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If there's something we don't have, just ask and we'll find it for you. So check us out, wolverinemo.com, wolverinemo.com. Check out our site, it's updating daily folks. Mention Liberty Tree Radio for your listeners discount or just call us at 734-340-7285-734-340-7285. I had a dream the other night that, well I didn't understand. A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You vie permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. 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 will 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 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 watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a 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? over here. And of course, well, we're still having a few problems here and there with the station. Thought we were talking off the air, but we're not. You see, we're busy even when you think we're not right now, but this is the Intelligence Report. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, south, southwest, central, and northwest. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we're on live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet technologies east and west of the Mississippi, southern and central Alaska, and places towards the Aleutians. Also, the Hallmark net on the east coast, six of the original colonial states covered, all of them small ones, but still, they're touched in one another by the Hallmark net. and more on that as it develops. Now let's see a butter knife. What's the date today? you you caught me i think that it is it is the number five uh... today that's right and uh... that's okay i understand but it's going to be a real we lose track of the days constantly for their one running into the next is the biggest problem but it is friday so it is still uh... right now about the well a to six here in the midwest but it's five oh six now five oh seven on the west coast so many people are heading home be careful uh... when you leave work in your jump in the car Play Scatter Dodge. Focus on what you're supposed to be doing. Don't chew on your toenails. Don't try to do the makeup. Don't try to talk on the phone. Instead, pay attention to what's in front of you. Get home safe and don't be thinking about while you're in the car about what you gotta do when you get there. wait till you get there and then take care of it. People usually are distracted, it's the last part of the day, and they're thinking something else is more important than what's in front of them. Well, right up until the minute that that semi truck shows up in front of your windscreen, okay? So let's make sure that doesn't happen. Get home safe, play it safe, stay focused, and drive defensively. Now, couple things here real quick. Butter Knife, we're going to be covering what tonight? We're going to be talking about preservation methods for some of our favorite politically incorrect saturated fats. We're going to be reviewing butter and moving on towards our favorite bacon. Bacon, bacon, bacon. Here's another thing real quick on that. No, canned bacon? You mean you can actually do canned bacon? Actually, you can buy it if you're made out of money. Oh yes, well that's true. Actually, it used to be, and of all places at Kmart, it used to be one of the places that used to carry canned bacon on a regular basis. I haven't seen it in quite a few years, haven't been to a Kmart for a while. You know, something else, just a footnote here guys, you know, I can count on one hand the number of times I've been at a Walmart. In fact, I can count them on one finger. I didn't really think about that until somebody mentioned that today. I have stepped through the doors of a Walmart the exact number of one times and even then I didn't even go into the store. I just stood inside, got as far as parallel with the cash registers, and turned around and left. And do you know that that is the only time that I have ever been in a Walmart? period for as long as they've been in business I've been all over the country saw when they were going up everywhere and I have never gone in and bought anything at one of them yet well that's okay the rest of us keep checking the Wally world ammo shelves so you don't have to do it that's true but it's just fascinating I was you know it's one of the things where it's like you know I haven't really had a an undying need and I guess it just for whatever reason just right place wrong time or a wrong place right time and everything worked out so Interestingly enough there now I tell you what we got Mike back with us Mike what's been going on down there again the evening news update so to speak is sometimes fun and remember we get what we call regional feeds people sometimes what you see in New York somebody else doesn't see in California and vice versa so what's been going on there Well, I know this tonight, of course they talked about the O.J. Simpson sentencing and everything, but they also now for the third night in a row, they're talking about what's going on in formerly known as Rhodesia, but what's called Zimbabwe now. And I guess Condoleezza Rice is over there condemning Robert Mugabe, and now they're talking about the cholera outbreak. We've been talking about it. extensively here on the Intel report and now for the third night in a row they're talking about this but I noticed that they keep showing the same film over and over again, the polluted water bubbling out of the ground and oh the human catastrophe and the babies with the IVs and everything in that and it's just It's just turning into