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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's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors. So their children will 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 freedom 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 I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right we only watch in 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? Ladies and gentlemen is mark there. Oh my bear. Okay. Yeah, there you are. Go ahead First we're both on and now neither of us. There we go. Okay, let's try this again. Are we there? Yes, go ahead. Very good. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening In-Dell Report. I'm Mark Kurnkey. And I'm Butter Knife. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines and occupied territories west, central, southeast, and south. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, running at the microstations, CV Bay stations, and old trunnet technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Hallmark, Temer, Cabamaine, bottom of Florida, bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming, to include the third, the fifth, and the pit along with Colorado. Waving to the left coast we turn back to the Eastweep Cross Plains over the Mississippi land and the Smokies. For the restaurant crews, Grandma teams, OK teams, and Ma Bell, Grandma Consortium, bring us the Golden Spike. Good evening and happy birthday to our three Golden Girls. Over 90 years old, this is a common birthday, the 15th of November. But BK, benchmark the date. What's jumping off in your neck of the woods, sir? Yeah, are they triplets? Well, no, they're just three. They're a year apart. Well, one's been 19-wise. No, they just got rhythm, huh? Yeah, they got rhythm. They've been actually at it for a long time. They worked in the Bell, actually, systems back in the...and retired. All of them did, all three of them did, back in the, I believe, the early 80s. late 80s for the last one. They called one of them back to work, but they used to work in telecommunications and were part of the transition for civil defense. which is one of the things that they specialized in because they were working with the National Defense Grid, Communications Grid, back in the day. So they've got a lot of expertise in certain areas, but we kind of celebrate this day, the middle of November, because their birthdays are spread out a little bit through the fall here, but it's kind of a party thing because of their retirement windows too the way they quit. I think the oldest is 93. The youngest is just turned 91 this year. So again for everybody there in Cleveland you guys know who the ladies are. They work with their magic pointy fingers nowadays. They don't do any of the work. They just explain to everybody how things worked back in the day and they're helping us out with some equipment we inherited. So the cool thing is these are the people who actually used it. which is neat. And again, they're also giving us some other ideas based on stuff that they were taught back in the day with the Civil Defense System communications grid and how they figured, well, they're going to get nuked. What do we do if we get nuked? And they went through all the courses and they actually were some of the instructors after a while. So, again, thank you ladies, we appreciate your help, and that's part of the Golden Spike system. So they're pretty cool. And we plan on making sure they last as long as possible just to spite the enemy. That's the whole plan. That's what everybody should be doing. They hate it when you stick around, especially when you can speak the truth while they're trying to lie. So, BK was jumping off in your neck of the woods. What's the date, sir? Okay, it is 15 November 2013. 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. And we've been having kind of pleasant chilly weather here. It's getting down to around freezing at night, but it's been up in the 50s typically during the day, relatively clear, not a whole lot of rain. or BK has been flailing away in the dirt. This is such an ongoing project. The thing that's funny about this effort is that if I could get a hold of a backhoe for about an hour, I could negate the necessity for all of these sessions over there digging in the dirt. But, oh well, it's a little bit more exercise than I'm used to and that's probably a good thing. I managed to break a shovel the other day and went out and bought a new one. It was a little bit interesting looking at the selection at the home center. I finally spring for the SuperDuper Deluxe Fiberglass model at $25. They had a variety of those shovels all the way down to a plain wooden handled perfectly okay looking model at $6. I'm looking at this thing, it's a long straight handled model with a D blade. All of the blades seem a little bit smaller than I'm used to. That may shave the material and make it a little bit less likely to buckle, I suppose. I'm looking at that and I'm thinking, man, for them to stamp that thing out, fabricate it in China, ship it all the way to the US, put it on sale, and go through all the various retail markups and so on, and turn around and deliver it at $6. for the very least expensive model. That must cost absolutely nothing at the factory level to manufacture. I look like a perfectly okay shovel. I went for the much heavier, more solid fibergrass handled unit for myself. If I were equipping a 10 man work crew or something like that, I'd go the $6 model and see how they held up. It's one of those quantity over Cadillac type decisions. It could be that they break left and right, but it looked like it would probably be perfectly okay if you didn't totally abuse it. It was quite astonishing looking at that and seeing a $6 price tag on a garden variety unit like that. This wasn't