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And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be burned. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watching tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? This evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the intelligence report. I'm Mark Cranky And this is Better Night. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines at occupied territories West, Southwest, Southeast and South. Well ladies and gentlemen you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. We're also on PBN.4mg.com. We're also on Live 365 and go to LibertyTreeRadio.com. You can be a preferred customer there if you wish. Check them out at live 365 and find out about the token fee you pay to cover the bill for about three months, I think it is. What happens is you get a special amount of bandwidth set aside. 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Today is the 21st Friday, November. and so we're going to be looking at supply and support but you know something to think about twenty-first okay let's do the math here that's seven days in a week let me take the pond go one two three oh that's three weeks already gone by guys in november the days are marching on and we're heading into a very bleak spring to say the least expect things to get worse in general but again we're not panicking notice it's like nah nah nah nah instead it's more like hmm looks like things are getting bad well no surprise for anybody in the Patriot movement everybody is pretty well up to speed and understands this is where we expected the bad guys to go so we're looking good there now A couple things I want to address real quick about supply and support, actually, as is always our favorite, arms. But it's not the only thing because beans and clothing, along with boots, are just as critical guys keeping people in the field and keeping people operational on a daily basis. I don't care if it's industry or if it's military formation. Either way, armies and industry, well, operates on its stomach. Food is another issue there. It's really critical. Clean water, proper medical support. These are all the things we're covering on the air and touching on in different ways to try and bring people up to speed as quickly as we can. Well, a whole wave of people, some of you are in the chat room right now listening, others are listening in general across the wide spectrum of technologies we're using, are listening maybe for the first time or are listening for the last couple weeks or two where you found us from one path which brought you here and brought us together. Okay? Now, one thing that's happening is with the firearms issue. You know, we've been quoting the numbers because our numbers are as accurate as they possibly can be. We're going right to the people who actually deal with the industry, who are the industry. Okay? We've had many of them up here on the air a year ago, a year and a half ago, talking about where we expected things to go. So there's nobody here that will be surprised if you're a long-term listener. But even when we quote these numbers like right now where we know that you know thousands from one you know Gun shop have disappeared in terms of firearms So they just been sold as quickly as they hit you know hit the wall You know sitting there in the one in the rifle rack, but it's all the stuff We don't know about remember that even the numbers were giving are phenomenal But are still not complete There is an even greater amount of material support moving than what we're reporting and part of this of the logistics or the common sense knowledge of what all what all else is transpiring example for every one firearm That is leaving a gun shop There are about 20 that are leaving individual personal hands where they're being sold by somebody who picked up something and needs to, or feels that they need to sell it in order for them to get something else. or they're hoping to reconfigure and re-consolidate the inventory where one person may have a team, may have the one SKS in the formation and somebody else wants to trade that, you know, trade for that SKS, something that the other formation probably can use better. This is not uncommon. There's all kinds of other support issues. Guys bought lots and lots of 30 round AR mags or AK mags or FNFAL mags. 20 rounders of 30FAL. But the point is that they purchased them, they've got a number on the shelf, and what they want to do is they're going to try and redirect them. Now we've done this to a degree with equipment simply because we knew that there would either be shortages or those people are going to have to tweak what little pile they have. They might just need one more of something or two or three of something. Well our job is to try and help to make sure we can find that or that we provide it off the shelf. And that's really what Quartermaster is about is not only just acquiring the stuff but using it efficiently, deploying it intelligently. Okay? Once we see what problems we have across the board through the whole of the system in certain niches, you know with certain areas, what we're able to do unlike the government system is look at a problem and come up with a crossbar or a bridging solution to get the job done temporarily and then look for a more permanent solution to get the job done and to continue to do so. Now that doesn't mean we're going to throw anything out ever. We don't. We simply relegate to different levels what it is that we want to use for whatever task at hand. But the example is like consumption over the last few