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What "Debates?"
Posted by Butler Shaffer on December 10, 2011 12:10 PM
One of the cable news channels is trying to convince me that there will be a Republican presidential debate tonight. These periodic shows are not debates, but auditions. Would-be stars and starlets get up on the stage not to impress voters - who will have little say in selecting the next White House sock puppet - but the show's producers (i.e., the institutional establishment owners) who keep the boobeoisie buying tickets every four years. The owners want to find out which candidate can most readily recite the lines of the script they seek to perform; who can best appeal to the emotions and sentiments of audiences; who can look and sound "presidential," so as to assure Boobus that his fate, and that of his family, are directed by the whims of one they can trust!
Ron Paul is anathema to the institutional owners for one reason: he wants to change the script! He insists on doing what the established order has so carefully trained Boobus not to do, namely, to question the entire arrangement by which control of his life has been usurped. While Newt Grinch continues to dreg up from the depths of his dark side his most arrogant and sneering qualities - traits that would serve well the leader of a war-loving empire - Ron is asking people to (gulp!) think about the moral and social implications of what we are doing.
The recent refusal of the Republican Jewish Coalition to allow Ron Paul to join other GOP candidates as a speaker, was but the latest example of his being systematically excluded from any discussion of governmental policies. As Jon Stewart so correctly labeled this decision, inviting Ron might have turned the entire program into a, . . . well, a debate.
A question that comes to mind is this: why isn't the Democratic Party also having candidate debates for 2012? The answer, I believe, does not lie in some universal popularity of Barack Obama among Democrats, many of whom are quite critical of his presidency. The explanation is to be found in the fact that Obama is the established occupant of the seat of power. As the treatment of Ron Paul shows, there is nothing that the institutional owners fear more than that members of the boobeoisie might begin questioning - and (gasp!) rejecting - established power interests.
Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney: Who Funds Them?
Analysis
By Joe Romaine
December 9, 2011 3:54 PM EST
If you want to know the truth, follow the money. Or so says conventional wisdom.
The 2012 GOP nomination race is shaping up to be a three-man contest between Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Paul's support has steadily climbed. Romney is persistently the front-runner until the "flavor of the month" candidate displaces him. Gingrich may very well be the current "flavor of the month" candidate.
So who are they funded by? This question matters for two reasons. It betrays who the candidate would benefit because those individuals would presumably donate to the candidate. It may also betray who the candidates "owes" once he is elected.
Paul
48 percent from small individual contributions
Ron Paul for Congress Cmte, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheep, IBM*
Gingrich
43 percent from small individual contributions
Rock-Tenn Co, Poet LLC, First Fiscal Fund, Pull-A-Part Inc, Amway/Alticor Inc, State Mutual Insurance, American Fruits & Flavors, Streck Inc, Windway Capital, Wirco Inc*
Romney
10 percent from small individual contributions
Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase*
*From OpenSecrets.org: The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Total Raised
Mitt Romney - $32 million
Ron Paul - $13 million
Newt Gingrich - $3 million
Discussion
Romney notably fails to attract the so-called "99 percent" and relies heavily on the so-called "1 percent." Gingrich and Paul were more balanced.
Romney has by far the most money of any GOP presidential candidates. Paul is third. Gingrich is woefully behind at $3 million, placing him 8th behind the likes of Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman. (OpenScecret.org's data, however, ends on Sept. 30, 2011, which is before Gingrich's surge that started in November.)
Romney is flooded with money from Wall Street, notably from Goldman Sachs.
Gingrich's top contributor, Rock-Tenn, is a packaging company based in his home state of Georgia. His second highest contributor, Poet LLC, is the largest ethanol producer in the U.S.
Gingrich's cozy relationship with Poet underscores his "deep ties to an industry whose government subsidies he has steadfastly defended even while running as a fiscal conservative," according to USA Today.
Paul's top contributors, interestingly, is the U.S. military. Paul is noted for his non-interventionist stance, promising to bring home U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the world.