a mess. One thing that I noticed that they've avoided this for about 25 years, but especially now leading up to this, this couple break started back in August. and they have avoided it. Notice that that was during the time that they run up to the election. And I have to question, why did they avoid that issue? Could it have been with one of the candidates that was running? And now all of a sudden, it's in the news night after night after night in the morning news and the evening news. And when they sit here and they use these terms about redeploying the troops, they never say that they're going to bring them home. Kind of like Bill Clinton said he was going to bring them home by Christmas but he never told us what year. Now they are going to redeploy the troops. So I suspect that all those people who have been learning Arabic up in Iraq, they might want to start thinking about polishing up on their Swahili because that's the next place that they are going is going to be passing out MREs and saving the third worlders down in here. in Zimbabwe. And you know, they told us that 25 years ago that if we get rid of those evil white people, then everything would be just fine. But they've got a communist dictator in here that's been running roughshod over the country. The last I heard the official government estimate of inflation was 11 million percent in Zimbabwe. and the country has fallen apart. The capital, Harare, has no water. This place is on the cusp of a total, total disaster. Mark? Well, interestingly enough, if you think about it, like you mentioned the other day, and guys, I was picturing this and I mentioned it on the air again too, is, you know, they're talking about how the cholera is, you know, stretching across the south and southwestern border. It was coming across the border river to South Africa, right? And I can picture- Well, the Popo River, it's now contaminated with cholera. Well, that's okay, because it only stays on the Zimbabwean side. There's a borderline down the middle and I'm sure that whatever plug it is, it just kind of systematically hits that force field and bounces back off. And South Africa is not feeling any of the pressure at all on this, are they? The aliens are boiling across the border. have been found, they've been tested, they've been confirmed, and then they have course, well, most of the time it's hoped that they were shipped back, but as we know, we have no clue what really happened with them. And even if they are shipped back for everyone you catch, it's the old story, there's a hundred you missed and how many of them are carrying what other diseases. So diseases that heretofore have been contained and have been neutralized in the United States are dragged right in covertly with no heads up with the population in general and certainly not with medical support because this is a real problem. A lot of people have been conditioned watching all these B.S. Hollywood movies that every hospital has a virtual pharmacopoeia to deal with any problem that just drops in their lap. And nothing could be further from the point. Live 365. Anyway, point is that three days worth. After that, there was no more. They had to go searching. Now that's something as simple as rabies, which everybody it's implied that if you just get them to the hospital It'll all be there waiting for you Really? Now what about all these other exotics that are cropping up where we actually do have intelligent solutions for them But one of the reasons that you don't see them in any quantity is because the rarity with which the attack or with the type of contamination is taking place unless You have a whole bunch of people swimming across the border or walking across the border in waves trying to get away from that which they are, oh, they were running from and they're contaminated with. So how does that spread the population, the disease, through other populations? Oh, quite efficiently. Biological weapons carriers being what they are, so to speak. Now, In this case, this could all have been avoided. This is the other problem with this, guys. The whole thing with Rhodesia is not something that's just, you know, wow, we didn't expect that. We never knew that was going to happen. They have been progressively monitoring and watching this for how many years? And while we have a Saddam Hussein who of course we had to go wage war against and spend several trillion dollars on because the Bush's had some kind of vendetta and the Israelis wanted to murder Iraqis, well we have no problem with that. But here's this character in Africa who's responsible for how many people dying and for how much of a destruction of the infrastructure of his nation. And everybody sit in their hands and just go, so it's cool. Isn't this just wonderful? Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Now guess what the rest is gonna be history here real quick, but the writings on the wall that the goof we have coming in the meat puppet Obviously the the reason they're clapping in Kenya is because they're gonna be dumping more of your ball your wallet into their countries That's the next big literally black hole as far as the next place where they can just shovel buckets and buckets and buckets of digits, run up our national debt, destroy our economy, and it will be for naught because nothing will be done properly with what is delivered. The reason I say that, guys, well, okay, all of us here are about how old. You know, Butterknife, you're in your 50s. I am one year older than you are, very nearly to the day. Mike, you're a little younger than we are, right? I'm 51. I'll be 52 in January the 8th. I'm sorry, I