by bmt | Jan 6, 2015 | Towsley on Prepping blog
The idea that you can survive social collapse unscathed without the means to defend yourself, your family and your property is naive, foolish and a death sentence. It’s not hard to find examples of what happens today when the “system” breaks down. Just look at...
by bmt | Oct 24, 2014 | Towsley on Prepping blog
On the television this morning as I ate breakfast was yet another economic guy explaining how the U.S. economy is nothing but a shaky house of cards. He explained about how the Fed is just propping it all up by buying bonds and keeping interest rates low while at the...
by bmt | Sep 5, 2014 | Towsley on Prepping blog
While researching a new book project I bought both of Mel Tappan’s books. For those of you who don’t know, he was pretty much the Godfather of the prepper movement. They called it Survival back then, but Tappan ruled the market in those bleak Jimmy Carter years....
by bmt | Jun 2, 2014 | Towsley on Prepping blog
I am just back from 12 days off the grid in Alaska. Well OK, I confess; I did have a Satellite phone. But other than that we were out of touch with the world and a long way away from any other people. My guide was a native of the area, at least in loose terms. We were...
by bmt | Dec 24, 2013 | Towsley on Prepping blog
Recently a writer I have read for years, but never met, contacted me through mutual friends. He is doing a piece for a national magazine on preppers and asked for an interview. While I write about prepping for magazines and prepping was an undercurrent in The 14th...
