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Should Al Gore go to prison for the Global Warming Hoax?
The science is now in and for the last 5 years, the planet is actually getting cooler. The Al Gore and the groupies that followed with movies, books and yes even legislation have perpetuated a lie that went worldwide. These are the same folks that what you to roll over for gov-health care
Yes!
Ironic that Gore gets a Nobel prize for a being a big liar and a jerk
Ironic that Obammy gets a Nobel prize for the same reasons.
Police Written Test 101
You’ve taken the first step. Your application is in the hands of a police recruiter. Now you’re ready to take the plunge with the written test. Like everything else in your quest for the badge, the key to success in the written test is: preparation.
First on your prep list is the test study guide. Before you leave the recruiter’s office, ask for one, or where you can get one. Many agencies have an online guide available on their website. These test guides tell you what types of questions to expect and how many there are per section, how much time you have on each section,and what skills and abilities are tested. If your agency does not have a test guide, ask the recruiter or your department contact, for information about the test.Find out where the test is taken, the time required to complete the test, what types of questions will be on the test (multiple choice, essay, etc.) and what areas of knowledge will be tested.
Ask also if the test is Civil Service. Civil service tests are usually only offered once or twice a year, and re-testing may also be limited. Check your guide for specifics, but in general, police written tests are timed,contain 100 to 200 questions in several sections, require 2-3 hours time for completion and are scored as pass/fail or require 70% correct to pass. Most tests are completed by hand (pencil-marked answer sheets), but many are taken on computers.
Study preparation for the written test is simple and straightforward. Read your test guide front to back and then read it again. Check out the library, internet and bookstore for more resources on police written tests, especially for sources with sample questions. Most libraries will have books in the reference section that contain explanations of the test sections most commonly used and sample questions for each. If
you find a test section that you feel is a weak area for you, spend extra time on it to tone down test day anxiety.
Nearly every police written test will include 5 areas of evaluation. These areas may be covered in separate sections of questions, or may be bundled within 2 or 3 sections. They include:
1. Accuracy of Observation/Memory
Your ability to retain and recall specific information. You will be given printed information, allowed to read and study it (no note-taking) for a certain amount of time (5 to 25 minutes), then the materials are returned and you are tested on the contents. Tests may be strictly memory recall, or may ask for conclusions to be drawn from the information given.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: remembering suspect descriptions, wanted posters/pictures, department policies and procedures, and safety and tactical procedures.
2. Written Skills
Your ability to communicate in writing. You will be given either a spelling or vocabulary test usually consisting of 25-50 words to be defined and spelled correctly. You will also be given, in some form, a scenario to read and take notes on. You will then write a report that relates to specific test-defined points of the scenario.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: report writing, witness statements and completing department forms.
3. Reading Comprehension
Your ability to understand what you read. You will be given materials to read and will then answer multiple choice questions on that information to show that you understand and can apply information you read.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: accurately reading and comprehending technical and legal information – court orders, department policy, state law, haz-mat warnings and training materials, for example.
Prepare for test sections 1 – 3 by cornering family and friends to give you verbal or written answer pop-quizzes on information you’ve read in newspapers and magazines. This is so close to a game that you shouldn’t have any trouble finding people to ‘play’.
4. Decision Making/Judgment Skills
Your ability to identify and comprehend critical elements of a situation and to choose an appropriate course of action. You will be given written, audio or video materials and then asked to pick the best response out of several responses, within an extremely limited time frame (10 seconds, for example).
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: responding calmly to provocation, handling authority appropriately, using unbiased enforcement, professional ethics and social maturity.
Prepare for test section 4 by studying sample questions,reading newspaper accounts of crimes and proposing what your response would be, and observing officer response during a police ride along.
5. Navigational Skills/Directional Orientation
Your ability to read maps and recognize the direction you are traveling. You will be given materials that ask you to find locations on maps, show point to point routes for specific location responses and suspect vehicle and foot chases.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: routing to calls to decrease response time, knowledge of street closures and need for re-routing, radio transmissions of a suspect chase, and emergency response to officer down/needs assistance.
