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For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torture freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he 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 him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm R. Krunke. and a butter knife. There we go, 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. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, and we are on AM&FM Microstations, CB Bay Stations, and Alternate Technologies East and West of the Mississippi along with the West Shore and the Hall Market Working 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, Big Jungle, Nebraska, Oklahoma, to Wyoming to include both the Pitts 3rd and 5th and our friends in the Recall State of Color. Waiting to the left coast where the state of Jefferson is a shining beacon of light in an otherwise dark and dreary Soviet-occupied piece of real estate. But with our friends fighting behind the lines in those areas, we know that they're going to keep up the good work and we'll be joining them in the fight when the time comes. Running back to the east, we sweep across plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi and land in the smokey's where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, okay teams, and the mob build, grab a consortium of retired telecommunications workers, bring us the golden spike. Many hands make for light work a million, Peddicoat Junction operators, the ability to continue to function when everything else is offline. Well, BK, it's cold here in Michigan. It's a classic winter day. What's it like in your neck of the woods and what's jumping off the wall there, sir? It is 24 January 2014. 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 it is a nippy one here too. We had a couple of evenings here in the 3 and 4 Fahrenheit range. I don't think it's gotten above freezing all week. We've gotten some drying of driveways and stuff. Some of the ice has gone away anywhere there. Some might, but that's a sublimation effect. I don't think anything's actually melted in days. So it is mighty nippy. I have the interior thermostat here at Castle Butterknife set to 60 for reasons of economy. The actual upstairs is about 55, and down here is about 50. So you can imagine the secondary sweatshirts and so on have been deployed, and we are maintaining homeostasis through brute force insulation. That is better than handing the prep's budget over to the gas company instead. In a week or a month or a year I won't remember having been a little bit nippy indoors this month but I can look at the shelf and say, oh wow, there's three extra cans of spin because of that. So, good. And again, for everybody out there, remember guys, where we can cut corners in one direction, just like BK pointed out, we try to advance in others. This week, one of the things that really jumped off in our area here that I noticed is we still have a pile of Christmas stuff and they're not just shoveling it out the back door. That's marked down 90%, 80%. Aldi's has 50-90% marked down. Some of the stuff they've sold out of, but certain things, two things they have a lot of, peanut brittle and candy canes. So, for carbohydrate supplements, the other cool thing about this, the peanut brittle is in a mylar sealed pouch. It's in space pouch, guys. It can sit there for years. The cool thing is, at the very least, it's something to have on the shelf, again, for additional calories. It's a goody item. It's a change-up item. And it's cheap. We're talking $0.25 to $0.40 a package for peanut brittle. Cady canes, $0.49, $0.35 depending on what they are and where they are. So again, carbohydrate supplement is what the military calls that or the government. In fact, that's always listed in Civil Defense, the big 44 pound cans of carbohydrate supplement. They had cherry, lime, lemon, and orange candy, you know hard candy drops. They were literally round things, sometimes they're rectangular. Some of the places around here that could get Civil Defense stuff or get stuff from the DOD, they would go and pick up one of these cans, open it up and it'd be in the snack room for the next half year. But all the quality of the stuff is very rich. Very, very much. I mean as far as the flavor goes. It was lime, it jumped out at you as lime. If it was orange, it jumped out you as orange. Cherry, everybody loved the cherry. Kind of like the Ludens Cough Drop thing only on steroids. Anyway, other things include bread mixes, which we got cheap, cheap, cheap. We cleaned out several categories of LED light bulbs, LED light sets for Christmas. We got the last of the big bulbs, the really nice ones. It costs us a whopping $1.20 for each pack. The average price though for all the sweet lights we've picked up, and there's still a bunch of them there guys. If you look around at big lots for instance, $0.25, $0.50, $0.35 a pack. Pick them up, put them on the shelf. They're brand new in the package. If you need to issue them out for some reason to create lighting or if you need to improvise or if you just need Christmas lighting for next year, if we want to say, you know, Merry Christmas and, you know, be festive, whatever. They're so cheap you can't afford not to get them. You can't buy the LEDs for the price of what you paid for the pack. $0.35 to $0.50 for a bundle of anywhere from 60 to 150 LED lights. Guys, go to dealextreme.com and punch up or go to any of these laboratory supplies and punch up LEDs. They're going to be China Sport. They're in bulk. And you take a look at the price and you figure out what we just paid for 150 of them at $0.35 a piece or $0.50 a piece per box, depending on how fancy they had the kind of line or cable they were set up with BK. Anyway. Solutions here