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One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. West, southwest, east, and north. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com, and we're on AM&FM micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi, along with Alaska. We're on the Hallmark Network on the eastern seaboard, from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, A big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both 5th, 3rd, and 5th and our friends in the state of Colorado, the recall state, where the dark side of the forest in Denver is trying to spew the stench of Californication across the rest of the state. And everybody's starting to push back. Waving the left coast where the Soviet Socialist democracy of California continues to expand through Feinsteinism and the diaper state of Brown, the beachhead for communist legal foreclosure using the machines that they are creating to include the clandestine agreement going on with the Pacific Rim that you don't need to know about because they're setting you up and the last thing they want you to do is figure out what's going on. Well, turning back to the east, sweeping across the plains, leaping over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi, the land of the Smokies, slash the Blue Ridge, where the restaurant crew is Grandma Teams, OK Teams, and the Ma Bell Grandma Consortium, bring us the Golden Spike. BK? It's semi-clear, it's cool, it's a little breezy, it's not real super windy guys, but it's a classic fall evening here. What's it like in your neck of the woods and what's the date today? What's jumping off the wall? It is 22 November 2013. It is Friday evening. It is the last day of the day and the week for the intelligence report. That makes this quarter masters corner brought to you by the NSA, the only federal agency that listens to you. Well, actually it's not brought to you by them. They don't write us any checks. I wouldn't mind if they did. I could certainly use it. I think that we would probably be about last on their list of advertising outlets, don't you think? Yeah, we're not exactly on their their happy list. Let's put it that way right all that for a fact actually If those guys had any brains at all I hate to say something that they might actually act on if they had any brains at all in any sense of PR They would use all that massive data gathering capability They have proven that they can track people through the turn network if they're really interested in doing so by doing tricky things with with cookies and stuff. There is a cyber threat active right now called, it's one of these cryptographic viruses. They get the virus in your machine, they encrypt all your files and then they ransom your files back to you. They say pay us or we won't send you the key to decrypt all your stuff. They want to be paid by Bitcoin or Money Pack. If the NSA had any sense of PR, They would use those resources to track those buggers down and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, see, there is an upside to all of this surveillance. We can actually catch bad guys. They will never do that because that would be a worthwhile use of all of these extra constitutional violations of our communications privacy. Instead, they will use it to figure out when you're going to the 7-11 piece of the sort. The dinosaur has about 8 ounces of brain and 50 tons of muscle and its behaviors are consistent with that ratio. So we have been soaked for the last week. We have started the winter rainy season big time. I think it kind of lit up today a little bit, but it is a mud pit out there soaking out of the leaves that I've not raked up. So I'm piling up some chores for myself taking care of other things, but oh well. Now people are telling me that I'm sounding like a horrible long distance old style phone call. Last week I was being told that I was swallowing the mic so I'm not sure what to do about that. I will put my fate in Ed's hands and see what he can do. Oh I'm over-modulated. Okay, well Ed do whatever you can. Again, we'll keep talking BK because that will help to balance out. That's what he needs to do. Again, it is Quartermaster Friday. A couple of things here real quick. Centerfire Systems always has a special on Friday, guys. I would point out that right now BK has the Polish Pepish 43s, the PPS 43-52. This is the wooden stock model, not the under folder, guys. However, I've tried to explain about the wonders of how people decide to make cuts on things when they make kits. And each instruction slash director is different. Well, let me point something out. The Polish kits, which do not have a barrel by the way, none of them come with a barrel. The Trunnion, all the lower trigger group, and the magazine well, which is really the most critical part, are all one piece so they're not cut. The trigger group and the magazine well take a look at these kits. They're on the front page of Centerfire Systems. Let me give you a little hint. Three different companies, actually many