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A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. 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. 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? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? All right, are we on? We are on Okay, well sounds like we don't have Mark, so let's start with the intro. Oh we do. Wait a second, let's try this again. We got you, Dad. I just unmuted him and he muted himself back up again. Okay, here we go. Do we got you now, Mark? There we go. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intel report I'm Mark Kornke. And butter knife. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, southwest, and east. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com, running the FM Microstations, CB Base Stations, and UltraNet Technologies East and West of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're the hallmark network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida to the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both Pitt 3rd and 5th and our friends and the 12 sisters on the left side of the state. Waving to the left coast with the great state of Jefferson, Jefferson nickels, Jefferson dollar coins and two dollar bills. That's what you use Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson to reinforce the great state of Jefferson when you're not using the Jefferson silver that's already in circulation. Turning back to these, we sweep across the plains over the Mississippi and land in the Smokies. We're the restaurant crews, grandma teams, okay teams. And our Ma Bell Grammar Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the golden spike. Well, I'll tell you what, BK, the sun is peeking from the west. It's starting to set here, but it's been a perfect day today. We really couldn't ask for any nicer day than we've gotten. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the date? Well, it's jumping off the wall there, sir. It is 15 August 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this quarter masters corner. It is about 85 and 60% here. That constitutes a comfy and balmy conditions for summer in this area. They say we're going to get up to 100 over the weekend. Summer will be back, they say. Who knows how many pulses like that will occur. I'm starting to see a few leaves hitting the ground, this species and that. But we're still in mid-August and comfortable range. Haven't quite gotten into the wet and nasty and all the leaf raking and all that kind of wonderful stuff. I have been out once again digging in the garden. doing my effort at a hoover culture construction and this has been ongoing for a long time because I get out there and I piddle around at it for a little while and so on. This would be a whole lot easier with a backhoe and a crane but we do what we can. This is sort of one of those painting the kitchen floor type operations. You're digging and then you're standing in the hole and you're trying to figure out where to stand to dig some more. and so on. But I think I'm going to get this completed before winter, so that will at least be forward progress. Anybody who is interested in That weird word I just used, hoo-gle culture, should tune in on Tuesday evenings. The intermediate program between our afternoon and evening hours, wherever you may happen to be in the world, is Grow Your Own, the budding revolution hosted by our friend Joe from the Carolinas. He talks about permaculture and conventional gardening. and strange words like swale and Google culture and so on and so forth. I think I can define that word for you if you're interested. So tune into Liberty Tree Radio on Tuesday evenings in between the afternoon and evening hours. Now, much of LTR and other media is being swamped right now by the little story of excitement going on here in my AO. It's certainly not immediately my AO. North County area is Ferguson, Missouri. It's a suburb of St. Louis and there's some excitement going on. Basically, one of our little angels got into a bit of a tangle with police and was shot and the locals are all unhappy. I have to say there are a couple of different points of view on this and they've been covered to a degree so we're not going to spend too much time on it. But the short form is that when you tussle with the cops and run away, expect some consequences. The consequences should not be a lethal number of gunshots in the back. But at the same time, we're not talking about a choir boy here. This fellow was 6'4 and 300 pounds, clearly performed a strong arm robbery shortly beforehand, though. The cop that grabbed him was responding to a B on the lookout and not to a report, specifically of a robbery. But this was no angel we're talking about and it seems that his business model in recent weeks has been to steal tobacco products and then peddle them at retail on the street. So, you know, this is not a sweet little angel and at the same time you're not supposed to be chopped into chopped liver for wrestling with the cops and running away. So, you know, nutty's on both sides. Meanwhile, we have guys like Sharpton saying, well, I'm going to show up and help. Oh yeah, that's really going to help a whole lot. Locally, it seems that things have calmed down a little bit because the politicians brought in a highway patrol guy to be the face of the authorities. And he's a middle-aged black guy. and seems to be pretty smooth at PR type stuff. So the locals are calming down a little bit. But it's ongoing and the corporate press is going on and on at great length about it and so on and so forth. Video was released today, I think, maybe last night, showing the strong arm robbery the guy had pulled shortly beforehand. and everybody is denouncing that for saying, how dare you release the video? The police chief was under a lot of pressure, everybody painting the guy who was shot as being a choir boy. According to the police chief, there were a lot of FOIA requests and things like that. Of course, they stonewalled those things routinely. His argument that, well, there were so many FOIA requests I had to release it is a little bit weak. But inconvenient truth is inconvenient. for all sides commonly and that video does show that we are not dealing with any misunderstood angel. Comments on that? Well, no, in fact the shots that they did show, the equity of the experience with the little guide that obviously is with the store who is about half the size of, you know, shall