Uncertain Tomorrow- Pilot

Great short film, it would be nice if these guys could continue filming this.

 ***Episode 002 of Uncertain Tomorrow is now in motion. Our goal for Episode 002 is to expand on this storyline, but with several enhancements!

In Episode 002 you can expect:
-A 30 minute episode
-Fights, both fire fights and hand to hand skirmishes
-Explosions
-Story and Character development
-The latest in the SRA AR-15 line-up

...and so much more.

There is only one draw back. IT"S EXPENSIVE! We single handedly funded episode 001 for roughly $10,000. That's $1,000 per minute of the final product. So, we need your help! The production company has agreed to produce the next episode for $15,000. That's beyond generous, especially for all the new expected enhancements.

If you wish to help please visit our funding campaign at:

http://igg.me/at/uncertaintomorrow/x/...

Or if money isn't really an option simply share the link and video.
Any and all contributions are greatly appreciated!

***Episode 001 Description
After the breakdown of the civilized world, Roman sets out to save his younger sisters from a fallen city. They meet with Justin, a former Army sniper who offers to teach the girls how to shoot and survive off the land.
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This War of Mine

http://www.thiswarofmine.com

This War Of Mine provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle. For the very first time you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city. During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, so you need to focus on maintaining your hideout. At night you get a chance to scavenge nearby locations for items that will help you stay alive.

Make life-and-death decisions driven by your conscience. Try to protect everybody from your shelter or sacrifice some of them to endure the hardships. During war, there are no good or bad decisions; there is only survival. The sooner you realize that, the better.

I started playing this game and its really cool. I'm not very wordy today, so I'll quote some other guy quick review.

kainfury • November 21, 2014 11:50 AM

This game is a real gem.
Yes it's depressive, and that's the goal of it:
"War is delightful to those who haven't experienced it - Erasmus".

Your characters will suffer in this game. When you think you have enough food, materials or water, something will mess everything up.

As your character slowly fall in despair, you eventually get in the same mood. But you'll still want to play, because you have hope you can make it through the war.

Brillant. 10/10

Grey State movie

This is an independently produced concept trailer. Please support the film and help it get made into a
commercially viable feature film by contributing at http://www.indiegogo.com/graystatemovie.

GRAY STATE SYNOPSIS
The world reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic collapse, while
Americans  continue to submerge themselves in illusions of safety and immunity. While rights are
sold for security, the federal government, swollen with power, begins a systematic takeover of liberty
 in order to bring about a New World Order.

Americans, quarantined to militarized districts, become a population ripe for tyrannical control.

Fearmongering, terrorism, police state, martial law, war, arrest, internment, hunger, oppression,
violence, resistance -- these are the new terms by which Americans define their existence. Neighbor
is turned against neighbor as the value of the dollar plunges to zero, food supplies are depleted, and
everyone is a terror suspect. There are arrests. Disappearances. Bio attacks. Public executions of
those even suspected of dissent. Even rumors of concentration camps on American soil.

This is the backdrop to an unfolding story of resistance. American militias prepare for guerilla
warfare. There are mass defections from the military as true Patriots attempt to rally around the
Constitution and defend liberty, preparing a national insurgency against federal forces, knowing full
well this will be the last time in history the oppressed will be capable of organized resistance.

It is a time of transition, of shifting alliance, of mass awakening and mass execution. It is an
 impending storm, an iron-gray morning that puts into effect decades of over-comfort and
complacency, and Americans wake up to an occupied homeland. It is a time of lists -- black list,
white list, and those still caught in the middle, those who risk physical death for their free will and
those who sell their souls to maintain their idle thoughts and easy comforts. It is in this Gray State
that the perpetuation of human freedom will be contested, or crushed.

Is it the near future, or is it the present? The Gray State is coming - by consent or conquest. This is
battlefield USA.

Watch in 720HD for best quality.
Watch a higher quality version of this trailer at Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/46700540.

http://www.graystatemovie.com
http://www.facebook.com/graystatemovie

Low budget solar power

When you start reading about solar power you find people with their houses’ roofs covered in solar
panels, battery banks filling entire rooms and tons of money invested, that’s totally discouraging if
you are on a budget and soon you forget about it or just keep it as a long time goal.

Those solar powered houses allow you to keep a modern lifestyle being off the grid, but if you look
at  the matter from a SHTF/Prepping point of view you’ll discover that what you really need is to
cover your basic needs, from the top of my head those needs would be lighting, commo, news,
entertaining, and covering those needs can be really cheap.

When I started thinking about solar power, I soon realized I wouldn’t go with the full blown 
approach, but something cheaper and portable.

