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40 Articles in the category: Editor's Choice
The Dreaded Red Sky Prophecy of Tom Brown, Jr
This page is taken from the book "The Quest" by Tom Brown, Jr. I first read The Quest in 2002 or possibly early 2003. It hadn't been...
The Beach - Your Best Friend in a SHTF Situation?
This page (like the rest of the website) will improve over time, but for now I'll list a few things about the beach that make it a really useful thing for both before and after...
Types of Cars for Prepping
This is the first page that I made on this website, other than the welcome page. It got put here originally as a dummy page, just to be a placefiller while I worked on the...
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
The cover image for this page is the space shuttle Discovery, which launched and landed 39 times, making more flights than any other spacecraft. It launched the Hubble Space Telescope, the Ulysses Space Probe, and...
Driving an Old Car to Protect Yourself from EMP
If you're concerned about an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), driving an old car is a really good idea. How old? Most cars started to get "electronic" ignition systems in the early 1970s. Here the term "electronic"...
Changelog for this New Australian Prepping Web Magazine
Spysafe.com.au is still quite new. Not everything works yet, but it's getting there. A few of the articles still contain incomplete, or occasionally even entirely bogus information. That was because I needed to have a...
Nuclear War - It's Not the End of the World
It's no myth that the dangers of nuclear war have been greatly exaggerated in the minds of most people today. A nuclear war would be truly horrific, but far from the end of all life...
Using a Camera for Prepping
This article is about any optical photography instrument. For modern specifics, see digital camera. For other uses, see Camera (disambiguation). A 1966 Canon FT camera with a 135mm 1:3.5 lens A 2016 Nikon D810 A camera is an...
The Horror of Escaping a Train Tunnel Post- EMP
This is one of those scenarios that's so sucky it's hard to even know where to begin. Sometimes it's good though to think of situations that may be impossible or almost impossible to realistically survive...
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About Nuclear Fallout
What is Nuclear Fallout? Nuclear fallout is dust and dirt (of varying sizes) that's been thrown up into the air by the force (blast) of a nuclear explosion, and has...
Peak Oil - Last Decade's Hot Story Everyone Loves to Hate
Global conventional oil extraction peaked around 2005. We had the financial crisis in 2007-08. The price of oil went from a high of around US$140 a barrel down to $40 a barrel over a few...
Population Density - Your Greatest Threat in a Total Collapse?
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How to Prep Like a Rock Star
There was a time in my teenage life when I wanted to be a "professional guitar player". Okay. I wanted to be a rock star. I never became a rock star, but I...
Little Known Prepping Lessons from Christian Martyrs
This is a genre that you can really, and I mean really, learn a lot from. It's little known to most preppers, yet it reveals the very best lessons I've found on how to not...
What Do You Do When Time is Running Out?
Try out these thought exercises: There's only a limited amount of time left for modern civilisation as we know it. It's impossible to know exactly how long — but if something is unsustainable...
Books to Help Quit Drinking
Here's a selection of books to help to quit drinking, or to slow down on drinking. I'll write up better explanations as I get time... The first one is the one that helped me the...
Restart - Begin Prepping Again From the Start
I just had the idea to imagine that I'm starting all over again with prepping. The more I thought about this idea, the more I liked it. So I've decided to actually do it—...
The Great Reversal
Imagine a child playing happily outside on the lawn. Imagine now that they stopped doing that, went inside the house, sat down on a chair at a desk, and...
Silva Expedition 54 Compass - Review
The Silva Expedition 4 Compass is the classic full-size baseplate compass that's been used and depended on for decades. NOTE: this review will be updated in the next few days with images, more including of...
How Well Can You Defeat These Six Enemies?
The greatest enemy in modern life is that of distraction. There are just so many things that will take up all your time, and more. It's very difficult to avoid being trapped by this. Probably...
What Can Preppers Learn About What Is Happening In Venezuela
Venezuela was once the pearl of South America having a high living standard, oil, and rich in natural resources, yet now is a cesspool with people having to get their drinking water from ditches. Preppers...
TOPS Tracker Knife T3 - Review
The original Tracker Knife was designed by Tom Brown, Jr. It was custom built in small quantities first by Ed Lombi, and then by Dave Beck. The Beck version became known as the Beck...
How to Get Fit for Complete Beginners
Physical fitness is a vitally important aspect of prepping — and one that's too often neglected. I've been guilty of this myself at times, and especially so in 2018. Mainly just because I was distracted...
Absolute Anarchy by Johnny Jacks - Review
I've quickly flicked through Absolute Anarchy, and read a few parts here and there. My first impressions are high enough that I've decided to (very roughly) base much of this website and my future...
Arctic Methane Release Could Cost Economy $60 Trillion
A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea ice and climate change with a cost to the global economy of up to $60 trillion over coming decades, according to a...
How to Really Begin Prepping
This page outlines a planning method that can be used to move from reading about prepping to beginning actual prepping. It's for complete beginners, and also for any prepper who'd like more of a routine...
The Holy Bible
There are nine different Bible versions available, all public domain. The most recent version is the World English Bible from 2000. Greek and Hebrew are included, the other seven versions are in English. ...
Random Thoughts About Christianity and Prepping
Reasons to Become a Christian If you're not already a believer, the idea of being religious, or Christian, may seem impossible to accept. Don't worry about that for now. Just go with it. If this...
As of January 2018 The Doomsday Clock is Two Minutes to Midnight
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board, the clock represents...
Escape From Alcatraz - Film Review
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed by Don Siegel.[3] It is an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and dramatizes the 1962...
Hiding Out in the Forest - A Quick Guide to Not Being Found
A lot of preppers have plans to "bug out" from their urban or suburban location and travel to a "retreat" location which they have pre-prepared in a more rural area. This is a much better...
2018 North Korea - United States summit
U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un on June 12, 2018, in Singapore, in the first summit meeting between the leaders of the United States of America and the Democratic...
Don't Neglect Your Fitness Prepping - Get and Stay in Peak Shape
Your level of fitness is really important in many different future situations. Without the aids of modern technology most of the basic tasks of life are a lot more physical than people in the rich...
What's Your Greatest Weakness?
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Let's get serious for a few minutes, and think about some of the real problems to be faced in prepping. Specifically, this page will...
How Much Water Would You Have If the Taps Ran Dry?
No civilisation lasts forever. At some point, the mains water supply that the modern world is used to has to go down, permanently. Even if you're not a prepper it's still a question of when...
How to Use This Web Magazine
Why Another Prepping Website? I had my first internet account in 1991, which is earlier than anyone else I know personally (either in real life or online). I've been online a long time, and seen a...
Even as a Child You Can Begin Prepping - Secretly if Needed
When I was eight or nine, my father told me that society was going to collapse in the first part of the next century — but it would be okay, because I could learn to...
Welcome to Prepping.com.au
Australians are Born Survivors Australians are born survivors. It's in our genes. Our ancestors were either members of the world's oldest culture — or hardy enough to travel across thousands of miles of ocean, and...
Now I Will Dare to Say Mad Words
Alone in the cell, now, I felt Satan's presence. It was dark and cold, and he was mocking me. The Bible speaks of places "where satyrs dance," and this had become such a place. I...