Category: Interesting Stuff
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One Year In Hell: Wartime In Bosnia
Could you imagine living through something like this? Amazingly, it was ONLY one year “in hell” during wartime in Bosnia in the early 90’s but the experience must have felt like an eternity. If this real life account is even remotely accurate (I’ve heard similar stories, though) it must have been a horrible experience to…
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The Tsunami App: An Innovative Safety Solution You Can Help With
Want to do something good for the world today? Great! Here’s how.. Back The Tsunami App Kickstarter. Developed by Alexander Artyukhin, this smartphone app is aimed at warning people the moment tsunami conditions are triggered and even providing safe routes to help people get away as fast as possible, likely saving countless lives. Here, watch the video:…
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17 Ways To Repurpose Motor Oil
Motor oil has never been on my radar as something to re-purpose, that’s for sure. Now, every other oil on the planet has but NOT motor oil, lol. Regardless, I was quite surprised if the following suggestions are true as I’d never expected motor oil to be this potentially useful in ways other than in…
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How to Trick Your Family And Friends Into Becoming Preppers
This is a question nearly any prepper has once they’ve been prepping for long enough. After all, once you realize everyone you know is going to look to YOU when SHTF then it becomes imperative to get your family and friends to choose to prepare themselves! Personally, I’ve had a hard time with it over the…
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8 Effective Steps To Get More Prepared For SHTF Today
This is a guest post by John Lewis of Epic Wilderness. He’s got a lot of good things going on over there, you should check it out today. Introduction Prepping for the next SHTF situation can be quite costly if you are aiming to purchase the most sophisticated gear to keep you alive. In actual fact, I believe that knowledge…
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800+ Free Survival Manuals
I was recently made aware of a huge survival guide resource at PatriotRising.com. It seems this page alone has over 800 free resources (by my rough count) which you may freely download, though the subheadings claim nearly 3000 resources… I’m not quite sure where the other 2200 are at. Regardless, every topic seems covered, from NBC…
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Are Hard Times Really Coming?
How often do you see posts for “living in hard times” or the “coming hard times” or something like that? I might see a new post like that once a week or so. But, are these folks right? Are hard times REALLY coming? After all, one might suggest that things are great for most of…
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Will Time Matter When SHTF?
The other day I talked about another power outage we had and while I was sitting there mostly in the dark because my family didn’t want to run but one single, dim lantern in the pitch black darkness (don’t ask me why) I began to ponder time and whether it will mean anything when SHTF. Ultimately, I’d…
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New Movie Depicts Survivalists As Crazy?
It was bound to happen. The movies are taking prepping mainstream, but not in a good way. First, however, let’s talk about how we got to now. For starters, there were several television shows, starting with The Colony which brought together a dozen or so people from different backgrounds to survive some make-believe survival scenario. I watched…