Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
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2161-5543
Truth made Snowden a traitor as it often does when scoundrels run the
nation and we should all be traitors to a government that oppresses its people.
From The Frozen Dog Ranch Files
In
This Issue:
1. Achieving Independence
2. Police lie in court every day
3. More on bartering
4. Mid-America Homesteading Conference
5. We the Sheeple
"Freedom is the emancipation
from the arbitrary rule of other men."
-- Mortimer Adler
-- Mortimer Adler
This issue is about
achieving independence and freedom. Sadly,
most Americans don’t care about these topics.
Many citizens are like what we who served in the military called
LIFERS.
These folks were happy to
do as they were told and not ever question much as all thinking was done for
them. As long as they got their three
squares a day, free clothing and housing, they didn’t mind…it was 20 or 30 in
and then back out to civilian life.
You can achieve independence right NOW, today, in 2013.
We’ve listed eleven ways to move yourself toward independence, which also happens to mean self-sustainability, self-reliance and self-worth. You may not be able to achieve full independence for each of these, but you can always increase your degree of independence so that you rely less and less on the system. This makes you a stronger, more resourceful and even a more dignified individual while honoring those same qualities in America's founding fathers.
We’ve listed eleven ways to move yourself toward independence, which also happens to mean self-sustainability, self-reliance and self-worth. You may not be able to achieve full independence for each of these, but you can always increase your degree of independence so that you rely less and less on the system. This makes you a stronger, more resourceful and even a more dignified individual while honoring those same qualities in America's founding fathers.
#1) Independence from the lying mainstream media
Turn off the TV and stop watching CNN which is nothing more
than pure political theater designed to distract you from what's really going
on. Cancel your subscription to cable or satellite television. Stop watching
sitcoms and stop reading mainstream newspapers.
If there's anything really important going on, it will be covered in the independent, alternative media such as Natural News, Infowars and StoryLeak. And if you really want to know what's happening in the world, read Wikileaks or try some non-U.S. newspapers like The Guardian (which broke the Ed Snowden NSA spy story).
If there's anything really important going on, it will be covered in the independent, alternative media such as Natural News, Infowars and StoryLeak. And if you really want to know what's happening in the world, read Wikileaks or try some non-U.S. newspapers like The Guardian (which broke the Ed Snowden NSA spy story).
#2) Independence from
the for-profit sick-care system
Want real freedom? Stay out of the hospitals and cancer
clinics. Eat a diet that you know is good for you: fresh fruits and vegetables,
organic produce, superfoods and food-based nutritional supplements. Get lots of vitamin D from sensible sunshine exposure.
Boost your trace minerals intake to avoid mineral deficiencies. Engage in
regular exercise of some sort, even if it's just walking.
This will keep you out of the cancer clinics and their chemo poison centers, out of the kidney dialysis centers and away from pharmacies and doctors. There is no real freedom if you're dependent on a chemical pill, so work to wean yourself off those pills with the help of a qualified naturopathic doctor.
This will keep you out of the cancer clinics and their chemo poison centers, out of the kidney dialysis centers and away from pharmacies and doctors. There is no real freedom if you're dependent on a chemical pill, so work to wean yourself off those pills with the help of a qualified naturopathic doctor.
#3) Independence from
the corporate-monopolized global food system
The globalists know that food is a weapon. When they
control the food, they control the population. Real independence requires not
just storing extra food as an emergency backup supply, but producing food
on your own property so that your food supply is at least partially
self-sustaining.
It's easy to get started doing this: you can begin by sprouting your own fresh sprouts right on your kitchen counter. Expanding from there, you can run a small aquaponic system in your own home or apartment, or even grow some culinary herbs in small pots on a window sill.
Better yet, build a small greenhouse and run an aquaponic system in there, producing both fish and plants at the same time. (I'm building an aquaponic system and will be sharing videos online soon).
You could also go the traditional, simple route and till a garden in your back yard. Plant seeds in dirt and let nature generate the food. Whatever way you like to approach it, make this the year you take action and make it happen.
It's easy to get started doing this: you can begin by sprouting your own fresh sprouts right on your kitchen counter. Expanding from there, you can run a small aquaponic system in your own home or apartment, or even grow some culinary herbs in small pots on a window sill.
Better yet, build a small greenhouse and run an aquaponic system in there, producing both fish and plants at the same time. (I'm building an aquaponic system and will be sharing videos online soon).
You could also go the traditional, simple route and till a garden in your back yard. Plant seeds in dirt and let nature generate the food. Whatever way you like to approach it, make this the year you take action and make it happen.