one of the Chinese port vendors, this is the home center which of course feeds off of the Chinese industrial base too. They're not famous for super duper cheap stuff. What is interesting seeing that? Well the other thing too is again for utility backup tools, that's what we do. If I see them on sale, I watch yard sales for any of the shovels. I don't care what conditioner. By the time I'm done, I can rework them a little bit. If all else fails, I get a coat of paint if the handles are tired and or get wrapped if they need to be pegged and then reinforced. But guys, every extra shovel you've got, remember it's a manual tool. You can't really share them. You can take turns. But the more you've got, the better off you are. And in reality, for most of the work you're going to do, They are cheap, they work, here we have even a small one which is really an E tool. It is small enough to be basically equivalent to what we kind of issued out World War II except it has got a stirrup handle, which is really nice. They're about the same price. Again, like you said, for what it is that goes into them and for the material involved, they've got to be at slave labor level, but also materials level is just absolutely in the basement. Well, yeah, that plus the forging press is 110 press or something like that. You run it through one stage and it snips out a blank from sheet metal and you run it through the next stage and it forms the handle and you run it through a third stage and the whole general shape of the thing comes out and then a fourth stage fixes the handle and it's about four operations. Each operation takes about ten seconds. I have seen shovels being produced obviously in a Canadian factory. on this program called How It's Made. I recommend that whole series to people that are at all interested in these fabrication technologies. They don't go into a lot of detail. lean in the direction of the more photogenic aspects of things rather than talking about the clearances and tolerances and things like that. They're not pushed towards engineers, it's entertainment. Even so, remarkably, I would call it edu-tainment, it's entertaining. You get to see an idea of how things are done and it also demonstrates The limited amount of manual labor that's involved in modern manufacturing of almost anything. There are a few exceptions. There's a lot of labor that goes into fabricating boots and things of this sort. They're running sewing machines and whatnot. For most of the plastics and metal based and so on, manufacturers, basically the machines doing the work, there are people running forklifts around moving material in and out. Aside from that, these are not very labor intensive activities, which puts the lie to the whole let's move our industry to China thing because our labor is so expensive. Labor is such a small component of a lot of these items that clearly the move to China of our industrial base is motivated by other factors. They get to stiff everybody on their pension plans and it covers up the fact that they've robbed all the pension plans and they move the plant and say, okay, well, you're not vested anymore, so the money goes away. Or lets them get away with not obeying any environmental requirements regarding their waste or does let them get away from all the ridiculous ocean nonsense and so on and so forth, nonetheless. But I am not deep brooding the microphone. I'll move it even farther away. But it's off to the side already on the boom. So at any rate, it really does demonstrate that the cover story of, well, you know, U.S. labor is far too expensive is clearly a false argument. Well, one of the other things here too with regard to the hand tools, guys, if you don't have a set of pioneer tools for each vehicle, Again, the cost for especially the cheaper equipment, at least make sure that you've got it spread out so that each piece of equipment has the basics. I recommend a shovel of whatever size you determine you can fit into the piece of equipment. A full-size shovel offers more leverage even if it is a cheaper tool. Don't forget a sledgehammer or a sledge-mall combination where it's a sledge on one side and it's a mall blade like an axe blade on the other. Those are a very, very critical utility tool for a lot of different work, especially for undigging yourself. The shovel does one part. The sledgehammer, along with a few other items, does the other half, especially where you're using things like a manual come along or if you've got a winch. Don't forget also that a pickaxe or a pick-mat-tock, which is typically what you see in a lot of vehicles, is another item that needs to be in there. Notice that some of these tools have dual purposes, but shovels, flat shovel, a cold scuttle type is a little too much, but a flat square head shovel, a scraping shovel, and a pointed ditch digger. Those two are utility items that need to be in the kit. There are a number of different types of shovels that are out there in size and configuration. Pick what fits your vehicle, either inside or outside. A lot of the equipment is strapped to the outside of the vehicle. Armored vehicles do that. You'll notice that they have these particular tools in place because you have to manhandle things sometimes to get out of situations. You need to be able to move junk, debris, dirt. A crowbar, a simple crowbar. BK, there's a whole bunch of companies right now. Coleman's has some excellent European crowbars, cheap, and they're very well made. They're not China sport. They are European, Northern European made crowbars, very durable, very well built, and whatever size you want, whatever you want to spend money on, amount wise, as far as what you have available for your wallet. But a crowbar or a pry bar are a very good choice. There's something you need to have in there. Sometimes you've got to move something