Prepare for test section 5 by observing the officer during a ride along, sticking a compass in your vehicle and learning to use landmarks as orientation guides and lastly, involve friends or family in imaginary suspect ‘chases’. Your ‘chase’ exercise would be something like this: Both drivers are in cell phone contact. Your vehicle is 2 blocks away from your partner’s vehicle. You will begin your imaginary ‘chase’ of a suspect (at legal speeds)while giving directions to your ‘backup’ over your cell phone. Set a time limit (5 minutes). When the suspect is
‘apprehended’, see if your backup finds you. Then switch roles and have your partner be the lead vehicle. Your job will be to follow, and also to anticipate routes that would allow you to block the suspects anticipated direction of travel. Again, this is a great game and you’ll have little trouble finding partners.
The police written test is designed to evaluate multiple abilities and skills. In addition to the five evaluation sections noted above, you will also find simple math and problem-solving math questions, and behavioral questions that indicate character, compliance with laws and personal accountability.
George Godoy
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I am searching for a Sci Fi book without Title or Author. Can you help?
In the 80′s I read a series of 4 books about four prison planets. these were Science Fiction Books. Content is something like….. Once you land on the Planet, you can’t leave. I vaguely recall that everything on the planet has an organism in it and if you can control it, you can control everything. Can you help me in my search please?
I don’t recognise these titles or authors, but will investigate further. Thanks
Piers Anthony wrote Chthon in 1967 and I think you may be referring to that series. The next 3 books are Phthor and then Charles Platt wrote the next 2, Plasm (’87) and Soma (’88).
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Women: Issue Of Honor Killing
Definition
Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, mostly committed by male family members predominantly against female [relatives] , who are perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by individuals within her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce — even from an abusive husband, or (allegedly) committing adultery .The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a specific way to “dishonor” her family, is sufficient to trigger an attack.[1]
For example, honor killings can sometimes target those who choose boyfriends, lovers or spouses outside of their family’s ethnic and/or religious community. Some women who adopt the customs (or religion) of an outside group, may also be more likely to be victims. Furthermore, in certain cultures a raped single woman will garner no bride price if she marries, and thus be considered “worthless” to the family. There is some evidence that homosexuality can also be grounds for honor killing by relatives. Several cases have been suspected but not confirmed. There is also a documented case of a gay Jordanian man who was shot (but not fatally) by his brother.
Many hold the practice to be self-contradictory, since an honor killing is sometimes justified by its participants or supporters, as an attempt to uphold the morals of a religion or a code, which at the same time generally forbids killing as morally wrong.
Honor Suicides
Honor Suicides occur when, in an effort to avoid legal penalties for killing, a woman is ordered or pressured into killing herself. This phenomenon appears to be a relatively recent development. A special envoy for the United Nations named Yakin Erturk, who was sent to Turkey to investigate suspicious suicides, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that some suicides appeared to be “honor killings disguised as a suicide or an accident.”
History: Honour Killing
Based on proof
In the Valley of Mexico from 150 BCE – 1521 CE, the punishment for female adultery was death by stoning or strangulation, but only after the husband could prove the offence. According to interpretations of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Halakha (Jewish law) punishes certain sexual misconduct for both men and women, with capital punishment (also through stoning) as approved by a court.
Honor killings, generally considered premeditated, are typically held to be distinct from Crimes of passion, which occur throughout the world. Crimes of passion often have special status under the law. For instance, until 1975, the French Penal Code commuted the sentence of a husband who killed his wife after finding her in the act of committing adultery; this law passed into the legal frameworks of the many nations who based their modern legal codes on the Napoleonic Code. Thus, Crimes of passion are different from honor killings, in the sense that they are spontaneous acts that aren’t planned. Furthermore, many honor killings (along with some Crimes of passion) are based on sheer suspicion as opposed to (what appears to be) factual proof, in relation to the idea that an individual has committed or been involved in an “undesirable act”, in the mind of the perpetrator(s).
Honor killing in national legal codes
According to the report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the 58th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2002) concerning cultural practices in the family that reflect violence against women:
The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory decisions with regard to the honor defence in Brazil, and that legislative provisions allowing for partial or complete defence in that context could be found in the penal codes of Argentina, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Peru, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and the Palestinian National Authority.
