Sunday, December 18, 2011

Contagion





If you haven't seen it yet, you should, really thought provoking, and unlike "The human centipede" we
can say that this movie REALLY is 100% medically accurate :D

Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff
dies from what is a flu or some other type of infection. Her young son
dies a few days later. Her husband Mitch however seems immune. Thus
begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators
at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone
realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first
identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of
combating it, a process that will likely take several months. As the
contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins
to break down as people panic.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Oscar Mike to the hills


Tomorrow I'm leaving the big city to go to a small city in the hills.
Moving totally sucks, I have tons of stuff to pack, is in moments like this when you understand the
Tibetan monks when they say that material properties just make you a slave, your stuff is an anchor
man.
Anyway, I'm pretty happy as living in a big city is a daily torture.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

MrLockAndLoad videos









 



At Unchained Preppers we have a thread with MrLockAndLoad videos.

Check them HERE



Monday, November 14, 2011

Stanislav Petrov, The Man who Saved the World


 A friend just passed me a link to The history Onyx blog where there is a great article about a Russian guy
who decided not to launch a nuclear counterattack against the US in 1983.
Its a very interesting read specially for those who think that us preppers are just a bunch of crazy guys and
that nothing bad will ever happen.

http://historyonyx.blogspot.com/2011/03/man-who-saved-world.html



Usually it takes something monumental to be realised as a truly great historical figure. Such a person is
normally well-known for doing something brilliant that has truly benefited the world and the people within
it.The likes of Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Ghandi and countless others leap to mind as being
among that ilk for the immense contributions that they have made. Sometimes, however, it only takes a small
act by an unknown person to truly do the world a favour.

The unknown person of which I speak is now an elderly man in his early 70s who is quietly seeing out his
days in an apartment block to the north-east of Moscow, a retired soldier who, thanks to a decision he
made nearly 30 years ago, warrants a far greater deal of appreciation from history than his anonymous
lifestyle would suggest. That man is Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from mutually-assured-
destruction...


It is 1983 and the Cold War is getting too hot for comfort. the hawkish anti-Communist Ronald Reagan is in
the White House and an increasingly paranoid-clique of elderlies surround the less-than-healthy Yuri
Andropov in the Kremlin. Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union are at their worst since
the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and there is a genuine sense of fear in the corridors of power in Moscow
that the Americans are planning to jump them with a surprise nuclear attack. Although it was and remains
standard US policy never to strike first with nuclear weapons, Andropov and his cohorts within the Soviet
politburo and the spy agencies believed that President Reagan was capable of ordering a first strike and was
planning to do just that. It was in the Moscow mindset both to expect an American attack and to react to it
very quickly.

The fact that the Soviet military and political leadership were on hair-trigger alert coupled with the less-than-
infallible nature of their early-warning systems made an accidental nuclear war a terrifyingly realistic
prospect, although it remained largely unknown to much of the world's population at the time. Throughout
1983 relations continued to get more and more tense. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, much of
Western Europe was engulfed by a storm of protest over American plans to install Pershing tactical missiles
in West Germany. The Americans themselves were doing little to dampen down the tension. Things took a
turn for the even worse on September 1st when Korean Airlines flight 007 strayed off course and entered
Soviet airspace whilst en-route from Alaska to Seoul. The Soviet air force shot the plane down without
asking questions, killing all 269 people on board, including a United States congressman. American public
opinion suddenly took a dangerous swing against the Soviets.

President Reagan himself had already sent alarm bells ringing in Moscow when he described the Soviet 
Union as an "evil empire" during a speech in Florida before going live on American TV to announce the
launch of his Strategic Defense Initiative, which has become known to history as Star Wars. This idea
involved using satellites to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles from space. If the Americans could put this
concept into reality it would render the whole of Moscow's massive nuclear weapons stockpile obsolete.
This further instilled within the Soviet leadership the belief that they ought to act sooner rather than later in
order to avoid being outwitted by Washington.