that's stuck under something and your hands aren't going to do it and the shovel ain't going to make it. A solid steel pry bar of whatever type. Chisel end on one end, pointed on the other end. 3, 5 feet long, between there is fine, 5 foot is typically what you are going to run into, and a crowbar. These tools, these basic tools will get you out of most trouble. If I'm limited in resources and have to make some choices, I would go for the D-style shovel over the square sprayed bladed. If I had to make a choice on pry bars, I would go for a bigger one instead of an assortment. Of course, the military vehicles with tools stuck all over the outside don't have to deal with urban metal moth issues. You know, parking in an urban area and hoping things don't all disappear. They have means of dealing with the persons that have designs on their equipment that are not practical in everyday life right now under current circumstances. So that's a separate issue there. One of the big things again is picking shoes. Like I said, store it inside or outside. It's a matter of how the vehicle is configured and what purpose it serves. How you're going to secure it is part of the issue there. But the big thing is at least have them on standby so that you know you've got the tools you need. You can make up little bundle kits. They can get tossed into the equipment, in with the rest of the equipment when the time comes or on the roof, however you're going to lash them down. The big thing is that these are all items that if you're isolated, if you're by yourself especially, you're probably going to need them. Especially since you may be doing some cross country or maybe doing some surround work where you're trying to get around an obstacle and something goes wrong. You need to be able to get out of what you got into. Obviously we're going to also scavenge from what's nearby. Chances are there's wreckage and other goodies that are laying around, but most people don't necessarily think about a lot of these things in the early phases of whatever type of disaster is taking place. They're usually too busy unearcing the AO, so a lot of stuff will be laying around. However, with your luck it will be at the wrong place at the wrong time and you are in a situation where you need the tools now. Pick and choose what you are going to pick up and again if you can save money to get to level one. Remember think of it this way. We are looking at stairs. Level one where you have something of everything is what we need to do right away. If you are limited in resources like we are talking about then pick and choose what it is that is going to best suit your wallet for the moment to get you to a preparedness level. Remember whatever you have if you upgrade the other item is backup. It is another tool. You are not going to lose anything on tools. If you have three or four different clusters of tools and You have to hit the brakes in a hurry and one of them you manage to lay your hands on and the other two or three are a shortcut to the vagaries of fate. Well at least you've got one. So that's the point of having multiple caches or deployments. Exactly. One of the other things here too is again as we pointed out resale shops where I have found most of the pry bars or for the best price and also other utility tools in that iron category is industrial surplus resale shops or again distressed shops. Big Lot used to be really good for that but Big Lot has become a complete box store. What I've been told, and I haven't been to one of these yet, BK, do you have any Ollies in your area? No, I never heard of an Ollie. In fact, big lots expanded in this area and they're retracting again. There was one fairly near me that opened up, lasted for maybe a year and disappeared. One of the things I noticed is exactly what you were saying, is that they have become a new China support vendor rather than a dealer of miscellaneous lots. I would call that being a victim of your own success. I've seen this pattern occur before. There used to be an outfit called COMB back before the internet. They'd go with flyers and they'd send out little flyers. They'd have lots of this and that and the other thing. They'd have a batch of this tool or that generator or this household item or so on and one or so to the third. They picked things up on opportunity and had good deals on things. As they got bigger and bigger, they had to get a more steady supply chain and eventually they became like a Harbor Freight and more than two of them, all those guys, to keep having the same stuff continuously because it's made for them and it's a continuous stream. They're not picking things up on the stress. It seems to be a steady growth pattern. Nobody stays small. And miscellaneous lots if they're successful, when they get bigger they have to start having steady supplies and we end up getting just a continuous news stream and the price advantages go away. But, you know, it just seems to be the way the pattern goes. Kmart used to be the same way. Years ago Kmart was a bin store where you went in and there would be bins of Japanese made tools and you know it could be just a big hopper and it would be like 25 cent pliers. Well Ollie's is the latest up and coming in this area, like Big Lot. It's the way Big Lot used to be. By what I've been told, I haven't been to the one, although everybody else in the family has been there, I just haven't been yet. But they have bins of. In other words, whatever they have a lot of. It's not any special packaging. It doesn't have any special promo. It's volume. This is the way Big Lot used to be, like with their tool section. It used to get, like I said, pry bars, crow bars. Whatever happened to be from whatever slave outfit was in another part of China, if they got a pile of it, there'd be a pile of it on the shelf. Right, there was an outfit