more, actually offer these kits in different configurations. But right now, Royal Tiger Imports offers the PPS 43 with a folding stock. Take a look at how it is presented and then take a look at this Polish kit and look at it and think and ponder for a bit. With those two kits, you're probably going to be pretty happy with a theoretical end result. Yes, they're all PPS 43. Okay, what's the what's amazing situation on those guys? Right now there's lots of them in their cheap. That's the whole point They're actually one of the cheapest stick magazines right now on the market and they're 32 rounders now The interesting thing is you can buy a 9 millimeter barrel for the PPS 43 those are being made in the US and they're made brand new and Plus, they are making them in different lengths. The big thing is that the kit itself, the other project that we are working at is doing this in, you know, actually 40 caliber Smith and Wesson is short enough that it fits inside and in fact is almost perfectly aligned for the PEPI S43 magazine. It feeds flawlessly, it seats comfortably, it is the right diameter that it will function, but it carries about, I think with most of the Polish mags, I think they said 29 rounds instead of 32. Okay, now here's a question. I'm sorry to interrupt. Is that a double feeder or does it narrow to a single round at the top? It's typical for that generation. It's going to be a double feed to a single stack like the Sten and the M3 grease gun. I remember looking at the Uzi's in 9mm and the 45 variants. That was fairly rare. They actually worked differently. The 45 variants brought the round up to a fully trapped pair of lips whereas the 9mm had them open and alternating and you know you stripped off one or the other and it fed, led to different magazine designs for the two. The advantage of the 40 cal being used with this is that the dimension is close enough and if you do a spec check you can do all the cross referencing. The only consideration will be whether or not the extractor needs to be changed slightly. The bolt face may cooperate by the nature of the bolt on the PEPI S43. That's the only thing, but here's the thing. 9mm works all day with it. The only reason I was bringing up 40 calibers is because that's something nobody has done yet, looking at doing a 40 caliber conversion. Since 9mm is a direct result, the case base is the same, the only difference is 9mm Parabellum is a little shorter. So the jump from the magazine to the feed ramp is very different. That's something that everybody had to take into consideration. Now the Germans did a conversion during World War II that the troops carried in the field to modify Pepiesh 43s and 41s so they could use the smisher mag, the MP40 mag, and use 9mm. So they already had that ability in the field. The armors could do it in the field and convert the guns over. In fact, Royal Tiger is offering that kit. The problem is, guys, I wouldn't recommend the MP40 mags because they're $150 a piece if they're available. And right now, there's nobody carrying them that doesn't want hundreds of dollars for them. So that kit is a cool idea for a collector. The barrels are worthwhile because the only way they're selling the barrels for 9mm for the Pepius 43s is as a kit, at least from Royal Tiger. Now, they're not the only ones that carry that. So we can go 9mm right off the bat. But 40 caliber is a research project we need to look at because it is plentiful. We know we're going to catch a lot of it. These weapons are very reliable. The PEPIUS 43 was of course the Leningrad gun. It was not built with a wooden stock. The ones that you see, the regular PPS 43s were the Leningrad gun. This is the PPS 43 52, the Polish kits. Now I'll say again what I've said many times. The Poles were two steps above in quality the Russian manufacturers. So the quality of all the Polish kits are very high. No matter what era, the Poles always did phenomenal work. There was a standard to their, you know, even their slave labor. And the Czechs were in the same boat here. So this is a good kit. You know, it's $150, comes with a wooden stock. It creates a lot more stability for the weapon. It is again only stick mags. The PPS 43 stick mags are available through several companies, but Centerfire has them for about $10 a piece, which makes them affordable. Mag pouches, of course, are available, but you can use other mag pouches, not a problem there. The big thing is that the way it's designed, unlike the Sten kits, the trigger group and the magazine well are unhindered. They're unaltered by the way the weapon had to be cut up. So just as a project idea, something to look at, this Polish kit would be a good option. But I will point out again, apexgunparts.com, www.apexgunparts.com. They have a kit available and cheap, by the way. Centerfire has a peppy issue. The very company that's offering these Polish kits has a PPS 43 kit for $49. It is cut differently also. But the most important one is Royal Tiger Imports. RoyalTigerImports.com has another version of the