American Survival Blog

I just realized that I forgot to post an announcement her regarding the new American Survival Blog. ASB has officially merged with Red Alerts (from which it originally spun off) and from now on all survival postings will be there.

ASB was originally created because Red Alerts was a politics,crime and culture blog. However I now do my crime blogging at Greenville Dragnet and as I posted on Red Alerts America is too far along the path to disaster to think politics can be of any use. From now on Red Alerts will deal with preparedness and survivalism. We will still brush up against politics as we provide links to news of interest via our headlines function but Red Alerts will primarily concentrate on survival related information.

I will leave this version of ASB up as several of the articles are still fairly popular but all new material will be at Red Alerts. Thank you for all the support and I hope to see you at Red Alerts: The American Survival Blog.

I was neglecting this blog for a long time for two reasons. The first is that I tend to concentrate on my political blog but frankly that’s starting to wear thin. The second is that there are so many good survival blogs about there I didn’t feel like competing with them.

But times are changing. I’ve seen a lot of bad information out there not just on the Internet but now on television. With Americans’ lifestyles set to change significantly in the next few years it is more important than ever that good information get out there that people can use.

Survivalism isn’t about looting Wal-Marts after a Zombie pandemic, it’s about being able to feed yourself and your family when times are rough. It’s not about living out your Fallout 3 fantasy, it’s about living through America’s descent into second or maybe third world status in relative comfort and safety. I’m no expert in surviving TEOTWAWKI but neither is anyone else. I have however been very poor, lived in high crime areas and had to make do in my life so I think I have something to add to the conversation.

We’ll be resume a 3-5 time a week publishing schedule starting today. I hope you enjoy the reboot of American Survival Blog

American Survival Blog is a disaster preparedness blog that will gather together what I deem to be the best survival tips and products for those interested in being prepared for what life throws at them. It is a survivalist site but not one that promotes the many fringe ideologies that have (unfortunately) come to be associated with survivalism. This site will examine ways to ensure you and your family’s safety under any circumstance, and hopefully teach you ways to be more self sufficient and independent.

The name is an homage to the now defunct American Survival Guide magazine I was a fan of in the late ’80s and early ’90s, though ASB owes more to magazines like The Backwoodsman then to what as I matured I realized was hard right fantasy. Though I hope to cover all aspects of survival here, this blog is about a lifestyle of self-reliance that will enable you to survive any situation, not about apocalyptic gloom and doom or conspiracy mongering.

All are welcome, including you doom and gloomers and NWO watchers, to stop in, give us your two cents worth and hopefully form a community of individuals prepared to live through any disaster, and live through them well!

Enjoy and hope to hear from you soon.

Rob