This is where our friend comes in. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was serving in the Soviet Air Defence
Forces right in the middle of this rather dodgy period. On the morning of September 26th 1983, less than a
month after the Korean Airlines incident, Petrov was the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 operations
bunker near Moscow. This particular bunker happened to house the command centre for the entire Soviet
early-warning system, codenamed Oko (Russian for "eye"). Petrov's job was to observe the satellite imagery
being fed to the big screens and report immediately to his superiors should any of the eyes-in-the-sky detect
incoming American missiles. Petrov himself obviously did not have the authority launch a counterstrike but,
given the dangerously high level of alert that the Soviets were operating under, such a response was only a
phone call away.

The Mother of all Decisions 

That particular night in the bunker seemed to be just the same as any other. It was just after midnight in
Moscow whilst it was beginning to get dark in the United States. In the main operations room of
Serpukhov-15 a bored Petrov and his underlings watched with forced interest as the satellite images showed
the cloak of darkness advancing east to west across the North American landmass. Despite being well
aware of the delicate international situation, nothing seemed out of the ordinary to the men present. They
knew they had to be ready for anything yet few of them really believed that the Americans would possibly
want to attack, effectively assuring their own destruction as well as that of the Soviets. At that moment the
quiet was suddenly shattered when the piercing wail of the alarm rang out and the main screen suddenly
turned white and a single word flashed up in red Cyrillic lettering:

LAUNCH

Petrov immediately sprung into action and checked the computer systems. They indicated that a single
American missile was in the air. The young officer resisted the urge to fly into a blind panic and immediately
suspected a false alarm. He was already aware that the early warning system was far from infallible and
prone to mistakes. Either way, a single missile was simply not logical. If the Americans really were going to
launch a first strike then surely it would be all-out, using every bomb and missile available to cripple them
straight away and minimise retaliatory efforts. Nonetheless Petrov scoured the satellite imagery for any
evidence of a missile launch flash occurring in the United States but the fact it was getting dark there made it
difficult to see anything. He telephoned his superiors who, thankfully, also concurred that some form of
computer error had taken place. Once his superior had hung up, Petrov overrode the early-warning system
and shut down the alarm, bringing the situation abruptly back to normal. He and his colleagues simmered
down and slumped back into their chairs, thanking themselves for averting a catastrophe. Oko, however,
was not done frazzling nerves
Barely minutes after Petrov had shut down the system, the word LAUNCH suddenly flashed up on the big
screen again, accompanied by the alarm. The computers were still detecting the same missile launch...... plus
a second. There were now two American missiles in the air...

Three...
Four......
FIVE!

Petrov and his men stood frozen with horror. It now looked like the impossible was happening in front of
their very eyes. The computer was showing five missiles inbound from the United States. This was it, they
thought. Reagan had given the order to take out the Soviet Union. Surely now the only thing left to do was to
call in the reports and recommend a full retaliatory strike. If the Soviets were to launch, they had to decide
quickly. Leaving it until the inbounds could be confirmed by land radar (which could not see beyond the
horizon) would limit Moscow's response time to mere minutes.

As before, Petrov checked the satellite images and was still unable to spot any missile flashes. He did not
feel comfortable about phoning his superiors again, especially without further confirmation. He checked the
computers again and found no further launches, still just the five. Once again Petrov began to doubt the
system. Five missiles were a lot more than one yet it still did not make sense with respect to how the
Americans had been expected to lauch an all-out strike. The decision on whether to call it in or not had to be
taken right then and there. As the young officer wrestled with his conscience, history hung in the balance.
After a brief hesitation he made his decision.

He overrode the system and shut off the alarm, without informing his superiors.
By following his good sense rather than following orders, this one man had effectively saved the world from
a nuclear holocaust. One can hardly imagine the horrors that would have taken place had he instead decided
to make that telephone call. A report of five inbound missiles would almost certainly have been enough to
send the paranoid Soviet leadership over the edge. Soviet warheads would have begun bearing down on
Europe and North America, prompting a full NATO counterstrike. By the time the Soviets would have
realised the first launches were a false alarm it would have been far too late.