we say thugalicious, doesn't paint a very good picture, especially since the body language speaks for itself. Yeah, this Ronnie little store clerk and the guy basically just gives him a shove and sets him on his... behind i think you know i'm not going to have a good look like i'm shopping here and everything you own is mine like we said territory this with this whole thing comes down to from every direction is territory you know the old the old uh... Well, it's as old as villages, towns, and cities, depending upon density and population and the cross-section of the population of the different factions involved. In this case, there's a lot of different players. I was curious, and Henry pointed out, the party store wasn't the one that was stolen from. But apparently somebody in the cross messaging, I was thinking about this, it's like, well, they wrote, you know, this is what happened, or snitches get this, or snitch that, whatever. Well, obviously you see between the social media of those government-provided phones. Somebody got it in their head that that had to be the party store that called the cops even though apparently it wasn't and it wasn't the place that was stolen from it was another location but that was good enough for part of the excuse for ransacking the place and taking home some free booze. Well I gather that a convenience store in the area was out looted and burned but it's not the one that was robbed so. Right, except that it has but the only good thing is that it does have is what Henry was saying that the still pictures so You know, we comment about snitches on the one that was burned, which means that the idiots, you know, they didn't care which party store or somebody told them what. The party store! What was this party store? Close enough. Yeah, we gotcha, Ed. What's up? No, I wanted, uh, you're talking about the verbiage that they're using. Um, something else that you guys pay attention to is remember, you had the protesters and you had the rioters. and then make the distinction in all the news reports about the protesters and the rioters. And we've had riots, but we've arrested all those evil protesters. They haven't arrested any of the rioters. They were each hit a capture. In fact, the rioters and the protesters are two different groups and they clearly mention them in all the news articles and the cops clearly know the difference between the two, but they're arresting the protesters and even the rioters alone. You know the one thing of the riders are shopping they were kind of you know picking and choosing which place you know Yolanda needs a new dress that kind of thing Well, that's called urban war engine, right? Right. We're showing where we're finding justice for mr. B body or boo body or Bruno or bro, whatever his name was I know that guy personally from so many years ago. Yeah, man. Yeah, if you have you get a dress If you abuse Ed, that entitles me to go knock over the 7-Eleven down the street. Exactly. Because it's justice, man. It's justice. No, no, you're ransacking the village. Let's just be, you know, again. That's where the idea, oh, when they were shooting, there was another confrontation. How could they do this? No matter what, it was a lose-lose with regard to any action taken because the first night when they went in and did do the party store and everything else, as we pointed out, the cops did nothing. Why? Well, they were probably quite outnumbered. And of course, also sitting on their hands because they don't get paid to do this that they don't get paid enough for their concern actually they get paid the same if they do nothing or do something so well local cop jobs got a grand total of fifty people on pay right now exactly they did it so again that that first night or there there you have a more they do something that it's like well they did do something the second night once they got their act together but when they did immediately there attacked for that so there's a no win for all you know the whole scenario and again The controlled media, the characters behind the scenes, are the ones stirring the pot. So there's, again, it's a lose-lose in all directions, and for the money suckers, like the Parasite, you know, you mentioned the one coming in, he's not there to help. He didn't finish the sentence. He's there to help himself. Well, exactly. That's his business model. Get in there, stir the pot, get some FaceTime, get some donations, all that kind of good stuff. Then fly out on his commercial or private jet or what have you and leave some mess behind, as the case may be. And show me the money. Remember, that famous line, Tom Cruise, the money. Show me the money. OK, he's gone. That'll be about it. Anyway, go ahead, BK. Okay, on the supply front, things are largely the same as they were last week. There is some powder available. The interesting news that I'm going to report here is that Powder Valley seems to have some of the Vita Buri and 133. That is the stuff that you really, really want for 223 if your budget can stretch to Vita Buri. stuff's $196 for an eight pound, so the days of anything you want and the priciest is at $129, well those days are long gone. But there is some availability here and there are other items also available. If you run last week's archive program you will get pretty much the same rundown. So let's not repeat that. You can pick up the archives www.indianafreedomtalkradio.com Despite all of our discussion of food growing and local production and all of this stuff, we're not going to get around the issue of storage. Even if we're producing foodstuffs and canning and so on, it's important to be able to store and to keep track of what we've got. So there are two things I want to remind people of. One is that We are in mid-August. This is the time when all your local stores are going to be running back to school specials. As little as we hate bureaucracy, a bit of bureaucracy is necessary. Same sort of materials used for bureaucracy are also used for home schooling and just routine operations. So when you take a look around in your local newspaper or what have you, see what kind of back to school specials there are. So routinely there will be things like a package of a dozen pencils or spiral round notebooks, things of this sort. Generally at loss leader prices, generally with strict limits such as three notebooks for 15 cents each, only three at that price, so on and so forth. Seventy-nine cents a piece or more regularly. I would urge everybody to