsanto-modified versions that are supplied today).

The evolution of human-kind was largely based around utilizing herbal remedies to help with a variety of different ailments. That is, until these herbs were manipulated into forms that were more harmful – namely, pharmaceuticals.

Did you know that over 50% of the drugs in clinical use today contain natural products (and their derivatives and analogs)? These natural products are synthesized from plant compounds and bring up the question of why individuals suffering from illnesses are simply not provided with a prescription to eat these foods instead of given a chemical concoction of chemical pills with a component of said plant compounds.

It is hard to know how our ancestors determined which plants might have medicinal properties (although, trial and error was likely one approach). It’s also thought that they observed sick animals eating certain plants and determined that those plants must have a certain property worth exploring.

Since this time, scientific studies have verified the medicinal value of many plants. For example, Aspirin is derived from salicin, a chemical in the inner bark of willow trees that was used in ancient times for fever and pain.

These medicines were either ingested (such as in teas) or applied externally as a paste. Sometimes the plants were eaten as food or added to food or water. On occasion, a salve or poultice was applied to open wounds.

If you’re pregnant, check with your doctor and do plenty of research before using any of these. This list includes some medicines mentioned above (not all of them can be included as they are incredibly difficult to locate and get yours hands on), as well as other plants that have been utilized since time immemorial by the Indigenous people of Turtle Island (North America).

1. Fennel: this licorice-flavored plant is used in a tea or chewed to relieve coughs, sore-throats, poor digestion or a compromised immune system. It can also be used as a poultice for eye relief and headaches.

2. Yarrow: used for fever, common cold, hay fever, diarrhea, loss of appetite, menstrual problems or gastrointestinal discomfort. Some people chew the fresh leaves to relieve toothache. It can be made into a tea or eaten in a salad.

3. Wormwood: best used in dry form, can be made into an infusion or tea (no more than 1 teaspoon as it is very very strong). Great for digestion and has been shown to kill cancer cells. For intestinal concerns like worms or parasites, it is best taken in pill form.

4. Safflower: has been used historically to relieve constipation and respiratory problems. Safflower petals are also believed in Chinese medicine to stimulate blood circulation, reduce phlegm and heal fractures.

5. Chamomile: the leaves and flowers are used as a tea to treat intestinal problems and nausea. Also great for calming the body in times of stress and anxiety.

6. Ragwort: no longer taken internally, but the herb is still used as a poultice, ointment, or lotion applied to relieve pain and inflammation (such as rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism, and sciatica).

7. Birch Tree Leaves: the leaves of the birch tree contain lots of vitamin C, which can be used to make medicine for infections of the urinary tract (like those that affect the kidney, bladder, ureters, and urethra). It is also used as a diuretic to increase urine output.

8. Bugloss: diuretic, demulcent, and pectoral. The leaves, especially those grown near the root, can be made into an infusion to relieve fevers, headaches, and nervous complaints – it helps relieve inflammatory pains.

9. Wild Radish: the young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The flowers can be eaten raw and are a nice addition to salads. It is used for skin conditions and stomach disorders.

10. Nettle-Leaf Goosefoot: the leaves are a great source of vitamin A and C, as well as calcium. The seeds are also edible. It is agreed that leaves are best eaten cooked and that raw leaves should only be eaten in small quantities.

11. Juniper Berries: contains at least three powerful anti-inflammatory agents, and just a few drops added to almond oil can bring relief when rubbed into arthritic joints. Juniper berries are also good for the urinary tract, but only one to two berries are enough per day!

12. Astragalus: a potent anti-inflammatory that helps boost the immune system and slows or prevents the growth of tumors. It can be used as a tincture, in capsules or tablets, or used topically for the skin. It can be used dried in tea as well.

13. Mallow: used traditionally as an herbal remedy for asthma, bronchitis, coughing, throat infections, and emphysema. It can also be used to treat wounds or infections of the mouth, throat, stomach, and intestines. A tea can be made from the leaves or flowers, or it can be made into a salve to be used topically.

14. Spruce Tips: high in vitamin C, can be harvested in the spring from spruce trees and will have a bright lime-green hue. These can be eaten (a few at a time), or made into a super-concentrated-vitamin-c tea!

15. Mullein: can be used as an infusion in tea. Used to treat inflammation, coughs, congestion and general lung afflictions. It is a common “weed” that is often seen growing outdoors.

16. Hops: as a tea, it is used to treat digestive problems and often mixed with other herbs or plants, such as aloe, to soothe the muscles. It can also treat toothaches and sore throats.

17. Aloe: a cactus-like plant with thick leaves that can be squeezed to extrude a thick sap. This jelly can be used to treat burns, insect bites, and wounds.

18. Aspen: the inner bark (xylem) is used in tea to treat fever, coughs, and pains. It contains salicin, which is also found in willow trees and is one of the main ingredients found in Aspirin.

19. Beeswax: can be used as a salve for burns and insect bites (like bee stings). Should only be used externally.

20. Blackberry: the root, bark, and leaves can be crushed into a tea to treat diarrhea, reduce inflammation and stimulate metabolism. As a gargle, it can treat sore throats, mouth ulcers and inflammation of the gums.

21. Black Raspberry: the roots of this plant can be crushed and used as a tea or boiled and chewed to relieve coughs, diarrhea or other intestinal distress.

22. Chokecherry: these berries (once pitted and dried and crushed into a tea) can be used to treat coughs, colds, flu, nausea, inflammation, and diarrhea. As a salve or poultice, it can treat burns and wounds.

23. Echinacea: also known as purple coneflower, is used to strengthen the immune system as well as fight infections and fever. It can also be used as an antiseptic, and is useful in treating the common cold, chronic coughs, and the flu.

24. Feverfew: can be ingested as a tea, chewed, or taken as a tincture. It is a great fever remedy and is a natural anti-inflammatory, helping with general pain, itching, and joint stiffness. It can also be used as a salve or poultice.

25. Goldenrod: can be used as a tea, as well as a topical salve. It helps treat conditions like bronchitis, chest congestion, colds, the flu, inflammation, and sore throats, and can be used as an antiseptic for cuts and abrasions.

26. Red Clover: this beautiful little flower grows everywhere, and the entire plant can be used – flowers, leaves, roots and all! It can be infused as a tea or eaten in salads. It is used to manage inflammation, improve circulation and treat respiratory conditions.

27. Rose Hips: the fruit of wild roses, a major source of vitamin C. Can be used to treat colds and coughs, intestinal distress, as well as inflammation. It is also a great antiseptic. They have very fine hair-like fibers in the middle, so make sure they are extremely dried out before using, and then grind them up in a food processor and shake the batch in a sieve to have the hairs fall loose. Best made as a tea.

28. Sage: a far-reaching shrub across much of North America. It is a natural insect repellant and can be used for anything digestive-related, as well as colds and sore throats.

29. Valerian: the root can be used as an infusion in a tea to relieve muscle aches, pain and is said to have a calming effect.

30. Rosemary: a member of the pine family, can be eaten as a food, as tea, or in essential oil. It is used to treat inflammatory muscle pain, as well as improve circulation and boost metabolism.

