Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
"I've
been absolutely terrified every moment of my life
- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single
thing that I've wanted to do."
- Georgia O'Keefe –
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1.
10 Most hated industries in America
2.
DIY Solar parabolic dish. Bicycle Generator
3.
10 Best cities for cheapskates + Tips, Free
Urban Survival Handbook
4.
How the government created Big Brother –our
growing surveillance society
The 10 Most Hated
Industries In America
"...The
perceptions of those two industries, banking
and real estate, have improved significantly
among Americans in the past year,
according to a new Gallup poll. And while Americans still
have a negative perception of the two sectors overall, both industries
have recovered a great deal from the plunge they took after the crisis..
..The poll asked 2,013 American adults to rate 25 businesses on a
5 point scale..."
Here they are:
1. Oil and Gas Industry
2. Federal Government
3. Healthcare Industry
4. Banking
5. Pharmaceutical Industry
6. The Legal Field
7. The Real Estate Industry
8. Electric and Gas Utilities
9. Television and Radio Industry
10. Hollywood
More
Stay-at-Home Dads
The number of
American Dads who remain home to care for children while the mother works has
doubled since 2001. More women than men
get college degrees and 28% of married mothers make more money than their
husbands.
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
9 ways to plan
for a lower grocery bill
Free DIY Bike Generator Plans from the Poor Man
Survival Crew…
Click on the Bio Diesel Plans folder
Free –
Ragnar’s Urban Survival eBook from the Poor Man Survival crew…
Here’s another neat solar cooker idea which is very
similar to the other solar cooker design by the same guy, enjoy!
Decoding
Retailers' Price Tags
There actually is a method to retailers' price tag madness.
At Costco, for example, prices that end in 97, 88, 00 are markdowns, whereas
those ending in 49, 79 or 89 are manufacturers' specials. Here is
a chart to decode various retailers' pricing policies including Gap, Old
Navy, Home Depot, JCP, Office Depot, Sam's Club,
Staples, and more. And here is more insight into Target's clearance pricing policies.
10 Best Cities for Cheapskates
Here are a few more
frugal living tips…
Growing tomatoes in a bra
Large tomatoes will require support. Tomato plants don’t
have a very strong stem and usually bend (sometimes break) under the weight of
the growing tomatoes - especially due to the larger tomatoes. Generally, “stakes” are used to provide some support to the stem so as
to keep the tomatoes off the soil. The book goes a step further and suggests
tying a used/worn-out bra between two stakes, in such a way that the cups
supports large tomatoes.
Using diapers as water reservoirs
for plants
This is again in the context of
tomatoes (is tomato gardening so popular? - there are a lot of tips and tricks
in the book about growing tomatoes). According to the book, you can reduce the
frequency of watering tomato plants by placing the absorbent material from a
disposable diaper underneath the soil, and then planting your tomato plant on
the top. Whenever you water the the plant, some of the water will be absorbed
by the soil and the rest will be absorbed by the diaper material. When the soil
dries out, the roots can still suck up water from soaked diaper
(scientifically, when the soil dries out, the soil itself sucks up the water
from the diaper - which is analogous to how a candle
wick draws up wax - by capillary action). This way you could probably
get away with watering just a couple of times a week.
Here are 5 key ways from the PurposeFairy.com
I found to be invaluable in changing my relationship to money
and developing a 'prosperity' consciousness:
1. Change your mIndset (yes, it is the first step!)
"Money is just energy, and the longer you believe you
will never have it, the longer you’ll be stuck in this money rut.
Challenge your current perspective on money by filling in the
blank “Making money is _______”. Was your answer hard /
stressful / boring / etc? If yes, time to change that!
Fill in the blank with NEW word from the following options
– fun / exciting / easy.."
2. Stop spending money on frivolous things
"Every single time you pull out
your wallet, ask yourself
“Is spending this money helping me get closer to my goal?”
