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June 2014

5 Amazing Health-Boosting Uses For Dandelions

5 Amazing Health-Boosting Uses For Dandelions

We all want to live a long healthy life. Some of the most concentrated sources of phytochemicals that promote health and longevity are contained in dandelions. If you choose to harvest wild dandelions for health, be sure that you identify ...

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How Backyard Chickens Can Help Your Garden Thrive

How Backyard Chickens Can Help Your Garden Thrive

Chickens can provide eggs, meat, fertilizer, pest control and more when incorporated into the garden. Not only will your garden benefit, but the chickens will, as well. With a little extra time and energy in setting up your garden, you’ll ...

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Crisis Communication: What To Do When Cell Phones Fail

Crisis Communication: What To Do When Cell Phones Fail

Communicating during an emergency may be essential not only for survival, but to help locate loved ones and garner news about an unfolding scenario. Cell phone signals and Internet access are typically the first “services” to cease operating during either ...

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The 5 Very Best Survival Guns

The 5 Very Best Survival Guns

Before I begin this list, I have to make a disclaimer. I am a gun guy. I like AK-47s, AR-15s, M1As, and just about anything that will take a BIG magazine and send lots of hot lead down range as ...

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The Restoration Era

The Restoration Era

The Restoration was actually a far more glorious time than ever before, in terms of spiritual power, though not in terms of outward glory and splendor. —James Jordan, Through New Eyes (1988)  Cyrus took the prophecy of Isaiah to heart ...

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City Bans Washing Cars In Your Own Driveway

City Bans Washing Cars In Your Own Driveway

Washing your own car in your own driveway is now a crime in Garden City, New York. Two residents of the Long Island community learned about the strange ordinance the hard way when a police officer told them to stop. ...

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12 Survival Uses For Mylar Blankets

12 Survival Uses For Mylar Blankets

Mylar bags, also known as emergency thermal blankets, have a multitude of off-label uses. The bags are mildew resistant and do not crack or shrink over time when stored in a bug-out bag, INCH bag, get-home bag, or even in ...

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Smart Meter Companies Admit: We’re Spying On You

Smart Meter Companies Admit: We’re Spying On You

Smart meters are spying devices. Not breaking news? Likely not for those of us who have researched the issue for quite a long while, but an admission by those who make the devices is rather shocking. That is exactly what ...

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11 Incredible Off-Grid Uses For A Regular Hair Dryer

11 Incredible Off-Grid Uses For A Regular Hair Dryer

My large, active family tends to put some wear and tear on appliances. Now that the weather is warm, we tend to be in the freezer a lot for ice. Last week, though, the freezer door was left partially open ...

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Gunowner Awarded Big Paycheck After False Arrest

Gunowner Awarded Big Paycheck After False Arrest

Jim Mapes scored an important victory in the battle for gun rights, the Second Amendment, and increased his bank account by $25,000 at the same time. The city of Thornton, Colorado, paid Mapes that mount to settle a lawsuit over ...

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