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O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in 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? Okay. Oh there you are go ahead. Here. We go good evening ladies and gentlemen this is the evening intel report i am our kirky and butter knife one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories southeast east northeast and central ladies and gentlemen you are listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com, we're on AM&FM micro stations, CB base stations, and alternate hallmark and golden spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Well, looking like it wants to storm, but kind of not really. It's interesting the weather's the way it's going here in Michigan right now. But a good day overall, it hasn't really rained on us, but it's been like it's, you know, threatening nonstop. That's expected. It's that time of the year and we're getting a wet summer. BK, what's it like over in your neck of the woods? What's the day today? What's jumping off the wall, please? It is 19 June 2015. 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 the sentence for the day, for the week, I think is, he's reloading. Get him. Again and again. We can't do that. We won't have an episode. Well, I wonder where common sense has gone, because that seems pretty obvious to me. On the other hand, you know, I may be... unusual in my psychology or a participant in a younger demographic than my calendar age or who knows what. I'm one of these people who says, oh, the champion ooze is up. Everybody get him. And we all swarm over to kill the champion ooze. If you play the game that I do, then that will make sense. But that reaction should be sufficiently ingrained in everybody that when a real world situation arises, at the very least everybody should have the idea and half of them should put it into action. It's a little bit dismaying to hear stories about people just kind of sitting there like lumps waiting to be perforated. That just seems kind of silly. But we don't have video and we don't know what happened and we know better than to trust the press reports on anything. So I guess that's my comment on that whole topic. He is reloading. Get him. It's very widely applicable to a wide range of situations, right? We have had some interesting supply disruptions this last week or two. I don't know if we've talked about that on air. I don't catch every hour of the intelligence report. I try to catch most of them. People will have heard that there is an egg shortage. Ed brought that up a couple of weeks ago. that is being noised about more in Texas apparently than nationally, but it certainly affects the national market. Looking into this more closely, it seems that this is a side effect of the large-scale agribusiness practices that we have been denouncing for many years. The very large operators tend to run very, very large flocks of chickens, all with exactly identical genetics, packed closely together in these enormous chicken houses, fed all exactly the same stuff, including sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics, which itself is a bit of a problem with regards to bacteria. that has no effect on viruses, of course, and thereby making their flocks extremely vulnerable to any disease that tailors itself to the genetics of the flock because without any genetic variation or environmental variation, if one chicken is subject to an illness, the other 10,000 in that building are similarly subject to that illness. and this seems to be what's going on from what we hear. There are some outbreaks of an avian flu of some sort and not only are they losing chickens to the illness but they are killing entire massive flocks of chickens in a panicky effort to try to stop this raging disease because they have no other method of doing it. They have wasted their capabilities with antibiotics that may be a virus, in which case antibiotics would be irrelevant anyway, they have not gone to a range of different breeds and varieties of chickens which would lead to some flocks being resistant to whatever the other flock has caught. So, at last count they have killed something like 35 million chickens in an effort to stop this raging epidemic among the chickens. That's out of 300 million chickens that exist, so they've killed more than 10% already. And this has caused some shortages in the egg market. In the short run, it is a... Excuse me, are we okay? I'm hearing some noises on the line. In the short run, its immediate effect is in what they call the breaker market. That is, eggs that are sold institutionally to restaurants and so on because they are not cosmetically ideal for the retail market but used in bulk. However, any time one product becomes short, then there's a substitution effect. The economists will talk about that. If the price of steel goes up enough, then the price of aluminum will go up because some of those applications for steel can be substituted for aluminum. If the restaurants can't get the cheap eggs they're used to getting, they will shift over to the more expensive eggs that you're used to seeing in your grocery store, and that will drain that supply and the prices will rise and so on. We are seeing price rises already and we are warned to expect to see some shortages even at the retail level. I can attest to that fact. I was looking at the Honeyville grain page a while back and the dried powdered as well as the freeze dried egg that they have listed is still on the site but it's marked out as stock unavailable. Now, you will recall that as long as three or four years back, I have been encouraging people to order the bulk powdered egg from them. They offered that in 50 pound boxes. They are a large cardboard box with a plastic sack inside. When I first started advocating