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Self Reliance Skills Set. Freedom Vaults : Guidelines for Saying No to Police Searches. One of the main powers that law enforcement officers carry is the power to intimidate citizens into voluntarily giving up their rights.

Freedom Vaults : Guidelines for Saying No to Police Searches

Police are trained to believe in their authority and trained to perform their interactions with private citizens with confidence. It is their job to deal with problems and they learn to manage uncomfortable situations through strength. Most people, when confronted by police get a mild panic reaction, become anxious, and try to do whatever they can to minimize the time spent with the officer. Because of the imbalance of power between citizen and officer, when a law enforcement officer makes a strongly worded request, most people consent without realizing that they are giving up constitutional protections against improper meddling by the State in the private affairs of citizens.

A common situation is that of the traffic stop.

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Tool Shed. Everyday Tools. Self Sufficient Home. SS On the Farm. Free-aquaponics-how-to-ebook.pdf. Com.post.ability. Plants For A Future : 7000 Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants. How To Dehydrate Food: Basic Tips Of Drying Fruits and Vegetables. How to dehydrate food is an important skill for emergency preparedness.

How To Dehydrate Food: Basic Tips Of Drying Fruits and Vegetables

You can stock your emergency food storage as you prepare your daily meals. Dehydrating Food Saves Everything: Money: produce is free from your survival garden, buy seasonal produce in bulk, no refrigeration is required, produces an extra-long shelf life.Space: takes up A LOT less storage space then cans or bottlesYour Health: Dried foods are safe… drying prevents bacteria and mold growth. Dehydrating removes the water from the food, but leaves the vitamins and minerals.

Your Time: just slice, prep, dry, pack and storeYour Taste Buds: dried foods have amazing intense flavor and do not melt into a sticky mess Whether you want to preserve fruits and vegetables from your garden or the produce from your local farmers market... dehydrating food is the right method for you! Around the Table with Food Science: Food Drying 101. Food Drying: Planning Ahead for Summer Now that the days are getting longer and the warm days of Spring appear to be just around the corner, the thoughts of many people are solidly focused on the joys of the upcoming gardening season.

Around the Table with Food Science: Food Drying 101

Along with considerations of what to plant, you may also want to begin planning what you are going to do with the fruits and vegetables you harvest. This is the ideal time to consider drying various fruits and vegetables as an added alternative to the more traditional approaches of canning and freezing. Home food dehydrators have become increasingly popular in the past few years and the results can be really quite amazing. IUF.SIB.Waterinfood.pdf. How to Move Yourself Off-The-Grid. 13 Ways to Achieve Energy Independence. Edit Article Solar (Heat)Solar (Photovoltaic)WindMicro-hydroWaste Vegetable Oil/Straight Vegetable OilBiodieselAlcohol/EthanolAlgae cultureMethane Gas ProductionWood/Ag WasteElectric transportationHydrogen transportationAnimal labor.

13 Ways to Achieve Energy Independence

Solar technology for farming and urban gardening. Solar-powered devices aren't just for the off-grid adventurers and power-hungry gadget-loving crowd, they're also quite useful in the farm and urban garden, as they can provide the juice needed to fulfill many basic functions for the small grower and farmer alike. Alternative energy has a long history on farms and ranches, beginning with windmills for water pumping and wind generators for electricity for remote locations. More recently, you'd also be more likely to see a small solar charger powering an electric fence than a PV array on a residential street.

And with the advances in both solar technology as well as remote automation, using the power of the sun to run parts of a farm or garden operation is easier than ever. Old techniques. Self Sufficiency. SufficientSelf.com. Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation. Looking at cult behaviour. Following is a revised version (including additional material) of an article by Ivan Tyrrell, first published in 1993, that explores Dr Arthur Deikman's enlightening work on cult behaviour.

Looking at cult behaviour

A FEW years ago Arthur Deikman, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, took part in a research seminar on new religious movements, held at the University of California at Berkeley. Former cult members came to speak to participants. I’m sorry, you’re harvesting large amounts of spiderwebs for what now?!?! "My friend.

I’m sorry, you’re harvesting large amounts of spiderwebs for what now?!?!

--Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. 50 Spider-Inspired Finds - From Tattered Spiderweb T-Shirts to Steampunked Spiders. How to disappear. Marginal Revolution: How to disappear. Tips from a teacher (markets in everything):

Marginal Revolution: How to disappear

How to Disappear. Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace. Where there's water, life is possible.

Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace

True, it may be very difficult and very hard to live, depending, but anyone who's driven, hiked, or camped in the American South West will have noticed that cities and ranches crop up where there's surface water or where there's been a well dug. Frank M. Ahearn - How To Disappear. How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever. How to be “Stealth” Homeless. “There, but for the grace of God, go I” goes the old canard, usually in reference to a disheveled homeless person, dressed in rags sitting on a street corner begging for change and smelling of b.o.

How to be “Stealth” Homeless

What you are seeing is the result not of homelessness, per se, but dysfunctionality in general, due to substance abuse, mental illness and a host of other contributing factors. You may see homeless people everyday and never suspect them. Conversely, that panhandler on the street corner may not be homeless at all. But, perhaps, you have that fear in the back of your mind that such a fate could happen to you. Maybe you work a crappy job, living from pay check to paycheck “one paycheck away from living on the street” or maybe you remain in an abusive relationship in exchange for the security of a place to live. Anonymous. Underground. Practicum. New Practicum. Chef! Mis en place. Victuals. Secure Safety. ALL Behaviours Begin at Home. Are We There Yet?

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