From Emergency

If youre prepared and dont panic, most of lifes emergencies are

merely inconveniences.
Hope is a passive emotion. Its the last survival skill of the
powerless. In the face of the unknown, I prefer action.
When you walk to the very edge of the abyss, and you lean over
and peer as deep into the blackness as you possibly can, and
maybe you even lower your hand into it and pull someone out
whos not suppose to be there, thats when you feel alive.
There is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save
himself.
Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and
custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization
checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day
check out of. Its an inevitability tourists cant help but realize
when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How
long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?
The great thing about life is that it will always surprise you.
Nothing ever turns out the way you expect.
We make fun of those were most scared of becoming.
Until I see it proven otherwise, I only have one to live.
We went through a battery of metal detectors, security
questions, and bag searches. I wondered if the extremists had
won, making us the so-called normal people just as paranoid
as they were.
Only the uptight, small-minded kids in school got involved in
politics. Its not about changing the world. Its still about what
lunch table you sit at.
On every highway, theres a drunk driver hurtling at 80 miles and
hour in two tons of steel. In every neighborhood, theres a thief
armed with a deadly weapon. In every city, theres a terrorist
with an agenda. In every nuclear country, theres a government
employee sitting in front of a button. In every cell in our body,
theres the potential to mutate into cancer. They are all trying to
kill us. And they dont even know us. They dont care that if they
succeed, we will never know what tomorrow holds for us. The
tragedy of life-robbing it of its fullness and brilliance is the
knowledge that we might die at any moment. And though we
schedule our lives so precisely, with calendars and day planners
and mobile phones and personal information management
software, that moment is completely beyond our control. Death
is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every
second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more
important to the universe than those of the two hundred
thousand insects each of us kill with the front of our car every

year. Nature knows no tragedies or catastrophes. It knows no

good or evil. It knows only creation and destruction. And one can
never truly be happy and free, in the way we were as children
before learning of out mortality, without at some point
confronting out destruction. And all we can ask for, all we can
hope for, all we can beseech God for, is to win a few battles in a
war we will ultimately lose.
We didnt have to invade countries. Instead, we opened
McDonalds in their town square, played Die Hard in their theaters
and put Backstreet Boys in their stadiums. And the more they eat
our food, the more they admired out action heroes, the more
they hummed our songs, the stronger we become.
Nation of sheep, owned by pigs, ruled by wolves.
There are only two kinds of people in a crisis: the quick and the
dead.
Theres an apt prophecy on nearly every page of the Bible. It is,
after all, the original survivalist manual, full of righteous men
fleeing floods, fires, plagues, genocides, and Tyrants.
There are two types of people in the world: the captains, who go
down with the ship, and the rest of us, who jump off with our
loved ones.
Like friendly fire in combat, the governments war on terrorism
had wounded its own country instead. And, consequently, every
terrorist had won. Even the bugling shoe-bomber Richard Reid
had affected the lives of millions of Americans making it
necessary to remove our shoes, every time we pass through
airport security.
Power of intent. They say that if you set your mind on something
you really want, it will come to you. This is often misinterpreted
as a rationalization for laziness, because its a lot easier to lie in
bed and dream than to go out and work.
Power of the odds. If you interact with enough people, and you
look for clues leafing to what you want every time, youll
eventually find someone or something that can help you.
What experience and history teach us is that people and
governments have never learned anything from history.
Though paranoia is often used as a derogatory term, the truth is
that its a survival instinct. If you think your postman is stealing
you checks or your nurse is poisoning your good, even if its not
true, the accusation is rooted in an innate desire for selfpreservation, developed through millennia spent living in the
wild, where the unknown was a threat. And because the future is
unknown, no matter how good or bad things may be today, it will
always be a threat. So, ultimately, the sole arbiter of whats
paranoia and whats common sense is what happens tomorrow.

Youre only paranoid if youre wrong. If youre right, youre a

prophet.
Life is conveyed not just through a heartbeat and brain wave
activity, but through an immeasurable spark that animates our
faces, out conversations, our being. That spark may be the
pursuit of love, success, excitement, validation, connections,
happiness, learning, God, or freedom. Its fuel is hope. Without a
belief in a better future, it dies. And, aside from an early death,
my greatest feat is one day losing that spark, whether through
gradual disillusionment or sudden calamity.
For every person who sees America as a villain, theres someone
else who sees it as a hero. If anyone who wanted to decimate our
country, theyd realize that it wasnt a president or a general or a
businessman they were planning to destroy, but the dreams of
hundreds of thousands of their own brothers, sisters, and
countrymen.
Most people mistake comfort and familiarity for safety. Not until
the flames are licking their rooftop will they leave and even
then theyll dawdle, trying to grab every last memento and stuff
in into their cat, as if their possessions held the very essence of
their identity.
There is a phenomenon known as social proof. Its the idea that if
everyone is doing something whether its buying a certain pair
of shoes, seeing a particular movie, or criticizing certain
unfortunate individual it must be right. So if no one else was
trying to escape the country besides me, then it must be wrong.
The problem with that logic is that by the time everyone else is
doing it after the next terrorist attack or economic depression
or political clampdown or epidemic disease it will be too late.
And those who want to escape will be left trying to barter money,
sex, connections, and everything else they have just for the
privilege of living.
I can deal with bastards, but I hate assholes. Some people, they
shouldnt be dealt with nicely.
The United States was ranked as having the fifty-third freest
press in the world, tied with Botswana and Croatia. According to
the World Health Organization, the United States had the fiftyfourth fairest health care system in the world, with the lack of
medical coverage leading to an estimated 18000 unnecessary
deaths a year. And according to the Justice Department, one in
every thirty-two Americans was in jail, on probation. Or on
parole.
Rather than having actual freedom, it seems that like animals in
a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long
as we didnt try to leave the cage, wed never know we werent
actually free.

