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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? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Cronke. And a better knife. North. Well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com AM and FM Micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska. We're in 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 Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, whole bunch of Wyoming to include both fit in the third. Then, sweeping across the plains over the Mississippi, we land in the Smokies with the restaurant crews, grandma teams, the OK teams, and the Mabow Grandma Consortium doing their part to help bring us a replacement for the internet. Quick note there, also, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio is one of our reflectors. I want to say thanks to Spike and the gang. It is beautiful. It has been a beautiful day all day today here. Don't forget we have a MidMichigan meeting Saturday, MidMichigan meeting Saturday, MidMichigan meeting Saturday, and a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. A meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. BK, what's the date today, sir? What's happening up in your neck of the woods? Wow, that's a lot of meetings at the restaurant on Sunday. Repeat, repeat, repeat. OK, it is 7 October 2011. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this Quartermaster's Corner. We've been experiencing probably Indian summer, as far as I can tell. We've gotten the occasional spike up to about 85 degrees. We have had some 50s, so if it dips down like that and spikes back up again, it's probably the last gasp. It's getting ready and it kind of feels like it's going to be a really cold winter this year, early in the year. Just this week, the leaves started coming down and they're coming down fast. So, it was very quick and I strongly suspect it's going to be a long and a very cold winter this season. Which is fortunate in that we've got a couple of trees coming down courtesy of the Power Company. I'm just hoping that I can split enough of them fast enough and stack them up fast enough and find some reasonable way of burning the darn things that actually warms up the house a little bit. Those are my problems, not yours. So, quarter masters corner. And that means bullets and beans, vibles and backpacks and all the other A to Z items are what we're going to be covering tonight. For all of you listening, keep your pen and paper ready because we're going to give you opportunities. Point you in the direction to find goodies that you need or that you may need to have as backup. Remember, stack the material. Not just food and not just water, but also other hardware. The toolbox needs to be filled so that you can handle all of the other problems that may arise, literally, to include the toolbox. On a quick note, a couple things I want to remind everybody about here. First of all, I don't know how many people have noticed this. Of course, we are on the 25th year anniversary of the Philadelphia bombing itself. I remember the MOVE bombing. You're old enough, I think you remember that. Oh yeah, the Philadelphia police flying in with a helicopter dropping a fire bomb on an apartment building and saying, look at what those evil people did. And as a matter of fact, the one thing is, I've noticed the pictures, they're using all the most polite pictures they can, which are still bad because of course it's rubble and ruin. But what I didn't see and so far I haven't seen are the aerial shots because this didn't just burn down one building, this fire when it got going burned down city blocks. It was a little firestorm situation where it started with them dropping the ordinance down on the site just like they planned on doing at Ruby Ridge but were stopped from doing, remember? And just like they did at Waco, wow, it's almost like this is a repeat. Hey, there's a pattern and we've told you about it many times. Now, it's funny, some people, especially in the black circles, I've noticed black media circles are like, nobody remembers this and nobody ever mentions it. We've mentioned this many times. Because I don't see any difference in the MO here. If you recall, the buildings were abandoned. Move went into, actually what it was, is a slumlord scenario from back in the 70s and 80s, which everybody was always distressing and lamenting about. Don't worry, they're all gone now. I mean, literally all gone. They've fallen in on themselves, or they've been torn down and nothing replaced them. It's like in Detroit. Even the federal projects in Detroit have been torn down, and nothing has replaced them. Let me go one step farther. We have a series of low-income condo projects that were all over Ann Arbor, Michigan, all over Washtenaw County and Wayne County. Most of them are torn down because the occupants abused them to such a heavy degree under the logic that somebody else is going to pay to replace the window, somebody else will replace the door, somebody else will replace the walls. What's interesting is eventually those places were torn down, so they moved to the next batch or congregated in the next collection. We have hundreds of units sitting not too far from Metro Airport, Detroit, that they're just sitting there last winter, absolutely empty. They still had to keep heat in them. But they are in neutral, they are occupied, they are not going to have people in them. There are at least three different complexes. It's hundreds and hundreds of housing units. In some of those cases, the residents abuse the building. In other cases, the teenage punks would run around using gangs and break all the windows and stuff and the people inside are cowering away from the windows. The Feds are quite capable of saying no firearms allowed to the honest people living in the apartments, but if you can't do that, where are you going to go out there empty handed and face down a gang of wild punks running amok? To a large degree, both situations existed. The people in there often abused the housing, but they were also often victimized by the wildlife. But some people are not inconvenienced much by the police or the feds, but the one thing the police can do is to make sure that all the soft targets are all properly disarmed. It becomes softer targets. As a matter of fact, stop or I'll shout stop again, it doesn't do much. Or I'll whine and cry. We like hearing that. Say this by hearing the screams. It's another way to extend that, government power. So here's the thing, 25 years ago, Like you said, they dropped a bomb right on the main site. Now what most people realize is they were ready. It was headed towards winter. It actually was cold weather already. They had kerosene stored for extended use in the building. And that's what the government targeted. