Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN
2161-5543
"The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States
always makes me laugh."
-- H. L. Mencken
-- H. L. Mencken
From The Frozen Dog Ranch Files
In
This Issue:
1. 12 Reasons to keep Vicks in your survival
cache
2. Hiding money
3. No excuse list
4. How will America pay its pensioners?
12
Surprising Reasons To Keep Vicks VapoRub In Your Cache
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
Hiding Money
Governments and certain people will often try to take
what really isn't theirs. When this happens it's your responsibility to make it
more difficult for them to succeed.
There may be times when you need to hide and/or protect
your assets and/or income. Some debts, after all, may not be fair, as well as
some governments. I'll leave it to you to decide when it is ethical to use any
of the following...
Continues here...
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No Excuse List offers a search engine that will let you
type in what you want to learn and then return with a list of sites that will
help you learn that skill. With an emphasis on presenting the best free
education sites with a handful of paid sites that were just too good not to
include in the list.
You have two navigation options, you can type in a
keyword as described above, or you can click the here link to see a complete list
of all the sites which is what I did. Highly rated sites are marked with a
green check mark, and pay sites are clearly denoted with a coin symbol. If you
mouse over the names of the sites on the list you’ll see some alt text that
describes what they are and what they provide.
You can pick from the following categories – Academics,
Art, Computer Programming, Cooking, eBooks, How To + DIY, Languages, Music, and
Other. http://www.noexcuselist.com/
Law-enforcement technology
Automatic license plate readers used to collect, store data on millions of Americans
Automatic license plate readers used to collect, store data on millions of Americans
Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location
tracking technology available to law enforcement. Mounted on patrol cars or
stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of every passing car,
recording their plate numbers, times, and locations. At first the captured
plate data was used just to check against lists of cars law enforcement hoped
to locate for various reasons (to act on arrest warrants, find stolen cars,
etc.). Increasingly, however, all of this data is being fed into massive
databases that contain the location information of many millions of innocent
Americans stretching back for months or even years.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
As the Standard of Living Continues to Decline…
How will America pay its pensioners?
America’s
“spend today, worry tomorrow’ practices are coming full circle.
Moody’s and other analysts are saying state governments
are overly optimistic with the rate of return they expect from investments of
their pension funds…CA, for instance, is betting on a 7.5 to 8% return while
experts predict 4.5% if they’re lucky and a zero to 2% is the more likely
scenario.
By most accounting standards, most state pension funds
will run out of assets within as little as five years according to a Joint
Senate Economic Committee report in 2013.
Combined state and local government pensions are
underfunded by $4 Trillion. The federal
government cannot pay what it owes currently without borrowing and its unfunded
pension liability was $761 Billion in 2011.
With more ‘boomers’ than ever retiring, it presents a dire picture.
Within 30 years our deficit could hit $125 Trillion
dollars. Detroit is just one example of
political mismanagement…
Many of Detroit’s problems resulted from a lack of
political competition. Democrats have dominated the city council, and there’s been a
Democratic mayor since 1962. One-party government quickly became bad
government, featuring a stream of crooked politicians, liberal, blue-state
policies such as sweet deals for government unions. Now, though, the bill has come due for these liberal policies.
For decades, Detroit sustained itself through the usual suspects of bad fiscal management, thieving officials, and gold plated benefits to public workers. America has devolved into a collection of Detroits, each waiting their turn - something the Poor Man has been predicting for years.
For decades, Detroit sustained itself through the usual suspects of bad fiscal management, thieving officials, and gold plated benefits to public workers. America has devolved into a collection of Detroits, each waiting their turn - something the Poor Man has been predicting for years.
Expect massive cuts in pension benefits and new dubious
accounting methods for Social Security benefits…Imagine the riots which will
take place if the government officially defaults on its obligations!
New
Law Allows U.S. Military to Quell ‘Civil Disturbances’ Without Presidential
Authorization
As media outlets focus on how the Internal Revenue Service is
targeting conservative political groups and how the Justice Department is phone
tapping the press, yet another game-changing story has slipped past almost
unnoticed.
The Department of Defense issued a directive on February 27,
replacing several older directives and changing the rules regarding federal military
involvement in civilian law enforcement. In a major power grab, this rule
change overturns a 200-year-old system that strictly limits the military from
becoming involved in civilian law enforcement.
Whereas the Insurrection Act of 1807 explicitly states
the military cannot be used in civilian law enforcement except by presidential
authorization in the advent of an insurrection or foreign invasion, this new
law change states that federal military commanders can use force to put down
unexpected civil disturbances in cases where prior authorization by the
president is deemed impossible.
While such a change may at first seem minor, the new rule’s chief danger lies in its vagueness. Reference
page 16 of the new directive (emphasis added):
When permitted under emergency authority in accordance
with Reference (c.), federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary
emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the president is impossible
and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation,
to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale,
unexpected civil disturbances .
The rule defines none of its key terms. Which of
the thousands of “military commanders” are authorized to unilaterally intervene
in a civil disturbance, or must such decisions be made by a higher-ranking
military commander? What kind of “emergency circumstances” qualify as
extraordinary? When is it “impossible” to contact the president? What qualifies
as a “large-scale” civil disturbance? Do violent riots have to be under way
while the president is being held hostage for this law to apply? Or can the
rule be invoked against a rowdy group of protestors when the president is
occupied elsewhere
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Another informative piece!
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