Is Emergency Management in the U.S. – and in your community – prepared for a long-term loss of the electric grid? Here is FEMA’s definition of Emergency Management: it is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency Management protects communities by coordinating…
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Michael Mabee, author of “The Civil Defense Book” blogs on critical infrastructure protection and threats, community preparedness and civil defense. Follow Mike’s blog for updates.
Apocalypse Unknown by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry - Book Review
Apocalypse Unknown by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry should be read by three specific groups of people: Every federal and state legislator; Everyone concerned about the vulnerability of the electric grid; Everyone else in America. Apocalypse Unknown is, quite simply, a book that could save the United States from catastrophe. It is the chronicle of a…
WROL: What Preppers Need to Know
You really could not ask for better training videos on what WROL (Without Rule of Law) would look like in America than “Why Most Doomsday Preppers Will Die.” This is a series of videos by YouTube’s stankmouthcharlie. Mr. Stankmouth is not a prepper. But he describes what he believes (and I happen to agree) is…
The EMP Caucus - U.S. House of Representatives
On February 16, 2011, Congressman Trent Franks launched the EMP Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. The launch of this new EMP Caucus coincided with the introduction of H.R. 668, the Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage (or SHIELD) Act. That legislation unfortunately died in committee with the 112th Congress. An article by…
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (H.R. 3410) Introduced October 30, 2013
On October 30, 2013 Representative Trent Franks introduced a new bill: The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (or “CIPA”) (H.R. 3410 - read it here). The bill was co-sponsored by Representative Pete Sessions. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security. If the history of grid protection legislation is any indication, the bill may…
Critical Infrastructure Protection: A Goal Not Achieved – A Nation Still In Peril
On May 22, 1998, President Bill Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive/NSC-63. The subject of the directive was “Critical Infrastructure Protection.” The directive’s goals were: No later than the year 2000, the United States shall have achieved an initial operating capability and no later than five years from today the United States shall have achieved and…
A good idea does not need to pass Congress to be a good idea
Individual preparedness and family preparedness alone are not going to save us in a long-term national catastrophe. Instead of focusing, as many “lone wolf” preppers do, solely on individual and family preparedness, wouldn’t we be better off to also focus on the survival of our town or village? Wouldn’t prepping be better played as a…
Executive Order 13603 – President Obama is NOT coming for your pinto beans!
I hate to let a few facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, but here goes. There has been an urban legend circulating that President Obama signed an executive order that “authorizes” him to seize preppers’ food storage (and a host of other evil things). We need to bury this rumor because…
“Why most doomsday preppers will die”
Why all preppers should watch the two videos I posted below (“Why most doomsday preppers will die”), and what to do about it. Whether any of us is willing to admit it or not–individually or as small groups typically a family–we will not be prepared for a long term WROL (without rule of law) scenario….