SMILE !!   YOU’RE ON TRAPWIRE CAMERA!!  

They are everywhere…..

So, where were we?  Right!  Being spied on at every turn!  Let’s continue…

TEN WAYS YOU’RE SPIED ON

Click the link above and count the ways:  Computer keyboards, laptop emanations, cell phone monitoring activation, SIM card readers, tracking voiceprints, cell phone monitoring.  And new ways everyday!  But, HEY, what’s to worry!

AMAZON

This is a company, not a protocol……  And yes, I do mean that Amazon.  Their TV Fire Sticks and their Echo products all record your conversations, but I don’t know whose cloud these are stored on.  Maybe they’re shared – could be a profit-making tool for Amazon.

Your kindle reading is also recorded including anything you highlight.  Same goes for monitoring what movies you stream.  Alexa?  ALEXA!!  She’s voice activated, you know.  And she has one big, bounteous memory!  (Isn’t this great?)

APPLE

Leading the pack is Siri.  Click on her name to find out what makes her work.  Want to get some more  warm and fuzzy feelings?  Her basic structure was formulated over at DARPA.  Whoopee!  [DoD’s DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency]

CELL PHONES

STINGRAY

Okay we’ve already said all of this is recorded.  And it is: your calls, your texts, your alarms, your web browsing…  ALL of it is recorded.  Forever.  To be data mined at any time.

And just when you think it could not get any worse — it has.  Now law enforcement at all levels has the STINGRAY (which they are not supposed to talk about).  This is the IMSI-catcher  device (also known as cell site simulator, triggerfish, wolfpack, gossamer, and swampbox) that tricks your cell phone into thinking that the Stingray is a cell tower.  And when your phone automatically connects to it, well, then the officers can monitor you directly, in real time, without a warrant.   (Really!?)

This device is reportedly able to BLOCK communications, also.  They could have quite a heyday play day with that, huh?

MICS

The government – or your friendly carrier – can activate your phone’s microphone (whether the phone is on or off).  This turns it into a roving bug that records voices anywhere near the phone.

GPS

Your phone needs to be on but even if you disable the GPS function, it can be activated remotely without telling you so.  They can track you.  Of course they can also triangulate your position by measuring the intensity of your connections to nearby cell towers.

The solution to microphones and GPS is simple.  REMOVE THE BATTERY.  Oh, but I know – you might miss Aunt Julia’s wedding pictures!  And how would you open the garage door…?

It gets down to, which price do you want to pay?  Convenience?  Or Security?  (And there isn’t much of that left, is there?)

Note:

“They” say they don’t have Hillary Clinton’s e-mails?  “They” say they can’t identify the black-masked, black-attired Soros protesters?  “They” say there’s nothing they can do to combat the anti-trump protesters and the college rioters?  “They” say Trump had Russian interchanges during the campaign?  “They” say Trump wasn’t bugged at Trump Towers?

Hell, he’s bugged everywhere he goes!  And all of us, too!  THEY HAVE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION.  IT’S WHAT THEY DO!   And we’re paying for it!

And while we’re on this topic, don’t ever forget their expertise in voice simulation.  If you hear a quote that doesn’t sound  right, verify that it was actually spoken by the person it is attributed to.  (What a shame to need conversations like these…)

SAMSUNG,  AND SMART APPLIANCES

Samsung’s Smart TVs are voice activated…  They listen to everything you say…   They record everything you say…  How many other voice activated thingies do you own?  They are always on, you know,  just listening for your voice…

Your SMART appliances are government spying devices sure as you can say “Fourth Amendment”.  And don’t forget those dangerous (on several levels) SMART meters courtesy of your power company.  SMART appliances talk to SMART meters but you already know that, yes?

And SMART meters talk to other SMART meters.  They convey user information.  And at some not too distant time the government will begin talking back to the SMART meters about what is allowed to be turned on in your place, what isn’t, and when.  (It is called C-O-N-T-R-O-L.  SMART, huh?)

And just coming online is the “Internet of  Things”.  Everything on the internet is captured, copied, stored.

Your SMART phone can do almost anything anymore:  Start the coffee, open the garage door, monitor the nursery, set the alarm – all shared in real time with the government.  This is all done through the internet.  It is ALL copied and stored indefinitely.

CARS

There’s that pesky little black box in many cars that records such things as speed, braking, destination routes, mileage.  Your GPS records your locations.  Automatic toll and parking tags record dates and times, and often photos.  Cameras take pictures of your license plate.  And your voice activated Amazon Alexa-for-Androids in your car?  Need you ask?

This link takes you to a retail site where YOU can buy all sorts of fancy toys to monitor, spy, surveil, whomever and/or whatever you want.  So – not only do you have your overreaching Fourth-Amendment-be-damned government going bonkers, but you can do it yourself !!

OR

You may find that your spouse, your kids, your boss, your best friend, your worst enemy, or anybody-anybody beat you to it and is tracking you, your location, your phone calls and texts, your GPS – all in real time.  Warm and cozy, huh?  (Santa might not be the only one checking it twice.)

Not to be outdone, your government has a purchasing catalog, too!  It’s classified and it’s called the NSA ANT catalog.  It runs 50 pages.  You see, the National Security Agency (NSA) has a division called Tailored Access Operations (TAO) (tasked with hacking computers) that can order cyber snooping materials from the Advanced Network Technology Division.

ANT has equipment for cell phone networks, mobile phones, routers, servers, firewalls, computers, monitors, keyboards, USB, wireless LAN, and room surveillance with “cool” sounding names like CROSSBEAM, CANDYGRAM, WATERWITCH, MONKEYCALENDAR, TOTEGHOSTLY 2.0, SIERRAMONTANA, GODSURGE, SOUFFLETROUGH, HOWLERMONKEY, COTTONMOUTH I, II, AND III, among others.

Just makes you want to crack out the plastic and start ordering!  (No.  You are not allowed to.  You just get to pay for the stuff.  But don’t forget your retail site a few paragraphs up.  You can buy neat stuff there!)

And TOYS for the KIDDIES!  At Christmas in 2015 Mattel, in association with ToyTalk of San Francisco, introduced Hello Barbie, a WIFI connected cloud-based interactive doll that converses with the kid and becomes – as it retains the child’s conversations – progressively more familiar with the child’s interests, favorite people, secrets, fears – can you see where this is going?  The doll is constantly up-programmed to suit the child’s input: personality, dreams, wishes, problems, …  and the conversations are all retained by ToyTalk.

This past Christmas the My Friend Cayla doll and the i-Que robot from Genesis Toys were introduced.  Both are interactive, both record nearby voices. Recordings are kept by a company called Nuance.  Nuance also does business with the US military, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement…….  (I don’t want to guess what these guys would put in a book on raising children.)

TIDBITS (BYTES?)

The new Utah Data Center uses up to 1.7 million gallons of water a day, primarily for cooling.  How do they get that much water in the desert?  What becomes of their waste water?  The NSA says the amount they use is classified.  The best I can tell their monthly water costs may be from $32,000 to $36,000 but I can’t pin those numbers down.

Their electricity is estimated to run about 40 million dollars a year.

A new NSA data center is underway in Fort Meade, MD. It is planned to be two and one-half times the size of the Utah Data Center. What? Are they setting up an elaborate blackmail system? Is my verb tense wrong?

Each zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes. One exabyte = 1,000 petabytes. One petabyte = 1,000 terabytes. One terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. But the Grandpappy of them all (so far) is the yottabyte = 1,000 zettabytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes =10^24. Got that?

The Global Information Grid traffic equals about 966 exabytes a year.

It does not appear things will get better any time soon but now that President Donald Trump has publicly announced/denounced being “surveilled” – Well, something just might get changed.  (Starting with the NSA and its budget could be a thought.) –From Judge Andrew Napolitano / Fox Opinion:

“The surveillance state regime today permits America’s 60,000 military and civilian domestic spies to access in real time all the landline and mobile telephone calls and all the desktop and mobile device keystrokes and all the digital data created and used by anyone in the United States.

The targets today are not just ordinary Americans; they are justices on the Supreme Court, military brass in the Pentagon, agents in the FBI, local police in cities and towns, and the man in the Oval Office.” 

THIS IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF A ROGUE POLICE STATE.

Click here for part 1

NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY UTAH DATA CENTER

“Mass surveillance is different. If you’re truly worried about
attacks coming from anyone anywhere,
you need to spy on everyone everywhere.”
-Data and Goliath p.90

Do you have any idea what these Sons of Sea Biscuits have been doing to you – to me – to all of us these past bunch of years? Well, I’m going to lay part of it out for you, hopefully in technicolor and wide screen.

Our NSA (National Security Agency) does not have an open and transparent history. The NSA was created in secret in 1952 not by Congress, but by a pen stroke of Harry Truman in a 7-page document that remained classified for years. Even its name was undisclosed.

And it stayed hidden until finally, in 1971, NSA analyst Perry Fellwock blew the whistle on NSA and their secret program Echelon with its vast information gathering technology even back then. This led to the Church Committee hearings and some legislation. Obviously, it wasn’t enough…..

WHISTLEBLOWERS

Over the recent years, 6 additional patriotic whistleblowers have come forward at great sacrifice and risk to themselves. These include Bill Binney, Edward Snowden, Russ Tice, Mark Kline, Thomas Tamm, and Thomas Drake. Click the above link for more information on these men.

NSA TODAY

Bigger: See Wired article from 2012. Written by James Bamford, this is an article that spares no one’s feelings in laying out what the NSA is, and does.

Bigger and Nastier: “The NSA is more interested in the so-called invisible web, also known as the deep web or deepnet – data beyond the reach of the public. This includes password-protected data, US and foreign government communications, and noncommercial file-sharing between trusted peers. ‘The deep web contains government reports, databases, and other sources of information of high value to DOD and the intelligence community according to a 2010 report.’” -(Quote from the Wired article.)

But don’t feel left out. Oh No! They already have every keystroke, every conversation, every search (Yes, even those), every credit card purchase, every check, every rewards card purchase, every toll gate, every bill, every-everything about you. What do you think is filling up those monstrous computers?

The next two blue links are enlightening wakeup articles from Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a go-to guy on internet security, and author of Data and Goliath, about collecting your data and controlling the world. It was a best selling Amazon Book of the Year in 2015.

The Utah Data Center came online in 2014, at a cost of somewhere between one and one-half to two billion dollars for one million-plus square feet. Details are not readily shared with the public.

100,000 square feet will be for data storage. The remaining 900,000 square feet will be for administration and “technical support”…… ? What, exactly, does that mean in spook-talk? Data Mining? More secret programs? Mind Control with DOD’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)?

It is widely believed that a large emphasis at the Utah Data Center will be put on cracking encryption. You know, breaking the private codes. This will done in conjunction with their Oakridge, Tennessee facility which is developing the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Currently encryption done at 128 bits, and 192 bits, and most securely at 256 bits has them at bay. But between the vast storage data in Utah and the lightning speed in Tennessee they think they may be able to crack them. Would it be okay to pray for a large magnetic storm?

And they’re building another data center in Fort Meade, Maryland that will be two and one-half times bigger. Just what are they going to do there?

