The smell of burning leaves can take me right back to October of 1949, the fall I turned eight. Back then folks raked their yards into long piles along the road and lit them after supper, so the whole street smelled of smoke and dry oak. The war had been over for four years, but […]

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Somewhere in the back of your pantry sits a can or jar that’s been there longer than you’d care to admit. And from the outside, it probably looks just fine. Stored food changes slowly, though, and much of that change happens where you can’t see it or smell it.  After SHTF, that comfort disappears. A […]

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When a former FBI deputy director tells Americans to start stockpiling, people listen. On his podcast this week, Dan Bongino urged listeners to keep at least three days of food and backup power on hand. “Get your stuff today,” he said. “Please. Do it for your family.” To be clear, this wasn’t a new federal […]

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The Federal Reserve wraps up a two-day meeting today, and the timing could hardly be more awkward. Inflation is climbing again, energy prices are through the roof, and voters head to the polls for the midterm elections on November 3. Most economists expect the Fed to leave interest rates where they are this afternoon. The […]

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Every prepper knows the feeling. You’ve got water stored, a pantry that could last months, and a plan for when the power goes out, but the people you love most think it’s a strange hobby at best. The holidays are your best shot at changing that. Families are together, people are already thinking about gifts, […]

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Last week, we covered the shredded lettuce outbreak that sickened thousands of Americans and exposed how slowly food recalls move. Now a new investigation shows that outbreak wasn’t a fluke. It was a symptom of a much bigger blind spot. On October 27, The Washington Post reported that the FDA rarely inspects the foreign facilities […]

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Most people picture a water outage as a broken main, a drought, or a hurricane knocking out the treatment plant. Now there’s another threat on the list, and it doesn’t need bad weather. Hackers are breaking into the computers that control America’s drinking water. On October 1, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published […]

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