days, actually the last 12 days, 11 to 12 days now. The election day on, everybody was grabbing and it's been going after anything and everything to put a bullet down range, hold a magazine, or it is a cartridge. Some of the suppliers have resupplied guys, but they're already unsupplied. Okay, as quickly as they got the stuff, got into the shop, it's going right back out the door. It's like somebody, it's not like an artery's been cut. It's like literally somebody just took a bucket and threw it, is what they did. Okay? So we are seeing a tremendous transfer of material. For this reason, I wanted to point certain things out. Now, I talked to AIM Surplus today, actually last night and today. I've got a good idea what they have. Their list is pretty short. They do have some bolt-action rifles. Half of what they have listed on their webpage are gone. They do have some Dragunov slash SVD sniper rifles. Those are beautiful. They had 40. They have less than, I think, 10 right now. Left in one day. I called them about... before 10 o'clock in the morning, this morning, and by mid-afternoon they had only a handful left and chances are that by the time I would have called back say after our first hour they were pretty well cleaned out of the SVDs. Now they were going for, or they're still going for, if they got more. They said they might access more from somewhere. But they're going for about $820 a piece. They come with two magazines, two spare magazines, mag pouch that'll carry four mags. cleaning kit the SVD sniper scope that's standard for the Romanian model and the side rail fixture which is you know quick disconnect in addition to that of course you have the basic rifle with about a 24 25 inch barrel I think and Romac type flash hider muzzle compensator and otherwise everything you'd expect on an SVD, Skeletize stock, well manufactured, AK system and in 7.62x54 Now they didn't have much ammo and I would assume that by the time you get around to calling the ammo will be gone. But let's say there may be some on the shelf. Otherwise they have no spare mags either. The mags that come with the rifle you get. But you're going to have to go somewhere else like CenterFireSystems.com. That's CenterFireSystems.com. One more time. CenterFireSystems.com to buy spare magazines. But between two, three, or four places, you'll pick up the ammunition, the weapon, and the mags you need to keep things operational. And the mag pouches to carry the mags. That's what's critical. You get the right tools, and they fit the right tool pouches. Okay? Now, they also have something that's really critical here. They've got Romanian 8mm, 1970s manufactured in the stripper clips. 8mm Mauser, 340 rounds per can. $99.95 and that's per can plus one penny shipping. So yeah, the price is up a little bit but they're kind of doing what Amaman does. The price of the ammunition, the shipping is incorporated into it. So this is good while it lasts. One more time, that's AIM surplus. They are at their website is AIMSURPLUS.com. That's AIMSURPLUS.com. Their phone number is 888-748-5252. That's 888-748-5252. 748-525-2 and 513-424-9960. That's 513-424-9960. You get on the site there or you give them a call, you can find out what they've got and order right away. Remember, keep a checklist and watch your budget with this. These guys could have charged more, in fact, everybody's acknowledged that. Some of the companies are. They've doubled the price, increased the price from 25% to 40% up to 100%. Okay? And it hasn't slowed anything down, guys. Not at all. So I want everybody to remember that. And I'll tell you what, we're at the quarter hour break. And what we're going to do... is, well, I guess we're not going to take a break. We're going to continue with what we're doing when we expect that. Classic Arms Incorporated is another company that's out there. We were talking about them. They do have, again, limited items sold out completely. They've got a few things on the shelf. give classic arms a call at 704-684-0654, 704-6840650, that's 704-6840650, Dealing with the ammunition there is going to be catch as catch can. One of the things that everybody keeps asking us to remind everyone is that it's going to be about 17 days before they ship a lot of what was ordered in the last couple of weeks. So, yeah, I know. That's where, again, you're going to have to do some math there and figure that out. 17 days. puts everything out into December. We already have Christmas mailing problems. It's going to take longer for stuff to get to where you want it to go. Expect things to be, you know, extended out farther because of that. My biggest problem here, butter knife, is that we're looking at January, February, and March. There is no doubt, with all the other stuff being done right now, that the bad guys are planning on one way or another making the gun grab almost as quickly as they possibly can. That means we have to have all the rest of our items squared away too. At least bring things up to different tiers. This includes our food and water support, water storage in the shelf is critical, but all the other items that are essential need to be squared away too. And one of those things is footwear. Okay, we're starting to see the Michigan winter outside again. Oh, we don't have a whole lot of snow and that's typical for this time of year. Sometimes we get a big lump and then we will get a spike in the temperature, it goes down. Then we'll have a rise back up, gets really warm and hopefully just after Christmas we get a thaw. Now usually it's as late as the window between the 4th and the 11th of