Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
Everyone
is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of
little things.
- Frank A. Clark
- Frank A. Clark
1. Prepper foods from the grocery store
2. Making simple
flatbreads
3. Videos-Basic
gardening, rope making skills, at-home jobs
4. 60
Money-saving tools
5. The
continuing demise of your rights in America
Can you get 'prepper' foods at the grocery store? Yes, if
you know about these cheap emergency
foods we often overlook…
The rise of the modern “prepper” is no accident, with shows like
National Geographic Channel's Doomsday Preppers heralding a larger shift
in social awareness. In the wake of storms like Katrina, Irene, and Sandy, even
stubborn New Yorkers are realizing that Mother Nature packs a punch, and that
most people aren't ready to roll with it. This combined with rising concerns
about economic troubles and bumbling government has caused a flood of newbie
preppers to take to the stores, eagerly looking for the security of stored
food, water, and medicines. The prospect can be daunting, especially if you're
trying to prep on your own or for a small group. Often, the biggest mistake new
preppers can make is looking too far from home for the supplies they need.
The ubiquitous jar of peanut butter is practically an American icon, and serves as an ideal prepper food in its own right. Dating all the way back to the Aztec empire, peanut butter offers protein, fiber, B vitamins, potassium, and healthy fats. Available at nearly any dollar store, the plastic jars store well (anywhere from two to five years), and even if it does go bad, it won't hurt you. According to Maribeth Cousin, a professor of food science at Purdue, "Some people actually eat rancid food without knowing it, depending upon their individual taste buds." Even rancid, the nutritional content remains intact, though the flavor suffers. Since rancidification is linked to oxygen exposure, sealed jars are not likely to go rancid.
Honey is another good choice as a prepper food. As natural sweeteners, honey and sugar are neck and neck, but where honey really shines is in its medicinal values. Honey packs a variety of nutrients, like B and C vitamins, iron and magnesium, and has powerful anti-fungal, antibacterial, and antiseptic qualities. Combined, these two facts mean that honey is a digestive miracle worker and can even be used to topically treat injuries like cuts and burns. Honey, also, never goes bad. Literally, it can't do it. As moisture leaves it, honey takes on a crystalline structure, but a little heat will melt it right back down into a more usable state.
Powdered drink mixes are another easy, long lasting, and cheap way to stretch your budget and your diet in an emergency. As an example, Tang provides 100% of the daily dosage of vitamin C in an eight-ounce serving (after all, it was invented for astronauts). Kool-Aid® mix is another option, since it’s also high in vitamin C and E. Personally, I recommend powdered Gatorade. Not only will it stretch your diet by adding calories, carbs, and vitamins to your water, but also it can be used to treat dehydration. A study in 2005 found that Gatorade was effective in treating cases of acute dehydration, which makes it an excellent option for families with young or elderly members.
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Making Simple Flat Breads From Food Storage Staples
Can Sustain Life In An Emergency
Everyone loves fry bread, tortillas and pita bread. All
these breads can be made from a few staple ingredients.
If you get caught in an emergency situation, these breads
can be made and eaten to sustain your life. Add canned meat, beans, rice and
rehydrated vegetables and you have a meal.
Wheat Grinder Or Grain
Mill
A wheat grinder or grain mill is very important to have.
If you have a wheat grinder, you can make whole grain flour that is much more
nutritious than white flour. I suggest you have an electric grinder for
everyday use and a hand-operated grain grinder for emergency use if the power
goes out
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The ancient Native
American technique of growing Corn, Beans, and Squash together in an
arrangement called the Three Sisters is the ultimate in companion planting.
Free Online Gardening
Videos
Seed
your lawn, grow tomatoes, prune evergreens and more at:
Safer Medications
Drug
lookup, giving meds to kids, personal drug tracker and more at:
Mastering
traditional rope making skills video…
Want a job where you can work from home, make a decent living, and
take care of your children? Or perhaps you want to work from home simply to
save on transportation costs. Whatever your reason, check out these
opportunities and you're sure to find something that will work for you:
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60 Free Money Saving Tools
Imagine your finances were fully optimized. You always
found the best deals. You paid the least amount possible on everything from
insurance to cable. And if a coupon applied to your next purchase, you actually
used it. How much money would you save each month?
While I can't answer that question for you, here are 60 free
tools to help you save some dough on just about everything.
Synthetic oil is vastly superior to blends
when it comes to protecting your engine from extreme temps…Once your car
reaches 75,000 miles, switch to a higher viscosity oil.
The
Nanny State Updates… Americans
are fat n happy while their rights are trampled!
A coalition of interest
groups whose members profit off marijuana prohibition, including the former
leader of a chain of abusive teen rehab centers, have sent a letter to Attorney
General Eric Holder demanding that the Department of Justice prevent Colorado
and Washington from taxing and regulating marijuana.
