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POPSThe UK REAL ID Program Same as the US but more blatant spying. The US REAL ID incorporates the social security number from which all financial, medical, credit and personal info can be data-mined easily. Here the UK admits open collection of a broad amount of information. The UK does not have a bill of rights and the US acts like it does not. "Membership has its privileges" could be their slogan, without this you cannot "buy or sell".
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POPSNew Survivalists Prepare OK--I'm not this crazy yet, but I'm getting there. For the last 3 years or so I've been tossing around the idea of building yet another home, this one on my property next to where my smaller home is and selling my home in town. Only this time, I'm going to invest in wind, solar, and I have free gas on the property. I could practically be self-sufficient with well water and a garden, some chickens and raising my own meat. I can see the writing on the wall and it ain't good folks. :(
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POPSYour ID may be stolen if you are dead! Why cant people use their wily schemes for good? Think of the positive possibilities that this planet could benefit from if criminals used their schemes to benefit mankind instead of sinking it further into the cesspool of humankind. Sorry, It just stinks! Makes me mad.
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POPSPractical Travel Advice: Help! My Credit Card is Lost or Stolen 5) Ask your bank for an extra client card. If the first is taken, you still have the second one to withdraw cash with If you take cash be sure that the bills are crisp and new. My experience in developing nations is that currency exchangers don't accept old, torn or folded U.S. dollars. Perhaps the same is true for the British Pound and the Euro. Exchanging at a bank is an option, but problematic on weekends and bank holidays. Chase does not replace credit or bank cards internationally.
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POPSBelief System "The comforting ceremonies of everyday life seem to continue. The freeways are still full of cars. Nancy Grace comes on TV dependably at 8 p.m. and is there deploring the latest pervert arrest. But there's an equally eerie vibe out there that things are seriously out-of-whack. We're on the edge of something. We're at the entrance of a dark passage where some of the ceremonies of daily life meet resistance. You go to the WalMart and five of your six credit cards are refused. Uh oh. It begins to dawn on you that you're spending a quarter of your take-home pay filling up the gas-tank every week. Events are not through with us this year. They'll keep moving where they will whether we believe in them or not. I'm hardly even convinced that it matters who wins the presidential race this year. It could end up being the world's biggest booby prize."
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POPSMaking Credit Safer With Regulation A law professor details the current state of the credit problem, ultimately encouraging the creation of a Financial Product Safety Commission to protect consumers from dangerous and risky financial transactions. Regulation, she argues, contrary to popular belief, can actually "often support and advance efficient and more dynamic markets." I think the author presents a compelling case. What do you think?
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POPSThrough the bums OUT! GAO Report on Government Credit Card Abuse: we the people need to take a serious look around, stop listening to the pundit-of-the-minute or the latest rabid talking head and TAKE AMERICA BACK! I don't know what has to happen in this country for people to wake the hell up and realize that these people, our elected officials, don't necessarily have our best interests at heart. /to the contrary. what i see is a bunch of self serving elitists that think we are a part and parcel l of their personal fiefdom. TAKE AMERICA BACK, THROW THE BUMS OUT!
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POPSShocker: Audit Reveals Abuse of Government Credit Cards In the fraudulent category, a longtime employee of the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon, Debra K. Durfey, wrote convenience checks worth more than $640,000 from 2000 to 2006 to a live-in boyfriend, who used the money for gambling, car expenses and mortgage payments In a case the GAO deemed "abusive," the Postal Service spent $13,500 in 2006 on a dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steak House in Orlando, including "over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold." The tab came to more than $160 a head for the 81 guests, the report said. The GAO found that 41 percent of the transactions it examined did not follow government purchasing rules. The problem was worse with larger purchases: Forty-eight percent of transactions over $2,500 were in violation of federal rules, the report said.
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