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9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
The book “The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair basically was the blueprint that propelled the FDA into action against big industry and how detrimental it can be to the individual. Time, however, is the factor that erodes both conscience and consciousness, in that order.
Each generation faces new challenges from a system designed to follow profit-potential rather than the welfare of the people confined within it. No exceptions are to be found in the food and beverage industries: most of their products are either unhealthy or outright poisonous due to dyes, preservatives or additives. No less the containers and packaging they are in.
Recently several articles surfaced that categorized these problems. Rather than “rehash” the information, in a nutshell, I will summarize it. BPA’s (Bisphenol A’s) are chemicals used in plastic bottles, containers, and on the interior liners that are found in many food cans. This chemical has been in use for more than fifty years and is found to be linked to male infertility, low sperm counts, and prostate cancer, as well as, breast cancer in women.
How This Will Affect Your Body
BPA lodges
in the body’s fat cells and disrupts endocrine function…this is your body’s hormonal system. Here are two articles you can read to reference these problems:
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“Nuclear Blast to your Front! React!” – How the Army Trains to Survive an ‘Atomic Battlefield’
“Nuclear Blast to your Front! React!” – How the Army Trains to Survive an ‘Atomic Battlefield’
The title of this article is the exact preparatory command (situation), and the command of execution given to us in the Army to drill a nuclear attack. Readers, we all hope every day that our “society does not come to a screeching halt via a nuclear attack. But what if it does? OK, we’ve “gamed” it from a perspective that you haven’t become a shadow-silhouette on a burned wall and been vaporized…that you’re not living in a “ground zero” targeted area. If you are, then you have several options beforehand: if there’s warning, bug outand get out of the blast area, or move out of the area to a place that is not a target.
Their will be skeptics, and their ilk that will ask a litany of questions like: “How are you gonna save everyone?”, “What about those who can’t afford property…?”, “Yeah, like we’re going to get warning!”
AD INFINITVM, AD NAVSEVM.
Survival is not a guarantee.
Are you’re willing to examine your lifestyle and do what it takes? Make the necessary changes and act? That is called “adaptation,” and it is what has enabled the species to survive…the minority who emerge from the rubble when the skeptical majority are dead. We’re talking “hardball,” here, and it is “sink or swim,” although we don’t shoot for that…we want others to make it through…but there comes a time when you must cut your losses and take care of you and yours.
If you’re willing to do what it takes (sometimes in the face of skepticism and even ridicule) and go “against the grain,” you may give yourself the edge helping you survive.
Enough said there. What if the worst does happen, and you happen to be five to ten miles away from a blast? Skeptics, we do have information that will work besides the results of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the “Atomic Soldiers” of the United States armed forces. Yes, during the 1950’s, whole battalions were emplaced in the southwestern deserts of the U.S. and subjected to be the “test” subjects of nuclear explosions. Those tests were real, and the results they generated were real. We don’t want it to have been for nothing: take the knowledge they earned, and use it.
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3 Places Preppers Would Never Think to Scrounge For Survival Supplies
3 Places Preppers Would Never Think to Scrounge For Survival Supplies
We Live in an Imperfect World That is Not Prepper-Friendly
The reason is the “perfect” world we live in does not present you with many opportunities to train. For that matter, there isn’t a lot of encouragement either. Certainly, no one will encourage you: not your family members, your neighbors, or community in general, let alone the government…local, state, or federal. That’s not “life.”
No, most of these guys just mentioned are only concerned with you playing to the system by getting up in the morning, going off to your work (to earn taxable income) so that you can pay your taxes, consuming foods, materials, and other necessities (with taxes), driving (using fuel that’s taxed) home…the one with your mortgage and property taxes, that have, well…a nice, “established” way for you to keep your lawn, grounds…you know…how to live, right? In an acceptable manner, right? A small cog in a giant machine, working and consuming until it’s time to call your number in. Then your money and property… what you have left, that you paid taxes on all the way? Time to tax it again until the government (kicking and screaming) magnanimously gives what’s left to your heirs.
