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Preparations

•          Survival in the City  Reasons for preparations.   

•          Many Unprepared For Disaster

•          The Coming Starvation In America

•          Global Food Crisis Emerging
  

•          Home Defense

•          EARTHQUAKE PREPARATION INFORMATION LINKS

  Communications                           

•         Choosing a Portable Survival Radio, by New England Gardener

•         Protect your radios with a Faraday cage

•         Scanner Frequency Guide

•         Shortwave Frequencies

•         Iranian Shortwave Broadcasts  

•         Ground Antenna          

•         Radio Reception Noise and Interference  

  Electrical

•         Making a Solar Charger/Battery/Box all combined 

•         Alternative Charging

•         Battery Adapter

•         Build a cart for your generator

•         Dirty Power

•         EMP - PRACTICAL PROTECTION   

•        

Making Faraday cages

•         Home-Bred Steam Power

•         Generators                         

•         Re-energizing Dead Generators

•         Solar Power

 Essential Tools & Skills  (See Homebuilt items below for Essential Skills)

•       Bug-out-Bag (BOB) Tips and Tricks

• The Post-Apocalyptic Blacksmith, by Dale Raby, is now an eBook and highly recommended!       Only $1.99 for the download.               

•         Home Defense

•         Tuning the Ruger Charger Pistol  for accuracy New!

•         Survival Reloading   

•         Reloading .410 Bore Shotshells

•         Using Lyman 310 Tong Tools for Reloading

•         "Homeland Security" Reloading

•         Government has "No Affirmative Duty" to protect us

•         Tools - Restoration and Rebuilding (New 6.1.15)

•         Making Sheathes for Tools

•         Knives

•         Emergency shelter

•               Cabin Building Without Nails

•               Cabin Building Tools - photos

•         Wood Cutting & Splitting Tools

•         Using Crosscut Saws Efficiently

•         Sharpening Large Cross Cut Saws

•         Sawbuck photos #1, #2, and #3

•         Water Level

•         (See HOME BUILT ITEMS BELOW)

 Food

•         The Coming Starvation in America     

•              Food Shock          

•         Canned Food Storage Life

•         Apple Sauce Cake In A Jar

•         Back Porch Jello

•         Baking Bread Without an Oven, by New England Gardener    

•        Rival Bread'n Cake Bake Pan Instructions from New England Gardener

•                   Kero Cooker Boils Beans by New England Gardener    

•         Canning Butter

•         Canning Fruit Juices

•                   Mehu-Liisa steam juicer instructions by New England Gardener

•         Canning Soft Cheese   

•         Emergency Food and Water Supplies - from FEMA

•         Water Bath Canning 

•         Hamburger Rocks

•         How Much To Store

•         Making a Smokehouse

•         Making Maple Syrup At Home              

•         Making mayonnaise

•         Non-Electric Cooking

•         Storing Flour

•         Storing Grain In Buckets

•         Storing Honey

•         Canning Meat by New England Gardener

•         Storing Meat Part 1 - Pemmican

•         Storing Meat Part 2 - Jerky

•         Storing Meat Part 3 - Building & Using A Smoke House

•         Waxing Cans & Boxes

      Canning - 1948 Kerr Canning Manual

• 1. Planning to Can
  2. Methods of Processing
  3. Methods of Canning
  4. Canning Times Table
  5. Canning Questions & Answers
  6. Fruit
  7. Fruit Butters & Conserves
  8. Fruit Juices
  9. Jams
  10. Jellies
  11. Marmalades
  12. Meats
  13. Pickles
  14. Preserves
  15. Vegetables

 

Home Built Items & Essential Skills

•         Blacksmithing, by Dale Raby             

•         Building a cart for a generator, kerosene heater, etc.

•         Build a mini-Conestoga Bug-Out Trailer

•         Making a Solar Charger/Battery/Box all combined 

•         Building A Solar Oven

•         Carpentry

•         Cleaning Old Engine Oil

•         EMP - Practical Protection 

•         Making a Smokehouse       

•         Making an Inexpensive Water Filter

•         Making Bar Soap

•         Making Faraday cages

•         Making a cooking stand for kerosene stoves

•         Making a 12 volt battery adapter

•         Making Maple Syrup At Home      

•         Making Sheathes for Tools       

•         Preservation Oils, Lubricants, Grinding & Sharpening Stones, Files

•         Playing with Temperatures - making your own tools.           

•         Water - gravity flow system for chickens and livestock

•         Sharpening Large Cross Cut Saws

•                  Sawbuck photos #1, #2, and #3

•         Shelter - even if it means building a log cabin.       