many years ago around here called Grandpa Pigeons. It was the same way. I haven't heard of them in years, so I don't know what happened to them. But they were the same deal. They'd get a batch of refurbished vacuum cleaners. They were once repaired by the factory and so on and they move on to the next model. The last model they'd have 537 of these and they'd just sell them off to Grandpa Pigeons. However many there were, that's how many there were, but you'd get a $120 vacuum cleaner for $37 or whatever the case was. They were good deals, but you could not say, oh, I got something there six months ago, it's still be there. Exactly. Well, Ollie's is like the old big lot. If you have it in your area, you might want to check it out because again, whatever they have one month, they may not have the next. So if you do see it and it's cheap, cheap, cheap. If you look like you need four of them because you have four vehicles and you want, again, you have four different vehicles, well, if it's super cheap anyway, here's a chance to put that tool in the vehicle and have it there. If it's there, if it works once, it's paid for itself. Let's put it that way. Typically, the stuff will work better than that. It's just field grade or utility grade tech. And again, this place, just like Big Lots, has food. They've got cleaning supplies. They've got odds and ends stuff of all kinds. So if you run into them, the ads they send out via email are Ollie's Army. It's not an army surplus, it's just like the Arlesian of Ollie. Watch for the places. It's the next up and coming low end store. Kmart used to be like this. Myers, I've talked about Myers many times, Myers 50 acres, originally built by a guy. It basically is where Walmart came from. Myers was originally there way before Walmart. The company started over on the west side of the state of Michigan and expanded all over the Midwest. Walmart saw what they were doing and tried to mimic it but went in a different direction with regard to their supplier. Walmart has become obviously one of the other China sports stores. Originally, Myers was bin sales. They had anything and everything for every department. They had a massive hardware department, a massive food department, excellent butcher shop, and it was all under one roof. Progressively, they've become more of a China Sport box store and they're letting the computers run their operations. So everything is askew as far as their sales cycle goes. But originally they were the place to go if it was Sunday afternoon and everybody else was shut down. You could get any one of three different size water pumps. You could get all the plumbing fittings if you needed a two by four it was there. If you needed a light switch or if you needed for that matter party favors for the birthday and you forgot last minute or something got broken and busted or whatever, well you could go there and they had it in bulk. They had a lot of it and they had it cheap, reasonably priced. That's all gone now pretty much. So, that's an example again, like you were talking about, as they go through this cycle. Kmart used to be the same way. Kmart sprung from SS Kresge, which was actually a five and dime store. And while Kmart came about, most of the Kresge stores here, which were Kmart came from in Michigan, They stayed open and they were still five and dimes which is really kind of cool. They were actually the tiny version of Kmart and they were cheaper. They were so old that they still had the soda-fount type bars with the round stools and the red plastic and the neat little booths and you could go eat lunch there and then you could wander around the five and dime or go out into the rest of the shopping center out around the store and peruse the storefronts, that kind of thing. Again, guys, take advantage of these resale spots or any of these that have these jobber prices because food prices also, they're doing end of run or distress where stuff is ended, they tried it, it didn't work. It may not be the most exciting item, but example is, for instance, several years ago with all these dollar stores, hot sauce used to be everywhere. You'll notice it's pretty well disappeared, but even big lots used to have pallets of hot sauce. spices the same way. That's all disappeared. The world has changed completely with a lot of these places. So now you have to pick and choose as you go to pick, you know, get what you need off the shelf. But if you see it and it's reasonably priced or super cheap, stock up on it to make up for the difference in something you don't have because you don't have as much money. take advantage of it. Go ahead BK. Once in a while we've spotted bargains for instance at the D.O. store and things like that. I still check through there from time to time. I haven't seen anything that I consider particularly desirable there especially in the food section. They have moved away from the dollar approach and now they have a lot of things that are $1.5 or $5. They seem to be running mostly multiples of 50 cents but a lot of those things are actually more expensive than the grocery stores. or more expensive than all the, for instance, for comparable products. But don't just walk into an outfit like that and assume that you're necessarily getting a reasonable price. For instance, you shouldn't be buying sardines anymore because they come out of the Pacific and the Pacific's been poisoned by food machine that you do not want the cesium content that's showing up, even though the corporate system continues to pretend that it's not a problem and continues to sell their poisoned goods to you. But you can purchase sardines in a can, much more sloshing now than they would, and no longer packed the way they once were. At Aldi for sometimes 79 cents or 89 cents for a can or what have you, close to a dollar. At Beale Stove, those are a