If the answer is no, put it away and walk on by. Yes, it’ll
sting in the moment, but when you can finally invest in your
bigger life goals, you’ll be grateful you had
the willpower to say no when it mattered.."
3. Start talking about what you want
"Put it at the forefront of your
mind everyday. Tell everyone you
know. Talk to strangers about it. How could this possibly help
you with money? You never know. There just might be someone
out there who has connections to someone or something that c
an help you get it. The more you let the world know
you’re serious about asking it happen, the easier it is for
people to help you get what you want."
4. Make saving money a game
"Every time you say no to
spending frivolously, keep track
of exactly how much money you saved, and put that exact
amount of cash in your “BIG DREAM” jar/account (you do have
one of those, don’t you?). As you watch your jar fill up, it becomes
more and more motivating to continue to save, knowing that you’re
saving for something that really matters. Toss your spare change in t
here while you’re at it."
5. Get creative with your money-maker
"It’s
not all about saving – you’ve gotta be bringing in more moolah
too. I guarantee there are at least 50 ways that you could be making
more money right now...."
(As a matter of fact, one of the most valuable exercises I've ever done
was to make a list of 100 ways to make money (legally!)
It really opens up your brain...)
Most British
children
Are born out of wedlock making Britain the world
leader in broken homes – the USA is number two.
The Nanny State-We love our government
Guilt by
Dislike
Television programs
and movies that glorify prosecutors and make every arrested person appear to be
guilty have changed our justice system. In their book, Mistrial, Mark Geragos
and Pat Harris explain how the standards for convicting a defendant have
changed as a result of a cultural shift in attitudes. Now, to get a conviction,
it is enough for a prosecutor to make the jurors dislike the defendant and to
prove that the defendant acted oddly.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
Dear Unconcerned Citizen…
The biggest threat to
national security, privacy & freedom is our own government…
How the U.S. Government
Forged
a Surveillance Society
The following
article is from a past issue of the DeWeese Report. For more information and to
subscribe click
here.
On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush invited members of Congress and
the media for a meeting in the cabinet room of the White House. The mood was
understandably anxious, somber: The World Trade Center lay in rubble, the
Pentagon had a hole gouged into it and shock and awe had settled over the
United States. One of the most extraordinary periods of American history – what
would come to be known as the “Post 9-11 Era” – was beginning.
The president gravely laid out the situation and the steps his administration
would take to secure the homeland, but during the course of the meeting he also
made this significant declaration: “We will not allow this enemy to win the war
by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.”
Those were heroic words of principle and patriotism in a traumatic time, but
history would show that government’s reaction to the terrorist threat was the
exact opposite than the protection of freedoms. Instead, government rushed in
with a massive plan to create a surveillance society, intending to watch and
document every action by the American people as a means of ultimate security.
FBI Tracks Your Transactions
The government is watching your purchases made with credit cards
and even with store loyalty cards. They no longer need to get a warrant to do
this thanks to more and more intrusive laws being passed in the name of
national security. Some people argue that it doesn't really matter as long as
you are not doing anything illegal. Others, including myself, feel that
mistakes are often made by governments, and I prefer more privacy. This video
describes some of what federal agents are doing with their...
Continues here...
http://www.thesecretinformationsite.com/secrets-videos.html
First, Congress passed the Patriot Act, giving law enforcement powers to
circumvent many Constitutional guarantees to personal privacy and home
security. Then Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The
department immediately became an army of more than 170,000 employees by
combining twenty two existing federal agencies, including the
Border Patrol, Coast Guard, Secret Service, FEMA, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Customs Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection,
Federal Protective Service, FBI’s Computer Incident Response Center and several
more lesser agencies of the same type. In the middle of this rush for security,
Congress created the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). Also born in this
Post 9/11 era were state fusion centers with the intention of combining
federal, state and local law enforcement agencies into instant response teams,
intending to eliminate bureaucratic overlap and red tape, in case of another
terrorist attack or Hurricane Katrina-type disasters.
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