This suggests that at least some members of the U.S. military support Paul's position.
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Weekend Edition December 9-11, 2011
CounterPunch Diary
Obama Rebirthed as TR
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
When in doubt, wheel on Teddy Roosevelt. It's in every Democratic president's playbook. TR was president from 1901 to 1909. He was manly, ranching in North Dakota, exploring the Amazon and nearly expiring on the River of Doubt. He was an imperialist con amore, charging up San Juan Hill, sending the Great White Fleet round the world, proclaiming America's destiny as an enforcer on the world stage. He loved wilderness, mostly through the sights of a big game hunter's rifle a wilderness suitably cleansed of Indians. "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians," he wrote in The Winning of the West, "but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
When necessary he could play the populist rabble-rouser's card, flaying the trusts, railing against "the malefactors of great wealth". But on TR's watch the modern, centralized corporate American state came of age. H.L. Mencken writes of him in Prejudices II that
- "Roosevelt, for all his fluent mastery of democratic counter-words, democratic gestures and all the rest of the armamentarium of the mob-master, had no such faith in his heart of hearts. He didn't believe in democracy. He believed simply in government. His remedy for all the great pangs and longings of existence was not a dispersion of authority, but a hard concentration of authority. He was not in favor of unlimited experiment; he was in favor of a rigid control from above, a despotism of inspired prophets and policemen… He was for a paternalism of the true Bismarckian pattern, almost of the Napoleonic pattern – a paternalism concerning itself with all things, from the regulation of coal-mining and meat-packing to the regulation of spelling and marital rights… When he tackled the trusts the thing that he had in his mind's eye was not the restoration of competition but the subordination of all private trusts to one great national trust with himself at its head."
- "Both dreamed of gigantic navies, with battleships as long as Brooklyn Bridge. Both preached incessantly the duty of the citizen to the state, with the soft-pedal on the duty of the state to the citizen. Both praised the habitually gravid wife. Both believed in the armed pursuit of the lower fauna… Both were intimates of God and announced His desires with authority."
But now Obama has seized on TR as his role model in denouncing those destroying the supposed guarantee of the American Way, strangely defining TR's philosophy as one guaranteeing that every citizen gets a fair bounce on the trampoline, soaring into the safe harbor of "the middle class". As for imperial destiny, last month Obama did his own reprise on the Great White Fleet, opening a new US marine base in Australia and shaking his fist at China.
Last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas where TR, attempting a political comeback in 1910, slagged corporate power for the benefit of his audience of 30,000 prairie populists, Obama told a crowd of 1,200: "At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement."
He went on: "There are some who seem to be suffering from a kind of collective amnesia. After all that's happened, after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess."
Obama and crew are obviously betting that there won't be too much unseemly sniggering at the sight of a president thus blithely denying the prime feature of his conduct during the worst economic crisis in 70 years, which was to pick an economic team -- Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers as his chief economic adviser determined precisely to "return to the same practices that got us into this mess," to head off any serious economic reform of those institutions and practices that prompted the great crash of 2008.
Obama could have played the populist card back at the start of August amid the Republicans' efforts to force savage cuts in the social safety net. But he blinked. Now, four months later, there's the Occupy Wall Street movement reminding Americans that in practice as opposed to rhetoric Obama has been a doughty protector of the one per cent. OWSers heckled him fiercely in New Hampshire three weeks ago. But of course Republicans aren't going to be attacking Obama as the pawn of the bankers. They favor the absurd script that designates him as a closet commie, scheming night and day to bring the most bloodthirsty scenarios of Karl Marx to fruition. So from their point of view the Osawatomie speech was gratifying vindication of all their most lurid charges.
