July 5, 2010
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Mark Koernke and Donald Betcher discussed preparedness and self-sufficiency strategies, including water storage using wine bottles with corks and paraffin sealing, food preservation with CO2 purging, and field water extraction techniques in desert environments. They covered border security monitoring in Arizona, Fort Huachuca's historical significance, and practical gear maintenance for MOLLE equipment and military uniforms. The show also addressed intelligence gathering methods, the Al Gore massage incident, and the Chandra Levy case, contrasting U.S. and foreign intelligence tactics.
- water storage
- preparedness
- fort huachuca
- border security
- molle gear
- desert survival
- food preservation
- arizona militia
- intelligence gathering
- al gore
- chandra levy
- self-sufficiency
- gear maintenance
- cocoa county militia
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Or visit machinegunshoot.com. It's easier to find than my birth certificate. A figure walked in 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. The 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 buy 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 is 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 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'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 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 him 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? The distance is it gone now? And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke. And I'm Donald Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, central, west, southeast, and northeast. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365, then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM micro stations, CB Bay stations, and Ultra Net Technologies, both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We are on the Hallmark network on the Eastern Seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed towards Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. Oh my goodness, Chunk of Nebraska, the third of Wyoming, and across the, oh, that's right before we forget, don't let's not forget all our micro stations in Iowa. Forgive me, guys. You guys have been doing such a good job. We've got two more stations up and online. 90.5 FM, wanna say hi to you guys tonight, and Also, I think 100.7 FM, so to say greetings and new listeners there. Also, the Golden Spike Project across on the other side of the river. And it appears that we've got a whole lot of projects coming up this weekend. Don't forget we have a It's party on the beach on Saturday, party on the beach on Saturday, party on the beach on Saturday, and then a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. A meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. Don, today's date is? Mark, it is the fifth day of July. Year of our word, 2000 and again, you guys, day after 4th of July, that's the fifth day of July. Oh, it's Cinco de July. Well, you know what I'm trying to say here. There you go. Fifth day engine, did we lose Mark? Uh oh, 1, 2, 3. I don't know how that happened. 1, 1, 1. There you go. There we go. Anyway, we got a bunch of projects that are coming up and online right now, needless to say, down on the border. We also have several formations that are out there in the Gulf of Mexico that are starting to do what I was asking about. Guys, it's real simple. Let's start doing a complete chemical analysis and survey of the whole of the Gulf Coast. We've got lots of people out there listening to all these Patriot programming sites and if they are, everybody should be getting on the bandwagon doing the exact same thing. In fact, we can go one step farther. Why aren't we posting, first of all, doing the survey and then posting the levels of contamination on the websites? Everybody from those people down in Austin, Texas to the people that are up there in Wisconsin, Minnesota are broadcasting counterparts in the East Coast in a number of different locations. Guys, it might scare you though if you like. For instance, the people in New Jersey and New York take this to heart. They aren't anywhere near the oil spill, but they check the water and they go, oh my God, we're all going to die. We did a water survey. Yeah, my god the contaminants is horrible. It's horrific. Oh my goodness And what part of Louisiana are you in? We're not Louisiana. We're in New Jersey. We're enjoying. Yeah. Oh my god. You obviously have it. You haven't checked the water compared to like last week. Yeah, exactly. Or last year. Well, the interesting thing about it is especially you got to remember guys when you get a whole bunch of people piled up in one place and you got a lot of industry in one place, doesn't take long for unique things to happen to the water, especially in the rivers. And that's the fresh water supply. God knows. And of course, the salt water as well. Everything dumps and flushes, you know what I mean? In other words, it's going down river. So guess what? When it gets to the other end, it dumps and flushes. I think you all know what I mean by that. So, scary thought there, but still truth nonetheless. So anyway, what we want to do is pay attention, make sure that if you can take the time, check out the interesting variations on the theme thereof, and we'll do what we can to keep everybody up to speed with what's going on. But right now, my recommendation is, if we can, we need to start, and Mark can't do this, I got enough to, I got all 30 hours of the 24-hour clock filled, okay? As it is, we get a lot of special things that are in our area of expertise that we're trying to pitch in with right now and we're doing our part. But we need a bunch of people to come forward. This is where you youngsters, you young people especially, hey, you got the right motivation, you've got a little bit of working knowledge, you're going to gain a lot of field experience by doing this. So take the time. and let's organize. We see all these wonderful rallies with, oh a million people or a hundred thousand people or twenty thousand people protest the G20. Well, guess what? There's a whole bunch of people that are probably linked in to other locations on the Gulf Coast, on the bottom of Florida, across Florida. Nope, it's not just for you chanting, you know, sin cumbaya. In this case, you have to go out and get your hands dirty. You gotta go out and get into the field, gotta go out and find, you know, pick a location. and a series of locations that help to coordinate these survey locations that would be best suited to our needs. I don't think it'd be difficult at all. In fact, I know it wouldn't be. I've already mapped it through several times. But I'm challenging everybody else out there. Don't lament about the problem. Let's figure out what's going on for real. Let's not guess based upon a number of different people whose job it is to stir up the pot. You know what I mean? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Another point to be made, Mark, and I'll go in a completely different direction for a moment. Today, 234 years ago, there were plenty of people who did not know a thing about what had happened. They didn't know the declaration of it, just like April 20th, April 21st. There were plenty of people who didn't know the shot heard around the world had been fired yet. But you know what? You're listening on the Internet, and we can talk to each other. News travels a lot faster now. Those in it. Absolutely. That's to our advantage as long as we use it. As long as we use it, that's to our advantage. And again, it's not like, well, did you hear what happened two weeks ago? I know it's not Communications Tuesday, but this is something that, you know, a lot of people just, they live like they're in the AT&T. I'll sit here and say that I'm not a person who uses the Internet, but there are so many people who are It's almost like people want to go back because it was easier to lay down longer. You could lay down longer. In between having a feedback here, we can have instantaneous feedback. There's no worrying about this now. Purely it's a matter of honesty. It's a matter of who is deciding to provide the data. Let me give you an example of lack of honesty. It was a little piece and I pointed this out, but several times it's not what you see, it's what you don't see. There was a map with a Cochise County, one of the Cochise County militia, and it's just doing sit down monitoring certain key points in the border area this last weekend all through 4th of July. It was brought up on the programming for this local station. Then they showed a map of Cochise County, the lower end, but also the lower part of the state of Arizona. It showed Sierra Vista, you know what we call Sorry Vista, you hear me use that term, anybody on the base, that's what we used to call it, Sorry Vista. It's a nice town. In fact, originally it was, again, it's on the east gate of Fort Huachuca. It's Sierra Vista. It used to be just the main drag was active, but now everything bloomed up or, you know, as things, you know, boomed with the Intel facility and other stuff down there on the border. Sierra Vista actually expanded out to all of the neighborhood plots down that were set up for the old retirement communities back in the 50s and never developed. In fact, there are some monster poor man's runways out there all over the place because lots of subdivisions where they laid the pavement and the pavement is good for ever. I mean, what's it going to do down in Arizona other than stare at you? Well, anyway, all that was filled out. Well, Sierra Vista is front door community slash a gate community for the US Army Intelligence Center. Well, they show Sierra Vista and they show the towns north and they show Nogales, but the one thing they don't show is where Fort Huachuca is. And it's like I kept asking a guy, what's wrong with this picture? Take a look at this. It's like, well that's weird. It's like there's this hole. And in Fortnichuca, it was right on the border. It was the facility that was used to fight Geronimo and Cochise. It's where you get the term Geronimo! Because we chased Geronimo and Cochise around and around and around and you look at the place Donny you think man this isn't that big really then you start to walk the distances and you realize even riding this place was a monstrous Helacious battlefield of grooving for classic guerrilla warfare, and that's why Geronimo go ahead I'm sorry you bring up the good general Geronimo The Mexicans will tell us that that's their land, the hereditary land. You Yankees groomed us off of it, and this and that and the other thing. But you know that guy you talk about, Geronimo, more commonly known Geronimo. He was a pretty good general. He didn't learn his craft fighting the round ice, fighting the blue coats coming. He learned to fight, hold them back, the Mexicans off of his land. See. See, and this is, this is, you know, if you don't get the history right and don't give the proper credit to the proper men, look what they can do. They can tell you that that used to be as land. What a joke. Hironomos saw that it wasn't. In fact, it's interesting that there's an extensive history down there that's done on the base talking about the Indian wars, but especially the war along the border there. It served more than one purpose. That base was supposed to be a picket against Mexican incursion. That was one of its other purposes. It's a classic location. You'll see it in history books that used to have history in them, unlike the modern BS that offers little or nothing. You used to see pictures of many of the paintings because obviously you didn't take photographs way, way back in the day. But eventually photographs were taken and the butte that's right there at the back of the base down the plateau, I've climbed that many times. It's a bare face. It's a rotten rock in the north, but you can climb it on the east and the west sides, mostly on the east side. What's interesting is that was the benchmark. You use that as your guidepost for everything you do. It is the one object you can see up and down the valley. It is why the post was picked, you know, was chosen to be put where it was and why also the, well of course the water's right there too. It's one of the few water beds, water streams. There's an old cemetery there. The old post is a classic old cavalry slash army post of the turn of the 19th century, pre-1900s. with a parade ground that just, again, has all kinds of history to it. The cemetery, of course, has many settlers that were found, name unknown, child, name unknown, child, name unknown, child, name unknown, settler, female, woman, name unknown, where they were attacked and found on the trail. It's rather interesting because the whole