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Read Neil Strauss's Emergency or have him read it, he goes from skeptic to believer to nutcase to realistic. Pretty good read too.

The foreign country part, I can't answer but probably the best one for a would be Jason Bourne is

Emergency This Book Will Save Your Life

Read this book. It's not a step-by-step guide or anything, but it's a good start for people who are interested.

Yeah. Knowledge is always superior. This is one of the most important things in the wilderness - your equipment can and will fail, and you could be left with nothing but your knowledge. First aid, especially wilderness first aid, is good to have, as is the ability to start a fire and build a shelter. All these things translate well to an urban environment.

I actually found Emergency to be a pretty good book on the subject of "preppers".

Edit: Random anecdote, I've dumped my entire pack in a stream before and had to attempt to dry out some spare clothes in the middle of winter while hiking. In cases like this, keeping the wet clothes close to your body in between layers of worn clothing is the best way to dry it out. They would freeze in open air.

I thought this was required reading for r/collapse, but this is an excerpt from Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss.

I highly recomend this one, trying to get the wife to read it now.

Neil Strauss went through the process and wrote a book about it: Emergency. He spends years planning and eventually got himself a second nationality plus a house overseas just in case your (?) country would collapse. Interesting read, though I don't know whether is mostly fact or mostly fiction. I especially like the conclusions he comes to near the end :)

Neil Strauss writes for Rolling Stone and has written & ghostwritten a couple of books.

If you mean going off grid in the personal sense, you could check out the book Emergency by Neil Strauss. It's not perfect, but it has some unusual ideas and funny stories.

If you mean going off grid in the home sense, Check out Elon Musk's solar system or build an Earthship.

Two books that might be interesting reads for you:

• Emergency by Neil Strauss
  
  
• Zombie Survival Guide
  
  More of personal survival than mankind and obviously that's for zombies, not aliens, but you might find some good tips (Remember, you never have to reload a sword!).
  
  Also, the Center for Disease Control has a Zombie Preparedness site

> take from the whole in order to give to the few

Except, we'd be taking from the whole to give to the whole. Everyone needs healthcare. Even if you're generally philosophically opposed to such things, as I am, I think there are areas, and healthcare is one of them, where government could do a better job than the private sector by virtue of the fact that 100% of people are going to need it.


> government sponsored "training" and "licensing" achieve

I agree, the potential for abuse is rife here. I do think you can do that without as much abuse. Generate some objective criteria for what training is required and allow anyone to do it. I know, sometimes i'm naive.

I'd also wonder on that statistic, are there more gun deaths from accidental discharges or more gun deaths from illegal criminal guns. I just spent around 20 minutes or so googling and I can't actually find information on this sadly. I think requiring training would also take the wind out of arguments that more legal guns would be used accidentally to hurt innocent people.

> Thanks for the civil debate!

No, thank you. I thought I was going to get some butthurt posting that comment here, glad to see I was wrong.

PS: GunSite, if you've never heard of them, does some amazing gun training. I was reading Neil Strauss's book Emergency and thinking of going there for training (I had no father to teach me, so my own gun skills are relatively lacking).

Actually, this question is one of the major topics in Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.

Long story short, there are some countries that will grant you citizenship if you buy a home there, or make an equivalent investment. You probably want someplace cheap and politically stable, where they can speak English, and where you won't have to renounce your US citizenship at the same time. There are a few options listed in the book, sorry to say I can't remember all their names.

I hear you. Your views seem near parallel to mine, adding that I feel a deeply bound and innate need to make this planet a better place for my children should I choose to have any in the future. What kind of a place is this that I could go completely flat fucking broke paying for a medical bill, while some person or group of people get to buy a shiny new car due to an accident that I had? I mean, I have no remorse about paying for a bill that intends to cover the costs and labor of my procedures, but when someone turns a profit on an injury is really the core issue that I believe needs to be examined. You should get this book, as I believe that it provides some insight as to have a backup plan. This book triggered a response in me that said "what would I do were shit to hit the fan here?"

Emergency by Neil Strauss

http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-This-Book-Will-Save/dp/0060898771
it was ok not. not even close to as entertaining as The Game

I'm only half-way through, but I suggest reading Emergency. It's better than it's cheesy cover looks.

Have you read "Emergency" by Neil Strauss?

http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-This-Book-Will-Save/dp/0060898771/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290867864&sr=8-1

I have this book coming to my doorstep: Emergency!

I don't have a + but you should read Emergency This Book Will Save Your Life.

Read Emergency by Neil Strauss. Some useful info and a fun read.

The first time I'd heard that term was in this book. As the reviews state - it's not exactly a handbook and it won't teach you very much, but it does tell the story of a city slicker who took it upon himself to learn some survival skills.

For those more interested in the subject of 'in case of an emergency'

Emergency

I thought it was a pretty sweet book with tons of information

As the wiki article points out, that the US says it is possible does not mean any other country agrees. If you enter a country which disagrees they can deport you back to the US as though you were a US citizen.

I have not disagreed with any of that, though this book has a more practical look at how this works, it does not actually answer the grievance AnCaps have.