figured I'd say look at that. Now we're all the same age, guys. Now going back to your days in elementary school, do you remember when they used to come around with those little juice type boxes and they wanted you all to bring in change to donate to the United Nations to feed the people in Africa? How many times were a little round cans there there we go we had the cheapy little juice can't box things I think they actually made it way putting out paper and putting on them But the point is guys they've been doing this over and over and it has never gotten better in fact Progressively it has gotten worse and for all of their yapping about yeah Well, we need to fill in the blank as far as manipulating the conditions there They have always dumped the money in and never seen any productive effort come out In fact, I can think now in my lifetime of at least nine wars in the Congo that I've lived through, you know, through my life, they've taken place while I've been breathing. Going back to 66, 67 and working my way up and right now they're in the middle of a bloodbath that they don't even want to talk about. In fact, they can't really be sure who's killing what for whose reason anyway right now. And that's on the western part of Africa, over around the Ivory Coast, in the Congo, and you've got, you know, northwest Africa and all that. Guys, guess what? That's another part of Africa that's already in the toilet. This one, of course, is probably the worst of the bunch because Zimbabwe, slash Rhodesia, was the breadbasket of Africa that kept them all afloat. No matter what other buffoonery, they'd befailed them, you know, over there in be it Niger or be it Chad or be it down in the Congo, Zimbabwe Rhodesia or Rhodesia Zimbabwe, take your pick, was always able to produce enough food to make up for their ignorance. Well now it's gotten to the point where as is typically the case with all socialist operations, The parasites have run it absolutely into the ground and you'll notice there's no, no, you know, comment about, well, what kind of system destroyed Zimbabwe? Well, what's that guy? No, what kind of system? What form of government? What, what was he aspiring to? What were we all told just had to be, what is that term guys that we've always heard? If we just give communism a chance and just let it take hold, it'll work. Well, what happened guys? They've had how many years? Well, we have to keep in mind what's the definition of work. It does perform the design goal. The design goal, however, is to siphon the entire wealth of a country into about 500 hands, typically. Exactly. And there again, what are we seeing here? My company years has Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, been Zimbabwe. Since about 1975. Yes, Morgan Changar I was sent out by Mugabe's thugs and he was beaten. He got a skull fracture with a concussion and was admitted to an intensive care unit. That's another thing too that the BBC has reported on and they finally reported on it tonight. that because of the lack of funds over there in Rhodesia, that Robert Mugabe is sending the army out on the streets and they're beating people up, beating them, and then robbing them of their money, and so then they can bring that back to the government. That's what's going on. Well, then technically, I don't know, that sounds a lot like the IRS. We're just a little bit more paperwork. Guys, can you hear me okay? Yeah, we got you. Go ahead. Good. Technically he didn't lie then he shared the power just not the way anybody thought he would that's right I even power cord electrical you know like DC current cattle prod that kind of thing sharing the power Do you have any more money more? No, I don't we even hold on here one more little cattle prodding Okay, yes, I do in my left pocket, and there's some of my sock in my left shoe Oh, we wouldn't have found that until we cavity searched you Well cavity searching that has nothing to do with my shoes. Oh it will by the time we're done Yeah, that's the problem with this too, is that, you know, again, then it's like the, you can't talk about it. Everybody else is like, oh, whatever you do, don't say anything bad. I'm going to say a lot of things bad. The goose screwed up. Bottom line is they've screwed up worse. I mean the only thing worse is the socialist parasites we've had here. They've been doing the same thing. And were it not for Americans actually plugging the breach here and there every time they've created it, which is what the socialists count on, is that the people who are actually workers and are producers that create things will keep fixing the mess so they can keep stealing off it, paraciding 95%, 85%, 65%. It purely matters what period of time and where they are. And that's kind of interesting because this kind of leads me to, and we're almost at the bottom of the hour break, and I know we've got other things we're going to be covering tonight, but this segues right in because this is something I want to read real quick. And I'm going to ask everybody when they think this is. Where did this come from? During the later stages of the Rhodesian Bush War in late 1970s, a particularly salient tactical point was demonstrated to those with eyes to see. Embattled Rhodesia, fighting for its very life and ostracized by virtually the entire world, quietly adopted a policy change for its armed forces. As a result, the selector switches on thousands of FN FALs were deliberately switched from the full-auto mode to the semi-automatic mode as a matter of standard procedure. The reason was the shortage of ammunition brought about by international sanction efforts. The effects were