AI increases the ability of biotechnology and bioengineered viruses to be designed and released for maximum human destruction.  An Executive Order just released highlights the risk, but calls for nothing but studies and models.  The key part of the executive order was the three page long section on “Reducing Risks at the Intersection of AI and CBRN Threats. . . . — with a particular focus on biological weapons”: If you’re a government funded think tank or agency, this is a great order to give you more work studying the problem.  But there is nothing in this order on actually reducing […]

Fortitude Ranch CEO Drew Miller was interviewed on the Brian Nichols Show about surviving disaster. Watch the interview here.

Another major warning of bioengineered pandemics For decades biologists and Dept of Defense Think Tanks have warned that bioengineered viruses and pandemics are “inevitable,” but still warnings are coming out—and being ignored by Government.  Artificial Intelligence and super computers make it easier for a nation state, terrorist group, or even one dedicated individual to bioengineer a new virus that could wipe out most of mankind. The capability to do bioengineering has been around for over a decade, and it keeps getting easier for bad people to alter natural viruses to make them more transmissible and lethal. Fortitude Ranch CEO Dr/Col Drew […]

Some good threat news—no active supervolcano warnings, Yellowstone is not about to erupt There are huge numbers of YouTube videos suggesting that Yellowstone is about to erupt as a supervolcano.  Such an eruption would not just destroy life locally, but spread ash that would destroy much of U.S. crops short term—and long term might reduce or block sunlight worldwide for years, causing huge loss of life and species and a horrific collapse.               According to the U.S. Geological Survey office, there is no higher risk now of a Yellowstone eruption.  The most recent supervolcanic eruption on Earth occurred about 27,000 years […]

Hudson Institute presentation explains why war with China may occur in months—bringing huge risk of small nuclear exchange that could take down our electric grid for years, kill most Americans An expert foreign policy and financial analyst who has been studying China’s preparations for war was recently featured in a Hudson Institute presentation, presenting evidence that China is preparing for an invasion of Taiwan, which he believes is likely in the next few months.  The Hudson Institute is probably the best think tank in the U.S.; they have no political agenda. His evidence is summarized below.  There was another clear […]

Disaster Preparedness LLC (parent company of Fortitude Ranch) operates a disaster threat watch system, monitoring over 50 “trigger” events that could lead to a collapse.  We provide collapse threat warnings to Fortitude Ranch members and a few investor/hedge fund firms.  With the launch next year of “Collapse Survival SimWarn” others will receive our warnings of developing situations that could lead to a collapse. This App will also provide hyper-realistic, challenging Collapse Survival Simulations.  Every week, we will release new scenarios that play out a months or year long simulation of a collapse disaster, run over a 6-day period, played simultaneously […]

f the taxes Great Britain imposed upon the colonies warranted a revolution, then the refusal of government officials to protect our electric grid, so that the vast majority of us do not perish when it is taken down, warrants BOLD action. If millions of Americans die in a grid down event due to this irresponsible, criminal negligence then this warrants execution of elected officials. The vulnerabilities of our fragile electric system have been known for decades, published in Congressional reports, with the Chair of one of these Congressional EMP study commissions, a former Admiral and CIA Director, warning that 90% […]

Science News lists their top 10 collapse threats—new technologies mean new threats We track 50 “trigger events” that could lead to a collapse at Fortitude Ranch, but a recent Science News article on the top threats included several we have not considered a viable threat. Their list of top 10 collapse threats is: 10. Alien invasion 9. Asteroid impact 8. Bees all die (crop pollination impact) 7. Artificial intelligence takeover 6. Quantum computing 5. Complexity’s instability 4. Social media 3. Pandemic(s) 2. Nuclear war 1. Climate change We don’t consider climate change a collapse threat because it may take decades […]

The chaos in Russia may be great news in the long run, but short term it ups the threat of a desperate Putin nuclear attack in the Ukraine that could escalate, and/or a clandestine attack against the U.S./Europe like releasing a deadly virus or taking down our vulnerable electric grid. You may not be a fan of CNN, but their analysis just posted is correct: “Prigozhin may not win, and the foundations of the Kremlin’s control may not collapse. But a weakened Putin may do irrational things to prove his strength.  He may prove unable to accept the logic of […]