site has so much history to offer. Well, there is an intel. Here's the thing. There is a signal intelligence museum there. You didn't know something like that existed, did you? Also, it's actually a museum for Forticuca itself, for the base. and climb on the peak there, which is funny because the pictures for our friends listening from Arizona, the pictures of us up on the cliffs look right down into the area where all you guys were patrolling and into the devastated areas where the illegal is just a frag 20 and 30 acres of property down. And it's funny because the pictures we got from our friends down in Arizona are the juxtaposition of the picture of me that I took from up on the side of the cliff you know on the side of the face, I'm on a flat face looking down and into the valley. Yeah, it's really neat. I can show you an exact opposite picture of what you guys sent us from down there on the border, which is good. But anyway, very experienced, the weather is unique. One of the things, as we've always joked, you can be dying of dehydration while standing there and not even realize it until it's too late. That's why water is so critical down there. It's no different than any other desert, but it's a dry heat down there, guys. There's an old term I use, dry on a popcorn fart, and it is. So if you're away from where there's water, there are a couple of tricks and a few things that I'm going to have to do. And again, we're working on this right now. We just did some filming, a little bit of filming today. I'm going to have some other stuff that I'm going to put together here. I've got the editing done for one part of this project. But ways to actually access water. Water, an interesting thing, Don, out there, there is water, and you can be walking right over it. The problem is that it's cut through the stone 25 and 30 feet below your feet and in little cracks and crevices You can hear the water pass, but you can't reach it. Oh Think about how terribly Oh torture the only way I could think you could have done it back in the day And this is what I was thinking before nowadays. We have the wonderful world of PVC pipe So personally what I could see doing is taking a piece of PVC pipe putting a cap on one end making it about two or three feet long to carry run a couple of holes in the top right across from each other, like a quarter inch from the top of the cut of the pipe which is left open, and what you do is you stick it down through the crevasse and feed the pipe down, and however long the pipe is determines how much water you get with each dip. But you'd have to go down 30 and 40 feet. I mean literally we were standing over, many times off in the middle of no stream. You can hear the water running and you realize there's a rivulet somewhere and we'd seek it out. We'd find it and go, there it is! And you could look through the crack and if you eyeballed it, the sun was just right. About 25, 30, 40 feet down, there's that stream you can't get to. There's all that water while you're dying of thirst up above. I could picture people just laying there going, aww. Now if you had a rope, the one thing, the old Chinese rope trick, with hemp rope you could do this. Oops. You could feed a rope down through there, let it soak, pull it up, and then squeeze out whatever you could. And at least it's satiate your thirst, but you'd have to do a whole lot of pulling. You know what I mean? So, again, it is a torturous land, it's pretty, it's got its own beauty, and be prepared for that. Now, it's much more modernized in some places, but you get away from the country, you get away from the road guys, and let's remind everybody of something. Remember that patrol down that went out only a week ago? Well, they found three illegals and they found something else, didn't they? Oh, yeah. They found a body! So, guys, going into the desert, you might as well be going into the Arctic. It's told there, but I know it's the other end of the scale, but either one will bite you just as bad. That's why, again, you can put on plenty of cold weather gear and get out there and get to running. If you've got enough clothes on that keep you warm when you're standing still in the cold, just go running for a little while and work up a sweat under that and see how long you last. The same thing. There's a reason why the Mexicans laid out for that siesta in the middle of the summer. Have that great big old hat. I know it's the caricature of it, but try to create that shade. Even the clay pot works around. You see the Mexicans leaned up against the wall under the big sombrero made out of clay. That's not just a caricature. That's not a cartoon representative. It's a truism. Those are correct dimensions for a reason. Now, again, that's another point. Water, and again, transport of water, guys, as you know, Mark's hyper on this one for a reason, because if we want to maintain a combat-worthy force, if we want to be able to operate, patrol, whatever we're going to do, water is life. Water is the key to everything. When you're in operations, I would even go so far as today. Some people down say, I don't have any money for water storage. I don't have any money to put caches out in the field. Really? Let me point you a way to do this. Does anybody have a bar nearby? Okay, do you have a bar? Oh, there you go. Now, go to the bars, especially a to-do bar. We've got some, oh, little fingers up in the air kind of bars here in Dexter now, Don. And they go through cases of wine. Now guys, they have cases of bottles of wine, empty bottles of wine, not bottles of wine, we couldn't get anybody away from the dumpsters. But anyway, the point is, if you go to the bartender and say, hey, I'll tell you what, I promise on whatever night, what is your busy night? And he'll tell you, okay, can I have your bottles with the corks? Can you save the corks for me? Now the cool thing is the new corks are actually old cork was better but new cork they've got some new polymers are using or quasi cork that you can get and guess what you get green bottles brown bottles pink bottles white bottles whatever bottles you get them with the corks you wash them out you clean them up you can leave the labels on them it doesn't make any difference. The labels on the outside aren't going to hurt anything but that glass with that cork can be left in a car and forever indefinitely unless you did something really weird with that cork. When you