The Only One Who Will Help You Succeed and Excel is You
As a general reminder, you never know when the next emergency will happen, so make sure you have the basic necessities to get through the most unpredictable situation.
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10 Ways To Avoid Diseases in Wild Game When Survival Hunting
10 Ways To Avoid Diseases in Wild Game When Survival Hunting
Common Animal Diseases You May Come in Contact With
What we’re referring here to specifically are termed zoonotic infections. These are infections that are concentrated and/or endemic to wild animal species and can be transferred (hence infecting) humans and/or domestic animals.
Some examples here are Tularemia (also known as “rabbit fever”) found in rabbits and hares. It is brought on by ticks (indeed, many of these zoonotic infections are transferred to humans by arthropod vectors (disease-carrying arthropods, such as ticks or fleas), although it can persist into the winter months and infect a human before it kills the host animal.
Brucellosis is another one, and much costlier, as it spreads to livestock, causing cattle to spontaneously abort their young prior to completion of gestation. Brucellosis can also pass to human beings. Back in 1996, Cryptosporidium passed to an individual who used deer scent (a combination of deer urine and deer glands); it was passed through the bottle of scent. Other diseases are Giardia (Giardia lamblia), Trichinosis, and tapeworm infestations.
One of the methods for these transmissions with wild game is the fecal-oral method of contamination. The hunter touches the feces or urine of the slain animal and then manages to ingest it by touching it to the mouth.
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The Easiest Way To Create an Emergency Water Supply That Lasts All Winter
The Easiest Way To Create an Emergency Water Supply That Lasts All Winter
Learn About Snow Water Equivalent
The volume of ice can be converted to the volume of water by multiplying the ice’s volume by 0.92 for water volume. This can be helpful, especially if you have a way of measuring blocks of ice or ice that has been formed within a container where you know the dimensions. Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is the most common way to measure the amount of water that is in a given amount of snow. The “magic” number here is 10% of the volume of the snow is equal to the volume of water. Therefore, if you had a large container (such as a kid’s plastic swimming pool) filled with 2 feet of snow? Your amount of water would equal 2.4 inches, for the remaining area and volume of the pool.
The Simplest Way to Harvest Water in Winter
I mentioned these just to give you an idea. Naturally, you won’t be lugging around a Coleco plastic swimming pool in the woods with you. You can, however, pack in gallon-sized Ziploc plastic bags, and here’s where your math comes into play to figure volume.
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The Ultimate 30-Minute Travel Workout
The Ultimate 30-Minute Travel Workout
Truck drivers are self-sufficient folks; however, this article is for them, too. Businessmen and those who make commutes of about a hundred miles or so with a one to two-day layover by vehicle may benefit from this piece. What we’re talking about is toting some of your weights with you, in your vehicle. Dumbbells are what I’m referring to here, with a “short-term” workout you may find to your benefit. Traveling businesspeople and salesmen are not immune to needing physical training, so this may help them, too.
Don’t Forget to Pack Your Weights!
There are many motels and hotels that we are obliged to stay in, whether directed by our firms (and paid for) or paid out-of-pocket…budget “rest stops” to cut down on the costs. Most of the time these places do not have weight room facilities or perks: they’re just a room with a roof over your head. Take a set of dumbbells with you in the trunk of your vehicle and give yourself a workout in the morning.