Here Are A Handful of the Programs…

ECHELON

Reportedly developed to monitor Russia and the Eastern Bloc, this one has been around since about 1966. “ECHELON was part of an umbrella program codenamed FROSTING, which was established by the NSA in 1966 to collect and process data from communications satellites. FROSTING had two sub-programs:[25]

• TRANSIENT: for intercepting Soviet satellite transmissions, and
  • ECHELON: for intercepting Intelsat satellite transmissions.”
  From Wikipedia.

This 1999 article brought more information to the fore. Echelon’s focus is international intercepts. Shrouded in secrecy, Echelon uses large golf-ball shaped facilities (called radomes short for radar-domes which protect delicate radar equipment from the climate) on earth, plus satellites, to listen in on, intercept, and copy any and all transmissions. Echelon includes sites in England (RAF Menwith Hill), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and others. The satellites used are said to be stationary.

Several years back (+/- the year2000) there was an international flapdoodle as allegations flew that U.S. companies were getting insider information based on intercepted commercial bids, and using them to secure lucrative contracts. This, while believed to be true, was of course denied.

CARNIVORE

This was an earlier FBI e-mail wiretap system that could be set up by the FBI, in conjunction with your ISP (Internet Service Provider), and operated remotely. It was newer technology in the year 2000, unregulated (if you just forget the Fourth Amendment), and extremely prone to overreach without oversight.

Carnivore was eventually renamed DCS1000 but that didn’t improve its murky reputation nor lessen the FBI’s secrecy surrounding the eavesdropping which many believed expanded to intercepting and copying all e-mails. Are we singing Kumbaya yet?

SNIFFER

This isn’t a program but rather a means of creating surveillance. Routers direct internet traffic noting destinations of the “packets” that go through the router. “Packets” are parts of transmissions that have been reduced into smaller parts to make transmissions flow more efficiently.

A sniffer is an intercept monitor that can copy either limited, specific targets, or copy any and every thing that passes by.

HEARTBLEED

This was created through a flaw discovered in an update to the the SSL program. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. SSL has been supplanted by TLS, Transport Layer Security. However, SSL is still widely used.

The SSL is used for security in roughly 2/3 of “secure” Net transactions (think credit card purchases on secured sites). This Heartbleed bug allowed the NSA easier access to our passwords and personal information. The NSA claims it did not know of the Heartbleed bug until 2014. Sources say the NSA knew at least two years earlier. You think?

TRAPWIRE

TrapWire is a shadowy overreaching program originated by a corporation known as Abraxos, in Virginia. Abraxos is filled with ex-CIA, ex-Intelligence Community spooks. Its purpose is to film people and study patterns of behavior, pre-assign likely guilt, and call it terror assessment. Talk about guilty until proven innocent!

In 2005 an Abraxos officer stated that TrapWire could “collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists.” TrapWire was exposed in 2012 when a researcher went through a series of hacked e-mails from a company known as Stratfor, aka “Shadow CIA”.

It was revealed at that time that literally millions of cameras – public, red light, traffic, bridge, commercial, casino, U.S. and international — were digitally recording people, encrypting the data, and sending it to places unknown for storage using face recognition to note “persons of interest” in “Suspicious Activity Surveillance”.

TEMPEST

This is a program used by the government to reconstruct information data streams by capturing electromagnetic radiation from computers, printers, handheld devices and converting these radiations into their original transmissions. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

PRISM

Created under George W Bush, PRISM is a secretive tool that co-opts the biggest internet service providers. These include Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Skype (now owned by Microsoft), Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, and YouTube. It is believed information can be gleaned from the user equipment via back doors; from the internet backbone; or from the corporate cloud database. This may include general data and/or verbatim copies.

• Prism slides released by Edward Snowden. How we learned of PRISM.
  • 2013 – 2014 leaks from Edward Snowden. The leaks he provided.

XKEYSTROKE

This is a very developed query program. You can search, or query, using MAC or Microsoft Office or pdf or phone number or e-mail address or type of document or extensions, and more. This classified link is from 2008 – “The Unofficial XKS User Guide”.

TEMPORA

This is a British program shared with NSA that collects – for later sorting – internet information carried on fiber optic cables. It went operational in 2011. The cable companies are aware. I believe all the major cables are now tapped. This matters because much of the international cable traffic flows through the US.

SPECIAL SOURCE OPERATIONS (of the NSA)

This is the division of NSA that collects data from telephone and cable sources. These commercial companies have been coerced (?) into being willing partners with NSA. It is loudly rumored that these companies – your carriers – are well paid for their cooperation. (Are you surprised?)

Back in the day that worked just fine; they cooperated and no one was the wiser. Then in 2013 Edward Snowden happened and the big Verizon-NSA link became front page news.

Well, it’s still going on and all the major companies are in on it.

“SSO also cooperates with private telecommunication providers under the following four programs, which are collectively referred to as
Upstream Collection:

– BLARNEY (collection under FISA authority, since 1978)
– FAIRVIEW (cooperation with AT&T, since 1985)
– STORMBREW (cooperation with Verizon, since 2001)
– OAKSTAR (cooperation with 7 other telecoms, since 2004)”
from Wikipedia

“The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We need to turn the cameras on the police and on the government, not the other way around.” -Ron Paul June 14, 2013

We’ll continue in PART TWO with everyday surveillance that is all around us. The scope is breathtaking, and growing.

Part two coming soon.

Ronnie Herne  (c) 2017  All rights reserved.

It is time to take the Bull of Islam by the Horns and call it out for what it is.

“There is no such thing as “radical Islam.” I have refused to accept several organizations that seek to combat or expose the antics of “radical” or “extreme” Islam, because I know that it is not extremism that is causing the violence…it’s mainstream, typical, normal, traditional, specified, canonical [based on religious law] Islam.”  Amil Imani  (See more below.) [emphasis added]

“Making Allah the author of the Quran, I think, is the prime lie perpetrated on mankind for more than a millennium. We can, with certainty, say that it was not even Muhammad alone who authored the Qur’an. In fact, the major part of the Qur’an was either composed by or inspired and written by a few other individuals. Abul Kasem at FaithFreedom.org  Kasem lists at least 15 people instrumental in compiling the Quran (Koran). [emphasis added]

Taqlid (or taqleed): explained:  Taqlid is the belief that Allah is the One God.  Mohammad was his prophet.  The Quran (and the Hadith and Sira) are eternal and perfect.  No questions will be entertained.  It will always be as it has always been.  Masha Allah. (God has willed it).

There are nuances in taqlid.  Certain special people are more knowledgeable and are to be followed but there are many confusing exceptions if they put out contradictory statements.

Generally Taqlid means that Islam cannot be reformed or changed or improved or altered.  It is perfect as is.

Ponder that.  Take in fully what it means.

The Quran on Violence: Excerpts –

Quran (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.”

Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”

Quran (4:74) – “Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.”

Quran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned;

Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”

Quran (8:39) – “And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion is all for Allah”

Quran (47:3-4) – “Those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord… So, when you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them)

Sahih Muslim (1:33) – the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.

Sahih Bukhari (11:626) – [Muhammad said:] “I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.”

Sahih Muslim (1:149) – “Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause…”

Sahih Muslim (20:4696) – “the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.'”  [A sentence to Hell in Islam.]

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, “Kill any Jew who falls under your power.”

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992: – “Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.” Muhammad’s instructions to his men prior to a military raid.

Contemporary Sunni theologian al-Qaradawi: “It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar al-Harb  [ie. non-Muslim people who resist Islamic conquest]  is not protected… In modern war, all of society, with all its classes and ethnic groups, is mobilized to participate in the war, to aid its continuation, and to provide it with the material and human fuel required for it to assure the victory of the state fighting its enemies. Every citizen in society must take upon himself a role in the effort to provide for the battle. The entire domestic front, including professionals, laborers, and industrialists, stands behind the fighting army, even if it does not bear arms.”

Is al-Qaradawi clear enough that ALL Muslims are to support jihad?

If you cling tenaciously to Islam then you can never be a moderate, no matter how much you keep your mouth shut.  Islam is as Islam does.

ARE THE ROSE COLORED GLASSES OFF YET?

So, shall we join a beheading in progress?  Religiously it is preferred that they start with the front of the neck in order to release large quantities of blood, praying to Allah, while then using a sharp blade and brute force to shatter bones that get in the way.

Here and  Here  and Here are Muslim beheading videos from the Net.  I do not recommend watching these if you enjoy sleeping the sleep of  bliss or if you are a Snowflake…  And I seriously recommend AGAINST watching any of these if you have PTSD.

The middle link is to Walid Shoebat’s site.  Walid is a converted Christian Palestinian Arab who has lots more moxy than I do.  With his intent and intense ongoing war against Islam I find it hard to believe that he still walks this earth.

His site is always pro-Christian.  And his site is often graphic, or horrific, if you prefer, as he chronicles the gut wrenching, vicious, brutal, barbaric attacks of Muslims against others.

VICIOUS IS AS VICIOUS DOES

If beheadings aren’t your interest, how about “female genital mutilation”?  That’s what the media euphemistically call it.  The UN has estimated that 200 million women in 30 countries have been mutilated.

Clitorectomy (or clitoridectomy) is the complete – or partial – removal of the girl’s clitoris.  This can be done with old broken glass shards, used razors, or anything else that’s sharp enough to cut into her.

And this unbelievably cruel “cutting” is usually done between the ages of  5 and 15 so the memory will always be there.  There is no medical reason for doing this.

There is however a male Islamic religious reason for this: to insure sexual fidelity.  If she cannot enjoy sex, then she will be less likely to wander into a dalliance.

It is always stunningly amazing that the “Pink Bonnet Sisters” – that noisy enraged, crazed bastion of pseudo-liberated clitorally-intact foul mouthed fulminating feminists – still eagerly embrace Islam; and Muslim refugees; and the tired old moniker  “The Religion of Peace”.

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES  (and we’ve got plenty of it…)

Let’s return to Amil Imani . He is an Iranian-American who recently published a piece at NewsWithViews.com called CHRISTIANITY AND RADICAL ISLAM: BREAKING THE SILENCE.

With his permission I have pulled some salient quotes which are meant to roust  the sleeping, pierce the shield of Political Correctness, crack the polished veneers of the “Tolerant”, and otherwise offend fence-sitters.

“As for democracy, the rule of the people, Muslims have no use for it whatsoever. Muslims believe that Allah’s rule must govern the world in the form of a Caliphate. Making a mockery of democracy, subverting its workings, and ignoring its provisions is a Muslim’s way of falsifying what he already believes to be a sinful and false system of government, invented by the infidels.” [emphasis added]

“I argue that any belief system that licenses murder in the name of Jihad and the conquering and subduing of the world of the infidels by the Umma  [the Muslim community],  should be outlawed. The prophet Mohammad brewed up a militant, radical and extremely irrational imperialistic cult that sought world dominance. My fellow travelers, let us make one thing clear; Islam is no more a religion deserving our respect or legal recognition than is cannibalism.” [emphasis added]

In Amil’s article he lists 7 “moderate” quotes about Islam from

George W Bush and from Obama.  It is very illustrative to see what these gents had to say about an archaic, cruel, 7^th century, violent, never-to-be reformed (it is forbidden in the Quran) religion that opposes any laws or Constitution other than Sharia, combined with abject prostration to Allah.   Allahu Akbar!

