Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1. Stealthy
Indoor Farming & Aqua Culture
2. Buy Green energy for home or office
3. Survival Medicine Reports-Free Download
4. Two biggest government lies of the 20th
Century
5. One Nation Under Arrest
“One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more
lucrative."
-- Milton Friedman
-- Milton Friedman
Urban farming on abandoned lots or on city rooftops is
spreading around the world and
happening in communities in New York, Chicago and more. In fact, Hantz Farms is
routinely contacted by groups looking for guidance and education to replicate
the process in their own cities.
The New York City food
pantry grows food indoors out of necessity. There isn't much open land. Yet,
with the small space of 250 square feet they are able to provide fresh greens
for hundreds of families using hydroponic growing methods. Also, because it's
indoors they can have a much longer growing season than the New York weather
permits.
Indoor farming has
another important benefit to preppers. It can be kept quiet and well-defended.
For more information
in these indoor growing methods check out the following websites:
10 Old & New PDF Files on Fish Farming-AquaCulture…Fish hatching,
Fish Ponds on Farms, Breeding Fish, Fish Culture Practics, Fish Farming Basics
and Resources…more. Free download, Zip file. http://tinyurl.com/PMFishFarm
Buying bulk is good for many staple items, avoid purchasing large
amounts of perishables. You can freeze
bananas for future baking.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
PEAR will arrange for
the money you spend on electricity to be used for purchasing wind power. Your
electricity will still be delivered to you with complete reliability through
the electrical grid. But your utility bill will come through PEAR rather than
your local utility company. More at:
Setup a Tumblr
Blog: The Basics
Do you want to create
your own blog but have little knowledge of web designing and web development?
Do you want to create your own online space where you can write about things
you care about, without having to maintain the software and learn the technical
aspects of blogging?
Tumblr is a dead
simple blogging platform which is free, easy to setup and you can start posting
in minutes. Unlike other blogging platforms, like WordPress.com or self hosted
WordPress.org, Tumblr lets you blog without having to manage any file,
database, scripts or images. Tumblr takes care of all the hassles for you and
gives you an intuitive way to write and share content with the world .Get your
free Tumblr blog at:
Free
Survival Medicine Reports-Zip File Download
I’ve assembled a variety of emergency/survival medicine reports
and you can download them from our site (PoorManSurvival.com – Citizen
Preparedness tab) or from our Cloud service at:
We’ve added a new
tab to our site on Hunting
Resources…many free downloadable reports!
http://www.poormansurvival.com/Pages/Hunting.aspx
(Your donations for these resources are appreciated…use
the PayPal donate button at the top)
Something
isn't right and we're being lulled into complacency. This is the calm before
the storm…
Whether it's a
hurricane, power grid failure, terror attack, or civil unrest, the masses
around you are the ones who will turn into a mob when it comes down to their
survival or yours
Look around you next
time you are out at the store buying groceries on a busy day. Over 91% of the
people you see are completely unprepared for over 23 imminent threats we face
today:
Find out the simplest,
most practical and easy way to become one of the 9% who are ready for just
about anything, right in the comfort of their own homes.
Everything you need is
explained in this quick presentation and I urge you to watch it now...
Worried about sending
passwords by email? Use Burn Note, a
site that lets a sender set a time frame in which an email can be read by a
recipient, then it vanishes from inboxes without a trace!
The Nanny
State Updates…
According to
one new survey, approximately one-third of all Americans are not paying their bills on time at this point…
The U.S. housing industry is bracing for
another huge wave of foreclosures in 2012. The following is from a recent Reuters article....
"We are right back where we were two years ago. I
would put money on 2012 being a bigger year for foreclosures than 2010,"
said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio's
People (ESOP), a counseling group with 10 offices in Ohio.
One Nation
Under Arrest
If you did not know
that you were supposed to affix a federally mandated sticker to your otherwise
lawful UPS package, should you be arrested face down on the pavement by FBI agents training
automatic weapons at you? Our hunch is that most
reasonable Americans would respond with an emphatic ‘No!’ Today we are
launching a series of posts based on case studies adapted from our new book, One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws,
Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty. The book includes stories of average Americans who
have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted – and even imprisoned – despite the
fact that they were doing their best to be respectable, law-abiding citizens.
The UPS-sticker example is just one real world example we will be highlighting.