startling in that nothing changed as far as battle outcome in spite of a better armed and equipped enemy in increasingly superior numbers penetrating Rhodesia from three fronts. The Communists trained and supplied terrorists maintained full-auto mode with their AK-47s right up until the bitter end. When the final battle came, the outnumbered and outgunned Rhodesians had never lost a single encounter. More important here, guys. Rather, their demise came at the negotiating table, which is a point for deep reflection. What this proves is that semi-automatic fire is a match for full auto in the hands of determined and committed personnel fighting for home and hearth. As we stand today with the threat of legislation banning the possession and or manufacture of semi-automatic weapons, we had best pause and consider this carefully. And to ban on so-called assault rifles today, will become a ban on your Remington 1100 tomorrow. Bet on it. The Second Amendment has been dealt numerous and severe infractions in multiple localized instances over the past half century. But never before has it faced the broad onslaught we now see. The avowed goals of our very government is to strip us of our rights under the Second Amendment. Should this occur, however, it will ultimately be our fault, not theirs. The reason for this is the Second Amendment. As an American in the middle of my fourth decade in this life, I, like many others, look around in utter shock and dismay at the rapid unraveling of our culture. I've managed to get to this point in life without running afoul of our laws even once. I am not associated with or am an adherent to any group espousing supremacist views, nor do I advocate the violent overthrow of the government at this point in time. I will confess to holding numerous politically incorrect attitudes, however. I've been fortunate to be able to live abroad in several countries, which has given me a good deal of perspective from which to speak. But I speak as an American whose family has been in this country since before the Revolution. Now I look at the fast approaching tomorrow when I may be legislated a criminal for what is my legal right today. This is because I own a couple of some automatic weapons. One of them was bequeathed to me by my late father and was purchased by him in the middle 1920s. Insidious weaponry indeed. Yet I face the possibility that I could wake up one day and be a felon unless I immediately turn in these weapons. This is something I will not do. Now I'm gonna go through the rest of this site. I don't think I'll wait for now, but you know just giving the bend on this guys Where do you think this was written? This actually is aware this yeah, well I can ask both because here's what's interesting. This isn't a major publication But it's a publication that I guarantee is a green weenie right now and won't even come close to saying what was just said in one, two, three, four, five paragraphs to include the idea that this person is willing to fight and, of course, isn't going to hand over his weapons. So I'll give you a hint. It's not a new... I'll give you my first guess at either the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Well, that's a close one. Actually, almost as good as Guns and Ammo, which of course you'd expect that in at least at one time to have been an article like this to be there, except this is Guns and Ammo for September of 1994. Now, the reason I brought this up is that basically there's no dating the body of the article, and everything he's talking about is exactly what's transpiring right now. Now, what's fascinating is the whole idea that this was written in 1994. This is before the Oklahoma City bombing. When everybody was doing the, we've got to dig our heels in, these buggers are going to take our weapons, we're going to have to fight. These are the these people became green weenies like all the others did with the oh not me I don't know did the Oklahoma City bombing kill them kill them. I'm not with anybody. I don't know anything Now the green weenies the politically correct ones you know guys they fell to the wayside while we dug our heels and held our ground Now, it was nice that they made some really nice statements, guns and ammo, and of course at the exact same time I challenge you, go back and look at the NRA publication, The American Rifleman. and take a look at the cool little watercolors with the colonial scenes like in Boston and talking about the militia and the gun grab and yada yada yada. But then when the time came and things got serious they wet their proverbial pants and all scurried off into the shadows pointing at everybody else was evil and bad but them they wouldn't do anything. That was a bureaucracy. The rank and file knew better. That was the bureaucracy and all these panty-waste that gravitate to these positions of authority. They're great for the rhetoric until it comes time to put your money where your mouth is. Okay? And the reason I bring this up is that again, I have not seen a guns and ammo recently, but I guarantee you aren't seeing anything like this in that magazine right now. I guarantee it. Political correctness? They're so deep up the enemy's rear, their ears are brown. Anyway, tell you what guys, butter knife, Mike, you stay where you are. This is Mark. Intel report back in three 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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It's usually associated with coastal areas from the infected water. And, again, I suspect Rhodesia is a landlocked country. They don't have any coastal areas, so this has been imported somehow, some way into that