By the way, according to Robert Spencer what Allahu Akbar really means is,
“God is greater!”  emphasizing that Allah is superior to all, without exception.

“Islamic terrorists are doing exactly what the prophet Muhammad demanded. And his demands were not suggestions and were not ephemeral. They were “perfect,” eternal ultimata.  Islamic terrorists are faithful and true to what is written in the book of Quran.”   From Amil.

The point here is, so are all practicing Muslims.  TAQLID is the unquestioning imitation of precedent.  They are not allowed to “reform” their religion.  Muhammad was the perfect example.  Mohammad was the Prophet of Allah.  Allah wrote the Quran (Koran).

Any Muslim openly disagreeing with Taqlid would at the very least be an apostate –  a denier of the tenets of Islam –  offensive in the eyes of Allah, and likely headed to a quick and possibly very awful death.

But remember always that the Quran allows lies, deceit, cruelty, machinations, and anything else that a Muslim believes will advance Islam.  No Muslim is bound to any honor in dealing with the infidels, the unbelievers, the Kafir.

The upshot here is that ALL Muslims – Muslims being anyone who has embraced the religion of Islam – are bound to Sharia, the Code of Law derived from the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sira.  It is not for them to question but to obey without question.  True, some are more militant than others but the universal truth is that Islam must rule the world by Caliphate; that all will be Muslims; or tax-paying subordinates to Muslims; or dead.

“I know that it is not extremism that is causing the violence…it’s mainstream, typical, normal, traditional, specified, canonical Islam.”   Amil Imani

ISLAM IS AS ISLAM DOES.  Masha Allah.  [God has willed it so.]

I have often wondered if the major university campuses have a special course for University Women to teach them the “F” word. Females seem so proficient at that once they graduate. Call the course, “Give Me an ‘F’ and I’ll give you an ‘A’!” Have it taught by a finger-gesticulating (wink-wink) burly, short cropped PhD female, of course, to get the full effect……. But I digress….

To the point: I have witnessed many things much more horrific than the Women’s March in D.C. this past January 21st. However, I do not believe I have ever seen anything more revoltingly disgusting done in the name of women.

Ladies. Girls. The gentler sex. Peaches and cream. Sugar and spice. Mom/Mommy. Granny/Grandma. Aunt/Sister. Oh, and Pro-Life.

ALL THROWN UNDER THE BUS!!

And in the name of what? Let me just tell you “what”. And those “sisters” out there aren’t going to like it one bit, too bad.

What the whole wide world saw on display was a raging torrent of hate. At Trump, you assume? Oh sure, he was in the mix. But he was used more for venting rather than the being the full object. What actually was on display in full living pink technicolor was an unkempt force of shrieking, foul females literally and loudly hating their womanhood and all things associated with being a woman.

THAT is what we saw in that march – a bunch of females screaming about their genitalia and the functions thereof, hating themselves and their womanliness. Then crudely, vilely, viciously letting the world know all about it, – and how rough they have it in comparison to men. (Shed a tear here.)

Well, “sisters”, there are surgical options opened to you to remedy all of those complaints. Just don’t do it on my tax dollars.

And “sisters”, I’ll tell you something else you’ll like even less. Back in the day your disgusting vitriolic diatribe was called Penis Envy. Put that in your little pink bonnets, huh?

SENDING OUT THE SNOWFLAKES….

Sean Hannity had some ditsy female guest on his radio show on Friday, January 27th. She was all PRO the march; and Madonna’s threat about blowing up the White House was just artistic free speech. He asked her (several times) about partial birth abortion which she said she was good with because there is no such thing… I could not make this up. She told Sean that partial birth abortion did not create infanticide (the killing of a baby).

Apparently in her safe space no one had bothered her with the Planned Parenthood videos of selling baby body parts and suggesting different ways of performing partial birth abortions, done in the very last days of the pregnancy, ie, at or near term, so as to make better, more mature organ parts available for sale.

Clearly she had also not bothered herself with details of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, now serving time for multiple infanticides. These truly gruesome details are available in a book called “Gosnell”.

She explained to Sean Hannity – very patiently – that partial birth abortion was when the child was surgically removed by Caesarean Section. The baby was NOT killed. And if there was just more sex education then there would be less of an issue with abortion…

Wouldst that were true! It would be so easy to birth the baby and hand it over to an adoption agency. But killing the baby is just more feminine, you think?

And did you all catch Hillary when she said that the baby shouldn’t be considered a baby until it’s mother took it home? In case Mom changed her mind about having the baby? In fact if I recall correctly Hillary also mentioned that the baby shouldn’t be considered a baby for two weeks after the birth…….. I don’t believe she ever indicated what should be done with the gurgling, fist-waving little thingie there in the newborn nursery…..

SEEDS OF SHARIA

How could any good (?), progressive, sex pontificating, Me-First, pro-abortionist, wear-what-I-want (or not), LGBT-hugging, social justice, open borders, smoking/drinking/drugging angry socialist feminist ever trip into the waiting arms of Sharia Law? (Hey, it worked for Hillary & Huma!)

How in the name of Allah did they have a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim female social worker as one of their Women’s March co-chairs? Linda Sarsour. The pictures I’ve seen show her in a full hijab, a nun-like head covering, though in her case they are quite gaily colored. And her eyes are heavily made up. Very Western.

Maybe that’s it: she wears makeup so she must be okay. Forget the mandates against women in the Qu-ran (Koran): rape, honor killings, beatings, mutilation, subjugation, and lots of motherhood. And I guess it would never occur to Linda Sarsour to throw some of the gay boys off a high roof.

ABORTION

Not to worry! While you’re hugging Linda Sarsour like a comfortable little pink teddy bear, Islam has it all figured out for you, dear “sisters” and snowflakes. According to the Muslim site zawaj.com they teach that the soul enters the fetus at 120 days, or 4 months. With the fewest possible exceptions it is unlawful under Islam to abort the fetus before 120 days. With absolutely no exceptions, it is also unlawful to abort the fetus on or after 120 days. Rape and incest are not reasons.

Like Climate Change/Global Warming, clearly we have settled science by consensus here… Male Muslim consensus you understand. And devout Muslim agent Linda Sarsour is a poster girl for this Women’s March? Talk about a serious disconnect.

HITLER, AND TOUPEES……

While a “NAAAA-STEEEEE” woman was bemoaning the feel of Hitler in the streets of D.C. – a moustache exchanged for a toupee – she was apparently coincidentally mindlessly embracing devout Muslim Palestinian Linda Sarsour.

I know I mentioned this before but let’s draw out a new and uncomfortable – for them – observation. In the 1940s, when Hitler’s Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, was romping victoriously with his North Afrika Korps, just who was Hitler’s talented general aligning himself with? Why, the Muslim Arabs, of course. He was going to liberate them from British rule. Hitler, Rommel, Arab Muslims. Got it? Muslims, Rommel, Hitler: Friends.

So, when we want to talk about Hitler, let’s keep it straight who was holding hands with whom.

((Speaking of the Brits, Teresa May, PM, is distressed with Trump’s temporary ban on Mid-East immigration. 80 years ago the Brits were a dominant force in North Africa. Now, the most prevalent male name for newborns inside Britain is Mohammad. (Talk about the sun setting on the empire…))

THE OTHER MARCH

I don’t have a number on the tens of thousands that Marched for Life on January 27th in Washington, D.C. How thrilling it must have been for them to have the Vice-President come and speak, how hopeful that some of this will be rolled back.

But I’ll make a bet that just like the Tea Party versus the Occupiers, the Right-to-Lifers left one heck of a lot less trash than did the sisters, snowflakes, and the beta boys. And no broken windows, torched cars, injured cops, graffiti…? Anyone want to take me up on that…?

Hey God! Thanks for your blessings!

GO TRUMP!!

PS: Given what President Trump has already done so far, what’s he going to do with the last 3½ years of this first term of his presidency?

PS2: Just in. Thanks to JT. Reba sings of God. Video. Guaranteed to make the Left crazier than they already are. Enjoy and share.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!
GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP!
AND GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOUR DREAMS!

© 2017 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

Why do Trump’s followers like him, love him so much? Is it his patriotism?

Trump isn’t afraid to say he loves America and all the opportunity it has offered him. “The day I was born I had already won the greatest lottery on earth. I was born in the United States of America.” (Crippled America, p 101)

Trump believes, truly believes, that we are a nation of laws that should be applied equally. The black teen shouldn’t be gunned down for nothing and Hillary and Bill shouldn’t get a DOJ-FBI “pass” on their ongoing activities.

It is this belief that spurred him into his introductory anti-illegal immigrant presentation on the escalator. You know the one… The one where he ended up being called every lousy name in the book by the Left, by the Right, and by the I-don’t-even-know-who-I-am Groups.

And Real Americans came off their couches and roared their approval that finally someone, somewhere was saying what needed to be said and saying it without hesitation, without sniveling, without apologizing.

And BUILD A WALL??!!? Could it get any better?

Yes, it could. And yes, it has.

Trump wants to vet Muslims — You know, those Sharia-enforcers who shout “Death to America!”, who commit grisly beheadings of children, who multi-rape and disembowel non-believing women (and boys)?

Why on earth would we NOT vet folks who harbor such violent anti-American interlinking religious, social, cultural, and moral values? And leave us not forget for one minute their “honor killings”. I will get to Islam in a future article.

Trump is going to reignite the pride in our military! He is going to rebuild the armed forces. Hopefully, air flighting diapers to naval carriers will be a thing of the past. Perhaps waving a “blue card” so you don’t have to participate in a drill “because you just don’t feel like it” will also be a thing of the past.

Women who cannot meet the standards of men for combat units should be dropped cold. Women in combat positions present so many problems, not in the least the safety of the men in the mixed units.

As a woman who is also a vet I offer a free piece of advice to Trump and to the military: If you are going to put women in combat – which I do not personally support – then these combat units should be made up entirely of combat women with female combat officers leading them.

That won’t solve all of the problems but it will eliminate many of them. And don’t start me with the “But they don’t have combat experience yet!”

You study. You practice. And then you learn by doing. Just like the guys who put on their big boy pants. And their 70-pound packs.

Trump wants fair trade deals. The Giant Sucking sound of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) killed (as was predicted) millions of U.S. Jobs and thousands of U.S. Factories. It was backed by George HW Bush and passed and signed into law by William J Clinton, bipartisanship at its naked worst.

Today the Democrats (including Hillary, until Trump started gaining on her) and the RINOs and the globalists all support TPP and TTIP.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are international takeovers of U.S. Sovereignty and U.S. Independence. These partnerships, crafted in absolute secrecy, create tribunals of unelected foreign bureaucrats who can change the agreements after they are approved and overrule the Constitution of the United States.

U.S. Trade is guaranteed to suffer under these. So are U.S. Jobs. NAFTA stands as a grim beacon from 1993 warning us of the dire but predictable results of terrible trade agreements.