The lesson of Katrina wasnt that the United States couldnt

protect its own. It was that no country could protect its own. No
place is safe and no government can guarantee the well being of
its citizens. Theres only one place to find true safety, from
within.
Instead of evolving constantly toward a more advanced
civilization, human history is cyclical. And, just like the Rome and
Egypt and other advanced civilizations before us, were past our
zenith. Were growing weak while the tribes that want to destroy
modernity are growing stronger and more committed.
To fliesians, civilizations dont keep evolving. They progress until
some reactionary element hits the reset button, and they have to
start all over. Someday, future civilization is going to find our
computers and hard drives and has no idea they contain the
entire history of our society. Theyll just think theyre funny
looking rocks and use them as tools.
If someone feels that youre judging them, they will never open
up to you.
Every human being wants: acceptance, approval, and
understanding.
Fear changes over time. In late 1999, we geared the collapse of
out computer system. Then it was our own government. Then it
was global warming. Today, its economy collapse. Fear, it seems,
is like fashion; it changes every season. And even though threats
like terrorism persist to this day, we eventually grow bored of
worrying about them and turn to something new. Ultimately,
though, every fear had the same root: anxiety about thing we
take for granted going away.
As individuals, we have a duty to protect ourselves.
Personally, I dont believe in good guys and bad guys, as
compelling as those stories may be to children. There are no bad
guys-just people who do bad things. They think theyre the good
guys; get stuck in a cad situation and lost control; or have
something wrong with their heads thats the product of the way
they were raised. The drugs theyre using. Or the chemistry in
their brains. Most of them think theyre hero to someone. And,
sadly, theyre right -just as every good gut is a villain to
someone. There is no black and white -only grey.
Be safe and be good to everyone you meet but always have a
plan to kill them.
The five seconds rule: if the fire doesnt get smaller or go out
within five seconds, evacuate immediately.
Always aim the fire extinguisher nozzle at the base of the fire,
where the flames are interacting with the fuel.
History is full of tales of people who behave altruistically in
disasters, even when resources are scarce. Some will sacrifice

their lives to save someone else or give away their last sip of
water or share their shelter with a destitute family. But history is
also full of people who behave viciously in disasters and will
betray, torture, and kill fellow victims to save themselves. It has
yet to be proven which group has the better chance of survival,
but theres no doubt which group is better able to live with
themselves afterward.
Happiness, friendship, education, entertainment, success, family,
respect, freedom of speech are just wants. Our needs are
actually very few. Here are what we need:
o Safety and health: In short, the confidence of knowing well
wake up each day in satisfactory working order, without a
knife held to our throat or a hurricane tearing our roof off
or a disease attacking our body.
o Shelter and warmth: According to the rule of threes,
though we can live without water for roughly three days
and without food for some three weeks, it can take just
three hours to die of exposure.
o Food and water: No explanation necessary.
When it comes down to it, every one of us would sacrifice our
freedom to fulfill any one of these three needs if they were
lacking. And all the aspirations people have to become rich and
famous or simply better than their neighbor would instead be
focused on obtaining a glass of water, a warm place to sleep, or
an antibiotic to fight an infection.
Wrong survival tips can, in the right situation, kill you.
Sacred order: shelter, water, fire, and food. In order of
importance.
Cogito ergo armatum sum I think, therefore I am armed.
If our life span is a movie that begins with a tiny screaming
neonate and ends with a shriveled, arthritic geriatric, then I dont
want to leave in the middle. Theres romance, horror, adventure,
comedy, fantasy, and, most exciting of all, suspense still to
come. And I want to see it all, until the very last credits rolls and
the screen goes dark.

Others
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Sovereign Society
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy
Evasive driving

o Effective cornering
o Jumping curbs
o Ramming
o Bootleggers turn
Armor Technology
The Passport Book
PT W. G. Hill
AIG Private Bank
Tarasov and Associates law firm
The laundrymen Jeffrey Robinson
Bye Bye Big Brother ~ Secure Internet Communication
Bruce Clayton aka Shihan Clayton
o Life after Doomsday
o Life after Terrorism
Kurt Saxton
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
The survivalist
The Compleat Housewife
The poor mans James Bond
Urban Survival Kit:
o Cell phone
o ATM card
o A pistol
Gunsite ranch in Arizona
CERT Community Emergency Response Team
Gavin de Becker The Gift of Fear
Stockpiling
o 10 gallon-sized jugs of water (dont put it on concrete floor)
o 2000W Honda generator
o Hand crank generator
o 5 two-gallon container gasoline (add sta-bil to prevent
breakdown)
o lanterns, 44 hours candles, kerosene
o Hand crank flashlights
o Rechargable batteries
o First Aid supplies
o Strike anywhere matches
o Water purification tablets
On the make: The hustle of nightlife
Browns Tracker School
Combat handgun trainer Chuck Taylor
Mad Dog knife school.
Jimson weed
Metal detector proof knife.
Urban escape and Evasion. onPoint tactical.

Red is the juice, white is the ground. You strike them together, and
blow up the town.
Youre a dick if you date a girl for too long and you dont marry her.
Then you marry her. And then youre an asshole for marrying before
youre ready.