Financial
Junk Silver 101: The Best and Easiest Coins to Collect A stash of junk silver can be your best friend in a time of crisis. These small, circulated silver coins contain just enough silver to buy bread or pay bills without being valuable enough to attract attention from regulators or Big Brother busybodies. Junk silver flies under the radar, making it perfect for quietly shoring up your financial position in preparation for a currency crisis. Still, many people don’t have any junk silver because they’re confused about what it is, which coins are best, and how to easily get junk silver coins. Fortunately, it’s not
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Tips For Starting Your Own Ride-Share Program In areas where there are no ride-sharing programs or where the programs don’t meet your needs, you will need to take the reins and start your own ride-sharing system. You can partner with a neighbor for certain outings or you can set up a carpool system through your job – or both. The idea behind ride sharing is simply to cut everyone’s costs and maximize efficiency in transport, so there are many different ways to put a ride-share program together. However, regardless of the destination, there are certain issues you will need to deal with
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How to Find a Ride Share Gas prices are up, up, up. It’s a big energy mess globally, but the impact on your wallet is the real disaster. To find relief from high gas prices, it pays to take a second look at how you’re getting around. Driving yourself is the default system for most Americans, but ride sharing can be a significant cost savings. A car with basic fuel efficiency driven just twenty-five miles a day costs you nearly $100 per month in gas. Cut that number in half – or more – by sharing your commute, car pooling the
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Religion
The Power of Patience “On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.’” (Acts 1:4). After Jesus’ crucifixion, the apostles found themselves in one of the most difficult positions imaginable. Their Messiah was gone from
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Focusing on the End Result “Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed Positively. Pursue persistently.” William A. Ward Living life is about action. Whether the action is fast paced or slow and gentle is up to you, but if you are not doing something in life, you are not living. However, every action you take, every conclusion you are trying to reach
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Choices There is a big difference between having many choices and making a choice. Making a choice—declaring what is essential—creates a framework for a life that eliminates many choices but gives meaning to the things that remain. (Sue Bender, excerpted from her book Plain and Simple, which describes her sojourn with the Amish) In this society
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Politics
Local Government and the Age of Petty Tyranny There are some who believe the concern that so many of us have about the amount of government interference in the lives of American citizens is exaggerated. In a sense it is easy to see why so many feel this way, because to all outward appearances, most people still seem free to go where they want, associate with whom they choose, and speak their mind in just about any public forum. But this is more a reflection of the fact that we have a democratic tradition that goes back several hundred years, to a time
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A Prelude to World War III? Chinese Defense Spending Increasing by Leaps and Bounds China’s government has announced that it will increase its defense spending by 11.2 percent in 2012. This is actually slightly less than last year’s increase, which was above 12 percent, but it is the eighteenth time over the past two decades that China’s defense budget has been expanded by 10 percent or more. And this
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Legacy of Secrecy and Shame: MKULTRA, Psychiatry, and Mind Control Referring to the existence of the secret government and the evolution of the national security state, one former U.S. president summed it up accurately and succinctly: “Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix.” Every since President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to sign the National Security Act of 1947 that gave birth to the Central Intelligence Agency, secrecy has been spreading like a runaway cancer metastasizing throughout the body politic. Accountability to the people is one of the fundamental hallmarks that distinguishes a democratic society from the darker alternatives, and when this
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Energy
How to Perform a Home Energy Audit The key to lowering energy costs is to use as electricity as efficiently as possible. This is not a news flash; however, most people have no idea of all the different ways they may be wasting energy in their homes. This is because, for the most part, energy loss is subtle and hidden, and unless homeowners or renters know where to look, they will never even realize how much electricity is being used up without performing any useful work whatsoever. There are two remedies available to help those who are looking to solve the problem
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“Old-Fashioned” Energy Storage Tapping into power is one thing, but sustaining the energy and using it full time is quite another. Regardless of the type of energy source you use (ideally more than one in conjunction with each other to create a genuinely self-sufficient program), you will want to store excess produced energy to be able to access
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Fluorescent Lights versus LED: The Great Showdown Energy efficiency is a money-saver for everyone, and for off-the-gridders, it is a fundamental principle of sensible and sustainable living. No stone should be left unturned by preppers, survivalists, and homesteaders who need to preserve every last watt of electricity they possibly can, which is why decisions about what kinds of lighting to purchase and install should not be taken casually. The old-style incandescent bulbs are, unfortunately, testaments to inefficiency. Between that and the 2005 energy bill which essentially mandated a nation-wide switch to CFLs, the shift away from incandescents to fluorescents has been inevitable.
