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BK, what's the date today, sir? And what's it like in your neck of the woods? It is 29 November 2013. It is Friday evening, day after Thanksgiving. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this quarter masters corner. And it is a chilly leaf buried in late November. I have to get out there and do the leaves. I'm still chipping away at digging up the garden floor. spring. It's getting to the point where it's getting kind of cold and nasty out there. I'm hoping for a warmer day but I may just have to suck it up and dig some of the semi frozen stuff because I have three quarters or 80% of the way through but I really hate to leave things at the 80% point before completion. That's the way it goes. It has been an interesting week. the usual holiday stuff, visits by relatives, all that kind of good junk. So we have less stuff prepared for you. I kind of assume that there are 15 bazillion different Black Friday offers. There's probably no lack of vendors offering you ways to dispose of all your FRNs. We do have a few odds and ends here. The really interesting stuff this week has been going on on the Net. The alternate currencies, I have spoken about Bitcoin and Litecoin, that's not something that Mark is very interested in. I find it much more interesting than that and probably more interesting than our average listener. However, Bitcoin and Litecoin have been on a tear this week. They went absolutely berserk. We have mentioned that they were rising. But that's nothing compared to what they did this week. A couple of weeks ago Bitcoin was at $200 and Litecoin was at $2. As we speak, Bitcoin is slightly over $1,000 right now. Litecoin is the real news. Litecoin went up to $42 and it's all the way down to $34 now. Down to $34 from $2. So that is just absolutely crazy time. All of the Bitcoin mining is shifting over to ASICs, that is, application specific integrated circuits, meaning special custom chips designed specifically for that. So the people have been using video cards to mine Bitcoins are getting out of the Bitcoin mining business and shifting over to Litecoin, which has been designed specifically to favor video cards to be resistant to these special purpose chips. And so they're piling into Litecoin and with a run up in Litecoin, there's been a run on video cards. And so now the most favored video card is the AMD HD 7950. It's one of the ones that's got the best ratio of power consumption to hash rate. and you can't find one. especially in European countries, little shops, things like that. But on the general market, there's been a tremendous run and every 7950 and most of these similar cards have just been slurped off the shelves and they're gone gone. In the next week or two, those are all going to come online as miners and the difficulty is going to go through the rough on Litecoin mining. Which is just as well because it's a little bit silly for a $300 card to generate $15 a day of coins. I mean the return on investment is just absolutely psychotic. You will see this sort of thing happening once in a decade. But it happened this week so if you're paying attention you got a ringside seat. You get to watch the craziness happen. This is just an indication that strange things are happening in the economy and the very beginnings of a transfer over away from the Federal Reserve note and other fiat currencies is underway. It is in its infancy but we're starting to hear little squalls and squeaks from the baby. So that's what's going on right now on the net. And again, one of the things to keep an eye out, they tried to do the panic routine where Bitcoin dropped by a hole, so many points. And it's like, well, considering where it's valued, they're trying to say it plummeted. And it's like, no, plummeting is where it goes back down to say 98% of what its value was in the morning. A roll up and down of the type that we're seeing is normal for currencies, especially in the early stages of commitment. I don't care what country it is. If you historically look at currencies being generated and being put into service, there is investment, counter-investment, absorption that takes place, etc., where people will develop the currency, pull it off to the side, sit on it for a little bit, and then throw it back out into the market. The percentages that you're seeing where they said, oh my goodness, it Plummeted is 98% loss with only 2% of whatever value was being left. Nothing like that has happened with any of these currencies. They are all sitting at about the same level, plus or minus so many points, but it's not a significant percentage. Like you said, if you started out with a $2, it's like silver. You buy silver for $2. It goes to Let's say it does go to $500 and then all of a sudden it goes back to $400. Oh my god, it lost $100. Really? You paid $2 an ounce for it. So what's your loss? Well, I don't think it works. Right. That's a propaganda effect. If it goes up a dollar, they don't say anything, goes down a dollar, they say, oh, it's crashing. Oh, yes, it's plummeting to the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, shut up. It's, again, market manipulation to a degree is also something that even the The enemies of a product will do, guys. They will do that on a regular basis. Look at what they do with the firearms industry and what they've done there intentionally in one point or another. What they do with different industries. The characters even trying to undermine it behind the scenes. Well, I think it's only a matter of time until Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan or one of those guys allocates some pocket change, you know, $100 million or something like that, and starts jerking the cryptocurrencies up and down and up and down and up and down trying to create panic and chaos. But it