31. Slippery Elm: ground from the bark of the red elm tree. It is best made into a tea and can treat a number of digestive issues such as relieving constipation. It is a great treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Chron’s disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diverticulitis and diarrhea. It can even be used to treat breast cancer!

32. Chaga: this mushroom that grows on a tree is hearty and one of the highest antioxidant foods out there! It can be boiled into a tea (it takes about 40 minutes to boil down) and is used for immune system support (like fighting cancer), ulcers and gastritis, normalizes blood pressure and cholesterol levels, is a major anti-viral and can help improve one’s mood.

Of course, there are many more plant medicines out there, so this is not an all-inclusive list. Always be sure to research these herbs before use.

I found this statistic to be pretty shocking…

Did you realize that you can currently be found in approximately 200 different databases?

And that there are more than 30 million surveillance cameras in the US? 

That’s one camera for every ten Americans… and there are more cameras every day.

Add to that the advancements in facial recognition technology and you can see why so many patriots are becoming more and more concerned about living life “under the radar” and avoiding the increasing rate of government surveillance infringing in our lives.

Here Are 3 Tips To Reduce Your Trackable Fingerprint And Throw Government Spies & Digital Criminals Off Your Trail…

1. Break your normal patterns (like how you get to work, where you shop, how you dress, etc).  

Even “disguise” yourself simply by having a few different hats and wearing sunglasses to be less identifiable.

It’s not that you’re trying to necessarily lose some black-ops assassin hot on your tail…

…it’s about training yourself to avoid predictable patterns that we all fall into which will drastically shield you from all sorts of crimes you may not even see coming.

2. Turn off your phone’s “location finder” that allows your whereabouts to be more easily traced.

Leaked reports reveal that the government is paying close attention to the activities of those it feels are “persons of interest”.

Namely, gun owners, 2nd Amendment supporers, military, and anyone who’s concerned about an over-reaching government.

Turn off your phone’s “location finder” when traveling to locations such as gun shows, the range, or any political events or rallies.

3. Use cash “selectively”.

Some stores (like Starbucks) have been warned about “suspicious persons” who may use cash a lot, and asking them to report these persons because they might be “domestic terrorists”.

I know it sounds crazy, but it’s absolutely true.

Use credit or a gift card at stores like Starbucks to “blend in” with the other customers.

However, for purchases that you don’t want to display a “trend” on your credit card records (I’m talking about things like ammunition), use cash and buy in smaller quantities.

There’s a LOT more to knowing how to live a lifestyle “under the radar”…

It’s not about being “paranoid” and you don’t have to go completely underground like some secret agent.

It’s a matter of being “less tracked” than the other people who don’t follow these simple tips and are more of a target.

Change just a few habits and you can virtually disappear from government spies and others.

First take a look at one of the most shocking videos in the world! This video actually shows us what the secret of the Trump family is related to their expressive health!!!

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies, told that the global reset will come like a thief in the night.

Where have all the dollars gone? Long time passing
Where have all the dollars gone? Long time ago
Where have all the dollars gone? Uncle Sam has spent them everyone
When will he ever learn? When will he ever learn?

The Global Reset Is Coming

Egon von Greyerz:  “When Pete Seeger wrote the famous song “Where have all the flowers gone” back in 1955, little did he know that the total US debt, which was a few hundred billion dollars at the time, would, 63 years later, be almost $70 trillion. 

But there is no reason why Seeger should have known. He was a singer-songwriter and his legacy will last a lot longer than Nixon’s, Greenspan’s, Bernanke’s, and all the other players that have contributed to this massive growth in credit and destruction of the dollar. While Seeger’s song – a work of art – is likely to be around for at least another 50-100 years or longer, all the opportunists that have destroyed the US economy, and thus the world economy, will soon be forgotten…

Egon von Greyerz continues:  “It is absolutely unreal how the world pays so much respect to mediocrity or even incompetence when it comes to running the financial system. Central banks and their heads have created this monster balloon which is now waiting to be popped. They have given the world the impression that they have been instrumental in saving the world economy. The central bank chiefs that managed to retire before the balloon burst can count themselves lucky. In my view, the luck is now in the process of running out for the present ones.

These chiefs believe so much in their own ability as saviors of the world that they don’t understand that all they are doing is creating a much bigger monster by printing and printing and printing. They are so arrogant that they can’t even call their actions by an honest name. What they are doing is sheer Money Printing or MP. But instead they call it QE or Quantitative Easing. What an absolutely ridiculous name that is designed to hide their own inadequacies as well as cheating the people. Nobody understands what QE means and that is, of course, deliberate. They simply confuse the people and mislead them into believing that their hocus pocus is actually some alchemistic formula that creates eternal prosperity. 

These central bank heads are now so confident of their control of the situation that they are turning the QE to QT (Quantitative Tightening). That is, of course, utter and sheer arrogance. QE hasn’t worked. All it has done is to turn a fragile financial system into the biggest bubble in history. Even with zero or negative interest rates combined with massive MP, real GDP is not growing (measured with real inflation). Also, several dollars, euros or pounds of credit expansion are required in order to create just one dollar, euro, etc, of GDP growth.

Since QE, MP, or whatever you call it, hasn’t worked, why the hell does anyone think that QT will work? This is like taking away the punchbowl from a chronic alcoholic who will die from his drink or die due to lack of drink. And it is exactly the same for the global economy. It will collapse with more QE and and will collapse from QT. So QE / QT = TE (THE END). 

“When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn” that you can’t create prosperity by printing money? And remember that money printing is not just what central banks do directly. Money printing also means credit expansion by banks, credit card, and finance companies, etc. All of these lend out 10-50 times the deposits or capital they receive. There is, of course, only one way to learn a lesson properly, which is the hard way. And the hard way in the case of the world economy is that the monster bubble pops. And like with many bubbles, this one only contains hot air.

Thus, the $2.5 quadrillion monster bubble contains just empty promises that all disappear when the bubble is popped. These promises are not only words, but also $2.5 quadrillion of monetary promises or IOUs. To keep the bubble from deflating, central banks have had to constantly pump it up bigger and bigger. So more and more debt will fill the bubble together with inflated assets and even more empty words from bankers and politicians to make it all look plausible. 

The debt explosion is not just a US disease. It is a US-led global phenomenon that has infiltrated most nations around with a central bank that can print money. Just look at the chart below illustrating how global debt has tripled since 1999 from $80 trillion to $240 trillion today.

GLOBAL DEBT: The $240 Trillion Nightmare

When the global debt and asset bubble pops, the world will find out that there was nothing inside. Of course, there are real assets and real wealth, but the problem is that when the bubble pops, all the debt will implode because no one can repay it, and with that, a lot of the assets will become worthless. 

The only question is if stocks, bonds, property, and other assets, will go down by 75% or 95%. In my view, the biggest bubble in history will lead to the biggest collapse. There is no one that can save the world from the biggest financial calamity in history. MP (QE) will have zero effect except for causing temporary hyperinflation. A lot of assets will decline by 100%, such as money in the bank, bubble companies which are heavily leveraged – like Tesla – and many others. Even very valuable assets will be able to be purchased (in today’s money) for pennies on the dollar, euro or pound. 

