September 17, 2010
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1h 8m
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Mark Koernke and BK discussed preparedness, supply chain logistics, and quartermaster operations for what they described as organized resistance efforts. BK recounted a personal computer hardware failure and used it as a case study to illustrate how large corporations (specifically Best Buy) deliberately destroy smaller suppliers and competitors to consolidate market control, arguing this represents parasitic economic behavior masked by false recovery reports. The episode emphasized building deep supply systems across the country and maintaining stockpiles of critical resources.
- quartermaster
- supply chain
- preparedness
- corporate consolidation
- best buy
- newegg
- bfg tech
- power supplies
- economic collapse
- militia logistics
- self-sufficiency
- knob creek gun range
- liberty tree radio
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Or buy a handgun, assault rifle, or reloading supplies. Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky is one mile off Dixie Highway on Highway 44 at 690, Richie Lane. Look, it's not like we're bugging the phones or anything, so give him a call at 922-4457. That's 922-4457. Or visit machinegunshoot.com. It's easier to find than my birth certificate. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. 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 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, and 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'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O 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 Iowoke 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'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the line in occupied territories, central, west, southeast, and north. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com, pbn dot 4mg dot com, and we are Liberty Tree Radio, also on AM and FM microstations, CB Bay stations and alternate technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We're on the homework network on the eastern seaboard, on the top main, the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed towards Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, a big chunk of Nebraska. Our friends with a third of Wyoming and then back over Iowa, Iowa, direction. and headed over the Mississippi to the Golden Spike Project on the eastern half of the country from one end of the Smokies to the other all up and down the Blue Ridge. I'll tell you what, it is a beautiful day out here although the sun is setting and we have a half moon or more in the sky. It is Friday of course, but another quick thing there for our friends. Remember we have a meeting at the restaurant this Sunday meeting at the restaurant this Sunday meeting at the restaurant this Sunday So if you can get there and make sure you bring transport check with your team leaders You got a lot of special work to do BK. What is the date today, sir? It is 17 September 2010 it is Friday evening It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this quarter masters corner And that means we're gonna make sure that the bullets beans batteries books Back up material of whatever kind is where it needs to be so that the troops have what they need to fight on. And that means Quartermaster's job, what it's always been throughout the ages, is to make sure that everything gets to where it needs to go. And I know that's a lot of work, guys, but guess what? That's your job. We're looking to build a deep supply system across the whole of the country. That means that some major efforts need to be taken into consideration and hopefully we're going to direct you towards the depots, the supplies, resource points and all the things that you need to square away your quartermaster operation in your particular area. It could be as little as something just to take care of your own needs or to help with the overall effort to ensure that we have a deep supply system in place for future activities. BK, we've got a long list here, let's jump right in. What do you got for us tonight, sir? Okay, well first thing I'd like to tell a little story. We had some excitement here at Castle BK earlier in the week. Basically, I experienced a bit of a PC meltdown. and those of you who know me realize that I'm a bit of a propeller head and put a lot of energy into the PC and had an Uber machine. I built this back in 02. I had dual-athlon processors and an insane amount of memory and all that kind of good stuff. And I've been nursing this machine along for some eight years now, which is at least double the survival of the average PC and it flaked out and it seemed the power supply was failed and certainly it was and said, oh man, I just swapped a power supply a month or two previously, what's going on here? And went out and got one and tested it and pulled around and so on and discovered that, uh oh, this wasn't just a power supply out, this was, the motherboard was gone and maybe other stuff. So this machine is toast. So first off we will have a moment of silence from my poor dear departed machine. Okay, before we go... No, no, no, no, we're having the moment of silence. Hold on. You Philistine. Okay, we're gonna start over again the moment of silence. Here we go. Okay, now you can talk. If you can, I need you to bump your volume down a little bit. Bump it down a little okay. Yeah, if you take a look in the Skype chat box Try cutting it down that low test We're doing okay now down still a little hot Test test. How are we doing? I'm just trying to bring you up to the same level as dad dad Can you speak and a one two in