January. After that it goes back down in the basement, we usually get buried up to our eyeballs and we got snow, snow and snow. Well, that's why you also need socks, socks and socks. And I cannot stress enough that if you got BDU pants you're wearing, you put extra socks in those. You put extra socks in a couple of the pockets in your jacket, your slasher blouse. You put an extra pair of socks or two in the field jacket pockets. You know what you also carry me your butt pack and you carry me your backpack now this includes glove liners to same thing the wool glove liners and It'd be a good idea to carry an extra set of long johns if at all possible in your home kit this time of year Typically you're living in one pair you've got another pair on standby and you've got a third pair that need to be you know that need to be cleaned and What you'll do is you'll cycle them through ones being worn one needs to be cleaned the other ones already washed Now you get them done faster. Congratulations. You got two pairs ready to you know that you've already washed but cleaning is critical whenever you can do it be it the weapon or yourself and Your equipment the clothing that you'll be wearing too because again the cleaner the stuff is body oils and salts build up in the cloth they help to actually seal up the fiber and they prevent your body from breathing properly also the more fluid or oil is involved with your clothing the less efficient it is at keeping the heat in because remember moisture of any kind is a radiator it is a great way to what? pull heat out of things well guess what you're at 98.6 plus or minus unless rigamortis is set in and then we don't worry about the thermostat guys but I don't think that's the case if you're listening to the program you're still breathing right now. So with that in mind, it would be a real good idea to make sure that your footwear is squared away. Now one little thing here, if all else fails, there's a number of different shoe care systems out there. I don't even have to mention them all. You have to make a choice there, it's a matter of wallet. But sealing the shoes up to be waterproof would be a really good idea. So put that on the list of things to do and also things to do with your other leather items that you can where you can allow first of all to treat the material and then you can also saturate it and prepare it for use. Okay? And that'll be pretty straightforward so that again a couple pairs or three pairs of boots are actually ideal. Some people are going, where do you carry all this stuff? On your person. That's why they call them heavy infantry guys. It's supposed to be on your gear, integrated into your equipment and part of your combination of your field pack and your combat load, depending upon what it is. Now the boots, there's a number of different ways those are dealt with. And there's also basically a garrison kit that is set up. And the extra boots may be stored there and then moved forward or moved around as the troops are able to have them moved, actually as the command has them moved. But the point is that extra footwear is another thing that would be very desirable right now. If you have a pair of boots you are wearing and you have worn them today, especially in cold weather, but especially in cold weather because amazingly enough your feet do sweat and then they get cold, temperature of course drops down and it draws the body heat out of the feet and you get a little uncomfortable. Well, to help keep that from happening, what you do is if you have your two or three pairs of boots right now, while you can comfortably change them, Just like we were talking about with your long johns, you do the same thing with the combat wear, with the feet. What you do is your boots, one pair should be prepped, already sealed, already dried, everything ready to go. One pair is just coming off your feet for maintenance and you're wearing a pair. And in each case you want to do basic overall maintenance to all of the above. This is critical because again, if the feet go, so goes the rest of the body. Okay? And everybody would pretty well agree on that if you've ever been out in the woods or in the field for any period of time, especially where you're looking at winter operations. Another good thing right now though is that we are in cold dry and cold dry means that you're not going to lose because of precipitation more calories which brings down your core temperature or at least your extremities temperature pretty quick and Usually makes you a casualty without pulling a trigger if you're not careful So we're going to avoid that if at all possible Anyway, just that note on with regards to supply and support and also concepts of what what it is needs to be on your list of things to do. Hey if all fails go to Payless Shoes or whatever other local dollar store shoe company you got and Pick yourself up for your son and you for your wife another pair of you know utility duty combat boots They can be any number of different types and styles and models that are out there The idea behind it is that you get something. Sunday, November 23rd on Fox 365. or you know if it was worn it was minimally worn and for that matter even if it is worn if it's a pair of boots or shoes you need and you can beat the snout out of those and save your better equipment for later that's another option also hey some Gorilla Glue and one pair of shoes that got good soles but really garbage uppers Mr Exacto knife comes out or Mr. Trimming Knife comes out and you take everything off and you've got yourself a pair of soles Remember, there's