reinsert the corks and screw them in there real tight, you can do one more thing to them and that's dip the bottle after you've got the water inside, guys. Duh! You fill the thing up, wash them out, fill them up with water. Put the cork in. Whatever you're going to use for your stabilizer, it can be a dot of peroxide, however you're going to purify your water, it's up to you. Then put the cork in place and then have a little pot of paraffine ready to go. The last thing you do is take the whole thing and dip it in paraffine on the end. There you go. There's one last thing you can do. Now that water will be there forever. I mean, no plastic can break down. Again, there's nothing that's going to fracture on you. If you're down there in the desert and you're going to be storing water, glass is one of the best possible ways for long, long-term storage. Up here, if you use glass, the most important thing is two things. Allow a little more air just in the event you miscalculated for freezing if it's in a cairn. Number one is first, dig the cairn to the proper depth. Make sure that your storage site is below the frost line if at all possible. It's not that hard a thing to do. But when you dig your cache and you put just the use glass, you want to make sure that you drop it down so it doesn't freeze out on you. Other than that, you're talking indefinite storage. Not only that, you've got some really good containment vessels later on for anything else you want to do. Glass will endure. You're not going to juggle with it. You're not going to beat on it down in the hole where it's going to be buried or in the storage vault that it's going to be in. But you can get the bottles for free. It's a matter of whatever tap water or whatever burky, purified water you want to use, that's your choice. Distilled water, if you like. Go ahead. I can be able to long-term store some seeds that same way. Yep, everything can be stored. Think about it. If you do that, here's one of the other tricks. We pointed this out to the guys. Get yourself a CO2 tank. Get yourself a hose you can hook up to it. Spray unit like you use for cleaning off shops or cleaning off workstations where you hit the nozzle and it sprays out a jet of air. You take that fixture and you get a 1 1�8 inch piece of copper pipe. The rod needs to be about 12 inches long. Little less, little more is fine, but 12 inches would be optimal. And then what you do is you affix that so that it's on your wand. So instead of just the jet, you actually have that copper rod with a hole in the middle of it, copper pipe, and now you have a directional sprayer. Now you're going to hook this up to your CO2. Purge the line, only takes a second, one little spray. Take your beans or whatever else you have down, stick it in the jar. It can be rice inside the wine bottles. It can be rice, it can be beans, it can be whatever you want to put in there. And after you get it all filled up, take your wand You can make a little rubber cap or a little plastic cap to go over your wine bottles. This is actually a good idea. Stick that over with a slit or a hole drilled in the middle of it the size of your copper wand. Take the copper wand, stick it into the bottom of the pipe, pull the trigger on the CO2, and progressively pull the copper wand out through the plastic cap. Stop when you get just before the edge, and guess what? You've introduced CO2 and evacuated the oxygen from your food storage. Now then, immediately pull your little plastic cap off, put your little wine bottle cap in there, your wine cork in there, squeeze that puppy in, get that puppy in there as far as you can, then turn around, take your little paraffin dip, bloop! Or you can just take paraffin and actually drip it around the, you don't have to dip it if you don't want to, you can just drip it around that seam. In other words, what you're doing is you're creating a second safety layer. Oh, for those of you who might have it, beeswax works even better than paraffin because beeswax is more malleable. Now, I'm going to tell you something else. When I'm done and I dig everything up, I'm not going to lose that paraffin or that beeswax because there are so many other applications. I've got other things I'm going to save up the paraffin or save up the beeswax for other applications with other projects down the road in my Cairn, which is a supply depot, it's a supply point. Now see, I did that all with throwaway junk other than whatever I put inside there, the rice, the lentils, the beans, the peas, whatever. I'm not out of penny, guys. In fact, if I'm using it for dry goods, Don, like you mentioned, I don't have to worry about freezing. There's nothing in there that can freeze. So it can store anywhere. And the other good thing, critters can't get into it. It's tougher for them to do that. So just an idea. Last but not least, let's go even one step farther. Oh, Mark's going to add another protective layer. Do you got any tin foil around? You want to cover the area of paraffin in the cork? Take yourself some tin foil. Hey, it's like they do with the wine bottles. Have you ever had a bottle of brute? Remember, you buy the brute or the wine like the champagne, and you undo the foil that is around the top that protects everything, and then you go to town on the cork, fighting it as it breaks up into pieces, and you are swearing at the wine bottle, and you're wondering, why did I buy French? Whoa, this is... You should have just did it with your sword. Anyway, you get my drift. Guys, we just walked you through a process here where don't tell me you can't afford to do it. Nobody really wants the wine bottles per se. One of the guys just dropped off a case we picked up the other day. And I'm probably, again, I've got all the tools to do a little class again. The big thing is improvise, adapt, and overcome. Where can I get the paraffin from? Hey, what about wax candles at the dollar store? Duh! There you go. What about beeswax? You know what, you got somebody locally? Of course, now beeswax is marketable because there's a lot of people paying big money for that. So it's purely a matter of how nice your beekeeper is that you know locally. Fortunately, I went to school with the guys around here, so I mean a couple of them that are farmers and they are big beekeepers. So if I were to beg for some beeswax, I guarantee I'll get some, I mean, because he's nice. I mean, I'd have to probably