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Privacy
Learn How To Limit Access: Protect Your Privacy Without Ditching Social Media Numerous news sources have begun to report on problems with Facebook privacy in particular when using apps. Because it such an open platform that encourages “friends” sharing these apps with each other, it is now populated with rogue apps that can spread spam, malware, and outright scams. Even legitimate apps present huge privacy risks by allowing third party developers access to private Facebook data. A large number of Facebook users are unaware that these applications make it possible for their “friends” to access information in their personal Facebook profile. In her article, “How Much Do
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Parenting in the Digital Age The pressure comes from everywhere. Television, movies, and music are constantly breaking new ground for promiscuity and moral decay. Experts talk incessantly about self-esteem and self-actualization. Neighbors and acquaintances frown on traditional values. All around, influence peddlers are hawking their wares, and their wares seem tailor-made to unravel America’s moral fabric. And now social media
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Domestic Drones and the Evolution of the New Surveillance Society It is becoming increasingly clear that rapid technological innovation will be the defining characteristic of the twenty-first century. In most ways, new technologies are improving our lives, and they are also creating brand new growing industries that could be our best hope for rejuvenating the world economy. But there is one disturbing aspect to all of this. The proliferation of digital and electronic technologies is making it more difficult to protect our privacy, as the surveillance society imagined by George Orwell in his classic dystopian novel 1984 is now becoming a reality. Internet spyware, hidden
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Health
Bountiful Benefits Of Grass-Fed Beef In April 2012, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and several other prominent organizations released a study that assessed the long-term health risks associated with eating raw and cooked red meat. They concluded that consumption of even a single daily serving of this type of meat can significantly increase your lifetime risks for dying from a heart attack or certain forms of cancer. However, the study focused on red meat in general, and did not try to differentiate between the health effects associated with eating grain-fed beef and the health effects associated with
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Incredible Powerful Antioxidants That “Bark”! French pine bark is a substance obtained from the bark of the French marine pine tree. Supplement manufacturers use an extract of this bark to make a commercial product called Pycnogenol, which contains significant amounts of antioxidants. Antioxidants can potentially benefit your health because they fight the damaging effects of a process inside your body
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The Many Health Benefits of Beans Left to my own devices, I would be a vegetarian. This wasn’t difficult for my husband and me when we lived in California, but where we live now, it is not without its challenges. An island whose cuisine revolves around meat, for me oftentimes means substituting beans for the preferred sources of protein: pork or chicken. Prior to moving here, I had no clue there were so many beans in the world and worse than that, had no earthly notion how to prepare so many of them. I could name and cook maybe five or
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Education
4 Tips To Fund Your College Education Not going to a four-year program doesn’t mean you have to give up on scholarships and financial aid. Community colleges offer many of the same financial aid programs as traditional four-year institutions – but their lower cost structure means your aid package will go farther. Getting financial aid at a community college requires attention to the fine print and adherence to deadlines. If you can manage the details, you may be able to cover a substantial portion of community college costs. With a bit of research, you may even be able to get great local
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How To Keep, Raise, And Breed Rabbit Rabbits can make up an important part of homesteading. They provide an excellent source of meat and nutrition as well as fur and skin. They are fairly inexpensive to keep, raise, and breed compared with other livestock. And, they breed easily and quickly, providing you with plenty of animals each year. Even if you are
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7 Benefits Associated With Community College Community college gets a bad rap in popular culture as a second-rate or “cheap” education option for losers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but the constant marketing campaigns of large universities can make community college a hard sell. As a parent, you need to use all the tactics at your disposal to convince your child that community college can be a great choice and a smart, practical alternative to four-year programs. This means appealing to emotional aspects as well as practical points. Let’s face it – you’re talking to a 17 or 18
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Extreme Survival