PPS 43 kit and they're different in how they were disassembled. Now guys, if you look at the two kits, the 43, 52 and one of those from Royal Tiger, you'll see that there's a mechanical solution here that's quite desirable. Yeah, we understand you don't have to say any more about that. See how those things are both parts go and remember the miracle of teague welding and additional slab metal and or surface material on the outside. It doesn't have to be all new but I wouldn't recommend that right now. Just look at it as an idea project. You get the parts because parts are parts and you just leave them the way they are. At some point in the future you may have time on your hands for hobby crafts. Exactly. And guys, the big thing is that trigger group and the magazine well are the two tough parts, as we've pointed out many times when you're into weapons production. I would also point out this, and this is something for a project person out there. If somebody is more innovative and they want to design something, why reinvent the wheel? If you look at for $49 for that PPS kit that Centerfire has, it has the whole lower tray. That's all the work, guys. Once you have that, whatever receiver, if you want to do a carbine receiver, say in whatever caliber you choose, and you use those magazines with that lower group, you could build a rifle that would be a very nice package and somebody else did 99% of the tough work. Yeah, the same comment applies to the HKG-3 and set-me-lower fire control groups too if you're going to do something. Perhaps you got a fire control group all pre-made. Yeah, that's the toughest part of the weapon, to be quite honest. Seriously, is the magazine well and the trigger group, and these HK trigger groups are laying out there in force. They need to be, and some people aren't doing this, they're buying them as they can and putting them away. because that can be just laid into another modern receiver and that trigger group deals with 99.9% of the heartburn and heartache of trying to figure out how to make something work. Bear in mind that one of those trigger groups is not going to be a useful hot spare for your civilian legal semi-auto version, setme, PTR, what have you, because they moved the hinging point. They did some horrible stuff to it to make them incompatible with each other, but they are useful as a starting point or for a hot swap repair for a battlefield drop. Another thing real quick, take a look at the page. The other two items that are there actually have some pretty good buys here this weekend. That Peppier 4352 kit is at the top of the page. In the middle they have the German Draeger gas mask and filters. Now I talked to Sinterfer and I know where they got these from. and these are probably older german manufactured this may have been an austrian batch that was sitting somewhere and somebody found it because center fire has been searching around for stuff uh... there and they've been kind of trying to get something back on the shelf there twenty dollars apiece for the draeger the draeger is o d green it's german issue but the austrians had a quantity of these and the austrian stuff not the german austrian surplus is what's coming in right now These are probably a contract mask made by the Germans. The Germans make gas masks for a whole lot of countries, guys, just like we do. The other thing is AR15M4 slash AR15M16 bolts. I'm not worried about the M16 bolt, but AR15 bolt standard phosphate finished for $85. and hard chrome finish for $100. Both of these are in stock right now so if you're building an AR-15 kit and you're using the goodies from say you know the plastic receivers, polymer receivers from Aries Armor.com then here's a bolt carrier for you again from another source. Now of course, Ares has them for about $100 a piece too. They're BLEMs. These are low end market bolt carriers. These are not the upper end. They're just plain Jane, state of the art, standard issue. I like them that way. I don't need anything too hyper fancy. I'll make it work. I know I've got to clean the gun. Now that chrome bolt's going to help a bit. Now also if you scroll down, the other Pepiche kit we were talking about is right there for $49.99 and includes another magazine. So, mags are available, in fact they are offering mags separate for the peppish, something to think about there. And there's a bunch of other parts and stuff out there in cleaning kits. In fact, both of these seem to be coming, wow, with the cleaning rods. It's just kind of odd. Well, no, it's not odd. It's just in the kit, they just left them and kept them with the kit, which is cool. So there are a couple of solutions here, guys. The big thing is, again, take a look at the Iowa What's on the Front page. It's the weekend specials. Monday that changes. So for this weekend, the Polish kits will probably be around until they run out of them. Last time they offered the Polish kits, they didn't last very long because people grabbed them. Same is true with the RPD belt-fed kits. Their top end, the Polish