do a trade on some stuff. Another thing real quick, got a couple of the oak trees moved today. I want to mention that I am so proud. Got a couple of the little mini oak trees, very well developed. These suckers will be the size of the oak tree out front in about 200 years. Oh, I won't be around for that. But I know where it will be going if everything goes well with it. It's a strong breed, it's a strong line. I got some other little oaks nearby that are all from that tree. And they're now 30 years old and, wow, oaks don't grow real fast, Don. So it's about the bigger round is my arm. Oh well. You might come across a quart of oil somewhere, motor oil, be it detergent or non-detergent. If it's synthetic, you might not want to think so much about this. That oil is built for a purpose and it's meant to be changed because it leads off a lot of the things once it's exposed to the atmosphere. This is by a car collector who's up on bucks once or twice a year. If he's got 10 or 20 cars, no matter if it's been started or not, he changes the oil. mechanic changes the oil. You take that oil, you get it in a little sauce pan or something, just a few tablespoons of it and about a tablespoon of the wax from candles. Now you heat that pan up and if you heat this too much it's going to set on fire you guys. So you cautiously heat the pan while you're stirring this. Now what you're doing is building a high viscosity with the backings of the wax. Now you're saying, I'm going to put wax on my car. Well, you're not going to want to run this down the bore, you know, you can, but you'll find that you're going to have to clean it before you shoot it. It's something you're going to want, but it's a homemade mix that's going to be better than pure motor oil because the motor oil is going to, again, it's going to expose, it's going to run off. It's not meant to cling. It's going to run off. Its product is simply being exposed to air, but when you mix the two together, you'll have a great medium to deliver that wax and the particular amounts of the petroleum and the cleanings. Most important here too is again, remember guys, everything that we're talking about whenever you're, if you're to the point where you're using your caches, everything that's man-made has to be saved. It has some other application. Anything that's been processed, consider the time involved. Lubricants, waxes, even pieces of string. One of the things I've done, I've already got it, in fact I've got everything here ready to go for the MOLLE project with several examples of repairs. What was it done with? Junk. In other words, guys go, I could use my boot laces to fix my molly gear. I probably need my boot laces though. Granted, you might have a spare set of boot laces. But if not, you can't be taking apart your feet to try and get your backpack or your assault rig to work better. So you need a repair kit on person. If any of you have seen my black vest, the one that I wear in a lot of images, there's a lot of images where you see me wearing the black vest. Equipping Part 2, there's a good example. You'll see in Equipping Part 2 where I'm wearing a black vest. Well that vest is a utility pocket vest. And it is packed with all kinds of stuff. Medical gear, compresses, optics, fire starters everywhere, matches, flint, strikers, you name it. Some of the stuff that you guys invented and sent to me. that was just absolutely I gotta carry it. It's just too good to be left behind. But one of the other things I have in there is a patch-up kit. Now what is a patch-up kit? Safety pins, zip ties, pieces of bread, a bread wrapper, bread wire, tape, pieces of plastic. But you know, stuff that's structurally, like structurally designed, has holes in it and is designed so that it, you know, is like a panel of something. You can use that as a fixture to bring things together and attach them. Sewing kit with needles, more than a few needles. Many needles. Why? Because they break. And they break and all of a sudden, I had two needles. Yeah, you had two needles. And the other thing is thread. Now here's a kicker on that one. One of the best, and people don't really think about this, it's a multipurpose item. Dental floss, guys. In the prison system, dental floss is one of the most critical utility tools available. It stitches bodies together. It brings shoe parts together when you're so poor, but you want to have a pair of tennis shoes. You paid $11.95 for prison grade stuff. and you can't afford it because that's a month's worth of wages. So what you do is between your sewing kit and a few other pieces of metal and a few other punches and stuff that you created, or if you're lucky you have a Leatherman nearby, a guy that does leather work, between the dental floss and a few tools improvised, you can stitch your tennis shoes back together over and over again for about a good year and a half, two years, more use. Oh yeah! And I mean live out of stuff, guys. We're talking about living with this stuff. So dental floss is part of your toolkit. Because not only can you use it for dental floss, but you can use it for all kinds of other good things. And remember, it's waxed, which is really cool. So when you're doing don, when you're doing leather work, well, guess what you did? It passed the spoolies here. Yeah, it's actually useful. It actually serves a purpose. Another thing that it does is as you draw it through that leather hole that you've just created that hasn't seen any air, only the preservatives, the tachana, tried to push in as far as he could and stretch in and beat in as far as he could. Guess what? You're putting a wax coat on that too. You're kind of stealing it. It's all around good for the light, good for the letter. And this is true also with the polymers, any of your plastics. A lot of stuff that's molded is going to be temporarily fixed. Here's the problem. A lot of the molded stuff, if it finally wears through, it's only going to hold together for so long. Unless, and here's one of the things to think about, do you have a milk carton or a jug or a piece of plastic of some kind that's off something else? Cut it to the size of whatever it is that's separated, in other words, separated two pieces of plastic that normally would bend, and create a hinge. Create a joining plate. This will reinforce the original material, and it will buy time before it breaks down again. Now it's especially critical with these guys