Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
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Free Press is the Guardian of a Free People
In This Issue:
1.
How Americans
waste time and money
2.
Wilderness
Survival Training
3.
Free help with
farm leases, etc.
4.
A town which
lives off-the-grid
5.
Homemade
self-defense weapons
Dr. Laurence J. Peter…
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
How Americans
Waste Time and Money…
Americans have certainly not cut back on vices because of the recent difficult economy, with the exception of casinos which were hurt badly by the slowdown. Money spent on alcohol and tobacco is about the same as it was two decades ago. Sin and vice apparently has not suffered because of hard times.
Real incomes have not risen over the course of the last ten years, something that has not happened in any decade since the Depression. Over the course of the last two decades the increase in real income was only 10%.
In the U.S. we waste an unappetizing amount of food (while somewhat ironically still adding to our waistlines). Estimates of how much food we toss vary, but according to Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It), we’re wasting around 40 percent of the total.
The average American
wastes 1,400 kilocalories a day. [Kilocalories is another word for what
Americans generally just call "calories."] That amounts to 150
trillion kilocalories a year for the country as a whole — about 40 percent of
its food supply, up from 28 percent in 1974. Producing these wasted calories
accounts for more than one-quarter of America’s consumption of freshwater, and
also uses about 300 million barrels of oil a year.
Despite the dismal economy
and an increase in credit card debt, Americans increased their spending this
holiday season. Indeed, shopping for
non-essentials accounts for an average of $8000 annually per household. Shopping, it seems, remains our number one
hobby.
Cooking spray can damage the coating on nonstick
pans, which could cause food to stick. Very high heat can
also break down the coating.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
WANT TO LIVE
OFF-GRID?
Many people fantasize
about moving "off-grid," and getting back to a simpler, saner way of
life. If this might be you, check out Nick Rosen's website here.
The UK-based Rosen has
specialized in off-grid advice for years. Besides his site, check out his book,
Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More
Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America.
http://www.off-grid.net/
http://www.off-grid.net/
Training programs for
desert, tropic and cold weather survival, wilderness medicine, fall protection,
climbing safety and rescue, and snow cat safety.etisurvival.com
Best Google
Alternatives
You might want to move
away from Google entirely, whether you're tired of things like the Google Plus-ification of your search
results or the fact that
Google's mining ridiculous amounts of data and selling you to advertisers, or
maybe you're just plain tired of Google creating services it doesn't actually
improve over time. You may scoff at the idea of using Bing or other less
popular competitors, but they're quite good—sometimes even better—than
Google. We've just become too entrenched to notice.
If you want to take a
serious look at the alternatives, we did some digging and a lot of
experimentation to find the best alternatives to Google's most popular services
(and we also asked you guys to share your favorites). Most of these services are still from big
companies, like Microsoft or Yahoo!, but we've tried to include a few services
off the beaten path as well.
Help with
drafting farm lease agreements-Free
Small farmer or land
owner, learn the ins and outs of lease agreements, cash rentals, crop share,
pasture rental agreements and more.
RipOffReport.com
Report and learn about
scams and frauds - their motto is “Don’t Let them get away with it.”
Homemade self
defense weapons - Resources
Placing aluminum foil directly on the bottom of your
oven can trap heat and throw off oven performance, and might even void the
manufacturer’s warranty. The foil can also melt, which can damage the oven or
even cause a fire.
Instead
Use a sheet of heavy-duty foil (a few inches bigger than the cooking pan) on the rack below the one you’re using. It will catch drips and allow heat to circulate.
Use a sheet of heavy-duty foil (a few inches bigger than the cooking pan) on the rack below the one you’re using. It will catch drips and allow heat to circulate.
The Nanny
State Updates…
The use of implantable
RFID chips in humans and animals is rapidly spreading. A lot of employers now
require that their employees take them for identification purposes. Some cities
in the U.S. are actually making it mandatory to put microchips into your pets.
You will no longer need to create, track or remember
multiple passwords for various log-ins. Imagine you will be able to walk up to
an ATM machine to securely withdraw money by simply speaking your name or
looking into a tiny sensor that can recognize the unique patterns in the retina
of your eye. Or by doing the same, you can check your account balance on your
mobile phone or tablet.
Each person has a unique biological identity and
behind all that is data. Biometric data – facial definitions, retinal scans and
voice files – will be composited through software to build your DNA unique
online password.
Referred to as multi-factor biometrics, smarter
systems will be able to use this information in real-time to make sure whenever
someone is attempting to access your information, it matches your unique
biometric profile and the attempt is authorized.
When biometric
identity systems become widespread enough, authorities will pretty much know
where you are and what you are doing at all times.
War On Bank Privacy: US Extends Its
Influence
Some foreign countries used to protect the fundamental right of bank privacy. The US has thrown its weight around to make formerly banking friendly countries far less friendly.
Some foreign countries used to protect the fundamental right of bank privacy. The US has thrown its weight around to make formerly banking friendly countries far less friendly.
Bar Keepers Friend has
rhubarb as its active ingredient and will really cut through grease and grime
on just about any surface.
The Parting Thought – Oh, this will never happen!
In the first decade of the 21st century, Americans
lost 5,500,000 manufacturing jobs. US employment in the manufacture of computer
and electronic products fell by 40%; in the production of machinery by 30%, in
motor vehicles and and parts by 44%, and in the manufacture of clothing by 66%.
Meanwhile,
government schools continue to dummy down the population…
Approximately a third
of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights
guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
It's gotten so bad that, as my friend nears
retirement, he says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country
so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning
American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable
destruction, the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the
American brain. It is just that bad.
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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