that, that 50 pound box was something in the $160 to $180 range, I think, if I recall correctly. Maybe you recall more specifically, do you Mark? Not off the top, but remember there were a few sales too, actually. So at different times it offered them for a better price. Right, and they have 10, 15 occasionally, once in a very long while, 20% off. And I would generally jump in there and say, okay, here are the powdered eggs, and if you had the sale multiplier, the cost comes down, and so on and so forth. So at any rate, we watched the price of the powdered eggs rise a little bit over time. I saw them cross the $200 mark, and I think they got up to around 250. Right now, they are listed at 350. So, they are listed at something like double the price that they were when I first started advocating everybody should buy one of these things and repackage it and put it in their stores. However, the 350, 450 pounds, 7 dollars a pound is not available right now. I called them and spoke to them and asked them about that. And they said yes, we are out, this is because of the egg shortage. We expect it to be about six months before they are back in stock. Well, six months is basically about the amount of time it takes to breed a new batch of chickens and start getting their eggs again. So that makes sense. That suggests that while they may have contracts with some of these suppliers, they are probably not the highest priority customer for those suppliers because they are smaller volume I would surmise, and they are getting a decent price on them whereas the suppliers can dial up the price rather rapidly to restaurants and that sort of stuff. So they will tend to divert their available production to whomever they can charge the most for. So do not expect to see the powdered stuff at Honeyville for the next six months. Meanwhile... You can get powdered eggs still. The shortage is not an absolute shortage. It is a supply pinch. If you take a look on Amazon, you can find, for instance, powdered egg there. It is not $7 a pound as it was in the bulk pack from Honeyville. You can get it for only $40 to $45 a pound. Oops. Boop. Uh, yeah. Ooh, like Wallet Crunch and you just felt the bill shrivel, right? Right, very similar to the 60 millimeter gas mask filters that were $150 for a crate and then one day there were $900 for a crate factor, six there. If you look on Walmart.com, one of our friends sent me a little email to that effect and I took a look and he's right. Walmart.com does list A number of food items packaged as bulk emergency foods in number 10 cans and so on, powdered egg is one of the things that they do list. At $45 for 36 ounces, they say only a dollar and a quarter an ounce. Well, if you multiply that out, that's about $24 a pound. Well, that's better than the Amazon price, I guess. In all fairness, we will point out that packaged in number 10 cans, the Honeyville price is higher than the bulk Honeyville price. But even so, it looks as if currently the best deals you're likely to find are something on the order of six times the cost of what we were advocating for so long. It gives me no pleasure to say I told you so. because each time I say, I told you so, that means something went sideways, something went wrong. Some of you probably took our advice and acted on whatever. Some of you disregarded it, some of you listened, but resources were too tight to clear it. None of us have a crystal ball to tell exactly when the window is going to close on particular things. Certainly the 60 millimeter gas mask filters was a surprise for me. I was thinking, maybe I should get another box of those. And that's how I discovered the $900 price jump. Ouch. Because I was kind of thinking that maybe I can use one and not at $900 though. So this has hit us in the powdered eggs. Anybody who acted and got some powdered eggs, good on you might as our friends down under might say. Anybody who didn't you have our condolences will do what we can in terms of finding the best prices and things of this sort. But there are limits. I don't have chickens in a pottering line. So, you know. There's not a whole lot I can do for that. But we told you so and expect more of this kind of stuff as the economy and supply chain collapses. Comments? Well, the thing too, again, as we pointed out from the get-go, diversification, spreading more material out. If you have small egg producers, they're not being hit by this except that, well, guess what? Everybody's turning to them. So I had a lot of people say, well, I'll just go down the street here and buy it from Fred. We actually have one guy, BK now, since last time you were through, that put the chicken pen literally right out next to the road. So it's part of the farm market down the street here. And everybody does the same thing. They see those chickens, he must have more eggs, he'll be able to double the output of the eggs. Well guys, the chickens only make so many eggs. There's no crank up button. No, hey double production. What do you mean? Well, we'll hit that button there and crank their tail feathers. It doesn't work that way. So what's happened is there's this phenomenal demand for all the local production and they're at peak. They have no problem disposing of and selling every egg that the little chickens are dropping out their rear end right now. The problem is they can only make so much and the demand has now reached peak. They can't go anymore. Actually, one thing that's happening straight out the window from where I am, there are 150 new chicks that are now pre-concised chickens. In fact, this batch has taken off. They're going to be the next batch of layers to double production. What's more if they decide to manufacture more chicken away? Go ahead. Yeah, what's more if they decide to manufacture a few more chickens so that they have