stuff, is virtually brand new. The Poles are being talked into getting rid of their equipment to go to NATO junk. So, a lot of really high-end Polish Warsaw Pact stuff is showing up good enough that we'll keep it clean and tender until we need it for a long time. It crosses my mind that the Polish and Czech arms manufacturer may have been done to good spec because they may have had a little fat in the back of their minds at some point. Perhaps they'll be able to break free. They never actually got to do that that way, but perhaps the same use will be eventually realized elsewhere. but also check miscellaneous because as I pointed out earlier in the earlier hours about body armor they do carry the Flecktarn flak vests which are actually level 2 vests. We've had a bunch of these. I still have a bunch of these. A lot of guys that have the Flecktarn armor that are listening have pretty well kitted out all the Flecktarn across the board and we routed all of them that way. So again guys they're out there. Every once in a while Sturm resupplies and when they do Centerfire buys from Sturm. I don't know where they are right now on that, but if they have them, they are definitely a good price typically and they are in good sizes. They do offer sizes. BK, go ahead. I know you have more. I will toss out a quick comment here and we will move on to another topic. I will call people's attention to the fact that the cryptocurrencies have been going berserk the last few days. Bitcoin has gone from $2 a couple of weeks ago to $9 now as we speak and Bitcoin is at $704, so it was under $200 a couple of weeks ago. That's starting to pick up. I will have more extensive comments some other day, but I'll just mention this to people, put it in your heads. We have spoken in the past about mining. It is feasible if you have GPU cards to mine Litecoins. It's not a bad way of dipping your toe in without a lot of investment except for your Power Bill. That's something to think about. Also, here is a tiny URL that people can look at for their entertainment. This is tinyurl.com slash LU, that's Lima Uniform, QJ, that is Quebec Juliet, to MC, that is Mike Charlie. So this tinyurl.com slash Lima Uniform, Quebec Juliet, to Mike. The very short form of that is that that's a Forbes article to the effect that banks are now acting in concert to deny simple bank accounts to any corporation that they think is in any way in the Bitcoin business. They are so terrified of Bitcoin and so on that they are trying to do to other companies involved in the Bitcoin market what they did to WikiLeaks. They're trying to strangle them by getting every bank to collude and operate in concert to choke them off and prevent them from having ordinary bank accounts. That is a sign of panic. So we'll talk about that at greater length some other day, but that is an entertaining little link to take a look at. One of our friends came up with a vendor just recently. I hadn't seen these guys before, raremo.com, raremo.com. They are offering some Lake City 308. a box of 500 loose pack for $320. They say this is a military overrun. It doesn't quite meet mill specs, but it's well within SAMI specs. They are offering 500 rounds at 320, which is a competitive price. It's not a super duper bargain, but it is a competitive price in the current market. If they have inventory, that puts them a notch up the list. raremo.com. This is a Lake City overrun 500-ground loose pack, 308. for 320, I'm sure that there are shipping added on top of that. Okay, let's do a quick run through the components supplies. We're starting to see some loosening in the market for primers. Graf's has CCI primers there in the hideously expensive APS strips, but they have a number of Remington small pistol primers. Let's see what's their cost on that. At $170,000 per $5,000, GRAS is not the most price competitive outfit. They tend to be a little bit higher than some of the others, but they have a very, very good live inventory situation. If they say they've got three of something, they've got three of something, and if 10 minutes later they say they have two, you can count on it. If 10 minutes later they have two. So there is some benefit there. If you are within driving range of Mexico and Missouri, of course you can arrange to pick up your goodies. So they have CCI small pistol in these strips at 168. They have the Remington Primer at 171 for 5000 small pistol, ouch, but they at least do have them. They also have Remington Large Pistol at 172 for 5000. Interesting, over in small rifle category they have CCI Small Rifle NATO spec. That is unusual, that hasn't been appearing recently. They have a Remington commercial at the same price, 172. The bad news on the CCI, no spec, is it's just 193 per 5000, so the price is nothing to write home about, but they actually do have some of that. So let's move over to Powder Valley. We find far more desirable prices on Powder Valley every day if and when they actually have things in inventory. Right now they have Winchester large rifle primers at 2950. Compare