Trump steadfastly opposes these trade deals. The U.S. already has a trade deficit with every major nation we trade with. Trump wants to renegotiate the old trade deals, make them work for America.

Remember? America First. If manufacturers decide to take jobs out of this country for cheaper labor (as Ford and Carrier are doing) then let them face a tariff on the products and parts they reintroduce into the America that they turned their backs on.

Just so you know, other Mexico-bound companies include Daimler/Nissan, GM, Audi, Kia, VW, Toyota, and BMW with a proposed investment of approximately 15.8 billion dollars resulting in approximately 30,000 Mexican jobs. NAFTA lives on.

Another big, big Growth-Trade-Jobs issue is this excellent two-pronged proposition by Trump. First, drop the corporate tax rate from 35% , one of the highest in the world, to 15%, one of the lowest in the world. This is a tremendous profit motivation in itself for business investors.

Then couple that with a one-time offer to companies who are currently keeping their investment capital offshore in foreign countries because of the huge tax penalties associated with bringing that money back home to the States. Give them a one-time 10% tax and let them bring back that estimated 2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS of investment money to the States.

Can you imagine what that kind of business capital could do to jump start a dead economy? Think of the new manufacturing plants, the new natural resources, the millions of new jobs, the increased rates of production, the increase in trade. Now wouldn’t a positive trade balance be a beautiful ship on the U.S. horizon?

And remember, each new investment and each new job brings the government new taxes, new life for social security, new money to put on the debt and deficit. Win-Win!!

And Trump doesn’t think sending lots and lots of our money to OPEC in the Middle East is good trade, either. Trump thinks all of the U.S. energy sources should be cultivated and compete on a level playing field.

This means that wind and solar have to find their own, non-government supported profit-making niches. And, if left alone, I believe they will.

Trump supports letting energy find its own profit level. If hydroelectric outpaces gas, or nuclear comes in well below coal, or coal fired plants produce cheaper power, then let the market run with what works best. And get the eco-freak-o regulations out of the way.

What works in Kentucky might not work in Oregon and what works in Oregon might not work in Arizona. We are a big country and can utilize many resources.

• Are there questions? Yes.
• Will fracking for oil and gas destroy aquifers? Maybe. And that’s not a good thing.
• Will the Keystone Pipeline be pursued? Maybe – but that will entail eminent domain.

It would be nice if we could just throw up some pixie dust and have everyone happy but God didn’t make it that way. NO, life is all about choices.

And to the utter dismay and disbelief of the jet-setting, mansion-owning gurus of Climate Change, Carbon Tax, and EPA overreach (aka One Worlders), Trump sides with the 33,000 scientists who state in writing that global man-made warming is a hoax at best. As Trump says, “I like being unpredictable. It keeps them off balance.” (Crippled America p 46)

I’m with Trump. As to our weather, first it was cooling, then it was warming then, after 18+ years of no warming, it was climate change. What it was/is is a plan to take over the entire world, take all of the earth’s resources out of use in the name of Gaia and the environment, save everything for some future unspecified generation, and have us live like neanderthals in cold dark little abodes (which we might come to resemble if HAARP and the chemtrails continue unabated. That’ll be another article.)

And let us not forget some of the truly magnificent buildings and structures that Trump has constructed. While Hillary meddled with Webb Hubbell and Vince Foster and the Mena Airport in Arkansas; baked chocolate chip cookies in Bill’s White House; came from Chicago, and Arkansas, to serve as the senator from New York State; let Americans go up in flames in Benghazi; and set the entire Middle East ablaze; here’s some of what Donald J Trump was doing around the world.

DOMESTIC:

TRUMP TOWER; TRUMP PARC; TRUMP PLAZA; TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER, CHICAGO; TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, WESTCHESTER; TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, LOS ANGELES;

TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, LAS VEGAS; TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, WASHINGTON, DC (The Old Post Office);
TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC; TRUMP VINEYARD ESTATES; THE MAR-A-LAGO CLUB.

INTERNATIONAL:

TRUMP TOWERS, ISTANBUL, TURKEY; TRUMP TOWER, MUMBAI, INDIA; LE CHATEAU DES PALMIERS, ST. MARTIN, FRENCH WEST INDIES (CARIBBEAN); TRUMP TOWER AT CENTURY CITY, THE PHILIPPINES; THE ESTATES AT TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF CLUB, DUBAI;

TRUMP HOTEL, RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL; TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER, TORONTO, CANADA; TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF LINKS & HOTEL, IRELAND; TRUMP TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND.

And a couple dozen more. Not to mention his TV shows, guest appearances, beauty pageants, that wonderful NYC skating rink, etc.

And in the process he has interacted with and ingratiated himself successfully with numerous international countries, their politicians, their laws and customs, their companies. He has, over the years, employed tens of thousands of people in construction, in architecture and engineering, the trades, office staff, Research and Development, PR, hospitality staff, security, interior decorators, and who knows who else.

Donald J Trump is one remarkable man who has lived a vivid and successful American Dream. I believe he sincerely wishes for Americans of all stripes to have the chance to make their dreams come true. And he believes that here in the United States of America, that dreams can come true, have come true, and will continue to come true as long as we keep America Strong and Beautiful and Free.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!
GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP!
AND GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOUR DREAMS!

© 2016 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

QUICK! Grab your fact checker! How do we determine if Donald Trump groped a currently 74 year old woman over thirty years ago on a first class flight to New York City? She reports he fondled her and tried to put his hand up her skirt….

Did she protest a lot? A little? Even if she didn’t, where exactly were the stewardesses and stewards when this purported inappropriate behavior was going on? A hiked skirt can be pretty observable. And stewardesses pay a whole lot of attention to their First Class clientele.

We’re talking somewhere around the mid-1980s? And it’s just now being reported three weeks before the 2016 election?

It was the early nineties. “She” was an aspiring model. She was in a bar. She was talking to her friend on her left. Then the person on her right put his hand up her skirt…?

Fact check, please: Was it a long nun-like skirt? Or a mini-skirt? Don’t laugh! Details are important here! Facts matter.

She turned and recognized Donald Trump…

Oh PUH-LEEZ! Unless she was totally blitzed how could she not have noticed Trump next to her? SHE WAS AN ASPIRING MODEL.

If she had known Trump was sitting next to her… Why didn’t her friend tell her Donald Trump was sitting there!? (In fact, if any of this were true, why didn’t her friend deck Trump on the spot?)

TRUMP HAS A COMMANDING PRESENCE. HE IS AN ALPHA-MALE.

This “encounter” whatever it was or wasn’t was considered by her as “inconsequential” over twenty years ago. Now this is suddenly recalled and reported in blazing H-E-A-D-L-I-N-E-S scant weeks before the 2016 election? GEESH!

What some people won’t do for their fifteen minutes of glory.

Just received a note from (women@donaldtrump.com) asking for your support of Trump at hashtag #WomenWhoVoteTrump and at facebook National Women For Trump. Let’s turn it on and turn it up, Ladies! You know how social media work. Hit It!

LET’S TALK ABOUT ISSUES, REAL ISSUES, AMERICAN ISSUES:

Trump has never been in politics.

Hillary has been a governor’s wife, the First Lady, a senator from New York, and a Secretary of State. Hillary was mentored by Saul Alinsky, an early community organizer in Hillary’s life and author of Rules for Radicals, dedicated to Lucifer.

So whose fingerprints are all over U.S. Policy? Not Trump’s. All he did was make campaign contributions. He never got to vote on any policy or serve in any official capacity or head any committee.

How about Hillary’s fingerprints? In Arkansas, let’s see: there were Webb Hubbell, Vince foster, the Mena drug drops at the airport, the Rose Law Firm, the Whitewater real estate investment mess, multiple “suicide” rulings by the state’s medical examiner, etc.

She tried to put through Hillary-Care in the Nineties. It failed but not for lack of her trying. And it was widely reported that somehow about 900 private FBI files found their way to her in the White House… And there was that TravelGate thingie…

She smilingly stood by as hubby Bill signed NAFTA into law which occasioned the massive and ongoing exodus of U.S. Jobs and manufacturing plants to foreign countries. Maybe this accounts for 94,000,000 Americans who are out of work? The food stamps? The rates of poverty? You think?

As a senator, one of only 100, she could have angled for better trade deals. She did not. She could have angled for reducing the debt. She did not. She could have angled for reducing the deficit. She did not.

As a senator she could have worked for less government in our schools. She did not. She could have worked for health savings accounts. She did not. She could have worked to promote development of American energy. She did not.

As a senator she could have voted against war. She did not. She could have steered Wall Street into less risky waters. She did not. She could have promoted good American trade deals. She did not.

As a senator she could have lowered taxes on the middle class. She did not. She could have fought illegal immigration. She did not. She could have outlawed partial birth abortion. She did not.

As Secretary of State she could have calmed the rising tides of emotions relating to the Middle East. She did not. Instead, she fanned the fires, engaged in nation-building, birthed civil wars. Where did that get us?

She prompted the Arab Spring, the purposeful disruption of legitimate governments (doesn’t matter we didn’t like or approve of them – they didn’t ask for approval, just our trade and our money…..) And remember, like it or not, some of those established dictators had been our allies: Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), even the currently embattled Bashar al Assad (Syria).

As Secretary of State she stood by as we left Iraq, leaving behind a vast cache of military equipment that fell quickly into the hands of those who then emerged as ISIS. Thanks so much, Hillary. And as president she wants to welcome those “Allahu Akbar!”beheading, dismembering, raping savages here into the US of A. You think?

She approved of the Iran nuclear deal. In fact, Hillary nominated Wendy Sherman as Undersecretary of State (who got approved) and who was then lead negotiator of the Iran deal from September 2011 to October 2015. Following that, Wendy Sherman returned to work for Madeleine Albright, a UN One Worlder and Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State.

Wendy is now actively backing Hillary Clinton. Is it notable that Wendy Sherman was a political strategist in the very early 90s who helped get Bill elected?

As Secretary of State Hillary lined the coffers of the Clinton Foundation with several millions of dollars, verified by Wikileak e-mail dumps, where it seems her staff would allow access to Madame the Secretary only after donations to the foundation. It was this cozy arrangement that led directly to Russia’s ultimate procurement of 20% of U.S. Uranium.

Isn’t that aiding and abetting the enemy? Or did that go away with the Bill Clinton presidency? – Think Loral and the guided missile secrets permitted to be sold to the communist Chinese (and possibly shared with the nuclear-testing, missile-testing North Koreans)?

And has enough been said (or could enough ever be said) about the four Americans she sacrificed so callously? Hillary the Benghazi Babe?

And how about marital fidelity? Anybody remember malingering Bill saying, “She’s slept with more women than I have!” (I cleaned that up a little.) This makes her presidential? A model for children? A good Democrat?

As to the aghast breathiness of the Pretend Puritans both on the left and on the right as they experience and express the pontifical vapors about his very inappropriate comments – how many of you have ever had the experience of sitting at a table full of University Women? Your sensibilities might truly be shocked. They can be foul to the very core.

So, let’s not make too much of what the Alpha Male said eleven years ago, huh?