The idea is to use a 12v battery that is recharged with a small solar panel, from that battery you can
get the power to reload small batteries or rechargeable devices using car cigarette lighter sockets or
USB interfaces, to keep it modular I use a 4 way splitter and to monitor the battery charge I use a
voltage meter.

http://dx.com/p/4-way-car-cigarette-lighter-socket-splitter-12v-73834
http://dx.com/p/1-2-lcd-cigarette-lighter-electric-voltage-meter-for-auto-car-battery-dc-12-24v-91235



Solar Panel
For solar panel I bought a chinese panel used to keep car batteries topped when you leave the car
 parked for long  times, you can find better and more powerful ones, but you get more weight and the
panels get expensive.

http://dx.com/p/solor-power-panel-auto-car-battery-charger-71635



Battery
You need to use a battery in the middle because the power required by the reloading devices can
easily be bigger than the solar panel output and also the output from the solar panel is intermittent
depending on how much sunlight hits it.
You can use a  car battery or something smaller like I did, I got a house alarm gel battery 12v 7A.
The battery/ies you chose will depend on your power consumption and solar panel capabilities.

Charge controller
The solar panel will generate bigger voltages than 12v in order to be able to recharge the battery, so
you’ll need  a charge controller, the charge controller will:

1. Generally keep the battery on full condition.
2. Prevent the battery from over-charging.
3. Prevent the battery from over-discharging.
4. Prevent the battery from supplying power to solar panels during nights.


http://r.ebay.com/gRCAmg



Small batteries recharger
I get gadgets that use AA or AAA batteries, for the same reason you have guns in standard calibers...
On a SHTF situation you will find AA batteries around, but forget about those fancy CR123A
batteries.
I have a lot of rechargeable batteries and to charge them I have two devices, one works with 12v or
USB input, and the other one has its own mini solar panels and a USB input.

http://dx.com/p/1-2-lcd-usb-car-cigarette-lighter-powered-aa-aaa-battery-charger-72831

http://www.camelionbattery.com/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=22&sobi2Id=65&lang=en

USB adapters
These devices give you a USB output with 5V 2A from the cigarette socket, be careful I saw some
that give you 500mA, with those an IPhone or similar won’t charge.

http://www.dx.com/p/car-cigarette-powered-dual-usb-adapter-charger-black-2a-max-dc12v-58012

Gadgets
No matter what device, get one that runs on AA/AAA batteries or you can recharge it using an USB
port or car charger.

I got a car charger for my Yaesu VHF handy and also an adapter that allows it to work using 6 AA
batteries.

For lighting you can get LED lights that give very good light with really low consumption.

Your cellphone, even not having signal can be used as radio, mp3 player, calculator, calendar, clock,
games etc.

I would like to mention specially the Kindle or similar device, you can store a shitload of books in it
and reload it using a USB port. With it you can get entertainment and also you’ll have a library in
your pocket in case you have to bug out.

Liberty Forum 2012 - Jack Spirko - 12 Planks of modern survivalism

Jack Spirko is best known for his work as the host of "The Survival Podcast," a daily online audio
program that focuses on modern survival concepts and philosophy. Jack's podcast teaches skills such as
gardening and permaculture, food storage techniques, alternative investing strategies, keeping small
livestock, home energy production, food preservation, and creating individual liberty.

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.

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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Why I prepp?

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I just found and excellent video from AnalyticalSurvival about why he prepps and I totally agree
with what he says, so I decided to repost it in here, mainly for the people who doesn't understand
the preppers mentality and think we are fooking knuts.

Enjoy the video and check his youtube channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnalyticalSurvival

By the way, happy new year to everyone.

See ya next year :D

Animated Knots

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Yesterday I got my long awaited paracord, I already made some nice zipper pulls for my
backpack and my first chain sinnet bracelet.

I started looking for a nice page with knots and I found animated knots by Grog and is an
awesome page, in there you have different kind of knots cataloged by use (camping, boating,
decorative etc) with instructions and multiple close up pictures so you can really understand
how to do them.

Check it out is a really handy website.

http://www.animatedknots.com/

And here is my first chain sinnet bracelet :D

















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1001 uses for Paracord

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Everyone knows that paracord is one of the most versatile things a human ever created.
Stormdrane has the hobby of creating things using paracord, and in his blog you can see
what he had made and instructions on how to do them yourself.
He has pouches, slings, bracelets, decorative knots, wallets, bottle carriers, etc...

Great blog guyz, check it at

http://stormdrane.blogspot.com
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