that against 173 per 5000 and you'll see there is a significant difference. So, alright, Winchester large rifle is in inventory and Winchester small pistol and small pistol magnum are also in inventory. Tourland has dropped a little bit. They have the small rifle, they don't have large rifle anymore for the Tula, but they do have the two sizes of Verdant, .308 and .939. So, those are available. Once again, Powder Valley is in stock with its Shedite Shot Shell Primers. They went out last time. They're back in. They must have gotten another shipment. These will sell out, you can be sure. Shedite is sort of the brand for Shot Shell, just like most people consider CCI to be the brand for metallic, even though Remington, Winchester, Federal and so on are perfectly good. CCI kind of dominates in that space. In the shot shell primers, CEDI dominates in that space at $24 per thousand. OBK is going to sound like a broken record, but if you're having some problem either finding or affording the center fire ammunition and or components, do not overlook the shot shells. A 12 or 20 gauge shot shell is a very, very effective tool. It's incredibly versatile. You can load slugs, you can load bird shot, you can load buckshot, you can do the arcane loads. You can do the weird and exotic fire breathing, you know, mondo super dragon stuff if you really want to set your own house on fire with you and you can do that. But it is a terrific route for the auxiliaries especially and if you slide the shotguns over to the auxiliaries at home base or at operating bases, then that frees up resources for the mobile forces. So do not overlook the shot shells, please. It is a very worthwhile tactic. And here's the interesting stuff. Powder Valley has obviously gotten a load of CCI stuff in. They have the CCI military small rifle primers at $38 per thousand. That's everybody else's praises too. It's very unlike Powder Valley, but I guess CCI is holding them up heavily for those. Of course they have the 50 BMGs. They've had those for a long time. But there's also in the CCI column large pistol magnum. large rifle magnum and small rifle bench rust. I would not recommend the bench rust for general use, but they are available at a price. Then of course we get into the APS strips. Everything is more expensive than the APS strips, but they've got small pistol, small pistol magnum and small rifle and APS strips. So, the supply situation on primers, take a look at grass and take a look at Powder Valley Ink and between those two you should be able to find pretty much most of what you need at moderately competitive places. Usually Powder Valley Ink will be doing a little bit better, but the situation on primers has loosened up considerably in the last three. Again, readily available. If they do have them in stock, remember guys, do a sweep, but you'll find we're pointing you towards certain resources because availability is still down. Even in the unique calibers or in the odds and ends stuff, whole categories are empty. This is true for a lot of different companies. Didn't help the bad guys when they did the little thing about the economy and about shutting down the government. They convinced a whole lot of people they needed to go and top off whatever they had left. So even if they didn't activate, say, 10 months ago, the next wave of people plugged in. or, again, the next wave caught their breath and the second wave kicked in and the rest is history. Go ahead, BK. Right. That's not good for the butternut. It's hard to get hit by that sort of phenomenon. People are not calling to have their PCs repaired at the same rate. I think that that's something that they can put off for a little while and they're doing it. They're tightening up like mad. So, this circus about, oh, we're going to shut down the government. Well, we're going to shut down the government. Can you tell the difference? Yeah, it's really horrible. You can tell the difference. You really miss us, don't you? Well, maybe not so much. However, it did get their attention and it caused them to hiccup a little bit. Then they turn around and they start getting a little bit of the news on what bubble care is really all about. And their jaws are hitting. the floor and they're saying, uh oh, we're in the soup now and they are continuing to tighten their belt. There is a topic that we have not touched recently and we should come back around to it and that is just the plain old boring but extremely necessary topic of food storage and bulk food storage and supplies. There are a couple of things I would like to point out. One, one of our friends recently reminded me and he's quite right, If you visit the farmer's cooperators, the feed grain suppliers, the silos, whatever you want to call them, whatever they are calling themselves in your area. If they have wheat on hand, the one local to me, stocks only, red hard red winter wheat all year round if they have it. If they have any wheat, that's what they have. The one near this friend stocks a white summer wheat which