work these sales. If you're commuting back and forth to work, you can stop at the store on the way to work and go ahead and get your three units of this and two units of that and spend, you know, 89 cents or whatever the case may be. And on the way back from work, you stop there and you do it again. And shovel that stuff into your stationary supplies. You will not see those specials the rest of the year. This is the best time to go looking for those. I have picked up spiral-wound notebooks, not this year, but in previous years at Wally World 410 or 15 cents a piece. They normally have a great big huge pile of them. Office Depot, Office Max, Staples, all of those sorts of places run these sorts of specials. And this is the time of year to work those. So as boring as it may be to say pencils and paper and rubbery erasers and so on and so forth are important, think about it. If things really kick off and get interesting slash exciting, that sort of stuff is not going to be high on anybody's priority list to maintain in the supply channel. The paperwork and so on does not seem sexy to the general population either. But these things are important. If you want to do as simple a job as leave a note for somebody going to Fred's house back in an hour, you're going to have to use a piece of paper and a pencil to do that. Work these specials. Stack that up. It doesn't spoil the never shelf life. And it's silly to spend $10 if you could spend $1 comments. Oh again, last year I picked up in the store here in town at the end of the school special cycle backpacks. Black, tactical, mid-size, $2.50 a piece. And they were part of the sale thing for back to school special. Get a backpack with every $40 purchase. Well, at the end of that special, they didn't get rid of all of their backpacks. And so in addition to the crayons, the masking tape, the pencils and everything else, You never know what they've got as a ditty bag or a utility bag or in this case a backpack for only a couple of dollars. Usually they'll have silly logos and animal faces and things like that stuff intended to appeal to the young children but so what? For utility purposes you don't care and if you really need to you can just give them a shot of spray paint. They were just plain black backpack. Well you could get blue or black or red so I took all the black. That's how we worked it. Again, watch for them because as a utility 5-10 item or a handout item to give to somebody who needs something to keep moving, it's more than enough for to mock up a whole bunch of black uniform dudes. The other thing is, remember the utility bags, smaller stuff for medical blowout bags. Stuff that is so cheap, it's not going to last forever, but if it's going outbound, it's probably going to get blood on it. So packing your blowout kits up and something like that and having a multiple number for cheap cheap is a good thing. Well that gives you the ability to put a grab strap onto basically any object. Any object you can fit in there even if it does not require gathering together effect of a bag or concealment effect of a bag or whatnot. The straps and the handles and so on are useful for handling purposes. It lets you throw something in the trunk and be easily handled and that kind of stuff. This is worthwhile. The other thing I would like to mention is that on IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, if you take a look there, you will find an item called BK's Spreadsheet. We haven't talked about that very often, but this is another dimension of the bureaucracy and inventory management stuff. I am of the opinion that people who have put up food, on average, if they're not very old hands at doing this, may fill up a closet or cover a pallet or stuff a pantry or whatnot. Look at all of that and say, golly, I've got a fair amount here. I'm good. I need to concentrate on the sexy stuff. Well, I am of the opinion that a lot of that does not go as far as the eye would tend to think. So I worked up this spreadsheet. It is written in OpenOffice so that it will run on just about any modern computer you might imagine. You can grab a copy of OpenOffice at openoffice.org, download it, install it on your Windows, Mac or Linux machine, grab this spreadsheet and go to work with it. What's different about this one? Well, you can throw together a simple spreadsheet to make lists of things and add up units and so on. But this one does some arithmetic for you, and it has some data built into it that should cover a representative sample of the foodstuffs that people might store. What it does is two things. One, it's a little bit smart, not brilliant, and the code is far from elegant, but it works. about converting units. So it can see that you stored 12 cans that are marked 130 grams each or 5 cans that are marked 8 ounces each or whatnot. And it adds some all up, does some conversions and arithmetic, then converts all that into consistent weight. Then it looks up those products in a little tabbed sheet that's built into the spreadsheet. It is not internet connected. It does not require any sort of external database. And for a large number of food products, it has data on the fat proteins and carbs in those products and does the arithmetic and adds them all up on a summary sheet. So you can see how many man days, man months, man years, whatever of fats, carbs and proteins the data you have entered into the spreadsheet actually adds up to. What I think most people will find is that not only do they have less than they think they do if you are assuming a high activity adult diet, that kind of stuff, but usually there will be some rather extreme imbalances. Usually there will be a lot more carbs and a lot less proteins and definitely a lot less fats than there ought to be. So what this spreadsheet does is it helps you see what you have stocked and how it actually breaks down in terms of protein, fats and carbs on a man day basis. And it does have a facility there so you can adjust the assumptions about how many calories and what percentage fat and all that kind of good stuff you want to use. But it's got what I think is pretty good conservative values in there already. You do not have to tinker with it to do that. It's also preloaded with some example fake data so you can sort of see what's going on. You can see that not only will it handle ounces and grams and pounds and so on. For some items, some of the loose things like, for instance, rice, wheat, some of the beans, things of this sort, it can