Some of these, including those of Turkey, have since been modified.
Countries where the law can be interpreted to allow men to kill female relatives in a premeditated effort as well as for crimes of passions, in flagrante delicto in the act of committing adultery, include:
Jordan: Part of article 340 of the Penal Code states that “he who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives committing adultery and kills, wounds, or injures one of them, is exempted from any penalty.” This has twice been put forward for cancellation by the government, but was retained by the Lower House of the Parliament.
Countries that allow men to kill female relatives in flagrante delicto (but without premeditation) include:
Syria: Article 548 states that “He who catches his wife or one of his ascendants, descendants or sister committing adultery (flagrante delicto) or illegitimate sexual acts with another and he killed or injured one or both of them benefits from an exemption of penalty.”
Countries that allow husbands to kill only their wives in flagrante delicto (based upon the Napoleonic code) include:
Morocco: Article 418 of the Penal Code states “Murder, injury and beating are excusable if they are committed by a husband on his wife as well as the accomplice at the moment in which he surprises them in the act of adultery.”
Haiti: Article 269 of the Penal Code states that “in the case of adultery as provided for in Article 284, the murder by a husband of his wife and/or her partner, immediately upon discovering them in flagrante delicto in the conjugal abode, is to be pardoned.”
Turkey: Recently Turkey changed its laws concerning honor killings. Persons found guilty of this crime are sentenced to life in prison.
In two Latin American countries: Similar laws were struck down over the past two decades: according to human rights lawyer Julie Mertus “in Brazil, until 1991 wife killings were considered to be noncriminal ‘honor killings’; in just one year, nearly eight hundred husbands killed their wives. Similarly, in Colombia, until 1980, a husband legally could kill his wife for committing adultery.”
Countries where honor killing is not legal but is frequently ignored in practice include:
Pakistan: Honor killings are known as Karo Kari (Urdu: ˜ÇÑæ˜ÇÑ? ). The practice is supposed to be prosecuted under ordinary murder, but in practice police and prosecutors often ignore it. Often a man must simply claim the killing was for his honor and he will go free. Nilofer Bakhtiar, advisor to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, stated that in 2003, as many as 1, 261 women were murdered in honor killings. On December 08, 2004, under international and domestic pressure, Pakistan enacted a law that made honor killings punishable by a prison term of seven years, or by the death penalty in the most extreme cases. Women’s rights organizations were, however, wary of this law as it stops short of outlawing the practice of allowing killers to buy their freedom by paying compensation to the victim’s relatives. Women’s rights groups claimed that in most cases it is the victim’s immediate relatives who are the killers, so inherently the new law is just eyewash. It did not alter the provisions whereby the accused could negotiate pardon with the victim’s family under the so-called Islamic provisions. In March 2005 the Pakistani government allied with Islamists to reject a bill which sought to strengthen the law against the practice of “honour killing”. The parliament rejected the bill by a majority vote, declaring it to be un-Islamic.
Incident in Pakistan:- Ghazala was set on fire by her brother in Joharabad, Punjab province, on 6 January 1999. According to reports, she was murdered because her family suspected she was having an ‘illicit’ relationship with a neighbour. Her burned and naked body reportedly lay unattended on the street for two hours as nobody wanted to have anything to do with it. Ghazala was burned to death in the name of honor. Hundreds of other women and girls suffer a similar fate every year amid general public support and little or no action by the authorities. In fact, there is every sign that the number of honor killings is on the rise as the perception of what constitutes honor — and what damages it — widens, and as more murders take on the guise of honor killings on the correct assumption that they are rarely punished.
Indian Scenario
“Honor-killings”, which are widespread in some of the economically advanced States, is an example. Perpetrated under the garb of saving the “honor” of the community, caste or family, such incidents occur often as the State governments are not keen to take action. The acts of violence include public lynching of couples, murder of either the man or the woman concerned, murder made to appear as suicide, public beatings, humiliation, blackening of the face, forcing couples or their families to eat excreta or drink urine, forced incarceration, social boycotts and the levying of fines.