#4) Independence from
the government-run public school indoctrination of your children
If you have children in public schools, I can't urge you
strongly enough to pull them out of those schools and either get them to a
private school or homeschool them. The U.S. public education system has no
intention to "educate" your children. It's nothing more than a system
of indoctrination and obedience training designed to churn out "obedient workers" for the
globalist corporations and deceptive politicians.
A real education requires homeschooling or private schooling at an alternative education institution. These two things, of course, require an extraordinary amount of time and money investment, so it may not be practical for everyone, but at the very least you can get engaged with your child's schooling and find out what they're learning at school so you can discuss it with them.
Today, public schools are teaching children that the government is their savior; that individualism is bad; that the family is evil, and so on. School peer pressure teaches children to experiment with deviant sexual behavior and dangerous street drugs. Either one of these can ruin a child for life. More at:
A real education requires homeschooling or private schooling at an alternative education institution. These two things, of course, require an extraordinary amount of time and money investment, so it may not be practical for everyone, but at the very least you can get engaged with your child's schooling and find out what they're learning at school so you can discuss it with them.
Today, public schools are teaching children that the government is their savior; that individualism is bad; that the family is evil, and so on. School peer pressure teaches children to experiment with deviant sexual behavior and dangerous street drugs. Either one of these can ruin a child for life. More at:
PM’s Roundup of Useful Resources…
Develop your financial skills and marketable talents.
"When you're single, you depend on yourself to pay the bills, so you save
for the future. If you're in a marriage or long-term relationship, you're just
as responsible as your spouse for your mutual financial security. One of the
biggest financial mistakes you can make is to let your spouse handle all
money matters. Get savvy about investing and check your bank statements
regularly. This kind of money management can relieve stress and prevent
financial infidelity. You're less likely inherit your spouse's debts in the
event of his/her death or discover unhappy financial surprises if you get
divorced. On top of that, having marketable skills (from carpentry to
cooking) means you'll be able to find opportunities to support yourself in
an emergency. It also produces an extra part-time income from what was
just a fun hobby".
Source: Barbara Schiffman
"When you're single, you depend on yourself to pay the bills, so you save
for the future. If you're in a marriage or long-term relationship, you're just
as responsible as your spouse for your mutual financial security. One of the
biggest financial mistakes you can make is to let your spouse handle all
money matters. Get savvy about investing and check your bank statements
regularly. This kind of money management can relieve stress and prevent
financial infidelity. You're less likely inherit your spouse's debts in the
event of his/her death or discover unhappy financial surprises if you get
divorced. On top of that, having marketable skills (from carpentry to
cooking) means you'll be able to find opportunities to support yourself in
an emergency. It also produces an extra part-time income from what was
just a fun hobby".
Source: Barbara Schiffman
How to Barter and Why
One of the financial newsletters I get had a some interesting ideas about bartering. This particular author writes from a bit of a doom-and-gloom perspective, so he approached the subject from the perspective of survival when the currency has collapsed. Though I hope this will not be in our future, it is interesting to think about what you'll need to have to trade for necessities, so I'll start with that. Then we'll move on to how to barter using bartering websites, and the financial advantages (now) of doing this.
What items can you stash, then, to be prepared for the chaos of a cashless society? In general you need things that will be in high demand, are easily moved, and have a long shelf-life. This includes the following...
Tobacco
Addictions do not end just because of bad economic times, so you can be sure that people will still be smoking. However, cigarettes do not stay fresh for long, so you can't easily store some "just in case," without replacing them often, and this can be expensive. Instead buy the raw prepared tobacco and a cigarette-rolling kit. This is a cheap way to have something to trade for food or whatever else you need. Give the tobacco to a friend as a gift when it nears expiration time, and buy another.
Medicines
In a true economic collapse, things will stop moving and
production will slow or cease, so medicines will be used up quickly. You should
have enough on hand for yourself, but for bartering purposes you. (See the
previous issue of PM for a listing of OTC drugs recommended for bartering. More at:
Mid-America Homesteading
Conference
August 31, 2013
Increase
your self-reliance by learning how to raise livestock, keep bees, garden, and
preserve the harvest. Network with others who have similar goals, and get
inspired by those who are already doing what you want to do!
http://www.homesteadingconference.com/p/conference-schedule.html
Employer Mandate? Never Mind: The WSJ covers a major
development in Obamacare--the delay for one year the requirement that companies
with 50 or more employees provide health insurance or pay a fine. Some
say the delay is politics at its worst, with the Democrats wanting to push the
implementation of the unpopular provision past the mid-term elections. I
take a more practical approach--the law is so unbelievably complex and onerous
on small businesses that delaying its enactment was the only option.
What's your take?