So we have a southern border completely out of control; immigration craziness; jihadist terrorists; drugs flowing everywhere (I won’t mention White House ash trays); a totally dumbed down class of “safe space” students; joblessness; poverty; racial disturbances actively promoted by her; a “Goldman Sachs” view of globalism; and America going down for the last count.

Hillary supported NAFTA, CAFTA, ObamaCare, open borders, funding Iran, a stupid-in-the-extreme Iran nuclear “deal”. She caused violence all over the Middle East, got Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood elected in Egypt [How’d that work out?], gave Mosul to Isis, and in fact it was decisions of hers and Obama that created the vacuum in which ISIS was formed, and they are still arming certain bad rebels.

So how does Donald Trump square up with Hillary? You would be hard pressed to find two more 180-degree opposite candidates.

Donald Trump’s platform: Build a wall. Immigration control. Vetting of Muslims. Constitution-oriented Supreme Court picks. America First. Good trade deals. Renegotiate older bad trade deals. China trade changes. Pro-Life. Health vouchers. Repeal ObamaCare. U.S. Energy independence. Decreasing foreign aid. Decreasing taxes. Decreasing corporate taxes. Encouraging corporate investment in American manufacturing. Dropping Common Core. Returning education to the States and local districts. Improving the VA.

Time is almost out. The “News” is not only NOT carrying the Trump message. It is actively and relentlessly trashing Trump and his followers. It is up to you to get his message out. We take the time to write these articles. You need to take the time to get them distributed in social media.

You know what to do.

GO TRUMP!!

© 2016 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

The MUHAJAROUN: Sharia-compliant muslims who make a hijira [holy trip] into the lands of the non-believers in preparation for armed conflict in the host country. This is a core Islamic step in creating the world Caliphate. See this link: Hijrah: Migration for the Cause of Allah

IMMIGRATION/U.S.

Outside of “we need to look at amnesty” and “a pathway to citizenship” immigration was a barely bubbling back burner issue that wasn’t discussed in polite company – That is till Donald Trump descended from the ramparts via an escalator. TRUMP-BOOMMMM!!!!

Suddenly immigration was front burner, and hot! REALLY hot…..

And somewhere between rapists, legals, bigots, citizens, xenophobes, rights, terrorism, Christians, the Religion of Peace, taxpayers, walls, drugs, America, and vetting – Well, the dam broke, and out poured thousands of internet articles delineating hundreds of thousands of opinions all thanks to Trump.

Finally we could discuss illegals and terrorism. IT WAS OKAY.

You didn’t need to like or defend the Iraq war or the Afghani war or any involvement whatsoever in the Middle East. You could think it was a good idea to develop our own gas and oil – and coal. You didn’t have to hug a Mexican. And throw out ObamaCare while you’re at it.

The Saudis weren’t our friends despite their ties to the Bushes. Carlyle Group for investments, anyone? And American women do not wear burkas and hijabs. But they do go to school, drive cars, go out shopping together, and do not need to tolerate domestic abuse.

Recent Vivid Examples of how Trump Changed the Net Narrative:

A September 13, 2016 article from Understanding the Threat (UTT) “Islamic Movement in US Preparing for Battle” cited some very chilling observations.

“There exists in the US a significant jihadi movement led primarily by the Muslim Brotherhood.

“There are over 2400 Islamic Centers/Mosques in America…” In the US the
“’nucleus’ for the Islamic Movement is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)…

“Mosques and Islamic organizations are being built near key infrastructure facilities, military bases, … [Many] taxi cab drivers at the largest airports in the U.S. are Muslim…” There are “Sharia-compliant Muslim TSA officers…

“Muslims are purchasing hotels, Quick Marts, and 7-11 style stores with gas stations, and a majority of major hotels in cities across the U.S. have a manager or assistant manager who is a Muslim…..

“Jihadis have penetrated U.S. federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies giving them access to sensitive intelligence systems, while simultaneously they have shut down real threat-based training inside these same agencies under the guise factual/truth-based training is ‘offensive to Muslims.’” [Emphasis added.]

And there’s much more in the article.

Do you really think you’d have found this article pre-Trump?

Over at The Religion of Peace (TROP) site you will find, among a host of other things, the List of Islamic Terror Attacks. The page linked here includes the last 30 days.

It lists 158 Islamic attacks in 34 countries, in which 1,283 people were killed and 1698 injured. That’s just the last thirty days.

The Religion of Peace archives go all the way back to post-9/11.

Do you think this would have gotten play pre-Trump?

And from Mike Adams’ (the Health Ranger) at NaturalNews.com, dateline September 18, 2016 the title: The bombings begin… Risk of massive false flag event skyrockets as desperate establishment plots to derail Trump, halt the election or change the narrative.

Here are excerpts from Mike Adams’ article: “In New York City, 29 people were injured by an improvised explosive device placed in a dumpster and detonated with such force that it blew out the windows of nearby buildings.

“A second explosive device of similar design was also located just blocks away. But that wasn’t the only bomb: Another bomb was detonated in New Jersey, as Breitbart.com reports:

“The Manhattan blast came hours after a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey, shortly before thousands of runners were due to participate in a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors.

“On top of the bombings, yet another radical Muslim terrorist went on a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall, screaming about Allah as he stabbed people…”

Mike Adams also noted that the person responsible in New York City was a disgruntled Gay but that turns out not to have been true. The perpetrator believed to be responsible for both NY and NJ is a naturalized Afghani named Ahmad Khan Rahami, who hates Gays and America.

Did Mike Adams feature jihadi muslims before Trump blasted open the door?

Ray Starmann, at U.S. Defense Watch has an article titled The U.S. Navy is Heading to the Bottom of the Sea. It depicts Political Correctness gone over the cliff, (or off the plank) citing PC feel-good goals over military competency.

Here’s are excerpts: “In all fairness to Dunford [four-star Marine General Joseph Dunford, Chair of the Joint Chiefs], he tried to stop Ray Mabus [Secretary of the Navy] from integrating women into Marine combat arms units. But, Mabus brushed him off like a house fly and Dunford quickly saw the light; cooperate or cooperate.

“Instead of continuing the lie of women successfully integrating into the combat arms, why doesn’t Dunford do the right thing and just resign under protest?

“Why don’t any of them?

“In the midst of all of this social engineering insanity, the Joint Chiefs informed Congress last week that, the United States military is not ready to confront a peer-level threat such as Russia or China in a high-end conflict.

“You think?

“How can you be ready to fight wars when your number one priority is flying diapers out to carriers [a navy female recently gave birth on a carrier] and ensuring the rights of cross dressers aren’t infringed upon?

“Ash Carter [Secretary of Defense] and Ray Mabus’ priorities are so out of whack it’s almost frightening.

“Everything that comes out of their mouths has to do with diversity, LGBT rights, gender neutral lexicons or sensitivity training.

“The US military is just about at the point of no return. It’s being attacked by budget cuts, readiness issues and social engineering. Meanwhile our enemies probe our weaknesses, which are just about everywhere now.”

Have you heard Trump on vital matters of military preparedness? (Did you ever once hear him mention diapers…?)

And this link dated September 2016 by Walid Shoebat at shoebat.com relentlessly pursues details of Muslim atrocities against Christians, [caution: this link is often very graphic], against children, and the non-believers in general: rapes, usually multiple, including small children; disembowelings; dismemberment; beheadings (adults and children alike), and other grisly and gross barbarous savagery.

Did much of anyone read this ongoing horror Before Trump?

And finally let’s include Helen Raleigh over at TownHall.com with an article dated September 17, 2016 titled “Three Steps to Deal With Illegal Immigration in the U.S. And Citizenship Isn’t One of Them.”

She cites some interesting facts, among them that a sizable portion of legal immigrants do NOT pursue citizenship and that legal immigrants from Mexico have the lowest citizenship rate, at 36%.

She deduces that as citizenship is not the motivating factor for many, then a pathway to citizenship is not the solution. She noted also that there are 140,000 fewer Mexicans in the U.S. in 2014 than there were in 2009.

Abbreviated, these are her three suggested steps:

Step 1. Illegal immigrants who can show they currently are employed and with no criminal record should be granted temporary work visas after they pay a fine… But because a work visa is not an immigration visa, the visa holders will still be considered non-resident aliens and therefore will not have access to federal means-tested welfare benefits. The work visa will be good for three years and can be renewed as long as the applicant is employed.

Step 2. If illegal immigrants have brought their families with them, they ought to pay a fine for their families too… Since a visitor visa is also a non-immigration visa, these visa holders will not have access to federal means-tested welfare benefits either…

Step 3. Any illegal immigrant who has a criminal record, including creating a false identity or using a fraudulent Social Security number, will be deported immediately and will not be eligible to apply for any U.S. visa for five years.

Her points are exceptionally well taken and worthy of review by people in high places who are familiar with the issues of immigration and visas.

Would this conversation have gotten off the page without the force of Trump?

Update: This link is a well defined overview of recent terrorist attacks here in the U.S. by Joe Ragonese on U.S. Defense Watch.

“ALLEGIANCE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH THIS SEASON”

Would you believe that banner ran across the top of an internet Walmart ad? It did. I saw it on 9-18-16.

Of course, it was heralding the bevy of NFL products for sale at Walmart but still – with Colin Kaepernick disrespecting America, those words take on added significance. And I don’t think it was accidental.

I have a wonderful solution to this 28-year old little boy tempest in a teapot. First, you sit him down one-on-one for a solid hour all by his little self with Ronnie Lott, former 49er Safety, #42. (Shown here Jan-30-2014)

Ronnie Lott could concentrate his sizable energies on explaining to Colin the meaning of the word R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Ronnie Lott lived for respect. Ronnie Lott played for respect. He’s an expert on the topic. So were his performances….

Second, someone in management needs to grow a Trump-sized brass set and perform a much needed 49er Colinectomy. [Removal of the Colin.]
End of tempest.

God Bless America! Land of the Free! Land that I Love! Stand Beside Her!

Love Her. Respect Her. Or Leave.

GO TRUMP!!

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MYLAR BAGS / SPROUTING

PREPPING FOR THE APOCALYPSE

Riots • Blizzards • Quakes • Strikes • War • Invasion • Tsunami

S U R V I V A L I S P O L I T I C A L

So what else useful can you pack into a mylar bag? Beans of course!

WAIT! Let’s stop here a minute. Did you actually read the words up there “SURVIVAL IS POLITICAL”? If you don’t make plans now to come out on the other end of “the events” you won’t be around to see the outcome.

The Elites and the big politicos have their plans in place. They have food caches, sources of water, underground bunkers and cities – mostly paid for with your money. They think they’re on top of all of the contingencies. Maybe yes. Maybe no.

But the focus here is you and having you prepared to take on whatever the fates serve up. We’ll now resume the regular article broadcast……..

So what else useful can you pack into a mylar bag? Beans of course!

As was mentioned earlier, some people bag up to 30, 40, 50 pounds of beans as part of their disaster preparedness. But what I’m talking about here are much smaller mylar bags filled with organic beans to sprout now and/or sometime in the future. (See Part One and Part Two for choosing, using, and sealing mylar bags and oxygen absorbers.)

Sprouting in jars is ridiculously easy. (You can sprout in trays, too.)

Get a clean wide-mouthed glass jar.

