Monday, April 25, 2022

23 Things To Put In Your Pet Survival Kit, Pet Heath Insurance, Save Water, DIY Weapons

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23 Things To Put In Your Pet Survival Kit, Pet Heath Insurance, Save Water, DIY Weapons, More…

Most people assume they can just feed their pets human food if they have to, but that's not always true. Animals have different nutritional needs, and foods that are okay for humans could make your pets sick. And there other considerations besides food, anyway. Here are a few things you should gather for them.

1. Pet Food - Start with at least a two-week supply of food, then build from there. How long it lasts depends on what you get. Your pet food will last a lot longer if you buy the good stuff from a pet store and avoid the imported stuff found at places like Walmart...

23 Things To Put In Your Pet Survival Kit

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A Quick Guide To Water Filters

Water is the first line of survival. It doesn’t matter how well prepared you are in other areas. You can live longer without food than without clean water. Dirty water kills more people than disasters. A good water filter can mean the difference between life and death. Over the years, I have advised a lot …

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21 Ways to Save Water and Money

Many utilities are raising water rates, so we all could probably use some tips for conserving both water and money. Here are several ways to avoid being left high and dry after paying your water bill.

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8 Natural Weapons You Can Find In The Wild

In a remote, wilderness survival situation, the needs are fairly basic: water, fire, shelter and food. But in some environments, a need for weapons emerges. On a basic level, simple weapons can be used for hunting.

In areas where wildlife is well established, there may be a need for self-defense if not the reassurance that you can at least do something if confronted by a wolf or worse—a pack of feral dogs. Bears are another possibility but primitive survival weapons are no match for a charging bear.

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Although Extremely Dangerous, the Molotov Cocktail Allows Even an Untrained Civilian to Take on a Tank

The near-total mobilization of Ukraine’s citizenry in the face of war with Russia has resulted in everyday people pitching in to help the resistance. One weapon in mass production, the Molotov cocktail, is so simple that citizens can make it in their kitchens with ordinary ingredients. The result is a lethal, handheld weapon that is even effective against the most heavily-protected tanks.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Biden's IRS Steals More, Barter, Food Shortages, Save on Utlilities

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The IRS is About to Steal Even More of Your Money

The American Revolution was fought partly over taxes. An unjust regime was holding our country hostage by exacting huge tariffs and taxes on everything its citizens did.

Eventually, patriots had enough and resisted, demanding the right to run their businesses and lives as they saw fit.

These issues have not gone away with the centuries. In fact, they’ve only become even more pressing.

Now, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is out with a new way to steal even more tax money from hardworking Americans just trying to make ends meet.

The IRS’ New Snatch and Grab Plan

This coming 2022 tax year is going to have an important update from the IRS that will change the way things work for many in the gig economy.

With inflation on the rise and money tighter than ever, following years of unhelpful lockdowns, many of us have a side gig.

Whether that’s crafting on Etsy, driving Uber on the side, or renting out a room on Airbnb, we may hope that we can earn a couple of hundred dollars here and there, without placing it as a sacrificial offering at the feet of the tax beast.

However, that’s no longer the case. A 2022 rules update will make any earnings over $600 necessary to be reported by online platforms directly to the IRS.

In other words, if you earn $641.28 selling shirts and collectibles on eBay next year, the IRS is going to know about it. They’re going to require you to list every single dollar and cent of those earnings.

Technically, you already are required to do that! The issue is just that now it will be doubly enforced. Businesses will have to fully account for everything they pay you as well, which will obviously lead to a slowdown in hiring new small-time operators.

It will also make signing up to use and sell on platforms more time-consuming and bureaucratic.

The vast majority of online platforms and apps where people earn money will now have to report a 1099-K straight to the IRS.

Just in case you were worried that big government power wasn’t going far enough, we can now make sure every dollar and cent is accounted for.

What Was the Law Before?

The law before this change has been that businesses only had to give the IRS a 1099-K if they had over 200 transactions and earnings of over $200,000.

So, this is a significant tightening up of the rules.

Congress has already been working behind the scenes to tighten up tax law. Democrats are very focused on making sure every small timer online or driving an Uber a couple of days a month is paying up.

Where is all this tax money going, anyway? Certainly not to protect our southern border.

https://www.mainstpress.com/the-irs-is-about-to-steal-even-more-of-yo

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If you sell online, even small time sellers, have received notices from eBay that any sales over $600 now must be reported to Biden’s IRS-these Demo-RATS are evil and the epitomizes the Nanny State where the G in government stands for GOUGE the citizen

The idea is to whittle away at side gigs and the Middle Class & this allows the Biden thugs to scrutinize your finances even more..

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Imagine a scenario where cash has become worthless. It could be hyperinflation, where it takes a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread. Or it could a devastating act of terrorism such as a bioweapon or an EMP that sets the country back 100 years. Whatever the cause, there could come a day when our money becomes useless.

And it won't necessarily be a nationwide disaster that causes this to happen. In a local disaster such as a powerful hurricane or earthquake, the power will be out which means the banks will be closed. And if they don't reopen, there won't be enough cash to go around.

This is why it's important to store plenty of toilet paper. But that's not enough. What if the crisis lasts a long time and you run out? What if you have to abandon your home? What if your toilet paper is destroyed by flood or fire? In case that happens, you'll need to consider some substitutes for toilet paper...

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Are rising utility bills threatening to sink your finances? Try a handful of these tips to lower your electric and water bills instead.

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10 Low Cost Healthy Foods for the Thrifty Budget

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The world we used to know is rapidly unraveling….

It’s only a matter of time before we feel significant consequences.