more capacity, that means some of those eggs don't hit the market for a little while because it takes a few months. Gotta have something to start with. What do you think the chickens made them for in the first place? Wasn't for us. They're not there. Well, they are there for our convenience for now, but not originally, guys. Okay, so that's the other issue. Now, the biggest problem is I know a lot of people are thinking, well I'll get some chickens. Well it really is a good idea, but just do a little research and go to YouTube because there's a bunch of people who have been doing some really good compressed farming work. Some of the stuff I recognize, they may or may not have gotten it from there, maybe somebody else told them, or maybe they just used common sense. Farming on Five Acres. It's an excellent book. It was originally offered by Lindsay Publications years ago as a reprint of a text that was done back before the Depression and then was reprinted during the Depression. One of the things it talks about is compressing your production. In other words, keeping everything a little tighter and whatever you have in the way of waste, you design everything so it goes right to the next step. In other words, you know, if the chickens are, you know, create chicken poop, well, you set them up so that the chicken poop is already in position, ready to be scraped up, throw in the wheelbarrow, ideally tossed over in the next direction where it's going to be molted, you know, and again, you compost it with a knife because chicken poop is hot. You know, there's a term you'll hear, it's hot. So as far as using it, you've got to break it down. There are a couple tricks there. Hey, you got other animals, if you got a little farm, you're feeding. A combination of the hay scrapings, the chicken feces and other materials help to create a quick turnaround and a very rich fertilizer in concentrated form. Still, you've got to age it, you've got to pay attention to your timing on it, and that's one of the other factors when it comes to what probably is really the issue with these large production facilities. You've been by them. The conditions are not good. I know it's just the nature of the beast, but here again, what they did is all these farms that used to produce were Fred Hedda Farm, BK Hedda Farm, Mark Hedda Farm, Bill Hedda Farm, Bob Hedda Farm, and all these other farmers. One by one, the Department of Agriculture helped to destroy them. And now here we are. Once you take a hit, the bigger it is, the more of a herd it puts on the supply train. This is why we've talked about this forever. Now you're seeing part of it and you're going to see more. The other thing to remember, this is a flu issue with the chickens. One of the other things that changed in the dynamic here is a big lump. They haven't really talked about this. You've got a big lump of processed chicken that normally would be out there as either roasting hands or they would be, again, turned into a number of different Oh, stocks or canned or whatever taken right down the list because canned chicken is a big thing again. Well, it's actually taking a chunk out of that market because these animals aren't going to be offered on this market, at least we don't think so. So, there's a heads up there. How many tons of food production are lost? And it's actually, I'm sure, in the hundreds, if not thousands of tons. That's how you have to measure it. Remember, they're looking at what was the term BK they're using? They're not looking at making chicken or whatever. Now they're looking at it as just making food. They're not worried about quality. They're just thinking about volume and still charging the same prices if there was quality involved. Well, yeah, and the whole system is looking forward to adjusting its operations. That brings us to another topic, but let me inject before we shift topics. While eggs are getting scarcer and more expensive, I don't know exactly why, but bacon is getting cheaper. So what do we do when things are getting cheaper? We buy more and we put some back. So anybody who is busy putting things back and is trying to prepare and so on is a little bit dismayed by the egg situation. You may be able to hang in there for a few months on the eggs and get back to the point where you can actually afford powdered egg and whatnot. In the meantime, there are things you can do. You can watch your sales. And when you see bacon on sale, Do not think that the only way to preserve bacon is to shovel it into the freezer. That works, you can do it. But you can can bacon and we have discussed this a number of times. It's in the archives many times. The short form is you just use a standard canning procedure. The easiest way is to just pack it into the jars and can it as you would anything else. There are nicer, more aesthetic methods of doing it. which basically boils down to getting some parchment paper, laying it out on the parchment paper and rolling it up and then you can that. You will get less in each jar but it will be in nicer condition when you pull it out so that you may be able to fry up whole strips as opposed to just using it as bulk baking for cooking type purposes and so on. But you can apply I heard something there. in the form that they are used to seeing it in, which is fried bacon. So no matter how long you guys have it in storage, if you've got it canned, you need to trade it the way that the people out there are looking for it to come to them, which is fried. Right? So crispy bacon. So no matter how long you have it, that's how you want to trade it to them. So what BK is talking about is very important, but remember, when you take it out of the can, you guys need to fry that up. and then give it to the folks out there in that format. And you probably got, I don't know, BK, probably