country. And basically, you vomit and defecate out all of your electrolytes, and you will die a most hideous, painful death in a rapid, rapid short time. And unless you get basic, you know, the electrolyte replacement through IVs and anybody that's in the healthcare industry that's caring for these infected people, if they don't have, you know, just basic rubber gloves to protect them and any gowns to protect them from being splashed on by the vomit or the feces, they will become infected. And it's not like no typhoid maria as to where you can just be a carrier. You will become sick and you will transmit the disease to other people. It is just not pretty. It is a hideous, horrible disease. Mark? And again, my impression that it's also a real race to try to pump fluids and electrolytes into somebody fast enough to keep them alive, is that correct? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Especially when you start to become dehydrated and their veins collapse, you can't even get an IV into them because there ain't nothing to stick it into. And that's one of the problems of this is the debilitation curve is very, very rapid. The problem is the volume of casualties. As you said, typically, well, I think we know what the problem is. Number one, what did they just say? You've got no water in the capital. Which means that everything is piling up. Pardon the pun and it ain't pretty. Think about it. What's happening is, and especially in a state like that, what I call is veneer technology problems. When you have a society that doesn't produce for itself, but is buying everything or purchasing everything that has a high manufacturing level to it, and all of a sudden they don't have the ability or it's cut off, that veneer technology disappears very, very, very quickly. And since this country, if you're looking at the percentage of inflation that they're talking about, there's no country selling them anything. That's what the problem is. There's no country willing to deal with them or that can deal with them and afford to do so because you might as well just walk out and pour the equipment, the machinery, the tools or whatever or the chemicals for water treatment or you know, take your pick right out the back door and throw it right in the dumpster because that's basically you're not going to get paid for it because there ain't nobody going to really accept the currency. and that could be curtailed by the government itself but if the people that are in government have embraced the socialist mechanism it's a dead spiral down and that's what they can understand the goofs typically are very limited very narrow socialists are not bright they're the dull they're the dull knives in the drawer and they can't they they'll drag everybody else down the process while they do this and that's a classic example what's happening right there in that country the goofs have been allowed to take charge And so now we're in a situation where I guarantee they're going to have us spending a big chunk of change on that problem. It's guaranteed. You can see this coming. If you thought the $10 trillion that they just stole through the sellout was bad, watch and see what happens when they start plugging us for this. And one of the things, guys, that's in the wings, Osama bin Laden has already flat out said they're going to push the UN tax and this is where they're going to demand it. So watch how this they're gonna put a gun to everybody's head tell everybody they're gonna surrender us over to the international courts hand us over as a taxable depressed state to the United Nations and we're right back to square one where we were in 1998 and 1999 and The same thing was happening then and it's almost as if the last eight years Well, well like they were just waiting in the wings to shift tracks on an eight track player Same tape running just ch-ch-ch. Now we switch in, ch-ch. Then we switch out, ch-ch. Then we switch in. And that's where we're headed with this. So beware, because there's a lot of other reasons. Otherwise, people die in Africa every day and they don't talk about it. You know that? Think about that. They don't talk about it. Like I said, let's go to every one of those states on the Ivory Coast and take a look at their condition. Can we talk about, for instance, um, well, like I said, the Congo. What's going on in the Congo today? What's going on in South Africa? Let's go all the way down to the southern horn there. What's going on in South Africa? You don't hear about it for obvious reasons. Crime rates up 700%, 1,000%. That's where they want to take us. And that's what we're going to have to put down before it ever gets that far. And there ain't going to be no holding back when it starts. But before that happens, we've got to have supply and support in place. And that's why we've got Butter Knife here. Butter Knife, we've got quartermaster issues and ideas. Please jump in there. Okay, in previous episodes we were talking about fats because our heavily grain and cereal type supplies are fat deficient. And there are a number of different types of fats. We've talked about those to a degree, the mono and polyunsaturated and the saturated fats. The most common forms of saturated fats which are not at all as bad for you as the popular press would have you believe, in fact, are extremely important for cell wall flexibility and so on. Some of those can be preserved by home canning techniques. This is low technology and we can use that now. And if we store things at current market prices, I think that even just from an economic basis, there will be great rewards to that. Now we've discussed previously