right now, it's more than a month now since Christmas as far as from retail and it's actually three months since Christmas started because remember it's a seasonal thing and they still have product. So that means that you take advantage of it while you can. If it's foodstuffs of any kind, grab it. Think about this, the stuff that was made for Christmas use was more recently packed than the typical stuff that's on the shelf that's of the same product but without all the green and yellow on it. So date it, put it in your inventory, mark it up per BK's inventory slash quarter master coordination program, and you've got more stuff to change up in the menu. everything and anything like that help. Yeah, if you want to mark up candy canes and you don't find them in there, just copy and paste the sugar entry because they're basically just sugar. It's a nutritional body. Exactly. I don't think it's just the food system. This last week I placed an order for some video cables. I've had some monitors fail and have patched in spares. to keep myself up and running. I tend to have a fair number of spares because these are customer castoffs. They're done with one and it still works and they got a newer fancier and no do you want it sure. If it works I'll give it a try. When I can get some space on the workbench, I'm going to try to rehabilitate the old ones because 90% of the failures are a few components, so we can try to fix those even without being a video repair technician or having the factory service manual. But in the meantime, the old ones use different connectors. Then the failed ones had to go back to VGA from DVI and so I needed some different cables and I needed to arrange things differently and all this kind of good stuff. So I ended up placing an order for a bunch of cables from an outfit that I like to use called DeepSurplus.com. You may recall that's the outfit from which I ordered spools of cabling back when you had your tornado. and they provided your coax and your phone patch cable and so on. There are two outfits of that sort that I like to shop with. One of them is better known, it's called Mono price, Mono, M-O-N-O price dot com. The other one is DeepSurplus dot com. They have overlapping product lines. but some dissimilarity. Mile price tends to be more computer oriented, so while they have all the computer type cables and networking cables, they also have some computer components. Whereas deep surplus tends to be more networking and telephone and back channel oriented, they cater to the people that, you know, punch sockets into the drywall and string wires around the small businesses and so on and also have the computer cable. So the overlap was the area that I was interested in and I placed this order. So as an experiment, I punched up the same motor on both of these and was surprised to find that there was a solid 10% cost differential in favor of deep surplus on this assortment of computer-oriented cables. I was a little bit surprised to find that difference. That was including the shipping on both sides. So needless to say, Deep Surplus got the order. I punched up that order in the middle of the day and then a little while later, a half an hour or so later, realized that I had forgotten an item, called them quick like a bunny and talked to their customer service and said, hey, I've forgotten an item. Are we in time to get this in? They had to stop the package from being packed and add the item because it was just about out the door a half an hour after I pushed the button on the web ordering mechanism, which says two things. One, their order handling inventory and shipping system is very shaken down, automated, and efficient. The other is that they're not very busy. If my order can be out the door in an hour or just about out the door in half an hour, that's a compliment to the vendor but it's also an indictment of the economic system. All of these outfits are probably hurting the whole economy. Any corner you look into, things are just dissolving. It's just like spreading a garden hose on a pile of sugar. It doesn't go away instantly, but it does melt away. One of the other things to consider here with, before we go any farther, first of all, if we want to keep an inventory, we're going to be looking at a lot of material support here, guys, where you're going to get rich in some areas, and not so much in others, not so much in others. BK, you've got a system already established so people don't have to try and figure out how to do this. We already have a plan, don't we, sir? Well, yeah. I, a while back, addressed this particular problem by putting together a spreadsheet that is food oriented and making that available. There is an old version of that on the Yahoo group in the files area. There is the spreadsheet alone. has been uploaded to the Yahoo group in the files area. But that's without the help file, which is 150 megabytes. The spreadsheet is less than one, and the help file is 150, because one of our friends put that together, complete with animations and all this kind of good stuff. We are still working on getting a full package restored and up on Spike's site. There was a failure of a machine that was hosting that file and has not yet been recovered. So an easy download of the entire package, including the help file, is not currently available, but the spreadsheet itself can be downloaded from the Yahoo group. What that spreadsheet does is it's fairly smart. It's got some macros. You do have to enable macros, but if you get the file from a legitimate source, that should not be a security hazard for your machine. It is written in OpenOffice so that it will run on almost anything. OpenOffice version 3 actually should be compatible with 4. I have not tested it with version 4. And what it does is on