Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
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This Issue:
1. Disaster lessons seldom learned
2. Affordable Survival Food
3. Longest lasting batteries
4. 5 absurdly cheaper versions of pricey
products
In war as in life, it is
often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best
alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Lessons Seldom Learned
In an incident like Sandy,
evacuation might be your smartest option. Sandy killed 90 or more people in the
U.S., and scores more in Canada and the Caribbean. Virtually every one of the
dead had one thing in common – they elected not to evacuate in the face of
an approaching killer storm of historic proportions.
Your Highest Priority is the safety of you and your family. The first step in developing an evacuation plan is to establish a meeting place. Hopefully, you're all together at home as you prepare to leave, but if you're ever separated, you should all know where to reconvene to get set to evacuate. In addition to a meeting place, you should establish where you'll evacuate to. Choose at least two bug-out destinations in case one is inaccessible. And map out multiple routes to each.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Looking for affordable survival food?
Here are 7 nutrient-dense foods that are affordable and easily stored for
survival:
http://www.naturalnews.com/037832_superfoods_stockpiling_survival.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/037832_superfoods_stockpiling_survival.html
The Longest Lasting
Batteries
Consumer Reports tested batteries and reports on the ones that last the
longest (and those that pooped out quickly). Best bet, however, is to buy
"pre-charged" rechargeable batteries
Auto Insurers Ranked
We all pay our car insurance bills faithfully in the hopes
that should we need to make a claim, the company will compensate us quickly and
fairly. Over 12,000 consumers who settled claims in the past six months were
asked to rate their insurance carrier. See how they rank.
Windows 8 for Dummies --
Free
5 absurdly cheap versions of pricey products Is
a $13 e-reader or $14-an-ounce caviar too good to be true?
Use CouponMom.com & TheKrazyCouponLady.com to find
money-saving matchups between sales.
The Nanny State Updates…
by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)- Guest Blogger
We all know or should know
the Fourth Amendment and how it protects all citizens from an illegal search
and seizure of our property and person. ' "The right of the people to be
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon
probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing
the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.' " Cornell Law
Over the years, this valuable
right has been watered down. Recently, the Roberts Court heard arguments in a
case that did not get much media attention. That case involved a man who was
arrested and detained after a traffic stop just because he had been in an
apartment that the police had just exercised a search warrant. The name of the
case is Bailey v. United States and oral arguments in front of the Supreme
Court were heard on November 1st, 2012. Bailey v. United States The narrow issue that the Supreme Court is deciding is
whether an individual can be detained by the police merely because he recently
left a residence before the police executed a search warrant at that location.
Sounds like a no brainer, doesn't it? Read more of this post
The Parting Thought-
It seems like every few weeks, something
else comically totalitarian becomes a legal reality in the US. Law by law, they
are dismantling Americans' right to do anything or keep anything private. The
latest insult to privacy and freedom comes from US District Judge William
Griesbach who ruled that it was reasonable for DEA agents to enter rural
property without permission or a warrant in order to install a bunch of covert
digital surveillance cameras to get evidence that marijuana plants were being
grown on the property.
Griesbach has adopted a recommendation by
US Magistrate Judge William Callahan that says this warrantless surveillance
did NOT violate the Fourth Amendment. According to Callahan: “The Supreme Court
has upheld the use of technology as a substitute for ordinary police
surveillance.”
So much for the Constitution. What a
joke. States are by their nature deceptive, thieving and violent. Expecting
them not to erode liberty, wealth and privacy over time is the height of
delusion. This is what annoys me about mini-archism...because the government
that starts off the smallest will allow the creation of the most wealth (that's
what liberty does) and steal more and more of that wealth to end up the biggest
government. This isn't even conjecture anymore. We have the evidence before us.
The most strictly limited government the world has ever seen has in just two
hundred years grown into the monster with a claw in almost every other country
in the world...and which steals the lives of people for growing a plant the
state doesn't like.
The two defendants in this case are
facing up to life in prison and $10 million in fines...for growing plants.
Meanwhile presidential candidate and stuffed suit Mitt Romney is still calling
marijuana a “gateway drug”... and promising muscular
dystrophy patients that he'll send armed men to kidnap or kill them if they use
marijuana to ease their pain.
Gateway drug, Mitt? In my experience
people generally either like marijuana or they like cocaine (or meth or crack
or heroine). The people I know who smoke marijuana ONLY smoke marijuana. They
are the most boring drug-users ever. They don't move on to “harder” drugs. And
they aren't nearly as entertaining or dangerous as people who abuse the legal
hard drug known as alcohol.
Source: Dollar Vigilante
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1 comment:
Might fine as usual! Glad to hear you're on the mend.
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