The Aftermath 

In the end it turned out that Petrov's suspicions about the incoming phantom warheads were correct. The
source of the false alarm was merely sunlight bouncing off high-altitude clouds over North America, which
the Soviet satellites wrongly interpreted as being missile launch flashes. Petrov was vindicated but his
superiors were left feeling rather embarrassed by the exposed flaws in the early warning system and they
conspired to keep the incident under wraps. Petrov himself was never allowed to occupy such a sensitive
role again and he ultimately took early retirement, suffering a nervous breakdown. He was never given any
award or recognition by the Soviet or Russian governments for what he had done.

Knowledge of the Petrov incident only became known to the public after the fall of the Soviet Union
(naturally). It has subsequently brought considerable public attention to the aged and reclusive Petrov, who
continues to insist that he is not some kind of humanitarian hero and was simply doing his job. Nonetheless
he accepted an award and $1000 from the Association of World Citizens "in recognition of the part he
played in averting a catastrophe" (minor understatement there). He has also visited the United States and
been honoured by the United Nations, although the Russian representatives there were only too eager to
point out that Petrov alone could not have started a nuclear war. That may well have been the case but in my
opinion, given the state of the world in September 1983, had that one man made a second phone call to his
bosses on that night in the bunker then the world today would be a VERY different place.


Friday, November 4, 2011

Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard




Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on
approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies,
investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition to replant a kitchen garden at
the White House attracted broad international recognition. He is also a writer, photographer, and public
speaker.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Whitehouse shits on the republic


















Today I got in the whitehouse page to see how Obama wants to interfere in Congo's business continuing to
violate the free will of other countries people and I found something that I don't like at all, there is a banner
that says "We can't wait on congress: the time to act is now" let me translate that for you... that means
"Fuck the republic".

That logic is extremely dangerous, a republic has three different branches that have their own task and the
duty to control the other branches, so whenever you have a branch that takes attributions that don't belong
to it you are violating the republican way of government.

If you don't see a problem in it, let me tell you that usually the abusive branch is the executive one, so your
republic starts to turn in a dictatorship.

In Argentina we have abusive executives since the 90's, declaring by decree, using "super-powers" or buying
wills to pass the bills that the congress won't approve, and the justification for it is the same spiteful logic we
can see in that whitehouse webpage banner.

So remember, every time you allow a branch to stomp on another, one more piece of the republic falls.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Justin Moore - Guns



Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Climbing Cerro Serrata


Climbing Cerro Serrata half frozen and suffering altitude sickness.
Totally sucked, but even worst was surviving the 14 hs bus ride to home feeling like shit hehe
With some time it will be a good anecdote



Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

About Argentina

 
Hey guys, I'll rant for long this time


This is just the first post of the series, hope you enjoy it.

Argentina is a country that is screwed up since a long long time.
Our constitution is a bad copy of the ones from United States and France, countries that declared their
independence a few years before us.
For instance, in the article 21 it says that “every citizen has the obligation to arm itself to defend the country
and/or the constitution” that’s fantastic, but then it’s screwed as it continues “in accordance to the laws
dictated by the congress or decrees by the executive”.
So, you can defend the constitution only if the ones who are violating it allow you… pretty contradictory if
you ask me.

Then article 25 says that the government can’t restrict or limit the immigration of any foreigner with good
intentions and will to work. Reality shows that this open borders policy allowed and continues to allow the
immigration of tons of bad people, like WW2 war criminals, terrorist, drug dealers and entire families from
countries in the region looking for a government to provide them houses, health and education.


In Argentina people thinks that the government has the obligation to provide you with houses, work, free
education and free health services, so there are tons of people who continually do protests, cut streets and
highways etc asking for what they think is their right, most of times that people is used with political goals by
the opponents of the party that has the power at the moment.

Long history short, I never saw or read about a good government in this country, we had a collection of
demagogues populists, military dictatorships and utterly useless guys.

