These are generations that secured for you. We hoped you'd always keep the tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, though, is a 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's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to this. 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 given government control. to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seemingly farm and keep our country deep. 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, as if their children 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? Do you wish your children to live in fear both sons of the Republic arise take a stand defend the Constitution the supreme law of the land Preserve our great Republican each God given right Great God to freedom burning bright as I awoke he vanished in the mist for once he came Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Hold on here. There we go. I'm going to make as much noise that way. This is the first hour of the Intelligence Report. I'm our corny, one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters. Both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. West, north, east, and south. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. We're on satellite because a whole bunch of people listen in and then rebroadcast us on analog and digital. We're on a myriad of other communications technologies inside and outside these United States and it is Wednesday. No way, yes, it's Wednesday. More on that in a minute. the 2025 Battle for the Republic Book II, the Winter War. However, just real quick, I told you, usually we have a little tap saw that takes place around the 10th of December, usually between the 6th and the 11th. Well, we got it today. This morning, of course, we had rain. And coming straight out of the south, we had a warm wave. Now here's the thing. This is the tugging and pulling the battles of the lakes and the fronts here in Michigan. This morning, the wind was straight out of the south and headed north. We had a fine, piddly rain that was not missed, but it was the next step up. But it was constant. And then, of course, it broke down into waves. About mid-afternoon, the wind completely shifted, turned in the other direction, and now we have a front from the north, same one, or is it a different one? Well, it is a different one because this is the curling and the S patterns that take place. And we then had high altitude snow, which is really just that rain with a cold front that hit it, and coming down very lightly. But because of a day, a half a day, or almost a full day's worth of rain, roads got cleared off of most any slush, which means, yes, it will ice up tonight. Be careful if it continues to drop in extreme temperature. It doesn't look like it's going that way yet, but yeah, flip the coin. But because of that, we have the main roads are least travelable. The secondary roads have got some glaze over. However, the rain even did a good job of eating down on what snow was there. We still have ice and snow on the roads, but we've got brown patches, and that's a good thing. So, that's probably our gasp for the 6th of December thaw that we get. It can be plus or minus a few days. And then we get back into winter niche. So, we'll see. Let me get a little longer reprieve. It doesn't last. Everybody always has heads hope. It's like, oh look, the snow's kind of going away. Not completely, but it did take a lot of it down and pack it. Now, if it gets cold, this is going to create a great foundation base for any other snow that pops up. Still got more enough snow. You could actually run out in the back 40 and play with the snowmobiles. There were some people doing that midday that I was watching. over another part of the township here. So again, the dynamic and exciting, we've never seen this before. Yes, I have all my life. This is Michigan winter all my life, long as I've been alive. And it ain't gonna change. Idiot sticks and panty waists and wussies may pop up left and right with the weezer routine, but why listen to that? Okay, it's winter in Michigan. We're in the Great Lakes. We have five big ass bodies of water, the biggest five ass, big ass, fresh bodies of water. And it just comes at us from everywhere. Okay, it's just that simple. And in fact, the snow we got a couple days ago, lost Lake Erie. And Lake Erie, the bottom of this, that's where we get the worst. Yep, and we got it. We got it pretty good. It's me. Hi, honey. Here we go. We got antsy bushes. Yep. No. It's, oh gosh, no, the snow. Actually, this is perfect for anybody that wants to do cross-country skiing. This kind of snow, you stay right up on top. You're not having to work too hard and get yourself right across the country. That's it. Soushoushoush. We can soosh all the way back. She's going to be taking over here in a second. I've got a few things I absolutely have to take care of. But in the meantime, I'm going to make these few announcements here at number one. This is Weapons Wednesday. Centerfiresystems.com. There's two things they have that are really good priced. Number one, Sustava M70 32 ACP pocket pistols. These are the Yugo Secret police pistols that were out there and also issued to armored troops back in the day. $149.95. So $150, it gets you a nice little .32 ACP pocket pistol, all steel. That's over at Centerfire. Put another interesting one, Century Arms Wasser, W-A-S-R dash M. 9 millimeter rifles. These are AKs. They look just like an AK. except they have a pistol magazine well. They got a 17.25 inch barrel. They do not come with a mag, which is bizarre because it's so cheap to throw a standard second rate Glock mag in there, but they didn't. So they're, but the $329.99. So I'll say $330, definitely worthwhile. You want to check them out. That's over at CenterFireSystems.com, part of their 12 Days of Christmas. that little century washers or something when they came out, remember we were talking about them. They're a perfect utility training rifle if you've got AKs because they fit, feel the same, but they use 9mm which is a lot cheaper to pull the trigger around and you can save your 7.62x39. So, and they're also good within the team if you want to train and cross train people and you want to put a light carbine in there. I mean light pistol caliber carbine in there instead of a light rifle AK. So it is a solution that is one of the cheapest AKs right now assembled out there that I've seen. $329.99 and it's a 9mm. It does take Glock mags so there's tons of Glock mags out there. In fact there's all kinds of people doing the Christmas sale thing now. So you can find a goodbye, pick this rifle up, grab some ammo from another location or from Centerfire. And the same with the magazines. Anyway, I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to play tag team here. It is, of course, Weapons Wednesday. But we've had a whole bunch of other stuff going on with the season. And so Nancy, you jump in there. And I'm going to step away for a minute. And we'll be back in a little while. All right. No, it's not bad. We have been busy. And it's going to get busier yet, of course. I would ask. We do have a special prayer response for all of our listeners out there to please, please keep our daughter Tara in your prayers. Just some stuff going on there and she could use your prayers folks and I would greatly appreciate it. Goodness. No. One thing after another here, of course, but no, some of the ladies up here, we got together last Saturday and we did a Christmas bake-off. It's a great thing. My goodness. If you haven't formed the group ladies that are out there listening, this is something we did. It's just we get together every year. Everybody makes two or three batches of cookie dough or stuff treats Christmas treats that they like to put together and we get together and we do it all together and make big batches and Split it all up and everybody gets quite a variety to take home So whether to use for your family or to give as gifts to neighbors and of course, you know for the local fire and rescue teams that have to be out there working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, this is a good thing to do. It keeps you on good terms with them and they remember small things like that. So if you have something, a need, for their services, they remember that, hey, that's the person that brought the people that had to be there, that person that gets stuck manning the phones on the holidays, that they're remembered. And they remember you in turn. So keep that in mind. Something that I do every year gets us involved with the neighbors more one-on-one. as well as the local emergency services. So just something to keep in mind. It's a good thing to do. It's neighborly. It's a good holiday or Christmas in this case. Things to do, just let them know they're remembered and that they're appreciated. So just a little... hearts and minds thing to get out there and and cover as far as weapons Wednesday, I am obviously not as as knowledgeable as mark in that in that realm, but there are other things in our bag that are necessary for Getting through hard times and The bullets and beans Part of it is something that we do together. I mean, I understand as much as others as far as the weapons go, but when it comes to preparing, we do pretty good. Yeah, they're using it as a weapon. And same with the medical. It's like, oh my God, it's insane. trying to get hold of the doctor to try to get some stuff for myself here that I need. Got myself into a little bit of trouble with all things straw, getting into my eyes. I've got this nasty infection that's just going crazy. Trying to get a hold of somebody direct to try to get a prescription in to take care of the swelling is just driving me bonkers. But that's the kind of things that we're dealing with. And we say they, but government and the powers that be are, gosh, they're using everything they can as a weapon against us. Whether it be through pharmaceuticals and the availability or cost involved, it's insane. It's insane. So at the chiropractor today and he was like, yeah, you know, I realized that you know, purchase were just were pawns in this game. Regardless, you know, what what was in it, you know, here is a doctor. It's like we're just we're pawns and you know, just trying to trying to get through and get things done for his own family. He was it's taken weeks and weeks to get his insurance changed over and crazy, and I've run into the same thing this year with insurance companies, not necessarily medical insurance, but, gosh, car insurance. Trying to get things squared away for making payments to get everything squared away has been like pulling teeth. No matter which way you go, you're... Check and double check and you check and that they tell you one thing and nope, that's not right. Come back do it again and You know five six times later you do it the way you understand it and by God it works You know, but the people that that is their business is supposed to know how to do it They don't and it's very frustrating very very frustrating. Oh boy that any rate that's life How life as I know it? Oh If it's not one thing, it's ten more. I think I said that too many years. And that's just kind of the way things are going. So, dealing with one thing. And then of course there's always other stuff going on too. So, in the background, it's there. There's always something to do. Always something to keep you busy. And you thought other than where you really wanted to be. So, just trying to prepare for the holidays here at this point. and for next year. With it being the holiday song, some ideas on what people can look at for food storage this time of year that might be coming up cheap. Right now is citrus season. Guess what? There is a juice recipe for any kind of juice you want. Oh my goodness, it is so simple. Unbelievably simple. We tried it last year with cranberries and I found out it works with pomegranate. It works with oranges and lemon and strawberries. Pretty much any fruit you want. But right now, it's the season to do your citrus fruits. So if you want to make your very own orange juice, lemonade, or Oh gosh, limeade. And do it in quart jars to can. It doesn't get any simpler than this folks. Get yourself a pen and paper because we're going to do this. It's so simple. I mean I could tell you and you could probably remember it. It's just that simple. You know, wash your fruit, slice it, or in the case of cranberries. You don't even have to slice them. Just put a cup, cup and a half of berries in the bottle of a hot, clean canning jar, a half a cup of sugar, and fill that jar up with boiling hot water. Wipe the rim off, put a hot lid on, and process it for 10 minutes in a hot water bath, and let it set for two weeks. That's it. That's the whole recipe. And the thing is, you can do that with pretty much any other fruit. The strawberries I like to slice up because you use the sugar in this, it's not so much to sweeten it as it is to pull the juices out of the fruit. So that's the reason for that. The term I think is a masticade. It's sucking the juice out of that sugar, it's sucking the juice out of the fruit and into the water. So it might be a little sweeter than you want. Well, it's supposed to be a cup, which is a lot. It's making like a light syrup almost. But I cut it to a half cup and it works just fine. It's a really nice flavor with the cranberries. I just did, I went into the store, pomegranates right now are going to be available for Christmas, they always are. I went into the markdown section and they were like, I got three pomegranates for a dollar, like 99 cents, and I pulled those apart. And if you have not watched online how to peel and get the seeds out of the pomegranate, watch it because it does work. You go around the edge of it, the upper edge of the pomegranate, it's like generally five or six sections. So you cut that, you pull that out, the core out, and then peel back the skin off the side and it will actually pull apart into sections almost like an orange. But you have the individual module with the seeds. And seed and all, pop it in the jar, a cup and a half of those seeds with sugar in the boiling hot water into the clean jar. Wipe the lid, process for 10 minutes in the hot water bath. And once it starts boiling, you give it 10 minutes processing time. And set it on the shelf. Two weeks later, you've got your juice. It's a cheap way of doing it. In the markdown sections, I've always done that for doing jams and jellies, orange marmalade, that kind of thing. I used to do a lot of that, but now that I've learned I can do the juicest way, it makes it a lot simpler. For those of you that are diabetic, I would go to monk fruit. Monk fruit is a better choice of an all-natural sweetener. It looks like sugar, it tastes like sugar, and it cooks like sugar. I have not tried it on fruit to see if it will have that same drawing action. I will be doing that this week actually. I've got some, I know I've got some frozen fruit, but I want to try it with some fresh fruit to see if that will, but sprinkling that over the top, the monk fruit, sugar substitute. Yeah, it's so good. Oh my gosh. I can't I can't say enough about that one. I have tried other sugar substitutes and Looking for answers for people that are diabetic. I just didn't like To be perfectly honest and that the stivia leaves you with an aftertaste It's really super strong sweetener It is a natural mint But it's so strong it very much tastes like saccharin to me. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. And you have to adjust how much of that you put in to get close to the same sweetness and flavor that you're looking for as a sugar substitute. I didn't like doing that. I've also tried, oh gosh, what else was there? Sivya, agave, again, it's a liquid. So it's not going to have the same consistency as sugar. And that you do get from the monk fruit. It can be a little pricey, but if you want it for baking, It's a good answer. I do not like the artificial sweeteners. There's always an aftertaste to it. That's very disagreeable. And it's an answer. But for me, among the other alternative sweeteners, monk fruit is the way to go. As far as, you know, if you want it to look and taste and act the way that sugar does. Monk fruit is a good source with zero calories, zero net carbs. It's a good answer for a question that I hadn't asked before. It was one I was looking for people that we know and care very much about. As well, I will definitely try that this week and see if that works and get back to you all and let you know how that worked out. But it's, again, a sugar substitute that I think works well. Out of all the other ones that we have fun with. Yes. Go ahead. Hey Nancy, this is Irish Whiskey. Hey, I just wanted to mention that you're talking about monk fruit and I wanted to mention that there is a brand, it's Chocolate Zero. It's C-H-O-C Zero. And they make candies and stuff, but they actually make I have not found them in store. So far I have only found them on their website, which is choc0.com. And then also they are on Amazon. I mean, anyone who does Amazon, you can get them in two days. And they have just a whole line of syrups. I use their syrups in my coffee and they're zero sugar, monk fruit, they taste excellent. I highly recommend this brand as far as their products. Over. That sounds great, but thank you. That's a good idea. Actually, that's a good Christmas present. Oh my. For all the coffee lovers out there that just can't do that anymore, that'll be good. Yeah. No, but that's getting back to making the juices. I will be trying that this week because I know too with people that are sick that are getting people that just want to get away from sugar and the carbohydrates altogether, get them out of the diet. It's an excellent choice. I know some of the, what is it, does it stivia? The Truvia has got a multidextrin in it, which actually raises that carbohydrate level up and can set off diabetics. We saw issues with that with family and friends, so definitely something to keep an eye on. But if I know somebody who's got a problem, I generally will go and research it and see, okay, what's the answer? There's got to be an answer out there. But this is one that I've found for sugar, needing a sugar substitute that's going to satisfy that sweet tooth craving. Monk fruit, for me, is a good way to go and would suggest that, especially with all the holiday baking going on. And it always ends up being everybody wants to sleep. So this will give that person that's got an issue with sugar that it's a good substitute. As he just told you, what he has found with Chalk Zero is the coffee syrups are really good and I can believe it. I can believe it because every other one that I have tried that generally has gone through an aspartame or something like that, yeah, I get that aftertaste and that just stays with you. You can't get rid of it. That taste in your mouth after, you know, it tastes great going down but, ugh, get in the back of the palate, the back of the tongue and it just stays there and stays there and stays there. And regardless of what you eat, you can still have that, you still got that taste in your mouth. Can I get rid of it? Oh boy. And you'll find that in all your diet sodas, it's, ugh, terrible, terrible stuff. Just not fun. The food is a weapon, but yeah, goodness. But this time of year, coming in January is generally a really good time to buy pork. That's when a lot of the slaughtered pigs have been processed and ready for market. Always in January, your pork prices are going to drop. So it's after Christmas, of course. Forget about the Christmas ham. Wait till January. But you generally get pork ribs, pork shoulder, shoulder roast, chops. all go down in price and even your bacon which has been outrageous. Oh my gosh, the price of bacon, crazy. I always get it locally here when it's on sale and our local meat market usually runs really good sales on bacon and ham and that kind of thing. I think last week it was. Last week It was short length, which is your portal house and T-bone. If you get the tail end of that, then you've got your New York strips. You can go in and have them cut that up for you. It's generally about $100, but you're basically getting one side of the rib cage. off of a steer, which makes for really good eating. The price was right last week. It was like $4.99, £4.99 a pound, which is for Porterhouse and T-Mones. That's a darn good price. Because up here, you're looking at the lower grades of beef that some of the grocery stores will start at $12.99. So to go, you know, to a third of that cost at $4.99 is that's the steel. That's the darn steel. And they'll cut it for you right there at the local market. So