Over Regulation Hurting US
Jobs, National Security but Corrupt Bureaucrats are Clueless
Overall, federal regulations have reduced the Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) by 2 percentage points a year from 1949 through 2005, leading to
"an accumulated reduction in GDP of about $38.8 trillion as of the end of
2011. That is, GDP at the end of 2011 would have been $53.9 trillion instead of
$15.1 trillion if regulation had remained at its 1949 level."
In other words, the economy would be 256 percent larger
than it is today but for the regulations. Even if the amount of regulations had
been half of what it was, the economy would still be twice as large as it is
today.
The Nanny State-We love our government
Police Lie in Court Every Day
Attorneys will tell you in private, and sometimes in the books they write, that even though they respect the hard work that police do, they also know that the police lie all the time in court. In their book, Mistrial, Mark Geragos and Pat Harris suggest that this dishonesty is almost always well-intentioned. The officer truly thinks a defendant is a criminal, so he "remembers" more than what actually happened, in order to get the "scumbag" off the street. This is not merely speculation. They and other lawyers regularly catch officers lying under oath.
I have my own experiences with this as well. When I was seventeen I was living alone in a cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The first time I learned how easily authorities will lie I was actually guilty. Being on a tight budget I had speared a large northern pike in open water one night, which would provide me food for days. This would have been legal through the nearby ice on the lake, but that was less convenient than fishing from the stream bank where I was. Two officers from the Department of Natural Resources suddenly came out from behind a nearby cabin and chased after me. I lost them in the woods and went through the snow and swamps for a mile until I reached a neighbor's goat farm.
There is more to the story, including a disguise and meeting the officers two more times as they decided whether to arrest or ticket me, but to get to the point, they visited one day and lied. Actually there were several lies, starting with the claim that they got fingerprints off the spear, which they had recovered. The handle was made of old pitted metal and it...Continues here...
http://www.thesecretinformationsite.com/police-lie.html
How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?
Are cops constitutional?
Civil liberties activists say our nation's police forces
have become too militaristic—like this SWAT team participating in a drill in
October–and are deployed even in nonviolent situations.
In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional
Law Journal, the legal scholar and civil liberties activist Roger Roots
posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that
the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow for police as they exist today. At the very
least, he argues, police departments, powers and practices today violate the
document’s spirit and intent. “Under the criminal
justice model known to the framers, professional police officers were
unknown,” Roots writes.
Now there's Homeland Security's new
"molecular laser scanner." With this new device, an agent could hit
you for a full-body scan from up to 164 feet away.
You'll never even know it's happening.
The machine is so sensitive it can pick up
adrenaline in your sweat.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
A
government that fails to recognize the rights of man is obsolete! >the
Poor Man Survivor
“We
the Sheeple…”
Far too many Americans don’t seem to realize that violations of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights, under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, have now made the destruction of our rights and liberties official government policies, to wit:
- Because of the courageous actions of
one Edward Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has spied on each
and every one of us for seven years – watching our phone calls, emails and
other communications, collecting all this personal information in secret
data bases. The last two U.S. presidents have committed unprecedented
violations of the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment, with
warrantless wiretapping and government mining of electronic
communications.
- The current president admits that he
has ordered American citizens to be assassinated without charges or trial
and claims he has the right to continue this executive murder.
- In violation of the First Amendment's
guarantee of Freedom of the Press, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has secretly
ordered for extensive records of phone calls and other information of the
Associated Press and Fox News to be collected, even falsely alleging that
one reporter was engaged in a criminal conspiracy because he was seeking
information.
- The same attorney general supports the
president’s “right” to order the murder of U.S. citizens without trial or
due process, claiming: “Due process and judicial process are not one and
the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The
Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.”
- The U.S. Congress enacted a law in
2012, giving the U.S. military the power to arrest and hold U.S citizens
indefinitely without charges or trial, a violation of the right to freedom
of expression, the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and
the right to a speedy trial, all of which are enshrined in the Bill of
Rights.
- Financial privacy is dead in America,
killed by the PATRIOT Act that forces bankers to act as government spies.
- Unreasonable restrictions impede
Americans’ rights to conduct business offshore, to the point that foreign
banks and businesses now reject U.S. clients simply because they are
Americans.
- The Director of the FBI admits that his
agents use aerial drones to spy on U.S. citizens, and Congress has ordered
thousands of surveillance drones to be used by police, the Defense
Department and the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Our government is systematically destroying our liberties, acting in secret, claiming we the people have no right to know what is being done because of “national security.”
“Until the next revolution”, the Poor Man
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2 comments:
By and far, the best post you've created yet. Thanks!
Outstanding issue bro...
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