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, well, I think they really did know. But they claimed that they just didn't realize how combustible all that stuff was going to be. You mean to say with the fire department there, the fire marshal didn't say, what do you think you're going to do? You're going to what? I wouldn't do that if I were you. What was it, 20 pounds of C3 or something like that? They dropped right on the fuel depot up on the roof? Yeah, come on, man. You didn't expect anything to happen? They knew exactly what was going to transpire. The thing about this is that this is the same scenario that played out. Remember, they loaded up the barrels at Ruby Ridge. It's all on film. The truckmen recorded this. The camera crew got it off the site. Many of you out there saw this and have seen this over the years and it needs to be reposted on YouTube and the videos. This video footage is priceless and some of you out there still have copies. We're going to try to see if I can pull the best copy we have up, but we need to have this thing out there so people can understand. When you saw Waco, Ruby Ridge was a practice. This situation with Philadelphia was more than a practice. It was an absolute execution, but it ended up burning out whole neighborhoods. not just the place where the building was stored. That's the thing that they're not emphasizing enough. It didn't just hit one building. This ended up being blocks of destruction. So when the person says Philadelphia bombed its own city, you have to qualify it properly. And I don't know how many people have actually shown the images, but it needs to be out there in everybody's face so they can be reminded. Now, the only thing I will say is this. The other part about this being brought up is to try and stir the pot with regard to the racial tension trying to bring back the good old riot days. That's a percentage of what they are desperately trying to do. There's been a lot of discussion about the idea that using the protests in New York and the protests in other places that somebody's going to try and stir some stuff up and the Obama's trying to do it. Again, the angle of some of the stuff that was generated, of course the guy that wrote the cover article for this, he says, I barely remember this. For us, 25 years ago, I was in my 20s at the time, guys, and I quite clearly remember this. Everybody was like, what the hell was going on? This is one of the several examples that were used where that was just, again, like Waco, it was a very public component of what was happening behind the scenes. What else was happening in that year or that period of time? Well, how about, let's see, oh FEMA developing and flexing its muscles, which I guarantee was part of this project. In addition to that, 1985, how about Rex 84, which everybody knows about now. But does everybody remember that Rex 84, the window of activity for practice and development, was 1979, 1980, 1981 to execute a series of actions? Now on top of that we know about Operation Northwood, etc. And so, hmm, engineering and tweaking the environment. which is exactly what these things are, you know, these things center around. I just want to bring it up again because that's a date we don't want to forget as far as, you know, things that were happening and have we seen this before? Yes. Can we expect them to do this to say, well, let's think about this. Last year and the year before we covered the whole idea of BK that we had the mayor of Flint who wanted to tear down 60% of Flint. Now, if somebody else said they wanted a carpet bomb Flint, you'd be having outrage or whatever, but somebody says, oh, we're just going to tear it down. In other words, you're going to carpet bomb and destroy 60% of Flint. Now remember, as soon as they said that, Obama and his clique picked up on that right away and wanted to chime in and they wanted to do it to 20 other American cities. Basically, what Obama wanted to do was carpet bomb 20 other American cities. When you're talking about destroying 40%, 50%, and 60% of a community people, you're destroying the city. Well, they want to take out all the housing that people can actually afford and then pack them into the urban centers. That's all just agenda 20 stuff where you turn the beltways into fenced-in confinement zones and you don't let the peasants out except on travel paths in between the urban centers. So it's very judged dread, in fact, you know. You can bottle everybody up in little centers. I brought up a little bit about that at the end of the last hour and they are still fighting over it because they're not just talking about like destroying the houses that are abandoned. If there is a house that is functional on the block, they are trying to evict the people from the home even though it's straight for and the taxes are up and they're maintaining it, it doesn't matter to them. They are trying to kick them out and destroy the home. Well, it's more convenient and efficient to do a whole block at a time. You know, just set the bulldozers at one end and, you know, send them through. The interesting thing about this is tying it into, again, the whole idea that now if they can't get it done one way, they're going to try and plug it in another, which is what everybody needs to be paying attention to now. And it's why, again, obviously, when they made this announcement, they had Flint and 19 other cities that they didn't give us a list of. So besides, it's inconvenient if you've got people dotted around in a zone, occupying homes that they clearly own, when you decide that you want to sell off a square mile at a time in the middle of your city to the Chinese. Another interesting thing, BK, is that this is where AC Spark Plug General Motors Corporation, everybody knows Flint used to be the GM town and I'll jog everybody's memory that's from Michigan. One of the ways you used to be able to benchmark your travels BK across the state is that at one end of Flint, there used to be a big massive six-story sign that, you know, welcome to Buick City, Chevy City, GM. and there were always some cool ads that they put up there, it was a massive billboard. Well, there was one in the north and one in the south. Progressively, those are all gone and been occupied first by some other stuff. Now they've