won't work because on average they're putting money into it. So, anything they do is going to run it up like mad and crash it back down again, but they won't be able to crash it below zero. An awful lot of the miners have very little investment started in their ore. They have investment, but it's in the form of cards which they can use for playing games or they can turn around and sell on the market and so on. Their downside is limited. So they're much more resistant to panic. than people who put their rent money or their grossing money into metals or something along those lines and become afraid of being unable to buy groceries. I don't think that will work. It's only a matter of time until they attack it in that regard. They have attacked it. As we've reported here, there's a Forbes article that we reported a week or two ago to the effect that banks are in fact operating on a cartel basis to try to deny ordinary bank accounts to any corporation that they think is somehow in the Bitcoin business. That's probably patently illegal when they're operating in concert and so on saying, �Well, we think you're in the Bitcoin business. We're not going to let you have a checking account.� Well, I'm not sure what the legal basis for that is. They're advertising the availability of these things to all comers. It seems to me there has to be some concept of fair play, but that's not the way banks operate. But in the long run they won't be able to succeed because you just create subsidiaries, you create partner companies, you go through brokers, some company goes into the business of having bank accounts and giving you access to it, acts as a blind so they can't keep up with it, you work through your lawyer's office, whatever the case is. They tried the same thing to WikiLeaks. and with moderate success but they're finding ways to accept contributions and this business of trying to strangle the Bitcoin related companies is also not going to work. But right now we've got the really weird situation where somebody in possession of a $300 card can generate $10 to $15 a day from that card. And that pays back the card in less than a month. That is just absolutely nutty. That won't last. That's got to come down as people pile into the market. But even so, if it takes two, three, four months to pay back the card and then you are ahead, that's still a tremendous incentive to participate. Again, watch to see how the... The propagandizing will see where the control media needs to be watched. That'll give us a good indication about what direction they're headed in because it's the verbiage that will be used and the attack Whether or not they choose to give it a lot of publicity and publicly attack it, that may or may not work for them in the long run. That's one of the problems that they're starting to realize, that drawing attention or discussing the idea that something else like this is going on, what it does is it informs those who didn't know. I mean the discussion we're having right now is going on amongst everybody that's in the know. So there's nobody that's going to be shocked or surprised by whatever the shysters are going to try to do to it. Now the only thing that's going to happen here if they try to poo-poo it or attack it is it draws more attention and it brings more people's interest. It moves it in that direction at a time when they might hope to dissuade or to attack people in the process and won't do them any good. Right, what was the old saying? First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attack you, then you win. Right, exactly. And one of the things that's interesting is the alternate mechanisms. Well, the only option they have is to become more blatant in their oppression and that's just going to cause more enemies anyway. As far as I'm concerned, no matter what they do, they're in an act of desperation. The ship's sunk. They're just trying to figure out how to get to the lifeboats before everybody else does. And the last thing they want is for somebody else to, like we've said, have multiple lifeboats of their own. They might, for instance, monkey around on the internet and say, okay, well, we're going to do date packet inspection and try to block the communications protocols and so on. That's going to get all the geeks enraged that they're messing around with the digital commons, the common carriers for data. Then virtual private networks are going to pop up so that you tunnel in and out of the country. They're going to try to suppress that. That's going to make it obvious to Grandma and Grandpa that they're just crawling all over the net and climbing into your computer and trying to mess around with you. Then people will become outraged even if they have no interest in the alternate coins because they're saying, hey, this guy shouldn't be reading our mail and messing with us just on the thought that maybe we might do some transaction they didn't like and so on. They're trying to put out the fire by throwing gasoline on it. Now again, the other thing to watch, we have other mechanisms out there where they're seeing a great deal of shift also. So in terms of the commodities, we've talked about copper before. Copper is doing some interesting things this last couple of weeks. That indicates that they're going into the other semi-precious or border metals in terms of the ring knockers. And that is not an accident combined with these other elements. The big issue and I've been mentioning this on the year and around about Wade, but I think I'll remind everybody again This whole thing with a secret Pacific deal is to put boots on the ground in the US by making arrangements and concessions The foreclosure process that they're yapping about, and in fact they're discussing the idea about the indebtedness overseas, is getting a lot of different publicity from what we're seeing