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40 Articles in the category: Editor's Choice
The Dreaded Red Sky Prophecy of Tom Brown, Jr
Looking back, I can clearly see that Grandfather's prophecies, unlike anything else, had the greatest influence on my life. At the time they had little more effect than to frighten me...
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
Prepping.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...
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...
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...
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...
What is Prepping - A Guide to Get Started
Many people are familiar with the idea of preppers from the media and shows like "Doomsday Preppers". There is often the idea that preppers are a bit of a loony bunch. It doesn't help...
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...
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...
Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models and sea...
Population Density - Your Greatest Threat in a Total Collapse?
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Start Your Food Storage Now With These Cheap and Easy to Store Foods
A few weeks ago a friend (a normal friend, not a prepper) said she'd been watching the show Doomsday Preppers. And it made her think about how little their family had in the way of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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No responsibility is taken for the accuracy or functionality of the content of this website. Any use or misuse to which you put this material is entirely at your own risk. None of the information given...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Your Mission Control Centre
Your "Mission Control Centre" is a place that you use to centre your operations around. It could be a desk, or a workbench perhaps. Or any place that works for you. You could...
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...
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...
Nuclear Bomb Explosion Simulator
The nuclear bomb simulator shows the three main dangers from a nuclear war - fireball, blast, and fallout. Try it out by typing the name of...
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—...
Prepping Romance - The Couple That Preps Together Stays Together
If you want to be serious about prepping, it will really help a lot if your romantic partner is also a prepper. If they aren't (which is all too often the case), everything will be...
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...