Sort out a couple ounces of organic beans. (Take out the broken or peeled ones. They won’t sprout.)

Put your beans in the bottom of your jar and cover completely with cold water.

Secure a thin wet breathable cover (muslin, netting, …) over the top of the jar with a rubber band.

Wrap the jar sides, but not the top, with a towel.

Set it upright in a warm place, but not in the sun.

THEN

After the beans have soaked 8 or 9 hours –
Unwrap the jar, drain the water off taking care not to drain your beans off at the same time…

Rinse and drain the beans a couple times (you want the water to run clear).
Re-wet your breathable cover. “Breathable” keeps the beans from molding.
Secure it with the rubber band.

Wrap it all up in your towel, but not the top.

Set on its side in a warm place, not in the sun.

THEN

Repeat twice a day. Little seeds may need three rinses a day to keep them damp. Don’t let your beans “clump”. Shake the jar if necessary. The beans won’t break. (Some people opt for covered sprouting trays to spread their seeds out.)

THIS IS SO EASY!

Lentil beans (one of my favorites) will be sprouted in 3 to 4 days. Hard red wheat and sunflower seeds may take 4 days. Mung beans may take 5 or 6 days. But a sprout is “done” when you say it’s done. Some like their sprouts shorter, some longer. Some wait for the first tiny leaves to appear. Your choice.

Sprouts can be “greened” (this step is not necessary) by placing the sprouted jar in the sun for a few hours. Remember, you’re trying to “green” them (develop chlorophyll), not cook them (which would destroy a lot of their basic fresh goodness). The sun in January in Vermont is very different from the sun in Arizona in July…..

Sprouts can be preserved in the refrigerator for 3 to 6 days once sprouted. Keep damp, not wet, and loosely covered.

You can store dry unsprouted organic beans in mylar bags (that’s mylar with the aluminum layer in the middle, see Part One). Add your oxygen absorber, press out the air, and seal the bag.

I’m using one to two ounces in the (longer, non-pleated) plain pint-sized bags: One ounce of the smaller ones per bag (like broccoli or alfalfa), and two ounces of the bigger ones per bag (like peas or mung or sunflower). These bags will make nice batches of sprouts!

Then, if “the event” comes along, you will have access to some of the most nutritious food on the planet. And it tastes good!

Here’s the really neat part. You can use your mylar bag in place of your jar to sprout your beans. Is that great or what? And so simple!

Just remember when you fill your bags for long term storage, to put in an amount seed or grain that will be right for you to sprout, and have a bag height that will accommodate your sprouts as they grow.

You likely will not have a refrigerator. (And very few of us have stream houses for cooling produce and food.) And water may be precious. Label your bags with date and contents. (And remember to remove the oxygen absorber before sprouting… :-))

Beans, grains, seeds saved in the oxygen-free, light-free, moisture-free mylar environment can last for years and years and still sprout. Heck, I had a plain old batch of lentils saved in a clear plastic ketchup bottle in my pantry for maybe fifteen years and they sprouted just fine! (I am not recommending this………:-)) )

You can mix your beans when you sprout, also. Retailers have all sorts of bean and seed combinations you can buy. But you can make your own combos. It is OK to have fun with all this! Some sprouts are spicy, some sweet, some nutty, some big, some little. Go for it!

Beans for sprouting now or in the future are best kept cool. And remember, sprouts can be good for livestock, also.

Dr Joseph Mercola on sprouting:

Sprouts in general have the following beneficial attributes:

• Support for cell regeneration
• Powerful sources of antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and enzymes that protect against free radical damage
• Alkalinizing effect on your body, which is thought to protect against disease, including cancer (as many tumors are acidic)
• Abundantly rich in oxygen, which can also help protect against abnormal cell growth, viruses and bacteria that cannot survive in an oxygen-rich environment.

and

Some of the most commonly sprouted beans, nuts, seeds, and grains include:
Broccoli: known to have anti-cancer properties, courtesy of the enzyme sulforaphane.

Clover: significant source of isoflavones.

Alfalfa: a significant dietary source of phytoestrogens. Also a good source of vitamins A,B,C,D,E,F, and K.

Lentil sprouts: contain 26% protein.

Wheat Grass: high in vitamins B,C,E and many minerals.

Sunflower: contains minerals, healthy fats, essential fatty acids, fiber and phytoesterols. It’s also one of the highest in protein.

Mung bean: good source of protein, fiber, vitamin C and A.

Pea shoots: good source of vitamins A, C and folic acid and one of the highest in protein.

Pictured: broccoli sprouts lentil sprouts in center, and alfalfa sprouts.

And more from Dr Mercola –

“Reasons to Eat Sprouts, a Living Food with Amazing Health Benefits

Sprouts are a “super” food that many overlook. In addition to their nutritional profile, sprouts are also easy to grow on your own. I started sprouting seeds in ball jars 10 to 15 years ago. A “Care2” article published last year (4-Mercola link) listed 10 reasons for eating sprouts, including the following. For the rest, please see the original article:

• Sprouts can contain up to 100 times more enzymes than raw fruits and vegetables, allowing your body to extract more vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fats from the foods you eat
• Both the quality of the protein and the fiber content of beans, nuts, seeds and grains improves when sprouted
• The content of vitamins and essential fatty acids also increase dramatically during the sprouting process. For example, depending on the sprout, the nutrient content can increase as much as 30 times the original value within just a few days of sprouting. Sunflower seed and pea sprouts tend to top the list of all the seeds that you can sprout and are typically each about 30 times more nutritious than organic vegetables you can even harvest in your backyard garden
• During sprouting, minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, bind to protein, making them more bioavailable.
• (End of Mercola quotes.)

Organic sprouting seeds and beans can be purchased in health food stores and online. They can come in packages from 4 ounces to 25 pounds, in seed sizes from “.” to “O” to “OOOO”.

It might be a practical idea to order small at first, try the sprouts and verify that the seeds actually sprout. I currently have 8-ounce organic broccoli seed packs from two different vendors. One is sprouting, the other is not. I’ll check to make sure I didn’t kill them with kindness. But I sure grasped a lessen! Do not start with 25 pounds of unproven beans!

Sprouting is so easy! So healthy! So tasty!

Sprouts can be sprinkled on hamburgers (I use them as a “bed” instead of lettuce), on fruits, on cottage cheese or yogurt (delicious), or mixed into salads or dips, or as a topping for casseroles, or eaten plain.

One teaspoon of sprouts has the same nutritional value as something like 5 ounces of the mature vegetable. What is not to like? And how wonderful to have on hand in case of.

Setting up a varied bunch of these organic sprouting bags for the future is a great hedge. They don’t take up much room. They would make great barter, also. And start enjoying sprouts now, too. Americans are starved for nutritious foods. Sprouts are such a simple, delicious answer.

END NOTE: After rinsing and draining my seeds, I lay my bottle on its side to sprout. Some recommend you tip your bottle to allow the water to drain out. Either works. However, another site recommended you turn your bottle upside down….. Now the whole idea of a breathable damp cover (or the open mesh in a metal strainer) is to allow air into your sprouts to prevent mold. A bottle turned upside down isn’t going to breathe. You know what I just said.

Bon appetite and may God guide your future.

Coming in Part Four: MYLAR BAGS / DRYING FOOD – PREPPING FOR the APOCALYPSE

© 2016 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

MYLAR BAGS / FOOD – PREPPING FOR the APOCALYPSE

Riots, Blizzards, Quakes, Strikes, War, Invasion, Tsunami

*NONE OF THE FOLLLOWING MATTERS IF YOU DON’T HAVE WATER *

S U R V I V A L I S P O L I T I C A L

Sealing Mylar. Oxygen Absorber Chart.

Taking your future into your own hands……… Doesn’t it feel good!

Mylar bag food storage can give you up to 25 years of non-electric, safe, food storage.

SEALING MYLAR

YouTube is full of creative ways to seal your mylar bags including using your regular clothes iron on “wool” or “cotton” and holding the mylar bag steady on a metal-edged carpenter’s level while you press it shut…..

….. A much simpler way is to use a hair iron. Pictured here is a Remington. Hair irons run from $20 to $25 on eBay or Amazon or Walmart or Walgreen…. (More expensive ones are not necessary.)

This particular one has temperatures ranging from 300F to 450F, has a temp locking mechanism by simply pressing the “-” button for a couple of seconds, has a swivel cord for easy maneuvering, and turns off automatically after one hour. It also locks in the closed position for easier storage. These are all great features to have in your iron.

I put the temperature lock ON. It is so very easy to change your setting without realizing you’ve done it. (Also, mine times out in an hour. An hour can go by pretty fast when you are filling and sealing. So if you notice that the iron isn’t doing what it’s supposed to – check and see if it’s still on…)

You want to play with your aluminum-lined mylar and your iron, make several practice seals. A good seal is one that cannot be torn apart. Using a temperature that is too low will give you a seal that can be fairly easily peeled back. Too hot, on the other hand, leaves your mylar looking melted – which it is.

And you want your seals as smooth as possible. Ripples could mean leaks. Still, I have yet to seal a bag that is perfectly smooth….. And my bags are doing just fine.

Bring a smile with you when you do your mylar bags. This is your project to make happen! And going back over a seal is just fine. Be aware, however, that the mylar you just sealed is still HOT. (Very hot.)

Folks usually seal more than one bag at a time though that is not written in stone. You find a way to stand the bags up so you can fill them. Play with how full you want them to be. 2/3 to 3/4 may be about right. That also leaves some extra flap to fold over to reclose or to reseal once opened.

Seal all the filled bags part way. Leave enough room to get your oxygen absorber in.

I seal at 380 F, temp locked. I place my iron over the top edge of the bag which I have pulled as taut as I can so I get a smoother seal. Then I clamp it down right on the bag, bordering on that upper edge and count to ten, not too slowly. Don’t get your fingers too close to the business end of your iron.

Some people prefer to seal below the edge and that is fine. It is the quality of the seal that counts.

When you’ve got all your bags partially sealed it’s time to bring out the oxygen absorbers. As we discussed in Part One, the packaging of oxygen absorbers is an issue. The 5-packs of 100 cc and 300 cc are much better for the now-and-again mylar bag sealing projects.

Put the right oxygen absorber in the first mylar bag, keeping the other absorbers covered. If your bag size calls for 300 cc, you can also use (3) 100 cc or (6) 50 cc or a 500 cc. More can’t hurt in a mylar bag.

Once the absorber is inside the bag, push out as much air as you can without spilling the contents onto the surface you’re going to seal. (If necessary, wipe the inside clean and dry.) Then clamp your iron over the remaining open edge and seal it.

Some of the larger bags present an added challenge. A hair iron only has 5 to 6 inches of heated blades. But it does have additional neck room so you can extend it over an additional 3 to 5 inches to seal. However, even coming from both sides it won’t seal a twenty inch+ wide bag.

So, you seal the first time going straight along the edge. Your next seal overlaps the edge of the first seal. The next seal comes over the top edge and down at a slight angle overlapping the previous seal. And so on until you’re ready to put in your oxygen absorber.

Turn your bag around so you can do your final seal from the open end, then put in your absorber, push out the extra air, and seal that last bit, overlapping the previous seal you did.