the first sheet it does all of the traditional spreadsheet type stuff like anything you would throw together. have columns for description of the item, location, packages, number of packages, that sort of thing. But if you follow the format and there are instructions in there, it will break down those food entries into pounds of proteins, fats, and carbs and further break them down into man days, man months, man years and summarize them on one of the back sheets. of the spreadsheet. So if you use that as a tool to track what you have stored, it will show you how you stand in terms of man-months, man-days of those three categories and let you spot deficiencies. Most of us will be high on carbs and low on the proteins and fats because the proteins and fats are more expensive and the things you can do first and most quickly, sacks of wheat, barley, rice, beans, that sort of stuff are heavy on the carbs. So if you use that spreadsheet to track what you've got, it will give you an idea where the holes are and how much actual runtime you have as opposed to what you imagine looking at a cupboard full or a pile of stuff. So that's available on the Yahoo Group for now and we're working on restoring that. to Spike's archive page and when that's done that will be the full package complete with the help file. But it may be a little bit of a little while before we get that fully restored because a PC that was hosting that file is down at the moment. There is an option and it costs the usual butter knife price of $0.00 and 0 cents. So grab a copy from the Yahoo group and if it is immediately understandable to you, great. And if it's not, keep checking back there or on Spike's site and the version with the help file will appear in due course. One of the things here with the upgrade, real quick for everybody out there, We've recommended printing up whatever system you're going to come up with in the way of a record keeping text. You should have a clipboard version and you should have a computer version. And a little idea here. In fact I just dug out two of the machines. I knew I had them here somewhere. Actually, I've got three. They're old antiquated laptops, guys. There's a Bee Feeder model. If the new ones are hyper-thin and super China Sport junk, as far as how they're built, these are the brick doghouse. Older, Penny Wan or even 46s. Well, if we're doing the kind of work we're talking about, just to have it there on the shelf, powered up, and using it purely for your inventory work. A system like that can be committed just to that project. I recommend you do it because free and clear of everything else you've got, a limited space for storage. You're not going to be hampered by other nonsense. It's not hooked up to the internet. You don't need it hooked up to the internet for your bookkeeping in your pantry, larder, storage room, whatever you're using. Perhaps you've got an entire little area of the garage, whatever you've set up. Set up a small quartermaster administrative section. And remember to log in what's coming in. Also try to inventory your stuff so your newest stuff is in the back. no matter what it is because we've been doing this for a long, long time and we have to cycle through. We do have more than typically we can even consume since we're also consuming fresh food, fresh products, etc. And we want to make sure we don't, we rotate everything out so we have a constant, newer inventory. Now we've got stuff that goes back more than a decade. In fact, more than a decade and a half in some cases, all we've used and cycled through a lot of that up. especially with our dried products and such. We've done a lot of number 10 can. dried rice, beans, rice, anything in the legumes. And eventually we'll even cycle that because we're going to be redoing it again. We're going to can more of the same. And we also have five gallon containers, bulk containers in different ways that we use. And those overlap to create throw strength. In other words, the ability that if they hit the lights, we have so many pounds, so much tonnage on the shelf. In this solution, for those of you who are especially just starting up, you're going to be ahead of the game of a lot of people who have just kind of thrown the stuff on the shelf. And that's not a bad thing either, because I'd rather you be doing that, at least you'll sort out later. Maybe you got too much of something. That's what bartering and trading is for. Or even if you are keeping track, it's like if you get into something where, wow, I can get those for 10 cents a piece, and there's 80 of them sitting there, grab them. You're out of whole dime, but you've got something that is worth dollars. And down the road, if it's anything from outside of the United States and it's an exotic, for instance, spices or tools for canning and items like that, I mean just things like canning lids, whatever, guys, you're either going to use them yourself or they're going to feed people that just don't have it. Spices are especially are going to take a hit fast. Coffee and tea will be... Right, and we don't grow a lot of those locally. A lot of the spices we don't. It rolls of cinnamon bark, guys, times 20 or 30. They were in nets with little Christmas decorations to hang up to give that Christmas spell to the house. Well, guys, that's cinnamon bark, the same stuff you buy at the store, the same stuff you'd be shaving and grinding to make cinnamon for any number of different products or recipes on the shelf that you have to enhance most of the stuff you have that might not be all that exciting or kind of bland otherwise. That's one of the reasons that again if you see this stuff, it was $0.57 for a bundle if you took your fingers and made a C of both sides, a bundle the size of the extension of your thumb