that have a salt vests, molly rigs with a mesh or the solid nylon. I've got both examples here and man some of the stuff the way it's worn out, the guys were very creative. We sat down and looked at some of the other problems. How can we fix this? And this is something we haven't done because molly gear most people are still thinking I'm just going to go buy more. Well, I would buy your extras now because even in the MOLLE gear, whole categories of stuff are starting to disappear. They're being cut off and the economy is soft, guys. If you're going to send stuff out west, I understand, look for the stuff that's plentiful where you can get it cheap, ship that as the gift, and engineer your stuff accordingly. But make sure if you've got a system you like and gear that you like, start building a second one because your first one's going to wear out. Today, you're wearing it casually. tomorrow you live in it. You see how that works? When you live in stuff, I mean, let's put it this way. If you were to step back away from whatever you're doing right now, or if you're sitting down and you may have already taken your shoes off, take a look at that pair of shoes you've been wearing every day for the last two or three months because you figure, ah, I'm not going to just wear them until I die and I'll go get another pair. Now consider how much better they'd look if you did a little maintenance and if you had a second pair then you rotated between one pair and the other every other day. Oh! That gives you more than double their life. Yes, exactly. And that's where again if you see damage you fix it before it goes any farther. This gets into the BDO uniforms. I'm going to say this, I don't care if it's the new uniforms, which by the way mostly are junk, And I'm not talking about the pattern, I'm talking about the quality. They're not being made in the United States, they're being made overseas, we're in a losing proposition, the quality will go down, down, down. So here's the thing, before you even get the uniform put in the field, Ladies, or guys if you're seamstresses, if you know how to sew, what you need to do is turn around and reinforce all the flaps by stitching them again, and all of the edges, the top edges of the pocket, not the bottom edge, the top edge. When you stick stuff in there, how many times, Donna, have you put stuff in a military pocket? I don't care what it is, and eventually, because you stick something in there and it starts pushing on the side, it'll separate. The pocket pattern will separate from the body of the shirt. Once that starts, it's going. Before that happens, triple stitch it. That's how the old government contract used to be, and that's what they're not doing today. Triple stitch whenever possible. It makes all the difference in the world. It will help you a lot. Ooh, something tasty. Another thing that you mentioned, Mark, the bottoms of the pockets. When you get that cheap Chinese polyester that almost feels like silk, it's so thin, and you lay that as far as they can apart, stitch across it, the bottoms of the pockets don't last real long. If you run, like you say Mark, three stitches across that back and forth and then back again and lock that on both sides. It's good that when you put something in your pocket and you reach for it, it's there. Instead of running across the field and wondering what's that, is something crawling up, no, down my leg? Is that a big snake or a... whatever? When you go to reach for it, you know, 40 yards or 40 miles far away, and all that, that must have been what that was, I felt banging on my knee. Now, again, we might have a caller. Do we have somebody else here? We give them a chance to scream. I thought I heard some other noise. Alright, well, and again, that's one of the things, is also pay attention. Fatigue is going to be another problem, and heat fatigue especially, everybody has to fight this. You're going to get frustrated. You can't afford to be frustrated. It just simply isn't going to work, guys. Because of this, you also start to become lackadaisical about your equipment. This includes not snapping things, not sealing things, not zipping things up. I don't want to hear about that classic. Remember, we've always talked about this. I got to keep repeating this one though. How many times have you watched a movie where they try to show you how terrible it is to be in the desert or a hot place? And there you are and the cowboys or the Arab soldiers and the European soldiers or the Napoleonic soldiers are trudging across the desert and the guy lifts his Lips his canteen up and he drinks that last drop and you see the drop go click on his lips and he looks at his canteen and they're headed to that oasis that's halfway through the desert. And he takes that last drop of water from all that water that he carried and he looks at his canteen down and he disgustingly throws it away. And of course the classic camera shot is the guy in the background and you see his arm as the canteen is thrown and the canteen lands right in front of or they switch the camera to the canteen laying there with the last little glisten of moisture and on an angle in the dust blowing past the canteen and it can be an army canteen or a cavalry canteen or an Arab and you know the guy trudges along and you see him. Now here's the next stupid thing. It's sunshine, it's Hollywood, and somehow he loses his hat. Now the one last thing you lose in the desert is your hat. You can lose your hind end, you can lose, oh I wouldn't lose any piece of clothing because you see that sun that's beating down is also beating back up and so Arabs wear a lot of flowing clothes for a reason. The reason why in the army they call your hat cover. That's right. So anyway, the guy gets to the oasis and oh, oh, and he trudges through the sand, Don, and he falls flat on his face into the water. And so the rest of the guys are running up with him and they're like, oh, here they come and oh, water. And the one guy runs into the water and he's splashing around and now they're all comfortable. And then they have the casual scene while they're at the Oasis where everybody's lounging and they're drinking their water and they're sipping on whatever. And they're taking a cup full, a handful, and all of a sudden they say, time to go. and everybody stands there for a minute and the next thing the sergeant says is, and everybody fill your canteens. And they