convert gallons into pounds. It has an idea of the density of some of these foodstuffs and it can convert. So, for instance, if you fill a gallon jug with bulk pinto beans or something like that and say it's one gallon, It will tell you how many pounds that is and then break it down by proteins, fats and carbs and add that into the total. So, it has not been updated in a while. It's been fairly stable. I'm sure that there are items that people store that are not in the little internal database. If somebody is adept with spreadsheets, they can kind of figure out how it's done. If they are not and they wish to email me at the address that's on the documentation tab, they can do so. Send me the data off the label. say this is XYZ brand canned quiche or whatever it might be and serving size is X ounces, package size is Y ounces. The label says so many grams, proteins, fats, carbs per serving and I would be willing to update the spreadsheet and send you a modified copy that does that. Now, there is one warning, you do have to turn on macros. If you get it from a legitimate source, there are no hostile macros. But the macros are what does the weight conversions in a lot of the calculations and so on. So it will be less functional if you do not enable macros. So do that. I recommend you set open office. to ask to turn on macros so that you can say yes or no as the situation requires. But that is available for $0.00 and 0 cents, our favorite price, at IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. That is the source where I send the original and you are free to copy and distribute as many copies as you like. As long as you don't change the documentation page, I have no problem with that. So, comments? Again, the idea is consistent inventory, that way you've got an idea. You may run into odds and ends items. The inventory sheet allows for that, guys. You can enter specific material and support items. You can work into both foodstuffs and other dry goods. Subcategories would include cleaning and sterilization supplies if you're looking at NBC defense, but also just general hygiene. There's a number of other subjects that probably you would add to this to include maybe sub-categorizing specific mobile foods as opposed to what is considered to be A-rations for your retreat or for your home base, whatever you're doing. A lot of times people are looking at having to move around and or looking at a militia deployment and you want to keep track of what you've got that's in the inventory that's for that purpose. Remember that we've got a number of different projects going on simultaneously. You are going to be supporting other people who are of like mind when the time comes. They may need a little leg up every once in a while. That's why we do this. So for everybody that's online... I would point out too that again print these out or print a system out and put a mechanical system in play. I've been getting, I don't know, BK in your area, of course you work on computers, but we've been running into a bunch of free, or almost free, lesser, older, laptops and desktop computers. Well, take one and commit it to that project only. We don't have to worry about it cluttering anything else up. be creative. Maybe you got an older laptop, you went to it, you got a new system, you need that, you know, terabyte computer. Well, to do what we're talking about, you don't need anything more than megs or, you know, a few gigs. So that older piece of equipment you got laying around easily can handle this project. And once it's in play, it's there for you, it's at your fingertips, you know, it's just like, hey, it's like a military operation or Star Trek, man. You're the quarter bastard and you get your job to take care of things and you know what's going on. And you actually have your act together. So that's pretty cool. Open Office is not the most lightweight program in the world. So you may not see dazzling rapid performance on a very old machine but this isn't a video game. If it takes a couple of seconds to do a resort and calculate things, so what? I think you can live with it. Yeah, exactly. It's not going anywhere. Again, I would make a little workstation right there inside the closet, the workspace, whatever you got set up for your storage. And that would be your accounting department right there. So you can keep track of stuff coming in, you can log it coming in, get a little clipboard going there mechanically, and also when you're using stuff up, what's going out. and every once in a while upgrade your computer database so you can, you know, hit that, you know, at your fingertips, click, click, there we go. Now what do we need? Okay, maybe we should go over to the bulk store and pick this, this, and this up. If you're really lucky, you might be near where the Amish are. The other suggestion I might make is that sometimes there are issues of internal household politics. Maybe not everybody is on the same page and so on. If you're responsible for the household grocery shopping and not everybody in the household thinks that it's sensible to be putting things aside, maybe Hubby wants power drills instead of spare mac and cheese or the little lady thinks that shoes are more interesting than having something in the basement. This is a free download. There's no expenditure here. You can run it on any existing PC you want. You can store the data. It's a spreadsheet. It's simple. You can store that data on a flash stick or what have you. If you're doing the grocery shopping, and you buy a little bit of extra now and then and put it aside and so on. Any time you're at Aldi's you pick up a summer sausage and that just sort of disappears off into the storeroom in the basement or whatever the case is. You can keep track of that stuff and without running back and forth all the time and doing inventory and whatnot. You can have some idea of how much run time you have set aside. So, sometimes necessary things have to be done in spite of people not with their cooperation. This may help you figure out where you are and how much progress you have made and so on. A couple of weeks ago we did one of these big picture segments. I don't want to repeat all of that stuff. I will refer people once again to the archives. I think it's very important for people to understand that history is being manipulated We have seen the playbook. We are being run through a repetition of something that was done in the 20th century. There's an aspect of this that we haven't