It won’t be your prettiest seal and you can go over your seal again if you’re worried that some place is not tight. But it does work. (There are other sealers and other methods. Check YouTube.)

Another tip: Mylar bags have very sharp, pointed corners. Lightly rounding off those edges can go a long way to preventing bags from puncturing each other in storage. Scissors work well on mylar.

Within an hour or so you may begin to see the bags reacting to the oxygen being absorbed. They crinkle, dimple, pull in. There are those who say that you may not see any of that but in my own experience, all of my bags have evidenced some of this within 24 hours.

Label your bags with contents and date in TWO places. Tags fall off. Ink gets smeared. Just do it.

And take a minute to congratulate yourself on a darned good job well done!

OXYGEN ABSORBER CHART FOR VARIOUS MYLAR BAGS

There are many charts online telling you how many oxygen absorbers to use per mylar bag. The problem is, they don’t all say the same thing. One rule of thumb that seems on target is to use 300cc to 500cc of absorbers for every gallon you are sealing.

The following additional points are from various online retailers of mylar bags and oxygen absorbers.

Point One: If you need a 1,000 cc oxygen absorber you can use a 1,000 cc absorber OR two 500 cc absorbers OR ten 100 cc absorbers OR any combination that comes up to, or over, your 1,000 cc’s.

Point Two: Adding more absorbers does not present any problems inside a mylar bag.

Point Three: There are very simple variables to consider when determining the amount of oxygen absorbers to use. If your product is very fine and dense, like flour, you will need less. If your product is larger with more airspace, like beans, you will need more. If your product naturally has a lot of air space, like elbow macaroni, you will need the most.

Point Four: The less head space you seal in, the less oxygen absorption is needed. That’s why you carefully press out the excess air before your final seal.

According to various manufacturers the following are ranges of oxygen absorbers needed for various sized mylar bags filled (in order) with your finest flours and powdery mixes; to your beans; to your most air-filled content.

FOOD TYPES:

Bag FLOUR BEANS MACARONI (ELBOW)
Size OYGEN ABSORBERS – Total cc’s needed

Pint Bag 50 cc 100cc 100cc
Quart Bag: 100cc 200cc 200cc
½ Gallon 150cc 200cc 400cc
Gallon 300cc 400cc 500cc
2 Gallon 1,000cc 1,500cc 2,000cc **
5-6 Gallon 2,000cc 2,500cc 3,000cc **

** There is a lot of variance in the published charts on how much your bigger bags need. I have tried to stay to the upper edge so you don’t have to worry.

END NOTES:

One, you can put up food in a Seal-a-Meal vacuum bag, and freeze. This is fine for maybe 4 to 5 years storage if the power grid stays up. But the plastic can absorb air over time, and the plastic can be permeated with odors. This is versus up to 25 years of non-electric storage with your mylar bags, according to mylar manufacturers.

Two, you can buy mylar bag survival food. It is available online, at the big box stores, at the health food stores. And having some is definitely better than having none. “The event” WILL come.

However, there are many caveats to buying. Is the food put up in aluminum-lined mylar? This is a huge issue because so many of them put their foods up in see-through mylar which lets light in which deteriorates your food. And as mylar is plastic, in time air and odors may get in also. Make them tell you if it is the good aluminum-lined mylar.

Is the food even remotely nutritious? “The events” will be very trying times and a bunch of sugar-coated GMO’d chemicals will not be helpful and may actually harm your health. Read the ingredients for yourself. Don’t buy the ad hype. Some are basically sugar and pasta and color.

You can buy organic survival food and, if you are going to buy, that is what I would recommend. But when you catch the prices you may catch your breath at the same time. Quite expensive….

And that is why I am bringing you these articles. You can do this. It isn’t complicated. It takes a little time, just some basic equipment, and an eagerness to prepare for your future. And it is fun and it gives you an enormous sense of something well done!

Coming soon in…

Part Three: Mylar Bags / Sprouting – Prepping for the Apocalypse
Part Four: Mylar Bags / Food Drying – Prepping for the Apocalypse

This will be some fun stuff!

© 2016 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

Riots, Blizzards, Quakes, Strikes, War, Invasion, Tsunami – None of the Following Matters if you Don’t have Water.

Part One: Choosing which Mylar and Using Oxygen Absorbers

Mylar bag food storage can give you up to 25 years of non-electric, safe, food storage.

Mylar is a strong polyester transparent film. When sandwiched around a thin layer of aluminum, mylar bags are great for long term food storage. They block light, block air, and block moisture – all elements that cause foods to spoil.

NOT ALL MYLAR IS CREATED EQUAL. You should not be able to see your hand through a side of a mylar bag intended for long term use. And you should definitely NOT be able to photograph your treeline from a camera inside your mylar bag. If you can, as I did here, you do not want to use that mylar for long term storage.

Storage-quality mylar has a very thin fragile center layer of aluminum between two sheets of mylar. These block out light, air, moisture. This is the mylar to use. However this aluminum layer can be easily damaged. Be mindful, and do not fold your mylar bags. Larger bags should be rolled if you can’t store them flat.

The mylar bags I use are 5.25 mil to 5.4 mil thick and have the aluminum lining. (Mylar can also be purchased at 7 and 7.5 mil for heavier duty applications.) From many vendors you can order individual sizes of aluminum-lined bags which I strongly recommend when you’re first starting out.

With single bags you can check out the quality of the mylar, (see treeline above…), have some fun checking out sizes, see what products fit in what size bags, see what’s comfortable for you and your situation. The prices are very reasonable, 27 cents, 31 cents, 89 cents, etc. Companies also sell bulk bag packages with or without oxygen absorbers.

On eBay I found rolls of mylar, 11 inches by 50 feet (pictured here) with packs of oxygen absorbers. You can use these to custom cut bags to your own needs. Make sure you get the 5 1/4 mil aluminum-lined mylar. Often mylar retailers sell both qualities, with or without the aluminum.

Mylar bags go from small pint-sized (6” x 8”) to large 5 gallons (20” x 30”). Most of them come in two styles: plain; or zip lock with a stand-up pleat or gusset in the bottom. However, not all zip bags have the pleat. Remember that when you order.

I seal my food in the plain bags. I just cannot bring myself to trust a pressed zip lock closure to stay airtight for two dozen years.

However, zip locks are undeniably handy for resealing whatever it is you just opened! Because of the pleat on the bottom, the zip lock bags are usually shorter than the plain bags by about two inches. Also, the opened pleat allows them to stand up. Zip lock bags need to be heat sealed above the zip lock but take care not to seal the zip lock itself.

There is also a “Tamper Evident” zip mylar bag available that comes with the top already sealed. It is filled from the bottom and then the bottom is heat sealed. Also, many mylar retail sellers are now selling vacuum seal mylar bags. Just make sure your vacuum unit is hot enough to seal through mylar. The cheaper units are not. Double sealing is an idea.

Please note, however. It is NOT necessary to vacuum seal a properly prepared mylar bag with the right-sized oxygen absorber inside. Earlier write-ups encouraged vacuum sealing but it is generally more difficult, more time consuming, gains you nothing, and increases the chances of a puncture in your mylar.

OXYGEN ABSORBERS

Oxygen absorbers are what make the whole system work.

Do not confuse oxygen absorbers with desiccants. Desiccants absorb moisture. Oxygen absorbers absorb oxygen. Some people recommend that you NOT seal both in a mylar bag. Others say if you are going to use both, put the desiccant at the bottom, fill your bag, then put the oxygen absorber on the top. To date, I have not used desiccants in my food bags.

Oxygen is about 21% of air. Oxygen causes your food to spoil. Your oxygen absorber (size chart at the end) will absorb that oxygen. This will result in a dimpling of the mylar bag. It will not look totally vacuum-sealed because 80% of the “air” is still in the bag. But all the oxygen should be gone.

My absorbers have iron dust inside. This dust attracts the oxygen which turns the iron to inert rust. My absorbers are covered in food grade tyvek. The oxygen goes in but the rust does not come out. I have had no leaks.

The “CC” designation on your oxygen absorbers refers to “cubic centimeters”. It is simply a size designator. The more cc’s your absorber has, the more cc’s of oxygen it can absorb.

The very last thing you do before your final seal on your bag is to put your oxygen absorber into your filled mylar bag, because as soon as that absorber packet hits any air, it starts absorbing oxygen. What you want is for it to absorb the oxygen inside your bag. So, you unwrap the absorber, stuff it into your filled mylar bag, carefully push out any extra air, and then do the final seal on the bag.

NOTE: Oxygen absorbers have little shelf life. Most are sold in bags of 50. What a waste! Unless you are heavy-duty into doing a regular production line of mylar bagging, a bunch of these will lose their effectiveness before you ever get them near a mylar bag.

Yes, you can use some and then vacuum seal the remaining ones. That’ll work for a while. Some people store them in covered mason jars. (Of course, shortly there will be no oxygen in that mason jar.)

And there are vacuum sealed mason jars, too. Your time. Your preference.

One way to test the oxygen packet is to feel it. A fresh packet will feel like it is filled with fine flour. An old packet will feel more like it’s filled with hard sand, sort of brittle. (Of course, if your 50 absorbers are vacuum sealed in plastic, the whole package feels hard…..) Most packages now come with a pink oxygen indicator. It turns blue when exposed to oxygen.

THE GOOD NEWS. Someone finally figured this out! Available online and likely elsewhere are smaller packages of oxygen absorbers! The 2,000 cc packets come individually wrapped. 100 cc and 300 cc packets come in 5-to-a-sealed-pack.

So, you set up five small-to-medium-sized mylar bags, fill them, and seal them part way. Then you open your 5-in-a-pack, put in one oxygen absorber, push out the air, and do the final seal. You keep the other absorbers covered in their package plastic while you do this. Then you move to Bag Two-put in an absorber, push out the air, do the final seal. Then Bag Three-put in an absorber,…..

And so you will have good oxygen absorption and little waste.

A Practical Note: Mylar bags are uniquely built to withstand the partial vacuum that the oxygen absorbers create. It is why they dimple. Five gallon food buckets are NOT created to withstand vacuums. If you put one or two 2,000 cc absorbers just loose in the bucket and seal it tight and then try to stack it you may find a disaster on your hands. It is probable that at least one of the buckets will crumple and with it your food supply. Putting the absorbers into the mylar bags prevents this.

A Second Practical Note: Sealing up a five gallon bag of beans sounds real good from this end of “the event”. But what happens when you need to open that 5 gallon bag? Where is the water going to come from to soak and then cook those beans? How do you reseal a 5 gallon bag full of beans? For that matter, who’s going to carry that 5 gallon pail full of beans?

It might be good right here to remember to include in your supplies some kind of clips to close the mylar bags once you’ve opened them.

More practicality… Mylar (aluminum-lined mylar that is) blocks light, air, and moisture. However it is subject to punctures. This would introduce oxygen and moisture and pretty much guarantee the ruination of all your work. Follow me here.

All of the long term food sales sites I’ve visited recommend storing their mylar sealed long term foods in plastic buckets, and many of them supply the bucket. This is a problem on several levels.