and your index finger made into a circle with both hands. That's how big a bundle for $0.57 you got. Now guys if you see that, that goes from that little bag, you rip the bag open, you put it into another seal and meal or a Ziploc bag and you put them in a can and you've got spices on the shelf that only come from one place on this planet. Certain spices only come from one location on the planet, period. They don't come from anywhere else. So if everything gets shut down, those ships aren't sailing anymore. Okay? And again... Yeah, aromatics like that. We must have a lag problem. Aromatics like that, I like the idea of putting them in glass if you possibly can. Plastic is lightweight and cheap and more transportable, but the glass is 100% airtight and other molecules tight. So it does very, very well. Allocate your available glass jars and so on for things that really, really need it. And use plastic for the things you can get away with. Exactly. In fact, one of the things is, the other option here, we think for reminding that because I was going to finish that this week and didn't. I've got all the information here, but I just hadn't confirmed. If you have a certain glass jar, for instance, you know, prego jars, or you're doing a certain type of pasta sauce or applesauce or whatever, and you're getting a jar that you get a lot of locally, Guys, if you go through peanut butter on a regular basis, if you use a spaghetti sauce or anything consistent... That's a category to be preserved carefully because a lot of those are actually nowadays take mason jar lids. There are convenience mason jar lids that are plastic that screw on. I'm finding that occasionally there are packaged goods that are threaded for those convenience lids. Interesting. Actually, if we want to, and by the way I have the company names, I was going to call them today, but I was trying to get hold of classic firearms and they just went offline. I mean the phones went off guys. But what's interesting, and I've got several companies here, that you can go to the importers, because most of these are not made in America anymore at all. But the lids, the actual brand new lids for those jars, for reuse one time, can be accessed. So you literally can repack those jars. They can be reused. Now the jar lids are the commercial jar lid that would normally be used on that piece of glass. So if you have a lot of the same model and you save them up, you know, a lot of people go, I'm going to throw that out. Well, if you're using, and if you also notice in the recycled bins that there's a bunch of these, and it's the same model that you're using, and you can access them, and most everybody washes them up before they get to the recycled bin, guys. In fact, they're washed and they even have the labels cleaned off them. Well, grab them and what you do is you actually go to these companies and you can buy a case of or you can buy like so many dozens or a hundred of that lid. And these are virgin lids, they're the throwaway equivalent to what you do with your mason jars. So you can actually repack something, it can actually be dry packed. It doesn't have to be wet packed in order for you to use the jar for a hard seal. And the cool thing about this is that it's another solution. If all else fails, you can even improvise, adapt, and overcome by using the existing lid you've saved. Just make sure everything's cleaned up. And there's a couple solutions people have come up with just to create an effective seal for any kind of standard shelf item like the spices or whatever it is you're putting into the containers. And glass is a plus. Glass, even in water, would be preferred. The biggest problem is storage. both shelf storage and again, weight for transport, which is why it's a mix. You know, for instance, what I've been doing for quite some time is saving wine bottles. I'm saving certain types of wine bottles. Now one of them that we are saving, that I've been recovering, are anything that's blue. And I should point this out, but maybe I shouldn't say a word. But right now, I guess I'm going to. It's like classic firearms. Right now, guys, if you see any of the blue wine bottles that are out there, Right now they're going through the internet. They're selling on eBay for anywhere from three to five dollars a piece. Well, there's no return deposit on wine bottles. But you see that blue glass, as I told you about a year ago, guys, blue glass is a unique glass. It's already starting to fade from the industry right now because it's expensive. And it was a fad thing. They were willing to spend the money. Several of the wine bottle companies did this. I believe the next color that's going to come in is red, and I hope it does, but if it does, you better grab all of it. You can. Now there's two things, either again for projects or special work, but also collectability. And again, remarketing. Because there's going to be a down cycle of this, if anything even barely holds together, the red glass is going to have a popular interest base. Well, for those people who want it, you have it in quantity, maybe, in your area. You wait, and you market it to them for a little better price than the average bear, but you also get rid of all of them. Now you've got capital to convert over into ammunition, magazines, food, whatever you want to. But the wine bottles are good for water storage. That's one of the purest, cleanest ways you can store water. The problem is survivability. Hey, those wine bottles survived how long? Sitting on the shelf in a venting somewhere where some guy walked along and turned them every so many days. That's what those little grooves are for and those pads are for in the bottom of the bottles. Because once it's in the bottle, they go through and spin. They turn everything