Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
"When I
let go of what I am, I become what I might be".
- Lao Tzu -
- Lao Tzu -
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1.
Comrade
Citizen-Your life is no longer your own!
Ich fühle mich glücklich
2.
What the middle class should be doing now, 7
Ways to be a better prepper
3.
Teaching children to become more savvy consumers
4.
What to do When they are hunting YOU!
5.
Struggling with debt-learn to cope from
unexpected sources
Advice from Dear Slavey – the recent government shutdown was a preview…
Middle Class Americans, here are the key things to do NOW:
1) STOP using credit cards. And unless you already own your house outright, don’t even think of buying one. The prices are still horribly inflated and once the collapse comes, your equity will evaporate. The first things that will happen when the government defaults on its debt is a swift collapse of the dollar and a massive interest rate increase. Banks will be panicking and trying to survive. They’ll call in all their loans and attempt to get whatever they can from you if you have debt or a mortgage. Seriously, cut up your credit cards now and pay them off ASAP. Or if you can’t do that while continuing to eat and especially if you rent and have no assets, and your credit rating is already horrible, just stop paying them, especially if you owe $20,000 or less. By the time they start coming after you, so many people will be defaulting they won’t bother with the folks who don’t owe them substantial amounts of money and have nothing they can seize and sell.
2) STOP buying anything but food, water, precious metals, solar panels, gardening supplies, and the materials to build an outhouse in the backyard. Stock up on food and water, enough canned food and water to last your family two or three months. And if you live in a house, or have property, dig a deep hole, build an outhouse and buy the chemicals you need to keep it hygienic, because if the collapse comes there will be no utilities for a while. Convert to solar (they’re starting to sell solar panels at IKEA in Europe – hopefully here soon), and start growing your own food inside and outside your home.
3) STOP thinking any large corporation values your work and spend your free time working on developing your own small business if you’re in a typical 9-5 job. Obamacare has a hidden feature, it’s no longer viable for large employers to hire you full time because they’ll be forced to provide health benefits if they do. I have friends – a LOT of them – who used to make $70K plus with excellent educational backgrounds (useless pieces of paper these days) making $16 bucks an hour now doing the same jobs they used to be paid twice as much to do even five years ago who are fired every six months, then rehired by a different department in the same company two weeks later – or just let go – to keep them part time. Get out of the rat race as soon as you can and be your own boss. If this guy can start his own business, you have no excuse.
4) Maintain relationships with people you know will have your back and make a plan to take care of each other when the shit hits the fan. Look what happened in Acapulco when no government agency was there to do anything for them last month. Jeff Berwick and many others jumped in and kept people alive on their own. We have to be prepared in advance to have the resources to do that for ourselves as well.
Note: The Poor Man has been urging our readers for
years to start a sideline business & you’ll find plenty of examples and
tools to use at:
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I 100% agree with this article. It’s one thing to read
about prepping here and there but to be a “better prepper” you really do have
to learn new skills, prioritize your preps, and be involved in the community. I
know many people choose to do that by leaving comments, others via forums, but
there…
Continue reading 7
Ways to be a Better Prepper (link)
How convenient is it this…Home Depot now offers the
Sunforce 600 watt wind turbine?
Check it out here
http://earthpowernews.com/home-depot-sunforce-600-watt-wind-turbine/
Sunforce 600 watt wind turbine?
Check it out here
http://earthpowernews.com/home-depot-sunforce-600-watt-wind-turbine/
How To Teach Children To Become Savvy Consumers:
Let Them Spend
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/10/how-to-teach-children-to-be-savvy-consumers-let-them-spend.html
Let Them Spend
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/10/how-to-teach-children-to-be-savvy-consumers-let-them-spend.html
Several conversions for common freeze dried foods that
can be downloaded as PDF: “…But there is one thing I don’t love about homemade
soups: Many require LOTS of washing, peeling and chopping of vegetables. So,
instead, I use my pre-washed, pre-peeled, pre-chopped freeze dried veggies.