The largest number of cases was found to have occurred in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh – most of the incidents reported at the convention took place in these three States. One reason for the increased visibility of such crimes is the trend of more and more girls joining educational institutions, meeting others from different backgrounds and castes and establishing relationships beyond the confines of caste and community. Such individuals, both boys and girls, are being targeted so that none dares to breach the barriers of castes and communities. Significantly, in the majority of cases it is the economically and socially dominant castes that organize, instigate and abet such acts of retribution.
In Muzaffarnagar district in western Uttar Pradesh, at least 13 honor killings occurred within nine months in 2003. In 2002, while 10 such killings were reported, 35 couples were declared missing. It was estimates that Haryana and Punjab alone account for 10 per cent of all honor killings in the country. It is not surprising that no such category of crime exists in government records. In fact, there is refusal even to recognise this phenomenon. Data for such incidents are seldom available and they would mostly be classified under the category of general crimes. Moreover, most of such cases go unreported and, even when reported, often first information reports [2] are not filed and post-mortems are not conducted.
Caste panchayats have come to play an increasingly important role in Haryana and elsewhere, especially in situations where political patronage also exists. Central to the theme of honor and violence is the subordinate position of girls and women in all castes and communities. A woman’s chastity is the “honor” of the community and she has no sovereign right over her body at any point of her life. The retribution is particularly swift and brutal if she crosses caste and class barriers to choose a lower-caste man as her partner.
Case Study
Location: Ludhiana
Date: 12 January 2005
Ø Four of the five accused, including a retired police Sub-Inspector, in the shocking honour killing of a couple case have confessed to hiring professional killers for the job. They stated that the main accused, Amrik Singh, who was in Australia, had hatched the entire conspiracy and knew the killers, the Sadar police claimed.
Ø The police has also initiated proceedings for deporting the main accused, Amrik Singh, father of one of the victims Amandeep Kaur, from Australia while hoping that he would return on his own and join investigations.
Ø The city police has claimed of taking the help of the Australian Embassy for the purpose even as a lot of loopholes exist in the police investigations conducted so far. The police has not been able to furnish any concrete evidence against the accused other than the complaint of the boy’s family that the relatives of Amandeep Kaur had been threatening the couple for the inter-caste marriage.
Ø The four accused are the killed woman’s maternal grandfather B. S. Randhawa (aged over 70), a retired Development Officer with the LIC, and three uncles (fufars) — one of them a former Punjab Police Sub-Inspector Kulwant Singh, serving Head Constable with Amritsar police Tejinder Singh and Sukhdev Singh.
Ø Addressing a press conference SHO Sadar Sandeep Sharma claimed that the four accused had confessed before the police that the couple — wood trader Harpreet Singh and his wife Amandeep Kaur, a BDS student — was ‘punished’ for marrying outside their castes.
Ø They said Amandeep Kaur had lowered their image in the community by marrying outside the caste. They stated to the police that it took them nearly a year to carry out murders as they had been waiting for an opportune time.
Ø The revelation that two cops, one retired and one serving, were involved in the case has again put the Punjab Police in bad light. Four years ago, the infamous Jassi murder case hatched on similar caste lines also had a serving cop in the list of the accused.
Ø The case now hinges on the return of Amrik Singh from Australia with the arrested persons putting all blame on him and the city police convinced with the statements of the accused as well as the complainants without securing any evidence.
Ø SHO Sandeep Sharma said Kulwant Singh and Sukhdev Singh were arrested from Amritsar while Tejinder Singh and B. S. Randhawa were arrested from the local railway station here when they were trying to flee the city.
Ø The SHO said that the accused had threatened the couple and the boy’s relatives during their ring ceremony in Amritsar and later again at their marriage ceremony in Mariot Hotel in Ludhiana. The couple had got married in a city court about 11 months ago.
Ø After that Amandeep Kaur’s relatives had invited them to their homes and claimed they had accepted the couple. They had then organized formal ring and marriage ceremonies.
Ø Interestingly, the relatives of the accused had been claiming that the police had raided their houses and picked them up and kept them in illegal custody.