Paper money has always come and gone throughout history since no fiat currency has ever survived. For 5,000 years gold has represented stable purchasing power and the only money that has lasted for thousands of years. This is why countries that understand the importance of physical gold continue to accumulate, countries such as Russia, China and India. In the meantime, the rest of the world has invested less than 0.5% of world financial assets into physical gold. 

Just look at China’s astonishing gold accumulation in the chart below. Another 140 tonnes was purchased in June, taking the total up to 16,000 tonnes with virtually all of it acquired since 2007.

China’s Gold Purchases Since 2007 Exceed 16,000 Tonnes!

Like A Thief In The Night
When the monster, ‘everything’ bubble pops, so will the paper markets in gold, silver, and other precious metals. The size of this market is at least 100-times bigger than the physical market. The rise of this market is very much linked to manipulation of the precious metals by central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and bullion banks. When the paper metals markets pop, there will be no gold (or silver) offered at any price. This is the time when overnight or over a weekend the price will go from $1,250 to $10,000 or even $100,000. This might sound totally unreal to some, but this will be the most likely consequence of the monster bubble popping and everyone in markets running for the exit. 

Most people believe that the status quo can go on forever and that central banks will continue their ridiculous game of pretending that air is real money that can create wealth. The few people who believe that there is a serious risk that the system will not survive in its present form, and that their assets — be it cash, bonds, or stocks — could decline substantially in value, must seriously consider insurance. 

The next decline in financial markets is likely to start in late 2018 or early 2019. And this will not be an ordinary decline or normal correction. Instead, it will be the beginning of the biggest global bear market in history. And this time central banks and governments will fail in their attempts to save the system. They will, however, certainly print a lot of money and try to reduce interest rates. But as global bond markets collapse, rates will go up rapidly. This means that bonds and stocks will both crash along with most assets.

The only real insurance against what is coming is physical gold and some silver, obviously held outside the banking system. There is absolutely no argument against holding precious metals to protect against the risks in the financial system. The only question is, should you hold 10% of your financial assets in gold or more than 50% as some of our wealth preservation clients do? In my opinion, this is the time in history that you need to be fully protected. The reality is that each individual needs to decide for themselves what full protection means. Just remember that this time it will be costly to underinsure. Hopefully no one reading this will ask when it is too late: “When will we ever learn?”

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Prepping has always been about the worst-case scenario.

Maybe that’s because those really scary disasters motivate us more or maybe it’s just that in preparing for a true “the end of the world as we know it” (aka TEOTWAWKI) event make us ready for anything else we might encounter.

Regardless of the reason, there are enough of these major catastrophes in the world’s history to show us that they really can happen.

While most people who have lived on the face of this earth haven’t had to deal with anything more than a regional natural disaster, some have had to deal with much worse. To the people of Europe who survived World War II, that was a life-changing event. The same can be said for those who lived through the Great Depression or the Black Plague.

Real disasters happen. What skills would help you survive?

When I was growing up, the biggest risk we faced was that of thermonuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, was probably the closest we came to total annihilation back then. I was as glad as anyone when the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended.

But we are now in another cold war and it is looking much more like it’s going to turn into a hot war that that one ever did. Should that happen, or even worse, turn out to be an EMP attack, we could easily find ourselves living in a post-apocalyptic world; a world in which we’re going to have to do everything without the benefit of electric power.

In such a case, people will be scrambling to learn the necessary skills to survive. But even more than that, they’ll have to learn how to do the things necessary to rebuild society. We are too accustomed to our technology and our comforts to just give up on them. People will be wanting things the way they are used to, or at least as close to that as they can get them.

With that in mind, it only makes sense to learn the necessary skills for living in a world without electricity. This doesn’t just mean surviving for ourselves, but helping others to survive as well; something that is normally outside of our plans as preppers.

I realize that most of us live and operate under the philosophy of taking care of ourselves, our families and our survival team. If all we’re concerned about is survival, that makes sense. But if we want our children to have a better life than that, enjoying some of the benefits we have today, we’re going to have to do more than just survive. We’re going to have to be ready to rebuild our world and as much of the technology that drives it as we can.

That job will probably fall to us, rather than to others, simply because we are the ones who are going to survive. So, we not only should be learning survival skills, but others which will help us to make things work.

Native American Doctor

Medicine is going to be one of the biggest problems in a post-apocalyptic world. While most people would die of starvation, many will also die for lack of medicine.

Today’s pharmaceutical industry depends on supplies that come from all over. Without transportation, they won’t have the materials they need to make the medicines that modern society depends on. Even if they could, without transportation those medicines wouldn’t get to you and me.

When the medicines that are locally stocked in hospitals and pharmacies are used up, there will be no more. The only medicines that will exist will be those that nature provides. The doctors of the American Indians knew those medicines and some still use them. If you can find one of them, and learn their craft, you’ll have one of the most useful skills that exist.

Even if you can’t find a Native American doctor, you could still learn about their medicine. There is a growing movement of people who believe in herbal medicine, which is based to a large part of the same roots as those Native American doctors’ medicine.

While you probably wouldn’t learn everything that a Native American Doctor could teach you, you’ll end up a whole lot better off, with a whole lot more information, than what you have now.

Chemist/Pharmacist

Pharmacists are actually trained for much more than just counting out pills, they are highly trained chemists. More than doctors, they know how different medicines interact and how they react once in our bodies.

Some pharmacists even know how to make medicines. That’s what you’re looking for: a pharmacist who can show you how to make your own penicillin, ether and chloroform will be giving you information that can save lives.

In addition to medical chemistry, there are probably other things you can learn from these people, such as how to make biofuel and other useful chemical substances.

Midwife

Everyone knows what the “world’s oldest profession” is; but I’ve never heard agreement on what the second and third oldest are.

Personally, I think that the midwife has to be pretty high on that list, as the “oldest” would necessitate midwifery. So even if something like farming or shepherding would beat it out (Able was a shepherd and Cain a farmer), midwives have been around for a long, long time.

As long as babies are being born, there will be a need for midwives. This will be especially true in times when there aren’t enough doctors to help women through childbirth. In a post-apocalyptic world, there’s a much greater possibility of women using midwives, than doctors.

Amish Farmer

Modern farming has become industrialized, with massive corporate farms and lots of expensive equipment. Even smaller farms depend heavily on equipment, with the tractor long ago having replaced the horse or oxen.

But the Amish never made that transition. Today’s Amish farmers largely do things the way their ancestors did them, still using horses as the main source of power on the farm. This gives them an incredible advantage over the rest of us, who don’t have the slightest idea of how to do things without gas engines and electric power.

Should we find ourselves on the receiving end of an EMP, the Amish will be less affected by it than any other group of people in our country. That’s basically because they don’t depend on electricity or the modern electronics that the rest of us use.

Their communities will thrive, while the rest of the country is dying. Spending time with one of these farmers and learning the methods and tools they use, would prepare you to be able to feed your family and many more, once the brown stuff hits the rotary air movement device.

Rancher

Ranching and farming aren’t the same thing. Throughout the time of the Old West, these two groups of people fought for the use of the land. That’s because the best farmland was also the best land for raising cattle, or should I say the best ranchland was often the best land for farming.