all kinds of considerations here. We're going to wear the footwear down, we're going to have to rebuild it, or we're going to have to replace it. Ideally, if we can rebuild it, that really wouldn't be a bad thing. Just have to use all of our creative processes to get the job done. In the supply system, Butterknife, there's been a bunch of stuff that's come in, in footwear even, that they've let it out there in a little wave, and then they pulled it back. They actually have blocked it. We saw this with cold weather boots again, and that's not surprising me. In fact, this time of year, normally we'd have a wave of Korean manufactured Mickey Mouse boots. Now, it doesn't mean there isn't other stuff that's on the market, but it's interesting that those are conspicuously missing from the inventory this year. Like many other things, the economy, burping the way it is, has changed what it is that has been available or will be available. So, example is Mickey Mouse boots. These are the boots that look like a couple of literally they do. They're oversized enough. They look like, you know, the Mickey Mouse feet that you got on your feet. A little trick about Mickey Mouse boots. They're designed to hold in most of the body heat. They're a rubberized boot that has a seal system for pressure equalization with aircraft. That's what the little nozzles are for. And then you have the standard infantry boot, which of course is sealed. Now, you do not have to wear a heavy combat sock with those boots. With Mickey Mouse Boots the trick is actually to try and keep the overall insulation down. You're going to see a lot of heat retention anyway. So a pair of light duty socks will work just fine with a pair of Mickey Mouse Boots. For backups, you keep the other socks around just in case for some reason you were trying to do maintenance on the pair of boots that you had. All of a sudden there's contact, a firefight or emergency. You pick up, you run, you're thinking you're okay for a bit. Then you realize, wait a minute, what did I do with my shoes? In the process of an exchange of fire and activity, you may actually, you know, worry as much about what your feet are doing, so much as the fact that they're just plain moving. You don't care as long as they just keep moving. And unfortunately, that may cost you other pain in the future. So there are some rules there with regard to using boots that we're going to have to talk about down the road too. We won't do that tonight. Now, otherwise, uh... One of the other pieces to the puzzle here is going to be coming up this weekend. We actually we can expect more We're talking about a program. It's gonna be an MS NBC on Sunday night any of you listening guys We don't need everybody to do this, but everybody can watch it. That'd be great Anybody who's heard what we've been talking about for the last couple hours if you would please make a point of plugging in your DVD burner or your VHS tape and your machine and video taping slash taping What it is that they're going to have up on MSNBC this weekend on Sunday night with regard to the ATF, the Batfaggots. If they are producing a damage control piece like that though, I would ask that all of you also watch all of the yapping head stations. There's first of all the Jewish programs that are on Sat-ter-day. and then watch any of the other programs that are on Sunday, the Sunday talk shows like Farsa Nation, whatever. Whatever they have, I guarantee they are going to incorporate the anti-gun theme. Mark my word on this. There's two ways you're going to do it. They're either A, going to try to deflect by going, oh those crazy people. Osama bin Laden said that he's in favor of people who use their weapons for sporting purposes. He's in favor of that, which is the classic mantra for the gun control freaks and how they've played the game every time as we watch them start up and crank up their BS. Well, I think we can expect the same thing again, only perhaps I think it will be more shrill than ever before. There's nothing wrong with that. and with basically understanding that it's not the business of these groups to re-goofs to reinterpret definition, guys. That's not how it works. In fact, of all the people who should be determining the definition for the arms, you would think it would be the military. They will tell you flat out that the AR-15 and the AK and the semi-auto version are not assault rifles. Anybody and everybody in the military knows this. If you start doing stupid things like crossing over with regard to descriptions, this creates embarrassing things at the military end that they cannot afford. So you purposely use specific nomenclature so that you there's no confusion in communicating to a person. Butter knife, five guys, AK-47 assault rifles, two guys, squad automatic weapons, one mortar team, to BMP2s. In other words, you can give a concise report and in the mind of the individual is the description mentally of the definition as it has been laid down as a standard for communications purposes. So this is rather fascinating some of the BS that they're doing right now, but it's not a surprise however what they're really not going to be satisfied with is the lack of performance and the lack of sustainability on their part to try and whip a frenzy up if people are already in our camp. Well when you clean out every gun show in the country and everybody's got some idea what's going on at the very least They're on the same page. It may not all be reading the same paragraph But they're on the same page and that's critical to overall operations and activities So anyway, tell you what we're at the bottom of the hour. We got to take our bottom of the hour break and this is the Intel report it is Friday I'll tell you another thing real quick guys remember because it is the end of the week all you guys out west are now heading home pay attention on the road there's only so much space for all those cars out there think about what's in front of you don't play with the phone don't do any of the nonsense get home safely then you can relax your job's not over until you pull the car in the driveway park it and get inside safely The Intel report. You've got a butter knife. This is Mark. We'll be back in about three minutes on LTR. Collectors, outdoor enthusiasts, survivalists, the Army Navy Store from your memory as a child is just that, a memory. 