Ever the trimmer, Obama was obviously aware that with this lunge into rhetorical populism he was exposing himself to just such charges. So amid his execrations against the Republicans for not supporting the Democrats' effort to extend the two per cent reduction in the payroll tax, he suddenly threw in a homage to deficit reduction, thus doing a mini-reprise on his collapse in August. The irony is that the continued reduction on the payroll tax Obama is campaigning for means that the Social Security fund is getting two per cent less. Even though the missing two per cent is supposedly meant to be replaced by money from elsewhere in the federal budget, the drop in Social Security revenues from the payroll tax will allow those urging "reform" of Social Security -- ie its eventual destruction -- to claim ever more fiercely that the system is in budgetary crisis.
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Gingrich and Pelosi
Posted by Laurence Vance on December 8, 2011 08:17 PM
Not only did Gingrich cosponsor the 1989 climate change bill with Pelosi, he cosponsored 418 bills with her. The Republicans are despicable to elevate Gingrich above Ron Paul. And that goes for the Tea Party members who support Gingrich also. I keep hearing that Republicans are supporting Gingrich because they don't like Romney. Like there is really any difference. At least Romney didn't bounce checks at the House Bank, divorce two wives, and receive a $300,000 fine by the House for ethics violations.
It is too bad that Sam Francis is no longer with us. He would be making some comments about the stupid party.
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Black Conservatives Critical of NAACP on Eve of Saturday's NAACP New York "Mobilization"
NAACP Marches to Oppose Voter IDs, Purging Voter Lists of Dead or Unqualified Voters and the Enforcement of Laws Prohibiting Felons from Voting
NAACP Position "Demeans Blacks" Says Project 21 Spokesmen, "Does the NAACP Believe Blacks are Too Lazy, Ignorant or Incapable of Getting Valid Identification?"
Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives with the Project 21 black leadership network are calling out the alarmists and political schemers at the NAACP who are once again "crying wolf" -- claiming this time that the ballot integrity and voter-protection statues passed or under consideration by state legislatures across the nation are "the greatest coordinated legislative attack on voting rights since the dawn of Jim Crow."
"If you have to show an ID to check into the Holiday Inn Express, then it makes perfect sense that you should do the same when you are exercising the most sacred constitutional right -- the right to vote," said Project 21 spokeswoman Cherylyn LeBon Harley, a former senior counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
"The idea that showing identification poses a barrier to my constitutional right to vote is both ridiculous and insulting," added Project 21 spokeswoman Shelby Emmett, also a lawyer. "Does the NAACP believe blacks are too lazy, ignorant or incapable of getting valid identification? Is it a cost issue? Obtaining identification to vote costs money, but so does driving to the polls or taking an hour off of work to vote. Does the NAACP have any calls to action against gas stations or places of employment open during voting hours?"
With the endorsement of labor unions, partisan entities and liberal special interest groups, the NAACP is holding a December 10 march in New York City to draw attention to its "Stand for Freedom" campaign against voting rights protections at the state level. The march begins at New York City offices of Koch Industries (to single out limited-government donors Charles and David Koch) and will end at the United Nations. Next year, the NAACP reportedly will send a legal team to appeal their concerns about voting rights to the U.N.'s human rights bureaucracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
In a broadly-cast appeal, the NAACP claims that laws to require valid identification at polling places, the purging of voting lists to remove dead or disqualified voters and enforcing voting restrictions against felons are targeting "the voting rights of black voters, Latino voters, Asian American Voters, Native American Voters, as well as students and young people, seniors, working women, and immigrants of all colors... who are most likely to support workers rights, equal opportunity, women's rights, LBGT rights, environmental protection and peace." NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, who made the Jim Crow analogy, further claims: "Voter ID laws are nothing but reincarnated poll taxes and literacy tests."
"It seems the NAACP conveniently forgets how their position demeans blacks," adds Project 21's Emmett. "We fought for over a hundred years not just to vote, but to have that vote count and mean something. How does allowing illegal immigrants and dead people to vote and other forms of voter fraud secure and protect black rights? Maybe if they viewed blacks as capable beings, obtaining identification wouldn't equal a 'poll tax' but would instead equal blacks protecting and defending their rights as Americans to a fair and transparent process open only to real, live American citizens. Maybe it's the NAACP that is instituting a new barrier to voting."
