Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
"Freedom
is not a gift received from the State or leader,
but a possession to be won every day
by the effort of each and the union of all."
-- Albert Camus
but a possession to be won every day
by the effort of each and the union of all."
-- Albert Camus
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
A recent Sunday New
York Times, which often mocks so-called preppers, had quite a revealing
article. They finally noticed how diverse the greater self-reliance movement
has become – acknowledging that it now crosses all cultural and financial
segments of our society.
In
This Issue:
1.
Thomas Edison’s Currency plan
2.
What to play when the lights go out
3.
Catching and butchering turtles for food, Pemmican recipe
4.
The Hudson Bay Survival Kit from 1956, The Machete-a very useful
tool
What to Play When the lights go Out…
Your pantry is stocked with food and water, as well as seeds for
a garden. You’ve got your bug-out bags packed and ready. You have your
protection taken care of. You’ve got a way to keep warm or cool.
You have ample first aid supplies and personal care products. What more could
you need if a situation arose that forced you to use all of your preps?
A book is a very basic thing that you can toss into a bug-out
bag or think about as you build your home library. It can contain
knowledge to help you in your situation, or it can contain a story to help you
get your mind off of your situation. It can even be blank and give you a
place to record your thoughts or things you need to remember or just a place
for you to sketch ideas.
Table games are a fun way to help bide the time in a situation
where there is not a lot to do other than wait. Card games will easily
fit into a bug-out bag. Board games are also a good option, especially if
space is not a problem. They are usually fairly lightweight, though somewhat
bulky. Consider travel versions of board games if bulk is a concern.
For adults, the children’s games will likely take some of your
time as you play the games with the kids. If you would like to get some
games just for adults, consider a mind-challenging game such as Mind Trap,
Boggle, Pictionary, Scrabble, or any of a whole host of other games that are
out on the market.
This brings me to outdoor games. Prepping for this can be
as easy as keeping backyard games accessible and at the forefront of our minds
during tough times. Don’t let the seriousness of your situation get you
down so much that you forget to take a little time out to relax a bit.
Drag out the old croquet set, dust off the horseshoes, or set up the corn hole
and get some friendly competition going and work on your aiming and throwing
skills at the same time. Chances are, once you are finished, you will
have a little bit different perspective on your situation and can go back into
it with a fresh mind.
Simple, old-fashioned toys can do the trick for entertaining and
comforting children. A doll, a ball and a stick, and some blocks of some
kind are some examples. They don’t have to be fancy, and they can be made
from found items if you have the time.
In the past, music was a great way to pass the time and find
enjoyment in life. Why not incorporate it into your prepping? Do
you or anyone you know play an instrument? Is there one you have always
wanted to learn how to play? See what you can do with your prepping to
help this happen. Who knows, you may have enough time on your hands to
finally learn to play that guitar! Invest in a basic instructional book
and get started!
If you or your family can read music, you may want to include a
hymnbook or other written music to sing together. Even having just the
words can be helpful so everyone can follow along and sing a capella if no one
plays an instrument.
From Contributor Ben Tanner
www.foodstorehouse.com/survival-blog/
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
The
Machete: Useful Survival Tool
This centuries old tool is easy to sharpen, can clear
a trail, help construct a small cabin or shelter, chop firewood, start a fire
(w/ flint), kill and prepare dinner, whittle tools, make traps and weapons,
used as a drawknife and plenty of other uses.
With a sheath it can be attached to a backpack or throw it across your
back or hang the sheath’s sling from your shoulder as you would a rifle.
Best
of all they’re pretty inexpensive. Mine
is a surplus item from the Viet Nam war and cost me $5 at a local flea market
(sheath included)
To
improve the grip I added electricians tape.
You can also drill a hole in the handle and add a lanyard or a length of
rawhide to go around your wrist.
If
the machete you buy is shiny avoid sunny reflections by applying several light
coats of black outdoor grill paint…multi-coats will stick and wear better than
a single heavy coat! You might also like
the Wood Mans Pal – American made.
Catching
Turtles for Food-Video…
A Fast Way of
Butchering a Turtle to Eat-Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVEoZ7sSEbo#t=17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVEoZ7sSEbo#t=17
The Hudson Bay
Company Emergency Kit –Circa 1956
This is from the book 'How to
Stay Alive in the Woods' by Brad Angier.