all go, and they all start padding their gear and they all find that they all threw their canteens away. Now, how do they get across the next half of that desert? Can anybody explain that to me? Right, because it took all their canteens to get across the first half. Halfway. Yeah. And now they got to leave the oasis where all that wonderful sweet water is and go the rest of the way. But all the containers, oh and by the way, where's your hat, Jacques? Oh, mondeau. I threw it back there along with my capé, along with the sash for the back that covers the neck so I do not get the burn. Oh, mondeau. I am screwed. Anyway, there's the point guys, you don't lighten the load with water containment vessels. Now, the way to lighten the load as far as if you're carrying extras is something we've mentioned already. Plastic water bottles are designed to be dirt, cheap, minimal material so that they don't have to ship as much and save money on that. So when they ship it to you, they make more profit when you buy bottled water. See how that works? For that reason, make up a water bandolier, just like a cartridge bandolier, girls, guys, or pick something that's on the shelf. Remember, make it of the lightest material possible. Ultra thin cotton is your best choice. Go over to the fruit of the loom, whatever, loony sewing bin or distress shop. You'll find camouflage. It's usually Chinese, minimal material, really cheap, or OD green or earth brown. That's what you use. Go get your strapping material from the hardware, nylon. Get a couple of bucklers if you want to. Stitch it all together and make it the size of the average water container that you are going to use for your kit. and then put three, four, or five of these super cheap water bottles in there. Why? Because they're lightweight. Now, I wouldn't throw them out, but if they eventually get worn out and dinged or they get a hole poked in them, heaven forbid you should let that happen, well, then you turn around and pull that one out and stick another one in off the inventory as you can. But especially for field use, this means minimal weight expended, maximum water carried. OK? It's that simple. It's a real easy solution, and it makes it a lot easier for everybody in general. So, just giving you ideas and water, well, it's warm out there, but it's getting a real appreciation for that. By the way, I think I got a black raspberry and banana, ice, oh my goodness, slushy here made from our black raspberries right here on the property. Oh my goodness. Oh yeah, we're talking, hold on here. I'm rubbing that in because this is extremely tasty and it's like calling me. But anyway, again, won't find this in the middle of desert either. You might imagine it! You might say you might imagine it in the middle of desert, but you ain't gonna find it there, guys. So there again, think ahead. We don't want any casualties, but there's no reason for it taking them anyway. It also has the last of the huckleberries in there too. Oh! Oh, okay. So again, the last of the fresh huckleberries from over across Dexter here, we harvested all we could and oh my goodness, hold on here. Huckleberry hound! Anybody remember that cartoon? Oh yeah. I know Don does. Okay. Anyway. Patriot Bear says, by the way, I got to do this again, girls, we appreciate that. Patriot Bear says, we got to make sure I get Patriot Bear in there, there we go. Patriot Bear says, hi. And we've actually had a pretty good day today. It's the day after the signing of Declaration of Independence. Hopefully, we've given you some ideas. I know that we still haven't heard from Paul from Poker Race. I haven't gone through the emails. We might have gotten an email, but remember we had the music event from the 2nd to the 4th down there in Ohio at Wellington. Everybody had a great time at the ranges, though most of it was camping. They didn't do that. Well, they did shooting all weekend, but there were no shooting events per se. They had a couple of little turkey shoots where everybody brought some stuff in, put it in the kitty, and they shot for food. The river event went pretty well and in fact ran into a few people I wasn't expecting to. Oh yeah. We're out on the Huron this weekend. So out here on the Uron River we had many friends and allies. Big event, everybody went downstream and Ed Ryan and Tim and actually got a chance to inform everybody about the burial ground and also the battlefield that's not too far here from our Michigan history. Just kind of neat. Also with regard to history guys, remember we have a couple of other anniversary dates coming up. We're going to probably, I'm going to see if I can get one or two people who are here for the Knob Creek resolution signing that took place. One of the reasons I want to bring that up is because a little bit of history combined with the Michigan militia organization history too, right here in the state, with the Wolverines. There were some benchmark events that took place. And we've tried to explain to people that there's been management changes. It's not, oh my goodness, the militia has failed. It's all BS propaganda by the control press, guys. Many, many different people participate and assist in the projects and have for many years. I hear a beep. What do we have? I'm enjoying the forward thinking on preparedness here. Uh oh, not police, which is we're not going to die for lack of water. We may be bare butt naked. Let's tell you a step further on intelligence gathering. We got Russia comes over here and they throw a red-headed bombshell down and they throw it in the middle of what? The real estate industry in New York. The lucrative real estate industry in New York. She sashays around in the little circle of clique that goes on up there. I'm just going off of what the news media is telling us here now. She infiltrates the little circle of clique up there. And Monica around with some pretty good stuff. Now let's see now. Russia and Iran, Iran, all of them, they're all 19th century, way behind the times. How do we intelligence gather as the United States of America? We send our... We waterboard! Right. We waterboard. Water... I'll tell you what I think is not doing this to me! Which is a problem. Now who do you think is 21st century and who do you think is post Neanderthal? I'm going to tell you right now, years ago, at Fort Echuca, I just mentioned it, one of the first things the interrogator said, and he was absolutely