progressively. And they come back and they do it again. Well, the neat thing is, what's going to happen with your water storage? They're just going to sit on the shelf. And glass, again for oils, for any of your vinegars, is another plus. That's another thing where you don't have to worry about the polymer content because you're not using plastic, you're not using glass. But if you do that, you better start saving all those corks people are pulling out of the bottles. And most of them are a new polymer. They're not the traditional cork. If you see traditional cork, grab it. Why? Well, there's another thing, like cinnamon. There's only one place on the planet where cork comes from. Only one place on the planet. And now they're saving the cork only for the better vintages of wine, and the lesser vintages are now getting the synthetic corks. Well, either one to seal up those bottles are something that you're going to need. So grab all of them you can. Again, they could be... Yeah, here, Home Beer and Wine Making Shop will have bags of corks as well as bottle caps too. You know, the so-called crown cap is also available for pressing back onto a beer bottle, for instance, if you wanted to do that. There is a considerable price difference. You can still buy the natural corks, but man, they cost a bunch more than the plastic ones. You could argue that the plastic ones are probably actually a better choice for some of the non-wine items. It's not important that they breathe. It's desirable that they not breathe. So the less permeable plastic is preferable in that regard. One of the things about those flip bottle caps, now remember the difference between the screw top and the flip, but there are most of the flip type now. especially for the beer makers are custom beer companies so they've got a larger one quart type beer bottle that's available. That's a good storage item. The other thing is for doing any of your specialized homeopathic solutions, colored glass is an IR protection, brown glass. So it's also a plus to keep those on the shelf for that purpose. The other thing is that capping system is so cheap and so simple to use I highly recommend that if you're going to go glass, that would be the better way to go in general simply because you don't have to worry about fermentation if you're just doing water storage. And it sounds weird, but it's not. We're conditioned to the polymers. Because they're cheap and available, and everybody's saying canteens are plastic, well, they used to be made out of stainless. And they also used to be made out of aluminum, by the way. before canteens were plastic and you probably have some I do I've got several hundred stainless ones that are part of my 510 program and I've even got World War I and World War I they were made out of aluminum which is rather interesting aluminum was a lot of voice-out stuff was all made out of aluminum there you go exactly and you might still run into it there's nothing wrong with that but a lot of them are breaking down because they're 100 years old now guys World War I was a little under 100 years ago for the US So a lot of that stuff is around, but you won't find it impossibly as good a shape. And again, it's going to need seals and corks. Well, guess what? We were just talking about that. You're going to have to have gaskets to make sure you can seal things up, right? Everything has a little extra technology change, depending on what you commit to. So if you do, you've got to have the support material to go along with it or be thinking ahead past that. Step one is using what we can get out of the industrial age. Step two is we've still got the basic components, but now we progressively are going to lose the perishable components. The seals, the caps, the screw lids made out of metal, all that stuff is going to break down and disappear. And it gets stepped on, it gets broken, people don't think because they're still thinking they're back in the 90s or the 80s or even this year. They use it and they throw it down or they screw it up and they feel, oh, too late. The Homer Simpson dope routine. DOPE! So it's just going to happen. And that requires, again, discipline of the mind in order for you to be able to get this all in motion properly. The big thing is pick a system. Commit to a system and just work with it. Everybody out there using different items that are cheap, we won't be fighting with each other for the material. Just that simple. So one of the other things to remember there. Anyway, go ahead, BK. I know you've got more. Jump in there, please. Yeah, okay. So, let's see, I've gone through and done the usual scan of our regular suppliers and the prospect out there remains a little bit on the grim side. I reported last week that Powder Valley is doing better on primers. Graf's also is doing better on primers. The downside is that if you're not dealing with Powder Valley, the prices are way, way up. If you are, the prices are still way, way up on CCI. Even Graf's now has all the major categories in stock in Remington, but those are primers, large and small pistol, large and small rifle, but you're going to be paying something on the order of $37 to $38 per thousand for those guys. The two of those are the bargains at Potter Valley and a number of the other vendors are available at Potter Valley, you know, the Winchester and Federal here and there, different sizes and so forth. But, Potter remains hence tea. Nobody seems to have much of anything and that was a big change. Before Christmas, we at least had access to the fast powders and the very slow powders. the fast ones being suitable for our shot shell and pistol, the very slow being suitable for the heavy belted magnums and the 50 cal. There's 50 caliber powder still out there that is so slow that