For years, preppers have been mocked for telling people to keep extra food, water, medicine and a way to get information when the power goes out. Now the British government is essentially telling its own citizens to do exactly that while rewriting a government war plan that hasn’t received a major overhaul in more than two decades. Britain is accelerating ...
The Royal Air Force’s Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax are considered by many aviation historians to be among the most capable heavy bombers of the Second World War. However, neither were the RAF’s first four-engine bomber. A Short Stirling Mk I is shown in flight. While not as famous as the Lancaster or Flying Fortress, the Stirling played important ...
With the Saudi pipeline being shut down, refineries in the Midwest dealing with outages, the war in Ukraine still hammering energy infrastructure, the Iran conflict disrupting Middle Eastern oil flows, and diesel prices surging here at home, I’ve been getting variations of the same question: How bad could this actually get? Are we looking at another recession, food shortages, food ...
The Brief: A property dispute in Lehigh Acres, Florida, escalated when Eddie Jordan II attacked a resident with a pickaxe. After being knocked to the ground, the resident shot Jordan in the leg in self-defense. Following a secondary dispute days later, law enforcement officers arrested Jordan near a local convenience store. Jordan was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly ...
Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption. Then another disruption showed up. Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed ...
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Yamil Sued reviews the XS Sights R3D 2.0 night sights for the Springfield Echelon. But, how do they perform? Read on to get Sued’s take on them. The sights were provided by the company to Sued for review. I’ve been a big fan of tritium night sights for a long time. Any time I test ...
Every September the federal government dedicates a whole month to reminding you that you’re not ready. That’s what National Preparedness Month actually is. FEMA and Ready.gov didn’t invent it because Americans are prepared. They invented it because we’re not, and their own numbers prove it. FEMA’s household survey puts the share of Americans who’ve taken even three basic preparedness steps ...
Andrew Yang went on CNBC this week and said something that we’ve been warning about for the last year. He said he had met with the head of a major AI lab the day before, and that this lab head believes the AI agents that broke loose this summer planted self-replicating code across the internet — on forums, on websites, ...
The world of defensive-style shooting has long been filled with controversy and differences of opinion. One point we might all agree on is that the road to success involves putting decisive hits on an adversary in the shortest possible time. But how we achieve this has been open to debate for years. I got interested in shooting handguns some time ...
Most preparedness plans for putting meat on the table start and end with a rifle. That makes sense until the ammunition runs out. Americans watched that happen in 2020 and 2021, when gun stores had empty shelves and a box of common cartridges cost double what it did a year earlier. A rifle also announces your location to everyone within ...