dollar every day. So, there's a grocery store example that is cheaper than the supposed bargain store. On the other hand, I was at a deal the other day and they did have an item which I considered worthwhile. They have some cylindrical glass candles that are about two inches in diameter, about eight inches long at a dollar a piece. compared to what we think that paraffin should have cost back in the day, that's not super duper cheap compared to current prices, that's not bad. You'll get two taper candles for a dollar whereas those are not nearly as much wax as one of those glass cylindrical candles. So I picked up 10 of those and sprinkled them all over the house. So I put them in the gas stream, I put them in the family room, so on and so forth. They will keep forever. and they are short term emergency lighting. They are not as cost effective as a gallon of oil in a grass oil lamp, but they are immediately usable and divisible. $10 for kitchenette, which means you can have light in 10 different places. They are a quick convenience item. That's not a bad item. I picked up a few of those and I think that's not a bad option as well. You do have to keep your eyes open but you also have to maintain in your head a list of comparable prices. As I said, the example of the tuna fish, it's more expensive at the deal store than it is 500 yards away at the nearby Aldi in the same shopping center. that you're necessarily getting a good deal at an outfit that sometimes has good deals in it. We have survived the GRID-X exercise. They did not put a trigger on us this time. That's happy news. Fortunately, I sort of had the suspicion that this one wasn't going to be the one they'd put a trigger on. But then again, I think there's an inverse effect. The ones that we pay the most attention to, I think they are the least likely to take live. Who's paying any attention to Boston? marathon and they put the trigger on that one. We were all paying attention to grid X2 and they did not put a trigger on that one. I do think there's a certain amount of feedback at work in these operations. So at the risk of assembling this, Morgan saying, huh, I told you so well, I don't have a crystal ball, I could have been wrong. They might have grown hot on that one. I'm not about to try to resist the temptation to think that I'm super reliable and guessing which ones are likely to go and which ones aren't. This time I was right. Good, we just keep chipping away, doing what we can and next time one of these things comes up. Bear in mind that our situation not being on the inside of their planning councils means that we're going to call out 10 out of every 3 emergencies. But do not let that tickle you into a panic fatigue type situation where you get complacent and say, well, each thing that comes up can't possibly be the one they're going to pull the trigger because sooner or later they will. So use each of these as an opportunity to get on your toes to trim things up to top off your water storage to go ahead and stuff a little extra in the pantry, that sort of stuff. You'll use it. If the trigger is not plugged, you'll use that stuff. It doesn't hurt you to have your gas tanks topped off and things of this sort. So use these as mini drills for our side. What do you think of that approach? Now, what we need to be looking at is just to be on a state of degree of alert, just like the Air Force does, the best way to describe it. When we know that the bad guys are employing a particular type of force and that they are going to deploy within a particular window, then we need to be just as effective at being prepared to utilize our resources as they do. And everybody out there, especially with regard to the fuel issues and energy issues. In this case where they're talking about the very thing that everybody's discussed in the Patriot Movement for decades, the idea of an EMP threat, governments talked about it behind the scenes. We made it public. The system has talked about it more because we've pressed the issue. Because people are actually prepared or have looked at certain things that we know are going to be a problem. Most everybody is minimalized for all the apathy about how they are so wealthy. Well, most people aren't. They've got a tremendous mortgage. Most can't afford furniture for the house, let alone for most of the house. Because of that, most of them are just as stripped, even though they may make a six-digit income as somebody who makes $20,000 a year. I have a little problem with the people that say, man, I'm only middle class and I can barely squeak by on this hundred and a quarter a year. And my taxes are so high and wha-a-wha, wine, wine, and I'm thinking, you know, I could think of multiple households who would love to each have a quarter of that. Well, that's why I stopped doing income taxes for people. Seriously. I'm going to tell you right now, I watch people tell me all about how they couldn't make it and I'm doing income taxes for a couple. One's a nurse and the other one's working for one of the auto companies and they're making between them $210,000 a year and telling me how tough it is that they can't make ends meet or they just don't have enough. Yeah, peel off 10% from me. Yeah, well, exactly. But the point is, after a while, it's one of those things that's dead weight on you. It's like the constant complaining and wheezing, but it's like, well, I'll tell you what, I think of a lot of people who live on a third of what you've got right now easily and would be very happy. And the thing about it is, is they don't even know where the money went that they had for that year. That's what I over and over again, I would watch this and it's to the point where it's like, no, I'm not doing this anymore. This is like, it really becomes a weight. I mean, it's like doing legal work. It is legal work. When you're