Home Defense: “If You Can’t Protect It, You Don’t Own It”

Tess Pennington
September 21st, 2012
Ready Nutrition

 

This article has been generously contributed by Tess Pennington of Ready Nutrition. After joining the Dallas chapter of the American Red Cross in 1999 Tess worked as an  Armed Forces Emergency Services Center  specialist and is well versed in emergency and disaster management & response. You can follow her regular updates on Preparedness, Homesteading, and a host of other topics at www.readynutrition.com.

Editor’s Note: In Week 51 of the 52 Weeks to Preparedness, [...]

Polanski surprises Cannes with Prada ad

Roman Polanski on Monday delivered as promised his latest film at Cannes but it turned out to be an ad for the Italian luxury design house Prada.

The Oscar-winning director attended the screening of the short film titled “A Therapy”, which has British actors Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter play a shrink and his pouting Prada-clad patient.

“It’s a sort of anti-ad,” he said afterwards, joking that he wanted to show [...]

MELEE AT MALL OF AMERICA

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Fists flew and so did a few chairs during a large-scale brawl at the Mall of America Monday.

“Anytime you have a large group of people together things can happen,” said Commander Mark Stehlik with Bloomington Police. “But this is highly unusual.”

Shortly after 4 p.m., authorities confirm more than 20 individuals started fighting in the north food court. Cellphone video uploaded to YouTube shows dozens of young people [...]

Most-read papers in US: WSJ, USA Today, NYT, NY Daily News, WaPo

BY TESS STYNES

The Wall Street Journal maintained its position as the country’s largest newspaper by average weekday circulation during the six months ended in September, with others in the top three spots also keeping their ranks, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said.

The Journal and No. 2 ranked USA Today had small circulation declines from the preceding six months. No. 3 New York Times turned in growth of 25% because the [...]

Warning For Americans: Be Safe and Stay Alert. It’s Coming.

In June of this year we published our first on the ground report from Greece provided to us by long-time SHTFplan.com contributor Manos.

As Greece continues to deteriorate it is no doubt foreshadowing what’s to come for the rest of the world’s developed nations in the near future, Manos is keeping us updated and he is very concerned about the future of his country, as well as the [...]