yeah, we're loving that. To have that availability with our local meat market is you go in, pick out a slab of meat, and then cut it this way. Tell them how you want it cut, and they'll do it. It's refreshing. It's nice. It used to be something that we did at Miners. We would sell whole cryopaks of meat from time to time. People would bring them to the counter and we'd cut them up. Then it got to be like, no, well, we're not cutting it for you. If we're going to cut it for you, then we're going to charge you for that. But no, now that they don't even make that offer, you're going to buy it cut the way they cut it or not at all. So you can't request the thickness, whether it be thin steaks, thick steaks, or all the cowboy steaks, which are steaks, which were like 2 and 1 by 2 inch thick. Crazy, that's a roast as far as I'm concerned, but you know there are people that like their steaks Really thick it's a lot of meat and more than any one person really needs but to each their own That's you know, whatever floats your boat. It's that kind of a thing. Oh goodness, but yeah, it keeps us busy Goodness deer hunting right now If you want to do your own deer processing, that's something we helped Dave Stone with just a couple weeks ago. Well, actually it's been more than, it's been about a month. Went over and helped him cut up a deer, get it processed, took my meat grinder over and we made some deer brats and breakfast sausage. from his third deer he caught. So that was fun. That's something you'd always do. You know, any of your hunting, hunting and fishing. Ice fishing is here in Michigan for those that are out and about, not down where we're at, mind you. Things are so, you know, like Mark was saying, it's, you know, thawing out. But In the northern part of lower Michigan and the UP, there's plenty of ice. You can get out on the ice and do some ice fishing for those of you that like to ice fish. That's not my bad guy. With Reynolds, I really can't go out there and sit out very long in the cold. I just can't do that anymore. But goodness, if you've got a way to catch your own. It's highly recommended. You can always can it yourself or freeze it. But once it's frozen, if it thaws, you have to use it. Do not try to refreeze fish. It does not work. When you take it out that second time, it will be like rubber. It totally changes the consistency of the meat. So the texture of it is, it's not the nice flaky fish you expected. It will be a literally like rubber. I don't know how it changes, whether it changes chemically or what, but it is not the same product you want it out of it. So please don't freeze and think you're going to refreeze it. does not work and that goes for any fish whether it be a scales fish or or shellfish Not a good idea Chicken your poultry pork and beef you can refreeze You can thought out and oh decides it. Yeah. Well, we're gonna do this instead and go back in the freezer and be fine It might change color a little bit, but the flavor and the texture are not going to change the way fish does. And I don't know what there is about it, why it does what it does, but it is almost inedible. Because it's rubbery. It doesn't flake apart. It's not palatable. It changes the flavor. It changes the texture. It's just nasty. And I can't stress that enough. So don't do that. You can dry fish and salt it. That is something that can be done and that is a way of preserving it. Actually, I'm going to go back to my old standby. Dry it, you'll like it. That book is still available out there. It can be ordered through Barnes and Noble, you can order it online through Amazon, and probably through eBay even, as I found it there. But yeah, that is one, I'm so glad I ordered that because it lets you drive pretty much anything. from meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruits. It gives you specific recipes for each one how to do it and have it turn out right. Potatoes and carrots are particularly fussy because they'll change color on you if you do not parboil them first before trying to put them in the dryer. Otherwise, they turn out brown and Brownish gray and kind of nasty looking. Nobody really wants to eat that. The visual appearance is not what you're expecting from a potato when it comes out looking gray brown. It's just not very appealing visually. And it's surprising how many people get it in their mind that the nutritional value is there. But it's just not pretty and it doesn't appeal. to the visual and senses that your body expects from a potato or carrot. There are other vegetables that are the same way where you need to par cook them before slicing them up and putting them in the dryer. Some things you can actually do like a salt water, a brining. I know of some people that have taken potatoes and soaked them to get the extra starch out because it's a starch that really will turn it brown. You can actually play with it a little bit with the potato by placing iodine and the iodine will go to where those starches are and it will change the color of it. right away and you can see right where it's at and actually, you know, we've done things and Ed probably remembers we make using potatoes to make stamps when they were little to stamp make wrapping paper and things of that nature when they were little to give them a little art project they could do and have fun with and and make their own wrapping paper from old paper grocery decks. just turn them inside out and use them, you know, pretty ribbon and the potato stamps to just a little something fun that we did with kids when they were little. But yeah, the stuff that we did and can be done, but to dry them, the amount of starch that's in it does affect the way that it dries and the way that it, the final product looks. And as much as People like to say that, oh yeah, the nutritional value is still there, it's still good. When it comes to looking at it, it's like, that doesn't look right. You know, you don't, do you really trust something that does not look the way you expect it to look? A lot of people will not. And, you know, it's a mindset thing. I get that, but it's still, it makes it look and feel as normal as it can be. When it comes to hard times, you might as well take that little extra step, boil it a little bit, cool it. And that's another thing too. If you boil it, boil your potatoes and cool them in the refrigerator overnight, it actually changes the carbohydrate in it so that it is more digestible in your system than if you were to eat it fresh. freshly boiled. So if you were to mash potatoes, say, you know, boil them up for mashing potatoes, instead of mashing them up right away and eating them, let them set overnight in the fridge and then use them the next day. But for some reason, that cooling process, cooling it down in the refrigerator overnight changes it enough that it actually when it comes to doing the glycemic index with eating the potato, it changes it drastically. So your body does not absorb all of those carbohydrates. It transforms it somehow into something that is better for your gut health. It's not as appealing to parasites, which can create a number of problems in your gut health. So it changes so that the good bacteria in your body, it gets what it needs from the potato instead of the bad bacteria getting what it needs. It shuts that down so that the bacteria that what is in the potato that would feed the bad bacteria is now gone and is now feeding the good bacteria and the gut instead. So making your potatoes up a day ahead of time, letting them cool, and then eat them is a better way to eat a potato. And that's something that I just recently found out. So, it's, you know, I actually tried that and boiled my potatoes up the night before and then I go to grate them up to do hash browns the next morning. And it feels better on the stomach too. It's not as hard. It's better for the digestive tract. So, it's something to think about and it's something that was done in our past, in history. And when you think about canning, the canning process for potatoes, you're doing the same thing. You're cooled down, you've got it in the can. It's had time to set and cool off naturally. Then you've got a product that is actually better for you to have your canned potatoes, home canned potatoes, than to take it fresh. than to eat it fresh and boil it up and eat it right away. So whether you boil it, however you're going to boil it, bake it, fry it, you know, you want to prep it the day before, cook it, let it set overnight and then use it. It's going to give you a better help and make it harder for the body to take up the extra cold. Oh gosh, I just left. carbohydrates. So, you know, that's that's something to think about and keep in mind when you go to Can Things Up, it's actually you're actually making it better. It's kind of like using broccoli and cauliflower. We always encourage the kids when they were young to eat the raw broccoli and cauliflower out of the garden, you know, it's so good for you, but you actually gain more nutrients if you just Cook them long enough for them to change to just till they change color Not you know cooked to mush But to where they're kind of al dente you get more nutrients out of that then you do when it's raw and it's you know, those are two that are better for you just steam lightly so that they change color and they're partially cooked. Again, it's not fully cooked, it's not mushy, you still get a crunch, but it activates an enzyme in them that is better for your gut health instead of it will not make you as gassy as if you were eating the raw vegetables. It's just easier on a digestive tract. And there are a number of things that are that way. So, goodness. I think there's, oh gosh, you were asking what things are available and those are two things that cauliflower, broccoli, I like to do fresh veg trays this time of year. I get teased about that actually quite a bit. I was thinking more online to what we can store. Well, these are, again, this is, these are similar but. Broccoli does not tan well. It doesn't pickle well. Cuddle flour, actually I love, you know me, I love my sweet pickles cauliflower. Now there's a lot of companies out there that do a hot pickle and there's lots of recipes for hot pickle cauliflower but not for the sweet pickle cauliflower that I love. And that gets me to trouble because I do love it so much. It's just something I grew up with. I appreciate it and I don't see it very often. So when I find it, I multiply some. So, yeah, I actually, I tried a recipe this year. I've got to open it up and see how it turned out. Because you did just found five heads of cauliflower for me. Worked out, so I've got to get those pickled up. If that turned out, I'll be pickling some more cauliflower because usually I put it into my end of the garden pickle mix, which is always good. That's a different mix of stuff out of the garden. It literally is what it sounds like end of the garden. There's last few beans and corn and carrots, zucchini, whatever you got in the garden goes in. And cauliflower is one of those things that goes really well in that mix. But for whatever reason, broccoli just does not do well when it comes to pickling or canning. It just falls apart in the processing. It's mush. Yeah, it turns to mush and then that's no fun. The last part, Nancy, if you take the stem, sometimes you get a long, big stem on some broccoli. I've supposed to pickle that before you just peel it and go right in. Okay. See, with that, what I use that for, I cheat because water chestnuts are so expensive. I will peel that and slice it into rings and stir fry it. in the place and put it as a substitute for the water chestnuts. That's how I use it. It could also be used in the streets. Oh goodness. Oh, where's the tub? Where's the tub? The hour and parts back. I'm going to let y'all go. Thank you, Dar. All right, let's go. God bless the Republic. That's a video world order. Be shall to the world. The Empire's on the run. We're on the march. Hey, Nite. Okay, Nancy, actually, food is a weapon. It's Weapons Wednesday. Don't forget with the pickled items, vinegar, Vitamin C, guys. Vinegar, a whole bunch of nutrients. It's a tool in the toolbox. One of the reasons why I'm talking about the things. I like Christmas cookies. future generations 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 given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and see me farm and keep our country deep. 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, your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear? Oh sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and eat God-given right. And pray to God for freedom, Bernie. As I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we're not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? And good evening. Oh, good afternoon. I'm not going to throw this hour away. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Carkey. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, south, west, northeast, and North. via analog or digital. We're on a myriad of other communications technologies inside and outside these United States, including M&FM microstations in many different countries and across the United States itself. A lot of new individuals coming up and online with alternate communications. They're all seeing the writing on the wall, which is good. Everybody is having their epiphany. That's how it should be. So, they are looking for and finding the solutions we have offered for decades. And they work. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 10th of December. 17th year of open obvious and in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2025 older calendar. I'm giving her all she's got captain 125% and 2025 battle for the republic book. to the winter war. It is up and down outside. Right now temperatures are medium, typical for winter, but again just above freezing. But we have a wind out of the north. We had wind out of the south non-stop all day before sunrise to the afternoon. And then that sucking and blowing thing with the Great Lakes. The wind flip took place, the other front fish hooked around, and now we're getting the cool wind from the north. It's just kind of interesting because it was all warm air that went north in Mendigo. And it's continuing to escalate, so it will get colder tonight. We had water on the roads, but because we had so much air and we had left rain, it cleared the roads pretty much of all of the build-up that we had from snowing on and off and then usually a little bit of ice up or whatever. Well, that got all eaten off today. So it's a good thing in that, yeah, we're still going to pay attention and watch it on the road. You can die very easily making mistakes on corners of black ice. But as long as you're thinking and paying attention, you're probably not going to get racked up in a crisis because you're thinking ahead of time prior to proper planning. preventing piss poor performance, of course. Now, a couple things here real quick. That was Nancy, that's my wife, Nancy Cornke, who was filling in in the last hour. Yes, she's going to be up a little more often, as a matter of fact, so pay attention. Today I needed to have that happen because you guys press us with so many other issues that need to be accomplished and a few things that I had to take care of before we go any farther into the evening. So again, that benchmark was met. I also want to say thank you because we do have a bunch of other smaller material donations that have come in for the drawings. I'm looking at some of the stuff. I've got a lot of it in another box, another couple boxes. I've got to go through it. I haven't had a chance to even check most of it. I know it will all be cool stuff. Everybody knows what my criteria is. And so somebody had some extra things. available that they've picked up and they switched over to other items and some of the stuff is new in the box. Some of it's used but very nice condition. So you'll be seeing it if your name is drawn for the end of the year drawings. And so just be prepared now. And that last hour I mentioned the CenterfireSystems.com had a couple of deals. They're still in place. I don't know how long they'll last or, you know, again, how much they have of this. This is over at CenterFighterSystems.com. They have the Zestava M70 pistol, 32 ACP, $149.95 for a little backup pocket pistol or utility pocket pistol. You don't want to get shot with 32. It works just fine to put a nice, nice pick hole in you as a matter of fact. But for $149, not a bad little item put on the shelf. Again, these things have been around for a while. They've come in in different waves. There's a little batch of them right now that have come in. Everybody's got these. AIM Surplus, classic firearms. I think pretty much everybody's dipped from the well with the latest batch of stuff. And it all comes from the old Yugoslavian states, but most likely from Serbia. The other item, and this is also at Center Fire Systems, is Sentry Arms Wasser M, that's the WASR-M, 9mm rifles, 17.25 inch barrel, that's just an AK. When you go look at the picture, you'll see what I'm talking about. These things came out years ago and I recommended them. When they came out, they were relatively cheap. This is as cheap as they've been recently right here. They're $329.99, so I'll say $330. How's that sound? Throw a penny in. But they don't come with a mag, which is really stupid because you can get a $3 mag off the shelf if you're a gun shop. I mean, it's what they cost you, $35. But they're Glock Magazine Standard. which means that all the Glock knockoff mags work, you can throw the 32 rounders into these things, etc. if you want to go big stick or you can use a standard pistol mag. And again, these are a good solution for more training if you have the AK as your standard weapon or you just want this as a standard Gary weapon. They're decent firearms, pretty much they work. They're AKs. So, again, they're Century Arms, okay, you know, we say that kind of war, but for what they are and the Wasters, pretty much those were brought in from the beginning for a century, but even though they distributed them to other companies and other providers, we then sent them out into the retail market. But the Wasser is usable, more than functional. It's the Chevrolet of the AKs for the longest time. It's a stamped rifle, of course. A machine for stamped the AKs work. And that's over at CenterFireSystems.com. Want to look for ammo? You want to start looking for mags if you're serious about looking at that weapon though. And start picking up mags. Look for the deals because now you've got the Christmas deals before we had the Black Friday deals and then we also had the Cyber Monday deals and now we have the Christmas deals. So, that's another solution in the weapons category, a couple of interesting items. Plus, again, there are unique items to put on the shelf. Guns are for buying, not for selling. We're also, of course, collectors in America of unique things, and especially firearms. Now, I want to touch on one other thing here real quick, because I'm also going to go back to supply in a minute. And thank you to Mary for bringing your heads up to this. Massey. has brought forward a House Resolution 6508, a bill to end USA NATO membership. And again, this is HR 6508. It's a very straightforward bill, not hard to figure out. Massey has proposed this. After all, NATO's, you know, Cold War's gone. Of course, they'd like to start another hot war, but that's a different story altogether, and NATO is no longer necessary. We're the ones putting the bill all the time so they can launder money out of the US into Israel through the Europeans. So piss on them. But again, Thomas Massey proposing bill HR 6508. And that is in motion. So we need to show support for that. Now, back to supply here real quick. Over at sportsmansguide.com. sportsmansguy.com. Number one, again, US military surplus MRE dessert, 18 piece muffin tray chocolate, $5.82 a tray. Now I'm going to recommend these. I've already got a couple of cases myself. And here's what you want to do. If you are going to order these, you're now $5 a tray. I would do four trays at least because that's a full case. And they're properly packed to middle spec for transport. So again, that's US military surplus MRE dessert 18 piece muffin tray. These are chocolate. Basically, they're like MRE cakes. Only they're shaped like muffins. And they look like muffins. And they are actually pretty tasty. $5.82 a tray. So you figure it out. It's going to be about $24. for a full case. Now here's the thing. Remember, free shipping. Yes it is. These just came down by another $3. So obviously they're on the date list and they're trying to move them out. I know what