about, what, three to four days at the max without refrigeration? Well, once you open the can, the jar, then yeah, you've got maybe three or four days. You have certainly killed any bugs when you did the canning process. So you're starting out at a very, very low concentration of viable bacteria when you open the container. But if you can something home canning it, and you do a proper job of canning it, and the lid is depressed and so on, that's good for years. And so that's a form of banking as far as food stuffs are concerned. If you've got that information, that specific stuff canned, that is a form of banking. It's a food bank on a very, very small scale local level. So make sure you all keep that in mind when it comes to growing your own food or producing your own food, even with pork or with poultry. So just remember that. does not have to come from the food stores over and out. Very good. Appreciate that, sir. Thank you. Right. And you can hand-can other stuff as well. If you get pork on sale, there's absolutely no reason. You can't roast that in the oven, get it all cooked up, dice it up, pack it in the jars, and can that, for instance. It's not going to be what you would call a gourmet food. But when there is shortage, suddenly the gourmets all vanish. Right? You mean the gourmets? Yeah, the gourmets. Well there again, it's like we said, the combination rolled oats, maybe some bacon, sardines, only because you might be able to get them cheap just before the end or it probably will be one of the last things people, a lot of people think about. And again, balance that accordingly. If you're trading and exchanging, you've got to come up with a money system. You've got to come up with an equitable trade and know what the value of everything is. Coffee, tea, bacon. You know, it's funny, bacon is one of those things that everybody kind of goes, ah. and recognizes. So it's not a bad thing to have in the inventory, which is what BK is talking about here. It is a commodity item that is so big that, well, hey, come on, take a look at the futures system and what pops up there in the list of things that are readily available. Bacon rashers and pork bellies are two items that are specifically listed in the commodities market. and are very very high on the list by the way. They're one of those many things that you'll notice even in the movies usually and pork bellies are up you know then they'll start doing the pricing thing and it's like wow okay are they really that important? Well if you know the economy yeah so this is one of those plan ahead things where like you said while we can get it cheap while we can get it American I really would recommend doing that. Probably a good idea. Go ahead, BK, please. Right. Okay. So the topic we're about to fly back off onto, we'll touch once again on this whole shooting incident, is that many of the shooting incidents that have occurred in the last few years, as we've discussed at great length, and we're not going to rehash them at this point, have clearly been SIOPs, have been operations were set up. The shooter was one of these Prozac Prodigies or a drug zombie, whatever you want to call it. I do not even think the Aurora shooter was the shooter. I think that he is probably a completely innocent victim. You know, drugged to the eyeballs, parked in the car, and then the shooters went in. Shooters, plural, went in, did their job, fled. We even saw photographic evidence to the effect that there were probably two of them, perhaps three. There were certainly two gas masks discarded on the ground and seen. And, you know, that one poor schmuck stuck in the car to be the Patsy. But there will inevitably be the occasional incident that's an actual incident. And this might have been one such, where somebody on his own went and did this sort of thing, with enough incidents of that sort being dangled in front of the national mind and the idea placed in enough brains, sooner or later somebody's going to take a hint and execute the program that's been fed to them. This may well be such a case. The corporate press passing on a particular incident may, however, be a bit more directed than that. For instance, there could be an incident like this every week and they choose to make an event out of this one and ignore the other 51 weeks of that year for other reasons. Why might that be the case? Well, perhaps as distraction from something or other. What other things are going on recently that the establishment would want the public to be distracted from? Well, there are a number of them. One has been mentioned here. Bobo just got his permission from the Congress to participate in what they're calling euphemistically trade promotion. which basically means that he gets to negotiate with far less interference from the Senate trade deals with other countries and those treaties of course the establishment will treat as being supreme and overriding our own domestic law and so on. One side effect of that is that if the Chinese are allowed to set up shop here on an industrial basis They can treat people in ways that are violations of our labor laws and laws of free contract and perhaps even just laws against straight out abduction, false imprisonment, etc. Another one is that the whole Bilderberg thing has been going on and the corporate press has not been talking about that. The Bilderberg Group is a gang of moderately high-level vampires getting together and basically planning the next year. And here is one that we have mentioned here but not talked about a whole lot. In this same time period, the House just voted to remove any requirement that meat be labeled with a country of origin. isn't that special. Apparently there are too many housewives and other people who go to the grocery store, look at the package, and if it says it came from China, maybe