canning butter, and I'd like to review that briefly, because that is certainly the easiest of the methods that I have tried successfully. I've also had some rather unsuccessful tests, and I'll tell of those in due course. I'd like to review butter. Because butter is not really a true canning process, we're going to deviate a little bit from the standard procedures with butter. This is described on Cordy's site and her URL has changed a little bit. I don't recall that immediately off the top of my head. I'm sure it's repeated frequently on this show. But the short form is that we run our jars through the dishwasher, get them clean. Do not trust a jar even straight from the factory to be clean. Go ahead and run it through the dishwasher anyway. And we run it then through the oven. We put it in the oven at about 250 and leave it for half an hour. What we're doing there is we're sterilizing the jar itself. Since we're not going to do a pressure canning process. We want to make sure that the jar is as sterile as possible when we start. Now butter, when you buy it from the store, salted or not, it will have anywhere from 5 to 15% water content. You wouldn't think that a stick of butter would have that much water in it, but it really does. Water is one of the things that our old enemy botulin really needs and likes in order to grow while we're not watching. One of the things we want to do is remove the water. With pint jars, and I recommend pint jars for butter because it's not something that you use half of a jar in one sitting, I would suggest that we melt the butter in a saucepan, get it foaming and let it foam for a while. What we're doing there is we're driving the water off. We don't want it to cook as hard as to brown, but we do want to let it foam and we want to get that water out of there to a large degree. That also heats it up quite a bit and kills just about anything that's in there. If we use small saucepans, and we put about three and a half sticks in a sauce pan. That will be the correct amount to pour into a pint jar. And since there are different ingredients in the butter, there will be salt, if it's salted butter, there will be the liquid butter, there will be some solids in there as well. We don't want those to get out of proportion or the stuff that we pull out of the jar will be different from what we intended to put in. So what I would suggest is that we cut up three and a half sticks, melt that in a saucepan, and dump the entire contents into the jar. That way we know that the proportions of different ingredients are not being thrown off. If we're not careful, if we melt several pounds and pour it into the jars, we'll get more salt in this one less than that one, more solids in this one less than that one, and so on, no matter how furiously we stir it. So I would say put three and a half sticks in and pour the entirety into the jar and then repeat. If we do it this way, a person with normal dexterity, which I consider myself to be, can basically keep two such sauce pans running at all times as we fill the jars. So that's a fairly efficient procedure. Remember we're going to put three nastakes in there, we're going to melt them, we're going to let them foam for a while. We're not going to quite let it get smoky or brown. And then we pour it in the jar and we go ahead and seal it. A third sauce pan should be boiling with lid sitting in it so we get those seals nice and soft. Make sure that we do not get any grease on the lid or on the edge of the jar when we put the lid on and screw it down moderately tight, not gorilla tight. but firmly. And set them aside. Be aware that these things will be hot, hot, hot. Hotter than boiling water because we're heating up fat here. So it's a very straightforward procedure. As the jars cool down to about room temperature, that's when you want to start shaking them like mad. Because when they get to the congealing point, that's when you want to mix up all the different ingredients. And if you do it right, it will be a nice, bright, shiny yellow. and you'll know that you've got everything correct. And with the three and a half sticks modification of the procedure, we don't even have to be too concerned about how deeply we fill the jars because we know that we're putting the right amount in to begin with. So that simplified procedure will get us up and running. Bear in mind that butter can be purchased at about $2 a pound right now. When the supply chain breaks, when electricity is not necessarily something we can take for granted, that stuff will be perhaps not as precious as gold, but darn close. So I would strongly recommend that anybody has a food storage program, go ahead and put up 50 or 100 pounds of butter. Worst case is that you can trade that. I would suggest that that's a no-brainer and it's an excellent first project. It's an easier project than some of the others. And we'll, if you're like me and not necessarily a wizard in the kitchen, get you up and running and get you a little bit of practice and have you inventorying which pots and pans are available and all that kind of good stuff. Now again with all of this as far as storage goes, no special procedures can be kept for any of your other jarred goods or canned goods, are correct? Correct. I would think that it would probably be worthwhile hunting up cardboard boxes and maybe slicing up some strips so that you can make a little catch cushioning so that the jars don't clink against each other. But whatever system you have for storing things, go ahead and do that. The other thing to remember with any home canned goods is that you can remove the rings after everything has