Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Startup America, Resources for entrepreneurs
2.
Urban Survival skills everyone should know
3.
Shire Silver Debit Cards
4.
Smarter coupon strategies
5.
Who owns your rain water?
Nobody talks
of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what
nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick
Preventing Fires and other Disasters
There’s not much one can do to prevent
natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding. Our planet has witnessed an explosion of
natural and man-made disasters during the past few years. For most of us, it’s how we prepare in
advance that helps us to survive such calamities.
First responders, the
Red Cross, the Salvation Army and others have shown themselves invaluable for
coping with the aftermath of disasters…our Federal government, not so much.
One tragedy we see all
too often on the news are home fires.
Mobile homes in particular seem especially vulnerable to devastating
fires, frequently with loss of life.
Most, but not all fires can be prevented. We once lived in an area prone to lightning strikes
and our home electronics were frequently fried by such strikes. We always keep smoke detectors and fire
extinguishers throughout the home in the event of such strikes.
Here are a few tips from Consumer Reports on
preventing house fires:
Hire an expert.
If you own an older
home, hire an electrician to inspect your home wiring. He might suggest adding arc-fault circuit
interrupter which detect electrical arcs caused by faulty wiring or damaged
appliances – 30,000 fires a year are caused by this.
Monitor Appliance Recalls. Register appliances when you purchase them so you’ll be notified of
safety recalls. For older appliances,
check SaferProducts.gov or Recalls.gov
Live Clean. Clean your dryer’s exhaust duct regularly to prevent
lint buildup. Grease buildup in range
hoods is another fire hazard as are wires hidden under carpets and rugs.
Get rid of flammable
debris near heaters, furnaces and other potential danger zones.
Stay safe with an
ounce of prevention and hopefully, we won’t be watching you and your family on
the evening news.
Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
The privately run Startup
America Partnership started up
itself just last year. It should not be confused with Startup America, a government initiative to accelerate small business
growth that President Obama
touted earlier this year, although it shares some goals. SAP is run by Scott Case (who helped found the name-your-airfare company Priceline) and Steve Case (who started AOL). They don’t share blood – just good business sense,
which they want to share with you too.
SAP has a substantial business
resource directory that includes
offers for free advertising, preferred credit rates, analytics and research
tools, payment platforms – all kinds of stuff. They host
start-up business events and conferences across the country. And those who sign up for free membership get
access to a lot of networking opportunities and experts who host webinars –
check out the online learning sessions.
New-Useful online magazine for entrepreneurs, Free Subscription
Each month we will teach you the skills you need to
know to succeed online. You will Learn Conception, Creation,
Monetization, Socialization, Automation and Recreation
MacGyver, Survivalist,
or Stockpiler: The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Should Know…
The fantasy of an
impending zombie apocalypse may inspire urban survival fantasies in the most
level-headed of us, but zombie apocalypse or not, knowing how to survive the
breakdown of social amenities we take for granted is a legitimate skill. Here's
a look at the basic urban survival skills you need to know catered to your
skill set.
To help get a good
understanding of what's needed for urban survival, I talked with Dr. Arthur
Bradley, author of The Handbook to Practical Disaster
Preparedness for the Family and Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and
Solar Storms. He points to
three types of survival skills people latch onto:
The
Stockpiler: someone with a wide
assortment of supplies but very little knowledge of how to actually do
anything.
The MacGyver: someone who can jury rig anything with duct tape, a
pencil, and a pack of chewing gum.
The
Survivalist: someone who can find
dinner in an old stump and keep warm using a roll of toilet paper and a rusty
coffee can.
We'll guide you along
the path to applying each type of skill to the main factors of survival:
shelter, water, food, and rescue. Before we go into the specifics for each
survivalist, we're going to look at the most important skill that applies to
everyone: Read more at:
Shire Silver Debit Cards - A new wave of currency?
New Hampshire has become a magnet for liberty-minded types. It's the home
of the Free State Movement and also home to the use of precious metals as
private currency via Shire Silver Cards.
Smarter Coupon Strategies
Those coupons from the Sunday newspaper circular will save you even
more if you wait until the item goes on sale…most items go on sale every 6-8
weeks. Always check the store brand
before you buy; it’s usually cheaper. You
can donate coupons, even recently expired ones, to military families
overseas at this site:
The Nanny
State Updates…
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
What Inflation
has done to our dollar-the cruelest form of tax
"It is a
continual tax on every single dollar that you own. As your money sits in the
bank, it is constantly losing value. Over time, the effects of inflation can be
absolutely devastating. For example, if you put 100 dollars in the bank in
1970, those same dollars today would only have about 17 percent of the
purchasing power that they did back then. In essence, you were hit by an 83
percent "inflation tax" and all you did was leave your money in the
bank.”
The Obama
administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master's degrees.
According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies "fund 209
different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs —
and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program."
A total of $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize
photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.
China lends us more money than any other
foreign nation, but that didn't stop our government from spending 17.8 million dollars on social and environmental programs for China.
The U.S. government once spent 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
The Economist,
the London-based news weekly – and a supporter of President Obama’s candidacy in 2008 – highlights
the problem in its latest cover story, “Overregulated America.” They
note the irony: “The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and
badly written regulation…
A candidate is someone
who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each
other.
The Parting Thought – Does the government own
everything?
(NaturalNews) Many of the freedoms we enjoy
here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of
the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you
takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of
this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have
long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties
because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.
As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html#ixzz1nrGqDcCA
As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html#ixzz1nrGqDcCA
If you think about it, what do all the Presidential
candidates have in common? None of them
are addressing the real issues afflicting America, other than Ron Paul, they
each seem to embrace more socialism.
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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