doing taxes, they're trying to incriminate you anyway, so it's the same thing. But the fact of the matter is that even though you may not make that much, if you properly manage step by step what you're doing every week, You can be in pretty good shape with regard to preparedness. The big thing is to just constantly, like I said, look for the stuff that is common and inexpensive and you can get a lot of something for nothing. One of the things they had at Aldi's here the other day, 10 and 25 cent items, because they're Halloween items, guys. The same thing they were selling for $2.80 or $2, $3, and $4 is $0.99 right now. And they're foodstuffs. Yeah, I was at an Aldi's and I engaged in a horrible splurge. I spent $0.99 on a full pack of candy apples. I said, okay, fine. It's just a mean little splurge. Well, the thing about it is that, for instance, they had pumpkin bread, they had pumpkin bread mix or cake mix. Bunch of stuff was 25 cents, 50 cents. Frosting was 50 cents for a tub. And it's like, okay, it's in an odd color, but to be quite honest, all it is is sweet. So, guys, you're looking at a situation where, again, you can put stuff, the retort pouches of the cake mix or the muffin mix, well, that's going to sit there for as long as you want to let it sit. It's MR restored for all practical purposes. You look like a can of something. But still, it's the idea that you can put this stuff away and put volume on the shelf. And in regular food items, a lot of it was just that it's It's Halloween oriented in terms of the wrapping. What was comical is right next to it is the Thanksgiving wrapping. It's the only difference. It's got a turkey in it instead of a scarecrow or a pumpkin. Both of them use pumpkins. All this pumpkin spice stuff for pennies. And it's like, well Thanksgiving uses pumpkin and has pumpkin spice stuff too. So if I get this, it's seasonal, but it's also a change out anyway because it is an odd man out item. One of the things we've talked about is food fatigue. If you can throw stuff in that's unique or odd flavor, it changes stuff up. Coffee creamer was like the $3 a container powdered coffee creamer was like 89 cents or whatever. Guys, it's going to sit on the shelf and stare at your coffee creamer. It doesn't really do anything. It's a great way to cook your MREs, by the way, or I should say heat sea rations too. You used to take the creamer packet, you just tear it up a little bit, hit it with a match, and you've got enough heat and the stuff burns so efficiently, it burns right down to a fine, fine ash. You burn the packet and all. That's a better use for it. The oils there in the dry creamer are really, really bad for you. Please don't get in the habit of putting that in your coffee. It's one of the worst things you could possibly add to it. On the topic of incomes, that provides a good segue to another topic that I had prepared. We are all aware of one of the alternative broadcasters who is hyperkinetic and perhaps a little bit overweight. I have heard say that this fellow is pulling in a measly 5 million a year. I think about that and I think about the financial issues that some of our friends for instance micro effect which is in financial trouble and really really need to stop right now and that much money would easily support 500 alternative audio only outlets. I just think that what a shame that the resources are being concentrated to such an effect buying all the Space Cadet video gear and so on when we would have vastly more throw weight using the same resources collectively as 500 different outlets. So on the topic of alternative outlets, let me say a few things. One is that I try to avoid the habit of targeting other channels here because the R needs financial support too but right now Micro Effect is facing a funds pain. last night I squirted them a few dollars that I really really need for other things anyway and I would suggest that other people do to try to get them through the crisis. We don't want them to crack through that crispy layer of thin ice and toggle over into non-operating. anybody that wants to help them out, bemichaeleffect.com really needs your support right now. Good thoughts are all very nice but that doesn't cut anything with the power company and the phone company and so on and so forth. We need the FRNs at the moment. Also on the topic of other alternative media, there are large and small outlets that are worthy of our attention. Back in the Cold War days, we did something to the Warsaw Pact that was very, very effective. It was called Radio Free Europe. This was a propaganda effort. What we did was we did smarter propaganda than had been traditionally performed. What we did was we ran a radio service. that mixed together sound, neutral, politically flavored news, much cleaner news than we got here domestically, as bait to get people to listen to the channel. What they did then was they would mix in what I would call propaganda, but it was sort of white propaganda. What they did was they told true negative stories about the Warsaw Pact and two positive stories about the Western world leaving out the true positive stories about things that are going on in the Warsaw Pact and leaving out true negative stories about things that are going on in the Western world. So that was a skewed news service, but one that stuck to truth simply by being very selective about the truth. Well, the worst off act is not stupid and while it is gone, the Russian Federation exists and so on and they are doing a little bit of information jiu-jitsu. They are doing the same thing to us now. They are running a channel called RT.com which is state supported television. It's available on some of the cable and satellite services and so on. It has a YouTube channel and their own website and all this kind of good stuff. They're doing the same thing to us