Project 21 members also dispute the earnestness of the NAACP's campaign considering its inaction regarding existing voting rights problems.
For instance, the "Stand for Freedom" online pledge calls on the U.S. Department of Justice "to fully enforce the Voting Rights Act." But unlike Project 21, the NAACP has not asked for a full investigation into why progress on a Voting Rights Act case against New Black Panther Party members regarding alleged polling place intimidation in Philadelphia in 2008 was reversed and an immediate settlement allegedly ordered by senior Obama Administration political appointees in 2009. In fact, J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney who worked on the case, testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that he was told by superiors that "NAACP members or staffers were [contacting the Justice Department and] asking, 'When is this case going to get dismissed?'"
Furthermore, the pledge calls for lawmakers to repeal "every voter suppression measure" and for the United Nations to "investigate and condemn voter suppression tactics in the United States." This past April, Lessadolla Sowers, a member of the executive committee of the NAACP chapter in Tunica County, Mississippi, was convicted by a jury on ten counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots and sentenced to a five-year sentence for each count (to be served concurrently). Neither the national NAACP nor the Mississippi State Conference NAACP appear to have released statements on the verdict. Such vote fraud effectively cancels out legal votes, and examples such as this are motivating the legislation the NAACP is now publicly opposing.
"The NAACP has reached a new low with their recent attack on voter identification legislation. The NAACP should be protecting and upholding the constitutional rights of law-abiding black Americans to exercise their fullest privileges and rights as citizens. Instead, focusing on the rights of the criminal and other immoral issues have lead to the disfranchisement and decimation of black American communities across the country," said Project 21 spokesman Charles Butler, a talk radio host. "The reality is that part of being an American citizen is personal responsibility. Laws that state one should be a law-abiding citizen and provide some form of identification are needed. Most citizens possess valid identification of some type regardless of their socio-economic class."
Groups endorsing the NAACP's December 10 "mobilization" include the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Government Employees, the 1199 SEIU union local, Democratic Socialists of America, Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the Barack Obama Democratic Club. Another endorser is the Center for Community Change, which received $600,000 in 2008 from the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation.
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FACT: Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered, as the law School faculty hated Obama. A few weeks later, the Board of Trustees told the school to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach, as a bottom of the totem-pole part-time instructor, NOT a professor, associate professor, or adjunct. –Ever hear of one former student stepping forward telling the world how great of a teacher he was? Me neither. . .
FACT: He was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool.
FACT: He had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building, and many doubted he ever was editor on the Harvard Law Review, as he would be the first and only editor in their history, to never be published while in school which is a requirement. –perhaps another political stepping stone for him.
Unsealed Documents
FACT: His college records have never been released.
FACT: His actual birth certificate has never been released, ONLY a representation of what is on the actual copy, NEVER the actual copy itself. I guess they don't have scanners or digital cameras in Hawaii.
FACT: His actual passport used to travel to Pakistan in college, has never been found. If his Indonesia passport was used, he would be a citizen of Indonesia, and never reestablished U.S. citizenship, making him ineligible to be president.
FACT: The man is using a Connecticut social security number, not a Hawaii number.
FACT: His wife worked at a prestigious law firm in Chicago, who had graduated from one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, and who had endured the grueling task of sitting for the bar exam TWICE, then gave up her law license in 1993. Wonder why the media never questioned that?
Winning by Fraud
FACT: Obama ran unopposed in the 1996 Democratic primary race for the state Senate seat representing Chicago's 13th District because he successfully challenged four of his potential Democratic opponents, and they kept challenging petitions until every one was forced off the ballot.
FACT: Republican Jack Ryan was forced to withdraw from running for a U.S. Senate seat due to the sexy and salacious details of his SEALED DIVORCE RECORDS. The courts made him prove how making the documents public, despite both he and his ex-wife's request to keep them sealed, would harm him. One week later, he bowed out of the Senate contest. Republican Alan Keyes took over, and lost to Barack Obama for U.S. Senate.
