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Water Safety in an Emergency
There are so many things that can happen to affect the safety of your drinking water. Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and earthquakes (to name a few) can contaminate public supplies of water.
Man-made disasters, from war to cutting through a water main while running a ditcher can cause a disruption in the water supply with little or no warning. Without notice, your water can become contaminated and unfit to drink. Planning for any and all contingencies in advance will help you insure that you have safe drinking water in an emergency.
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Below is a collection of the most recent articles published in the Off The Grid Newsletter.
- The off-grid medicinal treatments our rulers don’t want you to discover – Episode 012
- The off-grid medicinal treatments our rulers don’t want you to discover – Episode 012
- Water Safety in an Emergency
- Where’s the Food? The Fear of Uncertainty
- The Colony – Week 6: Skout
- The Mosque at Ground Zero: A Call for Reasonableness
- Is Your Arsenal Up to the Task?
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Featured Articles
Protecting and Preserving Important Documents
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 ID, but in case
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Dried and True: Some Tips for Dehydrating Vegetables
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 freezing the garden’s bounty
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Treatment from the Pantry
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. After all, if the
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Cold Weather Firearm Tips
Carrying a firearm in cold weather requires some preparation; in addition to safety challenges, failing to access your weapon quickly can be the difference between a successful hunting trip and returning empty handed, or a successful defense against an assailant and serious injury. With
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I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help
The government has our best interests in mind. They love us, they care about us and they understand that we are simple children, who cannot properly care for ourselves. Their sole existence is our well-being. Oh, and politicians are like our loving grandparents; they
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The Truth About Pickled Eggs
I’ll admit to a bit of stubbornness. I feel like if I can walk into a store and it’s floating around in a jar or within the confines of a can, I ought to be able to stick it in a Mason jar and
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A Gift from Nature and a Lesson About Panic Economics
You might have heard before that garlic is known to have remarkable health benefits, including lower blood pressure, protecting against heart disease and possibly even preventing gastrointestinal cancer. Have you ever heard that it is a cure for influenza? Well, in China there is
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Self Defense
Is Your Arsenal Up to the Task? As you sit and marvel at your vast collection of guns, your chest bulging at the immensity of the firepower before you, you may want to squint and consider how it might look to you the moment after the EOTWAWKI. When you consider the staying power versus the firepower, is your arsenal up to the
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Politics
The Mosque at Ground Zero: A Call for Reasonableness This site is dedicated to offering solutions for survival in the event of a natural catastrophe, a man-made catastrophe, political unrest or a terrorist attack. Yet somewhere in the midst of preparing for such events, we cannot afford to divorce ourselves from the political realities around us. Our Founding Fathers did not shrink back from
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Misc
Trash Talk: Survival Sanitation It’s one of those pesky realities that rears its ugly head wherever life goes on—getting rid of the trash. In a long-term survival situation, it’s not going to magically disappear every Thursday morning, so it’s best to be prepared. For the best way to get along on your own, just remember the four “Bs” of
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Food
Where’s the Food? The Fear of Uncertainty As the economy continues to sink deeper, forcing more people into unemployment lines, uncertainty is driving otherwise clear thinking people into a horde mentality that poses a growing danger to society. A recent episode in Tulsa involving a federally subsidized food distribution program is illustrative of the new reality of this uncertainty as increasing numbers
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Energy
It’s Summertime…Prepare for Winter NOW If you’re going to make it through the winter in a cold climate, you’re going to need heat. Now if you plan to make it living off the grid without gas, propane, fuel oil, or electricity, you’re going to need a pretty darn good wood stove. I know, I know—it’s summertime and hot as can
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Financial
Debt Settlement vs Bankruptcy: Which is the lesser of two evils? As the hardening of the job market continues and the economic landscape becomes bleaker and bleaker, there may come a time when you have to look at your accumulated debt and make a decision—do I declare bankruptcy or try to pay my creditors? Bankruptcy is never the option of first resort. We are compelled through
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Privacy
How Many Felonies Will You Commit Today? Privacy experts are expressing growing concern over the federal government’s ability to monitor virtually every act of our lives. In addition to monitoring every phone call, fax, email and click on the web, anti-terrorism legislation ensures that every financial transaction is suspect. Some authors have asserted that the average American professional will commit three federal
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Health
Reality Shock: Your Hospital May be Killing You Just when we thought it was safe to go back to the ER, there is now an emerging reality that your next trip to the hospital could kill you. In the midst of the political wrangling spurred by the highly controversial health care reform legislations, the debate rages on as to the quality of health
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Survival Stories
Surviving Hurricane Wilma My husband and I were in Cancun when Hurricane Wilma hit. I had never been in a hurricane and was just there to relax after hand surgery the day before. We were in the tourist part of Cancun at an all-inclusive hotel when we were ordered to gather up a pillow, a blanket, and only
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