Ø The prime accused, Amrik Singh, had pleaded innocence in the case and counter alleged that some relatives of Harpreet Singh were involved in the murder. When asked if the police would register a case against them too as Amrik Singh has also made a statement like the complainants, the SHO said the police would investigate the charges.
Ø Meanwhile, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr G.C. Garg, remanded four accused of infamous couple murder case in one-day police remand.
Ø Amandeep Kaur and her husband. Hardeep Singh, was murdered mercilessly, allegedly by the family members of woman by hatching a conspiracy.
Ø The prosecution sought the police remand for further investigation. The judge remanded the accused.
Conclusion
From the above case it is very clear that not only Islamic society but, different societies in India are increasingly facing the problem of honor killing, to which the state authorities like panchayats and police are a party. Thus in such an ailing situation it is very important that such incidents are taken care of properly by the state and also the society. Such crimes can only be eradicated by:
1. Putting very serious penal sanctions.
2. Active police and panchayat body; as these crimes are mainly confined to rural or village areas.
3. Imparting education to the village people at large.
4. Judiciary must be positive on such cases.
Research from around the world point to the fact that violence against women can only be combated if there is a healthy partnership between women’s groups and the state apparatus. While women’s groups must protect their independence, on certain issues they have to work effectively with the criminal justice system, joining forces to protect the rights of women victims. Moreover, law is an important tool but it is one of the many strategies available to us. While fighting for justice through the legal system, we should also try and put in place education policies, health strategies and community level programmes that promote equality between men and women and teach non violent methods of resolving conflict. A multipronged approach to violence against women will result in far reaching changes, transforming attitudes and practices so that men and women can live in equality and dignity.
Bibliography
Books and Articles:
“Jordan Parliament Supports Impunity for Honor Killing,” Washington, DC: Human Rights Watch Press Release, January 2000
Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men Alleged first-person account of a victim of an attempted honor killing (ISBN 0-446-53346-7) The work is based on a repressed memory report and its authenticity has been questioned.
The Varied Contours of Violence Against Women in South Asia; Coomaraswamy, Radhika.
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Why is President Obama helping to usher in New World Order?
Looking at reports and books on New World Order, I can see a lot of the president idea’s are continuing to lead the USA down that road.
Do you see the same thing occurring?
Okay Ron Paul settle down about this "New World Order" thing
Is the discovery of no Iran nukes a good reason to get your news from alternative news source instead of tv?
It’s time to stop the madness. Boycott the mainstream media!
I have a real problem believing anything in the media or from anyone who has an agenda. This dates back to my 8th grade history class where an exchange student brought a histroy book from her country and another exchange student brought a history book from her country. Amazing how all of our history books spoke differently of a same moment in history. Each one had an agenda that suited a governments need to manipulate the masses.
Review of Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
I bought this book on the basis of the Reviewers’ comments. However, having had 3 previously bad experiences with following Reviewers’ recommendations, I really should have known better.
What I expected from a book with a story set in the 13thc and a parallel one set in the modern day was an intelligent story about two different worlds but with logical interfaces. What I got was a plot driven 13thc story and a weak, totally irrelevant modern day story.
It is difficult to understand why the modern day story has been included. It is light on substance, has no believable romance, and no believable central characters. You do not really care what happens to them and, although they are meant to be the modern embodiment of the 13thc characters, there is no discernible or credible link. Reading the book feels as though the modern day story has been included as ‘padding’ to make the novel appear to be more substantial that it actually is.
In the 13thc story, Alais has a strong and pivotal role in the plot as do her father, husband and sister. Although some of the characters are not well formed, those of Alais, her father and her husband are. You can fully understand why Alais becomes the protector of the Book of Words – the third in a trilogy of books – which will bestow tyranny in the event of power and wealth. Her sister is in search of these three books and has acquired two in her quest for power. However, it does not explain why good people are harmed and die and why some people are destined to make such dramatic sacrifices which would be too much to bear for the average human being.
Alais is the daughter of a State Official who had, many years before, sworn an allegiance to protect the books when at any time in his life he was summonsed to do so. When she realises her father cannot protect the Book entrusted to him she takes up the struggle.