Let’s suggest some exercises for you:
Biceps and Triceps Day
- Alternating Curl – 3-5 Sets/8 Reps
- Triceps Extensions – 3-5 Sets/8 Reps
- Wrist Rolls – 3 Sets/20 Reps
- Radial Curls – 3 Sets/8 Reps
Chest and Shoulders Day
- Dumbbell Bench Press – 3-5 Sets/8 Reps
- Dumbbell Military Press – 3 Sets/8 Reps
- Shoulder Shrugs – 3 Sets/8 Reps
Lower Body
- Abs (Right, Left, Center) – 3 sets of 10 reps (beginners)
- Wall Squats (with or without weights in your lap) – 3 sets: 30 to 1 min for beginners
- Flutter Kicks – 3 sets of 10 (8-count), with 30 to 1:00 min rest between
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Biological Warfare: Is Smallpox a Threat? Recent Government Activity Suggests It Is
Biological Warfare: Is Smallpox a Threat? Recent Government Activity Suggests It Is
In this vein, recently a vaccine for Smallpox has come to the forefront of news reports. An article from Outbreak News Today is reporting on an investigational smallpox vaccine that has successfully passed one of its clinical trial phases. As a matter of fact, it is so successful that USAMRIID (the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) has been doing the testing…and is developing this as an alternative to the current U.S. smallpox vaccine.
“If approved, this vaccine will have a direct impact on improving force health protection for U.S. Soldiers and other service members who are required to be immunized against smallpox,” said COL Gary Wheeler, commander of USAMRIID.
According to Paul Chaplin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bavarian Nordic, IMVAMUNE has been given to more than 7,800 subjects in 21 clinical studies, including this trial and one other Phase 3 study. He said the company plans to file a Biological License Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year.
“This program has only been possible through the consistent and strong support of numerous U.S. Government agencies and demonstrates what can be achieved through a successful public-private partnership to protect the public from the deliberate release of the smallpox virus,” Chaplin added.
If the disease was eradicated more than 40 years ago, then why all the concern now?
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Your Computer May Not Survive a Collapse But These Off-Grid Archiving Strategies Will
Your Computer May Not Survive a Collapse But These Off-Grid Archiving Strategies Will
He picked up one of those high-speed wrist compasses…the digital kind…but I constantly remind him to use that “old-fashioned” lensatic compass as his mainstay. He listens, although he prefers to use his gizmo. I’m just happy he carries the lensatic with him and knows how to use it. I made sure he knew how to use it.
Create a Survival Library with Hard-Copy Notes and Archives
In this light, remember that all of our technology can collapse in the blink of an eye. The collapse can be precipitated by any number of things…grid failure/brownouts, an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) strike, a nuclear war, or just a societal collapse that has a “downtrickle” of losing critical infrastructure and modern power systems. In that light, it is best to take your digital and electronic libraries and ensure they are duplicated into hard-copy. Consider investing in a typewriter to pass this valuable information on. Let’s give some suggestions, and you can take them, and tailor them to suit your needs.
- Whenever you watch any kind of training video/DVD, you should always take notes and summarize it. Pick up the key points, supplementing them with your own notes and diagrams to help clarify the instruction. A composition-type notebook works well for this. I take rough notes on a sheet of paper, and then recopy them into the notebook.
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Physical Fitness and Survival: Why Your Body Needs Recovery Time
Physical Fitness and Survival: Why Your Body Needs Recovery Time
Your Body’s Recovery is Important
Such a recovery means more than just simple rest. It entails nutrition and understanding how the human body’s physiology works. As I have stressed in the past, your protein intake is critical to tissue repair. I also emphasized how you must take in protein and carbohydrates within a ½ hour at the conclusion of demanding physical exercise that lasts one hour or more. You may also have to increase that protein/carbohydrate intake more frequently.
If you have worked a physically-demanding occupation, you may have a good basis for understanding already of these concepts and it may just be a matter of touching upon some of the finer points. Construction workers put in 8, 10, or 12 hour days with only a couple of short breaks and a lunch break in the middle. A tremendous amount of hydration is required during their day. Your muscles are 80% water. Stands to reason that dehydration means a loss of muscle tissue.
Remember glycogen that I mentioned in earlier articles? When you work hard physically or exercise, glycogen is converted into glucose to fuel your body. This is taken directly from stores in your body. After that glycogen is depleted and you’ve “hit the wall,” then your body will break down its own proteins in the form of muscle tissue and converts those proteins to glycogen.