The kit measured 12 x 11 x 3 1/2 inches, weighed 11lbs, and was watertight. It was standard issue to all HBC aircraft at the time. A food storage container with lid can carry this…find a cheap one at a good dollar store!
Contents:
28 tea bags
50 Vitamin pills
30 oz. Pilot Bread
16 oz Butter
14 1/2 oz Strawberry Jam
12 oz Klik (canned ham)
14 oz Condensed Milk
10.5 oz Chocolate Bars
100 Matches
1 Knife
1 Spoon
1 Whistle
1 Double face mirror
1 Fishing line
4 Fishhooks
1oz Snare Wire
2 Candles
Kleenex
The kit measured 12 x 11 x 3 1/2 inches, weighed 11lbs, and was watertight. It was standard issue to all HBC aircraft at the time. A food storage container with lid can carry this…find a cheap one at a good dollar store!
Contents:
28 tea bags
50 Vitamin pills
30 oz. Pilot Bread
16 oz Butter
14 1/2 oz Strawberry Jam
12 oz Klik (canned ham)
14 oz Condensed Milk
10.5 oz Chocolate Bars
100 Matches
1 Knife
1 Spoon
1 Whistle
1 Double face mirror
1 Fishing line
4 Fishhooks
1oz Snare Wire
2 Candles
Kleenex
Camphor*
*» Topical
application of camphor liniment provides relief from congestion.
» Inhaling the vapor of Camphor offers benefits
for clearing up the mucous, facilitating normal breathing by eliminating
congestion of the lungs, nasal and bronchial tracts. Hence, it is one of the
key ingredients in the manufacturing of lozenges,
cold rubs and balms.
Here’s a recipe for Pemmican, something I first tried in the Boy Scouts and when I was in the
military…tastes like crap but the Native Americans who created it swore by it
during emergencies…
To make pemmican you only need three
basic ingredients:
- lean meat,
- animal fat, and
- fruit or berries.
Find the recipe and plenty
of other useful resources at ‘Grandpappy’s’ site…
The Rule
of Threes states that a person can live for:
three-minutes without air,
three-days without water, and
three-weeks without food.
three-minutes without air,
three-days without water, and
three-weeks without food.
The
Nanny State- Your Freedom at
Risk!
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has
the power profoundly to change the way we find photos among the billions on
social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. The search tool uses tag
locations to quantify relationships between individuals, even those not tagged
in any given photo.
Warrantless searches by government expands…
The
Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!
BitCoins, which I've reported on several times during the past two years, is the current rage, but this blast from the past is interesting...
Thomas Edison on Government Created Debt-Free
Money
This article appeared in Prosperity, September 2000
In December 1921, the American industrialist Henry Ford and the inventor Thomas Edison visited the Muscle Shoals nitrate and water power projects near Florence, Alabama. They used the opportunity to articulate at length upon their alternative money theories, which were published in 2 reports which appeared in The New York Times on December 4, 1921 and December 6, 1921.
Objecting to the fact that the Government planned, as usual, to raise the money by issuing bonds which would be bought by the banking and non-banking sector — which would then have to be paid back with money raised from taxes, and with interest added — they proposed instead that the Government simply create the currency it required and spend it into society through this public project.
This is also the Prosperity proposal which can be read here.
Thomas Edison made it plain in the following excerpt from The New York Times, December 6, 1921 issue (“Ford Sees Wealth In Muscle Shoals”).
You can download the archived article at this link which opens as a pdf http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=3&res=9C04E0D7103EEE3ABC4E53DFB467838A639EDE
Here, the reporter is quoting Edison:
“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt.
“Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 — that is what it amounts to, with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.
“But here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20 per cent, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who directly contribute to Muscle Shoals in some useful way.
” … if the Government issues currency, it provides itself with enough money to increase the national wealth at Muscles Shoals without disturbing the business of the rest of the country. And in doing this it increases its income without adding a penny to its debt.
“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer, and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.
“Look at it another way. If the Government issues bonds, the brokers will sell them. The bonds will be negotiable; they will be considered as gilt edged paper. Why? Because the government is behind them, but who is behind the Government? The people. Therefore it is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have the benefit of their own gilt-edged credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency on Muscle Shoals, instead of the bankers receiving the benefit of the people’s credit in interest-bearing bonds?”
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2 comments:
Don't know how you do it but your stuff gets better and better!
Lots of great information...we do well with our machete for many uses.
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