Self Defense & more!Chuck Dougherty Jr. (291)    Chuck Dougherty Jr.    Total Security-http://www.GetSelfProtection.com Protect yourself from Identity ThievesPosted Saturday, April 26, 2008 (73 days 3 hours ago.) Viewed 5 times. It is a real nightmare when a crook gets your social security number and uses it to establish loans and credit cards in your name. It can end up costing you thousands and thousands of dollars and take years to clear up. I have a friend this happened to and even something like getting insurance costs him a fortune because after 3 years he still hasn't completely ended his identity theft nightmare. Thankfully legislators are finally starting to back us up by requiring ways to protect your identity. There are companies out there that guarantee to protect your identity by basically managing access to your credit but you can do this on your own. 38 states passed laws requiring the 3 major credit companies (equifax, experian and transunion) to create a way for you to lockdown your credit and they listened and made it available to all states law or not. I'll explain a bit. You can now "Lock" your credit line. You have to do it at all 3 companies listed above and what it does is stop new lines of credit being opened in your name unless you unlock or unfreeze it temporarily or permanently. After going to all three companies and setting this up you get a PIN that is the only way to open new credit is to have that PIN. With a freeze on, even if a crook gets your soc he won't be able to do squat because a flag is set stopping any new companies from accessing your credit report. He won't be able to get a credit card, loan or anything that requires a credit check because of that freeze flag on your credit. Now there is a small con to this. With the freeze on to get it off temp or permanently will require a little planning on your part. Example, you want a new car. You start the process at all 3 carriers to put a temporary "thaw" on it (not my term I swear :)) then you go and get your car. It really isn't that much trouble to protect yourself from identity theft. As for costs it varies by state. Check out the 3 links below it will take you right to the spot on the experian, equifax and transunion sites to get more info on getting this set up for you. For the $10 or so (you have to each) to freeze the credit to start and then down the line it costs another $10 per carrier (so 3 total) to put a thaw on. This is worth every dime I swear it. Think about it, how often do you need to get a loan, credit card, vehicle, insurance? Usually it is once and then not again for years so this will cost you next to nothing to protect yourself and is HIGHLY worth at least considering. Check out all three links below and read more about this service and consider whether the risk of not doing it is worth it to you. http://www.equifax.com/cs/Satellite?c=EFX_ContentRoot&cid=1165203975981&pagename=5-1/5-1_Layout http://www.experian.com/consumer/security_freeze.html http://www.transunion.com/corporate/personal/fraudIdentityTheft/preventing/securityFreeze.page I would love to get 10 minutes alone with nothing but a steel baton and one of these identity thieves and show em how much I appreciate all the hassle we have to go through to protect our identities. Scumbags! Keep your eyes open! Chuck Dougherty Jr. is a self defense instructor, writer and one of the owners of Total Security - Self Defense & Surveillance Products. You may find more helpful free information on women's, child, home safety & crime prevention at their websites here www.GetSelfprotection.com & www.GoHiddenCamera.com 
Permalink Comments (0) Dealing With StalkersPosted Monday, April 21, 2008 (78 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 6 times. I looked at the newest numbers from the National Center for Victims of Crimes and the stalking numbers are way out of hand. According to their report 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will be stalked in their lifetime. Over 75% of the women and 64% of the men know their stalkers. Some items mentioned in this article available at http://www.gohiddencamera.com/audio-recorders.htm
Permalink Comments (0) High Fructose Corn Syrup - the new plaguePosted Monday, April 21, 2008 (78 days 12 hours ago.) Viewed 45 times. The other night I saw a documentary about corn that got me thinking, so I did some research on my own. I don't know if you know this, I didn't, but about 30 years ago they made some serious changes to our food supply. Some of these things you may have heard about before but taken as a whole it explains why we are the fattest, most unhealthy country in the world when we shouldn't be. You see what they found was that high fructose corn syrup was a cheap easy way to make a sweetener. In fact a woman from the biggest company (I forget the name) producing this high fructose corn syrup garbage bragged that they "own" over 60% of the sweetener market. Now for those saying "so what" here's so what. Grab a soda or as I like to call it liquid candy and read the ingredients and you see high fructose corn syrup listed there. Now that tells you a bit about