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Peasant Communities Survived On This Simple and Nutritious Food For Centuries
Peasant Communities Survived On This Simple and Nutritious Food For Centuries
Peasant food, while simple and frugal, has been around for centuries – in every culture around the world. Using fresh roots, herbs, and foods available to them, households would whip up a soup the family could feast on for days. Soups such as pot-au-feu, minestrone, cawl, and Acquacotta would give the family sustenance during hard times. But why is this simple meal so nutritious?
The Health Benefits of Soup
During the winter months, one of the things we neglect is taking in an adequate amount of fluids. This is understandable, as cold doesn’t make you feel thirsty the way hot weather does. Nevertheless, the fluid dynamics and balance requirements are the same, and sometimes more: we expend more energy in the winter trying to stay warm. Guess what? We still need about a gallon of water per person, per day.
That being said, let’s discuss some facts of digestion. Shunting is the term where, when you’re digesting, all of the blood in your periphery (arms, legs, and such) shunts inward to your thoracic cavity…where you’re actively digesting your food. The term “food coma,” is a humorous description of lack of mental alertness while your body digests the meal.
Then again, we make it hard on ourselves. The best time to eat a large, sit-down meal is for dinner when you’re able to be home and to digest your food and then turn in for the night. During the day? You’re running around and active…then you turn into a “stone” after that huge meal of chimichangas or gigantic beef brisket sandwich and fries. Then you don’t understand why you feel as if you’ve been hit head-on by a train.
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NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare
NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare
Here is an excerpt from that article:
“Historically, Earth’s North and South magnetic poles have flipped every 200,000 or 300,000 years—except right now, they haven’t flipped successfully for about 780,000 years. But the planet’s magnetic field is at long last showing signs of shifting. NASA”
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“That devastation could arrive through multiple avenues. The combination of powerful space particles, like unfiltered solar rays, cosmic rays and ultraviolet B rays (the stuff your sunscreen bottle warns you about), would smash through our battered ozone layer and lead us the way of the dinosaurs.”
Why Is This Happening?
As you will read, the earth’s molten core of iron and nickel is beginning to leach out, affecting the magnetism of the entire earth. Nothing about wildlife was mentioned in the article, but I point out this could very well explain some of the strange and bizarre behavior we have been witnessing regarding animals worldwide.
So, what can we do about such a thing? I highly recommend reading the article. It explains that with a magnetic shift we could see radiation levels increase around the globe, and several scientific firms suggest that parts of the planet could become uninhabitable, and at least inhospitable.
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This Ancient Remedy Is Still One of the Most Powerful Compounds for Health
This Ancient Remedy Is Still One of the Most Powerful Compounds for Health
Herbal foods that are taken beyond just a culinary reason and are consumed for naturopathic purposes are a beautiful thing. Why? Because they aren’t invasive…and you are supposed to follow the least invasive path to taking care of ailments. Curcumin is the focus of this article. It will help with heart disease, with Alzheimer’s, with joint pain, with diabetes. What I’ve listed there is far from exhaustive.Curcumin has been used in India and the Far East for thousands of years quite effectively against dozens…I repeat, dozens…of different ailments, from Crohn’s disease to Cancer. Curcumin is an antioxidant, an anti-inflammatory, and it is a cancer-fighter. In previous articles, we covered oxidation (the tendency of a “free radical” to “steal” an electron from a healthy cell) and how it is a process of aging and disease.
The yellow color of curcumin is responsible for the orange color of turmeric. It is more than 200 times more powerful than blueberries as an antioxidant. It increases HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein) in your system…the “good” cholesterol…that helps move fats and lipids out of cells and prevents blood clotting in the arteries and veins.
Its anti-inflammatory properties are extremely useful in helping digestive disorders. More than 60 million Americans are afflicted each year with some type of bowel disorder, and curcumin is extremely effective against all of them, from ulcerative colitis to cancer of the colon.