Of all the animals that mankind has domesticated through the years, cattle give us the most meat per animal.

Another way of putting that is that cattle give us the most meat for effort expended. That makes them the perfect sort of animal to raise for meat, assuming you’ve got enough land to raise them.

Snake-Eater

In the military, all “special action groups” are collectively known as “snake eaters.” It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the Navy’s SEALs, the Army’s Special Forces or any other group, they all fall into the same general category.

Snake eaters are the best of the best. In the Army, Special Forces is not only the group that is called upon for unconventional warfare (guerrilla warfare), but they are the ones who are sent to other countries, in order to train their militaries. In fact, Special Forces got their start that way, first as the Jedburgh Teams in World War II and then as advisors in Greece and elsewhere.

Many people think of these snake eaters as expert survivalists. But that depends largely upon the environment you are talking of. They aren’t experts in the sense that you and I are trying to be, but rather in surviving any combat action. Their superior training makes them the best soldiers to have on your side, should things become violent.

Spending time with any snake eaters, learning their combat skills, will greatly increase your chances of not falling prey to the two-legged predators that will be out in force after a disaster strikes.

Hunting Guide

Hunting may not be the most efficient way of finding food after a collapse, but it may still be a very necessary part of our survival. But what most people consider hunting today is sitting in a deer blind, waiting for deer to start munching on the seed corn they put out.

While this may be an efficient way of hunting, it’s highly dependent on having the right equipment and the right place. I don’t think that’s something that any of us can count on in a post-apocalyptic world. Rather, we’re going to have to go hunting the old-fashioned way, tracking animals, learning their habits and then laying wait for one alongside a trail.

Skills like that aren’t something you can learn from just any hunter, as they probably don’t know them either. Rather, you’re going to need someone who started hunting before people used corn and deer blinds to hunt.

That’s why I recommend a hunting guide, rather than just any hunter. They’re more likely to know the skills you’ll need.

Blacksmith

If you’ve ever read any of my other post-apocalyptic articles, you know that I believe strongly in the profession of blacksmithing.

Before the dawn of the industrial age, the blacksmith made just about anything that could be made out of metal. From armor and weapons to shoeing farmer’s horses, the blacksmith was the man to see.

There are few blacksmiths in the world today; mostly because modern industry has replaced them. But when industry is taken away, then what? Who will be able to make the tools and other things that we need? It will have to be blacksmiths, or someone with very similar skills.

My father learned how to be a blacksmith, once he retired; apprenticing with a lifelong blacksmith who was a true artist of the trade. Unfortunately, I only learned a little of it from him, and don’t have a forge and anvil to practice on. If I could find one around where I live, I’d love to spend some time in his shop, learning what I could.

Mr. Fix-It

You probably know someone who can fix just about anything; a Mr. Fix-It (or perhaps a Mrs. Fix-It). These are some of the world’s most useful people and will probably be the true leaders of rebuilding society after a major disaster.

What makes these people so special is that they aren’t limited to just one trade, like many people are. Rather, they’re comfortable with any number of trades and even with fixing things that don’t fall within any particular trade. Whatever you need designed, built or repaired, they can find a way to do it; often a rather imaginative way.

I consider myself to be one of these people. Earlier in my career, I was a manufacturing engineer. Rather than just working in one engineering discipline, this forced me to do both mechanical and electrical engineering. I also took the time to learn how to be a machinist, mechanic and made many of my own prototypes.

On the side, I had a small construction company, along with a buddy of mine. So I’ve learned how to do a wide variety of things; becoming what we used to call, a jack of all trades.

Today I build a lot of my own survival gear. You can find countless examples of my work around my house. My garage hasn’t had a car in it since I painted one of them. Rather than being a garage, it’s actually my workshop. I figure that will serve me well in a post-apocalyptic world.

The Old Survivalist

Survivalism has changed since I got started in my youth. Back then we weren’t so focused on equipment, as methods. There just wasn’t that much equipment available; at least not compared to what we have available to us today.

So, you had to know how to do things yourself, rather than depending on having some sort of gadget to do it for you.

What this means is that those old survivalists were often trained much better than we are today, simply because they had to be. So they’re a fountain of useful information, if you can find them and get them talking.

Fortunately, most are willing to share what they know; so the real problem is finding them.

In these uncertain times, when the world seems to go mad, you can’t help but wonder how long until we will experience a martial law scenario.

One day we might have to live under such a scenario since it seems there are many SHTF events that would impose it. The current pandemic is just an example, and personally, I believe we were lucky so far that things didn’t lead to further chaos and social upheaval.

The United States has a certain history when it comes to martial law, and like many other nations, it will do whatever is necessary to defend its integrity (and protect?) its citizens. I believe we should all have a survival strategy if martial law will be upon us in the near future. (Also watch this video- The US Army’s Forgotten Food Miracle And 126 Superfoods That You Can Store Without Refrigeration for Years)

What is martial law?

To put it simply, martial law is the imposition of military rule and the occupation of the government over a specific region. It is declared when an imminent threat disturbs peace and order. Martial law can be declared during a state of war when natural disasters are too much to handle for local authorities, when a coup is developing or even when uncontrollable riots and protests affect an entire region.

When martial law is declared, everyone is expected to follow the same rules, no questions asked!

It doesn’t matter if you think what’s happening is right or wrong, and you have to give up certain civil rights for the good of the nation/state.

What Survival Secret We Lost To History

There are certain rights that will be suspended if martial law hits, such as:

• Right of Information
• Freedom of Expression
• Right to privacy
• Right of Habeas Corpus
• Right to make choices

Those that are prepared and organized should be able to survive such a scenario without having their lives turned upside down. However, even for them, there are certain things that become mandatory under martial law.

How to survive martial law:

Being self-reliant

As preppers, we are already prepared to outlast various scenarios that may cut us off from the major supply chains. For most of us, it will be rather easy to survive when the government takes full control of food and supplies and their distribution.

As an average Joe, you should avoid waiting for handouts during a disaster or hope that some military rations will find their ways towards you, and you must have your own supply of food and water. Your supplies should last for at least six months if you don’t want to stay in line for help. Also, all your supplies will become government property if you don’t stockpile smart (more on that in the next paragraphs).

Being self-reliant under martial law means that you must have a method of producing your own electricity, the means to prepare and cook food, ways to sterilize water, and everything else that will assure the same level of comfort you were used to before martial law was declared.

Also watch- According to NASA, we’re going to face a 100-YEAR LONG DROUGHT.

Be ready to bug out

In certain cases, when you see the first signs of an impending scenario when martial law is imminent, you might want to bug out to a safe location, if you have one. If you manage to do so before roadblocks and checkpoints are installed, you might be one of the lucky few. If you’re not so lucky, hunkering down may be the safest choice for you and your family. This will be the norm for most folks living in densely populated areas.

If you plan to bug out, you should have everything ready to make a successful trip. This means that your bug out bag should be properly packed and updated for the season. Also, your bug out vehicles should be in good shape to handle the road ahead and eventual obstacles. I won’t get into details about what to pack in your bug out bag or vehicles since these are distinctive cases from one person to another. What I will stress is the need to have everything updated and make sure they function properly.