been carved down to almost normal billboard size, progressively taking parts of it down because they can't afford to maintain it, they don't have the money behind it. New York China they went to Tallahassee. Tallahassee that we would wish. They went to China. They actually right now, this is what's fascinating, is that AC Delco building is somewhere in communist China. It was shipped over in pieces and taken as a final construction. They just put it all back together overseas. Well, if the Chinese built buildings out of the grade of steel that they produce locally, they would probably fall over and squish too many Chinese workers. Too many valuable workers are slaves. We can now afford to lose them. They make happy meal toys. We crush them. We know happy meal toys. Very bad. Besides, they get squished and they get squished into the machinery and then you have to clean it all out to get the machinery going again. We always take them behind plan and shoot them because bloody salty mess all over machine cause rust. There you go. That's exactly why. So oh What happened able maker Charlie to a kabuka gold able maker Charlie a kabuka gold you copy over dude someone's on the radio man And whoever that was probably I know who it is. Yeah, he's gonna hit the mute anyway Real quick here. I know I just wanted to touch on that and let's remind everybody. This is quartermaster Friday One of the best series of books to read, and now it's a series, is we have The Patriots Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawls. The new book is out, Survivors, a Novel of the Coming Collapse. Now this is not an extension after the end of Patriots. This is another perspective of the same chain of events, the same era. So what's really neat is it's, okay, we showed you what happened up in this part of the country, now we're going to show you what it's like down in the southwest. And if you go to survivalblog.com, survivalblog.com, S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L, survivalblog, B-L-O-G, dot com, you'll find that there's all kinds of little pinups there. To the right side, scroll down, you'll see the cover for survivors, okay? Click that and it will give you all the information real fast on how to get a copy of the book. I would recommend that you get multiple copies and give them out as gifts right now. What we're talking about in Quartermaster Friday, he's mapped out in both Patriots and in Survivors as a storyline. Things that worked, things that didn't work, things that were plugged in and that people tried to do and failed and that other people plugged in and were gig at it to work. By doing this you can get people interested in the idea of preparedness by making it a storyline that they can relate to. So if you're trying to teach somebody, and by the way, patriots, when I have somebody new that looks like they're promising, give them a copy of Patriots and let them read it. Give them a copy of Survivors, a novel of the coming collapse. I think right now they said the price is $12.95 through Amazon. That's for a hard copy guys, but they also have it by what he said and I think it's listed there in that section. They also have the audio book already generated and already available for sale, which means if you're traveling or driving, you can plug it in and listen as you go. It's great for truck drivers, it's great for people bouncing around the country if you go long distance out west and you're driving state to state or just moving around. You can progressively listen to the book while you're busy driving. It will give you a chance to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself. So let's let the characters in the books do it and make us think. That's the purpose behind this. Another thing before we go any farther, and again appreciate the posting on that, where's the outrage? Another interesting one here, by the way the lead article that's on Survival Blog is homemade powder solvent for gun cleaning. Guys, check that out because for a lot of you that have been looking for solutions for weapons cleaning, especially with corrosive ammunition, there's a number of different recipes out there. We've got a couple that are family recipes, so to speak, with our militia units we've been using since the 70s, mostly because we have a lot of grands. Is this a repetition or a derivative of Ed's Red? Yeah, basically there's variations on it. That's what it comes down to. Everybody had their own recipe depending on where they are in the country. I don't know if this is more in line with some of the degreaser solvents slash cleaners that we saw back in the middle 80s about the time they bombed Philadelphia. What's interesting is a lot of guys that were into this were in the chemical industry like at DuPont and retired or they were guys that were up at the chemical plants here in Midland. We have a big one in the middle of Michigan, so for everybody out there, the guys who had access to the stuff, they were looking for things that were cheap and easy to put together. So if you sit down and take a look at this, it's pretty cool. Another thing... The short form on most of those formulas is, ATF, automatic transmission fluid, has a lot of detergents in it. So that's one of the popular ingredients, that's where the red comes from. The other ingredients are often mineral spirits, acetone if you don't mind the stench, and lanolin as a protectant surface treatment and also makes it easier on your hands. So there are different proportions and so on, but those are the major ingredients in most of those recipes. And as a matter of fact, again, one of the things to do is look at the formula And you don't have to mix it all up right away, guys, but have the components on the shelf. Let me give you a little trick on that. I go to yard sales all the time. And some people go, well, they got like, if you watch in the freebie boxes, or they've got a bunch of stuff off to the side, they'll be odds and ends, partial containers of transmission fluid. Sometimes you know it's transmission fluid, but you can't tell what it is. Well, as long as it's a transmission fluid, put it over into the for cleaning solvents category. Whatever you've got, okay, when you see like it's same with automotive oils. Remember, if it's any kind of oil, if you can't tell what weight it is, don't worry about it. It can still be used for painting up the bottom of a car, emergency lubrication for a firearm because you're out of other oils. Put it into a container, mark it as oil for weapons or oil for general use. Same with the trans