here in the United States. You're seeing that leaked back into investment magazines and articles all over the country right now, but obviously out of New York and New Joysey, if nothing else. And the biggest concern is, well, it looks like somebody else is going to want to use their foreclosure officers to take custody of the property. Well, guys, I don't think a guy in a three-piece suit that can't speak English is going to get the job done. They're going to hire surrogates in the host country to operate on their behalf and after a little while the surrogates are going to start leaking and they're going to say, wait a minute, we're doing what on behalf of our foreign masters for a paycheck? Exactly. One of the things to watch here, this is what they're doing, is setting up the mechanism. They have to have the legal conduit in place. So, before that becomes an issue, everybody needs to already be on the same table, shall we say, the same game and board, understanding why this whole process has become ultra secret, because that has been the issue across the board. Secret Squirrel has been the norm with regard to these operations. Is Quartermaster Friday? Again, pay attention. This is discussing another currency or mechanism that can be moving very quickly through the system that all of you have access or people have access to if you understand the process. Again, you might want to do a little research there. BK, go ahead and work best locations for people to tap if they want to go check this out. Check out exactly what I got a little confused here. Everybody is asking about the BIC. is you will probably want to dedicate a particular PC and you will want to be using an AMD Radeon video card. The video cards work but they work at a quarter or a third the effectiveness for reasons of their internal architecture. But you can participate easily enough on any number of these mining pools. You load up a piece of software, it runs on your machine, you create a wallet, you create a miner, there are how-tos to do this sort of stuff. There are so-called mining pools where you connect to a server that's got 50 or 50,000 different people all mining and what they do is they share the work units. So the pool finds blocks very frequently and divides them out among all the participants. So instead of waiting months or years in between massive gains, you wait minutes or hours for smaller gains that get distributed. So there are lots of pools. One of the things to bear in mind is that it is good citizenship to look at the size of the mining pools and go to the smaller one because there is a structural weakness to all of these cryptocurrencies that if one pool actually gains 51% of the market, it could do some bad things. to corrupt the system. So whatever pool is biggest, avoid those. Choose one that's a few layers down so that whatever weight you add, you are adding to the diversity of the system rather than helping to concentrate the system. There are two coins. Bitcoin is the one that's gotten all of the notice. The one that you're more likely to be able to participate in with normal hardware is called Litecoin, L-I-T-E. It's abbreviated LTC. Just google for these things, look around, read, talk on chat channels, and participate if you see fit to do so. There are also some exchanges for them, but they are very early. Some of them are scams. You don't want to put a lot of money into anything. You want to spend $10 or $20 here or there and see who is honest and do little transactions and so on. Like any early market, there are great gains to be made and there are a lot of confident artists out there as well. They will be publicized. by the establishment that does not like the whole concept. They'll find some crook and they'll make a lot of noise over the crook trying to get everybody to believe that everyone out there are crooks. Okay, let's look at a little bit of the routine stuff that we normally use. I normally look at. Potter Valley Inc. Winchester large rifle primers are in stock at $29.50. That's one of the decent Potter Valley style prices. That is Winchester brand large rifle primers. Tula has small rifle primers at $23.50. It's suitable for your 223. It is not the harder military style primers, but it is perfectly acceptable conventionals and the two burdens that we routinely mention. No change on the Chetites. Those are available, the shot shell primers. There continues to be a certain amount of CCI in inventory. The prices are crazy. They have some CCI. small rifle military primers at $38. That is an insanely high price for Powder Valley, but I presume that CCI is just holding them up for those primers. It is just absolutely nutty. CCI large pistol magnums are at $30 and they're charging $38 for the small rifle military. So, you know, $8 per thousand difference. is quite extraordinary. There is an interesting item I noticed recently on gold mine electronics. This is one of the outfits that I look at on a regular basis. Many of their offers are not tremendous bargains. You have to be very, very selective about what you consider from them. But every once in a while, some interesting stuff comes up. They are at the moment running a sail on one of their little LED plates. This is a 10 watt LED plate. It is nominally 12 volts, meaning it will start producing around 9. It will be brilliantly illuminated at 12. They don't mention in here that if you connect it to an off grid system or an automotive system that can go up to 13, 14 volts when it's in charging mode, you can probably kill this unit. So you probably want to connect it to a voltage regulator chip and you'll definitely want to connect it to a heat sink. probably a heat sink with fans or just use something off of a PC, you know, pull it out of your old scrap PC that's about to go under the curb because it died, you know, steal the