PM’s
Roundup of Useful Resources…
Again, good reasons to store various essential oils and
coconut oil as there are so many uses, including as an antiseptic: “Today I am
going to share with you how to make an all-natural first-aid antiseptic that
you can easily make at home. This homemade antiseptic has excellent
antibacterial properties to treat everyday cuts, scrapes…
Raising
Quick Cash
Most of us have faced a cash crunch at one time or another where a couple of
big unexpected bills can wipe out your savings and even max out your credit
cards. But there are ways to solve a cash crisis. Hopefully, with these tips
and suggestions, your cash crunch will be short-lived and you'll have your
finances in better shape quickly. Read more.
This is a good fire design to know, especially for bug
outs and other stealthy uses (link includes a video tutorial) because the
design helps to hide the view of flames: “Today we’ll be covering how to create
a Dakota Smokeless Fire Pit. These smokeless fire pits are great for hiding
your fire from enemies.…
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This is an update to a piece we ran two years ago…even
more uses.
To be honest, I’ve never used
WD-40 for anything other than it’s intended usage: to loosen things up. Like
many supplies you should have on-hand, however, WD-40 can potentially do so
much more: “You might not have ever thought that WD-40 could be used for more
than loosening up rusty parts or greasing up your…
Storing
crops in a passively cooled basement root cellar is one of the most efficient
ways to preserve food year-round.
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The Nanny State-We love our government
Weapons of Moral Hypocrisy
One country has a chemical weapons stockpile
that's three times as large as another country, yet denounces the latter
country for having any at all. Which countries are these? They are the United
States and Syria, respectively. Politics as usual includes hypocritical
pronouncements of "moral" outrage.
Camp
FEMA: American Lockdown
In a country born out of
political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that
label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists
for simply questioning the actions of their government. We see third party
candidates and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports
that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and
extremists.
The
Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!
Privacy is
Theft – Orwellian Speak for the US Government’s War on Personal Privacy
Our
government, which should be taking the lead in protecting us from this free
fall into the dystopian territory that Orwell so chillingly described in his
book 1984,
actually takes the opposite tack, embracing new invasive technologies with
gusto.
For
example, a creative hacker recently revealed that New York City
routinely monitors the movements of drivers by means of the RFID chip in each
E-ZPass toll unit. The hacker modified his E-ZPass to light up and make a sound
each time it was read, and he was shocked to discover that it was accessed
repeatedly over the course of a short drive through Manhattan.
The
New York system, called Midtown in Motion, includes 100 microwave sensors, 32
traffic video cameras and E-ZPass readers at 23 intersections to measure
traffic volumes, congestion and to record vehicle travel times. It was
introduced quietly in 2011, without advance notice to E-ZPass users, and no
mention of it in the product’s terms of use.
Other
governments, too, have modified ostensibly benign technologies for monitoring
purposes, in the name of building “Smart Cities.” London, the capital of Orwell’s fictional mega-state Oceania, has
created a surveillance-based congestion charge zone. London, of course, has long been
notorious for its “Ring of Steel,” a surveillance cordon of nearly half a
million cameras and sentry booths at choke-points on the city’s access roads.
And
lest we think that private enterprise is likely to act as a check on
government’s totalitarian instincts, consider the emergence of an unsavory new
industry: websites that collect and publish mug shots and charge a fee from $30 to $400 or
more to remove the image. Mug shots, of course, are taken of all arrestees,
regardless of whether they are eventually convicted of a crime. Once taken,
they are in the public record and fair game, just as your E-ZPass movements
seem to be.
The
fact is that the world of privacy and individual liberty as we knew it has
vanished altogether. The struggle facing us is no longer to prevent
encroachments on our privacy, but rather to adopt ways and means to shield it
from the modern information economy and surveillance state.
The Poor Man has
long recognized that privacy is the essence of liberty. Without privacy, our
ability to act freely is constrained by the foreknowledge that everything we do
will be watched and possibly judged. As Orwell predicted, in such an
environment, second-guessing one’s actions becomes second nature. We no longer
live as free individuals, but as extensions of Big Brother, whose will we try
to discern so as to avoid trouble.
"I Lived. I Died.
Now Mind Your Own Business." That's how I want my
tombstone to read.
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