They are nutritious (picked when fully ripe), full of flavor…
Continue reading Veggie
Conversion Chart Printable (link)
Some very good thoughts by Max Velocity about avoidance
strategies if/when you’re being tracked by others, especially with dogs. This
reminds me of various police shows (not the movies) where it was virtually
impossible for the dogs to lose the scent, you had to fool the handlers: “I
received the following request: “I am wondering…
Continue reading When
They Are Hunting You (link)
Portable Emergency Food Preparation Preparedness that is made in
the U.S.A.! http://www.prepstove.com
The Nanny State-We love our government
- How
Many New Yorkers Have Enrolled In Obamacare? Not A One
- NYGOP
Slams Bill Clinton for Campaigning in Town Where Terrorist he Pardoned
Committed Crimes
The
Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense.
And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
― Laurence Gonzales
― Laurence Gonzales
It’s a sobering
reality to most of us that we are not
in control of our lives. Your
life is no longer your own!
Comrade Citizen-You Must Comply… Ich fühle mich
glücklich.
The illusion of control is the tendency for people
to overestimate their ability to control events, for instance to feel that they
control outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over such as
government regulation. Example: You no
longer have any personal or financial privacy thanks to government interference
and requirements. The effect was named
by psychologist Ellen Langer
Can anyone tell me where the local, state or federal
government doesn’t have control over our/your business or personal
lives? Each year the government, at
every level, strives to dominate and control every aspect of our lives from the
bedroom to the boardroom. Increasingly, citizens
have less and less say-so in how our government dominates our lives.
"We the people" The preamble of our
constitution begins with these words. Nonetheless our nation was conceived with
individual rights and freedoms. The word "I" which represents the
individual, we all have an individuality of our own, yet government at every
level has sought to eliminate individual rights much like Communist regimes.
There are two
things that control our lives and the way we live them. Our
behavior and attitudes and lifestyle are governed by them.
Definition of Politics: The activities associated with the governance
of a country or other area, esp. the debate or conflict among individuals or
parties having or hoping to achieve power.
Some people prefer being
controlled, to have others do the thinking for them. I recall when I was drafted into the service
(against my will) how many of us laughed at what we called “lifers,” those who
spent their 20 or so years in the service because they got their ‘three squares
a day, clothing, and were told what to do – they didn’t have to think for
themselves about much of anything.’
Most pencil-pushing
bureaucrats are like this as well.
They’re unable to do anything outside of the massive book of rules and
regulation. They simply do their time
and get out unable to think on their own even if the ‘rule’ winds up costing
the taxpayer untold extra time and money to accomplish something in an
efficient manner…this is one of the reasons why government costs us so much and
squanders untold billions of our national resources…too stupid to think on
their own but oh so willing to demand that citizens obey like little robots.
Most people are still deluded
into believing they are free but Truth is only as real as our delusion allows. The fact is the United States has
become an Orwellian delusion or like the opener from the old TV show The Outer
Limits.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to
adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it
louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune
it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.
We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur
or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will
control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your
television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are
about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to
the outer limits.
Great moments in bureaucratic stupidity: requiring a disaster plan for a magician’s rabbit
And yet the bureaucracy wonders why we laugh and point at them. Magician Marty Hahne received a letter from the US Department of Agriculture ordering him to submit a disaster plan for the rabbit he uses in his act:
My USDA rabbit license requirement has taken another ridiculous twist. I just received an 8 page letter from the USDA, telling me that by July 29 I need to have in place a written disaster plan, detailing all the steps I would take to help get my rabbit through a disaster, such as a tornado, fire, flood, etc. They not only want to know how I will protect my rabbit during a disaster, but also what I will do after the disaster, to make sure my rabbit gets cared for properly. I am not kidding–before the end of July I need to have this written rabbit disaster plan in place, or I am breaking the law.
Oh, he also has to prove he’s received training in how to implement Operation Save The Bunny.
My plan: In the event of disaster, Mr. Hippity-Hop is on his own.
As I was writing this a newscast (in MI) announced a legislator wants to pass a law making it illegal to smoke in your own vehicle if there is someone under 18 in the car…
Will the Nanny State ever stop meddling in our lives
and just leave us alone?
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