CPU cooler or whatnot. However, for $4 they are offering you a 10 watt LED module and if you haven't seen one of these things in person you are in for a shock. Man are these things It's brilliantly bright. You will want a diffuser out in front of it if you're using it for general purpose illumination. This 10 watt guy is rated at 900 lumens. The emitting window is something in the order of a half an inch square, maybe even a little bit smaller. That is a project type device. It's not something you'll buy and just screw into your socket like a curly bulb. but they are very, very efficient. They are an awful lot of light. If you use a linear regulator, a simple TR220 package regulator or some such, they are electrically quiet. That's one of the advantages. The curly bulbs have a very cheap, pulse mode, switched mode ballasts in the bottom, so they make a lot of electronic cash. These guys being LEDs, if you don't use a switch mode, supply for them. They are electrically very quiet and they intrinsically are DC operation. So, at $6 it's a little bit on the pricey side for those units, but they aren't sale right now for $4, which is not a bad price. If you get one or two of these things and play with them, be advised that it is a diode, it's an LED. You want to make absolutely sure you're not running in the wrong direction because you can kill it in a moment. If you connect it backwards, use your ohmmeter to make sure you're getting the orientation of power correct. and do not let it go above the rated 12 volts because you can also kill it in a moment doing that. You definitely do want to connect it to a heat sink. If you're doing it automotively, you can just screw it to a piece of your automotive bodywork because the exterior of the vehicle has plenty of heat sink for that purpose. Even if it's not very efficient being steel, there's a lot of it. So, you know, that heat sinking is met in that fashion if you want to connect things up like that. But don't let it go above 12 volts. It will be less than an amp, so one of these integrated circuit power regulators will be sufficient. You don't have to worry about capacitive bypasses and all this kind of good stuff. You're not running fancy electronics. It's just an LED. But, goldmineelectronics.com is a 10 watt 900 lumen LED available at $4 on sale right now. These are valuable resources. They do take variable power input. So depending on what you have available in terms of stored energy, you still get operational service out of them. But again, 12 volts optimal. And these can be used in any number of different observations. They can be used for overhead lighting. They could be used for emergency lighting. any number of different options with regard to how they're employed. The big thing is, again, the price is right. And you can pick up multiples so you have a duplicate system. We've talked about using a combination of this and a circuit with battery storage and operational night lighting, but it could also be any number of other different solutions, security distress. perimeter identification and alarm. There are a number of different ways these can be used, especially if they are the ultra-bright core LED types that we are seeing now. You have seen samples of out there and this is comparable. It has an application that is useful. Another consideration are little banks of these. We have talked about using them for medical lighting. you know, banking them up, something that is a solution. Lighting for surgeries has always been an issue and in fact concentrated lighting so that the surgeon has no shadows, no distractions, the area is fully illuminated. He's got, you know, he can easily identify what he's working on, doesn't have to strain himself, doesn't have to guess. In other words, we're not just talking a couple of candles here. It makes a big difference and can be kept very clean, kept lightweight and palletized. These are a solution to the problem we've been talking about for quite some time. Go ahead. Right. Another thing that's occurred to me is that these things are extremely intense lights as a point source. If you wanted to use them for elimination, you'd probably want to use them in a paper lantern or frosted glass or something like that. If you stuck a bunch of these things all over a wall, you would have a wall that cannot be looked at. If you ran the wires around in a redundant fashion with fuses and so on so that any wire that shorted or open circuit would not knock out all of the units, then you would have a brilliantly illuminated surface which even if fired upon would not be easily taken out. Consider the tactical considerations if, shall we say, zombies come through your window with evil and a corner or whatnot, they come around a corner and they simply cannot look in this direction because there are a dozen of these little things sprinkled all over a wall, switched on and even opening fire against that wall very rarely knocks one of them out. That is a very, very interesting tactical defensive capability that I think would be useful. It's not going to keep something away forever, but it can certainly cause problems to an assailant that's trying to operate in a particular direction and gives considerable advantage to a defender operating from behind that light source. So that is something to think about. And again, the old idea is these are reasonably priced. This gets back to the issue again of battery supply or power supply, which is the next thing we need to look at. Also again, to what degree we're going to make them either static or mobile. I like the idea of mobile or at least temporary in mobile so that when the time comes everything can be detached very quickly. Wires or line can either be rolled up or you can disconnect from power bars. Look up power bars guys. It's not as hard as what you had difficult