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12 Days of Christmas Cookies: Spritz Trees

  On the first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me A spritz cookie shaped like a Christmas […]

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Superbugs to Kill ‘More Than Cancer’ by 2050

A stark warning, and one that needs to be dealt with urgently if we are not going to be flung back to the medical Dark Ages.

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How to Build a Winter Home Emergency Kit

There’s a lot that goes into a winter home emergency kit and while you probably have many of these supplies around in one form or another, having them together and ready for a winter disaster is vital to getting through a disaster in the freezing cold successfully.

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Borax: Its Many Uses

A naturally-occurring mineral also known as sodium borate, Borax is an eco-friendly cleaning solution featuring a host of other benefits. If your emergency or camping kit needs another component, check out some of the white stuff’s many uses.

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Book Review: Expatriates, by James Wesley Rawles

If you’re looking for a survival novel with a lot of technical and tactical information, as well as some moral lessons, check out Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. It’s a work of fiction, but it’s loaded with solid information that many will be able to apply to their own preparedness endeavours.

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How To Get All Your Chickens To Lay In All Their Nest Boxes

here is an easy solution to getting your chickens to lay eggs in all of their nest boxes.

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Video: Invoking Your Rights at Police Checkpoints

Know Your Rights host Britt Hysen speaks with Nina Hodjat of Hodjat Law and DUI Partners about 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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Why Advice from Survival Ultracrepidarians Should be Avoided

In matters of survival and self-reliance, you don’t have to look far to find keyboard commandos telling you how-to do stuff. Who you choose to listen to is your choice. However, advice of self-proclaimed ‘experts’ is at times just plain stupid – and if practiced, could be deadly. So who should you listen to?

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Seven Great Ways to Keep Your Home Safe for the Holidays

Every year millions of homes in the U.S. fall victim to burglars. It’s not exactly an uncommon occurrence, even in the nicest of neighborhoods. However, breaking and entering tends to peak during the holiday season.

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This Handy Map Shows How Prepared Your State Really Is

if the government is at least somewhat prepared to take care of the population during a disaster, than preppers in that state will have less to worry about from other survivors.

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Kick Your Meals Up With DIY Sriracha Sauce

For the last few years, I have purchased the store version of this chili sauce until I realized that I can easily make it on my own and enjoy the health properties it possesses.

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Sweeten Up Your Pantry: The Best Types of Sugar for Your Stockpile

With the holidays right around the corner, now is the time to add some less processed, non-GMO sugar to your pantry. Here’s what you need to know.

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