President Trump on Thursday, October 22, signed a proclamation declaring that imported wind turbines and their parts threaten U.S. national security. Among the reasons cited: foreign components with cybersecurity weaknesses that could let someone remotely take control of turbines and disrupt power. For preppers, the politics of wind power matter less than the bigger question […]

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This summer, a microscopic parasite most Americans had never heard of sickened 12,883 people, put 570 in the hospital, and killed two. It was the largest Cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history, and federal authorities traced it to shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico supplied by Taylor Farms. The outbreak is officially over. But a new […]

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On Tuesday, November 17, radios and TVs across the country will interrupt normal programming with the familiar harsh tones of an emergency alert. Do not panic. It is a scheduled nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS), run by FEMA in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission. For preppers, the test is more than […]

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Nobody gets into trouble on a day they were expecting trouble. It happens on a Tuesday, out mowing the back corner of the yard, or pulling into the same gas station you’ve used for twenty years. And the animals have gotten bolder, too. Bears that used to stay up on the ridge now come down […]

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Subtropical Storm Josephine formed off the Mid-Atlantic coast on Wednesday, October 21, and every forecast has it turning northeast and away from the United States. There are no coastal watches or warnings for the storm itself, and it is not forecast to make landfall in the United States. Yet the same system has already flooded […]

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Oil prices pushed higher again on Thursday, October 22, after a new wave of Houthi attacks inside Saudi Arabia led Washington to order some American diplomats and their families out of the kingdom. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed back above $110 a barrel. For most Americans, the headline matters less than what follows it: […]

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There’s a company out there that sells governments a way to break into security cameras. Once inside, its customers can watch the live feed as it happens. Worse, they can go back into recorded footage and change it, and the edited video shows no sign that anyone touched it. That company is called Toka, and […]

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