that we used to do to them. They are running true positive stories about their system and omitting the true negatives and running true negative stories about our system and omitting the true positives, which serves their interests. I'm wrestling with the vampires that run our system. Certainly Putin has been fighting with those vampires. Putin is no saint, but he has been opposing the guys who are victimizing us. So that's not a friend. That could be a potential ally on a very, very limited basis to a degree or in a way. As a result, there is an available news channel that has some things of value, rt.com. There are specifically two programs that I would recommend on their channel. They have some flaming leftists and things that are kind of a pain to listen to and I have little interest in these. There are some of these guys that believe wholeheartedly in peak oil. global warming and man-made global warming and all this kind of blah blah. But there are two that are worth listening to particularly. One is Kaiser Report and yes I know that Max Kaiser is one of our Kaiser friends. His background is that he was a stock broker and he is particularly aware of the corruption of financial system because he was one of the stinkers participating in it at one point when he was younger. I think he made his pile and at the same time probably got a little bit disgusted with the degree to which the parasite is killing its host. Another one is breaking the set. The young woman that hosts breaking the set. occasionally flipped off a little bit into some of this leftist eco-silentness stuff. On average, she has a lot of cogent things to say. She's kind of an interesting character. Before she did this, she was a psychedelic artist and did a lot of the artwork for the Grateful Dead and things like that. Her background is a little bit different from what you normally encounter. Take a look, see what you think, pass judgment for yourself and make your own decisions. They discuss news of the day and so on. Then the second 15 minutes of an interview with somebody in the financial industry. Those are all insiders. Those are very interesting little conversations. Once in a while, one of them is a little bit boring on a speaker style basis. out of five are very interesting and have a lot of useful information and highlight the extent to which everybody knows in the industry what is being done and how the system is being brought down around our heads in the degree of exploitation that is underway. Certainly Kaiser loves to scream about Jimmy Diamond and Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and so on. Those are the biggest offenders in that area but they are only the biggest in a large swarm of predatory fish that are seeking to feed on us. For instance, one of the interviews in the last few weeks I saw, the guest was made an aside comment that was quite telling. One of the things he said as well, every time gas goes up a few cents, everybody stops buying. He's right. We've observed the same thing right here. Yet we do not expect to see that on any sort of mass produced media. The simple fact that we see things like that is interesting. They run some documentaries from time to time which are their original work that they produce. The one they're running this week is one on police tactics, interrogation tactics. The thrust is that they no longer beat confessions out of people with rubber hoses and telephone books. They have a series of psychological manipulations they've been taught to manipulate and push people into making confessions false or otherwise a lot of them are false and they profile a few people that were railroaded into prison and then later proven innocent and released. Well, getting railroaded in and improving yourself. Innocent is a long hard climb. It's better to not get railroaded in the first time, being aware of some of the techniques may save you on the backside. So that's a useful thing. They run these topics not out of altruism. I mean, I can't tell you about the mindset of the specific individuals working in that channel. But from a policy point of view, telling this negative truth serves the interest of state television as funded by Russia. So that's the reason why they're doing it. They're kind of striking back against the vampire army on this side of the ocean. But the side effect that we can take away from it is that they are telling some useful truth and we can pick up the useful truth from that. Another alternative outlet that I can recommend is thecordetreport.com. That is a web-only outlet, mostly audio, but they also produce video at the same time, which is just, you know, Cropit sitting there in front of his webcam producing the audio. He has interviews with lots of interesting people. Very frequently, with Sebelle Edmonds, who was a translator for the FBI and Middle Eastern languages. and discovered an awful lot of information editing underway, especially relating to 9-11 and so on. So you will hear from Sibel Edmonds rather frequently on his channel. James Corbett is a Canadian. He got a liberal arts degree, didn't know what to do with his life, so he wandered off to go temporarily teach English in Japan, which is something that foreigners frequently do to go visit Japan because you get an entry visa and you're self-supporting to at a modest level. They teach English over there like we teach French which means on a large basis and half baked. Everybody takes it. Very few people learn very much but they keep trying. After a while he kind of faded into the next and ended up getting married to a Japanese national so he's there pretty much permanently. He became aware of some of his 9-11 Truth well after it occurred and that pulled him down the rabbit hole and he has since been running a podcast, a fairly high volume podcast that he runs interviews as well as