The inflation


I was a child but I remember the hyperinflation…
In the picture you can see the inflation numbers, in the ‘89 we had like 8000%
The stores changed the prices of their products multiple times a day, so when the people got their salary
they went running to the stores to spend it all in food.
I remember the bills starting having so fucking many zeroes in them that the people started calling the bills by
their color because they had no clue how to read those numbers, everyone was a millionaire at that time



So, the riots started and Alfonsin, the president at that moment had to leave.

Then Menem won, and the country was somewhat stabilized, but the price of it was the destruction of the
national industry, the unemployment started to grow like crazy, and in 2003 it was more than 20%

In 2001 was the big crisis when the riot started and finished with the president at that moment, De La Rua,
resigning. The country hit rock bottom at that moment.
There was a ton of people that had not work, the banks run out of dollars so all the deposits were retained
in what is known as “El Corralito” so you couldn’t retire or use your savings, there was a small quota of
money you could get monthly.
The states governments didn’t have any money either, and the federal government didn’t send any, so they
started emitting bonds that were used as normal money.

It was in those years when bartering started, in each town started to appear the “bartering clubs” where
people offered services or things to exchange.
That helped a lot of people to pass those hard times, but it also was used by delinquents in order to sell stuff
that previously was impossible, like forks, doors, cups, toilets, you mention it.
At that time I was living in a small city on the sea shore, so there were a lot of houses that were only
occupied in summer, those houses were completely emptied.
So the government tried to enforce some controls on the bartering clubs, but they continued until the
situation somewhat stabilized and then they closed.


2001 was a hard year, but this wasn’t Mad Max, the people kept going to work everyday, schools and
stores opened, we still paid taxes and the police could detain you and send you to jail just like always.

The rioting was in some specific places in the federal district, the rest of the country continued as always,
shitty but working.

The insecurity on the streets grow, but that’s the product of years of abandonment and lack of education and
culture of work, drugs have a big part on it too.

In 2003 50% of the country was under the line of poverty, that means that 50% of the country didn’t have
the money to live a standard life, and there was a 25% of indigence.

Because of that the “Villas”, similar to the favelas in Rio, started to multiply and continue to grow everyday
non stop. In there the state has no presence, and drug dealers and delinquents rule. 

Now everyday people is killed in car robberies and everyone lives scared, even smaller cities and towns
started having serious security issues.

I could talk about that for a long time… let’s finish this part in here, I’ll add more later.

What I can tell you is that things aren't like in the book Patriots, when there is an economic collapse, the shit
doesn't hit the fan to everyone at the same time, there isn't a clear line between SHTF and no SHTF.
People tries their best to continue with their usual life, because they have a wife and sons to feed, and if you
get your ass killed or in jail they'll be alone when they need you the most.
You start living cheaper, you stop spending on useless crap, some people grow food in their gardens, or rise
animals to eat, or look for new ways to get some money, like collecting used paper to sell it to recyclers.

Some people does crazy things, like and old man whose son was sick and needed the money for medicines,
so he bought a deactivated grenade and went to the bank to tell the manager that if they didnt give him his
dollars everyone would die. The old man got his money, but a few days later was arrested.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Epic libyan fighters



Here is a collection of epic libyan fighters DKconfiguration posted at militaryphotos.net


Original Epic Libyan rebel




























Sword Guy


























Epic rebel guitar guy



























Epic rebel collector guy





































Epic rebel hippie












































And we can't forget, this one added to the list by me the EPIC ANTI AIRCRAFT TURRET MAN!!


Thursday, August 4, 2011

Remnants



I'm looking forward for this movie



http://remnants-movie.com/

Directed by Tim Szczesniak. Starring Robert Pralgo, Vanelle, Jeff Briggs. A rare astronomical
event causes a permanent worldwide black out, forcing residents of a middle-class suburb to get
by with no modern conveniences. The community pulls together and adapts to a simpler way of
life, but their success draws the attention of the less resourceful residents in the area and soon
results in a war between subdivisions


Monday, July 25, 2011

Soda bottles as light bulbs



Around the web I found how to light dark rooms without electricity using soda bottles as light
bulbs, each of the 2 liter bottles is the equivalent of a 55W lamp, your mileage may vary
depending on the lighting condition in the outside of course.

