Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In
This Issue:
1. Oddball stuff for the Zombie Apocalypse
2. Little Hope, Little Change-Why I don’t
drink the Kool-aid
3. Half the workforce to be temps?
4. Bankrupting the nation, one federal
agency at a time
5. Freebies from MyPoints, 10 Things you
can stop buying
“The Constitution is not an instrument for
the government to restrain
the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the
government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-- Patrick Henry
the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the
government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-- Patrick Henry
Little Hope, Little Change…Why I don’t drink the Kool-Aid
I no longer believe in the ‘system.’
When I was born, America was a prosperous nation, now we’re the largest
debtor nation and our money hardly buys squat in comparison. I blame the Democrats and the Republicans equally.
In reality, our country is run by special interests and bureaucrats,
especially from the Create-A-Crime Bureau and the Bureau of BS or Ministry of
Misinformation Services. The Congressional mantra has become ‘let’s shear
the sheep.’
So go ahead and drink the political Kool-Aid and hope for some change
from the Washington-Wall Street Cartel.
Fizz
stains away on narrow neck vases by filling with warm water & drop in a
couple of Alka Seltzer
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Oddball Items Promoted to Combat the Zombie Apocalypse
One of the most frustrating parts about preparing for the
apocalypse—beyond, you know, the idea that it’ll never happen—is the expense of
housing meant to survive the end of times. Last summer, a California company
named Vivos, known for
producing luxury $35,000 doomsday bunkers, began marketing bunkers
more within reach of the middle class, starting at under $10,000.
The CDC has used the zombie meme as a clever way to coax Americans into preparing for disasters of any kind: The Zombie Pandemic Checklist will get you ready for just about any natural or manmade catastrophe. Hardware stores have also been highlighting the need to stock up in anticipation of zombie attacks—and boost sales while they’re at it—via Zombie Preparedness Center marketing efforts. A group of hardware stores in Nebraska even added “zombies” to the list of specialties on its website last year. Among the sample questions on the web page, which appears to have since been taken down: “A zombie fell and put a hole in my drywall. What tools will I need to fix this?” If devoting one section of a store to zombie preparedness isn’t enough, there’s the Zombie Apocalypse Store, which is outfitted with all your post-apocalypse food, fashion, and gear needs.
Read more: http://moneyland.time.com/2012/06/25/apocalypse-marketing-top-10-products-and-services-for-the-end-of-the-world/#ixzz26jkAYW9h
The CDC has used the zombie meme as a clever way to coax Americans into preparing for disasters of any kind: The Zombie Pandemic Checklist will get you ready for just about any natural or manmade catastrophe. Hardware stores have also been highlighting the need to stock up in anticipation of zombie attacks—and boost sales while they’re at it—via Zombie Preparedness Center marketing efforts. A group of hardware stores in Nebraska even added “zombies” to the list of specialties on its website last year. Among the sample questions on the web page, which appears to have since been taken down: “A zombie fell and put a hole in my drywall. What tools will I need to fix this?” If devoting one section of a store to zombie preparedness isn’t enough, there’s the Zombie Apocalypse Store, which is outfitted with all your post-apocalypse food, fashion, and gear needs.
Read more: http://moneyland.time.com/2012/06/25/apocalypse-marketing-top-10-products-and-services-for-the-end-of-the-world/#ixzz26jkAYW9h
A
company specializing emergency response, and disaster management, has a new
threat incorporated into its disaster-crisis scenario, which is part of the
firm’s annual counterterrorism summit in San Diego: a zombie attack…
HALF THE WORKFORCE WILL SOON BE TEMPS
The number of temps and contract workers - 2.53M - is now close to the
all-time high of 2.65M set in 2006, ERE Media recently reported. And 50% of the
workforce in the Fortune 100 will be temps within eight years, predicts workforce
expert Dana Shaw.
Some people say the trend is good for American workers. As temps, they'll have more job choices. They'll be able to explore more careers. They can start and stop working when they want.
Some people say the trend is good for American workers. As temps, they'll have more job choices. They'll be able to explore more careers. They can start and stop working when they want.
I have to worry when people think it's great if half the workforce is
temps. Especially when the other half holds such flimsy jobs that they may as
well be temps, too.
For the ERE article, click here.
For the ERE article, click here.
Mypoints
Become a Mypoints member, and earn points for reading e-mails, taking
surveys, doing web searches and shopping online. Then, cash in your points for
gift cards that you can give as gifts or use to do your Christmas shopping.
With over 75 merchants to choose from, you're sure to find a card for everyone
on your list.
Homescan
We all have to grocery shop, so we may as well be paid for it. Sign up
for Homescan; scan the
barcode of each item that you buy (with the provided scanner); and you'll be
rewarded with points that you can redeem in their gift catalog. Remember: they
didn't say the gift had to be for you.
Freebies
Companies give things away all the time. Keep your ear to the ground,
and be ready to pounce anytime something gift-worthy comes up for grabs.