discussed, or at least we haven't discussed very well some months ago. I made a run at it and ran out of time. I think I want to touch this again. Most of us at least have been taught what is called classical economics. This features a phrase that we've all heard, supply and demand, the free market, and all of this kind of good stuff. The idea in this is that there is an economy and goods are produced, manufactured, distributed, sold, consumed, and so on. Money flows back and forth and there is a balance. This is a self-adjusting system. Well, the way we've been taught is that, you know, Fred say... This is a manufacturer of some widget. And he's got expenses, he's got material and labor and overhead costs and so on. He manufactures some stuff and he puts it up for sale. And he's got to figure out what his price is going to be for these goods. And the price is set based on the cost of the material and the cost of the labor that goes into it, some overhead functions because you have to have an office and a roof and a plant and so forth. There are distribution costs in the form of advertising, marketing, transportation, so on and so forth. So you can sort of figure out what things cost. Then as a result, his price is going to be a little bit more than that, whatever he can get, but if he charges too much, there will be competition that will run the prices back down to something resembling the production cost of the goods. So we can factor in all sorts of things including the transportation and necessary marketing costs and so on as part of the cost of goods. And goods are under this model sold at something that reflects their production costs. We can call this classical economics the school children and the college children. I am at the point where I now consider the college students to be children, though they consider themselves wise adults. I would call this a low margin economy. Because what happens here is that the cost of production then gets factored into the goods and we add some margin. But chances are the margin is going to be 10, 20, 25% above the complete production distribution, et cetera, cost. Because if you get too ridiculously high, somebody will come in and undersell you a bit. They've got more or less the same cost structure as you have. So, there's a limit. Let's look at this from a microeconomics point of view. If you are Fred, the manufacturer, and you're cranking along and you're selling a bunch of this stuff, and you're at equilibrium, you're making a bit of money but you're not getting rich, your employees are getting paid at whatever rate the market bears for labor and so on and so forth. and you gain a few percent of market share, you're doing nicely. Suppose you're making 20% on your goods and you gain an extra 10% volume. Well, you're making an additional 20% on that and a little bit more because your overhead is fixed. And so you may be seeing a profit gain of 25%. That's pleasant. It's nice. If you lose a little bit of market share, you've got a bit of a problem, but it's not too vicious because your costs reduce as well. You're using that much less material. Maybe you're not running your people quite 40 hours a week, and so on. Your costs reduce, your volume reduces, your margin gets pinched, your profit margin gets pinched a bit more than the percentage loss. If you lose 10% of your market, You may lose 15 or 17% of your profits and so on, but in general you have to lose a lot before you get into serious red ink and you get into trouble. So, this is a fairly stable system and this is what we are taught as economics, as classical economics. This is what the politicians all refer to when they give us various alibis and talk about supply and demand and blah, blah, blah, even though they know it's all a big, fat lie right now. So, let's get to the part where it's not necessarily terribly representative of truth. Now imagine a slightly different situation. Imagine instead of Fred having all of his goods produced at a particular price and selling them at, you know, say 25% mark-up or something along that lines above and beyond all of his costs. Suppose he charges 200% mark-up. Okay, well that's pretty neat for Fred for a little while. A couple of things can happen. One is maybe somebody will come in and undercut him or maybe not. Suppose somehow we magically prevent other people from coming in and undercutting him. Instead, all of his other competitors all just jack up their prices to match his instead of moving in and competing. Or suppose, for instance, they start buying each other out so that there are only a very small number of producers of something, oil companies. I didn't say that. But suppose that happens. And so they maintain a situation in which enormous margins are charged and a great deal of money is being swept in and so on. What are the consequences of that? Is Fred going to get rich? Well, maybe momentarily. But in the long run, that's not going to happen. Because if Fred is charging 200% margins on his products, and these are products that his neighbors need, well, you know, they're paying through the nose. They're going to have to start raising the rates on their stuff. So whatever they manufacture, whatever services they produce, they're going to have to jack up their rates in order to cover the costs of the things they need. So, pretty soon you reach a new equilibrium state where Fred may be marking up his stuff 200%, but so is Joe and Tom and Louie and everybody else. The power company is gouging you for your power and the water company is gouging you for your water and the grocery is gouging you for groceries and so on because they all have to pay the inflated margins that everybody else is marking up. Can that work? Well, yes, actually it can. If everybody is ripping off everybody else, in theory you can hit an equilibrium point where everybody is still getting by. Does that make sense so far? Oh yeah, no, no. As a matter of fact, that's the point. But it's a flush cycle. It can only go so far and then there's a wall that it hits. Well, yeah, some things happen. These two systems behave a little bit differently. Both of them in theory have equilibrium points. That is, both of them in theory can have a point where they actually function, where they're in status, where everybody's getting by, and so on. But consider what happens if this high margin, high markup economy experiences a little ripple. Suppose Fred is ticking along and he's doing his 200% markup and so on and he's getting