Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
7 Ways
to earn $1000 this month
2.
Master of Disaster – Learn from the Red Cross
3.
Your Papers Please!
4.
Holiday gift card bonuses, TradePal for
selling
5.
The Magical Misery Tour of the American Dream
Most Americans have no real understanding
of the operation of the international money lenders.
The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.
It operates outside of the control of Congress and
manipulates the credit of the United States."
-- Barry Goldwater
of the operation of the international money lenders.
The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited.
It operates outside of the control of Congress and
manipulates the credit of the United States."
-- Barry Goldwater
Where Are Your Papers?
By Wendy McElroy
Requiring a passport as the key to freedom of movement is akin to gagging someone while maintaining that he retains freedom of speech. The passport has grown into what is arguably the single most powerful tool of totalitarian America, second only to law enforcement itself. It no longer pretends to protect individuals; not a single terrorist has been apprehended as a result of passport checks. But it does cement the totalitarian state. The mandatory passport should be reviled and rejected as an abuse of human rights and common decency. A nation that requires one cannot be free.
By Wendy McElroy
Requiring a passport as the key to freedom of movement is akin to gagging someone while maintaining that he retains freedom of speech. The passport has grown into what is arguably the single most powerful tool of totalitarian America, second only to law enforcement itself. It no longer pretends to protect individuals; not a single terrorist has been apprehended as a result of passport checks. But it does cement the totalitarian state. The mandatory passport should be reviled and rejected as an abuse of human rights and common decency. A nation that requires one cannot be free.
“Your papers!” In old movies, the demand is barked at trembling travelers by a Nazi
with a guttural accent. If the demand is made in the opening scene, then the
audience knows immediately that they watching a totalitarian state in which
travelers are in danger.
“Your papers!” now rings out at every American airport and border crossing. The accent is different but travelers need to recognize with equal immediacy that a totalitarian state is playing out in front of their eyes, and they must be careful.
“Your papers!” now rings out at every American airport and border crossing. The accent is different but travelers need to recognize with equal immediacy that a totalitarian state is playing out in front of their eyes, and they must be careful.
The passport has grown
into what is arguably the single most powerful tool of totalitarian America,
second only to law enforcement itself. It no longer pretends to protect
individuals; not a single terrorist has been apprehended as a result of
passport checks. But it does cement the totalitarian state. The
mandatory passport should be reviled and rejected as an abuse of human rights
and common decency. A nation that requires one cannot be free.
Passports clearly
function as an essential and effective means through which a state can control
the person and property of its residents. Consider the United States. No one
can legally leave without one.
And yet passports can be denied for a myriad of reasons that have nothing to do with being “an enemy of the state” but rest strictly on statutory grounds. Common reasons for denial include owing money to the IRS, a federal arrest, a state-criminal court order existing, a drug arrest, being on parole or probation. Law-enforcement databases are routinely checked against both passports and applications to weed out those who have committed such offenses as being more than $2,500 behind on child-support payments. Passports can also be revoked for several reasons, although revocation is far less common.
And yet passports can be denied for a myriad of reasons that have nothing to do with being “an enemy of the state” but rest strictly on statutory grounds. Common reasons for denial include owing money to the IRS, a federal arrest, a state-criminal court order existing, a drug arrest, being on parole or probation. Law-enforcement databases are routinely checked against both passports and applications to weed out those who have committed such offenses as being more than $2,500 behind on child-support payments. Passports can also be revoked for several reasons, although revocation is far less common.
Ed. Note: Wendy McElroy is a Canadian born individualist
anarchist and individualist feminist. She was a co-founder along with Carl
Watner and George H. Smith of The Voluntaryist in 1982. Her articles are widely
published on libertarian websites. A version of this column originally appeared
on mises.org on September 7, 2011
"Any time the government starts a new program and labels it with some acronym that has a powerful, potent name, like FAST AND FURIOUS, PATRIOT ACT, VIPR, and the like, it usually spells trouble for the citizens of this country. This new program involving an unconstitutional search of a vehicle for no reason is nothing short of Gestapo tactics. All tyrannical governments have internal controls that limit the movement of their citizens. The USSR and its internal passports is a classic example.”
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streamlined.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
7 Ways to Earn
an Extra $1,000 This Month
In the past year, I've
spent most of my working hours helping people and businesses that want to earn
more money. Regardless of whether it's an individual or a group, they want to
be more financially productive during the work day.
Based on this work,
I've discovered two things about earning more money.