More Affordable Gift Ideas
10 Things You Can Stop Buying
at the Grocery Store
at the Grocery Store
Packaged Meat - What's so great about buying a chicken whole? It's like getting
Thanksgiving dinner any day of the year. You have this easy to cook, beautiful
chicken and it becomes a Sunday dinner on baseball night with a simple rub of
oil, a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Who can't pull a chicken out of the fridge
and do that? You can even prepare it the night before and have your teenager
put it in the oven at 3pm the next day. With the leftover bones and loose meat,
do what Grandma used to do. Put them in a stock pot or slow cooker and make
soup.
Get the rest of these tips at:
Share Your Fall Harvest with Those Who Need it Most
Where to donate…
Do you use Coinstar to dump your
spare change? Opt for the Amazon gift
card instead, it’s free!
The Nanny State Updates…
Both Parties Ignore the Constitution & Bill of Rights-What You can
do
Nullification The Rightful Remedy: What do we do when the federal
government steps outside of its Constitutional boundaries? Do we 'vote the bums
out' and hope that the new bums limit their own power? Do we ask federal judges
in black robes to limit the federal government's power? Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison didn't think so, and neither do we. The rightful remedy to
federal tyranny rests in the hands of the people and the States that created
the federal government in the first place. It's called Nullification, and it's
an idea whose time has come. This documentary explores the history of state
nullification, and how it is being used today to push back against the
encroachment of federal power.
"Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by
modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no
government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The
invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and
the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of
television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and
transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an
end." --1984, George Orwell
'Minority
Report' facial recognition system being installed across USA by FBI; everyone
to be tracked
Big Brother is one step closer to watching you all of the time, no matter where you are.
The FBI has begun introducing its brand new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system which is, in essence, a nationwide database of mug shots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples and other biometrics.
The nation's foremost law enforcement agency says the system will help agents identify and catch criminals (the "it's for your own good" excuse, in case you've not heard it before), but as usual, the devil is in the details. It's how this biometric data will be captured that has privacy advocates wailing at the top of their lungs: It will be collected via a nationwide network of cameras and photography databases.
Big Brother is one step closer to watching you all of the time, no matter where you are.
The FBI has begun introducing its brand new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system which is, in essence, a nationwide database of mug shots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples and other biometrics.
The nation's foremost law enforcement agency says the system will help agents identify and catch criminals (the "it's for your own good" excuse, in case you've not heard it before), but as usual, the devil is in the details. It's how this biometric data will be captured that has privacy advocates wailing at the top of their lungs: It will be collected via a nationwide network of cameras and photography databases.
Protect your privacy
with free tools at:
The Parting Thought-What’s a billion here or there to the morally bankrupt?
Government is a broker in pillage, and
every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods…
TSA’s annual budget is $8.1 billion, but it’s never caught a terrorist,
only troublemakers. Citing national-security concerns, the TSA will not point
to any specific cases in which a screener stopped a would-be terrorist at a
checkpoint. Nonaffiliated security experts, such as Bruce Schneier (who coined
the term "security
theater"), argue that that's because this has never happened.
Not one person has the TSA has ever prevented from
boarding a plane has ever been convicted (or even prosecuted) for
being a threat. Fellow passengers are
the ones who have stopped terrorists, not the TSA.
A little-noticed legacy of post-9/11 airport security procedures: the
brisk commerce spawned by the buying, selling and disposal of the 30 million
prohibited items surrendered by passengers at checkpoints.
The business of disposing of or reselling items banned by the U.S.
Transportation Security Administration appears to be valued in the millions of
dollars a year. After a traveler leaves behind a banned item — a hunting knife,
say — it can follow a strange and convoluted journey to a new owner. That
journey often involves a pass through state or local government ownership, and
a posting on eBay.
State surplus property offices get first crack at the items, but if
they're not equipped to handle them or decide to take a pass, giant contractor
Science Application International collects and discards them under a five-year,
$17 million government contract.
Some states, including Pennsylvania and Kentucky, wouldn't think of
taking the items to a landfill, though, because they are reselling them and
making tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
Think about this way, the TSA makes travel more expensive and more of a
headache, costs the taxpayers billions and hasn’t caught a single terrorist…and
don’t forget all of the state governments which get to cash in too.
We could address, say the BATF next, another useless agency which eats
up tax dollars and helps bankrupt the country, but I think the picture is
mighty clear…the ones who profit from these agencies are Wall Street purveyors
of security goods and services.
"BATF is a bureaucracy that has outlived its
mission. Prohibitionist ended a half century ago. Eliot Ness is no longer
needed to chase down gangsters and their untaxed profits from bootlegging.
Today no one smuggles tobacco. Treasury agents no longer have anything to do
but harass innocent gun owners. The committee [Senate Judiciary Committee]
concluded that BATF was a rogue operation that trampled all over the Second,
Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. Following the congressional hearings, the
Treasury Department was so embarrassed by the documented abuses that it drew up
plans to abolish the agency. However, it was unable to do so, because neither
the customs Bureau nor the Secret Service would accept the transfer of
discredited BATF agents into their organization."
-- Paul Craig Roberts
(1939- ) Economist, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
-- Paul Craig Roberts
(1939- ) Economist, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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