Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In
This Issue:
1.
Defeating
Dysfunctional Politicians-Giving up Freedom
2.
The growth of tent cities in America
3.
Fall Harvest Lookup site
4.
How to Bypass the phone menu in large corporations
5.
Refusing a police traffic checkpoint stop, handling
warrantless visits
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
-- Cesare Pavese
Every decent person is ashamed of the government he lives under...
Economic Woes Lead to Proliferation of Tent Cities Nationwide…Or
‘Brother can you spare a dime,” but good luck finding anything which still cost
ten cents!
"You're either rich or you're poor," he said. "There's
no in-between anymore."
Just off the side of a motorway on the fringes of the picturesque town
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a mismatched collection of 30 tents tucked in the woods
has become home - home to those who are either unemployed, or whose wages are
so low that they can no longer afford to pay rent.
The Rev. Steven Brigham of the Lakewood Outreach Community Service
Ministry established this tent city five years ago for Ocean County, N.J.'s
unemployed and disenfranchised residents, many of whom had previously lived
paycheck to paycheck. Whether by loss of a job, the death of a loved one or a
failed marriage, the American Dream has turned into a waking nightmare for the
camp's inhabitants.
The human toll is immense. Forty percent of the jobless— 5 million
people — have been out of work for six months or more, their skills eroding and
their chances of finding good jobs fading. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke has declared long-term unemployment a "national crisis."
Millions of Americans have simply given up looking for work.
Mint helps keep ants away…plant mint around the foundation of your home
to make ants less likely to enter.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Fall
Harvest Lookup
Pick your own fruits and vegetables…
Bypass
the phone menu of a large company
DeepDial will automatically dial and navigate
the menu for you. Then you get a call
back from the company and department you wish to talk with. This is a free consumer service covering 100s
of airlines, large retailers, manufacturers and more.
How to handle Search Warrant-less Police at your door: How
Barry Cooper, a former narcotics officer, suggests you handle knock and talks,
a common attempt by police to violate your 4th amendment...
How To Refuse an ID Checkpoint
Standing up for your rights as an American Citizen
Know your
rights in case you get pulled over. Driving a motor vehicle on public roadways exposes you to law
enforcement, with its increasingly burdensome rules and overzealous use of
technology. You do not have to answer police questions such as, "Do you
know how fast you were going?" You do not have to perform field
sobriety tests. You do not have to consent to having your vehicle searched. Do
not park within sight of the establishment you are visiting if privacy is
important. Police are sometimes ordering gun shops, for example, to report the
license plate numbers of customers who pay cash.
Make a simple Yagi antenna with a magnetic dipole as the driving
element.
From a construction standpoint, the Yagi antenna is made by spacing
conducting rods along the directionality axis with a driving element near one
end. It is assumed that the incoming radiation is a TEM plane wave, so
the direction of the electric field component should be parallel to the
conducting rod orientation. The magnetic component is then perpendicular to the
rods and to the directionality of the antenna
Go to a local
sawmill and buy scrap wood to use as firewood vs. buying cords for as much as
$150!
Engineers
develop electricity-free home cooling system
A QUT researcher is
developing a solar cooling and heating system for the home which will run independently
of the electricity grid and generate domestic hot water as a by-product.
Paolo Corrada, a Ph.D.
student at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said the system he has
designed cuts energy consumption by 90 percent. “My target is to make it 100
percent so that the system is self-sufficient to run off the main grid, costing
the home owners nothing to run,” Corrada said.
“Heating and cooling
account for about 65 percent of energy consumption in a house, whereas cooking
accounts for only 6 percent so it is easy to see why air conditioning devices
are the main targets to reduce our energy consumption.”
A QUT release quotes him to say that the system is based on the use of an absorption
chiller which is a well-proven, efficient technology. “An absorption chiller
uses a chemical process to reject heat and, when using waste heat or heat
generated by renewable energy, is more effective than the more common
mechanical process of vapor compression at deflecting heat,” he said.
If you’re 55 or older, you may be entitled to discounted utilities and
trash pickup…call to find out.
The Nanny State Updates…
As we’ve reported so
many times in the past, product sizes are shrinking while prices remain the
same…we noticed it with coffee in particular.
The same applies to boxed baking mixes, toilet paper and other paper
goods. ABC news did a nice job of
exposing this. Keep an eye out and watch
for items marked “New & Improved,” usually a sign and ironically, there is
no consumer law which says anything needs to have been improved for a
manufacturer to make this bogus claim.
Skip the dishwasher dry cycle – simply open the dishwasher door and let it air dry to save electricity.
The Parting Thought…
Part IV of Taking America Back from Dysfunctional Politicians
series…
Giving up
freedom in the name of Security…
If you have an addiction to control, there
are few better ways of satisfying your cravings than to go into government,
especially if your goal is to save us all from … us all.
--Dennis
Clayson
The country is broke…our infrastructure is in dire shape, schools are closing down, folks
can’t find decent jobs…but we have boatloads of cash for the nanny state to
‘keep us safe because Americans love trading freedom for security.
In one month, here’s what DHS gave away:
The surveillance and population control"
building blocks" being put into place are about bureaucrats proactively
identifying and classifying a massive number of people.
In advance of any crime. On the assumption of
guilty until proven innocent. Based on a secret federal review of their
finances, privacy choices, personal transactions, personal and professional
affiliations, and political and religious beliefs.
The Warnings
Are There
Activist, radio talk
show and journalist, Madison Ruppert, recently detailed on his "End The
Lie Radio Show" how our Department of Homeland Security has an apparent
obsession with buying up all the ammunition on earth. He noted that even if
this ammo were purchased strictly for training purposes, as the Feds claim, we
simply do not have the money in the federal budget to buy hundreds of millions
of rounds of high dollar ammunition for domestic agents' target practice.
Another recent story
by Ruppert entitled, "We Are Preparing For Massive Civil War...Says DHS
Informant" outlines investigator Doug Haggman's interview with reportedly,
high-level, reliable sources inside Homeland Security, who claim the agency is
preparing for a massive civil war in America. The DHS source states that the federal government foresees and
prepares for a massive civil revolt. "Every time you hear about troop
movements, military equipment, the militarization of the police, and the buying
of the ammunition in the US, all of this is orchestrated by the DHS who are
reportedly preparing for a massive uprising."
So what if all three branches of the government violate the
Constitution?
One can hope the military might step in and remove the traitors and
restore order.
Traits Common to Declining Cultures
Obsession with beauty
Decline of the middle class
Increase of violence (primarily among young)
Decline of the family
Decline of morals
Increase of immorality and ethics among leaders
An insolvent government
Failure of its people to see the decline
A decline in literacy and education
Decline of a belief in a Supreme Being
Do you see any of this happening in America?
Tired of “Government by Intimidation?
Learn how we can take back America from dysfunctional politicians-without firing a shot! Or will Americans get what they deserve because they lack the cajones to act?
http://poormansurvivorblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/taking-back-america-from-dysfunctional.html
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