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For our program we've got Cordy coming up next hour don't forget that live programming here on LTR through the evening still. Butter knife you got a couple of things we definitely want to touch on tonight again. This has to do with quartermaster We are looking at a deep supply issue here. That's real quick qualifying. What's happening with the firearms Let me point this out. That's basically where we are with the arms Every weapon that is picked up right now and cut that comes off the shelf is out of a central location where it otherwise could have been hindered or could have been confiscated directly In other words, all they have to do is walk in, padlock the door, padlock a safe or a walk-in room, and guess what? It's all gone. Well, that's not happening now and virtually millions of pieces of equipment millions of weapons We don't know how many tens of millions of rounds have already gone out and they did it in days It went out in days. This is critical to overall operation However, there's a lot more than just ammunition that we need to say to sustain a combat operation butter knife That's where the quartermaster comes in Oh, you bet. We've spoken previously about lubricants that can be bought in bulk. You mentioned earlier that we should stock and maintain our choice of leather treatments. I would say that there's probably a strong multiplier both in firearms and in leather goods with the treatments. I think that a pound of oil probably equates to a couple of pounds of steel being preserved. A pound of leather treatment probably It means that you preserve five or ten pounds of leather. Don't go one way or the other. You have to have a balanced mix. You will get an optimal result from your stores on hand. Let me get into a little bit of the routine business. We started this series in earnest on September 26, I believe, the Friday evening program. Anybody that is coming in late may want to visit the archives at theintelligencereport.tk. That's .tango.kilo. You can download MP3 files there. And even if you have a slow modem connection, once the file comes down, it will read back just fine. If you hit the Friday evening programs once a week, you'll be up to speed in this little series with the exception of one or two programs. We have at least some discussion of the food and logistics related topics in each of those. Now along the way we discussed the Better Nice Core Food Program. I won't go into reviewing much of that. That's in the archives. We are up to about four ingredients now and we have an almost balanced core diet, not a great diet. You want to supplement with vitamins and various other things and we can touch on that another evening. The one deficiency that remains in that program is fats. I wanted to talk about good fats, bad fats tonight. Let's define a few terms. We have heard the term saturated fats and unsaturated fats. Everybody knows if you own a television that saturated fats are bad. One of the problems is that everything you hear on television is not necessarily true. As a matter of fact, the popular press is heavily driven by industrial interests. that decide they want to move this vat or the other product. It's remarkable how the press seems to follow the desires of the corporate vendors. A simple short form of this is saturated vats are not bad. Many of the studies that have been performed and reported widely have been heavily distorted or contain truthful data and then the summary is spun and twisted to the interests of providers of food products. Simple fact of the matter is you don't want to load up entirely on saturated fats, which commonly come from animal products, but a large fraction of that is actually a desirable thing in your diet. It's necessary for the flexibility of cell membranes. for the absorption of certain vitamins, so on and so forth. So we can get into sources of saturated fats. Probably we won't have enough time this evening, but do not let saturated fats frighten you. There's an awful lot of programming and brainwashing that needs to be disposed of, and that's one of them. The next category within unsaturated fats are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Basically, what's going on with fats is these are long chain hydrocarbon molecules. They consist of a long string of carbons all in a row with either single or double bonds between the carbons and a whole bunch of hydrogens hung off the sides like legs off of a centipede. And if there is a hydrogen for every spot, then that's a saturated fat. And if there is one or more hydrogen missing from that chain, then that is an unsaturated fat. There are monounsaturated, meaning that a single hydrogen is missing, and polyunsaturated, meaning that more than one hydrogen is missing. You don't have to worry about that very