Stay safe during martial law

We love our freedom and liberty, and certain folks will not bow down and take it easy when martial law is declared. For some, being stripped of certain civil rights is unthinkable and unacceptable. Most Americans fear that giving someone absolute power will lead to mistreatments against the general public.

That being said, the safest course of action would be to avoid areas that are exposed to social upheaval and other scenarios that may lead to dangerous escalations. You will first need to protect yourself and what’s yours before handling any other thing.  There are various ways to protect your home when civil unrest is developing, and you can find a lot of information on Survivopedia.

Keeping a low profile is also recommended before you will get involved in matters that may not be a priority for you and yours. You will have the time needed to plan and act following your own belief system if you stay out of sight. You have to think before you act and decide on an individual case if you follow the rules or rebel against them. Don’t go with the herd and follow the curfew under martial law. Make sure you have all the means to protect yourself and survive whatever scenario unfolds.

(Also watch- Experts predict that an EMP strike that wipes out electricity across the nation would ultimately lead to the demise of up to 90% of the population.)

Get informed

When martial law is declared, the media and all the information channels will be controlled by the federal government. You might not get all the required information, and the truth may be filtered to avoid creating mass panic. While listening to official broadcasts will provide you with information and updates regarding the imposed rules, you might need to have a backup source of information.

A HAM radio is a great alternative, and the HAM radio community will take care of its own. They will provide all the “unofficial” information, and they will tell you things as they see them. It’s better to know both sides of a story before you decide if its ending is the proper one. We are bombarded by media propaganda on a daily basis, and the last thing you need is to have filtered information being delivered and remain misinformed during martial law. Information is key to your survival during an SHTF event, and you must always be aware of what happens around you.

Always be alert and improve your skills

This is a general rule for us preppers, and staying in shape, constantly learning, and improving our skills proves useful in any type of crisis scenario. Preparedness and our will to survive have to be backed up by proper knowledge and a good set of survival skills.

If you run out of food and water, or if you run out of guns and ammo, what will you do then? What happens if you get hurt by accident, or otherwise?

You need to be able to handle the above scenarios, and these are not things you can learn on the spot. One needs to prepare in advance and challenge his or her skills with every occasion or opportunity provided.

Take a first aid course, learn to cook without your stove, try to fish or hunt and practice any skill that you may think, one day, will come in handy. You will have to survive on your own during martial law, and the skills you have will make your life much easier. Also, consider that all the activities you do will leave you weak and tired if you’re not in good shape. You don’t need to become a couch potato when dealing with martial law, and you need to be ready for anything.

When you are tired and stressed, your judgment will get clouded, and you may end up making mistakes that will leave you injured or worse. You must avoid this at all costs!

Don’t be a lone wolf

Some desperate times require friends and teamwork to push through. Having an alliance may end up being crucial to your survival during martial law. I know a lot of people that have built a support system composed of friends and neighbors. Imagine if the current pandemic will prolong, and truckers fail to deliver their goods, do you think people will wait patiently, or will they do everything in their power to survive?

We’ve seen it before how desperate times create desperate people, and the same people that fought over some toilet paper will do anything to survive another day, including harming you and your loved ones. That’s why having a trustworthy network of people that share the same vision as you become mandatory.  A survival group can keep the neighborhood safe and still standing if they trust each other and if they share the same goal.

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Don’t share more than you have to

I don’t like to brag about my preparedness plans, and I don’t show off my stuff on the internet. I can’t comprehend the need some people have to brag about their prepping plans and show off all their supplies. Why would you make yourself a target and why become a “beacon of hope” when desperate people are roaming around. You can’t possibly hold off all the people, and you are putting yourself in danger for no reason.

Be smart and keep it all to yourself and talk about your prepping plans with your friends and family. Only with those people that you know for a fact they won’t report you to the authorities for hoarding tons of supplies. In a time of martial law, you can’t assume how things will play out, and oftentimes you have to be selfish if you want to survive. Be selfish about sharing information and supplies and keep only those that you trust close by.

Prepare your supplies for a home invasion

We’ve seen how a lot of people bought vast quantities of face masks, hand sanitizers, and other products that were in short supplies (and still are) when the COVID-19 hit the US. While these people were trying to get rich and profit from the distress of others, one thing should have been a wakeup call for many.

The fact that the government seized all their supplies should have made you think about what will happen when the situation becomes even more desperate than it currently is. When martial law is declared, hoarding food, guns, and ammo is restricted. It’s almost certain that the military will implement house to house searches without a warrant if things get grim.

They will locate and confiscate supplies, no questions asked, and they won’t think twice, no matter how much you beg them not to take them. As said earlier, you need to plan your storage properly, and it’s important to keep a lot of your stuff out of sight and store it out of reach or hide it on your property.

I’ve often discussed the “bait pantry” or “pantry decoy” method during various occasions, during seminars, on forums, and whenever I had the chance to do so. To explain it briefly, this method requires you to hide a small part of your supplies without much effort. Somewhere that is not obvious, and it requires some kind of effort to be discovered. 

When someone discovers those “hidden” supplies, you will need to put out a show and act like your life depends on those supplies. Beg them to let you keep those supplies, cry and be as convincing as possible. This will make them believe that what they’ve got their hands on is your main stash, and they won’t bother into looking for your other supplies.

Act if you feel that’s the right thing to do

Under martial law, when the situation is escalating, and it may reach is peak point, some will have to take a stand. It is your God-given right to pick a side, and no one can take this away from you. However, before doing so, make sure you act calm and rationally upon it and, most importantly, that the action you’re about to make suits your personal beliefs and moral principles.

Also watch- On December 6th President Trump’s words shook the world.

Remain calm and plan your next steps carefully. It may be difficult to do so, but acting on an impulse may not end well. Panicking and irrational people are seen as a threat in general. During martial law, even the most prepared soldiers will choose to eliminate a threat rather than risking to deal with it and establish if force is justifiable or not. Restrain your emotion since this will make the difference between life and death.

Even more, taking a stand doesn’t necessarily mean you have to join “the resistance” or take your fight to the streets. There are various ways to fight for what you believe in without putting yourself in danger. You first have to figure out ways to make yourself heard without looking like a threat. Also, keep in mind that not everyone will find the courage to act when martial law is declared, and you may end up with no support when things get rough.

A last word

If you keep all the above in mind and act upon when martial law is declared, it will help you survive when the military takes over. Even more, plan things properly and consider the last advice when thinking about taking a stand. It will put things in perspective, and you will figure out your chances of making it out alive.

To begin today’s article with a word of wisdom from our sponsor, everything in life is location, location, location.

Joke aside, an interesting issue to be addressed when it comes to prepping is which places are to be avoided after SHTF. The short story goes something like this, I mean this is the preamble: it is very possible for a catastrophic event to take place at some point in one’s life, whether you like it or not; it may be a large scale disaster of sorts, like a nuke strike, or an EMP strike, solar-made or man-made, courtesy of your local-crazy-nuke-armed dictator, or whatever natural extinction-level event, or terrorist attack.

The possibilities are endless.

