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In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order creating FEMA … the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This showcase agency was intended to become the federal government’s answer to disasters, acting as the central clearinghouse for providing aid to the ...

As people who plan on surviving whatever disaster might come our way, we all tend to stockpile the food and other supplies we think we’ll need. This puts us way ahead of the rest of the country. But that doesn’t ...

There’s a strong chance that your phone apps are secretly monetizing you. In fact, dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly selling information about you to big businesses in the data mining industry. Apps are constantly sending precise locations and ...

Industrial agriculture threatens both the food supply and America’s traditional social fabric. Family farms and small towns are dying because of centralized industrial agriculture. As an illustration, only 25,000 subcontractors are raising most of America’s poultry, U.S. Representative Nydia Velázque ...

Keeping your home clean is important, especially as changing seasons typically hail the arrival of a new onslaught of cold and flu viruses. While sanitizing and deodorizing is important, did you know that many common household cleaners contain dangerous pollutants? ...

I see a lot written about defending the home in the wake of a crisis or during a time of social breakdown. Those are indeed dangerous times and we definitely need to be ready to defend ourselves and our homes. ...

A fast-spreading currency crisis could cause major economies to collapse and wipe out the value of dollar-denominated accounts across the country. Here’s what’s going on right now. Three large national economies: Argentina, Turkey, and Venezuela, are currently collapsing because of ...

Perhaps one of the most dangerous things we regularly do is to go on vacation. I realize it may sound like I’m talking facetiously, but I’m not. An amazing number of people have had their vacation end in some sort ...

I live in an area with one of the highest rates of obesity in the nation. A few years ago, we were number one, but someone else has managed to pass us up since then. I have to admit, I ...

The dangers to our aging, fragile electrical grid are numerous. Over the last few years, many of us have focused on the risk of an EMP, mostly fueled by North Korea’s nuclear and ICBM testing. But that may not be ...