this stuff. Studies done by some researchers at both UC Davis and Michigan University have shown that consuming fructose that is more readily converted to fat by the liver increases the levels of fats in your bloodstream. In English, this garbage causes body to NOT produce insulin which helps control your appetite and metabolism and even worse causes MORE fats to be in your blood to help clog up the ol'arteries! Researchers have also noticed an odd "COINCIDENCE", about the time they made these changes and starting putting this trash in our food and drinks there was a notable increase in obesity and diabetes. hmmm go figure???? Now if this wasn't bad enough, our meats and this one really peeved me cause I am a carnivore, they starting changing they ways they produce meat. They found that instead of letting cows and other animals walk around and eat grass and other naturals stuff they could pen them up tight so they can't hardly move more than a foot or two and then feed them this corn mush they could fatten them up enough to go to market in 6 mos versus 2-3 years!! Does that sound bad to anyone else? If you said yes you were right cause check this out. This corn mush they are feeding to fatten cows and such up has no beneficial properties like proteins etc.. and these animals weren't made to eat like this so they start dieing during this fattening process. In fact one rancher said in most cases these animals have no more than 1-3 mos of life left in them before they head to the slaughterhouse. Not only that! They have to keep pumping full of antibiotics to keep them alive and keep the PUSS FILLED ULCERS under control!!!! Now Micheal Moore talked about some of this in one of his movies and how this puss was winding up in our milk. Which I also used to love. Now we wonder why we are getting anti biotic resistant germs out there these days, another go figure moment. All of this fattening process and they way they never get to move like they should around a field, these animals are winding up with little to no proteins which used to come naturally until they started this unnatural process. Ok so you're probably grossed out but wait there is more! The real start to whole process goes back to corn which they have altered. You see when farmers used to grow corn you could go and grab it off the stock, steam or boil it up and have a good vegetable to add to your meal. But you see the natural or like I call it now "old corn" was not as filled with the starches they transform (through this crazy scary chemical added process) into this high fructose corn syrup so they decided to change it. In old corn there used to be a healthy split of proteins and starches but now it is almost ALL starches. So they have basically trashed corn. To realize how bad this is and see I am not just some nut (I am nuts I won't deny that but in this case I am correct ;p ) go to your kitchen and start grabbing things you believe are healthy. Now check the small print ingredients in most if not all you'll find this trash the same stuff in soda in so called healthy stuff. Take SunnyD for example. It SUPPOSEDLY is orange juice and their slogan is something like "experience the power of the sun" ROFL what a joke! Read the ingredients on that trash it reads: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and 2% OR LESS of each of the following:concentrated juices, canola oil (WTF) and then a bunch of other trash with scary chemical names like sodium benzoate and hydrochloride and other trash. So basically as it reads to me know this stuff is orange flavored non carbonated soda. Not OJ at all! Disappointed I went to what I thought had to be safe. Nature's own honey wheat bread. 0 trans fat, high in dietary fiber all kins of goodies right? Yes but what else is slipped in there, yup high fructose corn syrup cause they use it to get the crust to be crusty and for whatever unholy reasons they may have :) Now there is one less bread I can eat and in fact had to buy a bread listed as glycemic health. It was the only one I could find that looked appetizing that didn't have that garbage listed as ingredients. Are you or someone you care about having weight or blood sugar issues? Check to see just how much of your foods have this insulin blocking high fructose corn syrup trash in it and get rid of them. The sad part is thanks to the way they feed the animals it gets into our milks and meats as well. Very disconcerting. I intend to adjust my diet to cut this trash out the best I can and plan to complain to the FDA that they allow this trash into our food supply. I encourage you to do the same if you care about your health at all. Wow I feel better! hahah Learning this stuff isn't easy but I think it is a good thing to be forewarned rather than just sorry when it's too late. Take care! Chuck Dougherty Jr. is a Self defense Instructor and writer for Total Security - Self Defense & Surveillance Products. You may find more helpful free information on women's, child, home safety & crime prevention at their websites here www.GetSelfprotection.com & www.GoHiddenCamera.com
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