stuff, save it up and that way you'll have your components sitting there but when you mix them, they're ready to go, you're not going to worry about stuff vaporing away. you mix it as needed in limited quantities and it will be there. Besides an awful lot of applications, you know, whether you're slicking up the moving parts in a bicycle or a sewing machine or whatnot, an awful lot of applications will specify this or that weight. But that's just the best weight they found. Getting something in there is 100 times better than nothing. And getting the perfect weight is only twice as good as getting something. Exactly. And one of the things here too is it's free and cheap. The price is right, so grab it while you can. Remember, we're talking also about the solvents. Collect the items that are needed. You can leave them in the raw form because you may have other formulas for other cleaning projects. You may just need the actual material itself for a cleaning project or for some other bridging activity. So you've got it there. It's ready to roll. You've got the formulas. I would recommend, and this is something that we've done for years, take the formulas, for instance, and do up a three-ring binder. Make a nice, printed copy. laminate it on both sides obviously you can have information you don't have to have just one page in fact if you want to really play it safe put the same formula on both sides of the same page laminate it and put it into a plastic binder Now you've got it on a non-battery required, non-power required support module where you can leave it on the shelf. When the time comes and you've got to have it, all you do is pull off the binder, check to see what you got there. Even if you've got some cookie on your hands, because playing with the chemicals, playing with the lubricants, you're not going to mess up your rat sheet. and you can do that in multiples and I would recommend that in multiples. It's just like the emergency response manual. Have more than one. Have them laying around. Laminate everything or put them in slip covers so that they're available. You can always make photocopies if you want to make copies for somebody so they can make their own later. BK, no, we got a bunch of stuff. Let's jump in there. Go ahead. What do you got for us first? Okay, we've got a number of things. I have been having some dealings with Wally World recently. One of the things that's interesting is that I have a plastic crate style that I have gotten there in the past and kind of like, and therefore I've got a whole bunch of them that are all the same. As I've advocated recommending to people that you buy lots of these things in a big bunch so that they all work the same because you can't trust the suppliers not to change the style. Well, Wally has actually continued to carry the style that I got initially at $3 apiece on a Christmas-era sale, and later at $5 apiece in the office area. These are plastic sterile crates with circular holes in the side, and they are sized so that they take hanging file folders, the short style one way and the legal size the other way. So that makes their sizing very consistent and constrained. Last time I was in there I grabbed a couple of those because I needed to haul a bunch of miscellaneous little stuff. I said, okay, well, I'll haul these around and use them for tote and carry purposes and then they'll go into storage and other stuff will stay in them. Those things that have been five bucks a piece, and I consider that kind of steep, are now at $6.47. And even the clerk at the checkout commented, you know, golly, these things are getting kind of expensive, aren't they? And yes, the fact of the matter is these things are getting ridiculously expensive. There's a single piece of injection molded plastic, guys, you know, weighs nothing. They're a little bit bulky to ship because they turn them sideways but they only get, you know, three in the volume of two. But even so, just simple plastic stuff like that is becoming more and more expensive. It is now more than double the price that I initially paid for these guys two, maybe three years ago. So this is a sign of the underlying trends. Anything made out of petroleum seems to be going berserk. The other thing that I did at Wally is I went looking around because some people have reported seeing number 10 cans of freeze dried food there in the grocery section and I looked there and didn't find anything. I looked around camping and inquired and so on. They had two or three pathetic little pouches of something rather than camping and nothing more and they said, no, no, that's all we've got. So I got on the website and inquired and I had intended to inquire with corporate but the way the website is arranged you have to kind of send it off to a particular local store. So I just sent that in figuring well how to get forward into corporate. Much to my surprise I actually got a return phone call from the store manager or one of the store managers at the shop nearest me. His response was, we don't carry that, we think we may be getting it sometime soon, there has been some interest in it, thank you, we are working on this and we think we may have it in a couple of months. It is no longer the case that one Walley is carried at all Walleys, but It does also seem that there is a certain amount of interest in these number 10 cans of freeze dried vegetables and things of that sort. They seem to be rolling it out across more stores as time goes by. So that's an interesting development. I thought I would just report that. Well, it's rather surprising. Typically, they've supported the product across the whole of the mechanism and now they're isolated regionally. Yeah, or they rolled it out someplace as a test, perhaps, and it picked up and they're starting to propagate it through the geographic areas one at a time or something along those lines. But it is not something that hit all of the stores simultaneously, but rather it is rippling out. And it does also seem to be something in which there is some interest from the point of view of the public. So that's interesting from our point of view. people starting to get up to speed. Of course freeze dried is hardly the way to do a bulk of food storage program from the get-go unless you're just absolutely made out of money. but it is a useful item to have in the mix because this is the stuff that lasts the absolute longest and is the lightest weight and probably most food value per pound if you had to grab a fraction of your stocks and throw them in a vehicle and bug out or something along