Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Tips on organic gardening
2.
Cooking game meat video
course
3.
Raise5-Online
marketplace to aid charity
4.
New ISP Spy plan on Americans
5.
Test your new business idea or blog for free
Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. ~Author Unknown
A recent survey conducted by National Geographic asked Americans the following question....
"Which of the
following, if any, do you think might happen in the United States in the next
25 years? Please choose all that apply."
These were the
results....
Significant Earthquake
64%
Significant Hurricane 63%
Terrorist Attack 55%
Financial Collapse 51%
Significant Blackout 37%
Pandemic, Such as From a Super-Virus 29%
Nuclear Fallout 14%
None of These 13%
Significant Hurricane 63%
Terrorist Attack 55%
Financial Collapse 51%
Significant Blackout 37%
Pandemic, Such as From a Super-Virus 29%
Nuclear Fallout 14%
None of These 13%
Are you better off
today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other
Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days ago, 80 percent of
Americans say that their financial situation is not "better today"
than it was four years ago.
A child’s plastic sled works great for
transporting flats of plants and heavy bags of soil, etc.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Cooking Game
Meats with Georgia
Pellegrini, Author of 'Girl Hunter'
In the first of a
series of videos with Georgia Pellegrini, the chef, author and hunter discusses
how to prepare tough cuts of game meat using brines and marinades that will
transform them into moist, tender and delicious meals
Raise5 is an online marketplace for 5 dollar tasks where the funds paid
get donated to charity.
There are few things
more inspiring than seeing a good idea picked up and repurposed with a
charitable twist. Case in point: Canadian Raise5, a site that looks much like Israeli Fiverr in that it’s an online marketplace for 5 dollar tasks. The difference?
Instead of benefiting those performing the tasks, the funds paid get donated to
charity.
Charitably minded
consumers begin by offering some service or task on Raise5 for a flat rate of
CAD 5 — teaching a 15-minute French lesson, for example, or setting up a new
laptop. When they register their service, such users also select a charity or
non-profit they’d like to benefit. Then, others can browse the site for
services they could use. Once they find one, they can buy the service for the
CAD 5 price, and the money will go to the service donor’s chosen charity or
non-profit. Raise5, meanwhile, takes CAD 1 from each transaction to cover its
own costs.
There’s clearly an
enduring allure to the 5 dollar price point, but a charitable purpose steps up
that allure another notch or two. A model to emulate in the niche or region of
your choice?
Website: www.raise5.com
Want to test a
new biz idea or blog before spending a lot of money - Try:
Get a FREE 8-day course from perky Marianne Cantwell - about how to
make a living without an office or a boss - or more simply, how to create a
free range business where you have the life you want, get paid to play, and
don't have to live on baked beans for a year.
There is a growing
sentiment out there that perhaps the pesticides and the fertilizers that are
used in many modern farms and gardens are not only bad for the environment, but
bad for us. That belief is fuelling the rise of organic gardening. Many of us would
like to think that what we buy in the supermarket that is billed as organic
really is, but we can never be sure.
The best ways to
ensure that your vegetables are organic are to grow your own organic garden. It
is not as hard as you might think, and not only is it environmentally friendly;
it is friendly to your body and a great way to exercise. Planning is important to smart organic gardening. The gardener will have to go in knowing what will grow best and when. Since, you will not be able to rely on chemical fertilizers you need to make sure that the plants that you grow are good for the soil you already have. Of course, there is nothing preventing you from bringing in top soils to enhance your garden, just make sure that the soil will be able to grow what you want.
Most organic growers are seeing the beauty or heirloom seeds in gardens. Heirloom seeds are strains of vegetables that have not been crossed bred over time to produce many of the current varieties that are out today. These plants are usually hardier and more self sustaining than many popular hybrids that have been bred to give more prolific fruit producing plants. The trades off in these hybrids have been stamina and taste.
Read the rest at:
Making your
estate easier for heirs to settle
With the loss of
parents on both sides of the family during the past year, we’ve had to learn a
lot about how to settle an estate.
Before your spouse or a parent passes on, it’s extremely prudent to have
a will in place.
Despite advising my
father-in-law of the importance of this or to at least have a power of attorney
in place, he never completed the paper work and as a result, my wife’s brother
cheated her out of a substantial amount of money (I expected nothing less from
a 40-year-old who’s never had a job and still lived at home).
Below are some
resources you can use as a guide and a free last will and testament form.
Clippings from dog
hair will keep your garden rabbit-free.
Hang sacks of it in young fruit trees to keep away deer.
The Nanny
State Updates…
"If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they're coming for you.
Specifically, they're
coming for you on Thursday, July 12.
"That's the date
when the nation's largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy
plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in
history, and see some users' bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an
agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.
"Word of the
start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans last
June.
"The deal was
brokered by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion
Picture Association of America (MPAA), and coordinated by the Obama
Administration.
Federal Prosecutors
caught again in lies to pursue the innocent…
As we’ve reported so
many times, government prosecutors use witch hunt tactics and the immense
resources of the government to wrongly convict innocent people.
Reports have recently
vilified federal prosecutors in their case against now deceased Alaska Senator
Ted Stevens stating ‘prosecutors were corrupt to the core.’
A FL man who was
wrongfully convicted on lies provided by prosecutors was released from prison
after a three year stretch…yet the government only wanted to compensate him
$5000 for each year he was falsely imprisoned…they settled for $140,000.
So the question begs…why
aren’t these prosecutors doing time?
2-Litre soda bottle make
cheap cloches for young plants – remove the cap to ventilate.
The Parting Thought – Circling the Drain
The Dismal
State of the Economy, Despite What Washington says…
Today, you can buy
just two bags of groceries for the same amount of money that got you three bags
full a year ago. Average global food prices have soared a whopping 37% since
last June. And there's no end in sight. In fact, food prices rose more
in 2011 than in any other year since 1974
America's fiscal
condition is dauntingly dismal. The national debt is well on its way to $17
trillion, 13 million Americans are out of work, and the country is stuck in the
slowest recovery in the post-war era. Despite Washington bleeding taxpayers dry
with reckless overspending, the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget since
nearly a year before Apple released the original iPad, leaving the country in a
lurch, desperate for leadership in Congress that will bring bold changes and an
end to the unconscionable pattern of spending and borrowing.
Meanwhile,
Congress continues to hammer away at our rights…
Sen. John McCain is
promoting new legislation that would give the government, including military
spy agencies like the National Security Agency, unprecedented powers to snoop
through people's personal information — medical records, private emails,
financial information — all without a warrant, proper oversight or limits.
The Secure IT Act, promoted as a measure to counter cyber attacks, would allow the NSA to collect the internet records of people who are not suspected of doing anything wrong. This unprecedented and broadly worded bill clears the way for internet providers, wireless carriers, and websites to share your personal information with military spy agencies.
The Secure IT Act, promoted as a measure to counter cyber attacks, would allow the NSA to collect the internet records of people who are not suspected of doing anything wrong. This unprecedented and broadly worded bill clears the way for internet providers, wireless carriers, and websites to share your personal information with military spy agencies.
The American Water
Works Association (AWWA) recently released a report that found that fixing
and expanding the U.S. underground drinking water system will cost at least $1
trillion over the next 25 years. This investment to keep water flowing will
translate into a double or triple increase in water bills.
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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