doesn't store as well but still stores very, very well. All wheat is darn near archival intrinsically. The hard red winter wheat is repeated to be the better one for storage purposes but I haven't been able to ever tell the difference in practical terms over a limited testing period of a few years. Regardless of what is available in your area, the going price is typically around $11 or $12 for 50 pounds or a bushel. A bushel is close to 60 pounds. So if you do the arithmetic and work it out, $100 will buy you 4,500 pounds of wheat, which is easily a manual worth of calories. Now you would not want to just eat wheat and wheat alone, so it's half the calories for two man years or a third of the calories for three man years or whatever. You can work out the arithmetic and we will mention a tool to assist you in working out the arithmetic in just a second. But if you look at what you can buy for $100 in the grocery store and you look at what you can buy for $100, closer in the supply chain to the actual agricultural production, there is no comparison in the quantities that you can get per dollar. So if you have any space at all, any real serious inclination to sock something away to make sure that you've got some resources on hand. A base of your food pyramid, if you want to use that terminology, I don't much like it because the pyramid thing is kind of flawed, but a major pillar of that structure, shall we say, should be wheat. especially since you can sprout it and that gives you some of the extra vitamins and enzymes and so on. Wheat is not expensive and it is still available. So if you look around, find your silo, your feed dealer, your grain dealers, what have you. You will discover that 100 bucks will buy you 400-500 pounds of the stuff. Then you get into mylar bags and or plastic buckets and or steel drums and or pop bottles and or whatever technology you want to use for encapsulation and storage. You will have the beginnings of a good food program. Comments? The most important thing here again as we've pointed out is you have waves of reaction. or response to what's going on with the economy. If we go to a final point of demarcation with regard to them collapsing the money, make the money work for you for the tonnage as is pointed out, hundreds of dollars will buy you tons, pounds, many pounds if not tonnage. Remember, mass. You've got to be able to fill the void there and storage is a matter of step one, get it. Step two, convert it to proper storage and then incorporate it into your diet. Most of the stuff are things you already eat. You're just going to have to find out a little bit more about how to make it work for you. Again, inventorying everything, take advantage, we're in the holiday season. We just had Halloween. Do you think that the Smarties in the Halloween pack, for instance, are going to go bad sooner because they're in a Halloween pack when you get them for 80 cents for a bag, a one pound bag of sugar? Because that's what it is, it's flavored sugar. But they don't picture a pumpkin on it. Yeah, big deal. You actually know that it's fresher because it was made for that particular window. So buy it. It's a change out. It's a flavor thing. It's going to sit and stare at you. The same is true with pumpkin spice, Halloween oriented. We got in this area at the Aldies, as we pointed out, 50 cents a tub for and less for Halloween colored frosting. Well, to just put something on a cake, which the cake for cake mixes by the way, we're now down to a quarter a piece. Guys, you're going to make, you're going to care. Change up is change up here. The calories you're throwing in are purely, again, this is a happy meal thing. It's a pick me up. It becomes a special event thing. But for a lot of you that say, I don't have the money for food storage, guys, when the Thanksgiving stuff comes up, and it's going to, Grab it the same way when it's marked down to half price for a brand new product. Christmas is going to be the same way. Think ahead of the wave and think in terms of scouring the resources that are being made available so you can fill the niche. You're going to find stuffings, you're going to find cans of stuff that are seasonal flavors. Well, most any other time you get all the other bland stuff you normally buy, this is a good change up thing that you can mix and throw into other things. Keep that in mind too. So it helps to change up stuff and you're saving money. You're talking pennies for dollars worth of food and that's part of what this program is to keep track of so you can progressively build. Now if you save money in one area, you've got money to move in another and you'll be more diversified, which is the key to eliminating the food fatigue issue. It's just nice to have the change up. We can survive and we aren't going to be eating high on the hog, but we can at least be somewhat comfortable. This is part of civilization, maintaining. Everybody's been worried about that. BK, how do we save civilization? One meal at a time. I've got another recommendation regarding