How To Survive An Animal Attack Occasionally you cannot avoid an aggressive encounter with an animal in the wild (or in the neighborhood or backyard), so here’s what you need to do if you are faced with these situations. Bears Staying still, appearing large, and making noise are good deterrents for most bear encounters, but they are not foolproof. Some area rangers suggest saying “Hey bear!” is enough to get a bear to leave an area, but really, prevention is again the best course of action. Don’t have loose, unprotected food, smell like food or blood around a bear area, and
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Native American Survival Skills It has been said that knowledge is power, and that applies to any area in life. Of course, it is important to arm and prepare, but it is even more important to constantly learn new aspects of survival. Some of these arts and sciences have been lost in the last century, as modern life has caused humanity to know more how to use a smartphone rather than how to build a fire. It is easy to gloss over these skills like an old memory, when you can simply pop at TV dinner in the microwave
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The Single Most Overlooked Survival Technique Separating fact from fiction in order to make an appropriate choice during a stressful situation is incredibly important. Situational awareness can be the key component in the decision-making process, and makes it (the stressful situation) infinitely easier to deal with. Every demographic, area, and community on the planet has a different litmus test for what constitutes a catalyst for action. The specific risks for your area, combined with a number of other factors (including politics, resources, community, personal preparation, and others) are the only tests able to provide the results necessary to make the right
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Misc
Selecting a Stove: It’s More Than Just a Fashion Statement The stove plays a central role in our homes. We cook with it and in some cases we draw heat from it. In its most basic role, and arguably the most important, we use it to sustain our families. As far as appliances in the kitchen, the stove is probably the most important and it can often be the one we spend the most money on. Because of that, we must understand what we want to use our stove for, how we want to power our stove, and the differences in types and styles of
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Surviving Off the Grid in Uganda Imagine yourself standing between two children, both desperately ill, but you have only enough treatment options for one child. What do you do? This is a question that faces Dr. Jessica Ankney more often than not. When Dr. Ankney answered the call to the mission field in Uganda in 2011, she wasn’t quite prepared for all that would confront her. In fact, she said, “For some reason I thought … following Christ and His path for my life was going to make life easier somehow. I really don’t know why I thought that….” From the
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Mike Wallace: The Passing of an American News Icon What might have been then last of an era passed with the death of Mike Wallace. Born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Massachusetts, Wallace began his news career in Chicago in the 1940s, first as a radio news writer for the Chicago Sun and then as a reporter for WMAQ. But all will remember him for the career he began with CBS in 1951. The journalist is best remembered for his presence on 60 Minutes. For many years, his Sunday night interviews were must see for those who wanted to know what was going on
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Food
The Basic Principles of Juicing If you’ve been around for a while like I have, you probably remember people in the early 1990s talking about a new health craze called juicing. The whole notion behind the practice seemed quite simple: Throw some fresh fruits or raw vegetables into a blender or a machine called an extractor, hit the on switch, and sit back for a minute or so, then drink your way to unrivaled health and freedom from all (or nearly all) of humankind’s chronic ailments. If you’re like me, you might also have done what I did: watch all
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Tansy and Its Many Uses Tansy is the common name for the flowering plant species known as Tanacetum vulgare L. If you live in the U.S., Canada, or Europe, there’s a pretty good chance you can find this plant in local environments such as pastures, rural roadsides, stream banks and fence lines. Tansy has a long history of use as a medicinal herb, pesticide, ornamental flower, and preservative. However, the plant is also toxic to human beings and livestock, and as a result, it has been largely excluded from modern herbal and medicinal guides. New Natural Fertilizer Doubles Garden Production…
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How To Attract Butterflies To Your Garden Butterflies are a natural part of most environments. They are attractive, but also useful insects to have around. Butterflies provide an important food source for other animals. Their eggs are eaten by birds, reptiles, and mammals in the area. These creatures, in turn, also eat other insects and keep their populations in check. Butterflies themselves eat mostly nectar from flowers, which means that they participate in the pollination of flowering plants, a crucial job in most ecosystems. The caterpillars of some species eat pestilent insects, like aphids. As with all components of your local ecosystem,
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