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It may sound difficult to believe, but most any soldier will confirm this: you can fall asleep even while marching down the road in formation. After several days with little or no sleep, accompanied with extreme exertion, your mind can ...

Record keeping is something many people prefer not to worry about. Unfortunately, life these days requires a lot of paperwork and information. Fortunately for us in the United States, we have not yet reached the point of a mandatory national ...

As we begin to plan for survival preparedness, we need to look at the planning process used by Swiss Army knife designers. If the designer had his way, he would include a tool for every possible purpose. You might be ...

In the newsletter two weeks ago, I wrote about heirloom poultry – specifically chickens. Chickens are often the homesteader’s main choice of egg layers and meat stock. However, there’s another bird you ought to consider raising, and that’s Muscovy ducks. ...

Recent economic problems overseas cast a powerful light on what’s happening in the U.S. In particular, I’m referring to the sovereign debt panic brought on Europe by Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain, the “PIGS.” But look at the problem in ...

Each method of “putting food by” has its pros and cons, in terms of simplicity, flavor, and length of shelf life. Perhaps you had a mother or grandmother who spent days (or weeks) each summer in the kitchen, canning or ...

Prolonged emergencies are bad enough when you’re single, strong, and able to flee to safety at a moment’s notice. What about when you’re married, with children, and the baby needs to be changed every few hours? Most survival-minded parents have ...

“America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Gerald Celente, CEO of Trends Research Institute. Credited for predicting the 1987 stock market crash, the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1997 ...

When preparing for a disaster, it’s wise to start with what you expect to happen. Many places on earth can reasonably expect earthquakes, hurricanes or typhoons, tornadoes, floods, winter weather, avalanches, volcanoes, or tsunamis. Electrical power can be out for ...

No doctor would hide a cure from a patient, just because it was considered “alternative” medicine, but the effect is the same when doctors aren’t taught to look for cures among non-traditional healing modalities such as diet, acupuncture or homeopathy. ...