First, you need to be
willing to work more if you want to earn more. Everyone wants to magically earn
more money by working less, but it doesn't work that way. Second, you need to
be willing to try new things. You don't necessarily need to be creative. You
just need to…read the full post at:
DIY Build your
own stone wall
TRADEPAL LETS YOU SELL, TRADE OR BUY THINGS VIA YOUR FACEBOOK NETWORK
Tradepal is a new website that lets you list things for sale -- or to
trade -- and promote them using your Facebook account, for free. You can also
purchase things from your friends, or friends of friends.
Planning
to give gift cards this Christmas? Buy from one of these businesses, and you'll snag a bonus gift card for
yourself (or someone on your list).
Tired of
getting holiday catalogs with gift ideas that fall outside of your budget?
Then, check out the dollar store holiday catalogs.
Introduction to Masters of Disaster
The American Red Cross
Masters of Disaster® curriculum is centered on a series of ready-to-go
lesson plans that help organizations educate youth about important disaster
safety and preparedness information. Masters of Disaster contains
lessons, activities, and demonstrations on disaster-related topics that
organizations can incorporate into daily or thematic programming. The
curriculum is non-sequential, allowing organizers to choose the lesson plans
that best fit into their programming. The Masters of Disaster curriculum
materials meet national educational standards and are specifically tailored for
lower elementary (K–2), upper elementary (3–5) and middle school (6–8) classes
NOTE: Be sure to click on their Preparedness
Fast Facts section for free PDF reports.
There is
one quite easy way to check the authenticity of a silver coin: Use a magnet! If
the coin is at all attracted to the magnet, it's fake
The Nanny State Updates…
Congressional
insider stock trades…the Poor Man wrote about this weeks ago!
On September 16, 2008
Paulson and Bernanke held "closed door meetings" with members of
Congress and warned them that the financial system was about to totally
collapse.
But instead of racing
out to save the financial system, author Peter Schweizer says that many of our
representatives in Congress raced out to save their stock portfolios.
Congress
pushes back on healthier school lunches
WASHINGTON (AP) — Who
needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?
In an effort many
9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school
lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration's efforts to take
unhealthy foods out of schools.
The final version of a
spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the
Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the
use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting
the use of whole grains. The legislation would block or delay all of those
efforts.
The bill also would
allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA
had wanted to only count a half-cup of tomato paste or more as a vegetable, and
a serving of pizza has less than that.
(I’ll bet Congress isn’t cutting their fat cat free lunches).
So much for
freedom of the press in NYC
The NYPD is using more
than words to fight journalists. On Tuesday, ten reporters were arrested, another
was put in a choke hold, and others were subjected to police harassment.
In fact, since the
birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement two months ago, 23 journalists have
been arrested and countless others have been roughed up, tear-gassed
and pepper sprayed. There have even been reports of police using high-powered
strobe lights to disable video cameras and block people from recording their
actions.
Occupy Wall Street movement
turned briefly chaotic as police scattered a crowd of rowdy protesters — including
a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old
activist — with blasts of pepper spray.
As many as 76% of
Americans say they lose sleep between Thanksgiving and New Years due to hectic
schedules and stress.
The Parting Thought – The Middle Class Magical Misery
Tour
“The Middle
Class Is Being Systematically
Wiped Out of Existence in America . . .”
– Business Insider
Wiped Out of Existence in America . . .”
– Business Insider
According to
research by Wells Fargo, 75% of the American middle class expects to work
through their retirement.
The very foundation of
the American Dream is that anyone — regardless of their background — can
become a success through hard work and determination.
And for more than 200
years that dream has been alive and well, allowing each generation to grow up
better off than their parents.
But in the
span of only a decade, the American dream has vanished, becoming nothing but a
mirage
Governments make
promises they can't afford to keep. Governments don't generate wealth. They
just move it around, taking more and more from the productive sector and
shuffling it over to various classes of parasites
The Occupy movement,
the financial crises in Europe and in our own country and events in Latin
America and the Middle East continue to escalate. Countries are in turmoil.
Leaders have been toppled. Have we
entered the time prophesized by some cultures around the world – the Mayan era
of 2012, the Andean people’s Pachacuti (Time of the Great Turning)…an era of
international turmoil?
A mutant, viral and
extremely dangerous form of capitalism has thrived under the ever-increasing
powers of Wall St., Big Business, and governments that support them (in other
words, under the continuing reign of the robber barons or the corporatocracy
(as some have called it.)
Today thousands of
citizens rise up and demand that we take back our government and our banking
systems from bloated fat cats who are not interested in long-term sustainable
practices, corporate social responsibility, or a marketplace that serves us,
the People
What about you…are you
satisfied with the status quo?
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No question in our mind as the how scary our government has become. The Constitution has become a relic. Is it time for another revolution?
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