those lines. I doubt that most of the customers at WALL-E are thinking in those terms, but somebody is thinking in some terms with regard to preparedness. So that's an interesting little sidelight on that. Again, for the people that pointed this out in their district then, if you do have it and if there's any kind of package deal, talk to the managers. If there is a discount in a large quantity, you're the only one. I wouldn't count on that one at all. Well, the thing is, you're lucky because nobody else apparently, or at least it looks like no one else in any of the other districts, has that resource available. So that's something to think about. And again, I've seen the pictures. I know you did too, BK. Showed where they were on the floor of the whole nine yards. of course those were out west and they may think of the folks out west as being more rancher oriented and that kind of stuff but it looks like they're starting to propagate that out wider and into the more urban areas. So again for everybody out there pay attention and you might want to eagle eye and help us out with this if you see it in your region your area your state next it would be nice to have some input here especially on quartermaster friday. Thank you. Okay what else we got sir? Okay, one of our friends reported an interesting thing. He was talking with a grocery store manager who is a buddy of his. This is one of our friends in the chat room. So everybody in the chat room already knows this, but people listening don't necessarily. According to his friend, the grocery store manager, he says that we should expect to see, and the term he used was immediate, meaning very short term. in the near future, rise of 20% in rice, beans, pasta, and that sort of carbohydrates. This fellow also said that sugar should be up 300% by the end of the year and people should expect 50% increase in the number of the other consumables, things like orange juice and milk and so on. So that's an interesting trend if the news is propagating down to the level of store managers who are nearly at the end of the information chain, ahead of the average consumer, but one step ahead of the average consumer, that serious supply glitches in the food area are imminent. So, this reinforces our point that, and it's time for us to ask the annoying rhetorical question, have you added to your preps this week? and we will comment that if you have not, this is Friday evening, you've got one more day to do it and call it this week and say, yeah, I did something this week. If you have, that's good and just keep planning on doing that. We cannot predict with precision or certainty exactly what's going to happen. But we see all sorts of indicators and every week there's something new popping up, some new statistics, some glitch in the supply channel, something becomes unavailable or something takes longer to arrive than we expect. These are the cracks. We're out on the lake, standing on the ice and we're hearing these little crackling noises and we may not be wet yet, but something is going on. Now, I suspect that some of this may derive from a story that the corporate press is not carrying, and that is NAFTA 2, or Asian NAFTA, or whatever you want to call that. They have signed a new agreement with various Asian and, I believe, Central American countries, which they are calling NAFTA 2, or their opponents are calling NAFTA 2. and promoting us free trade and so on and so forth. It probably means, the short form, is that the last few remaining jobs in America that can be exported are about to be exported to these even lower cost areas. China is experiencing a lot of inflation. It's no longer the low cost manufacturing site for a lot of things. In fact, I think Vietnam and a couple of other spots are becoming cheaper than China because of all the inflation there. But there's another little hint in here about what might actually be in that agreement that we're not being told about. Part of the story that did leak out in the corporate press is that there are a bunch of demonstrations and hollering in South Korea by the farmers who are very unhappy about this agreement. And I suspect what's going on is that part of the agreement is we'll export every job we possibly can from America. But North American agribusiness, ADM and Cargill and all those outfits, ConAgra, etc., probably get the right to flood the South Korean market and others with cheap GMO insecticide-poisoned agricultural products. And that will destroy those farmers in the other countries and at the same time advance the process of poisoning their population. And of course once you collapse them financially you can snap up their land at bargain prices and then proceed to poison it. Which is what the corporations have been doing all over Mexico. Which is part of the reason that so many farmers have been displaced and have headed up north as illegals here. Our agri-corps are running amok, flooding their country with cheap GMO corn, collapsing the prices of those commodities, driving these guys off the land, snapping up the land and then proceeding to poison it with more GMO and insecticides at levels that would be completely illegal in the US, and then exporting that toxic product to the North and poisoning us with it. Well, it looks like they get to extend that tentacle into Central America and Asia and proceed to do that to the Asians as well. So, South Korean farmers are not happy about that. But the corporate press here, of course, is not telling anybody the details, lest somebody might get a clue. Of course, people are getting a clue anyway, but not necessarily on that particular topic. But there seems to be just one more branch, one more operation, one more approach towards the whole agenda 21 thing of seizing control of all the agricultural land of the food and poisoning as many people as possible. And that appears to have gone forward this week. So, Southeast Asia has been cracked as far, and it's been in place for a while, but it's becoming more apparent that this is going to start more of an Asian battle trend that in and of itself might create some animosity that's already been lingering for the last 30 years with Vietnam and China. Either they get friendly or they become very dissatisfied with each other. So, there's something to watch on the horizon too. Southeast Asia has no great love for southern China. Well, and all of them are target zones for Monsanto and its toxic goods. So we're progressing the whole program of poisoning everybody everywhere as much as possible. Now with that in mind, this