the bubble machine? That's not bad right there. That's good. There we go. Okay, we're balanced out by the way This is live radio. We can do this because well we run the station guys Okay, guys, you are ruining the pathos of the moment. This is a very, very sad announcement I had to make, so we have to start over again. No, we don't. We'll pick up where we went. Okay, any rate, anybody who knows a geek socially realizes that this is a serious disaster. It's very much like losing a favored pet. So, you know, poor old BK was kind of in shock for a while. But we transplanted parts and fortunately had a donor machine that other people had offered as scrap and so on, and I'm back up and running. But in the process I learned some interesting things. The power supply I had been using, and the previous one also, were exactly the same model. They were the BFG650. BFG is a reference to some of the online gaming. You can guess what it stands for, the big something or other gun, the uber weapon at the end of a game, is the BFG5000. This outfit, BFG Tech, came catered to the gamers and they had basically two products. Big honking power supplies and very high performance video cards. Most of them seem to be based on the NVIDIA chipset. Well... The power supplies are very popular and very solid devices. I went through two of them sadly. What I finally concluded is that the power supply did not fail. The motherboard failed and took out the power supply. It's not easy to overwhelm a supply that is rated 54 amps on the 5 volt line. Seems to have done it. That's consistent with my previous experience of this thing taking out a previous power supply. Apparently the motherboard was starting to fail. The time it took out the various cards, did this, that, and the other thing. So in the process of figuring out what the heck happened, finding a replacement power supply for the new machine, et cetera, and so forth, I learned some things that I didn't know about PC power supplies. And that is that the old school very heavy powered supplies put all of their extra oomph into the 5 or 3.3 volt lines because the idea was that you would power dual or quad CPU systems and those CPUs are very power hungry. The modern CPUs are a bit more efficient on power and they're multi-core which gives you much better power consumption but people are putting in multiple video cards. So the old school heavy power supplies were heavy in the 5 volts. The new school heavy power supplies are heavy in 12 volts, which is what the video cards require. So I had some adventures trying to find a power supply suitable for the replacement machine. Along the way, I discovered an interesting story. BFGTAC, the manufacturer of that power supply, is in the process of going out of business now. Can you make a guess what might have happened to them? Anybody? I'm sure you won't guess off the top of your head, but I'd give you a fair shot at it. Mark, you have any idea? Okay, here's what was going on. They had two products. They have these video cards and they have these power supplies. They were having a hard time getting the Series 400 GPU cores for some of the super-duper video cards from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has everybody on allocation. They can't crank out the chips fast enough. Best Buy got wind of the fact that BFG could not deliver as many video cards as they wanted. And so they cancelled all their orders for power supplies. This killed the company. Now what video cards and power supplies have to do with each other is anybody's guess. But Best Buy smelled some weakness and proceeded to shoot their supplier. So the company is destroyed. They commented that Best Buy moved 10 times as many of these power supplies as Newegg, which is a very big online retailer. And without that volume, they were toast. They could not recover. So BFG is failing. There are two things that I draw from this story. One is that we are seeing the big companies killing off not only their competitors. We've certainly heard plenty of stories about Walmart moving into small towns and destroying Main Street and this kind of stuff. But the big companies are now killing their suppliers as well. There's absolutely no rationale to why would a big company want to kill off one of its smaller suppliers, but they are doing it. If you hear anything in the news about how this, that, or the other corporation is starting to turn in better numbers, we're seeing a recovery in the economy, all this kind of good stuff, it is bourgeois. Any bump they are seeing. is a result of killing off A, their competitors or B, their own suppliers cutting down their own supply, cutting down your choices, shutting down more and more of the supply system. So even if you hear little bumps in the news about oh so-and-so twitched up a little bit, showed slightly better earnings, that kind of stuff, this is parasitic. This is a new phase of the destruction that's going on in our supply and support system generally. The other thing that I draw from this, I have discovered that Newegg actually has a few of the BFG550 power supplies. Those are a little bit lighter weight than the ones that I used and burned up and replaced. But they are much, much heavier than the average power supply most people will have. If you want a good, beefy, solid power supply, be aware of course that these are new, but there will be no RMAs from a company that has been destroyed. I found out earlier this week that they had these BFG550s at the bargain price of $60 a piece at Newegg. That is Newegg.com. N-E-W-E-G-G.com. I checked again today to make sure they still had any inventory and what did I find? They have marked them down to $45 a piece. Free.