they don't trust the purity, cleanliness, etc. of that meat and choose not to purchase it. The Canadians are yammering that, oh, labeling stuff is coming from Canada is discriminatory against them. But they are absolutely full of hot air in that. It is my opinion that if somebody sees a package made in Canada, that does not induce any sort of negative reaction. They probably consider Canada to be at first world processing standards. Whether they deserve that or not, I don't know. Certainly made in the US, it no longer means the sort of thing that it used to mean. But we have been told that the Canadians feel that they are discriminated against if packages of meat that come from Canada are made in Canada. I think they are full of it. I think that what people are concerned about is made in China, being on the label, and that is what the Congress just acted to stop so that we cannot tell whether something has been packed in China. This basically means that unless you know for sure the origin of a food product, Assume the worst. Assume it came from China. Assume that it was washed in sewage water. Assume that they cooked it in grease that they extracted from their sewers. Because there was a scandal a while back in which the Chinese were publicized, you know, the practice in China of scooping grease out of the sewers and reselling it was publicized and they passed a law in China saying that you can't sell that for human consumption in China. They did not say You cannot sell that for human consumption to the round eyes. They just said you can't sell it to the Chinese like that. And that was their reform. So there's no telling what the heck it is that's coming in any food product that comes from China. That's what people are concerned about. And that I think is the reason that Congress just passed this law saying You can no longer label the country of origin because we don't want you to know when something comes from China. You peasants are not to be fussy about your food stocks. We will feed you what we see fit to feed you and you will like it. Comments? Well, again, the fact that they pushed these items through one after the other now should have given a pretty good feel for where the agenda is headed. especially with the food issue as they start to do the old foreclosed thing, then they're going to be shifting a lot of the resources out of country. This is what happened in Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine, when the Communists were in charge there. They've primed the pump and set it up completely for it to happen here with no way to confirm or identify what it is the Chinese set back. Isn't it interesting that you won't have a clue? Yeah, and isn't it interesting that so many sleazy things are all happening all at the same time, all eclipsed by the same shooting incident? Yep. Again, watch my right hand, watch my right hand. Oh, my left hand was busy stealing from you. And they feel so proud about the whole process, too. Keep that in mind. Yeah, don't pay attention to what I'm doing with my right hand and know that has nothing to do with the strange sensation you feel. Okay. Let's see. Meanwhile, I think that the economy is slowing down much more than anybody is admitting. We are accustomed to the idea that they lie to us about economic numbers. Certainly, They have lied to us about employment numbers because they have persisted in the fiction that the people receiving benefits are the only ones who are unemployed and that of course is quite ridiculous. I am seeing other things that suggest that the retail market is slowly deflating and collapsing. I'm seeing a lot of sales. I'm seeing a lot of coupons. Even the local Pizza Hut, for instance, is running an awful lot of coupons now. They've got list prices on some of the big, super elaborate pizzas that might run up to $15, $17 if you add them all up. They're putting out coupons all the time at $10 for these things, or $11 for all of these things, or a medium with three items for $6, and so on and so forth. I think that there's, the only reason for that is that sales are soft. And it's not any particular hostility towards Pizza Hut, per se, because, you know, they are not receiving the horrible press that, for instance, McDonald's is and so on. I think that this is just a symptom of a generally weakening street-level, retail-level economy. and that by observing these things you will perceive that the fix is in. At the same time, on the energy market we're seeing some interesting anomalies. Oil prices have stabilized at around $60 per barrel after they've been driven from roughly $100 all the way down to $50 as part of the economic warfare against Russia, basically. Gasoline stocks are up and crude oil stocks are down, basically meaning that they have been running the refineries at normal rates and converting all of that crude oil and storage into gasoline, but the gasoline hasn't been selling. Sales of gasoline are soft, and at the same time, even though the wholesale price of the oil is hovered at 60 and been stable there for a while, In the last few weeks we've seen the retail prices of gasoline shoot from about $2.30 around here to about $2.80 around here. So the wholesale costs are stable, stocks on hand are rising because it's not selling at the same time they're jacking up the prices. You can explain to me how that works. All of the people that try to apply classical economics and are always apologizing for the system and finding excuses for it and saying there is no manipulation are silent at this point because nobody can explain what's going on there. Have you seen that same sort of price behavior? Yes, same thing going on here with the gas issues and in fact talking to some of the guys traveling a lot. We've been running all over the place. I talked to different people and they're saying that even the normal pricing system, normally they call in the morning and they'll get a set price. One of the things that's happening is they're getting callbacks. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Change it. And this is something that normally you wouldn't see. Everybody's usually pretty well settled in. You know, at the beginning of the work day, the new prices are posted. Now everything's electronic. Used to be guys, if you remember this, used to go out with a lot of places they still do, you'd have to go out and flip over the numbers. Okay, you don't see much of it anymore. Everybody knows that the flexibility on gas is such that we actually have digital lighting now. And so that's an additional expense for the powers that be as far as the people around the gas stations. The signs didn't cost any electronics. It's a one-time capital cost and the central office can simply send a command out through the internet to tell a station that its price has changed and it talks directly to the pumps and the sign and it goes up and the clerks may not even be aware of it. Well, they're still doing it. They're still getting their calls in the morning, but it's the idea that They're seeing change-ups, which is an adjustment that does come from the higher-ups. They're mapping out the gas prices, just like the electronic industry maps out its power distribution. and it's interesting that it's actually, it's always been tight. They'll change prices during the day. All of you have seen this. You know, you go over to the gas station off the truck stop and it's $3.35. You figure, oh okay, I'll go get some lunch. Come back over and grab some gas on the way home. And you come back over and... $3.65 a gallon or $2.60. What the hell is that? Now most of them I shouldn't say three because they're staying or hovering below three or right around three. They peaked $3.00 in a little bit here in the area and that lasted a few minutes and then they boop bumped it right back down because they felt the pinch right away. Everybody stops buying. Right, they probably can see that in real time and they say suddenly, you know, there weren't any sales this hour. Okay, well we'll dodge it down a couple of cents or what have you. But we've all had the experience of driving past the station coming back a couple hours later and it's a different price. So yeah. Interestingly enough, I think the other part about this is within the auto industry, something I've commented on and I just told somebody to ask me, where can I get a truck right now? And I said the best thing you can do is jump on M52 right here in the middle of the state. You drive right up the center of the state and then we get up to 46, take a radical left, you know, the return 90 degrees, and keep right on going. You'll see several hundred trucks. I have never seen, until this week, I have never seen the number of vehicles out by the road for sale that I've seen this last five days. You're my private IACLs or 18 Wheeler Trailer? pickup truck light to heavy truck, Suburbans, little baby Suburbans. Cars are in the minority. That's what's interesting. I think what most of this is, to be quite honest, is it's not that they're getting rid of everything they own. It's that they probably were going to get chump change for the truck and their logic was that they would sell it because they got a great deal because the auto industry is selling, you know, they're making deals like there's no tomorrow right now because there may not be. And I think what's happened is they bought into the new truck and everybody's trying to move at the same time. Plus, again, there are some that are pinched. It's not just trucks, but the lines here are. Right now, this is when everybody goes out and looks because it's a buyer's market. But part of that is, again, the economy. I think there's a lot of quiet hurt going on. This little thing that happened, I don't know if everybody caught it, we touched on it when it happened, Disney, where they fired the 250 personnel. Oh, but first you get to train your replacements from this new scam that the Senate passed and the House passed to bring in foreigners. and your job is already being done but they're doing this because we're critically short your job so we're going to fire you and then we're going to put these people in your place. Oh and then we're going to black poly because we don't want you to tell the rest of the employees how you got screwed by us. So interestingly enough there was a second wave of that in motion. I don't know if you saw the article on this BK but they were doing it in apparently New York and somewhere back west. And all of a sudden first they froze the program and then the characters that were being trained to do somebody else's job by the people they were firing, all of a sudden they didn't show up for work. Well then all of a sudden, oh a good announcement, a great announcement. You know, we're not gonna do this after all. Well, bottom line is they already did it once and it's the old story. Now the water's contaminated. There should be no trust on anyone's part. In fact, just to reverse, there's a pool. We had this happen, we described this up here in central Michigan. All of these battery jobs. You notice you haven't heard any more about that, guys? They had a bunch of these battery jobs that they made, and then they brought the Mexicans in, and then they brought the Chinese in to teach those people, teach them how to do the people's job that had developed the plant. We've seen this more than a few times, but the Disney piece was rather in your face and there were too many people found out because there were a lot of people connected. Especially in tech jobs where they communicate with everybody in so many other ways. There is social media out