To make it you need a clean soda bottle, a few liters of distilled water and 3 teaspoons of bleach.
The distilled water is to have more clarity and the bleach won't allow the formation of fungus
inside the bottle.

The light bottles can work for as long as 5 years and they are extremely cheap.

Here you got a few pics and then a video of a Brazilian guy that uses the light bottles in his workshop.



















































The Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer



The zombies are comming back and I like it... While you wait until october for season 2, you can
read the comic books, they are really really good, and belive me I never liked comics.
The zombies in the comic are just an ingredient as it is more about a group of people trying to
survive really shitty times.



Tuesday, June 28, 2011

National Geographic Doomsday Preppers



Overview
Unique in their beliefs, motivations and strategies, explore the lives of four families preparing for
the end of the world as we know it. From bunkers to fortified off-the-grid locations, these
doomsday preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any
of life’s uncertainties. And with our expert’s assessment, they will find out their chances of
survival if their worst fears became a reality.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/doomsday-preppers-6202/

I watched it now. I liked it, specially the engineer775 and southernprepper1 segment. Enjoy

http://sceper.eu/2011/06/national-geographic-doomsday-preppers-hdtv-xvid-diverge.html

Also if you want to watch it on Youtube you can do it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPepJpadbo

Robert Kiyosaki, prepper Dad?



Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich dad, Poor dad" sees a coming economic depression and is
recommending people to start storing:
  • A year supply of food
  • Guns
  • Gold & Silver
  • Some cash
His team seem to be a bunch of retards... But anyway hear it for yourself in the following video



Saturday, June 25, 2011

Draconian - A Rose For Apocalypse



Draconian, one of the coolest gothic doom metal bands at the moment just released their latest
album called "A Rose For Apocalypse" recorded at Fascination Street Studios, the same studio
previously used by bands like Katatonia, Opeth or Paradise Lost.
I really liked the album, you should definitively check it out.

Album lyrics here

And here is the official video of the song "The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight", the video is
extremely low budget, but the song totally kicks ass.



Friday, June 24, 2011

Away in the mountains



































Hey, I escaped a few days to the mountains, it was really cool, I can barely stand living in the
city... I hope to fix that for 2012.

Also I used for the first time my Condor 3day Assault pack, and I'm very happy with it I really
recommend it to you if you want a good backpack at an affordable price, I would like to fix the
waist belt so you can tighten it by pulling outward.

I'm thinking on creating a new section called "Library" that would be that a library, but only
with ebooks I had read and I believe are good and you should check them out, not just a
collection of everything you find around.

Ok, see ya later

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Survival and Austere Medicine Ebook



Hey today I have an awesome ebook to share with you, its called "Survival and Austere
Medicine" and it was written and edited by The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World
Medicine Discussion Board Moderators (http://medtech.syrene.net/forum/) in 2005.

Sadly the board seems abandoned, but for sure there is more juicy info in there to be found.

Good thing about this book is that is addressed to people who wish to know about survival
medicine without being a doctor, it has tons of tips about what you can do to start and keep
learning about medicine, and is oriented to a survival or SHTF scenario.

Take a look at the table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 What do I need to know & how do I learn it?
Chapter 3 Organization
Chapter 4 Medical kits
Chapter 5 Antibiotics
Chapter 6 Sterilization and disinfection
Chapter 7 The basic laboratory
Chapter 8 Herbal and Botanical medicine
Chapter 9 Other alternative medicine
Chapter 10 Medical aspects of shelter living
Chapter 11 Long-term survival medicine
Chapter 12 Woman’s Health Issues
Chapter 13 Medical aspects of NBC warfare
Chapter 14 Wound closure and suturing
Chapter 15 Austere Dental care
Chapter 16 Nursing care in an austere environment
Chapter 17 Frequently asked questions
Chapter 18 Reference books
Chapter 19 Austere medicine sound bites
Chapter 20 Survival Medicine Fiction
Appendix 1 Equipment suppliers


I can't recommend this ebook enough, this is fantastic, check it out.