they're doing. But these things will last indefinitely on the shelf. And basically the cool thing about these trays is that they're actually a cooking fan. They're designed to go into a cook system that heats up whatever's in the trays and it's part of an ongoing multi kitchen. I just saw one of the kitchens for sale for about a thousand four hundred dollars and it's complete. It has all the carriers and the prep units and the serving units and racks and the heaters and there are multiple heaters. And so you slip these trays in and you can actually prep, you know, heat up food. Now what's interesting is the only tray types of this kind that are showing up at Sportsmas Guide are all the desserts. And if you look at the prices of the others, they're about another $15 more than this particular item. My attitude, this is food. It's long-term storage food, gov spec, pretty straightforward. When you're done using these things, the pan could either be used as a cooking pan in the field, or you could use it to make a claymore mine. Seriously, so be creative. But the idea is it's a really high quality product system. The idea was sound. It's basically a way to get A rations out to the troops in the field with a lot less mess and actually quick turnaround. In other words, you throw the system in, it heats the food up. Years ago, they had the breakfast craze which had pancakes. bacon or sausage and also scrambled eggs and it was subdivided inside the tray but they were all mixed together so it was kind of scary if it got bounced around a lot. But it was a, that was part of the system. Now mostly what we're seeing are the Goody or the, again, the dessert elements at Sportsman's Guide. I don't know if anybody else is carrying any of the other trays. But that's a good price. $5.82. I'm buying more simply out of policy. Remember, $49 or more free shipping if you order $49. So figure out a couple of trades put you there. A couple of four packs. Forgive me, a couple of cases. Put you where you want to be. and get a couple of the people together. But I would leave them for to a case now for storage because they're in mil-spec bi- you know crates. Mil-spec heavy gauge storage containers that are designed for transport by the military. And they're not really big. I've already got about size of a bread box. That's how big each one of the cases are with four in it. So that's number one. Number two, I mentioned mittens the other day. Two best deals. One, This is also at Sportsman's Guide, both of these are. British Military Surplus DPM Camo Mittens, two pairs for $6.72. That's $3.35 for a pair of mittens. They're in the DPM camos, so if you're a woodland unit, they're perfect because nobody will know the difference mostly. They have the same color range as your woodland pattern if they're, you know, these particular mittens do, so they're cool there. It's a solution. So cold weather gear. Also, stuffing is stuff in the back of the car that I was talking about. Of course, they're camouflage. Somebody might take them. Next, and this is for all you people who have anybody that is cold, susceptible. I love the aviation mittens and the Arctic mittens that the Army makes. If you've ever seen them, they're big oversized cuffs that roll over the end of your parka or field jacket. Right now they've got, for the best buy on these items, it's one of the slightly different variants. It's a US military surplus ECU flyers mitts. Now it's the same as the Arctic mitt. It's got the fur back on it, the dense fur pack. It's got the Holofil liners. It's large shell. But these are great if you have people who have cold issues. Or in general, if you just don't like the cold. And they're $10.79 a pair. They have small, medium, and large. Now, I believe they're all in the ACU, but they may have some in the woodland. That depends on the size as to whether or not you're going to get a selection. And these are in the clearance items also. All three of these items are in clearance. So, they're definitely worthwhile. It brought them up for a reason. Price is right. There are even a few other items that are a couple dollars a pair for mittens over at Sportsman's Guide in the clearance section that are military. So, go take a look at them. Whatever you think is best. And if you're penny pinching, pick the cheapest pair that make the most sense for you. More for less, I understand. Okay, so that's www.sportsmansguide.com. The big thing are the US military surplus MRE, dessert, 18 piece muffin tray chocolate food item. Again, $5.82. If you're going to buy them, if you want a whole case, it's four to a case. So I recommend that. That's the best way to go. And how do you issue them? Yeah, everybody gets in the line. Here's your meat. Here's your daily ration, MRE. And oh, by the way, we got a goody muffin. You get a goody muffin. It's a treat. Other people are sucking vapors and eating grass right now. You got a chocolate muffin. You're ahead above everybody else in the crowd right now, at least outside of our circle, because we all got one too. Shazam! Sergeant Carter. Shazam! You could also mark to a weapons inspection and those whose weapons are in class A condition get a muffin and those who don't. How do you get a muffin if you don't clean your rifle? How do you get a muffin if you don't clean your rifle? You! Over there hiding behind the dish and a half. Yeah, remember paraphrasing the wall from Pink Floyd. Another brick in the wall. Yes, so again, there's all kinds of ways that we can make these work for us. The big thing is that they're quite edible. They are the equivalent to something I've talked about for many years, the old hospital cakes. But the hospital cakes used to come in high C size. Remember the high C's juice cans? Well, it was the size of a high C's juice can, and the whole thing was one big solid chunk of cake. They were phenomenal. I can't get them anymore. I don't even make them anymore. Probably don't. They were tinned and they were just loaded with goodies. People once they had them couldn't get enough of them. It's like, well, more tools were good. Yes, they were, but they only opened one at a time because we've got to stretch this out and we're not into the panda bear routine. Remember, don't feed the bears, man. Don't feed the bears. Whatever you do, don't feed the bears. So, anyway, these are solutions, and if you can't take the time. Also, there is a bunch of other stuff that got popped into the clearance section today that was not there in the last couple of days over at Sportsman's Guide. But you have to take the time. Go to www.sportsmansguide.com. Go to the deals section there go to clearance when you go to clearance then pick out military surplus in the category tag that so we'll throw all the other stuff out of the clearance away and It's nothing but surplus. There are several clothing items. There's a number of other cold weather pieces of equipment I'm a surprise. I didn't expect really to see those there considering you know, we are at a winner This is when that stuff typically moves, but it's based on Date when the stuff came into the inventory because you got to remember taxes taxes taxes. That's why this happens taxes. People get screwed because of government interference and taxes. But we benefit. It's just that simple. So let's act accordingly. Next, and again we're almost to the bottom of the hour, but I still want to touch on one more thing because I did mention the AK. There are a number of pouches out there that are really decent for the AK-47 that are not really well known. But there are a number of companies that are producing AK mag pouches that are well built and reasonably priced. You're going to have to do a search for some of the independents. We're going to be doing the same thing. I actually proposed to the girls setting up, like I said, another little micro sweat shop for the purpose of building equipment. And that's one of the things that's on the list, our AK-47 mag pouches. As Bruce already provided us with solutions for bandoliers and other items that are now in the, in fact that's what I offered one of the girls to do is, hey, we'll set you up and you can be a sweat shop seamstress and you'll do piece work and what you can do is actually start building those bandoliers. We have the cloth and we actually can do those bandoliers in I'm probably about 10 different standard military camouflage patterns for a very good price. In fact, far cheaper than I think everybody expected, but that's because I found a source for cloth I did not anticipate. So we are definitely going to be cranking out Number one, the M14 G3H KRE slash FNFL 20 round slab bandolier pouches. And we are going to be making an AK47 magazine pouch, both one cell, single mag and double mag. And we might do side by side triples or side by side doubles. We'll see what happens. But the big thing here again is to have the right material we do and we have a good source that's ongoing so I can dip that well whenever I want to to get more of the material. We do not have to go two or three or five bolts of material all at once. The people who have the material are pro-patriot slash militia friendly and that's a big big double plus good thing to have. That makes all the difference in the world. So again, watch for the announcement there. We already are, I guess I'm trying to connive certain people. Well, it's not so much connive. I mean, enticing. There we go. That's the term. I'm enticing them. I'd like it to be a seamstress for us. And if they can, or if she will, and other individuals that she knows will, then we're going to put together another Michigan militia manufacturing site. That's in the works. It's not an if, it's just a when. So all of you that want to participate that are listening in Michigan and some of you know who you are, then you know I already approached you. Well, let's see what we can do to get that done and out of the way. That will help me a whole lot. We're at the bottom, almost. Don't forget, first, when we get to the bottom of here in a moment, when I'm done saying what I'm going to say next, we are going to be at the bottom of the hour break for our traditional bottom of the hour break, not yet. But... After the original, traditional bottom of the hour break, let's add keep your rifle by your side. However, you're listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com and remember we have a drawing at the end of each week to support our end of the year billing. Now we got a bunch of donations here in the last couple of days especially. I want to say thank you. I appreciate some people actually anticipating something else is coming. And if you would like to help yourself, if you'd like to pitch in, here's what you do. You go to www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Go to the donate key on that page. Take that. When you get there, donate whatever dollar amount. For every dollar you donate, your name goes in the hat once. So 1-1-5-5-10-10-1 million, 1 million, et cetera. Don't leave. Go down a little bit, there's a notation section, leave your name, address, and zip code so we can send you a gift when the time comes. And we will, you know, if your name's drawn, we got some really fantastic stuff that's going to be showing up at your doorstep. There's a bunch of stuff in the mail right now. And actually, probably another box or two because I sculpted one for a certain person. simply because I have some unique things that not many people would appreciate, but if you've been there, you'll like it. So anyway, help out with the beginning of the Pay Forward Bill by doing it at the end of the year, which is where we are, and supporting Liberty Tree Radio. And we're at the bottom of the hour. And at the bottom of the hour... This is my rifle. Never met this one, it's mine. There is danger and there's danger in our hands. Oh, here you're not just singing out of the view, go wild and free. But soon you'll know the rifle from the trees. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands will prove no trite bone. You may ride against the sea, you may know it's turn to master Your forward march would speed, but you'll learn the back is much faster When you meet our mountain boys And their leader just starts Glad you make up a little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no it's a rifle Grapes it home, back across the ground As giddy must come, I will look to the floor But if we did not, let's do it and sooner it is begun If Clinton's figure hold the button through the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no right move Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no Look high and we'll look low We'll look everywhere we go The looters will know that they can't hide They come loud, they come fast We'll shoot first so we can last Keep your eye full by your side Oh Lord, they just won't stay away singing Oh Lord, for this I won't need pay When we take a step No, we must protect our land Keep your eye full by your side Come day and then, come night They'll have our children in their stipes Oh stand on every pass from north to south Oh they can scream and they can shout They will never push us out Keep your rifle by your side No Lord, they just won't stay away singing Oh Lord, for this I need pay when we take a stand No, we must protect our lands Keep your rifle by your side and they'll have tanks, cause they've got funding from the banks. But we won't fall as long as we can find. So they'll go on in safety, but they won't get past the gate. Keep your rifle by your side. Singing. Or they just won't stay away. Singing. For this time we pay when we take a stand. No, we must protect our lands. Keep your rifle by your side. Allies in the from the Great Plains to Tennessee They help us hold with all that we do need But from the west comes another way from Red Sand Fran or Bern, LA Keep your rifle by your side No, they just won't stay away singing Oh, long for this I won't need pay when I see your face No, I must protect my place Keep my rifle by my side Our rifle by our side. Yes, US rifle, 7.62mm M14 with lightweight air-cooled gas-operated magazine-fed shoulder weapon designed primarily for semi-dementic fire. This is my rifle! I will make sure that I act accordingly with it when the time comes. I master it so that I will master the area of control that I have responsibility for when the time comes. That means putting your ass down. So again, it has been a very perfect winter Michigan day with cold and slightly blustery. You may have heard some wind in the background on and off from one microphone or another with Nancy or myself. because we've had a little bit of gusting. Nothing, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not Ah, did we get snow the last 24 hours? Okay, and again, it's up on the northwestern side of the state of Michigan, Lake Effect Snow, coming right out of the west, I would assume. Yep, but you also got to remember people, I am uphill from Mark II, so we get worse than they do down there. Yeah, that's the high ground. If all of us snow are still the trolls below the bridge to the Uppers, But they're on much higher ground. That's why when you see these flood maps for the world, we're all going to get flooded. You'll notice that the upper part of Michigan is a series of islands, or at least a little bit of an island and some other small islands with it, because that's uphill. A lot of people. When you say we're going up north, we really are going up north in Michigan. and down south too which is why it doesn't really cost as much to get back home when you're done if you're from the bottom of the state heading up to visit friends. It's amazing. You're coasting downhill. Well, kind of anyway. Gravity sucks. So, again, real quick here, also there are some other cold weather items over at Sportsman's Guide I didn't mention. Go in the clearance section, but there are some really good deals there, and actually in some big sizes, to be quite honest. Pay attention. Go look at the sizes. I've mentioned this and it's really weird. I've got another source I can't talk about until I get what I want out of the site. I might buy them out. But the interesting thing is that they had 1x, 2x, and 3x. A lot of people go, what do you want those 3x for? Well, because I'm going to have the camouflage on the outside, but I'm going to have my cold weather layers, including my Holofill field pant liners inside the camouflage pants. Guys, they used to make, just a heads up and you want to watch for them, there's a bunch of surplus stores down in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia who have no use for this stuff. And I've seen pictures from some of the, check this surplus store out, it's a wholesale store almost, it's got like crates about the way surplus stores used to be. And in the middle of Georgia you've got Arctic gear. Now, do you think they're using Arctic gear in the middle of Georgia? I know that's how that locations, I'm sure they're putting some of the stuff out on the internet, but a lot of places don't do that much of that work. So, again, there's some really fantastic cold weather gear that was made and it's in the wrong place. They made a set of Holofill liners for the fish parkas. They made a bunch of Holofill liners for your field pants. They also made what were called the freeze and it doesn't mean freezes and frozen. It's the terrycloth wool satin lined pant and field coats, field jacket liners. Those are fantastic, but you don't find them as often. They're harder to find now. But the Holofill, the thing is, you can take, what you do is you buy one of those Holofill liners that fits you. You don't want it tight, you want it floppy. Once you get that, you put it on, then you take the pants you bought that are a size larger than you, at least. In other words, if I wear a 1X, I want a 2X and possibly a 3X. And what I do is I put those pants on, and then I mark on the pants where the button holes are in the field pant liner. And then I take everything off and I break out my pile of military buttons I have in a little coffee can because I scavenge everything off junk uniforms or clothing. It's cloth by the time we're done. It's not uniforms. If I scrap something, it's scrap. Otherwise, if it's usable, you're going to wear it. But the buttons I have, I have thousands. And you pick out the buttons you want. You stick them into place. Now your tactical combat pants become winter field pants. And so again, there's a bunch of these locations that have the larger sizes for a reasonable price. And Sportsman's Guide has a bunch of this stuff in the clearance section, so check it out. But even places, as I mentioned the other day, like Teemu, Teemu has got some stuff with up to 9x. Why did I order 9x? Well, because I'm going to take that big ass jacket with a hood that was like, what, $11? I can't buy the material that makes a 9X jacket. Like a pullover. Big ass pullover sweatshirt basically but not because it's different material. However, here's what you do. If it's a 9X, I have a bunch of snorkel parkas. The shells were damaged because these were old Air Force parkas that were on the flight line. And the guys wear them because they beat them up working on stuff, carrying stuff. They don't take their nicer park and use it for that. Well, when they're done with them, they would toss them. I used to get crates of these things. Well, if you've ever seen a picture of me in any of our training videos, when you see me with the Snow Camouflage Parka, that's a snorkel parka where I've taken a jacket like this and I stitched it over top of the damaged Arctic parka. And the cool thing is, because it's grossly oversized, it fits perfectly. Well, I've got certain camouflage patterns I want on those older snorkel parkas that I have left that are extra in inventory and that's where these things are going to be used. So it's another sewing project. Nancy's going to be busy, but not for long, and I can even do most of it. I'm going to do the stitchery to hook them up. But I want a few more variants in some of these new camos or older camos that now somebody's finally making again. Then I'm going to dress these up. Now, otherwise, you can use these as pullovers, roll-up pullovers for changing areas of operation. What do I mean by that? Well, here in Michigan, I can go cross-country, like right now, where I'm sitting, we have pine forest, and then we have oak woods. Then we have stripped maple. Then we have open or semi-open bramble fields, OK, with a combination of tan, brown, and gray, where you then walk into green and dark green and shadow. And then you go from there to gray with oak leaves that are dying, because remember, oaks always drop last. And many of the oak trees still have oak leaves on