only the largest of the heavy belted magnums can use them and those are somewhat experimental loads even there. But we have had a problem for a long, long time with the mid speed rifle powders, but now that seems to have been proliferated effectively overnight, just right around Christmas to New Year's. All of the fast and slow seems to have been vacuumed off the shelf as well, or withdrawn from circulation, or the distributors are sitting on it, or Uncle Sugar came along with a magic checkbook and disappeared it. I don't know exactly what happened, but suddenly powder has been made a scarce item. So if you don't have any, you're in tough shape for the moment at fixing that up. One of our friends has informed me of an interesting technology I had not heard of previously. He points out that regular white glue, Omer's glue, and other brands is a substance called PVA, polyvinyl acetate. It reacted with nitric acid that produces, I believe it's polyvinyl nitrite or nitrate. Don't quote me too carefully on this. I'm doing it from memory rather than reading notes. And that material when mixed with sodium azide, which is the material that comes out of airbags, makes a usable propellant. Apparently there are patent documents to that effect that the sodium azide available from that scrap source when mixed with a polyvinyl nitrate can produce a usable propellant that will require some R and D and some experimentation to determine particle sizes and spades and pressures and all that kind of good stuff. If we really, really get desperate, and start looking in the direction of manufacturing expedience. We now have two paths to follow. One is the turn of the century traditional technologies that use exotic materials like cellulose and cotton fiber. And the other one uses exotic materials like Elmer's glue. So that doubles our alternatives. if we do resort to expedient manufacturer comments. Across the board, inventories in sole categories. Now granted, we're heading towards what might be considered the slow season, but arms and ammunition continue to move off the shelf in a steady pace. Number one, that pace continues. But apparently, replacement inventory from the manufacturers, they're still prioritizing towards the ammunition manufacturers as opposed to the general public. That's a big problem. And there's the question mark about whether or not they're even maintaining or sustaining production, either through diversion, again, government contract pressure, or manipulation through inspection. Remember, there's all kinds of things. We just saw what happened with the lead industry. OK, that's not just happening in one subject. Picture this. You've got a whole bunch of parasite institutions. that are built purely to suck out of your wallet and steal from the American people. They're called government federal agencies. Those people are all over the place and every industry has to deal with layers of these stinking parasites sucking on your wallet. Now the powder industry is no different so we don't even know and since it's a minority group of people whether or not they're being pressured or how they're being manipulated and pressured They're afraid to talk because they know full well that people will tell other people about what's going on. And they've even been perhaps threatened with the same routine. We need to disarm the population. It's a national security issue. Well, there's also the canary trap mechanism. I tell you that there's going to be a shortage in tangerines, and I tell Ed that there's going to be a shortage in oranges, and I wait to see which story hits the road, and then I know which person is the leak. So people that have the inside skinny have to be cautious about spreading the word. They'll wait until they hear something from somebody else and then they'll tell their friends the version they heard and so on because they want to get their data stream diluted into the larger stream so that they don't stand out in the context of the canary trap. That's a means that is effective by which central power can inhibit the flow of information. One of the things to again remember about inventories Call because you never know computer the database we have is good and some companies have been good about keeping up others have not some companies have literally just disappeared because They frustrated so many people with not keeping up that they people walked away and haven't really come back I've noticed this with several companies, which by the way also haven't been able to replace their inventories because their assumption was that everything was just going to keep running the way it has been. Even though I talked to those people, I re-warned of a lot of these people about this, now they're scratching their arse and they're like sitting there kind of dumbfounded. Well, it's the end of the road for some things. It's just the way it is. It's like I said, at a given point we're going to be at the end of fully manufactured surplus rifles that can be sold as surplus rifles. We're seeing that with the NAGOT. I mean, again guys, go around and look at the world inventory of arms and ask yourself how much is left over from what was the bolt action arm industry and then even the semi-automatic weapons industry that made up military production. What's left out there? Now the only option you have is to take existing weapons systems and modify with all kinds of standing on your leg and rubbing your tummy and bouncing on the other knee and whatever to conform to whatever respects which are arbitrary and can change next week. That creates an issue with regard to the resupply or down the road what will be surpluses we know it and also in the cost range, the expenditure range as we know it. It's the same with food, it's the same with everything