FACT: Obama's people packed the primary ballot boxes, disenfranchised Hillary Clinton supporters, and engaged in voter fraud to win the nomination for President.
FACT: Democrats, and their media buddies, systematically attacked the strongest G.O.P. challengers in 2008, leaving old, liberal John McCain as the last man standing, eventually losing to Obama in 2008.
Now you know how a man with no resume, no skills, hidden documents, and Chicagoland tactics is sitting in the White House.
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Subject: [TheFinePrint] Federal Agents Demand Customer Lists From Mormon Food Storage Facility
December 8th, 2011
Oath Keepers Alert: Federal Agents Demand Customer Lists From Mormon Food Storage Facility
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Oath Keepers has learned that federal agents recently visited a Later Day Saints (Mormon) Church food storage cannery in Tennessee, demanding customer lists, wanting to know the identity of Americans who are purchasing food storage from the Mormons.
This incident was confirmed, in person, by Oath Keepers Tennessee Chapter President, Rand Cardwell.
Here is Rand's report:
"A fellow veteran contacted me concerning a new and disturbing development. He had been utilizing a Mormon cannery near his home to purchase bulk food supplies. The man that manages the facility related to him that federal agents had visited the facility and demanded a list of individuals that had been purchasing bulk food. The manager informed the agents that the facility kept no such records and that all transactions were conducted on a cash-and-carry basis. The agents pressed for any record of personal checks, credit card transactions, etc., but the manager could provide no such record. The agents appeared to become very agitated and after several minutes of questioning finally left with no information. I contacted the manager and personally confirmed this information.
This event points to a new level of federal government encroachment on the basic freedoms of the American people. Likewise, it points to a confused policy within federal agencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in their "Are You Ready?" guide to "In Depth Citizen Preparedness" recommends that citizens store emergency supplies, including bulk food, in the event of a natural disaster or man-made event (the new politically correct term applied to a terrorist attack). The FEMA guidance is spot-on as it allows individuals and families to be self-sufficient during an emergency situation.
And here in Tennessee, we just learned that Nashville Metro Public Health and the Tennessee Department of Health are conducting "door-to-door assessment of disaster preparedness … using a tool designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to go door to door and check to see how disaster ready you are. .. in 30 neighborhoods in Davidson County [TN] that have been randomly selected to be the target of a door to door assessment." I have confirmed that that is a state run effort.
So on the one hand, government agencies both state and federal are urging you to be prepared and even checking up on you to see how prepared you are, and on the other hand, we now have federal agencies that are attempting to gather information on individuals that are following FEMA suggestions. What is the reasoning behind gathering this information? Are American citizens now being "listed" by DHS if they are simply following FEMA guidance and purchasing bulk food and emergency supplies for their families? It appears as so.
This should be a red flag to all Americans. Not unlike the "trip wires" identified in the Oath Keepers list of orders that will not be obeyed, this incident should be considered as further evidence that our federal government is out of control. What business is it of the government if any of us purchase and store bulk food? Answer: It is none of their damn business! Maybe during the next Katrina-type event federal agents will storm your home to take your food stores along with your firearms. We can only theorize as to the motives of the government for this type of "list" being developed, but it goes against the very fabric of what a free people should allow by our government." – Rand Cardwell.
Additional comments by Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers:
As Rand noted, it was fortunate that this particular cannery does not keep records of its customers. And Rand is correct that this is a very serious red flag. There's a very good reason why one of the top ten orders that active duty Oath Keepers will refuse to obey is "We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies." As our Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey goes on to state:
"Deprivation of food has long been a weapon of war and oppression, with millions intentionally starved to death by fascist and communist governments in the 20th Century alone.
Accordingly, we will not obey or facilitate orders to confiscate food and other essential supplies from the people, and we will consider all those who issue or carry out such orders to be the enemies of the people."