them, even if they're ground cover short. So, it would be kind of nice to be able to have a pullout that you can throw on that matches up for the area you're passing through. And since these things are very, very light, you don't try to carry a complete separate uniform. You carry an assault smock. So, what do I do with these over- oversized covers is we put a waste sash pull cord in the middle. at the waist end and it goes over everything. Whatever existing coat, whatever clothing you're already wearing, you just pull the whole thing over. Now you've completely changed up your color base. And again, a lot of what we have here, this is the tough part about camouflaging in Michigan and most places in the winter because if you have agriculture, you got corn stock, you got grass fields, you got grass thatch in your swamps, you've got green overhang cover from ferns, you have green overhead cover from pine trees and dense pine. And even though the stuff is not old growth because a lot of it's man planted, Like I said, in the area here I can point myself in any direction and have all of what I just described that I'd be passing through. So it's difficult to find a camouflage that's going to fit that completely. And if I was going to plot my arse down in an area for a period of time, I'd want to change out to that other camouflage pattern while I'm there if I've dug in or if I'm locked in because I have to wait. I'm in a rendezvous situation. So carrying about two Spare other color over assault smocks like that which are very very lightweight shells Not much weight to carry in the winter another insulator layer by the way, too If things were to get bitter you can throw another layer over top of everything else you got It's not going to hurt anything you look at as a wet shell cover The other consideration there is that there are also some rain rain cover type jackets that you can acquire in the extra large sizes like that, big, big sizes. And those are perfect for the same purpose, especially if they're both rain gear and they're camouflage. With the Europeans, they traditionally used quarter panels, you know, shelter quarters for camouflage. You guys have picked up a lot of them that I've offered over the years, or pointed everybody towards. And you might recall that the quarter panels actually have head holes like a poncho. And the reason is that if you wrap properly and button around and put your web gear over top of it, it is literally a camouflage item for a field issue. That was why it was built the way it was built. Not many of those out there, and now they want goofy prices as classic and collectible, where before they used to be two and three and five dollar items because nobody knew what to do with them. So that's what happens. That's what the surplus is all about. Remember, it also can be an investment. I'm at the point now where there are certain items that I had issued in the past. How many of you people are using East German boxcar camo? A lot. Why? Because I bought millions and millions of pieces. I won't say millions, but let's just say I bought a lot of that. And in turn, we issued it to a lot of troops and a lot of units. Well, guys, any of the new stuff, the original stuff you've got sitting in the box right now, go take a look at what it's worth. It would be worthwhile to sell that if you want another AR-15. Just something to think about there because you've got a lot of the unique stuff that we acquired that I accessed that just isn't available and now people are showing an interest as a collector's item. Remember that collector's item thing? When that happens, that's right out the window. You ain't going to be able to afford it anymore. However, if you've got it, it's a great way to buy more of the other equipment you need. See how that works? Prior to proper planning prevents piss poor performance. And if you think ahead, oh my goodness, you could do very well. And make up for all the other stuff you had to spend money on, like that expensive thermal device or that night vision device or that better weapon because you didn't think what Mark was recommending was good enough and Bob told you to buy the Schmidlap 402. And you bought the Schmidlap 402, but now you can't afford any magazines or ammo. So now you've got to try and figure out how to make that work. Well, here's a way to make it work. Another crazy idea Uncle Mark is talking about. You know, I'm stupid. But hey, I have a lot of cool toys. And I didn't pay very much for them because it was paying attention at the time. Just me. Heads up. So as it is, and we are, well, we've got about 12 minutes or so, and I want to touch on another subject. It is Weapons Wednesday. I've been focusing on the stuff that we need to grab. And also things that need to be dealt with as quickly as possible, certain items. I highly recommend those military surplus MRE dessert muffins because of the price. You can't beat them. Go take a look at what the rest costs and look what those costs and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's just a good idea. Most everybody's like, they should have more food on the shelf. I don't care what you get. Like I said yesterday, I picked up anchovies for nothing. So some of you people, 54 of you, are going to end up with a container of anchovies, a humanitarian MRE, and a chocolate muffin. Now I don't know how the anchovies go with a chocolate muffin, but it's, you know, hey, it's a meat item, it's protein, shut up, it's what you get, bye, out of here, get out of my face, you got other things to do, and I got other things to do too. That's just how it's going to be. So heads up. Anyway, last but not least, I'm going to touch on something here. I want everybody to think about this because we're going to have an hour and we'll talk when we get back at the 8 o'clock window. How many people are terrified of AI? I have been watching as I know we're being betrayed. We all know that these punks that we have that are, you know, the hyper-rich, the ass-hat fruit loop, you know, Satan worshiping turds that are out there, and they are. These characters are promoting all kinds of twisted sister crap. But let me ask you something. How does, how are you telling me that AI affects you to the degree that supposedly it's futile to resist, it's all done, it's where we gotta surrender? Who's telling you this? I want everybody to step back and look at this bullshit. Let me explain it to you this way. I want you to close your eyes. I want you to just sit right where you are without being able to see where is AI touching you right now in the physical real realm, in the world where you are right now with your eyes closed. Reach out. Can you feel AI right there? Reach to your right. Is there AI right there? Reach out to your left. Nope. I don't feel any AI there. How about behind you? Maybe you're sneaking up behind you. AI sneaking up behind you. Well, it is sneaking up to try and backstab you in a different way. Nope, nope. Now I'm going to open my eyes. For as far as you can see in the room you're probably sitting in right now, in front of you, is there an AI monster there that I missed? I want you to look to the right. Is there an AI monster there that I missed? Maybe you couldn't hear him, but now you can see him, right? Can you see the AI monster to your left? How about to your rear? You live in the physical, real world. One of the first things they had to do is convince you that this bullshit, non-existent, ethereal fiction is the control surface, is the world. Now, I like that you're listening to me right now, whatever device you're listening to, but let me show you something. A lot of you get pissed at me at different times. I don't know, a bunch of people got pissed because I'm not worshipping Donald Trump ever. So they just walk over and hit the switch. Well, you just shut off AI the same way. No, because AI is everywhere. How is it everywhere? One of the things that we've argued, and I will point out again, is see all the technology, first of all, that they're counting on. Tocci refrigerators, Tocci stoves, Tocci... You need a washer and dryer that you can talk to because you need to relate to it. You must not have any friends. But all this crap that it absolutely is so grossly over complicated and it has no reason to be. The lion's share of the existence of every one of those appliance I just met was a dumb system. A simple single process and very intelligently built system. If somebody is setting all of this up for the purposes that everybody's flapping their yap about, which I understand this, I'm sure that your enemy is. Well, first of all, we need to take a knife and carve their sorry ass out of our life, don't we? Better still, anybody who's promoting AI's sorry ass needs to be gone, doesn't it? Anybody promoting AI, they're like, oh, it's inevitable, because everybody who gives it, no, we don't. If you improve a tool, It's only good for whatever limited lifespan is available to the tool based upon, again, serviceability and viability. What does it serve a purpose? But if you improve man and if you improve the human, you know, he or she, through the process of education, then you quantify humanity and, you know, people in general an uncounted fold. Our problem is that everybody is busy worshipping other assets who hate us in a situation where only because they've been told to, none of these characters make any true difference in life unless first they lay the groundwork of propaganda to convince you that you all have to worship what they're doing when they're not relevant to your life in any way, shape, or performance. They don't want anybody to say that. What I just said You're supposed to be terrified. You're supposed to be fearful. It's futile to resist. You'll be observed. I will say again, just within the room where you're sitting, show me where AI is controlling you right now. The only way that AI is controlling you is, again, Red Beckman had a book he did called Walls of Your Mind. See if you can find that book. Walls, actually, I think it's Walls Within Your Mind. And it had to do with talking about the quasi, you know, the illegitimate and unlawful activities of government and how they propagandize you into believing that they're real. And even there, the answer whenever you ask somebody about something, he says, well there's this big police state and this big guy and he's got knuckles and he can killify me. And you, I always love it because they do this when they look at me and they could kill you. Now the person doesn't realize that I've said many times what they look like when they say that. So in reality, that's their cop out and it demonstrates how much they hate me. Because some of those people that say that would like to see me dead simply because I'm not going along with the program. As in, I'm not becoming fearful with everybody else who's scared. It's probably also the threat that worked on them over. Well, it does. Well, there's two elements. A, either it worked on them or, remember, they think they're part of the clique. Well, I'm with them and we're gonna do this to you. Is your name? You got a jersey? We've always joked about this. My team won! What team? The Lions. Oh, you own it? Are you a member? What's your jersey number? Well, I got a jersey. It's for French Midlap, number six. Is your name French Midlap? Well, no. Do you think Fred knows who you are? Well, no. So it's not your team. Hello, Mark. You liked that, Dean. Go ahead. Oh yeah, it's such a mix. I was just going to say real quick that I was having dinner Saturday night with some of the other people, all gun guys. This one guy, he's an engineer, does gas motors and stuff like that. He just started talking about AI and everything. I had mentioned, I think I heard it on your show about Genesis and nobody really knew what it was or what it was even about. But the guy was like, he started talking about the Snapchat or whatever that other, because I don't use it. I don't use AI at all. And I mean, he was downright scared of it. I mean, this guy's highly educated and everything like that. But let me go into what I really wanted to call you about was before the show ends, I wanted to let you know, I don't know if you've seen this video, it's called, Why Did AAC Ammo Suddenly Stop? by TN Tactical. It's 6 minutes, 41 seconds. He talks about that Palmetto State Armory is going to go ahead and they are stopping production of their ammunition line. The reason for it is because they cannot get access powder, enough powder, to make the ammunition that they want to make. And so this is another, you know, like squeezing the, you know, making a choke, you know, squeezing everything into a choke so that, you know, nothing else can come through, you know, like, and what's interesting is that Palmetto, they say they're going to make ammo within a year, start making ammo within a year, because they are going to make and produce their own powder. But I mean, if you all might want to look at that next hour or so or whenever, but that's all I got. All right, thank you. Well, I appreciate that. Number one, now think about this, is something that I've talked about for how long on the air here. Production has left the country in all categories, and powder is one of them. Now, there are clandestine powder and ammunition and munition factories all over the country. Remember, we just had that little explosion a few, you know, a month ago. It wasn't little, it was pretty big. But it was little because look at the size of the facility. It probably got wiped out because they were making American TNT. That was on the list of things they were doing. Why did they have a problem? Like I told you, they can't get enough of anything that we're talking about right now. Powder, primer, Or for that matter, the filament for making primers, which is more of, again, combustible materials, they're limited because of the betrayal by government, by the federal government, by the traitors in government that did and are still doing NAFTA and GATT. Trump's involved in NAFTA and GATT. He's doing NAFTA and GATT to us right now. But the fact is that the only thing that's going to save us, and I think Paul Meadow, maybe they're listening. I mean, they're not. But like I said, the only thing that's going to save this country is small production, not big production. We need 100 or 1,000 and then 10,000 small production plants, American-based, trying to produce or to access 100% American in-country materials. Now the only thing that's good about black cover... And the people at Starfish companies, Mark, they need to be the kind of people that can't be bought out, otherwise it's just a big waste of spinny wheel. Right. Well, what will happen is exactly what we just saw with all our most of the munitions companies going where? To Czechoslovakia. Remember? We got a guy, a foreigner right now owning most of the ammunition production in the US. Think about that. Do we benefit from that situation? No, we do not. And technically, as they start to play the end game, which is what the whole AI scam is about, is to make it, if you were to resist, you would be absorbed. It does not mean that they can't do wicked things with the software and tech that they're using. But let's understand that that technology is doing nothing but promoting the very police state we all promised we would shoot out of existence if it tried to make the move it's going to make. So whoever promotes the idea of using that against the American people, they need to die. Whoever it is that is promoting that as an agenda, replacement agenda for human beings, that those people need to be gone. Because it is not beneficial to humanity. In fact, just the reverse. It is detrimental to our people across the board in general. They know it, it's why they're doing it, it's so they can manipulate the economy. Whoever's trying to do that, needs to die. Just that simple, because they're trying to enslave us, and we are going to get rid of people who think they are going to do that. So again, I don't have any fear about the AI. I have a problem with the idiot sticks who are worshipping it, and need to have a baseball bat smacked upside their head. Or are terrified of it in a situation where they should be ready to fight it. If you are that fearful of it, you better be ready to fight it. Anyway, I'm sure that Craig for Forbid Knowledge is coming up next and he will be discussing the subject and many more. God bless our Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. Every time they point out something like this, you know what it does? I'll go completely along with it. It's something we need to get rid of. So let's put it on the list of things to do and to get rid of. Anyway, I'm out of the way out of here. Craig, come on up. Don't touch that dial. We'll be back at 8. Bye-bye. To another dangerous episode of forbidden knowledge. My name is Craig. This is Wednesday, December 10th of 2025. You're welcome to participate if you wish. I did some mad scrambling about 25 minutes ago to try to find information I wanted to cover tonight because I had just heard about the oil tankers being seized, the Venezuelan oil tanker by the US. And I wanted to get into some of that information. Of course, it's early and some of the information that I find here is going to be outdated as soon as I mention it more than likely, but I want to talk about it in any case. I filed some precedent as some prior law and dealings international waters with this matter online. So, I got a bunch of windows opened up here. We start out I guess by saying US foreign policy sucks. We are putting our noses in places that doesn't belong. This all of course is my opinion. But I think it's probably the opinion of most of you and also the opinion of most of the world. Kind of no wonder we're kind of being hated all over the world and it's not just for things happen during Trump It's things that didn't happen to last more than a hundred years, frankly all over the world We just don't know when to leave alone. The United States used to be tired of World War one certainly Totally a lot sooner than earlier than that. But prior to World War one there wasn't a whole lot of US involvement in international affairs, as the founding fathers intended it to be, but Americans were generally what we would today call isolationists. Stay out of it. If you want to describe me politically, you can describe me as that. An isolationist. Don't you dare call me a Republican or a Democrat. I'd have a little more agreement if you were to try to label me in a libertarian camp. but even then even there is problems. So isolationism is one of them. Any party could be. Now you can still be a Democrat or Republican I guess and be and still be considered an isolationist. But that's not what your party is doing. Because no matter who's in power, if you are one of those D's or R's, your party is getting involved in international affairs all over the world. Both covertly and overtly. And I pulled up a list of some of those. I had covered them about a couple of years ago. I did cover some of these. I'll go over the list real quick here tonight. Maybe I should do that first. And I just want to do it very quickly. Both covert and covert. Now, this list is the ones we know about. There may be a whole lot of other attempts, a whole lot of other plans that aren't going to be on this list. But these are the ones we know about. And there's more than 70 on this list, so let's just go over them. I want to start all the way back into 1846, actually. The Annexation of Texas and the Invasion of California. 1865, Mexico. Again, I'm going to go rather quickly. 1887, Samoa. 1890s, the Kingdom of Hawaii. 1899, the Philippines. 1903, Colombia. 1903, also Honduras. 1906 Cuba, 1909 Nicaragua. Now, I guess I better pause here a second. I'm listing all these now. Some of these were not successful, but they were nevertheless plans that were discovered that the U.S. was either going to do or did because frankly, most of them we did. Well, you tried, but that way. So some of these may have just been attempts, right? 1909 Nicaragua. Also, 1912, had to go back to Nicaragua again. 1912, 1913, back to Mexico. 1950, Haiti. 1916, Dominican Republic. 1917, of course, Germany. We're starting at World War I now. 1917, Germany. 1917, Austria-Hungary. 1918, Russia. 1941, Japan. 1941 Germany, 1941 Italy, I guess this is all World War II. 1944 France, 1944 Belgium, now we're talking about taking back countries that were under Axis occupation. 