Increasingly over the
past few decades, the U.S. Congress has been callously disregarding the limits
the Constitution places on the federal government’s authority to criminalize
otherwise innocent conduct and engaging in similarly improper criminalization.
This has partially succeeded in warping Americans’ collective understanding of
what should – and what should not – be the subject of federal criminal
punishment. More at:
$2.9 million – the average a person will spend during their lifetime if
they live to age 81
The Parting Thought – Americans work 107 days to pay
taxes in ‘11
Two Biggest
Government Lies of the 20th Century…
“The income tax will never affect anyone other than the
top one percent of American income earners.”
First IRS Commissioner
in an announcement to the public.
The with
holding of taxes from your paycheck is only a temporary measure to help pay for
the war (1942)…
It’s tax season again.
Not only do you have to hand in a thesis paper to those with confiscatory and jailing powers about the money they stole from you in the first place...
Not only do you have to hand in a thesis paper to those with confiscatory and jailing powers about the money they stole from you in the first place...
Before World War II individuals who owed
federal tax on their income earned in a particular year paid the tax during the
following year in quarterly installments. In those days relatively few people
paid income taxes. As late as 1939 fewer than four million individual returns
were filed, and the filers’ total tax bill came to less than $1 billion, or
less than 4 percent of their net taxable income. When so few people paid income
tax and the amounts due in most cases were so small, the system of deferred
payment imposed no great burden and gave rise to few taxpayer complaints.
Beginning in 1940, however, the tax burden
increased enormously. As the government began to mobilize for participation in
a gigantic global war, its revenue demands grew apace. Federal spending
burgeoned from $9 billion in fiscal year 1940 to more than $98 billion in
fiscal year 1945. Although the greater part of this spending upsurge was
financed by borrowing, huge increases in tax collections also took place. In
1945, 50 million individual income-tax returns were filed, and the filers owed
more than $19 billion, or almost 20 times the amount that Americans had coughed
up for this tax just five years earlier.
Milton Friedman was an economist at the
Treasury during the early part of the war. In his 1998 memoirs, Two Lucky
People, written with his wife Rose, he observed: “It was clear to all of us at
the Treasury, as we set out to multiply the amount of revenue to be collected
from the personal income tax, that it would be impossible to do so unless we
could develop a system to collect the taxes as the income was earned, not a
year later.”
The main problem connected with switching
to a “pay-as-you-go” system was that when the switch was made, the taxpayers
would have to pay two years’ taxes in a single year—the amount due under the
old system on the previous year’s earnings and the amount due under the new
system on the current year’s earnings. Apart from the vociferous complaints
such double-taxation was sure to produce, many people would simply be unable to
make all the payments, especially when tax obligations were being increased
drastically.
The transition problem sparked a great
deal of debate in the government and among the public. Perhaps the leading
proposal in 1942 came from Beardsley Ruml, the treasurer of R. H. Macy &
Co., who was also the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ruml
proposed to “forgive” the previous year’s tax liability completely when the
switch to the pay-as-you-go system was made. The Treasury objected to allowing
such a great amount of “forgiveness” and proposed an alternative,
less-forgiving design.
After more than a year of wrangling in the
bureaucracy and in Congress, the Current Tax Payment Act was signed into law on
June 9, 1943. It provided for a complicated partial-forgiveness transition. As
Friedman described it, the law basically “canceled . . . one year’s tax
obligations of $50 or less and 75 percent of the required tax on the lower of
1942 or 1943 income, requiring the remaining 25 percent to be paid in two equal
annual installments.” After the system became fully operational, employers
withheld almost $8 billion for income taxes in 1944 and more than $10 billion
in 1945.
Charlotte Twight, in a revealing chapter
of her 2002 book, Dependent on D.C., shows that during the extended
debate that preceded passage of the withholding law in 1943, its proponents
used various tactics to misrepresent its workings, its consequences, and the
government’s reasons for seeking it. In particular, she documents that “the tax
‘cancellation’ was a sham and was understood to be a sham by a significant
number of government officials involved in its passage.”
The withholding system has remained in
effect continuously ever since 1943, even though the war that prompted its
creation ended 62 years ago, and the system’s perpetuation has contributed
greatly to nourishing the postwar Leviathan state. As Twight says, “Withholding
is the paramount administrative mechanism that since 1943 has enabled the
federal government to collect, without significant protest, sufficient private
resources to fund a vastly expanded welfare state.”
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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