or what you might think. Some of our maintenance shops that we have, our machine shops, are actually set up with regular power bars. You'd use alligator clips to clamp to the bar, positive and negative. and the bars run the full length of a building. It's kind of like a knobbin tube in a way. You really can't have any problems with it because you have to cross over the two lines and the two lines are completely separated and based upon nothing but a metallic strip, two metallic strips that run for whatever distance parallel to each other. That's a cheap solution and requires a few more little tidbits out of the goodie box from the company that's offering these. But with a few more items, this can be made totally mobile within a shop so that you can limit lighting and only have lighting where you need it to focus on a particular machine. That's one of the reasons that one of our friends did this, is so they could take the limited lighting where he's using solar panels and a 12 volt system. You can bring all the lighting to bear in one location, focus it on that machine, then if he changes over to another machine for other processes, switch the lighting over accordingly at his discretion. Right, and bear in mind that at 10 watts, you can run a number of these things off of an ordinary gel cell battery, which you normally wouldn't use for both power storage. A little jest sale that came out of an emergency lighting unit or even is just purchased new off the shelf would run a bunch of these guys for quite a while. If you wanted to make either a portable lighting unit for utility purposes or a lighting unit, as I was suggesting, for tactical defensive purposes, Either of those would work and that would be resistant to somebody throwing the power before making a hostile entry. Okay, now there is a new vendor that I haven't mentioned previously because I didn't know about them previously. I was out sniffing around on the web earlier this week looking for some parts. Actually, I was looking for some optics. which is a new area for me. I was looking for basic lenses and so forth. I stumbled across this vendor. It's called SurplusShed.com. They do have an awful lot of interesting little things. They have some motors. They have an awful lot of optics and lenses and things of this sort. They also add a couple of things that are more consistent with the sorts of stuff that we go looking for on a routine basis. One of the items they have, I think that's in their closeout, they have a unit they describe as Swiss Army Cavalry Liner slash Jacket. They are offering this for $8 a piece. It is a quilted jacket, they call it a rider's jacket and they have them on small, medium and large. $8 is a thermal item and it can go either under some other jacket or be worn standalone. So that does look like an interesting item. You do not need to order in quantity, this is a surplus retailer. So that's available and as always this does not make trash, it's not China sport. So while it's not available in the XL and the 2X and all that kind of good stuff, they do have small, medium and large and that could be a useful item either as a jacket liner or as a light jacket stand-alone commentary. Go ahead please. It's not yellow, plastic, armored, etc. but it is described as telephone with 9 foot modular cord close out, so on and so forth. It's all integrated. It's got the speaker and microphone all in one piece, push buttons on the inside and all that kind of good stuff for the whopping price of $2 a piece. So, if you want to create a little adapter that has a modular on one side and a couple of alligator clips, then you get both capabilities, both a modular plug. So, you know, modulators are sort of what everybody uses most of the time when they're diagnosing problems around the house or plugging into a jack that they don't normally use and all of that kind of good stuff. Add $2, a working portable hang it off your belt type telephone does strike me as a useful facility. Standard analog device, of course. Again, the price is right. For $2, you can afford to experiment. Remember, between that and in fact for $2, for something it's probably going to take a whole lot of beating and abuse. With a couple of, well let's see, your best way to be used, D-cell batteries still. Take two D-cell batteries, put them together, you get a battery carrier for it, hook that up as a power supply, and you can make these into field phones. That's one of the things I was going to touch on tonight and for $2 you can set up a whole series of mobile rigs that would be very compact and very usable. Actually the Princess phones and the other phones that are out there that are still showing up are the traditional rotary or touch-tone phones. Guys, we need to be saving them. It is not difficult to make your own phone network up. In fact, it's a lot simpler you might think. It was very simple for the phone company. Low voltage is all that's required. And if it's a local net, if you want to improvise and make your own onsite between solar panels, a little bit, a few batteries, and some copper wire, and all the connectors and everything are just dirt, cheap, or like throwaway. I've got buckets of extensions and cables and connectors. I mean, barrels, literally. You could set up a phone grid on a farm or a phone grid in a town that would be totally independent and it would cost you nothing. Most people, I had somebody asking me, why are you taking those phones that we have here, the regular, you know, regular, or in fact these aren't even the older phones, these are the newer ones that are touch bad. The handset and the touchpad are all on the same handset. I don't know, what would you use those for? I explained a couple of batteries, a little bit of copper wire, and a little bit of patience. You've got a field telephone or intercom system. Right. You