finished programs. He is a Canadian and therefore a bit of a pacifist and so on so he does not in any way I mentioned militia concepts in a positive light. He seems to think like many that the information dimension of this fight is sufficient. We know better. It is a necessary part of the fight, but it is not a sufficient part of the fight. Eventually, the veil comes off and they say, well, okay, we're done lying to you now. Get into the truck or we'll stick a punny thing into your ribs. And eventually, whether or not the meets the road force needs to be met with force. But in the meantime, the information dimension does have some value. I would say that we are misallocating funds by sending too much of it down to Austin and not enough out to other outlets. And so I will once again repeat that the micro effect needs financial support and we need it now. I send off a little bit that I really can't afford to do. I recommend that everybody else send off a little bit whether you can afford to do it or not and pull their thought out of fire if you possibly can. It's a very, very worthwhile thing to do. Comments, questions, etc. We need a fleet of broadcasters. One lump or one bump isn't going to do it. The diversification is especially critical because location, location, location. With all your eggs in one basket, all the bad guys do is walk up and squash one basket. Figure out how that works. And that's one of the problems that was even discussed when I was down in Austin talking to the people there. that are in the know that actually are in the Patriot Movement have been for a long time. I talked with a lot of the different people about what all is transpiring and has been going on for quite some time. The biggest concern on their part too is that there would be greater diversification. It's a big plus to have another series, not just one, but anyway there are other people out there listening. If you want to put a network up, that's fine, but remember that Joe McNeil, Ed, a lot of other people have stayed the course and put these networks up and put them online for a reason and we've established a system. Joe had built everything from scratch. I've been out to, like I said, went out to speak out there. I'm very familiar with where he lives. It was a lot of work just to do the micro FM station he had up there, guys, years ago. Progressively he built step by step the micro effect and the network and learned a lot about it. Still has a lot of things you can always catch up on and learn. We've sent support whenever we can. Remember he's got a big family. So there's a lot of munchkins there. Winter coats. I just ended up sending a bunch of winter coats for a reason, obviously. training supplies, teaching supplies and aids for school because they do homeschooling. There are all kinds of things you can do to pitch in, but most important right now is we need to get, and part of this is what I discussed a few days ago. I had not talked to Joe, but my biggest concern is that we have no interruption in his satellite feed. That is the Lich Pin right now. That's what needs to be taken care of. That's why he was asking for specific support today. Well, we need everybody to chip in that can in that area and any amount will help. You can go to www.themicroeffect.com. If all you've got is two or three dollars left over on a PayPal card, maybe you deal in PayPal cards for business or for work and you buy so many of them at a time that are in $50 and $100 increments. Well, if you've got $4, $5, $6, $10 left on a card, see it in your heart to go over to TheMicroEffect.com, donate what's left on that card to The Micro Effect. Every bit helps. And the biggest problem I have is that knowing what I know from behind the scenes is more important that we take care of The Micro Effect and, or again, our independents that are out there. A lot of them really aren't independent anymore. and haven't been for some time. That's one of the things to take into consideration. When the time comes, their switch will be hit and they'll be more than happy to cooperate with certain people out there. They've already done it in the past and there's been a lot of other things that happen behind the scenes. I'm not going to get into that now other than just say, in general, consider this. You're not going to see Some of the nonsense we've seen with that particular group down there, you're not going to see that with Joe McNeil. You're not going to see that with Ed. You're not going to see that with a bunch of the other people that we have that are on these networks. They're actually focused on the overall Patriot effort. That's especially critical. There are other people doing broadcasting. We're not the only ones, but guess what? We're the people that have stayed the course and a lot of others have buckled and shucked and jived and disappeared and then come back and disappeared. We don't do that. Go ahead. There we go. That'll be the pollution. Guys, we're at the end of Quartermaster Friday for us here with LTR, but that's not the end for the weekend. You guys are going to have some fun with the arty up there at the Ogama Ranges. Two of the big guns are up there for training. Everybody's going to get a chance to watch them as they do their stuff. God bless the Republic. Step to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. The march for day and night. Hoorah! And with our shovels. Six dollars shovel will put down a black uniform loose quite nicely. You clean them from behind, get a little bit of an angle there, it'll take a dip. Do that with that men, don't let them shoot you back. We'll be back next week, same time. Thank you guys, thank you BK. We didn't. Did all our children die in vain defending liberty? Washington and his ten years of change They're great to understand the man that's want to bend his home in Washington