Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
Most Americans have become domesticated, docile livestock, subservient
to the state.
From The Frozen Dog Ranch Files
In
This Issue:
1. Homegrown currency
2. Building a cob house
3. 4 cool ways to stash cash
4. My favorite DIY site
5. American liberties end at the
workplace door
Hemet Liberty Script - A Home Grown Local Currency
One of the most
fundamental rights of all people is the right to engage in commerce. If one man owns a Pizza Parlor and wants to purchase a
pair shoes, he can pay for the shoes in dollars or he can offer the owner of
the shoe store an alternative form of currency. He can also trade his products
and/or services for the shoes.
If the owner of the Pizza didn't want shoes, but instead
wanted a bouquet of flowers, he could initiate a three-way transaction that would allow
all three merchants to get what they wanted without having to pay cash.
The Hemet Community Liberty Certificates have been created to facilitate
the exchange of goods and services between local business owners and their
customers.
Participating merchants accept the
Hemet Liberty Script just as they would paper dollars. Merchants that receive payment in the form of certificates
can then use them to purchase goods and services from other participating local
merchants.
The bartering for goods and services has been around for
thousands of years. When a man participates in it, he has the power to create
his own money. When money is scarce, we can offer our goods and services to
others in exchange for their goods and services without having to spend our
hard earned cash. Do you think that the owner of a Pizza Parlor would be better
off paying for the things he needs with Pizza or Dollars?
The Hemet Liberty Script is a local currency
that has been created to enable local merchants and members of the community to
purchase the goods and services they need without having to spend their hard
earned cash.
When a producer of goods and services agrees to accept
the Hemet Liberty Script they will be issued 20 Hours of local currency which
they can activate the certificates
when they purchase equivalent of $200 in goods and services
at participating locations.
When a member of the network recommends
another provider of goods and service that becomes a new member the member that
refers that friend will receive 10 hours of local currency or the
equivalent of $100. They can activate their currency when they
purchase goods of services from other members of the network.
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
Building a Handmade Cob House
Self-sufficiency does not happen in a day, a week, or
even a year. It takes time and effort.
If you want to get in touch with someone, then the
best source that
you can make use of is the internet.
Using the internet to get information has been very common as well as
convenient for a lot of people.
However, not all the information we need can be answered by a simple
Google search. This is especially true when you want to get a
specific person's current location.
Read more...> http://esitesecrets.com/articles/1759/1/People-Search-by-Name---Locate-Anyone-Today/Page1.html
you can make use of is the internet.
Using the internet to get information has been very common as well as
convenient for a lot of people.
However, not all the information we need can be answered by a simple
Google search. This is especially true when you want to get a
specific person's current location.
Read more...> http://esitesecrets.com/articles/1759/1/People-Search-by-Name---Locate-Anyone-Today/Page1.html
4 Cool Ways
to Stash Cash
Ever
lost a bag or had your purse stolen while you're on vacation? That recently
happened to one of our staffers who was traveling abroad - boo! But it made us
wonder: What cool, upcycled methods we could use next time to have a secret
spot for extra money, just in case? Check out the awesome, upcycled projects a
few talented crafters came up with, and vote for your fave!
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A new easy-to-carry water purifier that could give
Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go successfully
completed its first operational test. The new purifier was developed to help
reduce enormous logistical burdens already faced by forward-deployed personnel.
There are two versions -- one that can treat 1,000 gallons per day and one that
can handle 5,000 gallons per day.
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PictureLife
Picturelife is a multi-platform
photo storage and organization tool that helps you protect your photographs by
securely backing them up.
To get started type in your working e-mail address and
create a password, then click the blue Continue to Next Step button. That will
whisk you directly to the interface to start backing up your photographs. When
you click the blue Start Backing Up Your Photographs button it will download a
setup.exe. Run the .exe to install the Picturelife Sync application.
You can also upload photos, using the upload button at
the bottom left of the page. https://picturelife.com/
One of my
favorite DIY sites-Many categories
The Nanny State-We love our government
House
narrowly kills move to rein in NSA; bill unites Obama, Bush officials
Top intelligence officials from
the Obama and Bush administrations, along with senior House lawmakers from
both parties, succeeded Wednesday in heading off the first legislative
challenge to the domestic snooping program
exposed by National Security
Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Arrayed against them was an
equally odd cross-section of the political spectrum. Tea party libertarian Republicans and Democratic civil rights
advocates — generally at odds — were united behind an amendment to a must-pass
defense spending bill that would defund the National Security
Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ phone
records.
The amendment was defeated in a
217-205 vote.
Lights, camera, economy: Obama uses rhetoric of class warfare in
jobs speech
Deploying
the rhetoric of class warfare against congressional Republicans, President
Obama warned Wednesday that “social tensions will rise” if Washington doesn’t
take steps to reverse the growing gap between wealthy Americans and the middle
class.