Now, provided you’ve survived the initial “shock-wave”, you should concentrate your efforts on staying alive for a little bit longer, because, after all, there’s no fun in prepping and stockpiling gear and food and what not, if you’re not going to benefit from your efforts, right? It’s not about “he who dies with the biggest stockpile wins”, the trick is to stay alive, or at least to die last.

Hence, today’s article, which is aimed at trying to help you with the noble endeavor of saving one’s skin in the aftermath of WW3 or whatever catastrophic scenario you could think of.

The Number One Lesson

First world countries, like (parts of) the US, are awesome places to live when everything works fine and dandy. I am not talking about South-Central LA, or diverse neighborhoods in Chicago or Memphis, where crime rates are through the roof, if you know what I mean. The point is that our modern day uber-high tech society comes with obvious benefits. The caveat to living in a first-world country is that when everything is starting to fall apart, people are generally clueless with regard to surviving in third world conditions, i.e. without running water, electricity and things of that nature.

And yes, in a large-scale disaster, it’s very probable that electricity will go first, which means nothing would work anymore, since everything today runs on electricity, including your computer used for reading this article.

Also, since most of the US population is concentrated in a relatively small number of densely populated urban areas, it goes without saying that big cities are to be avoided like the plague in the eventuality of a SHTF event. Incidentally, almost every big city only has enough supplies to last for three days tops, and I am especially talking about food. The concept is that the food-delivery chain is never going to stop, the trucks will keep on hauling, hence nobody bothers to stockpile food anymore.

Obviously, in a serious crisis, life in a big city will become hellish rather quickly, as essential supplies are going to disappear fast (think about what happened this Black Friday, then amplify that by a factor of, I don’t know, 10,000 and you’ll start to get what I am talking about), people will get desperate for food and water (yes, your water utility company uses electrically powered pumps to deliver water to your faucet), and rioting and looting will become the new normal.

Naturally, it makes little sense to prepare (as in stockpile) large amounts of gear, including food, in a densely populated urban area. Since you’ll be the only one in “the hood” having emergency supplies of water and food and what not, you’d basically have a big-red TARGET sign painted all over your property. And soon enough, you’ll have to share your goodies with your local and not so friendly mob of looters. And that will get you nowhere, in terms of survival. Most probably, you’ll end up shot anyway.

So, if you’re all about “doom and gloom”, considering relocating from the big-bad city would make for a great idea. . And do it now, while you still can, until it’s too late.

The general rule of thumb is that big cities are to be avoided like the plague in SHTF scenarios. The good news is that the US has over 3000 counties, but half of the population lives in 146 counties, which means there’s a lot of “people-free” real-estate available for your bug-out retreat, where you can safely store food, water, guns, gold, bitcoin or whatever.

Joke aside, if you’re a city dweller, it would be a good idea to have a little shack in the woods, somewhere remote, in an area (scarcely)  populated by friendly conservative folks, who know how to hunt, and love God and guns.

The Infrastructure Issue

As cities are collapsing under their own weight, due to violence spiraling out of control courtesy of desperate and hungry mobs trying to loot to live another day, not to mention the potential for third-world diseases breaking out due to  failure of basic infrastructure (a lack of sanitation because garbage trucks will be missing in action, law enforcement/emergency services rendered useless and impotent, dead bodies piling up everywhere and all that nice stuff that happens when people go berserk), it would be problematic trying to escape to your bug-out location, even if you have a getaway plan.

The transport infrastructure will get gridlocked instantly, as hundreds of thousands of people will try to escape the city in the same time, hence major highways will be something like Tetris meets Frogger, if you know what I mean. Also, a large-scale EMP strike would render most of the cars useless, hence hundreds of thousands of people will find themselves stuck across the countryside, in/near airports etc. And yes, they’ll try to get home by any means necessary, even if “home” would make for yet another nightmarish sight. So, any major airport, city or harbor is potentially “verboten area”, as in you should steer clear (at least 15 miles, if not more) from such spots.

Generally speaking, avoid all transportation nodes and all urban areas, that if you’re prepping for that big SHTF moment. Military bases are included in the list, since they  make for obvious targets for terrorist/nuclear attacks.

If you’re trying to get out of the big bad city following a SHTF event, I’d reckon you already have an escape plan. Just in case, stay away from chocking points, which are the logical consequence of thousands of people trying to bug-out in the same time. Obviously, I am talking about causeways, tunnels, bridges, you know the drill. Also, when you’re putting together your getaway plan, steer away from obvious choking points, alright?

Hospitals and prisons are also to be avoided like the plague.

In a crisis, like an EMP strike, it’s very probable that prisoners will receive an instant pardon, due to a lack of electricity , which would render locks and alarms useless. Also, officers will most probably flee to take care of their own families. It’s the human thing to do, and this would result in desperate and dangerous escapees roaming around. You don’t want that near your property now, do you?

On the other hand, hospitals would attract huge crowds of people looking for help, and yes, in a SHTF situation, you don’t want huge crowds of desperate people near you, especially sick (as in contagious) people. Basically, any kind of place that is prone to attract crowds of people in a catastrophic scenario is to be avoided, including FEMA camps (people may try to get in to grab food, water etc), gun and hardware stores (for obvious reasons, think along the lines of Black Friday in Zombie Apocalypse), you see where this is going, right?

Bottom Line

Stay away from major cities, transport-infrastructure, military bases, FEMA camps, prisons, hospitals, choke-points and major stores. Keep in mind that the biggest threat to you in a SHTF scenario is, unfortunately, other people. I think it was Sartre who said: Hell is the others. It’s a sad but true assessment.

I hope the article helped. If you have other ideas, questions or comments, you know what to do.

If SHTF, living in one of these states, may put you at the unnecessary risk of a potential missile or nuclear strike.

I’ve been studying nuclear warfare for quite a few years now. During this time, I’ve found that some states pose a much higher likelihood of becoming a target of war. 

The enemies of the United States have one goal in mind, which is to destroy as many people as possible when they launch their attacks. 

Luckily, we’ve avoided this thanks to a Military built like no other; the enemies know that messing with the United States is a terrible idea. 

Nuclear warfare would decimate our country if our offensive systems failed when attacked. This would cause mass destruction and fallout in every corner of our nation.

Nevertheless, I’ve covered what to factor in when determining this and compiled the states that I believe pose the highest risk of missile or nuclear strike.

4 Factors To Consider 

Population Density 

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of what states are better or worse to reside in during war is population density. 

States that have a lower population tend to be less on the radar vs. states that have ten to fifteen million or more people living there. The foreign enemies of the United States want to destroy as many people as possible when they launch their strike. 

This is why residing in a state such as New York, or California puts you at exceptionally high risk for the chances of being hit by a missile or nuclear bomb. To avoid this, you’ll want to move to a state such as Montana or Maine.

These states are low-key and are not the first choice of a target for our enemies. Launching an attack on low population density states would be nothing more than a waste of resources for our enemies, and they know this.

Military Bases

If you’re at all knowledgeable about warfare, you know that military bases play a large role in where the enemies may launch a strike; but if you don’t, let me explain. 