1944 Netherlands, 1944 Philippines, 1945 Austria, 1945 South Korea, 1947 Greece, 1948 Costa Rica, 1949 Albania 1949 Syria 1950 Burma and China 1952 Egypt 1952 Guatemala 1952 Iran 1954 Guatemala again 1956 Syria 1957 Indonesia 1959 Iraq the first time 1959 South Vietnam 1959 Cuba 1959 Cambodia 1960 Congo 1960 Laos 1961 Dominican Republic 1963 Iraq again 1964 British Iana 1964 Brazil 1965 Indonesia 1970 Cambodia 1970 Chile 1971 Bolivia 1974 Ethiopia 1975 Angola 1975 East Timor 1976 Argentina 1979 Afghanistan 1980 Poland 1981 Chad 1981 Nicaragua 1983 Grenada 1989 Panama 1986 Soviet Union 1989 Czechoslovakia 1991 Iraq 1991 Haiti 1992 Iraq again 1994 Haiti again 1996 Zaire 2000 Yugoslavia 2001 Afghanistan 21 years there 2002 Venezuela 2003 Iraq 2003 Somalia 2004 Haiti 2005 critics stand 2006 Palestine 2005 Syria, 2009 Honduras, 2011 Libya, 2011 Syria, 2019 Bolivia, 2019 to present Venezuela. And of course there's been other operations that are not mentioned here. These are ones that have been revealed, uncovered, Just in recent years, you could say, certainly Iran again. You could say Gaza. You could say a lot of countries actually. Libya, Yemen. You could say a whole lot more since 2019, the last eight years on this particular list. So how many of these are actually countries that are a threat to our national security? That'd be the primary question. Which of these are a threat to our national security, and which ones of them were actually declared wars. Keeping in mind we haven't had a declared war since 1941. Last time we had a declared war. Where Congress under Article 1 Section A of the Constitution requires them, requires Congress to declare war. That's president. President can't just go bombing everybody like he has done, like they have done since 1941. Again, this is not just thinking of thumb in the eye of Trump. All your presidents, whether you're a D or an R, have been involved in this unlawful activity. CIA adventures all over the world. Places we don't belong. Have no business being it. Regime changes all over the world, which always end up dramatically bad for the country, especially that it's attacked by us, overtly or overtly. Been a struggle for a long time, recovered both financially, economically and politically. and because they don't grow to be of a military equivalent to the U.S., they'll continue to suffer such CIA adventures if they collect somebody that the U.S. doesn't like or what have you, or we want to take their oil and resources or something of that nature. I think it'd be very hard for us to find any of these on that list that I just mentioned that have really endangered our national security. The only one you might be able to go back to in the last hundred years, I would say, probably Japan, attacking us in 1941, December 8th, I think it was, right? But, when you look into the actual history of that, you'll know that FDR wanted us to be drawn into the war that was already underway in Europe. And so he put into place mechanisms which would allow the American people to change their mind once we were actually attacked by Japan so that he could then go on their military adventures and getting us involved in World War II. So on the surface you could say that Japan was a security threat to the US, and for the moment they were, but you've got to understand the US wanted that. It was a goal because Americans were still, after World War I, Americans were still very much isolated as they really didn't want to get involved in another damn war we had no business being in. So they had to find a way to convince you, convince the American people that they'll think otherwise very soon. Maybe that's how September 11 happened, right? So you get more involved in the Middle East, I've run their military adventures to help Israel defeat its enemies. I'm going to go back to something I say quite often on this show, and I'm still waiting for pushback of what's wrong with this idea, because we have over 750 military bases all over the world. I mean, in foreign lands. Do any of those belong there? Do we have any of those being at any of them? Shouldn't we close all military bases all over the world and just have the ones here in our own country? Bring our troops back home, bring our equipment back home, and mind our own goddamn business. Now, after doing that, it's going to take several generations for the U.S. to become viewed upon in a positive light, several generations of no longer getting involved in our CIA adventures. Close all military bases. Make our troops back home. Make our equipment back home. Mind our own business. Shut down the CIA. Keep every CIA agent here in this country. We'll have the CIA open. We'll do your investigations from U.S. soil. All the technology you have today, through the NSA and satellite technology and so on, you could do a lot of surveillance that way, probably more than any of you and I don't even know about via our cell phones and whatever, what have you. I was listening to a program here today about 6G and about the security implications of 6G with the American people. It doesn't sound good. Well, how much of it is true? I didn't investigate it much and I was just listening to somebody speaking on it. which you don't want to talk about, instead of 4G, 5G, 6G. 6G is coming. They say probably around the year 2030. Anyway, so and not only that, okay, that's just the start, in my opinion, because then all of a sudden, wait, whoa, bring all our troops back home, our military doesn't need to be nearly as big. We could now, we have a trillion dollars each year going to the military, at least. Well, gee, there's your doge right there, because you could probably reduce it 90% pretty much immediately. If all our troops are back home, we only then remind your own business. Wow, start paying down the debt. Start getting our country's solvent again. Wow, a trillion dollars a year. And then don't just sit back. You still have a strong military. All the military needs to do is defend us. That's all a military should do. That's the only legitimate reason for any military is to defend themselves. And we have the advantage of two big oceans that protect us very well nicely. Thank you. Great, great resources to have. Our neighbors to the north, although we haven't been picking more of an enemy of them as time goes by for whatever reason, really isn't a threat to us. Our borders are wide open with Canada and then to the south round, our borders are, as we know, pretty much wide open on the south side too. And they don't really pose much of a military threat to us either. What about all those troops that be unemployed, right? Well, what about the borders? Does it still want to be in the military? They now become border guards. If you want to use the military, or something to defend our country. That's what you do. Put them on the borders, defend our country. We don't need a military base in America, Samoa. Do we? No, I say not. We don't need a military base in Japan to protect what? To protect the Japanese? No, don't think so. They are their own country. We are the policeman of the world. Nothing we should do, again, my opinion, and radical opinions that would, of course, never get me elected, probably in fact, probably get me killed if I tried to go run for office. Probably killed pretty quickly. These are ideas American people really shouldn't be entertaining. The deep state just would not allow it. Something we should do is remove all sanctions from all over the world. Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. I can't remember the figure, but I think about one third of the world is under US sanctions, and we wonder why we're hated. Move all sanctions. Again, we're minding your own business now. Engage in free trade, not forced military trade where we need your oil so we're going to bomb you for it. So end all sanctions. Hmm. Another radical idea. Now, for the military industrial complex, which has lobbyists in Washington, which have done a great power amongst our politicians, keep them happy. Well, Okay, we build weapons and we sell them. You don't give them, you sell them. Develop new weapons. Develop the best military technology you can develop and sell them to the world. Because there'll be wars all over the world. We don't have to be the ones starting them, and usually we are. Let them all kill themselves. What do we care? Our borders are secure, right? Here's another radical idea. that I've mentioned before and I just really didn't get any pushback on it. And this sounds even more radical. Since we bring all our troops back home, well, do we need an army, an air force, a navy? Because we have a national guard, instead of an army. We have a coast guard, instead of an navy. Instead of an air force, well, that's one that the founding fathers had not envisioned, of course. We have similar patrol. So do we really need all these militaries that we have? Again, all our military does is attack people. We don't defend ourselves. The founding fathers, in the Constitution you'll find that the Pugsman Navy, which was authorized to have a standing army, was never even authorized to have for more than two years. So what are we doing? We can defend our own country, probably, with what the things are meant to be. Hey Craig. Well, Ed. Well. With the understanding why the Navy was approved because our trade was being threatened by Britain, it would make sense to have an Air Force. A Naval Force and an Air Force to protect our commerce, which really was the primary job of our Navy and our military, even when you get into the expansion to the West, with the Calgary. The Calgary was up there more about protecting our trade that was headed west than it was about conquering the natives, although Custer had his own ideas about that. Well, of course, Custer, we're not talking Air Force now, we're only talking... because Air Force has been relatively different, of course, in our history. Relatively, I mean, half of our history, we're in first hope. But, less than half. Well, if you get close to half now, where we would have had some type of air travel, air capacity. But, if we engaged in rational free trade, I don't think we'd be attacked, personally. But, okay, we have the Navy, or the, could be the Coast Guard, if you wanted to, what do they call, have ships being protected by a Coast Guard. Now, international waters, I mean, that's a whole sticky issue that we, I don't think our Coast Guard needs to be basically much beyond our, in international waters, beyond our borders, because Coast Guard is there to protect our coast. That's what it should be. Okay, last minute. Really, I'm in agreement with you, Craig. I think our maritime fleet. are, which really if you look at it, America doesn't really have a maritime fleet anymore. We use everybody else's ships. And by maritime fleet, I'm talking about cargo containers, oil tankers, go on down the list. We paid for a lot of other countries to have those fleets, but if you take a look at how many of those shipping vessels are actually US-owned, I think it's very like 10% in the world are owned by the US now. Most of them are owned by China and the Arab nations. And you just brought up another point that I also have to add to my list of ideal situations to be a rational country in the world stage would be stop giving money to foreign countries, stop giving ships to foreign countries, stop giving airplanes or whatever to foreign countries. Sell those things. If you want then money could help keep companies going here to help our industry just out of debt don't just give money and Primarily we're talking about Israel here, but there's dozens of other countries. We just give money to Egypt and gone down the line So that will keep the military industrial complex our shipyards could be bustling businesses But our ex-military that since we no longer need you know 90% of them say just take it so we got a number there tend to work in the docks and building weapons and building bridges and so on. We get our infrastructure back because now we're going to have a lot more money to repair our aging infrastructure. There's so much that could be done. Now granted, okay, dreaming, okay, I'm dreaming, I'm just a dreamer, of course. No politicians are ever going to say the things that I'm saying right now. Generally, I mean, if they do, they're going to have to do it on a whole lot different level, a whole lot easier, quieter, and they're just going to have to, otherwise they're going to be an up-dead. And so there's pretty much no question with that. So I'm, of course, I'm at risk of being dead too, but I don't have a big enough audience. Now, some of the biggest podcasters are saying these kinds of things. They might be worried. Because my message isn't getting out to billions or even billions of people like some of them might be some of the modern podcasters today So I don't think they can even say these things really it's certainly not to the extent that I've just said them Back post no threat. I'm older I'm not in politics and I'm just a talking head on the radio or podcast or whatever whatever you call this I'm still not sure I used to always call it radio show I used to do a lot of TV. I did a lot of live TV back to him 90s live TV, live radio, public access as far as TV goes. And then I kept getting kicked off about four different channels. I was on a public access from TV various locations and I kept getting kicked off of them for saying the things that I say, basically. And then I started this, I guess today you call this podcast. At the time I considered it radio show. I don't think the word podcast even existed back when I started doing what I'm doing now here on this network. And what did you call this before when you first started you didn't call a podcast what did you call this? You're still there. What did you call Liberty Tree Radio when you first started it? You were there for day one I'm sure. That's not with us at the moment. Okay. Anyway, today I guess it's sort of a podcast. Is podcast only a visual media or does that include audio? I don't know. Okay, let me continue on here. Craig, podcasts traditionally have been started as an audio medium, usually about a half hour to an hour long. They were originally started as a format for online radio stations to get programs, to just play in their playlists. and they would pay some people to do it. The podcast on their own became popular as just selling it. So basically like the archives is basically what a podcast is. It's just the format is it's radio. Some people do video now because obviously videos become easy to do so the podcast is both. But it did start as an audio thing. It's like the evolution of a blog. to an audio podcast. Now we've got video podcasts with people putting information and able to put examples of where they got the information from and everything in video format. That way you can see stuff for yourself. It's been a growing thing. But yeah, I would say it definitely started as audio when they started doing podcasts. But even before then, all the podcasts was somebody reading their blog on air. I'm pretty sure your father started. micro-FM probably back in the 90s and then probably this network you run now probably started around 2000 or soon thereafter on the internet longer Craig I'm this is a high school project for me so this is this is mmm this had been running a lot longer back but in fact yeah it's been I was a kid when I started this no the It's Liberty Tree Radio. I'll give you a quick little history of it. Liberty Tree Radio was started as a high school project for me as a micro-epthon radio station. I was part of a network of micro-broadcasters that ran from Ohio up to the center of Michigan along the M52 corridor. You know what that is. Some people listening won't, but it's a state road that runs straight up the center of Michigan. And we had transmitters going all the way from where Emma Shlarp, Ace of NATO was basically the route down in Ohio. She was the start of it. It went all the way up to North Star Radio, which was George Matusik's property in mid-Michigan, like the mid-center of your glove. What year was it? Oh, I think... 1989 into 1990. Liberty Tree Radio, my station, converted to Internet, but I've always run the same format. I started listening to shortwave radio in the 90s, and that's when I started learning. There was a lot of micro FM broadcasts. some shortwave into micro FM formats because there wasn't a whole lot there to choose from except on shortwave radio in the alternative media. What shall we say? Well the shortwave, the micro FM broadcasters, which I hope set a lot of them up in the state of Michigan, satellite. Republic Radio International, which fed the shortwave that dad was doing was a network that dad John Stadtmiller and a couple other people got together and purchased. I know my mom and dad put the house up into a mortgage. to purchase the broadcasting company which said directly to satellite and from the satellite we hooked people up with the old box satellites which you could manually tune into a satellite and not have to pay anything for. There was no subscription fees. Most satellite fees didn't have ads. You could tap into raw feeds and everything and we would buy time in the Telstar section of the sky which was for basically dying satellites. They had like four or five years left on them and we bought cheap satellite time and we would get everybody the coordinates to move their dishes into to tune in and rebroadcast off of that. And when did Liberty tornado go to internet format roughly what year? I think it was about a half year while my dad was in prison. I was getting more kickback from certain individuals in the local community and I didn't want it to be an issue or to make it a target for my parents. So, because I was still living at home at the time, so I shifted everything over to internet radio. That was my plan and anybody locally might remember that the day that I was scheduled to drop everything and shift it over to internet radio, completely, 100% was the day that they used the FCC to come in and try, as an excuse to bring the ATF into my family's home, and try to confiscate all of our firearms. I'd have to think about that, Craig. I'm not 100% sure exactly when all of that happened. I do remember I was completely disgusted with the lie that the FCC was there because they knew what they were doing because the first thing that they looked at was the CB setup in the dining room and claimed that that was the FM transmitter. Then when they went to where my studio actually was in the chicken coop, They saw my PlayStation and thought, of course, a gaming system which everybody was familiar with was the FM transmitter or the power amplifier and they had to take that. Well, from Dex, depending on how much power you were running, did your signal cross state lines? Probably not. No. It went from about our house to just beyond Z-Broad. We got blamed, the FCC complaint that was sent to us, and we got sent it again even after I had completely, they had taken the transmitter, and I had completely stopped and moved away from doing that and was doing just internet radio. Still got a cease and desist order from them because I was bleeding over onto other frequencies, and I... informed them that that frequency is not mine. That frequency that's bleeding over, if you listen to it, has a University of Michigan call sign. It was the FM, it still is, if you live in the area, you know it, you can pick it up. If you turn your radios off and you're in the area, you can hear that dirty transmitter on top of Peach Mountain that the University of Michigan runs NPR on. It's still there to this day, a dirty transmitter bleeding over all those frequencies. I was getting blamed for that. Yeah, that particular signal very powerful in much of Southern Michigan. Yeah, but you can cross state lines with your signal, so really the FCC didn't really have to proceed securely and honestly, but they do what they do anyway. That's what they do. Okay, well thank you for that Ed. Anyway, I think sometime after that, because I had lost yet another TV show on public access. I think I can't remember when the last time I was on public access. Soon after that, I think within about a year, that's when Ed called me and offered to have me come on the network. And I did. And ever since then, I think it's been probably more than 20 years that I've been on the network. But I can't find a way to know. I'd have to look up the dates myself. Actually, let me see. I was still doing the 2008 financial meltdown. I was still on the air, I do remember. I think that probably was the last year I was on the air in public access. So it probably was around 2008 or 2009 that I had been on this network. So that's just my guess without looking anything up. Okay, been a while. Now, I also run the radio today or not radio, listening to my YouTube podcast, I guess I'll call them, from somebody who seemed to know what they're talking about. We spent about $1 billion per day on this nonsense we got going over in Venezuela right now, off the coast of Venezuela. About one billion dollars a day. And why are we there? Another regime change operation. Seal the oil, seal the resources, keep them from going into bricks. All these things that it could be, all the things that signs point to the reason why we need to be there in the first place, according to... None of that has to do with drugs, of course. We all know that. So, I did find this article because now, for those of you who see, let me find a US season sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. So if you're just joining here and you haven't heard the news in the last six hours or so, this is the news that has come about today. US season sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Move is first known tanker seizure since the US buildup began. It signals a new effort to go after the Venezuelan main revenue source. impact on global oil supply affected. The US sees the sanctioned oil tanker up close to Venezuela, as Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Caracas. We just see the tanker up close to Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and the other things that are happening. said Trump was pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down. That's what would happen to the oil. Trump said, keep it, I guess. Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. The incident was the first known action against the oil tankers since he ordered a massive military buildup in the region. has carried out strikes against suspected drug dealers which raised concerns about lawmakers and legal experts. They also released a video, let me think I've got that in another article, they have released a video showing basically helicopters coming in and troops descending upon the, let me see, I find that article here. Well, I've got so many windows open here, I don't know which window it is. Apparently, 10 Marines. 10 special forces. I can't remember now. I think it was from two choppers, descending upon the old tanker and seizing it. Pirates. I think that's the only word you can use. Pirates. We made piracy a method of what the US does. I mean, it seems like Trump is just trying to show Israel, well, yeah, we can do that too. We can do all the nasty things you do. We can do it too and get away with it. Kind of what it looks like is happening here. Now, I found this article, which is very interesting, because at first I looked, I took a search in to find out, okay, what is the legality of this? What do experts think about this? And of course it's too new for all the experts to weigh in yet, right? So I did find this article and it just happened to be about Venezuela from 2021, from June of 2021. on the legality and policy ramifications of high seas seizures of foreign merchant vessels for violating U.S. sanctions. So this is the kind of expert opinion you're probably going to see in all your feeds here in the next coming days or weeks about, was it legal to do this? Well, this I think answers it. In its efforts to enforce economic sanctions against Iran and Venezuela, the United States, why do we have sanctions against Iran and Venezuela? Is Iran a national security threat to us? Is Venezuela a certain national security threat to us? No. They're both trying to get into bricks. Is that the reason? Is it about seizing oil? I'll bring you down Iran for Israel. Okay, anyway. The United States is straining the boundaries of traditionally accepted state behavior in some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. It is walking a tightrope. This comes from a law lawfairmedia.org, a website dealing with law. Despite US, robust US sanctions, Tehran and Caracas, that's Iran and Venezuela, are undertaking a significant shipping operation to provide desperately needed cash to Iran and weapons and fuel to Venezuela. The Iranian cigarette Okay, talking about oil, a converted oil tanker, freshly commissioned as a military vessel, or currently transisting the Atlantic route to Venezuela. I don't remember this incident. Again, this was more than four years ago, four and a half years ago. If these ships reach Venezuela, it will be a milestone in Iran's evolving efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions and will mark a renaissance of the Cold War era tactic of converting commercial vessels into warships to gain treaty protected grants of sovereign immunity guaranteeing safe passage for illicit cargo on board. Oil is illicit cargo? When did this happen? Oil is illicit cargo all of a sudden? Because we say it is? I'm trying to think. I kind of doubt there's any country in the world that thinks oil is illegal. I kind of think that. I might be wrong. The United States used the Iranian government as an illegitimate anti-democratic regime. Okay, hold on, hold on. The United States used the Iranian government as an illegitimate anti-democratic regime. Okay, why are they illegitimate? Because we don't like them. It's their culture. It's up to their people to overthrow that illegitimate government, if that's the case. The main calling of anti-democratic. Okay, that sounds like a good thing to me. They can be whatever they want. They're their own sovereign nation. They don't want to be a democracy. Hey, that's up to them. It's not our business to force democracy upon them. In fact, our founding fathers were scared to death of this country becoming a democracy. And they guaranteed provisions in our Constitution under all their particle four session for it to make sure that we would remain a republic. Now, a democracy, you won't find out we're a democracy anywhere in the Constitution, but you will find republic mentioned more than us in the Constitution. Okay, continuing. I'm adding a lot of mental things. I guess it's a little upset when I see these words printed here. Questioning what? What the hell are we doing here? The United States views the Iranian government as an illegitimate and anti-democratic regime whose nuclear aspirations and dreams of regional hegemony are destabilizing the Middle East. Okay, wait a minute. Pause again. Who's really destabilizing the Middle East? Has Iran attacked all its neighbors? What country in the Middle East has attacked all its neighbors? And I say that's the, I think that's the problem in the Middle East, with destabilizing the Middle East. Forget my opinion. And then they talk about their nuclear aspirations. Well, is there, why can they not develop a nuclear weapon if they want to? Other countries have. We've allowed other countries to do it. Did we stop all these other countries from doing it? Well, we put the hagbash on some of them, certainly. But others we've let go through. Why is that? They're illegal for some but not for others. It's our business to decide who gets nuclear weapons. Interesting. Okay, let's see. East Ebelize in the Middle East. Its efforts to undermine the regime and Iran's nuclear program, the United States has sanctioned individuals, entities and organs of the Iranian state, frozen billions of assets, conducted military, targeted military strikes, and tactically supported assassinations. Regarding Caracas, The United States has committed to publicly sanctioning the Maduro regime after it invalidated the 2019 election of Juan Gudero with Venezuelan losses estimated at $30 billion and climbing. Okay, this is back in 2021. Okay, so we didn't like that one gualdo wasn't put into office. We didn't like their election for some reason. It's up to us to decide who gets to be leaders in all these countries, a sovereign nation, what business they live in ours. Are they a threat to the United States or our national security? This whole thing just stinks like crazy. This is actually a pretty big article. I'm not going to have time to get to it here, but at least I better skip slides here. Let's see here. Issues of international law. Continue on. There are a couple pages ahead of them. Iran's use of warships to deliver fuel and arms to Venezuela and move designed to deter U.S. intervention in the transfer represents a major escalation in the United States conflicts with both states. Thus far, the United States aggressive sanctions enforcement against Iran has not violated international law of the sea, but this escalation could be a disastrous long term. Understanding where that line is requires a brief primer of the law of the sea. Factors that affect the legality of interdictions include the ship's claimed identity, the location of the seizure, the domestic and international authorities under which the interdiction occurs, and especially important given to the facts at hand, whether the vessel is a warship. Chips transiting the high seas are subject to exclusively to the jurisdiction of the state under whose flags they are sailing, a paradigm drawn from both customary international law and modern treaty law. Customary international law is an amalgamation of norms, practices, and judgments that enjoy broad international acceptance. As for treaties, the two central multilateral packs regulating state Interference with Foreign Chipping are the 1958 Convention of the Law of the High Seas and the United States has ratified the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Seas. The United States has not ratified the United Nations Convention of the Law of the High Seas but it has accepted a large portion of it accurately reflecting customary international law of the sea. While treaty and customary international law provide the state Prescribed state interference with foreign flag vessels outside exceptional circumstances, primarily the slaves trade, illegal broadcasting and piracy, and in all other cases, Article III of the 1958 Convention of the Article 94 of the UNSLS prohibited high seas interdictions of foreign vessels without preauthorization from that vessel state. Additional rules prescribed. strict limits on the search and seizure of boarded vessels. Taking historically, the calculus suggests breaching customary law or either treaty will produce only negative long-term outcomes for violating the violating state by degrading international legal norms that provide immense economic benefits to providing states. Freighter away diplomatic capital and creating rhetoric or pretextual cover for mis-needs of less scrupulous state actions. I got it. Let's see if there's a, I've got to get to the end of the article here. I don't have much time. If there's an actual, okay, authority, I've only got a few pages I have here, authority to seize ships violating US law on the high seas. As long as the United States does not do one of two things, number one, unilaterally seize ships or cargoes in another state's territory waters, whoops, form number two, seize foreign vessels on the high seas, it has a clear domestic statutory basis for the seizures that appears consistent with domestic precedent and international legal precedent as construed by US in the US courts. However, the US must tread carefully in the absence of parallel multilateral sanctions against the Iranian regime. Yeah, in this case, Venezuela. So, oops, the oopsie-dootsie, unilaterally sees, so as long as the United States does that, unilaterally sees ships or cargoes in another state's territorial waters. And that's what's happened here. The U.S. sanctions alone provide a variety of authorities through which the U.S. may seize Iranian property. Those are probably which the United States relies to seize Iranian shipping include but are not limited to the Iranian transaction and sanctions regulations. It goes on about a whole list of things here which this is relating to Iran. Back it up. Why do we have sanctions against our end? For what reason do we have sanctions against our end? A threat to the United States. Why do we have sanctions anywhere in the world? That's something we shouldn't be involved in. It's just more military adventures. Trying to regime change the world. Empire building. Neoclonialism. Let's see here. Let me jump in some more. I'm hoping there's a conclusion. This article is so long. Slowly spiraling escalation. Seizures clearly violating international law. Consider the following hypo-cou-hype scenario. Sometimes it's 2021, the United States obtained a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian tanker. Okay, we didn't have it, for one, we didn't have a warrant. But in this case, in 2021, the year this was written, an Iranian tanker, an orange seizure of an Iranian tanker in his cargo on the grounds that this tanker is clandestinely transporting IRGC owns fuel for sale in Venezuela, a violation of U.S. sanctions against both countries. Now, if I recall, I think all the reports are saying that this vessel, I believe it was Venezuelan engaging in trade with Iran. I think that's what I heard. I may be wrong about that. We got early reports here and they all could be wrong. And so we're still at it here, about five years later, four and a half years later, we're still at it. based on one of the sardines. The tanker is flying the Iranian flag, again this was back in this incident back in 2041. The tanker is flying the Iranian flag and bears markings indicating it is an Iranian warship. The United States identifies the tanker in international waters just before it passes into the south Atlantic, fearing that it will deactivate its transporter and its transponder. They don't have transporters there. Now you have to weed off. And slips away and the US Navy interdicts and seizes. the US Navy posed the ship to a US port with the intent to sell the fuel and benefit from the sale and the seizure. Okay, well now, I don't know whose flag the ship was flying. I don't know all those details. All that will probably come out. And I happened to look up because I was curious if there was another motive. And maybe the oil was the primary motive. I was curious about that. Because one of the things people are saying online is it's all about the oil, right? So everybody's, oh, they want the oil. That's so much, it's all about the oil. Well, a quick look at, and I also know that Biden had partially depleted the National Oil Reserves. As I looked up the current status of the National Oil Reserves to see if, do we need the oil? Is it even the right kind of oil that we can process here in the country? I'm not sure of that either. I didn't have time to look all that up. Whether it's because they have different types of crude oil that you could be Because sweet, sweet crude oil, sour, crude oil, there's different types of oil and some of it we really can't process here. In fact, our refiners here can't even process a lot of the oil that we pump right now. Most of the oil we actually produce gets sent overseas because we don't have the capacity to do so. Well, that's one of the things you can do to improve our infrastructure so we can process our own oil. Wouldn't that be a smart move? Just sending our money overseas and going all these military adventures all over the world. But here's the current status of the of the strategic, what is it, SPR, what does it stand for again? Strategic Good Oil Inventory as of November 26, 2025. Okay, I can't remember what that's called. Strategic Oil Reverbal. Yes, but here in the article there's, here off the website basically it's nmp.gov. They're calling it the SPR. So S, strategic, P, and the reserves are... But wait, wait, wait, petroleum. Petroleum, there you go. Okay, that's probably it. Okay, the strategic coal reserves reached full capacity on December 27, 2009 following the arrival of unloading of the final shipment that began on Christmas Day. This delivery consisted of almost a half a billion barrels of Saharan blend, a light-sweet crude oil transported to the biblical Cancun iduad. At the end of years 2024, the SPR's crude oil inventory was about 400 million barrels. The equivalent of approximately 125 days, more than four months, of crude US net imports. Ninety days of import protection, both public and private stocks over the last years, the United States have met its commitment with a combination of strategic petroleum reserve stocks and industry stocks. The days of import protection may vary based on actual US petroleum imports and the inventory of the level of the SPR. Now, they mentioned the art, as well as the end of 2024, well actually, the capacity is, what is it I found here, 700 some billion, well, 727 million barrels is the capacity. And this is in, I think, four sites in Louisiana and Texas off the coast of Gulf, I believe is where these inventories are. And so 771, I'm sorry, 727 billion, million barrels, 272. And current stock pile is about 400, it's 393. So we have about half, a little more than half filled capacity. Now, from what I gather, this ship is a huge tanker. And I saw a number, I think, was it a million barrels? It is something big. I don't remember the number. But it was big. But anyway, it would make how much you had damped in the actual petroleum reserves. So, drinking petroleum reserves. But anyway, it's something worth thinking about. That's why I looked it up to see if maybe we're dangerous low because maybe we're never recovered from the Biden era. I don't know how much Trump has added because it comes and goes. I think Biden did at least want us to try to make them look better probably for the midterms. Because the price of oil and gas was going up or something. I can't remember if last time was done. I had all that information in front of me. Again, I didn't have much time to do it in a lot of time today too. But anyway, I don't have much more windows here. 45 second video you can probably find on the internet now because I've seen it. About the ship being interdicted by a couple of at least two US helicopters. Oil prices have risen but not by much on the markets. The future is up by 0.4%, so less than 1%. So you'll see an increase in the markets tomorrow but not a whole lot. It might not be a huge deal. Unless there's more to the story that starts coming out, more and more, and what's going to happen if we go to war with a country that has the largest oil reserves in the world, then things could change. So anyway, I'm pretty much against this. And of course, there's been a lot in the mainstream media about the second strike by exit or by Bradley. who's now been replaced by Braga of Delta Force. Things have changed because once this thing happened on September 2nd by Admiral Bradley, things started to think he was relieved of command and General Braga of Delta Force became commander of that interdiction of what they're doing there. And one of the bolts of the heat blew up. There were two survivors and he Did what you're supposed to do under national law and rescue the survivors not killed them rescued them one from Colombia and one from Honduras, I believe I can't remember now one of the ones I had or had One of the windows I had open that I don't see right now They release them because the lawyers are not this side of in our country will look at as a whole holy crap and Recommended they be released to their own countries new and pertinent with some jail So this General Braga at least has some tied in his morality and following the law to some extent. I still don't believe they should be bombing boats at all, but at least he didn't go that second step like Peggs did or Bradley, kind of who you want to blame on that. He blamed Trump really, he goes to the top, doesn't he? He's the commander in chief, goes right to the top. In my opinion, you should be taking them all, prosecuting them all. Take them out to the end handcuffs, court-martialing them all. Except Bradley Trump. And a man who filed and fired that drone or whatever was fired, whether it was from an helicopter, whether it was from an aircraft, or whether it was a drone. That drone operator saw two survivors. That's part of his duty also to not follow unlawful orders. Now he would probably be relieved of his of his guilt and this somewhat, but all of them probably should be prosecuting it. Again, my opinion, I have views that will not fit the mainstream and maybe even a little more extreme than some of the others. In fact, my very first TV show is called The Extremist. I knew they would call me that anyway. I just went with it. The extremist. Sometimes you've got to learn 20 years ago, I think when I was using that name. But anyway. And that's Tommy and Pete for the real. Don't worry, that's the place, the place, the place. That's what it is. And until next time, I hope you tune in. Right from the foot down saying so. 