Seattle mayor
Mike McGinn has shut down the Seattle Police Department’s drone program before
it started. McGinn said the police need to stay focused on “community
building.” The announcement came just one day after the city held a public
hearing to discuss restrictions to be imposed on drone use by the police
departments. Many citizens voiced their concerns about possible violations of
privacy.
The European
Union has set tough privacy protection laws and is even considering a proposal
which would set even stricter requirements on Internet companies, including
allowing users to access and delete data collected on them. The United States,
however, has very few privacy protection laws. Some argue this is a good thing.
This video of a San Bernardino police officer circling and
confronting a woman hiking in the desert has raised the anger of many about the
increasing intrusion of police surveillance and operations. The officer lands
his helicopter and confronts the woman without any evidence of reasonable
suspicion, let alone probable cause.
http://www.naturalnews.com/039046_military_drones_American_citizens_murder.html
Make cakes easier
to serve by sprinkling some granulated sugar on to the cake plate, and slices
will slide out more easily.
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The Parting
Thought- the continuing demise of your rights
Amerika is a Police State-In response to last week’s issue
about rebellion
A police state is generally defined as a totalitarian government that
exerts extreme and pervasive social, political and economic control over
peaceful citizens. Ayn Rand called it “the ultimate inversion...the stage where
the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act
only by permission.”
One way is to compare what you see in America with the following
standard description of a police state. A police state maintains its control
through the pervasive surveillance of peaceful citizenry, through a vast number
of laws with draconian enforcement, and by converting rights into privileges
that can be withheld – for example, the ability to travel. Our national disgrace, the expensive TSA,
is working hard to make travel here as difficult as possible.
Surveillance of daily life has soared; even the Supreme
Court has consistently expanded the "right" of police to perform
warrantless searches. A vast array of laws now dictate the minutia of life,
from what you may not eat to the light bulbs you may not use as well products
you must buy
(e.g. health care insurance). On one day in January alone, Obama issued 23
executive orders to start the process of gun control.
Another way to judge the degree of totalitarianism is to answer yourself four questions:
- How many peaceful activities would make
you a criminal if you did them? In his book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target
the Innocent, civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate. argues
convincingly that, “The average professional in this country [the US]
wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then
goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal
crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal
criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly
broad and vague.” You are a felon whether or not you have done anything
wrong.
- How much of your life is spent working to
pay taxes and other government fees? According to the watchdog
Tax Foundation, in 2012 Americans worked “107 days into the year, from
January 1 to April 17, to earn enough money to pay this year’s combined
29.2% federal, state, and local tax bill.” The figure hardly captures the
scope of economic enslavement. The problem is not merely the taxes that
consume a third of your life, it is also the unseen costs. For example,
compliance with labyrinthine taxes and regulations costs small to
middle-sized business 1 in every 3 dollars.
This expense gets passed along to consumers while the benefit goes to the
government.
- How freely can you relocate your assets
and person outside state jurisdiction? There are at least
three stages in the relocation of the most simple asset – money. You must
establish a foreign account, get the money under your control and, then,
transfer it. The easiest step should be to get your own money; after all,
banks should be merely holding it for you. That step is far from easy. In
an article entitled “Get Your Assets Out of the US
NOW”, a relocation expert warns that the bank will “make
a federal case out of it. Literally.” You will wait from five to ten days
for the transaction to clear. The manager will “begin to ask you a lot of
questions. She's required to do it.” He adds, “Here's the scary part. When
you tell them you want to withdraw $100,000 in cash or wire it to a
foreign bank, they are REQUIRED to file a SAR. They are PROHIBITED from
telling you that they are filing it....They can freeze your account until
they are satisfied that what you want to do with YOUR money is
legitimate.” Those are just some of the problems arising at one stage of
what should be the simplest part of relocating assets. [Editor's Note: This should
help you realize how urgent that it is to relocate
your assets while you still can.]
- How freely can you use your assets and
person within state jurisdiction? Circumstances vary so widely
that everyone must answer for themselves.
The war on terror is an engineered hysteria. In its wake, the institutions of America have changed. Public ones have swelled in size and appetite; private ones have retreated. Some of the changes are so glaring that people noticed immediately. It is difficult not to notice the militarization of law enforcement when your children are lined up at airports and touched by uniformed strangers in a manner that would be called child molestation elsewhere. But the dehumanizing process is accepted in the name of security.
The foregoing scratches the surface of "how" a
society becomes a total state. It does not explain the "why." Why do
Americans who pride themselves on rugged individualism stand by and watch the
triumph of totalitarianism?
The daily erosion of freedom is far less real to them
than their daily routines.
The difference between America and a communist regime lay
in its institutional protection of the individual against the state. That
difference no longer exists.
Wendy McElroy is a renowned individualist anarchist and
individualist feminist. She was a co-founder along with Carl Watner and George
H. Smith of The
Voluntaryist in 1982, and is the author/editor of twelve books, the latest
of which is "The Art of Being Free". Follow her work at http://www.wendymcelroy.com.
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Ostanding stuff...we need more passionate writers like yourself.
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