Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
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Free Press is the Guardian of a Free People
In This Issue:
1.
Now is
the time to shop for Christmas
2.
13 Smart Money Moves to do before end of the
year
3.
Resources to put more jingle in your pocket
4.
Emergency water pump for your well, best
hangover cures
5.
Growth of spy technology used against US citizens
Now’s the time
to shop for “Christmas”
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
13 Smart Things to Do Before Year End
Maybe you've been putting off these tasks, or maybe they haven't occurred to you. Before the new year, you can take out this whole list doing just one thing every couple of days and save both time and money next year. Read more.
Maybe you've been putting off these tasks, or maybe they haven't occurred to you. Before the new year, you can take out this whole list doing just one thing every couple of days and save both time and money next year. Read more.
Living Better
on Less…Plus Put Some After Holiday Jingle in Your Pocket
Product
Testing to Get Freebies
Companies want your
opinion of their new offerings. Give
you’re your thoughts and snag a free goods…
VocalPoint.com
- Online community of
Moms, take short surveys and get online newsletters with offers for new product
testing.
Crowdtap.com -
Answer polls to assist
brands understand your interests and they send free products to you to test;
earn additional points by sharing your opinions with others.
SheSpeaks.com
- Test new products,
offer feedback on discussion boards and get deals from popular manufacturers.
Online Jobs
that really pay
Call Center
Employee - Many businesses now
outsource their customer service departments via virtual call centers. Training and scripts are provided at these
sites:
Interview
Transcriber - Journalists
and writers conduct hundreds of interviews and have little time to transcribe
them. This task is easily handled over
the internet with digital voice files.
There are many services which will connect you.
Give Fashion
Advice and Get Paid for it
This site allows you to share your fashion finds by creating
your own free virtual store of clothing and accessories you recommend. You get a 10% commission on purchases which
you’ve suggested. No cost.
When unemployment
meets frugal spending you get internet sites offering a happy median for both.
If you need to make extra money and the traditional job hunt isn't working,
then consider one of these 6 websites that offer more of a non-traditional
approach to making money. I must warn you, some of the sites require you to be
a bit on the creative side, be open-minded, and at times have a good sense of
humor
If the water source is
not chlorinated, household bleach (5% sodium hypochlorite) should be added.
Regular, unscented bleach is best but brand does not matter. No bleach needs to
be added if you are storing chlorinated water from a public water supply. (Good product to have on hand if your
electric pump goes out).
Beat Holiday
Hangover Cures
The older our family
gets, the less alcohol we seem to consume.
By comparison, as younger men if one of us went missing, they’d put our
picture on a bottle of scotch! Here are
some recommend treatments for hangovers.
>Use ibuprofen -
don’t use drugs with acetaminophen (Tylenol) as it can contribute to liver
damage when mixed with booze.
>Drink a glass of
water, then another in an hour. Fluids
help move the booze out of your system faster; the more dehydrated you are, the
worse the hangover symptoms.
>Walk briskly - it
will increase the blood flow to your liver and kidneys.
>Pop a B-100
supplement - alcohol robs your system of this vitamin so take the supplement
for you start drinking and the morning after.
The Nanny State Updates…
Local Cops
ready for war - Squandering your tax dollars
“There’s no
terrorism here…militarization of police is an expensive boondoggle”
The average American
household will have spent an astounding $4,155 on gasoline by the time the year is over.
The Growth of
Spy Technology against US citizens
"We are
seeing a growing number of repressive regimes get hold of the latest, greatest
Western technologies and use them to spy on their own citizens for the purpose
of quashing peaceful political dissent or even information that would allow
citizens to know what is happening in their communities," says assistant secretary of state for human rights
Michael Posner in a recent speech.
Back in 2002, at the
first Intelligent Support Systems World Conference (aka The Wiretappers'
Ball), only 35 people attended. Today, this closed, by-invitation-only event
hosts five conferences worldwide and attracts hundreds of vendors, thousands of
buyers, and sells an estimated $5 billion in surveillance gear to government
agencies, both foreign and domestic. These events are not open to the
public.
According to reports
from the Washington Post and Wikileaks, the products for sale include, but are
not limited to:
Technology that allow
governments to track hundreds of cellphones at once;
E-mail interceptors
that read e-mails by the tens of thousands;
Programs that make an
owner's own computer take a picture of him or her and send the image to
government goons – or anyone else;
Programs that send
phony updates for iTunes, Adobe Acrobat, and other popular programs in order to
infiltrate personal computers, much like a virus or malware;
A suitcase-sized
device capable of monitoring Web traffic from public WiFi hotspots such at
cafes, airports, and hotels;
Bogus cellphone towers
that let government employees track phones up to three miles away and listen to
calls;
There are a number of
cases involving law enforcement abusing surveillance technology, such as GPS
and cellphone tracking without a warrant.
One of my close
associates has spent many hours inside a municipal communication center that
processes 9-1-1 calls and dispatches police, fire, and ambulance calls for
several communities. These "comm centers" are the central nervous
systems of local law enforcement and are frequently staffed by retired,
disabled, or off-duty police officers. They are loaded up with many
types of advanced technology.
Guilty until
proven innocent. Already, the
feds have expanded the propaganda campaign to be suspicious of everyone. In a
past newsltters, I touched on how a financial transaction of only a few
thousand dollars can get you written up on a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)
by your bank, insurance agent, or broker and get you logged into a government
database of suspicious individuals. This snitching culture is further expanded
with the Department of Homeland Security's "See Something, Say
Something" campaign. In effect, the government asks ordinary citizens
to act as secret police and snitch on their neighbors for no reason except
suspicion.
The following is from
a piece that Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently authored about these new bills....
"Imagine
my astonishment when the newest threat to free speech has come from none other
but the United States. Two bills currently making their way through congress --
SOPA and PIPA -- give the U.S. government and copyright holders extraordinary
powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor search results (and this
is even without so much as a proper court trial)"
Being able to engage
in peaceful protests is one of the most important rights that the First
Amendment protects. But in recent years that right has been under attack like
never before. A recent article detailed some
of the violence that law enforcement authorities have used against protesters
in 2011....
In recent weeks, we have seen law enforcement
authorities brutally dragging female protesters to the ground by their hair. We
have also seen them use pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang
stun grenades against protesters. If this is how protesters are going to be
dealt with from now in America, then we have completely lost the moral high ground.
How will we ever get other nations to take us seriously when we criticize their
brutality against protesters when we are so brutal ourselves?
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1 comment:
Our greedy, self serving politicians is what gives me a hangover. Happy New Year!
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