by because his electric rates and his water rates and his grocery and all that kind of good stuff gobbles up all of that extra margin. The money is flowing around like mad. But, he's not getting rich because in practical terms he's X percent of the economy and so is his neighbors and everybody else that he deals with. Unless you become a larger percentage of the economy, you can't really become rich in relative terms. It's just a matter of where the accounting runs. Well, Fred experiences a 10 percent increase in his sales. suddenly he's rolling in it because he's got all of these expenses and whatnot, but now he's got 10% more sales of something that he's marking up by an enormous percentage. He's rolling in money. He's got easy street. But the flip side is true. If he loses 10% of his sales for some reason, whatever the reason may be, Maybe the fashion magazine says that his color is out of vogue this week and suddenly all the teeny poppers don't buy his tennis shoes or whatever the case may be. If he loses 10%, suddenly he's in trouble because an enormous amount of revenues are lost and yet his cost basis is still the same. Suddenly he goes into red ink very, very severely. So, basically what the difference between these two models is, is that they can both work. They can both be stable. But if you have a very high margin economy, any little ripple can be extremely disruptive. It is what we would call a brittle system. Whereas the low margin economy, the classical economic thing, what we were taught in school is a more resilient, robust, gummy, tough, resistant system. You see a little bit of gain, you benefit, you see a little bit of loss, you don't benefit so much, but it takes a heck of a hit to knock somebody out. Whereas with this high margin economy, the tiniest little ripple and you go airborne and crash. It's sort of like those hydrofoil racers. You know, they hit a twig and suddenly they are not a boat anymore. They're an airplane for a couple of seconds. Right. So if you get into a high margin economy situation, what you have is an economy that can work But it's very, very brittle. It's very easily disrupted. It breaks easily. Now how do you get from a low margin economy to a high margin economy? Well, I would say that's one word. Overhat. If you start out with a low margin economy and you want to push a society into a high margin economy, Basically, what you can do is you can increase everybody's overhead, everybody's fixed costs. You might say, okay, rents are going to be high on industrial space, but that's kind of hard to do because there's supply and demand in that area. You don't own all of the productive capability and so on. But what you can do is you can start piling up regulations. You can create bureaucracies. You can say, okay, no matter how large or small a manufacturer is, you're going to have to have a 30-person compliance firm, department or consulting firm or something to generate all the 100-page reports. saying that you are in compliance with all these rules. We're going to publish tens of thousands of pages of rules and it's going to take five people full time just to keep reading them continuously. We are going to to elaborate the legal system so that everybody has to have a legal department or you will get sued for God knows what but you'll be taken to the cleaners. Everybody has to have a bunch of lawyers on hand and pay them continuously for doing nothing. They may have busy keyboards and so on but they are not producing one tennis shoe nor one loaf of bread or what have you adding to the enterprise. If you do this and you add to the overhead, then all of a sudden everybody has to go into this high margin economic mode. They have to mark up all of their stuff just to cover all the drones and wasted labor and other such nonsense that occurs in the economy. Then you get into the situation where you have a brittle economy. The little guys experience a barrier to entry. That means if you decide that you want to go into competition with Heinz for pickles, you cannot do like they did when they formed Heinz and start out with a pickle barrel in a shed. You simply cannot duplicate their history. You're going to have to start out with a a zoned facility with all sorts of health inspectors and epoxy floors and sanitary tests and plastics and people in white suits running around taking samples and logging their results and so on and so forth. You're going to have to have lawyers and you're going to have to pay for permits and you're going to have to pay permit fees and taxes. I get the door stuff and so on before you ever open your doors and so on. Therefore, raising the entry bar here prevents competition from below. which allows the larger corporations to continue to maintain their high margin and to not have to compete with people who are going to say, well, a cucumber only costs so much, let's go ahead and make some pickles and sell them cheaper than you're selling them. So you have the secondary effect that not only is competition reduced and a barrier to entry is created, But also the little guys that exist are basically destroyed. They either have to grow very, very rapidly, which is difficult, or go out of business, which is easy, or be absorbed, which is also very common. Either way, the little guys tend to disappear because a 30-man pickle making factory cannot afford a 30-man legal department. It simply doesn't work. 50,000 person pickle manufacturing combine can afford a 30 man legal department. So this is one more method by which an economy is concentrated. Remember how we mentioned this a few weeks ago when we talked about what happened in Europe in the early portion of the 20th century in Germany. when their economy was restructured by fiat and manipulation, all of the little guys, the middle class, the middle size and small businesses and so on, were all obliterated by fiat. They were destroyed, they were rolled into the big guys. Well, this is the way you do that on a large scale, on a distributed basis, if you have a healthy, classical, low margin economy to start with and you want to transition into that system. This is the soft method of doing it. You lay on overhead and you add burdens. which are easy enough to justify initially. For instance, back in the 60s we created all of these environmental laws because there were corporations who were just pumping massive amounts of putrid glop into the rivers. There was a problem to be addressed there. We create a bunch of environmental