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10 Prepper Uses for Safety Pins
10 Prepper Uses for Safety Pins
Many survival magazines offer “Sales” rather than “Solutions” to your needs to prepare. In too many articles, people have lambasted me for suggesting low-cost solutions that are both “doable” and within the budget.
If you want secure communications, go ahead and suggest a SEAL Magnaphone with built-in scrambler, or a $15,000 current-gen pair of NVG (Night Vision Goggles), then go ahead and buy it. If your main goal with any article is to suggest something “better” than the advised thing, that’s great. The majority of the readers, however, are looking for simplicity combined with affordability.
Anyone can buy $100K worth of gear. Now, what does that person do when the gear is either defunct, “appropriated,” or unusable for one reason or another?
My work attempts to propose solutions that can be employed without bankrupting a person, and also some knowledge of what can be used when all of the laser sights, night vision devices, ATV’s, cameras, reticle-dot sights, and all else are just useless circuitry. Those days are coming: mark my words. In the meantime, we have to develop our skills and win with the tools that we have at hand.
10 Prepper Uses for Safety Pins
Safety pins. Simple little things, yet so much can be done with them. I highly recommend toting at least a half dozen with you of various sizes, large to small. They cost practically nothing. Here’s the tip: Take the safety pins: learn and practice what you can do with them.
We’re going to run a condensed, hardly-exhaustive list of uses for the safety pins. Here we go:
- Temporary repair fasteners for clothing
- Fishhooks
- Probe-tool (medical use)
- Lockpick
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How To Stay Warm in a Long-Term SHTF Event
How To Stay Warm in a Long-Term SHTF Event
10 Ways to Stay Warm in a Long-Term SHTF Event
This is going to be a very specific list; however, it is not exhaustive. There will always be more to add, and there is never enough: that’s the bottom line. This will get you started on your checklist, either physical or mental to ready your preparations before the winter hits.
- Warm clothing: and plenty of it. Gore-Tex top and bottoms are an absolute necessity, and plenty of warm socks, thermal underwear, and good boots that are waterproof, have plenty of Thinsulate and good soles, and give good ankle support.
- Sleeping bag, Gore-Tex cover, and sleeping pad: Remember to go for the best in terms of quality and performance. Another essential in this regard is a good compression bag and a wet-weather bag. A soaking wet sleeping bag is not fun. Stay warm, dry, and insulated from the conduction of lying on the ground.
- Plenty of hand warmers: Why? Because if you’re going to give an IV in the middle of the winter, you want to warm up the bag, that’s why. Because you may need to thaw something out and not be able to light a fire due to operational security reasons.
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What the Prepper Needs to Know about Emergency Caches and How to Protect Them From the Hordes
What the Prepper Needs to Know about Emergency Caches and How to Protect Them From the Hordes
Combine Cache Points for the SHTF Retreat
The most important point that the reader must understand is DO NOT CACHE ALL OF THIS IN ONE PLACE! Everybody wants that “central location,” because everything is “there,” and it takes less time than making three or four different points. No, belay that thought, helmsman! Staggering it makes it more likely that some creeps will not get the whole treasure-trove. Same with all of the cached stuff such as food, medicine, etc. Bust it up into “thirds” and put it in three different places that you can find, but are not equidistant from one another. If you place all three in an equilateral triangle configuration, the way man’s mind thinks when he’s searching is to look along those “organized” lines.
Protect Your Caches from the Hordes with These 8 Considerations
Whatever your BO location is (a cabin, shack, or semi-permanent structure) there are some factors that need to be considered, especially for these winter months. Be it a cabin, tepee, or permanent lean-to on someone’s land with permission…whatever the scenario, here’s what you need:
- The Perfect Spot: Because caches are the ultimate backup plan, you want to find an ideal location before you begin hiding your gear. Keep OPSEC in mind when you are finding your cache sight.
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