God’s Mercenaries

Whether one believes in God, or not; believes in Jesus Christ, or not, America was created by those who did; who fled England in a quest for religious freedom. Yes, those arriving in Virginia a few decades before the Pilgrims sought commerce, but liberty and Christianity were entwined even with that endeavor.

We are a complicated nation, infused with the desire for liberty and wealth, relying on the grace of God to achieve it and to give us strength during the pursuit. Whether we acknowledge it or not; ask for it, or not, it is there.

Rightfully, we are all God’s Mercenaries, sent into the world to tame all lands, to conquer His enemies, to defeat the tyrants of the world and to secure it for the meek. In any system, other than a capitalist republic, the meek are ground into meal for the pleasure of the tyrant. They are slaves and servants to the ruling class. Only in a capitalist republic are the meek allowed to rise to the top tier of society by means of hard work and innovation. Capitalism provides the means and God provides the path.

It has become clear to me over the past several months that resistance without the support of God is futile. The fight for religious freedom is as important as the fight for individual freedom. The true fight is against the tyrants and the misery that accompanies them.

America must reclaim its liberty to do the work of the Lord.

T.L. Davis

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How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

h/t  Jim Davis

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A News Briefing from Iraq

Just in case there is any confusion, this is satire.

h/t James Allen on Facebook

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A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month

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Here are some good news: Researchers have discovered that a potato boiled for eight minutes made a battery that produced ten times the power of a raw one. Haim Rabinowitch, an agricultural science professor, and his team found that using small units made up of a quarter-slice of potato set between a copper cathode and a zinc anode connected by a wire can provide a room with LED-powered lighting for as long as forty days. A potato could supply power to personal electronics at around one-tenth the cost of a typical AA battery. Wow, just think of all the opportunities this could offer to people in the underdeveloped and remote regions of the world.

Here are some good news: Researchers have discovered that a potato boiled for eight minutes made a battery that produced ten times the power of a raw one. Haim Rabinowitch, an agricultural science professor, and his team found that using small units made up of a quarter-slice of potato set between a copper cathode and a zinc anode connected by a wire can provide a room with LED-powered lighting for as long as forty days. A potato could supply power to personal electronics at around one-tenth the cost of a typical AA battery.

The potato battery kit includes two metal electrodes and alligator clips and is easy to assemble. Certain parts, such as the zinc cathode, can be inexpensively replaced. Alligator clips that transport the current carrying wires are attached to the electrodes and the negative and positive input points of the light bulb. Kerosene lamps used in many developing parts of the world are approximately six times the costs for equivalent lighting provided by the potato battery.

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TEPCO: Not all pumped-in water reached overheating Fukushima reactors

Fire engines were used in a desperate, and ultimately futile, attempt to pump water to cool overheating reactors during the early phase of the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

According to a Dec. 13 report by the operator of the crippled facility, water was pumped in sufficient quantity to avert core meltdowns in the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, but much of it strayed into irrelevant pipes and ended up elsewhere.

TEPCO said more than seven times the requisite volume of cooling water was pumped into the No. 2 reactor. But the water failed to cool it and the other reactors efficiently, and could not stop the core meltdowns in the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors.

An examination of pipe diagrams and related equipment showed the pipes to the reactors had branches leading off to other areas and devices, such as condensation storage tanks. TEPCO concluded that too much of the pumped-in water leaked into those branches and never reached the reactors.

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Merry Christmas

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk

I understand the reason for Christmas. However, this is guaranteed to bring a smile.

David DeGerolamo

From YouTube:

Thanks to a team of merry WestJetters and the power of technology, we’ve learned that miracles really do happen. See how we did it, and learn how you could win airfare for two by sharing this video on Twitter:http://fly.ws/MakingXmasMiracle

Blooper Reel:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1gukKsKiQ

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Sebelius Explains the Free Market to Socialists

sebeliusFearing that many people will think they have health insurance coverage when they do not, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “urging” insurance companies to “give consumers additional time to pay their first month’s premium and still have coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014.”

Insurance companies should cover people who haven’t yet paid, in other words.

With just a few weeks to go until Obamacare takes full effect, Sebelius announced additional changes on Thursday, some that tell insurance companies how to run their business and others that “strongly” encourage insurance companies to waive their rules — on premium payments, for example.

Sebelius now says insurance companies MUST accept payments through December 31 (instead of Dec. 23) for health care coverage that begins the next day, Jan. 1.