else we're watching here. We're at the other end of the rubber band. We're at the other end of the cycle with regard to what they've done to this country. If you see it cheap, it's because somebody's going out of business or somebody has a pile of it for the moment, but it's the last of it. Do you have coffee? Real quick before we go any further, on food, and I want to get this out before we forget, one of our friends pointed this out. BK Freeze Dry Guy got lerps in again. Now, they got the 2013 overrun. This is what he picked up. And because of that, I'm going to point something out. If you go to freezedryguy.com, freezedryguy.com, freezedryguy.com, it's dry guy, D-R-Y-G-U-Y. Ok, Freeze Dry Guy, not freeze, freezedryguy.com. The number is 866-404-3663. Ok, that's 866-404-3663. Go to their monthly specials. That's the fastest way to see the best priced things that were available. Number one, they've got a cute one. I don't know if he paid attention to what he wrote here. It's a bean blowout. Oh, well, yeah, I guess so, sir. That brings some images to mind, doesn't it? Anyway, it is a good price though. This is an excellent price. For everybody out there listening, grab this if you can afford it. The Bean Blot Unit contains one case of delicious freeze dried food which is 6 number 10 cans, $97. Now this is two cans of pinot beans, I think two cans of red beans, and two cans of lima beans. That's six cans freeze dried. These are not dried, these are freeze dried for quick prep. and that's $97 a case for those. Normally they're $129. However, now they also list the new lerps that just came in, which they're asking $150 a case for. Now that's not the big buy. Now because the other inventory, there are two items from the other inventory still there, this is what I'd recommend that you buy. Number one, they've got the Western Eggs with Ham for $112.95 a case. On the other one you have to scroll down. You'll see red lettering. There's only two of these left. One is the Western Eggs with Ham. That's 20 pouches, standard lerp case. If you buy 1-3 they're $113. If you buy 4-6 they're $107. If you buy 7-9 they're $100. If you buy 10-15 cases they're $94.50. and if you buy over 15 cases it's price on request they'll give you even a better price still so if you got a big chunk of change and you're looking at feeding a bunch of people there's a solution right there as far as lerps go to have them on the shelf and they also have the scrambled eggs with bacon same scale same prices those two are from the last batch of lerps that he bought they're the last two that are left now the new menus are $150 a case So, right off the bat, I'm going to be quite honest, if it were me, I'm not worried about, oh, the flavor thing, I'm worried about how much food can I shovel in my face that's going to be reasonably priced and do what I want it to do. So, these are a solution. And again, it's $113 per case if you buy one as opposed to $150. Now they do have the turkey tetrazini, spaghetti with meat sauce, or with meat, entree, the chili mac, Mexican rice, chicken and rice, spicy oriental, beef stew, and the seafood chowder entree, which by the way is $210. Woo, it's a lot. Yeah, but you know what, it's probably pre-food, kushima seafood, so it might be the last that you can, you know, see that it's got some peace of mind attached to it. Yep. So again, the whole point here is that those are all at regular price of, you know, the basic ones are $150. However, the, let's see, chicken and rice are $170. The spicy right now is $180. The beef stew is $188 and the seafood chowder is $210. All the rest, the Mexican rice and chicken, the chili macs, spaghetti with meat sauce, those are $150 a case. Now with those prices, being what they are, I'm going to tell you, be quite honest, I'm going to steer you towards the blowout sale. Because $112.95 is a hell of a lot better than $150 to $200 a case, isn't it? See how that works? I'm just looking at volume. They have the western eggs and ham that's on sale and they have the scrambled eggs with bacon that's on sale. In the darkness you probably wouldn't tell much of a difference. You might have a little more of a smoky smell of the bacon. Otherwise, again this is when you go to freeze-dryguy.com, just go to the monthly specials. Click that. They've got the bean blowout. In fact, to be quite honest, one of the ways to do that, number one, remember the number 10 cans guys are volume. But if you put a whole bunch of people's hind ends, stick their legs under a table and you've got 10 or 12 or 15, 20 people there eating at once, a number 10 can does not go as far as you all think it does. I just want to remind everybody of that. It is not going to take long to go through volume food and as a comparison, go talk to your dietitians at any of your local stores or restaurants where they feed a lot of people or your cafeterias at school. Go ahead BK, I know you've got more. Jim, come in there please. Sure. I'll remind people while we're speaking of little piles of things that are useful. Gun parts court still has the 60 millimeter filters. That is $150 for a case of 45 of those. Those are the ones that you want for the Finn M61, the US M9, and the Canadian C2 and C3 masks. That works out after shipping for about $4 apiece, and you will not find a better deal out there anywhere when gun parts goes empty on these guys. That's the last of any sort of $4 filter you'll be seeing. The other thing that I want to mention, and we have been hammering this one recently, but there's no telling how long it will last, these tend to be fairly short, B-Gene Micro still lists the CR123 lithium batteries at 99 cents a piece and 10 for $7.50. If you have any night vision or if you have radios that use these or, you know, illuminators, Some