can put a phone out in the stable that you can use during the house and so on and so forth. Exactly. It goes back and forth. There are even switching systems. Remember, Fair Radio has them. Plus there are auto routers now auto routers are still out there, too They just require a little more maintenance if something goes wrong but none of them have worn out because they were built like a brick doghouse and Auto routers allow you to actually hook up more than one phone provided you give you know have a a system for identifying the individual tags Which is what you'll get with the auto router it'll assign a number to a wire So it becomes a hub and from that hub it goes back out to the limited number of lines that you have. Most of your industrial phone systems, which in reality are intercom systems, have this method, the auto router system in place. And they're like $10, $20. Nobody's really excited about them because again, the system is kind of a wash in that kind of hardware right now. There are more people that have cell phones than there are now, comparable, that have ground lines. Which is still fascinating. Now, BKEMA pointed this out. Even with that supposedly taking place where everybody's got a cell phone, they are still trying to shut down and route other hard lines because they don't have enough hard lines to go around. Now, is it that what? They just keep defuncting numbers or did defuncting circuits and still have to scavenge off what they've got left? Well, in the field, in this neighborhood, for instance, they're having a lot of maintenance problems because the firm lines are 50 years old and they've never gone through and replaced all the cable wholesale. They have never been willing to bury the lines, so they're strung on poles. They've been hung out there in the weather for 50 years. They have a lot of bad pairs. And from time to time you have a problem with the line, they come out and what they do is they just poke around and they try to find a spare pair that's actually working and it's which your wire over to the spare pair. But they're running out of pairs because they get all corroded, the school's chew through the insulation and so on. And they have overbuilt the system and then relied on the old stuff to last far beyond its design service life. So that last mile is a terrible maintenance problem for them and all the cell phones are using up the numbers. They're no longer tied to the point where the physical connection of the phone is connected to the phone line. It's all done by computer now so they can recycle the numbers. But all the cell phones have gobbled up available numbers just like fax numbers did for a while. Well the interesting thing here again is a simple solution, build your own. And guys, remember it can be like the bat phone or the big red phone to the outhouse. Remember, it doesn't go through the central office, so there's a security benefit there too. Right, exactly. For something going cross country or inside a small town, especially for setting up a second emergency signal system, if you're going to use hard lines, this is the way to do it. Don't use the telephone phone lines and service phone lines. Remember, you can use cable line, and there's a lot of that laying around. And you can use conventional copper wire, two-strand, et cetera, and or trunk line, where you have multiple lines and different rainbows of colors in those little trunks. When you see them, there's 12, 10, 8, whatever, always even sets. You just remember what color you plugged in at one end. When you get down to the other end, just remember which of those candy stripes you used at the other. You'll find out soon enough. That test phone was four that BK was talking about a minute ago, just in case. So there's all kinds of solutions and right now the older robust technology is readily available. Built like a brick doghouse is what we want. Probably the best example, the old standard desk phones. Guys, think about it. It takes a lot to damage them, to beat them down, to destroy them. Think about it. So it's rather fascinating than itself. One of the things that people will tell you if they were involved in either the telephone company or the police, strangely enough, is that the old Western Electric telephones were phenomenally frequent as the blunt instrument. Because they're everywhere and they were so solid that I don't know how many people were beaten into the hospital with telephones but they're just vast numbers of them because they're so solid. They were designed to be vandal proof. Which means if the family got hold of it first, he'd prove, he'd test it, take it to the test limit. Well, and in domestic situations and stuff like that too. It's not funny, but it is kind of entertaining from a technical point of view that a device like that would be so rugged that it appeared in that fashion. And then continue to be used as a phone. Well, again, the idea here is to take advantage of this technology. I know a lot of people look for field phones, but remember, just a little bit of research, it's not hard to take any phone and switch it over or to create your own powered system. The big thing now is solar power attached to a battery pack. By the way, little hint there, you can still buy Edison batteries. Traditionally, Edison batteries were the battery primary supply or battery backup for the phone company for their power supply. So guess what? You can buy and build a mimic of the exact same system that we've used for the last 80, 90 years. And be more efficient. It won't be as big, but it can be cover a town, 11 houses, a farm, farm to farm, ranch to ranch. Another thing taking into consideration, no open broadcast, pick up the line and dial the red phone. Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep is an emergency broadcast. See how that works? It will work just fine. Go ahead and be okay. There's an interesting technology I've stumbled across. I've been playing with it a little bit, not totally worked through yet. But on a sustaining point of view, we talk about the low-tech stuff, the rifles, the vegetable garden. By the way, tune in on Tuesdays for Joe's program, Grow Your Own here on Liberty Tree Radio, all about permaculture and low-energy gardening. But we don't talk too much about the high tech stuff and maintaining computers is going to be a useful thing as well. We routinely use commercial closed source operating systems, a few use products from Apple, most from Microsoft. What happens when Microsoft either uses a back door or refuses to activate or are unavailable to reach. The activation servers, your old XP machines, etc. are not going to light back up again as you are accustomed to. There are a lot of options. One of them is various flavors of Linux and so on. They are Painful to varying degrees. Some are fairly easy to use. Some are pain in the neck and oriented toward the geeks. I've stumbled across one that's very easy to use and has some extra capabilities. There is a package called Zen, spelled X-E-N. Now Zen is a type one hypervisor, which means that it is a virtual machine host system that runs on the bare metal. As such, what it does is it runs under and on top of its intermixed with a Linux. It allows you to run virtual machines in a PC, meaning that you can have several operating systems in there at once. You can very rapidly spawn out a new operating system, use it for a while and discard it. which does wonderful things for your security even if a virus or a worm or a back door gets into that virtual machine. Well, if you simply discard the thing when you're done, it has not invaded your computer and seized control and compromised your security. So virtual machines are a very, very interesting technology for any PC that's capable of supporting them and increasingly all the new ones are. Anything with AMD-V or Intel's equivalent, I think it's called VT-D or something along those lines. You'll find that most of the newer machines can handle this stuff. There's a package called Cubes, Q-U-B-E-S. It is almost entirely open source and freely available. You download it as an ISO, get an installation disc and put it on a PC. What it does is this is a packaging together of the Zen Hypervisor and a release of Fedora Linux. What you get when you have run this thing, and I've run it and it was a very painless install. Easier even than a Windows install and of course there's no licensing to be done, is you end up with a desktop that is running Zen, which can be a pain in the neck to configure otherwise. It requires an awful lot of geeky reading and so on. With cubes, it simply installs. and what you get is a bunch of virtual machines that you can use independently of each other. A window opens up and it looks like a browser window, but it is its own lightweight virtual machine. You open another browser window and it is an entirely separate virtual machine. They cannot compromise each other. You close one, everything that you used close away. So, you do not get the effect if you go out there hunting around for food preps and another day you're looking around on your browser and you start seeing all these ads about food preps and you realize you're being tracked. Well, if you're running all of these lightweight virtual machines, every time you open a new window that is an entirely sequestered safe image of an operating system. That is a difficult thing to do with Zen out of the box. It is a piece of cake to do with cubes. Now cubes is beta. You can find it at cubes-os.com. There are some glitches and quirks that you would expect in beta stuff. doing printing is going to be a bit of a problem. Getting files in and out of a thing can be a bit clunkier than you would prefer. You can attach USB devices, but for security reasons it's attached to certain virtual machines and not others. So there are some things that make it a little bit inconvenient to use at this stage in its development. But it is a very interesting package. and one that is suitable for people to play with. It is a tool for keeping your machine up and running. You can install it on any reasonably competent machine. Fedora is a very capable Linux distribution, comes out of the box of the browser and all that kind of good stuff. And it is an excellent starting point from which you can then install other packages if you are already a Linux If you are not, you can still use it like most of us use a PC for open office and web browsing and that kind of stuff. CubesOS is a package I recommend for investigation people but I have a lot of fun fooling with their machines. and have a little sense of adventure and some time might want to take a look at this guy. That is a nice sustaining technology that is currently available to us. Oh, well, before we go any farther, if you want to listen in, if all else fails, if you want to listen in to the Eagle and PossumNet, remember, in American net, 3950.net, www.ThisIsNumerical3950, just 3950.net. From 10 o'clock on to the wee hours in the morning, they'll be up and online Saturday night to Sunday morning. So take the time and plug in also operating frequencies, toss them at 38.60, the base frequency is going up and down the dial there, and obviously 3950 for the American and Eagle. Anyway, we are at the top, God bless the Republic. Back to the new Royal Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march, both day and night. Glory Master, remember, bullets B, basketballs, band Fs and everything else, you name them A to Z, not just the B category. Take the time to square your technology away, be prepared for what's coming. Chip Stonk, we just gotta make sure we got good lifeboats. Thank you, BK. You're welcome.