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 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 is a 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 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 she traded in your you've given government control Those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and see me farm and keep our country 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 so their children and your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom 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 will 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 eat God given right, and pray to God your freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for once he came. His words were true, not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now, as tyrants trampled, each God given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd thought to keep, what would be your answer? He called out from the grave. And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Hold on here. Hold on one more time. I was listening to Craig and he did a fantastic program the last hour. Hopefully everybody was listening, paying attention. He hit several nails on the head multiple times. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the third hour of the Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Cornke. 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It is the 17th year of open and oh so obvious and in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2025 old earth calendar. 2025 battle for the republic book 2 the winter war. The winds are howling out there. The winds. The woolives. I can hear the woolives. They are growing over there waiting to feed on the blood of the humans who are foolish enough to step outside in the blustery weather to be caught by winter's cold grip, falling, falling lifelessly and frozen as husks to the ground to be chewed upon by the predators who realize this slow prey is easy. Yeah, I'm not going out there. Okay, just hollers to it. No, actually I am going out there as soon as I've been with the program. Are you kidding? I've got so much filed up right now to do. They didn't know anyhow I could avoid it, but yes, it is winter outside. It actually picked up during the program a little after. And coming in the exact opposite direction from our weather for the whole day, which came from the south, the wind shifted and now is pulling from the north-northwest. So it's back and forth a little bit, but that's expected. That's just Michigan. This is what we get. It's called winter people and we should have been ready for it. No matter how hard you try, you don't like it, but you should be ready for it. We got a caller. Who do we have? Paul, I want to ask something. When does officially the first day of winter begin this month? That's a good question. We call it freeze your ass off day, which is pretty much the first day when that big front comes in. And it varies, it's really true. December 21st. Right, theoretically we're still in fall, I keep saying that. We're still in fall, but my problem with that is that's an arbitrary line and we're getting hit with full-fledged, real winter weather right now. But this varies, as everybody knows. And one of the things about Michigan is we have our short, medium, and long cycle. Right now we're getting hit by what is one of the long cycle weather waves. And that's what they don't want to talk about. If they do that, then there's no crisis. It's just they actually, if you read the original Farmer's Almanacs, you can pretty well, it's not so much prediction, but it's working knowledge of weather cycles. We've been on this planet for a very long time where we've been awake and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and we record things. Now thinking human beings, which is not what the Jewish mob wants, they want you to be unthinking, fearful, terrified, hovering, groveling animals in your little hovels, fearing even the idea of stepping outside because of the predator and the cold weather and everything else. Oh my God, oh my God. But in reality, if you were paying attention, again, the Farmers Almanac, pretty old, has been on the money, literally on the money, year after year, the original one, because it's not witch doctor-y, it's knowing what the cycles are. And even then, even any individual who studied weather knows that, well, we've only been on this planet for so many, recording this information for so many hundreds of years in Manutei form, okay? There are still parts of weather cycles that we have never experienced as far as having recorded, and the survivors, if there were any, may not have had the opportunity to be able to record it because with their last cold frosty dying breath it was like, oh my, and they were gone. You see, that happens. So the big thing about our condition here is that We shouldn't be panicking, but instead we should be ignoring those who are panicking and asking ourselves, how does this work? Everybody that has been a thinking human being in the past has actually operated that way quite successfully. And that's where we need to be. We need to be in success mode. We need to defeat that witch doctor up on top of the pyramid. Remember I I always compare all of the psycho babble and crisis babble, I compare it to that perfect scene that Mel Gibson put in Apokolipto. They are dragging all these people up there. Remember the first is a whole infrastructure for hunting people, dragging them to the capital. powdering them up with blue dye and shaking and rattling and rolling all around them and ukka ukka, unka oneka uka uka, right? And they get them progressively to the top of the pyramid and the thugs grab the guy and stretch him out over the stone and here's this doped up fruit loop nut case of a job coming up to you with an obsidian knife in its hand. and it chants a few things, looks down at the idiot crowd, sticks the knife in, pulls the heart out, and then they, you know, lock the guy's head off and play football with it down the pyramid, then they throw the corpse down him and play with that, and then of course they offer the heart up, still beating, into the roast, you know, into the brazier, and all of a sudden something changes. The sun starts to get covered up. When it starts to get covered up, The old liar witch doctor looks over at the emperor and the emperor looks back and with barely a move of the head he tells him to make the move, do the thing. And so all of a sudden there is the grand speech about the sun and disasters being averted and if you only just listen to the crazy witch doctor, who by the way knew that it was an eclipse and he knew it was coming. Well, that's the same with all these turds that we're dealing with that have, will repeat over and over again, have stepped up to manipulate, mostly it's that we've been foolish enough to let them step up and manipulate in your school system. And by allowing that to happen, disaster has taken place within the minds of a whole bunch of young people who could have been taught better and taught properly, but have been made fools of along with their parents. by an education system that isn't an education system. And it is a sad, sick environment that we are in right now. Again, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be knowledgeable and be actually concerned that maybe I should get my act together and be ready for winter. Instead of being fearful of it, I should understand that there's a threat here. It is real. If I don't properly prepare, I will be found frozen in my hovel, even if it's a three-story McMansion that's worth a half a million dollars. So, prior proper planning needs to be part of the formula no matter who you are. Go ahead, call or jump in there. Who do we have? Paul, I wanted to ask a question about a vehicle. Go ahead, quick, there's a couple of subjects I want to touch on. Go ahead. Okay, would tire chains stop my Ford Ranger from sliding? Just a little, you know, make it a little easier to handle instead of becoming a four wheeled sled over. Ooh, this is the matrix thing because you know I was thinking about tire chains about three, four days ago and I've been thinking about where did I put the tire chains that I have. I save tire chains. I don't necessarily use them. It depends on the road conditions. If it's black ice, chains have always been around for almost as long as there have been tires. You really wouldn't think that because we're talking going back to the solid tire with wooden spoke wheeled vehicle days. Chains have been around for a very long time. And the dynamics of the way the chain works is it obviously allows for a variable cleat when it hits the ground. But think about what you're doing as you're moving. The chain actually strikes the ground and breaks the surface, the adhesion, the surface, if there's ice, even if it's a light coat. So it actually breaks it up and allows for the chain to make contact in proper grit slash it tags the surface. Even there, yeah, if you've got enough ice, you might be a sideways roller skate no matter how hard you try. The only thing that probably would be best under the ice conditions is something that most states banned. And in Michigan, I remember when studs came out, and I'm old enough to remember when they banned studs in tires in Michigan. And everybody else studs, yeah, there used to be a system and it, by the way, it would be perfect with the new tires. Oh hell, with the new tires, these studs would last forever. But instead of chains, the studs will actually strike and grip and break through to the adhesion surface, the road surface, more efficiently. But the argument was that it actually does damage to the road surface. Well, If you use it in a situation, if you studs in a situation where you're mostly on what is dry pavement, yeah, you're going to be taking little nylon or metal studs and striking the road surface at however many RPM with however many tons of force. So studs are actually a better choice. I'm sure somebody probably still makes them. When studs first came out, it's kind of like football cleats in football shoes. They originally were steel. And it's the same concept. Originally football shoe studs were screwed in. And when they started to wear out or they got tired or rusty, you could break the thread, you could break the contact, unscrew them and put a new set on shorter or even longer. Now what happened is they basically said, ooh, steel cleats are horrible. So they came up with nylon cleats. The same thing happened with automobiles. And the nylon cleat, the reason the nylon cleat was initially legal is because when it makes contact with dry surface or non-wet surface, non-tacky environments, the nylon cleat wears out rather than breaking up or damaging the road surface. And so I think studs would still be the better choice. If you were looking at an emergency set of tires, let's say for down the road, I have chains for every truck I have here. Even for the Suburbans and the Tahoes. I mean Tahoe, but the one Tahoe is a wreck now. That one wasn't mine anyway. But the chains fit in all these vehicles and I have enough sets. So chains work, but they still have their limitations. Again, it's steel. And if the surface is resilient enough or heavy enough, then you've seen tanks that will slide downhill. And they've got tonnage in weight to defeat pretty much any surface. And still, Mr. Ice is pretty effective at staying slick-side under all conditions just about. If it's thick enough, okay, and there are conditions where you're going to run for that. There's nothing you can do for your tires that's going to deal with 100% of whatever it is you might run into in the way of those conditions. Cold wet or cold dry are unique. In fact, right now, this is the most dangerous time. As I've said a million times on the air, this is cold wet. This cold wet window, more damage is done and more people freeze to death than they do in cold dry conditions. And with traffic accidents, think about it. If you've been on the road enough, you've seen it. It's obvious that people miscalculate the adhesion and contact area with the tires. They forget about hydroplaning. And combine hydroplaning with an intermittent slick surface where there's absolutely no contact with any type of material that's going to allow for breaking or reduction in speed. Well guess what? That's always a formula for oopsie. Oh my god, there's a tree. Chains, yes. I would have them. I do have them, but like I told you, a lot of things. I moved a bunch of those and two days ago I was trying to think, where in the hell did I put the chains? Just in case. I have them on. Real quick, I heard you go over, but real quick, I carry the chains in the trucks. And I also have a bunch of, remember we had a couple of truck wrecks. We carved off the back end of the box along with the area underneath the cab. Cut that off appropriately. I welded on a trailer hitch. And even in the truck trailers that I've made, I have a set of chains that are hanging in hooks on the left and on the right inside the box of the trailer. And they always put caps on because you can get throwaway caps all day. So the idea is that I've got another set of chains that are right there. Now, somebody's asking here, would you use chains four wheel drive? Yes, of course. If you have all drive, chains all drive is an advantage. So they do work, but none of the ideas we can come up with are perfect. Go ahead. Should I use trains on the front wheels? They're only steering and braking wheels. Would it be a good idea? No, you... Not typically, again, drive chains enough. That's what I was just saying. If you have four-wheel drive, all the way around is a good thing. Mostly the reason people usually just use rear chain only is because of cost. Now, after a while, usually you buy chain sets that were four, no matter what. I mean, you can buy them individually, even obviously, at least I'm sure you can, from any truck supply. But, it's a personal flavor thing. I know people have gone both ways. My dad never used anything. The only time he broke down to have modified vehicles is when they came out with studs. And we did have studs on one of the vehicles that was Mom's Family Station Wagon. So, no matter what you want to get, lose control, get off the road, trying to get up and down hills in Ann Arbor, Michigan where they don't plow even though you pay taxes through the nose, even when taxes were less. And getting up and down the streets was impossible for many people, but with studs you could get out of a neighborhood without sliding sideways and kissing somebody else's fender or bumper or whatever. The big thing here again with the chains, oh by the way, I mean that could not go too far from my father. My father taught me two wheel drive is all wheeled, is all terrain drive. And he would scare people when we would be hunting up north in the middle of winter like this, taking a two wheel drive truck out into secondary tracks, I mean out in the middle of BFE in the deep dark forest. And never did we get stuck because he knew how to drive. Most important thing is gain as much experience as you can. And I paid attention to the technique, et cetera. And he never bought a four-wheel drive vehicle, but there isn't a piece of terrain he couldn't drive through. Now, a few extra tools in the toolbox. You could do even better. So, again, it's a flavor choice thing. One of the reasons is that you still have to have control and if you don't have chains in the front, you're still going to have a little bit of tobogganing slash sloughing, you know, sloughing, sloughing, sloughing when you try to turn if you've got snow buildup or again, like right now, we've got muddy snow. And what I mean by I should say more like creamy snow. Because if you try to move across it, well, if it was frozen solid, you at least have some point of control. But right now, the junk under your tires on these secondary roads is moving with you. That's where the chains would come in. So it varies. Military used to use chains. I don't know what they're doing anymore for cold weather. It used to be, for anybody who might recall when we had the do's and the haves, Everybody come out and help the crew to mount chains during the beginning of the season like this and they'd stay on the trucks in standby until the spring broke. Even though they had the all terrain paddle tire, we still had chains on most of the vehicles here in Michigan. And that was in the military or for that matter, out in Missouri. When I was out in the station out in Missouri. In misery. Again, it's a flavor choice thing. Before we go any farther, we're almost to the bottom of the hour and I want to reinforce this real quick. Over at Sportsman's guy, oh no, forgive me, let's do this one, CenterfireSystems.com, CenterfireSystems.com. They have Zestava M70 pistols, 32 ACP, part of their 12 Days of Christmas thing, $150, I put a nickel in there, $150 apiece. These are a neat little service pocket pistol. They were issued to officers, police, but they also were used in armor units. Now remember a lot of Eastern Bloc armor units, Yugoslavia kind of had a few of them, used the Scorpion, but they also did issue a ton of personal pistols for close quarter defense. that even had uniforms, even had hidden pockets, which I have quite a few of them with the East German uniforms. The East German uniforms have the hidden pistol pocket in the front of your breast, which is kind of cool. And most people would even completely ignore me even if they've had the clothing, if they don't even realize what they are. Anyway, those are $149. Estava M70. The other one is Century Arms Wasser M 9mm 17.25 inch barrel. No magazine, which is bizarre because it's a Glock mag, but they don't have a mag with these guns. They do take Glock mags. It is an AK, except the magazine well is a Glock magazine well. So these are 9mm, $329.99, so I'll say $330. That's a pretty good price because most AKs have been in the 4 or 5 range, even for the least expensive. So that's one of the best prices we've seen a little bit for an AK pattern rifle. I pushed these years ago when they first came out because of cost of ammo. Basically you could buy three rounds of 9mm for the price of 1 AK round or AR15 556 round. So this means you could train more but you have muscle memory, silhouette, sight line up, everything is the same. And that's over at centerfiresystems.com. Go ahead, Golar, jump in there quick. Yeah, those text mics. On those 9mm AKs, I wouldn't worry about those. I mean that's a really good price and if it is a waster that means it means that's Romanian made. It means it was made in Romania not by one of the American AK manufacturers. So the only thing I can say about a waster is that it's as rough as a corn cob but I tell you what that thing runs and runs. Okay that's all I got. Thank you. It's a Chevy. It's a Chevy man. In fact, I even say it might be a Pontiac, it could be quite honest, a little less of a Chevy. But they do work, like you said, they're all stamped. There's several wasser variants, which I'll talk about after we get to the bottom of the hour here, but real quick, call her, because we've got the bottom of the hour coming up right now. Go ahead. This is Paul. Those 32 ACP pistols, they are pretty affordable for a man on a budget, aren't they? Well, the neat thing is that remember 32 ACP is enough to put a nice, ice-pick, leaky hole in you. And the reason the cops carried 32 was, you know, remember your backstop. If you shot somebody, you didn't shoot somebody, you didn't plan on shooting if you hit the target. And it's enough. I don't want to get shot. 32 ACP has killed a whole lot of people since they came out back in it before 1900, or around 1900, actually. And as a pocket pistol, these are well built, they're steel. Again, if nothing else, if you're interested in firearms, it's an interesting item in the long march of handguns and rifles and shotguns. And that's a very affordable item to put on the shelf. Magazines are available, but I don't know what they're running right now. And there were some aftermarket mags being made. Typically, since there's a wave of these pistols that came in, there should be spare magazines because usually everybody's got these right now. Everybody's got those estava pistols, those M70s, classic firearms, center fire systems, AIM surplus, Atlanta, everybody's got them. So somebody, they obviously put those out there to make some money. Serbia probably did this. and the guns are decent, they work. There's nothing to write home about, nothing fancy, they're not a Walther PPK or anything like that, they're just a working pistol. 