much. I just mentioned these things so that the mystery is removed a little bit. In general, monounsaturated fats are highly digestible and pretty stable. They can be heated and they don't break down into nasty stuff that you don't want to eat anymore. Polyunsaturated fats come in two flavors, omega-3 and omega-6. Omega-6 is the stuff that's rather bad for you. Omega-3 is the stuff that's quite good for you, but they are both fragile. They don't withstand heat very well. They tend to go rancid rather quickly. So we try to stick a little bit with saturated and monounsaturated and try to avoid most of the polysaturated. There are a few sources of omega-3 that are rather useful and can be somewhat shelf stable, not too many of them. Let me just throw out one item, and flaxseed is an excellent source of omega-3. This is a useful side supplement. Bear in mind that if you sprinkle flaxseed on your food and eat it, you will gain absolutely no benefit whatsoever. It has to be ground up. It will just go straight through your plumbing and give you no benefit if it's not ground. As soon as it is ground, it starts to deteriorate. So treat it like pepper. You might even want to put it in a pepper shaker and turn the little crank and grind it. uh... but that uh... it is also very shelf stable before it's ground south that's a uh... useful secondary item to have uh... in stores now i would i would like to just run through the list of common uh... good intermediate and uh... really that uh... we're gonna have a uh... another break here do we have straight through shot Well, it depends. As a matter of fact, I'm sorry, I just want to make sure we have any background noise there. It depends. As a matter of fact, we can. It's just a matter of... If we've got the time, I'll just keep going. Oh, you can keep going. Please go right ahead. That's what I'm saying. Okay, very good. Top of the list are the three highly desirable fats. Now, none of these are cheap. Olive oil, those are available anywhere. Rice oil, oil, which is relatively new to the US market, is not as heavily researched as some others, but is becoming available and is in fact not all that terribly expensive, and coconut oil. Now coconut oil is very weird stuff in its texture. You drop it to about 68 Fahrenheit or so and you would swear it was paraffin. Raise it to 69 or 70 degrees Fahrenheit and it's practically like water. So it is quite strange and it's different from palm oil. You see palm oil in processed foods, that's generally not considered one of the better fats. But coconut oil is a separate product and highly desirable. You may have to look a little bit to find rice oil and coconut oil. You will find those at health food stores. You can get them online. If you're ordering or purchasing coconut oil, you really prefer the unrefined style for food purposes. The refined coconut oil is primarily for topical use, mixing up salves or cosmetics or that sort of thing. Now with olive oil, it's highly desirable that you get cold pressed if you can. One of the things that's done to increase the production of olive oil from the smushed up vegetable matter that they start with is they will heat it and blow steam through it and sometimes in the larger plants they will mix it with hexane and other cyclic polycarbons to dissolve out the last little bits and then remove as much as possible the solvents through a vacuum process. Well, those solvents are extremely toxic. And even if they remove almost all of it, if they leave one per per million in a food product, that's a really bad thing. But the FDA lets them do it. So it is highly desirable that when you buy olive oil, you try to find cold pressed olive oil. Because that's the stuff not broken down by heat. And it is not a good thing. contaminated by any of these solvents. In the mid-range, peanut oil, which we've mentioned before, a large portion of the butternight food program consists just plain of peanuts, largely in order to get that oil, and sesame oil. Those are OK. Try not to overdo it with those guys, but it beats the heck out of not having adequate oil in the diet. And down in the very, very bad list, We have a long list of the oils that are heavily promoted and pushed and even hinted at in the advertising and literature as being highly desirable. For instance, canola oil. Everybody will have heard a great deal of advertising that says, oh, this product is canola oil, the best you can get. Canola oil should not be eaten by humans, period. In its raw form, it's actually toxic. In the 80s they came up with a genetically modified form that is sufficiently non-toxic that they could get away with peddling it to humans. One of the other uses for canola oil is industrial lubricants. I would recommend that we leave it as an industrial lubricant. There's a fair amount of research going on right now to try to find suitable canola oil to substitute for synthetic motor oil. Now that doesn't really prove anything, but I would consider that a hint that yes, you probably don't want to consume it. Margarine is an example of a hydrogenator, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Do not eat it. It is not good stuff for humans. If you want a little home science experiment, put some out in the garage someplace where it won't get run over and see how many months it sits there without rotting and without any little creatures coming along and gobbling it up. You will discover that the creatures will leave it alone. Unless you put a rat in a cage with absolutely nothing to eat, it will never touch the margarine. It senses are better than ours and it