However, the present day story is weak. Alice has no role in the story; she is working on an archaeological dig for a week at the recommendation of a friend (Shelagh). Although Shelagh has no role in the story at all, she later gets tortured and dies. But there is no rationale, rhyme or reason why this is so other than to show a devout Catholic in a bad light. It is totally meaningless and without plot and you struggle to establish why the torture has taken place at all or how it has furthered the story. In the post Da Vinci code era of knocking the Catholic Church, this appears to be the sole rationale for its insertion.
Alice, contrary to the Reviewers’ assertions, is not a ‘feisty heroine’ rather someone who lacks judgement, originality of thought and any discernible personality. Yet, going against the rules of the archaeological dig she is digging alone and stumbles on the graves of Alais and her husband – but does not know it at the time - it makes no difference that you, the reader, know. Alice purportedly feels a sense of affinity and also the presence of Alais, but there is no proper context to this feeling. Alice is imbued with ‘déjà vu’ and knowledge – without antecedent or rationale.
The ‘knowledge’ pits Alice against the modern day Catholic Church and the modern day pursuit of the grail – but none, absolutely none, of the story is believable or has any relevance other than Alice has the same name as Alais. However, the major problem is the so called romance between Alice and Will, whose only link to the 13thc story is that he shares the same name as Alais’ husband. Alice and Will meet briefly by accident on a park bench and the reader is meant to believe that they fall madly and passionately in love but you are, in fact, left wondering how and why. Alice has no personality and Will has no character or, excuse the pun, will power. Yet after one very brief meeting, you are asked to believe in their eternal love!
Quite frankly, into page no. 200 I had really become bored by the book. So much of it is unnecessary. All you are doing is reading a text book history lesson, into which some less than credible characters have been inserted. If you want to read about the siege of Carcassone, go there and visit the museum – you don’t need to read this book – the history is there in its own right.
The book is far too long. The 13thc story should have formed the only story. A large chunk of the book is totally irrelevant. It struggles to link the modern day story to the 13thc one. The narrative is weak which, combined with a lack of plot and lack of characters in the modern day story, fails to further the story. Instead, textbook history is relied on to ‘flesh out’ the novel.
I have discerned a trend in media reviews today, if they like you you will inevitably get a good review, whether they like it or not. I have read 3 books this year the content of which bear no actual relation to the reviews posted about them. It is clear some reviewers have not actually read the whole novel before committing pen to paper.
My advice is that you go to Carcassone and read your own history. It is probably much more interesting than this novel!! The novel is a formulaic, commercial novel riding on the back of Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’ therefore guaranteeing publication.
Jo Dominich
http://www.articlesbase.com/book-reviews-articles/review-of-labyrinth-by-kate-mosse-710867.html
What do you think of the New World Order theories?
New World Order is the supposed taking over of the world by an elite group of people (some think the illuminati). What do you all think?
I think the evidence is overwhelming that a very small number of people control the U.S. no matter what your point of view. Even if you think the country is Run by rich people or politicians then the number is still SMALL. The questions is not if a small number of people run the country but rather are they fairly elected-representing the people, and who are they? After hours of research I can tell you that my opinion is Yes people in the CFR and the UN are unelected and control the upper parts of government like the President. I need not explain though there are a lot of good books on the subject that I recommend one being "The Rise Of The Fourth Reich". Which is what we are going into : If you truly want an answer you will have to do your OWN research by reading books like the one I stated and then forming your own UNIQUE opinions on the materials that are available. The fascist people that were the Nazis haven’t gone away which is basically a national socialist movement. The sheer definition of fascism is when corporations and the government become intertwined and like one. What’s happening in America right now? Corporations and Government are becoming closer and closer each day which has always in history led to a dictatorships and trouble from fascism and socialism.
How can I prepare for the new world order?
I am a young adult in college with no money and not many resources. How can I prepare for the new world order? (such as living off the land, conserving, investing, books to read, survivalist, etc.)
First survival skills, check the net.
Save non hybrid seeds
Learn about gardening practice.
Living of the land is hard.
You need others to interact with.
Stop eating meat.
Locate water sources.
Learn to be patient, very patient.
You will survive the Dreaded nwoonly if you are spiritualy strong