You can get your copy from here:
http://sites.google.com/site/apx808/Home/AMFinal2.pdf

Friday, May 20, 2011

#SpanishRevolution



EDIT: June 11 - As the live stream from "Puerta del sol" is dead, I'll use this post to redistribute
an Anonymous message to the goverments related to the #Spanishrevolution and the parade
that is being organized for this June 19th called "Toma la calle".



Monday, May 16, 2011

Who is Anonymous?



Lately all the media is talking about Anonymous, and you can see a lot of missconceptions.
I'll repost a cool video that was posted on AnonOps blog that will tell you part of
Anonymous' history.



Wednesday, May 11, 2011

LDS Preparedness Manual



A lot of people in the prepper community are recommending this book, and I plan to do
the same :D

This book is a collection of essays written by members of "The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints" aka Mormons, but don't worry, the manual only has an intro explaining
why the church ask their followers to prep, and the rest of the chapters are pure gold.

This book in its 222 pages covers food storage really deeply and has tons of checklist
that are really handy.

The best of all is that you can get an online copy fro FREE from:

http://www.abysmal.com/LDS/Preparedness/

You also can order printed copies for the price of the paper, that is 8 bucks, sadly
is impossible to find this book in any major bookstore :S

I would like to thank the Mormon community for sharing all this knowledge and I'll
leave you with an excellent coverage of this book courtesy of TheSurvivalBookshelf

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right - Revisited



Ohh man, this is the most awesome shit I saw in a long long time, the amount of
Hollywood stars that are present on this 30 minutes short film is unbelievable.



Tuesday, April 19, 2011

My soundcloud page



Hey Guyz

As one of my hobbies I like to do some music with the computer, I have tons of song
pieces but this is one of the few I finished, as I said in soundcloud I'm not very happy
with the fills but years passed since I did it and never could fix them, so I decided to
share it as it is, hopefully you'll like it, and if you don't at least you didn't had to pay
for it :P


Undone by APX808

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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Vegetarian Myth

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I just need to know that "asado" is the best food in the world in order to eat meat,
but if you need a more scientific explanation you can check this great interview to
Lierre Keith the author of the book "The Vegetarian Myth"


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Sunday, March 13, 2011

World day against cyber-censorship

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Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (on
12 March 2011) is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet without
restrictions and accessible to all.

http://march12.rsf.org/



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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Libyan conflict pictures and video

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As you may know situation in Libya is pretty hot lately, it began as a series of
protests and confrontations occurring in the North African state of Libya against
Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule. The protests began on 15 February 2011 and escalated
into a widespread uprising by the end of February, with fighting verging at the brink
of civil war.

You can get more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising

And also there is an awesome thread at militaryPhotos.net updated daily with pictures and
video of the conflict.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?195079-Libyan-Conflict-Photos-and-Videos/

Bonus LOLZ: http://cheezburger.com/View/4541494272

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Survival Medicine

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Hi guys, I just wanted to share with you a few great resources to learn about what can you do in
case you, your loved ones or some fellow men gets hurt or ill in a SHTF or outdoors situation.

Besides formal training, which is highly recommendable and encouraged, you can start
contacting the red cross, another great help are the books "Where there is no doctor" that you
can download for free both in spanish and english from the Hesperian's Online Library HERE and
"Medicine For The Outdoors" by Paul S. Auerbach that you can see a great review by
TheSurvivalBookshelf at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibUG_OVVGk

Also there are 3 Youtube channels that you should check and subscribe

Survival Medicine Course at http://www.youtube.com/user/SurvivalMedicine

The Patriot Nurse at http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePatriotNurse

USNERDOC‬‏ at http://www.youtube.com/user/USNERDOC


EDIT (05/20/11): I found a blog http://www.tacmedsolutions.com/blog/ that you should visit,
is plenty of tactical medicine info, they also have great instructional videos on Youtube.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Misery Bear Goes to Work

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Bonus, Dawn of the Ted

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Cairo

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Best of fails 2010

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Too much serious stuff lately around here, so enjoy the best of fails 2010, pretty fucking funny :D







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Monday, January 24, 2011

Terminal ballistics reality

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Terminal ballistics, as defined in the wikipedia is a sub-field of ballistics that studies the behavior
of a projectile when it hits its target. Based on the terminal ballistic properties of a projectile we
can talk about its stopping power when hitting a living target, and that brings me to the origin of
this post.