One, some of their mylar is see-through (no aluminum). Two, light goes through most plastic bins and buckets. Three, odors can permeate plastic. Four, air can penetrate plastic, or lids can leak.

Now, have you ever seen what a rodent can do to a plastic bucket………? They love eating plastic! Have you ever seen what a bear can do to plastic? Imagine what a bear can do to a mylar bag – especially if he’s been trained to think it has potato chips inside! And do we all know how clever those cute little raccoons are?

And for those of you who are currently rodent-free: What will some of our areas look like after three weeks of no garbage pickup?

The best long term storage answer I have is metal garbage cans, spray painted outside with XO black matte (most Rustoleum spray paint cannot be used on galvanized metal), the lids secured with a strong bungee cord strap. Locking the can to a tree is good also.

In addition to four-legged critters you may also have two-legged food marauders. Be guarded in discussing your food and water preparedness.

Mylar bags also available for special equipment. Usable length is 44”.

Coming soon in Part Two….. SEALING MYLAR and OXYGEN ABSORBERS

Taking your future into your own hands………

© 2016 Ronnie Herne – All Rights Reserved

THEY WANT THIS GUY AS PRESIDENT??!

The effete, boy-worshipping shadow power elite sure do! And they are willing to do WHATEVER it takes.

“UNITY” to these folks means getting their own way. It is no more complicated than that. If you will just move over, stand down, shut up and go away then the Republican party and its bigwigs will be just fine. It is their party and it is their place to make their rules for their party.

They haven’t adequately explained why we have taxpayer-funded primary votes and caucuses when such do not count with “Their Party” but I’m sure they’ll have an answer soon. These elitists have, after all, answers for everything – even if the answer is wrong.

Paul Ryan, pictured above in late autumn 2015, is a veritable RINO poster boy – Republican In Name Only. He was born in 1970, then on October 29th, 2015 Paul Ryan was elected Speaker of the House. He replaces John Boehner. This new Speaker of the House comes with a ton of “previous-vote” baggage. And everybody who voted to elect him knows it.

His first major accomplishment (?) as Speaker was a HUGE omnibus spending bill – $1,150,000,000,000 – or $1.15 Trillion Dollars, more even than the Democrats had requested.

He whined that there was nothing he could do: “The cake was already baked!” Rot and Poppycock!! What was “baked” was Boehner’s butt and new blood was supposed to make things better, NOT MAKE HALF-BAKED EXCUSES!

What did we get? We funded Planned Parenthood (Paul Ryan is a Catholic?) We funded Obama’s amnesty. We funded sanctuary cities. We quadrupled H2-B visas. We got a more-government friendly dastardly CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act). We authorized work permits for illegals. And didn’t we authorize some 200,000 unvetted, unquarantined Mid-East refugees over ten months?

We doled out more money for foreign aid, for international food supplies, for NATO. We’re helping rural families with $35 billion in loans. We have three future disaster give-aways: The Emergency Watershed Protection Program; the Emergency Conservation Program; and the Emergency Forestry Restoration Program.

Want more? Terrorism is in there along with monies to “prevent radicalization in our communities”. (Really? When you can’t even say “radical Islamist terrorists”?) $80 million is a start for a new scientific ship to measure climate change and the oceans. $370 million is to begin building new polar weather satellites. Plus increased funding for the IRS, and The Election Assistance Commission… It goes downhill from there.

The Senate Appropriations Committee released this omnibus bill summary. It gives a good recount of where these billions and billions and billions of dollars are headed.

BUT SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED AT PAUL RYAN?

Look at some of the his earlier votes: Yes on more foreign aid; Yes on more federal educational grants; Yes on the WMD Iraq war; Yes on the Patriot Act; Yes on the National Defense Authorization Act; Yes on mandatory background checks at gun shows.

And then there was the Bush Medicare Part D, activated January 1st, 2006, which added prescription drug benefits to an already bankrupt program. And then TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program October, 2008) included benefits for banks, the auto industry, and AIG (American Investment Group) among others, more hundreds of billions down a rat-infested sewer hole. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Remember:
1. The Speaker is second in line for the presidency after the vice-president.
2. All of the House members who voted Ryan in, knew all of this going in.

BUT WHO ELSE IS PLOTTING TO DUMP THE TRUMP APPLECART?

Why does Newt Gingrich just leap to mind? He is coming from another direction entirely, posing as Mr. Angel, Mr. See-My-Hands-Are-Clean, Mr. I’m-Going-To-Still-The-Troubled-Waters, Mr. Unity, Mr. Ultra-Conservative – Mr. I-Want-To-Be-Vice-President… (over Trump’s dead body.)

Newt Gingrich: Have you noticed lately how ameliorating he’s been, how pacifying? Have you heard him softly scolding Republicans for not falling in line behind Trump? Have you noticed him schmoozing Sean Hannity who owes Newt an unpayable debt of gratitude for his (Sean’s) success? Have you seen and heard his heartfelt outreach to Team Trump and the Trump campaign?

It’s all rubbish. Newt is an old time, old member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), and a first class internationalist One Worlder. Newt didn’t write the Contract with America; he purloined it from the back of Ross Perot’s book “United We Stand”. And he did it specifically to attract the Perot voters to the Republican ticket. It worked very well in 1994. However, the “Contract” under Newt left no discernible results.

Kelleigh Nelson recently published a fine article on the One World Globalist Newt. See it here.

In the late 70s he not only voted to create the DOE (the unconstitutional Department of Education) but also voted to turn 68 million acres of Alaska into wilderness. As his congressional terms progressed, he voted for Most Favored Nation status for China, for funding soviet trade, for turning 2.2 million acres of Idaho into wilderness, for funding the National Endowment of the Arts, for the presidential line veto, for foreign aid increases.

He said himself that he was a “big fan” of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt, that Kissinger (CFR) was one of his mentors. And he actively opposed Ron Paul’s return to the House in the mid-90s. To Newt, loyalty should not be to the Constitution but rather to The Party.

And remember that Newt championed and voted for NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) that sucked our jobs and factories south, and way west. Then a couple years later he voted for GATT and The World Trade Organization, arranging for that vote to be held in a lame duck session rather than with the new Congress seating in 1995.

In 2011 CFR transnationalist Newt said that he voted for NAFTA because it created jobs near the United States. (Does that sound like the North American Union?) Here’s the link.

Furthermore, once elected Speaker (1995) Newt recommended books to his fellow congressmen. One of them was Alvin Toffler’s (b. 1928 – ) “The Third Wave”, published 1980 and 1994. The book includes the concept that we are entering a new phase of development (the Third Wave), that we need a “new” government, that our current government is becoming “obsolete” and that the government of Thomas Jefferson “must die and be replaced”. Newt supports this and is friends with Toffler.

Newt calls himself Conservative. Really Newt?

Of timely interest, “The New American” has just published a positively excellent telling article highlighting Newt Gingrich’s close ties with China and the communist state. It cites Newt’s senior advisory position in Dentons-Dacheng, the largest law firm in the world and a firm that is a major merger and lobbying force for the People’s Republic of China.

This May, Gingrich gave an interview about his potential VP selection. He held it in Dentons [-Dacheng] Chicago office in Willis Towers. Moreover, he was accompanied by ultra-left progressive Democrat Howard Dean who is also a senior adviser to Dentons.

Is Newt the guy the one you want one heart beat away from your presidency? And just two heartbeats away is your RINO Speaker above, Paul Ryan? Talk about the elite stacking the deck against Making America Great Again!

(Gingrich information from the DVD “The Real Newt Gingrich” (33 min.) is available at jbs.org.)

THE ELITES AND #NEVERTRUMP

#NEVERTRUMP is/was a cutesy fad that is currently losing steam. Trump needed 1,237 delegates and currently has (though delegate counts are liquid at best) 1,536 delegates, 24% over the top.

This link is a list of many of the #NEVERTRUMP people. When reading the list remember one thing: Most of these people have been around for years. If they were part of the solution, we wouldn’t have the problem.

And, I do not mind in the least that they vote for whomever they want. It’s not their vote. It’s their message and its format, their divisiveness, and their hatred, their transnational deafness to the American voters and all things American.

Among others, Jeb Bush, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson, Mark Levin, Bill Kristol, Sen Lindsey Graham, Ben Shapiro, George Will – all have been taking their chance to yelp “Never Trump!”

These guys are doing a lot of trash talking but mostly to each other. #NEVERTRUMP is losing momentum but don’t think for one second that the Big Guns like George Soros, major Democrat funder, and the transnationalists in the CFR aren’t still out to get Donald Trump.

BOMBSHELL: The details aren’t clear yet but it appears that some of the big GOP money is going to some of the #NEVERTRUMP folks to deify Cruz, defend Ryan, and defame Trump. Roger Stone said Levin, Beck, and Erickson – and possibly Shapiro – are getting greenbacks for their services. See The Conservative Treehouse article which alleges point-by-point exchanges of money and influence.

Leads one to ask just what is an honest conservative opinion worth these day$…..?

THE CONVENTION

The RNC convention is in Cleveland July 18 – 21, 2016 (scheduled right over the July full moon). The Rules Committee of the Republican National Committee will change their rules – which they are allowed to do because the RNC is a private enterprise which is free to make its own rules – to attempt to thwart the overwhelmingly popular Trump nomination. Cleveland politicos are already hostile to Trump. Arrangements in Cleveland are almost guaranteed to bring on conflicts.

Cleveland officials have created a funneling effect which is going to bring the various factions all together in small spaces, crammed against each other in reserved time slots. Don’t tell me that their police chief doesn’t see what’s coming! But I’m guessing (I said guessing!) that his opinion wasn’t the deciding factor in this pre-planned choreographed chaos potential. And where is Ohio Gov John Kasich’s voice in this recipe for disaster?

And these same mucky-mucks have lists of what is okay and not okay to carry. Leave your tennis balls at home. (I could not make this up.) And no “lumber” (sticks) over two inches by ¼ inch. (Can you buy a corn dog?) Maps and lists here.

(L to R) Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, Mayor Frank Jackson, Counsel Rick Horvath. May, 2016.

NOW: The Rules Committee may disallow Trump delegates, may force procedural votes, or simply say that Donald’s hair wasn’t the right style in eight of the debates and he is therefore disqualified……. These folks are devoted megalomaniacal One World extremists, and they mean to have Paul Ryan. Absent Paul Ryan, another RINO might do: Romney, McCain, Graham, McConnell. You get it? #NEVERTRUMP – Even though your tax dollars funded the primary voting venues!

Donald Trump and his team need to have at a minimum four different option plans. The best and the most desirable is to convince Speaker Paul Ryan (who currently holds the gavel for this event) to play honorably and hold a first ballot count without a lot of procedural prattle. That would end the drama. And with Trump’s Paul Manafort at the controls it may very well come down this way.

But if the Enlightened Cabal and their sewer rats go for hardball then Team Trump needs its options in place, ready to engage at a split second’s notice. Americans of all stripes are not the wusses and wimps they think we are.

A Push-Back Moment of Truth by American-Americans may be at hand.

God bless the Trumps, God bless their Team, God bless our Team, God bless America and God bless NewsWithViews.

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