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Apartment Gardening
Well, you live in an apartment. Does this mean you can’t have fresh vegetables and herbs? No, it doesn’t, creating a garden just takes a little finesse when you are working with smaller spaces and sometimes limited light. Plants have a wonderful way of connecting us to nature as well as clearing the air. Did you know that the air inside your living space can be more polluted than anything outside? We tend to keep our homes shut up; with winter cold and summer heat, we create an artificial living environment that has made us unable to adapt to the changing temperatures outside. This inside air becomes stale and full…
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Lessons of Generations Past
This week we take a journey into the past, an exploration of how things were done in “The Old Days.” For some of us, when we consider things the way they were. Sometimes it is with nostalgia or with a whimsical smile it brings warm fuzzy thoughts. For others of us it may make us cringe at the thought of chopping wood or hanging the laundry outside on a cold winter’s day. No matter the feelings we get when thoughts of these days are running through our mind. There is much to be said for “the way we used to do it.” An old saying that I am constantly reminded…
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Propaganda: Then & Now
Propaganda today follows much the same roadmap once used by both the Axis and Allied forces during WWII. Reasons ranging from; gaining support for their own agenda, to undermining the confidence of the enemy were extolled. War propaganda was present almost everywhere. It could be seen in film, heard on the radio as well as print as shown on posters and in magazines, even advertising was getting in on the war propaganda. It was influential in many areas and crucial to the promotion of an ideology. Exploring not only examples of the usage of war propaganda, but also those who spread it and its effects will give an understanding of…
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Prepper Overload
It happens……. Awakened from their slumber, your family hears sirens. As little Suzie emerges from her room carrying her Blankie, crying for her mommy, a loud siren races by. Precocious twelve-year-old Joey is already going for the remote to check the news, while fifteen-year-old Mary staggers into the picture complaining her phone has no service. Joey yells out, “Power’s out”. Scrambling in the dark, you’re cursing “I can’t find my pants” and realizing the only flashlight the family owns is in the car. Haphazardly dressed, stumbling out to see the confusion on the family’s faces. Sarah says “John, what’s going on?”. Looking at her you see fear in her eyes and replying…
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Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…
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Flouride
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Homesteading: Finding the Right Land
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Herbalist Prepper
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What’s The Code?
Imagine if you will, TSHTF and TEOTWAWKI is on your doorstep. ROL is no longer, the LEOs are gone, and OPSEC is crucial to CYA. It is a GDE from a CME that produced a massive EMP. You are now thinking you won’t be able to SIP and you might want to GOOD. You jump into the BOV to make a run for the BOL which is OTG. Getting ready to go, you grab the BOB which is a nice MOLLE setup that will incorporate the EDC; which alone might not cover it and you could have ended up SOL. With your MREs, you head out thinking to yourself INCH.…