laws and regulations and so on. After a few years, all those bad actors are pretty much cleaned up and they're stopped or put out of business or whatnot. Then the bureaucracy proceeds under momentum and it grows and it expands its reach. It continues to justify itself and its expansion by publishing more and more regulations. same sort of thing with the emissions controls. We say, okay, well, the cars are kind of stinky. We do a really stupid and inefficient fashion of cleaning that up. The Congress decrees the actual emissions levels, and the Congress doesn't know anything about the chemistry. So they spend billions of dollars. coping with environmental laws that are written by a bunch of lawyers in congress who simply shift the decimal point and decree it and expect everybody else to do it. But the same thing happens. Your overhead skyrockets, the margin on every produced unit has to increase tremendously to cover all the R&D and there are various entry to the little guys. One of our friends in chat says, yeah, don't forget to point out the healthcare stuff. That also is another shot across the bow. That's not one of these direct overhead costs, but it is an overhead cost. I would say that the 70s and the 80s were an exercise in creating this sort of extremely high overhead and transitioning us from the traditional low margin style of economy to a high margin style economy. It has the effect of peeling out more and more of the labor force and putting them into intrinsically non-productive activities, accounting and regulatory hassles and, you know, filing paperwork and all of this kind of good stuff. So that reduces our industrial base. But at the same time it has the secondary effects of not only crushing our little guys, but making the economy very, very brittle. If your goal on down the road is to break an economy, you want it to be brittle. Remember, there are bicycle locks that people learn to defeat by squirting free on them and then hitting them with a hammer. When they were tough and gummy, you couldn't break through them with a hammer. But if you could make them brittle, then you could shatter them and get them free. You can do the same thing to an economy. If your plan is to set us up for a massive fall, then coming along and trying to squeeze us doesn't work, but lifting us up into the air and then slamming us down onto the ground will, or at least much better. all of this stuff ties together. Cast your memory eyeglass back and think about the way things ran in the economy, say in the 50s and 60s, and then compare that to the way the economy works in, say, the 80s, 90s, and aughts. And see how much we have been transitioned inch by inch from this classical low margin economy to this inefficient, brittle, very, very dangerous, high margin economy. And you will see that once again another leg of the program we talked about a couple of weeks ago of setting up the US as the rabid dog monster and then smashing it is underway and has been executed. Inch by inch, solely frog boiling. It has taken a long-term concentrated disciplined approach to do it, but over time it has been accomplished. It is very much a combined arms attack. There are many, many venues of attack on the public. The illegals is one of them. The chemical poisoning is one of them. The toxic pharmaceuticals. We go over all this stuff. This is one of those venues that we haven't talked about very much. Shifting us over from a low overhead, low margin to a high overhead, high margin economy is one of the most effective attacks and one that we've barely noticed. Wait and see if this is not a key factor when things get really, really exciting. I'm losing my voice. I've soliloquied too long, but we're out of time anyway. So anyway, additional comments or wrap ups? Oh, again, that's the obvious objective is to try and break the system in general. We've got several different fractures that they've graded with the economy combined with the attack on the workforce. That's what the whole thing about the invasion from across the border is. We've already got a high unemployment level in place. What are we fighting over in America now? What, minimum wage jobs? We need to increase the minimum wage jobs. Well, we used to be fighting over the idea that we were making trades wages. And that's all gone. There's a reason that it's all gone. There's method to the madness. Perhaps people are saying that. Well, we used to have a tax sector that was involved in something other than making cruise missiles. Exactly. Again, a diverse economy. That's one of the other things that they don't really want to talk about is the idea of what has happened with regard to even the technical base. Well, we export movies in 777s which seem to display a remarkable tendency to go down any time somebody wants to predict. All I have to do is check to see what we have as a goal and where we are with regard to expenditures. And if you can pitch in and help, we greatly appreciate it. It's one of those things where many hands make for light work, as we've talked about many times. So go to libertypreradio.4mg.com. Check out the numbers right there at the middle of the page. It's very easy to find. You'll see what our goal is. You'll see what we've accomplished. And we'll say thank you to all of our friends that have donated. It's made a big difference, guys. and I would remind everybody again that we have this end of the year bill once a year and we don't do it all the time but every once in a while it's got to be done. It's just that simple. It's the way it works. So if you can pitch in and help we'd appreciate that. A dollar for every month of the year, $12 makes, you know, Ben, everybody does it. We'll get to the goal just like we did last year. Also, reminder, rap4.com, $20, assault vests, and airsoft-club.com. They have the other half, BK for under or about $20. The backpack rig along with all the other accoutrements or you can go with a side bag hanger system in ACU in all the other camouflages. 