there, guys. That's one of the other considerations, part of the ripple, like you're saying, the ripple effect with the economy. It's one of the reasons they are desperate to try and get some kind of fight going, where they think they're going to get some rioting. And it's like I was saying, and I would point out even to our caller called in the two hour block, I don't know what interesting going on, I'm afraid because I'm not going to have to. I don't think that person is going to be rioting. And if they are, you know, it's this senselessness. These are the senseless animals, maniacs, whatever you want to call them, zombies, that are the worry because they are going to be waddling into a whole lot of people that have become and been, they've been effeminized and they've been turned into sheep. Well, we have a slice of the population that has been practically lobotomized, not only by the drugs that are applied by the system, but also by a grossly inferior educational process, or by the government, of course. And these people are prepared for an economy that is raging along so fast that anybody that can put food in the right hole can have a job. The only problem is that's not our economy anymore. We are flushing people that have skills and are educated and experienced and so on. How much room do you think there's time to be for people that can barely speak and barely write and barely understand instructions, even if they are trying to do so and have some acclimation to the whole concept of workplace and the workplace environment and ethos and so on, despite having never been exposed to it. So we have a slice of the population that is not in the slightest bit prepared to function in an industrial organized society and at the same time we don't have slots for them. We don't have slots for people who are better prepared than they are. We are flushing people who have already been participants in the economy, know how to do things, know how to take orders, know how to say, well, I would I would rather be talking about baseball, but these are working hours and I'm going to work, and I will talk about baseball after hours. Those people have been flushed out. And when that's the case, the people that have absolutely no preparation, you know, largely not necessarily their fault, but have no preparation for any sort of organized workforce are going to be out in the cold. That's just the way that goes. They have been betrayed and set up and programmed to be basically, what was the phrase, useless eaters? Well, that's what they've been set up to be. They are victims in a way. There's a limited amount of sympathy I can have for somebody when they decide to become predators instead. more detached way, I can look at those and say, okay, well, they also are victims in a way. And they've been set up for this. Let's tie in the butterfly effect here because that's something that nobody has brought up for quite some time. It's like, well, those 250 people, they're not going to affect me. Now, in the past, they would, except for something that Disney did here where they blackballed these guys and women, men and women. But let's talk about the normal effect that would take place because one way or another, if you've got these 250 people, they're going to be looking for jobs. Now, if they're capable, they're going to bump somebody or a number of people in a lesser strata, you know, like farther down the pecking order. They'll have to take a bite and take a lesser paying job and in probably doing less or doing to a degree, it's not menial because you're talking high tech, but it's menial by the industry standards. Well, what does this do? Well, it bumps 250 other people out. And those 250 are going to go looking for a job too, so they're going to be willing to back down. See, this is what nobody talks about. So another 250 or more people are bumped out of that strata and worked down. So this effect, this indexing, it's like sugar melting. with, you know, just tap with water. It progressively is going to work back and back and back and back to the point where it literally damages the entire mechanism. It creates a crack, one of many, by the way. And that's like when we were talking about NAFTA Part 1. Well how's it going to affect me? It's those auto workers. Well everybody's going to have to have a job. Well most people do. There's a bunch of people that suck off all the people that do have jobs. Yeah this week it's the auto workers. Next week it's going to be somebody else. And it was. Eventually a lot of the programmers and people who told me flat out it's not going to affect us. Ok, back up for a minute. If you just let them take that big heavy machinery down the road, how hard do you think it's going to be for them to say, hey, we're shutting off your computer, we're shipping the whole program back overseas, but we don't have to move anything. We're going to throw out the office furniture, we're going to throw out the computers, we don't even want to take them. We've got the next generation over there where we build them. And lo and behold, that's exactly what happened. So it's every element except the other problem I have with it is now we're doing the inversion and this is where you're not going to get quality and performance. You're going to get somebody with the paper but that doesn't mean they have the standard. So the cute part is, well, horrible deaths at technical facility Disney World as two systems collide and blah blah blah blah blah. It's like, how could this happen? Well, I don't know, but there's these three girls that they grabbed who were tiddling off to the side and laughing up a storm and by the way, they were supposed to be monitoring fill in the blank and besides, they didn't like they were the coworkers because they were all, you know, Anglos, you