A lot of studies about stopping power are demonstrated using ballistic gel and as much as it can
resemble human flesh, the gel doesn't have bones, or tendons and for sure it fails to demonstrate
the gory results of a hi speed bullet ventilating someone.

So, in order to complement those clean scientific studies using gel we need to look at the darkside
of this matter, Vincent J.M. DiMaio wrote a great book about it called "Gunshot Wounds:
Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques", you can buy it but is fooking
expensive, like 125 bucks, also you can ask google and find a copy to see if you really want to
expend that money on it.

But anyway, that book was written by the nation's foremost authority on gunshot wounds and
forensic techniques as they relate to firearm injuries, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of
Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, Second Edition provides critical information on
gunshot wounds and the weapons and ammunition used to inflict them. The book describes
practical aspects of ballistics, wound ballistics, and the classification of various wounds caused by
handguns, bang guns, rifles, and shotguns. The final chapters explain autopsy technique and
procedure and laboratory analysis relating to weapons and gunshot evidence.

Just in case you didn't notice I copy & pasted the product description :D

But the problem with that book, is that it explains a lot about gunshot wounds, but doesn't show
much. Yes it has some pictures, but you need more and in color to get at least a glimpse of the
real thing.

So I found a blog that does just that, and besides it shows the cruelty of Mexican Drug War
where 15,273 were killed just in 2010, that blog is called "Blog del Narco", and it shows pictures
and videos depicting the results of the confrontations among the different cartels or the killings
that happen everyday in Mexico, sadly for a lot of you that blog is written in spanish.

Be careful the content of the blog is extremely graphic, you can find it at
http://www.blogdelnarco.com

EDIT: 11/08/11 they changed their +18 content to the following URL

http://www.cerodos.com/
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The origin of the mall ninja




Today I want to share with you a link that will reveal
the infamous history of the mall ninjas.

For the ones who doesn't know what a mall ninja is
I'll quote BJJ Grappler explanation in his excelent
thread called "The ULTIMATE mall ninja thread" at
survivalistboards.com.






Definition
m-aal nin-jAH : An inexperienced (or even sometimes experienced), over-enthusiastic weapon
owner (usually firearm), who's primary modus operandi (that's mall ninja talk) includes dressing
and equipping for combat in an otherwise peaceful urban environment. The mall ninja can often
be found carrying more than one weapon of the same type, handcuffs (although legally unable to
perform an arrest), wearing ballistic vests or tactical gear while performing mundane daily tasks
such as mowing the lawn.


Characteristics
Sex: Primarily males
Age: Teens to 40's
Race/Ethnicity: Primarily caucasian
Body Type: Often overweight, sporting a gut, however the occasional athletic mall ninja can be
spotted and may be harder to identify until spoken to.
Marital Status: Often Single/Virgin but more increasingly Married/Neglected
Hair: Short to Long
Extracurricular Activities: Posing for pictures to post online, weaving tales of heroism and
danger, bragging, spurts of exercise, watching war movies for 'tactics', watching the tv show
"Cops", buying a foregrip or laser for their DPMS AR-15 or pistol, worrying more about how
deadly they look than about the car that is about to run them over.

Ok, so the origin of the "Urban Ninja" can be tracked to the posts two guys, called Gecko45 and
SPECOPS made on some boards on 2001.
Those post were lost but a guy recovered them from his cache and decided to publish them in his
web, lonelymachines.org, so this part of the history can be passed to future generations.

Be careful you could end up spitting your coffee all over your monitor while reading this...
I warned you.

The shrine of the mall ninja

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Story of Stuff

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