knows on some basis that that is not something that it wants to eat. Corn oil and soy oil are also very widely distributed because they are cheap. They are also not good oils for you. Safflower, sunflower and cottonseed oil, same thing. You will hear all of this stuff pushed heavily there on the shelves all over the supermarkets. Don't eat them. And if you find something on the stores that's just marked vegetable oil, what's going on there is they're avoiding telling you exactly which kind it is. You can be pretty certain that it's soy oil or corn oil, and you don't want those. So let's try to confine our acquisitions as much as possible to, in the mid-range, peanut and sesame oil. You can get large buckets of peanut oil because restaurants and institutions use it for deep-fat frying. It's not the best oil in the world. I would suggest you probably want to get peanut oil in the form of peanuts because you're getting some carbs and some proteins along with it. But you can pick it up and it's not the worst out there. All the rice and coconut oil are the ones you really want. And rice oil is actually light enough that you might find that it's palatable as salad oil. Some olive oils are If you purchase olive oil, not only is it desirable that it be cold pressed, but you will find that if you get into the slightly more exotic variations, you can find unfiltered olive oil. When they filter olive oil, some of the things that they are removing are antioxidants, which help keep the oil fresh, that is not rancid in storage. and which are useful for you. They also, however, make the olive oil cloudy. In fact, if you buy unfiltered olive oil, pressed, etc., you can get imported. varieties directly from Greece and Italy and so forth. You will often find a bit of debris down in the bottom of the can or bottle. Not a problem. Don't worry about it. Just pour it carefully when you're down at the bottom and consider that a side effect of all the other desirable stuff in there. People have opened up two well sealed containers of olive oil in them. that are at least hundreds of years old. And because they were not heated and they were not filtered and subjected to all of the modern industrial processes and because they were sealed properly, that is with containers and so on, it was still usable. Now the rule of thumb is that olive oil supposedly keeps only a year or so in the bottle. Bear in mind that this is Generally, heat treated, filtered, strained olive oil, that is, pests which are not entirely airtight, and it will in fact last only a year or two in storage. If at all possible you want olive oil or any oil for that matter to be stored in glass or in metal. If you go through the grocery store, you'll find that almost everything is in plastic. I ordered some olive oil recently and I went to the trouble of getting cold pressed and unfiltered and so on. What do you suppose it was delivered in? Plastic jugs. Which leads me to a whole other rant and we'll probably do this another evening. But basically it means that I'm going to have to find glass containers for quite a few gallons of olive oil and transfer it all. We know that we need to do this and we can take care of it and it will store. Now, on a practical front, I found a new vendor. Well, not really a new vendor, but I recently explored it. There is a retail chain out there called World Markets. They are now very similar to what Pier 1 used to be. Once upon a time Pier 1 was a pretty cool place to shop and they had all sorts of interesting things and they weren't terribly expensive. Then they turned all yuppie and Bird Lantern became $20 a piece and all that kind of good stuff and I stopped going. Well world markets isn't exactly a clone of what Pier 1 was but they're somewhat like that. They have an awful lot of stuff that's all packed in there. You'll find yourself walking sideways through the stores on occasion and every once in a while you'll find a gem. One of the things I found in there is they do have a number of varieties of and included among those they have a 3 liter glass bottle of olive oil for about $23 at my local store. Now World Markets has a website with a store locator and you can take a look and see what's there. They say they have almost 300 stores scattered around in 30 or 40 stores. There's a very good chance that there may be one near you. You might want to take a look. Being already packed in glass, you don't have to transfer it. It's a nice package. The price is not too bad. You'll find that the price of olive oil runs between $7 and $9 a liter retail most varieties. The very cheapest versions, be careful. They probably use the solvents when they're extracting it. You will find that you don't have to go too much above the very cheapest. Find that very important characteristic, cold press. And do go for that. Metal cans are just fine. Glass bottles are just fine. Almost everything you will find in the store, even in the big places, Sam's, Costco, etc., will generally be in plastic jugs. If that's all you can find, go ahead and get it. but transfer it at your earliest opportunity to glass or metal because those are 100% airtight. The problem with any oil in plastic is that it leaches out some rather nasty chemicals from the plastic. This effect occurs with water as well but at a much, much slower rate. I don't consider it a problem with dry goods if you're stirring grain in pot bottles, that sort of thing. But you do not want to store oil in any sort of plastic bottle, and that's how they come from the store. If you go looking through the shelves, actually, you'll find in the