question about, as we've seen before, cyclically they were able to absorb or apparently were cushioning the price on the carbohydrates along with the sugar, which is not a surprise. Cyclically they now know with the end of this growing season, what's going to be left in the inventory. They've got it centralized, the harvest is in. BK up here, we have sugar beets. And in fact, if you're up in the mid-Michigan area, same place where, oh, that's right, Dow Chemical is, well, that's sugar beet country in all directions. So they're in now. In fact, this is the time of year when you go up towards where Bay City is. If you look on the map, you'll find Bay City or Midland. or any of those areas around the Bay Area, all the way to the middle of the state, they have so much sugar piled up coming out, the industrial grade sugar, that they'll have it stacked up in the parking lot in mounds like you would see sand. People go, well, at the prices that gasoline is running, if sugar were actually sold on a competitive basis, it would be cheap enough to be cost effective to make ethanol from sugar and it would undercut gasoline, even with the lower energy content of ethanol. But the sugar market in the US has long been distorted. The The game there started out with the acquisition of Hawaii because the plantation interests in Hawaii were bribed to approve statehood for Hawaii in exchange for price supports and import restrictions and so on on sugar. And as a result, the U.S. pays the highest price on sugar anywhere in the world. and occasionally give some other country a plum by saying, oh, you can send two freighters with sugar to the US as a doggy treat if you do something that you want. So we have long paid totally distorted prices for sugar in the US. That, in fact, It's the reason why I think that from time to time you have seen very, very cheap hard candies. For instance, from Mexico, I think that is Cuban sugar minimally processed into hard candies and then sold with an origin stamp of Mexico. It's a way of importing world sugar into the U.S. at much more than it would sell for on the world market, but much less than it would sell for here if it were called sugar. Exactly. And in fact, it's interesting. Remember we're also seeing a variation on that. Where are you getting the real sugar Coca-Cola from? anywhere except the US and Canada actually. Right now the big thing is it's coming from Mexico. It's coming up. First place we saw it was down in Texas several years ago. Now it's filtered up so every store in this area here where we are has sugar, real sugar using real sugar, Coca-Cola not corn syrup. They've got Pepsi products in the old Pepsi bottles, Coke in the old Coke bottles, all the way down to 8 ounce vending machine bottles right now. It's pretty expensive by comparison because it's such a long distance. You can't get it from Canada because they're poisoned just the same way we are. But you can't get it from Mexico. In fact, Coca-Cola had been very torqued over that because there was a massive trade in sugarcoat being exported north from Mexico. and they were saying, oh well, that violates our little territorial monopolies for our authorized bottlers and so on. But the fact of the matter is that the authorized bottlers are selling corn syrup and people didn't want that. So in trunks and trucks and so on, people were not quite smuggling, but were importing it from Mexico and now some of the chains they're doing it, some of the grocery stores are doing it. In some areas you can get it at Sam's Club. You can get it at Costco. A lot of the regular grocery stores do have it, both horribly expensive compared to the corn syrup style, not because the ingredients are more expensive, but because it's carted such a long distance. Remember it's glass bottles and it's heavy. It's that simple. A couple of things here real quick on that note, again with sugar. Remember you can store sugar indefinitely. Right now I've got, for instance, 1, 2, 3, square, 4 gallon. pastry pails that are full of bagged sugar. Now we use the oldest first because we're doing, Nancy's been doing wild grape jelly. She just did wild grape jelly. Oh my goodness. Elderberry jelly, etc. Guys, we use the oldest and we replace it and progressively cycle more sugar into storage. No, we don't eat sugar by the bucket, but the idea is that you do use it for cooking. We do use it sparingly. and we use it with the old formulas when it comes to making whatever you're making. So... Well, you use it for any kind of baking and you can also use it in brewing if you want to manufacture beer, for instance. Use a lot of sugar to enhance that as well. Exactly. Now, again, go ahead. I know you got more. Okay, I've been meaning to mention this for a while. One of our... Oh, let me divert a little bit. I have been busy tinkering with the spreadsheet and I found a number of errors in it. It would be less embarrassing if I found them before the release of the version 3.0. But one of our friends and I were doing some collaboration on this spreadsheet and he added some things and then I tinkered things and then it went back and forth and so on. And when you pass a file back and forth, it's not unusual for things to fall out somewhere along the line. So I've been fixing a few deficiencies in this. and I expect the version 3.01 to be out sometime soon. It's not been mailed off. I have a few more changes and additions to make before we do that. But keep an eye out on my usual sites wherever you have been finding it and you should be able to find a version 3.01 sometime in the next few days. In the meantime, Most things work just fine and that spreadsheet can be downloaded complete with a extraordinarily comprehensive help file. from Spike's site which is theintelligencereport.co.cc and I believe also from Buckshot's site which is snare-trap-survive.com. I'm not checked by Buckshot's site to see if he's got it up but he didn't send anything saying what are these crazy files you sent me so I imagine that he succeeded in unpacking and posting those adequately. At any rate, those are the two sites to go and if you do not have some sort of automated mechanism for tracking your food storage, that is an available option and it will cost you $0.00 and 0 cents. The intelligence report dot co dot cc and snare dash trap dash survive dot easy, psd I think is very intuitive and under any circumstances you need something if you've got another system that's fine but if you don't have some other system this will work on any machine that you've bought in the last 10 or 15 years