Military bases are our primary source of protection from both air and land invasion. If the various military bases were taken out, not only would we be more susceptible to land invasion, but air invasion as well. 

In contrast, not all of our air missile protection systems are located near these bases; however, many of them are. So it only makes logical sense that areas with a high amount of military bases would be a priority target.

If you want to stay safe, or at least lessen your chances of becoming a victim of war, you should live in an area with as few military bases as possible. 

Important Officials 

In my opinion, the part that plays a massive role in determining the area of which seems attractive to attack via airstrike would be states of which many vital officials call home. A great example of this would be Washington, DC. 

The enemies know that if our President or the Governor of New York is taken out that our government would be scrambled. It would undoubtedly cause havoc within our Military and cause many distractions. 

Many of the officials live in Washington, DC, California, New York, and Florida, to name a few. A perfect example of this is when the united states took out Osama Bin Laden; once this operation was successful, his little army fell apart. 

Imagine that scenario but on a much larger scale. However, we are considerably more prepared than Osama Bin Laden ever was. If you’re looking to avoid the chances of airstrikes, avoid the states listed below, if at all possible.

Fuel & Power

If I had to choose one thing that I thought would be one of the first things that could be destroyed via airstrikes, I’d say it’d be our fuel and power resources. Almost all of our transportation systems and power relies on electricity, gas, and oil, to name a few. 

If these were taken out via airstrike, our country would come to a slow halt. This is also feasible via an EMP strike, which is essentially a nuclear bomb detonated in the sky, which would disable and fry all electronic devices, such as cell phones, computers, medical equipment, and much more. 

This is a possible scenario and is much more likely to occur in states known for its power production, such as Texas. 

The enemies understand that our reliance on these luxuries would cripple America if they were taken away from us suddenly, which is why it such a significant consideration for our enemies; this is why many people are beginning to build entirely off-grid homesteads.

8 States That Pose The Highest Risk

Washington, DC

The home of the President and the White House, Washington, DC, poses some of the highest risks of airstrikes out of all other states due to it being home to so many essential officials. 

The White House does have, likely, the most sophisticated bunker system in the world. However, this does not mean the area is immune to war. 

Washington, DC does have intelligent systems that can strike down incoming missiles. Still, they are not always accurate enough to target the rocket, and it should be remembered that they can undoubtedly fail. 

The area is also home to millions of Americans, giving the enemies another reason to launch a strike. Destroying DC would lead to mass complications and unrest, and our enemies know this.

New York

If I had to choose a state that was most at risk of an airstrike, I’d choose New York. This state houses tens of millions of Americans and is home to many military bases. 

New York is one of the most influential places globally, housing the One World Trade Center and many other critical buildings and operations important for the world. 

As we know, the previous two world trade centers have already been destroyed, so it has already fallen victim to terrorism. If a nuclear strike were imminent, no one would have enough time to escape the strike. 

New York is also home to many vital officials, which could be the motivation to target this area. It is well protected from air missiles, but as mentioned before, they are not always successful.

California 

It’s a given that California is added to this list. This state is called home by over thirty-seven-million residences, making it the most populated state in the nation. 

This makes it have an exceptionally high risk of becoming a victim of missile strikes. It does have in its favor a multitude of military bases, which could strike down an air missile.

Military bases are typically a good target for our enemies, so this is a sketchy situation. We can protect the state, but if the protective systems fail, it will result in mass destruction. 

California is also home to several influential politicians and features many of our big tech giants and energy systems, which are definitely on our enemies’ radar.

Virginia

This was an easy decision to have added, mostly due to the dense amount of military bases near the Hampton area. There are nearly 20 all within a small space, which, if taken out, would cripple the state. 

Virginia is also near Washington, DC. This means that if these bases were taken out, the protection for Washington, DC, would be cut in half. There is also an abundance of air-missile defense systems that can take out any incoming missiles. 

These are used to protect not only Virginia, but Washington, DC, and the states surrounding it. The eight million residents are a motivating factor for our enemies as well. 

I should note that when a nuclear bomb detonates, it releases a toxic gas called fallout. This can travel for hundreds of miles, wreaking havoc on people in other states, making Virginia a target in itself due to it being surrounded by highly populated states.

Florida 

This state should not come as a surprise to you, but if it does, let’s explain why. Firstly, Florida is packed full of Military bases and features several space programs, including NASA, SpaceX, and more. 

It is home to numerous influential politicians, including Donald Trump’s private residence. It is also home to over twenty million people, making it the third most populated state in the nation.

It’s well known that Florida is a significant tourist attraction for individuals all across the world and features many of the most sought-after vacation destinations, which means Florida could be used as a target to destroy an American symbol.

While states do not surround it, a nuclear explosion would decimate the entire state due to destruction and fallout. If you want to avoid experiencing nuclear war firsthand, stay away from Florida. 

Nevada 

This state only has a few Military bases, the largest being located in Las Vegas, employing over ten thousand servicemen and women. Something that it does have, however, is Area-51. 

This is a secret military installation used to test unknown elements. Currently, there are no civilians that know of what occurs inside of this base. However, certain government officials do.

I think it’s possible that foreign nations, like Russia or China, know at least a little of what happens here, and I think it’s easy to agree that it’s likely weapons technology of some sort.

If Area-51 was destroyed, all of the technology and equipment is going with it. Las Vegas should be considered because it features some of the most sought after buildings in the world. The destruction of LV would lead to mass civil unrest.

Hawaii 

Most people would call me crazy for adding this state in, but if you think about it, it’s probably in the top three most dangerous states to be in during the nuclear war.

For starters, it’s an island. This means that nearly one nuclear bomb could destroy the entire state. They do have anti-air missile technology, but as mentioned before, they can fail.

Fallout should also be considered because even if the missile was shot down, if it were shot down far enough into our atmosphere, it could still deliver fallout and the effects of an EMP.

There are also over ten military installations in Hawaii. On top of the two million people living there, it brings a huge motivator for our foreign enemies to attack the area.

Texas

Texas is believed by many, including myself, to be a great state to stay in when SHTF due to its exponential amount of natural resources, relaxed Gun laws, and a plethora of available land to purchase.

However, it can also be the most dangerous in a specific SHTF scenario: nuclear warfare. Texas is home to many military bases, anti-air missile defense systems, and atomic weapons.

If foreign nations ever attacked a state, Texas would likely be one of them. Besides, it’s the second most populated state. 

The most significant motive to destroy Texas would likely be to disable a huge military and nuclear presence, that if destroyed, would make destruction a much easier goal for the attackers. In most other cases, however, Texas is great for most other SHTF scenarios.

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Verdict 

Nuclear warfare is probably the worst disaster imaginable. There have been nuclear detonations previously, such as the one that destroyed Hiroshima, but the nuclear bombs that we’ve made today surpass anything ever detonated before.

Nuclear weapons, when detonated, cause massive explosions near the detonation site and spread toxic chemicals called fallout for hundreds of miles, wreaking havoc in every living thing it touches.

If you happen to live in one of these states, consider moving to one of these states, or look into building a bunker. Fallout bunkers are also available to the public but are not something to count on.

The best way to stay safe from a nuclear blast is to seek shelter in the most robust building or shelter available, as far down or underground as possible, while blocking all airways. 