•         Survival Reloading (work in progress)                

 

Kerosene stuff

•     Kerosene appliances

•             Regular Maintenance

•             Sources of Supply

•             Auto Motor Heater Instructions    

•     Kerosene heaters

•             Kerosene appliance wicks (heater wicks in general)

•             Kerosene heater wicks (a list by make and model)

•             Kerosene heater wick replacement (generic for radiant heaters)

•             Breaking In New Kerosene Appliances

•             Brooder house heaters make a fine mini-heater!      

•             Build a wheeled cart for your heater

•             Burning Kerosene Heaters At Night

•  

Butterfly 828 Pressure Lantern

•     Kerosene stoves

  •  "Butterfly" brand kerosene stoves are available from www.StPaulMercantile.com.  St Paul Mercantile is highly recommended.  Their prices are low and service is high - a great combination!

•             Butterfly #2418 two-burner stove:  and 2415, 2417.  Excellent everyday cook stoves.

•             Butterfly #2412 Pressure Stove: 

•             Butterfly #2487, 16 wick stove.  A good compromise for frequent cooking and canning.    

•        Butterfly #2641, 10 wick Cook Stove - The least expensive emergency stove.  -   

•        Butterfly #2698 Cook Stove - A great Canning and Heavy Duty Cook Stove -   

•         BUTTERFLY #A-822, PREMIUM 22 WICK ALUMINUM STOVE   -  This stove will do it all.  

•        Stoves - Recommendations & Test Results

•              Kerosene Stove Maintenance and Storage

•              Butterfly #828R lantern: Information and Operating Instructions

•              Butterfly #2421 Oven for use on Butterfly kerosene stoves

•             Kerosene stove wicks - source of supply

•             Instruction Manual for 1927 Ward's Windsor Kerosene Range;

•                  courtesy of New England Gardener.

•             Setting Up A Multi-Wick Butterfly Stove

•             Building A Cooking Stand

•             Non-Electric Cooking & Kitchen Equipment

•     Kerosene fuel and storage

•             Sweet Smelling Kero

•     Life WITHOUT the power grid

Lighting                   

•     Kerosene lamps and lanterns

•         B & H  and P & A Lamps - the finest lighting ever made   

•         Butterfly #828R lantern:

•         Cleaning Lamps & Lanterns

•         Coleman Kerosene Lantern Operating Instructions, from "New England Gardener";  1.6 MB pdf

•         Czech Wall Lamp

•         Kerosene Lamp Test

•         Kosmos Lamps

•         Mantles For Kerosene Pressure Lanterns

•         Petromax or Butterfly 828R Pressure Lanterns

•         Petromax Operating Instructions

•         Petromax Owners Manual

•         Making Candles

•         Electrical lighting tips

•         Battery Primer by "New England Gardener"

•         LED Lighting by "New England Gardener"  

Medical

•         Mexican (H1N1) Swine Flu  

•         Advice for Protesters

•         Basic Colloidal Silver Generator

•         Bird flu, Liberty, and Quarantine

•               H5N1 Coming - So, What Do We Do?

•               Bird Flu: Personal Preparedness Must Include These 4 Critical Areas

•               U. S. Plan For Flu Pandemic Revealed              

•               Preparing for Pandemic         

•         Broad Spectrum Antibiotics

•         Home Remedies

•         Prescription Longevity

•         CDC-Facemask and Respirator Use

•         Typhyus & Cholera

•         The Plague

•         Veterinary Medications

•         Survival and Austere Medicine  (long .pdf download)  Very good! 

 

If you have a slow download connection or want more medical texts, they are available on the USB drive below.

Medical Survival Info from the CDC, OZ, Canada, Switzerland, FEMA, Homeland Security, FDA, USDA, Extension Services, Red Cross, etc.  All influenza information specifically related to prevention, treatment, preparations for both business and individuals, food, health care, quarantine, sanitation, water, etc. All of the real, vital, helpful info I could find. Adobe format. 296 MB's, prints to 6,289 pages not including the complete texts of "Where There is No Dentist," "Where There is No Doctor," and "Survival and Austere Medicine". $7.95

Sanitation

•        

• Fels Naptha Laundry Soap

•         Making Bar Soap

•         Making Lye Water

•         Fly Control

•         Rodent Control

•         Sewage Disposal

•         Surface Disinfection

War Preparations

•       Nuclear War Preparations

•       THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF RADIATION INCIDENTS   March 12, 2011

•       Military Source Warns of North Korea's EMP Bomb

•       If the "Tea Party" or "Town Hall Terrorists" Get Too Bold....