and you can get it up and running and get some organization and find out what you have and as we said prices are planned to be rising very rapidly. So you want to just keep chipping away, chipping away, chipping away and enter what you've got in there and track it and see what you've got. Because you do not want to, you know, encounter a major supply glitch and then say, oh, we've got all this wonderful stuff, let's add it all up and discover you've got one quarter as many man-months as you thought you did because the pile was so impressive to the eye. You want to know exactly what you've got. and how old it is and that kind of stuff. So, get some sort of organization going and that is an available option. Comments before we proceed. Keep running going, jump in there. We don't have so much time left. I know we got more on the subject matter. Alright, one of our friends has been recommending a particular site and I have not covered it in a long while. So, but it's been on the list and we've got a few minutes so I thought I would cover it this time. This particular site is called safeth2ouv.com. That is spelled S-A-F, not S-A-F-E, just S-A-F, H2O-U-V, that is in uniform victor, dot com. What this vendor is selling is water filtering systems that are not the gravity style filters that we generally recommend. They are powered because their intention is either for stationary use or use in an RV. But there are 110 versions and 12 volt versions of these things. And they are basically a two or three stage filter. Either a pre-filter adds a third stage, or the primary stage is a carbon filter, and the secondary stage is an ultraviolet lamp. the ultraviolet being there with the specific intention of frying any little bacteria or viruses that may have slipped through. The site again is SAF H2O-UV. Our friend is very impressed with these devices. I don't have one on hand. I haven't played with them, but they look pretty straightforward. And the prices are not bad. If you have an off-grid system, even if it's stationary, whether it's portable or not, suppose you had a house that's a bit off-grid and you have access to 12 volt power, It would not be a bad idea to put in one of these units. With 12 volts, you can get a couple of gallons a minute through these things. If you have a cistern for roof runoff, that cistern being buried deeply enough that it doesn't freeze in the winter, that combined with a unit like this can give you a good solid water supply system sufficient at least for drinking purposes, not for watering your garden and stuff, you don't want to filter that. But it can operate on your choice of 110 volt or 12 volt, you choose which model you want. and it is very straightforward and will give you some semblance of normal pumped, pressurized, clean water. And the costs are not bad. You'll basically end up spending about $130 for one of the standard carbon filter plus ultraviolet units, or about $150 if you get the unit that's got three cylinders on it, it has a little pre-filter before your water goes through the carbon filter. At that price, that is not a bad offer. and that gives you pumped, pressurized, ultraviolet-treated water. The other option that we recommend to people is a standard gravity-fed filter, and that's one where you dump a bucket of water into the top and it drips through into the bottom section, and you generally have a spigot at the bottom. You can either purchase those filter assemblies, sometimes they are a little on the expensive side, or you can just cobble one together out of any pair of stainless steel pots or plastic buckets or what have you. And if you possibly can do a fix, say, spigot to the bottom, it is very, very convenient to do that. But you can get by without it if you really have to. You end up taking things apart and scooping the water out, but it is equally safe. The way to get filters for these guys is not necessarily to buy them from the same vendor that sold you. or wishes to sell you an assembled filter unit. The vendor that we recommend is Dalton USA, D-O-U-L-T-O-N USA dot com. That is D-O-U-L-T-O-N USA dot com. These guys have very good prices and what you're looking for is you want to hit the link for replacement filters and then you want to take a look for... the terminology they use is candle. It's kind of a stupid word but they call them candles. It basically means a filter that's got a fitting at one end and is closed off at the other end. You don't install it in a plastic cylinder or cartridge and screw it together. You just screw that, poke that through a hole and fasten the nut on the other side. And I would recommend that the 2 inch diameter, 7 inch tall units are more than adequate for most people's uses. They're also 10 inch tall units. But if you think about the way these things work, you fill up the upper container and as it drips through into the lower container, the level of the upper container drops. And so even if you are covering the entire filter when you have filled the top end, halfway through that filter is going to be halfway uncovered. So the bottom half of the filter is going to be doing all the work. The top half of the filter barely gets used, and if you are drawing some water off and then topping it up a little bit, the top end of the filter is barely ever going to even get wet. So it really makes very little sense to pay extra for a 10 inch tall filter if a 7 inch will do the same job and you're probably mostly using only the bottom 3 or 4 inches anyway. Silly to spend extra money on getting a 10 inch. So I would recommend the 2 inch diameter 7 inch long so called candles is what they call them. And those cost $36 a piece delivered and you're not going to find a better price than that. So unless somebody has a super duper special sale or promotion or something along those lines. So the two vendors that we are recommending right now, one is for a powered unit complete with ultraviolet and that is SAFE H2O UV. That is S-A-F H2O, not a zero, an O. The other vendor we are recommending in this area is Dolton USA, DOUL, T-O-N-U-S-A dot com as a source for filters. Whether you have a filter or not, if you do have one of the store-watt filters, you ought to be getting some spare filter elements from these guys. If you don't have a filter, you can cobble one together. At the very least, just get the cartridges. If you need to put something together later under conditions of exigency, you can still do so. It's not complicated, but the hard part is the filters. You really can't put them together out of a handful of dirt in an old