More recent figures suggest that violent crime seems to be decreasing from the recent peaks, with the local police department using new camera technologies such as ‘Flock’ cameras to bring rates down. These cameras can detect license plates of cars that are of interest to law enforcement and alert the police instantly.

I study these trends, so I can give you the real statistics. Too many writers focus on the most populated cities and fail to consider all U.S. cities.

Readers often ask me such a question- which are the most dangerous places in America?

Of course, since I am asked such a generic question, it depends on what you consider dangerous. You’re probably thinking of crime rates. But I once wrote a about why Miami, Florida, is statistically the city in which you are most likely to die an untimely death, including characteristics such as vehicular accidents, weather, and crime. East St. Louis ranked second, largely based on crime.

How to best answer the question

The following research confirms that East St. Louis is probably the most dangerous place in the U.S. for criminal activity, which I’ve often written about. It dispels the common myth that Camden, New Jersey, and neighboring Philadelphia are among the most dangerous American cities (but they certainly have their problems). New York and Los Angeles aren’t even close to the most dangerous U.S. cities based on crime rates, which debunks another widely held myth.

Murder rates

If you only want a list of the top 10 U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates (based on the most recent data), here they are. East St. Louis is double Gary’s murder rate!

1.) East St. Louis, Illinois (164.88 homicides per 100,000)

2.) Uvalde, Texas (144.58 homicides per 100,000)

3.) Jackson, Mississippi (102.16 homicides per 100,000)

4.) Gary, Indiana (83.42 homicides per 100,000)

5.) St. Louis, Missouri (66.48 homicides per 100,000)

6.) Baltimore, Maryland (58.46 homicides per 100,000)

7.) New Orleans, Louisiana (57.83 homicides per 100,000)

8.) Detroit, Michigan (48.86 homicides per 100,000)

9.) Baton Rouge, Louisiana (38.26 homicides per 100,000)

10.) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (35.65 homicides per 100,000)

Of course, the tragic massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has skewed their homicide data over the past 365 days (as I write this in 2022). But if you weren’t in that building on May 24, 2022, your chances of being killed in Uvalde are practically 0%. This actually serves as a metaphor when it comes to American crime, something that is very centralized and almost never puts the average American at risk, nor visitors from other cities, states, or countries.

Violent crimes

If you consider danger to include murders and non-fatal assaults, here are the top 10 U.S. cities with the highest violent crime rates (again, mostly occurring in localized areas):

1.) Detroit, Michigan (2,475 violent crimes per 100,000)

2.) East St. Louis, Illinois (2,155 violent crimes per 100,000)

3.) St. Louis, Missouri (2,145 violent crimes per 100,000)

4.) Baltimore, Maryland (2,021 violent crimes per 100,000)

5.) Memphis, Tennessee (2,003 violent crimes per 100,000)

6.) Kansas City, Missouri (1,724 violent crimes per 100,000)

7.) Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1,597 violent crimes per 100,000)

8.) Cleveland, Ohio (1,557 violent crimes per 100,000)

9.) Stockton, California (1,415 violent crimes per 100,000)

10.) Albuquerque, New Mexico (1,369 violent crimes per 100,000)

Random violence

In a typical year, about 91% of the homicides in the U.S. are committed by someone the victim knew. In general, if you don’t consort with nefarious characters, your chances of being murdered, or even attacked, are extremely low. Even when crime skyrocketed in 2020 during the pandemic, only 1 in 170,000 Americans were killed by a stranger. The vast majority of those deaths by stranger occurred in impoverished neighborhoods, while very few American citizens living outside those neighborhoods ever become a victim of a violent crime. It’s an unfortunate issue.

On that note, one of the scariest statistics is to rank the top 10 U.S. cities with the highest rate of random attacks by an unknown assailant, eliminating the majority of crimes which are committed by individuals known to the victim and focusing on our worst fears, the unexpected random assault. I’ve estimated the rate of assaults, rapes, robberies, and carjackings committed by assailants unknown to the victim. This data changes dramatically from the previous list of cities with high violent crime rates.

1.) Baltimore, Maryland (1,021.0 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

2.) Cleveland, Ohio (828.9 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

3.) Oakland, California (723..9 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

4.) St. Louis, Missouri (719.7 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

5.) Memphis, Tennessee (620.0 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

6.) Albuquerque, New Mexico (606.2 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

7.) Milwaukee, Wisconsin (563.4 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

8.) Minneapolis, Minnesota (556.8 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

9.) Chicago, Illinois (504.4 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

10.) Cincinnati, Ohio (497.5 violent crimes by strangers per 100,000)

When crime between family members and affiliates is eliminated, Baltimore and Cleveland rocket to the top, Chicago and Oakland jump into the top 10, and Detroit drops to 11th. Most surprisingly, East St. Louis and Gary plummet beyond the top 25. Although, I suspect much of that is influenced by the fact that few outsiders in their right mind would intentionally travel into East St. Louis or Gary, both notorious places for citywide danger with essentially no safe sections. So maybe it isn’t a surprise that two smaller towns where few people dare to go has crimes that predominantly involve individuals who know one another.

Poor health

All of the rankings above take into account places that are dangerous for anyone, including both residents and visitors. I consider that true danger. But if you’re curious about the cities that are most dangerous for only their residents, with visitors not necessarily incurring any sort of elevated risk, we can analyze the top 10 U.S. cities that are most dangerous for their residents based on the probability of heart disease, the number one reason for death in the U.S.

1.) Flint, Michigan

2.) Camden, New Jersey

3.) Reading, Pennsylvania

4.) Youngstown, Ohio

5.) Detroit, Michigan

6.) Cleveland, Ohio

7.) Dayton, Ohio

8.) Trenton, New Jersey

9.) Canton, Ohio

10.) Gary, Indiana

Even more shocking, these are the 10 U.S. cities with the lowest life expectancy for their residents.

1.) Beckley, West.Virginia (average resident loses 6.14 years from the American life expectancy)

2.) Gadsden, Alabama (average resident loses 6.12 years from the American life expectancy)

3.) Anniston, Alabama (average resident loses 6.11 years from the American life expectancy)

4.) Charleston, West Virginia (average resident loses 5.83 years from the American life expectancy)

5.) Pine Bluff, Arkansas (average resident loses 5.52 years from the American life expectancy)

6.) Ashland, Kentucky (average resident loses 5.49 years from the American life expectancy)

7.) Springfield, Ohio (average resident loses 5.22 years from the American life expectancy)

8.) Florence, South Carolina (average resident loses 5.03 years from the American life expectancy)

9.) East St. Louis, Illinois (average resident loses 5.02 years from the American life expectancy)

10.) Alexandria, Louisiana (average resident loses 4.54 years from the American life expectancy)

Conclusion- Typically within the U.S., the farther you can stay from the mega-cities, the safer you are. These seem to be the locations of the majority of violent crimes, property crimes, and murders.

All in all, if we can boil it all down to one point, it would be this: It’s safer away from the city.

What are your thoughts on all this? Are there other variables you believe we should have analyzed? Do you think this is a pretty fair shot given the current data at hand? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!