what you do with the money that you save. Last week I reported that Aldi had a special running. They were offering butter at $1.69 a pound. Today, one of our friends gave me the word that I hadn't been in the Aldi's in the last few days. I had expected that that special had expired. Apparently they continue it. So this week also they have it at 169 a pound I am told. That is dirt cheap. If you go into a regular grocery store you can pay for $5 a pound. And this is standard commercial butters not all guaranteed BHT free and all that kind of good stuff but it is the standard mainstream commercial butter. Now I tend often to buy the traditional stuff, the regular salted butter and so on, but it is in fact, as has been pointed out to me, a better deal to buy the unsalted. If you can the butter, one of the things that will happen is that you will see just exactly how much salt is in that butter because it will separate and settle down to the bottom of the jar. Part of the process is to watch the jars while they cool and when they are a little bit gooey, shake them up thoroughly to mix the salt back in again. That's desirable to do. If you miss it and it's separated fine at some point later, you can warm them up and you can shake it and cool it again. That's not a problem, but it certainly is quite remarkable when you look at those jars. in the process of canning those and see the half inch or so of salt in the bottom of the thing and realize, wait a minute, I've been paying by the pound and 5 or 7 or 8% or something like that of the weight of what I just bought is salt which costs almost nothing per pound. I would be better off buying the sweet cream butter, which is at the same price of course. You are actually getting better for your weight instead of salt for your weight. While I happen to indulge in the luxury of continuing to buy the salted kind, it is a little bit smarter actually to do as a friend recommended and buy the sweet cream style. It's also a little bit less tedious because you don't have to be quite as energetic about shaking it up as a part of the cleaning process. I will mention that we have archives in two different places. Spike maintains our archives for us. There is an old site and a new site. The old site is theintelligencereport.co.nr. That is CharlieOscar.NovemberRomeo. The new site is www.indianafreedomtalkradio.com. The reason I mentioned both of them is that my spreadsheet is on the old site. I do not think that right now it is on the new site. Spike and Thun is moving over there. He has other things to do and he gets distracted. I can't give him a hard time over the pad. commit that particular sin myself wholesale quantities get distracted don't get around to things around to it's a real problem for our BK So I'm not going to give them a hard time. Right now you want to go to the old site if you want to pick up a copy of the spreadsheet because I do not think it's on the new site just yet. By the time some people hear this in the archives, perhaps it will be. But right at this moment, I do not think it is. So if you have a food storage program and if you do not have some sort of mechanized procedure to keep track of what you've got, I have a solution for you. It's been a while since I worked on the spreadsheet. A lot of the macro programming in there, don't worry, it's safe, is nothing I would present to a prospective employer's demonstration of my programming skills. programming in there. It is not beautiful. I should write a proper parser. However, it does work. And so I have offered this at the usual BK price of $0.00 and 0 cents. I am the world's worst business person. I should find a way of actually making some money off of things like this. I'm purely electric bill. But you can get it for $0.00 and 0 cents at theintelligencereport.co.NovemberRomeo. The reason I wrote this spreadsheet is that I think that people are in for a rude surprise when they switch over from the corporate feedstock system to their stored resources and start to discover just how fast things go away. I think it's very, very easy to stack up a bunch of stuff in a closet or on a pallet or in a little heap somewhere, take a step back, look at that and say, �Man, I couldn't eat that in a month. We've got a whole lot of stuff here. Boy, that will last practically forever.