Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
"What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern
ourselves."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1.
Free
Online Courses
2.
BleachBit for more online security
3.
15 Ways to lower your winter utility bills
4.
DIY Survival Bars, the Defensive Umbrella
5.
Who is the average EBT user (in reality)?
9 Free Courses You Can Take Online
NEW YORK (MainStreet)
– Ask any parent what they think is most important to their children’s success
in life, and chances are good that all of them will say the same thing: an
education. And, most often, what they mean by “education” is “a college
education.”
But with tuition
costs rising astronomically and student
loan defaults following suit, it seems like more young people than ever are being
priced out of a quality education.
Thankfully, the Internet and the many minds connected to it have stepped
up in some notable ways to provide alternatives to a bricks-and-mortar (and
money) education. Leading universities increasingly make their courses
available for free online – sometimes
complete with video lectures and homework assignments – and other institutions
have sprung up from scratch to give people more ways to educate themselves in
digital classrooms.
That being said, this new world of education is still on its first legs.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of online educational resources Fastweb.com and Finaid.org, has been following
developments in the world of free online education for some time now
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
Raised Beds on the Cheap
Raised beds can be expensive to make. By the time you add together the cost of materials, you can easily spend over $50 to $75 per bed. Here is how to have raised beds in your garden for very little or no money.
Raised beds can be expensive to make. By the time you add together the cost of materials, you can easily spend over $50 to $75 per bed. Here is how to have raised beds in your garden for very little or no money.
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and
tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred
temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there.
Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean a thousand applications
including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera,
Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes
advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk
space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming
Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.
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Winter heating bills are
expected to rise up to 13 percent this year. Take these steps now to reduce
your heating costs.
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http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/make-your-own-homemade-survival-bars/Make
Your Own Homemade Survival Bars (Recipe)
Get Out of
Debt, Get Prosperous, Get Independent
I’m sure
you’ve heard the advice of carrying around a cane as a potential defensive
option but they’re way out of style. Instead, why not consider an umbrella? And
not just ANY umbrella but one meant to be a weapon? Here’s the first part of
the post: “The old English spy movies and TV shows…
Continue
reading The
Defensive… Umbrella? (link)
The Nanny State-We love our government
Sure, food storage and bullets are the glamorous parts of
prepping, but when it comes down to being ready for survival–truly ready–you
have to be ready, willing, and able to do all the other little things that keep
you alive, here’s a few suggestions you might be missing……
Stunning
Act of Domestic Violence: Florida Woman Arrested for Shooting Her
Boyfriend....with a Water Gun
The sources do not mention whether or not the brutal assault was carried out with a small water pistol or the more dangerous Super Soaker type of water gun.
Man Sues After Busted for Drugs that Turned Out to Be Jolly Rancher Candies
Let that be a warning to the rest of you... you better think twice before you buy candy in America.
The sources do not mention whether or not the brutal assault was carried out with a small water pistol or the more dangerous Super Soaker type of water gun.
Man Sues After Busted for Drugs that Turned Out to Be Jolly Rancher Candies
Let that be a warning to the rest of you... you better think twice before you buy candy in America.
The
Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!
For a large percentage of formerly middle
class Americans there has been a mighty fall – one deliberately set up by our
own government, by the banking system, and by the “
Who IS the average EBT user?
Nearly 48 million Americans receive assistance to buy food, which is up from 32 million when Barack Obama took office. While we know there has been a concentrated effort to get more people to accept assistance, the sheer volume of those who cannot afford food anymore is a symptom of the greater economic problems plaguing the country. It’s also important to note that in some states, if a person’s ex-spouse is in arrears for child support and has his or her wages garnished, the custodial parent receives that payment through the EBT system.
For example…
- The median household income in America has dropped for the 5th year in a row, according to the US Census Bureau.
- Over 1/3 of Americans who are able to work are unable to find a job - 36% of the population is unemployed.
- Obamacare is turning us into a part-time nation. For every full time job created in the United States in 2013, we’ve created four part-time jobs. Employers are not hiring people full time if it means they’ll have to pay for skyrocketing insurance benefits.
- More than 2.3 million residential properties were foreclosed on in 2012, leaving families displaced when they could no longer afford their homes.
- 50% of all Americans are considered “poor” or “low-income” according to the US Census Bureau.
- The unemployment rate in the U.S. has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row, and 42 percent of all unemployed Americans have been out of work for at least half a year. (source)
- Those often being hit the hardest are those just entering the labor market. For example, about 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed last year. Most of the jobs that are available for young college graduates (or for the rest of us for that matter) are crappy low paying jobs that often come with no benefits. In the United States today, one out of every four workers makes ten dollars an hour or less. Now, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs. (source)
Over the past decade, many formerly middle class people have been cast into poverty through no fault of their own. They’ve lost their jobs, their homes, and their cars. When you have no job, or you have a job that pays only minimum wage, how can you keep the electricity on, keep your children clothed, and still feed your family? Through the deliberate impoverishing of the middle class, people are being controlled and enslaved. Innocent children, through no fault of their own, are going hungry – for some of these kids the only meal that they get in a day is the free lunch offered at their school.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-average-ebt-user-may-not-be-who-youd-expect_102013#sthash.KUOcjSGw.dpuf
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