If those who carry out such orders to confiscate food are enemies of the people, then that same label also fits anyone in the government compiling lists of Americans who store food. There is no legitimate reason for the Department of Homeland Security to compile such lists. Al Qaida suicide bombers are not known to store powdered milk and buckets of wheat. Nor are they known to store away dehydrated carrots and instant potatoes, or fruit punch mix for the kids. But the Mormons are known to do so, and so are many other Americans who have the common sense and maturity to take personal responsibility for ensuring that their families will have food, come what may.
It is part of Mormon Church religious doctrine to store food for hard times and emergencies, with a recommendation that each family store a year's worth of basic dry goods along with three months worth of store-bought canned and boxed foods. To facilitate that practice, the Mormon Church runs its own food storage canneries selling powdered milk, wheat, flour, rice and beans, sugar, salt, and various other dry goods either in bulk 50 lb bags or in #10 cans for long term food storage (up to 30 years for some items). These Church canneries also often sell food storage items to non-church members, seeing it as both morally right and prudent to help their neighbors store food, whatever their faith. The cannery in Tennessee that was "visited" by federal agents follows that practice of helping the general public become better prepared.
So why do federal agents want to know who is storing away long-term food storage? We suspect it is for the following reasons:
1. DHS/FEMA wants to know which Americans have food storage so the federal government can at some future point confiscate that food. Just as with lists of gun owners, compiling such lists is the first step toward future confiscation.
2. DHS wants to identify those Americans who are "switched on" and squared away enough to actually store food for coming hard times (such as during an economic collapse). That population of awake, aware, and prepared Americans poses a "threat" to whatever DHS and its masters have in store for the American people, and as Joseph Stalin so ably demonstrated, one of the easiest ways to subjugate defiant people is to confiscate their food and starve them into submission.
The federal government already tipped their hand by sending the FBI to military surplus stores (as we reported), gun stores, and pawn shops to encourage those businesses to spy on their customers who buy MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat), bipods, "night flashlights", high capacity magazines, rifle bipods, and bulk ammo. Maybe some of you fooled yourselves into thinking there might be some legitimate reason for them to track purchases of such items. But powdered milk and wheat berries? Those are hardly items that could be used in a terrorist attack. It must be the storage of food itself that the feds now find so offensive and so "dangerous."
And while the door-to-door preparedness assessments in Tennessee appears to be well intended (and we spoke with a friendly state preparedness officer who said it was motivated by the recent natural disasters in Tennessee), Americans are well justified in being concerned about such efforts and how that information may be used in the future, in light of these other well documented and confirmed incidents of federal law enforcement collecting information on those who purchase preparedness items and indicating that the purchases of those items may be "indicators of terrorist activity."
If you are one of the many Americans who still have on rose-colored glasses, or who still have your head buried in the sand (or stuck somewhere else warm and dark), it is time to pull your head out and face the reality of what the federal government is telling you by the actions of its agents. Those actions show both what they fear and their intent. What they fear are prepared, equipped, and "switched on" Americans, and their intent is to identify who they are, where they are, and then plan on dealing with them when the time comes. And rest assured that time will come. The recent U.S. Senate passage of S. 1867, which authorizes military detention and trial of U.S, citizens under the international laws of war (as if we were conquered Iraq or Afghanistan) is also an expression of their intent, and their contempt for the Bill of Rights.
Clearly, in light of the above, if you purchase food storage, along with any other preparedness items, you should be concerned about those purchases being tracked and your name winding up on some government list. But don't let that stop you from storing food and other essential supplies, and don't let this disturbing incident keep you from using your local Mormon cannery to do so. You need to get prepared. But do it while following the advice of James Wesley, Rawles over at www.survivalblog.com, who repeatedly urges his readers to "think OPSEC!" – if at all possible, buy with cash and pick it up in person, just like the customers of this particular cannery did, which left the "agitated" agents empty handed and frustrated. Good. That is as it should be. Don't make it easy on them. And if you have not yet begun to store food, now is certainly a good time to start. You're going to need it. Time is short, and you need to be prepared for what is coming. "Are You Ready?" indeed. – Stewart Rhodes
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