of the higher power tactical flashlights, things of this sort. Those are designed for the CR123 batteries. These guys, brand new, run anywhere from $3 to $7 a piece. depending on various parameters and so forth, they have the benefit of extremely high shelf life and very good density in terms of power per pound, but they are primary batteries. You use them up and then they are not rechargeable. So this particular batch is dated 2020 expiration. At manufacture, they are nominally 10 years, so these are 4 years on the shelf and as such have been surplused out. There's another 6 years to go officially before they no longer quite meet spec and many years past that before they cease to be useful. These at 75 cents apiece. or maybe a quarter of the best price you will find any place in exchange for six years of official shelf life as opposed to ten. This is a no-brainer. If you can spare any number of pennies to buy some of these things, you should sock some of these away. What's more, BG Micro tends to be very, very good about shipping. They charge you actual cost on the shipping. and whatever their website estimates is not necessarily going to be the shipping. They will routinely refund a few dollars if they find that an alternate shipping method would work better. For instance, you put together an order, they are very good at shoehorning them into the flat rate postal boxes and they will often send you an email saying, turns out your order managed to fit inside such and such flat rate shipping box, here's $3 back or whatever the case is. There's absolutely nothing to be found wrong with their shipping procedures. They're very stand up in that regard. Shipping is actual shipping and nothing beyond that. They don't use that as a means of padding the bill. So, BG Micro, that's bravogolfmicro.com. The CR123 lithium batteries are being offered at 99 cents a piece if you buy just a couple or 75 cents a piece if you buy 10 or more. Grab them while they're available. I'm surprised that they still have these in stock. It's a little bit shocking to me that they weren't just completely vacuumed up by somebody buying $500 or $1000 at a whack. But get them while you can because you're not going to see a bargain like this very often. I don't recall the last time I saw one like this. So grab that now. Again, the idea is to take your management job as quick as you can. I know we're talking about investing a chunk of change here and there, but guys, Take a look at what's coming up on the horizon. You tell me whether or not it's bad money spent. I got this funny feeling you're going to be very, very, very satisfied. It's like all the people who didn't wait until next year to buy a rifle and ammunition, but listen to us back when we were telling you when everything was half or a quarter of the price it is now. Remember that? Half or a quarter of the price. I just did a quick look around today. And you can find 22LR in stock at various sources, for instance. What was that that was me clicking in because I just remembered I told you guys about some of the stuff on government liquidations calm But dad seriously you need to take monahan over to government liquidations calm They have they're in Michigan. There is a hole it looks like a whole machine shop CNC screw machine CNC The tools to make tools, Dad. Steel grinder, forge machinery. There's a whole bunch of it. The opening bid is $25. Nobody's bid on it yet. And it's in your backyard. Very good. Okay, by the way, they also have a half track on the sale too. Coming up in Auburn, California. It's a completely operational half track. Don't give anything to the government, guys. If you donate something to the government, it'll end up going out the back door. They got a fully functional half track, all armored, which is kind of rare for the armor to be intact. Oh, but again, for Michigan, anybody go by state and you can actually ID for Michigan. What do they have? Search for what's in Michigan for sale. Something Muskegon, as a matter of fact, is what it looks like. And... Reserve not met. Oh, that's interesting. This looks like an entire complex also, guys. Anyway, go ahead, BK. I lost my train of thought. What was it saying a moment ago? We were talking about the food reserves. No, we'd gone through the CR123s and there was something else. Darn it. We are down to just a couple of minutes and I was hot on something and I forgot what it was. I'll remember it in five minutes. So, you know, ouch. Okay. Oh, yes, yes. I went hunting and I discovered that an outfit like Graf's has $22 in stock. Ellie Centurion, if you like that. At the bargain price of $22 for a box of 50 rounds. Oh, right. $22 for a box of 50 rounds at $22, Ryan. $22 ammo. What a sale. So, you know, if you're working... Remember what Fred Rexer said back in the 80s about 22 ammunition by the time you're done. It's gonna be like gold guys I'd say it's a pretty reasonable investment when you bought it for 78 cents a box BK anything else That'll do it. Very good sir. God bless the Republic. Yes, to the New World Order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on a march both day and night. Ura, good to go with liquidation. One of the first things that comes up you'll see a silhouette of a half-track. Park that to give you an idea of some of the stuff coming through. It's not obsolete by any stretch of imagination guys. It'll move just as well today as it did when it was built. We'll be seeing a little bit of God bless the Republic. Goodbye. It's 6 42 p.m. Time for Steve Plato and his son Dylan to do the dishes. They talk about everything from the yuckiness of girls to the awesomeness of his soccer team. Sometimes they don't talk at all. Then, the dreaded splash fight. 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