cooled down. You do not however want pressure to be placed on the lids after they're sealed. So whatever kind of boxes or shelves or whatever you use. You want to arrange it so that little if any pressure is applied to the caps by whatever is stacked on top of them. So you may want to look into rigid boxes or a layer of foam to distribute any weight, that sort of thing. You know a fascinating thing about that too is that most people don't think about butter just like they don't think about meats But for the longest time All my life my grandparents and my parents my mother of course Canned everything you can think of used to do hamburger used to do a number of different types of meats used to do a corn beef actually too There's none of this much in more recent years course are in their 80s now, but What's interesting is that I grew up and have seen this work, but finding the best recipes is the thing. And then even if you have the recipes, you want to be able to tweak it to your specs once you understand what steps need to be taken. So you follow instructions, but you also pay attention. You don't go too far with the heat. You never shorten it, because obviously the issue with meats and with even the butter is the area issue of contamination of bacteria which is something you want to make sure you neutralize. So this is a plus plus. A lot of people have been asking, in fact several of the different YouTube videos have had questions about you know meats and you know finding out more about other materials or waste to store materials that are affordable or at least that they can control better especially when we get past our first generation storage system and the first generation storage system is where you go out to the grocery store and grab it off the shelf. Well, six, seven years down the road into the conflict that won't be possible the way it has been and people still will be able to harvest meats, be grown buddy rabbits, you're going to be looking at cattle, you'll still be looking at all the other domestic animals that are used for foodstuffs. But you're going to have to have a way to store them. You're going to have to have different ways or diverse ways to store them simply because of the very nature of the seasons the way they change. Nancy calculates how much she needs in every category and cans that way every year, you know, figuring for an overlap of so many weeks or months for the jarred foods that we do. So this is an important dimension with regard to support. Any other special or unique issues that come up with the butter though as far as what about durability, time storage? Well, I don't have very good figures on how long this stuff lasts. My experiments have been on the more recent side. Cordy has done this and kept them for at least two or three years, maybe longer. She might address that in her following show. I certainly think that anything we're going to stock will probably be consumed much quicker than it would expire if we're careful when we're doing the packaging. I would also mention that the lids are one use items and they are manufactured goods. They can be purchased fairly cheaply now. They may be unavailable later. Go ahead and clean off a shelf of lids. Worst case, you can trade them. Do you know, the next step after that is paraffin, which paraffin can store indefinitely on the shelf, but paraffin for jar sealing would be the next step. And by the way, and it's reusable. Right, and it's reusable. And butter is another one, by the way, that was used for canning seal. So it's interesting that using, you know, obviously canning it itself is, with the modern systems we have is outstanding, but butter was also used as a canning sealing system when paraffin or beeswax was not readily available. So again transporting and storage, transporting and storage are two different things when you're using more malleable materials like that for seals. The wax isn't a problem, the paraffin isn't a problem. Beeswax for the most part was actually very transportable. Remember before we had jars we had crocs and so we actually canned in crocs. And then you used a seal lid in some cases if you were well to do. So that you could keep things out of the wax or out of the butter so they didn't drop in there. But that is a next term, next step solution when you start running out of the materials that were production made from the factories. One of the tricks too with paraffin that always got me is, I don't know if you ever use this system, but shaving the paraffin and actually putting it in the food product and during the heating process, the paraffin rises to the top of the material and seals the material itself while it bonds with it. And the only problem is... You can just toss it in there and let it organize itself in the jar if there's a sufficient quantity of it and if the jar is parallel enough. If the jar is sloped, then that can cause some mechanical problems. But paraffin is an excellent self-sealer as long as you do not jiggle things while they're cooling. Right, exactly. Well, that was the only thing is that if you didn't get it perfect, one of the things I noticed is that you had these little paraffin stalactites guys that would go down into the jelly and you had to keep an eye out for that. In other words, after you pulled the wax cap off, sometimes those would break off and you weren't paying attention, you'd be spreading jelly and you might even... Just stuff it in the jar and go ahead and do a traditional pressure cooking heat sealing. And that will work. It's not the tastiest one. Bacon has a fair amount of water content, and that will separate if you do it