PM's Self Reliance Tools: When you lose power in winter, Fear Mongering, Entrepreneur Skills

Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin

A Digest of Urban Survival Resources

http://www.PoorManSurvival.com

ISSN 2161-5543

In This Issue:

1. What to do when you lose power in winter

2. Fear Mongering or Wag the Dog

3. Save ammo by using dry fire techniques

4. Coupon sites that give you alerts for items you want

5. Develop your entrepreneurial ideas

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” --Thomas Jefferson

Innovation Nation - Develop your entrepreneurial skills

Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows that I’m a firm believer that good jobs aren’t making a comeback anytime soon. This is one of the reasons I promote the idea of starting your own business, even as a sideline.

Developing multiple family profit centers so you don’t rely on a single source of income is almost a necessity today. Unlike previous generations of Americans, it’s a rarity to graduate college and find a career to work at for thirty years before retiring. Hell, most US corporations no longer even offer pensions!

Do you have the next million dollar business idea? I frequently read about folks who come up with ideas, implement them and make real money. I’ll admit, some of the business ideas they come up with would never make money in my book, but then again, whoever thought people would pay $4 for a cup of coffee?

In our ever changing society, lucrative opportunities still exist for developing money making businesses…from senior care and errand services to taking care of foreclosed properties for banks and real estate firms.

In addition to free services such as the SBA and state economic development centers, here are a few resources worth checking out. Always remember that if you don’t take a chance, you won’t have a chance.

>>Quirky.com - If you have a unique problem-solving idea, submit it to this site ($10 fee) and their users will vote on whether it’s a good idea. If your idea is selected, the site will manufacture and sell the item with all the community members who help develop the idea.

>>Profounder.com - If you need funding to expand your business, post the idea along with how much revenue you will share and for how many years you will share it.

>>Rockethub.com - Do you want to self-publish your first book or record a music album. This site might just be the ticket. Describe your project, set a financial goal and a timeline and then post it. This will get the word out to potential donors.

Don’t forget our PoorManSurvival.com site - just click on the BootStrapBiz section to find even more ideas for creating a sideline or full time income.

Before filling clay pots with soil, soak them in a pail of water for an hour or two. A dry pot wicks water away from the soil, so newly potted plant roots dry out quickly.

PM’s Compendium of Useful Resources

If you lose your power during a winter blast…

Not everyone likes a noisy generator, so - Now is the time to prepare for winter power outages.

Your first concern during a winter storm is keeping warm. If you have a fireplace or wood stove, you can use those... just make sure you have plenty of wood on hand and that it's stored somewhere where it will stay dry.

Another option is to purchase a low-cost propane heater that's safe to use indoors. You can pick up an indoor propane heater for less than $100. (Make sure you get a heater that is rated for indoor use. Outdoor heaters are not safe to use inside.) An indoor propane heater will keep a room of your house warm and comfortable, and today's models have built-in safety features (like an automatic shut-off system, should someone accidentally knock it over).

If you have a gas stove, you can use the burners during a power outage. Most gas stoves use an electric spark to strike the flame – no power, no electric spark. But, a match will do the trick.

If you have an electric stove, you can still prepare a hot meal for you and your family to enjoy if keep you a propane camp stove on hand. Just like your indoor propane heater, make sure you've got proper ventilation by opening a nearby window. A propane stove and a pot enables you to boil water, which you can use to make pasta, hot dogs, soup, rice, or oatmeal. Or, you can use the boiling water to prepare a freeze-dried camp meal.

Another great option is an outdoor gas grill, usually available at end-of-season discounts this time of year at any home center

Daylight Wasting Time is Upon us Again…does it pose a health danger?

A t 2:00 am on Sunday, November 6, 2011, the US officially switches from daylight saving time (DST) to standard time (ST) -- you "fall back" one hour. On March 11, 2012, the US switches from ST to DST -- you "spring forward" one hour.

Warning: These time changes can be dangerous to your health. Researchers looked at the rate of heart attacks around the time switches -- comparing the seven days right after the switches with the seven days two weeks before and two weeks after the switches...

http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html?article_id=100005075&l=2

Doug Koenig Demonstrates Proper Dry Practice

When champion shooter Doug Koenig goes to the range to practice, he might shoot a thousand rounds. But if you don't make your living shooting as Doug does, such sessions aren't really practical--it takes too much time and is too expensive. The next best thing? Dry practice allows you to do at home everything you would on the range, except for firing the gun. (That's why it's called dry practice.) Set-up your gear and work on your stance, sight picture, trigger pull and other handgun shooting skills at home. In this video

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNSSF#p/u/3/PUadUOC7FJk

NOTE: Gunbroker.com offers many shooting resources and also a buy-sell program…worth getting on their email list.

Get free coupon alerts

www.Rather-be-shopping.com

Free Price Watch Sites

Get alerts when the price is lowered via email. For computers, TVs & cameras, try Decide.com

For online retailers, use:

Zingsale.com or PricePinx.com

Keep a magnet handy in your toolbox to quickly round up spilled screws and nails.

The Nanny State Updates…

Government owned and operated by Corporate America…

Back in 2002, the top 10 banks controlled 55 percent of all U.S. banking assets. Today, the top 10 banks control 77 percent of all U.S. banking assets.

The "too big to fail" banks just keep getting more and more powerful. For example, the "big six" U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo) now possess assets equivalent to approximately 60 percent of America's gross national product.

Big corporations completely dominate our political system. Because they have so much wealth and power, corporations can exert an overwhelming amount of influence over our elections. Studies have shown that in federal elections the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent of the time.

MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan made the following statement....

“The biggest contributor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is Goldman Sachs. The primary activities of this president relative to banking have been to protect the most lucrative aspect of that business, which is the dark market for credit default swaps and the like. That has been the explicit agenda of his Treasury Secretary. This president is advocating trade agreements that allow enhanced bank secrecy in Panama, enhanced murdering of union members in Colombia, and the refunding of North Korean slaves.”

In 2005, 7420 federal workers were making $150,000 or more per year. In 2010, a whopping 82,034 federal workers were making $150,000 or more per year. That is more than a tenfold increase in just five years.

The standard of living in the United States has fallen farther over the past three years than at any other time that has ever been recorded in U.S. history.

For a temporary roof repair, slide a piece of cardboard into a plastic bag and insert it under the shingles.

The Parting Thought – Wagging the dog

Social Control and the Politics of Fear Mongering

"The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." - Hermann Goering

The requirement of every sovereign nation to exert control over the behavior of its citizens, to keep them orderly and reasonably docile….to keep them paying taxes, to keep them in line and we know that social control is best managed through fear.

For the past 50 years, Western nations have maintained their citizens in a perpetual state of fear. The Communist menace, eco disasters, perpetual wars, terrorist attacks and so on. Early on America was in the clutch of the military-industrial complex, foretold by retiring President Eisenhower.

Many now say we’re controlled by the politico-legal-media complex, kept in a perpetual state of fear. This fear is needed by the media and politicians alike and by lawyers who need to litigate (at your expense)…all of which dilute our rights.

Modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, disease, crime and the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see—germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed.

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it "obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue".

In his 2004 BBC documentary film series, The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, the journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

It’s evident there are many people whose livelihoods are dependent on fear…law enforcement, politicians, media and more. A prepared person always has less to fear and it’s one of the driving forces behind our Poor Man efforts. This was inspired by Michael Crichton’s book, State of Fear…and the movie, Wag the Dog.

Why does the dog wag its tail?
Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.

Yours for freedom, the Poor Man.

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