average grocery store that nothing except booze comes in a gallon jar anymore. I went looking through two chains and my local Wallies and a Super Wallies and everything else. The only things I could find packaged in glass at the larger sizes were whiskey and wine. Even vinegar, which very recently was available in gallon glass jars. The biggest containers now that vinegar comes in glass is one quart. And it takes an awful lot of quarts of vinegar to transplant several gallons of oil. So actually, it turns out that possibly the cheapest way to buy gallon jugs is Gallo wine. At my local Wally World, you can get that for $8.50 or $9.00 a gallon, which is very nearly the price of the jugs if you buy them retail. If you enjoy the cheap wine, then have that or look for some other solution for metal packaging. Do transplant any oil that you purchase in a plastic jug into glass or metal at the earliest opportunity. Ideally butter knife glass whenever possible. Go to some of the local restaurants where they have a wine license and you'll find that they don't necessarily, they buy an inexpensive wine in many cases as a store wine, as an in-house wine. but they'll have them in the larger containers. In many cases they'll be using the one gallon glass jugs. Well they don't really have any use for them because they empty out so many. So if you ask, chances are you can recover them there. And glass is really critical for a lot of special projects. Get what I'm saying? So having the glass containers in the larger format like that are a plus plus. The other thing too, those wine bottles that you're talking about, those are also shaded, which means you won't have necessarily reaction to light that you'd have with a normal clear glass. That helps quite a bit with certain types of mixes such as with the detox formula. That's a good, good thing. Not that a clear bottle is going to kill it or anything, but it's nice to have a supplemental protection or have precautionary systems on board. If you do the detox formula, those one gallon wine jugs or the old cider jugs are fantastic for the vinegar jugs. As long as the glass is your first choice, then the metal is the next thing you might have to go to because they'll seem to be still around in some quantity. Right, the F style metal cans can be obtained. Very often maple syrup will come in those, for instance. If you purchase them from a container supply, you'll find yourself paying for or $5 per gallon of capacity even for empty metal cans. It's just absolutely insane I think. I'm not so picky about the color of the glass because I figure I'm going to put it in cardboard boxes anyway. But amber or green tinted glass is certainly a benefit for anything that's the slightest bit light sensitive and that includes oil as well. I'm going to take your tip and inquire around with some restaurants. I hadn't thought of that one and I think that may work out. And the restaurants too, especially if you have like college dormitory cafeterias, they're another place where they use a lot of other foodstuffs or interesting foodstuffs where you might get unique containers like that for pretty, you know, like for free. They want to recycle them. They want to get them out of there and they have to pay to have them hold away. So we did that with one gallon cans by the way because we have a re-rimmer and we can reseal gallon cans, number 10 cans. So rather than going out and buying cans for instance, storing certain other items that we're repackaging, especially heavy metal items, then the one gallon can is perfect for the storage system and all we do is you re-rim one end, buy the lids for about 11 cents a piece and you got those set up. like I said, one gallon containers, two gallon containers, five gallon square buckets for pastry filling, and of course, five gallon pails on a regular basis, just a matter of who collects what. But the square pastry pails are fantastic for storage because they take up less space, there's less dead space between the containers and they stack really well. I've been using those for, oh, 20 years. In fact, I've got some that are at least 20 years old. for storing the extra books that I have and they're completely sealed from the environment, which is really nice. So for storing your technical data that you want to make sure is secure but easy to transport, those little pails are the perfect size, but also for dry goods storage, food storage, all the other stuff, including clothes. If you go begging gallon glass jugs, see if you can get the cardboard boxes that they originally came in because that's a place you want to drop them right back in again when you've refilled them. And one last item, if you search Amazon.com you can find rice oil on there for about $9.50 a gallon. It will come in plastic jugs so you're going to have to transfer it, but that's not a bad price. And this is the top here. Butter knife, you'll be with us next Friday. You bet. And again, guys, pay attention because we prioritize the food stuff. Those people won't use all the other stuff. We gotta feed a million people. We're gonna use what we got. But if we can do better for ourselves, now is the time to do it. Always God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We and our piggies are on the march. Sweetie! That's right. We're going to be chewing them all the way down to the coast, giving them a backpack full of rocks. Oh, that's right. Dime old machines instead and some rocks. And save some for the hog. That's right. Remember, time to feed the hogs. Thank you, butter knife. Good evening. The sense of liberty is at odds.