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Should be hearing the music here any moment now, I believe. And we are headed to the weekend. Don't forget the Hamfests and the gun shows coming up this weekend, especially the Hamfests. Six meter rigs. Don't forget we've got a couple of solutions we brought forward with regard to repeaters. The guys ordered one of everything that was available from the one company, BK. They're going to set them all up this next week. and we're gonna test every model to find out what they do. Also watch your resale bins. I just picked up a CB base station with upper and lower sideband. Everything on board and I paid a whopping what, three, four dollars for it? I have to figure out because I bought a whole bunch of other things and the radio was just in the side. and it is a base radio but type that we actually use for the uh... you know if cb base station radio rebroad casting up in the middle of the state to cobra and all i saw a blood sort of a world did uh... that come along with Oh, I got miles of cable coax, I got a bunch of data cables, three wireless mice with the card, the whole nine yards, a dozen mice, literally standard cable mice, which I bag up and separate by type. And I got an Apple, what's the one that looks like it's got a sphere for the base? I mean, pay attention to the model, but they've got a great chest, they've got a great chest program on board. That one that looks like half a bowling ball. Yeah, exactly. It looks like the other half of what should be in the older apples. You know, we always call those bowling ball cases. But they're beautiful machines. Every one that I've gotten has functioned flawlessly. They're a neat little space age machine. They'd be great for a video prop or something if you're doing a sci-fi thing. But I think I paid a total of $6. Well, if you pay the right price for them, they're fine. Bear in mind that Apple's business model is that they don't exist after three years, so you're on your own to maintain them, whereas a Windows machine is made out of commodity parts that you can get freely. Right. Well, the other half of it is that that's just it. We've been getting piles of Dells and IBM clones in pods of four. I don't know why this is happening the way that it is, but all the basic same models that they're selling in town. Everything on board, all the RAM, so far what I'm thinking of doing, like I said, the next radio truck we do, I'm going to take four of these Dells and commit them to the radio truck because I've got all the accoutrements, we've got all the monitors, everything is all identical and I've got duplicate after duplicate. So the other thing that is showing up right now from the volume end here, are the connectors and cables. But most important is some exotics because some people have more money than brains here. And it's great because we're finding multi-station or gang connectors I wouldn't normally see and I always watch for those. That makes for a very convenient package when you're doing radio stations or if you're doing field broadcasting where you want a compact system where you can connect several other pieces of equipment. And I would say this again like I was talking to a young guy when we were looking at all the other stuff. There was piles, I mean there's piles. I get rat nests of this stuff coming in, virtually new. Or like new, I mean clean, very clean, not dirty, not messed up. And it's like I said, if you're patient you can make a connector kit that would cover anything in computer or anything in, for instance, what we were looking for were stereo and speaker plugs for small sound systems. and I literally have... I've found stuff I've never seen before but it definitely is useful going from small format, you know, stereo pins to mono pins from stereo to stereo from multi-gang to single station and it's both ways so by the time you're done without spending dollars you can put an entire package together so that if you're in the field and somebody goes, well I'd like to play this but I've only got this And they go, oh, well no problem, we can hook that up. See, that's part of having a utility bag, a bat bag, for when you're doing broadcasting on the move. That was our trick when we did radio with the old Intel report back in the 90s. We did the program from anywhere from telephone poles to offices to you name it. And the advantage or the way we were able to do that is I had this little bat bag together where I collected every conceivable connector. I had backup wiring, plugs, strippers, everything on board. And I had multiples. So if we had somewhere where we had to jury rig one from one jump to the next, we could do it. Did you just live with the noise that's produced by the square wave inverters or did you go full sine wave or plug into the grid? Actually, I found filters. It's really fun. It's like today I got something I've never seen before. I honestly am going to have to figure out what it does. But it obviously is a low-pass filter of some kind, but it's really neat because it was made with its own wooden little stands and everything and is actually quite well thought out. It's obviously a little guy production item. But it's obviously, again, it's a filter system of some kind of noise reducer. It's new enough that it has a web page on it. So I'm going to look that up tonight. But that's an example. If you see it, it's like, well, it doesn't cost anything. Basically, you get a pile of stuff the size of a grocery cart for $4. And when I say the size of a grocery cart, I'm talking solid wood stuff. Ram cards, hard drives. I screwed up because somebody had dropped off several hundred hard drives, and I probably could have got them all for $10. And guys, I have no interest in them as hard drives. I have interest in them for the gold. I wasn't thinking. There's not much gold in there, but I look at those as a source of some very, very good magnets and a lot of aluminum alloy that can be recast into other things. Yeah, cannibalizing for all kinds. That's my whole point. We strip them down to the components. But the thing is that stuff like that, when you're dealing in 1's or 2's, it's one thing. But literally this stuff is becoming, it's in waves. If we actually were smart, we'd actually have a production site where you do the most everybody's charging to donate stuff to get rid of electronics. If we were smart, we'd be offering a place a free, free, free drop it off. It goes in the door and you write you route it and prioritize it accordingly and then disassemble for its you know, valuables. Well, I've tried with the notion of disrupting and interfering with those electronics recycles by getting out there with a truck and posting a sign saying, you know, $1 for your microwaves and things like that. Because a fair percentage of those have a nice big transformer in there that you want to get out and so on. And even if you strip out a few prime parts out of each and then you bring it around to the next