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Fifty food items to stockpile now: Health Ranger releases preparedness foods shopping list
With food prices skyrocketing and food supplies looking increasingly questionable for 2013, you'll be happy to know I've selected and assembled a list of recommended storable foods from a trusted discount source. All the
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Congressman Bartlett: “Every Citizen Should Develop an Individual Emergency Plan to Prepare for the Absence of Government Assistance for Extended Periods”
Outspoken in his belief that each individual American should prepare for a crisis where the government would be unable to provide for the basic needs of the national population, Bartlett has himself created a
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9 Tips for Food Safety When the Grid Goes Down
Recently, 600 million people in India were without power for two days. According to news sources, the suspected cause was one of simple supply and demand: more people wanted power than the Indian infrastructure
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When the power goes out…….have a black out kit
Power outages can be caused by a wide variety of sources including general utility problems, winter storms, lightening strikes, wind storms as well as grid overload. There are numerous other causes but for
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Nine Steps to Take Now to Prepare for the Perfect Storm of Civil Unrest
According to an Army field manual “In these modern times, demonstrations, civil unrest, public disorder, and riots happen for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons are economic hardships, social injustices, ethnic differences (leading
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8 Simple Budgeting Strategies to Survive Hard Times
Of all expenses people can control, perhaps the one with the biggest variation (percentage-wise) is food budgets. If you eat out all the time, these costs can be enormous. Or, at home, they can
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Survival Basics: Preparing for a Grid Down Power Outage
Recent storms in my own area reminded me that power outages resulting in a grid down can happen anytime, to anybody, anywhere. Some outages are planned, some are the result of mother nature
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10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse
In the wake of violent storms, the power went out for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio declared a state of emergency. Over twenty people were
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Is Prepping Worth it? What if Nothing Happens? Is it all a Waste?
Earlier this year, I ran across an blog post on the Directive 21 site that asked the question: What if Nothing Happens? The context was that of prepping. You know what I mean: the
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All Over America Government Control Freaks Are Forcing Preppers Back On To The Grid
In recent years there have been huge numbers of Americans that have sought to go "off the grid" and live a more independent lifestyle. It has been estimated that there are now approximately
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Why You Absolutely Must Have Food Supplies, Hard Assets, And Reserve Cash
While many refuse to believe that it can happen, evidence for why it is absolutely critical to stock up for hard times and worst case scenarios is and has been staring us in the
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Top 10 things to get to start prepping……
Everyday more and more people are getting involved in preparedness. The reasons are many however these “newbies” often are confused and just don’t know where to start
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The Top 50 Excuses For Not Prepping
With the way that things are heading in this country, it is not surprising that there are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today. What is surprising is that there are
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How Horrific Will It Be For The Non-Prepper?
You have no doubt had your own set of issues dealing with friends and family members that simply don’t see the writing on the wall. The following article may serve to assist you in
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The Prepper’s 10 Commandments
Always remember that at the end of the day, it’s all about options. Always. The worst thing you can do is plan for a specific scenario that never transpires in reality and get stuck
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Are Preppers Crazy?
In all walks of life, there is an element of ‘crazy’, although perhaps not the crazy as defined by the 1st definition in the dictionary, ” Affected with madness; insane”. However a few of
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Prepping for the Financially Challenged: Basic Survival Strategies For Apartments and Confined Spaces
Previously we talked about basic critical preps for apartments. Once these basic elements are secured, you will want to expand your supplies to increase your capabilities. Your expanded supplies will be dictated by three
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Walking: Survival Fitness and Exercise
You may have all of your supplies and extra food on hand, but are you in good physical shape to be able to survive? You may have 3 years worth of food stored for you
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Prepping for the Financially Challenged: A One Month Survival Plan For Under $300
Many people are now waking up to the possibility that the future may not provide the great recovery we all expect it to be. They are begining to sense that something is wrong with
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Earth’s Death Star And The End Of America
From the British journal, New Scientist: "It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora
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