know, Americans, whatever. So they get grabbed by two guys, security, they take them right over to a Disney cart underground, over to the air terminal where they are shipped right back out of the country and never existed. If need be, hell, just dump them out the plane on the way back. Why take them all the way home? Dead men tell no tales. See, that's the reality of what we're getting to. Where the system monitors are supposed to make sure that the rides at Disneyland were working properly, lost their remote connection from India and a ride flew off the rails because their remote maintenance connection failed for 80 seconds or whatnot. $4 a day guys in India were doing it fine for a little while and once in a while they dig up. And some got distracted a little bit. The rest is history. Yeah. Or they didn't quite understand all of the English in the operating manual and somebody told them, well just follow the instructions and they didn't quite understand the task or whatever. Or here's a cute one. Everything finally caught up with it. The whole scenario that's mapped out is progressively. The stuff that was being maintained that was of American standard is now now replaced with NAFTA standard. And so stuff just kind of goes out. Can't really stop it because it's that new global standard. And Mexican is just so much high. and standard and effective production with regard to quality and performance than anything we make in America. That's why we're the best. Russia's to grab Mexican, don't you? Oh, oh, wait a minute. That's right. Well, the Bogdee Wheel Assembly came from a subcontractor in China, and we're looking into the possibility of suing them over the failure, but we're not optimistic. Yeah. First, we have to find the company. You know, Baobu Chi-Ching is now Chi-Chu Bu-Bung. How long does it take for him to change the name? How long does it take for him to grab the keyboard and punch? Oh yeah, on the topic of sales. We're down to a minute or so on the topic of sales. I called in yesterday saying that we were in the last day of a sale from SurplusShed. They were offering 47% off. They sent out an email today saying, well, we have been told that there were some issues with our web server, so we're extending the sale through Tuesday night. Well, I don't know whether they had any problems with the web server or whether they just didn't get enough response from the sale or what the case may be, but they are extending the sale through Tuesday night. This is a 47% off anything on the site sale. Now SurplusShed.com is an outfit I've ordered from. I'm kind of done ordering from them for a little while because I've got all the stuff that I could possibly want from them for the time being. But they do have some interesting stuff. Their greatest strengths are gears and optics. They have an enormous variety of lenses. Some of them are unsemmented, meaning that you would have to get some optical cement and glue them together for proper use. But they have some large and small, long and short focal length, all sorts of varieties in an organized catalog. They also have one-offs and interesting front surface mirrors. They have beam splitters. All sorts of things, hobbyist astronomers who are putting together their own astronomical telescopes can get parts from them that are useful. If you are into optics, you may be able to cobble together terrestrial telescopes to your taste if the Chinese mass-produced ones are not satisfactory. They have other miscellaneous surplus as well. One of the items that they had in stock probably still do are telephone handsets of a couple of flavors. There is a princess style phone I think for three or four dollars and now that's 47% off of that. There is also one that was surplus had been designed for insertion in stuffed animals. So it is not really a fully encapsulated, packaged, ready to go phone, but it is all the working parts of a phone in a plastic assembly. You might want to put a box or wrap it in some sort of enclosure, but it does work. They have various ancendri random miscellaneous stuff. You may find something of interest in there. This is the same outfit that had the M17 out certs. at I think a dollar and a half a pair or something along those lines. You can check to see if those are still there. SurplusShed.com, their coupon code for this sale is SS61815. That is SS Sierra Sierra. 61815. SurplusShed.com. The coupon code is Sierra Sierra 61815. It gives you 47% off your entire order and that is good until next Tuesday, midnight Eastern. Excellent. Again for everybody out there guys, Quartermaster does not stop here. We've got gun shows, ham tests this weekend. The front page of main military, they've got mosquito bars, three for $20, 19 whatever it is. That's a complete mosquito bar to cover either your cot, cover your tent if you've got the USGI pup tent, or to go over your sleeping bag even if it's on a pad roll on the ground. You orient it properly, string it from the branch, trees, whatever. Keeps the critters off you and with all this wet, we've got lots of flying critters. and they want to suck your blood like Dracula. The other thing, they've got camouflage nests. The three fur is where the big price plus is. Take a look at the other items, canteens, whatever. We are at the top. God bless the Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march boat, day and night. Stay focused. Understand who the enemy is. Understand how they're trying to play us. Understand that we are going to win, but to do it, you all have to ensure the logistics mechanism is in place so that we are able to take care of our own. BK, thank you, sir. And remember, he's reloading. Get him. Yes. We are the sons, yes we are the sons, the sons of Liberty! Right there ask me boy, fly with sleep, never give up the struggle or the liberty freak, it's a toss!