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Russia Stations Tactical, Nuclear-Capable Missiles Along Polish Border

2013 was a year when Europe tried to reallign its primary source of natgas energy, from Gazpromia to Qatar, and failed. More importantly, it was a year in which Russia’s Vladimir Putin undisputedly won every foreign relations conflict that involved Russian national interests, to the sheer humiliation of both John Kerry and Francois Hollande. However, it seems the former KGB spy had a Plan B in case things escalated out of control, one that fits with what we wrote a few days ago when we reported that “Russia casually announces it will use nukes if attacked.” Namely, as Bloomberg reports citing Bild, Russia quietly stationed a double-digit number of SS-26 Stone, aka Iskander, tactical, nuclear-capable short-range missiles near the Polish border.

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Operation Stupid Eagle

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05b7wDGKrKI#t=1s

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Megyn Kelly responds to firestorm over white Santa and white Jesus

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeSR-0Uz6-w

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9 Key Considerations To Protect Deposits From Coming Bail-Ins

Depositors internationally should examine the financial health of their existing bank or banks. Overall, diversification of deposits now has to be considered. However, it is vitally important that those tasked with diversifying deposits do not jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. This means diversification across financial institutions and across countries or jurisdictions globally.

Financial institutions should be chosen on the basis of the strength of the institution. Jurisdictions should be chosen on the basis of political and economic stability. A culture and tradition of respecting private property and property rights is also important.

1. Diversify savings across banks and in different countries

2. Consider counterparty risk and the health of the deposit-taking bank

3. Attempt to own assets outright and reduce risk to custodians and trustees

4. Own physical gold in allocated accounts with outright legal ownership

5. Avoid investments where there is significant counterparty risk, such as exchange traded funds and many structured products

6. Avoid banks with large derivative books and large mortgage books

7. Monitor banks’ and institutions’ financial stability

8. Monitor deposit and savings accounts’ terms and conditions

9. Monitor government policy pertaining to banks and bank deposits

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Using Crime Reports

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by Sam Culper

Next week, we’re about to start going over a handful of posts about source recruiting and source operations; areas which have only been lightly covered on this blog.  That’s about to change.

I was thinking earlier today about all the applications of source ops for the post-SHTF Patriot and/or prepper.  One of the most glaring ways is to track crime information.  I think the possibility that we all go to sleep one night and wake up in post-Apocalyptic America is pretty low.  I think it’s more likely that, for a period of time, civil society slowly breaks down and we just don’t realize that we’re already living in post-SHTF until a catastrophic event occurs.  Post-SHTF would not have started one second after that event, but probably in the years leading up to that event.  I guess you could even make the case that we’re living in post-SHTF America right now because I don’t foresee things getting better before they get worse.  We’re probably here for good.

That said, everyone needs to check out Crime Reports.  I think we covered this site already in an Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) post and an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) post.  At any rate, do a quick search for the past month based on your zip code.  Then look at each month for the past 12 months and keep score.  Do you notice any patterns?  I still need to write a couple posts on identifying and analyzing patterns, but you already know the basics.  There’s a lot of nuance, however, in reading patterns.  Some factors we might look at are frequency and disposition (geographic relation, for instance).

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The Selfie Tyrant’s Work Is Almost Complete

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h/t Stephen

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No One Is Asking Why

John Boehner “got his Irish up” last week when people rejected the budget plan put forth by Paul Ryan and Patty Murray:

Boehner vented his frustration, saying the groups had “lost all credibility.”

For some reason, Paul Ryan felt compelled to apologize to “conservative activist groups” for Boehner:

Ryan adopted a more diplomatic tone in the interview, calling the groups “indispensable.”

So it is business as usual in Washington, D.C. Our leaders do not defend their actions: they attack the people that they supposedly represent. How dare we question their hard work.

How dare we not? There are few representatives and senators who are trying to save the country. In a very literal sense. Compromise and appeasement will not solve any problems and now the ‘opposition’ to the administration has become nothing more than a whore. Sorry for the terminology but what happens when the landlord comes for the rent and you have no money?

And we have no money. Boehner’s pitiful defense of the Ryan sellout only proves (once again) that there is no solution to our nation’s bankruptcy. And there is no debate on this issue: no one can argue that the country is not bankrupt by any definition. So under Boehner’s brilliant leadership, we have kicked the can down the road again. Except for cutting the military’s pensions.

John Boehner has learned from the pResident that the people can be misdirected very easily by controversy or another “crisis”. Rather than focus on John Boehner’s words, let us ask why the House of Representatives passed another spending bill instead of a real budget? Once we force these domestic enemies to defend their actions, they will be exposed. As Boehner and Ryan have now been exposed.

David DeGerolamo

Ryan: Boehner ‘got his Irish up’

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Rep. Trey Gowdy: HHS ‘perilously close’ to Criminal Obstruction

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjekduxGUBo

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