sock. It's not going to work very well. So get the manufactured part. That's the filter element. And if you need to, you can cobble together the rest. Of course, you really ought to be using those on an ongoing basis now anyway. But at the very least get the filter elements and stack some of those on the shelf against supply disruptions in the future comments. Most important here again is duplication, duplication. You and I both know that. The most common problem that I've seen is backups from one direction and having a secondary storage source, guys, with everything that we're talking about doing here. I got a big discussion about this yesterday with a couple of our allies. We're almost at the top. I just wanted to bring this up real quick. It ties right into the overall problem with supply and support. In fact, I mentioned the book right from the beginning, Survivors, the Novel of the Coming Collapse. I'm sure that's something that James is going to address in that a lot of people are somewhat prepared or prepared to a degree. Some people are new and are not quite up to speed. Because of this, what you do have should be already pre-deployed. The majority of it should be pre-deployed where you think you're going to go to. And your inventory should be reflected, though. Your information should reflect both storage sites. You may even isolate them when it comes to, well, I put 25 pounds of stuff here. I put five pounds of stuff in my larder at my base where I presently exist. If I put it all in one place where I have to move it, then I better have some way to move it. And you think about what happened just with Katrina, let's plant another seed. How long did it take for everybody to say, I just wanted one tank of gas before people were fighting over one tank of gas? Well, yeah, and then of course the local police and the feds jumping in and blocking bridges to say you're not getting out and you know helping the situation in various other ways. Even if you've got, you know, if you're all gassed up and you got a trailer and all this kind of good stuff, you get to the bridge and it's a roadblock because, you know, the little black turtles in there little black turtle hats are all blocking the road and nobody's quite got enough nerve to open fire on them. Well, you're kind of stuck, you know. You could cross all sorts of terrain, you've got more fuel, and you've got all these vehicles in the lane. There's not a thing you can do about it. So, you know, you do have to look forward against these things and have alternate routes and have adequate fuel and preferably have things in different locations and also be able to sustain yourself in place for an extended period as well and defend what you've got. This means that now you've got a plan in that direction, you don't have to spend any more time on it other than filling out the blanks. If you're going to add something to that, fill in the blank line with a name, a title of something, and add it to your cooperative order so that you know what you got, where you got it, and whether or not you need to get more. Also, be selective in these things. If you've got nothing in the water category and you don't want to necessarily spend the money for one of these star-bought gravity filters, they are overpriced, I agree. Get the key part. The key part is the filter. If you get the key part, the filter, then everything else is fine. I suspect that if and when we get into serious situations, there are going to be an awful lot of Coleman lanterns out there and very few mantles. If you set aside a bunch of mantles, you can probably trade a half dozen mantles for somebody's second lantern because the thing is no good without the mantles. There are a lot of situations like that where the consumable is probably a very, very good substitute for the relevant equipment. I've argued in the past, if you want a lawn tractor, it's probably not best to go out and spend $1500 on a lawn tractor, but rather have 100 pounds of rolled oats that you can trade with your neighbor at some point. He'll figure he's got a bargain because he's got no gas for his lawn tractor anyway and he's got hungry kids. You can leverage these things, you can be strategic about them. And the filters is one example of that. Another one is NBC gear. There's going to be a lot of masks around coming out of the woodwork. After they've been used a little bit, there's not going to be a lot of filters. Concentrate on filters more than the masks. I have argued that there's going to be an awful lot of firearms around, not a whole lot of ammunition. Concentrate on the ammunition. Do not 100%. You know, you don't want to have 20 cases of ammunition and no shot pen in the house. but skew towards the consumables, you may find that you end up with the capital equipment as well. Exactly. One of the things here is that any ammunition you see to yard sale is cheap. We've been talking about this. Better to grab it and put it in an ammo can. One of the things that happens, of course sometimes it's a truck load, which is what happens in one of these yard sales, BK, dollar a box for 12 gauge, 25 round box ammunition. I really hate it when you tell me stories about these garage sales that I wasn't at. Then you're too far away. Well, the thing is, we had to try and get on the phone to get people over there, and we did. They cleared the place out. But the thing is, there's stuff there that you may not use. If it's a dollar a box, grab it, put it in some cans, and find it. Or you'll find a home or just keep it there. And you know what? If you've got 1,000 rounds or something, maybe it's worth picking up one cheap, inexpensive, single barrel, single shot something that goes with it, because you got a lot of ammo. In other words, the availability of ammo determines whether or not the weapon might be a desirable option, at least as a backup gun to bury somewhere. That gives you some way to use that ammunition, and if you end up trading that ammunition to somebody for something you want, you may just toss in that arm as well. Exactly. Well, we're at the top. I'll tell you what, guys. Again, remember, come up with a solution. survivors a novel of the coming collapse by james westley ralls go to survival blog dot com get a copy now god bless the republic death to the new world order we shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the empire is on the run we are in the march both day and night that's the end of corpsmaster friday for the time being but don't worry there's work to do this weekend bk thank you sir You're welcome.