In
a campaign-style speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the president
proclaimed that America during his presidency has “fought its way back” from a
recession and called on voters to “pressure Congress to invest in our future” by spending more on such items as
education, clean energy and infrastructure.
NOTE: Nice gambit
and true, but the Washington-Wall Street Cartel makes the rules it seems to
favor a shrinking middle class. See
today’s article on the Modern Debt Slave.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
A new poll reveals Americans believe their freedoms are continuing to
slip away under President Obama, with more than 49 percent reporting decreases
in their personal freedoms under his leadership this month.
Our
American liberties end at the workplace door.
If
you have a job, the Freedom Train stops at the workplace door. More employees
are hired on a part-time or temporary basis to deny them rights and benefits.
Many of your privacy rights are gone. Your employer can use your company
computer to read your correspondence, and your company cell phone (if you have one) to
track your movements.
Free
speech? You can be fired for expressing political views online, even when
you’re not at work. As employment lawyer
Mark Trapp told Bloomberg Business Week, the“freedom to speak your
mind doesn’t really exist in work spaces.” Or, in some cases, outside it.
The
longstanding right of workers to organize and form a union is also under
assault. A corporate-funded group called ALEC, the American Legislative
Exchange Council, is coordinating the loss of union rights for public
employees. Governors and legislators are using budget shortfalls created by
corporate misbehavior and tax cuts for the wealthy to argue that governments
can no longer afford to honor union contracts.
Your
rights don’t even begin where your, er, bathroom breaks begin. As
Mary Williams Walsh reported in the New York Times, “employees
at lower rungs of the economic ladder can be timed with stopwatches in the
bathroom; stonewalled when they ask to go; given disciplinary points for
frequent urination; even hunted down by supervisors with walkie-talkies if they
tarry in the stalls.”
We’re losing our “right to life” in many
different ways — from birth through old age.
It’s
always striking when some of those who defend an unborn child’s “right to life”
ignore the fact that the United States ranks 49th in infant mortality,
according to the latest statistics. Or in the fact that African American
infant mortality is 2.5 that of Caucasians. Or that lower-income families of
all ethnicities suffer much greater infant mortality in this country than their
wealthier counterparts.
The
next time you see another story about impoverished North Koreans and their
seemingly mad dedication to their deluded leader and outmoded economic system,
consider this: The average life expectancy for an African American in New
Orleans is roughly the same
as that of a
North Korean. It’s shorter
than that of people in Colombia, Venezuela, of Vietnam. In our nation’s
capital, the life expectancy gap between African American and white males is
more than 13 years.
For
poor whites the story isn’t much better. A 2005 study showed that
life expectancy for poor white males in Appalachia and the Mississippi Valley
is roughly the same as that of males in Mexico and Panama. They can expect to
live nearly four and a half years less than average white male
nationwide. Opportunities for an affordable education are disappearing —
and education correlates closely with longevity.
Then
there’s Medicare. Studies showed that mortality among Americans aged 65 and
older decreased by 13 percent after Medicare was created, and they
spent 13 percent fewer days in the hospital. The corporate-funded right is
sponsoring a plan to replace Medicare with a voucher system that will provide
less coverage for older Americans’ healthcare with each passing year. They also
want to raise its eligibility age. The studies show that these proposals would
result in increased loss of life and more hospital days for older Americans.
We’ve
lost autonomy over our own bodies.
While
Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin prattle about “death panels,” many injured or
ailing Americans enter a Kafka-esque maze of insurance executives, case
managers, billing services, and customer service numbers with interminable hold
times. Some of these processes were created as a legitimate response to
physician overtreatment, itself encouraged by our privatized education and
health financing systems. But they’ve turned into massive operations for delaying,
frustrating, and thwarting attempts by patients and doctors to receive
permission to provide necessary services.
Millions
of Americans have to plead for needed treatment, then argue over a complex and
error-prone system of copayments, deductibles, and medical bills denied for
payment with incomprehensible explanations. If they’re unable to devote hours
to battling their insurer, or if they try and fail, they may then find
themselves at the mercy of medical debt collectors whose own actions have been
the subject of legal scrutiny and public criticism.
Long-standing
assumptions built into our medical system deny virtually all Americans the
right to affordable dental care, which is available in most other developed
countries, while an antiquated and Puritanical attitude toward mental illness
has been exploited to deny them adequate care for these conditions.
The
right is attacking Medicare, one of our most popular government programs, and
defending one of our nation’s least popular institutions, HMOs. In fighting for
Medicare Advantage’s HMO subsidies and resisting wider access to public health
insurance, they’re using the language of freedom to rob Americans of the
freedom to make their own medical decisions.
There
are treatments which have unproven value, have unpleasant side effects, or
which studies have shown to be over-used to provide financial gain to medical
providers. People have a right to know that, and to be protected from this kind
of abuse. But the denial of covered services is an epidemic in American
healthcare – and a massive assault on American freedom.
We’re losing the ability to rise up from
poverty, earn a decent living, or work in the career of our choice.
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