� When in reality, a lot of people's food stores will not last as long as they think they will. So, the purpose of the spreadsheet is to not only do the simple stuff of keeping track of what you've got, making a list, letting you sort it by name or by location or whatnot, the front sheet of the spreadsheet does that, but anything you throw together would do the same thing also. The tricky part, the difficult part, the part that consumed a bunch of my programming time was integrating it with multiple other sheets that do some calculations and conversions. One thing that's easy to overlap but took a little bit of programming to do is that it will be unit conversions. That is, you can specify wheat either by pounds or kilos or grams or quarts or liters or gallons. It has an idea what the density of wheat is and it will convert those volume or weight measures. It will do the same thing for rice of various sorts of beans, various and sundry items. It doesn't know everything in the universe, but it knows a lot of the major staples in that fashion. It's also extensible. If you are careful and you know exactly what you're doing, that can be a little bit on the dangerous side. It might be better to ask a BK to do it for you. But you can add new items. It knows about this candy bar and that canned fruit and this other dried product and so on. It's got several hundred food items in there in its database. It knows how many grams of fats, proteins and carbs are in each of the things that are programmed into it. So that we get down to the final sheet on there which is the end result that the whole thing is leading up to. And it will add and total and summarize all of the different foods you have entered and tell you how many man days of carbs, fats and proteins there are in each of those food columns, summarize the whole thing and give you an idea of the total one time of your storage as you have entered it in a spreadsheet. That's the point and that is key information and that is easy to overestimate if you are not systematic about these things. So grab a copy of Spreadsheet that runs on OpenOffice which means that you can run it on almost any modern machine or machines back at least five to seven years old. You do not need the fanciest machine in the world, a very old slow machine with half a gigabyte of main memory and XP will perhaps chug and labor a little bit while you're doing sorts or updating things, but it will work. You can run OpenOffice, you can load the spreadsheet, you will have to enable macros. I would recommend that you enable macros by permission, that is, but I'd ask you, do we want to run macros on this a particular spreadsheet file. You say yes for mine, make sure that you're getting mine from a legitimate source because somebody could put a bad macro into a copy of mine and then redistribute mine. So make sure you're getting it from a clean source. Spike's archive is the premier clean source. that do enable macros because a lot of those are on calculations but it does rely on them. There's no way around that. Really it's too specific in its programming to do that with the front the Nobody is taking advantage, nobody is selling you anything. This is 100% to your benefit to help you protect yourself and your family and your dependents and your families. So do not let this gift toss too hard in the mouth. There is no trick there. Grab it, use it as an advisory tool. Again, guys, remember to take the time to set up an inventory. That's what Quartermaster is all about. Whoever it is that's going to be responsible for this, we've cut corners for you by building the system and making it available. One last thing before we go because we are almost to the top. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. The .40 caliber Smith there are magazines for. I will warn everybody of something. The 9mm M&Ps, which apparently BK came out in good numbers, there don't seem to be a whole lot of magazines readily available for the surplus guns. So I'm going to ask anybody out there in the chat room or whatever, we're looking for the M&P, the Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm mags. Now, right now for under $380 a piece, AIM Surplus has the .40 caliber MP Smith & Wesson's available. M&Ps, these are military and police models. They're a good gun. Everybody I know that's shooting them says they like them. It's a standard weapon. So it's a solution if you're looking for a .40 caliber gun and you wanted an S&W or a Ruger or whatever. and we are at the top. This is the date we talked about canning both bacon and butter. If you are worried about the shelf life of the butter you can get on sale at Aldi's this week, do not. Grab a copy of that archive. 2008, see how long we've been at this, December 5 and we talked about the procedure for canning butter. You can keep it at room temperature. literally four years if you follow this procedure is very simple. You don't even need a pressure canner. All you need is standard cooking equipment and a big pot. So, December 5, 2008, grab it from one or the other as the archive site so it will tell you exactly how to handle that and have that. Very good. And we are at the top. I think I hear the music there, BK. Yeah, I hear it too. God bless the republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We and our popcorn and our butter and our bit coins and all of our other stuff are on the march for day and night. Hoorah! We'll be back next week, but meanwhile Quartermaster, weekend continues, guys. Get to the gun shows, get to the handpests, take advantage of the recommendations. All these out there, guys. I hope I have stuff on sale, because they've been kind of cluttered a little bit. Take advantage of that, carry it away. Thank you, BK. You're welcome.