correct, is when you resort, the moment you resort to physical violence, you have failed. Because the person is going to tell you anything to stop the pain they will be in fact the mind will be hyperactive to create whatever world it thinks you want to hear and it won't be the truth it'll be what will make the pain stop what they'll do is your sensory perception and the problem is this in other world parts of the country other plants and parts of the planet guys Torture has already been around okay, so for them. It's like Okay, dear grandpa told me about this. What do I do? Let's see. Okay, click! And it remembers around the fire grandpa was telling me about what he was like when the crazy ottoman were here. You see? So these people, there's nothing we're doing that's going to be all that bright with what they resorted to, but it is interesting that they picked on the Russians the way that they did because the little click of intelligence gatherers that they had, look at who they were targeting. I don't think they were targeting so much, say us. Who would be in, let's see, let me tell you. New York is already seen. No! Donald Trump and Spike. It is still what it boils down to is neither technique even begin to breach the DARPA and the cockroach use that we can throw in there with electronic eavesdropping and the drones. They just sent this bombshell over here and they probably did get more than a drone or a cockroach that is wired for sound to the guy. It's one of those things. You pick your time and you pick your pleasure. How many of our elected officials have been down from a drone? And how many have been down from a pretty face? Case closed. Watch what's going on, guys. This is nothing but a bunch of... Well, that's like this whole thing. We're at the top right now, but almost there. Not quite. One thing I mentioned this morning, and I'm going to reinforce this again. Al Gore. Who is taking out Al Gore? Because the latest thing we got here guys is supposedly some masseuse, fill in the blank slash spy for whoever, or a corporately managed employee directed towards him was designed to engineer a condition. But, you know, the question is, why are they getting rid of him like this? Now, my logic on this one is, two routes, again there's always two roads on the river, you know, two paths on the river you can take when it's a fork. The first one is, you know, he really screwed up for the bad guys and Darth Vader normally chokes him to death, but in this case it's like a slow, miserable death. As far as like, progressively and politically, it's the way they do things. If you fail them, yeah, they will and this is we've seen this over and over again. The other consideration is competition but still in the same click want to kind of bump him on down the road and are doing it to make brownie points for somebody else. I get a third party and that's you know, it's not because they're oh my goodness Al Gore is doing something bad. Al Gore has done so many bad things you can't list them all and they've always had to get out of jail cards printed by cordwood you know stacks of them. The only difference here is there was another agenda foot. In this case, it was like, well, probably what was actually done was, well, what are you going to do? Well, we had that little incident. We have waiting off to the side here, and we recorded everything. And we were going to be able to file it in the next day or two. You must do this, Mr. Gore. And it's like, ah, yeah, right. We have never done it in the past. Oh, OK. You saying no? Yeah, I'm sad now. Okay, well, Mr. Gore, I am sorry, but here's your papers. 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That's an abbreviated version of what probably was a quite protracted conversation or series of conversations was whatever arm bending was supposed to take place. It's possible, maybe they even wanted him to recant on this whole global warming thing to see if they could use him and he's like, I'm Elgore, you can't do that to me. You're not going to tell me how to recant my global warming slash climate change slash, oh, the polar bear. So and there's another variation on the theme of the very thing you're talking about with regard to what is human human intelligence resources In some cases the levy case. Oh, thank you for bringing this up I was trying to think of her name today and yesterday the levy remember levy in Washington DC the the poodle that was thrown in amongst the Dobermans She was she was a Mossad wannabe agent who of course both her parents are dual citizenship Israelis slash kosher mafia with the ADL and they sent her in as a spy wannabe. Well, okay, so she did the secret squirrel thing. She was all packed to go to Tel Aviv, by the way, after she'd done her blackmail thing. And apparently, she stepped out one too many times under orders, and remember, she just disappeared. Well, they kept searching the parks in Washington and they searched this one park over and over again and they said, oh yeah, her body's there. But obviously they had some wiretapping or whatever between the agencies. Not that the Mossad was watching her, so they probably had some idea. Well, the body disappeared. Then a year later, they're looking in the exact same place in a very public location that really, they got over several times and they found the bones. Now guys, think about that. It's like, you know, all during that time it was a very public area. Have you ever been around a body when it's rotting? It doesn't smell good. In fact, it's like 200 pounds to 200 pounds of rotted human tissue will drive you out of an area bigger than a football field. And yet supposedly... Was Elvis next to her? Exactly. So all of a sudden the dog chewed bones got thrown back. I think the Dobermans had their way. Anyway, God bless. Thanks for bringing that up. Check out the Levy Case in Washington. There's an example of the schmuck's gone wrong. We are at the top. Down to your number for night vision. You can reach me at 231-796-8458. And oh, by the way, that Lewinsky girl, it was Rahmi Manuel who brought her to Clinton. And look where he is now! God bless the Republic. Death is the world order. We shall prevail. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, full day and night. Hurrah! Kick him in the butt, throw him over the fence to the Chihuahuas and let him have their way. Thank you, Don. Thank you, Mark. God bless you. God bless you.