that way. And you will basically be saving bacon bits in a lot of fat. But that's a good first step. The next procedure that I would suggest to people is a hot pack bacon. That means basically get your frying pan going and fry it up not to the crispy stage but to the definitely cooked and translucent stage and just drop the pieces one at a time into your target jar until it's full. Keep packing it down until it's full. And then pour in however much grease covers it. and then seal that up and proceed to do a pressure cook. Surprisingly enough, you can get the strips out almost intact if the jar is at room temperature when you're unpacking it. And the texture is not quite what you're accustomed to because it's been cooked so long. And some of it will be a little bit broken up. It's not bad, it's fairly intact. When you're looking at this, you'll see all of these little bits of bacon touching the edges of the jar and an awful lot of white all around it because of all that bacon fat. Well, remember that the Indians used to make pemmican and basically they were preserving their food in fat. The surface of the fat may turn a little bit rancid and you can peel off the part that you don't like. But it does prevent air transport and moisture transport and displaces the moisture. So surrounding those things in fat is not a bad second stage sealing technique, in fact. And then the third and fanciest method is also the most labor intensive for bacon, but will produce the very best results you can manage, is to get some parchment paper at the grocery store. That's available in the baking section and it's the stuff that people spread out on cookie sheets sometimes when they're making baked goods. It resists heat very well and it doesn't crumble and so on. And you just proceed from where we were before. You go ahead and cook up your bacon. Don't cook it too hard. Get it cooked and translucent. And spread out a sheet of this paper and lay out these strips of bacon on this paper. Now I would suggest that you make the paper double width so that it folds over once. But by laying it out in little rows on the paper, folding the paper over so that it's completely surrounded, and then rolling it up and stuffing that in the jar, and then you proceed to do the full canning process. What's going on there is that's mechanically protecting the strips of bacon and keeping them flat and straight. and when you eventually come to pull it out, you pull the whole thing out in a big lump and pull it apart and you'll find these strips of bacon that really need only a little bit of warming up and they're ready to go and they're actually in the form of strips. You'll find that that's not quite as tasty as fresh cooked because again there's a double cooking process. treatment in the pressure cooker goes a little further and breaks things down a little bit more. But it's actually not bad at all. You will not get as much into a jar that way, of course. You'll probably get about one pound or three quarters of a pound into a quart jar. So it's not as high density as the hot pack method. But it produces excellent results if you can do that much work. It is quite pleasant. People, if they don't see you in the kitchen, may not even realize that this is canned or home canned bacon. The first time I did that, I just kind of rolled it up in a spiral and stuffed it in. That looked good until it came time to pull it out. I pulled it out, the paper came out, left all the bacon behind and sort of defeated the purpose. I had to upend the jar and dump everything out. It wasn't quite as neatly laid out as it had been when I put it in. Hence, I suggest going with double the paper and folding it over once so that then when you roll it over you've got something that pulls out intact. But parchment paper is an elaboration of the process. It will slow you down a little bit. It's a little bit more work doing it, but it certainly is pleasant and keeps things intact and a little bit more elegant and palatable. Well again, this is another dimension in our food storage and the reason we want to bring it up is because guys we're going to have to have solutions. We're going to be harvesting. We're going to continue to produce, but what do you do once you've got it on the shelf and you want it for the middle of the winter or you want it for, you know, into the next summer or if you need again to try and put up a larder, you know, food reserves. Real quick note here, we're going to have to go in a second guys, as Nancy pointed out in the chatroom butter knife, it was goose fat that was used in the 1700s also for sealing jars. And I guess work quite well obviously because we're still around here alive and breathing. So there are many techniques, there are other solutions. Each one progressively takes us back a little farther than the technology. The most important is we have those nice little containment vessels called glass jars. They're so convenient and they have been so readily available that We ought to pile them up. We have several thousand underneath where Nancy is sitting right now at the other work station. We don't give them up and we don't let any of them go. We watch for more and we just keep piling them because glass sits there and stares at you till you need it. Well we're at the top. Let the vampires watch their supplies of filet mignon du endot while we'll get by with the old Revolutionary War style glass jars. Thank you very much. That's right. We're at the top. We got Courtney coming up next year guys so stay tuned. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail. The Empire is on the run. We and our piggies are on the run.