Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
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"Nullification
is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a
jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law
where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular
case."
-- David L. Bazelon
(1909-1993) Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals
-- David L. Bazelon
(1909-1993) Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1.
American consumers are tapped out
2.
7 Tips to Keep Your Furnace Running Well
3.
Backyard chickens for eggs, 21 fail-safe to
get a fired started
4.
Garbage cans for food storage
5.
Automatically Guilty-Government enjoys seizing
your bank accounts
Are American consumers tapped out?
By Robert Romano
The economy grew
at a 2.8 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, reports
the Bureau of Economic Analysis, up from 2.5 percent in the second quarter and 1.1 percent in first
quarter.
Meanwhile,
personal consumption has steadily slowed down the past three quarters from 2.8
percent, to 1.8 percent, to 1.5 percent in the third quarter.
Why the
contradiction? Consumer spending is usually thought to drive economic growth,
not run contrary to it. So what gives?
"The
acceleration in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the third quarter
primarily reflected a deceleration in imports," among other items, the
Bureau reports.
Which tells you
much of what you need to know, since the trade deficit counts against the GDP.
When the trade deficit narrows, economic growth is seemingly boosted, and when
it increases, it detracts from reported growth. Sure enough, this year the
trade deficit has dropped from $523 billion in the first quarter, to $509
billion in the second, and to $493 billion today.
Yet the slowdown
of imports corresponds directly to the slowdown of consumer spending —
Americans were buying less of everything. That is actually not a good sign
going forward.
PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
Howard at PreparednessAdvice.com has put up a nice list
of “old” vs. “new” chemical names that you might find useful someday: “As you
may know, I am always researching old books to learn the ways of our ancestors.
One thing I have had a rough time with is the old chemical names. The following
is…
Remember that preparedness isn’t just about being as
self-sufficient as possible, it’s also about ensuring the systems you rely upon
(even grid-tied ones) are functioning as well. Of course, I would suggest
hiring a licensed HVAC tech to look over your furnace but these are some simple
suggestions you can follow to do the majority…
Raising Backyard
Chickens for Eggs
Have you ever thought about raising your own backyard chickens for eggs to save money? Doing so may have many economical and health benefits.
Have you ever thought about raising your own backyard chickens for eggs to save money? Doing so may have many economical and health benefits.
Rubbing two
sticks together takes a lot of time, effort, skill,
and practice (and still doesn't guarantee a fire every time).
Find out 21 fail-safe ways to start a fire here:
http://patriotcaller.com/21Methods
and practice (and still doesn't guarantee a fire every time).
Find out 21 fail-safe ways to start a fire here:
http://patriotcaller.com/21Methods
Finding a new job may require updated job skills. Here's how to do
that inexpensively
read more here
read more here
Large steel cans (such as the 31-gallon cans mentioned in
the article) are a great way to store bulk foods to keep them safe from pests,
accidental punctures, and more. About the only drawback I see is that they’re
nearly impossible to move once loaded down with food so be sure to enact a
variety… (the Poor Man uses smaller cans)
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The
Nanny State- Your Weekly
Dose of Government Misinformation
Police
State America
I have written some guest
blogs in the past dealing with aspects of the issue of America becoming a
Police State and will link to them at the end of this piece. There are so many
issues that call for our concern and attention in this country today, that
dealing with the entire dysfunctional state of our country becomes daunting due
to the wealth of material.
The issue of our country’s
continuing descent into a”Police State” equaling all we know of the vile
systems in the USSR and the former East Germany is an issue that concerns me..
The situation is dire and the consequences have produced not only
horrible injustices, but also the many unneeded maiming and deaths of innocent
individuals. Our country imprisons more people per capita than any other
country in the world by far. Part of the reason for that is the “War on Drugs”
an abject failure that falls most heavily upon people with low incomes and people
of color. One such incident caused Professor Turley to pen two blogs this week.
They were about a man falsely suspected of drug possession who had all his
bodily orifices and cavities checked in the local Arizona police’s vain attempt
to find evidence of guilt. None was found and the procedures were not only
traumatic, but invasive. Thus the “War on Drugs” is one major contributing
force to turning our country into a Police State.
(Turley has been advisor to the Poor Man on his series on
how to rid the nation of dysfunctional politicians and to restore America to
semblance of the free country it once was).
Continued here:
The
Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!
Government Seizing Bank Accounts-Are you Automatically
Guilty?
Consider the plight of Terry Dehko and his daughter Sandy
Thomas. They run a small grocery store in Fraser, Michigan. Because their
insurance only covers a cash limit of $10,000, they frequently make smaller
deposits. One day last January, the government seized $35,000 of their assets,
not in the store, but in the store account.
Grabbing Hand of the Law
The Economist explains the plight of
Dehko in its report The Grabbing Hand of the Law
In criminal cases, the government can confiscate assets
only after a conviction. Under “civil forfeiture”, however, it can grab first
and ask questions later. Property can be seized merely on the suspicion that it
has been involved in a crime. Citizens have no right to a swift hearing. For a
small business, that can be fatal.
In many civil-forfeiture cases the agencies that seize
the assets keep most of the proceeds, and can use them to pad their budgets or
buy faster patrol cars. It is hard to know how common this is, but the
Institute for Justice (a libertarian law firm that is representing the Dehkos)
notes that the federal government shared $450m of seized assets with state and
local authorities in 2012.
The grabbers do not always prevail. A motel owner in
Massachusetts recently won back his motel after prosecutors tried to seize it
because one guest in 13,000 had been arrested for drug offences. In October in
California, prosecutors who were trying to seize a building because two of the
tenants were marijuana dispensaries (which are legal under Californian law),
gave up and let the landlord keep it.
But this is scant comfort for the Dehkos, who are
struggling to hold on to the store they have run since 1978. “It’s kind of
scary that they can do this to you,” says Ms Thomas. “In America, you’re
supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.”
On a Related Note…
If you have cash in a US bank, you can expect to have the federal government take it all the next time US banks find themselves in trouble.
The days of the federal government stealing money from taxpayers, or borrowing it from the Federal Reserve, to save troubled banks -- as in they did in the 2008 crisis -- may be over. Congress is considering imitating the theft in Cyprus and letting troubled banks "bail in" depositor money in order to make themselves solvent.
Jim Sinclair, chairman and chief executive officer of Tanzania Royalty Exploration Corp., and whose family started Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and others, has been warning of this for a while.
“Bail-ins are coming to North America without any doubt, and will be remembered as the ‘Great Leveling,’ of the ‘great Flushing’. Not only can it happen here, but it will happen here...It stands on legal grounds by legal precedent both in the US, Canada and the UK."
The monetary system is much closer to collapse and the bail-in is imminent. In fact, US banks presented the Federal Reserve with a bail-in plan to pay for large banks' restructuring in the event of a future crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports. The plan was presented to the US Federal Reserve in an attempt to preempt tougher rules from the regulators.
The private meeting was reportedly attended by officials from Wells Fargo & Company, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc. and several other banks. The bail-in mechanism would be designed to place a greater burden on creditors, as opposed to the taxpayers (theft victims), in the event of a bank’s collapse
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2 comments:
Most citizens are woefully ignorant of what is happening to our country, they love drinking the government dispensed Kool Aid!
I know I' tapped out and this BS Obamacare is going to damned near bankrupt me!
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