Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Viral Spiral-checking the facts
on political ads
2.
Capturing solar for your hot water heater
3.
Free list of 100 firms hiring at-home workers
4.
8 Privacy tips to prevent ID theft, Make your own detergent
5.
SDR’s-the plan underway to dump the dollar
The threat of people
acting in their own enlightened
and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians
and social workers as ominous and dangerous."
-- W. G. Hill
and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians
and social workers as ominous and dangerous."
-- W. G. Hill
No. This idea was first floated in 2004 by one House member, who says it would replace the federal income tax and eliminate the national debt. So far it has gone nowhere.
Is President Obama using tax dollars to
rebuild mosques around the world?
Yes — and to rebuild historic churches and temples as well. The State Department’s program to preserve overseas cultural landmarks started under President Bush in 2001. (Not to say we should be spending tax dollars on such projects).
Yes — and to rebuild historic churches and temples as well. The State Department’s program to preserve overseas cultural landmarks started under President Bush in 2001. (Not to say we should be spending tax dollars on such projects).
FactCheck.org is a
project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of
Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter
Annenberg to create a community of scholars within the University of
Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and
federal levels
Heal
cuts and scrapes with sugar. A new UK
study found that pouring granulated sugar on a wound reduces and pain and cuts
healing time.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Here's a very
inexpensive way to capture free solar energy and save on your electric bills.
The least expensive and most effective way of getting free solar energy is with a solar hot water heater. You can use them for your domestic hot water, to heat a swimming pool or hot tub, or even as the heating system for a small home or cabin.
The least expensive and most effective way of getting free solar energy is with a solar hot water heater. You can use them for your domestic hot water, to heat a swimming pool or hot tub, or even as the heating system for a small home or cabin.
SimpleHeaters.com claims that you can build your own solar hot water
system for as little as $70. That's for what they call a "batch
heater" built with an old oil drum. ( There's some poetic irony there ). I
took a look at their building guide and agree that you can probably keep within
that cost if you have some plumbing skills. But, even if you went with some
store-bought components, and spent a couple of hundred dollars, your pay back
time from reduced electrical bills should be just a few months. After that, any
hot water you generate is free.
Free list of
100 companies that hire home-based workers! http://workathomesuccess.com/bonus/companylistpromo.pdf
Want to save 90 percent on
laundry detergent? What about cutting your washer's electricity usage by 90
percent? Then read on
FOR COWORKING NEWS, CHECK OUT DESKMAG
Coworking centers - where work-at-homers and road warriors can mingle,
work, and relax - continue to spread. As they do, and coworker numbers grow, we
can expect the centers' prices to gradually fall and coworking centers
themselves offer more and more amenities.
(If municipalities were smart, they would also subsidize coworking
centers. A busy center can anchor a community, reduce transportation burdens,
and support local businesses, too.)
To keep track of all this, check out Deskmag, an online
magazine that covers the coworker movement. There's also a helpful co-working wiki
here.
Get a Sneak Peek Before You Paint a Room
Learn what a room will look like in a new color by uploading a photo to
Sherwin Williams’s free Paint Color Visualizer Program:
Eight Privacy
Tips To Prevent Identity Theft
With the alarming rise
of the crime rate it is no surprise that over 30,000 identities are being
stolen every day. These days identity theft is one of the most popular means of making quick
money for sneaky crooks. Therefore, it is is essential that you protect your
identity. Here are eight very simple privacy tips that will help you protect your identity and hard
earned money.
1. The most basic step to prevent identity theft is to regularly monitor your credit card and bank
statements. Many thieves begin by making small purchases so it advisable to
always keep receipts from your purchases and review the expenses with your
statements. Additionally, Credit Karma provides free credit scores and reports…Read more at:
Store valuables in your child’s sock drawer rather than
in your nightstand. Thieves scour the
master bedroom, but rarely a child’s room.
The laundry room is another good choice.
The Nanny State Updates…
Government
Stupidity - NYC
police spent nearly one million dollars on typewriters.
Q: Does the
IRS pay billions in tax refunds to workers who are in the U.S. illegally?
A: Yes. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General determined that
$4.2 billion was paid in 2010, up from less than $1 billion in 2005. Leading
Democrats are resisting a bill that would stop future payments.
We don't all all
agree on whether the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has any
business groping toddlers or destroying expensive medical equipment in the
pursuit of its appointed mission of keeping travelers safe from scary
terrorists. Security expert Bruce Schneier calls it all pointless and
oppressive "security theater" intended to make the government look
responsive, while Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) describes intrusive measures
as "very important" and pushes for even stronger stuff. But necessary
evil or not, writes J.D. Tuccille, one thing is increasingly apparent: The TSA
is spectacularly inefficient and inept at everything it tries to do.
Gotta love a government that…
Prosecutes Hall of Fame pitcher, Roger Clemens, for injecting performance-enhancing drugs into his own body, but does not prosecute a single investment banking
executive for fraudulently injecting mortgage-backed securities into the US
financial system.
To clean your plastic outdoor furniture, spread a small
amount of shaving cream on them to soften dirt and then hose them down to
rinse.
The Parting Thought – Dollar no longer reigns king
People don't
want reality, they want fantasy
This ongoing lunacy is
based on multiple biases. For some, the dollar represents America, and a
collapse of the currency would suggest a failure of the republic, and thus, a
failure by them as individual Americans who live vicariously through the
exploits of their government. By extension, it becomes “patriotic” to defend
the dollar’s honor and deny any information that might suggest it is on a
downward spiral.
Foreign countries ARE
already calmly and quietly dumping the dollar as a global trade instrument.
To those people who
consistently claim that the dollar will never be dropped, my response is, it
already has been dropped! China, in tandem with other BRIC nations, has been
covertly removing the greenback as the primary trade unit through bilateral
deals since 2010. First, with Russia, and now with the whole of the ASEAN
trading bloc and numerous other markets, including Japan. China in particular
has been preparing for this eventuality since 2005, when they introduced the
first Yuan denominated bonds. The bonds were considered a strange novelty back
then, especially because China had so much surplus savings that it seemed
outlandish for them to take on treasury debt. Today, the move makes a whole lot
more sense. China and the BRIC nations today openly call for a worldwide shift away from the dollar.
Our privacy, our rights,
our jobs, and just about every aspect of our lives are under attack by the
people who are supposed to serve us…Free-21
Ways to Protect Your Privacy
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