32 ACP you can get from any number of different companies, but AIMSURPLUS has PPUMO in 32 and many others. And also AR15 discount had some 32 for a really good price, I don't know if they still have it. but AR-15 discount and also Montana AR-15. That's way out west. Okay, we're at the bottom of the hour. And so we're gonna hear the bottom of the hour break plus keep your rifle by your, oh no, no, little arm of light, Ed. If you could, we're gonna do a regular bottom of the hour and my little arm of light. There we go, we'll change up. This is my rifle. There are many people, this one is mine. In our valley there is danger, and there's danger in our hills. For here you're not just singing of the view, the wild and free. But soon you'll know there's a rifle from the trees. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle. In our hands, the rifle. You may ride a good big speed, you may know it's turn to master. You forward march with speed, but you'll learn to back as much as faster when you meet our mountain boys. And the leader just starts glad you make what little noise and always hits the mark. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands will prove no disgrace. No graves at home, back across the dry water. A giddy must come, as well as to the slaughter. But if we the jaws must do, then the sooner it is begun. If Lyndon's figure holds the butts true, the quicker it will be done. Hold the rifle, hold the rifle, hold the rifle, hold the rifle. The army little army came to visit me was in the early hours with sourdough, salamidin, and ferret's armored jars. But I gave them all a flight with the armor-piercing bullets of me little army like man. The army little army little army like the battle's won. The generals they had told him who stopped him on the run was corporate. While on patrol at night, they run them for n- The bloody army like- outstanding. The AR-10, and people know where to get the AR-10 from. From the Dutch, guys back during the troubles during the period when, you know, the big issue of the 60s and 70s, you might recall that the Arbolite AR-10 was actually adopted by Holland. It's the only country that actually built the gun in force and they also, of course, because of this, their colonial assets also carried the AR-10. Now, what happened is, back during that period, the Dutch army was hyper-liberal. News services in America did whole articles about doped up the doped up Dutch army. They couldn't march. They couldn't do this. They couldn't do that. Why? Well, dude, drugs were free in Holland, man. If you wanted to go do dope, man, any kind of dope and just be like San Francisco is now with dope and pooping on the streets, go to Holland. And because of this, well, they got kind of not paying attention to things and guys would slip rifles out the back door. And sometimes they did it because they just liked the idea of arming the Irish. Oh, really? Yeah. And so the AR-10s did show up a number, a handful. The AR-180 or AR-18 is, you know, take your pick, what do you want to call it, because it did fall under three flags. It was made officially and truly made in America and in England and in Japan. Okay, so a number of those rifles did get into the Irish Republican Army's hands also. But a number of M16-E1s and commercial grade ARs, AR15s, we would call it the AR15-E1 or just straight AR15, also ended up. So the song is quite appropriate and it covers all bases. Don't worry about it. It covers all the bases. One way or another there was there were a bunch of ARs there that were you know issued I don't think there were any prototypes or anything else that showed up because there were a lot of other cool guns that Stoner had come up with and armillited had embraced That just they just didn't catch okay. They came out. They were fantastic ideas, but they just didn't catch Don't ask me why Mostly again, it's always marketing marketing marketing marketing Anyway, a couple of other things to touch on because we've got 20 minutes. One more time over at Sportsman's Guide. Not a weapon, but food is a weapon, so I guess, yeah, it's ammunition. Over at sportsmansguide.com, US military surplus MRE dessert 18 piece muffin trays, or chocolate. These are basically MRE cakes made look like muffins, very dense, very well built. There's pictures there, so you can go look at this. They're $5.82 a tray. I recommend you get four trays. That's about $24. Remember, if you do $49 worth of stuff, it's free shipping. These are over in the clearance section. They're the only item of its type that is in the clearance section in the food category with these MRE trays. And that is US military syrup. MRE, dessert, 18 piece muffin tray, chocolate flavored, chocolate, chocolate, fudge fudge, I think, is what they are. And it's $5.82. The reason I recommend four is because there are four to a military case. So you're getting the military pack case of these, and that's designed for travels, designed to get the snot bead out of it and still be in one piece, which makes them a good trade, useful tool. So just something to think about there. Ideas, not just complaining about the problems. And they're part of an a-rash in the system, actually. Let's see the thing I can't emphasize enough. The idea behind this is that it'd be more like irregular sit-down conventional meal systems, psychologically. That's why they do it. And it's all part of the old studies from both World War I and World War II, though there was all kinds of reports on these issues. back in the 1800s we were very scientific back in the day contrary to what everybody tries to claim and we're constantly looking at the issues of keeping the troops alive and giving them what's needed to keep them fighting. Always minimal though, don't worry, government tries not to spend any money on you if you're a soldier. If you think it's new, you're wrong. Don't worry, they've done this forever. They've always kind of shorted the soldier in the field. usually because of skullduggery and thievery and fraud behind the lines before it gets to you, but it still happens nonstop and that's where the problem is, which is why you hang people that do stuff like that and it gets rid of the fraud problem very quickly. In fact, you run out of people doing fraud when you keep hanging the people that are doing the fraud and stealing from your soldiers and trying to get them killed in the field for lack of food or boots or whatever. Even though they were paid to deliver. Yeah, you get rid of them. They're no longer a problem because they're no longer available to steal from you. And that's what needs to happen to a lot fascinating. I guess I must have, I don't know, was I talking about something that was restricted guys? That just happened out of the blue. You couldn't, maybe you could, but I don't think you could hear what I was listening to. If you were, that just tells you how much more skewed it was and why that was intentional, not accidental, and not on anybody's part of the system. Hey, Dad, I'm on the conference line. Whatever happened to you, you got shifted over to a sub-conference like I did? Yeah. I didn't press any buttons. We just ended up... Me neither did I. Yes. Hello, hello, hello. Way, way over there. There, there, there. Well, that means we're drilling the right tooth. Whatever stuff like this happens, you're drilling the right tooth. That's pretty cool. It means you're on the right subject. And again, we're not whining and kissing and moaning and complaining. We're finding solutions for you. Go ahead, call or jump in there. What do you got? You were there one moment and then nothing. Silence and then the music played and then you came back on. What happened? What could be restricted? It was something I don't know but whatever it is I need to see I need to stay on it or at the very least it's harassment. That's cool Again, that means we're meaningful. We'll notice that most the other people that are out there in social media They don't have they don't get bothered why cuz it toe in the line man. They're telling that they're toe in the rope toting that bar Lifting that bail that's what they're doing so they don't get bothered but we do which is cool That means we're doing the right thing So anyway, enough of that because that wasn't the right thing. The food issue of course is going to constantly be an issue. The most important thing is to be able to have the tactical reserve where we need it, where the troops are, and that means everybody needs to pitch in and be part of the solution, not just the problem. Now another thing, benchmark real quick. Congressman Massey has proposed HR 6508. a bill to end USA involvement in NATO membership. And again, he's just put this through, put this in a motion. And thank you to Mary for bringing that up, pointing me to the article. I appreciate that. There are many out there right now. There's a bunch that just popped up since she sent this email. But it's HR 6508. Yes, we should be supporting it. We'll talk more about it tomorrow. That's part of the list of things to do for the next cycle, three hours. It's a thing. It's an aside thing. You don't have to spend a whole lot of time helping out. You just go do it, then you go on to doing other things, and we take advantage of the force of numbers that we have. Somebody else asked me, before I forget, we only have music requests, but I also had a, Mark, what the hell was that? A couple of days ago we played Steve Earle, E-A-R-L-E, Mercenary Song. That was that piece that we played. It was the first of two. Steve Earle, S-T-E-V-E, Steve Earle, E-A-R-L-E-DASH, Mercenary Song. So just a heads up. I forget me. I should have brought that up during the tour or block too. I don't know when you're listening caller. just that you heard it and I apparently again if you go back through I typically qualify the request when I that's why I put it up on the air because it also gives you guys a way to actually track down sometimes I can tell Ed and Advanced would to play but when I do that I still have to be a DJ and qualify by telling you who that was because sometimes it's a an odd song out or something we just haven't heard in a very long time And that happens quite a bit because we're digging stuff out all the time. You guys find things that I either forgot about because how many hours in a day or something I've never heard because God knows how many millions of songs out there. how much music and a lot of it is useful for us. We need to search as a system and every album and old CD and whatever cassette and guys if you find a dynamic piece of music that kicks ass, takes name and looks like it's useful for us we need to resuscitate it. Part of the ammunition, part of the fight, part of the, you know, again providing munitions to our friends and allies when the time comes. Hearts and minds. So another thing CDNN Sports has got a bunch of, of course this is Cyclic, get on the CDNN email list. They have a number of deals or specials as you know, we talk about them on the air here. But right now they have a bunch of internal and upper or lower parts kits that are, they're the minimalist as far as manufacturer, they're the cheapest. But you're talking again cutting a lot of corners price-wise hold on caller So it's especially critical that again if you go take a look at CDNN But also get on their email list yourself because you get a whole bunch of notices You can go through what's there and if you pay attention and do the math you can build an AR-15 for about two hundred and forty three dollars right now easily. In fact, I think you can shave it down a lot more because if you went, like I said, minimal parts, there's two things are going to happen. You can make a very light rifle and you can make a very reasonably priced rifle. If you've got a bunch of people, a bunch of family members to outfit, that's the way to go. Go ahead, call her. Jump in there, please. Hey Mark, I never hear you mention short wavering. Are you still on short wavering or no? We're not on short wavering and I didn't want to run any bill up so we made sure that we were completely paid off for the time being and they've actually asked if we want to come back up. Not until I can be sure that we have the funding to do it. So we're not on short wavering for this hour again for the time being. Everybody has had other issues. The economy is not doing well for certain people, so they're having to tighten up. I understand that. These were all, everything that's been done to put us up on the air is usually done by listeners. And so for the moment, the sponsors that were available have had to work on other things. And we already discussed this before we got up a short, so we knew it could happen. It's okay. And what we're working on it. And if we do, again, we'll probably pay forward a little bit more as quickly as we can. And there's some people that do want to come up and sponsor the shortwave. They've been asking the same questions. Do I need to provide more? Well, you think about it because, yes. We had different sponsors, people helping out with the sponsorship for the shortwave. different companies, businesses. But they have business issues too, especially as we get into the winter and you know it's going to be. Here's the thing about what's coming up. Several people I've heard lamenting and they finally realized the traditional business cycle. February and, forgive me, January and February and into March are going to be terrible. And guys, that's nothing new. That's traditional. That's why you have all the Christmas sales to give you that last gasp push to glide you through the first quarter of the next year. That's always been the case and everybody has forgotten that because everybody's been riding so high. You know, riding on the gravy train, like Pink Floyd said, we're going to ride on the gravy train. Well, everybody's been riding on the gravy train and the gravy train only goes so far and the gravy runs out. Just that simple. And this year is going to be a traditional economic cycle. Now I guarantee that all the Piss Willys are going to make all kinds of noise about that. But if you know anything about being in business, you always have had to prepare and gird yourself for the winter doldrum. And it's always that same window of time always has been. It's only in recent years where there have been all kinds of other goofy emoluments and compensations and special attaboys and pat on the heads and squeeze on the asses. You're able to slide by differently. Well, that's gone. So be prepared accordingly. Be prepared for what it is that's going to be hitting us when that first quarter pops in again because the writing is on the wall. Now again, as I said yesterday, talking about them trying to set up a conflict, we've got a lot of discussion about everything from cutting power off to all kinds of other nonsense with Trump and Trump going to start a war with Venezuela. And if you pay attention in all the social media, all the Jewish-run controlled media, social media or whatever, the new social media is a big chunk of it, just as absolutely controlled by the Jewish mob as the old controlled media was. There's no difference between the two. They become absolute hacks slash flaming mouthpieces, okay? If you pay attention, those are sleeper cells, the Venezuelans! And I've talked about these yet, so you know, I'm very facetious about this. Well, sure they're in your sleeper cell, you let them in. The people who are screaming, the Jews, the Jewish mob, let all of those illegals in, supported it 100%, provided the manpower to make sure they got over the border and into the country. So, why am I supposed to be excited about it? The US government wasn't excited about it. The FBI wasn't excited about it. They didn't stop it. Why am I supposed to be excited about any of that considering they weren't afraid of it? They were totally unconcerned. All these agencies and departments went down to the border and became Walmart door greaters for the illegal aliens and there was no question about who they were, where they came from. Well, they might have known where they came from because they were the ones who had them sent up here. They did. So now we're supposed to all be peeing our pants because the, let's see, Israeli transported, Israeli coached, and then Israeli inserted into the US foreign enemies, which includes the Jewish mob slice, the Israelis themselves, are now supposedly going to be threatening us and attacking. Guys, be ready. Here's how it works. It's going to be the Israeli Mossad attacking America, running the operations, but mostly performing the operations. And they're getting ready to do it. They're trying to prime the pump. Their bill of goods isn't being bought by too many people. They do realize that. But at a given point, they're just going to have to defecate or get off the pot. And this time around, I think they're going to just have to go for the gusto because they've got Trumpadump to use to get as much of the police state garbage passed as possible. And of course, if you aren't for Trump and Dump, you're for fill in the blank, whoever it is, is the latest boogeyman that they shove out there for everybody to garboreat, to eat. And then some. And then all of a sudden, where did our rights go? How could this happen? Why is it, oh my goodness, you weren't supposed to be pointed at us, you were supposed to be pointed at the Iranian-Stanian, Venezuelan-Stanian, those guys. How is it they're attacking and arresting Americans? You know, they've been here for a long time. Well sir, because that's the plan. And so we've been the plan. That's what they were going to do from the get-go. So again, buyer beware. Real quick, let's see, oh, we've only got a few minutes. Again, I was going to talk more about AI tonight. And we actually, again, hopefully I'm trying to make people wrap their brain around the propaganda. and the whole idea that we are doomed because of a fiction. Now, there's all kinds of hardware that we would expect the police state to put in place, and you know, everybody's talking about, they're gonna spend $30,000 on each of these drones, and they're gonna spend $6 billion on these drones, well then we're gonna have to kill the bastards, aren't we? We're gonna have to find the son of a bitches that actually put this program together and hunt them down and kill every last one of them, right? If they're going to put that this dystopian police state into place, we already promised we're not going to let it exist. So our plan is to kill every one of the bastards. I don't care who they are. If you're supporting that idea, you're an enemy of the American people. And you deserve to be put down. Lock the dirty dog yard. I won't hesitate on that. Everybody is yapped about how old this is horrible. Well, I agree it is. So we're going to just let it ride. We're going to let it slide. We're going to go along with it. Anybody here stupid enough to think that way? I don't think so. So we're going to have a job to do here pretty soon. They're going to start their BS. We're going to put their sorry ass down. We're going to get rid of them. Now, again, 90% of this is bravado and bravura propaganda, the ideas. Sun Tzuul, remember what he said, all the idea is to make the round eye believe that the war is over even before the first arrow has left the bow. Ah, so all the stupid round eyes are supposed to be all panicked and pissing pants and of course defecating their drawers because they're cowardly. Because they are cowards. Because they are. That's what they're counting on. They believe that the American people are cowards. I guess we'll find out. As for me, I'm not surrendering the republic. I'm not going to be a slave. I'm not going to put up with these bastards. And I know that if it starts, I've got to keep going until I finish off every last one of them. Now, if everybody embraces the same idea, this thing ends faster for them. That's how you better be thinking. I'm planning on fighting, planning on winning. Anyway, we're at the top. So we've gone all the way through a full three hours here on the 10th of December, which by the way means that one third of the month of December is ending. No way! Yes way. Y'all better prepare. God bless our Republic. Yes, yes. To the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. And... And again, we're going to talk more about the whole concept of the AI issue. Just like, you know, Tex-Mex was saying, he was the person he was having a meal with. Oh my God, I'm terrified! Well, you shouldn't be terrified. You better be pissed. You better cop an attitude. You better be prepared to get rid of these creatures before they implement this. It's obvious we're very close to an open conflict on American soil, aren't we? I can handle that. You know what? We've been waiting for it for a while. We know it's going to have to be done. Let's embrace it. Anyway, I'm gonna get out of here for now. Edward, taking over. More LTR coming up. So, we'll be back tomorrow, same time, for the three hours of the intel report on Liberty Tree Radio. Bye-bye.