•       Top Police Officer Warns That Nuclear Attack Is Inevitable 

•       Alcohol Stoves for Shelter cooking

•             Shelter Savvy, Part 1, by Hal Walter      

•         Shelter Savvy, Part 2, by Hal Walter     

•         Shelter Savvy, Part 3, by Hal Walter

•             Shelter Savvy, Part 4, by Hal Walter

•             Shelter Savvy, Part 5, by Hal Walter

•           Preparedness Evaluation, by Hal Walter    

•          More Survival Articles by Hal Walter

•         SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY - Prologue    

•         SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY I           

•         SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY II          

•           SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY III           

•           SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY IV           

•           SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY V             

•           SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY Part VI    

•            Prepare for Nuclear Terror

•             Emergency Food and Water Supplies - from FEMA

•             Most not prepared for attack

•             Potassium Iodide (SSKI)          

•             EMP - PRACTICAL PROTECTION 

•                   An EMP Attack, Thinking The Unthinkable    

•                     Surviving EMP to depend on preparation   

•                    America At War - Six Months in the Dark    

•                    Making Faraday cages

•                    Evacuation Plan for an EMP attack       

•                    Nuke Over U. S. Could Unleash Electromagnetic (EMP) Tsunami   

•                    Iran plans to knock out U.S. with 1 nuclear bomb

•                    Iran now "equipped for an atomic weapon"            

•                    Many nations are making plans for an EMP attack             

•                    Ex-CIA chief warns of EMP nuke threat   

•                    Experts: U. S. unprepared for nuclear terror attack    

•                 Warning from Sen. John Kyl on EMP threat             

•              Warning from Newt Gingrich on Emp Threat

•       Victoreen Survey Meter Instructions

•  

•    Nuclear Related:

•      Bush orders contingency plans for attack on U.S. 

•      2007: Nuclear Attack and Invasion of United States    

•          Bright Light, Big City - A story about a nuclear attack on NYC   

•      Nuclear Apocalypse - 10.12.06          

•            A U. S. Attack on Iran: The Perfect Storm for wider nuclear conflict   1.03.06 

•      Is the US Navy vulnerable in the Gulf?  The Myth of US Invincibility  

•      Putin Not Able To Track All Nukes    

•              Al-Qaida nukes already in U. S.

•              Osama's biographer says nukes in U. S.   

•              Al-Qaida suitcase nukes in US.

•              Dirty bomb victims 'may be shot'

•             First Strike With Tactical Nukes Being Proposed

•              North Korea: "We'll put a torch to New York"

•              North Korean Missile Warhead Found in Alaska - the only ICBM to hit American territory!

•                 "Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Cresson H. Kearny 

•                 Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US   

•             Terrorists can build nuclear weapons

•             U. S. Called Unprepared For Nuclear Terrorism

•             U. S. Installing Radiation Detection Equipment at US Ports   

•             Al Qaida declares Jihad against America

•             Al Qaida chemical attack

•             American terrorists now active

•             Government has "No Affirmative Duty" to protect us

•             Honeybee "bee safe"                          

•             China's Army On Combat Alert

•             "OIL SHOCKS in the USA?"  America a 3rd World country overnight.

•             Russian Military Movements - and catastrophic weather expected.

•         Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For Martial Law    Surviving in the City   

•             The Coming Starvation in America           

•              "...you must plan now and be ready..." by Edgar Steele

Water

•         Bug-out-Bag (BOB) Tips and Tricks  - New!
•         An Inexpensive Water Filter you can make -
•         Installing a hand pump for water from a shallow well.

•         Emergency Food and Water Supplies - from FEMA

•         Water by Jiyani

•         Ram Pumps

•         Sterilizing Water tanks

•         Storing Tap Water in 2 liter pop bottles

•         Storing Water In Barrels

•         Storing Water in Tanks

•         Water disinfection

•               Chlorinating Concentrate   &  Shelf Life of Bleach  

•         Water For Chickens or farm stock - gravity flow tank

Wood Cooking & Heating

•         Ash Removal

•         Chimney Fires

•         Cooking With Wood Stoves In The Summer

•         Drying and Storing Firewood

•         Hydraulic Log Splitter

•         Making Sheathes for Tools

•         Monarch Wood-Electric Range Instructions

•         Thermal Mass Wood Stove

•         Wood Cutting & Splitting Tools

•          Using Crosscut Saws Efficiently

•                  Sharpening Large Cross Cut Saws      

•                  Sawbuck photos #1, #2, and #3

•         Hydraulic log splitter             

•      Shelter - Log Cabin building tools

Prophecy

•         Akita

•         Fr. Gobbi

•         Garabandal

•         Michael Coppi Resources

•         La Salette

•         Three Days Of Darkness

•         Devotional Items

•         Incredible view inside the Sistine Chapel

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Booklets By Miles

Commentary By Miles

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

• U. S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
  
  "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

The Declaration of Independence

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