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Further supply chain disruptions, leaving stores with more empty shelves?
Cyberattacks on the infrastructure we Americans need to live?
Dirty water that is undrinkable?
Blackouts across entire states?

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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Corporatists and government elites are eating us alive

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"The best time to prepare for a crash is before the crash. The biggest crash in world history is coming”

Corporatists and government elites are eating us alive

Do you know the "stewed frog" phenomenon?

Drop a frog into a pan of hot water suddenly, and he'll instinctively jump to safety. But put him in tepid water and turn up the heat gradually, and he'll sit contentedly unaware that he's slowly being stewed to death.

This is how the powers-that-shouldn't-be have convinced the masses to accept less freedom under the guise of "protecting individuals." It has not happened overnight but has been decades in the making, so most people aren't even aware of it.

As we demand of our government more and more regulations to protect us from all possible risks, we wind up imposing such a daunting web of regulations on business that only the biggest companies can afford the legions of lawyers necessary stay in business. As we demand of our government more and more safety nets to protect us from our own bad financial, social, and health decisions, we progressively give up more of our essential liberties in order to purchase a little temporary safety.

We've evolved to a form of what I would call crony capitalism where only the elite hobnobbers get to participate. We've evolved to accept a phony fiat currency with the intrinsic value of toilet paper. We've evolved into a society that no longer wants to own property because of repressive taxes, and probably can't because easy lending practices have driven the price of real estate sky high (no, it wasn't the free market that did that, it was the banks. A home is only worth what a lender will loan, not what a customer is willing to pay).

America was founded on principles of freedom and built on a spirit of entrepreneurship. America became the bastion and premier practitioner of free-market capitalism, powering its rise to the biggest economy in the world and the undisputed champion of free enterprise.

The United States still has the largest economy in the world according to GDP, but not for long. The Economist Intelligence Unit thinks China will claim king of the hill status by 2026. Fortune magazine reports that "an overwhelming majority of economists — not to mention experts at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and most large global investment banks — expect China to surpass the U.S. as the world's largest economy in current GDP terms by the early 2030s." By one measure, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yardstick called Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) already has China's economy at $24.2 trillion compared to America's $20.8 trillion.

The planners behind the U.S. economy gave rise to China, and since 2000 America's share of the global economy has declined every year except for one. By 2025, China is expected to be responsible for 17.2% of the global economy. In contrast to the U.S. decline in this century, since 1990 China's percentage share of the global economy has risen every single year but one.

This will come as no surprise to my Bob Livingston Letter readers, considering that I wrote, in 1997: "Did Richard Nixon, in his quest to open China in our era, know the plans of the global elite? Because of the great deflationary threat of Chinese production of cheap goods (all planned) the Fed can create mountains of credit (money). With this creation of trillions, they can continue to buy the world with no fear of price inflation. In defiance of reality, the Fed can pump money with no regard for a depreciating dollar … No price inflation means low-interest rates and a booming U.S. bond market. The China card, as in the British opium trade, is now a continuation of Anglo-American economic monopoly and expansion. Machiavelli could not dream of such an esoteric chess game. Now, do you know why China has the United States' most favored trade status? Surely you do."

Is it a glaring irony that a communist country is apparently better at capitalism than the United States, the birthplace of capitalist democracy? Perhaps not.

We can see evidence of the decline of capitalism in the U.S. not just in the numbers but in real life all around us. The mom-and-pop shops that were the bedrock of entrepreneurship are gone, replaced by mega-markets run by mega-corporations headquartered somewhere else with no real concern for the community. The small business owner, who provided jobs that fed families in the neighborhood, can't compete with the supercenters. The middle class, the fundamental core that has held American society together, is being killed off.

American capitalism seems to no longer spread as nourishment across the landscape. We have Super Conglomerates who control the media, and control almost all the food for sale. That's not free market capitalism in the classic Adam Smith model. Entrepreneurs have a hard time setting up shop with a great idea and a few bucks saved up or borrowed from friends or family and make a go of it. They have to go begging to the "sharks" to get funding, and like as not surrender some or all of the rights to their Big Idea in the process.

We can trace the origin of the problem back to 1913 when the Fed was created in order to print money, and eventually 1933 and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Though Roosevelt's plan was intended to end the Great Depression, it didn't. World War II did. It opened the door for government spending to kick down the road problems that should be left to the free market to fix. It opened the door for Americans to accept the idea of government handouts and assistance. Eventually, we not only accepted it but came to expect it, even to demand it.

I know you may be wondering what you personally can do about the decline of American capitalism. But within the question lies the answer to who is responsible for the loss of economic freedom.

We are.

We have not only allowed our freedom to be carved away bit by bit, but we have repeatedly elected leaders to hasten the carving because we've been duped into wanting more services from the government for "free."

We expect the government to provide, and make sure nothing too bad happens to us. We expect the government to keep us safe, and we incrementally give away our rights in doing so. Instead of using our own common sense and gumption to deal with offending companies, we left it to the government in many cases.

Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. The attack on American capitalism has been a bipartisan affair with politicians from both camps taking an active hand. And we're the ones who put them in charge when we voted for them.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter^®

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21 Tips I Wish I'd Heard BEFORE I Started Prepping

When people first start prepping, they usually make a few mistakes. I know I did. Sometimes it's because they get caught up in the idea of prepping and rush into it without taking time to plan and really consider what they're preparing for. Other times it is simply because they don't have enough information. If only I had known then what I know now.

As Alfred Sheinwold said, "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself."

Don't waste your time, money and energy by repeating the same mistakes that I and so many others have already made. Instead, read this list of prepper tips I wish I'd heard before I started prepping...

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